Chapter 61: Material Exchange
"Hey! Girl! Something's wrong! ”
Li Xiaoting couldn't help but get a little nervous.
"Squad Leader Li! A carload of people came to the gate of the community! I'm going to you! ”
Guan Xiaoyu hurriedly reminded.
"What the hell!"
Xie Yixiang frowned, opened the window and looked in the direction of the entrance of the community.
I saw an old board car that had stopped on the sidewalk at some point, and next to the board car were seven or eight people armed with knives and sticks.
"There are eight of them! Only cold weapons! Guan Xiaoyu continued to remind, "There is basically no cover nearby!" I can take them out one by one! ”
"Wait a minute!"
Li Xiaoting immediately stopped Guan Xiaoyu.
"They didn't come here!"
Wang Jingyang frowned.
The pedestrian swayed back and forth on the side of the road, as if waiting for something.
"They seem to be waiting for someone."
Wang Jingyang guessed.
"Keep an eye on it! Anyway, as long as they don't come to our trouble, leave them alone! ”
Li Xiaoting reminded.
Just as Li Xiaoting was speaking, the outline of a Hummer appeared at the intersection in the distance.
"Look at it! Here comes another one! ”
Xie Yixiang screamed.
Wang Jingyang craned his neck to look, only to see another Humvee looking straight out.
Just like that, the Humvee came to a halt right behind the cart.
Immediately, a line of people with sticks jumped out of the Humvee.
In this way, a leader stood out from both teams.
The two leaders seemed to be talking to each other.
Moments later, the members of the two teams each handed each other a large bag of items from the car.
"Look! It's as if they're exchanging supplies! ”
Wang Jingyang seemed to understand what was going on.
But in the interval between Wang Jingyang's guesses, things changed.
Somehow, two men armed with Type 79 submachine guns suddenly jumped out of the Humvee.
"Da Da Da ......"
In the blink of an eye, the group of people who got off the shuttle bus was swept into a sieve.
"His grandmother is a bear!" Xie Yixiang scolded and scolded, "These calves are really fucking not human......
"Do you want me to slaughter them!"
Guan Xiaoyu's voice came from the intercom.
"I'm sure I'll get them all out with one magazine! And then those two carts of stuff will be ours......"
Although this carload of people has no grievances with them, Li Xiaoting is also very greedy when he looks at the two big carts of supplies.
"Okay!"
Li Xiaoting nodded and agreed.
"Bang!"
Guan Xiaoyu suddenly pulled the trigger.
Just when the group hadn't figured out the situation yet, Guan Xiaoyu put down several people one after another.
"Bang bang bang!"
When the remaining three or four people realized that the situation was not right, they hid in Humvee as cover.
"His grandmother is a bear!" Xie Yixiang scolded, "These turtle grandsons are hiding!" ”
"Out of the way!"
Guan Xiaoyu said disdainfully.
"Bang!"
A bullet slammed through the window glass of the Humvee.
After firing a few shots, the only one left screamed and got out of the back of the car.
"Bang!"
Guan Xiaoyu made up another shot.
Seeing that all the people in the Humvee were put down, Wang Jingyang and Xie Yixiang shouted together.
"Let's go! Go down and get something! ”
In this way, Li Xiaoting and his entourage put the things in their hands on the board car, and then drove back to the small commodity city.
Lu Lianqi was surprised to see that this group of people had brought back so many supplies and drove back a board car.
So, Wang Jingyang told Lu Lianqi everything he saw in the old community.
When Lu Lianqi learned that Guan Xiaoyu had shot a group of people in the Humvee, although he was a little surprised, he didn't say anything.
Although Lu Lianqi was a little dissatisfied with Guan Xiaoyu's practice of taking advantage of the fire to rob and take the sheep, it was just a boat.
Obviously, the two groups of people in the Humvee and the board were supposed to exchange goods, but the group in the Humvee turned the original transaction into a one-sided robbery and murder.
