Chapter 23
The family members who stayed behind had been in Shanhai City for so many years that they were bored out of their minds. When they heard about the new tricks, they were so tired that they couldn't even walk. Even the group of veteran actors didn't even change their clothes and just stood next to the stage to watch.
"What's the show?"
"Let's just watch for a while. It won't be too late to go home and make dinner for our son after we're done."
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The atmosphere was so lively that Zeng Yi stretched out his hands, his empty palms showing them to the audience: "Everyone, watch carefully!"
Then he clenched his fist and did a fancy hand gesture, and when he opened his fist again, two bags of boneless chicken feet appeared in his palm.
"Wow! This is amazing!"
"The last time I saw this kind of magic trick was about 30 years ago, when I was in my early 20s."
"Does anyone think the thing in his hand looks familiar? I feel like I've seen it somewhere."
"Old Zhao, now that you mention it, it seems like I've seen it before."
Zeng Yi coughed lightly and interrupted their reminiscence loudly: "I can give it to everyone here. Does anyone want it?"
Who doesn’t want free stuff? And this is the end of the world where supplies are scarce.
The eagerness of the crowd, coupled with his diligent portrayal, caused the passing spectators to stop and, along with the original group of spectators, raise their hands and shout, "I, I want it."
"Okay, this uncle and this aunt raised their hands first, so I'll give it to you."
Zeng Yi walked towards the selected person with a bag of boneless chicken feet in one hand, and walked around a little more like a model showing off jewelry, so that everyone could see clearly what he was holding.
"Oh my god! I remember now, these are boneless chicken feet!"
"Yes, I loved eating it when I was young. It was especially good for eating while watching TV series."
"Why are there still processed foods like this these days? I wonder if they're spoiled."
"It smells so good, it should...it shouldn't be broken."
Under the gaze of countless eyes, Zeng Yi hid a smile on his face as he handed two bags of chicken feet to the two elderly people sitting next to him: "These were produced yesterday. They are very fresh. You can try them."
The two old men had been in the shelter for so many years that the smelly potatoes had long since lost their taste and their mouths were extremely bland. But at this moment, the overbearing sour and spicy taste restored their sense of taste.
They swallowed their saliva, tore open the package of boneless chicken feet, and immediately the spicy marinade rushed into their mouths and noses.
Before the onlookers could see clearly, the two old men stuffed a chicken claw into their mouths. A light bite revealed that the chicken was soft and tender, and the fragrance went straight to their hearts and lungs.
After finishing one, he immediately started eating another one.
There were two chicken feet in a bag, and they were all eaten in less than half a minute. The spectators woke up as if from a dream and surrounded Zeng Yi.
"Handsome guy, where did you buy this chicken feet?"
"Tell me, I miss this so much!"
Seeing the opportunity, Zeng Yi pulled a stack of flyers from his pocket and distributed them one by one, while promoting the shelter to everyone: "There's a Taoyuan Shelter 50 kilometers from here. Besides boneless chicken feet, they also sell a variety of delicious food. The shelter is in its early stages of development and is recruiting a large number of residents. Go early to enjoy the early bird rewards. If you don't go, that's fine. Our boss will be selling supplies at the Shanhai City gate before 5 o'clock. Everyone can go and have a look."
"Oh, it's at the city gate. I have to go take a look!"
"Yes, it's not very far. Old woman, go back and wake up our son. His special ability is speed, so he's faster than the two of us!"
"That's right, let's go."
This group of people walked home with flyers in their hands without looking back, their steps more vigorous than ever before. Some of them simply did not go home to call their families, but rushed to the city gate impatiently.
In several homes on the second underground floor, countless people with special abilities who were sleeping were awakened by their fathers, mothers, and wives, and when they woke up they saw happiness on their faces that they had never seen before.
Ye Qing and others at the city gate were not idle. Zeng Yi went to distribute flyers. There would surely be a lot of people coming to buy supplies, so she had to prepare the food to sell in advance.
She is bound to the system, so even if she is outside the shelter, she can still purchase supplies in the mall.
Normally, the food in the containers is automatically replenished, and Ye Qing would not specifically open the system mall, but today when she came out to set up a stall and opened the system mall panel, she was surprised to find that one of the four major sections was lit up.
The system mall has a total of 4 major sections: housing, food, clothing, and entertainment. Previously, only housing and food were opened, and now the clothing section is also lit up!
Ye Qing wanted to jump up on the spot. Although she took a shower every day, her clothes had become sour and smelly after being worn for five or six days in a row. If the clothing mall section did not appear in the system again, she would become depressed.
I clicked on the clothing panel and took a quick look. There were all kinds of clothes in it, for men, women, young and old, and for all seasons. The shelter was only level 3 now, and there weren't many styles lit up in the mall panel, but it was more than enough. As long as there was a beginning, the ending would always be good.
She plans to start decorating the clothing store as soon as she returns to the shelter, and she is really looking forward to it!
But let’s deal with the stall issue first.
First, buy a long table from the housing mall section and place it at the door of the bus. Then exchange some food from the food section and pile it in the bus. Then take out some of each type and place them on the table. Finally, place a piggy bank of the same model as the system on the far left of the table.
