Zheng Hanbing took twenty people with him, made a wheelbarrow with sweet potatoes on the wheelbarrow, and headed towards the trading market.
This kind of hand-pushed wheelbarrow was a very important means of transportation most commonly used by rural people in the 1950s and 1960s.
In the 1950s and before, wooden-wheeled vehicles were used, and in the 1960s and 1970s, rubber-wheeled vehicles were used.
Rubber-tired vehicles are light and can bear greater weight.
This kind of wheelbarrow can carry a weight of 300 kilograms. It does not need to concentrate the weight on the shoulders like a shoulder pole, which is more labor-saving.
They harvested nearly 8,000 kilograms of potatoes and sweet potatoes this time, and the yield per mu reached 4,000 kilograms, exceeding their original estimate.
On this trip, twenty of them transported nearly 6,000 kilograms of grain.
These grains were covered with a layer of cloth to prevent survivors from coming to rob them after seeing that they were all grains.
Although the area around the trading market was cleared of looting thugs by the managers, they were still a little worried.
After all, it is a crime to possess a jade.
At this stage, they are not strong enough to protect this food.
However, due to lack of water, they can only take risks. As long as they can deliver these grains to the trading market, everything will be stable!
"Brother Zheng, this wheelbarrow is easier to use than a pole. It can transport heavier things with less effort." Xie Dali pushed the wheelbarrow and said to Zheng Hanbing with a smile.
Zheng Hanbing wiped the sweat with his sleeves, put down the support pole in the middle of the unicycle, and stopped.
He took off a bottle of water from the wheelbarrow and said:
"This is the wisdom of the working people of the past."
After he finished speaking, he took two big gulps of water.
"When we successfully sell the sweet potatoes this time, we will have a good life in the future."
"Such a large amount of food can be sold for more than four figures."
Feng Chen nodded and said:
"Remember the last time we went to the trading market to sell vegetables, the average price was 0.3 points. According to the rules in the trading market, our sweet potatoes can be sold at a higher price than vegetables."
Zheng Hanbing put away the bracket on the unicycle, "Brothers, let's go!"
Everyone behind them put away their stands and hurried on together.
Along the way, they ate some raw sweet potatoes when they were hungry and drank water when they were thirsty.
Maintain a walking speed of five kilometers per hour.
It is more than 20 kilometers away from the trading market, and it will take about six hours to walk continuously.
We started setting off at eight o'clock in the morning, and it was twelve o'clock in the blink of an eye.
They paused to rest for a few minutes and then continued on their way.
In a blink of an eye, it’s two o’clock in the afternoon.
There are only the last two kilometers left to the trading market.
The last time I passed by here, there were workers everywhere and trenches being dug.
When passing by here again at this time, the ditch is no longer visible, but the newly covered soil above the ditch can be seen.
Every once in a while, they could see a cement pile covered with a two-meter-long iron plate and locked.
The cement pile is about 1 meter above the ground.
Xie Dali asked curiously: "What are these cement piles used for?"
"Didn't you ask last time? A water plant is being built in the trading market. This ditch is the ditch where the water plant diverts water from Nanwan Lake!" Feng Chen replied.
Xie Dali rolled his eyes and said, "I know, what I'm asking is what are these protruding cement piles for..."
"Then I don't know. Why don't you go to the trading market and ask someone."
Zheng Hangbing looked at these cement piles, his eyes shining slightly.
"It seems that the water plant in the trading market has been built. They are so fast!"
"Besides, the water plant has been built, and they must not be short of water now. It is right for us to go to the trading market!"
After hearing Zheng Hanbing's words, everyone's mood improved.
The problem of water seems to no longer be a problem once it enters the trading market.
The closer you are to the trading market, the more pedestrians there are on the road.
These passers-by looked at Zheng Hanbing and others curiously, and many of them cast unkind glances at them.
Now under the drought, it has become increasingly difficult to find food outside.
People like Zheng Hanbing push so much supplies, it is easy for others to be jealous.
However, due to the lessons learned from the Golden Tiger Gang, no one dared to rob it with great fanfare so close to the trading market.
Some people walked around and made guesses about the contents of their wheelbarrows.
"What are the things in the wheelbarrows pushed by these people? It looks bulging, could it be food?"
"You are crazy. If twenty carts are full of food, how is that possible! Where can you find so much food??! And if it is really food, how can they walk on the road with such a big fanfare? It is too flamboyant.
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"What you said makes sense, so what do you think it should be?"
"First of all, exclude food. Secondly, since they are covered with cloth, they must be of some value. Electronic products? No, it doesn't look like electronic products from the outline. They may be clothes or something like that!"
"It makes sense. Clothes are possible. Didn't a clothing and tailoring shop open in the trading market recently? I think they can make a fortune by sending them to the clothing store."
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Zheng Hanbing and others did not expect that by transporting grain with such fanfare, they were actually doing the opposite.
Many survivors who saw them felt that what was inside was not food.
After all, these days, it is unrealistic for a small team to have so much food.
Moreover, this group of people doesn't look like a team that can have so much food.
Where does food come from?
The food in the city has been plundered for a long time. What they didn't expect was that someone would waste time planting it these days, and even plant it, and successfully have a bumper harvest!
This is something that other survivors cannot even imagine.
After experiencing so many natural disasters, most of them have long given up growing their own food.
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While other survivors were observing Zheng Hanbing and others, Zheng Hanbing and others were also observing them.
He found that if it didn't rain for more than four months, everyone would not be doing well.
Compared with the survivors I saw more than a month ago, they looked thinner at this time, and there were dead skin on the corners of their mouths, indicating a lack of water.
And there is another very obvious situation.
That is, there are many more people going to the trading market than last time.
When they came within one kilometer of the trading market, their pupils shrank slightly as they looked at the bustling crowd.
"Oh my god, there are so many people!"
The queue to enter the city even stretched 500 meters away!
And there are still four teams queuing up at the same time.
The last time they came here, there were at most 1,000 or 800 people outside the trading market.
At a glance now, there are at least tens of thousands.
There are so many people outside the trading market, how many people are there inside the trading market?
Pushing their wheelbarrows, they came to the market and queued up behind the entry queue.
Looking at the huge queue in front, Zheng Hanbing said to Xie Dali and others behind him:
"Fortunately we didn't rest on the way, otherwise we might not be able to enter the trading market until dark."
Jie Dali looked behind him and saw the steady flow of people arriving, and asked doubtfully:
"Brother Zheng, why are so many people here at once?"
Zheng Hanbing thought for a few seconds and then said:
"It has not rained for more than four months. Although it is possible to find water outside, it is very difficult and dangerous."
"When you find water, you have to boil it yourself before you can drink it."
"I guess the water plant in the trading market has been built, which can provide abundant water resources. Many survivors heard the news that the water plant was built and came here to replenish water."
For most survivors, they can spend a few tenths of a point to buy a clean water source. For them, buying a little clean water is less than one-tenth of the price of a corn tortilla.
What a deal!
It is much safer than risking your life to fetch water from the rivers.
After weighing the situation, they chose to go to the trading market to replenish their water supply.