Chapter 158 Market
"I'm fine! What do you think?" Yu Duoduo said.
Of course, everyone agreed with this. No one in this world is willing to be a trapped beast.
But not everyone can go out at once. They have to go out in batches, and the bunker has to be guarded by someone.
Then everyone consciously arranged the duty schedule:
On the first day, Yu Duoduo, Xie Yun, Tong Zi, and Wei Dong went out, while Min Nan and Le Yan stayed behind. On the second day, Yu Duoduo and Xie Yun stayed behind. On the third day, Tong Zi and Wei Dong stayed behind.
After that, when you go out, you should follow this method in rotation.
As for the problem of keeping warm when going out, the clever Wei Dong had already solved it for everyone.
During these days, the otaku inventor Dong Ge has not been idle and has made a lot of good things!
He got inspiration from the palace fighting dramas that Tong Zi and her friends watched repeatedly, and he hammered away and made a hand-warming charcoal stove!
Xie Yun added some cold-dispelling herbs into the interlayer of the small charcoal stove. Holding it in his arms not only warmed his hands and body, but he could also smell the faint aroma of the medicine.
Several girls made delicate hand warmer covers outside the round stove using the sheepskin of the black goats they had peeled off earlier. They wrapped the covers around the outside to prevent their hands from getting too hot.
Everyone decided to go out the next day, and spent the day before in the bunker getting ready.
"Duoduo, what should we take to exchange when we go to the market?" Tong Zi ran over to ask Yu Duoduo while packing the necessary items to go out.
"Food, right? Food is probably what people outside lack the most right now.
After all, the government only provides 6 taels of rice, nothing else, which is far from enough for an adult. "Yu Duoduo said.
"How about I bring some meat to exchange?" Tong Zi said after thinking for a while.
"Okay, but it doesn't have to be much. But do you have a target object you want to exchange for?"
Tong Zi thought about it and said embarrassedly:
"I want to exchange some daily necessities. The sanitary napkins and toilet paper I collected from the victims' homes in the apartment building are almost all used up.
I guess if I wait another month, I’ll have to use a cloth to cushion it!”
Yu Duoduo didn’t say directly that she had it. She did have it, but she couldn’t give it like this.
"I'm short of it too, let's get together tomorrow and buy some more to store.
By the way, you just said you wanted to bring meat. If it’s raw meat, it won’t be worth the money and it will easily arouse other people’s suspicion.
How about we make the meat into a paste, divide it into small packages, and pack it in bags so that it can be heated and eaten directly?"
"That's fine! A pound of meat and sauce can make a big bag, which is indeed more cost-effective than raw meat. You can also add some mushrooms to it to make it more delicious, so the portion will be increased!"
Chef Tong’s mind was instantly opened up. In this way, wouldn’t it be a lot of room for her to display her talents?
Tong Zi went back happily to prepare, and was busy with passion for most of the night, so much so that he yawned repeatedly when he went out the next day.
"Zi Zi, it shouldn't be that serious. Are you so excited about going out that you couldn't sleep?" Yu Duoduo asked.
Tong Zi took the meat sauce out of the bag and handed it to Yu Duoduo and Xie Yun.
"Every time I do this kind of divergent thinking work, I can't help but... get excited and not sleepy at all!"
The meat sauce has been packaged in plastic bags and has been frozen into blocks. A total of ten blocks were given to Yu Duoduo and Xie Yun. They just need to be heated up on the fire and then mixed with rice.
"Zizi, you smell so good! Even if it's frozen into pieces, it smells so good. You'll be drooling when you heat it up!
Did you leave some for us? I want to eat it too!" Yu Duoduo took the meat sauce in his hand and said while smelling it.
"Of course I kept some. I made many different types of sauces. You can enjoy them as you like!" Tong Zi said and yawned again.
The mountaintop manor is not too far from the mountain where the bunker is located. In addition, everything outside is frozen, so one can get there directly without taking a detour.
Wei Dong and Yu Duoduo jointly designed the ice skateboard, which was made from birch tree trunks in the mountains, which were split, polished and roasted. It has good hardness and flexibility and is specially used for going down the mountain.
Once you reach the foot of the mountain, you will change into ice skates tailor-made for each person and skate forward!
This is a skating steel knife made of pure steel. It can be directly installed and embedded in different shoes. It is very convenient to install and take out at any time. It is also a good weapon for kicking people.
Yu Duoduo had stockpiled ice skates before the end of the world, but now with these detachable ones, the shoes he bought are suddenly not as attractive anymore!
The four people were carrying hiking bags, holding a small charcoal stove, wearing long-fur fur coats, fur knee pads, wool hats, wool scarves, sheepskin gloves, masks, and windproof glasses.
There was not a single piece of skin exposed, and I was wrapped like a big ball of fur. It took me about half an hour to finally see dozens of wisps of smoke rising in the distance amidst the white.
That's right!
A few people rowed towards the populated area. From a long distance they could hear the voices of people doing random things, which came from the mass trading market.
The distance from the market to the shelter is only 1,000 meters.
The biggest difference between the two places is that the shelter is a temporary building surrounded by a shed, but the market has only one roof.
Probably to provide a wider field of vision, to make it easier to see the whole place at a glance, and to facilitate official surveillance, there are no windshields on all sides. A roof was added, probably to define the scope of the market.
Not far away at the foot of the mountain, a slightly larger red brick wall building built against the mountain is the shelter management office.
The shelter management office is surrounded by armed police from the military, and this is where food is distributed to the people every day.
There were ten huge bonfires on the roof of the market, all of which were made by sawing whole trees into several sections and burning together.
People gathered around the ten big fires and did not dare to run too far away.
But there were really a lot of people coming to the market. Looking around, it was a sea of black, at least tens of thousands of people.
The people who came to trade were all wrapped up tightly, wearing all kinds of clothes. Most of them had already put on all the thick clothes they could wear at home. They looked like beggars begging for food on the street, but they were still shivering from the cold.
This makes Yu Duoduo and others who are wrapped into balls seem less conspicuous and weird!
Everyone followed the rules and spread out their supplies on the ground with a piece of cloth, like a flea market, for others to choose from.
If both parties are willing to buy something, they can discuss the transaction on the spot. It doesn't matter what the item is, as long as both parties agree, the transaction can be completed.
But no disturbances are allowed, let alone quarrels or quarrels, as that will attract the military and police, who will drive both parties out at gunpoint!
Yu Duoduo and his companions and Tong Zi and her companions separated at the door and went to exchange the supplies they needed.
Both sides brought walkie-talkies, so they just needed to notify each other after finishing the work, gather outside, and go back to the mountain together.
Xie Yun didn't have anything in particular that he wanted to exchange. He just followed behind Yu Duoduo, always paying attention to what was going on around him, fearing that a pickpocket might steal his things.
It is only the second day of the market opening, and everyone is in high spirits, with the sounds of hawking one after another.
There are many kinds of supplies here, but most of them are idle and unimportant things, such as high-end laptops or game consoles. For ordinary people, without internet and electricity, these are just beautiful junk.
Yu Duoduo passed by several stalls in a row and finally stopped in front of a stall selling luxury bags.
The owners of this stall appear to be a newlywed couple. Their lives before the apocalypse must have been pretty good, at least they should have lived a comfortable life, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to afford so many luxury bags.
But what Yu Duoduo was interested in was not the bag on the ground, but the gold bracelet that was faintly visible on her hand!
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