Chapter 76
Moreover, chestnuts and pine nuts are not of conventional size, but are enlarged versions after mutation.
Pine nuts are as big as a dime, and chestnuts are as big as half a mouse.
The amount of chestnuts and pine nuts flowing into the community for use is artificially controlled by Cao Bingqing and Fu Chenghong.
The value of a pine nut is equivalent to one kilogram of whole grains. Whole grains with strong satiety and high yield, such as sweet potatoes and potatoes, are all objects that can be purchased with one pine nut base currency unit.
As for the value of chestnuts, it is equivalent to a first-level crystal core, which is also equal to 500 pine nuts, and can buy 500 kilograms of grains.
For example, sports student Pan Feizhou, Koi He Xuan, wind blade woman Ye Jia, Cen Xiyang, Han Zhi and others all have free food and accommodation, plus 90 kilograms of food and a first-level crystal core as a fixed salary for a month. As for Professor Zhao, who is not a supernatural person but a big shot in the technical department, he has a guaranteed monthly salary of 1,000 kilograms of food plus a crystal core.
However, since Professor Zhao's crystal core is useless, he can temporarily replace it with a chestnut. When needed, he can directly use the chestnut to purchase the necessary supplies, or he can exchange the chestnut for the crystal core, and then sell the crystal core to someone in need in exchange for supplies.
For the pricing of other aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation, Cao Bingqing and Fu Chenghong made some regulations based on the base in City D.
Oil, 5 pine nuts 300l. Salt, 3 pine nuts 100g.
The cheapest wholesale single clothes from the garment factory before the end of the world cost 2 pine nuts each. Cotton-padded clothes, cotton pants and other warm clothes cost 20 pine nuts each.
As for quilts, every staff dormitory has the necessary thick quilts and thin blankets for spring and autumn. They belong to the Butterfly Garden's finances and are not the personal property of the employees. If employees need them, especially external staff from the D City base, they can buy 10-jin thick quilts for 40 pine nuts each, and thinner quilts are cheaper, ranging from 10 to 30. You can do whatever you want with them after you buy them.
These prices are not cheap, but with the wages offered by the Butterfly Garden to its employees, excluding food and accommodation, they can save at least 60 kilograms of food per month, which is the price of 60 pine nuts. The prices of the things given above are affordable for everyone when they need them.
Especially for necessities like salt, if you buy 100g and eat it sparingly, it can last for a while and is completely enough.
Fu Erdie looked at the plan given by her parents and felt that it was generally reasonable, but in fact it might need to be adjusted according to the specific circumstances.
But isn't it normal for prices to adjust? Fu Erdie rubbed his parents' shoulders and said, "Thank you for your hard work."
"Can we make a currency with an intermediate value? For example, pine nuts are equivalent to one dollar, and chestnuts are equivalent to 500 yuan. Should we make a currency with a value of 10 yuan or 100 yuan?"
Cao Bingqing thought it made sense, so she added almonds worth ten yuan.
As for the chestnuts that cost 100 yuan, there is not much difference between them and those that cost 500 yuan, so there is no need to make any additional efforts.
In order to make the currency appear more professional and textured, Fu Erdie worked with the intelligent mutant plants of pine nuts, almonds and chestnuts for three days, and carried out targeted transformations in the energy space of the plant cubs, so that the shells of the nuts they produced would be more lustrous and textured, and less likely to break. With the butterfly-shaped anti-counterfeiting mark, the entire nut becomes bright and delicate, just like the peace apples that are often sold in scenic spots and are processed like stone, round and beautiful.
Once the monetary system was introduced, it received unanimous praise from the core layer on the 16th floor.
Professor Zhao took the lead and exchanged his food coupons and useless crystal cores for chestnuts and pine nuts.
Out of trust in Erdie, she was not worried at all that the pine nuts and chestnuts would lose their value and become a piece of waste paper... no, waste nuts.
Because the pine nuts looked pretty, Cen Xiyang strung them together to make a bracelet, which he wears on his hand every day to keep himself fresh.
Seeing this, Han Zhi also pestered Cen Xiyang to make a string.
After a while, other people on the 16th floor also made various decorations with pine nuts.
The unconscious behavior of the core layer affects ordinary workers.
Especially the external staff in the technical department who had been working there the longest, they were the first to discover the pine nuts that their boss often played with, and learned about this "currency" strategy.
Word spread quickly, and finally all employees knew that 1 pine nut was equal to 1 pound of grains, and pine nuts could be used to buy all kinds of items.
The outsourced staff have been working for nearly half a year. With their salary plus the bonuses they receive after completing their tasks every month, on average each person has three to four hundred kilograms of food.
Although those who have relatives in the D City base would estimate their food intake and ship back a lot of food every month, more food was still piled up in the dormitory and could hardly be stored.
It is impossible to send all of this food back to the relatives, because the relatives sleep in large bunk beds and it is more difficult for them to store food than they do.
So these people were worried and didn't know what to do with the food.
