Eight and a half pounds of cornmeal for one pound of salt. The salt boss has a total of eighteen barrels of salt, each barrel weighing more than sixty pounds, which means a total of more than 1,600 pounds of salt. It is enough for the more than 500 people in the village to share.
He Zhennan was thinking in his mind, and asked someone to take the salt boss outside to trade for grain. But he asked calmly, "Besides cornmeal, do you also accept dried sweet potatoes, dried potatoes, and meat? And fresh vegetables..."
"Fresh vegetables? Are you talking about the vegetables that grow again after the animals and plants mutate?" As soon as He Zhennan said this, the salt boss's eyes lit up instantly!
Most of the grain circulating in the trading zone now is the grain produced by the mutation. Although they collect a lot of cornmeal, the corn was huge back then! And the texture was extremely rough!
The corn kernels plucked from each corn cob are not only five or six times larger than before the disaster, but the flour yield is also much higher than before the disaster!
In the past, one pound of old corn kernels in the field could only be dried into 8 taels of dry corn kernels at most. But after the mutation, one pound of corn kernels can be dried into more than 9 taels!
If it weren't for this, the current exchange rate at the entrance of the trading area wouldn't be eight taels for one catty of corn and sweet potatoes. It would have to be at least eight taels for one and a half catties for them to get a good deal!
After the mutation, the second crop of crops planted this year tasted a little worse than those before the disaster, but it was still much better than the crops grown during the original mutation.
See the results like this.
Almost everyone speculates that losing the taste of food is probably the price of making something quickly overnight.
Among the grains traded in this trading area, few people are willing to trade with them the food collected before the natural disaster and the grain produced after the second planting.
Mr. Yan's eyes lit up. After some calculation, he offered a price. "If the grain you give me is from the second crop after the mutation, I'll cut the price in half! ... For dried sweet potatoes and potatoes, I'll trade them at the rate we offer here at the trading area: four pounds of sweet potatoes for one pound of dried sweet potatoes!"
"As for dried meat... one pound of dried meat for five pounds of salt! As for vegetables like tomatoes, I'll have to check the quality before deciding. I don't want those that have spoiled due to high temperatures!"
"As for the dried meat, I have to tell you first, I don't want the ones that are smelly or have worms. I only accept the ones that are of good quality!" Mr. Yan licked his lips. They hadn't tasted meat for a long time!
Although the animals in the mountains and forests reproduce quickly, they are still quite large.
But these guys are very smart. When they see something is wrong, they run into the mountains and forests, making it impossible to catch them!
Especially after the previous floods, the number of animals has dropped sharply. In the past few months, I haven’t even tasted any meat!
After thinking about it, the salt boss seemed a little worried. He looked at He Zhennan and added, "Don't try to fool me about these quantities! There's a huge difference between the first batch of mutant grain and the second batch. The first batch is not only much larger, but also has an indescribable fishy smell. My brothers and I have very keen noses. We can detect it even without eating it... If you're passing off inferior goods as good ones, then this deal won't work."
"You're quite vigilant." Meng Changlong smiled at Mr. Yan, patted his sturdy shoulder and said, "Don't worry about this matter. We won't do such a thing. Just check carefully when the time comes."
When they came this time, they didn't know the specific situation in the trading area, so they were afraid that people in the trading area would not accept the first batch of mutant varieties with extremely poor taste.
Therefore, most of the potatoes brought by everyone were newly harvested sweet potatoes. Since the space in their four cars was not very large, Zhao Xingguo tried his best to let everyone in the village bring dried potatoes and sweet potatoes.
After all, the road from Wanxi Village to Yunhai City is not easy to travel, so it is not cost-effective to only bring sweet potatoes and potatoes.
Some families were reluctant to exchange the food, fearing that the drought would continue for a long time, so they took out the game they had caught in the mountains during the rainy season. The dried game was smoked dry by everyone in the mountains over a big fire.
Although these dried meats are not salted, they are well preserved by the villagers.
So, Meng Changlong took the salt boss out to exchange the batch of salt first, while He Zhennan, Qin Suyun and the other two planned to continue looking around in the trading area to see if there was anything else that could be exchanged.
They spent a pound of food when they came in, so it would be a bit uneconomical to leave together like this.
If they could find something suitable today, they planned to return to Wanxi Village early tomorrow morning. Meng Changlong wrote a list of things his family needed and gave it to He Zhennan, asking him to look for it and bring back any suitable items. Then he drove out with the salt boss.
Sellers' cars drove out of the trading area early in the morning. Many people looked at the small trucks here with envy, especially those who had been setting up stalls in the trading area in the past two days. They knew exactly what these big sellers in the trading area were selling.
