Chapter 58 Chapter 58
After the people above left, Qiao Yanrou sat on the chair. Now that the zombies were gone, everything should be gradually returning to normal order.
The group of people who had just entered the abandoned house were driving flashy sports cars, making a lot of noise, which showed that the zombies had truly been wiped out.
Then she... doesn't need to hide here any longer, she can leave. If anything goes wrong, she can come back.
Three years have passed, and Xue Yu has most likely forgotten her and would not send anyone to look for her again.
After packing up her things, she would ride her bike eastwards early the next morning. She remembered that there was a city to the east, and wondered if order had been restored there.
Qiao Yanrou looked at the mattress in front of her. Her storage space was too small to accommodate the mattress, so she could only put it here.
In fact, there weren’t many things, just a few cooking appliances, some pots and pans, and some clothes, all of which she put into the storage space.
I won’t cook today. I’ll just fill my stomach with some food from the storage space and then go take a look by bike tomorrow.
At night, she lay in bed thinking that if normal order was restored, she would open a flower shop and live an ordinary life.
The next morning, Qiao Yanrou closed the partition, turned off the power, went to the back of the house, put enough water and rice for the hens, and opened the gate of the fence so that it could go out to find food at any time.
She planned to go out and see what was going on first. If order was restored, she would find a suitable place and then take the hens over.
He took out his bicycle from the storage space, put on a hat he hadn't worn for a long time, and rode to the side of the road in the direction where the group of people came from yesterday. The place where the group of people came happened to be in the east.
There were not many people on the road, and the direction she was riding was exactly the opposite of Xue Yu's base.
After riding for about two hours, it was almost noon, so Qiao Yanrou rode to a cool place to rest for a while. Fortunately, it was autumn now. If she had ridden in the sun for so long in the summer, she would easily have gotten heatstroke.
She unscrewed the lid of the thermos and drank the warm water. The thermos was placed on the partition by Ji Yuanchen two years ago, and she took it to use.
In these three years, she had not seen Ji Yuanchen, but the food he sent often appeared on the partition, including rice, oil, salt and other foods.
After a short rest, we continued driving eastward. After about ten minutes, we finally saw the building in our memory.
She rode faster and when she got near the building, many vehicles passed by her.
Looking at the weed-free cityscape not far away, she felt as if she were in another world, especially the people leisurely walking on the sidewalks next to the greenery.
Qiao Yanrou's eyes were red, and the originally confusing road ahead seemed to have suddenly been cleared away from the clouds and she saw the light.
She pushed her bicycle into the square. There were couples huddled together, and adults playing with their children.
In just three years, so much has changed.
As Qiao Yanrou walked across the square, she was surprised to see this scene.
Unfortunately, after the apocalypse, not many people survived. She rode to the center of the city and didn't see many people.
There were shops open on the roadside. Qiao Yanrou walked into one of the shops and saw that the shelves inside were full of food.
She asked the boss how the transaction was done. Is there currency now?
The shop owner was a middle-aged man who was lying on a reclining chair. He told her, "Trade and see what you can get in exchange for your things."
In fact, it depends on whether he is willing to exchange and whether he needs the other person's things.
Qiao Yanrou understood that for the time being, it would be a barter. She thanked him and pushed her bicycle away.
Since it’s a barter, does that mean the places where we live are also the same?
The most she had in her storage space was rice and some paddy. Thanks to Ji Yuanchen's "help", she had never had to worry about food and clothing in the past three years.
She successfully planted rice behind her house, but only started trying to grow rice in the second year and succeeded in the third year. Because the area was small and the yield was not much, she dried all the rice grains. She did not have the tools to husk those rice grains and could only store them all in the storage space.
However, just because she doesn't have the tools doesn't mean others don't. She wants to try and see if she can rent a suitable store using rice.
Although everything has returned to normal, for now, beautiful bouquets of flowers are dispensable.