"Alas! Right now! How can there be any peaceful days? Xie Yixiang was worried, "This year! If you don't do the business of robbing your house, you won't be able to live! ”
Wang Jingyang was curious, and turned his head to look at Guan Xiaoyu again: "Did you also kill people and rob homes like this in that era?" ”
Guan Xiaoyu glanced at Wang Jingyang and said with a smile: "At the beginning, it was indeed like this, the survivor groups fought between each other for limited supplies, and many so-called transactions turned into one-sided robberies!" Only later...... Some powerful armed groups have started to open trading markets to ensure the safety of the trade of goods, and then collect protection money from the traders to obtain the supplies! ”
"Isn't that just your own bookmaker?!" Wang Jingyang vaguely understood something.
"Nothing strange! There are fewer and fewer supplies in the city, and in the future, such transactions will only turn into robberies! Guan Xiaoyu seems to have become accustomed to this kind of thing, "and even ...... There is also a team of survivors who specialize in half-way interception, they specialize in squatting at some material points where the infected are entrenched, and wait until other teams solve the problem of the infected and get the supplies, and then they kill people and take the sheep by the hand. ”
"Why don't we try it too?" Wang Jingyang blinked, "Let's provide them with a trading market, and then collect some materials as protection money?" ”
Later, Wang Jingyang simply told Lu Lianqi about this idea.
Although Lu Lianqi felt that Wang Jingyang's idea was a little strange, after thinking about it carefully, he felt that this statement was not unreasonable.
In this way, Lu Lianqi beckoned his subordinates with the idea of trying it out, and emptied the parking lot in the middle of the small commodity market as a trading market.
However, in this environment of power and water outages, how to attract other survivors has become a big problem.
In the end, people in the small commodity market can only use the most primitive form of propaganda - small advertising.
Since the day of the fight, every time the search team sets out to look for supplies, they will put up small handwritten advertisements on the sidewalks and entrances and exits of various communities.
In this way, two weeks later, the first batch of survivors who dared to come to the small commodity city finally appeared, and Guan Xiaoyu and Wang Jingyang were also arranged by Lu Lianqi to collect protection money.
The so-called protection fee is a small amount of the goods brought by the trade survivors as a protection fee, or market management fee.
The first to come boldly were two young men pushing wheelbarrows.
On their wheelbarrow was a large wild boar that had just died.
Although Wang Jingyang did not understand why there were wild boars in such a big city, he did not have time to care about such inconsequential issues.
"Hello...... Excuse me, you can exchange supplies here, right? ”
"Not bad! It's just that...... You have to pay protection money! The soldier guarding the gate replied expressionlessly, "The transaction is open until five o'clock in the afternoon, and you can only set up a stall in this parking lot, and no other place is allowed to enter, you are not allowed to buy and sell, you are not allowed to steal and rob, you are not allowed to buy and sell by force, you can cut off a hand, and those who dare to steal and rob will be shot on the spot!" ”
Guan Xiaoyu at the door looked at the big wild boar with four or five hundred catties on the wheelbarrow, and then pulled out a knife and cut off two pig ears from the wild boar's head, and cut off the pig's nose and tail as protection money.
The two young people's expressions were slightly relieved when they saw this, after all, the protection fee was still within their acceptable range.
After two young men pushed the cart in, another seventy-year-old man came to the small commodity city with a snakeskin bag of vegetables.
"Hey! Homosexuals! You can exchange supplies here, no? The old man asked loudly with squinted eyes.
"Not bad! But...... You have to pay protection money! ”
The old man nodded as if he didn't understand, and then took out two cabbages that were already a little yellowed from the snakeskin bag: "Comrade! You see this is okay! This year...... We have to feed our families, too! That's all I can come up with! ”
Wang Jingyang looked down at the snakeskin bag of vegetables, and then the cabbage nodded.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Jingyang also talked to the old man about the rules here: "The transaction is open until five o'clock in the afternoon, and you can only set up stalls in this parking lot to trade, and no other places are allowed to enter, you are not allowed to buy and sell, you are not allowed to steal and rob, you are forced to buy and sell and cut off a hand, and those who dare to steal and dare to rob are shot on the spot!" ”
When someone else came, the two young men immediately came up: "Old man, old man! Do you have disinfectant alcohol here! We can trade pork for it! ”
The old man hurriedly waved his hand: "No, no!" I only have cabbage greens! ”
The two young men could only retreat in disappointment.
