14. Crossroads(1/2)
Humans are really creatures with extremely strong tolerance.
The next day, everyone adapted to the life of the candidates' rest place.
Although this place is not a town, it is much better than the Hunter's Lodge.
If you have food to eat, sleep, you won’t die when you go out, and there will be two chickens chasing you and remind you to collect the papers.
There is a room opposite the resting place, three-story high, with heavy plastic door curtains hanging. The plastic is yellow and has long been opaque, with only a circle of incandescent lights faintly exposed.
There is a wooden sign hanging outside the house, saying "Carangbuy".
"What is Cangmai?" the twin girl asked in unison.
Lao Yu was quite patient with his children and explained: "It's just a grocery store, selling everything. Have you never seen it before?"
Not only the little girl, but several people shook their heads and said, "We don't call that."
"Is that right?" Lao Yu murmured.
He became so kind that when he followed everyone to buy things, he dragged the shop owner and forced a few words to chat, and found that the other party was really a fellow villager.
The owner of Cangmai’s shop surname is Zhao, and he is a very unenthusiastic fellow villager.
"Brother, I'll call you brother." Lao Yu said without seeing him.
The owner Zhao was at most forty, and must be younger than Lao Yu, with a strong figure and a straight back. But he shamelessly recognized the "brother", held a cigarette in his mouth, and said half-deadly: "It's okay."
Lao Yu said: "Brother has been away from home for many years, right? His accent is gone. Even if my accent is light, you are even lighter than me. If I hadn't seen the word "Cangmai" I wouldn't have recognized it."
Zhao sprayed cigarettes in his mouth: "It's almost the same."
"Always open a store here?"
Zhao: "That's true."
Old Yu said "Oh" and asked tentatively: "Look at your standing posture, you have been a soldier before, right? Why did you come here to open a store?"
Zhao finally glanced at him from the smoke and said a long sentence: "I haven't been a soldier before. But looking at your standing posture, you have really been a soldier before? Why are you so fat?"
Lao Yu: "..."
Zhao took a few big mouthfuls in a row, smoked the cigarette in his mouth to the point of being left, and said, "Don't get close to it, the fellow villager's set is useless here. He is still crying today, but he might die tomorrow after he finishes."
Lao Yu: "..."
"If you want to buy something, hurry up, leave if you don't buy it." Zhao said, and another new cigarette popped up and lit it.
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The first floor of Cangmai was filled with smoke, and the patient Zhou Jin's lungs were about to cough out, and he did not give up the opportunity to shop.
Because there are so many more things in the store than they thought.
It is more like a large comprehensive supermarket with a shabby appearance, including clothes, pants, quilts, pillows, pots, pans, cups, spoons, and chopsticks. It can be used for internal and external medicines due to bruises and damages. It can be used for supermarkets, but it may not be used for supermarkets. It can also be filled with three-story buildings.
There are several shopping carts on each floor, with a layer of dust falling.
Everyone had one, and they started to sweep goods like a Japanese man entering the village.
"Wait, these things are not priced!" Yu Wen shouted suddenly.
Zhou Jin took a few bottles of cough relief, wrapped it in a bunch of anti-inflammatory and pain relief drugs, and said, "I discovered it early, cough cough... This is the same as a tourist attraction, and the price must have doubled."
"It's normal to take advantage of everyone's fear of death and slaughtering customers crazy." Everyone agreed.
Everyone knows this truth, but no one takes it.
When money can be exchanged for life, I don’t feel sorry for it.
Yu Wen still felt something was wrong. He pushed the cart around and looked for his brother, and found You Huo in the corner of the third floor.
To his surprise, You Huo was also shopping for goods.
"Brother, you actually pushed a car?" Yu Wen followed.
You Huo glanced at him when he heard this, and his expression seemed to be saying, "Where are you fart?"
Yu Wen waved his hand awkwardly and said, "It's okay, I'll take a look..."
Since even his brother is buying things, there should be no problem.
Yu Wen immediately felt relieved and flipped through the shopping cart of Youhu.
He thought he would see a bunch of emergency equipment, such as flashlights, batteries, ropes, knives...
result……
The big guy took a set of clothes to change his clothes and a black backpack.
It's gone.
"Uh...brother, are you going to take something else?" Yu Wen asked.
You Huo lined up in the clothes hanger, took a black down jacket and threw it into the shopping cart: "That's about it."
Yu Wen suddenly felt that he was holding a bunch of glow sticks, flashlights, and batteries... like a concert scalper.
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When they returned to the first floor, everyone had already chosen almost the same, and they surrounded the checkout counter with people and cars.
Youhuo doesn't like to crowd, stay away from the crowd, and waits bored by the wall.
The leading old lady asked the shop owner: "That's all, you can calculate the money."
Zhao held an unknown number of cigarettes in his mouth, glanced at the various shopping carts through the fog, and snorted and said with an unknown smile: "It's the first time I see."
Everyone doesn't understand why.
Zhao: "When ordinary people come here, they dare to choose this number at most."
He raised two fingers.
"What does it mean? Two different?" Lao Yu asked.
Zhao: "Well, this is the biggest square I have ever met."
How fucking expensive is this?
Everyone silently looked at their shopping carts piled up in mountains. Zhou Jin finally couldn't help asking: "... Can you use WeChat Alipay? You can swipe your card. You don't bring much cash."
Yu Wen echoed: "I haven't withdrawn cash for a year."
Zhao: "WeChat Alipay can't swipe cards."
Zhou Jin and Yu Wen were so angry that they were completely disappointed.
Zhao said again: "Cash is not good either."
Yu Wen: "Ha? What should I use?"
Zhao took out a card from under the counter glass, which looked exactly the same as the hotel room card they each had.
"You all have this, right? Swipe this." Zhao bounced the bullet card, as if the enthusiasm he had not shown before had been accumulated at this moment. He smiled and said, "Isn't the back of the room card an admission ticket? There are accumulated points on it? Is there any things here? I have to buy them with points."
"It's not expensive. Daily necessities include 0.5 per item of clothing and 1 point for food and medicine. As for those who can be used as weapons with a knife, 2 points for each item, which is very easy to remember. Why don't you calculate the price yourself?"
Everyone was stunned on the spot, their faces pale.
Just their shopping carts are enough to buy scores into negative ones.
Zhou Jin looked at a car of medicine and immediately choked on the cold air, coughing heartbrokenly.
No wonder……
No wonder those shopping carts were all gone, no wonder the biggest ones only took two.
The scores in his hand were earned with fear and no one dared to say what would be like in the next game.
If you buy one or two more here, after the settlement, it will be just 1 point away from passing the exam, so you may have to have a septum.
Zhao is not surprised by such a scene.
He was so excited that he returned to a lukewarm mourning look, saying, "Come on, check out."
As soon as he finished speaking, the people around the counter all took two steps back.
"Don't buy it?" You Huo, who was waiting by the wall, suddenly said.
Everyone, including the shop owner, turned their attention to him.
He straightened up, pushed the car to the counter, took out the room card from his jeans pocket and handed it to Zhao: "Checkout."
Zhao: "…"
He opened his mouth and looked at Youhuo's shopping cart, and his cigarette butt fell on his shoes.
You Huo waited with the card in his fingers for a while, a little impatient.
Zhao suddenly came back to his senses, hurriedly bounced up one foot, crushed the cigarette butt and said, "I'll do it--"
Inner and outer clothing, plus jeans, black bags, and down jackets, a total of 3 points.
You Huo nodded when he heard the result.
To be continued...