She was seen holding onto the middle-aged man in front of the electric scooter with one hand, and using the other as a fan to fan herself from time to time.
"Brother Shi, it's so hot today! Thank you for bringing me to the supermarket!"
The feigned coquettish voice gave Xu Lai and Li Qingya goosebumps.
The man sitting in front of Xu Qiong couldn't stand what she said. He held onto the handlebars of the electric scooter with one hand and reached out with the other to pinch her older cousin's buttocks hard.
"Sweetie, saying thank you isn't enough. You'll have to spend some quality time with your brother later!"
"Brother Shi, you're so annoying~"
After scolding him, Xu Qiong gently punched the old man in front of her with her fanning hand.
"This is truly an eyesore!"
Watching the two's "performance," Xu Lai was utterly speechless. How could she run into this family everywhere?
Xu Qiong, who was having a passionate encounter with the newly hired man, heard a discordant sound. She looked in the direction of the sound and was surprised to see her cousin, whom she hadn't seen in a long time.
She glared at Xu Lai and snapped, "Who are you calling an eyesore?"
Xu Lai rolled her eyes at her and retorted, "Whoever answers is insulting the other person."
Xu Qiong wasn't one to back down easily. She affectionately wrapped her arms around the middle-aged man's waist and looked at Xu Lai defiantly, cursing, "You poor bastard who can't afford to borrow work points from the government, huh? I won't stoop to your level. I'll make you poor to death, Brother Shi, let's go!"
"You're the poor one. If you're not poor, why are you selling yourself? Do you like it?"
Seeing the electric car driving forward, Li Qingya, who was quiet and gentle, didn't want Xu Lai to suffer, so she quickly took two steps forward and loudly cursed at Xu Qiong's back.
Xu Lai was deeply moved by Li Qingya's words.
After spending more than a year and four months together, she understood Li Qingya's personality very well.
As an artsy young person, getting her to swear is harder than climbing to heaven.
But today, because of her, Sister Qingya actually started swearing, and the swearing was quite offensive.
That's so touching!
"Qingya, let's ignore her and go join the queue!"
Fearing that the girl next to her would look bad, Xu Lai took her arm and shifted her attention to other things.
The two women queued from 8:30 p.m. until almost 10 p.m. before it was their turn.
Because of the long queues at this supermarket, you can only buy things from the staff at the counter now; you can't go inside to browse.
There was enough food in the space. Xu Lai had only come out to buy things as a formality, so he spent 60 of his 150 work points to buy 15 jin of mixed grain powder.
Yes, the price of grain in this government supermarket has also increased, with the price of each type of grain increasing by one work point per kilogram.
For the remaining 90 work points, Xu Lai simply had his staff buy a bag of sesame seeds.
Buying sesame seeds gives you more options for oil extraction on your land, as sesame oil is known as "liquid gold."
When they were stockpiling goods, they stockpiled a lot of cooking oil and seeds, but not sesame seeds or sesame oil.
Especially in this extremely hot weather, it's perfect for making a cold salad.
"This tiny packet of seeds cost ninety work points! That's really expensive!"
Xu Lai, who was standing behind her, picked up the light packet of sesame seeds, looked at it, and couldn't help but gasp in amazement.
"It's already quite good that there are still seeds to sell under these circumstances!"
After hearing Li Qingya's complaints, one of the staff members couldn't help but speak up and offer an explanation.
"It's already quite good that we were able to buy these oilseed seeds. This young lady is lucky. The sesame seeds she finally managed to grow in the agricultural base built by the government have matured, and they only selected a few of the better quality ones to sell as seeds. We were the only ones who got a bag!"
After the staff member finished speaking, he took back the 150 work points that Xu Lai had handed over, verified them, put the work point card away, and handed Xu Lai the things she had bought.
"Sister, do you know how well the potatoes and sweet potatoes are being grown at the agricultural base?"
Xu Lai remembered the potatoes and sweet potato sprouts she had sold to Director Han of this supermarket before, and she couldn't help but ask a question.
I wonder if the potatoes and sweet potatoes in this government agricultural base have been planted during this extreme heat disaster?
"Young lady, information about the agricultural base is kept highly confidential. In fact, even our staff don't know the answer to your question!"
The woman thought for a moment and continued to explain to Xu Lai, "The information about sesame that I just told you is only given by the staff at the agricultural base who are responsible for delivering goods to supermarkets in various districts. They only share a little information about these products so that our supermarket staff are aware of them!"
Seeing the older woman explaining so patiently, Xu Lai didn't want to waste her time any longer, so she quickly thanked her and stood aside with her purchases.
"Next!"
When it was Li Qingya's turn, she immediately announced what she needed: "Three packs of sanitary napkins, and all the remaining work points will be used to buy mixed grain powder!"
Mixed grain flour can be made into mixed grain pancakes, wrapped around finely stir-fried potato shreds, which tastes quite good.
Actually, their family doesn't lack food for the time being. If possible, Li Qingya would like to use all her work points to buy sanitary napkins.
She had just glanced at the product list on the counter and noticed that there was a limit of three packs of sanitary napkins per purchase.
Thinking about this, Li Qingya was quite worried.
She can still buy sanitary napkins now, but if this natural disaster continues, she won't be able to buy them anymore. What will she do during her period?
We can't just do it like in ancient times, manually treating menstruation and using firewood as ash as a substitute, can we?
To Li Qingya's surprise, in the second year after the extreme heat disaster, most women actually used this oldest menstrual belt during their periods.
"Here you go, this is what you need. Next!"
Lost in her thoughts, Li Qingya was brought back to reality by the saleswoman's voice. She quickly took the things she had bought and left with Xu Lai, who was waiting for her.
This time, until they reached Xu Chao, they did not encounter their older cousin again, who kept calling them "poor bastards".
"You're finally back! I was so sleepy waiting for you!"
Xu Chao, who was sitting in the driver's seat of the electric tricycle with his arms crossed and pretending to doze off, opened his eyes when he heard footsteps.
Upon seeing that it was Xu Lai and her group, he immediately got out of the car and took the bags from Xu Lai and Li Qingya.
Then they put the two bags into the cargo compartment of the electric tricycle, and then took out a tattered tarpaulin from the compartment and covered the two bags with it.
The temperature today is noticeably higher than at this time last night, although it's a bit windy tonight.
The three of them took out water from their thermos flasks, filled them halfway, and then nimbly got into the electric tricycle, heading home into the hot evening breeze.
There was no further news, but the next morning, as soon as Xu Lai opened his eyes, he saw an unexpected (overjoyed) message in the group chat of the Xu, Xiao, and Lu families.
Xu Qiong is dead!
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