By this time the temperature had dropped to around 25 degrees.
This is the most comfortable temperature in recent years. Except for more insects, it is not much different than before the natural disaster.
The people in the base took advantage of the suitable temperature and went out to catch fish and dry plants day and night, keeping themselves busy.
As you walk by and look up, you can see people drying fish and wild vegetables on their houses.
Since we know that the cold winter is coming, it is impossible to put all our hopes on the base.
Most people will divide the fish and plants they get into two parts. They will dry one part at home and sell the other part to the base. The part sold to the base can be exchanged for bean cakes and stockpiled.
"If you don't like it, just give them money." Zong Yi had a gentle smile on his face, but his words were so heartbreaking.
He didn't lower his head when he walked, but his feet seemed to have eyes and accurately avoided the wooden boards.
These people had just arrived at the base and had no place to live, so they could only live under the walls and on the dirt ground.
Lu Zi was choked by Zong Yi's words and muttered, "You can't sleep outside, it will delay your walking."
Zong Yi glanced at him and stopped talking.
Lu Zi felt inexplicably guilty, so he touched his nose and stopped talking.
Guagua sighed, "The base was already crowded, and now that they know the extreme cold is coming, they have to spend most of their energy on building the underground city. If they don't expand the ground, where will they sleep? It's only because a group of people died in Baiwu before that some space was freed up, otherwise there would be more people sleeping outside now."
Even if a group of people continue to go back underground to avoid the cold after the extreme cold, that time will not come now.
Everyone followed Captain Zhou through the crowded crowd and came to the mission center.
The handover process went smoothly.
In addition to the normal compensation, they handed in the poisonous frogs and each person received an extra 10 kilograms of corn kernels.
Carrying the heavy loads of food, everyone was smiling, as if all the worries along the way had disappeared.
If all this grain were replaced with bean cakes, it would be enough for the family to last for more than half a month. If we save a bit, a month would not be a problem.
Someone immediately discussed with Captain Zhou whether they could take half away and exchange the other half for bean cakes.
Captain Zhou certainly agreed.
So they arranged for people to go and exchange bean cakes together. Ji He didn't want to pretend to be poor anymore, so he didn't exchange.
Watch others change.
10 kilograms of rice, 5 kilograms of corn kernels, and 5 eggs were exchanged for a full 100 kilograms of bean cakes.
Although this amount is large, people nowadays have big appetites. A family of three can eat 4 kilograms of bean cake in one meal.
Everyone was carrying bean cakes, and without even the thought of chatting, they simply said goodbye and wanted to go home and hide.
This is the family’s future life-saving food.
After saying goodbye to Gua Gua and the others, Ji He turned around and walked home.
As soon as she left, Captain Zhou called Qi Li and asked, "Are you playing a trick on me? That girl is such a good fighter, why does she need me to take care of her?"
Qi Li: "Hey! She just came of age and is still a little immature. How can I be assured when she goes out so far to do a mission? How is it going? Did you have a smooth journey?"
Captain Zhou briefly explained, and finally said, "This girl is strong in combat, but she doesn't know how to live. Everyone else in the team exchanged for bean cakes, but she didn't. Even though there is a lot of food, if she doesn't exchange for bean cakes, she won't be able to eat for a few days with the appetite of a gifted person."
"Okay, okay, okay, I know, I'll save the bean cakes for her, okay, we'll just follow each other."
After hanging up the phone, Qi Li came to find Ji He with a worried look on his face.
Why did such a good girl suddenly become so arrogant?
That won't work.
Ji He walked all the way home.
Before leaving the base, people on the road were in high spirits, with smiles on everyone's face, but now when they come back, they are all very nervous.
The crowd was divided into two distinct factions.
The people in the original base were very resistant and even disgusted with these outsiders.
Food and supplies were already in short supply, and they didn't even have enough for themselves. Now with so many mouths coming, how could they not be disgusted?
What's more, they saw that the size of the bean cake had shrunk significantly because of the arrival of these people.
Outsiders also feel unhappy when they see the people in the base.
They are all human beings, why can they only sleep on the streets while these people can sleep in their houses with enough food and drink?
Since there is no way to arrange for them, why accept them?
If you accept them, you must treat them equally.
The top brass at the base were also extremely worried and busy.
With more than 200,000 mouths to feed, the pressure is as heavy as a mountain.
The whole world knows that it is going to be extremely cold, and everyone is desperately trying to collect supplies.
They sent these people here in a hurry, without giving them any food, and just told them to take care of the arrangements. As long as the people were alive, anything was fine.
But to survive, people need to eat, drink water, wear clothes and have a warm place to sleep.
Given the current situation at the base, the people either rely on their savings or go out to salvage food. Even if they want to find jobs for these people, they can’t find any new factories.
Taking into account the extreme cold weather, the supported plantations and breeding farms are lucky enough not to lose staff, and it is impossible to expand enrollment.
People can sleep underground, but it's easier said than done. If we put these people in there and then an extreme cold comes, where will the people in the base sleep?
Do we have to keep the original people in the base above ground and arrange the new people underground?
Doesn't this exacerbate the conflict?
After weighing the pros and cons, we could only let them find a place to deal with it on their own.
Ji He walked back and found that not only was the road full of people sleeping, but even the place selling bean cakes had more people than usual.
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