Xia Shige walked around the mall. It was the first week after the tornado, and the prices were basically normal, and the goods were relatively sufficient.
When passing by a luxury store, Xia Shige saw a customer and a shopping guide arguing at the door of the store.
The customer was an old man with a child, dressed simply, with a lot of dirt on his clothes. He asked dissatisfiedly, "Why can't you let us in? There's so much space inside, and there are so many people outside that it's so crowded. I want to go in!"
The shopping guide said with a complicated look: "Your behavior has affected the normal shopping of our customers. I am really sorry. Please leave."
The old man was furious and shouted, "How come I am not a customer of your store? You look down on me, don't you? Let me in, or I will smash your lousy store!"
As he was about to break into the store, he was stopped by the security guard who arrived.
"Let me go! What are you going to do? " The old man shouted while struggling frantically with his hands handcuffed behind his back.
“Excuse me, sir, you can't make a scene here. Please leave.” Regardless of the old man's struggle, three or four security guards forcibly took him to the entrance of the mall.
Facing this situation, the mall was well prepared, and all security guards were on standby today, fearing that too many people would affect the normal operation of the mall. The mall was willing to provide shelter to the affected people, but could not disturb the businesses in its territory.
Xia Shige watched the farce and thought that in a while, when the water and electricity were cut off and the prices soared, there would be more similar incidents of looting and smashing.
Xia Shige went to the underground supermarket of the mall again and found that ordinary food and daily necessities were basically sufficient, but the vegetable area was relatively empty, and the prices of the few vegetables that were available had increased nearly tenfold.
Several customers complained: "It's been a few days since the tornado ended, why are the prices of vegetables getting more expensive?"
"That's right, this pound of greens costs 100 yuan, who can afford it?"
The salesperson apologized and said, "The vegetables haven't come down from the fields yet. These are all grown indoors. The cost is high, so the selling price is also high."
Upon hearing this, the customers sighed, put down their vegetables and left. It seemed that the price was indeed beyond their affordability.
After a while, a few more beautifully dressed women came to the fresh food area with bags to buy. While chatting and laughing, they casually packed some cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers... and pushed a full shopping cart to the front desk to check out.
Xia Shige suddenly remembered a question that his teacher had asked in his previous economics class: "If grain production decreases by 10% this year, how much will the price of grain increase this year?"
The students answered: The price will increase by 10%.
The teacher smiled and said, "It's not that the price will increase by 10%. It will increase until 10% of the people can't afford it."
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Xia Shige came out of the mall and passed by Bai Qianqian.
Bai Qianqian has had a very bad time at the Han family these days.
When Bai Qianqian first started dating Han Yu'an, Han's mother was very gentle to her.
However, as the number of contacts increased, Han's mother's attitude towards Bai Qianqian became much colder.
Until a few days ago when the school district house was destroyed and Han Yu'an was injured, Han's mother became more and more displeased with Bai Qianqian, thinking that it was Bai Qianqian's insistence on buying the house that led to the current situation.
Han's mother thinks Bai Qianqian is a disaster.
So these few days, Han's mother ignored the fact that Bai Qianqian was pregnant and made Bai Qianqian do all the housework. She also ordered Bai Qianqian to serve tea and water, and massage her shoulders and legs.
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