Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 1622: The Trading Market is Overcrowded
Two days later.

Zheng Hanbing brought twenty people with them, using wheelbarrows they made with sweet potatoes on them, and headed towards the trading market.

This hand-pushed wheelbarrow was the most commonly used and important means of transportation for rural people in the 1950s and 1960s.

In the 1950s and before, there were wooden wheeled carts, and in the 1960s and 1970s, there were rubber wheeled carts.

Rubber-wheeled vehicles are light and can carry greater weight.

This type of wheelbarrow can carry 300 kilograms of weight. It does not need to concentrate the weight on the shoulders like a shoulder pole, so it is more labor-saving.

This time they harvested nearly 8000 kilograms of potatoes and sweet potatoes, with an output of 4000 kilograms per mu, exceeding their original estimates.

This time, the twenty of them transported nearly 6000 kilograms of food.

The grains were covered with a layer of cloth to prevent the survivors from seeing that there was grain inside and coming to rob them.

Although the area around the trading market had been cleared of looting thugs by managers, they were still a little worried.

After all, it is a crime to possess a treasure.

At this stage, they do not have strong enough capabilities to protect these foods.

However, due to the lack of water, they had no choice but to take risks. As long as they could deliver the grain to the trading market, everything would be fine!

"Brother Zheng, this wheelbarrow is easier to use than a carrying pole. It can transport heavier things and it saves more effort." Jie Dali pushed the wheelbarrow and said to Zheng Hanbing with a smile.

Zheng Hanbing wiped the sweat off his face with his sleeve, lowered the middle support pole of the unicycle, and stopped.

He took a bottle of water from the wheelbarrow and said:

“This is the wisdom of the working people in the past.”

After saying that, he took two big gulps of water.

"Once we succeed in selling the sweet potatoes this time, we will have a good life in the future."

"With so much food, we can sell it for at least four-digit points."

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 of the trading market, our sweet potatoes must be sold at a higher price than vegetables."

Zheng Hanbing put away the support on the unicycle and said, "Brothers, let's go!"

The people behind put away their supports and hurried on their way.

Along the way, they ate raw sweet potatoes when they were hungry and drank water when they were thirsty.

Maintain a walking speed of five kilometers per hour.

This place is more than 20 kilometers away from the trading market, and it takes about six hours to walk continuously.

We started at eight in the morning and in the blink of an eye it was already twelve noon.

They stopped 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 two kilometers left to the trading market.

The last time I passed by here, there were workers everywhere and ditches being dug.

When you pass by here again at this time, the ditch is gone, but you can see the newly covered soil on top of the ditch.

Every few steps along the way, they could see a concrete pile covered with a two-meter-long and wide iron plate and locked.

The concrete piles are 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 at the trading market, and this ditch is the one that draws water from Nanwan Lake to the water plant!" Feng Chen replied.

Xie Dali rolled his eyes and said, "I know, what I'm asking is what these protruding cement piles are used for."

"I don't know about that. Why don't you go to the trading market and ask someone?"

Zheng Hangbing looked at these concrete piles, his eyes shining slightly.

"It seems that the water plant in the trading market has been built. They are really fast!"

"Besides, the water plant has been built. They definitely don't lack water now. It's right for us to go to the trading market!"

After hearing Zheng Hanbing's words, everyone's mood improved.

The issue of water seems to no longer be a problem once it enters the trading market.

The closer they got to the trading market, the more pedestrians there were on the road. These pedestrians looked at Zheng Hanbing and others curiously, and some of them cast malicious glances at them.

Nowadays, with the drought, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find food outside.

People like Zheng Hanbing are pushing so many supplies that it is easy for them to be envied.

However, due to the previous experience of the Golden Tiger Gang, no one dared to carry out a large-scale robbery so close to the trading market.

Some people walked around guessing what was in their wheelbarrows.

"What's in the wheelbarrow these people are pushing? It looks bulging, could it be food?"

"You are crazy. How is it possible that twenty trucks are full of food? Where can they find so much food?! And if there is really food inside, how can they walk on the road so ostentatiously? It's too ostentatious."

"What you said makes sense. What do you think is in it?"

"First, we can rule out food. Secondly, since they are covered with cloth, they must be of some value. Electronic products? No, judging from the outline, they don't look like electronic products. They could be clothes or something like that!"

"That makes sense. Clothes are a possibility. There's a clothing and tailoring store that's opened in the trade fair recently. I think they can make some money by sending them to the clothing store."

Zheng Hanbing and others did not expect that their high-profile transportation of grain was actually counterproductive.

Many survivors who saw them thought that what was inside was not food.

After all, these days, it is not realistic for a small team to have so much food.

Moreover, this group of people doesn't look like a team that can possess so much food.

Where does food come from?

The food in the city had already been turned over. What they didn't expect was that in this day and age there would be people who would waste time on growing food, and actually grow it and have a successful bumper harvest!
This is something that the other survivors could never imagine.

After experiencing so many natural disasters, most of them had long since given up growing their own food.

Without him,

I have suffered too many failures, spending a lot of time and energy each time, but in the end getting nothing.

While the other survivors were observing Zheng Hanbing and others, Zheng Hanbing and others were also observing them.

He found that no one was living well after more than four months without rain.

Compared to the survivors seen more than a month ago, they now looked much thinner, with dead skin at the corners of their mouths, obviously suffering from dehydration.

And there is another very obvious situation.

That is, the number of people going to the trading market is much greater 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 line to enter the city even stretched out to 500 meters!

And there were four teams queuing at the same time.

The last time they came here, there were no more than a thousand or eight hundred people outside the trading market.

Now at a glance, there are at least tens of thousands.

There are so many people outside the trading market, so how many people are inside the trading market?

They pushed their wheelbarrows and lined up behind the queue to enter the trading market.

Looking at the long line in front, Zheng Hanbing said to Jie Dali and others behind him:

"Luckily we didn't take a break on the way, otherwise we might not be able to enter the market until dark."

Xie Dali looked behind him and saw the endless stream of people coming. He asked in confusion:

"Brother Zheng, why are there so many people here all of a sudden?"

Zheng Hanbing pondered for a few seconds and then said:
"It hasn't rained for more than four months. Although it is possible to find water outside, it is very difficult and dangerous."

"If you find water, you have to process it and boil it before you can drink it."

"I guess the water plant in the trading market has been built. It 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 buy clean water for a few points. For them, buying some clean water is less than one-tenth of the price of a tortilla.
Good deal!
It is much safer than risking your life to fetch water from rivers and lakes.

After weighing the pros and cons, they chose to go to the trading market to replenish their water supply.

(Ask for monthly ticket)