Chapter 291: Extremely Hot. Buying Water
At present, all bases in the country still rely on heat-resistant crops from agricultural bases. However, after the hottest days are over, they will gradually search for agricultural experts, and by the time the acid rain period comes, they will be able to share the same responsibilities.
"Try it quickly, it tastes good and not too chewy." Li Qing urged.
Chu An was also a little hungry, so he picked up the sweet potato and took a big bite. Unexpectedly, it was indeed softer than in his previous life, so he took another big bite.
Uh... a little choked!!!
She clenched her fist and hit her chest twice before she managed to swallow it.
Li Qing smiled indulgently, "Eat slowly. If it's not enough, I'll give you this too."
"Mine is for you." Duoduo pursed her lips, quickly gave her sweet potato to Chu An, and pushed Li Qing's back to him.
Chu An waved her hands hastily, she didn't want anyone's. But this little dumpling was quite interesting.
She picked up the mung bean soup and took a big sip, barely able to swallow it, but the soup tasted a bit strange. She smacked her lips and felt that it had little to do with the mung beans, but with the water.
She took another sip and confirmed that the water used to cook the mung beans was not filtered cleanly, and frowned slightly.
It's not that she is disgusted. It was timely to remind Li Qing to stock up water. She believed that Li Qing had stockpiled a lot. She just didn't expect that the number of people in his team would increase. As a result, the water stockpiled before would naturally not be enough.
Li Qing pinched his thigh, wondering why he forgot to prepare clean water for Xiao An in advance.
The clean water stored during the extreme cold has been used up, so these soups are cooked with ice water that was rushed to the end of the extreme cold. It's fine for rough men to drink, but it might cause diarrhea for girls.
Normally he wouldn't let Duoduo drink, and Duoduo wouldn't take the initiative to serve soup.
Without waiting for Li Qing's instructions, Jinli hurriedly swallowed the last bite of sweet potato.
"Brother Qing, Sister An. I'm going to be out for a while. You guys take your time eating."
Because of his previous experience in the orphanage, he ate very quickly, and was forced out by the natural disaster, so now he can basically finish his meal in 2-3 minutes. Before leaving, he winked at Li Qing, and Li Qing agreed.
Li Qing hurriedly lowered his head to eat the vermicelli. In fact, Hu Buwei had already made a water purification filter. Unfortunately, no matter how much it was filtered, the strange smell could not be eliminated.
In the past, the Qing Gang would go to the nearby Lanjin Club to buy water once a day. They had fenced off a piece of land, and there happened to be a well on the land, so the water source was sufficient.
The price of water is not cheap. At the beginning, one liter of water required three kilograms of grain. As the weather gets hotter, the price of blue gold will start to rise, from one time to two times... five times, and now ten times.
Now they can only buy once every week, and buy three kilograms each time, mainly for Duoduo and their subordinates who were injured on duty.
Recently, because of Yue Qianshan's incident, the Qing Gang had been earning less and less, and was almost unable to make ends meet, so they had to stop buying water. Duoduo drank the last bit of water left, and now there was only water left in the large milky white water cup she was carrying.
Chu An was choked and his brain short-circuited, so he didn't notice the abnormality of Li Qing and Jinli. Moreover, he was a little irritated because of the lag of his mobile phone recently, and a bubble appeared in his mouth. If he hadn't been hungry just now, he wouldn't have been able to eat so much.
She learned her lesson and slowly slowed down her pace, carefully avoiding the wound each time she put in a mouthful of food. After Li Qing and Gangzi finished eating, she still had half a bowl of food, a whole whole grain steamed bun, and potatoes.
She swallowed the last bite of sweet potato and found that Li Qing, Gangzi and Duoduo were all staring at her.
"Is there something on my face?" Chu An asked in surprise.
"No...no." Li Qing smiled awkwardly. What he feared most now was that Chu An would ask him for water. Why hadn't Koi come back yet?
