The supermarket was originally planning to open at eight o'clock, but seeing that there were already thousands of people gathered at the door, the supermarket owner was afraid that if it opened later, there would be too many people and the supermarket would be too busy, so he led the staff, each holding a loud speaker, and shouted to the crowd: "Everyone, please be quiet, be quiet! Line up first, form five teams, and enter the supermarket in an orderly and disciplined manner. Don't squeeze, don't cut in line! This time our Fuwanjia Supermarket has a sufficient supply of goods, don't be anxious, don't rush, you will buy it! Everyone, start lining up, okay!"
At first people listened to the supermarket owner and staff and lined up, but after less than two minutes, they started arguing over who came first and who came later. Some people even fought over standing in the front position, and the people around them couldn't stop them.
As the sun rises higher, the fiery red light spreads all over the earth, making people sweat all over. If we delay any further, we might get sick from the heat.
The supermarket owner had finally gotten the goods and wanted to make a fortune, so he simply told the staff to open the door directly and didn't bother to ask people to line up to buy the goods.
The noisy crowd saw the supermarket door open and stopped quarreling or fighting. They all picked up their shopping equipment and rushed in like a group of mad buffaloes.
Families with elderly and children were so frightened when they saw this situation that they quickly huddled together to avoid collision accidents.
There were also elderly people who were not afraid of death. They no longer looked as gentle as Lin Daiyu when getting on the bus. They hugged the child in their arms and rushed in aggressively, scaring the child to cry loudly. They only said, "Good child, be patient. Our family has been out of food and water for several days. Grandpa/grandma must grab food today!"
Si Nan was squeezed in the crowd. A pair of slender and strong arms grabbed her arms and pulled her in front of a tight and broad body. When she looked up, she met Cheng Suming's calm black eyes.
"Are you okay?" The man's voice was deep and pleasant, and he had a pleasant scent of fir on him, which formed a sharp contrast with the strong smell of sweat that permeated the surroundings.
There were people running all around, and to protect her, Cheng Su Ming held her tightly to his chest.
The two were too close, and when Cheng Su Ming spoke, his warm breath lingered in front of Si Nan. Si Nan's heartbeat quickened slightly, and she thought, her marriage to Cheng Su Ming was just a relationship of mutual benefit. Normally, she avoided any physical contact with him, so why was it that today, when he took the initiative to approach her, not only did she not feel disgusted, but she even felt a little moved?
Could it be that she was in a period of being single, feeling lonely, empty and cold inside, and was bewitched by Cheng Suming's good looks?
Considering that it has only been a year since she broke up with Zou Shichu, she actually has such thoughts. She is indeed blinded by lust.
Feeling a little impatient, Si Nan gave Cheng Su Ming a light push, not as usual: "I'm fine. The crowd was too crowded just now and separated you and me. I thought I had to go inside to find you."
"I've always been by your side and never left you." As the figures around him dwindled, Cheng Suming loosened his arms around her back and pointed to the supermarket: "Let's go. If it's any later, there might be nothing left."
Si Nan's eyes flashed, and he followed him into the supermarket. It was a supermarket that looked like a large square warehouse. Two months ago, it mainly sold fresh meat and vegetables. It was to facilitate the purchase of vegetables by the owners of Shenxianyuan and nearby areas because there was no vegetable market nearby.
Nowadays, rivers and lakes are dry, fields are cracked, crops are dying, and fresh fruits and vegetables have become rare commodities. Although no one knows where the supermarket owners get the supplies, the fruits and vegetables displayed in the fresh food area look wilted and not very fresh, and the prices are ridiculously expensive, but there are still many people pushing shopping carts to buy them.
Si Nan and Cheng Su Ming pushed the shopping cart not to the fresh food area, but to the area on the other side of the supermarket that sold various foods and beverages.
On the rows of shelves, storable foods such as flour, noodles, rice, beans, dried kelp, black fungus and white fungus have all become scarce commodities. Many people are fighting over a handful of noodles, a bag of flour and a bucket of mineral water, and the supermarket staff are too lazy to care.
In the snack area, all the filling foods such as biscuits, instant noodles, canned food, bread, eight-treasure porridge, bagged braised eggs, braised chicken and duck legs, etc. were almost all sold out. Only some colorful candies, various spicy strips that were considered junk food by parents, some not-so-palatable lemonades, and drinks such as sugar-free soda were left on the shelves. They were scattered on the ground in a disorderly manner. The staff picked them up while cursing and put them back on the shelves.
Cheng Suming picked up a few packages of crushed biscuits from the ground, ignored the staff's hesitant gaze, put the biscuits into the shopping cart, then put all the remaining candies, spicy strips and other junk food, and various leftover drinks on the shelves into the shopping cart, then went to the tobacco and alcohol area where few people bought things, and directly called the supermarket staff to help him pick up the goods and pack them.
When the staff reconfirmed the packing, he took Sinan to the living area and took a thousand glow sticks, a thousand pairs of large-capacity batteries of different models, five hundred lighters, four hundred flashlights with different functions and colorful candles of different shapes, three hundred binoculars, two hundred positioning devices and walkie-talkies, one hundred radios and gas masks, fifty plush blankets and quilts, twenty sets of high-end down jackets that can withstand low temperatures, ten loudspeakers, and all the few toilet papers, and then went to the supermarket to queue up for checkout.
Perhaps it was because the things they bought were too strange and in large quantities, forming a sharp contrast with what everyone else bought. Half of the supermarket staff were busy packing and pushing goods for them, attracting everyone's curious eyes.
