Chapter 47 The Final Madness
According to the little white mouse's narration, after Ye Xin gave them the rubber boat, Mo Pengfei and his wife set off.
Their first stop was an abandoned warehouse only three kilometers away. According to Mo Pengfei, he had seen large trucks unloading goods here just a few days before the disaster.
From then on, he often kept an eye on the warehouse. Apart from seeing people unloading goods, he also saw a woman occasionally coming in and out, but he never saw anyone transporting food out.
So he concluded that there must be a lot of food in that place.
Who knew that when he brought his wife to the warehouse, they didn't catch anything!
His wife, who had climbed out of the water, was very dissatisfied with him, and they had a big fight over this. Mo Pengfei was almost kicked into the water by his wife.
At this time, Mo Pengfei was also very puzzled. How come the trucks he had seen unloading goods here were gone?
Could it be that someone else got there first?
Ignoring his wife's complaints, they turned the boat around and headed for the suburbs. This place was remote and not many people came here. This time they finally found some supplies in a small supermarket.
Pulling these supplies back to Jinxiuyuan, the couple agreed that the rubber boat must not be given to Ye Xin no matter what. If Ye Xin insisted on taking it away, they would secretly slash the rubber boat, so that they could not use it, and no one else could use it!
Ye Xin carefully inquired about the location of the warehouse. According to her judgment, the warehouse discovered by Mo Pengfei was the one she rented to store supplies!
When was he being targeted? Ye Xin really didn't notice.
Fortunately, she was fully armed when entering and leaving the warehouse, and she didn't know whether Mo Pengfei recognized her.
Since Mo Pengfei knew this place and knew that she had been in and out of that warehouse many times, what else did this person know?
Ye Xin couldn't help but wonder: Could he know her secret? Even a suspicion was not acceptable!
It looks like this person can't be kept!
Ye Xin practiced boxing for a while, then practiced against Ye's father for a while, and only stopped exercising when he was sweating all over.
I took a shower in the room, and then went back to my room to rest.
The next day I have to go out with Su Jing to buy food. If I don’t spend the cash now, my butt will become too hard!
This was the first time she had slept so restlessly since she came to this place.
She dreamed that Mo Pengfei sneered at her: I know your secret, give me half of your things, or I will tell your secret.
Ye Xin was frightened and broke out in a cold sweat.
She got up before daybreak.
First, the black soil in the space was turned over, divided into pieces, and vegetables and grains were planted separately.
Then I fed the pigs and then started to wash up in the room.
When she came out of the space, Ye's father and mother had just got up.
Ye Xin didn't let her mother cook, so she took out fried dough sticks and tofu pudding from the living room and put together a meal.
He let Ye's father enter the space to continue building the prefabricated house, and he drove the assault boat to meet up with Su Jing and Bai Bing, and then headed directly to the south of the city.
The abandoned, rotten-end building was now full of people, all talking about it: "This rice is all scooped out of the water, and it's so expensive, are we going to let people live?"
"That's right! The last time the mall opened, rice like this was only 10 yuan per pound. Now it's 500 yuan per pound. Why don't you go and grab some money?"
Ye Xin and Su Jing looked at each other in surprise: "So expensive?"
Bai Bing hesitated for a while and said, "Do you want to buy it? I still have 5,000 yuan, which is only enough to buy ten kilograms. If you don't buy it, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find such food in the future."
Bai Bing's father is now joining the corpse recovery team, so their family barely doesn't have to go hungry. However, it is precisely because of Bai Yuanshan's work that Bai Bing is pessimistic about the future.
So many people died!
According to my father, more than half of the people who go out during the day die of the heat before they get home!
They are not only collecting corpses now, but also have a very important task, which is to clean up the people who died of heat on the door panels and rubber boats.
These people had no food at home and wanted to try their luck out there, but who knew they wouldn't be able to go back so soon.
Su Jing looked at Ye Xin: "I still have more than 8,000 here, how about you?"
Ye Xin pondered for a moment and said, "I still have quite a lot here, about 70,000 or 80,000. Since there is no purchase limit, let's spend it all!"
Who would have thought that before they even lined up, there was a commotion in front: There is no food! The rice that costs 500 yuan a pound is gone!
Ye Xin sighed and smiled bitterly: "Isn't it unfair that I can't even spend my money?"
Su Jing also smiled bitterly: "If we had known it would be so popular, we would have come earlier. We don't know if it will still be available tomorrow."
A fat man came over and asked, "Brother, sister, do you want to buy some food?"
Ye Xin glanced at him. The little fat boy was not tall, only about 170 cm. His chubby face had a pair of small eyes that flashed with shrewdness. When he smiled, his eyes were hidden under the fat, and he looked particularly festive.
"How much is your rice per pound?"
The little fat boy stretched out his big hand mysteriously: "Same as theirs, 500 yuan per pound, but my rice is better than theirs!"
Ye Xin's eyes lit up: "Never soaked in water?"
The little fat boy grinned and said, "Sister, you are such a joke. You can't buy rice that has not been soaked in water even if you have money! Even if you can find it, it will cost 2,000 yuan per pound!"
Su Jing was shocked: "This is too exaggerated!"
The little fat boy was not annoyed: "Sister, I'm not exaggerating at all! You can tell that I don't lack food. Those who lack food are willing to buy it no matter how expensive it is!"
"Sister, if you don't believe me, go ask around and see if the goods here at Sun Tao are genuine. If you can find a businessman who is more honest than me, I'll give you rice for free!"
Ye Xin was silent for a moment: "I want to check the goods."
The little fat boy looked around and took out a bag of rice from his arms. It looked like it was only about half a pound. He handed it to Ye Xin and said, "Sister, look at the quality of this rice. It has been soaked in water for no more than three days!"
Ye Xin looked at the rice in her hand. Forget about the fragrance, but the rice was indeed more translucent than the one bought in the mall. It seemed that it had been soaked in water for a shorter time.
"Okay! How much stock do you have here? We want it all!"
The little fat boy was startled by her: "Sister, don't joke with me. I have a lot of stuff here!"
Ye Xin calculated that he still had 78,000 yuan, and if the price was 500 yuan per kilogram, he could buy 156 kilograms.
8,000 yuan from Su Jing is only enough to buy 16 kilograms.
Bai Bing didn't have much money, so he could only buy 10 kilograms.
By this calculation, they can purchase a total of 182 kilograms. In such a doomsday, they are definitely big customers.
"We want more than 100 kilograms. If you give us a discount, we will buy more." Ye Xin stared at the little fat man's face, as if trying to detect something from his face.
The little fat man hesitated for a moment and said, "Sister, if you really want more than 100 kilograms, I really don't have it with me. How about this? I'll give you 30 kilograms today, and the rest tomorrow."
Ye Xin refused to give in: "400 per pound, we want 200 pounds."
The little fat boy almost fell down in fear: "My sister, there are only three of you. I'm afraid you can't protect these 200 kilograms of food."