"Hey! Shinoyu! Wang Jingyang poked Guan Xiaoyu lightly, "Look at that wild boar is quite fat!" Or...... Let's make a piece of pork ribs or pork knuckle to improve the food!? ”
"I think you're greedy......" Guan Xiaoyu's eyes pierced Wang Jingyang's careful thoughts, "Aren't there a few bottles of medical alcohol brought by Huxinzhou on our cargo ship, you take one bottle and see how many wild boar meat you can exchange!" ”
"Hey!" Wang Jingyang shouted with joy.
Wang Jingyang rushed all the way back to the cabin, and ran to the meat stall with a bag of medicine.
It is difficult to obtain, difficult to preserve, and difficult to satisfy hunger, and now fresh meat has completely become a luxury in this world.
"Dude! How do you sell this meat? Wang Jingyang took the initiative to greet the two young men at the meat stall.
"We're going to disinfect alcohol! A bottle of alcohol, a pork leg! One said, "If you don't have alcohol, anti-inflammatory drugs can do it!" ”
Wang Jingyang immediately drew a pen towards the pig's leg of the big wild boar, such a big pig's leg, if it is made into bacon or smoked meat and preserved, it is still very good to take it out occasionally to open meat!
In this way, Wang Jingyang successfully won nearly 200 catties of pork with a bottle of 100 ml of medical alcohol, two plates of roxithromycin, and one plate of metronidazole in his hand.
These include the left front leg, the left hind leg, a long section of ribs with a spine, and pork offal.
On the same day, Wang Jingyang went to the logistics department of the commodity city to find Cancan's mother and son.
"Auntie! Do you know how to make smoked meat! Wang Jingyang asked, "It's really not good, bacon can also be!" ”
Wang Jingyang also told Cancan's mother about getting pork by the way.
"You go get some sugar, star anise, salt, and white wine!" Cancan's mother explained, "If you can, you can go get some green onion and ginger again!" ”
So, Wang Jingyang firmly remembered the ingredients that Cancan's mother said.
As for the pork offal, since it could not be preserved, Wang Jingyang and Guan Xiaoyu discussed making them into pork offal soup and husband and wife lung slices.
When Wang Jingyang returned to the small square, there were already four or five more survivors of the transaction in the square than before.
Most of the items they trade are daily necessities, toilet paper, clothing, tobacco and alcohol......
"Alcohol...... Plenty of alcohol! ”
"Pork! Is there anyone who wants fresh wild boar! ”
"Dude! Do you have anti-inflammatory drugs here? ”
At this time, Wang Jingyang glanced at the large iron box on the side where the "protection fee" was stored.
Paper towels, clothing, pork......
It seems that opening a trading market is indeed a low-risk way to obtain goods.
Just when Wang Jingyang was secretly happy, there was a sudden cry outside the gate of the small commodity city.
"Help! Robbery! ”
Everyone present turned their heads to look.
I saw that on the sidewalk outside the gate of the small commodity city, seven or eight masked people armed with sticks were pulling away with a pair of middle-aged men and women and a young girl, who seemed to be a family of three.
Previously, Lu Lianqi's troops had cleaned up the infected around the small commodity city, but they didn't expect to turn this area into a feng shui treasure for these villains to raid homes and rob houses unscrupulously.
Seeing that everyone was looking at them in unison, one of the thugs raised a Type 97 shotgun and yelled, "Don't be nosy! Get out of the way! Whoever is nosy, Lao Tzu will fight! ”