Luo Lan didn't know that Qing Zhen had already started looking for him, nor did he know that Qing Zhen was facing pressure from the presidium of the consortium at this time. He only knew that the smell of sweet potatoes wafting from next door was really fragrant...
He looked at his confidants and said, "Um...Tang Zhou, look at the sweet potato field to see if there are any leftovers from what they dug..."
His name is Tang Zhou The confidant said: "Why don't we just go and grab some?"
"You know nothing," Luo Lan cursed and said: "What kind of person am I, Luo Lan? If the consortium asks me to kill now I don’t even blink an eye at the people from Tinder Company, but if I rob a group of refugees, who am I, Luo Lan?”
“But the sweet potato field has been dug up by them,” Tang Zhou said. Why?
There are more than 3,000 refugees, and the sweet potato field is not grown on a large scale. It is just a piece of barbaric growth that grew out of who knows how long.
Those refugees have been hungry for several days and finally found something to eat. That must be until they finish digging. If they can’t eat, they can take it with them on the road. At least they won’t be hungry in the next few days. .
Only those who have been hungry will understand what it feels like to be extremely hungry. Just a few days after the escape, all the refugees have lost weight.
It seems that Ren Xiaosu and the others haven’t changed much.
Luo Lan struggled for a long time: "Go, if any of you have money on you, ask them to buy some."
Luo Lan didn't have time to bring anything with her when she escaped this time. Otherwise, he wouldn't have had to wear pants, and the same was true for the soldiers in other combat brigades. The earthquake came so suddenly, and those who were still thinking about going back to the house to get money at that time were basically buried directly in the Inside.
The soldiers looked at each other, and everyone scraped together, and finally came up with four thousand yuan, which was all the change that everyone carried in their pockets on weekdays.
Luo Lan looked at the money, her eyes gleaming: "Tang Zhou, take people to buy it, be careful not to let them sneak attack."
"Received," Tang Zhou brought a combat team over. At this time, the surviving combat team had completed reorganization. The wounded did not need to participate in the battle, but at least two-thirds of the more than two hundred people were still capable of fighting.
Luo Lan did not forget to explain: "Buy it at fifty times the usual price. Don't embarrass the Qing Family Group. We don't take advantage of others."
At this time, the food was obviously It's more important than money, but whether it's worth fifty times the price is purely a matter of opinion.
Everyone will return to human civilization one day. Maybe if we go faster, we can reach the 109 barrier in three days. By then, we will need money to buy everything. Although the relationship between the Qing Group and the Li Group is average , but the Qing Consortium has some commercial industries in the 109 barrier, so the banknotes issued by the Qing Consortium will not have no purchasing power at all.
The relationship between consortiums is very complicated. It is not that the barriers controlled by Li's consortium are completely free of the influence of other consortiums. More often, the financial consortiumThe distribution of power between the groups is more like a state of interlocking.
The locations of each barrier are different, which means that the natural resources they control are different, so the consortium also needs to exchange what they have.
For example, the areas controlled by the Qing Group mainly contain vanadium-titanium magnetite, rock salt, mirabilite, lead-zinc, sulfur, iron ore, asbestos, mica, gold, phosphorus, cement limestone, coal mines, and natural gas. Mainly, the south controlled by the Li Group is mainly dominated by non-ferrous metals and coal mines, and the planting industry is rich in tobacco leaves.
But the most important thing is that the Qing Consortium is located in a basin with a suitable climate and has control over the planting resources of food crops such as rice, wheat, corn, and soybeans, as well as cash crops such as tea. Most of the time, the Li Consortium They all need to buy food from the Qing Consortium, and they also grow it themselves, but it is not enough.
Every consortium values food, but it doesn’t matter to you. The land you control is suitable for growing food. Nature will not make any changes due to human will.
Not long after, Tang Zhou came back with a lot of sweet potatoes. When he was buying them, the refugees saw these soldiers coming with guns and ammunition. Few people dared to refuse the request of the Qing Consortium. , besides, the price offered by the Qing Consortium is not low.
