Chapter 32 The market is blackmailed
"Hong Jian has been guaranteed, there will be no living autopsy, at most it will be a living corpse autopsy, and that corpse will not be able to escape this fate." Dr. Ali sighed sadly.
"Well, we're okay with dissecting zombies." I heard that Hong Jian was fine, and I was relieved.
Although the whole people go to work, but we also have a rest day, not fixed, can be a series of rest, I don't know when, Tianfu Square formed a flea market, everyone takes out their idle things to sell or exchange for the need for materials, everything, all kinds, this is the first serious market after the end of the world, everyone uses the rest day to set up stalls in the market, because everyone's rest time is not fixed, so the liquidity of the market stall owners is great, that is, if it happens that you are optimistic about which thing, It's best to exchange or buy it back immediately, once you miss it, if you want to find the stall owner, you have to wait at least another week, and the stall owners often only have a few or even a single thing, which can't be helped, in this generation, there is no place to go if you want to buy goods.
The nature of the market makes us run to Tianfu Square every day off to go around, and now the hard currency in the base is gold, we didn't have this eye before, and we didn't say to pay two handfuls when we saw the gold store before, which will see that gold has value again, but there is no place to get it, so we can only barter.
If we want to say that we can take out and exchange things for some pumpkin and sweet potatoes, which can be eaten as both rice and vegetables, don't look at these things are not worth a few dollars before the end of the world, this will be a good guy in the base, mainly for those survivors who play a single gang, they have no team, they dare not go out of the city to find food without authorization, they can only rely on the base to distribute a pitiful amount of food every day, the ecosystem of the institute has limited output, and priority is given to feeding the army, these ordinary survivors live on the food brought back from the grain depot, After that, General Pi did because of the sharp increase in the number of survivors, repeatedly sent troops to the grain depot to transport grain, the grain depot did not dare to stop, but the grain depot storage quantity is also limited, in the end the grain depot was emptied, still unable to fully supply the food and drink of more than 30,000 people, the people in the grain depot saw that the grain storage was empty, had to follow the army back to the base, to put it bluntly, they came with the grain, but they couldn't eat enough, the grain was distributed by the army, half a catty per person per day, women and children were enough, and most of the men had to be hungry and half diarrhea.
General Pi ordered the soldiers to drive out to pick up a large number of wild pumpkins, potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn, and they did not let go of the shriveled ones, but the season has passed, most of these things are rotten in the ground or gnawed by wild things, and there are not many that can be pulled back for people to eat, unlike us who started early, and the ones that were transported back are all full fruits, General Pi did not know that we applied for a car to go out to store these foods, he did not order the base to follow suit, it is estimated that he did not expect that so many people could come to Chengdu later, and it will be too late to regret it.
Therefore, the small pumpkin and big potato in our hands have become a rarity, which can be exchanged for a lot of things, although it is not as valuable as gold, but it can also be used as some change.
Of course, we can't consume indiscriminately, although we have a lot of storage, and it's okay to spend the winter, but we also have to save some food, and we can't exchange something meaningless to come back.
If you want to go shopping, you have to be in a company to be interesting, so I made an appointment with Nian Nian, Qin Xiaoman, Ai Leer, Jinyan, Amy, and Yaoyao to rest on the same day, and we could go to the flea market together to hang out happily.
When we arrived at Tianfu Square, looking at the large stalls, we felt that if we went together, we couldn't finish shopping all day, and everyone wanted to find different things, so we simply went separately and gathered at the designated place at the agreed time.
The girls rushed into the bazaar with their arms in hand, Nian Nian and I took Shuai Shuai in a group, we didn't have any exact goals, purely to take the children and everyone to join in the fun, so the three of us walked slowly, slowly looked, I took Shuai Shuai to visit the bazaar There is also a purpose, so that he can see a lot of things that he usually can't see, these are three-dimensional real, much more interesting than reading picture books and DVDs, he likes this way of learning very much.
Shuai Shuai was attracted by the Ultraman toy on a rag, he squatted in front of the stall, wanted to touch it but was embarrassed, looked up at me, the stall owner was a woman about the same age as me, she saw Shuai Shuai staring at Ultraman, so she said kindly, "Pick it up and see, it's okay." ”
I didn't want to buy toys for Shuai Shuai, food crisis, a potato is more valuable than a toy, but Shuai Shuai got permission, and actually reached out and picked up Ultraman, the joints of the hands and feet of this little toy are alive, you can twist and change the posture, in fact, it is interesting, and the attraction to a little boy is amazing, Shuai Shuai fiddled with Ultraman's arm, I can't put it down, I can't bear to see it, so I asked the woman softly, "How to sell it?" ”
"What do you have?" The woman asked, staring at the canvas bag on my body.
"Potatoes, sweet potatoes."
