food crisis [end times]

The author has something to say: Shopkeeper (Brother Xiao): Duck eggs are worthless, but your connections are very valuable!Understand the applause!

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Xiang Luo was still greeted by Li Baoguo to the entrance of the village.

At the entrance of the village came a salesman.

In fact, Xiang Luo had many salesmen like this when he was a child.At that time, the village and even the county had just started to develop, and it cost more for people to leave the village.And the shopkeepers bring all kinds of goods into the village for sale, which greatly facilitates people's lives.These may be a bit more expensive, but they are better than those in the village who walk more than ten miles or even farther to buy things.

Later, as daily life became more and more convenient, more and more people in the village had cars, and it became more and more convenient to go to the county, such shopkeepers became less and less.Xiang Luo remembered that before the end of the world, it was only possible to come to the shopkeeper once in half a month.And only sell some seasonal fruits and vegetables, and some pickles and pickles.But there are not many people who buy it, and the salesman has no strength.

It has been almost a year since the end of the world, and this is the first time the villagers have seen the shopkeeper in this year.

Although the car couldn't enter the village, people in the village who heard the news gathered around one after another, seeing the peddler and the truck as monkeys and monkey mountains, watching with relish.

In fact, whether to buy or not is secondary, the main thing is to see if it is fresh.

It would be nice to have something good.

Although what they want, they will mention it to the official, as long as it is convenient, they will bring it when they come to buy mushrooms next time.It's just that the things that can be bought are limited, and there are too many things that money can't buy.

As soon as Xiang Luo arrived, he heard the woman in front shout: "There is fabric!"

Several women asked immediately.Then more people went out, and they all went to have a look.

After the end of the world, there is no way to buy new clothes.Although in the past when the conditions were good, every household had a lot of clothes that couldn't fit, but it was a pity that there were no new clothes to wear.In addition, now that the conditions are good, it is also a bit of joy to make new clothes for family members or children to wear on the body during the holidays.

"No, there are firecrackers! How much is it..."

Immediately afterwards, there were voices of inquiries.There are seven shopkeepers in the car.If you dare to come out of this world, you will naturally have enough ability to protect yourself.But seven people are not enough to answer them.

In the end, the People's Liberation Army came forward to help adjust, let everyone line up, and five people went out of the village at a time, saying what they liked and what they wanted to buy.Line up by yourself, and if you don't grab the front seat, you will be unlucky when the front ones are sold out, and don't complain.

Under the adjustment of the soldiers, everyone lined up in a long line.Usually, the five people who go out choose and discuss with their own family members in the village.Then negotiate a good price, and the shopkeeper picks up these goods and packs them separately. When the person's family returns home and brings the corresponding grain, he will hand over the grain and deliver it with one hand.

The shopkeepers didn't expect that they found a treasure village, and the local tyrants in a village wanted to empty their carts.But the price they give is really not high.The people in the village are not stupid, and it is impossible to take advantage of others for nothing. No matter what they have, they have a psychological expectation, and if they exceed this expectation, they will not buy it.

And the shopkeepers are also very talkative, some people like to bargain, as long as they don't talk too much, they can give away half a catty of grain.Coupled with their smiling faces and warm service, the goods on the car went down at a speed visible to the naked eye.

When he arrived at Xiang Luo, Xiang Luo only looked around.The cloth, seasonings, firecrackers, and books on the car were basically sold out.

A peddler smiled with an account book in his hand: "If you want anything, you can tell us, and we will bring it to you next time."

Xiang Luo nodded and took another look at these shopkeepers.Not someone who sold goods before.Of course, this is normal, but it doesn't look like the people around.

"Where did you come from? Why are there so many goods?" Xiang Luo asked with a smile.

One person said: "We came from the province next door, and we got a supermarket warehouse before, so we have been selling goods. It's just that the world is hard now, and fewer and fewer people are willing to spend food. This is not for the sake of selling goods. Farther away? I didn’t expect that the conditions in our village are so good, and this move is also generous.”

The more the man said, the bigger the smile on his face.

Xiang Luo nodded and took a look. The goods on this cart are quite complete, even underwear and panties, as well as the little girl's floral headband.

