Even though he didn't sleep all night, Luo Yuan was still in high spirits given his physical condition. After breakfast, he took the money and walked out of the community and started to visit places.
He quickly asked for the location of the nearby grain market.
The grain market has a large flow of people, but the spacious layout and dense stalls make it not crowded. Luo Yuan walked in to find out. Like Donghu City, there is also a maximum transaction volume here, but the amount of transactions is far more than , without identification, each person can buy fifty kilograms of grain each time.
It can be seen that Hedong City is not short of food. This is naturally due to the policy bias of the provincial capital city, and a large amount of grain reserves are given priority to Hedong City. But the biggest reason is that here is the largest war food preparation base in the province.
The entire market was filled with an unpleasant mildew smell, and some old grains were even more than ten years old. In the past, these old grains could only be used as raw materials for feed, but now they have become life-saving grains that people are flocking to.
The pound of food stamps refers to these old grains, and the price of new grains is 1.5 times that of old grains.
According to the description in large letters on the wall of the grain market, these war grains are enough to feed three million people for a year. Of course, the government’s propaganda and reality may be somewhat compromised, but it is still possible for at least three million people to eat it for half a year.
In addition to these, Luo Yuan was a little surprised that one of the large stalls actually had corn!
Of course, what surprised Luo Yuan was not the corn before the mutation, but the fresh corn picked recently.
Each of these corns is two feet long, and the grains are as plump as jade. They exude a strange sweet fragrance that makes people salivate. However, there are many people watching and enjoying the excitement, but there are very few people buying them.
Luo Yuan squeezed in and asked about the price. He was a little shocked. Each pound of corn requires five kilograms of food stamps, and it needs to be sold in whole sticks. Buying such a six-kilogram corn can be enough. Thirty pounds of old grain. For ordinary citizens who already occupy most of their income just to fill their pockets, it is really an extremely luxurious thing!
This kind of thing obviously just came out recently. Many people expressed doubts about the price and felt that it should not be so expensive. The scene was very noisy.
It’s actually very normal to think like this. In the current bad environment, plants will grow as long as they are planted. Corn stalks are extremely tall, and weeds are not afraid of withering and dying because they block the sun. Many people think that this will happen in the near future. The main food that has replaced rice for a long time!
Finally, the official manager became a little impatient when asked, his face darkened, and he said loudly: "Corn stalks do grow very fast and well, and can grow to more than three or four meters tall. They are the only food that can be grown in the wild. species. But you may not know that its fruiting rate is extremely low. A corn plant can only produce one corn cob at most, and most of them will not grow any. However, this is only the first batch, and people from the Institute of Agricultural Sciences are working hard. Improve the seeds and the price will come down in the future.”
I heard the other party say that corn stalks grow very long, but the fruiting rate is extremely low. Luo Yuancai suddenly discovered that since the disaster broke out, he seemed to have never seen any flowers, plants or trees blooming and bearing fruit.
Survival and reproduction are two instincts imprinted deep in genes. If these two behaviors were not contradictory in the past, reproduction would be a step for survival. But now the biological world is experiencing an evolutionary frenzy. The first thing species need to consider is how to avoid being eliminated by other species in this evolutionary frenzy. In order to gain a competitive advantage, reproduction behaviors that require a lot of energy are naturally greatly reduced or even temporarily abandoned.
Just like an employee who has just entered a highly competitive company, his first consideration is how to avoid being eliminated in the competition, and he will only consider appreciation, salary increases, etc. after he has established himself.
Next, Luo Yuan walked to the vegetable market dozens of meters away.
Most of them are vegetables, which are not only cheap, but also very large. There are many vegetables weighing seven to eight kilograms or even more than ten kilograms. However, looking at the thick fibers crisscrossing the vegetable leaves, it is obvious that the taste is not too good. Well, it's hard to swallow, to say the least.
Of course, there is meat, but it is relatively small. There are mutated pork, mutated chickens and ducks, and a small part of other mutated creatures, which should be obtained from outside. Luo Yuan secretly identified them and found that they were all white-grade meat, but there was none of the light blue ones. These meats are quite expensive, generally requiring five or six kilograms of food stamps per kilogram.
He wanted to buy a few kilograms of fresh meat back, but without food stamps, he could only take a look first.
After walking out of the vegetable market, he went directly to the bank. Without food stamps, it was difficult to move around Hedong City. However, Luo Yuan did not intend to exchange all the money for food stamps because he found that these food stamps were printed privately by Hedong City. No access elsewhere.
