Song Kaiji felt Shen Qing's stiffness and felt a little annoyed. He scratched his head and stepped back half a step, then held the compound crossbow to teach Shen Qing the posture.
Before the end of the world, he had signed up for baseball and basketball clubs in college. Most of the members were boys, and it was common for students to correct each other's posture, play around, and physically touch each other. I forgot for a moment that this is the end of the world, and it is normal to be wary of strangers.
Just like pushing teammates to block zombies, killing people and stealing treasures during transactions is also very common, so trading areas have emerged for people to set up stalls and trade. At least in public places, there are occasional patrols by the base's security team, so many people dare not do anything small.
It was me, however, who was so happy about the delicious food I got that I lost my sense of boundaries for a moment. After that, Song Kaiji became very careful and never met Shen Qing again.
This compound crossbow is indeed easy to operate. After Song Kaiji gave Shen Qing some brief instructions, he was able to use it, and his accuracy was even quite good. After the teaching, Shen Qing breathed a sigh of relief. This world was very different from his original world, and perhaps the customs and rules were also different. Song Kaiji was just teaching him how to use a crossbow normally.
But this was also the first time that he had such contact with a man. In the past... in the past, when he had skin-to-skin contact with the boys in the village, he would only land his iron fists on their flesh, and he would grab their arms and throw them over his shoulders.
When Song Kaiji put his arms around him from behind and his fingers touched the back of his hand, God knows how hard Shen Qing tried to restrain himself from jumping away and kicking Song Kaiji twice.
Now that the teaching was over, Shen Qing finally relaxed his tense spirit. But for some reason, the skin on his hands that Song Kaiji touched seemed to be hot. Shen Qing rubbed it twice subconsciously and put his hands behind his back.
He selected six arrows with stainless steel tips and had seven kilograms of food to exchange. Song Kaiji was flipping through the items on the stall, giving Shen Qing some recommendations from time to time: "What else do you want to exchange? You should have enough food, right? Do you want clothes? They are all branded goods collected from specialty stores in shopping malls, and also shoes." Shen Qing's clothes were clean, and he was so generous that he exchanged all the food in a basket for him without leaving any for himself. It was obvious that there was plenty of food and water at home. He just didn't know why such a rich person dressed like this. He still couldn't stand Shen Qing's clothes. There were patches on top of patches, and the fabric on the cuffs was frayed.
His shoes were also very worn out. The old Beijing black cloth shoes that cost more than twenty yuan on the street stalls before the end of the world were better than his. I wonder where this Hanfu enthusiast got such a set? Song Kaiji rummaged through his space and actually found two pairs of old cloth shoes. He didn't know when he had collected them, so he took them out and placed them in front of Shen Qing.
But unlike Shen Qing's handmade thousand-layer soles, Song Kaiji's soles were made of the cheapest cow tendon soles: "Do you want them? Or can I exchange them for crystal cores directly?"
Shen Qing guessed that the crystal core was probably the small, shiny stone that he had just dug out of the zombie's brain. He felt disgusted and didn't want it. He didn't want clothes in the first place. The clothes here are completely different from those at his home, and he couldn't wear them even if he changed them. But when he noticed that Song Kaiji was repeatedly looking at her clothes, Shen Qing thought: "Yes."
He first took the two pairs of cloth shoes. Not knowing how to choose clothes, he secretly glanced at Song Kaiji's outfit and followed his example, picking up a white hoodie, a black windbreaker, and a pair of dark jeans.
If he were to come to this world again, he would still dress in accordance with local customs and not attract attention.
Song Kaiji sighed in his heart that this man had a very good taste, and the clothes he chose were very consistent with his aesthetic taste. Then he asked with some doubt: "Don't you want to check the size? Why don't you try it on to see if it fits?"
Shen Qing paused, and couldn't help but glare at him.
The people here are a little too reckless! You can just say something like "let me try on clothes"?
Song Kaiji:?
What's wrong? She suddenly glared at him fiercely. What did he say wrong? But Shen Qing quickly turned his eyes away, which made Song Kaiji feel like it was an illusion: "No need, if it doesn't fit, I can modify it myself."
Song Kaiji:? Is this possible?
Shen Qing will really change. When he was at Old Shen's house, his family treated him like a man and gave him all the physical work in the fields. But Miao felt that it would be good for a boy to take care of household chores. He would have a hard time living in his husband's family after he got married, so she tried her best to find time to teach Shen Qing.
So Shen Qing knew everything that girls and boys should learn, such as cooking, sewing, and even cutting and making clothes, but her skills were not very good, so she could only make do so carelessly.
