When the woman saw that the two of them really didn't seem to be making fun of her, she was about to take the work score card with suspicion, but suddenly she retracted her hand as if she had been burned.
"I, I don't have change from my work score card, you..."
Her eyes fell on the small pile of grain packed in straw bags next to the bucket, which was obviously their common "currency".
Li Cang casually pulled off a piece of dried meat and threw it into his mouth. He was pleasantly surprised to find that the dried meat actually tasted good and was salty.
"Take it! Is there rice in the bag? How do you use this transaction? How do you convert it with the work score card and dried meat?"
"It's not rice, it's all kinds of grass seeds, but now everyone calls it cereals, which sounds nicer. One bag is about 7 and a half, a little more than 7 and a half. So, 3 bags of small pieces of dried meat, 5 bags of large ones. Now
The regular price of 1 kilogram of rice on the market is about 0.4 work points. Theoretically, 1 kilogram of rice can be exchanged for at least 10 small bags of this kind of grains with 7 sides... However... grains cannot be exchanged for rice... and no one will
Just use your work points to buy groceries..."
Li Cang opened a bag of grains and poured it into his hand.
Unshelled weed seeds come in different colors and sizes and are very messy, but the particles are all larger than millet...
Probably because it needs to be shelled and eaten. If it is too small, the operation will be more complicated and the loss will be higher.
Li Cang put the grains back into the bag, put the bag in the little girl's hand, and winked at her.
"Boss, boss, do you want hare? It's fresh and very tender."
"Would you like to see the silver bracelet?"
"A very well-carved ivory bead string, maybe this is the only one in the whole base!"
The people around me gathered around like a silly boy from a landlord's house, trying hard to sell various things.
"Let's go, goodbye little sister~"
"Thank you soon, brother and sister!"
"Thank you~"
The little electric buzzer starts up.
Li Laixi held the dried meat she bought from Li Cang and tasted it.
"Hiss, it's fishy and spicy, is this edible?"
"It's okay," Li Cang said, "Our Grandpa Wang, cough, Grandpa Zhong has done it a few times, and it tastes quite good after getting used to it. He said it tastes a bit like civet. The old man has always been worried about civets.
Let me be proud of my resourcefulness in thinking of using it as a supplement after eating it.”
"How many cards did you put in that bag?"
"A 20 card is worth a bag of rice, that is... I hope they don't really use that card just to buy rice..."
"Shengmei's favor and rice's hatred are equal to each other!"
"You are writing your essay here..."
Gradually, the buildings on both sides of the main road began to become regular, and in the central area, it was almost the same as the township market before the disaster.
There were quite a lot of people on the street, and the little electric car was walking slowly.
“How about mutton soup?”
"1 work share for a big bowl, free soup refills, why not have a bowl with mutton oil and chili!"
To be honest, Li Cang was "shocked". After all, according to the price at Uncle Hei's Seafood Market yesterday, one work point could almost buy 1 kilogram of giant shrimps that were longer than a palm!
After randomly asking a few companies, the two found that the prices of ingredients related to large animals are often much higher, and some require the use of certain types of seasonings, such as white pepper, wood ginger oil, etc.
Occasionally you will be asked to pay the bill separately.
It is understandable that two months after the disaster occurred, it was the period when all kinds of materials were most scarce. Many food crops had not yet yielded any output after being planted. The bagged grains that were previously traded were an example.
"Eat the wontons, they look great."
"good..."
The little wonton shop is not big, and there are two rows of huge stainless steel basins at the door, with various fillings inside.
The fat auntie is very enthusiastic and talks a lot: "Are you having little wontons? What's the filling? One work share of pork is two large bowls, one work share of pork and shepherd's purse is three bowls, and one work share of whole shrimp is three bowls. If you like, pork and pork
For the shepherd's purse, I can add some shrimp and mushroom paste to it, it will be especially fresh, but many people don't like it now, thinking that I want to take advantage of their pork..."
"Is pork at the base very expensive now?"
"The price dropped a bit this morning. Yesterday it was 2.7 work points per kilogram, and today it is 2.6. Drink water." The fat aunt poured two cups of hot water and put them on the table. "White pepper is going up, but luckily I saved it."
Young and old alike, I heard that there are a lot less goods coming from outside this week, and I don’t know when the first crop of peppers and chili peppers from the farm will be produced. It will probably be much cheaper by then..."
"First, let's have a bowl of pork and shepherd's purse and a bowl of pork and shrimp," Li Laixi asked, "Can Auntie make pork and coriander?"
The fat aunt looked like she knew what she was talking about and pointed to the back door.
"I planted a ridge of coriander later, and it's growing well. I'll make two bowls for you to eat first, and then chop the coriander for filling. Auntie's wontons are all freshly made. If you eat them once, you won't forget them.
"
"good!"
When we say small wontons, we really mean small wontons.
Each little finger is almost as big as a lace finger, and drags two slender and thin tails, like a small goldfish.
The fat aunt even had chubby hands, but she moved very fast, like a human-shaped self-propelled wonton machine. Her hand speed shocked Li Cang.
"It's awesome," the fat aunt said with a smile, "I used to make wontons and have been making them for decades. Everyone in this area knows that my wontons are delicious."
While talking, two bowls of wontons were served.
The clean soup can't be said to be rich, and it smells almost tasteless, with only a hint of freshness, but when you see the ribbon-like wonton "tails" floating inside and the fillings under the translucent wonton skin that are so plump that they are about to burst,
Li Cang couldn't stop drooling.
The fat aunt brought a whole tray of bottles and cans.
"Cilantro, chopped green onion, white pepper, chili sauce, chili oil, this jar is roasted and ground fish meal from the earth. It was supposed to have dried shrimps and fried shrimp roe, but it's gone now. Sea shrimps and shrimps from the black people's side.
The seeds are so big and salty that they are not suitable for use. You can put whatever you like."
My aunt is amazing!
Although the wontons are small, the quantity is huge and the bowls are huge.
You can scoop up several small wontons with one spoon, and the soup is watery in your mouth. After a sip, the plump filling mixes with the juice inside and then explodes. The taste is amazing!
Fat Aunt Dan knew that some people would become very good at eating after the apocalypse, but she didn’t expect that there would be such good food, so the two of them went out and walked away. She was still looking at the two cards in her hand with 10 work points and one with 5 work points in a daze.
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After making a bowl, I finished one bowl over there. I didn’t feel it even after I was busy. As soon as I paid the bill, the fat aunt was shocked...
Including takeaways, there are a total of 40 bowls of wontons!
