Chapter 201: Stamping his feet in anger

Perhaps it was because of the poor lighting at night, Xie Ru did not recognize Gu Xiaoxi and was quite polite when she spoke.

"Comrade, can these salt water bottles be counted as points?"

Gu Xiaoxi glanced at her and lightly scanned the things in their hands. "Five empty salt water bottles count as 1 point."

Xie Ru frowned, "Five pieces count for 1 point? How come others can get 1 point for one or two broken bowls with a chip on them? Our salt water bottle is not broken at all."

"Yes, ours is still intact!" someone echoed in a low voice.

Just as Gu Xiaoxi was about to speak, Qi Shuangshuang stood up and stretched her waist, then ran over to take over.

"This activity is mainly for the convenience of the people, and you are not local people. If you exchange more things, the people will get less."

Gu Xiaoxi smiled and glanced at Qi Shuangshuang, then nodded slightly, "That's right. In addition to taking care of the poor, the main reason for calculating points is to look at the potential reuse value of the items. For example, a broken farm tool can be refurbished to create labor value again, so it is valuable."

Xie Ru looked a little embarrassed, so she didn't say anything for a while.

"Are you guys going to change? It's too late. We're going to turn off the lights and rest. We have to get up early tomorrow." Gu Xiaoxi reminded them.

Xie Ru discussed it with others and finally decided to change.

They accumulated a total of 306 empty saline water bottles from the free clinic, which equals 61 points, with one saline water bottle left over.

Gu Xiaoxi finally calculated 62 points for them.

Then, several people started to chatter and choose in front of the shelves.

Xie Ru was so excited when she saw a new quilt on the shelf.

However, the quilt requires 200 points, and she just got 12 points.

After gritting her teeth, she reluctantly gave up the quilt and chose a roll of toilet paper and two steamed buns that Qi Shuangshuang had just baked.

The others wanted to buy something at first, but seeing that Xie Ru was eating with relish and the buns were fresh out of the pot, they did the same as Xie Ru and exchanged their points for buns.

Before leaving, Xie Ru looked back every few steps, as if she had some thoughts in mind.

Gu Xiaoxi ignored them and waited until they left before lowering the curtain of the tent.

"Xiaoxi, we have already steamed more than 200 buns. Do we still want to make more?" Qi Shuangshuang also picked up a bun and ate it.

"No, I'll go boil some water and we can go to bed early."

As he spoke, Gu Xiaoxi had already boiled water on the coal stove.

After the two of them washed up, Qi Shuangshuang filled the hot water bottle and went back to the room first.

Gu Xiaoxi collected 100 salt water bottles into the second-hand grocery store. When she replaced the new product showroom, she chose a large salt water bottle and converted it into three small ones.

After getting three hundred small glass bottles, she washed them using the cleaning technique, air-dried them, and then filled them with cough water that was boiled under the guidance of Master Qi.

Since the glass bottles had no lids, she resigned herself to having 300 tightly fitted wooden stoppers made from wood.

After finishing the things and putting labels on them, she washed her hands and went to bed.

Gu Xiaoxi didn't know that as soon as she turned off the light in the tent, a figure quietly came near the tent.

After searching for a while, Xie Ru found nothing and went to search in a farther place with a chill.

Half an hour later, she was shivering with cold and stamping her feet in anger.

"Why not? Why not?"

Aren't there so many old things and junk during the day?

How did it clean up so quickly that not a single thing can be found?

Although she was reluctant, she still had to go back.

Tomorrow, tomorrow she will take a good look at where they put those old things.

When the time comes, she will quietly take some of them to exchange for new ones, which is considered as recycling.

Not long after Xie Ru left, Lu Jiansen came back with his men.

He transferred in a lot of new materials so that tomorrow's old-for-new exchange can run better.

Seeing that his little girl had turned off the lights and gone to sleep, he put the things in the tent where he was resting.

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The next day.

Gu Xiaoxi got up at six o'clock, and there were more people coming to exchange their old items for new ones than yesterday.

While eating breakfast, Lu Jiansen sat beside her and whispered, "I'll collect the old things later. People from the village and the commune will send old farm tools here today. You'll be in charge of that part."

Gu Xiaoxi nodded, "Okay."

"Xiaoxi, do you think we should make more food?" Qi Shuangshuang asked.

She felt that today's buns would be easy to redeem.

Gu Xiaoxi looked at the sky outside and said, "The temperature has dropped a lot today. How about making a pot of ginger soup and red date tea? It will be 2 points per bowl, free of charge."

"Okay." Qi Shuangshuang happily went to make ginger soup and red date tea.

Ten minutes later, today's trade-in event officially began.

The line was long, but people were very happy, and the closer they got to the tent, the neater the line became.

Some are carrying baskets, some are carrying burdens, and some are carrying large and small bags. However, the conditions at home are good, some are pushing wheelbarrows, and some are pulling carts, with all kinds of old things and sundries on them.

There were even people in the crowd who came in ox carts and donkey carts.

The first people Gu Xiaoxi received were the captain of the first brigade of Sanjiao Town and several villagers who helped deliver farm tools.

The things they brought included rusty sickles, chipped hoes, broken plowshares, discarded shovels, and even a rusty old rice mill.

Gu Xiaoxi first dragged the sickles, hoes and other things to the compartment behind him. After a while, he came out with a bunch of new sickles and hoes.

"Take these things back first. The rice mill will have to wait for a while."

"Okay, okay, we're not in a hurry." The team leader looked at the two boxes of new farm tools in front of him and smiled.

Gu Xiaoxi did not delay and immediately put on gloves, dismantled the old rice mill, and cleaned and repaired it.

Although her repairs were quick and methodical, it still took her half an hour to repair and improve the rice mill.

When she looked up, she found that the basement of the old-for-new team was already filled with old items and debris. There were so many things that there was no place to step.

It was also at this time that Lu Jiansen ordered people to clean up a pile of things and move them to the tent at the back.

Gu Xiaoxi had just delivered a large group of things when he saw Xie Ru walking by out of the corner of his eye.

As she was deep in thought, the trade-in system suddenly reminded her that she had just gained 100 merit points.

While she was distracted, Xie Ru had already poked her head towards the tent at the back.

Gu Xiaoxi found it a bit strange, so he went out under the pretext of going to the back of the camp to get supplies.

Just then, she saw Xie Ru stop at the door of Lu Jiansen's tent for a while, then turned around and left in a hurry.

Gu Xiaoxi pondered for a moment and entered the tent where Lu Jiansen lived.