Chapter 22 p2
Three days later, Ji Yang went to the exchange point again.
This time, she directly brought two hundred jin of frozen fruit. She believed in the ability of this group of “daoye.” As long as there were benefits, their efficiency would be absolutely high enough. It would not be a problem to get another batch of high-quality jade in three days.
Sure enough, this time, Luo Laosan immediately sent over a new batch of jade, which was even better than the last time. Halfway there, she couldn’t wait to throw it into her space.
There was still six hundred square meters of land.
Very good. The pasture seeds she had sown two days ago, and the potatoes and Chinese cabbage she had planted, had only just sprouted a small bud!
However, considering the popularity of fruit, Ji Yang didn’t plant medicinal herbs on this piece of land either. She simply planted fruit.
She planted a few of each kind of fruit. Some were seeds Ji Yang had bought herself, and some were seeds she had saved from eating fruit.
While planting, Ji Yang also went to see the fruit trees she had planted before. They were all growing very well. She also found some small green plants on the ground. At first, she thought they were weeds, but a closer look revealed that they were actually strawberry seedlings.
It was probably because she had used the water from washing fruit to water the fruit trees, and the seeds had also fallen on the ground and grown like this. It was quite amazing.
Because of this, Ji Yang was full of confidence in strawberries and planted almost half of them. Anyway, frozen strawberries and dried strawberries were also quite delicious.
For the next few days, she didn’t go out.
She would give this group of “daoye” a little more time to collect jade. She didn’t want to make a losing deal.
After just a few days of staying at home, someone came to knock on the door.
Xixi was a little excited, but its vigilance was not high.
Ji Yang guessed that it was probably an acquaintance. The only people in the building who could be called acquaintances were Jiang Jing and Li Yi. She opened the door without worry, and sure enough, it was the two of them behind the door.
Hmm?
They were even together.
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Jiang Jing was even thinner than before, with a pointed chin, but her eyes were much brighter and firmer. “Miss Ji, this is the jade I found these past few days. It’s for you.”
As she spoke, she handed over a wooden box. It was open, and inside were three jade bracelets, two necklaces, several earrings, rings, and the like. A rough glance showed that they were all of very good quality, and the quantity was not small.
In her other hand, she was holding half a bag of what looked like pet freeze-dried food. “This is for your dog. I found it when I was searching an office building.”
Ji Yang was surprised and didn’t move for a moment.
Xixi’s ears twitched. It seemed to understand, and its tail wagged happily.
Jiang Jing pushed the two things forward again. “Miss Ji, take them.”
Ji Yang didn’t refuse again. The sword she had given out was also of considerable value at this time. It was nothing to accept these things.
She had thought that the matter was over, but then she saw Li Yi also offer a box, a little shyly. “I heard from Sister Jiang that you used these to exchange for sanitary napkins before. I wanted to ask if you still have any? Can I still exchange for them? I also want to exchange…”
“You can,” Ji Yang liked to do this kind of effortless transaction. She had hoarded a lot of sanitary napkins, most of which were hoarded from abroad, and a small part were domestic. It was enough for her for several lifetimes.
It wouldn’t be a waste to trade some of the extra ones.
She glanced at the ones in Li Yi’s hand, roughly estimated the value, and then said, “Is five packs of sanitary napkins okay?”
“Yes, yes!” Li Yi nodded with a bright smile.
Ji Yang told her to wait, went back into the house and took five packs of sanitary napkins. Thinking of the time the alliance had ambushed her, the two old people from the Li family had warned her. She thought for a moment and put a large Chinese cabbage inside.
When Li Yi got the bag, she didn’t expect the weight, and her hand sank. She was stunned for a moment. Are sanitary napkins this heavy?
Ji Yang: “Last time they ambushed me, your elders warned me. I haven’t had the time to go to your door to thank you. This Chinese cabbage is a thank you gift. Please help me convey my thanks.”
Li Yi’s face turned red, and she fumbled to refuse. Of course, she also knew about this matter, but her grandparents’ thoughts were also very simple. They felt that Ji Yang was not a bad person, and it was safer with her around, so they tried their best to give a reminder. They didn’t even know if the other party had seen it.
Ji Yang blocked her politeness. “Alright, you should go back. It’s cold outside, and I need to rest.”
After she finished speaking, Ji Yang also closed the door again. Li Yi had no choice but to accept it. When she went back and told her grandparents, her grandparents were calm. “Take it. If she can give it to you, it means she’s not short of it. That girl is not the kind of person who would pretend to be generous. Oh my, such a big Chinese cabbage. Give a little to Little Jiang. Not eating vegetables for a long time is not good for the body. Children need a balanced diet even more.”
“Okay!” Li Yi nodded and cherished this frozen Chinese cabbage.
No one would have thought that one day, a Chinese cabbage would be treasured by them like this.
Due to environmental factors, the difficulty of growing vegetables had reached its peak, and prices had skyrocketed. Now, a jin of Chinese cabbage cost thirty points, while a jin of rice cost twenty points, and a jin of brown rice cost ten points. In comparison, the cost-effectiveness of Chinese cabbage made survivors only able to buy a jin to supplement their vitamins when they had enough points.
