"The supermarket is open!" Someone on the street shouted so loudly that it seemed to break the sky.
After yelling, he ran away, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and tightly grasped the wad of money in his pocket.
This money is of little use in normal times. After all, both water and potatoes are in limited supply, and you can't buy much even if you have money.
Apart from the fact that you can't live without money, this money is of little use.
But the people in the base cherish it very much - compared with other bases, this place is like heaven.
Although a small number of people still have privileges, at least there are no slums here, children do not have to be abandoned after birth, and everyone has a job, whether they like it or not, and at least they don't have to sell their bodies.
People in the house poked their heads out of the windows: "The supermarket is open?!"
"Hurry! Go over there!"
The man in the bungalow was only wearing a pair of shorts. He excitedly shouted to the woman, "Quick! Take the money! Where is the money?"
The woman put the child in the cradle. Fortunately, the child didn't need to crawl yet, and apart from crying, he didn't cause much trouble to the adults. The woman squatted on the ground and opened all the cabinets - a cunning rabbit has three burrows. Ever since they knew that the things in the supermarket could be purchased with the money from the base, they were always worried about thieves.
After all, everyone has to go to work during the day, and if someone sneaks into houses and steals things during the day, they really have no way to stop them.
You can only keep the money separately, put some in a drawer, some on the table, and some under the mattress.
It took them more than half an hour to find all the money hidden in the house.
The woman counted the money quickly, and after losing all the money, she smiled at the man and said, "It's a lot! Twelve thousand!"
This is the money they have saved for six or seven years.
"Fortunately, we put all the money away." The man was a little proud. "You are smart and think long-term."
Because there are purchase limits for everything, it doesn't make much difference whether you have more or less money. People are quite thrifty when they first start using money, but after a long time, they feel that what's left after buying the things they need is just waste paper, which is of no use even if they save it until next month or next year.
So the unused money is really treated as waste paper, used as fire starter, or for writing and drawing. Anyway, besides being used as money, it can be used for many things.
Woman: "Put half on you and half on me."
"Let's be careful. There must be a lot of people here. How about we wait until midnight? At worst, we can ask for leave tomorrow."
"I'm afraid the supermarket will not open in the middle of the night. I remember that supermarkets used to close at 10 o'clock." The man was a little worried.
Woman: "Then let's go and take a look first. At worst, we can go back in a few days."
"The supermarket always restocks its products promptly," the woman thought for a moment, "so they won't be gone when they run out."
In the past when there were supermarkets, they were still half-grown children and had no potatoes to exchange. They could only squat on the roadside and drool at the adults who returned home with their bags full of potatoes. They wished they could grow up overnight so they could earn potatoes too.
But at that time, the only way they could imagine making money in the future was to either be a thug or a prostitute.
Who could have imagined this day?
"Let's go check it out first."
A man and a woman walked out of the house.
Although they have a child, they are still not considered husband and wife.
Almost all men and women in the base are like this; they have families, but these families are not solid, and everyone is prepared to flee when disaster strikes. Therefore, not many are willing to have children, and those who can have children always have some true love.
Before they even reached the supermarket entrance, they saw a long queue extending into the street.
"It's not that many!" the woman was ecstatic. "Maybe we can get a spot in line before closing time!"
The line was so long that it seemed almost as if there was no end to it, but it was only almost. Since they could see the end, it would be their turn.
The residents lined up obediently. After all, not far away there was a group of thugs hired by Zou Ming, who were watching them eagerly, ready to make some achievements.
No one wants to be the "achievement" of the thugs.
"Manager, have a drink of water." The young woman flattered He Yu by pouring him a glass of mineral water.
He Yu took it from the woman and drank it all in one gulp. She let out a long sigh.
But before he could finish his sigh, an employee shouted, "Boss! We're out of instant noodles!"
He Yu could only immediately take his men to the third floor to replenish the stock.
“There’s no more rice!”
He Yu was busy and exhausted.
She originally thought that being a supermarket manager would be an easy job since it would involve a little power. Past life had taught her that as long as one had a little power, no matter how small, life would be easier.
But she didn't expect that the store manager was more tired than the employees - she had to do all the work when there was a shortage of staff, damaged goods had to be reported to her, she had to reconcile the accounts after collecting the money, and if there was a dime missing, she would have to worry about where the money was missing.
Employees only need to restock and find the store manager if there is any problem.
There was no one to find the store manager, so I had to figure it out myself.
It’s better to raise pigs!
After all, she has saved a lot of money. Even if she doesn't come to the supermarket to work, she has money to buy things and go home to enjoy them.
"Manager, the sweet potatoes are sold out too..." The woman came down from upstairs with a tired face, holding a cardboard box in her arms, "This is the last box of instant noodles. The sausages and bacon are all gone."
He Yu's throat was about to smoke, she waved her hand: "It's okay, we'll close the store after we sell out, and restock tomorrow morning."
The woman nodded. She was so tired that she didn't even have the energy to please He Yu.
