Lao Luo did not forget his agreement with Li Hang and the others, and brought the Supervision Office and Cannon to the business district.
There are neon lights hanging in the entire commercial street. The auto repair shop at the end is made of several large tires stacked and strung together with a steel pipe to reach a height of seven or eight meters. Incandescent lights are connected inside, which is very distinctive.
They came at night not by car but on foot.
There were some patrols guarding the surrounding area. When the survivors on the road saw the patrols, they quickly moved out of the way.
"The stores here with the Oil City brand hanging on them are our self-operated stores. The ones that don't have the Oil City brand hanging on them are those opened by the survivors in the trading market..." Lao Luo took them for a stroll,
While explaining.
Li Hang nodded and said with emotion: "The free economic market model is indeed more lively."
But he also knows that there are advantages and disadvantages to the free economic market. Just like these survivors here, there will be some who are living a good life, and there will be others who may not even be able to afford a meal. The gap between the rich and the poor is huge.
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But at the Da Zhangshu Base, even the lowest-level cooperators will have a job, and they can earn points with food.
Although the headquarters of Da Zhangshu Base is now more prosperous than before, it is still not as good as the trading market.
The headquarters base has currently installed ultraviolet lights on the walls of the buffer city and dispatched non-staff personnel to monitor the situation.
Those collaborators and non-staff members living in the buffer city no longer have to gather in one place and spend the night with ultraviolet lamps around them as before.
The buffer city is too large, ten times the size of the trading bazaar, and requires an extremely large number of ultraviolet lamps.
Moreover, due to the large area of the buffer city, the second layer of the movable gate blades for the buffer city wall was not installed until the past two days.
They can also walk freely in the buffer city at night, but the area is too large and seems a bit sparsely populated.
Li Hang walked to Lao Chen Braised Meat Shop, stopped, and looked at the braised offal in the big pot. He walked over and asked, "Where do you get these offal?"
Chen Dachui was busy with scissors in his hand and did not see the patrol members behind Li Hang.
Without raising his head, he said: "Would you like to buy it? If not, get out. Why are you asking so many questions?"
Li Zhengping, who was next to Li Hang, walked over. "Chen Dachui, please answer me properly when I ask you questions. Do you still want to open a store here?"
Li Zhengping is the captain of the patrol team, and he often comes to the trading market to hang out and spend money. Everyone in the shops in the commercial district knows him and is very familiar with his voice.
Hearing Li Zhengping's familiar voice, Chen Dachui looked up and saw Li Zhengping with a flattering smile on his face. He then glanced at Li Hang, Lao Luo and others standing next to him.
hiss!
Here comes the big shot.
He quickly put down the scissors and hook, wiped his hands on his apron, and apologized nervously.
"Hey! I was blind and accidentally bumped into the leaders. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll treat you to some braised food. What do you want to eat?"
Li Hang said speechlessly: "Just answer the question. Where did you get all this meat?"
Hearing this, Chen Dachui pointed to the shop next door and said, "Some of my internal organs were brought from their family, and some of them were bought by me from the official store in Oil City."
Li Hang glanced at the barbecue restaurant next door, "Then where does their meat come from?"
Chen Dachui saw that Li Hang and the others were not looking for trouble, and guessed that they might just be here for investigation, so he relaxed a little.
"They were brought back from hunting outside. Nowadays, many small teams go out hunting. The price of meat is more expensive than gold in the trading market, so many people go out to capture wild animals."
hunt?
Li Hang was a little surprised after hearing this explanation. This was something he had never thought of.
In the inner city of the Da Zhangshu base, the breeding farm occupies a large area. Now there are 1,000 pigs alone. The main feed is fed by unwanted vegetable stems in the greenhouse.
"Yeah." After listening to his explanation, Li Hang raised his feet and was about to leave.
Chen Dachui quickly made a bowl of marinade and handed it to Li Hang, "Boss, please try our marinade. My ancestors made this all the time. It's authentic and delicious. You can try it."
The tangy aroma comes to your face.
Li Hang looked at Chen Dachui and thought that Chen Dachui had just said that the meat was bought from an official self-operated store, and there should be nothing wrong with the meat.
So he brought it over and said, "Give them all a bowl and let everyone have a taste."
When Chen Dachui saw Li Hang taking over the marinade, he was very happy. If the relationship is good, the business will also be good.
The market managers have already eaten their own flesh, so they can't protect themselves.
He quickly prepared a bowl of marinade for each of the patrol members, Dong Zheng and others, but some people didn't like eating this kind of stuff, and neither Lao Luo nor Xuanxuan wanted to eat it.
