Chapter 1281 Don’t Ask Me What I Have, but What You Want!

Enter the trading market.

Construction materials such as steel, plates, and sand and gravel can be seen everywhere.

There were also construction workers coming and going. Seeing these, Xie Dongming and others' pupils shrank slightly.

"Brother Ming, it's so big in here! And there are so many people there, I can't believe it!"

Seeing the scene in front of them shocked their hearts.

Although the trading market looked small from the outside, when they entered, they found that it was much larger than they imagined.

Xie Dongming squinted his eyes, looked at the taller wall in the distance, and said:

"That must be the Oil City."

“What a spectacle!”

They had been around here a long time ago. At that time, there was no trading market, only Oil City.

But they had never seen it so close before, they just glanced at it from a distance and left in a hurry.

Ning Tai, who was walking in front, glanced at Xie Dongming and the others out of the corner of his eye, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.

He just loved seeing the shock on these people's faces.

"Ning Tai, are these the people you said were here to trade?" He Feng walked up to Ning Tai and asked Xie Dongming and his group behind him.

"That's right." Ning Tai nodded quickly.

Although he is a veteran cooperator, he is just a cooperator after all. Facing a non-staff member like Hefeng who is one level above him, it is not a problem.

"Well, follow me." He Feng glanced at them lightly and waved for them to follow.

Ning Tai glanced at Xie Dongming and others behind him, and hurriedly followed He Feng.

On the way, Xie Dongming and others followed and looked around at the trading market.

The wall in the distance is still under construction, and it looks like it will be taller.

This surprised them. The wall was already more than ten meters high, as high as five or six stories. They didn't expect it was not enough.

Near the southwest corner, there are more than a dozen houses standing. The formwork is being removed now. It seems that they are almost completed.

The amount of work is huge, and only such a big force can have the manpower and material resources to build it.

Feeling anxious and nervous, they arrived in front of a row of long bungalows in the center.

This bungalow is more than 20 meters long. It looks a bit like the kind of food, drink and souvenir street in a scenic area. It is divided by a wall into small rooms of less than ten square meters.

Construction is still going on on both sides of the bungalow.

The noise of machinery and the roar of the grouting machine continued to be heard. This sound actually relieved Xie Dongming and his team's nervousness slightly.

soon.

He Feng brought Ning Tai, Xie Dongming and others to the bungalow.

The bungalow is still under construction, so the ground is a bit dirty.

But it does not affect their transactions here.

"Captain Ju, bring them here." He Feng walked up to Ju Tianrui and whispered in his ear.

Ju Tianrui nodded and looked at the people behind Ning Tai quietly.

He said, "Where did you come from?"

The voice was calm and had an air of majesty.

Ning Tai quickly winked at Xie Dongming behind him, asking him to answer.

Xie Dongming looked at the dozens of people in front of him, most of whom had firearms, and scrutinized them.

Swallowing nervously, he quickly replied:

"Hello, we, we are coming from Guang County, which is more than ten kilometers away from here."

"You know our trading rules here, right?" Ju Tianrui asked.

"I know, Team Leader Ning gave us a brief talk."

"Um."

Ju Tianrui looked at him and asked, "What's your name and what do you want to trade?"

He actually knew it from the intercom, but he asked this question to make the whole transaction seem complete.

After the crowd.

Li Yu leaned on a concrete pillar at the back, eating beef jerky and watching Ju Tianrui and the others trading there.

Without saying a word, he just came over to take a look.

Xie Dongming said:

"My name is Xie Dongming. I came here mainly to trade medicines, antibiotics, and anti-inflammatory antibiotics. Team Leader Ning said you have these medicines here, so I"

Ju Tianrui interrupted him and said:

"Antibiotics are naturally available."

"Dongtai, take out the medicine."

Dongtai moved a whole box of antibiotics from the car next to him, and then opened the box. Amoxicillin was found inside.

The woman behind Xie Dongming became excited when she saw a whole box of antibiotics.

He leaned into Xie Dongming's ear and said, "That's amoxicillin. My sister-in-law's wound is suppurating, so this is just right!"

When Xie Dongming heard this, his eyes were filled with fire, and he hurriedly asked Ju Tianrui:

"How can I exchange it? We brought these things!"

As he said this, he asked Xiaohao and the others to bring the things and take them out.

Several men placed the sacks on their backs on the ground, and Xiao Hao and another man brought smoked chicken skewered on bamboo sticks in front of Ju Tianrui and the others.

"There are twenty-three smoked pheasants in total, and wild dried taro, totaling 48 pounds. How many medicines can be exchanged for?"

Oops!

In the last days, so much meat and starch-rich food can be said to be extremely precious.

