1028, strange black market
Barrier No. 144 suddenly became lively, just because a batch of potatoes was suddenly brought in from outside the barrier, and the cart of potatoes was so large that it felt like small watermelons.
If it weren't for the person in charge of transporting it and admitting that it was a potato, I'm afraid the residents of the barrier wouldn't believe it.
At this time, Zhou Yingxue sat on the first transport truck very angrily, and drove towards the barrier market with the convoy, which was the task assigned to her by Ren Xiaosu, asking her to use potatoes to solve the urgent need of the food shortage on the side of barrier 144.
Seeing that Zhou Yingxue usually smuggled a lot of people, it was as if no one paid attention to it, but Ren Xiaosu's words were all taken to heart.
Now that the potato shooter has a bumper harvest, she naturally hurried to bring the first batch of potatoes to invite credit.
It's just that Wang Yuexi from the Policy Research Office was having a small meeting in the office, but he heard a message from his subordinates: "Director Wang, the black market guy brought a large number of potatoes into the city, saying that he wanted to let the residents of the barrier get them for free, the potatoes are very big, and I don't know where she got them." ”
Everyone else in the office was stunned for a moment: "How big is it?"
"It looks like a watermelon," the subordinate gestured and said, "Now it's okay, the price of food in the barrier should be stable." ”
This is indeed good news for the Northwest, which is increasingly short of food.
It's just that Wang Yuexi didn't think so when he heard this, he suddenly stood up: "Where is the convoy? Hurry up and stop them for me!"
Everyone in the office was stunned for a moment: "What's the matter, Director Wang?"
But when he saw Wang Yuexi put on his coat, he hurried outside: "I don't have time to explain so much, stop the convoy for me first." ”
"But the black market is not easy to stop, you know her style......"
"If it's not good to stop it, you have to stop me," Wang Yuexi said, "I will rush to the scene immediately." ”
When Wang Yuexi arrived, Zhou Yingxue was sitting in the car with a gloomy face, and in front of their truck convoy, two patrol cars of the Order Division were parked to block the way.
Zhou Yingxue didn't sneer when she saw Wang Yuexi coming over: "Okay, it's my lord who values you too much, so you think even my convoy can be stopped?" Why don't we go to my lord now and say that who has more weight to talk to him? Don't let me get out of the way!"
Although Zhou Yingxue is extremely well-behaved in Ren Xiaosu, how can a woman who may open a black market outside the barrier be so well-behaved, when Zhou Yingxue first arrived, there were still people who coveted her black market business, and even coveted this person.
As a result, now all those people have evaporated from the world, and I don't know where they are being thrown into fertilizer.
Wang Yuexi said seriously: "This has nothing to do with who the young marshal values, I also have my reasons for stopping your convoy, even if I go to the young marshal to judge me." ”
Saying that, Wang Yuexi first asked the people from the Order Division to evacuate all the onlookers, and then stepped forward to look at the potatoes in the car.
Zhou Yingxue raised her eyebrows: "I'm doing a good thing for the barrier, don't you know that my lord is anxious about the food shortage?"
"I understand that you are kind, but it is very likely that you will do bad things with good intentions," Wang Yuexi is actually a scholar who is a little arrogant in his bones, and it is this arrogance that caused him to not work for a long time and not be treated anywhere.
And now that Zhou Yingxue heard him say this, she was immediately unhappy: "You tell me how I did bad things with such good intentions, if you don't tell me a reason, I will invite you to the black market to drink tea today." ”
Wang Yuexi said: "Let's go, let's go to the young marshal to discuss this matter together." ”
"No need, I'm here," Ren Xiaosu rushed over when he heard that Wang Yuexi had stopped Zhou Yingxue's convoy, and he was curious: "Is something wrong?"
Zhou Yingxue looked arrogant just now, but as soon as Ren Xiaosu appeared, she immediately put on an aggrieved face: "Master, didn't you let me plant potatoes, but I sent the potatoes, and he said that I did bad things with good intentions, and my potatoes were poisonous or something." By the way, sir, I have good news here, now not only can I grow potatoes, but also collect seeds of other crops, you see the last cart is the winter melon I planted the day before yesterday......!
Since Ren Xiaosu said that she wanted to rejuvenate the northwest, Zhou Yingxue has not been idle, she took her subordinates on the black market to reclaim a wasteland, and then offered a high reward in the black market: looking for mutated crops, including but not limited to wheat, sorghum, winter melon, tomatoes, etc......
Zhou Yingxue's ability to absorb strange seeds must be used on plants that have mutated, but ordinary plants cannot.
This is the first time that such a simple bounty mission has appeared in the black market, and it used to be assassination, selling intelligence, causing accidental deaths, transporting secret goods, and other tasks, but now this mission hanging at the top of the black market task bar looks so out of place.
It's the first time that the heroes in the black market have found themselves so closely connected to food, and the prices are quite high, so high that the killers who swear to only do high-end tasks have gone to the wilderness in search of mutated crops.
Now the slogan at the entrance of the black market has changed, and it used to be "greedy for life and afraid of death, don't enter this door".
Now is "from tomorrow, care about food and vegetables, from tomorrow, face the sea, spring flowers bloom." ”
This is read in the Northwest dialect, and it is particularly emotional.
I have to say that Zhou Yingxue did not lose to Wang Fugui and others in solving problems for Ren Xiaosu, and she did her best.
Now some people say that she is doing bad things with good intentions, and she Zhou Yingxue can't stand this grievance!
Ren Xiaosu glanced at her: "Don't pretend to be aggrieved when you talk well, no one has treated you well, I haven't seen you like this before, don't learn from others, Wang Yuexi, you can talk about it." ”
"That's the young marshal," Wang Yuexi explained, "You also mentioned the matter of potatoes before, but I don't know about the transcendental, so I didn't know that the potatoes were planted so quickly, and the potatoes were shipped in before I had time to plan in detail." Of course, it is a good thing to have potatoes, and I would like to thank Miss Zhou in advance, but these potatoes must not be put in the bazaar for free. ”
In Wang Yuexi's view, although this batch of potatoes can curb grain prices in the short term, if the emergence of free potatoes causes some small stall owners to lose their jobs and cause their vegetables and fruits to rot in their hands, it will be a blow to the entire market.
Of course, you can't just eat potatoes, and those who should buy cabbage will buy it, but they must buy less than usual.
Wang Yuexi continued: "I just heard from Miss Zhou that she can grow other things, but I don't think this move is suitable for large-scale planting. ”
Ren Xiaosu was stunned for a moment: "Why?"
"Young Marshal, let me ask you a question," Wang Yuexi said, "If everyone doesn't need to work anymore to get unlimited living resources, will they be full, or will they be empty?"
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