Xiang Luo looked at it for a long while, but there was nothing he wanted, mainly because there was nothing missing at home.Finally, I saw a pile of books in the corner that had obviously been picked and picked many times. After looking at them, I found three books that were a bit broken but barely readable from among the tattered books.Two are about A Dream of Red Mansions, and one looks like an ancient book similar to a medical book, with some body paintings on it, which is quite interesting to read.

"How much are these?"

Any decent books have long been picked up by people in the village who want to buy them for their children, and there is really no one to choose these books.

The shopkeeper saw that Xiang Luo was the best dressed among these people, but the shopping was so shabby.

However, he didn't want people to think that he looked down on people because he didn't buy a lot of things, so he said in a good temper: "If you want a book, you can give me a catty of food. This book doesn't look good for sale,"

Xiang Luo took out a duck egg from his pocket: "How much can this be sold for?"

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The air was quiet.

The shopkeeper who was talking to Xiang Luo rubbed his eyes in disbelief, afraid that what he saw was fake.

"You... are you... from before?"

If it has been stored for a year, even salted duck eggs cannot be eaten.

The woman next to Xiang Luo said enviously: "They raise ducks. New ones."

The peddler, who had originally looked down on Xiang Luo, immediately changed his mind that he didn't value Xiang Luo, and his smile became more enthusiastic: "You can pick whatever you want! The price is also negotiable. If you want to say anything, I will definitely bring it to you."

What Xiang Luo took out casually was naturally not a fertilized egg. This egg is only worth eating.

And the salesmen are also very clear that although this egg is precious, its value is limited.In contrast, what is more precious is Xiang Luo, a person who can take out an egg at will.

Xiang Luo casually pointed to the packaged snacks in the corner. These are considered expensive in the car, so the order was relatively slow: "Except for these three books, let's take the snacks for the rest, and count as much as you can sell."

The shopkeeper hurriedly found a plastic bag.And I picked a big one, put snacks in a plastic bag as if I didn't want money, filled a big bag, and gave it to Xiang Luo with a smile on his face:

"We have plenty of these. Look at what you like to eat. I'll get it for you next time. I just don't know if your family has live ducks for sale. As long as you are willing to sell them, the price is negotiable."

Xiang Luo said casually: "I signed a contract with someone, and I can't sell live ducks. But if you want, I can sell you newly killed ducks. My family is very greedy. If you have more next time, please take more." Alright. I'll use meat duck instead."

The people in the nearby village couldn't help asking: "Do you have so many ducks?"

Xiang Luo said: "How can there be too many, I'm just hungry for snacks."

The man joked, "How old are you, you still eat snacks."

Although it was a joke, it was not malicious.Xiang Luo handed the eggs to the salesman, and stood not far away with the big and small packages.

Li Baoguo was the next batch to buy, and Xiang Luo waited for a while.Li Baoguo didn't bring his daughter with him. Fortunately, he was very popular, so he first borrowed some food from other people and bought some things for his daughter.Especially the toiletries, the house has been out of use for a while.

The old men don't have these, so it's okay to be rotten and stinky.Big girls must love beauty.Among them, wet wipes are the most expensive, because wet wipes contain moisture, can be pulled out directly to wipe off the face or clean parts of the body, and are portable, which has more value than other things.

Li Baoguo also bought a few packs.There is no shortage of food in his family.And just one daughter.It must be no matter how much food is said.

The days are getting colder, but the drought continues.Looking at the still cloudy sky, Xiang Luo walked in front, and Li Baoguo followed behind with big and small bags.Both of them carried a lot of things.

After walking a little farther, Li Baoguo complained to Xiang Luo: "Isn't your duck egg still out of mass production? It's not good to take it out at this time, and the money is not revealed, so you are not afraid of being missed."

"It's okay, it's coming soon anyway." The ducks in Xiang Luo's family have grown to a large scale, and he is not afraid of outsiders knowing. On the contrary, the more people know, the more sales will be opened, and the price will be better.And he also wanted to try it out.

Previously, Xiang Luo's original idea was to sell the cubs while they were hatching, and only buy half of the hatched brood at most each time.

