Chapter 52 Trading Markets
This place is located right at the corner of the barbed wire wall, and the ground is littered with rubbs and rags left by the last wave of survivors, and their pots and pans are piled up in the corner after being cleaned up, and now in addition to the food in Qin Yue's storage space, there are only some dried vegetables and oil, salt, sauce and vinegar left.
Before leaving, Qin Yue told He Shan not to expose these things, the end of the world is coming, and what is more terrible than a living corpse is the human heart.
He Shan nodded absentmindedly when he heard this, and Qin Yue looked at him and didn't say anything more. Yao Aiguo didn't know where to find a mountaineering rope, and at this time he was taking Shen Kai to pull down a triangular isolation line from the wire wall.
Su Xue, Qiao Bing, and Chen Yao were talking while sorting out the remaining supplies, while Xiao Zhuang sat alone in front of the barbed wire wall as usual and looked at the other side in a daze.
After explaining to He Shan, Qin Yue explained to Su Xue and the others again, and then walked out of the residence with Xie Xuan and the fat man.
At this time, there were still two hours before dark, Qin Yue thought about taking advantage of this time to exchange a few tents from the market, indeed as Xie Xuan said before, the only currency in circulation in Longping District now is gold, although it has depreciated a lot, but it should not be a big problem to change a few tents.
In addition, Qin Yue also needed to find a place where no one was there to bring out some food from the storage space, otherwise everyone would have to drink gruel tonight to satisfy their hunger.
There is also one of the most important reasons, that is, the old K, the large flow of people in the market may be used as a breakthrough.
According to the address that Xie Xuan inquired about, it took less than ten minutes to see the trading market located between the two communities, which was said to be a vegetable market before the catastrophe, which can be seen from the cement platforms on both sides.
Although the market is not large, it is crowded with people, all kinds of goods are dazzling, except for food and weapons, all kinds of other daily necessities are readily available, but most of them are just looking at the real people who really buy very few.
"Brother Yue, look! There are also those who sell their sons and daughters! Xie Xuan pointed to a little girl of twelve or thirteen years old sitting in the open space between the two cement platforms, with a dead grass stuck in her unkempt head, and a middle-aged man in ragged clothes squatting behind her.
"Holy shit, go over and take a look!" The fat man rolled up his sleeves and strode over.
"Handsome, either? A steamed bun led away. When the middle-aged man saw someone coming forward, he immediately stood up with a mouth full of yellow teeth.
"You want your mother, is she your daughter?" The fat man was on fire, grabbed the other party's collar and dragged him to him.
"yes, yes, what's wrong?" The other party looked at the fat man tremblingly.
"Damn, what's wrong? The fat man will tell you what's wrong now! The fat man glared and was about to throw a fist.
"Fatty!" Qin Yue hurriedly grabbed him.
"I said how can you be a father like you, how old is the child, what if it is bought by the bad guys?" Xie Xuan stepped forward angrily and said.
"Well, do you think I want to sell her?" The middle-aged man sighed, "It's the tenth day today, and we'll be kicked out in five days, it's better to find someone here than to let her go out with me......"
"Then, then you can't buy the child without distinguishing between good and bad people." The fat man lowered his fist when he heard this.
The middle-aged man looked helplessly at the little girl who was close to him, and touched her hair, "Whoever has spare money to buy a child at least proves that he is not short of food and drink, and living this year is more important than anything else......"
The fat man glanced at Qin Yue, "Old Qin, no......"
"Let's go, we can't save her." After Qin Yue finished speaking, he continued to walk forward.
"Hey, it's not ......"
"Let's go, fat brother, we can't protect ourselves now, and we have the ability to save others." Xie Xuan patted the fat man on the shoulder and stepped to chase after Qin Yue.
The fat man looked at the father and daughter, sighed, and followed step by step.
"I said Lao Qin, when did you become so hard-hearted? How pitiful that little girl looked. ”
"Fatty, you think I don't want to help her? But look, how many people here need help? Can you help me? ”
"Then you can't watch her being pushed into the fire pit by her own father......" the fat man muttered.
"How do you know it's a fire pit?" Qin Yue frowned and looked at the fat man, "I can understand your feelings, in the case that we have a bowl to eat, I don't mind separating people with a spoonful, but now we are not even sure if we can stay, how can we be qualified to help others?" ”
"Yes, fat brother, I think what Brother Yue said is particularly right, we are not even official residents now, how can we take care of others!" Xie Xuan stepped forward and agreed.
"Go, go, I'll talk to Lao Qin, what's the matter with you!" The fat man waved his hand impatiently.
The group continued to walk forward, and soon found a stall selling tents, and under the left and right of Xie Xuan and the fat man, the boss finally sold them three old tents at the price of eight gold ingots.
"It's too pit, eight gold ingots will be exchanged for these three broken tents, which will be enough to buy his factory before." Xie Xuan hugged the tent very distressed, and pressed his deflated waist bag with his fingers.
"Be content, young man, I don't see that there are still people selling their sons and daughters......" The fat man looked back and sighed.
Qin Yue looked a little absent-minded at this time, his gaze kept wandering on the faces of passers-by, according to his understanding of the name Lao K, this person should be a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties, wearing a hat, dusty, and his expression revealed strangeness.
But almost everyone he sees now is dusty, and occasionally there are people wearing hats with empty and blank faces, which really makes Lao K unable to contact each other.
Xie Xuan found a stall selling moisture-proof mats, and then pulled the fat man forward to ask for the price, Qin Yue took the opportunity to ask him for a piece of gold ingots, saying that he was going to the front to have a look, let them wait in place, Xie Xuan and the fat man had already begun to bargain, and asked casually, and then stuffed a piece over.
Qin Yue's figure immediately disappeared into the crowd, and when the two of them were satisfied with the three brand-new moisture-proof mats they had exchanged for a gold ingot, Qin Yue also walked back with a heavy trolley box......