Although it's a bit simple, she's not the one driving it every day, so she'll just have to make do with it if she doesn't sell it for long.
The food sold there are all packaged foods with a long shelf life, including boneless chicken feet, mung bean cakes, French bread rolls, meat floss muffins, Snickers bars, chocolate sandwich cookies, and most of them are filling foods.
After setting up the items, she stood aside waiting for customers. Although the group of guards had gone back to stand guard, they would still look over from time to time and see the big boss setting up a table and then taking out a bunch of colorful little things from the car.
They witnessed the whole thing but had no idea what it was. Their curiosity was instantly overflowing. Thinking that the boss was not happy, they could only stand there. At this time, they were counting the seconds and really hoped to get off work early so that they could go over and have a look.
The first group of customers were a group of hunters returning from hunting at night. All the psychics in this group had very bad tempers. In addition, they had no harvest last night, so they were unhappy with everyone and even cursed at passing dogs.
One team member complained: "Other hunter teams all have at least 10 people, and our team is only 5. How can we possibly defeat those monsters?"
Another team member chimed in, "That's right, Captain. You're the only one among us with the highest psychic ability, and you haven't even reached the intermediate level yet. How can we compare with Captain Zhou, a high-level psychic? Can't we just spend some money and recruit a few capable ones?"
Upon hearing this, Captain Deng Hailong kicked the stone away from his feet and started to speak: "You think recruiting is so easy? Money, money, money, where can we get the money?"
"Also, I told you not to follow me out of the City Lord's Mansion, but you wouldn't listen. Isn't it good to be a civil servant and live a stable life? You had to go out and take risks! Look at you now. If we don't make money, we'll all starve to death!"
The scolded teammate also retorted: "You think being a civil servant has it easy? Look at Brother Tang Chao, he stands guard diligently and honestly every day, but he's still being ostracized!"
"Yeah, Boss. Sun Dafu is such a jerk that he doesn't want us to be well. If he gets rid of you, won't it be our turn next? Instead of sticking around, why not leave early?"
"He's just deliberately making things difficult for us. Every time, our team submits the most supplies, but the resources provided are the least. How can such cheap weapons compare to those mutant giants?"
"I think he's deliberately dragging us out like this to kill us, otherwise... let's not stay here anymore."
"Alas...where else can we go? The nearest shelter is probably hundreds of kilometers away. It's too dangerous to walk without a radiation vehicle."
"well……"
The line was filled with sighs and groans. Suddenly, one of them screamed sharply, pointing at the cute pink bus not far away: "Ahhh! Is it someone from another shelter?"
The others looked in the direction of the finger and immediately hurried their pace: "Let's go over and ask around. If it's good, we'll join them!"
The sound arrived before the person. Ye Qing, who was setting up a stall, heard a noise coming from behind him.
"Hello, which shelter is this?"
"Hello, are you still short of help?"
"Hello, can I introduce myself?"
It seems like he is calling himself?
Ye Qing turned his head suspiciously and saw five rough and casual men running towards him.
Just as they were about to speak, they stared at the supplies on the wooden table and couldn't move their eyes away.
Deng Hailong pulled his teammate next to him, but he didn't react at all. He quickly smiled awkwardly at Ye Qing and said, "Hey, they haven't seen any good things before. They are rare."
Ye Qing shook his head: "It's okay. By the way, what did you say just now?"
Deng Hailong put on his most perfect smile and said, "Hey girl, we want to change shelters. Yours looks great. You can drive out easily, and there are such amazing supplies."
Seeing that Ye Qing didn't even blink, he had to be more direct: "Uh... I just want to ask if you can recommend us guys. Just send a small note. Don't worry, we guys have served in the patrol team and the convoy in Shanhai City before. We have good abilities. We will definitely work hard and will not be lazy or slacking off when we get there."
Ye Qing heard the key words and immediately became alert: "You can drive? And you've been on patrol?"
Deng Hailong nodded: "It's genuine."
Ye Qing: "Okay, then you guys come with me at 5 o'clock tonight?"
Deng Hailong didn't expect it to be so simple, and was a little bit incredulous: "Ah? Sister, you should ask your leader first, what if... what if you get implicated? It would be bad."
Ye Qing shook his head: "It's okay, the shelter is mine, I can recruit whoever I want."
Deng Hailong wasn't the only one who was stunned. The other five teammates were all stunned. After a while, they murmured a few words: "You...you are the city lord?"
Ye Qing didn't mind their suspicion. It was indeed rare for someone so young to own such an awesome shelter.
She smiled and replied, "Yes, but they usually don't call me City Lord, they call me Boss."
Rather than managing a city, she focuses on business operations.
"Okay... okay boss, thank you for taking us in."
Ye Qing: "Hey, it's not about sheltering you, it's about you guys coming to help me. You can go home and pack your things first. We'll leave at 5pm."
Several people shook their heads in unison: "No need, we are alone and our family is very poor."
Ye Qing choked out a rare sound: "Okay, okay."
Quite poor.
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