Chapter 1294 Surviving in the last days of natural disasters (21)
After walking around, Xu Yin found that there were quite a lot of things that people were trading. The most common items were luxury goods that were once treasures but now have fallen in price to the point where no one even buys a pack of instant noodles.
There are still many people squatting down to ask about the price of value-preserving goods such as gold. No one really wants those bags and luxury clothing that they used to spend five, six or seven figures to buy, but now just think they take up space.
There are also some collections of paintings, calligraphy, and antiques that are of commemorative value and have been acquired by the government, while some have ended up on street stalls.
Xu Yin happily searched for treasures.
Everyone present witnessed Xu Yin, a little dwarf, throwing a strong adult man away with one hand. They were really shocked. Although they wanted to see what else she would buy, they did not dare to get too close to her for fear of being squeezed. It **** her off, and she would throw them out when she was unhappy.
Stall owners did not dare to solicit too enthusiastically. When Xu Yin passed by, they politely asked: "Uncle, is there anything you like? The price is negotiable."
Xu Yin walked from stall to stall with great interest and bought what she liked. With a few packets of instant noodles, biscuits or dried noodles, rice, and purple cabbage leaves, she could bring back the treasures that had only appeared in private museums in the past. Home is simply too cheap for her.
At midnight, the bell rang to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.
The number of special police comrades maintaining stability has also changed.
Xu Yin glanced at the woven bag that was almost full. It was time to go back.
Children will not grow taller if they stay up late all the time.
She doesn’t want to be so short when she grows up.
“Uncle, wait!”
A fifteen-year-old boy, carrying a storage box made of soft material in his left hand and holding a four- or five-year-old boy in his right hand, squeezed in front of her, panting, "Do you want this?"
He opened the lid of the storage box, and inside was a pair of puppies that were just one month old.
The young man's eyes were red: "Heizi and Dabai...their parents, like our parents, are both dead. I want to raise them, but..."
The parents of the two brothers were originally grassroots civil servants. When they organized the evacuation of people from houses without basements, they took off their warm coats out of kindness and gave them to some elderly people who did not have thick clothes. However, they themselves froze to death before they could make it home.
The brothers would have froze to death at home if they didn't have two big dogs clinging to them for warmth.
The higher-ups at the base took pity on the brothers and provided them with accommodation and necessary living supplies. But their dog couldn't come with them.
Pets are not allowed in the underground base. The basement floors of surrounding residences and shopping malls have become pet shelters. The boy has to leave his two big dogs there. When the temperature rises during the day, he will walk back and forth between the two places wrapped in a down jacket. I went to see them for several kilometers, feed them, comb them, and hope they survive the winter.
However, after the shortage of supplies, people who had no food to eat came up with the idea of residing the pets in the shelter.
When he found out, his Heizi tried his best to protect his wife and two cubs who were just one month old, but he was captured by the bad guys.
Dabai was depressed for several days, but he couldn't survive the New Year's Eve.
Like them, the two cubs became fatherless and motherless eggs.
He quietly brought them back to the base, but keeping them in the storage box was not an option. What if they grew bigger again? Sooner or later, someone will find out that he kept a pet secretly, and he is worried about what to do.
I just saw Xu Yin in the crowd buying a lot of paintings, calligraphy, antiques and other luxuries, and also gave a man with a child a letter of noodles. I thought that the uncle was a principled person and had no shortage of food, so he wanted to try his luck.
“What’s your name?” Xu Yin asked gently.
“I, my name is Lin Chen, and this is my younger brother Lin Tao.”
"Hello." Xu Yin took the storage box and touched the two puppies. "What do you need?"
"Huh?" After reacting, Lin Chen waved his hands quickly, "We don't need them, we just want to find a good person to take them in. You shouldn't be from our base. It would be great if you could raise them."
“How do you know I’m not from this base?”
“Ah, because...”
Although there are tens of thousands of people living in this base, if there is a dwarf who is only as tall as an adult's waist but is strong enough to throw an adult more than ten meters with one hand, word will have spread throughout the world.
Xu Yin saw that it was getting late, so she didn’t talk to them much. She closed the storage box and expressed her willingness to leave with the two puppies. Before leaving, she stuffed a paper bag into Lin Chen's coat pocket: "Take your brother and live a good life. See you next time if we have the chance!"
"elder brother…"
Lin Tao watched Xu Yin leave with Heizi and Dabai's cubs, his eyes full of reluctance.
But he was too sensible to say anything.
Until the brothers returned to their small single room of eight square meters.
This single room, where you can secretly take a breath with the door closed, can be said to be the treatment that their parents fought for for them with their lives.
Otherwise, like most disaster victims, they would have to live in Datongpu with no privacy. Moreover, Lin Tao is only four years old. He will not be given a separate bed. The two brothers will share a 90-centimeter bunk bed.
Lin Chen took out the paper bag in his pocket.
“Brother, what is this?”
“I don’t know, my uncle gave it to me.”
After opening it, I found several strips of high-calcium and high-iron compressed biscuits and chocolate.
"Wow-"
Seeing the long-lost chocolate, Lin Tao opened his mouth in surprise, "What a coincidence..."
“Hush!”
Lin Chen quickly covered his brother's mouth and told him to keep his voice down.
The partition walls had ears, and there were many people coveting their single room. If the patrol hadn't come to check on them from time to time, they might have been robbed within two days of moving in.
Lin Tao understood this, covered his mouth with his little hand, and asked in a child's unique voice: "Uncle gave it to us?"
“Well. Uncle is a good man!”
Lin Chen broke off a small piece of chocolate and fed it to his brother's mouth. He hid the rest in a small iron box under the bed.
These are food items that are durable and cannot be eaten all at once. They must be kept for life-saving purposes.
In the other room, Xu Yin left the trading area carrying a woven bag and a storage box.
Noticing that there were several tails attached to her back, Xu Yin turned a corner to avoid several surveillance cameras that were not sure whether they were working or not, and used her lightness skills to climb up a nearby big tree that had not been crushed by the snow.
“Where are the people?”
“What’s weird, the footprints are broken here! Where could they hide? There’s no other base nearby.”
“Could it be that residential area? I heard that many people abandoned their pets in the underground parking lot there.”
“But the footprints are broken here.”
There were quite a lot of tails coming out. After seeing Xu Yinlu’s hand, no one dared to use their brains, but they wanted to know where she came from so many instant noodles in her hand.
Tiantian steamed buns, steamed buns, corn crumbs and porridge make my mouth look like a bird.
"Could he have gone into someone else's house to look for it? For example, I left a lot of food at home. It was so **** cold at the time that I couldn't stay any longer, so I packed a few light bags and fled to the base. You said if you go back and get it now, everything will be fine, right?"
"That's right! Shopping malls and supermarkets have been taken over by the government, but residents will never go in and search their homes. In such a cold day, how many of them are willing to travel long distances to get it? As long as we take adequate measures to prevent the cold, we can just carry some when we come back. Got rich?"
“Going tomorrow?”
"go!"
(End of this chapter)