1028. Strange Black Market

The No. 144 barrier suddenly became lively, just because a batch of potatoes was suddenly brought in from outside the barrier. The potatoes in that cart were so huge that they felt like small watermelons.

If the person in charge of delivery hadn't admitted that they were potatoes, the residents of the barrier would not have believed it.

At this time, Zhou Yingxue was sitting on the first transport truck with great pride, and led the convoy to the market in the stronghold. This was the task assigned to her by Ren Xiaosu, and she was asked to use potatoes to solve the urgent food shortage on the 144th stronghold.

Don't look at Zhou Yingxue who usually doesn't pay attention to anyone who is so careless, but Ren Xiaosu puts everything in his heart.

Now that the potato shooter had a bumper harvest, she naturally rushed to claim credit with the first batch of potatoes.

However, Wang Yuexi from the policy research office was having a small meeting in the office, but he heard a report from his subordinates: "Director Wang, the black market guy brought a large amount of potatoes into the city, and said they want the residents of the barrier to receive them for free. That potato is huge, and I don't know where she got it from."

Everyone else in the office was stunned for a moment: "How big is it?"

"It looks like a watermelon," the subordinate gestured and said, "It's all right now, the price of food in the barrier should have stabilized."

This is indeed good news for the Northwest, where food is increasingly scarce.

It's just that Wang Yuexi didn't think so when he heard this. He stood up suddenly: "Where is the convoy? Hurry up and stop them!"

Everyone in the office was stunned for a moment: "What's the matter, Director Wang?"

But Wang Yuexi put on his coat and hurried outside: "It's too late to explain so much, stop the convoy for me first."

"But that black market guy is hard to stop, you know her style..."

"It's not easy to stop, so I have to stop it," Wang Yuexi said, "I will rush to the scene immediately."

When Wang Yuexi arrived, Zhou Yingxue was sitting in the car with a gloomy face, and in front of their truck convoy, there were two patrol cars of the Department of Order blocking the way.

When Zhou Yingxue saw Wang Yuexi coming over, don't sneer and said, "Okay, it's because my master thinks highly of you, so you think you can even stop my convoy? Why don't we go to my master now and talk to see who is there?" His words are more weighty? Don't let me get out of the way!"

Although Zhou Yingxue was very cute in Ren Xiaosu's place, how could a woman who might open a black market outside the barrier be so cute? When Zhou Yingxue first arrived, there were still people who coveted her black market business, even this person.

As a result, all those people have disappeared and have been thrown away as fertilizer.

Wang Yuexi said seriously: "It has nothing to do with who the young marshal values. I also have my reasons for stopping your convoy. I'm not afraid even if I go to the young marshal to judge."

As he said that, Wang Yuexi first asked the people from the Department of Order to evacuate all the onlookers, and then stepped forward to look at the potatoes on the car.

Zhou Yingxue raised her eyebrows: "I am doing good things for the barrier, don't you know that my master is anxious about the food shortage?"

"I understand that you have good intentions, but it is very likely that you will do bad things with good intentions." Wang Yuexi is actually a scholar with a bit of arrogance in his bones. It was this arrogance that caused him to be out of work for a long time, and he was not welcome everywhere.

Now that Zhou Yingxue heard what he said, she immediately became unhappy: "You just talk about how I did something bad with my good intentions. If you don't have a reason, I'll treat you to the black market for tea today."

Wang Yuexi said: "Let's go, let's go to the young commander to discuss this matter together."

"No need, I'm here," Ren Xiaosu hurried over when he heard that Wang Yuexi had stopped Zhou Yingxue's convoy. He asked curiously, "What happened?"

Zhou Yingxue had a haughty look just now, but when Ren Xiaosu appeared, she immediately put on a wronged face: "Didn't you ask me to grow potatoes, sir, but when I sent the potatoes, he insisted on accusing me Doing bad things with good intentions, my potatoes are poisonous or something. By the way, sir, I have good news here. Now I can not only grow potatoes, but also collect seeds of other crops.

You see, the last cart is the wax gourd I planted the day before yesterday! But I worked so hard to solve your problems, master, and someone framed me..."

Ever since Ren Xiaosu said that she wanted to rejuvenate the Northwest, Zhou Yingxue hadn't been idle. For the first time, she took her men from the black market to reclaim a piece of wasteland, and then offered a high price on the black market: to find mutated crops, including but not limited to wheat, Sorghum, wax gourd, tomato, etc...

Zhou Yingxue's ability to store strange seeds must be used on mutated plants, not ordinary plants.

This is the first time that such a simple reward mission appeared in the black market. In the past, it was an assassination, selling information, causing accidental death, delivering secret goods and other missions. Now this mission that hangs at the top of the black market mission bar seems to be So out of place.

It was the first time for the heroes in the black market to discover that they were so closely related to food, and the price was quite high, so high that those killers who swore to only do high-end tasks went to the wilderness to find mutated crops.

Now the slogan at the entrance of the black market has changed. It used to be "Don't enter this door if you are greedy for life and afraid of death."

Now it is "from tomorrow, care about food and vegetables, from tomorrow, facing the sea, spring is warm and flowers are blooming."

This sentence is read in Northwestern dialect, which is particularly touching.

It has to be said that Zhou Yingxue did not lose to Wang Fugui and the others in solving Ren Xiaosu's worries and problems, and worked very hard.

Now some people say that she did bad things with good intentions, she, Zhou Yingxue, can't stand this grievance!

Ren Xiaosu glanced at her: "Speak well and don't pretend to be wronged. No one has done anything to you. I haven't seen you like this before. Don't imitate others. Wang Yuexi, tell me."

"It's such a young commander," Wang Yuexi explained, "You mentioned potatoes before, but I don't know superhumans, so I don't know how fast potatoes are grown, and the potatoes are shipped in before I have time to plan in detail. Yes. Potatoes are of course a good thing, I would like to thank Ms. Zhou in advance, but these potatoes must not be placed in the bazaar for free."

In Wang Yuexi's view, although this batch of potatoes can suppress food prices in the short term, if the appearance of free potatoes causes some small stall owners to lose their jobs and cause their vegetables and fruits to rot, it will be harmful to the entire market. a blow.

Of course, it is impossible for everyone to only eat potatoes. They will buy cabbage if they should, but they must buy less than usual.

Wang Yuexi continued: "I just heard from Miss Zhou that she can grow other things, but I don't think this is suitable for large-scale planting."

Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment: "Why?"

"Young commander, let me ask you a question," Wang Yuexi said: "If everyone can obtain unlimited living resources without having to work, will they be full or empty?"

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