Although Taijing Province is a major grain-producing province with abundant grain reserves, those granaries were under official control in the early days of the apocalypse. Even large food processing city warehouses, large shopping malls, and logistics centers were raided by the officials. Once empty, most of the food that the civilian expedition team could find was canned snacks, biscuits and the like. Although the survivors in the safe zone could use their work points to go to the canteen in exchange for food, most of the food was mixed with wild vegetables, corn, sorghum, etc. and steamed. The mixed-noodle steamed buns and white rice are prohibitively expensive.
The owner of the folding tub stall and Rong Xianxian happily completed the transaction. Rong Xianxian just went to the market to get a general understanding of the prices. There were people coming and going in the market and it was inconvenient to use the space. Rong Xianxian asked Xia Kai to watch here. I walked around the market for a while before carrying my stuff back to my residence with Xia Kai.
"Sister Rong, the price of renting a house here is really quite low. No wonder no one is renting it nearby. But this house is quite good. The space is reasonably designed. Although it is not big, it has good lighting and is clean and bright." Back to After checking in, Xia Kai and Rong Xianxian sighed. After looking at the prices outside, they realized that the price of the house they rented was ridiculously high.
"The price is high and we can afford it. Jiang Jie still has work points. Look, who will go to the canteen and buy some food?"
"I'll go, I'll go." Wang Qirui volunteered.
Wang Qirui and Jiang Jie went to the cafeteria to buy food, while the rest of them tidied up their rooms.
Rong Xian, mother and son, lived in the small bedroom with the balcony. Wang Lin, Wang Qirui, and Xia Kai lived in the largest bedroom on the east side. Jiang Jie and Cui Lie lived in the one next to Rong Xian, mother and son. The three rooms all have simple wooden beds. The wooden bed in Rong Xianxian's room is a single bed and not spacious enough. Rong Xianxian asked Wang Lin and the others to carry the wooden bed away from her room. She brought an air mattress and a double folding camp bed from home. Rong Xianxian made the bed and put an air mattress on the camp bed. She missed the European-style solid wood carved bed at home in Chongzhou. The bed was still an extra-large size. It was custom-made, but unfortunately she only had space for a sachet at the time and could not fit the big bed.
Now that the mist space is big enough, she can install a bed of her choice in the space. Unfortunately, there is no such bulky large furniture in the market. It seems that she can only find time to go to the shopping mall in the old city to find one. found.
There are only four foldable bathtubs in adult size, and the others are used by children of different ages. Rong Xianxian came and put two foldable bathtubs for adults in the public supplies, and kept the rest. In her foggy space.
There was a public canteen near the house they rented, so Jiang Jie and Wang Qirui came back quickly. Each of them carried a large lunch box with four layers. When they opened it, they saw that the top layer was dark vegetable steamed buns. , the second layer is a few dry pickles, the third layer is vegetable soup with no oily smell with floating vegetable leaves, and the last layer is sticky brown rice porridge.
Rong Xianxian looked like she had no appetite. She took a dark vegetable steamed bun from the top and coughed dryly. "Everyone, please eat quickly. Don't waste food. I'll go back to the house to eat. After eating, everyone Let's each rest, and we'll talk about anything tomorrow." As soon as she finished speaking, she quickly went back to her bedroom as if she was running away.
The remaining five grown men looked at each other in confusion. They had no appetite for the rice, but their stomachs were already growling. "Don't waste food, eat it all." Rong Xianxian came back and emphasized again. .
"Eat." Cui Lie said briefly, and everyone sat down to eat as if resigned to their fate.
The dark vegetable steamed buns look ugly, and the taste is not very good. The steamed buns are not delicate and the wild vegetables taste slightly astringent. For Cui Lie and his party who have always eaten rice, white flour steamed buns and various barbecued meats. It's really hard to swallow.
"You said, if the ordinary residents here eat this, why do they seem to be in good spirits? At least they look much more optimistic than the residents in other places." Wang Qirui choked on a mouthful of steamed buns, feeling very puzzled.
"Although this food doesn't taste good, it should be fairly nutritionally balanced, and the amount is enough to make you full. As for the taste, you will get used to it after eating it for a long time." When Jiang Jie was a child, his family conditions were not good, and the population They eat a lot of food, and even eat this kind of steamed buns when the grain harvested in the fields is not enough.
The five of them finished the food they bought in the cafeteria while complaining. Jiang Jie and the others lamented again. Compared to the food in the cafeteria, the house they rented was really expensive, and they felt as if they had been ripped off.
On the second day, Rong Xianxian entrusted the child to Jiang Jie and went to the market with Cui Lie. On the third day, Rong Xianxian entrusted the child to Cui Lie and went to the market by herself. On the fourth and fifth days, , on the sixth and seventh days, Rong Xianxian went out early every day and spent the whole day shopping outside. During this week, she visited private exchanges and official exchanges in various regions and bought a lot. Something that satisfied her, but for some reason, Rong Xianxian's temper became more and more irritable day by day.
"Sister Rong, is there anything else you want to buy that you haven't bought yet? How about we ask the intermediary guy from before and see if he knows where the things you want to buy are sold?" Looking at Rong Xian, Xian's face looked bad, and Jiang Jie asked cautiously.
"No, I'll look for it again." What Rong Xianxian is looking for is not something, but a person.
The man was about forty years old, with one leg disabled, walking with a slight limp, and his eyes were a little short-sighted. He would habitually squint his eyes when looking at people. He was a very powerful blacksmith. What Rong Xianxian knew about him That’s all the information.
When Rong Xianxian stayed here in his previous life, he bought a dagger with a mechanism in his hand. The dagger was equipped with springs and other facilities. The dagger was extremely sharp and was made of materials from monsters. Yes, that dagger had saved the lives of their mother and son many times.
On the way to escape in Rong Xianxian's previous life, a group of people from an unknown organization were secretly chasing her. The reason why she was able to escape the crisis repeatedly was not only because someone secretly tipped her off, but also because she met kind-hearted people several times. Help.
These kind people include Liu Qingchen from Baihua Town, the staff member in the Taijing Security Zone who paid for her single room in front of Pingyuan Mountain, and the third one is the blacksmith she is looking for now.
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