Chapter 68 Bullying her because she is short?
The whole city was flooded and almost all vehicles were scrapped. Only a small number of cars survived in a few parking lots.
These vehicles were under strict surveillance by the Fucheng government before the flood ended, with the plan to use them to transport supplies after the flood was over.
Where there are people, there is corruption. The shortage of cars in the floating city means that huge profits can be made by selling vehicles.
Some excavators cooperated with the staff who recorded the vehicles to secretly transport the vehicles dug out from the mud for repairs, and then sold them after the repairs to earn materials.
The man with the ponytail can repair cars. He cooperates with Chen Guangli and another master who drives an excavator. They secretly transport the excavated cars to his place for repairs, and they share the earned materials equally.
The value of a car is too high, and it is difficult to sell it if you specify a certain material to exchange it for, so they discussed and decided to accept any material.
They kept the ones they could use, and Chen Guangli, who happened to work at the trading point, could use his position to exchange the unused materials for the ones everyone needed.
Xia Xiaoman thought for a moment and said, "Can I exchange it for gold?"
"Gold?!" Chen Guangli's eyes lit up, "How much gold do you have?"
Xia Xiaoman didn't answer, "Tell me first if you can change it."
"Sure." The ponytail man nodded, "Five pounds of gold for a car."
Xia Xiaoman frowned, "It's too expensive. In troubled times, the value of gold will not depreciate but only appreciate. According to the market price of more than 500 yuan per gram, five kilograms is more than one million yuan. Your car is not worth more than one million yuan, at most three kilograms of gold."
The ponytail man disagreed, "Gold is good in troubled times, but off-road vehicles are also in short supply right now. Three kilograms of gold is too little, and five kilograms is already the lowest price."
Xia Xiaoman had more than ten kilograms of gold in her hand, so she had no pressure to take out five kilograms, but she was reluctant to spend such a high price on a car. If the floating city recovered its prosperity in the future, the gold would be her capital to live comfortably.
After bargaining with the ponytail man for most of the day, I finally bought the SUV for 4 kilograms of gold and a tank of gasoline as a gift.
Xia Xiaoman passed the driving test during the winter break of her freshman year, but she could only drive a regular car, and it was her first time to drive an SUV. She asked the ponytailed man to drive the car to the entrance of the alley, and then she got in the driver's seat and drove home.
Xia Xiaoman thought Chen Guangli would kill people to steal the treasure when he saw a woman like her take out so much gold. She didn't expect that she could buy a car so smoothly, and it was an off-road vehicle.
After parking the bike in a remote place and putting it away, Xia Xiaoman rode his bike slowly back to the community, humming a little tune.
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It was already past one in the morning when Xia Xiaoman got home. She simply washed up and went to bed.
The next morning, she was awakened by the chirping sounds. She sat on the bed for a while, then remembered that she had not fed the chicks she brought back yesterday, so she cooked a pot of mixed grain rice, let it cool, and then fed the chickens.
The man named Ji Ming was very smart. The chickens he sold were all pullets, without even a single rooster. He was probably afraid that they would be bred into chicks.
Xia Xiaoman didn't care. Her main purpose of raising chickens was to eat eggs, so as long as they were hens, it would be fine.
Around six o'clock in the afternoon, Xia Xiaoman came downstairs carrying two bags of rice, and Ji Ming had already set up the stall.
"Hey, did you bring the rabbit I ordered yesterday?"
Ji Ming nodded and took out four immature rabbits from the basket.
Xia Xiaoman checked the four rabbits and made sure there was nothing wrong with them. She threw the rice in her hand to Ji Ming and went home carrying the four rabbits' ears.
A couple passed by, and the woman pointed at the rabbit in Xia Xiaoman's hand and said in a coquettish voice: "What a cute rabbit! Brother Yao, I want a rabbit too."
"My dear, they are just a few rabbits. I'll give them to you now."
