"Brother Qiang, do you want to smoke?" Du Qing said politely, taking out a pack of cigarettes and passing one to the other party.
Liu Qiang took it, put it to his nose, smelled it, and said, "This is a good cigarette!" "
Brother Qiang, I'm new here. I wonder what the price of food is here now?" Du Qing said, putting it in his hand. I stuffed two packs of the same cigarettes just now.
Liu Qiang put away his cigarette and thought to himself, this guy is quite good.
Liu Qiang lit a cigarette, took a puff, slowly exhaled the smoke, and said unhurriedly: "Xiao Du, just come to me. The price of food is very expensive now. Half a catty of gold can be exchanged for one hundred." Jin of rice, now we no longer use cash here, barter or use hard goods such as gold and grain to buy and sell."
"Yes." Du Qing responded, he is not stupid to hold gold, gold will become more and more devalued. Now half a catty of gold can be exchanged for a hundred catties of grain. In the future, one catty of gold may not be exchanged for ten catties of rice.
"If you don't want gold, you can exchange grain for some meat or other supplies." Liu Qiang smoked happily, "The one over there and the two people on the left, don't mess with them, they are behind the scenes It's very tough. There was an unsighted person who wanted to buy and sell by force. As a result, he can no longer come here." "
You should also pay attention to the two people over there. For the sake of your two packs of cigarettes, don't do it. Go to their stalls to buy things. Most of the things they sell are fake and bad, but out of here, no one will care if you buy fake things." Liu Qiang pointed to a man who was doing a good job in the black market at the stall. A woman said.
Du Qing looked over and quickly looked away, thinking to himself, this person's backstage is probably the biggest here. The things they sell are medicines, but they sell fake medicines and still occupy the stall here. It's enough to see the other party's background. This person is really wicked. He sells fake medicine. What if he eats people dead?
"Will anyone sell it after being fooled?" Du Qing couldn't help but ask.
"Why not? Although the medicines they buy are extremely expensive, but you can tell at a glance that they come from somewhere else, and there are many easy-to-deceive sheep." Liu Qiang snorted coldly, obviously dissatisfied with those two people. I am disgusted by the behavior of individuals selling fake medicines.
After chatting with Liu Qiang for a while, Du Qing had some connection with the situation here.
The stall he noticed selling mutated plants had never been bought. A common flower pot had a plant that had not yet been mutated transplanted into it.
He and Liu Qiang talked for so long, but he didn't see anyone buying anything from his stall. Someone took a look curiously, but was scared away by the price of a plate of 100 kilograms of grain.
"Is that old man selling mutated plants? Why is no one buying it?"
Liu Qiang followed his gaze and looked over, "Tell him, at first he brought out a bunch of these things, and they were still very popular. ."
"At that time, there were quite a few rip-offs who bought them back, but after buying them back, the plants died within less than five days of growing them. This situation continued. Later, everyone knew that the plants were difficult to grow at all. If you can't live, you gave up the idea of growing an edible vegetable."
The gold is of no use at home, so it's better to exchange it for something real. Du Qing walked around the black market, and he wanted to buy a cart of grain. He probably knew what it was.
I bought some dried meat, and some furs that were very expensive before the end of the world. Du Qing looked at the prices and felt they were still a bit expensive, so he decided not to buy them yet. He also changed some dry goods. There were also people selling salted fish here.
Du Qing saw this and happily exchanged a lot of food for it. Du Qing walked around and was worried that the food in the car was not enough. He bought many kinds of things, but the portions were not very large. He also bought things without bargaining, and They all paid the bills with food, and it wasn't long before everyone in the black market knew that a big fat sheep had arrived.
When Du Qing passed by their stall, he tried his best to sell the products at their location.
Coal!! Du Qing's eyes lit up, he got rid of the man who was pestering him to sell goods, and strode to the man.
The man selling coal was waiting in the corner in despair, with two baskets of coal in front of him and one or two large trucks behind him.
"How to sell these coals?" Du Qing asked, suppressing the joy on his face.
"Two kilograms of rice per basket." The man raised his head and said disappointedly when he saw that it was a young man.
"If I buy more, can the price be cheaper?" Du Qing thought about it and realized that the price was still a bit expensive.
"How much do you want to buy?" The man finally looked at him seriously.
"How many do you have?"
Chapter 22
"A lot." The man said while smoking a dry cigarette. He looked at Du Qing and felt that he didn't seem like someone who would buy so much coal. He had hoarded so much coal. I thought that in a month or two, when the weather gets colder, I would make a lot of money.
But who knew that the weather was getting hotter and hotter, with no signs of cooling down at all, and too many trees on the mountain were dead. No one was buying his coal, and he couldn't sell it. Except for some of the coal he bought at low prices, Most of them are made in their own small factories.
Now it's all in his hands.
"If I buy them all, can it be cheaper?" Du Qing asked.
The cigarette in Dong Yu's hand almost fell to the ground, and he asked suspiciously: "Are you sure you want to buy them all? I have hundreds of tons of coal stored in my house." Several hundred tons?
Du Qing thought about it and felt that these coals You can eat them all. It is summer, so the price of coal is so cheap. In winter, many people will die of cold.
