Chapter 22: Something of Value

As far as I know, it is absolutely impossible for insect cocoons to change color, but this may be a female insect cocoon, and fire phosphorus insects are so good at stealth, maybe even insect cocoons have the ability to change color!

"Where are you from?" a voice interrupted me as I was thinking.

The person who came was a middle-aged man in his forties, and strangely enough, he was wearing a silver-white dress, wrapped his whole body tightly, and even wore a helmet on his head.

He was supposed to be wearing a kind of protective clothing.

"Hello! We are from a distant village, and we want to come to your village to find out the situation!" I greeted the middle-aged man.

"I think you want to take refuge here, right? I'll tell you the truth, there is no extra food left in the village!"

His tone was a little unfriendly, which was normal. After all, when there is not much surplus food, no one will easily accept more than 200 people.

"Big brother, we really just want to understand the situation, I can guarantee that we won't eat your food here, just give you a place to live. ”

The villagers of Xiayang Village are fine, but the people of Shangyang Village and Zhongyang Village have been running around several times in a row, and they need a break.

"Don't you want to eat?" the man frowned, "Actually, if you are really evil, we can provide a meal, as long as you give money!"

"What??," Guan Zixuan asked with a surprised expression.

"Disasters have come, and you still collect money? Besides, you have money and no place to spend it, right?" Uncle Wang was also puzzled.

"No, no, no, the money I'm talking about is not the money I usually use, but something of value!" the man gestured with his head back and his index finger outstretched.

"What is valuable?" asked Guan Zixuan puzzled.

"In a disaster, the most valuable thing is food. The man replied.

"Uh......"

We were all stunned, didn't you say it mean you didn't say it?

I heard the man continue: "I haven't finished speaking, in addition to food and water, there is another thing that is valuable, and that is something that can bring a sense of security." ”

"Something that gives me a sense of security?"

"Yes, for example, the clothes on this little girl's body can buy three kilograms of food!" The man looked at Guan Zixuan's protective clothing and gestured to us.

"Sold!" Guan Zixuan took off her clothes without saying a word and glanced at me.

I nodded, the dress was of little value to me now, at least not compared to three kilograms of grain!

The man was pleased, took the suit, and motioned for us to come with him.

"You can live there! it's better to be crowded than to have no place to live!" the man pointed to a large house in the distance.

I looked in the direction he was pointing, and it was a school, the largest house in the village I had seen.

"The main school building has been used as a shelter for some villagers, and you can live in the canteen and the secondary school building. The man said.

Next, I led more than 200 villagers to the canteen, while Guan Zixuan and Uncle Wang went to get food.

It is a steel-framed house, and it is very spacious inside, with some marks on the floor, suggesting that there used to be a lot of dining tables here.

Very good.

I looked around, empty, but I said these two words.

I've been through so much, it's good to be alive.

Since you want to live here, you have to be a little popular. I organized a few people and went with me to borrow a few quilts around.

It is also strange to say that the villagers should have a lot of beds and quilts in their homes, and many times the dowry in the village is full of quilts and blankets, but this time I didn't borrow much.

A few people followed me to many places, and only borrowed more than 20 quilts, which in normal times, 100 beds were borrowed.

"Auntie, why did we run a lot of houses and say we didn't have quilts?" I finally couldn't help asking.

"Young man, a lot of things are being used here......"

Then my aunt told me about their village. It turned out that the village was far from being as simple as I saw it.

Most of the businessmen in Pingyang Village are worth hundreds of thousands of millions, and some even tens of millions, and many people work hard outside, and when they have money, they go back to the village to retire.

In the aftermath of the disaster, some of the wealthy people in the village paid for a large amount of quilts and daily necessities, as well as some food, and lived in the best shelters.

Some people sell to them at a high price without noticing anything wrong at first, only to realize later that these daily necessities are very important.

In a disaster village, quilts, food, drinking water, and pots and pans are the most important resources for survival!

And some people have a hard life because they sold their quilts and lost some survival resources due to panic and the impact of the crowd when the bugs attacked.

At a time when some people were starving, cold and helpless, some villagers who had not sold their quilts began to help them.

Of course, there are also people who are reluctant to borrow, mostly because they have a grudge or dispute with the person who borrowed the quilt.

As time goes on, those who are willing to borrow quilts have divided the extra quilts, while some still don't have quilts yet.

At this time, those who did not have a quilt began to regret it, and went to the rich to buy it back.

But the rich said that money did not play a role at all when the disaster occurred, and that if they wanted quilts, they had to work for them.

So some of the rich people in the village appeared in the house of housekeepers, subordinates, and handymen!

Their homes are small two- to three-story cottages, and when the doors and windows are closed, flies cannot fly in, unlike the wooden houses of the villagers, which are difficult to prevent insects.

In this disaster, they made a lot of money and gained a lot of subordinates!

After a while, those who sold grain had no food to eat, so they also went to the rich and became the servants of the rich family.

Of course, not all rich people are like this, and there is a good man named Zhou Da in the village.

He couldn't get used to the interests of other rich people, so he donated the family's food and leftover supplies.

Zhou Da is the second richest man in the village after the richest man, and he also has a lot of things at home, which solves the difficulties of many villagers.

But after a long time, his family's things could no longer support it, and many villagers lived a day with a maximum of one meal a day.

I was surprised again, last time it was a village tyrant, this time it was the exploitation of some rich people, this disaster really tested many people!

When they returned to the cafeteria, Guan Zixuan and the others had already returned.

"Why are there only so many quilts?" Guan Zixuan looked at the quilts placed on the ground, her expression a little puzzled.

"There's no way, many villagers don't have quilts anymore, and I'm already begging left and right to borrow these!" I spread my hands, a little helpless.

"If there are too few quilts, you can only cover a quilt with several people. Uncle Wang also said helplessly.

"Then who am I sleeping with? These two hundred people are just a little girl!" Guan Zixuan looked at me with a pair of big watery eyes.

"This ...... I really didn't think about it, why don't you go sleep with the aunts. I scratched my head.

"No, I'm going to sleep with you!" she said with a smile on her face.