Therefore, even if the currency depreciates further, it will still be better than a sudden change in Hedong City one day, causing all the food stamps to turn into a pile of waste paper and become nothing. But even so, he exchanged two thousand kilograms of food stamps and spent 46,000 yuan. As of now, his total funds are less than 80,000 yuan.
These food stamps, plus the food I have stored, should be enough to last for a long time.
Just as Luo Yuan walked out of the bank, there was a commotion on the street.
In the distance, a group of people who looked like refugees were walking towards us in a mighty manner. Some of them still had blood stains on their bodies. Except for a few people who seemed to have just cried and looked sad, most of them had blood on their faces. With lingering fear and joy.
"Who are these people?" Luo Yuan asked a middle-aged man who was watching the excitement.
"Oh, they are the people from Donghu City who escaped from the disaster." The middle-aged man said with a slight disgust, with a hint of obvious dissatisfaction on his face: "It seems that they were attacked on the highway and some people died."
"This is the second batch. It seems that there will be a third batch and a fourth batch coming. Alas, life will be more difficult in the future. I really don't know what the higher-ups are thinking. There is not enough food in the first place. If they share it, everyone will be hungry. Dead." A young man with shortsighted eyes who looked like a college student said.
"I don't think we should save them. With so many people from the whole province, why would they all come to Hedong City?" A woman looked at the group of people with undisguised hatred and agreed.
Luo Yuan understood this mentality very well, just like a family that was already living in a very difficult situation, and suddenly heard that an outsider was coming to the house to live and eat for free for a long time, anyone would have a rejection mentality, but understanding is understanding, as Donghu When he saw the people around him who wanted all the people in Donghu City to die, he was very angry.
"I'm from Donghu City!" Luo Yuan looked around coldly and said.
After upgrading to mastery of sword skills, the aura he exuded became even more terrifying. In addition, he was still unable to fully control it. Under the influence of anger, the terrifying aura emitted uncontrollably, and the faces of several people nearby turned pale. , as if he was extremely frightened. One of them seemed to have a bad heart. He covered his chest with a painful expression, and then fell softly to the ground.
The onlookers were in an uproar.
"Killing!"
"Help!"
"Soldiers killed people here!"
"Catch him quickly!"
…
Some people who reacted quickly shouted loudly with malicious faces, but no one really dared to pull him!
Luo Yuan was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect such a thing to happen. Several soldiers stationed at the bank noticed that something seemed to be happening here and were walking hesitantly towards this side. When he saw that the matter had become big, he didn't care. Get up to the man who is lying on the ground. He quickly squeezed into the crowd, relying on his strength and body agility to escape from this place quickly!
Because he was worried about being pursued by soldiers, Luo Yuan did not go to the vegetable market and went home directly. When he walked to the living room, he saw that some fresh meat and vegetables had been bought on the table, and there was even a big corn.
"Back!" Huang Jiahui heard the voice and walked out of the kitchen wearing a scarf.
"You bought this!" Luo Yuan pointed at the dishes on the table and asked in surprise.
"Of course I bought it, did I pick it up?"
"That's not what I meant. I was asking how do you still have money? Well, I seem to have forgotten that I have a bank card. By the way, how much money do you have now?" Luo Yuan said with a bitter smile.
"I still have more than 1.7 million in my card. I just took out 100,000 in exchange for some food stamps. What's wrong?" Huang Jiahui said frankly without any concealment.
Luo Yuan was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Huang Jiahui was still a rich woman. But when he thought of the current situation, he said: "It's better not to put the money in the bank. Take out all the money while you can still withdraw it. I'm worried that it may happen again in the future." It can’t be taken out either.”
When Huang Jiahui heard this, she immediately became worried. This possibility was extremely high. Maybe something like this would really happen. She frowned slightly and turned to say: "It seems that it is not very safe to change it into money. Gold in troubled times is not as good as gold in prosperous times." Antiques and coins are the easiest to depreciate, and I don’t know if banks can still exchange them for gold.”
Huang Jiahui has more experience than a fledgling young man like Luo Yuan, so she quickly thought of a better way to preserve value!
"It's still early for dinner, why don't we go now?" Huang Jiahui turned around a few times and asked eagerly.
"Forget it today, some accidents happened." Luo Yuan said with a bitter smile, not knowing whether the heart attack patient would die from this.
Thinking of the disgust and hatred the people of Hedong City had for the people of Donghu City, he couldn't help but worry that as people from Donghu City came one after another, fierce conflicts might occur throughout Hedong City.