When the two returned to their stop, a large crowd of people were already gathered in the open space outside the entrance. It couldn't be helped. It had just passed the scorching sun month, and everyone's appetites were bland. It had been so long since they had seen fresh meat, so who wouldn't be craving it?
"Are you back? How are you? Is Le Zheng okay?" The staff member who came out to greet him was obviously familiar with Lei Lao Hu.
"It's okay, I'm just a little exhausted. I'm taking a rest."
"I was saying, that kid has quite a good physique. What are you going to do with all this meat? Don't let it cause trouble here. Look how many people have gathered here."
Lei Lao Hu didn't care at all. "Why are you panicking? Aren't we here to deal with this? Please help contact the residents of the trading point and find an experienced person to handle it for me. The reward will be deducted from the meat. And you can also give me a kitchen. I want to cook some food for Le Zheng and bring it over."
The man frowned and pretended to be angry, "Why are you so troublesome every time you come?"
"Tsk, pick two pieces of meat for your sister-in-law to take back later. Pick the good ones. Don't be polite with me."
The man then smiled brightly. "Okay, I've been waiting for you to say that. This girl is cooking for the coalition forces, so I won't charge her for renting the kitchen. Just take her over later."
Ningxia saw Lei Lao Hu solve the problem in just a few words, and sighed again that it is true that more friends mean more paths!
Ningxia tied Maomao to the "parking lot" at the stop, then went to the kitchen to find Lei Lao Hu with his bags.
"Ningxia, I asked the doctor on the second floor, and your little girl needs to be on IV drip for three days. I've booked a room for you here with my coalition ID, so you and Lin Yi have a place to stay."
The other party was very considerate and Ningxia didn't know how to repay him. "Brother Lei, I will pay you back for the room."
"Okay, don't be so polite. I'm alone, and I don't have much to spend on the points in my card." Having said that, Lei Laohu looked at the two butchers who were already processing pork outside the house and said again: "I'll take one pig to the brothers in the camp to taste, and you can keep the rest."
Ningxia was about to refuse when Lei Laohu raised his hand to stop her. "Don't be so hasty to refuse. The doctor upstairs told me that you should take Sangsang to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Building to see what the experts there have to say. There aren't that many subsidies over there. You have to spend money everywhere."
Also, Le Zheng's hand wound has just been stitched up, and his leg has just been fixed, so it's not convenient for him to move. I also need to return to the camp to report on the work at the outpost. I thought I'd wait for him to stay at the medical center for a few days, and then come back to pick him up when his injuries are better. I'll trouble you for the next few days."
Ningxia shook her head. "It's not a problem at all. If it weren't for you and Le Zheng, I don't know what would have happened to me with my two children!"
Lei Lao Hu smiled brightly: "He's a rough old man, there are people taking care of him at the medical center, so I'd like you to take care of his meals for a few times."
Ningxia naturally agreed quickly. Lei Laohu came and went like the wind. After explaining the matter, he left the stopover with a pig that had been processed, regardless of Ningxia's objection.
Ningxia is left with a headache guarding a pile of pork, all because of the debts of favor that cannot be repaid.
Lei Lao Hu on this side hurried towards the military camp slowly and said, "Boy, I can only help you up to this point. The rest is up to you."
The trading point is diagonally opposite the stopover point. The commotion here is so loud that people over there can't help but join in the fun.
"Sister Xia! It's you! Long time no see!" The person who came was Xiao Zhang from the trading point. It was he who arranged for Ningxia to go to the forest area to exchange supplies for the first time. He was a very down-to-earth person.
"Long time no see, Xiao Zhang."
Xiao Zhang was full of admiration. "Sister Xia is really capable! The scorching sun month just passed, and she managed to get so much pork."
Ningxia smiled bitterly: "It was the coalition forces at the outpost who helped me. If it weren't for them, I would have died outside."
"Given by the coalition forces?"
Seeing Xiao Zhang's surprised expression, Ningxia became a little nervous. "What's wrong? Is this against the regulations?"
Xiao Zhang shook his head and looked at Ningxia with a more scrutinizing look. "No, the higher-ups don't care about that. I'm just surprised. As you know, there's been some unpleasantness between the soldiers and the civilians regarding our Chocobos."
Ningxia actually believed this. Before Chuya came into being, Chu Huaguo was top-notch in finance and human resources. Citizens had high incomes, paid a lot of taxes, and enjoyed first-class treatment. Even an orphan like her grew up without suffering any hardship in life.
With no military turmoil, and the military financed by taxes, the coalition forces held a relatively low position. This unequal status between the two sides persisted for a long time. They had been planning to reform this situation, but unexpectedly, a year of disaster struck.
Because of their top military strength, the long-idle coalition forces were revitalized. However, the people seemed to be unaware of this and continued to look down on the coalition forces who had fought bravely through thick and thin, leading to a general deterioration in relations between the two sides.
Xiao Zhang has seen many different kinds of people. Even if they don't have enough to eat, they still act like first-class citizens and treat the Allied Forces as inferiors.
Even to a small staff member like him, they were more polite than to the coalition forces, and there was no way to see the formalities. He had rarely seen anyone who could handle the coalition forces so well.
Ningxia is like this simply because she has never regarded herself as a first-class citizen and has never encountered huge taxes.
Before the disaster, she was just a floating duckweed in the welfare home with nowhere to stay. Later, when she met Li Gang and Lei Lao Hu and his group, they treated her sincerely, so she naturally tried her best to repay them.
"Sister, have you figured out what to do with all this pork?"
Ningxia shook his head. Excluding the butcher's reward and the internal organs, fur, etc., there were still about 300 kilograms of meat. Although these pigs were not fat, there were so many of them, a total of three pigs!
Xiao Zhang narrowed her eyes and smiled: "How about you sell it to the trading point?" Right now, the scorching sun month has just passed, and the manpower from all parties has not yet been organized. It is a time when there is a shortage of meat, but it will only happen in the next few days.
If he took the meat and sent it to Morning's shelter, it would not be impossible for him to move up in the position.
Xiao Zhang had a brilliant career plan. These days, performance is everything. Even in a government-run company, if he couldn't pull in orders, he'd only be able to scrape by.
Ningxia was worried about Sangsang's medical expenses. "I still need to take my child to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Building. I don't know if this is enough."
Xiao Zhang patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, sister. No matter what disease you are treating, half of what we have here is more than enough! Fresh meat is in short supply everywhere now, but it will only be a matter of a few days. It won't be long before the price of meat drops significantly. Sister, you have to hurry up."
Ningxia nodded quickly. Song Minghua had told her that Xiao Zhang was a good person, and she was willing to trust him after getting to know him. She then said, "Then you can take two-thirds of these. I won't tell you the price. Just pay according to the market price and exchange it for points directly into my household registration account."
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