The next morning, Xia Shige took some sports drinks, chocolate, and self-heating rice from the storage room, as well as some canned beef, canned pork belly, and canned yellow peaches, and prepared a whole box.
Yesterday, Han Yu'an came to the house to cause trouble, and Officer Tan arrived with the property security guards in time. After all, Han Yu'an was just harassing Xia Shige outside the door and was unable to enter the house, but he was still given a warning, which is the maximum punishment.
This time, Police Officers Tan Zhen and Zheng Xin dealt with Han Yu'an more severely, mostly because Xia Huiyin and Xia Guocheng were both working at the material supply point, and Xia Shige also donated a batch of special-effect medicines to the community.
Xia Shige felt a little embarrassed, so he wanted to prepare some thank-you gifts for them.
Xia Shige went out with a box of things in his arms. Along the way, he saw a lot of desert vines on the roadside, climbing all the way to the road.
She hadn't gone out much in the past few days, and she didn't expect the desert vine to spread so much.
Xia Shige took out rubber gloves and a handful of fruit juice from the spaceship. She put on the gloves, squatted down and found a thick desert vine, cut it with her juice, and split it in half from the middle. Sure enough, she saw a lot of insect eggs inside.
These insect eggs were wrapped in the gelatinous substance inside the vine and were still wriggling slightly.
In normal circumstances, this kind of fleshy worm would only make people feel disgusted, but in times of natural disasters, it is a rare source of high-quality protein.
Xia Shige put down the vine, put away his shoes and gloves, and walked all the way to Jingjing Supermarket. Along the way, he saw the property management staff cutting the vines in the community.
They also wore thick rubber gloves, and the exposed skin of their legs and hands was tied with cloth strips. They held sharp knives in their hands, cut the vines, and carefully put them into snakeskin bags.
These cut vines are packaged in batches and sent to state-designated processing plants to be processed into food.
In order to save electricity, the community did not turn on the street lights at night. In order to avoid accidental injuries due to unclear visibility, everyone could only deal with the vines in the morning.
Xia Shige carried the box into the emergency office next to Jingjing Supermarket, where only Officer Tan Zhen was on duty.
Officer Tan greeted Xia Shige politely and said, "Comrade Xia, thank you for the special medicine you donated a while ago. It helped us a lot. These days, people cutting vines are accidentally pricked by desert vines every day. If it weren't for your special medicine, everyone would have to go to the hospital to queue up."
In fact, the hospital is short of medicine now, even painkillers are in short supply. The doctors are helpless and can only perform simple disinfection on the wounds. The rest depends entirely on the patient's willpower.
Xia Shige quickly shook his head and said, "Don't be polite, Officer Tan. I am also a member of our community."
Then Xia Shige opened the cardboard boxes he had brought and said to Officer Tan sincerely, "My family was harassed yesterday. Thanks to you for coming in time. These are my gifts to our office and the property security guards."
Officer Tan took a look and found that these sports drinks and canned meats were no longer available on the market. Even if you paid, you couldn't buy them. He quickly declined, saying, "We can't accept them. They are too expensive. Protecting people's safety is what we should do. How can we accept your things? Take them away."
Xia Shige replied, "Then consider it as my donation to our office and property. You are on duty here every day and cannot go home. It is really too hard. This is just a small token of my appreciation. Please help share some with everyone."
Seeing that Officer Tan was still trying to refuse, Xia Shige could only smile and say, "I brought it all the way here, can you please let me carry it again?"
Seeing this, Officer Tan had no choice but to accept it. He thanked Xia Shige: "Thank you very much."
After delivering the things, Xia Shige went to the Jingjing Supermarket next door. Now Lin Jingjing was the only one at the checkout counter.
"Shige, why are you here? I haven't seen you for several days!" Lin Jingjing saw Xia Shige coming over and said happily: "Your mother and uncle went to cut vines, and my father and brother went too, so I'm the only one in the store."
Xia Shige saw that there were several people queuing in front of the cashier, so he went over to help Lin Jingjing.
When the temperature outside began to rise, Xia Huiyin and Xia Guocheng came. They were wearing thick plastic gloves and their legs and arms were wrapped thickly.
"We have cleared all the ones near our supermarket, but this thing grows too fast, so we have to clear it again in a few days." Xia Huiyin sighed.
Xia Shige thought, it’s a good thing that it grows fast, otherwise it wouldn’t be able to feed the billions of people in the world.
Xia Shige glanced at the shelves. Except for some daily necessities such as soaps, the shelves in the food area were basically empty.
All kinds of snacks on the shelves are basically sold out and cannot be restocked.
There are also some big brands of biscuits, bread, and instant noodles that have many warehouses and sufficient inventory, but the prices are very high, and a family may not be able to buy ten packs of instant noodles with a weekly quota.
The most common items on the shelves are rice and flour.
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