Yue Dongting took a few pieces of soap to the settlement to trade and returned with more than a dozen bundles of preliminarily processed flax silk for Bai Zhi to experiment with spinning fabrics to make clothes. These mutated materials of Angelica dahurica can be used, but the finished product is not as good as the one produced by her gang.
This batch of linen clothes was immediately sold back in exchange for more linen silk and cotton. After the third transaction of fifty shirts and one hundred pairs of pants, Yue Dongting stopped and returned to the route of exchanging animal meat for food. The clothes he traded were certainly not as good as the ready-made clothes sold in the market before the end of the world, but they were durable and more comfortable than homespun clothes.
The villagers and various production groups have cotton, hemp and grain in their hands, and they have better clothes than homespun clothes. They are more willing to ask for better ones. Even though Yue Dongting said that he has no clothes trade now, except for people who have no clothes to wear. Everyone is willing to wait for a while to exchange for a better one.
If the aunts cannot sell the coarse cloth clothes and pants, they can keep them for their families to wear. If they cannot spin or weave cloth to make clothes, they can do other things. However, the problem faced by groups specializing in textiles is very serious. They have always used finished products to exchange living supplies and raw materials with other groups. Nowadays, no one wants the cloth and clothes that we worked so hard to make. All the girls are worried, feeling that their future is bleak and their survival is in doubt.
The girls discussed for a long time and felt that Niao Renyue and his gang only had more than thirty people, and they had to hunt and farm every day. They had too few people and too many things to do, so they definitely needed help. As the largest production organization and sales organization in the village, they can cooperate with others to sell clothes on their behalf and collaborate on production.
Xiao Zheng, the deputy team leader, was a good hand in organizing activities and soliciting sponsorships at the school before the end of the world. Niao Renyue seems to be easy to talk to. If Xiao Zheng gives him more soup, it will definitely not be difficult to deal with him.
On this day, Yue Dongting and a few friends traded meat for food as usual. After the transaction, the friends left first with the food. He went to Village Chief Wu’s house to sit for a while and gave their grandson a large bamboo dragonfly toy that came from the studio. He estimated that the students were almost ready before going. Throw yourself into a trap.
Xiao Zheng is a typical northern girl, tall, with thick eyebrows and big eyes. She is beautiful whether she wears heavy makeup before the apocalypse or no makeup after the apocalypse. The beauty stopped Yue Dongting and her first words were: "I am Zheng Yuhong, the deputy leader of the textile group. Do you know that you have robbed our business and destroyed our jobs?"
"I know, I did it on purpose." Yue Dongting smiled at her, his smile was shameless and hateful.
Zheng Yuhong was stunned for a moment and turned around and left. Yue Dongting slowly walked forward, and when he reached the fork in the road and turned towards Bai Zhi's residence, Zheng Yuhong still caught up with him. She hesitated at the entrance of the cave and shouted: "Yue, that cave is full of water. Fish will come ashore and bite people, so don't go that way."
Yue Dongting waved to her and continued walking forward. It was a matter of survival, so Zheng Yuhong finally mustered up the courage to catch up. Yue Dongting took her to a clear pond full of flowers and asked her: "Do you want to talk below, or go up to the balcony to talk."
Xiao Zheng stood far away from the edge of the pool and said bitterly: "There is no ladder, please go up and show me."
Yue Dongting flew into the air and grabbed her with a hook and threw her onto the balcony. Little Zheng Anran landed on the balcony, holding his heart against his beating heart, looking at Yue Dongting like a monster. Yue Dongting spun around in mid-air and landed opposite her, shouting: "Bai Zhi, a guest is here."
"Bai Zhi is out." Zhang Tianzhao came out of the studio carrying a teapot and teacup, "Why did you bring this person here?"
Zhang Tianzhao wore loose black trousers and a white robe with a slanted front. He stepped on the bamboo floor with his bare feet, and his leisurely and relaxed posture was very moving. He put the tea set on the table, completely ignored Xiao Zheng, turned around and went back.
