Scavenging wasteland in the last days: I have fields, cattle and a villa

Jiang Yuan found nothing, but he had already dug up three, and they were quite big.

It would be great if one of them could make grilled matsutake mushrooms for herself. Thinking about it, she drooled in despair.

But just thinking about it, Lin Xiao spent a huge amount of money because of her cold salad last night. She can't be willful today. After all, these foods are hard to come by now.

They wandered around the pine forest all morning, and finally met many people from the same village. Everyone was running for food and did not stop to chat or say hello, as if they didn't know each other.

This is normal, after all, everyone is afraid that people who suddenly approach will be uneasy.

This was also the first time Jiang Yuan found nothing.

But fortunately, Lin Xiao had a lot of matsutake in his hands. After searching all morning, they found eight.

Jiang Yuan followed him happily, thinking that she finally no longer had to eat grass. This should be a serious game meal, right?

In order to prevent herself from returning empty-handed, she dug a lot of soil under the pine trees and took it back to plant the land.

When they got home, the two little carrot heads jumped up and down when they saw what Lin Xiao was holding, and they were so happy.

"Brother, can we exchange these matsutake mushrooms for some salt and oil?"

换？

The corner of Jiang Yuan's mouth that had just reached the back of her head moved back.

Why are these matsutake mushrooms not just for eating?

"Well, let's keep one flower and take the remaining seven to the exchange to exchange for oil and salt. We should be able to exchange them for half a month's supply."

Lin Xiao's always cold face finally had a smile, and he looked at his younger siblings with gentle eyes.

Sure enough, today is a fruitful day.

"Great, then we can also eat salt in the future."

Lin Qian hugged Lin Xiao's thigh happily, her big eyes twinkling and bright.

In the afternoon, they ate a matsutake mushroom and boiled mulberry leaves, added a tube of nutritional supplements, and added salt. It was an unprecedented luxurious meal.

The fresh aroma of matsutake made Jiang Yuan forget the fishy smell of nutritional supplements. She was very satisfied with the food, and she actually felt that it was the most delicious food she had ever tasted.

After two o'clock, the family of four, heavily armed, set off for the exchange.

Because I have to exchange for oil and salt, I won’t go out to look for food today.

From Lin Xiao's words, Jiang Yuan had a general understanding of this so-called transaction.

In short, it means bartering, using what you have in your hands to exchange for what you need of equal value.

They all trade on Exchange No. 6. The poor people in the slums have nothing to exchange with each other. Because everyone has similar resources, they mainly trade with merchants in the safe zone.

Today's merchants are equivalent to the salesmen of long ago. They bring out some of the things that the poor need from the safe zone, and then purchase "wild goods" to sell in the safe zone.

Although the living environment in the safe zone is very good, 'wild goods' such as matsutake (wild fungi), rough stones, and mutated beasts are very scarce.

So the poor people exchange these for oil, salt and other condiments. If they are lucky enough to get rough stones and game, they can also exchange them for corn, rice, etc. that can only be grown in safe areas.

When Jiang Yuan went to the exchange for the first time, she was full of expectations. She had never seen the world and was curious no matter where she looked.

Lin Xiao originally wanted to change the oil and salt and leave, but seeing Jiang Yuan looking around, he could only accompany her to wander around.

Most of the people who came in exchange for supplies were wild fungi, and the original stones were not seen at all.

But she finally saw the rumored mutated animal.

A pheasant, about as tall as a man, was carried by two legs by a strong man nearly two meters tall. The strong man carried a bow on his back and an ax on his waist. He was full of evil aura. When he walked into the exchange, he attracted almost everyone. people's attention.

The pheasant he was carrying was obviously still alive, but it was hit by two arrows in the abdomen and was dying. It made a painful cry of "whimpering" from time to time.

This pheasant was black all over, and its hair was as black as if it had been moistened in oil. It was supple and smooth, maintaining the basic characteristics of a chicken, but it was infinitely enlarged from head to toe, and it was as tall as a human. Jiang Yuan even felt that The mutated pheasant grows stronger than itself.

Under the gaze of everyone, the big man walked to the rice and flour exchange place and exchanged a pheasant weighing 120 kilograms for 100 kilograms of rice and 20 kilograms of flour.

On the spot, Jiang Yuan noticed that many people looked at the Orion with a green light, which was evil.

Everyone in the room, who doesn’t have a little bit of oil and salt? Even those who can afford rice and noodles can only get ten kilograms at most.

So he is simply an upstart, here to attract hatred.

But no one dared to challenge him.

A hunter who makes a living by catching mutant beasts can easily kill a person. Who dares to take a chance on him?

It was just his appearance that irritated Jiang Yuan.

Originally she thought she still had a few kilograms of mulberry leaves and green vegetables at home, but now that she has replaced the oil and salt, her life is pretty good.

But now she realizes that no matter how scarce supplies are now, there are still people who can eat meat and rice, which are staple foods.

On the other hand, they are always eating grass, are they cows? Eat grass every day?

No, she must also eat rice and meat.

But hunting was absolutely out of the question for her, and she couldn't get much rice or flour in exchange for wild game, and matsutake mushrooms were hard to come by. She hadn't found a single one all morning long, so she obviously didn't have the ability.

Then all that's left is to find the rough stones?

Among the three types of exchange goods, rough stones have the highest value.

The raw stones are also divided into red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and the grades increase from red to purple.

One kilogram of red rough stone can replace ten kilograms of rice, one kilogram of orange rough stone can replace fifty kilograms, and so on. One kilogram of the highest level purple can replace ten thousand kilograms of rice.

Of course, the higher the level, the harder it is to get it. It is said that there are currently no more than twenty purple rough stones in the safe zone.

And in the past twenty years, purple rough stones have never appeared.

As for what these rough stones can be used for, Jiang Yuan doesn't know much, and the people in the slums don't know either, because they have been looking for food all their lives. They know that rough stones are precious, but almost no one can find them.

"Lin Xiao, have you seen rough stones in the safe zone before?"

But that is an existence that can be exchanged for rice.

Jiang Yuan knew it was hard to find, but she didn't give up. What if she was lucky?

On the way back, she wanted to learn more about rough stones so that she could easily deal with them if she encountered them in the future.

"Of course I have seen it before. Our family ancestral hall used to enshrine a blue rough stone. The rough stone was beautiful, sparkling, and crystal clear. There were no impurities at all. It was as clear as water..."

It was Lin Qian who answered her.

I heard that the Lin family still has some status in the safe zone.

Enshrining a cyan-grade rough stone is presumably a symbol of status.