An aunt who knew Cheng Suming said, "Xiao Cheng, why don't you two buy some food and drinks to store at home? Why buy so many useless things?"
Cheng Suming replied in a good-tempered manner: "Aunt Chen, I am dealing with the impending doomsday disaster."
Aunt Chen frowned: "What the hell are you talking about? Why don't I understand?"
Her son Chen Da, who was standing beside her, quickly explained, "Mom, if you don't go online, you don't know that there are more and more web pages and posts about natural disasters and doomsday on the Internet recently. Some people say that this hot weather was warned two months ago. But at that time, the Internet police had strong control, and the two warning posts were deleted as soon as they came out. Only a few people took screenshots and told their relatives and friends about it, but no one believed it. As a result, the hot weather really came. Now the two prediction screenshots are posted everywhere. Although the Internet police have been deleting them and blocking the entries, I believe them a little bit now. Mr. Cheng, as a doctor, has stockpiled such a large amount of daily necessities, there is no reason for me not to stock up. Mom, you check out first, and I'll push a shopping cart and go back to buy some daily necessities."
Aunt Chen was a little confused, and so were the people around her. The young people reacted quickly and took out their low-battery cell phones to conduct various searches. Eventually they came to the conclusion that Aunt Chen was not lying, and they turned around and pushed their empty shopping carts to buy daily necessities.
Looking at the people rushing to buy, Sinan suddenly thought of Murphy's Law. When thousands of people talk about something and no one believes it, a person with a certain status in society suddenly takes the lead in believing in this matter and takes action. Then other people will have empathy and identification effect and follow suit.
In this way, when Cheng Suming and she purchase large quantities of other supplies or possess other supplies in the future, people will not arouse too much suspicion.
It has to be said that Cheng Suming's trick was very effective. After they paid the bill and spent a lot of money on running expenses to have the supermarket staff deliver all the goods to their floor above, they closed the door and went downstairs to the nearby gas company to ask for 500 large gas cylinders. They also found a coal supplier and asked for 10,000 tons of coal. When it was delivered to the designated warehouse location, both parties said that except for the price which had increased five times compared to before, there was no problem with anything else.
This was apparently because the natural disaster apocalypse warning from the previous supermarket panic buying had spread throughout the nearby street communities, so neither boss was surprised.
After buying these things, there was only 100,000 yuan left in Cheng Suming's card. Si Nan thought about the soaring prices now. In the supermarket just now, a watermelon weighing less than ten pounds was sold for two hundred yuan, which means twenty yuan per pound. This is not the price of Country Z when the country was vast and rich in resources, when watermelons were sold for one or two yuan, or at most three yuan.
Back then, if you wanted to buy a watermelon in the neighboring island country, it would cost more than 100 yuan if you exchanged it for cash in Country Z, and everyone laughed at you. Now, due to the hot weather in Country Z, prices have risen to this level. Prices will definitely rise in the future, and cash will be needed. Sinan decided to withdraw all the remaining money.
Cheng Su Ming's card has always been in Si Nan's hands. She knows the password and she has always been in charge of the money.
When she took out the money and saw that Cheng Suming had no intention of taking a penny, she stuffed 20,000 yuan into his hand, sat in the passenger seat of the Hummer driven by Cheng Suming, and complained: "Can you be more careful? Although you and I are married and legally we are husband and wife, in reality we have no relationship at all, and we only use each other. You gave me all your money and put all the supplies in my space, but you still don't care. Aren't you afraid that after the end of the world, the order will collapse and the law and morality will be meaningless. Aren't you afraid that I will kick you or cut your neck so that you can't reveal the secrets of my space?"
"Would you do that?" Cheng Suming turned the steering wheel and drove towards Linjiang Wharf. Looking at the empty streets with almost no pedestrians and vehicles in the hot weather, he stepped on the accelerator, shifted the car to the highest gear within the speed limit, and asked casually.
Simon:......
She was not sure if she would, because people's hearts are hidden. No matter how harmless and gentle Cheng Suming acted, after two months of getting along with him, her intuition told her that Cheng Suming was a very dangerous person.
Dr. Cheng, who seemed gentle and polite, always smiling, and whom everyone wanted to get close to, was actually a cruel and ruthless smiling tiger.
His cruelty is hidden in the details. He thinks he hides it well, but many times, his cruelty can be seen in the tiny details of life.
For example, when he was cutting vegetables, he would always sharpen the knife to its sharpest state and cut it into the desired shape as quickly as possible. Even if he cut his hand with the knife in the process, he would never stop and let the blood flow until he finished cutting the vegetables before treating the wound.
For example, among the chickens and geese raised on the balcony, there is a rooster that is really noisy. It crows every hour at night, making him and people in other buildings unable to sleep. He superficially accepted the neighbor's complaint and told her that he didn't care.
But within two days, the rooster died. He told her that the rooster had suffered from heatstroke, refused to eat or drink water, and had heat stroke and could not eat, so he threw the rooster away.
She became cautious and carried him downstairs to find the rooster's body and checked it. She found that there was something in the rooster's stomach. The real reason for the rooster's death was that he had broken its neck...
She really wanted to ask him why he did this. What kind of person was he to have such a creepy and scary side!
Later I thought, no matter what kind of person he is, one thing is certain, he needs her space very much, because her space is of the mind type, the kind that others cannot take away.
In this case, as long as he doesn't harm her life or the lives of her relatives and friends, she doesn't care what kind of person he is.
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