NOVEL NEXT Chapter 38 Go to the official market
The difference from when I went there is that their luggage has been reduced a lot!
On the one hand, local snakes collected protection fees and swallowed a large amount of food.
On the other hand, there is no place to store supplies in the shelter, thieves are rampant, and some are robbed openly. In short, it is a mess.
Everyone regretted it when they thought that they had given up the beautiful villa environment in the resort and came here to suffer.
But not everyone came back.
Those who were able to come back had raised food through crowdfunding, asked the rescue team to take them away, and sent other cars back.
28 people went, but only 20 came back.
It was said that the remaining few had all their supplies stolen on the first night because they were too tired and too sleepy.
Everyone around them probably had their share, so they didn't even have a witness who could testify, so they had no choice but to suffer the loss of being dumb.
Now those few people have to rely on the supplies distributed by the government every week to survive.
But just that little thing must be guarded day and night, and no one can steal it again...
Many people in the resort went to the entrance of the village to watch, but everyone stayed away.
Because the people who came back carried an indescribable stench that could be smelled from a distance.
It is said that the environment of the shelter is extremely poor and the daily water supply is very tight.
Officials do not advocate drinking urban snow water. It contains acidic substances such as nitrite, as well as various bacteria and dust, which can easily cause diseases.
The shelter provides filtered bottled water, which is delivered and distributed by officials every day.
But just drinking that little water every day is not enough, let alone using it elsewhere.
They haven't had a shower in more than half a month since they went to the shelter.
Coupled with the closed environment, the skin of these people is like pickled stinky tofu, so smelly that it drives people away.
The Gu family brothers and sisters also went to watch the fun, and they brought Lou Nan from Villa 049 with them.
Now the relationship between the three people is very good. Because they need to ask for advice on planting, the three people get together almost every day.
Not long ago, after hearing Lou Nan introduce herself as a graduate student at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Mu Jiu realized that she was about the same age as him.
It's just that she looks relatively childish, which makes Mu Jiu mistakenly think that she is very young.
Lou Nan belongs to the style of cute girl with light face and cute face, while Mu Jiu belongs to the style of royal sister with thick face and cold face, so Mu Jiu looks more mature and not easy to approach.
The three of them came back after watching the excitement and reported to Mu Jiu that those people who had moved back had started fighting with the residents of the neighborhood committee because of housing issues!
Because after those five families left with the rescue team, everyone else moved to the inside of the resort.
It happens to occupy the villas where three of the people who left have lived before.
They came back and wanted to live in the original place, but the current residents were definitely unwilling to move, so they had a quarrel over this.
There was a shameless person who rushed directly into the lobby of the villa with the stinking dirt from the shelter, and lay down on the clean sofa rolling and rubbing himself, deliberately making people disgusting.
They have all experienced life and death revolutions, how can they get used to such things.
The new residents simply took out the sticks and kitchen knives at home, cursed and drove them out...
Fortunately, Lu Ming brought someone over in time, otherwise he might have seen blood!
Gu Yang was talking with gusto, then suddenly thought of something and said to Mu Jiu:
“Sister, we heard from people who came back that there is an officially organized market opposite the rescue center every Monday when food is collected.
It’s very lively, and everyone can take various things there to exchange with others for the supplies they want.
In October last year, the official announced that the currency would be discontinued. Now it’s all about bartering, which must be fun! "
Mu Jiu looked at Gu Yang's eager eyes, "So you also want to go shopping?"
The three of them nodded sincerely and wanted to go!
They have been trapped in the hot spring resort since the beginning of the apocalypse. They have not seen the bustle of the outside world for a long time, how could they not want to.
As for why she had to come to Mu Jiu to discuss going out, it was because in the entire resort, her car was probably the only one that could still be driven!
The hot spring resort is located in the outer suburbs of Nancheng. Even driving to the city center would take two or three hours, let alone walking.
But after these seven or eight months of extremely cold weather, even though there were several cars in the basement of our villa, they couldn't be started and used normally.
Mu Jiu asked Lou Nan to go back and ask Lou Nan if she wanted to go to the city together. Tomorrow happened to be Monday.
She also has people she cares about, and wants to go and see them, to confirm with her own eyes that they are doing well, so that she can feel at ease!
Of course Mama Lou wants to go. After being depressed for so long, who doesn’t want to go out for a walk?
Everyone hit it off immediately, and during dinner in the evening, they gathered together in Villa 048 to discuss what supplies they should bring to the market tomorrow.
Mu Jiu didn't care. All her belongings were in the space. She had whatever she wanted without having to think about it.
As for the others, the Gu family brothers and sisters brought the special mountain products of Hot Spring Mountain, wild chestnuts, wild walnuts and wild mountain mushrooms.
The Lou family's mother and daughter brought various vegetables and fruits grown by Lou Nan herself.
They are all things that cost nothing to them.
But in fact, for people living in the center of the city, these foods are extremely precious!
Mu Jiu and his party of five set out before dawn.
This is to avoid being seen by the chatty women in the resort, gossiping, or even maliciously stealing from their homes.
This time Mu Jiu drove a brand new black Mercedes-Benz G purchased from Hans Guo Ling Yuan, an all-terrain off-road vehicle.
The roads outside the resort have already been cleared by the large forklifts of the rescue team and are free of obstructions.
Mu Jiu and his party arrived at the rescue center at dawn. The building where they received food was originally the municipal building in Nancheng.
In order to ensure the safety of food transportation, storage and distribution, a rescue center for food distribution was set up here.
And arranged a large number of troops with guns to maintain stability.
Outside the municipal building is a large city square, which is also a landmark check-in point in Nancheng. It is now used to queue up tens of thousands of refugees to receive food.
When Mu Jiu and his party arrived, it was only 8 o'clock in the morning, and the square was already crowded.
Mu Jiu remembered that in her previous life, in order to receive relief food as early as possible, she usually got up at three in the morning and queued up to grab a front seat so that she could eat rice earlier.
Because relief food needs to be collected on a per capita basis and cannot be collected on behalf of others.
Everyone had to come and line up by themselves, even the old woman who was paralyzed at home had to be carried out.
Only by matching the number of people present with their ID cards can they claim their share of food, so there are a lot of people.
Mu Jiu and others stood at the outside of the team, looking at the dark crowd of people receiving food in front of them, feeling a little frightened.
This is the first time they have seen so many people since the end of the world.
But when it's their turn to receive food, it's probably going to be dark!
The five people discussed it and agreed that the people living in the resort did not need to eat the official relief food for the time being because their supplies were quite sufficient.
After discussion, we decided to give up waiting in line to receive food and leave the share to those who need it more!
At this moment, in the market opposite, tens of thousands of stalls have already been set up, and the crowds are rushing back and forth, making it very lively.
People who got up early to collect the food would go there for a stroll and pick up some treasures to take back.
Mu Jiu and his party came for this purpose and ran towards the market excitedly.