Chapter 55 Trading Market
A sleepless night.
When Gu Luan woke up, she found that Jiang Xian had left.
After all, he is still a soldier and has a lot of things to do during the day. He can't stay in the community all the time.
I had a bowl of hot rice noodles and a cup of soy milk in the morning.
After exercising for an hour, Gu Luan went to the kitchen to make rice balls and made a total of 200 in the morning.
There are purple sweet potato and yam rice balls, black rice and seaweed rice balls, cheese rice balls...
After making the rice balls, Gu Luan started to freeze drinks, make fruit ice cubes and freeze fruits.
In the afternoon, Gu Luan put on thick clothes and went out, meeting Song Boyang, Yu Dong and others at the entrance of the community.
Gu Luan told them that the things were placed in the community next to Shengshi Jiangnan.
There were almost no people in that community, unlike their community which had too many people.
If a vehicle enters, it will be discovered immediately.
Gu Luan led a few people into the neighboring community.
A large truck was parked under the community wall fifty meters away.
The truck was already filled with their supplies, just waiting for a few people to move them back.
"Why is there no one guarding it?"
Zhang Meng found that there was no one there and looked around curiously.
"They left first because of something. Please check their things."
Gu Luan opened the door of the truck and faced the few people.
In fact, there is no need to check at all, everything is clear at a glance.
Apart from nearly a hundred bags of rice weighing 100 kilograms, there were only some potatoes, sweet potatoes and eggs left.
There were also more than twenty live chickens with their feet and mouths tied.
The live chicken was already frozen to death, but everyone was very happy just watching it.
It's extremely cold anyway, so it doesn't matter if I freeze to death.
Gu Luan had already given them the things, it was up to them to decide how to distribute them.
It's their own problem.
"Gu Luan, there is a trading market nearby, do you want to go take a look?"
Song Boyang took the initiative to invite Gu Luan.
After getting the supplies, Song Boyang wanted to go to the market to see if there was anything he needed.
Gu Luan thought about it and wanted to go and see the situation in the market.
Liu Tianyu also decided to go for a walk together.
Song Boyang and another man carried backpacks to pack supplies.
This way, when they go to the market, they can buy what they need.
The rest of the people do not go to the market, they are responsible for moving the things to a room in the community.
Wait for Song Boyang and the others to come back, and then discuss how to move it back.
The truck belongs to someone else and needs to be vacated.
The three of them walked on the thick ice.
Occasionally you can see something under the ice, maybe garbage, or a body that has been dead for who knows how long.
Those who were used to it remained calm.
Having long been accustomed to the cruelty of the end of the world, he would not avoid seeing the corpses under the ice but would walk straight over them.
"Are these two people Sun Xiaoxiao and Guo Shihuai who were kicked out by us?"
Liu Tianyu stopped.
A few meters away, I saw two bodies lying on the ground, frozen into ice sculptures at some point.
I could vaguely recognize who they were through their faces.
Gu Luan took a quick look and confirmed that it was those two people, but she didn't expect that they had died last night.
Maybe he was killed as soon as he left the community.
"There's no Ma Biao's body. Could it be that he killed them and escaped?"
Liu Tianyu said with a frown.
"It has nothing to do with us, let's go."
After just one glance, Song Boyang withdrew his gaze, tightened his clothes and walked forward.
The trading market is located in a spacious house a hundred meters away from the shelter.
This is a temporary site built by the military.
There were quite a few people in the market, and maybe because there were so many people it was a lot warmer than outside.
There were many merchants standing or squatting on both sides, selling a wide variety of things, but very little food.
Song Boyang and the other two decided to buy what they needed separately.
When they went out, everyone carried a backpack.
Only you know what is inside.
Gu Luan was strolling in the market. She didn't need to buy anything, she just wanted to take a look.
Most of the people here are skinny and wrapped in thick clothes.
If you look closely, you will see that they are all clothes for spring, summer, autumn and winter worn together.
There were also people who were only wearing a thick cotton jacket and shivering with cold.
They just wanted to sell their things quickly and get some food to take back to their families.
Everyone's eyes were numb and empty, and no one had a smile on their face.
The only time you can see a little frozen smile is when facing guests.
Even though there were so many people, the atmosphere was terribly depressing.
Gu Luan felt very uncomfortable and couldn't breathe properly.
After a round of shopping, Gu Luan bought a dozen water-soaked candles and some dehydrated vegetables.
Finally, when I was about to leave, I saw an old man in his early sixties squatting and selling fishing nets in front of him.
No one stopped at his stall.
Because fishing nets are useless to people nowadays.
The old man was holding a little girl who was about six years old tightly in his arms.
The little girl was wearing an ill-fitting cotton coat.
The old man was only wearing a cotton coat, which he had worn for many years and was already worn out.
They actually had warm clothes, but they were all exchanged for food in order to fill their stomachs and stay alive.
"Guest, please take a look."
The old man was so cold that he couldn't speak.
The little girl stayed in her grandfather's arms obediently, praying that passers-by would buy the fishing net.
Gu Luan stopped in front of the two of them.
The old man looked up with hope in his eyes, and the little girl's childish voice rang out.
"Sister, would you like to buy a fishing net? This fishing net was woven by Grandpa. It is very strong and can catch a lot of fish."
Maybe the little girl's eyes were too sad.
Gu Luan looked at the fishing net in front of them and asked, "How much is it?"
"Girl, just two kilograms of rice, soaked in water will do."
The old man was afraid that Gu Luan would not buy it, so he spoke hurriedly.
There was a flattering smile on his weathered face.
Such a cheap deal would only have a slight chance of success if the old man talked until his mouth was dry.
Currently, the most popular transactions in the market are foods soaked in water.
Just these are things that people are fighting over.
"Nice job, did you go fishing before?"
Gu Luan picked up the fishing net but didn't say whether to buy it or not.
"Yes, there is a river in our village with a lot of fish in it. Unfortunately, the ice is too thick now and we can't catch any fish. Otherwise..."
As the old man spoke, he choked up.
If he could catch some fish, his wife and his son and daughter-in-law would not starve to death.
In order to survive, when the military came to rescue him, he knelt down and begged them to take him and his granddaughter to a shelter.
Even if life in the shelter was still difficult, at least he and his granddaughter could survive.
"I bought the fishing net, and here are two kilograms of soaked rice."
Gu Luan took out a bag from his backpack.
It contained soaked rice that she had found in a supermarket in the county town.
The rice wasn't soaked in water too much, but the rice grains had turned yellow.
She had dried the rice in her space long ago. Although it didn't taste good, it was edible.
When she and Zhang Yan went into the water, they smuggled a lot of soaked food, which she threw into the space.
Finally, we picked and chose, leaving only the edible ones.
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