Chapter 8: Agricultural machinery changes life
There is a rice, flour, grain and oil store in the small town outside K City. Xiang Yu looked at the navigation and drove directly there by taking a detour.
There was only one snowplow in the town. When she drove onto the town streets, she met the man driving the snowplow, who was arguing fiercely with several women.
There was a lot of snow on the bodies of several people, and it was obvious that they had been standing here for a while. Xiang Yu honked the horn, and the people who were arguing came back to their senses.
The women looked angry and flushed, and they made way for Xiang Yu with grunts.
When the car arrived at the rice, flour, grain and oil store, the large warehouse was already packed with people, all of whom were residents living in the small town.
Xiang Yu opened the car door and got out, but the phone rang. It was the counselor.
"Xiang Yu, the roads have been blocked recently. Please don't come to school yet. Wait for notification..."
After the counselor finished speaking, he hung up the phone in a hurry. Xiang Yu knew that the school was already in panic.
Those students who were trapped in the school, those with connections asked for help, those without connections asked their families to send money, or they would pay extra money to hire a black car to take them home.
But it is often those who leave school first who are the wisest.
The warehouse was noisy, with rice, flour, grain and oil piled in different areas.
"Please be flexible. There are more than a dozen people in my family waiting to eat. I'm afraid this amount of rice will be finished next month. Moreover, we don't know when the heavy snow will stop. Please sell me two more bags of rice."
As the man spoke, he took out a cigarette from his pocket, opened it, and handed one to the old man who was buying cigarettes.
The old man took it and lit it. "It's not that I don't want to sell it to you, but there are regulations above us, and we dare not do so. Besides, there are so many eyes watching us."
Xiang Yu listened to what the old man said to the man. In fact, the authorities had already strictly controlled these things since the heavy snow began.
Even if he wanted to buy them, they would be calculated based on the number of people. Xiang Yu didn't buy these things right away because he already knew it in his mind.
When it was Xiang Yu's turn in the long line, Xiang Yu avoided everyone's gaze and stuffed one thousand yuan in cash into the old man's sleeve.
The old man felt the hardness of the paper on his wrist and looked at Xiang Yu meaningfully, "Each household can only buy one bag..."
The old man put his hand into his sleeve and felt the thickness of the money. "One bag is enough. Thank you."
Just as the old man handed Xiang Yu a bag of rice weighing 20 kilograms, he said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Come over at 9 o'clock in the evening."
Then he greeted the next guest with a smile. Xiang Yu understood what he meant and his expression was natural.
Money makes the world go round. Xiang Yu used this method and spent nearly ten thousand yuan to open a road here.
After putting the things he bought in the car, Xiang Yu looked at the time. It was only 4:33 in the afternoon, so there was still some time until 9 o'clock in the evening.
After eating in the car, Xiang Yu walked towards the town wearing a mask. It was nine o'clock in the evening before she could go shopping.
But there will probably be restrictions, and buying too much will arouse suspicion. Fortunately, the black soil in space can still be used for planting, so the food problem has been solved.
He found a farm machinery store in the town, but unfortunately it was closed, so Xiang Yu called the number on the sign.
When the boss heard that there was business coming, he came in the heavy snow.
"Girl, there's heavy snow everywhere lately and the land can't be cultivated. What do you want to buy a machine for?" he asked casually.
Xiang Yu made up an excuse, "My family grows greenhouse vegetables, and everything has been frozen lately, and the machines are broken, so we just replaced them with new ones."
"Oh, you're from the west end of the village. It's a bit far to come here." When he heard that it was greenhouse vegetables, the man immediately guessed Xiang Yu's identity.
But Xiang Yu was just making it up, so he could only nod in agreement with the man.
"By the way, boss, I want to buy a rice-threshing machine, a few soil loosening machines, a lawn mower, a corn thresher, a pulping machine, a generator, an old stove... By the way, do you have those snakeskin bags here?"
The boss was stunned for a moment, "Yes..." The agricultural machinery Xiang Yu wanted to buy was almost a complete set, "I just received a batch of goods before the heavy snow, do you want the jars?"
"Yes, do you have big jars?" Xiang Yu didn't expect that this boss not only sold agricultural machinery, but also jars. She was worrying about where to buy jars.
Even if she could buy more oil and soy sauce tonight, the quantities were limited and she didn't have time to run back and forth.
She already had a plan in mind. She could grow her own rapeseed for frying, and she could also make soy sauce from beans. All she lacked was the tools.
While the two were choosing jars, the boss's cell phone rang. After he answered the call, he looked anxious.
Xiang Yu vaguely heard the woman on the phone saying that he needed to be sent to the hospital because he was bleeding.
"I'm sorry, how about this, you come back tomorrow to get the goods, I have to go back now, the elderly at home seems to have fallen."
Tomorrow, she will leave here overnight. "How about this, boss? Help me move all the machines I just bought out and put them in front of your store. Cover them with waterproof cloth. I drove here and I can carry them in the car myself."
As Xiang Yu spoke, he took out four stacks of money from his cotton jacket. This was the price they had agreed on before, and Xiang Yu even gave a little more.
He just wanted the boss to help him move some things. Seeing this, the boss gritted his teeth, rolled up his sleeves and helped Xiang Yu move the things out.
The two of them worked very quickly and moved all the things out in a short while. They went to drive the car to Yu. The boss covered the farm machinery with waterproof cloth and left in a hurry.
After Xiang Yu drove the car to the door of his shop, he moved all the things into the car and put them into the space bit by bit.
After some inquiries, I found a place selling coal in the town. Fortunately, there was no limit on the quantity of coal blocks that could be purchased, and the price was more than one thousand and one hundred yuan per ton.
Xiang Yu bought nearly 150,000 tons of coal. He had several vacant coal mines here. Xiang Yu put the coal in them and said he would come to collect it in the evening.
"Girl, you should have come earlier to take it away. I don't have any cameras here. It's too cold at night recently and they are not on night shift. Don't blame me if your things are stolen."
When Xiang Yu heard that there were no cameras, he promised him to find someone to take it away as soon as possible in the evening.
"Girl, do you want some coal sand?" The boss looked at the workers who were unloading goods. After thinking for two seconds, Xiang Yu also bought two tons of coal sand and gave her some as a gift.
Even if these things were burned every day, they would be enough for her to use for more than ten years. Moreover, the extreme cold period after the blizzard was only half a year.
The rest is for future use.
After eating some snacks in the car, it was soon nine o'clock in the evening, and Xiang Yu drove to the grain and oil warehouse.
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