Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

In fact, she had always wanted to go to the farmer's market to buy some charcoal. The remaining dozen pounds of charcoal at home were from the last barbecue event organized by the company. At that time, everyone else was busy getting meat and vegetables, but Liao Yunyun was thinking about getting charcoal. Unexpectedly, the global temperature dropped not long after the event.

"By the way, charcoal is very expensive now, right? You must have spent a lot of money on these, right?" Liao Yunyun put down her purse, sat down next to Gu Tongwan, and asked her best friend as soon as she caught him.

This morning, people in their office were still discussing the ridiculously high price of charcoal recently. Sister Chen from the same office spent nearly a thousand points to buy twenty kilograms of charcoal. The two snakeskin bags that Gu Tongwan sent weighed at least nearly a hundred kilograms. Liao Yunyun sighed when she thought of the money she would have to spend.

Although she and Gu Tongwan have a close relationship, they are not real sisters but are better than real sisters. During the more than two years when Gu Tongwan disappeared, she had tried every means to find her, but unfortunately there was no result. But even so, she never thought of giving up. Fortunately, Gu Tongwan was lucky enough to escape the disaster and even managed to make a lot of money at the base. Her strength and ability were far beyond her imagination. Now it seems that she has been helping her all along. In fact, Liao Yunyun is still a little discouraged, mainly blaming herself for not being able to help her friend.

"It didn't cost too much money. Most of it was exchanged for raw branches in the forest. Yan Fan and I went back and forth to the forest some time ago just for this. I have electric heater at home, so don't worry that I won't have enough. By the way, I'll get you an electric blanket another day. If the temperature continues to drop, you can use it immediately." Gu Tongwan didn't think that her efforts for Liao Yunyun were unilateral. After all, their relationship was like that of family. She remembered that in her previous life, Liao Yunyun never gave up looking for her. Unfortunately, she couldn't enter the base at that time, so she couldn't meet Liao Yunyun. She only got her information by chance from others.

"Oh my sister, you should keep these good things for yourself. My little dog house is only one acre of land. It can't be that cold. Besides, I bought a down quilt before the extreme heat last year. Although it is second-hand, it is still quite clean. I washed it by hand and took it out to cover myself last night. Not to mention it was quite warm. I also prepared two hot water bottles, thick socks, down jackets... Anyway, most of the cold-resistant clothes have been prepared in advance. You really don't need to worry about me too much. Why don't you tell me what you want me to do for you?"

Liao Yunyun poured her a cup of hot water from the thermos. She looked quite relieved, as if she was not worried about the upcoming extreme cold weather at all.

"You are thinking about the extremely cold time when it's extremely hot?" Gu Tongwan blinked and looked at her in disbelief.

Who knew Liao Yunyun would grin with a smug look on her face, "That's right, isn't it? Don't you know that off-season items are the cheapest? Back then, a hot water bottle only sold for 35 points. Guess how much it sells for now? Now it's 85 points, and that's for the slightly inferior quality ones. The slightly better leather hot water bottles made from mutant animals are already selling for more than 200 points each."

"So expensive? Then you really got a good deal. However, you are probably the only one who would think of buying a hot water bottle when it's extremely hot." Gu Tongwan really didn't expect that Liao Yunyun seemed careless but was actually very shrewd. No wonder she had been making money when she was the boss's wife.

"Okay, don't worry too much about my affairs. Just tell me, what can I help you with?" Liao Yunyun asked curiously, holding her hand.

Gu Tongwan smiled faintly, "It's nothing serious, I just want to ask if you have anyone suitable to introduce to me as a clerk. The business is pretty good now, but if I run the store alone, I can't leave if something happens. Yan Fan is still in the training stage, and I personally hope that he can grow into a high-level psychic as soon as possible, so I didn't let him run the store for me. The small store business will continue for a long time, so it's better to hire a clerk first."

The main reason is that she has not been at the base for a long time, and the only people she can come into contact with are the boss's wife and the Zhang family. There are also few people who can be used. Some of them already have a job or they have children at home and cannot leave. After much thought, she thinks it would be more appropriate to find a young and willing to learn clerk.