The buzz cut man named A Yao stopped Xia Xiaoman and said, "Hey, are you deaf? Didn't you hear my girlfriend say she wanted a rabbit? Bring the rabbit over here!"
Xia Xiaoman looked left and right, and there was no one around him. "Are you talking to me?"
"Who else could it be other than you? Hurry up and give the rabbit to my girlfriend!" The man with a crew cut looked impatient.
Xia Xiaoman was puzzled. "You must have read too many novels about domineering CEOs! You asked me to take it, so I took it. Who do you think you are? The richest man in the world? If you want a rabbit, go to the gate of the community and buy it. Why are you pretending to be a domineering CEO here, you idiot!"
The buzz cut man was ridiculed, his face darkened instantly, and he clenched his fist and said viciously: "Stop talking nonsense, you bastard, if you don't want to be beaten, take out the rabbit! Otherwise, I will make you pay!"
Xia Xiaoman sighed. Being short makes you easy to be bullied. "If you want a rabbit, come and get it!"
The man with a crew cut looked at Xia Xiaoman suspiciously. He was speaking in a bad tone just now, so why did he suddenly ask him to get the rabbit?
Seeing that Xia Xiaoman was holding the rabbit with both hands and was so short and thin, he thought nothing serious would happen, so the man with a crew cut walked over with a cold face.
Just as his hand was about to touch the rabbit, Xia Xiaoman suddenly raised his leg and kicked him hard between the legs.
The man with a crew cut let out a howl, clamped his legs together and fell to the ground in agony, his face twisted in pain and sweating, unable to utter a word.
When the men passing by saw this scene, they subconsciously covered their crotches and quickened their pace to leave this place of trouble.
This woman is so vicious. If she kicks me, my balls will probably break. I can’t afford to offend her. I’d better run away now!
The girlfriend of the man with the crew cut was stunned for a moment, then she came to her senses and wanted to settle the score with Xia Xiaoman, but when she saw Xia Xiaoman's cold eyes, she was so scared that she stood there in a daze.
After solving the problem, Xia Xiaoman went home contentedly carrying the rabbit.
Rabbits are omnivores. Xia Xiaoman locked the four rabbits in the smallest room, poured some oatmeal and water into them and left them alone.
Just as I had settled the rabbit, the door was slammed by someone.
"Xiao Man, are you home? Do you have a thermometer at home?"
Xia Xiaoman opened the door and saw Zhou Qiuyang sweating profusely. She asked, "Why do you need a thermometer? Do you have a fever?"
"It's not me, it's Su Ran. He had a bit of heatstroke this afternoon, and I told him to go take a rest but he didn't listen. He was climbing the stairs just now, and he almost fainted halfway up. I touched his forehead, and it was so hot that I could boil an egg on it."
Zhou Qiuyang raised his hand to wipe the sweat off his face and said quickly, "Do you have a thermometer at home? Lend it to me so I can measure Su Ran's fever."
"Yes, you go over and check on Su Ran's condition first, I'll be there with the thermometer."
Xia Xiaoman returned to the house and took out a thermometer and a pack of five fever-reducing patches from the space.
When she arrived at 1501, Wen Jianfeng was helping Su Ran to cool down physically, wiping Su Ran's body with cold water.
Xia Xiaoman handed over the fever-reducing patch and said, "Put one on first to reduce the temperature. Don't let the fever make you stupid."
Zhou Qiuyang took the fever-reducing patch, tore off a piece and put it on Su Ran’s forehead.
"Is it caused by heatstroke? Have you taken any anti-heat medicine?" Xia Xiaoman asked.
"I took a bottle of Huoxiang Zhengqi water when I just came back, but I vomited it out again."
Looking at Su Ran's pale face, Zhou Qiuyang frowned in worry. A few days ago, someone in their team had convulsions from heat stroke, and died before being sent to the medical station.
I don’t know if Su Ran can survive this...
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