Qin Suyun wanted to sell the SUV outright, either to a used car dealership or someone else. She'd bought it for 600,000 yuan. Even with the current discount, it could fetch at least 200,000 or 300,000 yuan, enough to buy a lot of groceries and food.
But obviously, things were not as simple as she thought.
Qin Suyun went to three used car dealerships that she knew. The first two were unwilling to buy her SUV. The only used car dealership that was willing to buy her car was only willing to pay 50,000 yuan for it.
Qin Suyun frowned and looked at the tall, dark-skinned shop owner. "Isn't your price a little too low? I only bought this car not long ago."
The shop owner fanned himself with an old palm-leaf fan he'd found somewhere, wiping the sweat from his forehead. "That's a pretty good price! Honestly, there aren't many used car dealerships in Yunhai City willing to buy cars these days. Even if you searched all over Yunhai City, you wouldn't be able to find ten!"
"It's so hot right now, and you see cars spontaneously combusting on the streets every day. Cars are barely selling; people would rather take the subway... I've only sold three cars this month, so spending 50,000 yuan on a car is a huge risk."
The shop owner wasn't lying. Temperatures were generally high in Yunhai City and elsewhere. While the streets were still bustling with traffic, it was clear many people were reluctant to park directly on the street. They preferred underground garages, sheltered from the sun, to avoid accidents. While science suggests spontaneous combustion isn't caused by excessive temperatures but rather by the car's inherent quality, many people harbored similar concerns.
The reason why the store owner is willing to accept a few more cars at this time is mainly because he wants to make a fortune after this period of extreme weather is over.
"So are you still selling this car? If so, we can sign the contract later." The shop owner wiped the sweat from his forehead. Their shop is not a high-end 4S shop where the air conditioner can be turned on at will. Only the only office in the shop has air conditioning.
Qin Suyun's face looked unhappy. She frowned and thought about it. She was still unwilling to sell her car at such a low price. Otherwise, she might as well keep it at home. In case something happened in the future, she could use it as a spare car.
"Forget it, I won't sell this car..." Qin Suyun shook her head and rejected the boss's proposal.
She drove to another store that specialized in selling trucks. She also found this store on the Internet. Although she had worked with a decoration team before, she had never studied which truck was better or more practical. She could only search for the information she wanted on the Internet, choose the most suitable small van, and ask someone to help her modify it.
The car's appearance has been changed too much to be registered.
When Qin Suyun bought the car, the shop owner told her about this matter. Moreover, as a small truck worth only tens of thousands of yuan, it was not a wise move to spend hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan to modify it. It couldn't even be registered. With so much money to spend on modifications, it would be more convenient to buy a big truck.
It’s just that anyone who doesn’t make money is a fool. Since the customers don’t mind not being able to get a license and are willing to spend the money, the store owner doesn’t care.
So, after choosing an ordinary white box truck with a load capacity of 2.8 tons and spending a lot of money to modify the car, I signed a contract with the boss and came to pick up the car five days later.
Qin Suyun first drove the car back to the Yihai community residence that her parents had left her, and then went to a car rental company to rent a medium-sized box truck. After paying a deposit and half a month's rent, she drove to the wholesale department of the farmers' market and the supermarket to stock up on the seeds, food and various daily necessities she needed.
The high temperature that has continued to rise in recent days always makes Qin Suyun feel uneasy.
Especially when Qin Suyun was driving on the road and saw a bus parked on the opposite side of the road that suddenly caught fire, and heard the screams for help from the bus, as well as the pedestrians around shouting for their lives, she couldn't help but hurry up to prepare supplies.
She always felt that something might be different from what happened in her dream...which seemed to make her even more panicked.
These days, the extreme heat has caused a significant increase in the prices of rice, flour, and other grains. As everyone knows, with such high temperatures and a prolonged period of no rainfall, grain production has declined in many areas, and price increases are inevitable. However, with advanced technology these days, even with prolonged periods of high temperatures and little rainfall, there's still plenty of water in the taps, and it's unlikely that the grain will be completely wiped out by drought, as it was in ancient times.
Qin Suyun looked carefully and found that the price increase of daily necessities and food in recent days was no more than twice the original price, which was within her acceptable range.
She found a grain store and bought fifty bags of vacuum-packed rice, fifty bags of flour, and various other beans and grains.
These things looked like a lot, but Qin Suyun actually only spent about 150,000. On normal days, 60,000 or 70,000 would be enough. However, the weather had caused the price of food to double. Even up to now, the price of food and other things hadn't reached its peak yet. In a few days, it would have to increase by a few points. Otherwise...
