449 Smugglers

Of course, businessmen like Zhang Pinggui and Iszawi, if they are hungry or need to ask someone to do something, they can also use shopping coupons to spend here, just don't be too expensive.

This meal was more than 5 yuan, a total of two vegetarian dishes, and a bottle of spirits that I don't know what was used for private brewing. And 5 yuan can buy ten catties of fine wool mutton here, or buy more than ten catties of rice noodles from the base, which is enough for a homeless person to eat for half a month.

Not to mention meat dishes, game meat is by far the least valuable, just a little more expensive than a large bowl of tea. As long as a person is brave enough and has a little skill, he can go to the nearby mountains to catch small animals such as hares, pheasants, badgers, prairie rats, etc., and if you are lucky, you can even meet goats and even deer.

The reason why people in the old world sought to eat wild animals was not because there were few, but because scarcity was expensive. The meat of most wild animals, with the exception of fish, is difficult to compare with the taste of captive-bred livestock due to the lack of spices and ingredients.

The meal was still paid by Hong Tao, and Zhang Pinggui and Iszawi also rushed to pay, which made Hong Tao's drunken and immoral face red, and suppressed it with the axe in his hand.

"The herdsmen have mutton and are not afraid to spend money...... The wine is delicious, next time you have a treat! Hong Tao is also perfect in the technique of pretending to be drunk and scattering virtues, and vividly portrays the image of a herdsman who is addicted to alcohol, faints after a few sips, and has a bold personality.

Then Iszawi and Zhang Pinggui were completely relieved, who wouldn't be secretly happy when they met such a partner who didn't understand anything and had an upright personality. So Hong Tao received the first smuggling job, bringing two packets of medicine out for Iszawi and sending them to Huocheng for 6 yuan.

Hong Tao slept at night in front of Iszawi's shop, accompanied by two pack horses. There are still rooms in the restaurant and inn called Xiyingmen, but how can he be willing to spend money to sleep in as he is.

As for whether Iszawi and Zhang Pinggui's family could get together for a night, they were invited, but Hong Tao did not agree. You can pretend during the day, but you can't sleep with snow goggles on at night, if you say a few more words in your dreams, it will be all exposed.

Herdsmen, the sky is the quilt, the earth is the bed, and the whole set must be installed. Why sleep on the side of the street and don't go to the neighborhood to find an empty house. Indeed, the ruins of the city were more than enough to accommodate more than 20,000 people, and many of the houses looked sturdy, even without windows or doors.

But Zhang Pinggui and Iszawi said that they should either go home and sleep with them, or sleep in front of the store, and don't go deep into the neighborhood to find a house where no one is. In that case, there would probably be one more corpse the next day.

The Redeemer Sentinels on the wooden tower are mainly responsible for guarding, not policing, they are used to ensure that the base will not be attacked suddenly, and no one will patrol the streets at night to catch robbers and thieves for the homeless. As long as there is no big movement, no one will be able to take care of the dead and they won't be able to see it.

However, this commercial street is relatively safe, after all, it is just outside the south gate of the base, and it is still the main street, and there are more wooden tower guards. But you must not be very relaxed, and you must hide your belongings to avoid being touched by others.

Hong Tao can't sleep at all, he has been traveling around a lot in the past few years, and he has developed a new ability that is somewhat atavistic, sleeping intermittently. To put it bluntly, it is to sleep for dozens of seconds to wake up, and then continue, whether day or night, as long as you are tired, you can rest like this.

At first, he was trying to hide from the animals in the woods and the ubiquitous sneak attackers, so he had no choice but to tie himself to a branch or hide in a building to rest, and he certainly didn't dare to sleep soundly, as often as his body seemed to get used to it.

Swept across his face from time to time by the searchlight on the wooden tower diagonally opposite, Hong Tao simply stopped sleeping, took out the package from his arms that Iszawi asked him to help take out of the checkpoint after getting the pass tomorrow, and opened it very unkindly.

The package of "East Asian Union No. 1 Pharmaceutical Factory, Antibiotic No. 1 ......" is only the size of half a cigarette, sealed in several layers of plastic bags, and two flat cartons are exposed at the innermost, and the boxes are labeled with white paper.

