Stocking up in space: surviving in a world of crisis

There are more than ten small bags in the sack, and in each small bag, there are about two catties of seeds. Some seeds he does not recognize, but some seeds he has read in books dug out from the ruins. Grandpa taught him many words. , he recognized the topmost seeds as corn and wheat at a glance. At this moment, the boy ran out suddenly, but he ran for a long distance, but he didn't see those people who rested here last night. He realized that these things were those The man left it on purpose, the boy quickly walked back to the sack, squatted down neatly, picked up the sack and rushed home.

"Little Tiger, where did you go early in the morning?" Back in front of the dilapidated iron container, an old voice came from inside, the boy quickly entered the container, sweating profusely put down the sack, he took a few packets of seeds Walking up to the old man, he knelt down with a plop.

"Grandpa, do you see what this is?"

The old man had only one leg left, and he sat up with his body propped up. Although his vision was already blurred, he still recognized the corn and wheat by the light outside.

"Is this corn kernels?" His voice trembled when the old man spoke.

The boy glanced outside, then moved out a wooden board and blocked the door of the container.

"Grandpa, those people left yesterday. They left behind a sack of seeds. I only know these two bags. They must have found us and left these seeds to us. Grandpa, we have seeds."

There were footsteps outside the door. It was the return of people who went out to fetch water. There were not many people living here, and there were only 46 people who were old, weak, sick and disabled.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the boy immediately shut his mouth. He dragged the seeds to a corner, took out everything to cover the sack, his hands were shaking all the time, but his eyes were frighteningly bright.

"Little Tiger, how is your grandfather? Why didn't you fetch water this morning?"

The young man coughed, "Brother Zhuang, I'm not feeling well. My grandpa is fine, and the cold is gone."

"That's good, that's right, I found some verbena. I had a cold before, and my grandma gave me verbena, so I got better. Xiaohu, you open the door, and I will give you the verbena. Are you here?" Boil it in the pot for half an hour, drink the boiled potion and you will get better soon."

Xiaohu wanted to say something to get Da Zhuang outside the door to leave quickly, but his grandfather held down his hand.

"Xiaohu, open the door and call everyone over."

Realizing what grandpa was going to do, Xiaohu lowered his head in shame, "Grandpa, I'm so selfish, I actually want to take things for myself."

"I don't blame you, go ahead and call everyone over."

These people in Haicheng can survive to this day because they help each other. Now that they have obtained food by chance, they should share it with each other instead of hiding it privately.

Xiaohu opened the door, and Da Zhuang greeted him with a few verbena plants.

"This is for you. It's very useful. You must boil it to drink. Do you still have food at home? I found some wild vegetables and I'll bring you some later." They said it was wild vegetables, but they were actually some weeds.

Xiaohu didn't pick up the verbena. "Brother Zhuang, I'm sorry, but I'm not sick. I went to the south in the morning. I found some things. Can you call everyone over for me? My grandpa said that I want to share the things with everyone."

Da Zhuang smiled and waved his hands, "It's okay, it's great that you are not sick, this medicine is very bitter, you don't have to suffer, alas, it's not easy for you and your grandfather, if you find something, just keep it for yourself, don't give it to us. "

Xiaohu felt even more guilty.

"It must be given to everyone. We are a family. Brother Dazhuang. I found food seeds. I found a group of people in Haicheng yesterday. I thought they were bad people, so I didn't dare to tell you. I didn't expect them to leave this morning. I left a sack of grain seeds, I didn’t lie to you, you go to the river and call everyone back.”

When Da Zhuang heard this, he was dumbfounded.

Food seeds?

"Xiaohu, you're not kidding, you really didn't lie to me?"

Xiaohu ran back to the container, and then took out a bag of corn, "Brother Zhuang, what is this? This is corn, the corn in the book, do you remember? My grandpa told us that corn is delicious. One is enough."

Da Zhuang looked at the yellow-orange corn kernels, and wanted to reach out to touch them, but was afraid that the grain would be damaged, so he quickly withdrew his hand.

"It has a scent, it's really a seed, I'll call someone, I'll call someone right away."

Xiaohu nodded, "You go to the river, and I'll inform the other grandparents."

Xiaohu carefully carried the corn back to the container. When he heard his grandfather crying, he hurried over.

"Grandpa, what's wrong with you?"

"I'm happy, Xiaohu, with this food, everyone can survive."

Xiaohu's eyes were also red. "Those people are good people. I blamed them wrongly. When I see them later, I will kowtow to them."

Grandpa nodded, "It's true that I met a good man."

Xiaohu woke up all the old people in several containers next to him. Hearing that there were four people in the grain seeds, everyone didn't believe it at first, but then they burst into tears.

Soon, footsteps and voices came from outside. Xiaohu carried his grandfather out of the container, and then carried the sack out.

"Xiao Hu, is what Da Zhuang said true? Did you really find the food seeds? Did you not lie to us?"

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Xiaohu took out the seeds from the sack.

In addition to corn and wheat, there are also various beans, sesame, sorghum, rapeseed, fruit seeds...

Although each kind only weighed one or two catties, but there were so many kinds, everyone was dumbfounded.

In the crowd, several old people cried again.

"It's really grain seeds, Xiaohu didn't lie to us, it's really seeds."

Everyone is like Da Zhuang, who wants to touch but dare not.

Everyone cried. Many children born after the natural disaster had never seen grain seeds, but everyone knew that with the seeds, they would not have to starve in the future.

"what is this?"

"My God, it's cotton seeds, I'm not mistaken, it's real cotton seeds."

"Little Tiger, where did you find these things?"

Xiaohu shook his head, "It's not that I found it. I went out to look for wild vegetables yesterday afternoon, and saw some people appearing in the south. I thought they were bad people, so I ran back quickly. I didn't expect that I went to check in the morning, and they had already left. The place where I stayed last night was only this bag. I thought they forgot to take it away, but my grandpa told me that these things should be left to us by those people. What they meant was that they wanted us to plant the seeds go down."

When everyone heard this, they all lamented Xiaohu's good luck.

"Everyone listen to me, now there are only 46 of us left in Haicheng. Excluding thirteen useless old people like me, the rest are half-grown children. We have helped each other over the years to support our lives. Today, so these food seeds, we sow together and reap together.”

Hearing this, everyone present was moved.

"We must grow food and not let good-hearted people down."