Era: Start as a buyer

Chapter 215 Are refugees still human?

Luo Cheng took the shuttle bus back to town. When he walked home, he found several people lying by the hay shed next to his house. They were all fugitives dressed in rags.

"Old man, can you help me stutter?"

"Don't come close, stay here, and leave after I get you some food. Do you understand? Otherwise, I will beat you away."

"Hey, cousin, you are kind-hearted, thank you."

In this world, people with good intentions have to be on guard, and those who flee from famine are pitiful. But recently there have been too many bad rumors about these people, stealing and robbing, mainly for food. When people are so hungry, sometimes they can do anything.

In some places, you now have to walk empty-handed. If you carry a bag and your clothes are still clean, if you don’t keep it intact, someone will follow you. When there is no one around, you have to check your package. If there is no food in your package, it is okay to cooperate honestly. If there is food, it is really a robbery.

Zhang Hongxiu escaped here. People who have not experienced it have no idea how difficult it is to escape from the north or some cities. Don't bring any packages. If you can, wear whatever clothes you can, or tie them with a rope and carry them on your back. If you carry a cloth bag, even if there is nothing in it, someone will pick it up while you sleep at night.

Lao Biao is a kind of affectionate name for people here in Jiangxi. The other party's accent was obviously not from Luocheng, and he just called me "old cousin" to appear friendly.

Luo Cheng is not cruel. There are several people lying next to his house. It's not summer and they need some shade. When it comes to food, Luo Cheng won't give him too much. He has 'coarse grains' at home, which are the kind of stick noodles that will be brought to feed chickens in the future era. The grains of the stick noodles are much thicker than the stick noodles of this era.

Keeping a few deserters away is really to prevent some people from becoming evil-minded when they see the food.

"Auntie Zhang is here, Da Mao, Er Mao~~."

"As long as you two are here, I'll let you use your kitchen and help me light the fire. I'll give you a bun later and you can share it."

I directly took Da Mao's wooden basin and poured it out. There was still a lot left in the pot. Luo Cheng didn't expect that after this thing was cooked and water was added, it would turn into such a big pot.

It doesn't look good if it's thin, but forget it, Luo Cheng doesn't have time to mess around here. He wanted to take advantage of the weather to go to Er Gouzi and Chen Leizi's place early, and he would gather people to do something tomorrow.

His cooking method is very simple, boil a pot of water, pour the feed directly into it, and keep stirring. As long as it feels cooked, if you want to pay attention to the taste, then you are not hungry.

He Shen answered directly that the victims were still human beings. Some of them are good to eat. If the grains were not replaced with bran, some places would not be victims of the disaster, but just bones.

Originally, Luo Cheng wanted to cook something in his kitchen for a few people fleeing the famine, but thinking about his skills, what he cooked was just like feed. I might have been able to eat it before, but now I'm a bit picky, and it's hard to even eat a bowl of stick noodles.

I saw several people lying on the ground eating, just because if they sit up or stand up, the distance between the food and the mouth will be longer, so just like animals, people almost eat lying on the wooden basin.

Don't look down upon the children of Lao Zhang's family. Ten-year-old children in rural areas can cook a lot of things. At least making a fire is no problem.

Just like feeding animals, Luo Cheng put the wooden basin filled with "coarse grains" directly on the ground. Warn several people to leave immediately after eating. At least keep a distance from him and the house next door, and lie next to the house. This situation will really make the residents uneasy.

Not long after, Luo Cheng looked at the shape of the things in the pot~~. Forget it, let's add some water. After a while, Luo Cheng looked at the things in the pot and thought that this feed was not as good as stick noodles. At least the color of the stick noodles cooked was not so yellow.

"Well, thank you uncle."

The plot is that the disaster relief food allocated by the superiors is exploited by corrupt officials at all levels, and not much of it reaches the hands of the victims. So He Shen directly replaced the grain with bran. What is bran? It is the same thing as rice bran. Rice bran is the husk of rice, and bran is the husk of wheat. The husks left after wheat flour is ground and sieved.

"Uncle, my parents went to work with the brigade."

The TV series is called "Iron Teeth and Bronze Teeth Ji Xiaolan". It is mainly a triangular drama in which Ji Xiaolan and He Shen battle wits and courage. But there is a section in it that Luo Cheng feels the same way now.

Soon a pot of water was heated, and Luo Cheng used the skills of mixing sand and cement that he had learned during his first job in the future era. There was no sense of propriety. He poured a lot of feed in one go and stirred it with a spatula.

If Sissi in the city was here, she would definitely ask, "Uncle Luo Cheng, are you cooking shit?" Of course, the feed has no smell, but it is cooked in such a bad shape.