When Yang Yue arrived at the supermarket, the supermarket was already driving away the people queuing at the door.
The middle-aged man held a megaphone and shouted, "Sold out! All sold out! Come back tomorrow!"
"If you go in now, there will be nothing but empty shelves!" The man kept shouting these words, but the residents still wanted to go in and take a look - what if there were empty shelves? At least they could have something good to eat tonight.
Yang Yue glanced at the man, and the man made way for Yang Yue to enter.
The people waiting outside had no objection.
Everyone knows that Yang Yue is Zou Ming's elder, and with that status, it seems natural for her to have some "privileges".
"You're here..." He Yu sat on the ground, she looked up at Yang Yue, "This is really nothing. There are some things in the office, all bought by me and my employees. Come to my place for a midnight snack later."
He Yu was checking the accounts with a pen in her hand. Although she could read, her cultural level was still not high. The words she wrote were all clumsy. There were many words that only she could recognize, so after she finished writing, she had to ask an employee who could write to copy it again.
Yang Yue looked at her and smiled: "It's better to be busy. I'm afraid there will be no time to be busy."
He Yu rolled his eyes at her: "You just come here to piss me off."
Their relationship has improved a lot over the years and they finally seem like friends.
Perhaps it is because people no longer have to worry about food and drink that they begin to pursue intimate relationships.
After He Yu and the employees had counted today's money and put away the account books, He Yu unceremoniously asked Yang Yue to accompany him to take back the things she bought.
He Yu's legs and feet, like Yang Yue's, are not in good condition, and the suffering he suffered before has not been fully compensated, so he lives on the first floor.
"Cook porridge?" Yang Yue asked.
He Yu: "Why cook porridge? It's a waste of water. Just steam rice!"
He Yu showed some interest at this time: "I'm almost vomiting from eating potatoes!"
Yang Yue felt the same way and also thought that potatoes were the most unpalatable thing in the world.
Apart from rice and noodles, if you eat anything as a meal for a long time, you will no longer like it.
When the rice was almost done, He Yu put a layer of thinly sliced bacon and sausage on top. After putting them on, He Yu said, "Hey, I wanted to buy some fresh meat, but the boss... Mr. Ye said that if we sell fresh meat in this weather, it will go bad in less than half an hour after it is taken out of the refrigerator and walked out of the supermarket. Buyers will get diarrhea after eating it. Even if they don't get diarrhea, it will be bad if something goes wrong after eating it, so we can only sell bacon and cured meat."
Yang Yue smelled the aroma of bacon and sausage, swallowed her saliva and said, "It's good to have bacon to eat! Bacon has no oil, but it has fat!"
There was no oil or water, and there were no fat people in the base. Even those who had followed Zou Ming the earliest were all pale and thin.
The word "fat" is too luxurious.
When the meal was served, both of them fell into a long silence.
There were two bowls of rice topped with slices of meat, with no vegetables or soup, but this was the first meal that could truly be considered a "meal" for them in such a long time.
"Eat." He Yu picked up the chopsticks.
They are not very familiar with using chopsticks. They used to use them directly with their hands. Although they know how to use chopsticks, they are just limited to a certain level.
"Zou Ming said that Mr. Ye will not leave again." Yang Yue carefully finished the last bite of rice and finally couldn't help but say, "I can't help but worry when I see him like that."
"Zou Ming has hardly smiled in recent years, let alone talking so much in one breath." Yang Yue said worriedly, "If Mr. Ye leaves again..."
He Yu was not worried: "It's impossible that he will die if Mr. Ye passes away, right? He will only worry when it hasn't happened. When someone really passes away, he can only accept the reality. Can someone who can't accept the reality live until now?"
Yang Yue glanced at He Yu and said, "You don't understand."
She sighed and felt that she knew too much and it would be better to know nothing.
Did she ever like anyone when she was fifteen or sixteen?
It seems that I have liked you, but that love was like rootless duckweed and loose yellow sand, which disappeared without a trace when blown by the wind.
But Zou Ming is not.
Whether in childhood, adolescence or youth, he was always looking at that person's back.
For a person, these three stages almost encompass his or her entire life.
Yang Yue pushed the bowl to He Yu.
He Yu looked up at her: "What?"
Yang Yue said confidently: "I am a guest, I don't wash dishes."
He Yu collected the bowl expressionlessly.
"Don't worry about it." He Yu walked into the kitchen with a bowl.
"No matter whether Mr. Ye will leave or not, at least Zou Ming now believes that he will not leave. Is your worrying useful?"
"Or do you want Zou Ming to prepare himself mentally in advance?"
He Yu: "And maybe he really won't leave?"
"How can people survive without hope?"
This place is too barren, not only in terms of resources, but also in terms of people’s hearts.
People always need some support.
He Yu: "Think positively."
"At least now, we are all happy."
Ye Zhou returned to Zou Ming, the supermarket reopened, and they had meat to eat.
This is happiness.
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