Li Hang stuffed a piece of pig intestine into his mouth. It tasted really good.
He said: "Calculate how many points are needed, Zhengping, use your points to swipe them, mine haven't been entered into the system here in Oil City yet."
Li Zhengping nodded and said: "Okay."
"Chen Dachui, how many points are there in total? Please calculate."
"No, no, no, it's an honor for me to let the leaders taste my braised food. How can I collect your points? No, no need." Chen Dachui quickly waved his hand.
Li Zhengping frowned and said, "Hurry up and do the math! Don't leave any ink marks!"
Li Zhengping has been patrolling and managing the trading market for some time. He found that being nice and angry with some people is of no use, and must be harsher to be effective.
He was so fierce that Chen Dachui didn't dare to speak. He took out a broken calculator and reset it to zero.
"There are 12 people in total, 2 points per bowl, and a total of 24 points are needed."
Li Hang also learned about the prices here during the day. One point can be exchanged for 4 tortillas.
This bowl can be exchanged for 8 corn tortillas, enough for eight meals.
But what the heck, this bowl only contains seven or eight pieces of meat.
"It's so expensive. Why do you sell so little meat for so much money?" Li Hang asked with a frown.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Chen Dachui raised his hand and said with a wry smile:
"It's not that I want to sell it so expensively. Meat is scarce. Every pound of meat costs me 10 points. If I sell it cheaper, I will lose money..."
When Li Hang heard what he said, he didn't know how to answer for a while.
He underestimated the demand for meat products at the trading market and overestimated the difficulty for the survivors to capture animals.
"Hurry up and deduct points." Li Zhengping said from the side.
"Oh, okay."
Chen Dachui quickly operated the point punching machine, deducted 24 points, and handed Li Zhengping a small slip.
The number of points displayed on the small slip is five digits. This is the customer with the most points he has ever encountered.
After finishing the braised food in a few mouthfuls, Li Hang returned the bowl with the braised food to Chen Dachui and led everyone to continue shopping.
Chen Da Chui's braised meat tastes really good, but it's too expensive and there's too little of it. It's just a few bites and it's gone before you can taste it.
As he walked along, he stopped when he saw Tingfeng Tower.
Looking at the woman wearing cool clothes at the door, the strands of clothes cannot hide the majesty.
Li Hang frowned and looked at the signboard with the words "Tingfeng Tower" written on it.
When I hear it, it smells very romantic.
Turning his head to look at Lao Luo, "Director Luo, this place isn't what I thought, is it?"
Lao Luo nodded awkwardly, "Ahem, yes."
Li Hang looked gloomy and wanted to get angry, but he still held back his temper and asked:
"Why do we still have a place like this in our trading market, doing this kind of business openly! Does the city lord know about this?"
Li Hang has always been a relatively upright person and cannot tolerate sand in his eyes.
In the early years, he was a bit careless and reckless, but after being trained by Li Yu, he became much more mature.
Lao Luo is also an old man at the base, and he is considered the second most powerful person in Oil City, so Li Hang doesn't want to offend him, but after all, Li Hang is the director of the Supervision Department, and his job is to supervise the big camphor tree.
Everyone in the force, so he has the right to ask Lao Luo this way.
Lao Luo nodded and said, "The city lord knows it. The city lord also debated whether to order it to be closed before, but after our investigation later, we thought it was better to let them open."
"Why?" Li Hang was a little confused.
Lao Luo looked at Tingfeng Tower not far away and said slowly:
"In the apocalypse, the elderly, children, and women are actually vulnerable groups. It is an indisputable fact that most women are not as physically strong as men. Opening this place actually provides a way for some people to survive."
"Of course, there are some little ducks in here too."
"On the other hand, it relieves the depressive mood of the survivors, which is also conducive to the order of the trading market. And from the perspective of taxation, Tingfeng Tower ranks among the top three in the amount of taxes paid every month, which is very beneficial to our oil industry.
The city also has its benefits."
Li Hang still couldn't accept it. He took a deep breath and said, "But this is wrong!"
Lao Luo sighed: "In the real world, there is no right or wrong, only pros and cons."
Then he added: "We have perfected the system. If they are found to be forcing girls into prostitution, they will be directly sentenced to death. Therefore, the technicians there basically come to work voluntarily. One is willing to be beaten, and the other is willing to suffer."
Li Hang felt a little aggrieved and uncomfortable hearing these truths.
There are only pros and cons, no right or wrong.
