Chapter 167

Recently, more and more supplies have been found from the city center. The small market was originally only a corner of the square. With the increase of stalls, the small square will be filled. Compared with the past, most of them are second-hand goods or some handicrafts, and now there are many new things in the small market.

For example, some clothes that still have tags despite some wear and tear, toys that are missing arms and legs but can barely be played with, some surface is a little dirty, but all kinds of smeared daily chemicals, and some toiletries are well-packed. It is a very sought-after item, and Mu Nan even saw razors at a stall, these items were not available in the small market before.

Because there are more stalls and more varieties for sale, more people come to the market. In addition, this small square is next to the police station, and it is also full of cameras. Security can be said to be the best market. In the city, many people who don’t live nearby will take a car to visit.

The flow of people used to be sparse, but now it’s not so crowded, but it’s so crowded that you will touch each other when you pass by. This makes Mu Nan want to quit the market just as soon as he enters it. coming.

It’s a hot day, everyone smells bad, especially now that water is restricted, the sour smell is absolutely absolute, Mu Nan has already prepared before going out, and specially wears the deodorizing beads inside masks, but the smell can be blocked a little bit, but the friction between people is inevitable.

This time Mu Nan couldn’t bear it anymore, and retreated before going in.

Qin Huai stood beside him and looked at him and smiled. He had expected this reaction a long time ago. Now Mu Nan is really better than before. He has greatly improved in many aspects, and his tolerance for dirty environments is stronger than he expected. A little bit, but let him mix in the crowd and squeeze around with sweaty people, let alone Mu Nan, even he is a little hard to accept.

When Mu Nan was still ignorant when he was a child, two or three years old was the age when cats hated dogs and were full of curiosity about everything in sight, and he was more active. Sometimes the adults in the family had to cook or have something to do , will take off Mu Nan’s shoes and socks and put them on the foam cushion for him to watch.

As long as he doesn’t wear shoes and socks, Mu Nan will never go to the ground, so no matter how active he is, he will be trapped on the mat for a long time. After repeated trials, he has become very cleanliness at a young age.

Probably because I never enjoyed the fun of running on the ground with bare feet when I was a child, and the more I grow up, the more I like bare feet without shoes.

Mu Nan was wondering whether to find a smaller entrance to enter, but when he turned around and saw Qin Huai’s frown, he reached out and pinched him: “Are you laughing at me? Don’t think that I don’t know if I’m wearing a mask.” !”

Qin Huai grabbed the hand pinching his waist and led him to change the entrance: “Go over there, let’s go to see the gold, silver and jade wares first, there are a little less people there.”

Mu Nan didn’t mind the heat and stuck to Qin Huai, followed Qin Huai’s lead, and chose an entrance with a little less people, but it was only a little less, and it wasn’t as crowded.

There are a lot of second-hand shops selling second-hand winter clothes, both for adults and children, and there are also some messy ones that look like large antique bronzes and jades. At first glance, I thought I had come to the antique city. A little bit inside, the stall is a little cleaner, probably because I am afraid of being robbed, so I didn’t put the goods directly, only put the sign with the goods.

Mu Nan walked and watched all the way, and found a mother-daughter stall that was close to the eyes. The sign on it was selling gold jewelry, so she walked over and asked, “How do you sell your things?”

The short-haired woman first glanced at them carefully, and probably saw that they were dressed in clean clothes, which must have been bought with money, so she quickly took out the small bag that she had been carrying all the time: “Here, these, take a look.” , You can use food or money.”

That small bag is not too small, there are necklaces, earrings, and six or seven big thick bracelets. In addition to gold ornaments, there are also some diamond ornaments, big diamond rings, and diamond necklaces. Among the things that came out, there were also several brands of goods, Cartier full of diamonds, although they were all girls’ jewelry, but Mu Nan also knew it, after all, he used to have a lot of purchasing agents on WeChat.