Luo Lan excitedly directed the soldiers to throw the sweet potatoes into the fire, and a group of old men waited eagerly.
Luo Lan counted the number of people and the number of sweet potatoes, and then sighed: "Eat half for one person, and no one can eat more. The wounded can eat one whole."
< p>After it was roasted, Tang Zhou pulled one out of the fire with a wooden stick and gave it to Luo Lan: "Boss, take this and eat it."Luo Lan picked it up, broke it in half and handed it to him. Tang Zhou: "Half for each person."
"Don't be like this, boss," Tang Zhou hesitated: "You only eat half?"
"Stop talking nonsense and take it quickly. It's hot!" Luo Lan looked at the others: "I don't have time to tell you so much now. When we reach the 109 barrier, I invite everyone to enjoy it together. Hey, hey, we are all the ones who escaped. We will survive the disaster. You will be blessed later!"
The soldiers in the combat brigade ate sweet potatoes in silence without saying anything.
Ren Xiaosu had been observing the movements of the Qing Consortium, but suddenly a woman among the refugees screamed, followed by a loud slap.
They all turned around and saw a middle-aged man tearing apart a woman and saying, "How can you pretend to be innocent after eating the sweet potatoes I dug? Your man would have died in the barrier long ago! It wasn't me. I gave you a hand, and you can survive until now?”
“I said I would give you the sweet potato money when I reach the 109 barrier!” the woman said through gritted teeth.
"What are you giving me? At the 109th barrier, everyone still has nothing!"
Ren Xiaosu curled his lips, these two people actually knew each other, I am afraid that the man just wanted to make a move. But he got a slap in the face. Now he was so angry that he dragged the woman to a secluded wilderness., the woman cried but was unable to struggle, and everyone else watched indifferently.
However, at this moment, a loud shout suddenly sounded next to Ren Xiaosu: "Stop! It turns out you, the Leopard King, are causing trouble!"
This sound made Ren Xiaosu's head buzz. There was a buzzing sound, and he looked at Chen Wudi in bewilderment, only to see that Chen Wudi had already rushed out with the golden cudgel...
The middle-aged man did not react, and was directly beaten by Chen Wudi. He swung the stick to the ground and almost vomited blood!
Chen Wudi had to hold back his strength, otherwise this man would have been beaten to death on the spot.
But before Chen Wudi could enjoy the sense of accomplishment of conquering demons, the woman who was dragged out at the beginning became angry. She looked at Chen Wudi: "Why did you hit him! Get out! ”
Chen Wudi felt a little aggrieved, but he couldn’t figure out what was going on here, so he could only walk back to Ren Xiaosu with his head hanging down.
Everyone looked at this scene in astonishment. Only Ren Xiaosu, who had read the original work of Journey to the West, felt something was wrong. The Leopard King is the demon king of the Lianwu Mountain Cave in the Hidden Mist Mountain in Journey to the West. In the original work, The leopard king liked the farmer's wife and took it as his own.
However, the reason why Ren Xiaosu felt something was wrong was because he discovered that whoever Chen Wudi wanted to fight, he would give the opponent a fairy name, such as Xiao Zuanfeng, Golden Leopard King, and so on.
When you don’t want to fight, the opponent is a normal human being...
This seems to be the logic of mentally ill patients looking for "reasons" and "positions" for themselves. He is the Monkey King. , so we have to fight monsters.
Ren Xiaosu stared blankly as Chen Wudi returned to his side. He thought for a long time and teased: "Apprentice, what if you encounter hundreds of enemies one after another and run out of monster names?" /p>
After all, there are only so many monsters in Journey to the West. After all, don’t we have to fight them all?
Chen Wudi fell into deep thought, it seems like this is what happened. .
After a while, Chen Wudi decided to lower his principles and said: "It's okay, the monster's name can be reused."
Ren Xiaosu: "???"
Is this really stupid or fake? ! Did you agree not to identify yourself randomly?