I don’t know how these people got so many pheasants and wild taro.

Moreover, the pheasant that has been smoked and the dried taro that has been dried in the sun have all dried out their moisture.

The shelf life is very long, especially dried taro. If it is stored well, it can be eaten in two or three years.

Seeing so many supplies, even Ju Tianrui was a little surprised.

After so many years in the apocalypse, the people who can survive are all people with some real abilities.

Luck alone cannot make it this far.

Although I don’t know where this group of people got it from, it seems that these things are handled very well. Maybe there are some wild survival experts among this group of people.

"Inspect the goods." Ju Tianrui said to Zhou Tian next to him.

Zhou Tian pulled out the dagger and approached the Xiao Hao carrying the bamboo stick.

The young man watched Zhou Tian approaching him with a dagger, his muscles tensed.

Uh-huh!

Zhou Tian cut off a piece of smoked chicken from the bamboo stick on Xiaohao's shoulder.

This smoked chicken is smoked by fireworks and is dark.

After cutting off the piece of meat, Zhou Tian put it in his mouth and chewed it.

Then he grabbed two pieces of taro from the sack on the ground, dried them, and tasted them.

He nodded to Ju Tianrui and said, "The goods are fine."

Ju Tianrui looked at them and thought.

The transaction this time was too hasty, and the method of using bullets as currency was not used in time.

And the price is not easy to estimate.

For now, only barter can be used.

Whatever you need, I measure your value and give you what you want.

The key is whether each other can accept it, which needs to be discussed.

Then Ju Tianrui said:

"You should also inspect the goods."

With that said, he asked Zhou Tian to take out a pill of amoxicillin and give it to Xie Dongming.

Xie Dongming quickly took it and carefully turned the pill away, fearing that the powder inside would be spilled.

The woman next to me sniffed it and said, "Brother, it's amoxicillin."

In fact, they can basically identify the medicine without taking it apart.

After all, this kind of medicine was not a rare thing before the end of the world. The white and green packaging can explain everything.

However, things that were easy to obtain before the apocalypse have become extremely scarce resources in the apocalypse.

The pharmaceutical process is complex and difficult to regenerate.

Five years after the end of the world, almost all pharmacies and hospitals have been robbed of medicines.

They searched for a long time but could not find antibiotics.

Xie Dongming nodded excitedly, and while returning the medicine to Zhou Tian, ​​he asked:

"How much of this medicine can we exchange these things for?"

For him, food is of course precious.

But they always have some ways to find all kinds of food. In the mountains and forests, there are all kinds of root plants that can be eaten.

There are also some wild vegetables and wild fruits.

You can also set up some traps specifically to catch animals.

After all, before the end of the world, he, Xie Dongming, was also an expert at survival in the wild, and several of his brothers who were better at playing were also survival experts.

One of them even challenged wilderness survival programs with Hungry De.

Ju Tianrui waved his hand to tell Zhou Tian not to take it back.

"I'll give this pill to you."

Xie Dongming was a little confused after taking the medicine Zhou Tian returned to him.

He knew one thing very well.

In the apocalypse, the price and value of items depend on the needs of both parties.

Of course food is precious, but if he urgently needs something, he is willing to pay no matter how much it costs.

Therefore, he has been restraining his expression of eagerness for medicine.

"Thank you, how can I change it?" Xie Dongming asked again.

Ju Tianrui hesitated. Before the end of the world, a box of amoxicillin would cost only a few dozen yuan.

A pheasant costs at least 100 yuan.

But this cannot be said in the apocalypse.

Although we have traded a lot of medicines with Mr. Hu, there are quite a few antibiotics and other medicines like this.

However, it can't be too cheap, but it can't be too expensive either. If it's too expensive, it feels like bullying them.

In the first transaction, always give them a taste of the sweetness.

A box of amoxicillin contains approximately 24 pills. Ordinary people usually only eat half a box, that is, three or four days, and they are almost ready. If it is not good, it will be useless no matter how much they eat.

After much thought, Ju Tianrui came up with an exchange method that he could accept.

"You know how scarce medicines are in times like these."

Hearing what Ju Tianrui said, Xie Dongming became nervous instantly, thinking that Ju Tianrui wanted the lion to open his mouth.

According to his expectation, these twenty-odd pheasants, plus forty-eight pounds of dried taro, could be exchanged for at least five boxes of antibiotics.

Although they don't need so much now, in the past two or three years, many of them have died due to injuries that could not be cured by inflammation. It is always good to stock up on more, and they will definitely be able to use it in the future.

As for food, they have ways to get it.

I was thinking about how to make a counter-offer.

Ju Tianrui on the opposite side changed the subject.

"but."

"This is also our first time trading, and you are also the first people to come to our trading market."