She wanted to open a flower shop for several reasons. She was not financially strong, and if she opened a food shop, she was afraid of being targeted. Besides, only people who had enough food would exchange food for bouquets.
Qiao Yanrou likes flowers and her supernatural power is water-related, so opening a flower shop is perfect for her.
Right now she needs to find a store next to an intersection so that she can have business.
The stores are mostly empty now, so it shouldn't be hard to find.
After making up her mind, Qiao Yanrou specifically looked for the location near intersections where there were more cars and pedestrians.
She was hungry at noon, so she rode her bike to an empty corner and took out something from the storage space to eat. She ate quickly as the zombies had just disappeared not long ago, so being more vigilant would only help.
It was not until almost evening that she saw a suitable store near an intersection and she pushed her bicycle closer.
The store in front of me is not big, but apart from the dust everywhere, I can vaguely see that the decoration style inside is quite warm.
A few doors down, a short-haired girl was standing at the door of a shop. She was obviously a powerful psychic. When she saw Qiao Yanrou looking inside the shop, she walked towards her.
"Looking for a store?" the short-haired girl asked her.
Qiao Yanrou's gaze shifted from the store to the short-haired girl in front of her.
"Is this store yours?" she asked the girl with short hair.
The short-haired girl nodded: "This entire street is under my control."
"What are the conditions for renting this store?" Qiao Yanrou asked again. If the food she wanted in exchange was too much, she would have to give up the store.
The girl with short hair kept looking at her. The brim of her hat was pulled down so low that only the lower half of her face could be seen clearly.
"What can you offer in exchange?"
Qiao Yanrou thought for a moment and said, "There is rice."
The short-haired girl looked quite surprised. Rice?
"It's the sun-dried kind. It can be used to grow rice or husked." Qiao Yanrou listed the advantages of the exchanged rice.
The short-haired girl didn't hesitate: "I'll rent you a pound of rice for half a year."
Qiao Yanrou: “!” The shock in her eyes almost overflowed. Is there such a good thing?!
She quickly scooped out more than a pound of rice from the storage space using a dry basin and handed it to the short-haired girl.
The short-haired girl took it and poured the rice in the basin into the tank in the storage space. After returning the basin to Qiao Yanrou, she readily handed her the key to the store.
"Take it."
Qiao Yanrou took the key: "Thank you."
"My name is Le Liu. If you have any problems in the future, just come to the store over there to find me." Le Liu pointed to the door of the store where she had just stood.
"Okay, thank you." Qiao Yanrou felt full of security and was very excited. She didn't expect that one pound of rice could be exchanged for half a year's stall rent.
Le Liu said: "Don't be so polite. The place I am in charge of is empty anyway. Besides, the rice you gave is very precious." Now is the time to vigorously develop agriculture.
Qiao Yanrou nodded and promised to bring some delicious food to her next time.
"Okay, go ahead and do your work." Le Liu didn't disturb her and turned around to walk back.
Qiao Yanrou responded, picked up the key and opened the glass door with anticipation. The glass door was very new, probably having been replaced not long ago. The dust inside the store was so thick that it could choke people.
She opened the two glass doors completely, stood outside, and used her water power to roll up the mat inside twice. After a while of ventilation, it would dry thoroughly.
Qiao Yanrou walked inside. There were two rooms and a kitchen in the store, but there was no bathroom.
There was a door at the end of the corridor. When the door opened, she leaned out and saw a fenced-off open space with a door on the right, probably the bathroom.
Qiao Yanrou looked at the open space and was pleasantly surprised to find that there was enough space for the flowers.
She didn't expect today to be so smooth. She cleaned the entire store with great energy.
There was a wooden bed in one of the rooms, the kind without a mattress. She had used her supernatural powers to clean it very cleanly, and she could just put down the sheets and quilt and sleep on it.
Qiao Yanrou found a chair to sit down and began to worry about the source of flowers. In fact, she not only had vegetable seeds, but also some flower seeds, but it was too late to plant them now.
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