Chapter 31 Chapter 031【VIP】
Mingzhu was treated sarcastically, but he didn't get angry. He really had a very good temper.
"Okay." Mingzhu nodded to show he understood, and then said, "If anyone chooses to rent the entire complex in the future, the fee will still be 120,000 Starlight Coins."
The apartments in Shifeng No. 1 are all eight-story buildings, while those in other communities are five-story. Overall, Shifeng No. 1 is definitely more affordable.
But, Mingzhu has a special feeling towards soldiers for his own reasons. Even if Zhang Junfang and the others were not comrades who fought side by side with Mingzhu in the previous life, shared life and death with him, and killed the Zerg together, Mingzhu is willing to give them preferential treatment if he can earn it.
As for whether other groups would rent out the complex, they probably would. After all, there are only so many buildings in a complex, and while some land is vacant, it's reserved for green space.
If the community is full, only the "number one" and "number two" communities will be built. No expansion will be made based on the original community.
Currently, the "Taoyuan Base" is very large in area, but in terms of the number of people, it can only be considered a small base.
Doomsday's method of judging the size of a base is very crude and simple: an ultra-small base has less than 1,000 people, a small base has less than 10,000 people, a small or medium-sized base has less than 100,000 people, and a medium-sized base has more than 10,000 people.
Medium-sized businesses with a value of over RMB 100,000 and below RMB 1 million...
A large base naturally has a population of over one million.
There are currently only nine higher education bases in the country.
Among them, the capital city A has two large bases, two medium-sized bases, and 10 small bases.
Another example is Q Province, the hotpot capital, which only has medium and small bases but no large bases.
This is due to geographical reasons.
The main reason is that Q Province is characterized by mountains and hills, with no flat land. This results in small and medium-sized bases everywhere, but no large bases.
A population of millions is fine in peacetime, but in a doomsday world with complex terrain, a large concentration of people is a death sentence.
City Z, City X, and even City C have used themselves as lessons, proving that population concentration is a death warrant.
In summary, based on the above, the Taoyuan base, with only more than 4,000 people, is just a super small base.
Mingzhu didn't quite understand, but generally speaking, Mingzhu felt that the current situation was okay, so Mingzhu's enthusiasm just rose for a while before it dissipated again.
Mingzhu stayed lazily in his residence for several days.
Taoyuan Base was thriving, and most people were highly motivated. People like Qin Mingyue and Yu Xiaowan had already joined the official organization and would go out every day to search for supplies.
The houses available for rent at Taoyuan Base are really just houses. Apart from windows and doors, there is no furniture inside, and oh, there are floors.
Many people who leave the university town base only take portable possessions such as clothes, and almost no one takes furniture like beds.
This resulted in a phenomenon where everyone slept on the floor on the first day of moving into the Taoyuan base.
Then go out the next day, either go back alone to find usable furniture, or go back in a team, and by the way, you can also collect some materials that can be exchanged for Starlight Coins.
"Sister Mingyue, do you feel that the boss has become more and more elusive recently?"
"He's always been so elusive," Yu Xiaowan replied, then asked Qin Mingyue, "Why don't we just stay at the Taoyuan Inn and rent a place in the community?"
"It costs money to live in the residential complex, and it costs money to stay at Yuanyuan Inn. And Taoyuan Inn also provides two free meals a day. There are only two of us, so why would we be so desperate to move to the residential complex?"
"You're right."
"I wonder when Ershui and Liu Yong will be back?"
"Whether I can come back or not is a question mark."
"Um?"
Qin Mingyue and Yu Xiaowan looked at each other and felt something was wrong at the same time.
"Your intuition?" Qin Mingyue.
Yu Xiaowan: "I guess so."
"What does it mean?" Qin Mingyue said seriously, "Don't forget your special ability. It's hard to judge if you speak so vaguely."
"Why is it so difficult to judge? Either you die or you bring your family back here safely." Yu Xiaowan didn't understand what Qin Mingyue was so excited about.
Anyway, she wouldn't worry about Ershui and Liu Yong's safety. Qin Mingyue didn't need to worry either. Now they only had her and her in their team. Wouldn't it be better for them to stay quietly and peacefully in Taoyuan Inn?
Occasionally I would go out with a large group to look for supplies, and occasionally I would go out alone to look for resources that could be exchanged for Starlight Coins. I didn't know how comfortable my life was.
Yu Xiaowan sighed deeply and continued in a teay tone, "Of course I hope Ershui and the others are safe, but things are unpredictable. Who knows what fate will bring? Now the only thing I can do is probably pray to God, praying that Ershui and Brother Liu Yong will be safe."
Heart, it will be fine."
"OK!"
Qin Mingyue and Yu Xiaowan reached harmony again, and the two sisters were happy.
"Hey, you
"Go out and find supplies. Can't you see it if you are blind?" Qin Mingyue said in a bad tone.
"Oh, okay, count me in." Song Heng said with a silly smile.
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"No." Yu Xiaowan refused decisively. "With you here, it will be difficult for us to obtain supplies."
"Don't be so absolute."
Envoy Song Heng tried to persuade Qin Mingyue and Yu Xiaowan, but he didn't know what Yu Xiaowan said, and Qin Mingyue, who didn't know how to refuse, decisively refused.
Yu Xiaowan has an excellent sense of direction, and even her intuition has been strengthened after the upgrade. If she thinks that teaming up with Song Heng is not a good idea, then it must be really bad.
Yu Xiaowan didn't need to lie to Qin Mingyue about this matter. Besides, Qin Mingyue trusted Yu Xiaowan and wouldn't trust a cat or dog whose name she didn't know.
"Don't waste time." Yu Xiaowan reminded, and then went out happily with Qin Mingyue.
