"This was obviously premeditated!" Lu Qin said affirmatively.
"Why would you get close to a man with a family? Even if it was for your own survival, you couldn't have escaped from Antu County?"
"Maybe they just want to monopolize that batch of supplies?" Xu Mingyan retorted, "Are you overthinking it? Isn't this kind of thing common? These days, whoever has food is the boss. If you go to the refugee camps, you'll see that many women will do anything for a bite to eat."
"But don't you find it strange? I know that for the sake of personnel purity, the army has sent a large number of people to investigate and restrict people from entering and leaving. Sister Yan, think about it, there are many refugees entering Antu County, but few leaving, especially those who leave secretly in the middle of the night. We must investigate the reason. According to what you said, they should leave from the main road out of Antu County. Once we investigate, we will know who they are, but recently... have you heard of anyone leaving?"
Lu Qin analyzed: "No, I think there's something wrong with this!"
Xu Mingyan was also surprised. She didn't expect that there would be something wrong with eating melon.
"Let's go! Let's go to the border guards and ask if anyone has been coming in or out lately?"
Lu Qin originally thought it was just a simple and ordinary melon, but based on her intuition and her understanding of her uncle's family, she always felt that something was not right.
Lu Qin hurriedly went to ask, and the border guards told her that in the past two days, except for official vehicles transporting supplies, no cars left Antu County in the middle of the night. However, there was indeed a man named Lu Fenghua who drove out of Antu County, but he left during the day.
"I'm actually not sure either. I heard most of it from gossip from her and others. Maybe I heard it wrong?" Xu Mingyan advised, "There are more vehicles coming in and out during the day, so it's possible that they left during the day."
Lu Qin sighed, hoping that she was just imagining things.
"No matter what, it's the women who suffer," Xu Mingyan consoled him. "What will happen to his wife and children if he leaves? I heard the house only has half a month left on its lease. By the time that time runs out, they won't even have a place to live, so they'll have to make do in the refugee camp."
"Are Xiao Xu's family here too?" Lu Qin asked.
"Yes, it seems the two families are still inseparable." Xu Mingyan said, "I guess your aunts will seek refuge with Xiao Xu's family anyway."
Lu Qin couldn't understand why the Xiao family was so determined to move into the refugee camp. Given their financial situation, it was clearly not their turn to move there.
But she had helped where she could, and the favor had been repaid. She had a new life, and shouldn't be entangled with Xiao Xu anymore, so she didn't want to ask about it anymore.
"Forget it, each family has its own destiny." Lu Qin replied.
Whether it is the Xiao family that has fallen into poverty, or the Lu family that has abandoned their wives and children, they are just one of the various aspects of life in the apocalyptic society.
This kind of thing happens so often that it has become the norm.
Lu Qin still remembers that when she and Xu Mingyan first met, it was because of a gossip incident.
At that time, the snow disaster was not so serious and social order was not completely disrupted.
The mistress will be beaten up in the street, and the man will be torn between his original wife and the mistress.
But then a snowstorm came and the situation outside became uneasy. The mistress who had been kicked in the face in order to ask the original wife to keep her child, now lived in the house openly and even had a pleasant conversation with the original wife.
Neighbors could even see the original wife going out to buy nutritional supplements and other things for the mistress's unborn child.
This situation happened because the family was wealthy at the time and the male owner was engaged in food trade, so they had no shortage of food supplies.
Enjoy the happiness of having two wives, with women on both sides.
It's just gossip after dinner. When it becomes normal, you get used to it.
This is created by the times, and both good and bad are part of it.
…
The days seemed to be peaceful again.
Lu Qin devotes himself to the Sheshan experimental field every day, and Qu Dongbo is even busier, so busy that he is rarely seen most days.
Even Liang Shuyu found a new job.
In Lu Qin's words, her mother is someone who can't sit still.
Specifically, I worked as a small salesperson in an official exchange.
As the trading market gradually develops, there is uncertainty about all kinds of materials circulating in the market.
Qu Dongbo finally found some time to clean up the mess.
The original coins have almost become waste paper, and what is more popular in the market now are the meal tickets for the shelter and the 756th Unit's cafeteria.
In order to pay the salaries of the various previously recruited personnel, the army canteen made a batch of meal tickets, which were distributed to these employees at the price of two taels of steamed buns and one tael of potatoes per day.
The later 042 shelter also continued this rule.
But the population of Antu County is far more than tens of thousands, and with the refugees who later flowed in, the population has exceeded expectations.
Because there are too many people, the current activity center has become the "base camp", and the original temporary canteen has been moved out and a suitable place has been found after cleaning.
The current "official canteen" is located in a large hotel around Jinxiu Community.
There are four floors in total. The first and second floors are canteens for ordinary workers. Most of the food is large amounts of steamed buns and rice, and there are very few vegetables. Occasionally, there are pickles and sauces, which are rare delicacies.
The third and fourth floors also offer a variety of vegetable, meat, egg and other dishes. These are rare foods nowadays, but as long as you can afford the price, you can still buy them.
This canteen was originally a four-star hotel. It was very large and provided food for a large part of the people.
Of course, all this food comes from the granary in Antu County, as well as supplies that the troops have recently searched from outside.
So in addition to the entire shelter, residents of nearby residents basically come to the canteen to buy food.
Some families even have food, but because of energy scarcity, they simply exchange the food for cooked food.
Over time, the meal tickets issued by the canteen became hard currency.
After discovering this problem, they naturally could not sit idly by, so they simply issued food stamps with special anti-counterfeiting marks, set a rough price for each food, issued them in large quantities, and encouraged families with large amounts of food reserves to exchange their food for food stamps to promote the circulation of food stamps.
Although this regulation was somewhat difficult to promote, it was finally successful.
Now when you go out, food coupons are equivalent to "money".
The trading market also used food stamps as a means of transaction. Therefore, Qu Dongbo also sent people to open an official exchange.
The advantage of an official exchange is that it allows people to trade various useful but temporarily unused materials in exchange for what they need.
Of course there is a handling fee, which is 1% of the transaction value.
Although there are no transaction fees for private transactions, if you are cheated or have any problems, it is difficult to solve them yourself.
Liang Shuyu's job is to work as a salesperson in the exchange, responsible for official communication on all matters concerning the customers on both sides of the transaction.
Well, to put it bluntly, it is "Taobao customer service".
The work is very hard and I need to deal with various things every day. The salary is actually not much, about the same as the salary for the simplest snow-clearing job.
But the good thing is that unlike the previous snow clearing job, this is indoors.
But Liang Shuyu worked very hard.
Lu Qin knew that her mother just couldn't stay still, so she just let her be.
Although Antu County is thriving under its governance, and the establishment of exchanges and canteens has built a basic social market, overall, the economy and technology are regressing.
This isn't a good thing, but it's also hard to say it's a bad thing. The good thing is that humanity hasn't lost hope in the disaster, and is still tenaciously surviving. The bad thing, of course, is that over a century of development has been virtually destroyed.
Humanity, wealth, hope.
As long as humans do not become extinct, these three things will always exist.
This is the best of times, and the worst of times.
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