There were more than a dozen small bags inside the sack. Each small bag contained about two kilograms of seeds. Some seeds he didn't recognize, but some he had read about in books dug out of the ruins. His grandfather taught him many words.
, he recognized at a glance that the top seeds were corn and wheat. At this time, the young man suddenly ran out, but he ran for a long time without seeing the people who rested here last night. He realized that these things were those
He left it behind on purpose. The young man quickly returned to the sack, squatted down neatly, picked up the sack and hurried home.
"Xiaohu, where have you been this morning?" Back in front of the dilapidated iron container, an old voice came from inside. The young man quickly entered the container, sweating profusely, put down the sack, and took a few packets of seeds.
He walked up to the old man and knelt down with a plop.
"Grandpa, look what this is?"
The old man only had one leg left. He propped himself up and sat up. Although his vision was blurred, he could still identify corn and wheat by the bright light outside.
"Are these corn kernels?" The old man's voice was trembling when he spoke.
The young man glanced outside, then moved out a piece of wood and blocked the door of the container.
"Grandpa, those people left yesterday and left a sack of seeds. I only recognize these two bags. They must have discovered us and left these seeds for us. Grandpa, we have seeds."
There were footsteps outside the door. It was the people who had gone out to fetch water and had returned. There were not many people living here, the total number of old, weak, sick and disabled was only forty-six.
When the boy heard the footsteps, he immediately closed his mouth. He dragged the seeds to the corner, took out all the things and covered the sack. His hands were shaking, but his eyes were frighteningly bright.
"Xiaohu, how is your grandpa? Why didn't you go get water this morning?"
The young man coughed and said, "Brother Da Zhuang, I feel a little unwell. My grandpa is fine and his cold is gone."
"That's good, by the way, I found some verbena. I had a cold before, and my grandma gave me verbena, and I got better. Xiaohu, open the door, and I'll give you the verbena. Are you there?"
Boil it in a pot for half an hour and drink the potion and you will feel better soon."
Xiaohu wanted to say something to ask Da Zhuang outside the door to leave quickly, but Grandpa held his hand down.
"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 keep things for myself."
"I don't blame you, go ahead and call everyone over."
People like them can survive today in Haicheng because they help each other. Now that they have obtained food by chance, they should share it with each other instead of hiding it secretly.
Xiao Hu opened the door, and Da Zhuang came up with a few verbena plants.
"This is for you. It's very useful. You must boil water to drink it. Do you have anything to eat at home? I found some wild vegetables and will give you some later." They are called wild vegetables, but they are actually some weeds.
Xiaohu didn't pick up the verbena, "Brother Da Zhuang, I'm sorry, actually I'm not sick. I went to the south in the morning and I found some things. Can you help me call everyone over? My grandpa said that I want to share the things with everyone."
Da Zhuang smiled and waved his hand, "It doesn't matter. It's great that you're not sick. This medicine is very bitter, so you don't have to suffer. Alas, it's not easy for you and your grandfather either. If you find something, you can keep it for yourself without giving it to us.
"
Xiaohu felt even more guilty.
"I have to give it to you. We are a family. Brother Da Zhuang, I found food seeds. I found a group of people appearing 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’m not lying to you, go to the river and call everyone back."
When Da Zhuang heard this, he was stunned.
Grain seeds?
"Xiaohu, you're not joking, you really didn't lie to me?"
Xiaohu ran back to the container and took out a bag of corn, "Brother Da Zhuang, look what this is? This is corn, the corn in the book, do you remember? My grandfather told us that corn is delicious.
One stick is enough."
Da Zhuang looked at the yellow and orange corn kernels and wanted to reach out and touch them, but he was afraid of damaging the grains, so he quickly retracted his hand.
Xiaohu nodded, "You go to the river, and I'll notify the other grandparents."
Xiaohu carefully took the corn back to the container. He heard his grandfather crying and walked over quickly.
"Grandpa, what's wrong with you?"
"I'm happy, little tiger, with this food, everyone can survive."
Xiaohu's eyes were also red, "Those people are good people, but I wrongly blamed them. When I see them in the future, I will kowtow to them."
Grandpa nodded, "You have indeed met a good person."
Xiaohu woke up all the old people in the nearby containers. When they heard about the four grain seeds, everyone didn't believe it at first, but later they all burst into tears.
Soon, there were bursts of footsteps and voices outside. Xiaohu carried his grandfather out of the container, and then carried the sack out.
"Xiaohu, is what Da Zhuang said true? Did you really find grain seeds? Didn't you lie to us?"
In full view 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 type only weighs one or two kilograms, there are so many varieties that everyone is dumbfounded.
Everyone is like Da Zhuang, they want to touch but dare not.
Everyone cried. Many children born after the natural disaster had never seen food seeds, but everyone knew that with seeds, they would not have to go hungry in the future.
"What's this?"
"Oh my God, these are cotton seeds. I can't admit it. These are really cotton seeds."
"Xiaohu, where did you find these things?"
Xiaohu shook his head, "It's not really me who 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. Unexpectedly, I went over to check in the morning and they were already gone. They
This was the only bag where we stayed last night. I thought they forgot to take it away, but my grandpa told me that these things should have been left to us by those people. They probably wanted us to plant the seeds.
Go down."
When everyone heard this, they all sighed at Xiaohu's good luck.
"Everyone, listen to me, there are only forty-six of us left in Haicheng now. After excluding thirteen useless old people like me, the rest are half-grown children. We have helped each other over the years to support ourselves.
We are alive today, so we sow these food seeds together and harvest them together.”
Hearing this, everyone present was moved.
"We must grow food and not let down well-meaning people."