It’s just that the gold bracelets that used to cost tens of thousands of dollars may not be more popular now than the gold bracelets that used to cost tens of thousands of dollars at most. After all, one is the brand value, and the other is the value of the item itself.

Mu Nan looked back at Qin Huai, Qin Huai said: “If you like it, buy it.”

Hearing what Qin Huai said, Mu Nan reached out and picked out all the gold ornaments from the pile.

When Qin Huai said he would buy it if he liked it, he meant that he would buy it if he liked those brands in the past. When he was abroad, and after he broke up with his biological father, he no longer had to be careful to cover up everything he did before, so he gave it to Mu Nan. I have bought a lot of trendy brand clothes, some trendy brand shoes that boys will like very much, or limited game consoles that can only be bought abroad, and some luxury brand accessories.

But thinking about those things now, it is estimated that they have never been in Mu Nan’s hands. Before at home, he deliberately looked at Mu Nan’s wardrobe. The winter clothes were all brand-name brands that he had never seen before, and the summer clothes seemed to be one hundred and three pieces. However, when he has the ability, there will be no time for Mu Nan to enjoy this kind of pure material happiness.

In the early years, Qin Huai had been working hard to make money. After Uncle Mu passed away, he was planning the future of the two of them. Grandma was getting old, and it would be a matter of time before she left. At that time, he knew the way ahead, and he would definitely go to university. The best in the country, but Mu Nan’s grades were mediocre since he was a child, and he couldn’t calm down and learn, so he kept saving money. Even though he sold study materials in high school and made a lot of money every month, he didn’t mess with Mu Nan. spend money.

In his plan, when he goes to university, he will transfer Mu Nan to go with him, buy a house in advance, or spend money to put Mu Nan in an art school, the cost of the capital, the lives of the two, he does not I hope that Mu Nan will live a hard life with him in the future, so when planning for the future, he didn’t let Mu Nan live a life where he can buy whatever he wants.

Now I have regrets, of course there are, because I have planned too much and forgot that the world is fickle and will never be controlled by others. Although it was a long time late, Qin Huai still hopes to make up for what was missing to Mu Nan.

Seeing that Mu Nan was looking at the former luxury items, Qin Huai whispered, “Don’t you want those?”

Mu Nan shook his head quickly: “No, it’s not worth the money.” They were all women’s models, and they were used by others.

The last three catties of rice, plus ten packs of relief biscuits distributed by the government before, that pack of miscellaneous grain cakes will weigh less than half a catty, ten packs is quite spectacular, and twenty yuan, all the gold ornaments on that stall After changing it, Mu Nan weighed it: “It feels like at least a catty.”

Qin Huai put the bought things in the bag, and Mu Nan was still sighing: “I never thought that one day, I can buy gold by the catty, haha.”

Sure enough, these things still have to be bought in troubled times. If you bought them in the past, how much a catty of gold would cost, but now you can get them with a little material. They are all property that can increase in value in the future.

Mu Nan was afraid that buying too much gold would attract attention, so he walked all the way, and only bought some at a stall after a long distance. In addition to gold, he also bought some cookbooks, comic books, romance novels, and nothing else It’s worth seeing, it’s either broken or second-hand, he doesn’t want to use things that others have used.

He also saw a booth selling resources. He probably found some discs before, or was lucky enough to save the electronic equipment that had downloaded movies and TV shows, and now he is copying them for sale. You can scan the QR code to watch online after paying a fee. Unless you use another device to record, you can’t download and save it directly. In this way, those who sell resources can keep selling them, and don’t worry about being sold second-hand or third-hand.

Mu Nan took a look, and found that some movies and TV shows were in his computer.

Seeing him watching, the stall owner quickly said, “You can watch it for a week for two yuan, and you can watch all the movies and TV series in your account!”

Mu Nan waved his hand, and hurriedly pulled Qin Huai away. After walking a little further, he said, “Their program is so powerful. You can watch it with your account. There is a time limit, and you can’t download it. There is also a limit on the number of users of an account.”

