Chapter 105: Avengers
Wu Yue learned that Lu Weiyi had already put the things away, so the next morning he asked Li Yan to send someone to go with Bai Miao, Shen Xing and Chen Zhong to find the people from the Gu and Li families with the transaction price. He then took Li Yan to pick up the things.
The place where Lu Weiyi lived before was not far from the current safe base. It was located at the center of the city center and the suburbs. It was neither too prosperous nor deserted, and the surrounding facilities were complete. After the earthquake, the community shook significantly and many buildings collapsed. The building where Lu Weiyi lived was no exception. During the rescue process, the basement was exposed. This is why Wu Yue said that the location was set here.
If it is completely covered, there is no way to explain when the materials were placed there, and if they are placed somewhere else, it will easily arouse suspicion.
The basement of dozens of square meters was only used to store sundries, but now it was filled with bottles of mineral water when the door was opened. Not only Li Yan, but also Wu Yue was surprised. He thought that Lu Weiyi had put in at most a hundred barrels, but judging from the situation, it seemed like there were hundreds of barrels.
"This... is what you saved?" Li Yan didn't know what to say for a moment.
Wu Yue was shocked, but he didn't show it on his face. He nodded and said, "I'll give half of these to the military. What do you think?"
"Of course, I'll ask them to help me move things." The totally unexpected gain made Li Yan happy for a moment, not to mention the dozen or so soldiers who came with him.
"Captain, there is so much water, can I drink it all? I am almost dying of thirst with only two sips a day."
"That's right, Captain. Those two sips every day are not enough to moisten our throats. Ask the team leader for an extra bucket for our team."
"Stop fooling around, move your things quickly," Li Yan said with a stern face, but he couldn't hide the excitement in his eyes. "Excuse me, these little brats haven't had a good drink of water for a long time."
"It's okay, it's the same for everyone. I'll treat you when I get back and give you two buckets from my personal pocket." With so much water in hand, Wu Yue also became generous.
"Then I won't be polite." Li Yan still favored his subordinates in his heart, but he knew the current situation of the army, and they would not give more even if he asked. Now that someone has offered to pay for it, he naturally won't be so generous as to let it go.
A dozen people worked enthusiastically and soon loaded all the water onto the truck, more than 500 barrels along with several boxes of instant noodles and sausages.
Li Yan didn't want any of the food, so Wu Yue decided to give 300 barrels to the army and keep the remaining 200 barrels for himself. He handled this matter generously, and Li Yan did not hesitate. After sending the donated water back to the military headquarters, he took the two buckets of water and asked the dozen or so people with him to help them exchange for supplies.
The things to be exchanged were on a list given directly by Ning Yuan, which included the exchange price. Wu Yue gave it directly to Chen Zhong and the others without them even looking at it. As soon as they entered the Longmen community, they saw Bai Miao and Chen Zhong smiling brightly, accompanied by Li Ling, the head of the Li family, and two other subordinates.
"Brother Wu, Boss Li is willing to provide supplies to buy all of our water. I thought it would be easier to just give it to one family, so I agreed. Is that ok?" Bai Miao was young and smart. He spoke immediately when he saw Wu Yue. It seemed that it was his own decision to sell the water to the Li family, not Wu Yue's idea. Even if something happened in the future, it couldn't be blamed on Wu Yue.
"Just provide the supplies, anyone can buy them." Wu Yue got off the truck, asked the others to wait for a while, glanced at Li Ling, and asked, "Have you agreed on the price?"
"Okay, this is the price I negotiated for, take a look, brother." Bai Miao handed a piece of paper to Wu Yue. Wu Yue picked it up and took a look, his heart beating so fast that it seemed like it might jump out. Written on the paper is the original transaction price given by Ning Yuan, and written below is the price negotiated by Bai Miao.
Wu Yue found it incredible to see Ning Yuan using one pound of water to exchange for twenty pounds of vegetables and fruits, ten pounds of meat, twenty pounds of instant noodles, and thirty pounds of rice and flour. But who knew that Bai Miao had negotiated an even higher price, directly setting the price at thirty pounds of vegetables, thirty pounds of instant noodles, forty pounds of rice and flour, and eighty pounds of wheat and corn.
"Because what we need first are fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs and so on, and Boss Li has limited supplies, so he says that if there is not enough, we can use flour, rice, wheat, corn and other things to make up for it. Brother, do you think that's okay?" Bai Miao introduced at the right time.
"Okay, let's take this price." Wu Yue suppressed his excitement, handed the order back to Bai Miao, and looked at Li Ling, "Boss Li, do you want all of them?"
"Yes, I want all the water that Brother Wu has for sale." Li Ling initially thought that Wu Yue would not sell it to his Li family. After all, Li Ji had told the Li family about the matter between Li Ji and Zhuang Mingxu after he arrived at the Li family, and they went to the Gu family first in the morning.
Seeing Wu Yue's calm face at this time, he knew in his heart that a penny can make a hero fall, and he no longer had the supplies to support himself.
