Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 22 022 Expanding the scope of transactions
Mu Yu paid attention to the surrounding situation.

The focus of everyone's attention shifted from the two of them to Mrs. Wang's family, wantonly speaking ill of Mrs. Wang's family, and secretly paying attention to their situation.

To her surprise and relief, Zhao Cong and Fatty Cui came to her to exchange weeds in such a weird situation, and their attitudes were as usual, not affected by the incident just now.

Zhao Cong brought two bowls, both of which had gaps, so it was difficult to find good bowls, and there was a handful of millet in one of the bowls.

"Here, sister Muyu, this is the millet my father bought in exchange."

Mu Yu was pleasantly surprised to find a bowl containing millet, looking at the bright yellow millet, a primitive excitement surged in his heart.

She nodded, looked at Zhao Cong, and asked him,

"How many weeds do you want to replace?"

Millet is smaller than brown rice, and there may be hundreds of grains in a handful of combed rice. Not to mention the huge number of weeds, it will take a lot of effort to count all these millets one by one. , it is best for the two to agree on a number.

"My father said, you take useless bowls and jars from us, but exchange them with precious food. You are a trustworthy person, let you look at it."

Mu Yu thought for a while,
"I only gave high prices when I collected grain for seeds for the first time, and there will never be such high prices in the future.

With the example of Cui Fatty in the front, you have to do more than twice as much as last time, so I will give two hundred weeds. "

Zhao Cong was overjoyed and said bluntly,
"Sister, you are such a good person!"

Fatty Cui also showed envy on his face, but he was not jealous, because he still had a hundred weeds in Mu Yu's place.

Mu Yu smiled, bowed his head and counted 28 weeds to Zhao Cong, and said,
"I hurt my foot, and I won't go out for a few days, so I can't change the grass for you. I can only give you this today. I'll talk about the rest when my foot recovers. Take it."

Zhao Cong said without reaching out his hand,

"Why don't you just give me eight trees? If you give me so much, what will Sister Muyu and Second Brother Yang eat these days?"

Mu Yu laughed, and gave him the weeds and said,

"Don't worry, both of us have already stayed out. I accidentally injured my foot just to pick more weeds. It's dangerous there, so I haven't been discovered by others."

As she spoke, she grabbed a handful of weeds from her pocket and shook them, Zhao Cong took over the weeds that belonged to him with confidence.

She then looked at Pang Cui, Pang Cui came up to give her a bowl and a jug, and said embarrassingly,

"I shouldn't have mentioned it at this time, but I want to take out ten of the previous weeds."

"What's there to be embarrassed about, the weeds I brought this time are completely enough."

Then, he also took 24 weeds for Fatty Cui.

Fatty Cui took the weeds and didn't gobble them up like before, but stood there with some embarrassment, and explained in a low voice,
"My cousin wanted to eat this, so I wanted to change some more. She ate up all the ten weeds that I replaced yesterday, and she still wanted to eat today, so I thought about changing some for her.

My cousin, she is very rare, and she took the initiative to say what she wants to eat..."

Mu Yu sent the two away, and she still had more than 20 weeds in her hands. She planned to ask Yang Erlang to eat together, but after a moment of hesitation between calling him and getting up to look for him, someone else walked up to her.

Now it's all right, she saw Yang Erlang turned his head to look this way, then got up and walked this way, which saved him a lot of effort.

She just went to look at the man who stopped in front of her.

This man was a stooped adult man, probably in his 30s, but he looked very old, with a dimpled face, and his eyes were fixed on her bag of weeds.

This person's attitude is not easy to distinguish, he doesn't look like he is looking for trouble, but he is not very friendly either.

In this troubled world, one must be careful when facing refugees and beggars, and one may die in their hands if one is not careful.

Seeing that Yang Erlang had come to her, she felt confident and asked,

"What are you going to do?"

The man glanced at Yang Erlang first, then looked at her, squeezed out a false smile, and said,
"I see that you are trading those children with weeds. It's not easy to find such fresh and tender grass at this time..."

This person only said half of what he said, so he stopped talking.

Mu Yu looked straight at him, and didn't answer, waiting for him to say what he came for.

Seeing this, the fake smile on his face froze, he scratched his head in embarrassment, and said,

"I also want to exchange some weeds with you."

"What do you want in exchange?"

The man continued to scratch his head in embarrassment, finally took off his shirt, met each other shirtless, and said,
"How many weeds can this shirt exchange for?"

Mu Yu glanced at the dirty and torn blouse, then at this man, she found that this man seemed to be serious.

How should I put it, of course she needs clothes, even if the old ones are only strips of cloth, they are still useful, they can be stuffed into cotton clothes to keep out the cold, or wrapped around her body.

But, just watching people take off their dirty clothes like this, I still feel a little nervous.

She sighed helplessly and was forced to accept the reality.

The beggars here can't even drink water, how can they be expected to wash their clothes clean?
If she wanted to collect the clothes, she could only receive the dirty ones and deal with them herself.

This jacket is very old, and many patches can't cover the holes here and there.

"Five weeds."

As she spoke, she counted out five weeds and put them aside.

Dissatisfaction suddenly appeared on the face of the man who was a little confused before.

"Is there only these? But you just gave those two children a lot! Why do you only give me such a little!"

Adults don't like a few weeds, only young children like Zhao Cong and Cui Pang are very interested in it, and they are happy to get only a few weeds.

Mu Yu frowned and explained,

"Those two children, one brought two bowls and a handful of millet, the other brought a bowl and a jug, and they gave me other things before, but this time it was just a And took it.

If you are not satisfied, you don't have to exchange it. "

When he said this, Mu Yu's voice became a little louder.

After some deep thinking in the river depression, she really understood that there is not much time left for her. She needs to become stronger as soon as possible, hoard a batch of supplies, protect herself before the disaster strikes, and save as many people as possible. some people.

To achieve this goal, apart from cultivating in space as soon as possible to obtain food, it is necessary to obtain as many materials as possible, such as various utensils, clothes and so on.

The former can't be rushed, but the latter can speed up the progress.

Just relying on a few children is not enough, she needs to expand the scope of material sources.

For example, expand to the entire ruined temple.

(End of this chapter)