But it is much better than modern people like Song Kaiji who rely on industrialization. Shen Qing just measured it with his fingers and knew that he could wear the clothes. He folded the three pieces of clothing and two pairs of cloth shoes together and put them into the empty backpack. Song Kaiji calculated a total of three kilograms of food for him - these clothes were all high-quality brand-name products, which cost seven or eight hundred yuan before the end of the world, and the windbreaker cost more than a thousand yuan. Now they are only worth three kilograms of food.
People won't die if they don't change their clothes, but they will die if they don't eat. The coming of the end of the world has caused the prices of goods in this world to regress back to their original state.
Shen Qing really had no idea what he could exchange the remaining four pounds of food for. He didn't even know what many of the things were. He looked around but his eyes were still fixed on those gold, silver and jewelry.
Song Kaiji didn't understand. After the end of the world, the first things to plummet were jewelry and luxury goods. At first, gold still had some value, and some superpower teams would even go out of their way to collect it. But as the apocalypse drags on and there is little hope of an end, the price of gold continues to fall. By last month, the official exchange rate announced by Hongcheng had reached ten grams of gold for one crystal core.
You know, three crystal cores can be exchanged for one kilogram of rice! Even so, there is no market for it. It is easy to exchange crystal cores for gold, but no one wants to exchange gold for crystal cores and food. This means that the government is still supporting the price of gold.
Even gold has fallen so much, let alone other things! Except for gold, it is not surprising that no one would pick up jewelry or luxury goods if they fell on the ground. But remembering that this young man in front of him, Shen, seemed to be a "rich man" who could afford fresh hawthorns, mushrooms and fungus, Song Kaiji didn't think it was very strange. He was "rich", so what was wrong with buying something that made him happy?
Seeing that Shen Qing just looked at it but didn't like it, he thought that he didn't like the style, so he simply took out all the jewelry in the space and piled it in front of Shen Qing for him to choose: "You can choose whatever you want, except for gold. As for gold, according to the current black market price, I will give you 50 grams for a kilogram of rice."
This is all considered that Song Kaiji took advantage.
Shen Qing watched him conjure up a bunch of dazzling gold and silver jewelry out of thin air, and for the first time he felt that he might be dizzy with money.
Is this real? !
He looked at it enviously for a long time but didn't buy it because he was afraid that it was too expensive and he couldn't afford the compensation if he broke it. As a result, Song Kaiji said, you can take anything except gold?
He began to pick in a daze: delicate and small silver bracelets, colorful jade bracelets, pearl necklaces with each pearl as big as the tip of a little finger...
Shen Qing selected more than a dozen pieces and then gave up embarrassedly, feeling that he was a little greedy. As for gold, he didn't understand what Song Kaiji meant by fifty grams, but it didn't matter. I'm afraid even the village chief had never touched gold, and it would be inconvenient for him to spend it, so he might as well take silver!
However, Song Kaiji still felt that what he got was too little, not even enough for one kilogram of grain. Seeing that Shen Qing liked silver, he grabbed a handful of silver locks, pendants, and rings, and took out four large gold bracelets weighing more than 30 grams and stuffed them all over Shen Qing: "You must accept them, don't be polite with me. This is the price. If you have good things in the future, remember me and come to me to exchange them." Shen Qing took a long time to take a little, which made Song Kaiji a little suspicious. Did this brother Shen deliberately lower the price to him because he had just saved Shen Qing?
To be honest, Shen Qing did have such an idea before the transaction, but now it is purely because he does not know that these gold, silver and jewelry are so cheap in this world! Shen Qing finally realized that perhaps because of the emergence of zombies, prices in this world have changed greatly, and food is more expensive than gold and silver! Holding this pile, he was so excited that his face turned red. He just felt that Song Kaiji was such a good person. He said he would never cheat anyone, and he really was honest!
Shen Qing put the things into the backpack and his hand touched the cloth bag containing the cakes. Logically speaking, he had been out for most of the day and it was already past dinner time. But I don’t know if it was because I was so nervous and felt sick after seeing the zombies, but I didn’t feel hungry at all.
He nodded solemnly to Song Kaiji: "I will definitely look for you next time! Where do you usually set up your stall? I want to know the location so that it will be convenient to find you next time. Do you like hawthorns? I will bring more hawthorns next time." There are still many more in the woods behind!
He was not just being polite; he had really made up his mind to look for Song Kaiji again next time. It is especially difficult for a person to meet someone he can trust in a foreign country. Song Kaiji had saved him, was honest in his business, and seemed kind and trustworthy. Rather than running around like a headless fly and exposing himself, or getting cheated by someone with bad intentions, it would be better for him to continue cooperating with this man.
Song Kaiji was a good man, and Shen Qing wanted to get along well with him: "I have some homemade vegetable cakes here, I'll give them to you, thank you for saving me just now."
Song Kaiji was stunned. Looking at Shen Qing's red face and the pancake in her hand, he felt his face getting hot for some reason.
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