Chapter 377: Trading Canned Food for Women (Third Update, Please Subscribe)

Early in the morning, Eva woke up from her sleep hungry.

After getting up, she walked out of the room and stood at the handrail of the stairs on the second floor. What came into her sight was an empty living room - she ran and played here when she was a child, and when she was a girl, she lay behind the handrail of the stairs, secretly watching the adults dancing, looking forward to the moment of her "coming out party".

On her sixteenth birthday, her father finally held a "coming-out ball" for her, which also marked her entry into the social circle of Buenos Aires.

From that day on, this magnificent living room meant even more to her. She had danced, dined, flirted here, and watched with envy how her friends smiled at the men she loved.

But what about now?

The broken crystal chandeliers were still hanging high, the paintings on the walls were either stolen or cut with knives, and furniture such as sofas and tables and even curtains were swept away by the robbers - when the city fell, many rich people's houses in the city were looted.

The servants in the house had long gone away, and now she was the only one left in the empty mansion. Even now, she still remembered that a few days ago, several soldiers came here, and when they tried to break into the house, she shouted desperately to stop them.

This was all she had left. Her father and brothers had either died in the battlefield or were missing. She had to protect her home and wait for their return.

She even imagined all kinds of possibilities, perhaps being ravaged by those villains from Nanhua, but she couldn't care less.

Fortunately, those people were civilized and left after learning that she was the owner of the house.

Now it seems that she is undoubtedly lucky - in the past few days, the empty houses of her neighbors were either sealed or occupied by South China officers.

They are a bunch of villains who took away the homes of the good people of Buenos Aires!

Eva said so in her heart, but soon, she was no longer in the mood to blame those people. She was facing an experience she had never had before - hunger!

Like now, she hasn't eaten for two days.

"It seems that I have to go out and find something to eat!"

Eva said to herself,

Although her stomach was rumbling with hunger, she was not confused. She found a basket in the kitchen, and then retrieved the whiskey that had survived the robbers' looting in the basement cellar, then put the whiskey in the basket and went out.

All that whisky will surely fetch some bread at the market.

Walking on the street, Eva always looked at the houses with seals on them. Those magnificent houses had been requisitioned by the occupying forces.

Along the way, whenever she encountered the occupying troops, she would always lower her head, and as she walked towards the market, the heavy baskets along the way almost broke her arms.

Eva, with an empty stomach and extremely hungry, felt that she had no strength left. Despite this, her heart was filled with grievances. She was born to be served, but now she had become like this, ragged and hungry, bringing whiskey to the market to exchange for food.

Even beggars are no more than this!

Food! Food!

As she walked towards the market, her mind kept coming up with the food she had eaten in the past, the aroma of barbecue, the fragrance of French bread, and the milky aroma of steak fried in butter.

All of this made her taste buds stimulate and her saliva flow, and her stomach began to rumble again.

On the way to the market, she also went to the bank. The door of the bank was still closed, but even so, there were quite a few people waiting in front of the bank. Seeing this, she comforted herself.

"The bank will be open soon, and when it is open, everything will be fine."

Although her home was robbed by robbers, they did not steal her bank deposit certificates. As long as the bank opened, she could immediately get rid of her current predicament.

Soon, she arrived at the market, where there were men, women, and even some soldiers, the same thugs from South China, buying things there.

"Whiskey, I have some good English whiskey..."

She opened her mouth, but when she wanted to shout, no sound came out. She just stood there alone. Perhaps someone saw her embarrassment and the whiskey in her basket and asked.

"Are you selling this whiskey?"

"Yes sir, all good English whiskey."

"Thirty pesos for all these bottles of whiskey. I want them all."

Thirty pesos was a lot of money. Eva just felt that she had met a good person, and she sold the wine as soon as she arrived here.

God bless you, this is all going well.

She nodded repeatedly.

"Well, sir, you are such a nice guy!"

“Can paper money be used?”

"sure……"

After receiving the thirty-peso note, Eva even gave him the basket.

Okay, time to go buy some food.

Just when she happily wanted to buy some bread, the old woman next to her looked at her and said.

"Girl, do you know you've been cheated?"

"What?"

"No one wants banknotes now, they are just like waste paper!"

What!

Just waste paper?

Eva was stunned for a moment.

"That's impossible, sir, sir..."

