Volume 2: Chapter 799 Exchange Storm Five
Chapter 799 Exchange Storm Five
In the early morning of the next day, the sky had just cleared up, and the exchange points at the entrance of the camp were already crowded with people. More people appeared this day than yesterday, and most of them were concentrated in small exchange points. One, as if it was agreed in advance, no one is willing to be the early bird, they would rather exchange a little bit for a small amount than be remembered by the camp.
Zhang Huai'an and Wang Le and Lu Xiaobu looked at the dense crowd in front of them together, frowning. Whether it was recruiting manpower or building a raft that could hold food, it would take time, but yesterday, the scattered exchange eyes made the camp Half of the stored food is still there, and on the premise that there is no large amount of exchange, if there is a sudden withdrawal of the amount today, they really don't know what to do.
After eating too early, staff entered the exchange point one after another. They put up a large wooden sign in front of the table, which read 9:30 exchange, and then guards with rifles entered, guarding one side, followed by countless The rice bags are pushed to the weighing place with a cart for accumulation.
The time passed by second by second, neither of the changers spoke or made any noise, waiting for the official exchange to start, looking at the countless people holding rice tickets, Zhang Huai'an's throat was a little dry, and the raft that transported food could only be moved in the afternoon. With the preparations in place, they must survive today, or they will fall out before the food arrives.
When the sun officially shines, the exchange begins. The quiet scene is like cold water splashing in a hot oil pan, and there is a lot of noise. The crowd lined up in a long line, looking at the food bags piled up in front of them on their toes, and those who are interested are staring at the food bags. Use the speed and frequency of transporting food out of the camp.
"I want to exchange twenty tons..."
A loud shout shocked the entire venue, and everyone turned their heads silently, looking at the man who shouted that he wanted to exchange twenty tons. Three tons or more is considered a large amount of exchange, and twenty tons is considered a large amount of large amounts.
The man who shouted was not very old, with a fierce face, bald green skin, and more than a dozen vertical and horizontal scars on the green skin's head, which added to his aura. As he looked around, the scars seemed to come to life.
Behind him were more than a dozen men with knives and sticks. Of course, these people put away their knives and sticks obediently, and did not even dare to point their blades at the camp. Behind them, more than a hundred people were pushing carts, carrying The pole seems to be ready to carry.
Forty large-value rice tickets of one thousand catties fell firmly on the large-value exchange point. The man with a fierce face pretended to look up and looked around. There was only a flash of fear and fear in his eyes. The occasional cramp in the calf proved that this man was not as fierce as he appeared.
The staff at the exchange point looked at the 40 large-value rice tickets with stamps and serial numbers engraved on the table, and turned their heads to look at Zhang Huaian. Zhang Huaian stared fiercely at the person who wanted to exchange rice with a dark face Guy, hesitated for three or two seconds, nodded fiercely, and explained to Wang Le beside him:
"Go and see if there is any problem with the rice ticket. As long as there is a problem, I will peel off its skin..."
That man didn't know that he had unintentionally become a leader. He was one of the newly rising forces. He didn't have much capital in his hands, and he was too young to survive the anxiety in his heart. He came here in exchange for twenty tons of rice. There was no problem with the ticket, but it gave other small forces a head start, and people came to exchange it one after another.
There were more and more people changing, Zhang Huai'an's complexion was getting darker and darker, the food reserves in the camp continued to decrease, and before noon, they might even have to change out the food for dinner.
Time passed by every minute and every second, Zhang Huaian and Huang Tingwei almost counted the seconds until the exchange ended at 11:30, Zhang Huaian's coat was already wet with sweat, not because of heat, but because he was in a hurry. Panicked, according to this posture, he doesn't have to stay until 15 o'clock, and I'm afraid he will run out of food in less than half an hour.
"What do you say... What should we do? Our food supply has bottomed out. Just now, the people in charge of the granary reported that we have less than ten tons of rice left, and the corn is not good. Don't tell me? Use corn instead of rice?"
Zhang Huaian was also in a hurry, and came up with a solution that was not a solution, and he was blaming himself in his heart. After the corn was brought back earlier, he used the corn as emergency food and put it at the bottom of the warehouse. Who wants to eat corn when there is rice? Who knows that this situation will happen, once it is not handled well, all the plans may be in vain.
"How about...I'll go find Liu Zhenghua and make him ready, and forcefully disperse him when the time comes..."
Huang Tingwei was also panicked, he couldn't change the rice, the only thing he could think of was to borrow a knife to kill people, let Liu Zhenghua come forward, transfer the anger of the people to Liu Zhenghua, rely on Liu Zhenghua's power to buy them time, deliver the rice overnight, and start killing tomorrow morning *Exchange, that is, they only take an hour.
"No...Liu Zhenghua said long ago that as long as there is no problem with food, he will be fine, because he won't help us subdue the entire gathering place, so we can only rely on ourselves."
Zhang Huai'an has always liked to consider the worst outcome. There are still ten tons of rice and more than one hundred tons of corn in the camp. It is really impossible. He trades two catties for one catty. He can survive today, although he will be taken advantage of. , but it can stabilize people's hearts. If you have no confidence, who would dare to pay two catties of grain for one catty?
"Why don't you start looking for someone now, three catties of rice every day, we'll give rice tickets first... I didn't say anything..."
Zhang Xiaotian couldn't help but interjected, and when he said the word rice ticket, the others glared at him, and he realized that it seemed that the rice ticket was only a thread away from waste paper, and now he could only give him food that could fit in his stomach.
"Go...you find people, each person has three catties of corn per day, go and drag the corn out. We will give the corn first, and then they will go to bathe and change clothes. I would rather let people wait for the boat than let the boat wait for people..."
Zhang Huaian can only come up with a solution that is not a solution. He hopes to use corn to divert the attention of those people. Let’s wait until today. Zhang Huaian’s corn has just been displayed, and Zhang Xiaotian is recruiting workers on the spot with a loudspeaker. Let alone, really Some people came over, and they were all poor people with small rice tickets. They only had three or four catties of rice tickets, and they didn't know how long they would have to wait in line.
Hundreds of people scattered here, Zhang Xiaotian stood in front of them, and said with great fanfare that he would take them to Huxin Island to carry food. Although he said it was for the temporary workers, the crowd in the distance could also hear it. See the camp Seemingly confident, some people couldn't bear the heat and ran to the side to watch the excitement, but most people still stood there, waiting for the exchange. After all, no one saw the grain on Huxin Island with their own eyes.
Huang Tingwei's eyes lit up when he saw more than a dozen people withdrawing from the exchange. He thought of a wonderful way, which would make people feel at ease.
"Okay! This method is good, let's do it like this, you quickly arrange people to go to the island in the middle of the lake, everything is your needs as the first goal, as long as this method is good, Brother Cockroach will come back and report to you..."
Zhang Huai'an was overjoyed when he heard Huang Tingwei's method. With this method and the evidence of the food brought back, no one doubted that they had no food.
Huang Tingwei turned around to attend to his important affairs, while Zhang Huai'an ordered the people below to use a forklift to move out all the corn and stack them at the gate of the camp. Thousands of sacks were neatly placed together. The hot changer who got angry at noon breathed a long sigh of relief.
"Old Zhang...be careful...we have already received fake food stamps..."