boyutpedia Chapter 275
Chapter 275
Grandma Pang was very surprised: "Lost? Xiaofen, then you didn't look for him?"
Aunt Zhang brushed the dust off Kaikai and muttered, "Why are you looking for her? She's just a money-loser. If she's lost, it's lost. Who would go out and look for her in such high temperatures?"
She ignored the strange looks from others and put on a smiling face to look at Grandma Pang: "Grandma Pang, I heard that your family also raises chickens. My Kaikai is too thin. How do you think we can exchange eggs? I'll give you some supplies in exchange for some eggs. How about that?"
Zhou Shuwan stood at the door and looked over there indifferently.
Her eyes were like sharp rulers, sweeping over Kaikai from head to toe.
The clothes Kaikai was wearing were very old and had turned white from being washed. Although the temperature had dropped, the clothes he was wearing were still a bit thin, as if they were the clothes he had brought with him when he went to the base.
The thick clothes left at home must have been all soaked by the flood, and then exposed to high temperatures for two years, so they were in a terrible state and naturally could not be worn.
Aunt Zhang is dressed more decently than Kaikai.
Could it be that the Zhang family has become so poor that they can’t even afford to wear thick clothes for their children?
Grandma Pang was a little embarrassed: "Xiao Fen, it's not that I don't want to exchange it for you, but we've been eating a lot at home these days, and we don't have much left."
She did feel sorry for Kaikai, but as neighbors for many years, she knew Aunt Zhang's nature of being greedy for small profits too well. She knew that the exchange she mentioned would most likely be something she could get for free, so she simply refused her.
Aunt Zhang's face changed. She glanced coldly at the Qi family's house and sneered, "Grandma Pang, now that your family has moved to the sixth floor, you're looking up and turning your back on your old neighbors!"
Grandma Pang was a little angry: "It's the end of the world now, and every household is struggling. I raise chickens and we feed them with our daily ration of compressed biscuits and vegetables. If there weren't a strong wind, the hens would grow up and lay eggs."
Several families gathered downstairs, all listening attentively to the noise.
Grandma Pang angrily lashed out, "These eggs are from my family. I can keep them for myself, so why should I exchange them for you? I'm crazy!"
After saying that, he asked Qi Mingyu to close the door.
Qi Mingyu was a grown man, so he didn't want to interrupt in such trivial family matters. He just let Grandma Pang talk and then closed the door neatly.
Before closing the door, he winked at Zhou Shuwan, asking her to close the door quickly and avoid being caught in the act.
Zhou Shuwan didn't need his reminder. He just opened the door to help the Qi family.
As soon as the Qi family's door closed, the door on her side also closed.
Aunt Zhang was locked outside the door in a daze. It took her a long time before she got up, jumped up and down, cursed a few times, and then reluctantly pulled Kaikai's hand and went downstairs.
As soon as she went downstairs, Qi Mingyu and Zhou Jianghai appeared at the same time in tacit understanding and installed the iron door at the entrance of the corridor on the sixth floor.
They moved house before and the iron gate was blocking the way, so they took it down first and waited to install it again in the next few days, but someone couldn't help but make trouble.
"Call your grandma to come over for dinner in the evening." After installing the iron gate, Zhou Jianghai said to Qi Mingyu.
The two families have lived together for such a long time that they have become very familiar with each other.
Qi Mingyu simply nodded: "Okay, Uncle Zhou."
In addition to a table full of sumptuous meals in the evening, Zhou Shuwan also cut peaches into pieces, boiled them, and pickled them according to the method of canned yellow peaches. After the meal, he gave each person a bowl.
It is freshly cooked, tastes very delicious and is soft, which is more suitable for Grandma Pang who has poor teeth.
Grandma Pang was very surprised: "So you have canned yellow peaches at home!"
"Yes, there are two children at home, so I prepared extra snacks." Zhong Tiyun said with a smile.
In fact, they didn't treat their stomachs too badly by living in the underground safe house.
All fresh vegetables are pre-prepared, and meat is frozen, with pork, chicken, beef, etc. eaten in large quantities.
The noodles are dried and then frozen, which does not affect the taste.
Dumplings and buns with various fillings are also frozen.
Anyway, what they took out were semi-finished products, and Grandma Pang couldn’t think of anything else.
With Qi Mingyu providing cover in the middle, everything went smoothly.
"Grandma Pang, you don't have to cook often in the future. Just come over to our place for dinner." Zhong Tiyun invited warmly, "After all, I've been living in your house for almost two years. Dahai and I feel bad about it."
Grandma Pang said with a fierce face: "Nonsense! Our two families might be relatives in the future, why are you being so polite!"
"That's right. If the two children get along well with each other in the future, they might really become relatives! Please don't be polite to us." Zhong Tiyun immediately seized the opportunity of her words.
Grandma Pang was speechless for a moment.
Everyone burst into laughter.
The temperature is just right, it's the perfect time to build a house or grow vegetables.
A few days later, when I went out again, I saw many people setting up stalls at the intersection of several communities.
Some are extra quilts and thick clothes from home, some are compressed biscuits, some are freshly grown vegetables, green and tender, and some are cacti grown at home...
There has been almost no such scene in the past two or three years.
Zhou Shuwan and his mother came out and stood there in a daze.
Zhong Tiyun immediately said, "Let's go shopping and see if there's anything worth exchanging."
Women always like to go shopping.
Zhou Shuwan went shopping with her mother.
These street stalls look lively from a distance, but when you get close, you find that the quality is not very good.
These street vendors also free up their own excess or temporarily unneeded supplies in exchange for more needed supplies.
There was even one store that laid out hundred-dollar bills directly on the ground, a huge pile of red, very pleasing to the eye.
The crowd just looked at it as if it was something strange, sneered a few times, and then walked away.
Today's banknotes only have a little value when they can ignite a fire. Otherwise, they are just waste paper.
The man was wearing a suit and was about 40 years old. He looked like a successful person before the end of the world, but now the suit was wrinkled and torn, and he was wearing a pair of sneakers with mud on the soles, as if he had just finished work and came here to set up a stall.
Facing the sneers of the crowd, he could only plead desperately: "Please, everyone, can someone exchange some medicine for me? I have a child at home, only eight or nine years old, who is sick and we can't afford to see a doctor!"
Zhong Tiyun whispered: "If you don't pay enough money to the hospital now, who will see you?"
Zhou Shuwan walked over.
Zhong Tiyun hurriedly called out, "Wanwan," and followed.
The middle-aged man saw Zhou Shuwan and showed hope. "Miss, do you want these banknotes? I'll give them all to you. I just want a few packets of ibuprofen. My child has had a fever for several days and I'm at my wit's end!"