Now, the food can be exchanged for pine nuts, which are easier to store and can be exchanged for other daily necessities. When we finish the work here and go back, we can exchange these pine nuts for food, and then transport them back together. Then we can ask the base to help us figure out how to store and exchange them in a unified manner. Wouldn't that be great?
As for whether their own food will be stolen?
If they wanted to be shady, they didn't have to go so far to do it. They could just rob the food after the group of people finished their work. How could ordinary people like them, who had nothing, still resist?
The outsiders quickly accepted the currency.
The new employees selected from the refugees did not accept it for the time being. After all, what they got was real. They did not have the protection of the base, so it would be better to have everything in their hands.
Fu Erdie knew about these situations but didn't care. After all, the currency was circulated internally, which was convenient for Professor Zhao, his parents and others. It didn't matter what happened to other people.
In this way, various changes took place in the base quietly.
New rules and order are being established.
Although many psychics outside don’t know about such an insignificant thing as currency for the time being, they are still spreading the title of the Butterfly Garden Director.
However, these rumors were only spread among the top brass of the base or a few lone psychics. Ordinary people, such as those in the civilian area of Anshi Base, knew nothing about it.
In a straw hut, a dusty young woman was learning from an older woman next to her that her "boyfriend" had used food to visit prostitutes.
The young woman's face was numb, and her originally healthy wheat-colored skin had become thin and lifeless after a year of wasting time in the apocalypse.
The older woman was not much better. She said in a hoarse voice, "I really hope that one day, they will die under some woman's belly and never come out again."
The two people were none other than Zhao Xiaolu, who escaped on the first day of the apocalypse, and the owner of the hardware store where she was hiding at that time.
They are ordinary people, without any awakened special powers, nor mutated by being bitten or caught. Even their resistance to mutated water sources is one of the strongest among all people.
At least better than their respective boyfriends.
They are lucky. They are unlucky.
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On the day of the end of the world, Zhao Xiaolu first hid in a hardware store, and then together with the owner of the hardware store, they filled two large backpacks with as much food, water, defensive weapons, car repair tools, etc. as possible. They found a chance to leave the hardware store, bypassed the encirclement of zombies and came to a car. Taking advantage of the poor eyesight of the zombies at night, they sped away.
After they left, they did not have a good life. First, various roads were blocked, and then the chassis of the car was scratched by the uneven road expansion joints.
When they changed cars, most of the supplies were stolen, and only a small part was left to continue their journey into the deep mountains and forests.
They were guarding the last bit of food, hoping to survive in the long term by farming.
But farming is not easy. Land pollution, pests and diseases, high temperatures, heavy rains...any one of them is the culprit for reducing land production.
Soon, all the acres of land they had reclaimed died.
The broadcast had been intermittent and had little power, but at the moment of desperation, the information from the Anshi base was received.
Zhao Xiaolu and the hardware store owner Qin Huai decisively gave up these acres of land and decided to go to the base. They used the last gasoline and a little bit of wild vegetables and tree roots to fill their stomachs, and barely arrived in Anshi before fainting from hunger.
However, like the refugees outside the D City base, they were stopped outside the city.
——Anshi can’t support so many people.
They had nothing and could not enter the city, so they could only wait to die outside the city.
The two people repeatedly emphasized that they had skills.
The owner of the hardware store can weld and unclog pipes, and can also repair various simple parts of cars and bicycles. In order to enter the city, she had to portray herself as an expert in various fields and own her own store.
Zhao Xiaolu's main job is to do integrated hardware and software development. Although she is just a small R&D staff member under the boss in the company, she does have the skills.
So, the two of them boasted about their skills and begged for favors, and finally got an interview opportunity.
The interviewer also knew that there are a lot of people who exaggerate and flatter themselves in order to get into the city, but after testing, the two people did have technical work that could be done, so he let them in anyway.
The two of them had skills, which at most distinguished them from ordinary refugees who had no skills. They did not have separate residences and still slept on large bunk beds at night. Only the water and food were relatively clean.
There were men and women on the big bunk bed, all kinds of people, including psychopaths.
Two of the plumbers were the ones who had become both psychologically and physiologically abnormal due to the repression in the apocalypse. Plus, the base didn't care much about the dirty things that had nothing to do with human life, so these two people treated the women in the big bunk bed as targets to hunt, and from time to time they would rape some women when they were alone.
Qin Huai and Zhao Xiaolu became the targets and a violent conflict broke out.
2 on 2, with no advantage in height or physical strength, the only way to protect yourself is by relying on sneak attacks and using weapons to fight to the death.
They poked out the plumber's eyes, angering a group of his male colleagues who were watching the show nearby.
If the manager had not arrived in time and forcibly suppressed this violent incident that almost resulted in death, Zhao Xiaolu and the others would have been killed without a doubt.
After this incident, Zhao Xiaolu knew that they had to find a backer, that is, her and Qin Huai’s "boyfriends", two ordinary people with power-related abilities who could manage ordinary people.
With two boyfriends who were small bosses, they would no longer be chased by the plumbers. But they had to spend the food they earned on their boyfriends, and even let their so-called boyfriends go to prostitutes.
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