Chapter 262 Chapter 264 The person I want to find
Although Taijing Province is a major grain-producing province with abundant grain reserves, those granaries were controlled by the government in the early days of the apocalypse. Even large food processing warehouses, large shopping malls, and logistics centers have been looted by the government. The food that civilian expedition teams can find are mostly snacks, biscuits, and canned food. Although the survivors in the safe zone can use work points to exchange for food in the canteen, those foods are mostly steamed buns made of mixed flour mixed with wild vegetables, corn, sorghum, etc. The price of white rice is prohibitive.
The owner of the folding bathtub stall and Rong Xianxian completed the transaction happily. Rong Xianxian just went to the market to get a general understanding of the prices. The market was crowded with people and it was inconvenient to use the space, so Rong Xianxian asked Xia Kai to watch the things here. She walked around the market and then carried the things back to her residence with Xia Kai.
"Sister Rong, the price of renting a house here is really too high. No wonder no one rents a house nearby. But this house is not bad. The space is well designed. Although it is not big, it has good lighting and is clean and bright." After returning to their residence, Xia Kai and Rong Xianxian sighed. After looking at the prices outside, they realized that the price of the house they rented was outrageous.
"We can afford it even though the price is high. Jiang Jie still has work points. Who can go to the cafeteria and buy some food?"
"I'll go, I'll go." Wang Qirui volunteered.
Wang Qirui and Jiang Jie went to the cafeteria to buy food, and the rest of the people tidied up their rooms.
Rong Xianxian and her son lived in the small bedroom with a balcony. Wang Lin, Wang Qirui and Xia Kai lived in the largest bedroom on the east side. Jiang Jie and Cui Lie lived in the room next to Rong Xianxian and her son. All three rooms were equipped with simple wooden beds. The wooden bed in Rong Xianxian's room was a single bed, which was not spacious enough. Rong Xianxian asked Wang Lin and others to move the wooden bed in her room away. She had an inflatable mattress brought from home and a double folding camp bed. Rong Xianxian made the bed and put the inflatable mattress on the camp bed. She missed the European-style solid wood carved bed in her home in Chongzhou. That bed was custom-made in an enlarged size. Unfortunately, she only had a sachet space at the time and could not move the bed.
Now the misty space is big enough, and she can install a bed she likes in it. Unfortunately, there is no such bulky furniture in the trading market. It seems that she can only take time to go to the shopping mall in the old city to look for it.
Only four of the folding bathtubs are in adult size, and the others are for children of different ages. Rong Xianxian brought two folding bathtubs for adults and placed them in the public supplies, and put the rest into her foggy space.
There was a public canteen near the house they rented, so Jiang Jie and Wang Qirui came back quickly, each carrying a large lunch box with four layers. When they opened it, they saw that the top layer was black vegetable buns, the second layer was a few dry pickles, the third layer was vegetable soup with vegetable leaves floating in it without any oiliness, and the last layer was sticky brown rice porridge.
Rong Xianxian seemed to have no appetite. She picked up a black vegetable bun from the top and coughed dryly. "Everyone, eat quickly and don't waste food. I'll go back to the room to eat. After that, everyone can take a rest. We can talk about it tomorrow if there is anything." As soon as she finished speaking, she quickly ran back to her bedroom.
The remaining five men looked at each other in bewilderment. They had no appetite at all, but their stomachs were growling. "Don't waste food. Eat it all." Rong Xianxian walked back and emphasized again.
"Eat." Cui Lie said a brief word, and everyone sat down to eat resignedly.
The black vegetable steamed buns looked ugly and did not taste very good. The steamed buns were not smooth and the wild vegetables tasted a little astringent. For Cui Lie and his group who had always eaten rice, white flour steamed buns and various kinds of barbecue, it was really hard to swallow.
"You said that if the ordinary residents here all eat this, why do they look so energetic? At least they look much more optimistic than residents in other places." Wang Qirui choked on a mouthful of steamed bun, feeling very puzzled.
"Although this thing doesn't taste good, it should be nutritionally balanced, and the quantity is sufficient, enough to fill you up. As for the taste, you'll get used to it after eating it for a long time." When Jiang Jie was a child, his family was poor, there were many people and they ate a lot, and he also ate this kind of steamed bun when the grain harvested from the fields was not enough.
The five of them finished their meals bought from the cafeteria while complaining. Jiang Jie and the others sighed again. Compared with the meals in the cafeteria, the price of the house they rented was really sky-high. They felt as if they were being ripped off.
The next day, Rong Xianxian entrusted her child to Jiang Jie and went to the market with Cui Lie. On the third day, Rong Xianxian entrusted her child to Cui Lie and went to the market by herself. On the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh days, Rong Xianxian went out early every day and spent the whole day outside. During this week, she visited all the private and official exchanges in various regions and bought a lot of things that satisfied her. But for some reason, Rong Xianxian's temper became more and more irritable.
"Sister Rong, is there anything you want to buy that you haven't bought yet? Otherwise, we can ask the real estate agent we talked to earlier to see if he knows where to buy what you want?" Seeing that Rong Xianxian looked unhappy, Jiang Jie asked cautiously.
"No need, I'll look for it again." Rong Xianxian was not looking for something, but a person.
The man was about 40 years old, had a disabled leg, walked with a limp, was a little nearsighted, and would habitually squint when looking at people. He was a very skilled blacksmith, and that was all the information Rong Xianxian knew about him.
When Rong Xianxian stayed here in her previous life, she bought a dagger with a mechanism from him. The dagger had a spring-like device installed inside it, and it was extremely sharp. It was made of materials from monsters. The dagger had saved the lives of her and her son many times.
When Rong Xianxian was on the run in her previous life, there was a group of people from an unknown organization who were secretly chasing her. The reason why she was able to escape the crisis time and time again was not only because someone secretly tipped her off, but also because she met kind-hearted people who helped her several times.
These kind people include Liu Qingchen from Baihua Town, the staff member in Taijing Security Zone in front of Pingyuan Mountain who reimbursed her for the single room fee, and the blacksmith she is looking for now.
(End of this chapter)
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