"Five potatoes!" The woman opened a slap and I shook my head, "It's too expensive!" You must know that these days, mothers would rather buy food for their children than buy toys easily. ”
"A potato, if you change it, we will buy it, otherwise forget it." I took a large potato out of the bag and held it up to her.
The woman unwillingly pointed to the handsome man who was concentrating on playing with toys and said, "If the child likes it, the thing is valuable, and one potato is too little, at least three." ”
I sighed, I often visit this market, I already know the constant price of toys, in fact, a potato can be exchanged for a bunch of toys, but I am not such a bargaining person, an Ultraman I can't always cut a small piece of potato for her, right? I didn't ask for anything else to be spared from her, I was quite generous.
"Shuaishuai, put the toy down, let's go around, maybe there is something you like better?" I decided to take the child away, taking the child to buy toys before the end of the world is the rhythm of slaughter, the vendor will especially take advantage of the child's liking to carry the price, but I will not give in, I love the child, but I will not blindly spoil the child.
Shuai Shuai was very obedient, and reluctantly put Ultraman back in his original position, carefully and seriously.
As soon as we turned around, we heard the woman shout, "Your bear boy has broken his toy!" Gotta pay! ”
I looked back in surprise and saw that the woman was holding Ultraman with one hand and holding Ultraman's arm with the other, which was a broken arm.
For a moment, I really thought that Shuai Shuai had accidentally played with Ultraman's arm, but Shuai Shuai said innocently, "Auntie, I didn't, I didn't pull his arm just now." ”
Shuai Shuai was very naughty, but he never lied, and seeing my son say this, I realized that the problem was not with him.
"Show it to me." I reached out and took Ultraman, who had a broken arm, and pulled it with a slight force on the other arm, and found that it was very strong, and if I didn't pull it vigorously, I wouldn't have been able to pull it off at all.
Nian Nian sneered, "Do you want to blackmail the self-destructing toy?" It turned out that she was a clear-eyed person, and she had already seen that she was tired.
The woman stood up with her feet spread and shouted, "You want to deny it if you break the toy?" Don't! If you don't give me five potatoes today, don't even think about leaving!" ”
The surrounding stall owners made a commotion and surrounded me, and I was sensitive to the fact that they blocked both sides of the passage, probably afraid that we would run away.
I'm a little crying and laughing, this little trick, few people used it before the end of the world, I really don't know what this woman thinks, she broke a good toy, and she can't sell it if she wants to sell it in the future, it seems that she has made up her mind about our blackmail.
I looked around, these people who came up were obviously standing on the side of the female vendors, and I don't know if they were in a gang, the success rate of cooperative extortion must be high, and these people have a lot of mobility, and those who have suffered losses will come back to look for them, and the lead will slip away early, and after a while, they will change places and set up stalls, and they can also find honest people to stalk.
These people are getting closer and closer, Nian Nian and I are busy blocking Shuai Shuai in the middle, the little fat man doesn't know what happened, he is a little scared, hugging my thighs tightly, and whispering to argue, "I didn't break Ultraman, I didn't ......"
Patting my son's head, I cleared my throat, "Baby, Mommy knows you didn't do it, don't be afraid." ”
Nian Nian was angry and shouted, "What do you want to do? Is this a robbery? ”
I remained silent, letting the woman blwart and accuse everyone, in fact, it was to delay time, and after a while, I saw the tall Jinyan appear outside the crowd with a curious face, and the partners returned!
The onlookers were not only Jinyan, but also Amy, Qin Xiaoman, Aile Er and Yaoyao, who had not gone too far and were attracted by the voices to see the excitement, but they found that it was the three of us who were surrounded.
"What are you doing, what are you doing?" Qin Xiaoman pulled away the crowd that was deliberately squeezing the passage, and walked to us with the other girls, "Sister, what's the matter?" ”
"It's really a free market, and it still buys and sells strongly," Nian Nian hurriedly replied, "The woman broke off her arm with her toy, not to say that our baby broke it, but Shuai Shuai was light when he held it, I watched it." ”
When the female vendors saw that there were more of us, they did not have a trace of timidity, but shouted more fiercely, attracting more onlookers.
I've been thinking about how to deal with this, I can't do it for a toy to fight with others, but admitting to compensating her for five potatoes will make Shuai Shuai feel that I don't trust him, and really think he broke it, and it's difficult for children to explain what it means to be a good man who doesn't suffer immediate losses, we have repeatedly told Shuai Shuai that we can't bow to the evil forces, but when I am really wronged, if I set an example and condone the other party, the impact on Shuai Shuai is not bad.
But I really don't want to get into trouble on a good rest day, we are fighting, but not for our kind, in my mind, maybe the female vendor has something else to do, or she needs these five potatoes too much, or she has children waiting to eat......