Qin Huai: “It’s a very simple applet, just need to do a few more settings, and it’s not difficult to crack. Do you want to get one too?”

Mu Nan shook his head quickly: “No, we don’t lack this money.”

Whether those movies or TV series, the copyrights are not his. He will download so many purely for his own entertainment to pass the time, and rely on other people’s things to make money, forget it, he does not lack this. Probably because I am engaged in original comics, so I care more about the convenience.

He just didn’t expect to make money like this.

After walking around the entire small market, Mu Nan was so hot that he couldn’t walk anymore, mainly because he was still stuffed with a mask on, and when he left the small market, a puddle of water would come out when the mask was taken off.

Mu Nan, who had returned home full of rewards, couldn’t bear the sour smell of other people’s sweat on his body, so he went straight to the bathroom as soon as he got home, took a bath seriously, and put water for Qin Huai after the bath for him to wash.

After Qin Huai finished washing, he saw Mu Nan sitting on the small bench in the living room, some of the things he bought from the market just now were piled up on the floor, and the gold was piled up on the coffee table.

Mu Nan looked at Qin Huai: “Can we process it again?”

Qin Huai brushed his hair and walked over: “What job do you want?”

“Just melt all the gold and make it into gold bars, so it’s easy to store and trade.”

Otherwise, this pile of bracelets, chains, and earrings is too fragmentary. In addition to the ones I bought just now, Mu Nan also put out some gold that I saw in the urban area before, and immediately piled it up into a small mountain of gold on the coffee table. , and a little spectacular.

Qin Huai thought for a while: “Then we need to find a mold for the final shape.”

It is not difficult to melt gold, and a musket will do, but to shape it, you need a mold.

Then Mu Nan directly took a set of iron round card molds from the space, about fifteen centimeters in diameter, with a pattern in the middle, a complete set of exactly twelve, twelve zodiac signs.

Qin Huai looked at the things in front of him, a little curious: “What are you planning to buy this for?”

Mu Nan: “I just bought it because it looked good, and it was quite delicate. When I went to other places to sketch with my teacher, I went to a boutique and fell in love with this one at a glance. But I haven’t found out what this mold can do. , it’s not possible to make small biscuits with such a heavy thing, just leave it, is this okay? Will the high temperature of gold melting melt this?”

Qin Huai squeezed his face: “If you don’t study hard when you are in school, which one is higher, the melting point of gold or the melting point of iron?”

Mu Nan hesitated for a moment, uncertain: “…Iron?” Gold is so soft, but iron is so hard, it should be iron, right?

“Iron has a higher melting point than gold, so do you think liquid gold can dissolve iron?”

Mu Nan: “Can’t?”

Qin Huai saw that he wanted to get started right now, so he went to the kitchen and got a porcelain bowl for him: “Try it first.”

Mu Nan didn’t dare to ask if the musket would burn the bowl. He always felt that if he asked, he would be despised by Qin Huai for not being serious about going to school. Anyway, since Qin Huai gave him the bowl, he shouldn’t be burned. of.

The two tossed about in the room for a long time. From the first time they didn’t master the timing, they were directly burned into lumps and reworked. Later on, they became more and more proficient and turned all the gold into round medals. However, both burning and solidification required Time, after all the rough handling, people are tired and paralyzed, and they are sweating from the heat.

“We should be the only ones playing with fire in such a hot day.”

Qin Huai used clips to take out the gold medals that were still warm one by one: “You did a good job. As expected, your hands-on ability far surpasses your ability to use your brain.”

Mu Nan’s hands were already sore that he didn’t want to confront him anymore, and Qin Huai could shut up with one sentence: “Brother, I’m hungry, let me eat.”

What Qin Huai can do, of course, is to cook for his ancestors.