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Ji Yang’s House
Just as she closed the door.
Ji Yang looked down and saw Xixi sniffing at the dog food bag.
It seemed to have smelled the freeze-dried food inside.
Ji Yang had also bought some, but she had mostly forgotten to give it to it. Every meal was a large basin of meat. With this kind of food, where was the need for freeze-dried food? But now it seemed that puppies also needed snacks.
This bag was already open, and there was more than half of the freeze-dried food inside. It was probably left by someone who fed their dog at work.
Ji Yang first smelled it, then crushed it into powder, and put it in her space to let a chicken eat it.
She didn’t trust the things outside.
Before the disaster, there were many incidents of pet food poisoning. After the disaster, people’s hearts were even more unpredictable. It wasn’t that she was saying Jiang Jing did it. Although she couldn’t say she was an extremely accurate judge of character, she was more or less right. Jiang Jing was not a person with a bad heart, but the things were open. Who knew if someone had casually thrown in some rat poison or something?
Therefore, she temporarily put the things in her space.
Facing Xixi’s accusing gaze, Ji Yang pinched its paw in annoyance. “Wait for half a day. If there’s no problem, I’ll give it to you. Understand? You can’t just eat things from outside. If you’re not careful, you’ll be gone. Then I’ll go and get another dog!”
“Awoo!” Xixi was even angrier and buried its head in her arms, rubbing its dog fur all over her.
Hmm…
Even in this weather, dogs can still shed?!
Ji Yang pushed it away with a dark face, took out a lint roller to remove the fur, and seriously considered whether to deduct one piece of meat or two from it.
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Ten days later
Ji Yang finally went out again.
During this period, the wind and snow had not stopped, but it was always light to moderate snow, especially at noon, which was the most suitable time of the day to go out.
Ji Yang estimated that in a while, the news of the base would appear, and people would gradually choose to move into the base. Most people actually believed that the natural disaster would not last too long; otherwise, humans would not be able to survive.
Therefore, at the beginning, most people were reluctant to leave the homes they had worked hard for half their lives.
But in the current situation, the rich would definitely know the news first and might follow the base’s footsteps at the first opportunity. If so, they would need a lot of helpers and transportation resources to move their large amount of supplies to the base.
Before that, perhaps those “daoye” could get a large batch of high-quality jade.
Ji Yang could inquire about it when she went this time.
However, when she was halfway there, she suddenly felt that something was wrong.
The sky seemed to be visibly getting much darker.
Her sense of crisis from years of surviving natural disasters made her immediately search for a nearby place to hide. Fortunately, even though she wanted to find a hidden place to take out her snowmobile, she hadn’t gone too far, so she quickly saw an office building.
“Xixi, this way!” Ji Yang pulled the rope.
Xixi noticed and immediately shifted in the direction she was controlling. Then, as if it also sensed danger, it ran even faster.
And in this short period of time, Ji Yang could clearly feel a piercing coldness appear, and the temperature seemed to have dropped a little more because of it.
When they were only a few dozen meters away from the building, “thump, thump, thump”—raindrops fell, hitting her cold-proof suit and instantly freezing into hard ice due to the temperature of minus fifty or sixty degrees!
Her body almost instantly felt several jin heavier.
Ji Yang’s heart pounded. Even though it wasn’t the first time she had encountered strange and changeable extreme weather, she felt terrified every time. This world was no longer the world she was familiar with.
Otherwise, how could there be water that was still liquid at this temperature falling?
It was as if it was just to freeze into ice the moment it landed, freezing all living creatures inside!
Fortunately, at this time, they were already close to the building, and Xixi’s speed had also reached its limit.
The building was not occupied, so the snow was a bit high, directly submerging the lowest floor and reaching the middle of the second floor. A window was right in front of them. As they got close to the building, Ji Yang took out her pistol and fired two shots at the window.
The window shattered into a large hole.
Xixi quickly jumped in.
In that instant, Ji Yang jumped off her skateboard and also crossed over. The skateboard landed on the ground, and she didn’t have time to pick it up. By the time she came inside, she turned her head, and the skateboard was already covered in a thick layer of ice, integrated with the ground. With the continuous falling rain, the ice layer on the surface became thicker and thicker.
Ji Yang took a deep breath and knocked the ice off her body.
Soon, pieces of broken ice fell to the ground, making a teeth-grinding sound.
The weight disappeared, and she breathed a sigh of relief. She then quickly knocked the ice off Xixi to rescue it. It was the first time it had encountered such a thing, and Xixi was also scared. After the ice shattered, it directly pounced into her arms, whimpering nonstop.
After all, it was still a dog that hadn’t grown up.
Hmm…
It probably hasn’t grown up, right?
It’s about eight months old?
Ji Yang looked at the dog that was almost up to her waist when it stood up and thought with uncertainty.
“Let’s go, let’s go inside,” Ji Yang reminded.
Only then did Xixi reluctantly come out of her arms and follow her, wagging its tail.
Just as they had taken two steps, there was a noise from the broken window. Xixi immediately bared its teeth warily.
Ji Yang touched Xixi with her foot, telling it to calm down.
The building was so big, she couldn’t occupy it all by herself. She should give others a way to live.
Xixi immediately became obedient.
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