When he goes to Lao Zhang's house next door to cook, he doesn't have to clean the pot yet. If he cooks more, Lao Zhang's family will definitely be able to eat it.

These are basically used to feed livestock. In the plot, Ji Xiaolan blames He Shen, saying that this bran is used to feed livestock. You exchanged the disaster relief food for this, but you still treat the victims as human beings.

Luo Cheng didn't regard the fleeing people as livestock, but when he saw a few people lying on the ground regardless of how hot the food was, he started eating frantically. This made Luo Cheng have to think of a TV series he watched a while ago in the future era. For people in the future era, it was an old TV series, but for Luo Cheng, as long as it was a TV series, there was nothing old. , haven’t seen anything.

It is indeed like what is said in the TV series, in front of people who are about to starve to death, no one of them has any sense. It’s good to have food, so why should I be picky?

With this meal of "coarse food", a few people can survive for at least a few more days. However, Luo Cheng is a person who has been to the future era, and knows that these five or nine years are just the beginning, and his power is only a drop in the bucket for this disaster. He is not a saint, and if he exposes himself, he might really be able to change history. But he can't do it, he is just a little selfish villain.

In Luo Cheng's concept, everyone is the protagonist of this world. Maybe everyone's fate is different, but once you die or something else, the world has nothing to do with you. So why would he sacrifice everything for a world that has nothing to do with him? From a personal selfish point of view, if I die, the world will disappear.

Perhaps this concept will be changed in the future. For example, if he has children, for the sake of his children, he may choose to leave the world he can see when encountering special circumstances.

But now Luo Cheng really has no so-called awareness of righteousness. As someone said, everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world, but what responsibility does it have to ordinary people? Even with the change of dynasties, the common people still suffer the same hardships.

So Luo Cheng really had no idea of ​​exposing himself at all. He locked the door and went to find Er Gouzi and the others without watching the fugitives finish their food.

In the past, you could leave the door unlocked, but now almost every household has to lock it when leaving the house. The town's militia team can only patrol and drive them away appropriately, but it is impossible and not allowed to drive away all the people who come to beg. As long as these people don't go to the fields to destroy the farmers and vegetable fields. You can't just not allow people to go to wastelands to look for wild vegetables in spring. When Er Gouzi was found, he was busy in the chicken coop, and the Yang family from Chen Lezi's wife's side were also there. As for the chicken coop on the commune side, Luo Cheng's eldest sister Luo Lan is mainly responsible for taking care of it. Someone collects the chicken manure from the chicken coop every day. The eldest sister's father-in-law collects the chicken manure every day and uses it as fertilizer. He also earns work points in the team.

Seeing so many people here in the chicken coop, Luo Cheng didn't have to look for them from house to house. Ask the Yang family to call Chen Leizi over, and ask the brother-in-law to go to Luo Cheng's parents' house and gather everyone.

At the end of last year, the eel incident came to nothing, and everyone in Luo Cheng's organization also dispersed. The most miserable thing is for Luo Cheng's parents, who are suffering from poverty but not equal. Isn’t your son very capable? If you have the ability, you will depend on your son for the rest of his life. Everyone is working in the fields, with their faces facing the loess and their backs to the sky. You, the Luo family, don't care about the work points and follow the second son of the Luo family to catch eels, loaches and other things.

It would be great if you took care of people in the same village and brought a few of them along to earn some money.

You must know that the Luo family was originally born as hunters, and farming was not good at all. It's okay now. If you can't farm, then just arrange to open up wasteland. Move and dig. You'll be tired and not full.

But after all, they were the parents who raised Luo Cheng from childhood. Even if they resented their favoritism, it was still right to give birth to him and raise him for more than ten years. Now that I think about it, apart from being a little biased, I don't think it's so indifferent. When Luo Cheng killed criminals last year, he was so frightened that he was the first to look for his father. When people are helpless, they are always the first to think of their parents.

When Luo Cheng's father heard that Luo Cheng had killed someone, he didn't ask whether it was right or wrong, but went directly to the scene to see what happened. At least at that time, Luo Cheng's father was still his backbone.

Luo Cheng is now able to stand alone, and his mind has matured in many aspects. If he had to completely let go of his parents' partiality towards his eldest brother, it wouldn't be completely bad for him and his sister, but a bowl of water would be too unfair. I don’t hold grudges, but I always have a bit of revenge towards my brother and sister-in-law. Since my parents are good to you, then I will be good to my sister and sister, and I won’t help anyone but you.

But how could it be possible if we really didn’t help? It’s only been a while since the canteen was cancelled, and Luo Cheng’s mother has come to get food several times.

This time I informed my parents that no matter what, they were just partial at best and would never harm Luo Cheng. Therefore, Luo Cheng feels that even if his team's foundation is inferior, reliability is more important.