Speak of the devil, here he appears. Jinli slowly pushed open the cafeteria door, leaned out half of his body, waved at Gangzi, and then pointed at Li Qing.
Gangzi was facing the door and whispered in Li Qing's ear, "Koi is back, but it seems...it didn't work out."
Li Qing took a deep breath, and quickly adjusted his state, and said to Chu An in a relaxed manner, "Xiao An, you eat first, I'll be out for a while. Duoduo, accompany Sister Xiao An for dinner, Gangzi, come out with me."
Chu An nodded. Actually, he didn't need to accompany him, but since Duoduo was the only one left, he might as well ask about the driver.
Duoduo found that Chu An kept looking at her while eating, and felt a little embarrassed for a moment.
I don’t know why, but ever since I knew she was the one who saved me in the end, I’ve been a little afraid of her.
After a while, she blinked her big eyes twice and silently pushed the sweet potatoes that she had just not given away and was going to give to Li Qing in the afternoon in front of Chu An.
Chu An's mouth twitched. It was really not that serious. But she still picked up the sweet potato and asked, "Duoduo, I want to ask you something. Can you tell me the truth?"
"What's the matter?" Duoduo tilted his head, his eyes fixed on Sweet Potato.
Chu An didn't want to beat around the bush. She had no experience in coaxing children. Duoduo was also a smart little adult, so coaxing her probably wouldn't work. It would be better to ask directly, "Why did you hurt the driver?"
Duoduo moved his gaze from sweet potato to her face, then quickly looked away and pursed his lips.
"I told you so much, sister doesn't want this sweet potato."
"Really?" Her eyes lit up immediately.
After all, he is just a child, he is very goal-oriented and doesn't understand so many twists and turns.
Chu An nodded, "Sister never lies, would Duoduo lie?"
Duoduo shook his head hurriedly, then nodded uncertainly, "Duoduo sometimes lies."
Chu An frowned. This kid was indeed interesting.
"Duoduo never lies to Brother Qing." She thought for a moment and then said, "He won't lie to Sister either."
"Okay, then I won't lie to you anymore. Can you tell me what you saw that day?"
On the other side, Li Qing and Gangzi came out of the cafeteria and saw that Jinli had nothing in his hands, so they roughly knew what was going on.
"How many times has it increased?" Li Qing asked with a frown.
Koi sighed, "I don't know what's wrong with them. Now they need 60 kilograms of food to exchange for one liter of water. The food I brought is not enough."
It has increased twenty times.
Gangzi asked, "Then just exchange as many as you have."
Koi was helpless. "I am depressed because of this. They are so arrogant now. They said that the minimum purchase amount is 10 liters. At that time, there were two other families who wanted to buy water besides me. We were kicked out directly without reaching an agreement. When I left, both sides were still cursing at each other. I don't know if there was a fight in the end."
Gangzi, "Then buy them on credit and give them to them when you have enough money later."
"No credit, and the Qing Gang won't give any face now." After Jinli finished speaking, he suddenly thought of something, "Could it be related to Yue Qianshan and the others?"
Gangzi suddenly realized and looked at Li Qing, "It's possible. We have helped the Blue Gold Society ship goods many times in the past, so they shouldn't be so ruthless. It must be Yue Qianshan and Li Fu who did this."
Li Qing touched his nose habitually, "Not necessarily. The president of the Blue Gold Society is also an old fox. He probably wants to take advantage of the opportunity to make some money."
"What should we do then?" Gangzi really couldn't think of a solution. If he could pick up a knife and kill, he would be the first to rush forward.
Jinli looked at Li Qing, "Brother Qing, should we still buy it?"
Li Qing's eyes flickered, he gritted his teeth and said, "Buy it."
There is no way we can let Xiao An drink the same water as them.
Jinli pursed his lips and spoke after a while, "Brother Qing, then I have to ask Brother Song for food. I'm afraid he won't give it to me if he knows the reason."
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