Xu Haiguo thought for a while, but couldn't think of anything he needed to buy.

After eating the watermelon, Xu Jiangming and Xu Haiguo helped Xu Lai carry some rice and flour stored in the space warehouse onto the tricycle.

"This tricycle is still too small. It would be great if we had a truck!"

Xu Haiguo looked at the electric tricycle, which was already full after only twelve bags of fifty-pound rice, and sighed nonchalantly.

Despite his sighs, he knew how difficult it was to get a truck at this time, so he could only sigh.

But Xu Lai took those words to heart.

This truck not only has a large capacity and can carry a lot of goods, but if the temperature continues to rise, they can also use it as a temporary house to make repairs on the road if they need to leave this place.

Since Xu Lai left on his electric tricycle, Chen Cheng hasn't been as happy as before, even when passersby want to buy grain from his truck.

Finally, after looking around, he saw an electric tricycle loaded with a full load of goods coming toward him.

"I've finally waited for you! I was so afraid you were just joking with me and would just leave!"

Chen Cheng joked with a smile, then walked over to the tricycle's cargo compartment without wasting a second and pulled down a large tarpaulin covering it.

Looking at the three-wheeled cart full of vacuum-packed rice, Chen Cheng seemed to see money beckoning to him.

After checking the production date and place of origin on several bags of rice, he started carrying two or even three bags at a time into his truck without waiting for Xu Lai's instructions.

Xu Lai, who was still sitting in the driver's seat of the electric tricycle, turned to the side and saw this scene. Three black lines immediately appeared on her head.

"Hey girl, your tricycle isn't loaded enough. How about we agree on a location, and I'll drive this truck to haul it all up myself!"

Xu Lai thought for a moment and thought the method was feasible: "Okay, there's an open space two streets away from here. Brother Chen can drive there with his men to pick up the goods in three hours!"

This time it arrived in time, saving her the trouble of delivering it repeatedly!

Since the other party kept calling her "sister," the quick-witted Xu Lai changed her way of addressing this middleman and started calling him "big brother."

Sure enough, when Chen Cheng heard the girl call him "Brother Chen," his smile immediately brightened.

Chen Cheng quoted a price of ten work points per pound for the rice. "These twelve bags of rice, each weighing fifty pounds, total six hundred pounds. I'll pay you six thousand work points in total!"

After saying that, he immediately counted out sixty work point cards, each worth one hundred work points, from his shoulder bag and handed them to Xu Lai.

However, Xu Lai didn't accept the offer. Instead, she asked Chen Cheng directly, "Brother Chen, can these work point cards be exchanged for gold?"

The work points earned from selling this grain will certainly be substantial.

However, this work point system was suddenly proposed by the government in order to maintain the operation of society.

If the weather continues to heat up and extreme heat disasters occur, causing social order to collapse again, what will happen if these work point cards become worthless or even unusable, just like currency during torrential rains and floods?

It's safest to switch to gold!

Chen Cheng was a very quick-witted businessman, and he immediately guessed the young girl's concerns.

He immediately felt a sense of admiration for the girl.

This young woman looks quite young, but she has a very comprehensive way of thinking.

Even he thinks the same way.

He earns work points from reselling grain every day. After keeping a portion for operating expenses, he either exchanges the excess for gold bars or uses it to buy equipment that can appreciate in value, such as ice makers and solar energy equipment.

He immediately put the stack of work point cards back into the shoulder bag in front of him, and then took out a 100-gram gold bar from another compartment of the shoulder bag and placed it in Xu Lai's hand.

"This is way too much!"

Xu Lai looked at the substantial gold bar in her hand and refused.

Fairness and impartiality are essential in business. Xu Lai planned to do business with this person long-term, so she didn't want to take advantage of him.

"The current market price of gold is roughly 1000 work points for every 10 grams of gold. The rice we just delivered is worth 6,000 work points, which is equivalent to 60 grams of gold. Consider the remaining 40 grams of gold as a deposit for the next batch of goods in three hours!"

Chen Cheng waved his hand casually and said.

"It seems I've indeed met a good partner today!"

Xu Lai stuffed the hundred grams of gold into the backpack in front of her, feeling even more satisfied with Chen Cheng's character.

As a woman, the thing she hates most in her life is a stingy man.

She remembered that when she was a freshman, her roommate Leng Jia got a boyfriend who was extremely stingy.

Once, I heard Leng Jia say that when her boyfriend was on a date, he would make Leng Jia pay one cent even if he spent two cents more on something.

When their roommates heard this, they immediately berated the stingy man mercilessly.

After spraying her, they all urged Leng Jia to break up with her boyfriend immediately.

After saying goodbye, Xu Lai drove the empty electric tricycle to the place she had agreed to meet Chen Cheng, and instantly entered the space with the vehicle.

Upon entering the space, Xu Lai saw her second uncle and father digging out potatoes buried in dry sand and bagging them in the warehouse.

Xu Lai quickly went to help.

After working for more than an hour, the three of them finally packed the potatoes and sweet potatoes they wanted to sell into bags.

"Second Uncle, Dad, you two take a break, I'll make lunch!"

With the preparations complete, it was almost time to prepare lunch. Xu Lai, seeing her second uncle and father sweating profusely, quickly took out two bottles of herbal tea from the food storage area and handed them to them.

With limited time, Xu Lai decided to just make a simple lunch.

She thought for a moment, then went to the food area and took a bag of knife-cut noodles, then went to the freezer and took the last piece of braised beef, and finally went to the vegetable garden and picked a handful of greens.

I'll make beef knife-cut noodles for lunch.

For ready-made knife-cut noodles, simply boil water, add the noodles, and cook for five minutes according to the instructions on the noodle bag.

Add the greens, seasonings, and chopped braised beef, then cook for another two minutes, and it's done.

"Lai Lai's beef knife-cut noodles are so delicious!"

This pot of beef knife-cut noodles, served with a delicious beef sauce, was enough to make both Grandpa Xu and Xu Haiguo eat two large bowls of soup each.

Xu Lai found it rather amusing to hear his second uncle's lavish praise of him.

This old man is really good at providing emotional value.

After eating and washing the dishes, Xu Lai left the space ahead of time, and then used her mind to take out the remaining sweet potatoes, potatoes, rice, and flour from the space.

"It's so hot!"

It was noon, and the sun overhead was so hot it felt like it was fermenting. Without the protection of space, Xu Lai was almost unable to breathe from the waves of scorching heat.