She thought that Liao Yunyun had always had good connections in the base, and that she had experience in business, so she should have a better eye for people, so she thought of asking her for help.

"Wow, it seems your shop is doing really well. It's only been open for about 20 days, and you're already recruiting employees. I was worried that you'd lose money at first." Liao Yunyun was also happy for her friend. After all, being able to make money at the base is better than anything else.

"It's just a small business." Gu Tongwan blinked. She didn't think she was that great. If there was no space system, she might not be able to do so well.

"Okay, I'll look for one for you recently. Since you want a clerk, I think it's better to find a girl. She shouldn't be too old and should be honest. But you have to tell me clearly about the salary and working hours." Liao Yunyun asked.

Gu Tongwan had already thought about it, so he replied, "We have four days off every month, and Sunday is a fixed day of rest. The business hours are from 7:30 am to 6:00 pm. I will pull the goods to the store at 5:30 every day, so she needs to arrive at the store half an hour earlier the next day to organize the shelves. I asked Yan Fan to design a simple running account system for me. I can use a notebook to record daily income and expenditure, so I need to be able to operate a computer. When the store is not busy, I can read or do other things. I don't have too many restrictions on this. Lunch is provided at noon. The monthly salary is 550 yuan. If the performance is good, there will be an additional bonus of 100 to 150 yuan."

Liao Yunyun listened carefully, but also put forward her own opinion, "Calculated this way, the time spent in the store is eleven hours a day. If lunch is included, the salary is not too high. The main thing is that your bonus is actually completely unnecessary. You can directly raise the salary to 600, which will be more appropriate. As for the employees who perform well in the future, you can give them bonuses on a quarterly basis. This will not only allow you to observe their performance for a long time, but also improve their enthusiasm. At least let them know that they can only get bonuses if they work hard."

The salary of 600 points is equivalent to the income of an office worker in a small company within the inner circle of the base, but the advantage of this job is that the work content is simple and easy. You only need to watch the store carefully and do daily accounting when people come. It is actually not difficult, so it should not be difficult to find a salesperson.

"Then I'll listen to you. After all, you have opened a coffee shop and you have more experience than me." Gu Tongwan said with a smile.

After entrusting Liao Yunyun with this matter, Gu Tongwan did not continue to disturb her. Before leaving, he pointed to her small open kitchen and said, "I brought you some boxed lunches. It's cool now, so it's okay to save them for the evening."

After Liao Yunyun took a short nap, she remembered that she had lunch boxes. She hurried to the window next to the kitchen and saw a plastic bag hanging on it. There were three lunch boxes in it. Although they were cold, they still smelled fragrant when they were opened. One box contained snow-white rice, and the other two contained oily Kung Pao Chicken and three fresh vegetables. There was also a small jar of something that looked like pickles. After opening it, she found that it was dried radish fried with chili peppers. It was perfect to pair it with millet porridge or noodles.

Liao Yunyun's appetite was not very good after the hurried trip, but when she smelled the aroma, she couldn't control her saliva. She swallowed hard, divided half of the white rice, and directly poured half a box of three fresh dishes. Even though the dishes were cold, they were still delicious when eaten with plenty of juice.

The girl's cooking skills are getting better and better, and she is really willing to use oil and seasonings. If they didn't live some distance away from each other, she would probably eat for free every day.

After returning home, Gu Tongwan was not idle. While there were still two hours before the sun set, she ran to the backyard to tidy up her small vegetable garden. She mainly took care of the plastic shed. This time she added ten bags of soil, mainly because the previous soil was not deep enough, and some root vegetables were difficult to grow. The green onions that she casually inserted last night did not wilt, but the coriander was not the same. It seems that the coriander still needs to be sown again.

After loosening the soil a little, I poured some water on it. As for fertilizer, natural animal manure would be better. Generally speaking, chicken and duck manure are better. If that is not possible, you can make it yourself, but fermenting fertilizer also takes time, and if it is not fermented well, the whole yard will stink.

After much thought, I finally decided to go to the space to see if there were any suitable fertilizers available for purchase.

