"Miss, I didn't expect you to come here to refuel again today. I remember you came here just the day before yesterday." The fat uncle at the gas station was wearing a thick down jacket with a red gas station work uniform on the outside. He was refueling the truck driven by Qin Suyun.

"Yeah, I've been running around a lot lately, so I've been using a lot of gas." Qin Suyun, also wearing a black down jacket, simple work gloves, and a black baseball cap, smiled as she spoke. But a sense of caution crept into her heart, and she decided not to come back to this gas station this week.

Gas station management was very strict. She had secretly approached two employees at more remote stations and asked if they could sell her gasoline individually, willing to pay double the price. However, the employees were extremely vigilant and strictly followed the station's rules. Even after she raised the price fivefold, they still refused to sell her gasoline individually.

With no other options, Qin Suyun could only go to the car rental company again and rent an inconspicuous gray medium-sized truck with a relatively large fuel tank. She then embarked on a long process of refueling, pumping fuel, and then going to the gas station to refuel.

The gasoline she had pumped out was placed separately in a tank she had prepared. Although it was impossible to buy gasoline individually, large tanks were available. However, pumping the gasoline out of the tank and then refilling it was more troublesome.

Fortunately, the truck she rented had a fairly large fuel tank, holding 180 liters when fully filled. The large drums she bought only held 200 liters each, so she could pump out a full drum of fuel with almost every fill-up. However, she didn't dare pump out all the fuel at once. After all, she still had to run to the next gas station.

There is only one gas station close to Wanxi Village, and the next one is nearly forty or fifty kilometers away.

Therefore, she could only work harder when driving on urban routes. She was not in a hurry to take the highway, but directly took the county roads. There were many gas stations on these roads that interspersed between cities and counties. Every time she filled up the gas, she would follow the system navigation on her mobile phone to find the next target. After finding the target and calculating the distance, she would find an opportunity to pump out the oil in the car and pour it into the oil barrel in the trunk of the car.

However, this action was too strange, and each time he stayed there for quite a long time, so he was almost mistaken for an oil thief several times.

Fortunately, these days, people don't like to meddle in other people's business. In addition, every time she draws gasoline from the tank, she will try to find another place next time. Therefore, she did not cause too much trouble. At most, someone came forward to ask a few questions, but she would perfunctorily brush them off with other excuses.

For example, if you buy a gasoline generator and want to get some oil, but the gas station doesn’t sell it, you have to pump it yourself.

Using this crude and simple method, Qin Suyun has collected nearly 30 barrels of gasoline in these days, and the amount of gasoline collected is still increasing. Whenever she goes to the city to purchase other supplies, she will bring back one or two barrels. After all, gasoline is something that no one will think is too little in the future. The more she can collect now, the more capital she will have in the future.

"Sigh, I don't know what's going on with the weather this year. It's so abnormal. It was so hot just over half a month ago, and now it's snowing. It's not easy for you long-distance delivery drivers." The uncle at the gas station chatted with Qin Suyun while refueling. "But since it suddenly got cold that day and it snowed for three days, I feel like the weather has finally returned to its previous state. It's cold outside, but I feel at ease!... Especially after the national television station invited a number of meteorological experts to explain the abnormal weather these days... I can finally breathe a sigh of relief."

"After all, it's because nature has been destroyed too much over the years, which is why these things happened! Miss, do you think I'm right?... Okay, the gas is ready!" The uncle at the gas station answered himself with a smile, and by the way, he took back the gas gun and covered Qin Suyun's car. Qin Suyun didn't need to say a word from beginning to end.

After all, these words were just from the gas station uncle to himself, to reassure himself, right? I don't know how many times he has talked about this with others.

Qin Suyun smiled and said nothing, then drove away from the gas station.

These days, she has almost used up all the money she had on buying various supplies. The 300,000 yuan she had saved before, plus the more than 3 million yuan in cash she got from Chen Zhou and the 2.4 million yuan she got from selling two houses at a discount, has left her with less than 800,000 yuan.

These days, she has thoroughly experienced the feeling of spending money like water and the skyrocketing prices.

Many commodities that could be purchased at half price on weekdays have now increased by at least one or two times. She spent twice as much as usual to buy the supplies she has on hand now. In other words, she spent more than 5 million to buy supplies that cost more than 2 million before... But the prices of things like houses and cars have plummeted. If she hadn't sold the two houses she had before early, she would probably not be able to sell them for less than 2 million now.

In fact, she only found out when she sold the house that the price of the house had started to fall two months before she filed for divorce, but the drop was so small that ordinary people didn't notice it much.

However, as the temperature rose and time went by, the decline became more and more significant. It was not until the recent snowfall that housing prices gradually stabilized, and now it seems that there is a trend of rising again...

Qin Suyun felt that this could actually be considered a reminder in some sense, but everyone was more happy about the situation of skyrocketing prices and plummeting housing prices. She even heard everyone's happiness about the plummeting housing prices every time she came to the city to buy things. They just hoped that the prices would drop further so that they could buy a good house for their son to get married.

They think that the current surge in prices is mainly due to the extreme weather a few days ago, which led to a decrease in autumn grain production. Other countries took advantage of the situation and raised grain prices, which led to the current situation where many prices of many things have risen at the same time. But as long as these days are over and the state machinery is in place to regulate, the prices of food and other things will definitely return to normal.

Just like the price of pork in the past two years, it once rose from eight yuan to twenty-four or twenty-five, but as time went by, the price of pork basically stabilized at around 11 yuan after half a year.

If it weren't for this year's extreme weather, pork prices would definitely not rise again.

Everyone is waiting for prices to recover after the beginning of next spring.

Qin Suyun felt that if she had not dreamed of those strange things, she might have been influenced by other colleagues while working at the TV station and had the same expectations for her future life as everyone else.

After all, compared to the rising prices of goods, the ever-increasing housing prices are the biggest problem.

The money spent on food and drink every day is just a small amount compared to the housing prices that often cost millions.

The fact that her new house in a good location, worth more than 3 million yuan, was finally sold for 1.8 million yuan alone shows how much housing prices have fallen in the entire market.

Compared with the countries next to China, the prices in China itself are relatively cheap. Even though the price of food has doubled or tripled, it is still far from the price of 40 yuan for a banana in neighboring countries... As long as housing prices fall, even if the daily prices rise a little, everyone can continue to live happily.

Qin Suyun shook her head, threw away these thoughts in her mind, and drove seriously.

The heavy snow that night caused the roofs of several vacant houses in the village to collapse. Fortunately, Village Chief Zhao was very responsible and knocked on every door as soon as the snow started. As a result, no one in the village froze to death in the middle of the night like in other areas.

This time she planned to go to two farms outside the suburbs of Yunhai City to buy some livestock such as pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese. The time in the future was so long that the food in the two freezers would eventually be used up. She couldn't always eat vegetarian food at home, especially for the furry children at home, so she had to prepare more.

The price of meat has risen a lot in recent times, even more sharply than the price of grain. Qin Suyun doesn't know how many livestock she can buy with the money she has.