Xiao Zheng pressed his chest for the second time, as if he had been hit by a stray bullet. Yue Dongting poured her a cup of tea and said, "That handsome guy has a master. Drink this cup of tea and forget about him. Talk to me about what you want to talk to me about."
Xiao Zheng finally came back to his senses and asked: "He is also with you? Why is he dressed differently from you?"
"Who wears the same clothes at home as when they go out?" Yue Dongting played the tea cup to remind her not to get distracted, "You followed me all the way, just say what you want to say."
"You are deliberately destroying our jobs, why?" Xiao Zheng's voice was loud, but full of falsehood. A beautiful girl like her has always received preferential treatment in life and can enjoy convenience everywhere. This is why she was sent to talk to people after the group discussion. The handsome guy opposite looked cheerful, but he spoke to her as if he were a man. She was very unsure about the conversation that was to follow.
"Our clothes are stronger and more durable than yours, and we are short of food. Why can't we exchange them for the food we need?" Yue Dongting smiled at the spoiled girl with a good temper, "We don't want to starve to death either. , let alone want to be a robber and rob."
Xiao Zheng swallowed "Why don't you go grab it" in time and said weakly: "Then should we starve to death? What should we do?"
Yue Dongting looked at her in embarrassment. Although he didn't say anything, his eyes and expressions expressed the same meaning: "You are not me. What does it matter to me whether you live or die?"
The petals on the roof of the cave rustled down, and the white and pink petals floated and sank in the clear pool. A half-meter-long fish jumped out of the water, opened its big mouth and jumped out of the water to catch a few petals, its steel teeth shining. Shine.
Xiao Zheng trembled in fright and shrank toward the balcony.
"Fish can't jump from this height." Yue Dongting had a headache. This girl who looked smart and strong was so frightened that he now felt guilty about bullying children. The little girl must have thought he was threatening someone when he brought her here to discuss business.
"We...we don't spin or make clothes, so we have to farm. But the other groups have already matched up and won't accept us." Xiao Zheng whispered: "There are more than a dozen of us, all of whom are Girls can’t farm.”
How do you know if you haven't tried it? Yue Dongting silently gave a thumbs up to someone who had been farming alone, touching the tea cup and waiting for the little girl to collapse.
Zhang Tianzhao, who was sitting cross-legged in the studio, shook his head slightly and continued to use his powers to calcine the ore.
"Well, if you have any more clothes, let us sell them on your behalf, okay?" Xiao Zheng mustered up the courage and tried to rinse his face.
"We won't sell it anymore." Yue Dongting said with a serious face, "The quality is obviously better than yours, but it's as cheap as yours. It's not worth it."
"If you don't sell it, they won't buy it from us!" Xiao Zheng said anxiously: "Leave it to us. Just let us sell it for you. We can make a profit by selling it more expensively, and everyone can make a profit." Okay?"
"If you really want to eat this bowl of rice, we can only provide the materials and you earn the processing fee." Yue Dongting shook his head, "We can discuss the processing fee. But the products are absolutely not allowed to be sold on behalf of others."
"Can we do processing and sales together?" Xiao Zheng said sincerely, "Handsome guy, I know you are a good person, so promise me."
"Only processing. If you don't agree, I'll go talk to Village Chief Wu." Yue Dongting's expression remained unchanged. His three sisters have all used this trick on him. The brother knew that it was a scam, so he could only bite the bullet and do it. , forget it’s not his sister.
"Okay. Then the team leader and I will come to talk to you tomorrow." Xiao Zheng looked outside worriedly, "Can you change the place? The fish here are too fierce, I'm scared."
"That's it." Yue Dongting stood up and threw Xiao Zheng off.
Xiao Zheng waited timidly by the pond for a long time, but Yue Dongting had no intention of coming down to see her off, so she left disappointed.
