Although Leng Yue was surprised by Ding Chen's choice, she didn't directly question it, in fact, she thought that the reason why Ding Chen didn't choose the shuttle was because she wanted to know more about the situation in the gathering areas along the way before entering the capital area. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Leng Yue's task at this time has changed to take Ding Chen to the capital area, so he doesn't urge Ding Chen, anyway, as long as he can reach the capital area in the end.

And Leng Yue is not without selfishness, the task of watching snow has always been very heavy. It was almost certain that once back in the Capital District, she and Frost would soon be sent out on a mission again. So now there is an opportunity that can be justifiably delayed, and of course it must be seized.

The sphere of influence of District 53 is a bit strange, a bit like an ellipse, with the main city being one focal point and the old K's defense zone being another. So now that Ding Chen and the three of them left the main city, it only took one day to leave the densely populated area and re-enter the wilderness.

Cold Moon and Frost are no strangers to this situation. All the gathering areas are mainly urban areas, and the 53rd district, which also has a sub-urban area centered on the defense line of the old K with the water river is the real outlier.

Ding Chen has now found that the climate in this era is obviously much warmer than when he was on the orbital space station, and in November, the night temperature in the field has not yet dropped to freezing.

On the edge of arrondissement, there are still a few small villages, which are mainly agricultural, and the inhabitants can barely feed themselves. Strictly speaking, these people are also counted as residents of the 53rd district, but there are no social benefits, and of course there are no taxes and forced labor. If the labor force in the family is sufficient, it can live a little better like the old house, but once it encounters natural and man-made disasters, a family may disintegrate in an instant.

Although all three of them had the ability to sleep in the wild, that night, Ding Chen still found a farmhouse to spend the night.

When he was in the apartment, Ding Chen asked his father, in this era, there are many real hard currencies, food, energy, and bullets can be used as a means of trading, and gold, silver and jewelry are of course valuable, but the regional price difference of these things fluctuates greatly, and there is no unified price.

However, in large agglomerations, there are still trading currencies, and there are even paper currencies issued by the official authorities of the republic.

In District 53, Ding Chen learned from the Leng Yue sisters that there were even banks of different sizes in each gathering area to carry out necessary financial activities. However, due to the difficulty of logistics, the economic activities of the private sector are restricted, so the degree of acceptance of pure currency is also different. Normally, ordinary people in the main urban area are more accustomed to using money, which is often referred to as money, because they have to live on a salary. Outside the main urban areas, homesteaders, scavengers, or simply homeless or small-scale businessmen who earn their lives are generally reluctant to accept pure money. The main reason is that the supply of materials in small agglomeration areas is not stable enough, and the value of goods fluctuates too much, and it is possible to lose money if it is counted as money.

Like the Capital District, of course, the official currency of the republic is used. But in other clusters, the situation is different. For example, District 11 has its own official currency, which is affected by its radiation, and District 53 and District 49 also use the currency issued by District 11. It was a very small metal coin, mainly because the 11th District did not have access to a stable amount of coinage paper, so it had to choose more readily available metal materials to mint the coin. Because of its distinctive shape, this coin is called a "bottle cap".

In fact, the appearance of the bottle cap in the 11th district is copied from the coin used as a secondary currency in the capital area, and the coin in the capital area is also called "bottle cap", but the name of the designer is added in front of it, so it is called "cola bottle cap". At least in other regions, "bottle caps" can only be called "bottle caps", or add the name of the region where they are cast, such as "bottle caps in district 11".

In fact, in this era, except for the banknotes of the Republic, the coins with good reputation are all metal coins, and the banknotes that occur in the local area are almost synonymous with money grabbing.

When Ding Chen left District 53, Mu Yun provided them with necessary supplies, and Ye Dai also gave him a bag of coins, which contained metal coins from District 11, and of course, banknotes issued by the Republic.

In fact, the Leng Yue sisters also have banknotes on them, but they rarely use them, and in comparison, the guns in their hands are more convincing.

In addition to the middle-aged couple, there are several children, the eldest son has married a daughter-in-law, and the younger daughter-in-law is pregnant. It's just that in Ding Chen's opinion, this pair of children who are about to become parents are about the same age as Li Jing, and it is doubtful whether the girl can be older than Luo Li.

Leng Yue's explanation for this is that the average life expectancy of residents in lower-level gathering areas is only thirty or forty years old, and there is no medical treatment, and many people get sick and hang up directly, so whenever possible, people always tend to let their children have children earlier. After all, as long as the child survives until he is five or six years old, there can be one more laborer in the family.

The head of the family was reluctant to speak, but he was very happy to agree to Ding Chen's request for the three of them to stay overnight, and refused the banknotes that Ding Chen took out. This made Ding Chen's impression very good, and he felt that the people of this place were simple.

After settling down in the earthen house, Leng Yue reminded him that the man probably didn't know paper money at all, which was why she was reluctant to use money - the farther away from the capital area, the worse the circulation of official banknotes, and people in remote areas probably never saw what the official banknotes of the Republic looked like in their lifetime.

This statement made Ding Chen feel very depressed.

may be sticking to the light of handsome men and beautiful women, so after a short period of strangeness, the children of this family began to gather around Ding Chen and the three of them to watch the excitement. However, the middle-aged couple was very concerned about the guns carried by Ding Chen and the others, for fear that the children would anger them.

The accent in this place in District 53 is not heavy, although the tail voice is a little sharp when he speaks quickly, but it is easy to understand, so while the women arranged dinner, Ding Chen chatted with the middle-aged man for a while.

Hearing that Ding Chen and the three were Mu Yun's subordinates, the man's nervous spirit looked a little relaxed. Ding Chen asked for a while and found out that Lao K and the madman's subordinates often came out to harass the place, and they beat each other's flags. It's just that the acting skills of these soldiers are not very good, and the sense of secrecy is also poor, so they have done a lot of work, and naturally the news has been leaked, and even ordinary farmers know that most of the people who claim to be under the old K are crazy soldiers, and vice versa.

In contrast, Mu Yun has always followed the policy of elite soldiers, the clothing and equipment of his soldiers are very uniform, and he often sends troops out to publicize, and the cost of impersonating her subordinates is too high, so her reputation among the people will be better.

When Ding Chen was sleeping, the middle-aged man was also judging from his military uniform that he might be Mu Yun's soldier. Especially Ding Chen once took out a banknote, although the middle-aged man didn't know what it was, he knew that the old K and the crazy people wouldn't do this, so he would be less vigilant.

Dinner consisted of porridge mixed with some root stems, as well as some hard noodles and dry grains and pickles. Not to mention the food compared to Mu Yun's official residence, even the apartment can throw a few streets here.

Ding Chen asked for a while and learned that the farmers here lack breeding methods and cannot afford to buy grain seeds in the main urban area, so they cannot grow high-yield crops and can only rely on miscellaneous grains to live.

There are no electric lights here, and even lamp oil is precious, so everyone goes to bed after dinner.

In the middle of the night, Ding Chen suddenly woke up, and then Leng Yue and Ning Shuang, who were sleeping beside him, also moved, and they both heard footsteps coming from outside the door.