Chapter 1622 The Trading Market Is Overcrowded

Two days later.

Zheng Hanbing led 20 people, using the wheelbarrows they made, with sweet potatoes on the wheelbarrows, and headed towards the trading market.

This kind of hand-pushed wheelbarrow was the most common and important means of transportation for rural people in the 1950s and 1960s.

In the 1950s and before, it was a wooden wheelbarrow, and in the 1960s and 1970s, it was a rubber wheelbarrow.

Rubber wheelbarrows are light and can carry more weight.

This kind of wheelbarrow can carry 300 kilograms of heavy objects, and it does not need to concentrate the weight on the shoulders like a shoulder pole, which is more labor-saving.

This time they harvested nearly 8,000 kilograms of potatoes and sweet potatoes, and the yield per mu reached 4,000 kilograms, which exceeded their original estimate.

This time, the 20 people transported nearly 6,000 kilograms of grain.

The grains were covered with a layer of cloth to prevent the survivors from seeing that there were grains inside and coming to rob.

Although the robbers around the trading market were cleared by the managers, they were still a little worried.

After all, it is a crime to hold a treasure.

At this stage, they do not have enough power to protect these grains.

However, they lack water, so they can only take risks. As long as they can deliver these grains to the trading market, everything will be stable!

"Brother Zheng, this wheelbarrow is easier to use than a shoulder pole. It can transport heavier things and save more effort." Jie Dali pushed the wheelbarrow and said to Zheng Hanbing with a smile.

Zheng Hanbing wiped the sweat with his sleeves, put down the support rod in the middle of the wheelbarrow, and stopped.

He took a bottle of water from the wheelbarrow and said:

"This is the wisdom of the working people in the past."

After that, he took two gulps of water.

"Once we succeed in selling the sweet potatoes and potatoes this time, we will have a good life in the future."

"With so much food, we can sell for more than four-digit points."

Feng Chen nodded and said:

"Remember the last time we went to the trading market to sell vegetables, the average price was 0.3 points. According to the rules of the trading market, our sweet potatoes and potatoes can be sold at a higher price than vegetables."

Zheng Hanbing put away the bracket on the wheelbarrow, "Brothers, let's go!"

The people behind put away the brackets and hurried on together.

Along the way, they ate some raw sweet potatoes when they were hungry and drank water when they were thirsty.

They maintained a walking speed of five kilometers per hour.

This place is more than 20 kilometers away from the trading market. It will take about six hours to walk continuously.

Starting from eight o'clock in the morning, it was twelve o'clock in the afternoon in a blink of an eye.

They stopped for a few minutes to rest and continued on the road.

In a blink of an eye, it was two o'clock in the afternoon.

There were only the last two kilometers left to the trading market.

The last time they passed here, there were workers everywhere and ditches dug.

At this time, when passing by here again, the ditch is gone, but the newly covered soil above the ditch can be seen.

Every few steps, they can see a cement pile covered with a two-meter-long and wide iron plate and locked.

The cement pile is about 1 meter above the ground.

Xie Dali asked curiously: "What are these cement piles used for?"

"Didn't you ask last time? The trading market is building a water plant. This ditch is the ditch where the water plant diverts water from Nanwan Lake!" Feng Chen replied.

Xie Dali rolled his eyes and said: "I know, I'm asking what these protruding cement piles are used for."

"Then I don't know, why don't you go to the trading market and ask someone."

Zheng Hangbing looked at these cement piles with a slightly bright look in his eyes.

"It seems that the water plant in the trading market has been built. They are so fast!"

"Besides, the water plant has been built. They must not lack water now. It's right for us to go to the trading market!"

After hearing Zheng Hanbing's words, everyone's mood became better.

The water problem seems to no longer be a problem when entering the trading market.

The closer to the trading market, the more pedestrians there are on the road.

These pedestrians looked at Zheng Hanbing and others curiously, and some of them cast malicious eyes at them.

Nowadays, it is more and more difficult to find food outside due to drought.

Zheng Hanbing and others are pushing so many supplies, which is easy to be envied.

But because of the previous experience of the Golden Tiger Gang, no one dared to rob so close to the trading market.

Some people speculated about the contents of their wheelbarrows while walking.

"What's in the wheelbarrows these people are pushing? They look bulging, could it be food?"

"Are you crazy? How could twenty carts be full of food? Where can they find so much food??! And if there is really food in them, how could they walk on the road so ostentatiously? Too ostentatious."

"What you said makes sense. What do you think is in them?"

"First of all, we can rule out food. Secondly, since they are covered with cloth, they must have some value. Electronic products? Not really. From the outline, they don't look like electronic products. They could be clothes or something like that!"

"That makes sense. Clothes are possible. There is a clothing & tailor shop in the trading market recently. They can probably make a fortune by sending them to the clothing store."

Zheng Hanbing and others didn't expect that they were transporting food in such a ostentatious way, which was actually the opposite of what they were doing.

Many survivors who saw them thought that the food inside was not food.

After all, it is not realistic for a small team to have so much food these days.

Moreover, looking at these people, they don’t look like a team that can have so much food.

Where does the food come from?

The food in the city has long been turned over. What they didn’t expect is that someone would waste time planting it these days, and plant it and have a successful harvest!

This is something that other survivors can’t imagine.

After so many natural disasters, most of them have given up growing their own food.

There is no other reason,

they have suffered too many failures, and each time they spend a lot of time and energy, but in the end they get nothing.

While other survivors were observing Zheng Hanbing and others, Zheng Hanbing and others were also observing them.

He found that it had not rained for more than four months, and everyone was not living well.

Compared with the survivors seen more than a month ago, they looked thinner at this time, and dead skin appeared at the corners of their mouths, which showed that they were dehydrated.

And there was another obvious situation.

That is, there were many more people going to the trading market than last time.

When they came within a kilometer of the trading market, they looked at the bustling crowd and their pupils shrank slightly.

"Fuck, so many people!"

The queue for entering the city was even 500 meters away!

And there were four queues at the same time.

The last time they came here, there were at most 1,800 people outside the trading market.

Now at a glance, there are at least tens of thousands.

There are so many people outside the trading market, how many people are inside the trading market?

They pushed the wheelbarrow and came to the queue behind the trading market to enter the city.

Looking at the long queue in front, Zheng Hanbing said to Jie Dali and others behind him:

"Fortunately, we didn't rest on the way, otherwise we might not be able to enter the trading market until dark."

Jie Dali looked at the people who were still coming in a steady stream behind him, and asked in confusion:

"Brother Zheng, why are there so many people coming at once?"

Zheng Hanbing pondered for a few seconds and said:

"It hasn't rained for more than four months. Although it is possible to find water outside, it is very difficult and dangerous."

"If you find water, you have to process it and boil it before you can drink it."

"I guess the water plant in the trading market has been built, which can provide abundant water resources. Many survivors heard the news that the water plant was built and came here to replenish water."

For most survivors, they can spend a few points to buy clean water. For them, buying a little clean water is less than one-tenth of the price of a tortilla.

It's a good deal!

It's much safer than risking their lives to get water from the big rivers.

After weighing the pros and cons, they chose to go to the trading market to replenish water.

(asking for monthly ticket)