Qingyou suddenly thought of something.
She bent down and pulled a box out from under the bed. When she opened it, she found it was full of jade and jade ornaments.
The original owner of this body loved jade of all colors since childhood, and her parents doted on her, giving her jade whenever they saw someone selling it.
Life in the base is all done with credits, but if you want to exchange them for good resources, you have to use alien cores, so alien cores are the hard currency.
Gold and jade are worthless in the apocalypse, and this box wouldn't fetch many credits, which is why Ping Hongxi let it go.
But when Qingyou saw these jade pieces, a smile appeared on her face.
Although she couldn't use the spirit spring, she had several ways to set up a spirit-gathering array in her mind.
For a regular spirit-gathering array, jade can be used as the energy source.
Qingyou took some broken jade fragments and went to the planting area in the courtyard to set up a spirit-gathering array.
They then replanted the crops that had been pulled out but had not yet completely withered and died.
In the apocalypse, besides resources, food is scarce, especially unmutated, natural food.
When the original owner's mother's family fled, they brought a lot of seeds with them.
After arriving at the survival base, they planted quite a few crops. In addition, the whole family was probably quite talented, and almost none of the grains, vegetables and fruits they grew mutated.
Unlike most crops today, which have all been mutated by radiation energy.
The mutated crops had higher yields and nutritional content than before the cataclysm, and the feeling of fullness was about the same, but the taste was extremely bad.
However, these mutated crops can only be grown in limited fields within each base, so their quantity is also limited, which is why food has always been scarce.
As a result, the organically grown crops produced by the original mother were very popular and fetched good prices, accounting for about 30% of the family's income.
Ping Hongxi also took away several weapons left by the original owner's father, so Qingyou is temporarily unable to go out to hunt various mutants.
She plans to stay at home for now and make further plans after her older sister returns.
She has nothing now and can only rely on these crops to make a living.
The spirit-gathering array she just set up was an enhanced version. Although it would consume a lot of jade, it would accelerate the ripening of fruits and vegetables that were almost ripe, from tonight to tomorrow.
Qingyou didn't tidy up the house either, planning to wait for her sister to come back so she could see Ping Hongxi's masterpiece.
Then he took out a jade pendant from the box and used his mental power to inscribe a defensive formation on it.
She guessed that even with her reminder, Ji Ying would probably continue to go out.
She didn't want her savior to die young like he had before, so she prepared to give him a talisman.
Even without talisman paper or cinnabar, carving it with jade is just as effective, and may even be more effective.
Due to limitations in mental strength, and the fact that the body was very weak after being rescued, it wasn't finished until evening.
Qingyou was also very hungry, so she went to the yard and dug up a few potatoes that had been artificially ripened.
They gathered some firewood from the corner of the yard and put it in the earthen stove in the kitchen to roast potatoes.
When the original owner's parents first arrived in the Fourth District, there was no electricity, so they cooked using earthen stoves and firewood.
Water resources are scarce now. The water in the pipes is brought in from outside. Although it has undergone radiation and disinfection treatment, it can only be used for bathing and flushing toilets.
Drinking water had to be filtered through equipment developed later before it could be consumed.
The filtered water is controlled by the large family, so you have to buy drinking water separately in every district, and it's not cheap.
Similar to buying bottled and barrelled mineral water in modern times.
One credit point can only buy 300 milliliters.
What's even more outrageous is that Ping Hongxi confiscated all the drinking water from the house, so Qingyou couldn't even boil potatoes on an induction cooker.
After finishing the potatoes, Qingyou went to the door and used her mental power to sense that the person watching her was still there, so she went back to her room to sleep with peace of mind.
The next day, I picked the vegetables and fruits that had been ripened artificially in the yard.
They dug up the buried jade and examined it; sure enough, it had turned transparent.
She replaced the jade with a different batch and changed the arrangement of the formation, no longer strengthening it.
Although this method slows down the ripening process, it also significantly reduces the consumption of jadeite.
Then, Qingyou picked up some ripened vegetables and fruits and walked out to the special trading place in the fourth district.
Her neighbors nearby were reluctant to buy this kind of vegetable, so she never thought of selling it to them.
The Ji family members who were watching her continued to follow.
It took more than an hour to reach the trading market for the pomelos.
The trading market has two doors: one for sellers and one for buyers.
The reason for this distinction is that vendors have to pay a stall fee to enter.
However, the guards here also ensure the safety of the sellers. As long as they are in the market, there will be no robbery, forced buying or selling, or other similar situations.
Qingyou walked to the door reserved for sellers and saw that people entering would swipe their wristbands at a machine, and the door would open automatically after the credit points were successfully deducted.
Although it's automatic, someone is still watching it.
So Qingyou went over and handed a tomato to the middle-aged woman who was guarding the gate.
She leaned closer and said, "Auntie, I don't have any credits right now, could you let me in to sell some vegetables?"
The middle-aged woman quickly gathered up the tomatoes.
These tomatoes look completely organic; they're usually hard to buy even with credit points.
If I bring it back for my son to eat, he'll be overjoyed.
Of course, even if she saw someone selling them, she wouldn't be willing to buy them.
She looked at Qingyou and saw that she had fair skin and was dressed well, so she didn't seem like the kind of person who would cause trouble.
Reluctant to return the tomatoes, she nodded and said, "Go inside quickly."
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