"Where did Angelica go?" Yue Dongting asked. This is Bai Zhi's first time out here.
"Hai Fengqiu discovered a kind of bryophyte whose fruit can be used to make blue medicine. It is very large. He called Bai Zhi to study transplantation." Zhang Tianzhao put the iron ingot into his backpack, "The clothing market with a thousand people will soon be It will be saturated. It’s my turn next?”
"Get more farm tools, hoes and so on. Use ordinary steel. Even if it can't be sold here, it will be useful in the future." Yue Dongting smiled, "If this girl knew that your nickname was Zhang Blacksmith, how would her heart be broken?"
Zhang Tianzhao shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Why didn't Director Hu talk to you? He doesn't have enough control over the students?"
Yue Dongting nodded, "The young men are very idealistic and think the old guy is too conservative. Village Chief Wu mentioned to me that there are a few particularly radical students who spread the word in front and behind that we are here to occupy land and grab food and women. rumor."
"Someone will come to snatch it soon. When Hai Fengqiu came just now, he said that Hao Xing took the risk and contacted Hao Lang once, and a team of about fifty people had a fight with the exploration team and was heading in our direction. Migrants, their pace is a little slower than ours, they will definitely be able to get there in half a month." Zhang Tianzhao picked out a few pieces from a long row of ore and threw the ore into the fireball, "I don't think the small groups coming here sporadically will be able to get there. There will be less. It will be lively here soon.”
Xiao Zhenghe, the leader of the textile team, actually came to the waterhole where Bai Zhi lived the next day. Yue Dongting did not let them go up this time. The two girls fought hard, but he did not give in. They reluctantly accepted the reality that they could only earn processing fees.
Yue Dongting purchased textile raw materials in the village, shipped them back to be processed into fabrics by Angelica dahurica, and then took the fabrics to the village and handed them over to the textile team for processing into various clothing and quilt covers. Although Bai Zhi didn't know much about real hand-made clothes, she couldn't resist Zhang Tianzhao's strong hands-on ability. She disassembled the garments into pieces, estimated the dosage, and published the materials with a 15% increase in dosage. Part of the processed clothing and quilt cover was exchanged for grain on the spot as payment to the textile group renamed Girls' Workshop, and the remaining parts were transported back to the cave for storage together with the grain.
The crops in the cave grow very quickly and have high yields. The new team purchased large quantities of cotton and various types of hemp, and the planting area of these crops immediately expanded. Village elder Wu was so cunning that he bypassed the ignored Director Hu and negotiated a deal with Yue Dongting about exchanging raw materials for fabrics. Yue Dongting happily agreed to him and agreed to conduct centralized transactions once a month.
Bai Zhi regularly produces fifty pieces of fabric every day, and saves most of it for future trading. The other half is given to Yue Dongting to supply to the girls' workshop. Her main energy is still used to make wrist bags and soft armor, and she consumes until half of her energy is left every day. stop.
Zhang Tianzhao made a workbench based on the information he found somewhere. He temporarily gave up the elegant and mana-consuming tool-making style of blacksmithing and transformed into a low-end blacksmith who processed farm tools. It took him a week to make seven to eight hundred hoes and sickles using the steel stocked by Haifengqiu. After throwing piles of farm tools to Yue Dongting, the blacksmith clearly refused to make any more low-end farm tools at the small meeting.
The newly discovered bryophytes are growing well under the dense pine forest in the gang's territory. Haifengqiu spends an hour or two at Bai Zhi's place every two days. He buys ingredients for blue medicine from the repair robot and uses the newly picked fruits of Bai Zhi to make medicine.
The finished blue pills are random and cheating, and the mana recovery ranges from 10% to 30%.
Once, when four people gathered for a small meeting and dinner, Hai Fengqiu took 10% of Xiao Xiaolan's money as a team benefit, divided 20% and 30% equally among five people, and gave it out, saying : "Our place is going to be lively soon. We are almost ready to prepare. Bai Zhi, how about the Pili you modified? Can we use it?"