There is no need to spend so much money on these things alone.
Looking at the food being loaded onto the truck, Qin Suyun sighed inwardly. She had money, and it wasn't that she hadn't thought about stockpiling more food to get through the difficult days ahead.
But rice, even if it is vacuum-packed and stored in a cellar to extend its shelf life, once it is stored for too long, it will still taste like chewing sawdust.
The rice that has been stored for two or three years tastes very bad, and eating too much can easily make you sick. Given the extremely poor medical resources, it is better to look for other food or cultivate the land.
The shelf life of flour will be longer, and there will be no problem of stale rice. If it is unhulled wheat, after drying, store it well to prevent insects and moisture, and then take it out and dry it in the sun when you have nothing to do, it can be stored for a longer time, and it will be no problem to store it for several years.
However, Yunhai City is located in the southern region and is not suitable for growing wheat. In addition, the yield of hybrid rice is high, and people are more accustomed to eating rice. Therefore, people here have almost no habit of growing wheat. It is difficult to buy unhulled wheat unless it is purchased and transported from the north or from other places that specialize in producing wheat.
But at this time, she had a lot of other things to deal with. How could she have the time to drive all the way to the north just to collect the unhulled wheat?
Qin Suyun couldn't help but sigh. Every time at this moment, she would think that there is strength in numbers, and many things are really difficult for her to handle alone.
Gathering supplies was a matter of urgency and slowness. She still had many other very important supplies that she hadn't gathered yet. Although those things weren't food, they were absolutely essential in a place like the apocalypse...
After all, as long as she works hard after a natural disaster, she can always make a living by growing enough food. What's more, she still has the magical jade token in her hand. Even if she doesn't buy the unhulled wheat, it will be the same when she grows her own wheat in the future and then dries and stores it.
But if a natural disaster comes and there is no gasoline, no quilts, no weapons, no solar panels and the like, it will not be easy for her to collect these things after the end of the world.
Seeing that the grain had been loaded onto the truck, Qin Suyun continued to drive the truck into the farmers' market.
In addition to these grains, she needs to buy more seasonings that can be stored for a long time, such as oil, salt, soy sauce and MSG!
Especially salt, this thing is indispensable!
In the entire country of China, almost all table salt is sea salt, with only a small amount of lake salt and well salt. Yunhai, as an inland city, does not have the ability to produce sea salt, and there are no other salt mines around it.
As far as she knew, the nearest salt mine to Yunhai City was at least four or five hundred kilometers away.
People cannot live without salt.
But once the end of the world comes and earthquakes strike, devastating large areas of roads, finding this salt will be difficult. Salt is a precious commodity, and it can be used to exchange for food in times of crisis. As long as it is not damp, it can be stored for decades without any problems!
In order to avoid being troubled by this in the future, Qin Suyun emptied the storage of five farmers' market grocery stores, which amounted to fifty or sixty boxes, each box weighing about 20 to 25 kilograms. This amount of salt was even more than the rice she had bought before.
Looking at the shop owner's surprised look when he helped carry the salt, Qin Suyun smiled and said nothing. After the shop owner carried the last box of salt onto the car, she closed the door and locked it.
Whether it was large purchases at the farmers' market or canned dry goods, convenience foods, daily necessities, etc. purchased in the supermarket, Qin Suyun did not dare to ask other people to help unload and deliver the goods, nor did she dare to purchase food online and transport it to the village at will. A large amount of food was delivered to her home so carelessly in front of the villagers. Wouldn't that be a blatant announcement to everyone in the future that they had a large stock, waiting for people to snatch it away?
Especially in her family, she is the only woman now, so she has to be more careful.
Therefore, she bought all these things in physical stores, and the store owners carried them onto the truck for her. She then unloaded the goods herself at night. Her house was close to the back mountain of the village, and there were almost no residents there, so she was not worried about anyone discovering anything when she was unloading the goods.
Although driving the truck on the village road attracted some attention, no one could tell what she had bought with the back of the truck closed. It was definitely better than leaving it wide open for others to see.
If it weren't for the spiritual dew to support and improve her body, Qin Suyun felt that she was almost going to collapse these days just by unloading the goods and putting the things into the cellar. Fortunately, after putting all the food and other things into the cellar, no other accidents happened and everything went according to her plan.
Only after towing the modified pickup truck back to her home in Wanxi Village did Qin Suyun slowly breathe a sigh of relief.
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