"My family listens to Lai Lai; her ideas are always very reliable!"
After hearing Xu Lai's opinion, Old Master Xiao was the first to stand up and support it.
"I believe Lai Yatou too!"
The Lu family had been dealing with the Xu family for over a year, and they were aware of the Xu family's young lady's abilities.
Grandpa Lu and his daughter-in-law Leng Jia also readily agreed.
Seeing that no one had any objections, Xu Lai immediately took out her phone and called Chen Cheng.
Chen Cheng, who had been idle lately, jumped up from the leather sofa in the air-conditioned room as soon as he received Xu Lai's call.
"Little sister, did you sell your brother Chen some fruit or grain again?"
Hearing the incredibly excited voice on the other end of the phone, Xu Lai chuckled and declined, "Brother Chen, we don't have those things right now, but I have some new good stuff to sell you!"
Before Xu Lai could finish speaking, his mood, which had plummeted from the sky to the ground after hearing the first half of her sentence, suddenly lifted after hearing the second half.
"What? Something new and cool? Girl, what's so great about it?"
Chen Cheng noticed that his four brothers sitting on the other two sides were all looking up at him, so he simply turned the phone on speakerphone.
"Brother Chen, recently, because of the mutated red poison ants, I specifically asked a friend who works in the government. There might also be mutated snakes, mutated rats, or other poisonous creatures. So I got some high-quality steel protective netting here. I wonder if you would buy it?"
Xu Lai deliberately laid the groundwork before steer the conversation toward the steel protective netting.
As a middleman whose business grew bigger and bigger during the apocalyptic catastrophe, Chen Cheng's business acumen was no joke.
After listening to Xu Lai's words, he pictured a scene in his mind of hordes of mutated giant rats and venomous snakes being held back by a sturdy steel protective net.
That's some impressive business!
Moreover, in the current environment, it is a very lucrative business.
Hei Zi and his three brothers, who were sitting on the other side, also lit up when they heard this.
"Brother, this business is definitely going to be a hit!"
"Hey girls, where are you located? I want all the protective netting you have, and I'll take all the protective netting you get your hands on from now on!"
Chen Cheng immediately and readily agreed; there was no time to hesitate when it came to making money.
Xu Lai was overjoyed to hear this.
"The deal is done. The supplier of these steel protective nets will arrive in about half an hour!"
After hanging up the phone, Xu Lai quickly shared the good news with everyone. The Xiao and Lu families were overjoyed to hear it.
Half an hour later, Chen Cheng arrived as promised, accompanied by his four brothers, in a large truck.
He and his brothers stared in disbelief at the pile of intact steel protective netting.
Xu Lai and his group originally intended to keep some for their own use, but Chen Cheng, that shameless middleman, managed to get it all away.
"Hey girl, your brother Chen and his buddies have come all this way, so we have to make sure you get your money's worth!"
"Take them all, Brother Chen. He'll give you a really high price!"
Even the haters who had met Xu Xu Lai twice came to her defense.
Xu Lai had no choice but to discuss it with the Xiao and Lu families, since they had all searched for this thing together in the extreme heat, going out early and returning late at night.
"It's alright, Xu girl, let's sell them all to this young man this time!"
"Yes, Lai girl, anyway, this old man isn't afraid of hard work or heat. As for what we need to keep at home, we'll definitely have enough after we go out again tomorrow!"
Not making money when you can is just plain stupid!
Grandpa Xiao and Grandpa Lu agreed to sell all of the goods first.
This batch of high-quality steel protective netting was sold for over 1,200 work points at a price of 20 centimeters per panel.
The Xu, Xiao, and Lu families each received approximately four hundred work points.
After Chen Cheng brought the goods back to his warehouse, Hei Zi and three others cleaned the steel protective netting and sold it to wealthy families who valued their lives. With this resale, they made nearly double the net profit.
On their way home, it gradually got dark. After discussing it, the Xiao and Lu families decided to go directly to the district government's supermarket and exchange their work points for half rice and half coarse grains.
The extreme heat and drought caused by the natural disaster have increased the cost of grain grown in greenhouses by the government's Ministry of Agriculture.
Nowadays, the price of rice and wheat flour has increased from 5 centimeters per kilogram to 7 centimeters per kilogram, and the price of miscellaneous grains has increased from 3 centimeters per kilogram to 5 centimeters per kilogram.
Moreover, whether it's rice, wheat flour, or other grains, because they can only be grown in greenhouses and have limited production, there are daily purchase limits when they are sold in government-run supermarkets.
Each household is limited to purchasing five jin of each item per day based on their household registration.
The 400 work points each family earns today are more than enough to buy five catties of rice, five catties of wheat flour, and five catties of miscellaneous grains.
"We bought some grain from Chen Cheng earlier and have it stored there. We won't be buying any more grain for the time being!"
Xu Lai noticed the three sacks of grain being carried by the Xiao and Lu families, his neighbors, and said...
After they finished paying the bill and were about to leave with their food, they ran into a livestock farm from the Ministry of Agriculture delivering pork to the supermarket.
Because of the hot weather, when a whole slaughtered pig was carried out of the truck, there were still many small ice cubes in the two large baskets.
"The government-supplied fresh pork has arrived, let's hurry and line up!"
Because of the food needed to feed a family of five, plus the meat supplied to Wanzi for three meals a day, the various kinds of frozen meat in Xu Lai's space warehouse freezer had long been eaten up.
Fortunately, there were also many chickens, ducks and geese in the space. Every now and then, if there were any brooding hens, ducks or geese, Song Qiu'e and Grandpa Xu would select some eggs for them to incubate twenty or thirty chicks.
So there are still quite a few chickens, ducks and geese in the space.
Moreover, the original two goats, one male and one female, in the space have produced three offspring, and the number of rabbits has expanded from four to nearly thirty.
In addition, the fish in the artificial pond dug in the space have grown up and are ready to eat.
Although the Xu family of five didn't eat lavish meals every day, they could still manage to have a good meal every few days to nourish their bodies.
But no matter how well chicken, duck, goose, fish, or rabbit are cooked, they can't compare to fresh pork with its perfect balance of fat and lean meat.
Especially high-fat pork, when made into braised pork belly with lots of oil or stewed until tender and falling off the bone, a bite fills your mouth with grease, making it even more satisfying.
Having not eaten pork for a long time, she naturally longed for the fresh pork that had just been delivered to the supermarket.
Grandpa Xiao, who loves meat, and his daughter-in-law Li Qingya, along with Grandpa Lu and his daughter-in-law Leng Jia, all focused their attention on the several baskets of white pork with longing expressions.
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