Chapter 20: V entry notice: V entry the day after tomorrow V entry on Saturday
Ji An kept it a secret from others, but told Tangning the truth, "I've said before that I want to research space storage tools, and I need something with special energy, jade will do."
"If you have particularly good jade, you can give it to me. I won't charge you any fees and will help you make a space storage item."
Tangning smiled awkwardly. Not to mention that she didn't have the jade, even if she did, could she really make it? That thing didn't only exist in cultivation novels. It turned out that what Mr. Ji said at the base command center was not to piss off those old men, but he meant it seriously.
Ji An could tell that Tangning didn't trust him, so he didn't take it seriously and continued collecting jade with her.
As soon as the shop owner came out of Ji'an's shop, he was stopped by the owner of a grain and oil shop named Zhao, "Old Li, what is the origin of the shop opposite? They summoned the highest commander and several deputy commanders of our base right after it opened. It must be quite powerful."
Old Li said: "I don't know either. I didn't find out anything, but it is true that they collect jade."
Boss Zhao rolled his eyes, picked up a stone from the ground, and wiped it twice without paying attention. "Okay, I have to do it myself. You won't be able to find out anything."
"Boss, business is booming!" As soon as Boss Zhao came in, he started to congratulate with a smile.
Ji An also smiled and said, "Sir, I have jade to sell."
"Yes, this stone of mine is really good. I bought it for several million before the end of the world. Can you show me what I can exchange it for?" Boss Zhao looked at the decoration of the shop and pretended not to care and asked, "Boss, do you know the highest commander and several deputy commanders of our base? What's the relationship? Do several commanders have shares in this shop?"
Ji An had already seen the jade that Boss Zhao mentioned. It was just a broken stone that could be found everywhere in the end times. Not only did it not have any spiritual energy, it was also a bit dirty.
Ji An returned the broken stone to Boss Zhao and said, "This is just a stone you can find anywhere on the street. We won't take it."
Boss Zhao was exposed, but he was not embarrassed. He laughed and said, "This store has several commanders, but the shares are so small. Isn't it a bit too shabby?"
Ji An's beautiful peach blossom eyes stared straight at Boss Zhao, and his dark pupils made Boss Zhao feel creepy.
Boss Zhao rubbed the goose bumps on his arms and thought to himself that no wonder he was familiar with the commanders of the base. Regardless of his personal abilities, his aura was powerful enough.
As soon as Boss Zhao came out, Lao Zhou came over and asked, "Boss Zhao, what did you find out?"
Boss Zhao threw the stone to the ground, snorted, and snorted, "I won't tell you!"
I thought to myself, the young boss looked scary, but he was really good-looking.
Old Zhou spat, "You must be getting mad at me because you're not liking it."
The slums in the East City of Beijing Base where ordinary people gathered were dirty and messy, with many homeless people lying on the streets, all of them pale and skinny.
On the street where these homeless people fell, there are old and dilapidated buildings that have been in disrepair for many years. There are mottled walls and water stains everywhere. In some places, water is dripping for unknown reasons.
This is where the most ordinary people in the Beijing base gather. They have no special abilities, live in poverty and often suffer from physical pain. Often, three or four families live in one household, and the house itself is not their own, but a cheap rented public housing.
It was dusk when Zheng Yan got off work from the factory. The work in the factory was heavy, and Zheng Yan had no money to hire someone, which resulted in her doing the most tiring work that no one else wanted to do.
Zheng Yan felt like her legs were filled with lead and she couldn't take the next step at all. But she still walked back home step by step with her heavy legs.
As soon as she opened the door, she saw her mother with gray hair and her father in a wheelchair, and her mood improved a little.
When Zheng's mother saw Zheng Yan, she immediately showed a guilty expression, "Yan Yan, I'm sorry, I didn't save your dinner. It was snatched away by your second uncle and your younger uncle."
"Forget it. I've already had lunch at the factory." The factory where Zheng Yan works provides lunch, but not only is the food very bad, but everyone's meals are limited and they can never get enough to eat.
