Chapter 99 I Raise the Price

Lu Xingtang's words made the residents of the community very dissatisfied. If they don't provide supplies, will you not go to Jicheng to get water? They only dared to mutter this in their hearts, not shouting it out loud. If they dared to say it out loud, Lu Xingtang would definitely not give them a drop of water!

Min Weihuan hadn't expected the Jicheng military to intervene. Ordinary robbers or survivors wouldn't have been able to take their guns. "Lu Xingtang, let's not talk nonsense. Let's just go by the market price! The market was selling water yesterday morning, 10 kilograms of grain for 1 kilogram of water. If you think that's a good price, we'll go home and get some supplies in exchange for water!"

This price is the price in the trading market, not the price given by the middleman. The middleman charges 12 kilograms of grain for one kilogram of water.

Lu Xingtang glanced at Ji Yanmo and saw Ji Yanmo nodded, agreeing to the price!

Just because they agreed didn't mean others would. They all glared at Min Weihuan fiercely, "Ten kilograms of grain for one kilogram of water? Min Weihuan, look at us, we look like we're capable of producing ten kilograms of grain! We can't afford that price!"

"How can you be so cruel? You're giving us ten kilograms of food and leaving us no chance to survive. You're worse than a natural disaster!"

Lu Xingtang glared at them sinisterly. "You're not contributing any effort or food, and you want water? Do you think we're saints or saviors? I originally thought ten kilograms of food for one kilogram of water would be fine! But your attitude is so rude, and you're just trying to be a freeloader. Excuse me, I'm raising the price! From now on, it's 15 kilograms of food for one kilogram of water! If you want to trade, get in line. If you don't want to, get out!"

"15 kilograms of food for one kilogram of water? Lu Xingtang, you can't do this. We don't have that much food!"

"Lu Xingtang, if we had food to exchange for water, we would definitely agree to do it, but we don't! It's the end of the world, and we've already eaten up all the supplies we found. How about this? Three pounds of food for one pound of water. At this price, we can afford it!"

"Lu Xingtang, please have mercy on us and exchange three pounds of food for one pound of water, okay? It's a deal, three pounds for one pound!"

Lu Xingtang stared at them with sinister eyes: "I told you, if you want water, you must exchange it with supplies! Except for those who provide gasoline, you can exchange it for one liter of gasoline and one kilogram of water.

For those without gasoline, we're now exchanging 15 kilograms of food for 1 kilogram of water! If you disagree, or can't stand it, then go find water yourself! We on the 19th floor won't tolerate you! Of course, you can also report us on the 19th floor to the government for hogging water resources and refusing to share them! The government is busy building official bases and looking for water, so how can it have time to pay attention to their unreasonable demands!

Ji Yanmo had long stopped listening to the nonsense from the residents. The moment Lu Xingtang finished speaking, he opened the car door, pulled out a pistol from the passenger seat, and pulled the trigger. "Who was it that offered three pounds of food in exchange for one pound of water? Stand up!"

Suddenly there was silence, and everyone looked at the gun in Ji Yanmo's hand in horror.

Su Cheng came down with a scale and a ladle and saw the furious faces of Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo. He immediately understood: "Since they don't want the water, let's move the water to the 19th floor! Lu Xingtang, you stay and guard the water we worked so hard to find! Ji Yanmo and I will carry the water! Although the speed is a bit slow, we can still finish it in this afternoon and this evening."

Lu Xingtang nodded: "Then let's move! Anyway, the people in our community don't want to spend a penny on supplies!"

Everyone immediately became anxious and begged Lu Xingtang and the others, "Lu Xingtang, wait a moment! They don't want to go out, but we do! If we run out of food, we can go find more! But without water, we won't last more than a few days!"

"Lu Xingtang, I don't have any food to exchange, but my family has bullets. My son found a box of bullets when he was out looking for supplies. There are about a thousand rounds. How much water can we get from these thousand rounds? I only ask that you give us some more water for the sake of the thousand rounds of bullets! I beg you."

"Lu Xingtang, you promised one liter of gasoline and one pound of water. You can't break your promise!"

Lu Xingtang said coldly, "Now 15 kilograms of food for one kilogram of water is enough? Don't you think it's too much?"

"It's not much, not much. This is what you risked your lives to go to Jicheng, and you also lost a gun. We didn't contribute any manpower or supplies. It's only right to exchange 15 kilograms of food for one kilogram of water!"

"We'll go home and get food. We'll exchange it for water!"

"Very good!" Lu Xingtang was satisfied. "Now we will line up in two columns. One column will be used to provide gasoline, and the other column will be used to exchange supplies for water! First, let's exchange water for the people who provided gasoline. Take your containers and line up to get water!"

Ji Yanmo and Su Cheng helped to fill the water and weigh it, and Lu Xingtang confirmed the water they exchanged based on the previously recorded list.

The people in the apartment building are waiting for the final water change, so let’s deal with the others first.

Half an hour later, the families who had traded gasoline for water had already returned with their water. Next came the exchange of grain for water. Lu Xingtang and his team didn't exchange it immediately, fearing that someone might be cheating. So, they checked the grain first, made sure it was good, and weighed it to make sure the quantity was correct, before getting them water.

Whenever the quantity didn't match and the food quality wasn't good enough, Lu Xingtang refused them and told them to take the food back and find water on their own! They refused to change!

No one expected that Lu Xingtang and his team would be so rigorous. Those who tried to cheat and get away with it immediately took the grain back to exchange for full-weighed good grain.

They didn't get any food in exchange, nor did they deceive Lu Xingtang and the others, and they didn't get even a drop of water. No matter how angry they were, or even how they knelt down to beg for mercy, Lu Xingtang and the other two didn't soften their hearts.

In the end times, being soft-hearted is the greatest cruelty to yourself!

Next came the people in their building. Besides Min Weihuan, the others, who had already exchanged gasoline and grain for water, were given an extra three pounds of water as a thank you for guarding the 19th floor. Min Weihuan got an extra bucket of water because he was invited by Su Cheng to help take care of Su Hao, having agreed to it long ago.

After distributing the water, Lu Xingtang and his team began to deliver all the water in the car to the 19th floor. There was too much water and the weather was extremely hot. It was very difficult for the three of them to carry it. They could not move much water during the day, and they also had to guard against people in the same community robbing the water they had worked so hard to find.

So it took an entire afternoon and a whole night to get all the water upstairs.

After they moved the water, Ji Yanmo drove out and "returned" the car!

Min Weihuan returned the pistol and bullets that Su Cheng had temporarily given him to Su Cheng.

Next, they stayed indoors on the 19th floor.

The residents of the community offered them water, but they refused! No matter how much food they offered, they refused!

The residents of the community were so angry that they actually ran to the government gate and made a scene, asking the government to arrest them on the 19th floor, saying that they had water and were hiding it from everyone and selling it at a high price!

As a result, the government ignored them.

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