The weather is too hot, and I came back after being tired outside, so although I am hungry, I can’t whet my appetite. I ate cold noodles a few days ago. Today, Qin Huai made Liangpi and ice powder , it can be used as a late night dessert later. A bowl of Liangpi and a bowl of sweet and refreshing mung bean soup. After eating, the residual summer heat on the body also dissipated, and the whole person cooled down.

After eating and drinking enough, the gold medal has also cooled down. Mu Nan held it in his hand and it looked so rare. This was made by himself. The small round card of the second zodiac is quite cute.

Mu Nan weighed each piece carefully, and then put a label with the weight on the back: “We will have no money in the future, this will be the common currency, but unfortunately this mold is too big, I still want to make the one in the TV series.” Plant golden melon seeds and golden peas, and buy a small golden melon seed, so convenient.”

“It’s really done, and you are reluctant to use it up. The Cai family wants to buy two rabbits from us.”

Mu Nan: “Sell it, you decide the price. Anyway, those rabbits are reserved by Jian Chu now. I saw them yesterday and they have grown a lot. I can give them to Jian Chu in these two days, and then the Cai family will take two more. Let’s go, the room will be much looser, and when the little rabbit grows up, we will eat slowly.”

As for the price, Qin Huai thought about it. The Cai family had just taken over the house and prepared a lot of winter supplies. They must have run out of money, so they first gave them two rabbits, one male and one female. Later, the Cai family raised the rabbits. Yes, just return them two rabbits.

Song Jia was still there sighing: “The Cai family also raises rabbits, and my family’s grass seems to be not enough to sell.”

Mu Nan laughed and said: “The Cai family doesn’t lack a place to grow things now. Buy some soil and move the upstairs and downstairs. I went to see it last time. They can spare another floor for planting grass. That’s right. Now the soil is not easy to buy.”

Song Jiadao: “It doesn’t matter whether the soil is good or not. The important thing is that the Cai family doesn’t have so much water to plant, and they can’t come to our place every time to fetch water. If they live with us, they will live in the front and back buildings, and find a way to open a little bit.” It’s okay to come quietly through the back door, but the problem is that there is a building between us. Even if we use something to cover it, the goal is still big. It doesn’t matter if the water station can still have water, but I heard that the water station The water on the side has also become less, the water used to rush out, but now the water is rushing out, and the water volume has been reduced by at least one third.”

Mu Nan really didn’t pay attention to the water output of the water station. Every time they went to fetch water, they didn’t pay much attention to it: “Is it because the water output is low that the water station is dry?”

Song Jia shrugged: “I don’t know, anyway, in the current situation, the Cai family has nothing to do and won’t come to fetch water from us, otherwise there will be no water in the future, and their actions will bring hidden dangers to us and themselves .”

When it came to water, both of them sighed deeply, it was not easy.

Song Jia asked again: “What were you doing yesterday? You didn’t even come to Fight the Landlord when I called you.”

Mu Nan showed Song Jia the photos of the little gold medals he made: “My brother and I went to the market for a while, and exchanged the multigrain cakes we gave out before for some gold. When I was making molds, I thought about making cards, but I didn’t expect it to be a success.”

Song Jia quickly took a closer look at the phone: “Okay, the craftsmanship is good, is the gold cheap outside now?”

Mu Nan: “It’s not cheap either. You can exchange a lot of food. If you want, you can save some eggs to exchange. It feels easier. Anyway, food is more in demand now than these things. It’s no problem to save money for the future.” No loss.”

Hearing this, Song Jia was a little moved. His family still had the relief cakes issued by the government before, but no one ate them. If they kept them, they were worried that they would be destroyed. If they could be exchanged for some gold, it would be worth it.

When the two were chatting in the room, they heard the movement of the iron gate outside, so they went to the balcony to look out, saw that Jian Chu and Yu Zibai had come back, and Song Jia waved to them from upstairs: “You bought it!” What?”

Yu Zibai carried a bag of dried locusts: “Chicken feed.”

