"Miss, I didn't expect you to come here to refuel again today. I remember you came here just the day before yesterday." The fat uncle at the gas station
"Yeah, I run a lot these days and consume a lot of fuel." Qin Suyun was also wearing a black down jacket, simple work gloves, and a black peaked cap, talking to the other party with a smile. However, she secretly felt a sense of vigilance in her heart. She planned not to come to the gas station in front of her again this week.
The management of gas stations is very strict. She once secretly asked the employees of two more remote gas stations if they could sell her gasoline separately. For this reason, she was willing to spend double the money to buy it. However, these gas station employees were very vigilant and abided by the rules of the gas station. Even if she finally raised the price to five times, they would not relent and sell her the gasoline alone.
With no other option, Qin Suyun had no choice but to go to the car rental agency again, rent a dusty and inconspicuous medium-sized truck with a relatively large fuel tank, and embark on the long process of refueling, pumping gas, and then going to a gas station to refuel.
The gasoline she drew out was placed separately in the oil storage barrel she had prepared before. Although there is no way to buy gasoline separately, you can still buy the large oil drums on the market separately, but the process of pulling the gasoline out of the tank and refilling it will be more troublesome.
Fortunately, the fuel tank of the truck she rented is really big. One tank can hold 180L when full. The large oil drum she bought can only hold 200L, so she can draw out a drum after refilling it almost every time. Oil comes. But she didn't dare to draw out all the oil at once. After all, after pumping gas, you still have to run to the next gas station.
There is only one gas station close to Wanxi Village, and you have to drive nearly 40 to 50 kilometers to see the next one.
Therefore, she can only work harder when taking urban routes. She is not in a hurry to take the expressway, and directly takes the county-level highways. These are interspersed with gas stations on the roads in the city and county towns. Every time after refueling, she would follow the navigation on her mobile phone to find the next target. After finding the target and calculating the distance, she would look for an opportunity to drive the car The oil in the car was pumped out and poured into the oil drum placed in the back of the car.
But this kind of action is too strange, and each time it stays for a long time, I was almost regarded as an oil thief several times.
Fortunately, no one is too nosy these days, and every time she takes the gasoline out of the tank, she will try to change it to another place next time, so she doesn't cause too much trouble. At most, some people came up to ask a few questions, but she gave them other excuses.
For example, let's say I bought a gasoline generator and want to get some oil, but the gas station doesn't sell it and I have to pump it myself.
Using this crude and simple method, Qin Suyun collected nearly thirty barrels of gasoline in these days, and the amount of gasoline collected continued to grow. Whenever she went to the city to purchase other supplies these days, , will bring back one or two more barrels. After all, there will definitely be a shortage of gasoline in the future. If she can collect more now, she will have more capital in the future.
"Oh, I don't know what's going on with the weather this year. It's so abnormal. It was so hot more than half a month ago, and now it's snowing. It's not easy for those of you who run long distances." The gas station uncle While cheering, he chatted with Qin Suyun, "But it suddenly became cold that day and after three days of snow, I feel that the weather has finally returned to what it was before. Although the weather outside is cold, my heart - —Be practical!... Especially after the national TV station invited many meteorological experts to explain why the weather has been abnormal these days... I am relieved."
"After all, nature has been damaged too much over the years, which is why these things happened! Miss, do you think I am right?... Okay, the gas is filled!" The uncle smiled and answered to himself. He put the oil gun back and covered Qin Suyun's car. Qin Suyun didn't need to say a word from the beginning to the end.
In the final analysis, the gas station uncle told him himself to make himself feel at ease, right? I don't know how many times he has told people about this.
Qin Suyun smiled without saying anything and drove away from the gas station.
These days, she has almost used up all the money she had to buy various supplies. The 300,000 she had saved before, plus the more than 3 million in cash she got from Chen Zhou and the discounts on two houses. The 2.4 million obtained from the sale was used, and now only less than 800,000 is left.
These days, she has thoroughly experienced the taste of money flowing like water and the skyrocketing prices.
Many products that can be bought at half price on weekdays are now at least twice as expensive. She spent double the money on ordinary days to buy the supplies she has on hand now, which means that she spent With more than 5 million yuan, she could only buy the supplies that cost more than 2 million yuan before... But the prices of houses, cars and other things have plummeted. If she hadn't sold the two houses in her hands earlier, now these two houses would be If I want to sell it again, I'm afraid it will be less than two million.
In fact, she didn't know until the time of the sale that the price of the house had begun to fall two months before she filed for divorce, but the decline was so small that ordinary people didn't pay much attention.
However, as the temperature rises and time goes by, the decline becomes larger and larger. It was not until it snowed some time ago that house prices gradually stabilized, and it seems that there is a trend of rising again...
Qin Suyun felt that this should actually be regarded as a reminder in a certain sense, but everyone was more happy about the skyrocketing prices and plummeting housing prices. She even felt that every time she came to the city to buy, You can all hear how happy everyone is about this plummeting house price, and they only look forward to it falling a little more, so that they can buy a good house for their son and a wife.
They feel that the current price surge is mainly due to the extreme weather in the past few days that reduced food production in autumn. Other countries took advantage of the situation and raised food prices, which led to the current price increase of many things. But as long as the degree is equal, After these days, with the state machine controlling things from the side, the prices of food and other things will definitely return to their original state again.
Just like the price of pork in the past two years, it once rose from eight yuan to twenty-four or five yuan. However, as time went by, the price of pork basically stabilized at around 11 yuan six months later.
If it weren't for this year's extreme weather, the price of pork would definitely not have increased again.
Everyone is waiting for prices to recover again after next spring.
Qin Suyun felt that if she had not dreamed of those weird things, she might have been influenced by other colleagues when she was working at the TV station, and she would have the same expectations for future life as everyone else.
After all, compared with the rising prices of supplies, the biggest factor is the rising housing prices every year.
The money spent on food and drink every day is a small amount of money compared to a house price that can easily reach millions.
Just from the fact that her previous new house in a good location, worth more than 3 million, was finally sold for 1.8 million, we can know how sharply the housing prices in the entire market have dropped.
For the countries next to China, prices in China are relatively cheap. Even if the price of food has doubled or tripled, it is still far from the price of a banana in neighboring countries, which is 40... As long as housing prices fall , even if the daily prices rise a little, everyone can continue to live happily.
Qin Suyun shook his head, put these thoughts away from his mind, and drove seriously
. The heavy snowfall that night caused the roofs of several vacant houses in the village to collapse. Fortunately, Village Chief Zhao had a strong sense of responsibility and would knock on the door as soon as it snowed. There were no major incidents in the whole village like in other areas. Something about freezing to death in the middle of the night.
This time she plans to go to two farms outside Yunhai City to buy some livestock such as pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese. In such a long time to come, the food in the two freezers will always be exhausted, and it is impossible for her to The family has always been vegetarian, especially the few furry children at home, so she had to make more preparations.
The price of meat has increased much during this period, even more than the price of grain. Qin Suyun doesn't know how many livestock he can buy with the money he has on hand.