Luo Cheng's brother-in-law Liu Changgen was very happy when he heard that he was starting to cause trouble again. He helped Luo Cheng work last year, and eating and drinking was like a holiday every day. Arrange him to inform Luo Cheng's parents to come over, he will run very fast.

"Dad, brother, sister-in-law."

"Chang Gen, why are you here? What's the point of being so anxious?"

"Narizi asked me to call you and go to Ergouzi's house for dinner after work is done."

"We're going to Ergouzi's house for dinner. What does Chengzi have to do?"

"There is something to do, but I don't know what."

"Okay, we'll go there when we're done."

When brother-in-law Liu Changgen found Luo Cheng's father, Luo Cheng's father and Luo Cheng's brother and sister-in-law were both clearing land. In addition to them, there are other people. Most of the time, the type of work points will be recorded according to the type of work they do. For example, the general situation of land reclamation is ten work points. For those who are younger and do other things such as feeding pigs and pigs, their work points are calculated based on the amount of pig grass.

Cattle herders can also herd half-grown children. In order to take care of some people, if the family is in difficulty and there are cows of suitable age, they will let them herd cows. Generally about six work points.

There are actually a lot of work points for land reclamation, but with the same work points, land reclamation is very tiring. As for this foreign worker, it's okay if no one is targeting it. If someone is targeting it, they will directly mark a place for you and let you finish it in one day. Of course, it's not particularly excessive. If it is, report it to the commune and the commune will not allow such a situation to occur.

But people from the Luo Cheng family are lazy anyway, and if they fail to meet their quota, their work points will be deducted.

I heard that Luo Cheng had something to do and asked them to go to dinner at night. It would be nice to have a meal even if he had nothing to do. These days, no one can save food at home. If you eat a meal elsewhere, you will save a meal at home.

As soon as the staff informed me, almost everyone arrived before it was dark. Chen Leizi's family also came over. In fact, Er Gouzi's house was the largest, and the hall could accommodate so many people. There are many people in the kitchen, and everyone is hungry because of the rice. The person chatting in the living room has his stomach growling when he smells the aroma of rice.

As for the steamed buns that Luo Cheng brought for lunch, he was also going to put them in to heat up the rice after it was cooked. On average, one person can eat one, but if you include children, the buns you bring are not enough.

However, Luo Cheng is not short of this bite, and he still likes to eat crispy rice. His stomach is not as hungry as other people's every day. He only needs to eat some rice dumplings. Everyone knows the fragrance of this rice noodle, and Luo Cheng wants to eat it. Even if his parents are here, no one will compete with him. The only ones who can compete with him are his nephews and nieces who are greedy and want it.

We didn't talk about it beforehand, and what Luo Cheng wanted everyone to do was something that everyone couldn't figure out at first. Moreover, Luo Cheng wouldn't explain much when the time came. He would only ask familiar people, and he didn't want them to ask more questions.

The rice and steamed buns were heated up quickly, and there were a lot of people. One person had a big bowl of rice, and the children had half a bowl. After they finished eating, it was gone. There wasn't much food, so Luo Cheng brought some soy sauce, and everyone just had soy sauce mixed with rice.

Basically not a grain of rice was wasted and everyone was very satisfied.

After Luo Cheng finished eating, it was actually dark outside. What needs to be done will be clear to Luo Cheng in a brief explanation. There is no need for everyone to know that much. Let Chen Laizi use his position to guard a mountainous area tomorrow. Then others will gather at Luo Cheng's place in the morning. He will prepare tools then. What everyone can go to tomorrow is to dig large cellars on the mountain. In order to prevent collapse, dig a few more. The cellars don't have to be very big, but they can't. too small.

As for the purpose of digging the cellar, they don't need to ask. They will naturally know it in two days. Anyway, take care of the food and pay the wages. If he works with Luo Cheng again this time, he promises that they will not be separated for at least a year.

In fact, this is also a risky thing, but some things are risky no matter how you do it. It can only be said that you should try your best to avoid risks. Do your best and obey destiny. Once discovered, the main reason is that it is unclear where the thing came from. However, Luo Cheng didn't do anything that was prohibited. If he found out, he would give a reason.

If he could live peacefully in the future, Luo Cheng would no longer have to worry about anything, just hide in the city and just be an ordinary person. But now that I know the situation of my own era in the past few years, I should do my best.

Everyone saw Luo Cheng and didn't want to say it. It was just digging a cellar anyway, especially for Luo Cheng's father, mother, brother and sister-in-law. Land reclamation was also the same kind of work, but land reclamation only counted work points. There is no canteen now. Doing the same work, at least The food was made by Luo Cheng, and the food was good. There's nothing to do.

(End of this chapter)