Chapter 46 Barter
Yang Qing asked Lu Lin to weigh the rice for everyone.
"Try this broken rice. It might taste better if mixed with new rice. If it's ok, I'll buy from them again in the future."
Everyone nodded.
Yang Qing is still very careful in doing things. If he buys too much at one time and the food is too unpalatable or has problems, he will suffer a big loss.
After weighing the rice, everyone returned to their homes. Yang Qing put away the broken rice first. She still had so much new rice in her space and didn't want to eat this soaked rice. She could use it to exchange for things with others in the future.
"By the way, you haven't tried the down jacket I bought yet." Yang Qing took out the big goose down jacket he bought in the morning from the vacuum bag and patted it hard, and the down jacket gradually bulged up.
"It's so beautiful, and it's from a big goose. It must be expensive, right?" Lu Lin liked it very much.
"It's not bad. At 20,000 yuan each, it's only twice as expensive as before." Yang Qing smiled. "I bought two of the same. We can wear them as best friends."
"Tsk tsk, 20,000? I definitely wouldn't have bought it before." Lu Lin picked up the down jacket and put it on. "But it's really nice and warm!"
"It's hot, right? I almost died of heat when I tried it this morning." Yang Qing smiled, "Put it in the closet first. Oh, and I also bought a scarf and cotton pants, put them all away."
"Didn't you buy a quilt?" Lu Lin suddenly said, "We do, but they don't."
"Oh, I forgot!" Yang Qing slapped his forehead. He only thought about buying winter clothes in the morning and forgot to buy a quilt.
When Li Shengnan and Wang Min lived downstairs, they also had their own quilts, but they were not thick, and there were three men who didn’t have any.
"It's okay. The department store over there is open every day. These things are still available. No one is buying them now. Let's go another day." Yang Qing said.
After dinner, Yang Qing went into the space to take a look. In just two days, the seeds in the ground had sprouted and the potatoes had green leaves. He didn't expect it to be so fast.
It should be the high-quality soil and spiritual spring water in the space that played a role.
At this rate, they will probably be harvested earlier than the vegetables upstairs.
Yang Qing went up to the rooftop again to take a look. The vegetables had grown a little taller, and two rabbits were munching on the grass with relish.
Clean the rabbit cage, put the feces inside into a plastic bucket, cover it and ferment it. It can be used as fertilizer in the future and is a good organic fertilizer for growing vegetables.
Back at 701, the room was filled with fragrance.
"What a nice smell!" Yang Qing sniffed, "What delicious food have you made?"
"I made peanut soup!" Lu Lin said with a smile, "With so many peanuts, I tried making some peanut soup and see how it goes."
I scooped up a little with a spoon and put it in my mouth. The peanuts were soft and melted in my mouth. I added a large spoonful of white sugar and stirred it in the pot. It tasted sweet and delicious.
"There are so many, should I ask them to come down and eat together?" Yang Qing said.
"Okay!" Lu Lin nodded.
Yang Qing called the people from 802 and Leng Yi, and Xiaoxue followed him.
"Is there peanut soup?" Li Shengnan and Gao Yang were both very surprised. They are locals and like peanut soup very much.
"We changed some peanuts today, so Lu Lin made peanut soup. Let's try it and see how it goes." Yang Qing said with a smile.
No one asked where it was exchanged. In this end times, just live your own life well, watch your mouth, and don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask.
Leng Yi was very surprised. He didn't expect that peanuts could be made into sweet soup. He had never eaten it before.
“It’s delicious!”
Everyone praised it highly and said that if it weren’t the end of the world, they would open a shop there.
Yang Qing also packed some for Aqi and Xiaoxue, and the two little ones licked the soup and ate it with gusto.
"By the way, I forgot to buy some quilts today. Although we have a few, they are not thick. If the extreme cold comes, ordinary quilts will not be enough. I think we need to buy some down quilts, wool quilts or large quilts weighing more than ten pounds." Yang Qing said.
Everyone nodded and agreed to go to the department store again tomorrow.
"I'll stay behind tomorrow, you just buy it for me." Leng Yi said. It was just buying a quilt, so it didn't matter if he didn't go.
"Okay!" Yang Qing nodded.
The people from 802 also felt that so many people didn't need to go, so they sent Gao Yang and Li Shengnan, while Wang Min and Jiang Hao stayed at home.
Lu Lin didn't go today. She wanted to go and take a look with Yang Qing.
After breakfast the next day, the four of them drove a speedboat to the department store.
There are government troops standing guard there, so there's no need to worry about the assault boat being lost.
There is no need to buy food today and no need to queue up. Everyone can go directly to the department store area to choose quilts.
I picked out a warm and soft down quilt, a large quilt weighing more than ten pounds, and a thick and warm wool blanket. I bought more than a dozen of them, which shocked the people around me.
As usual, Yang Qing put them all into vacuum bags and sucked out the air so that she could take them back.
When I came out, I found that the government had opened a free trade market next to the department store where we could barter.
It is convenient for some people who have no money to exchange things for others, but most people still want food. After all, the most important thing now is to survive.
Yang Qing deposited the quilt first and wanted to see if there was anything available to exchange.
So he and Li Shengnan and the others went their separate ways to find what they needed.
Yang Qing and Lu Lin looked all the way and saw that most of them were things they didn't need.
Brand-name watches, luxury bags, high-end clothing, electric cars, bicycles, books, calligraphy and paintings, children's toys, and a small amount of gold and silver jewelry.
Yang Qing saw a middle-aged woman holding a Hetian jade bracelet in front of her. It was apple green and looked very beautiful.
"How do I change this?" Yang Qing asked.
"Do you have any food?" The woman asked in a low voice with a hint of melancholy on her face.
"Yes!" Yang Qing said in a low voice.
The woman's eyes lit up immediately, but she quickly lowered them to avoid being seen. "New rice?"
Yang Qing shook his head, "Broken rice, I'm afraid not many people have new rice at this time."
Not to mention new rice, even broken rice is hard to come by.
The woman was a little helpless, but it was true. She thought for a moment and said, "Ten kilograms of broken rice."
Ten kilograms of broken rice is worth 20,000 yuan at today's price. This Hetian jade bracelet has a very bright color and almost no impurities. It should have been worth more than this before the end of the world.
But at this time, a bracelet is far less practical than food.
"I only have seven kilograms." Yang Qing said. She only had six kilograms, but Lu Lin had seven kilograms. They were all packed and she put them in the space.
Whenever she goes out, she always carries a bag and takes things from it without anyone knowing that she takes them from the space.
The woman hesitated for a moment, gritted her teeth, and said, "Seven pounds, that's seven pounds."
The grandson at home is still crying for food. If the daughter-in-law has no food to eat, the grandson will have no milk to drink. There is no point in keeping this bracelet.
Yang Qing took out some broken rice from his bag. It was wrapped in a black bag, so it was impossible to tell what it was.
He handed it to the woman and said, "Take it and leave quickly. Be careful on the road!"
The woman nodded gratefully. "I see. Thank you!"
Yang Qing took the bracelet and put it on Lu Lin. Lu Lin was surprised and asked, "Why are you giving it to me? It's for upgrading my space!"
Yang Qing smiled, "Today is your birthday, did you forget?"
I prepared a gift last time and later put it into the space. Today I happened to see some good things, so I bought it for Lu Lin.
"Ah? I really didn't think of it." Lu Lin was so touched, "Qingqing, you are so kind!"
Yang Qing smiled, put his arm around Lu Lin's shoulders and walked forward.
(End of this chapter)
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