"Okay, I'll sell 200 barrels of water, 30 kilograms per barrel." Wu Yue pointed to the truck behind him.
"Two...hundred barrels?" Li Ling was shocked, not to mention Bai Miao and Chen Zhong who had been unaware of the situation.
At first, Li Ling just thought that he would have enough with a few dozen barrels. Although the price was a bit high, it didn't matter. Anyway, he couldn't give it to the Gu family. So he negotiated the price written by Bai Miao with the Gu family. Who knew that it would be two hundred barrels. This amount of water could be exchanged for a lot of supplies alone. Li Ling was a little hesitant.
"Yes, if you can't eat it, I will ask other families. The base is going crazy to exchange saliva, and everyone will definitely not be reluctant to give it up." Wu Yue knew that Lu Weiyi wanted to plot against the Li family, although he didn't know how he was going to plot, he still urged.
"......Yes." Li Ling hesitated for a moment, and immediately decided that it was not that the Li family could not afford these supplies. At most, they would keep them for a while and then exchange them for a higher price. "Brother Wu, my Li family will take all of them. It's based on the price we agreed on before. If there is no problem after inspection, I can take you to get the supplies now."
The water was taken out from the space by Lu Weiyi, so there was naturally no problem. After Li Ling had someone check it, he was also smiling. Although the price was a bit high, scarce things would only become more valuable in the future. Besides, there were only four people in Wu Yue's group, and they were all ordinary people. Something might happen one day, and no one could guarantee who would get the supplies in the end.
After counting and confirming that everything was correct, Li Ling ordered people to open two warehouses. No matter what kind of single material was used to replace the two hundred barrels of water, it would be impossible to sell them. Li Ling simply divided them equally into various materials. At Ning Yuan's request, the Bai Miao first needed vegetables, fruits, and meat, followed by various staple foods.
After all, Li Ling supported a large family, which was not comparable to those people in Yongping County. When Bai Miao suggested that he exchange corn, wheat and other things, he directly refused. Not to mention the output, one catty of flour did not require two catties of wheat. It was not cost-effective just based on the weight. When people were very hungry, some people would eat wheat and corn kernels directly.
In less than a day, Wu Yue used two hundred barrels of water to get more than 100,000 supplies from the Li family. This made the people who were driven out by him before have other ideas. He had just borrowed a military warehouse from Captain Li and put the supplies back when he was blocked by several people at the door of the villa.
"Wu Yue, we collected all the supplies together. Why did you sell them without consulting us and store them privately?"
"That's right. Why? We also have a share of the water, and we should also have a share of the supplies we get in exchange."
"Hurry up and bring the things to us to share, or you will be rude to us."
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"Collected together? Who collected it? You? You? Or you? You? You? You? Don't be so shameless. I've done my best by distributing the things to you and then leaving. If you continue to make trouble here without any tact, you deserve to be beaten up." Wu Yue was already very dissatisfied with these people. When he saw that they dared to come up to him, he really wanted to beat them half to death.
He approached a few people and whispered, "If you become someone else's dog, then go and bark somewhere useful. No matter how shameless you are, I don't mind offering a reward for all the supplies and taking your lives. If you don't believe me, just try it."
Wu Yue's hands were already stained with blood, and he looked a bit murderous when he was ruthless. His sinister words immediately frightened the troublemakers. They came here only because they were instigated by Li Ji and his men. After all, they had just been driven away after distributing the supplies, and then the next moment, more things were taken out. No one felt comfortable.
After being frightened by Wu Yue, no one dared to step forward. In peacetime, it was not difficult for rich and powerful people to kill someone, not to mention in today's chaotic times, where exchanging a piece of bread for a life was not uncommon, and no one dared to gamble with their own life. Several people looked at each other, waiting for the other to speak first.
Seeing how cowardly these people were, Wu Yue snorted coldly and cursed, "Get lost."
Several people stood blocking the door for a long time, and finally left in despair. They still wanted to say a few harsh words, but when they met Wu Yue's cold eyes, no one dared to say anything.
Wu Yue directly put the flour and rice that would not go bad into the military warehouse. With them around, no one dared to touch the supplies. Other vegetables, fruits and melons that could not be kept were sent to the villa and then directly stored in Lu Weiyi's space.
After everything was dealt with, he felt a lot more at ease, especially when he heard Ning Yuan say that Lu Weiyi had a lot of water. This was nothing at all. He immediately felt that he had taken advantage of the Li family. Before the excitement had died down, Li Ji was finally going to lead the team out to look for supplies.
This was the first time that Li Ji led a team to search for supplies after joining the Li family. It reflected his ability and future status. Li Ji naturally made comprehensive plans. He did not go out for the previous few days because he wanted to observe Wu Yue and others. At first, he really thought that the people who rescued Zhuang Mingxu had returned, so he could drive everyone out so efficiently. However, after waiting for a few days without seeing any action, he relaxed a little.
In addition, other teams of the Li family were mocking them because of the previous loss of supplies at the base. Li Ji wanted to take this opportunity to shut them up, so he directly chose a breeding farm in the suburbs of Qingyuan City.
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