"So I will give you a sincere exchange method. 12 pheasants for one box of medicine is equivalent to one pheasant for two amoxicillin pills."

"You have a total of twenty-three pheasants. It doesn't matter if one is missing. I will give you two boxes of amoxicillin."

"The quantity of amoxicillin is limited, so purchase is limited to a maximum of two boxes."

"what do you think?"

Hearing this, Xie Dongming tried his best to restrain his inner excitement.

For them, after being smoked, this kind of pheasant only weighs one pound at most. After deducting the skeleton, the meat is only half a pound at most.

He could accept twenty-three pheasants in exchange for two boxes of anti-inflammatory drugs.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

Even though he was a little happy inside, he still said with a troubled face:

"Brother, it's not easy for us to catch these pheasants. You know, if..."

After hearing his bargaining, Ju Tianrui frowned and said:

"To be honest, I think this exchange method is very sincere. If you still want to bargain, then there will be no deal."

Human nature is like this. No matter how low the price is, you will always want a lower price, and you will habitually talk about the price.

Xie Dongming saw that Ju Tianrui seemed to be losing his patience. In addition, people like him were on other people's territory. If they wanted to rob you, it would be easy.

The human heart is so incompetent that I almost killed everyone.

A cold sweat broke out on my back instantly.

He quickly said: "Brother, I will exchange it as you said."

After hearing what he said, Ju Tianrui's expression improved a lot.

Two boxes of antibiotics in exchange for twenty-three pheasants.

To be honest, they do not lack food, but antibiotics are non-renewable in the end of the world.

If it weren't for the fact that it was his first time trading with this group of people, he would have wanted to double the price several times.

Twenty-three pheasants gave him some amoxicillin.

Ju Tianrui waved his hand and asked Zhou Tian to take out two boxes of antibiotics and hand them to Xie Dongming.

Xie Dongming also asked his son to hand over the smoked pheasants to Zhou Tian and the others.

Looking at the dried taro he brought, Xie Dongming hesitated for a while and asked:

"What else can you trade here? I still have forty-eight pounds of dried taro that I can exchange for."

Ju Tianrui said, "Don't ask what we have, but what do you want?"

With the Da Zhangshu Base at his back and the supplies he brought from the northern border and the military base, he had enough confidence to say this.

hiss!

Hearing what Ju Tianrui said, Xie Dongming and others suddenly took a breath.

atmosphere!

As expected of such a powerful person, his speech was different from that of a small group of survivors like them.

Forty-eight pounds of dried taro is also an extremely valuable commodity for people like them.

So he said to Ju Tianrui apologetically:

"Give us two minutes, can we discuss it?"

"Whatever." Ju Tianrui said calmly.

After speaking, he couldn't help but glance at the city lord behind him from the corner of his eye.

He saw Li Yu looking at him with a half-smile.

Ju Tianrui broke into a cold sweat.

I don’t know if the pretense I just made caused the city lord’s displeasure.

Or is your quote too low?

Feeling regretful in his heart, Ma Dan almost forgot that the city lord was behind him.

Thinking of this, his body stiffened. I thought to myself: I must be more steady later.

But Xie Dongming, who was opposite, turned around to discuss with the people behind him.

"Ziming, sister, what do you think we should change to something better?"

Xie Dongming's sister Si Lin said after a few seconds:

"We are not particularly short of food at the moment. Why don't we change some fuel? We don't have much fuel left."

Another man said: "There is not enough fuel. We can still walk. What we lack most is salt. I think we need to replace some salt."

"But fuel is also very important." The woman said quickly.

"Dad, I think it's more important that we order some candy."

Seeing them arguing, Xie Dongming frowned and said:

"Well, let's just use two kinds, salt and fuel. What do you think?"

My sister and Zhu Ziming said in unison: "Okay."

Xiaohao: "."

It seemed that no one cared about the sugar he was talking about and didn't seem to care about his own opinion.

well.

After the decision.

Xie Dongming said to Ju Tianrui:

"We want salt and gasoline."

Ju Tianrui thought to himself: He really knows how to choose!

Salt is not a rare thing for them.

Last year, they found a large salt mine in Linxian County, fifty kilometers away from the headquarters base, and became self-sufficient.

Fuel also relies on the Oil City and can be produced by itself.

However, based on the lesson just learned, he felt that the price should not be too low.

So he said:

"One pound of salt, ten pounds of dried taro, or one pound of fuel, exchanged for one pound of dried taro."

One pound of fuel is roughly equivalent to 0.7 liters of fuel.

One liter of fuel is enough for them to drive ten kilometers.

(Please give me a monthly pass. What do you think of the price? If it doesn’t work, I will change it.)