After searching for a while, she finally found it, but the price made her sigh. A bag of ordinary fertilizer cost 150 system points and could increase the growth rate of crops by 20%. High-speed fertilizer with better effects cost 250 system points and could increase the growth rate of crops by 40%. One bag of fertilizer could be used on one acre of land.

After some calculations, if I buy a bag of ordinary fertilizer, it can barely be used ten times for the vegetable garden in the plastic shed of several dozen square meters in the yard.

After thinking about this, I felt a little better, so I used my points to buy two bags of ordinary fertilizer.

The method of using ordinary fertilizer is to dilute it with water and then sprinkle it on the soil. Gu Tongwan tried diluting it with water and then sprinkling some, but the specific effect still needs to be seen later.

It was already 5:30 in the afternoon when he came out of the plastic greenhouse. He didn't know if it was because he had been in the greenhouse for a long time, but a gust of cold wind blew towards him as soon as he came out. The temperature seemed to have dropped a lot in the evening, and Gu Tongwan was so cold that he subconsciously shrank his neck.

Before entering the door, I took a special look at the thermometer outside, which showed that the outdoor temperature was only three degrees.

No wonder it felt colder, it was eight degrees at noon, but only three degrees in the evening. I don’t know if the temperature will be lower tomorrow.

Yan Fan went out in the morning and hasn't come back yet. Because she has to open the store tomorrow, she has to prepare the lunch boxes to be sold tomorrow in advance.

Hefan still planned to make the simplest dishes, stir-fried rapeseed, stir-fried pork, and braised chicken. All the ingredients were bought from the farmers' market. This time, he bought ten chickens at once, and also bought three boxes of mutant eggs. As for potatoes, erjingtiao, and rapeseed, they were all taken out from his own space.

It is actually a very tiring job for one person to prepare all these ingredients and cook them at once, so Gu Tongwan also considered whether he could find someone with cooking experience to help him.

The first person she thought of was Yangmei. Although Yangmei needed to stay at home to take care of Xiaobao, if she provided food and ingredients, perhaps Yangmei would not have to run back and forth, and could even earn some extra money.

However, this is still in the preliminary planning stage. After all, it still needs careful consideration. On the one hand, whether the ingredients can be safely handed over to the other party, and secondly, whether Yangmei agrees.

This time, I still prepared thirty lunch boxes. The three dishes didn't seem very complicated, but the process from preparing the ingredients to washing, cutting vegetables and cooking took almost two hours. It was almost nine o'clock in the evening when I finished.

In the middle, I had a simple bowl of ready-made spicy hot pot. The hot beef bone soup was topped with red oil, which looked both appetizing and spicy. A bowl of it was perfect in such chilly weather.

After washing up in the evening, I turned on the TV. Channel 1 was broadcasting weather news. The temperature in Country N had dropped to minus 20 degrees Celsius, but just yesterday the temperature was still around zero degrees. It dropped to dozens of degrees in just one day, which made people feel more and more afraid of the coming extreme cold.

There is a reason why extreme cold leaves such a deep fear in everyone. When the first extreme cold came, the death toll from not being able to survive the cold winter reached hundreds of thousands. According to statistics, more than 1.2 million people died in the first extreme cold period.

The first people who cannot withstand the cold weather are the frail elderly and children with weak resistance.

However, after the first experience of extreme cold, the base government has been trying to fundamentally solve the problem of keeping warm in recent years.

The first thing is to raise the city wall, and try to keep it at a height of 15 meters, on the one hand to resist the invasion of strong cold winds, and secondly to avoid the beast tide caused by mutant beasts. The base is also using multiple snowplows and snow sweepers to try to avoid casualties caused by slippery roads due to excessive snow. The water department strengthens the safety inspection of raw water and water plants, and first of all, ensures the normal water supply in the base.

Not only that, the base has also made a cold prevention plan in advance. Starting next week, the frequency of patrols by the Self-Defense Forces will be increased to recruit volunteers from the base to conduct daily patrols of various roads and alleys.

It is estimated that once the weather news is broadcast tonight, the number of people rushing to farmers' markets and major shopping malls to buy cold-proof products will increase several times tomorrow.