He was a little reluctant to believe that his eldest brother would allow such a custom shop to exist.
After calming down, he said in a low voice: "Let's go and continue to look ahead."
Everyone followed and walked forward.
Da Pao saw that Li Hang was feeling a little heavy, so he walked a few steps quickly and walked side by side with him, hoping to comfort him.
But the words of comfort changed their taste when they came to my mouth.
"Hangzi, I think so. Don't stand and talk without your back hurting."
"What are you talking about?" Li Hang stared at him.
"Ahem."
Cannon quickly added: "I said, don't think too much."
"I didn't think too much about it. I just thought the existence of this kind of store was bad."
"Ha ha ha ha."
Cannon suddenly laughed.
"Why are you laughing?" Li Hang was a little confused, his eyes were like a cannon.
Da Pao didn't bother to talk to him anymore and directly told him the cruelest truth.
"Hangzi, let me tell you, if the world returns to peace and normality, and everyone can find a job and have food to eat through hard work, then there is really no need for this kind of store to exist.
But not now, now is the end of the world, not everyone in the trading market has the means to survive, not everyone can find a job at the construction site, can go to perform some tasks outside the wall... They work hard
I want to live."
"Of course you can say they don't work hard, but how do you know they don't work hard?"
"So I said that you are standing and saying that you still don't have back pain. You are not hungry. You have never been hungry. Of course you don't know how uncomfortable it feels to be hungry."
"For some people, this is just a way to survive, or it is the only way."
"To be honest, for them, morality is nothing. They don't care at all, so what if they were slept on all night? People with high moral qualities and high self-esteem would have died a few years ago.
La."
"Those who can change their stuttering and survive are their biggest goals."
"Don't use your standards to measure other people's standards. Why would you rather die than surrender? You are not them, so how do you know that they are willing to die and not willing to surrender?"
"As Lao Luo said, special times, special treatment, everyone gets what they need, you agree with me, there's nothing to worry about, it's their own choice."
"If you really want to help them, then you have to develop it. If it develops to a certain level and they have other ways to survive, that's it. We can't help them for free, we can't save them... and there is no free lunch in the world."
The cannon's output stunned Li Hang, as well as Lao Luo and Li Zhengping behind him.
Li Hang was stunned for several seconds, digesting Cannon's words and chewing on them.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Huh - I'll think about it myself."
Cannon smiled and said, "It's okay. It's nice of you to do this. I appreciate it very much."
"Perhaps it is because of your integrity and strong sense of justice that the city lord made you the director of the Supervision Department. You can live in the mire but not be stained. We people are like the mire."
Cannon said, shaking his head mockingly.
Li Hang was silent, lowered his head and walked forward.
Li Zhengping, Dong Zheng and others quickly followed.
Lao Luo walked to the cannon in surprise, his face filled with wonder and admiration.
"Cannon, is this you? When did you become so...well...so wise!"
The cannon raised its head slightly, at a forty-five degree angle.
There was a slight smile on the corner of the mouth, full of pretentiousness.
"Recently...I love reading books. Books have their own golden houses. I have learned many truths and seen through many things from books."
Lao Luo looked at the arrogant temperament exuding from Cannon, and pressed down the corners of his mouth to suppress his smile.
He clasped his fists and said with emotion: "We have been apart for three days. Let's look at each other with admiration. The artillery is so awesome."
Cannon heard his teasing tone.
She walked forward half-heartedly, carrying him on her back, and waved,
"Let others go, forgive yourself, let things go naturally, and do things without fighting."
When Lao Luo heard these sixteen words, he was stunned. He looked at Cannon in a joking manner, but gradually became serious.
These sixteen characters are very chewy.
He had also heard about Cannon's past. In the early days of the apocalypse, his parents died tragically at the hands of others. From then on, he became a little gloomy and became extremely ruthless towards his enemies. He didn't know when he started to be responsible for interrogation.
After her marriage with Song Min, I heard that there were some problems with her sexual life, and she was ridiculed by many people. Her interrogation methods became more cruel and shocking, and she was called a pervert.
But Da Pao seems... He has never gotten into a fight because someone teased him about his inability to have sex. He would be a little angry at first, but now he doesn't seem to care at all.
On the contrary, the interrogation, from the previous physical torture, slowly began to attack people's hearts.
A scholar?
Damn, why does it feel so weird to put it on a cannon?
But Cannon usually doesn't look very serious.
Tsk!
Lao Luo looked at Cannon's back, and he couldn't understand Cannon more and more.