“5000 yuan? That’s so much! We don’t need that much! Tomatoes only cost three mao a jin here, and they sell for eight mao in the city.”
“And the purchase price for cabbage is only one or two mao a jin.”
Xia Qing knew vegetables were cheap, but she didn’t expect them to be this cheap.
Xia Jixiang clearly didn’t believe his daughter’s words. He usually gathered and sold his own vegetables, and it was already good if he could sell them for two or three thousand.
Sometimes, he would even only sell them for one or two thousand.
It takes two to three months for tomatoes to grow from seedlings to bearing fruit.
“What else do we have besides tomatoes these three months?”
“We planted some watermelons, but they won’t be ripe for another month!” Xia Jixiang said.
They only grew seasonal fruits, so the vegetable prices couldn’t go up.
If they had a greenhouse, cultivation and planting would be faster, and the prices for out-of-season vegetables and fruits would be higher.
Thinking of Xia’s father saying the price of cabbage was very low, and that cabbage only took a little over a month to grow,
“When this batch of tomatoes is ripe in a few days, we’ll plant cabbage!”
“Cabbage? That won’t do! We can’t sell it for a good price now. It’s better to plant it around November!”
In November, in the winter, everyone is willing to stock up on cabbage to eat!
“Dad! My client ordered cabbage! Let’s plant cabbage! I guarantee we won’t lose money!” Xia Qing said with a serious look.
“Daughter, you don’t understand. Cabbage really doesn’t sell for a good price right now!”
Ding… A voice reminder came from Xia Jixiang’s phone.
“WeChat received 2000 yuan.”
Xia Jixiang looked at his daughter’s transfer, his rough hands trembling.
His daughter gave him 7000 yuan in this short period of time! That’s almost half a year’s worth of selling vegetables!
A farmer can sell vegetables for 10,000 yuan a year, which is truly hard-earned money!
“Dad, listen to me, let’s plant cabbage!” Xia Qing said.
“Okay! We’ll plant it. I’m going to buy cabbage seeds!” Xia Jixiang was full of energy, especially now that he had this money in his hands, he immediately went to buy seeds.
He transferred the remaining money to Yang Xia.
“How come there’s so much money? Were you hiding private money?” Yang Xia questioned.
“This is what our daughter gave us! Qingqing sold all the tomatoes in the field! And we’ve already got orders for the cabbage we’ll plant next month.”
“I’ll keep a few dozen yuan to buy cabbage seeds! We’ll plant all cabbage,” Xia Jixiang said happily.
He had never sold vegetables for so much money! All the hard work for so long was worth it!
Although planting vegetables is tiring, selling them is the most worrying thing. He has to ride a tricycle to the county town at four or five in the morning, and he almost has to sell them all day before he can come back.
There are only him and his wife at home, so it’s a lie to say it’s not hard.
Now that all the tomatoes in the field are planted, they don’t have to go out to sell them, which saves a lot of energy.
Xia Qing thought that she had to rent a warehouse in the county to cover people’s eyes, and then transport the vegetables there, and then she would put them into the space.
Su Yu saw that half of the supplies in the space were gone, and that half was the jewelry he had collected, and the rest was the food and water Xia Qing had found for him.
He felt that the space had become a little bigger, so it seemed that the crystal beads were useful. He put two more in and waited for Xia Qing to absorb them.
They were walking towards the base.
“Found a gold ring!” Li Yao happily took off a gold ring from a skeleton’s hand.
Fortunately, Xia Qing didn’t know where their gold came from, otherwise she would have psychological trauma.
Their base wasn’t far from here, but now they didn’t have any means of transportation, so they could only walk.
Su Yu thought that when the space became bigger, he would be able to put down a car, and they would have transportation.
Now, after the apocalypse, the cars were all scrapped, and the gasoline had deteriorated due to acid rain.
Some gas stations had raging fires that burned for more than half a month.
They returned to the base, which was dirty and messy, all built with shacks, and didn’t even have a city wall.
It was just a remodeled former military base.
“Brother Su, Brother Yao, you’re back!” A man in ragged clothes saw Su Yu return and his eyes turned red.
“Brother Su, many children in the base have fevers! They haven’t broken their fevers yet,” the man said anxiously, one of the children with a fever was his younger brother.
“If we can’t find antipyretics, they won’t make it,” the man said, his eyes reddening.
“There are antipyretics!”
Most of the pharmacies in their city either had expired medicine or had been looted.
Su Yu took out a few bottles of medicine from the space and said, “Give these to the children first, and I’ll find a way if it’s not enough.”
“That’s great, that’s great!”
“There’s medicine! Brother Su brought back medicine! The children are saved!” the man said excitedly.
Li Yao heard that the children had a fever, and he also ran towards the shacks, and Su Yu followed.
The shacks were built with military tents, and inside sat a sallow-faced woman, Li Yao’s wife, Tian Rui. Only in her 20s, she looked like she was 30 or 40, with waxy yellow skin.
Li Yao got married early, while Su Yu had always been single.
“Where’s the child? How’s the child?” Li Yao said nervously.
The woman brought out the child, who was clearly two years old, but looked less than one year old.
Sallow-faced, malnourished, in front of them was a small pot with a dark mass, which was leaves picked from trees.
This thing was sour and astringent and poisonous. It was okay for adults to eat a little, at most causing diarrhea, but it was dangerous for children to eat.
“There’s no food! The child hasn’t eaten for two days!” the woman said in a hoarse crying voice, her lips chapped, and her eyes empty.
“There is, there is!”
Li Yao looked at Su Yu as if asking for help.
Su Yu took out the food Xia Qing bought from the space, which included soy milk powder.
“Soy milk powder, this can be given to the child,” Su Yu said.
The woman’s eyes lit up when she saw the soy milk powder. Her child finally had something to eat!
“Doudou, don’t sleep! Dad has found you something to eat.”
Li Yao found an empty beverage bottle, poured in mineral water, and mixed the soy milk powder.
Tian Rui’s hands trembled with excitement as she took the beverage bottle and carefully fed Doudou.
Doudou vaguely opened his eyes, seemingly without the strength to even eat, but when there was food near his mouth, people had the instinct to survive, and the same was true for children.
Glug glug… Doudou drank half a bottle.
“Don’t drink too much, eat small portions multiple times after being hungry for too long,” Li Yao said.
“There’s also instant noodles here, Li Yao, quickly cook them for Tian Rui to eat.” Recently, food was scarce, and even the poisonous plants around them were picked, cooked, and eaten.
However, these mutated plants were poisonous, and many people had toxins in their bodies. If they ate them for a long time, they probably wouldn’t live long.
“I’ll go see the other children, and see if there’s enough medicine.”
Li Yao started a fire to cook instant noodles. The smell was too strong, attracting everyone around them.