Shen Qing is so generous to me and has never treated me badly, but I am still jealous that he gives his things to others. Why am I so unsatisfied?
Song Kaiji pursed his lips and said, "No, nothing." He paused and said, "I'm afraid I haven't done a good enough job and have let you down." This was half true and half false, and he was using the topic to express his true feelings. Song Kaiji did think that he had a possessive desire for Shen Qing's property, which was a betrayal of Shen Qing's trust.
It's good that you're not sick. Shen Qing breathed a sigh of relief, not because he was worried about the money, but because it would be tiring for him to carry a few more baskets of food, and he hadn't gone to the county town to buy them yet. He also comforted Song Kaiji, "It's okay, this may be your first time, you will get better slowly in the future." There is a saying that people are not born to carry burdens, and the same is true for other things.
Moreover, Shen Qing felt that trust and ability were not completely the same thing. He trusted Song Kaiji's character. Even if Song Kaiji's ability was a little weak, he could still cultivate it slowly. Isn't this the same as how he cultivated the currently weak psychic?
Moreover, Shen Qing felt from his own example that people can actually grow very quickly as long as they are given the opportunity.
And he will give Song Kaiji many opportunities.
Qu Weiwei stood aside, watching her nose and her heart, trying to reduce her presence. What the hell, he said yesterday that she couldn't hit anything, how come Song Kaiji's brain was so whiny, and now the situation has changed? What kind of gentle rich boss is comforting a little fool!
The three returned to the base. After not being here for a few days, there were many more tents at the entrance of the base, and not only at the south wall, but also gradually spreading towards the city gate.
"Recently, several groups of refugees have arrived, but only a few can afford the entrance fee." Qu Weiwei sighed. Because Song Kaiji wanted to find his relatives, they had contact with the refugees these days, but none of them came from Song Kaiji's hometown. Most of them were locals in Hongcheng. "The authorities organized several times, wanting the refugees to form teams to fight zombies, but few responded."
Those who are capable have already saved enough money to enter the city. Once they enter the city, they can join the superpower team, or find a job like Qu Weiwei did on the farm before, which does not require them to leave the base, and they can make ends meet. However, those who are not capable cannot even save this little money to enter the city, and they cannot even enter the city gate, so naturally they cannot find a job.
Gradually, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor can widen in any era. And these refugees who have just arrived at the base and set up tents at the city gate still have the illusion that the Hongcheng base will not completely ignore them: after all, this is an official controlled base.
The apocalypse has only happened for more than half a year, and they still have pre-apocalyptic expectations for the authorities - or they are deceiving themselves and refusing to face the cruel reality.
But how can I say it? Qu Weiwei shook her head in her heart. Reality doesn't disappear just because you don't face it. The outbreak of the apocalypse has almost reshuffled the entire world. The currency is invalid, the city is destroyed, and the government is very poor. They want to do more charity, but they need money. Now it is not easy to be willing to organize refugees to go out and hunt zombies and pay for gas.
But many refugees, although they can still walk to the base, it is impossible that they have not killed zombies. But after finally surviving through the mountains of corpses and seas of blood to reach a safe area, how could they be willing to go back?
There were still many people at the city gate arguing with the patrol team: "You are the ones who saved us, why can't you let us in..."
A patrol member who looked like a leader said helplessly: "We have made it very clear. As long as you hand in crystal cores or food, you can go in. You are not without..."
A middle-aged man hugged the food in his arms tightly, staring with his bulging eyes: "We only have this little food left. How will we eat if we hand it over? Aren't you forcing us to die? Are you still official people? You are serving the people but you are just eating the cake!"
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Shen Qing looked at the chaos around him. In this environment, the evil in human nature was greatly aroused. Some people were even more difficult to deal with than Old Lady Wang. However, he thought about it for a while, and leaned close to Song Kaiji's ear and said, "Ask these people if there is anyone who can make tofu and starch sausage? Don't ask those who can only cook. You should start with beans and pork. If there are any, recruit one from each family." Shen Qing thought for a while, "They are allowed to bring one family member, with food and accommodation provided, but no more than that."
Shen Qing was very close to him, with two long strands of hair hanging from his temples, which would float on the side of Song Kaiji's face from time to time as he spoke. Song Kaiji was numb: Was he really only coveting Shen Qing's property?
Song Kaiji quietly took a half step back, and calmed himself down under Shen Qing's puzzled gaze before saying, "Didn't I give you the prescription before?"
Shen Qing smiled awkwardly. He had asked Song Kaiji to collect secret recipes before, and Song Kaiji did collect quite a few. But it was not until Song Kaiji handed them over to him that he realized that Song Kaiji only collected the text version, and he could not read at all!
He thought Song Kaiji would find someone to teach him... But then again, Song Kaiji didn't know that he was illiterate, so he couldn't blame Song Kaiji.
He didn't even dare to bring these secret recipes back and asked Miao Tongsheng to help identify them: because Shen Qing was not sure whether the characters in this world were the same as the characters in his original world.
