The man's incoherent and hoarse shouts could be heard from far away.

The people around watched silently, and no one spoke.

This kind of situation happens several times every day. People have seen it so many times that they have become numb to it.

Who doesn’t know that things are expensive? Are you running out of money?

But I have to buy it.

In the absence of meat, eggs, and other snacks, everyone's appetite increased. Even if they only ate until they were 50% full every day, they would not be able to save much food.

What if you don’t buy it?

As the sound faded away, people began to turn around and walk into the supermarket.

During this period of high temperatures, many people have lost a lot of weight. Ji He's originally thin figure looks just right among the crowd.

There was nothing she could do in the situation just now.

Is it wrong for a man not to pay his mortgage and leave money to buy food for his family?

That's right.

The government cannot collect your mortgage payments, so it makes you a bad debtor. Is that wrong?

That's true.

After all, no one forced him to buy the house in the first place, and the agreement had been signed, so he had to abide by it.

All I can say is that no one expected this day to come.

Fate plays tricks on us.

There was a natural disaster and the whole world stopped working, but I still had to pay my mortgage on time. It was extremely miserable.

In supermarkets at this time, in addition to grain, pickles have become a must-have food for everyone.

Not only can it be stored for a long time, but you can also eat it right after you open it.

It can also supplement salt and vitamins. There is nothing more suitable than this.

At this point, whether the pickles contain a lot of nitrite is no longer within everyone's consideration.

Compared with pickles, the sales of dried goods are also good, but there is still a big gap. After all, dried goods need water to soak.

Now the water flow from the tap is getting smaller and smaller, and no one knows when it will stop. If you buy dried vegetables and bring them home without soaking them in water, it is better to just buy pickles and save trouble.

Ji He bought a few more bottles of chili sauce today, all of which were her favorite brands. Although the price had increased to 45 yuan a bottle, she could still accept it.

In addition to the chili sauce, she also bought some white fungus, dried fish and dried shrimp.

The things were very expensive, and there wasn’t much of each kind. Only three packs filled up Ji He’s share for today.

She paid the money, pretended to put the things in her backpack, and quickly left the supermarket.

As expected, several more people followed behind him.

There were several more people following her than the first time. And not just one group, but three groups.

And the person following her is different every day.

It seems like whoever's turn it is will go up.

Ji He followed his usual style, walked to the dark light area, suddenly accelerated, hid in the corner, and flashed into the space.

When I came out five minutes later, all the people following me outside had left.

There are so many people coming out of the supermarket every day. As long as they don’t seem to be super fat sheep, they won’t waste too much time following one person.

After all, it's hot, and walking and exercising require physical energy, which is not suitable for a long time.

Now even robbery requires cost planning.

After shaking off the people who were about to rob him, Ji He was safe walking on the road.

After all, it was pitch black around, and you couldn't tell whether the person was a man or a woman walking on the road. Who knew if the person on the other side had any food?

If there is no food, wouldn’t it be a waste of effort?

As for asking for money, forget it. Now the money can only be spent in the government supermarket. Many bosses outside require bartering. They want everything except money.

What’s the use of money?

The purchase limit is 500 per day, and you can’t spend more than that. Money has completely become numbers on the phone, and its function is even worse than toilet paper.

Instead of robbing money, it is better to rob food and get the job done in one go.

It's very early today and Ji He is not in a hurry to go home to cook.

Halfway through the walk, he took out a shovel and shoveled all the maggots on the roadside into black plastic bags and then into the space.

All the insects in the house were eaten by the chickens. In order to prevent them from lacking nutrition, Ji He completely let himself go.

Anyway, she has been used to a rough life since she was a child and doesn't have any mysophobia. Even if she saw maggots crawling under a flashlight, she didn't feel too disgusted. If a spoiled girl came here, I'm afraid she really wouldn't be able to stand it.

It’s true, ever since Ji He started shoveling maggots, many people around her have avoided her.

At least no one is within two meters of him.

It made her feel instantly safe.

This feeling of having people around you retreat wherever you go seems pretty good.

hey-hey.

Ji He didn't care at all. He shoveled as he walked, specifically picking the places with the most maggots.

In fact, she should have raised some mealworms to feed the chickens, but who made her not think of it at the beginning?

Now I don’t know who to contact when I want to buy it, so I might as well use local ingredients. It will be digested sooner or later anyway.

And it saves her the trouble of raising one.

When I was still a few hundred meters away from home, an old lady came forward from the group that had been following me.

She covered her nose and walked quickly towards Ji He. She thought there must be a lot of mosquitoes in this place, but strangely, there were no flies or mosquitoes around the little girl.

As soon as I started thinking, I was interrupted by Ji He.

"Aunt, what do you want from me?"

The old lady's train of thought was interrupted, and she immediately forgot what she was thinking. She subconsciously put on a smile and said, "It's nothing serious. I just want to chat with you. We have met before. Have you forgotten? I live behind your house."

Ji He had a good memory. With the dim light of the flashlight, he recognized the lady in front of him. She was indeed his neighbor.

"I remember, ma'am."

Even as she was talking, she lowered her head to shovel out maggots. This was the place where others had thrown garbage before, and a large number of them had grown there, crawling all over the ground. Many people who passed by didn't see them and would step on several of them to death.

The aunt covered her nose with one hand and shone a flashlight on the ground with the other, fearing that she might step on a bomb.

"Girl, I want to ask you why you are shoveling these maggots? Are they collected by the government?"

The old lady's eyes lit up when she asked this. If it was really collected by the government, they would also collect it. This stuff is all over the ground, and they could probably catch hundreds of kilograms in one night.

Ji He cruelly broke the fantasy of the old lady in front of him. She shook her head and said, "The government won't accept it. I shoveled these maggots to eat them at home."

When the old lady heard this, she didn't react at first. Eat? Eat what?

When I came to my senses, I subconsciously dry-heaved.

She covered her nose tightly, took a big step back, and forced a stiff smile: "Girl, stop joking, how can you eat this thing?"

"Why can't we eat it? It's not poisonous, high in protein, nutritious, and it's meat." Ji He said nonsense, and it sounded like the truth, which made the aunt in front of him feel sick.

"Well, I have something to do at home, so I'll leave first." After saying this, the old lady ran away, as if she was afraid that there were maggots chasing her.

Ji He looked at her receding back and shook his head.

Is this unacceptable?

If the country really has no food, you might have to eat maggots. What good are you dreaming of?