The work in the factory was so tiring that Zheng Yan survived a day's work, feeling tired and thirsty.
"Mom, get me a glass of water."
Mother Zheng was even more embarrassed and said helplessly: "The water you brought back was also taken away by them."
Zheng Yan felt weak. She could no longer support her legs and fell to the ground, feeling that there was no hope for tomorrow.
In fact, it was not Zheng's father and mother's fault. One of them was in poor health, and the other was unable to move. How could they possibly defeat the two families of the young and strong second uncle and younger uncle? Naturally, they could not protect the food and water she brought back.
At the beginning of the end of the world, the Jingshi base was first established and renovated, and many houses were requisitioned.
Theirs were among them, but the requisition was not in vain, as they were given a lot of food compensation.
Zheng Yan's family lives in a big villa, which was enough to exchange for three years' worth of food. To be honest, houses are the least valuable in the apocalypse, and Zheng Yan was really willing to exchange it for so much food.
At that time, the homes of Zheng Yan's two uncles were also requisitioned, so the three families sat together to discuss whether they could live together. After all, they were all ordinary people without awakened superpowers, and it was safer for the family to stay together.
Before the end of the world, Zheng Yan's family was rich and helped her two uncles a lot. The two uncles were very obedient to Zheng Yan's family and treated her better than their own children. Zheng Yan's family didn't think too much and agreed to live together and take care of each other.
At the beginning, it was fine, and the uncles were nice to Zheng Yan's family. But as the food in the uncles' homes ran out and the world became more and more chaotic, the uncles gradually began to reveal their true colors, and their attitudes towards Zheng Yan's family became worse and worse.
Later on, they blatantly robbed Zheng Yan's family of their food. Zheng Yan's family was no match for them and their food was taken away from them.
After the two uncles had squandered all the food, they began to suck blood from Zheng Yan's family.
These uncles and their children developed a lazy and gluttonous character before the end of the world. They had never suffered, had not awakened their special powers, and were unwilling to work in factories. They just stayed at home doing nothing all day long.
But Zheng Yan couldn't do that. Her mother was in poor health. Her father was pushed down by his two uncles while trying to protect food. No one knew where he was injured, and his legs have been paralyzed since then.
It’s not that Zheng Yan hasn’t taken her father to the hospital before, but she simply couldn’t afford the medical expenses.
In order to have food to eat for her family and to be able to take care of her father's legs, Zheng Yan, who had never suffered hardship before the end of the world and who didn't care about millions of dollars, had to grit her teeth and work in the factory just to make a living.
For her, who had never done hard labor, the factory work was too tiring, so tiring that she wanted to quit. But thinking of her parents, she could only grit her teeth and endure.
The hard-earned food was snatched away by my two uncles and their families before my parents and I could even eat much of it.
Just when Zheng Yan was in despair, Zheng Qiu, her uncle's eldest cousin who had been out all day, came back.
He saw Zheng Yan sitting on the ground and said with a smile: "Zheng Yan, don't you treasure your stones very much? There is a fool who just opened a shop on Fengcheng Street, specializing in buying your broken stones. You can go and have a look, maybe you can make a fortune."
Fengcheng Street is very far from them, and it takes more than two hours to get there by car. It can be said that one thought can lead to heaven or hell, and it is a place that is out of their reach. Just like the Zheng family before the end of the world, it was a wealthy family that many people could not reach.
People like Zheng Qiu don't dare to go to West City, where there are people with special abilities and ancient martial arts practitioners among ordinary people. This news came from hearsay, and he didn't believe it at all. He didn't know which idiot was so poor and crazy that he imagined it.
That thing can't be eaten, can't be drunk, and can't improve supernatural powers. Who wants it for? Pure appreciation? If you can't even afford to eat, what's the point of appreciating it!
The young aunt had been pretending to be dead since Zheng Yan came back, but she came out now and smiled when she saw her son.
"Xiao Qiu, are you back? Have you eaten? Mom left you half a bowl of rice and a sip of water. Come in and drink."