Tsk tsk tsk! Anyone who can buy so much salt at one time must be a big customer!
After the salt sale in the village was completed, Qin Suyun and the other two who were still staying in the trading area planned to go shopping on their own. Especially the villager who had been following Qin Suyun and He Zhennan, he said something directly to Qin Suyun and He Zhennan and went to the living area next door to buy daily necessities.
Before coming here, many people in the village came to ask them who were entering the trading area to help buy things, such as toothpaste, towels, candies, etc. They can't waste time!
He Zhennan and Qin Suyun were left standing there, smiling at each other.
"Is there anything you want to buy?" He Zhennan reached out and took Qin Suyun's soft hand, squeezing it tightly. The man's rough palm pressed against the woman's soft palm, and both parties subconsciously curled their lips, and a warm warmth spread in the air.
"There are still a lot of things at home." Qin Suyun smiled at He Zhennan, "I haven't thought of anything yet, just take a look at it first."
What Qin Suyun said was true. Before the natural disaster, she bought so many supplies, enough for her to live on for more than ten years. In addition, when the flood came, the waterproof layer of the basement was very strong, and all the supplies prepared in the past few days were preserved intact.
From small items like soap and toothpaste to large items like clothes and farm tools, the things at home are more than enough for daily life. Naturally, Qin Suyun does not have much demand for the goods in the trading area.
"Okay, let's just take a look first." He Zhennan smiled. He actually had something he wanted to look for in the trading area to see if he could buy it.
This time when Qin Suyun left home, she brought a lot of eggs, duck eggs and tomatoes for exchange. The Qin family also had a lot of bacon and other things.
But Dahei and Heidou also like to eat those things. Although it is very hot during this period, Dahei and Heidou will go out hunting at night, and most of the time they will come back full. However, it is not like the spring and flood period when they could drag back some large prey from the mountains from time to time. Now, most of the things they can bring back from the mountains are sparrows, pheasants and hares.
If Qin Suyun did not eat the prey she brought back on the same day, she would prepare them into dried meat. There was no need to add salt. The meat would be dried in the sun and could be used directly as pet snacks that she had bought online for Dahei and the others. Therefore, Qin Suyun did not bring the dried meat with her this time.
The two of them walked and stopped in the trading area all the way, and Qin Suyun didn't see anything that caught her eye. Instead, she saw a man who came here to buy things with a hundred-dollar bill before the natural disaster. Qin Suyun looked at the other person with considerable curiosity. Is there really anyone willing to sell to a man who comes here with waste paper to buy things?
But what Qin Suyun didn't expect was that there were actually people willing to exchange food for money.
The man with the money in his hand did not trade much at one time. He bought one or two kilograms of food from each stall. He did not choose the small stalls in the audience seats on both sides of the stadium, but chose the big sellers who drove to the center of the stadium.
"It's really amazing that this guy didn't get beaten up after exchanging so many things." Qin Suyun said subconsciously. Even from such a long distance, Qin Suyun could clearly see the dissatisfaction on many people's faces. Many of them dared to be angry but not to speak. She knew what story was going on at a glance.
Seeing this, a dried bamboo shoot seller nearby said, "This girl is obviously from another place, right? She just came to our trading area, so she must not know the person in front of her. The man opposite is surnamed Huang, and he is the brother-in-law of Boss Peng in the entire trading area. He has a strong background and status! He acts arrogantly in the trading area on weekdays, and no one dares to step forward to stop him, for fear of running into Boss Peng's gun! So everyone just turns a blind eye to his existence, and just thinks of himself as paying an extra grain fee for the trading area every day... But this person doesn't come here often, maybe twice a week. If you meet him, you can only be unlucky! But except for this, the trading area on Boss Peng's side is pretty good. At least it is relatively large, and it is easier to do business when there are more people." The stall owner chuckled again after he finished speaking.
Qin Suyun and He Zhennan exchanged a glance, spoke to the stall owner again, inquired about the trading area, and then left. Regardless of what the trading area looked like or what unspoken rules existed, it didn't concern them much. After this transaction was complete, some of them probably wouldn't come back for another year.
There were still many places in the trading area that they hadn't seen yet, so they planned to continue looking. However, Qin Suyun's interest was waning as time went on. He Zhennan glanced at Qin Suyun, curled his lips and smiled, "If you don't want to shop anymore, go back first. I'll buy something for Lao Xiong and then we'll go back."
Qin Suyun was just about to say that she wasn't that bored, and while waiting for him to go back together, she suddenly saw a man and a woman not far away! Qin Suyun's pupils shrank subconsciously!
The man was slightly tall but very thin, while the woman was broad-shouldered and had dark skin.
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