Among those secret recipes, Shen Qing felt that tofu and starch sausage were the most to his liking. Tofu was also in his world, and it was relatively common, but not everyone could make it. In the past, there was a tofu seller in Xiahe Village. It was said that he got the recipe by chance, and it was not passed down from his ancestors. Several nearby villages would buy from him, and they would order a few pieces in advance for weddings and funerals. After doing this for more than 20 years, he saved up money, bought a property and a shop in the county town, and moved out of Xiahe Village.
It can be seen that although selling tofu and rowing boats and forging iron are called the three hardest jobs, they are also profitable! Shen Qing plans to cooperate with his uncle's family to open a tofu shop in Shiqu Village. There are many people in his family, and his two uncles and cousins are now strong laborers, so he is not afraid of not being able to handle it.
And starch sausage is something Shen Qing loves to eat! Shen Qing really didn't expect that sweet potato flour could be made into something so delicious. Song Kaiji said that starch sausage is almost entirely made of starch sausage, with less than one-tenth of the meat in it! Their family has so much meat now, isn't it just right to make starch sausage?
"I can't learn it just by looking at the words. I'm too stupid." Shen Qing looked guilty, "I still need someone to guide me and teach me step by step a few times."
"Okay," Song Kaiji nodded solemnly, and added in a low voice: "...You are not stupid, it's just that everyone is good at different areas."
Shen Qing was stunned for a moment. Was he trying to comfort him?
Soon we arrived at the house chosen by Song Kaiji. In order to save money, the location of this house was not good. It was located close to the city gate. It was a newly built small building after the apocalypse. Such a house was inferior to the houses built before the apocalypse in terms of building safety. It was built in a hurry and there was no national quality inspection. It was close to the city wall and the city gate, and the noise was relatively loud. The noise made by the people living in tents outside the base could be faintly heard.
Also, I should say something that I shouldn’t say, if the Rainbow City base falls one day, those living at the city gate will definitely be the first to be affected.
However, Shen Qing, Song Kaiji, and Qu Weiwei didn't think there was anything wrong with this house. Song Kaiji and Qu Weiwei compared this house to the tin house they lived in before, and this one was simply better than the others. Shen Qing looked at the bright and warm room that Song Kaiji had arranged for him, touched the soft and smooth bedding, and for the first time, he felt a little nostalgic for this world.
Song Kaiji waved his hand, and a bunch of things appeared on the bed: gold and silver that Song Kaiji and Qu Weiwei had collected at the base during this period, as well as some jewelry. With Qu Weiwei, Song Kaiji was more adept at collecting these things. Girls always study jewelry more than boys, and their aesthetic taste has greatly improved.
Furthermore, there are the crystal cores that were exchanged for the previous batch of food: "Both of us have low levels of superpowers, so we don't use many every day. She has eight, and I have five, which is almost the limit." If the superpower level is insufficient and forced to absorb, of course there are lucky ones who break through the level in advance and increase their strength, but more people can't bear it and explode and die. "There are more than 800 first-level crystal cores left here. The rent for this house is 120 crystal cores every month."
Shen Qing nodded. He was illiterate and not good at math. He could still calculate a few radishes and vegetables, but the number of more than 800 was too big. He really had no idea, so he entrusted it all to Song Kaiji: "Take it, use it flexibly, you have the final say."
Song Kaiji was a little stubborn now: "No, I have to make it clear to you."
Shen Qing found it a little funny: "When did you calculate so clearly with me? Before, when I exchanged silver with you, didn't I just calculate roughly?"
This statement hit Song Kaiji's heart: He did take advantage of Shen Qing at that time, although it was not much, Shen Qing was willing to do it. But now talking about it, Song Kaiji felt even more ugly! He groaned and said, "I... I will make it up to you later."
Shen Qing was somewhat helpless. This was not what he meant. Song Kaiji was really strange today. He walked around the room again and found many bottles and jars on the table. He deliberately changed the subject: "What is this?"
"For face, cream, toner, and lotion." Song Kaiji's attention was diverted: "Some are for women. Men's ones are hard to find now... I see your face is a little flaky."
Shen Qing touched his face in surprise. It was normal for the skin on his face to peel in winter. There were many girls in their village with thin skin. Not to mention peeling, their cheeks turned red in the winter! Could it be that applying this stuff on the face would work?
He opened the lid... He didn't know how to use a twist-off lid, so it wouldn't open.
Song Kaiji looked at Shen Qing fiddled with the small bottle in confusion. The doubts that he hadn't thought about for a long time came to his mind again: "...I help you?"
Shen Qing threw the bottle to Song Kaiji in annoyance.
He saw Song Kaiji twist the lid twice and silently memorized it. In the bottle was a milky white paste with a faint fragrance. Shen Qing took it and looked at it carefully: Could this be the balm used by rich ladies? It turns out that balm can not only make you beautiful, but also prevent your face from getting flaky and red. No wonder none of the rich girls he had seen in the county were like the girls in their village, with two big red cheeks in winter!
Shen Qing was very happy: "Do you have more of this? Give me some more, I want to take it back." Give it to my mother too! "You count the money yourself and take it from the crystal core."
Song Kaiji threw out all the face cream in his space and said solemnly: "All for you, no money required!"
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