On an early morning in mid-May, the rainfall suddenly dropped sharply. Although the sky was still covered with dark clouds, the residents felt inspired by the drizzle that had turned into a downpour in the past few days.
As soon as the residents of Fairview Garden saw that the rainfall had become lighter, they sent messages to the group one after another.
[704 Mr. Fang: Does anyone know if the supermarket is open? 】
[1002 Mrs. Yu: I just contacted the supermarket merchants. They will open in half an hour, but only a small amount of fresh food! 】
[803 Aunt Huang: Where is the hardware store? Is it open? If my windows are not repaired, the house will be flooded! 】
[1002 Mrs. Yu: It’s not open yet. The storm signal has not been canceled yet, and work and classes are still suspended. I will go to the supermarket later to look for you to see if there are any wooden boards that you can use first]
[803 Aunt Huang: Thank you for your hard work, Mrs. Yu! 】
As soon as Zhang Linlin saw that the supermarket would open later, she asked Chen Yuanyuan and He Yuehua to go shopping later.
Although Chen Yuanyuan's space is full of supplies, he hasn't left the twelfth floor for a long time, so he plans to go out for a walk.
The four of them dressed up in the same attire as last time and gathered at the lift to walk to the supermarket.
The supermarket only opened for half an hour, and nearly a hundred people were already waiting outside the roller shutters. While waiting in the crowd, Chen Yuanyuan and the other two people divided their work in their respective rush-buying areas.
As soon as the supermarket door opened, Chen Yuanyuan immediately headed to the fresh meat section, while Zhang Linlin and her husband headed to the fruit and vegetable section, and He Yuehua rushed to the seafood section.
In order to save customers shopping time, supermarkets pack fresh products into bags and boxes early in the morning and mark the prices in advance.
Chen Yuanyuan didn't think too much and just grabbed whatever she could grab from the crowd.
After grabbing about four or five bags, the air-conditioning cabinet that was not full was completely emptied, and even some pigs were not left.
The same situation happened to He Yuehua and Zhang Linlin, each of them only grabbed four or five bags.
"Have finished your shopping and check out quickly. There are still 15 minutes to replace the next batch of people!" A uniformed supermarket staff shouted in the supermarket with a loudspeaker.
Chen Yuanyuan looked outside the supermarket and saw that the gate had been pulled down again. It seemed that the supermarket had implemented crowd control.
"Let's split up and buy whatever we want. We'll wait at the cashier in 10 minutes." After Chen Yuanyuan agreed with the other three, she let Zhang Linlin push the supermarket trolley, took a shopping basket and went shopping. .
Chen Yuanyuan went to the freezer area. Most of the ingredients in the freezer had been wiped out, leaving only a small amount of unpopular desserts and ice cream.
After Chen Yuanyuan took a dozen boxes of ice cream popsicles, she went to the seasoning area to buy some Xiangcheng special sauces.
I had stocked up on some salt, sugar, sauce and vinegar earlier, but there was a shortage of some local sauces.
White bean curd, pickled mustard, Sriracha chili sauce, Portuguese sauce, Zhuhou sauce, typhoon shelter sauce, etc.
After finishing her shopping, Chen Yuanyuan went to the cashier to join the others. As soon as she walked to the queue, she saw Zhang Linlin and He Yuehua being pulled by two aunts in the shopping cart.
"How can you two little girls eat so much? Why don't you share some with me? There are six people in my family, both young and old!" said the aunt in red.
"There are also young and old waiting in our family!" Zhang Linlin scolded back.
"Do you respect the old and love the young? I can't take it away from you as an old man, why don't you give me some of it?" the aunt in red scolded.
"We just said we would give you a bag of meat and vegetables, but you insist on asking us to give you half!" He Yuehua pulled the car back and cursed.
"Ouch, why did you push someone!" The aunt in red took advantage of the situation and fell to the ground.
When Chen Yuanyuan saw this scene, she knew what had probably happened. She was about to step forward to drive away the aunt in red, when she heard someone shouting.
"Wow, there are new dishes here!"
The aunt in red who was originally lying on the floor immediately rushed to the fresh stall with fast steps. When Chen Yuanyuan saw this, when the aunt passed by, she stretched out her legs as if nothing had happened and tripped her. The aunt fell hard and fell into pieces.
"Let's go and check out quickly!" Yu Yanqun pushed a cart of goods and a big wooden board and urged the three of them to check out quickly.
It was Yu Yanqun, the chairman of the homeowners committee, who had just shouted that there was food to help the three of them. Chen Yuanyuan nodded to her and thanked her, and then hurried to the counter to settle the bill with Zhang Linlin and He Yuehua.
Unexpectedly, half a cart of food and small items cost nearly 2,000 yuan. Prices have skyrocketed. Chen Yuanyuan and his party still had money to spend, but when they were checking out, they heard someone quarreling with the supermarket staff because of this.
"What the hell, your tomatoes cost 30 yuan a pound? Why don't you go and grab them?" A grumpy strong man couldn't help but quarreled with the cashier.
"There is nothing we can do. Now the mainland does not have enough food to supply Xiangcheng. We have taken back more than ten times the amount..."
"It's so stupid. You have to pay me the previous price now, or I'll call the police!" The strong man slapped the counter hard, scaring the people around him into silence.
"Sir, you don't need to just put down the goods and leave. We tried our best to buy goods during the typhoon. Except for the labor rent, we have not earned you a penny more. We all have purchase orders. You can call the police if you want, but we don't want to put things down. I'll sell it to you." The supermarket manager stepped forward and said forcefully.
"If you don't want to, just give it to me!"
"Hurry up if you want to check out, it will rain heavily again soon!"
The queue of people started shouting, and the strong man had no choice but to settle the bill shamelessly, not forgetting to curse a few times.
"Why don't you leave yet?" After paying the bill, Yu Yanqun saw Chen Yuanyuan and others still waiting, so she stepped forward and asked.
"We are leaving soon, where is Liu Feiyang?" Chen Yuanyuan asked.
"I don't think I bought much. Let him go to the bank to withdraw some cash first, and let's go first." After Zhang Linlin said that, the group of people put the food in the shopping cart into their handbags.
The aunt in red had just fallen down and had a piece of tissue stuffed in her nose. When she saw He Yuehua and Zhang Linlin, she stepped forward.
"Oh, you still bought fish? Share one with me!" The aunt in red who had just walked out of the supermarket saw several people collecting goods and wanted to take advantage.
"Mrs. Lu, you only have three people living in Building No. 5. You can't afford so much food. There are five people in the house!" Yu Yanqun recognized that the aunt in red was Aunt Lu from Building 5, and she was comparable to Aunt Wang from her own building. Crouching dragon and phoenix chick.
"Chairman Yu, my grandson is at the age when he is growing up. Why do you worry about asking these girls to provide some food?" Aunt Lu said.
"Don't you see that this girl doesn't mean what she wants? Don't bully us in Building 2. Let's do this. I'll share the green onion with you, okay?" Yu Yanqun rolled her eyes and handed the green onion to Aunt Lu.
"Why are you giving me a green onion? I can't eat enough!" Although Aunt Lu didn't know why, she thought it was a bargain, so she took the green onion and left.
"Tsk, she's nothing!" Yu Yanqun couldn't help but cursed when she saw Aunt Lu walking away, making Chen Yuanyuan and others laugh.
