Chapter 213 Exchanging Ingredients
Li Sijing soaked her feet and browsed through the trading area. To her surprise, the variety of goods was quite abundant.
Presumably tomorrow is a day of natural disasters, and everyone will bring out any unwanted supplies to trade and exchange for some capital to pass through customs.
Li Sijing was quite happy about this. Just like browsing Taobao on Earth, she couldn't stop once she started browsing and wanted everything.
When it was nine o'clock, after more than half an hour, Li Sijing finally got the item she was interested in.
A long, hooded raincoat might come in handy in the face of the next natural disaster.
Although I don't know if this ordinary raincoat can protect against acid rain, I'll get it first and see, since it's not very expensive anyway.
Although the raincoat could protect against snow, it wasn't an urgent need, so the price wasn't high. Li Sijing traded a pound of blackfish meat for it.
To be honest, she had only thought that since the food was inexpensive, she could exchange it for more delicious food.
But to her surprise, the only supplies she could offer in exchange were meat, and her purchasing power had also decreased!
Fortunately, she had enough black carp meat. Although she didn't want to sell it at a low price, she could still use it to exchange for some supplies she wanted.
Besides the raincoat, Li Sijing also exchanged a lot of vegetables.
Li Sijing traded half a pound of lotus root, half a pound of spinach, and half a pound of cilantro for one pound of black carp meat, spending a total of one and a half pounds of black carp meat.
Ordinary food is naturally not that expensive.
However, with the improvement of living standards, the price of rare and hard-to-preserve vegetables has naturally increased.
In addition to these fresh vegetables, Li Sijing also exchanged some dried goods that can be stored for a long time.
150g dried daylily, 150g dried kelp, 150g dried dried bean curd sticks.
She bought all three kinds of dried goods from one person, and after bargaining, it cost her a total of two catties of blackfish meat.
Finally, in addition to the above, she also switched to another type of very practical supplies.
Those are bean sprouts, no, to be precise, soybeans.
She originally intended to trade half a pound of blackfish meat for half a pound of soybean sprouts.
She then asked a question and learned that the other person's bean sprouts were not obtained from the box, but were sprouted by themselves from soybeans.
Soybeans are a wonderful thing; they can be pressed for oil and processed into various delicious foods, such as soy milk, tofu, and bean sprouts.
She didn't have any soybean seeds, so now that she'd come across them, she had to get her hands on them.
The other party was naturally aware of the preciousness of soybean seeds and had not originally intended to sell them.
In the end, it was only because Li Sijing offered too much and set the price too high that the transaction was successfully completed.
For just ten soybean seeds, Li Sijing gave up a full five kilograms of braised wild boar meat.
It wasn't that Li Sijing didn't want to exchange the blackfish meat, but even though she offered 10 jin of blackfish meat, the other party wasn't interested.
Finally, having no other choice, she took out braised wild boar meat, and only then did the other party relent.
So, after browsing the trading area, Li Sijing spent five catties of blackfish meat and five catties of braised wild boar meat, finally getting what she wanted.
It was already 9 p.m. Li Sijing took one last look at the real-time number of users and then turned off the blue screen.
5992/10000
In one day, nearly a thousand people died.
There are no events scheduled for today. Beware of wild animals on the road; they pose no threat to most people nowadays.
Therefore, Li Sijing guessed that most of the people who died today must have frozen to death.
After all, in temperatures as low as -40 degrees Celsius, if supplies are insufficient and warmth is not adequately maintained, one could easily freeze to death.
Nearly six thousand people survived, but who knows how many will survive after tomorrow?
Li Sijing cleared her mind, without giving it much thought.
The harvested rice ears were placed on a portable oven and are now almost completely dried.
Li Sijing took out her tools, threshed the rice, and then put it away before preparing to rest.
Because the air conditioning was always on, the temperature inside the car was kept at 10 degrees Celsius.
Even if the temperature drops after midnight, it can still maintain a temperature of 0 degrees Celsius, so Li Sijing's bed is not so bulky.
A 10-pound cotton quilt and an electric blanket, plus a down comforter, should be enough.
Lying in bed, with the light down comforter, Li Sijing felt very comfortable.
She took out her handheld game console and played a few rounds, finally accumulating 5000 points in Tetris before turning off the lights and going to sleep.
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The first thing Li Sijing did when she woke up the next day was to turn on the blue screen, which clearly showed that it was -50 degrees Celsius.
This must be the lowest temperature that humans can survive at!
Fortunately, this is the last day in the extremely cold world, and it will soon be over.
Li Sijing stared at the blue screen displaying the countdown to the natural disaster: 01:59, 48 seconds, 47 seconds...
In less than two hours, a natural disaster will strike. I wonder what this disaster, accompanied by extreme cold, will be.
After making the bed, Li Sijing slowly and methodically put on all the clothes she could wear, and then put on a heat pack.
If it weren't necessary, she really wouldn't want to get off the bus in such cold weather, but unfortunately, she still had many things to do after getting off.
After taking a deep breath and preparing herself mentally, Li Sijing opened the car door and got out.
The 35-centimeter-thick snow almost buried Li Sijing's entire calves.
Looking at her tires, which were a third submerged, she couldn't help but think that if this were a four-seater car, half of the wheels would probably be submerged!
With such thick snow and road conditions, is it really safe to drive today?
Even if you have the skills to drive, how fast could you go? It wouldn't be slower than a bicycle, would it?
The natural disaster hasn't even begun, yet two major challenges—severe cold and accumulated snow—are already looming ahead.
In order to finish the matter as soon as possible and get back to her car, Li Sijing didn't dwell on her feelings. Instead, she braved the heavy snow and got to work quickly.
After taking care of my personal hygiene, I cleaned the toilet and slop bucket in the car.
Then, carrying two empty buckets, he went to the roadside and chipped away at the 5.5-centimeter-thick layer of ice.
After fetching the water, Li Sijing didn't linger outside and went straight back to her car.
As for daily exercise? That depends on the actual situation.
In this -50 degree weather, she felt like she would freeze into an icicle if she stayed outside for too long.
Although it's not good to interrupt daily exercise, when it comes to one's own life, everything else has to take a backseat.
Back in the car, the 0-degree temperature inside actually made Li Sijing feel quite warm; indeed, everything needs to be compared.
After removing her cumbersome clothes and wearing only a down jacket, Li Sijing began to wash up.
The hot water is ready. I can wash up in the car. It's not very convenient, but I can tolerate it once or twice.
After washing up, it's time to prepare today's breakfast.
We exchanged so many delicious ingredients yesterday, so today we're going to make the most of them.
I had about 100 fish balls left from the ones I made earlier, so I decided to use half of them for breakfast today.
With so many ingredients, her fish ball soup this time is quite substantial.
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