The figure of that person could still be seen there. When Eva took the banknotes and wanted to buy something, she was rejected one after another. She murmured with several banknotes in her hand.

"How could this happen? How could this happen..."

During the war, no one wanted paper money, whether it was issued by private banks or official banks, and now these banks are still closed, and only silver or gold coins can be used on the market.

And now all she got were just a few worthless pieces of paper.

"Oh my God, how could you treat me like this!"

douchebag!

Those damn liars are the real villains!

Staggering on the street, a feeling of despair surged in Eva's heart. With an empty stomach, she had only one thought in her mind: to eat. She had been hungry for two days, and now her mind was full of food.

Eva's eyes were already filled with tears due to the hunger she had never experienced before. She tried hard not to cry out loud, but the tears still fell.

"Oh God, why are you torturing me so much..."

As she walked and let her tears fall, Zhou Yan, who was chatting with his comrades on the side of the road, saw this young and beautiful girl. Although she looked haggard, she was very beautiful and looked no more than eighteen or nineteen years old.

Seeing her tearful face, she must have encountered some difficulties.

"Zhou Yan, you are looking at... this woman is so beautiful!"

The comrades followed Zhou Yan's gaze, and when their eyes lit up, they gave Zhou Yan some advice.

"Zhou Yan, judging from her appearance, she must be starving. Hurry up and bring a box of canned food over. Who knows, you might be able to get a woman today..."

In today's Buenos Aires, it is very cheap to get a woman. You don't need to spend any money. You only need a box of canned food or a pack of cigarettes to sleep with a woman. Hungry women will always do something unexpected to feed themselves and their families.

Some soldiers even used the term "can opener" to describe the women.

"Brother, if you don't go I'll go open the can."

The comrade's words immediately caused laughter.

"Don't talk nonsense. This girl definitely doesn't look like a girl from an ordinary family."

As Zhou Yan spoke, he thought for a moment, grabbed the bread on the table, and walked straight towards the girl.

Eva was walking and crying when she suddenly heard footsteps and saw someone stopping her. It turned out to be a South China soldier. What did he want to do?

Her eyes were full of hostility as she stared at him.

"You must be starving!"

Zhou Yan took out a piece of bread wrapped in paper and spoke in not very fluent Spanish.

"Here, for you. Also, canned food."

Looking at the bread and the cans with square characters written on them, Eva stared at him, looking at the sincere look on his face.

"You, what do you want to do?"

Eva looked at the evil - no, the soldier - with great vigilance.

"What?"

Zhou Yan looked at the girl and said.

"Just thought you needed food. Don't get me wrong, I don't...want to."

What are you thinking about?

Trade the canned food for a chance to sleep with her?

What he wanted was not just this. In fact, many of his comrades-in-arms also wanted not just that.

When Zhou Yan didn't know how to explain, Eva looked at the cans and bread in her hands, then looked at the soldier, and then said as if she had made up her mind.

"Can you take me home?"

"What?"

Zhou Yan looked at the girl in front of him in confusion. Was she asking me to take him home?

"I just don't want to go alone."

Eva pouted and said.

"I don't know if you can understand what I'm saying, but I just don't want to go alone. It's really hard to go alone."

Eva talked as she walked, and Zhou Yan followed her silently, listening to the girl's complaints.

Of course, he couldn't understand a lot of what was said. After all, his Spanish was only good enough to understand a few simple sentences.

But for Eva, she just wanted someone to accompany her and listen to her. She has been facing all this alone these days, and now she feels really tired.

The two of them walked slowly like this until they returned home, then Eva turned around and looked at the soldier beside her and said.

"I know there must be a lot of women who want to be your lovers. I've seen a lot of them on the road. Do you have any?"

"What?"

Zhou Yan didn't understand what she was saying at all.

Seeing that he didn't understand, Eva continued to ask.

"So do you think I'm beautiful?"

"you're so beautiful!"

Zhou Yan answered seriously,

"Well, if you have time tomorrow, come and ask me out! By the way, can you give me a perfume?"

perfume?

It's available at the military welfare store for only a dime...

Looking at the girl in front of him, Zhou Yan nodded quickly and said.

"Okay, I'll come over tomorrow."

After the soldiers left, Eva looked at the food in her hand, and her expression became a little complicated. She had never thought that one day she would fight for food... But, she was really hungry!

(End of this chapter)