It’s just that at first the villagers were afraid that they would not be able to support themselves, and very few people wanted to buy them.Later, when the rich businessman came, he finalized a breeding plan with him, and Xiang Luo never announced the news of the duck cub.

The villagers have their own speculations about this, especially in the past few months, many people have speculated whether Xiang Luo was raised badly, so they didn't mention it at all.As such speculation spread among the villagers, no one asked Xiang Luo about the duck.

But they are greedy for duck eggs. If you come to Xiang Luo to buy them, if you are lucky, you can buy real eggs or fluffy eggs.

Several people in the village were pregnant, and those who had pregnant women lined up waiting for Xiang Luo's family's eggs to supplement their nutrition.

It is also pitiful.In the past, these eggs were nothing more than ordinary food, and it could even be said that they were one of the main protein intakes of poor people, and the other was tofu.Nowadays, even pregnant women may not be able to eat it if they want to replenish their bodies.

Xiang Luo plans to wait until the first batch of hatched male ducks can be used as breeding ducks, and then divide them into a few female ducks, mainly laying unfertilized eggs, and sell a small part of them first, and continue to join the hatching army to continue breeding.

If this continues, a duck farm can be built alone in the spring of the next year.

The day when the whole village can use eggs as the most common daily food is not far away.

Thinking about the taste of the duck egg soup that he ate not long ago, Li Baoguo swallowed: "If it is on sale, I will definitely buy more first. It is also good to make fried rice with eggs. It is also good to have fluffy eggs, fried with cumin and chili. Snacks. Hey...it wasn't difficult for me to eat this when I was a child, but now I can't afford it."

Li Baoguo was born in a relatively special era, but at that time, although there was a shortage of supplies, it was not so serious.

Xiang Luo said: "At most half a month, a week if it is short. I am also tossing those ducks now, trying to ensure that there is no delay in hatching and selling eggs. If this farm wants to grow bigger, the number of hatches must be enough. ensure."

Li Baoguo nodded again and again: "That's for sure. We would rather eat eggs and meat as soon as possible. But eggs should be eaten earlier than meat."

Xiang Luo said truthfully: "Actually, if you want to eat meat now, you just need to jump out the extra male ducks and eat better. It's best to kill and eat meat in forty or fifty days. At that time, there is a lot of meat and the food that goes in is less. At least, just taking out three to five of them won’t solve any problems. It’s better to wait for the eggs to come together with the ducks after they’re all settled. Besides... I don’t like dealing with these things.”

Xiang Luo's family has raised these livestock for the past two or three years, and he can kill chickens, ducks, and even pigs by himself.

But daring and liking are two different things.

Xiang Luo simply gave up selling cubs and would only sell them after his own small factory took shape.At that time, he will not only be able to accumulate enough experience, but also be able to refute those who say that there is something wrong with the cubs sold by Xiang Luo after raising dead duck cubs according to their own breeding conditions.

After all, the value of ducks far exceeds that of mushroom bags.For the fungus package, Xiang Luo will not lose much even if the quality is guaranteed. For the duck, Xiang Luo can be guaranteed to live within three to five days at most. If it takes longer, Xiang Luo will have to figure out how to solve it.

Even in the past when resources were abundant, every year there would be people who bought chickens and raised them for a month, only to die and go back to the seller to tell the seller that there was something wrong with their chickens.Not to mention the extreme scarcity of resources now.

I'm afraid that even if he knows that he has not raised himself well, for his own benefit, he will open his eyes and talk nonsense, just to make up for his own loss.

To understand this, Xiang Luo is not in a hurry.

Besides, I said it at the beginning to stabilize people's hearts. Now that the village is thriving, Xiang Luo doesn't have to worry so much.

After returning home, Xiang Luo put a large bag of snacks on the table, and saw that there was only An Wei at home.

"Where's Zhu Yan?"

"I went to the store to look around. What are you doing here? Buying so many things?" An Wei looked at the big bag and looked at Xiang Luo. He couldn't remember what he brought to exchange for purchases when he went out.

