Chapter 190 Buying a Snowmobile
The dark, noisy, cramped and dirty environment of the sewers has polluted the people of Shuiyue Bay.
Even a cheerful person like Fu Baiwei was forced to become abnormal. Although other people would not become crazy, they would have some paranoia to a certain extent. They always felt that everyone around them wanted to harm them and were plotting against their supplies. Even the smallest thing would be magnified infinitely.
In this situation, it is impossible for everyone to work together to find supplies and do business as before. Everyone will subconsciously be on guard against the people around them and cannot trust each other.
The route to Shuiyue Bay was not feasible, and Sun Qing sighed in dismay. Suddenly, she thought of something and said, "Didn't you know an employee of a trading point before? Can he help with the acquisition?"
Xia Xiaoman was stunned for a moment, "Chen Guangli?"
She had just suspected Chen Guangli of trafficking in white powder some time ago. Now she was asked to go find Chen Guangli, but she was reluctant to do so for fear of getting into trouble.
"I don't have much friendship with Chen Guangli. He cares more about interests. As long as it is beneficial to him, he can be friends with anyone."
"I can tell you the address, and you can work with him. But you'd better be careful with him, because he is a slippery person."
After getting the address of Chen Guangli's home, Ye Xiaojie and Sun Qing said goodbye.
They came to see Xia Xiaoman, firstly to reminisce about the past and keep in touch, as they did not want to lose Xia Xiaoman as a network. Secondly, they wanted to complete the task of purchasing rabbit fur as soon as possible through Xia Xiaoman.
Since Xia Xiaoman had no solution, they could only find another way and cooperate with Chen Guangli.
Seeing that they were about to leave, Xia Xiaoman said politely, "It's so cold outside, have you found a place to stay? If not, you can stay at my house for two days."
Sun Qing shook her head. "No need. We drove an RV here and have a place to stay."
Xia Xiaoman was surprised and asked, "RV? Where did you make your fortune?"
"I went to the north and brought back a batch of snowmobiles and RVs. This is also thanks to Ye Xiaojie's father. With his dozen ships, it is much easier to get any supplies."
Ye Xiaojie and Sun Qing both know very well that time is money.
As soon as Ye Xiaojie became pregnant, she took over more than a dozen fishing boats and thousands of fishermen of her marriage partner.
After experiencing the first snowstorm, Ye Xiaojie felt that the coal she, Sun Qing, and her marriage partner had stored was not enough. After adapting to the cold environment, she asked the fishermen to salvage a large number of seafood in the shortest time possible, and also tried to make sea salt.
All the produced sea salt and salvaged seafood were taken to Yancheng in exchange for coal.
During a coal exchange, Sun Qing discovered that Yancheng had many more snowmobiles. After some investigation, he found out that these snowmobiles were transported from a city in the north to Yancheng to exchange for coal.
Upon learning that there were snowmobiles for sale in the north, Sun Qing went back to discuss it with Ye Xiaojie, and they both decided to go north to buy a snowmobile.
They brought a large amount of supplies and followed the northern team that came to Yancheng to exchange for coal. They encountered various dangers along the way, but as long as they could exchange for a batch of snowmobiles, all the dangers would not be a problem.
The inland areas were short of both salt and fish, so the supplies Sun Qing and his team brought were very popular. After a few days, they found a large local gang to trade with, and exchanged them for hundreds of snowmobiles and several off-road vehicles and RVs that could travel on the snow.
This time when we came to Fucheng, we drove a motorhome with a heating system considering that Ye Xiaojie was pregnant.
Xia Xiaoman couldn't help but feel a little envious when she heard about Sun Qing's experiences during this period, but it was just envy, not jealousy.
If she wanted to get a snowmobile, she could just go out and ask which gang had a snowmobile, then sneak in and get one at any time, but it would be a bit troublesome.
"Did you bring back many snowmobiles? Can you sell me one?" Xia Xiaoman asked.
If the problem can be solved with material supplies, try to use material supplies.
Sun Qing didn't say anything, she scratched her head and looked at Ye Xiaojie. The snowmobile was brought back by Ye Xiaojie and the family she married into, so she had no right to sell it.
"It's fine to sell you one, but if you don't travel far often, I don't recommend you buy one."
Ye Xiaojie lowered her voice and said, "The extreme cold won't last forever. You spent a lot of money to buy a snowmobile. Once the extreme cold is over, the snowmobile will be useless, which is a waste of supplies."
This sentence was quite meaningful. Xia Xiaoman narrowed her eyes and asked, "Did you hear any news?"
Ye Xiaojie shook her head. "I just heard a little rumor that the capital sent people to observe the trajectory of the planets and the rotation of the blue planet during the day..."
The capital is in the north. Ye Xiaojie and her friends went to a northern city to buy snowmobiles. They accidentally heard people talking about the people sent by the capital to observe the orbits of the planets. They sent back news that they had observed the boundary between eternal day and eternal night for a period of time. Every few days, this boundary would shift forward a certain distance.
If the news is true, then perhaps the eternal night will slowly fade away.
Of course, this is just everyone's guess. Before we see the sun, no one can guarantee whether the eternal night will really disappear.
After knowing that the Eternal Night might disappear, Xia Xiaoman did not give up on buying a snowmobile. "I don't know when the extreme cold will end. I'll buy one first. If I encounter any accidents, I can escape before others with a snowmobile."
Ye Xiaojie thought about it and felt that what she said made sense. "Okay! If you want to buy, I'll give you the cost price, one snowmobile and 500 kilograms of food."
"If you're not in a hurry, wait until we buy the rabbit skins and then trade them when we leave."
Xia Xiaoman nodded in agreement, chatted with Ye Xiaojie and the others for a few more words before sending them out.
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Ye Xiaojie and her friends brought a lot of supplies for exchange, filling up more than twenty trucks. If they were to sell them retail, it would probably take more than a month or two to sell them all.
They didn't hold much hope for Chen Guangli and were ready to return empty-handed. But they didn't expect that Chen Guangli would immediately promise to help them after knowing that they had a large amount of seafood and sea salt.
As the saying goes, snakes have their ways and rats have their ways. Just because there is no shortage of sea salt and seafood at the trading point does not mean that others do not have a shortage of them.
There are many gangs in Floating City that are on the official blacklist. Once on the blacklist, they cannot go to the trading point to exchange supplies.
Even though these gangs have no worries about food and drink at the moment, this is only temporary. Once everything that can be robbed around them has been robbed, they will be left with nothing.
Seafood is basically high in protein, not to mention sea salt. Humans can’t lack anything but salt. These two things can be sold to those gangs on the blacklist at any time.
These gangs would rob other people's supplies every day, and the most robbed items were rabbit skins.
Each of them could wear two pieces of rabbit skin at most, and the extra ones could not be sold, so they could be used to trade with Ye Xiaojie and others.
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