Chapter 1293: Living in the days of natural disaster (21)
After walking around for a while, Xu Yin found that there were quite a lot of things that everyone was trading. The most common items were luxury goods that were once treasures, but now their prices have dropped 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. Those bags and luxury clothing that used to cost five, six or seven figures, but now just think they take up space, are really not wanted.
There are also some collections of paintings, calligraphy, antiques, and commemorative items that have been purchased by the government, and some of them 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 really pissed her off, and she would throw them out when she got upset.
The 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 a few 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.
As soon as it's midnight, the bell rings 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 almost full woven bag and realized it was time to go back.
Children who stay up late will not grow taller.
She doesn't want to be so short when she grows up.
"Uncle, wait!"
A boy of fifteen or sixteen years old, carrying a storage box made of soft material in his left hand, holding a little boy of four or five years old 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 boy'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 people to evacuate the 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.
If the brothers hadn't had two big dogs clinging to each other for warmth, they would have froze to death at home.
The higher-ups at the base took pity on the brothers and provided them with accommodation and necessary living supplies. However, their dog could not 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 kilometers, feed them and comb them, hoping they would survive the cold winter.
However, after supplies were in short supply, people who had no food to eat came up with the idea of sheltering the pets.
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 kidnapped by the bad guys.
Dabai was depressed for several days, but finally couldn't survive the New Year's Eve.
The two cubs, like them, became pitiful eggs without a father and a mother.
He quietly brought them back to the base, but keeping them in a storage box was not an option. What if they grew bigger? Sooner or later, someone would find out that he had secretly kept pets, and he was 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 children 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 brother Lin Tao."
"Hello." Xu Yin took the storage box and touched the two puppies, "What do you need?"
"Ah?" 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 are probably not from our base. It would be great if you could raise them."
"How do you know I'm not from this base?"
"Ah, because..."
Lin Chen opened his mouth, but he was embarrassed to say that it was because you were short.
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.
Seeing that it was getting late, Xu Yin 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!"
"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 they can take a breather with the door closed, can be said to be the treatment their parents fought for for them with their lives.
Otherwise, like most disaster victims, they would have to live in a Datong bunk with no privacy. Moreover, Lin Tao was only four years old, so he would not be given a separate bed. The two brothers would have to share a 90-centimeter bunk bed.
Lin Chen took out the paper bag in his pocket.
"Brother, what is this?"
"I don't know, uncle gave it to me."
After opening it, I found several strips of high-calcium high-iron compressed biscuits and chocolate.
"Wow--"
Seeing the long-lost chocolate, Lin Tao opened his mouth in surprise, "What a coincidence..."
"Shh!"
Lin Chen quickly covered his brother's mouth and told him to keep his voice down.
The partition walls had ears, and there were so 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 it, covered his mouth with his little hand, and asked in a child's unique voice: "Uncle gave it to us?"
"Yeah. 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 long-lasting foods and should not be eaten all at once. They must be kept for life-saving purposes.
In that compartment, Xu Yin left the trading area carrying a woven bag and a storage box.
Realizing that there were several tails attached to her back, Xu Yin turned a corner, avoiding several surveillance cameras that were not sure whether they were working or not, and used Qinggong to climb up a nearby big tree that had not been crushed by the snow.
"Where are the people?"
"It's weird, the footprints are broken here! Where could he hide? There are no other bases 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 few tails who came out. After seeing what Xu Yinlu did, no one dared to use their brains, but they wanted to know where she got all the 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 damn cold that I couldn't stay for a moment, so I packed a few light bags and ran away 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.