Chapter 129

Grandma Li's Chinese Herbal Medicine

Before Fang Xin could say anything, Grandpa Li immediately took over the conversation. He knew Fang Xin, and she hated trouble the most. "I still have some here. How much do you want to exchange?"

"Is ten pounds okay?"

"Can."

Seeing this, Fang Xin said, "You guys are busy, I'm going to go inside."

"Okay, go back."

Grandpa Li has contracted a planting area, which means he has a stable income. He can also use the remaining vegetables to exchange for some supplies or sell them, which is also good. At least he can live a more affluent life.

As it was inconvenient to talk in the corridor, Grandpa Li followed the two men into the other party's living room to negotiate.

Vegetables in the market were sold at ten points per pound. Grandpa Li already had the most basic food, and he wasn't short of food, so the two decided to trade based on points.

At eight points per kilogram, it is two points cheaper than the base store.

The two men agreed. This way, they could save two points per kilogram, and Grandpa Li could earn five more points. It was a win-win situation for both parties, and the deal was done.

But Grandpa Li didn't keep too many vegetables. If they weren't sold in time, the vegetables would become dehydrated and lose weight. Most importantly, the base didn't allow individuals to keep too much and eat too much to get too fat.

Survivors cannot transfer points privately, so they have to go to the lobby to process card transactions.

Moreover, one person cannot process two cards at once, and must hold the card in person.

This also ensures that the points on the survivor card are protected from possible robbery.

Once it is discovered that the cardholder did not make the transaction voluntarily, the management personnel in the base will intervene to handle the matter. There is only one final result: arrest and use as a cannon.

After more than ten days, the base finally developed a drug to treat mutant cockroach bites, but the price of this drug was a bit expensive and ordinary survivors could not afford it.

At the same time, Grandma Li is also developing a prescription for mutant cockroach bites.

When Fang Xin learned that Grandma Li was short of two medicines, he quickly delivered them to her.

Almost within a few days, Grandma Li also developed the recipe. Although Chinese medicine takes a little longer to take effect, it can eliminate the root cause and has no side effects.

But the two elders did not make this public. The base was not short of medical experts. Would she steal someone else's cake if she stepped forward?

As long as you have medicine at hand, you can get timely treatment when you are sick, and you don’t have to spend a lot of money to buy it at the pharmacy.

The two elders just want to live a stable life in the base.

I don't want any intrigue or anything like that, this kind of life is good enough.

Grandma Li also made some medicinal powder herself, which can also treat insect bites.

As long as you apply this powder within ten minutes after an insect bite, it will force the toxins out of the body and the effect is excellent.

However, if the bite lasts too long, you need to take Chinese medicine to slowly recuperate and treat it.

Grandma Li brought two full jars to Fang Xin.

From then on, Grandma Li seemed to have opened Pandora's box and could not stop. She was busy buying herbs every day, and Fang Xin would send her any Chinese medicinal materials she needed.

For example, there are some medicines that are not available in the base pharmacy. Fang Xin guessed that the base pharmacy’s medicines are incomplete, but it is not really incomplete.

There might be some shops and pharmacies inside the base, but they just can't access them.

Because she rarely sees people from the inner area coming here to buy things.

One of the bedrooms has become Grandma Li's laboratory, where she stays whenever she has time.

It was filled with Chinese herbal medicines, with different kinds of powders in glass jars of varying sizes.

Fang Xin even brought a lot of glass bottles, both large and small, to Grandma Li.

As soon as you enter this room, you can smell the strong aroma of Chinese herbal medicine, which even dispels the damp smell in the air.

As an old Chinese medicine practitioner, Grandma Li can do what she likes every day, and her energy and spirit have improved a lot.

The problem of cockroach bites on base has finally been alleviated.

As soon as one trouble was solved, another headache arose.

The humidity brought by long-term heavy rains gave snakes, insects, rats and ants an opportunity to crawl out from underground and continue to cause trouble to humans.

Fang Xin's family had some insect repellent powder made by Grandma Li, so they were not afraid at all. Grandma Li even sprinkled some powder in the corridor.

But other people are not so lucky, and they are troubled by all kinds of insects every day.

The insects were crawling up the wall in dense masses, which was extremely uncomfortable to watch and gave me goosebumps all over my body.

For example, caterpillars, mice, centipedes with many legs, and a kind of white insect whose name I cannot tell, with thick skin as thick as a thumb.

The destructive power of insects is beyond imagination. They can chew clothes, shoes, furniture, and even food. There is nothing they won’t chew, except what you can’t imagine.

Thereby causing irreversible losses.

Ordinary survivors are troubled by these insects, but some people's eyes glow green when they see these things. These are food, and they are high in protein.

Then the situation turned around. Even if there were insects, they were no longer afraid. They would catch and eat them all, whether they were cockroaches or caterpillars.

Everyone held a small net bag in their hands and caught the insects crawling out from everywhere.

Some people even make the insects into cakes and sell them at the base.

The situation in the mid-range residential areas is relatively better. They have more than enough food, and everyone is working in the base, so they are not too hungry.

But they catch these bugs and sell them to people in need.

One point equals two big bags, and the business is quite booming.

All of a sudden the number of insects decreased instantly, and the insects were no longer a nuisance, but a delicious delicacy.

Of course, the survivors will not eat some mutated snakes, insects, rats and ants, as they contain a large number of viruses and bacteria.

Of course there are some stubborn people who refuse to believe and insist on giving it a try, and the result is self-evident.

The whole person was vomiting and having diarrhea, and his whole body was convulsing.

Only a few can be rescued.

It can be said that almost every day there are survivors dying of illness.

There are children who eat the wrong food and adults who don’t believe in evil.

The gloomy and heavy rain outside continued, making people feel suffocated.

Fang Xin went downstairs. As soon as he stepped out of the room, he felt damp and wet everywhere, and he felt like he was going to get moldy.

She didn't like it.

The continuous heavy rain caused the temperature to drop sharply, and Fang Xin had to wear thicker clothes every time he went out.

Yes, she continued to go to the training hall for another month. The heavy rain lasted for almost three months, and Fang Xin had also been training for almost three months.

She felt that her skills had improved several levels, and when she practiced two-on-two with the instructor, she was completely dominating the opponent.

After this month of study, she doesn't plan to renew her tuition because the instructor has nothing more to teach her.

With her current skills, she could easily take on twenty survivors with her bare hands.

Fang Xin came back from the training hall, feeling relaxed, completely different from the initial feeling when he felt sore all over and had no strength.

He saw two neighbors coming back from get off work. They nodded politely to Fang Xin but didn't exchange too many pleasantries, showing a strong sense of distance.

Grandpa Li had more contact with the two of them. They often bought some vegetables from him, so he got to know them relatively well.

Both of them had skills and found patrol jobs in the base.

But the two men were not patrolling in the high-, medium- and low-end residential areas, but in the inner area.

The salary is also relatively higher.

Instructor Yan also mentioned to Fang Xin about her past work in the inner area. With her current skills, he could recommend her to go to the inner area of ​​the base and be a patrol captain.

But Fang Xin refused. She didn't want to be involved in intrigues all day long. Wouldn't it be nice to be an unknown person?