Along the way, Yu Xiaowan used her intuition and took Qin Mingyue to pick up box after box of supplies. Finally, they met Jiang Lijun and his wife near the Anshan underground researcher.
"Miss Qin and Miss Yu, are you also out looking for supplies?"
"Well, are you out here to dig wild vegetables?" Yu Xiaowan greeted.
"We have no other choice. Our new rental house has nothing. We thought it would be cheaper to cook our own food, so we came out to find something to eat."
"Many people who rent suites cook their own food," Qin Mingyue said. "So, if you calculate it this way, renting a suite for a family is much cheaper than staying at the Taoyuan Inn."
“But food and lodging are not included.”
"Ah, you can order a meal. It's 25 Starlight Coins a month, and it provides two simple meals a day. It's pretty good."
“That’s one person’s portion.”
Qin Mingyue could understand the whole family's careful budgeting.
For a family of five like Jiang Lijun, if they stayed at Taoyuan Inn, the accommodation fee alone would be 70 Starlight Coins per month. Although food and accommodation were included, the family did not live together.
Living in a suite is different. The monthly rent for a room in an apartment is 15 Starlight Coins. For just 15 Starlight Coins, a family of five can stay in one, saving at least 55 Starlight Coins.
As for meals, the monthly fee is 25 Starlight Coins. Many families who stay alone are reluctant to have the whole family eat at Taoyuan Inn together.
Like their family, they only choose to subscribe for a month, and each time they will take the two meals a day provided back home, and then add some other food, such as wild vegetables, expired canned food and the like, for the whole family to eat.
Calculated this way, their monthly expenses were 40 Starlight Coins, which was a considerable saving. However, compared to other families, such as a large family of seven or eight, this was considered relatively low.
"My dad got a job as an orchard manager," Jiang Lijun said, smiling, full of hope for life. "100 Starlight Coins a month, with food and lodging provided. It's pretty good."
"It's pretty good," Yu Xiaowan nodded heavily, slowly analyzing the situation. "Look, Uncle Jiang's subsidy is like covering one extra person's meals for your family of five. And for accommodation, the 15 Starlight Coin monthly rent is waived, which is like free accommodation for your family of five."
"Wow, the more I calculate, the more envious I am. It's a pity that Sister Mingyue and I were not selected. I don't know what basis Ms. Jin Suanpan uses to recruit."
"It's probably based on experience," Jiang Lijun's wife, Liu Yan, said. "When we applied for our personal ID cards, we registered our work experience and specialties. Ms. Jin Suanpan selects employees based on that."
Qin Mingyue seemed to be lost in thought.
Yu Xiaowan: "Ms. Jin Suanpan is really amazing."
"The truly amazing one is the boss, who has a capable subordinate like Jin Suanpan." While speaking, Liu Yan did not forget to invite Qin Mingyue and Yu Xiaowan to form a team.
Qin Mingyue looked at Yu Xiaowan and said that she would make the decision.
Yu Xiaowan nodded in agreement without thinking. She had a feeling that if they teamed up this time, they would definitely return with a great harvest.
This is indeed the case. The four of them worked together and not only dug up a lot of wild vegetables, but also killed a mutant wild boar.
"This wild boar is really fat."
The four of them happily divided the wild boar. After returning, Qin Mingyue and Yu Xiaowan directly asked Tonghua, who was standing in the hall in a daze, whether she would accept the wild boar meat.
Tonghua nodded: "Yes, sisters, are you going to sell them all?"
Since Qin Mingyue and Yu Xiaowan didn't cook the meat themselves, they naturally wanted to sell it. Thus, the two of them exchanged half of the wild boar meat for at least a thousand Starlight Coins.
As for Jiang Lijun and Liu Yan, they did not choose to sell the wild boar meat to the Taoyuan Inn, but chose to take several hundred kilograms of wild boar meat including offal, as well as a lot of wild vegetables back home as food for the family for the next month.
Fortunately, the weather wasn't too cold, so the wild boar meat could be stored and dried into bacon and sausage. So when neighbors envied them and asked if they could sell them some, Jiang Lijun and Liu Yan chose to sell the pig offal, and they sold about 100 kilograms of wild boar meat.
Jiang Lijun's family of five lives on the first floor of Mulin No. 1 residential complex. The 40-square-meter space is divided into two bedrooms.
The master bedroom is where Grandpa Jiang, Grandma Jiang, and Jiang Tiantian sleep. The bed inside is similar to a "mother-child bed," with two beds, one above and one below.
Jiang Lijun and Liu Yan occupied the smaller second bedroom. The furnishings were exceptionally simple. Even the open kitchen, connected to the living room, contained only a simple dining table and stove.
"We need to find a way to search nearby towns." Liu Yan talked to Jiang Lijun while cooking. "Let's see if there's any suitable furniture. Otherwise, it's not worth having an empty room without even a decent wardrobe or furniture."
"Actually, no need." Grandma Jiang, who had just returned from doing laundry with Tiantian, said with a smile, "The Golden Hammer Weapon Shop and the Silver Hammer Furniture Shop are opening tomorrow. They're having a grand opening sale, with all furniture starting at 20% off. I figured the prices in our Taoyuan base aren't that high, so why not go to the Silver Hammer Furniture Shop tomorrow to have a look?"
Jiang Lijun asked curiously, "...What kind of weapons does the Golden Hammer Weapon Shop mainly sell?"
"They should be cold weapons and firearms," Grandma Jiang added. "Also, Yin Xiaoluo Cloth Shop opened today. They sell two kinds of cloth, linen and ramie. I thought our Tiantian needed new clothes, so I came back to get some money to buy some cloth."
"The meal is almost ready. Let's go together later," Liu Yan said with a smile. "Not only does Tiantian deserve new clothes, but you should too, Mom."
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