After telling Chen Xin his quotation, Li Wensheng was still a little nervous looking at Chen Xin who didn't speak. Of course, what he brought out couldn't be compared with the price Mo Qingyan had offered before.
The urban area has now formed a fixed black market, a place where several shelters in the urban area privately exchange what they have.
Although the officials were aware of the existence of the black market, they did not crack down on it and instead acquiesced in its existence.
The most valuable items on the black market are the various non-renewable materials produced before the disaster, and wine is the most difficult commodity.
Even just a bottle of ordinary liquor can be exchanged for a person's rations for a week on the black market, not to mention high-quality wine with a higher value. Some even one bottle can be exchanged for a month's rations.
Although the box of compressed biscuits that Li Wensheng brought was also in hot demand on the black market, it was far from the ten boxes of wine and ten boxes of canned meat that Mo Qingyan bought, not even one percent.
Not to mention that Mo Qingyan also included her own sister in the price offered.
However, the price offered by Li Wensheng was not cheap. The most valuable thing was the ten fish.
If wine is scarce, then meat is really rare. Even on the black market, there is no fresh meat, only canned meat left over from before the disaster.
Most of them are pork or luncheon meat that can hardly be called meat, not to mention fresh fish. These things are basically extinct, except for the underground planting areas created by the city government, that is. People like Li Wensheng who have engaged in aquaponics may have it on their hands.
Regarding Li Wensheng's asking price, Chen Xin just frowned and said, "Last time, old farmer, you came to me to replace the oxygen concentrator. How many fish did it cost?"
Hearing what Chen Xin said, Li Wensheng's face suddenly turned red as if he was constipated. If he hadn't been wearing a protective mask and the surrounding light was dark and he couldn't see his face clearly, Li Wensheng would have buried his head in the snow in shame at this time. .
"Then I'll add a few more fish..." Li Wensheng was embarrassed and raised the price again. For him, this was like cutting flesh and bleeding.
Although he raised quite a lot of fish, he had turned off half of the aquaponics system to save electricity, and he didn't have many fish on hand. He could offer more than a dozen fish in exchange for Chen Xin. The limit.
Fish is not a vegetable in the field. You can harvest it in a few months by sowing the seeds. You can even peel it and grow it again. It takes at least one year to raise a fish from eggs to adults, and it can take two or three years to raise it. Nothing unusual.
Chen Xin looked at Li Wensheng's appearance and couldn't help but shook his head and asked him: "Old farmer, you should have extra aquaponics equipment on hand, right?"
Hearing Chen Xin ask this, Li Wensheng was not sure what he meant for a moment, but he nodded and said: "I only have spare parts at home, not much. However, the warehouse where I used to store goods did not burn badly. I’ll go check it out and search around, and I can probably find three or five sets of equipment.”
When Chen Xin heard what he said, he nodded with satisfaction: "In that case, you bring two sets of equipment, plus six male and six female twelve live fish for seeding, and I will give you a set of ground source heat pump equipment. By the way, Help you install it.”
"This..." Li Wensheng hesitated when he heard Chen Xin's offer.
It's not that he can't afford two sets of aquaponics equipment or thinks the price is not worth it, but Chen Xin wants to replace the aquaponics equipment obviously for his own use.
In this way, Chen Xin also has the ability to produce fish resources. This naturally means that for Li Wensheng, he will no longer be able to take fresh fish, which is a renewable resource for him, from Chen Xin in the future. Things have been exchanged here, or they cannot be sold at a high price.
However, Li Wensheng only hesitated for a while, then gritted his teeth and nodded and agreed: "Okay, two sets of aquaponics equipment, twelve species of fish, and the box of compressed biscuits I brought is still a deposit."
Seeing Li Wensheng being so polite, Chen Xin was somewhat impressed by him, so he nodded and said, "Now that the price has been negotiated, where are the materials? I will install it for you when the equipment is ready."
"The things are in the car." Now that the price was agreed upon, Li Wensheng did not hide them. He took Chen Xin to the back of the car, pointed to the things in the car and said: "Two outdoor units of central air conditioners, what you want They are all listed above, and the ones I picked are relatively complete outdoor units, so everything should be usable.”
Chen Xin nodded. It didn't matter to him if it was damaged. At worst, he could just use the system to repair it on the workbench.
After asking Li Wensheng to help clear the accumulated snow at the door, Chen Xin pushed the door open and carried two used outdoor air conditioners from Li Wensheng's car in.
This also reminded Chen Xin that it seems that not only the small bunker where the shortwave antenna is placed needs to be de-iced every day, but also the ice and snow at the entrance of the shelter must be removed.
Unless Chen Xin changes the door to an electric-hydraulic one next time and has its own de-icing and defrosting functions, shoveling snow and de-icing will be indispensable.
After all, although Chen Xin rarely goes out, he still has to go out.
After watching Chen Xin pull the things closer to the shelter and give Chen Xin a box of compressed biscuits as a deposit, Li Wensheng said goodbye and left.
Although he was a little worried whether Chen Xin would take things and not give him equipment, but now that he knew that Chen Xin's family's shelter was here, he was not afraid that Chen Xin would run away or come to collect debts at worst.
After sending Li Wensheng away, Chen Xin also closed the door of the shelter again.
Although the snowstorm has stopped, snowflakes are still flying in the sky. This is also the sequelae caused by the meteorite impact.
Because except for the federal one, all three of the previous impact sites hit the Pacific Ocean. A huge amount of sea water was thrown into the high altitude. Coupled with the evaporation caused by global fires, the entire atmosphere was filled with water at this time.
Chen Xin didn't go out in the past few months. His shelter was built in a mountain, and there was no danger of water entering the shelter's door, so naturally he didn't feel anything about it.
But in fact, it has been raining continuously for two or three months outside. This blizzard was also caused by excessive local rainfall, which caused the temperature to drop sharply.
The meteorite impact not only obscured the sky, but also caused the entire weather system to collapse after losing sunlight. Without the self-regulation of the weather system, extreme weather will only become more and more common.
However, none of these had any impact on Chen Xin, who lived underground. After all, no kind of weather could affect a mountain more than two hundred meters tall.
However, just as Chen Xin was pushing the two outdoor air conditioners towards the shelter, there was a sudden shaking under his feet, which made him unsteady and he had to hold on to the wall to stabilize. (End of chapter)