Mother Zheng was shaking with anger. Those things were all taken away from her by them, and now they were openly angry with her.
Zheng Yan got up from the ground, ran back to the room, picked up her jewelry box and walked out. Zheng's mother and father called her several times at the door, but Zheng Yan did not turn back.
I didn't know how far I ran in one breath, but the night wind blew my hot head and finally sobered me up. All I could do was smile bitterly.
What era is this now? Who would still accept these flashy things? She is the only one who is holding on to them.
But Zheng Yan really likes it. Before the end of the world, she was a jewelry designer. At that time, the jewelry she designed could be sold at a sky-high price. In the end of the world, this craft is useless. Those beautiful jewelry will not be wanted even if they are given away for free.
Many homeless people saw Zheng Yan holding a box in her hand, thinking it was something precious, and stared at Zheng Yan with fierce eyes. Zheng Yan was afraid that these people would explode, so she opened the box. When the homeless people found that it was just some broken jewelry, they lost interest and went back again.
Perhaps it was because she had reached the end of her rope. Even though she knew it was impossible, Zheng Yan did not take the jewelry home, but went to West City, a place she usually did not want to go to.
Zheng Yan thought that what Zheng Qiu said were all lies. When she arrived at Fengcheng Street, she casually asked if there was a place to buy jade, and she was actually pointed out the way.
Only then did she realize that this news, which even her cousin himself did not believe, was actually true.
Zheng Yan was so overjoyed that she almost ran to the door of a small shop called Space Shop.
As soon as she arrived, she saw the store, with two employees, a man and a woman, closing the store.
"Hello, do you still accept jade here?" Zheng Yan asked nervously and cautiously.
Ji An looked at Zheng Yan and could see her embarrassment from her clothes and her skinny figure.
Ji An nodded, "Collect it, come in."
Ji An opened the locked door, let the person in, and turned on the light.
This ordinary action before the end of the world made Zheng Yan feel mixed emotions for a moment.
Before the end of the world, electric lights were never a luxury, but at the end of the world, it was different.
When she came to Xicheng, she found that Xicheng was indeed a place where rich people lived, and there were still electric lights on the streets.
It was not like that on East Street where she lived. At night, there was no other brightness except the stars in the sky.
Even if there were electric lights, these poor people couldn't use them because they couldn't afford the electricity bills.
Zheng Yan collected her thoughts and pushed the box in her hand to Ji An. "How much do you think these gems can be exchanged for?"
Ji An found that the jewelry in Zheng Yan's box was of very good quality, especially a ruby necklace, which was made up of five gems, each of which was full of spiritual energy and could be made into five space storage props.
Although the spiritual energy of the remaining gems is not as strong, they are still gems with sufficient spiritual energy.
Ji An asked, "What do you want to change?"
"Still, I still have a choice?" Zheng Yan asked in surprise. She thought it would be good enough if she could just change anything.
"Can."
Zheng Yan swallowed her saliva, and the lion said, "I want to exchange for food and clean water."
"Sure." If these jades can be made into space storage items, the value of them will increase hundreds of times in an instant. Ji An doesn't want to be harsh on these sellers. This is already enough to make a huge profit.
"Your things can be counted as 1.6 million credit points in total, and I can exchange them for the corresponding supplies." Ji An said, "But I don't have that many credit points and supplies at the moment. You can choose to sell one first, or give them all to me. I will write you an IOU and you can pay me back slowly in the future."
Zheng Yan was stunned, okay? If the gem box was not in Ji An's hand, she would be so shocked that she couldn't hold the box and dropped it.
Those broken stones in the eyes of people in the last days can actually be sold for money!
"I'll give it all to you. Just write me an IOU." More than one million yuan. Before the apocalypse, Zheng Yan didn't care. But in the apocalypse, this was simply getting rich overnight.
Zheng Yan was afraid that if she missed this opportunity, she would miss it forever, so she made a decision immediately.
In other words, even if the shop owner ran away with these things, it would be fine. They were just broken stones and no one wanted them except the shop owner.
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