Zhou Jianghai pondered for a moment before saying, "Brother, don't panic. There are all sorts of online rumors saying a tsunami is coming, and I've been telling everyone at home not to go out. Also, the water outside is too toxic, and I don't know if the soil has been affected. If you need it, just dig up some soil from my house and use it until the flood recedes."
Their family originally bought tempered glass worth 20 yuan. If they could free up some of it for Uncle Zhong's family, they could do so, but glass is not a necessary survival material. Zhou Jianghai and his daughter looked at each other and ultimately said nothing.
Uncle Zhong hesitated. The water was indeed poisonous. In the past two days, he heard at home that someone in the community fell into the water and drank a sip, then suffered from vomiting and diarrhea, and died within two days.
He glanced at the Zhou family's pile of planting soil in the corner, hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded. "Okay. Dahai, you're so kind, I can't take advantage of you for nothing. We still have plenty of white flour and cornmeal, so why not use that as payment?"
Exchanging grain for land, if this happened before the end of the world, I wonder how many people would laugh at me.
But in the end times, it is really possible.
Zhou Jianghai was about to refuse immediately, but Zhou Shuwan thought for a moment and said, "Dad, it's a wet day now. My second uncle has a lot of flour, and it's hard to store. It'll get infested with insects in a while. Why don't we trade compressed biscuits, dried noodles, instant noodles, etc. for a few bags of white flour from my second uncle?"
This was indeed the truth. After Uncle Zhong's family had exchanged several hundred kilograms of wheat for flour, they later realized that the Zhou family wanted more, so they simply exchanged their entire two thousand kilograms of wheat from the grain exchange for white flour, corn flour, sorghum flour, and a lot of dried noodles.
Zhou Shuwan's space is a great storage space, so there's no need to worry about things spoiling or getting infested with insects.
But for people like Uncle Zhong, who have stored enough food, the most difficult thing is to keep the food from spoiling, especially the staple foods such as rice and flour, which cannot even last a year.
Even vacuum-packed rice can only be stored for two or three years before it goes bad.
Zhou Shuwan bought a lot of compressed biscuits at that time so that he could use them as staple food in front of outsiders in the future. But in fact, there would be few opportunities to eat them in the future, so it would be better to exchange a small portion for his second uncle's family.
This is also to prevent their rice and flour from going bad and making it difficult for them to survive. We cannot bear to see this and have to help them.
Whether the other party accepts it or not is another matter, but it may also easily damage the relationship between the two families.
Moreover, after the apocalypse, any food is hard to buy, but compressed biscuits are extremely easy to exchange.
In order to facilitate storage and carrying, after the apocalypse, almost all food processing factories only produce compressed biscuits, and the relief food distributed by the survivor base is also compressed biscuits.
Zhou Jianghai and Zhong Tiyun both nodded: "That's good."
Uncle Zhong's eyes were filled with tears, and he was once again extremely grateful that he had listened to his younger sister and moved here. Although he felt ashamed to be taken care of by her everywhere, in the end times, what could be more heartwarming than having relatives who care about and take care of you!
But he firmly refused: "No, last time we exchanged grain for rent, and there are only a few of you, how can you eat so much noodles? I can't pass my losses on to you."
These are the relatives who can get along for a long time!
Zhou Shuwan smiled and said, "Uncle, my family has already exchanged the flour you gave me for a batch of compressed biscuits."
Uncle Zhong said nothing this time, and nodded repeatedly: "You are really prepared for a rainy day, prepared for a rainy day!"
In the end, the two families agreed that the Zhong family would give the Zhou family 12 bags of flour, 10 of which would be exchanged for compressed biscuits, and 2 would be used as compensation for planting soil.
The Zhou family only wanted one bag of noodles as a token of respect, but Second Uncle Zhong insisted on giving them two. After a long standoff, Zhong Tiyun finally accepted the two bags.
However, I didn’t mention that they later sent me a few bags of vacuum-packed roast goose.
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