Chapter 105: Set off to the market trading point
“I didn’t expect that there would be so many people at this market.”
In a blink of an eye, three days passed.
Meng Ci dawdled until after one o'clock before he and Shen Que carried the thirty kilograms of mice and spiders they had caught earlier and headed towards Binjiang Park.
Seeing the bustling crowd, Meng Ci couldn't help but sigh.
On the way, the two saw people carrying things with happy faces.
Some were muttering that they could finally eat rice and noodles, while others had caught a lot of animals and were discussing with their companions what they could exchange for the most cost-effective items.
The so-called market is actually dozens of tents set up in parallel in the Riverside Park area, with different items sold in each tent.
Behind each tent, there is a row of warehouses made of red bricks.
From rice and flour to various vegetable seeds, military coats and coal, everything is available.
Meng Ci even noticed a tent for changing piglets.
Meng Ci was more interested in the piglets, so he came over with something in his hand.
The person sitting behind the desk was a soldier with a stern face and wearing a military uniform. Behind him, in a cage, there were only five piglets.
"If you want to exchange for piglets, the price is here." The soldier said little and pointed to the price list on the table.
Meng Ci flipped through the price list on the table and his eyes widened.
One piglet would require a total of 100 kilograms of mice, spiders, etc., or 200 kilograms of potatoes, or 60 kilograms of rice and flour...
This requirement is something that ordinary people cannot achieve.
And if the piglets want to grow up, they need to be fed.
It’s the end of the world now. People can’t even get enough to eat. Where will we get food to feed the pigs?
No wonder there are no residents here.
There are a lot of different kinds of meat in the space, so there is no shortage of this one.
Meng Ci could only say goodbye to the piglet with regret and look at other things.
Twenty pounds of rats can be exchanged for three ounces of pork.
Meng Ci shook his head, it’s not worth it.
Ten pounds of rats for one pound of coal.
Meng Ci shook his head, this charcoal was not absolutely necessary.
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Finally, Meng Ci stopped in front of a tent selling seeds.
Ten pounds of mice for a bag of cold-resistant rapeseed.
Meng Ci flipped through the price list. These rapeseeds were the latest product developed by the government, and their growth cycle was shorter than usual. They could be eaten in less than twenty days from planting to germination.
As for vegetable seedlings such as peppers and eggplants, ten kilograms of mice can only be exchanged for two plants.
Meng Ci took ten kilograms of cockroaches and exchanged them for two eggplant seedlings.
He wanted to go back and see if this thing would grow faster if planted in space.
If the growth is good, Meng Ci said that he could change more in the future.
In Meng Ci's heart, eggplant is the most delicious dish in the world.
Braised eggplant, fish-flavored eggplant, salt and pepper eggplant, sweet and sour eggplant...
Meng Ci swallowed and thought that he must make an eggplant feast when he returned home.
The remaining ten kilograms of mice and spiders were exchanged by Meng Ci for rice and flour.
If we don't exchange them for some rice and flour, people will know that they have food in their hands, which may cause unnecessary trouble.
Although he no longer had the chips to exchange for things, this did not stop Meng Ci from continuing to wander around here.
Most residents brought rats and spiders just to exchange for rice and flour, so long queues formed behind these tents.
As for the other tents, they seemed lonely.
As Meng Ci was walking around, he found a sign next to the tent in the middle, which read "official trading point."
Behind the sign, there is a one-meter-wide passage.
Meng Ci wondered, could there be any unofficial ones?
Looking behind the sign, Meng Ci indeed found that it said "unofficial trading point" behind it, and there was an upward arrow at the top.
"Chen Que, what are the things in the unofficial trading points?" Meng Ci asked.
Several large tents blocked the view behind, so I couldn't see what was behind clearly.
Meng Ci thought, maybe the unofficial trading point has not been established.
After all, the two of them had been here for so long, but they hadn't seen anyone coming out of here.
Shen Que said: “If you are interested, you can go and have a look!”
"Yeah." Meng Ci nodded, and then he and Shen Que walked in one after another.
After passing through the tent, there is a red wall more than two meters high. After walking about ten meters, I saw an open space.
It was surrounded on both sides by red bricks more than two meters high. Every two steps, there was a soldier standing with a gun in both hands and his head held high.
On the opposite side, there is also a row of warehouses and tents. I guess the things on both sides are similar.
To Meng Ci's surprise, there were a lot of people in the open space in the middle.
Some took a cardboard with the words "one pack of cigarettes for half a pound of rice or half a pound of noodles" written on it.
Some took a wooden board and wrote a cover with charcoal in exchange for a pound of noodles or half a pound of rice.
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"Boss, I have a pack of cigarettes here, take a look."
"Boss, I have half a bag of salt here, can you exchange it for something?"
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Meng Ci and Shen Que strolled around inside and saw a lot of people exchanging things, especially condoms, which were accepted by several vendors.
Meng Ci was puzzled. It was the end of the world, and these people were not thinking about their lives but about matters between men and women. This was unreasonable.
So Meng Ci picked a peddler and asked him about it.
"Boss, I have a few condoms here."
"But are you sure you have so much rice and flour?"
Meng Ci remembered that he had taken a lot of these things at the pharmaceutical factory before, so he could pick out a few.
The vendor's eyes lit up when he heard Meng Ci's words, and he quickly said, "Of course."
"Zhao family, does the Zhao family know?"
"Before this weird weather, he was the second richest man in M City."
Meng Ci nodded. Most of the shares of Meng Group were transferred to the Zhao family, so of course he was familiar with them.
"Master Zhao has several sparrows in his house, and he is afraid that pregnancy will affect his mood."
"So when I found out there was a goods trading point here, I found several people to help me change the condoms."
The vendor seemed to want to enhance the credibility of his words by telling the whole story.
"Brother, if you really have this thing, exchange it with me."
"I promise to give you the best deal."
Meng Ci had a conflicted look on his face and looked around.
"I think all of you who are exchanging food are similar. After all, you can compare prices from different places. Let me take a look."
Seeing Meng Ci was about to leave, the vendor quickly grabbed Meng Ci.
"No, little brother."
"I'll give you more!"
"One condom, one pound and two grams of rice, how about that?"
Seeing that Meng Ci was still hesitating, the vendor continued to increase the price.
"One pound and two ounces of rice."
"Little brother, when I took it, one condom was two kilograms of rice."
"You have to let me earn a little bit at least!"
Meng Ci pretended to hesitate for a while before nodding and saying, "Okay."
When the vendor heard this, he almost jumped for joy.
After all, no one has found condoms useful in the past few months. Some people even throw them directly into the fire and complain that the fire is too small.
The vendor didn't expect that someone would actually make the exchange, and he was extremely happy.
"But I don't have the things with me." Meng Ci said.
"I'll go with you to get it." the vendor said quickly.
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