"It's a duck egg." Xiang Luo opened it and handed it to Anwei, signaling him to eat first.

"A duck egg is worth so much?" Anwei twitched his lips, and he had a new understanding of the prices in the post-apocalyptic world.

"Of course duck eggs are worthless, but I, who can take out a fresh duck egg at will, are worth it."

When Li Baoguo came to find Xiang Luo, Xiang Luo was looking at ducks and picked up an egg.He put it in his pocket and left with Xiang Jianguo.

I happened to see these three books there and wanted to buy them, but he didn't bring anyone over, so he couldn't ask others to go to his house to get food, so he spent the duck eggs.

Hearing the truth, An Wei couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.Reaching out to look through the snacks, there are quite a variety of them: "Do you know when we will come next time? Let's be prepared, and it's okay to prepare more food in advance."

All three members of this family can eat snacks, and they have been out of it for almost a month.The official side will not be responsible for buying such insignificant food. Yuan Shuo, who would send snacks before, has not come for a while.

If the shopkeeper can become a new source of snacks, it is also a good choice.

Xiang Luo shook his head, thinking about those young men, he couldn't help saying: "I don't think it's always a good thing for them to come."

Anwei thought about it carefully, and nodded: "In this world, it's not easy to mess with people who can come out to mess around. It's hard to have such a rich supply of goods...even if you opened a supermarket before."

Xiang Luo affirmed: "So they are definitely not good people."

An Wei thought about it, and said: "If they didn't do anything excessive, they don't necessarily have to get to the bottom of it. They just want to do business for a living. If they make things difficult for others, they won't be able to survive. Long-term. It’s not bad for each other to get what they need without offending each other.”

Xiang Luo couldn't help but take another look at An Wei.He is not involved in many similar things.So it was rare for him to speak so clearly.

"So we have to get in touch again. After all, our village is really a big piece of fat." After Xiang Luo said this, he stretched his body back, thinking about the things to be busy in the future, in fact, the things he was worried about were real A lot of them.

It's this worrying life.

The little duck yelled and ran back and forth in the house, Nao Nao chased after him, caught the two front paws and hugged the duck, in a blink of an eye the duckling continued to run with its wet head on its head, Nao Nao continued to chase, and so on repeatedly.

After a long time, Xiang Luo felt that Xiang Dabao's legs had become much thicker. If it wasn't for his son's sake, such thighs must have been quite firm after cooking.

Child Xiang Dabao: ...

A few days later, Xiang Luo went to Luo Changsheng's house to deliver the raw materials again. Their mushroom packs had already been opened in the village, and even if there was any surplus, the officials promised to take over all of them.

So they don't have to worry about sales at all. Xiang Luo's visit this time is to discuss with them the issue of using a tractor to deliver mushroom bags in the future.

In fact, tractors are not difficult to find now, and diesel is not too scarce.Although it cannot be extracted, the oil hoarded now is enough for a long time.

But there are more than 20 miles along the way, so if you encounter someone who robs you along the way, this is a risk.

If you are on your own, you can talk about anything, but if you hire someone else, how will this go wrong?Compensation and follow-up issues for the family members of the deceased is a problem.

Those who help deliver the bacteria packs must be young and middle-aged.And such a family is often a very precious labor force of a family, even a pillar.

If a person dies, if there is no second stronger labor force in the family, the family will be ruined.

And even if you give generous compensation, if you meet someone who is bothering you endlessly, if there is any trouble in the future, they will come to you and ask for money on the grounds that the family can't make it through, what should you do?

It is not easy for Xiang Luo to hire people from his own village.But hiring people from Luo Changsheng's family is also a problem.

But Luo Feng gave a relatively good idea.

"I remember that you told me before that you can let others join in, but until now our family has not grown, so we have not recruited other people. I think now that these people can be hired in the future, as long as they send them back Once the raw materials are used, they can take some of the raw materials and go back to make them themselves. The more they get back, the more raw materials they will get. At that time, they will make their own mushroom bags and have a business at home. If something happens to them , that is also for their own career. We can give some of our affection, but they must not be entangled in the future. "

The more lucrative the harvest, the higher the risk must be.