"I went out to try it last time, and I can use it for you." Bai Zhi took out the grooved stone slab, and the dark purple spindle crystals were stuck in the groove of the stone slab. There were ten crystals per slab, four slabs in total, "two meters in diameter. The five on the left have been processed, and the sound is similar to that of ordinary thunderball explosions."
"The left side is used to trick people. I like it." Lin Yunlai held the slate and couldn't put it down.
Bai Zhi rolled out four boxes of thunder crystals, "I have also changed this. The power of the thunder balls I throw out is twice as powerful. It cannot be used as positioning coordinates... I am still modifying the coordinates. The thunder crystals I released before were used for positioning. , I can't even sense half of it." Bai Zhi closed her eyes and sensed again, exclaiming that the unknown person was already very close to her, only a few dozen kilometers at most!
"What did you sense?" Zhang Tianzhao asked.
"Nothing. Two more pills are missing, but the one buried under the Kunlun Ruins is still there." Bai Zhi frowned. The man seemed to have picked up her teleportation crystal along the way. Although the man could find her without the teleportation crystal, He cut off her retreat. This feeling was very unpleasant. She asked: "Last time we said that a new team would come to this area. It has been more than ten days, so it's time to come."
Before Hai Fengqiu could say anything, he heard the explosion of superpower impact. The sound of the explosion came from the other side of the village.
The villagers live in the southwest of the two caves. That side is also the direction of Kunlun Ruins. Hai Fengqiu and Zhang Tianzhao coincidentally pushed the thunder crystal box in front of them to Yue Dongting. Lin Yunlai grabbed a third of each of them from his box, and even put the box away with great treasure.
Yue Dongting silently put the three boxes of thunder crystals into his backpack and said, "I'll go over and take a look. I'll take note of anything important."
An hour later, Yue Dongting came back with a wry smile and said: "Two groups came and started fighting at the entrance of the village. That old fox, Village Chief Wu, used us to scare them. Now the two groups have shaken hands and made peace. We live here." There are a few empty caves on the opposite side, and the old fox took people there directly."
"How many people are there in each of these two groups?" Haifengqiu asked.
"One group is forty or fifty, and one group is over twenty." Yue Dongting thought for a while and said, "The group of forty or fifty also brought women and children. There are only seventeen or eight who are really capable of fighting. It is estimated that the strength of both sides is almost."
"This old fox uses us to scare them, and then uses them to protect us." Haifeng Qiu smiled, "In two or three months, he will be promoted from village chief to mayor."
When the two new groups occupied the cave, the first thing they did was to understand the surrounding environment. A group of people soon discovered the cave where Bai Zhi lived. They carefully avoided the waterside and soon discovered the water pool in the corner of the cave and the balcony stone door on the rock wall. The steel teeth of six or seven one-meter-long fish jumping under the pool are a presence that people cannot ignore.
Zhang Tianzhao walked slowly to the balcony and asked condescendingly: "Are you okay?" His power fluctuations rose from scratch to level eight. The big fish that was jumping below fled quickly, leaving behind strings of white water splashes on the river.
"My name is Wang Yiquan, and I am the leader of this new group of people who have settled here." Wang Yiquan shouted: "We are just going out for a walk to familiarize ourselves with the environment. It's okay!"
"Just leave if you have nothing to do." Zhang Tianzhao stared at them coldly.
Wang Yiquan laughed and politely said goodbye.
"Isn't there even a fifth-level superpower captain in their village? Why is this one already at level eight?" A boy kept muttering, "It's unscientific. This guy looks so skinny and tender, but he still lives like this. Where there is strength, will he be able to fight monsters?"
"Anyone who dares to set up his home in that place is not a normal human being." Wang Yiquan shuddered, "When that guy looked at me, I couldn't move. If he wanted to kill me, he only had to raise a finger. Don't mess with him, tell our people that no one, no matter adults or children, is allowed to come to this cave." As he spoke, he looked back at the corner, and two more people came out of the balcony, "There are actually several of them. Lao Gao and the others want to go to that cave. I'm afraid it will be difficult to occupy the village."