"I want them all." Du Qing said in a low voice. Of course he couldn't let go of such a huge advantage.
"You want them all?" Dong Yu confirmed, "My coal is all high-quality coal. Even if it is not used now, the price is not that cheap."
"Don't worry, I have food. If you don't believe it, I can take you to see it. The little car over there is the food I brought." Du Qing said.
"No, let's find a place to have a good chat about this business." Dong Yu also saw him spending money lavishly on food just now. There is such a scapegoat who is willing to buy his food, and he is worried about whether he has any background, reminding him He said: "I have fifty kilograms of coal and one ton of rice, no returns."
"I bought it, it will be useful of course." Du Qing said happily.
After buying the most important coal, Du Qing was not in the mood to continue shopping. Less than half of the food in the car was used up, and there was still a lot left. He went to the old man's stall and bought the mutated food he brought this time. Plants, buy them all.
The cheerfulness of the payment made the stall owner regretful. He finally met a fat sheep. He could have paid a higher price. After spending so many days here, he met such a fat sheep.
Du Qing and the other party paid and delivered the goods. After giving the food to the other party, he moved the flower pots, put them in the car, and called the man selling coal.
Since there is a black market here, many shops have opened nearby. It is much better to rent a shop than to sell things in the black market, but the price of renting a shop is also very expensive, and you can't rent it without some backstage.
The middle-aged man happily carried the coal back to the car and drove away with him.
When he got to the takeout, he looked at the prices at the restaurants selling food. Du Qing backed down. Although he had a lot of food, it was not wasted like this.
The two people put the car aside, found a shady place, and began to discuss coal.
Du Qing: "As you can see, I still have a lot of grain in my car. What do you think of this? You and I drive the coal to an abandoned warehouse ten kilometers away from here, and then you drive my pickup truck Bring the grain back. Then bring the coal, and I'll use this truck to transport the grain in exchange."
He was the only one here, and this was the only method that was safer. He didn't have to worry about the other party taking away the goods.
"Okay, I have no problem here. I can rent an extra coal truck and transport two trucks of coal with my brother."
Du Qing nodded, "No problem, how many tons does your truck have?"
Dong Yu: " More than thirty tons, lets call it thirty tons.
Thirty tons, thats a total of one thousand and five kilograms of rice.
Yeah. Dong Yu exchanged keys with the other party.
"There are a lot of things in the car, please help me move them to your big truck." Du Qing took advantage of opening the carriage door to put away the excess food inside and said.
The coal was not very full, so it was worthwhile to put the things he bought on the black top. The two of them worked together to move Du Qing's things to Dong Yu's car, and the move was completed in a short time.
Dong Yu ordered the rice on the other side's small truck, which came in 100-meter bags. He counted it twice and found that there were as many as twenty bags.
Dong Yu said: "Is there five extra bags of rice?"
Du Qing shook his head, "Take the extra five bags and treat it as a deposit." After making an
appointment with the other party on the time and the quantity of the next delivery, Du Qing started He drove away with the other party's large truck.
They made an appointment to meet here the next morning. It was already noon, and the solar energy was burning off a layer of skin. Dong Yu lived far away from Zaijin. It was okay to drive directly to Huqiu, but he couldn't.
After locking the car, he also took out a big lock and locked the door of the warehouse. The person disappeared immediately and entered the space. He couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. The temperature in the space was maintained at 20 to 20. In the 30-degree range,
feed the fish in the space, prepare enough feed for the animals in the space, pick up the eggs, put them in the basket on the side, and water the vegetable and fruit trees planted in the space.
After finishing the things in the space, Du Qing took a nap in the space. The weather was not so hot. When the alarm clock rang, Du Qing felt that it was indeed wise to buy a few large beds and put them in the space.
He pressed the ringtone on his cell phone, ate two oranges stored in the space, and filled the truck with oil and coal. He did not plan to put all the coal in the truck this time. In winter, if he traced it carefully, It was still possible to find out that he was the one who bought the coal.
He would like to build some northern kangs at home, but in the winter here, it is not cold enough to install kangs.
When winter comes, he doesn't know how to explain it to the villagers, saying that he has foresight? He predicts that it will start snowing in January??
In desperation, he can only prepare the materials needed to build a kang at home, and wait for winter to arrive. , just invite people to build it.
The price of building materials will also rise by then. However, there is still some time before winter, so he can take his time. The animals have not mutated now, and the price of meat is very cheap.
However, the number of animals in nature is also declining sharply, and most herbivorous animals have starved to death. Du Qing thought, now is the time to start saving supplies for the winter.
When he returned to the village, Du Qing found that a checkpoint had been built at the entrance of the village, and everyone entering and exiting had to be checked.
He didn't have these when he came out, so why did he suddenly have this thing? Du Qing thought to himself, but he still got out of the car obediently and accepted their inspection.
After there was no problem, Du Qing was issued a card similar to an ID card and was put in.
After returning home, I found Du Hua yelling and cursing from the house, "You damn little bastard! Get out of here! Do you want to let this go after beating my son?! When you come out, I'll see if I don't beat you to death." !"
Du Qing hurried in and found that Du Hua was cursing at the door of his parents' room. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Son, come out. Dad is here and will never let others hurt you."