Chapter 15: Borrowing Money
It was raining heavily outside, and the sight was already dim, and there was only sporadic candlelight in the mall, and it was almost impossible to see anything.
The three of them went in, and there was originally only one of the three cash registers working, and the entrance and exit were blocked by a horizontal line, leaving only a narrow entrance, and they were asked to take off their raincoats and coats, because they were drenched, and suffered from a white eye from the aunt.
When they went in to shop, the aunt also held a candle and kept staring after them.
That's understandable.
The three of them were all unusual, according to Liang Shuyu's list, they took rice, noodles and pickles, and of course candles, but the candles were limited, and each unit could only buy 5.
They also bought paper towels and disinfectant for the sake of water purification, and if the water was still out after the tank was exhausted, they would have to use rainwater or lake water.
There were no water purification tablets here, so Liang Shuyu brought two buckets of disinfectant.
I didn't find ginger tea, this is not a fresh supermarket, and there is no ginger, so I can only give up for the time being.
In addition to them, there was another couple in the mall, who looked to be in their thirties, but Liang Shuyu was very strange to see them taking a lot of garbage bags.
What can garbage bags be used for in this case?
Liang Shuyu thought about it.
In addition to being used to hold garbage, garbage bags should also be able to pack items independently, the weather is very damp, the things in the wardrobe have become moist, underwear is not dry directly, and it stinks after washing, if you put clean clothes in a separate package, you should be able to avoid moisture.
In addition, rice and food are also very soggy, especially rice, its bag is not completely closed, and moisture is easy to enter.
If he doesn't want the rice to fall wet, it's best to take them out and pack them separately.
Therefore, Liang Shuyu also went to get a lot of rolls of garbage bags, and by the way, there were tin foil, plastic wrap, disposable chopsticks, etc. on the shelves, and he felt that he might be able to use them, so he took some.
Other than that, they didn't buy anything else, in fact, they were cunning enough.
People who don't know why they must have rushed to the instant noodle area first, and when they walked through the instant noodle area, most of the shelves were already visibly empty, so they didn't buy instant noodles at all, but only bought handfuls of noodles.
Those two bags of 50 catties of rice alone are enough to eat for two months, and the remaining instant noodles in the entire mall may not be able to eat for so long.
They also bought lots and lots of pickles, and the shelves were almost empty.
The cashier was a younger aunt, who had no cash register system, no calculator, and she struggled to do the calculations with scratch paper.
In addition, one of the biggest drawbacks of such a shopping mall is that the cashier does not know the price of the goods at all, and some large items have a marked price, and the things without a marked price all rely on estimates.
Although Liang Shuyu took out 20,000 cash in advance, he still negotiated a price with her and wiped a few yuan in change.
This situation was a little primitive, dispelling a lot of the terrifying scene just now, and Liang Ying and Liang Wenjing's expressions finally recovered a little.
"Everything is packed." The three of them stuffed small things into Liang Shuyu's backpack, Liang Wenjing was responsible for carrying the shopping bag, Liang Shuyu resisted a bag of rice, and Liang Yingkang had a bag of rice.
There is a buffer passage when you walk out of the mall, and some goods were originally placed on the shelves on the left and right, but now they are all emptied, leaving only empty shelves.
When Liang Shuyu was walking in this 2-meter-long passage, he saw a woman sitting at the door and looking at the probe.
Liang Shuyu vigilantly pulled Liang Wenjing to the middle, and walked on the side close to the woman. The woman's plan fell through, she hesitated, and finally pulled her child to her feet.
She pulled a boy about five or six years old to greet Liang Shuyu and the three of them, and her eyes first probed to Liang Ying: "Come, call Auntie." "The child was timid and didn't dare to scream.
The woman flattered and said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, there is really no way, we are passing by here from other places, and we ended up separated from the child's father, and now we don't even have a place to live." I just saw that you bought a lot of things, I don't mean anything else, but can you please lend me a few hundred yuan for the sake of the child, I can press the ID card and mobile phone to you, please make it convenient, the child has not eaten for several days. ”
As she spoke, the others sitting in the doorway were also looking this way.
Liang Shuyu noticed that most of the people sitting at the door had no money, of course, not that they were poor, but that they had no cash on them.
So when a woman talks about borrowing money, there are a few people in her eyes who have a happy hope.
A penny is hard to beat the farmer, let's put it like this, I don't know if there is a big boss with a net worth of tens of millions in a corner of this city who is starving to the point of starvation?
"Sorry, all our cash is used to buy these things." Liang Shuyu interrupted the woman's words in advance.
The woman's face was a little ugly.
Liang Shuyu continued to say bluntly: "This rain won't last for a few days, I believe someone will come to help you soon." ”
The woman obviously saw that Liang Shuyu and they had bought so many things, but now they were unwilling to give them a little help, and tears fell down in a hurry.
"It's really hard, my phone is completely broken, the bank can't withdraw money, I'm really desperate...... The child also caught a cold and couldn't even afford medicine. ”
Liang Wenjing looked at this poor woman, and her eyes moistened.
Liang Shuyu said: "I also want to help you, but we can't do anything. Why don't you ask the shopkeeper on credit, he should be willing to help you. I'm sorry. ”
He pulled the two women and left, the middle-aged woman cried even more, twisted the child's arm and let him hug Liang Shuyu's thigh, and the woman suddenly cried: "Please, I really have no other way, I can't let the child starve!" Or give us something to eat, and let this boy survive these two days, or he will starve to death." ”
Liang Shuyu looked down at the child coldly, as well as the woman who was spilling misery on the street, "If you pester me again, don't blame me for being rude." ”
"But we can't help it! Do you watch us starve to death? He's still a child, he's so young, I'll starve to death, don't starve him, you can help us! ”
Liang Shuyu knew that these people were not good stubble, and when he entered the mall, he found that there was originally a 2-meter-long buffer passage at the entrance of the mall, which was originally used to place goods, but now they are all cleaned up, and there are only two reasons.
The first is that the boss specially cleared it out for these homeless people to live in, because there are roller shutters outside the buffer passage, and there is no hard reason that needs to be cleaned up.
Stains and rubbish left in the buffer passage also indicate that it was indeed inhabited.
And these people are now being driven out of the door, indicating that they once had a conflict with the shop owner and were kicked out. That's the second reason.