The cave where Wang Yiquan and his family lived had not yet had time to install a door. The child was so excited after settling down that he ran around in and out, so someone had to be assigned to guard the entrance of the cave. The guy guarding the entrance of the cave saw Zhang Tianzhao and his party asking to open the door and enter the opposite side, and reported to Wang Yiquan.
Wang Yiquan thought about it for a while and decided to go back alone to explore the cave again. This time, he didn't go very far when he bumped into Angelica dahurica. He was so frightened that he turned around and ran away.
Bai Zhi caught up and kicked him down, stepped on his chest with her little leather boots, and nailed him to the ground. She said happily, "Wang Yiquan, I've been waiting for you for a long time."
"Eat whatever you want." Wang Yiquan closed his eyes and waited for death. This girl was in the same group as those thirty or so people.
"It's too much trouble for you to take care of your children after eating." Bai Zhi shook her head and raised her feet, "Get up. It's not easy for you to persist for so long with a group of women and children. I will kill you last time. I won’t argue with you anymore.”
Wang Yiquan lay on the ground very naked and couldn't get up, "I'm going to die anyway, I admit it, let's have a good time."
"I'm a vegetarian!" Bai Zhi sighed, "There are more than thirty of us. I was really separated from them during the earthquake. If I were a cannibal, I wouldn't let you go. Get up."
"You really can't level up by eating people?" Wang Yiquan got up and looked at Bai Zhi seriously, and went over to smell Bai Zhi with an expression of "I will die".
Bai Zhi held her nose and let him smell it.
Wang Yiquan smelled it for a few minutes, and then he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You really don't smell like cannibalism."
Bai Zhi jumped a few meters and exhaled, "What does a cannibal smell like?"
"Whoever you eat will leave the taste of that person, which can never be washed away." Wang Yiquan's face sank, "Miss Gao, I apologize to you. I misunderstood you and almost killed you."
What Gan Lin said was true. It turned out that Wang Chengpeng really was a cannibal. He grew in strength by eating people. Bai Zhi shook her head and turned her attention to Wang Yiquan, "It doesn't matter. If I were you, maybe my choice would be the same as yours. If nothing happens, can you talk to me about recent events?"
Wang Yiquan nodded happily, thought for a while, and said: "The situation is very bad. There are fewer and fewer mutated animals, and there is simply not enough to eat. Some search teams think that we are cannibals for a living, and shoot them when they see us. Some of them are very kind to us. When they meet us, they will give our children some food and let us go."
"I heard before I came down that if you are caught, you can get in." Bai Zhi looked at Wang Yiquan.
"It's a lie. No one can go in below." Wang Yiquan gritted his teeth, "The way out was also collapsed by the earthquake, so we shouldn't come in."
"You don't know what's going on outside..." Bai Zhi raised her eyebrows. He wouldn't know about such an important thing as nuclear winter.
"What's going on outside? I asked several search team members who were willing to talk to us, and they all said we have discipline and can't talk." Wang Yiquan had a clever idea, "Is there a problem outside? It's a big problem? It's so big... I understand. , what they are implying is nuclear winter..." His voice became softer and softer, and finally he squatted down in despair and began to cry.
"Hey, I heard that's the case, but if you look at this place, you'll know that we still have a way to survive." Bai Zhi said loudly: "The plants here don't need sunlight to grow so well. Food and other things only need If you are willing to farm, the harvest will be very good. Although the mutated animals are a bit fierce, you won't turn into a zombie if you bite them now, and there are more and more edible parts. It's just that you can't go up there for the time being."
"He must have relatives up there." Wu Chudong stood up from behind a big tree and handed over a transparent glass bottle filled with small sparkling crystals. "Long time no see. It's something you lost."
