Chapter 124 People’s minds are fickle
People’s hearts are fickle.
Before the natural disaster, Sun Qing visited the Ye family several times, and both Ye's parents were very friendly to her.
But after the natural disaster, supplies were in short supply, and the Ye family needed to raise one more person, which meant they needed to have more supplies. Besides, Ye Xiaojie was not the only child in the Ye family, she also had a brother.
On the first day Sun Qing arrived at the Ye family, Ye's father and mother knew that she had been through thick and thin with Ye Xiaojie for several months, so they were quite warm to her. But after living in the Ye family for a few days, Ye's father and mother's attitude towards her became much colder, and Ye's eldest sister-in-law also said that she was eating for free at home.
Ye Xiaojie wanted to protect her, but she didn't have the confidence to do so. She could protect her for a while, but not for a lifetime.
Sun Qing didn't blame the Ye family, it was her own fault for not thinking clearly. In times of natural disasters and chaos, no one had enough food to help others, and eating and drinking for free would indeed be annoying. So she took the initiative to work for the Ye family fleet and be self-reliant.
But she didn't tell Xia Xiaoman about this, and there was nothing much to say.
Although the Ye family didn't treat her as well as before, they at least gave her a place to stay. In the troubled times, relying on the Ye family fleet, others didn't dare to make plans against her.
She is still eating from the Ye family's bowl and has no right to criticize the Ye family.
"These are all pretty good, freshly killed and dried. This abalone is not good, the people down there were lazy and didn't clean it properly. This squid is OK, the tentacles are still moving and it was thrown out to dry, it's absolutely fresh."
Sun Qing pointed at the list of goods and introduced them one by one. From her knowledge of these goods, it was clear that she had been doing this job for a long time.
Xia Xiaoman pursed her lips and ordered 10 kilograms of the seafood that Sun Qing said was pretty good. "Calculate how much white rice you need to exchange for all of this. I'll go home and get it if you figure it out."
"What are you taking? I agreed that this is a gift from me. How can I take your things?" Sun Qing didn't give anyone an explanation and asked someone to pack the things Xia Xiaoman wanted.
Xia Xiaoman frowned, "You are also working for others. You gave me so many things. Aren't you afraid that the people above you will have opinions?"
She asked for more than a dozen seafood items, weighing nearly 200 kilograms in total. If Sun Qing didn't accept her supplies, it would be difficult to explain to the people in the Ye family fleet.
Sun Qing sighed, "Don't worry! Even if I'm not very good, I can still handle this seafood myself."
Xia Xiaoman didn't quite believe it and insisted on exchanging it for supplies. Although she was happy to get more than 100 kilograms of seafood for free, her remaining morals told her not to take advantage of others' misfortune.
Sun Qing had no choice but to lower her voice and said, "Half of this batch of seafood belongs to Xiaojie and me. Even if I give it all away, no one will hold me accountable. Just take it with confidence!"
Xia Xiaoman was stunned. "Isn't the ship you and Xiaojie got also part of the Ye family fleet?"
"No." Sun Qing explained: "Xiao Jie and I wanted to set up a fleet of our own, but we didn't have enough supplies at the moment, so I participated in this cargo transportation operation. I took the opportunity to come to Floating City and smuggled some contraband goods to resell."
Ye Xiaojie was not having a good time at home either. Sister-in-law Ye thought she was an eyesore and bullied her every day. No matter how much Ye's father and mother loved her, they could not drive Sister-in-law Ye out of the house for her.
So Ye Xiaojie and Sun Qing were planning little by little how to use the Ye family fleet to make a fortune quickly, and then leave the Ye family fleet and no longer be looked down upon.
After hearing this, Xia Xiaoman felt relieved to accept the seafood sent by Sun Qing. "I won't accept it for nothing. I got a solar generator. If you need it, you can come to my place to charge it for free." Since Sun Qing didn't accept her supplies, she had to give back in another way.
When Sun Qing heard this, her eyes lit up and she patted her shoulder excitedly, "Good sister, you are worthy of being able to get a solar generator. It just so happens that I have a few rechargeable searchlights and batteries that need to be charged. Wait a minute, I'll ask someone to bring them over."
A few minutes later, Xia Xiaoman fell silent as he looked at the eight batteries and more than twenty flashlights and searchlights in front of him. "Are these the lights and batteries you mentioned?"
Sun Qing scratched her head in embarrassment. "I can't help it. Technology is developing too fast. Everything is rechargeable. It's hard to find a battery-powered lighting fixture."
"Xiao Man, I'm sorry to bother you with these lights and batteries! Don't worry, just charge them slowly and come back to get them when I leave."
Xia Xiaoman sighed helplessly, forget it, there is no use storing electricity at home anyway, the electricity will still be full when the sun comes out the next day.
After unloading the goods traded with Shuiyue Bay, Wang Shijin led his men to find a place for the Ye family fleet to stay and planned how to help the Ye family fleet gain a foothold in the black market tomorrow.
Although the tornado swept away most people's supplies, many people became rich overnight by picking up supplies after the tornado, so there were many people who could afford to buy seafood. When the Ye family fleet put out the seafood, there was no need to shout, a bunch of people gathered around just by smelling the food.
The Luosha Gang was eliminated, and the black market was in chaos for a day before another gang took over. The other gang was afraid of Shuiyue Bay's strength, and saw that the Ye family fleet from outside Shuiyue Bay was selling seafood very well, and they were jealous, but they could do nothing about it.
In just a few days, Sun Qing sold out all the seafood she brought. After spending a day reminiscing with Wen Jianfeng and the others and learning about the current situation of Fucheng, Sun Qing went to Shuiyue Bay to get the electrical appliances that Xia Xiaoman helped to charge and returned to Yuancheng.
After watching Sun Qing and the others leave, Xia Xiaoman went to the property management department to retrieve his crossbow and the 100 arrows that he had agreed to give him.
She took the crossbow home, put an arrow in it and tried shooting two arrows. She found that the crossbow had been slightly adjusted, and the range was longer than before, and the accuracy deviation was smaller. In addition, the 100 arrows were much better than those Su Ran gave her.
It’s really worth lending this crossbow for a few days!
Xia Xiaoman has been bored these days because of an injury to her hand. Now she finally has something to pass the time.
Before he knew it, he had been playing with the crossbow until morning. Xia Xiaoman simply washed up, closed the curtains, put on an eye mask, and slowly fell asleep.
She had completely adapted to the life of staying up all night and fell asleep in no time. When she woke up, it was already past four in the afternoon.
Xia Xiaoman took off her blindfold and walked dazedly to the next room to feed the chickens and rabbits. Just as she was about to turn back to her room to eat, she suddenly stopped and her eyes rested on the curtains that blocked the sunlight.
In order to block the heat, she chose thick curtains to hang on the windows. Even so, the scorching sun could still penetrate through the curtains.
However, today, the curtains showed no signs of being exposed to sunlight, and the room was so dark that one could not see one's hand in front of one's face.
Xia Xiaoman slowly walked to the window and timidly opened the curtains. Outside the window was not the cloudy day she had imagined, nor was it the dark night, but a thick layer of yellow-brown fog...
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