Chapter 182 Return to the End of the World 10
Winter is approaching, and the base holds a market on the third, thirteenth, and twenty-third day of every month. Most of the people living in the outer city are new immigrants who have joined the base, and there are all kinds of people, so the market sells more daily necessities for keeping warm.
Last time at the gathering, Chen Qian bought two sets of cotton clothes, a large quilt, several wooden basins and other miscellaneous daily necessities. The new home she just moved into feels empty and she still needs to buy more.
By the time the second sale started, all the soaps made by Chen Qian had solidified. She used metal wire to cut a whole block of handmade soap into palm-sized rectangles, making a total of 16 pieces.
She placed one piece by the sink, wrapped another piece in paper and gave it to Wang Yan, and placed the rest in a wooden box on the closet for safekeeping.
Wang Yan was so happy to get the soap that her eyes curved into two watery crescents, like the reflection of the moon in the lake.
That night she boiled a large pot of hot water and took a comfortable bath. Looking at the dirt floating in the bathtub, she felt that she had become whiter.
Of course, the fact that the man who took his turn late at night gnawed at her like a dog was also indirect evidence.
Wang Yan was one of the few lucky ones in the apocalypse. She was rescued when the army evacuated the city and was transferred all the way to a government-built base. Since she could not contact her parents, she was raised in an orphanage in the inner city. Although she had to go hungry, she grew up safely.
Of course, these kindergarten girls have no right to marry independently unless they join the military training at a young age and successfully enlist.
Wang Yan didn't have the courage to fight zombies head-on. When she was a little older, she learned some nursing knowledge and was assigned to work as a nurse in a hospital to help take care of the wounded.
When she encountered policy changes after becoming an adult, Wang Yan went on blind dates with applicants with sufficient points under the arrangement of the dean. Finally, with the help of a marriage promoter, she formed families with four men. Then, she took the marriage subsidy and moved to a farm outside the city with her husbands.
When she moved out of the city, things were very smooth sailing. Chen Qian was the first friend she made out of the city.
The moonlight was floating and the sound of running water could be vaguely heard in her ears. Wang Yan kicked the man on her body, turned over and fell asleep in a daze.
The next day, Shi Yuan drove his wife and new neighbor to the west gate. After giving them some instructions and agreeing on a time to go home, he turned the car around and drove to the east gate. Recently, the base was busy building houses and heating facilities. The construction team was recruiting part-time workers. In addition to providing two meals, he could get a daily salary of ten credit points. He also signed up.
When Wang Yan turned around, she met Chen Qian's anxious gaze. Her breath stopped and she shouted with a little embarrassment: "What are you looking at... at?"
The sound is somewhat breathless.
"I didn't see anything." Knowing that the little girl was shy, Chen Qian didn't tease her too much, but just smiled and said, "It seems that someone had a very happy night last night."
Wang·Seconds·Yan:……
She is still a baby, isn't she supposed to understand those colored words?
Walking into the market, there are many more temporary stalls on both sides of the street. Recently, many mercenary teams have returned one after another. Most of them have gained something. The teams that did not collect supplies also hunted animals such as wild boars, wild deer, and wild sheep in the wild.
Mercenaries eager to cash in wanted to take advantage of these gatherings to sell their prey, so there were many more stalls selling meat on both sides of the road, and a strong smell of blood filled the market.
Due to the evolution of plants and animals, animals raised by humans usually grow to two or three times their original size. For example, a black boar was placed in the center of the market, lying on a suspended wooden board like a pile of meat, while a person-high wooden barrel placed next to the board was filled with half a barrel of solidified pig blood.
Meat!
Fresh and edible pork!
Many new residents at the base have green lights in their eyes. Braised pork, pork elbow with soy sauce, pork knuckle stewed with cold beans, sweet and sour spare ribs... a series of menus are running through their minds, and their mouths are unconsciously secreting a lot of saliva.
Nowadays, without powerful weapons, people can't even defeat a giant goose with flapping wings, let alone wild boars with fangs and wild sheep and deer with sharp horns. Even the cute and well-behaved rabbits have grown to half a person's height, and their jumping feet will break a few ribs if they kick people, even if they don't die.
Therefore, most humans hiding in the wild live a life of hiding from place to place, picking fruits and potatoes in the mountains and fields. In addition to avoiding zombies and wild animals, they must also be careful not to accidentally intrude into the territory of mutated plants, otherwise they may easily become the fertilizer in the soil that nourishes them.
Onlookers rushed forward, one asked for a pound of pork belly, another asked for a rib, and the wealthy ones directly booked a whole hind leg, causing the customers queuing behind to clamor for them to save some. Those who did not have enough credit points also prepared to buy some pig blood and offal to taste when they go back.
A wild boar may look large, but the evolved wild boar is covered with a thick layer of rough skin. This strong rough skin can be used to make boxes, handbags, belts after cleaning and tanning, and can even be made into cloaks, coats and shoes after dyeing and sewing.
Clothes and suitcases made of pig skin are windproof, waterproof and not easy to tear. Some people have done experiments and found that even a full-strength attack from a mutated zombie may not be able to tear open a coat made of boar skin. Before the advent of the vaccine, boar skin was in short supply, and a set of clothes tanned from pig skin was something that countless people desired day and night.
The price of wild boar skin has dropped slightly after the vaccine was developed, but wild boars are difficult to catch in the wild and they usually live in groups of a dozen or so. Therefore, clothing made from wild boar skin is still a luxury item circulated among the top executives of the base.
It takes exquisite skills to peel off this thick layer of pig skin. Fortunately, the Tane Heike family has been a butcher for generations. After joining the Mad Wolf Mercenary Corps, he was noticed by the boss with his superb skills in skinning and bone removal.
The whole pig skin was spread out on a wooden frame beside it. The bright red blood flowed along the frame and wet the ground. The machete was extremely sharp. Tian Gen cut open the wild boar's skeleton. A large amount of dirty internal organs was poured into the wooden basin on the ground. A young team member dragged the basin aside and started shouting. Some of the people in front of the stall formed a line.
Tian Genping's hands kept moving, quickly cutting up the wild boar along the grain of the pork, but his cutting speed was still not as fast as the crowd's expectation. After a short while, all the distinct red and white pork was cut up, and by the time it was Chen Qian and Wang Yan's turn, only a pile of cleaned pork bones was left on the stall.
Even the vicious pig's head was chopped in half and snatched away by the two ladies.
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