When Yu Feng was avoiding locusts at their side, he grabbed several bags, and then spread them on the ground on the first floor to die in the sun. How much, the rest were sold to the farm by Yu Feng.

Now the dried locusts at home are almost finished. Their family is different from Mu Nan’s. Mu Nan has special chicken feed and also gives rice, so dried locusts are not eaten every day. But Jian Chu and his family kept rice for themselves. It was impossible before, but now there is a better choice. Of course, the locusts are dried up every day, so it is consumed quickly. Fortunately, there are still sells outside.

Song Jia said: “Do you know that seafood will come over in a few days?”

Jian Chu, who was about to go home with Yu Zibai, stopped immediately, and looked up at Song Jia’s balcony: “Sea goods?”

Mu Nan was also curious: “Did a convoy from a seaside city come over? But how to preserve it at such a high temperature? Even if it is filled with oxygen in water, it will probably be cooked at this temperature.”

Jian Chu simply went to Song Jia’s house, and stood outside sweating profusely every minute.

“What’s the situation? Where did you hear the news?”

Song Jia chuckled: “Netizen, someone asked me to help with a small video clip, and the edited picture is a picture of fishing. It seems that we have a boss here who has built a fleet of cold chain transportation. It is the first time to test the water. , so make a small video to warm up first, and it will definitely sell well. It’s been a long time since we’ve eaten fish here, but the price is not as expensive as usual.”

“So the boss was worried that the sudden high price would make people afraid to make a move. Now that the temperature is so far away, and the seafood is particularly perishable, he didn’t know how much he would lose if he left it for another day, so he wanted to say warm up first. , to let people know that the goods are about to arrive, there are numbers in advance of the price, first use the video to hook people, wait for two or three days when you are entangled, the more entangled the more you miss, and when the goods arrive, then don’t rush to start.”

Hearing this, Mu Nan couldn’t help but want to applaud: “Why don’t you be the boss, this man’s control over people’s hearts is very strong.”

Song Jia: “Do you want to watch the video? People have already sent me the complete video. I edited a part, and the other part is not finished. From sea fishing to freezing and sealing into a cold chain transport vehicle, the whole process is complete. .”

Jian Chu is more concerned about the price: “How much? Let me give up.”

Song Jia: “I asked, a sea fish weighing about one catty may cost twenty or thirty yuan.”

Jian Chu: “Okay, give up.”

Yu Zibai’s monthly salary is less than 200, and a quarter of this fish has gone, so there are still people who are not willing to give up. Their conditions are not bad, but they are not so extravagant. The salary looks a lot, but Monthly rent, water and electricity, and a one-time ration for two people for a week, so let’s just leave it at that, don’t worry about it.

Song Jia also thinks it’s expensive, but it’s fish. It’s been a while since I’ve eaten fish, and it’s still from the sea. In the current situation, I’ve put so much effort into cold chain transportation. Overall, the price isn’t too expensive. But it is definitely unaffordable to eat.

Mu Nan didn’t feel it, he didn’t worry about food, but seeing how much they wanted to eat, he said, “It’s expensive for one person, but it’s not expensive for several people. Let’s buy it together and cook a fish soup. I went to the market with my brother and saw someone selling tofu, so I bought some tofu and made tofu fish soup to satisfy my cravings.”

This proposal is very exciting. Anyway, it is not the first time for them to have dinner together. The key is that a single fish is indeed unaffordable.

Song Jia said: “Then I’ll ask the girls if they want to come together, count the number of people, and then if there are many people, you can buy more, make sure how many you want, and share them equally.”

Jian Chu: “Then I’ll ask Xu Ming.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Ming sent a message in the small group with only a few of them: “Do you want to eat pork? If you want it, have the money ready.”

Seeing the news, Jian Chu suddenly wailed in a complicated way. In that wailing, there were joy, surprise, longing, and poverty: “What should I do, why are you so poor that you don’t even have a pig’s hair to eat?” , or pigs and fish together? I can’t afford it!”