Chapter 53 Storm
The rice was gray and crumbly, but fortunately it had no peculiar smell.
Just like what the man on the rubber boat outside said, it was indeed all salvaged and dried food. Yu Duoduo and Xie Yun had seen a lot of it in their previous life.
This kind of soaked food is fine to eat as long as it is not moldy, but it has no nutritional value and is only enough to keep you alive.
"It seems that no fresh grain has been released yet. I guess they plan to sell the soaked grain first." Yu Duoduo said as he threw away the rice in his hand.
"Then do you still want to buy it? There is not much point in hoarding this kind of food." Xie Yun said in a low voice.
“Now that you’re here, you should buy some, otherwise you’ll be questioned by others.
I think the corn oil is pretty good. It’s in a 5L plastic bucket. Even if it’s soaked in water, it won’t have any effect because it’s well sealed.
A bucket is about 10 kilograms. Between the two of us, we can take 4 buckets, and the price is also reasonable..."
As Yu Duoduo spoke, he looked at the price tag of corn oil and was almost petrified. 1,000 yuan per barrel, just go and grab it!
As the two were discussing, a staff member outside shouted over the loudspeaker, "The two people inside, please hurry up, we're the only ones missing."
Yu Duoduo looked up, and found that the people who came in with her had already started queuing up to pay. She and her were the only two people left in the entire grain area, while the people queuing outside were eagerly waiting to rush in to buy grain.
Now everyone in the grain area is looking at them.
"Coming soon!" Yu Duoduo signaled Xie Yun to get the oil. Two buckets per person, they picked up the load and left.
Seeing that they were finally willing to come out, a curious person in the next group rolled his eyes and said, "Poor bastard, you have to spend a long time to buy a few kilograms of rice. You didn't bring enough money!"
But the next second, two people came out carrying two buckets of corn oil each, and finally the people outside shut up...
Oil is a food item that can be purchased in limited quantities in the grain area, at a rate of 20 kilograms. It is the most expensive food item that can be purchased. After all, 20 kilograms of rice is only 1,000 yuan, so this bucket is enough to cover the price of two people!
Waiting in line to check out is a long process. In the past, when checking out via computer, one only needed to scan the price code, but now one needs to weigh, pay, record, count and collect money.
There are several checkout counters, which reduces the waiting time a little bit.
It was Yu Duoduo's turn, 4 barrels of oil, a total of 4,000 yuan.
While taking money out of his bag, Yu Duoduo whispered to the cashier:
"Excuse me, little sister. When will the government's relief food be distributed? You are well-informed, so you should know, right?"
The cashier looked at her warily and said, "Why are you asking this? This is all based on what the boss said. How would I know? It's 4,000 in total. Hurry up, there are people waiting behind us!"
Yu Duoduo wanted to ask more questions, but the man who was paying next door seemed a little angry.
"I bought 4 kilograms of rice, but I was short of 12 yuan in cash. You insisted that I give you 1 kilogram. I told you that the money was in my phone and I couldn't withdraw it.
My wife and children are starving to death, but you are raising the prices to the sky. Do you have any law? Damn it, you people have lost your conscience!"
The people around him seemed to be touched by these words, and they all stopped what they were doing and looked at that person...
This man spoke for everyone! He was the voice of the masses!
They are taxpayers and now they are in trouble, not only are they not given relief food, but they are forced to buy food at high prices to survive, and they are not given any discount at all. It is so inhumane!
As everyone was talking quietly, the man who had just spoken took out a bone-cutting knife from his bag and waved it at the cashier.
The cashier narrowly escaped, but the man didn't want to fight. He grabbed the food from the cashier and started running out...
The police officer was about to point his gun at the man, trying to stop him.
But when other people saw someone snatch the money without paying and run away, they felt unbalanced and started doing the same thing!
The scene where everyone was queuing in an orderly manner suddenly became chaotic!
There were already a lot of people gathered in the grain area, and with this chaos, even the police who were maintaining stability didn't know what to do.
Should they shoot ordinary people? But they only have a few bullets, who should they shoot?
As they hesitated, even the police were pushed down, and people outside rushed into the food area, not caring about anything else, and just robbed everything, whether it was on the shelves or in other people's hands...
Yu Duoduo put the cash he was about to take out back into the space, and under the pretext of rummaging through his bag, he took out a Damascus steel knife.
She glanced at the stunned cashier with a smile, and then she and Xie Yun each carried their two barrels of oil, avoided crowded places, and walked straight out.
They don't want to get involved in this violent fight. There's no need to fight for these soaked supplies. They should leave them to those who really need them!
The two of them got out of the mall smoothly. The security guards at the door were exhausted from trying to stop the crowds that kept rushing out, and several of them were knocked into the water.
Even if they fired two shots into the air in an attempt to intimidate the enemy, it had no effect at all. At this moment, all people had in their minds and eyes was food and the belief in survival.
In order to avoid the crowd, Xie Yun did not take out the rubber boat immediately. Instead, the two of them went directly into the water carrying the oil barrels.
When they came, both of them wore foam life jackets, so there was no problem swimming in the water for a while.
Moreover, oil is lighter than water. Although the oil barrel in your hand will not float up, the buoyancy of the water can support the oil barrel, which is much easier than walking on the ground.
They stopped only when they were more than ten meters away from the mall gate. Yu Duoduo took the oil barrel from Xie Yun's hand, freeing up his hands to take out the rubber boat.
While the rubber boat was being inflated, the man who was selling contraband came closer in the rubber boat.
"Do you two want food?" He asked the same question again. This man is really persistent.
Yu Duoduo was afraid that the other party came here with bad intentions, so he said vigilantly: "Why do you keep pestering us? Do you think we can afford to buy large quantities of goods?"
The man opposite smiled even more, "Just looking at your complexion, you are different from those starving ghosts inside.
Your rubber boat is the top-of-the-line model of the brand *. A bare boat without an engine costs 80,000 yuan. How could it be that poor person? "
Yu Duoduo looked at Xie Yun in disbelief. This thing actually cost 80,000. No wonder he wasn't panicked at all when he encountered the man with tattoos rushing up with a knife and slashing and stabbing wildly!
Xie Yun didn't comment, which was considered as tacit agreement. He motioned Yu Duoduo to get on the boat first, and then slowly asked: "You said you have any soaked in water, how much is it per pound?"
After listening to Yu Duoduo's description in the morning, he had already deeply realized that he had made a mistake. He had not stockpiled enough food, especially rice!
Even if you want to live in the base in the future, the most basic condition is to hand in your rations, and you have to pay it every month. If you don’t, you have to get out of the base.
"100 per pound, new rice just harvested in July this year!" the man replied with a smile.
"How do we know if the rice in your hand is new rice?" Yu Duoduo asked.
In her previous life, Yu Duoduo had a lot of contact with these smugglers. She knew that these people had surplus grain to sell, so they must have some background.
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