What is the specific antibiotic No. 1 and what disease can be treated, Hong Tao is not clear, and the No. 1 pharmaceutical factory in the East Asian Alliance has never heard of it. However, he can think that it seems that the medical laboratory and pharmaceutical equipment he established at the beginning have finally played a role, not only for medicine but also for export.

"It's kind of interesting!" Looking at the medicine box in his hand, Hong Tao was a little confused.

The pharmaceutical equipment of the East Asia Alliance was collected by themselves, not to mention the entire production line, at most it was stronger than the laboratory. Even if they have added a little over the years, those things are precision instruments, and the longer they drag, the more difficult it will be to recover.

It had been three years since the zombie disease outbreak when I faked my death, which means that those devices have been left in an unmaintained and unsealed environment for three years, and it would be hellish if they could still be used. Coupled with the constraints of raw materials, the output of this drug can be imagined.

According to the general law, drugs that can cure diseases and have a small quantity are certainly not cheap. The miners of Huocheng and the porters of Kuitun certainly cannot afford it, nor can the poor and barely fed-hungry homeless people, and it is estimated that the middle and lower classes of the redeemers themselves cannot afford it.

So the question is, why should these drugs be shipped out, and who will buy them? Zhang Pinggui and Iszawi are both businessmen, and it is impossible to get up early without profit.

In other words, they spent a lot of money to get the in-demand medicine from the redeemer, and used themselves to bring it out, it must not only be to avoid a few taxes, someone must pay a higher price to buy it.

I probably have a guess about who this person is, and no one will be able to afford it except for the rebels. But whether Zhang Pinggui and Iszawi are purely mercenary, or have something to do with the rebels, it is still impossible to see through.

In addition, through this meal, I probably figured out why Zhang Pinggui ended Kuitun's business and came here to start anew. The reason was nothing else, it was that he recklessly ran to Kuitun to sell mutton, and as a result, he was lost more than half of his card.

I may not have taken this matter to heart, but it was widely spread among the local homeless people, and they all said that a stupid herdsman almost didn't lose his pants. There were also the sentinels who ate Naka at that time and the garrison who had eaten mutton, and they said that the mutton was delicious.

Iszawi is Zhang Pinggui's tea supplier, and his energy is so great that he can get not only antibiotics in demand from the main base, but also tea from Sichuan.

A few days ago, Zhang Pinggui came to Iszawi to buy goods, and heard him say that the ascetic society needed better quality mutton, but he couldn't find it everywhere, so he remembered Hong Tao, a stupid herdsman.

As for the fact that there are also chickens, cattle, sheep and horses in the Redeemer's base, why don't they eat what they raise, but have to find herdsmen to graze? This has to start with the composition of the Redeemer's upper echelons.

Hong Tao pretended to mention it inadvertently, and Iszawi, who had drunk two glasses of wine, gave the standard answer. The top of the redeemer were not only Han Chinese, but also Russians, and it was the Russians who wanted to eat grazing mutton.

They may not be accustomed to eating sheep fed by hay and artificiality, and they have endured it if the conditions did not allow it before, but now the conditions are better and they can enjoy it, and it is normal for them to be satisfied.

Iszawi said that as long as this batch of mutton can be eaten by the Redeemer's higher-hand, there will be a few sheep every month in the future, and there will be no shortage of cheese or something. Hong Tao can do nothing, and he can make a lot of money with these alone.

The main thing is not the money, but the convenience that comes with it. If you really count it, it may be more than the money you make from selling meat, such as using a pass to carry goods.

Now the pass that Hong Tao gets is temporary, and he can only pass through a fixed checkpoint for a fixed time with it. Once the redeemed person has recognized the quality of the lamb and has become a long-term supplier, it is likely that a special pass will be issued by the ascetics.

The documents were valid for a long period of time, and were common to all checkpoints, so that Hong Tao would be able to move through the Redeemer's precincts unimpeded, and as long as there were no suspicious signs, the checkpoints would not normally search for people with special ascetic passes.

Hong Tao originally wanted to ask what the ascetic meeting was, but considering that it was easy to arouse suspicion when he asked too many questions when he met for the first time, he didn't take the initiative to ask questions during the banquet, and only listened with his ears.

It doesn't matter, as long as you want to know, sooner or later, you will know. Although the rules here are stricter and the personnel are more complicated than Kuitun, Hong Tao thinks it is more interesting.