The exchange system's display only excited Hong Xiaoduo for a few hours.
After waking up the next day, I tried to enter the space again. This time I got in and carefully read through the redemption instructions. I calmed down afterward.
After collecting eight water samples and traveling nearly 10,000 miles, the energy exchanged was only sixty. These sixty energy points could only be exchanged for a single serving of snacks and local delicacies.
However, other electronic devices, security equipment, houses, transportation, and so on consume a lot of energy.
Each exchange requires dozens of units of energy; for example, the smoke grenade requires fifty units of energy, and the tranquilizer gun requires sixty.
That carriage-like mode of transportation actually requires 100 energy points to exchange for.
Old Luo prepared a lot of exchange items, but without enough exchange energy, you can only look at them helplessly.
It's like going to a supermarket, where there's a dazzling array of goods. You want this and you like that, but you don't have enough money. What do you do? You look at your available balance and can only watch helplessly.
Even if you can afford it, you'll still hesitate and struggle with whether you should buy it or save up to buy something better.
Hong Xiaoduo is like this now; she can't even bring herself to buy a pack of snail rice noodles that can be exchanged for three energy points.
Next time I see Old Man Luo, should I give him some advice? If we don't have enough energy to exchange for, can we buy it with silver? Buy energy? Or can we just buy those items with silver?
Anyway, she just felt that earning silver should be easier than accumulating energy! Even if buying things with silver, the prices would be higher and the items more expensive!
The tasks below hadn't been displayed yet, so Hong Xiaoduo had to leave the space and get up to wash.
When she stepped out of the tent, Yaoguang ran over and said, "Mother, we saw the sunrise over the sea, it was so beautiful."
"Right, I didn't lie to you, did I?" she replied, sounding somewhat guilty.
When we arrived at the beach yesterday, she said she wanted to get up early to watch the sunrise, as it's beautiful at sea. But everyone else got up to watch, while she slept until the sun was high in the sky.
As soon as I sat down at the table, Feiyan served me porridge, boiled eggs, and pickled vegetables that she had bought on the way.
"Mother, we collected two full buckets of seafood after the tide went out this morning. After you finish eating, please check if all of it is edible," Tianxuan said, pointing to the two wooden buckets beside her.
What? Not only did she watch the sunrise, but she also collected so much seafood? Hong Xiaoduo looked at the two full wooden buckets and wondered why she had been so lazy.
As I was reflecting on my actions, I heard a clattering sound. I turned around and saw a donkey cart slowly approaching on the road not far away.
Several wooden barrels were loaded onto the donkey cart.
Hong Xiaoduo quickly put down her chopsticks and walked towards the road. When the donkey cart came closer, she wanted to ask the people on the cart how far away the nearby fishing village was.
The reason she wanted to inquire about these things was, of course, to ask if their village had any fishing boats and what time they would return, as she wanted to buy some seafood caught by the fishermen.
When the donkey cart approached and saw someone stopping it, a very pretty young woman, the old man driving the cart pulled on the reins and stopped.
As soon as the car stopped, Hong Xiaoduo noticed the contents of the wooden bucket on the car: fish, crabs, and shrimp.
"Uncle, did you catch these from the sea?" Hong Xiaoduo asked, glancing at the contents of the buckets behind her.
They even have king crab and mantis shrimp?
"Yes, we caught them yesterday. After the boat docked in the evening, we sorted out the good ones and sent them to Shuixia Town ahead. My son has a vegetable stall there, so we sent them there for him to sell," the old man told him with a smile.
"Are they selling well?" Hong Xiaoduo asked, her eyes lingering on the king crab and mantis shrimp.
Upon hearing this, the old man smiled wryly and said, "The fish in this bucket are the ones that sell well; the others are not so easy to sell."
"Oh, is that so? Then how about you sell me some?" Hong Xiaoduo quickly said, knowing that the two items she liked were hard to sell.
Upon hearing this, the old man immediately nodded and smiled, "That would be wonderful, young lady. What would you like to buy, and how much?"
"Does your car have a scale?" Hong Xiaoduo asked, remembering the question.
"There's no scale, and it's not necessary. Just give me whatever you think is appropriate, young lady," the old man said.
Hong Xiaoduo pointed to the two buckets of king crab and mantis shrimp and said, "I'm from out of town and don't know the market price, so you can name your price, sir."
At this moment, Fei Yan and Tian Shu also gathered around.
Yao Guang tiptoed to see what was in the wooden bucket and why her mother had bought it, but she couldn't see it at all. Fei Yan bent down and picked her up, and now she could see it.
"How about seventy coins for these two buckets?" the old man thought for a moment and asked tentatively, afraid that Hong Xiaoduo would think it was too expensive and refuse.
Hong Xiaoduo was incredulous when she heard this. Two large buckets full of good stuff for only seventy coins?
He immediately took out a coin and handed it over, then told Tian Shu and the others to go back and find a bucket to fill it.
"Young ladies, are you leaving today?" the old man asked.
Hong Xiaoduo told him that she would be staying there for a few days.
The old man immediately said that it would be better to leave the wooden bucket here for now and take it back when he returned at noon.
After saying that, the old man touched the blue purse at his waist, poured out all the copper coins inside and counted them, but it wasn't enough to give Hong Xiaoduo thirty copper coins in change: "I'm still short eight coins, or how about the young lady catches another fish?"
"It's not bad, it's okay." Hong Xiaoduo wasn't that shrewd.
Just as Tian Shu and the others were about to reach for the wooden barrels on the vehicle, Quan Jinghuai walked over, asked which two barrels they were, and then carried one in each hand toward the tent.
"By the way, sir, you just said your son sells vegetables in that town. Could you bring some vegetables back for me? That way I won't have to go out," Hong Xiaoduo asked again.
The old man was even happier to hear this, not only because he had sold two buckets of seafood, but he could also help his son sell some vegetables.
So the old man immediately agreed, took the small piece of silver that Hong Xiaoduo handed him for buying vegetables, and asked Hong Xiaoduo what kind of vegetables she wanted to buy. Hong Xiaoduo said that he could choose for her.
Hong Xiaoduo remembered a very important question and quickly asked the old man: Why was there still sand in the shellfish she dug up when she cooked them? She had washed them many times.
The old man smiled and told him how to remove sand from those shellfish.
"Tianxuan, did you hear me clearly?" Hong Xiaoduo asked.
Tianxuan nodded very seriously, indicating that she had remembered.
Watching the old man drive away into the distance, Hong Xiaoduo returned to the tent and looked at the good stuff in the wooden bucket.
King crab costs around 400 yuan per pound in supermarkets, and mantis shrimp also costs tens of yuan.
Wow, that's amazing! She actually remembers the prices of these two kinds of seafood?
"We collected two buckets this morning, why did Mom buy so many more?" Tianquan asked in a low voice.
"Shh, didn't you see? We didn't pick either of those two." Tian Shu whispered a reminder...
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