Chapter 75: Blackmail
I don’t know which leader had the foresight to move the supermarket to the top floor in advance, so that it remained open even when the water level rose to its highest point.
However, due to the lack of supplies, it became a mere formality.
When I went up to the fifth floor, I saw a large advertising sticker along the corridor with shopping tips written on it.
Due to the shortage of supplies, supermarkets have implemented purchase restrictions, which not only limit the quantity but also the types of purchases.
Each person is only allowed to buy three kilograms of rice, flour, grain and oil each day. For convenience, the supermarket has already prepared five-kilogram packages in advance. Fresh vegetables and eggs are allowed to be bought in one kilogram each day. Other daily necessities are not so tight for the time being, but each person is limited to purchasing one of each item.
When they entered the supermarket entrance, those who came for the first time were stunned.
Supermarkets today are no longer really supermarkets.
The original checkout counter was directly turned into a shopping window, with an armed police officer and a cashier standing at each window.
Customers directly tell the cashier their shopping needs, and then the supermarket's stockists pack and deliver them.
It is somewhat similar to the early supply and marketing cooperatives.
Seeing the puzzled expressions around them, someone who understood the situation helped explain: "There's nothing we can do about it. There are so many people coming here every day. It's like a war every time. Even if there are armed police nearby, it's inevitable that people will fight over things."
"There are also many unscrupulous people who, having grabbed something, open it and eat it before paying. They often secretly put the food back halfway through, wasting food."
Xu Sichen was not surprised by this. After all, after the end of the world, this shopping model was basically adopted, and the variety was not as large as it is now.
"Give me one of all the available products, thank you!" When it was Xu Sichen's turn, she ordered a family bucket without any hesitation.
It was estimated that there had never been anyone buying things like this before, so not only did the cashier get stunned, but the people queuing around couldn't help but look over.
Xu Sichen: "Isn't it possible?"
The cashier reacted and explained, "Ma'am, you can, but the supermarket has a wide variety of goods. In addition to some small daily necessities, there are also some large household appliances. If you buy them all, you may not be able to take them all away for a while."
Xu Sichen thought about it and it made sense. She didn't mind going back and forth a few more times, but there were too many people queuing here. Once she left, it would take several hours to come back next time. It was such a waste of time.
"Then, besides the large items, please give me some of the small items." Xu Sichen said, taking out an oversized luggage bag from the backpack behind him. "Just fill these two bags according to the order on the purchase limit list. Thank you!"
The cashier was a little speechless, but still took the two bags and handed them to the clerk behind him.
Looking at Xu Sichen carrying two large suitcases, everyone was originally thinking about what was missing at home and what they should buy, but suddenly they all had an expression of sudden enlightenment.
Then everyone followed suit, especially those whose families were wealthy, and they regretted not bringing enough bags.
This model directly saves the speed of the stock clerks, and for a time the shopping speed is even faster.
Wei Tianxiang and Wei Mingliang also took out a Dali luggage bag and followed Xu Sichen's method.
However, Wei Mingliang's quota for rice, flour, grain, oil, vegetables, and fresh eggs was directly exchanged for compressed biscuits and mineral water.
After Wei Tianxiang knew about it, he did not stop it, but just sighed slightly.
He knew that the rice, flour, grain, oil, vegetables, and fresh eggs he brought back would most likely end up in the stomachs of those animals, and his son was making his attitude clear.
Without hesitation, he also changed to compressed biscuits and mineral water.
The child is becoming more and more sensible, but in this environment, he feels relieved but also a little distressed.
Xu Sichen and his friends were the first to return to the community. Looking at the big bags of supplies they brought back, everyone couldn't help but feel a little envious.
"Hey, if we had known earlier we should have gone too."
"Isn't it because that kayak is too difficult to paddle? It's only three or four kilometers, but it takes half a day to paddle. In such heavy rain, the return trip would be exhausting."
A middle-aged man wearing glasses pursed his lips in Xu Sichen's direction and said, "Aren't there assault boats over there?"
The two of them looked at each other, then quickly leaned against the window and shouted to Xu Sichen and the others, "Hey, neighbors, can you lend us your assault boat? We want to go to the supermarket to buy some things tomorrow, so we'll just borrow it for a day."
Seeing that no matter how they shouted, they didn't respond, the angry people threw a stone directly down.
The stone fell on the assault boat, scaring Wei Tianxiang and his son, but fortunately it did not hit them.
When they looked up in anger, wondering who was so wicked, they saw that the stone had returned to its original path and directly smashed the window of the family upstairs.
The quality of the windows in Central Garden is still very good, but Xu Sichen actually smashed them directly.
The father and son immediately looked at her in surprise.
But Xu Sichen was sitting there with an expressionless face, as if she had not thrown the stone.
The household whose window was smashed lived on the fifth floor of Building 7, just behind Building 5.
When he saw the broken balcony glass, he immediately rushed out to settle the score with Xu Sichen and the others.
When Xu Sichen returned home, the first thing he did was to go back to his room and take a bath to remove the moisture from his body.
Then I cooked a hot pot with a butter soup base, which was served with beef, tripe, yellow throat, prawns, cod fillets, yam, kelp, duck blood and a plate of vegetable platter.
A large table was laid out.
There was absolutely no intention of checking the two bags of supplies.
Not long after I sat down, there was a loud bang on the door.
Xu Sichen slowly stood up and opened the door, then asked coldly, "What's the matter?"
The two men, startled by her aura, froze for a moment before demanding, "Did you break the window of my house? Don't deny it. We've asked the neighbors. You and the Wei family downstairs went out shopping together, and you were the first to come back. The Wei family is honest and wouldn't do such a thing."
They did ask the neighbor of this building, and that neighbor happened to be Qian Li.
When she knew that the two men were looking for trouble, no matter whether it was Xu Sichen who did it, as long as they could cause trouble for her, she would call him Xu Sichen. She immediately said Xu Sichen's name and her room number without hesitation.
"I didn't deny it!" Xu Sichen admitted it directly, leaving the two of them speechless for a moment.
"Since you admit it, that's good, pay it!" Zhang Kai, one of the tenants of Room 502, Building 7, is a colleague of Xue Zhengxin in the same company. Their income is not low, but not high either. However, in order to save face, they spent a high price to rent a house in Central Garden.
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