40: Zero Yuan Purchase, a Big Bang

When Wang Yulan and her group arrived at their fields, there were already several people catching insects on their land. Those people left only after seeing them coming.

Yun Feifei later heard that Wang Yulan and her group went to someone's house in a threatening manner and shouted.

With Wang Yulan's ability to throw a tantrum, she managed to get a piece of fat meat (locusts) from someone else's house.

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Yun Feifei demonstrated how to roast locusts to her younger brothers and sisters, and then let them do it themselves.

For dinner, I cooked cornmeal porridge and roasted locusts.

This night was the most satisfying meal they had since moving into their new home. To be more precise, it was the best meal they had since their parents passed away.

The next day, everyone did the same thing as the day before, some fetched water and some cooked breakfast.

After breakfast, Yun Feifei watched them go out and left the village in the same way.

While riding a bicycle towards the town, Yun Feifei turned a corner and went to the river.

The water level of the river has dropped a lot, and the riverside has continued to shrink inward, revealing the dried silt on the riverbed.

At this time, there were many villagers carrying shoulder poles to draw water by the river. Most of them were villagers living nearby. A small number of them had no water in the village wells and had to walk a long way to the river to fetch water.

Yun Feifei approached the river and found a place far away from the villagers. She reached her hand into the river, connected her consciousness with the space, and water was continuously taken into the space.

As soon as the water entered the space, she guided it to flow into the various containers she bought yesterday. She did not withdraw her hands from the river until the containers were full.

It only took a dozen seconds to collect the water, and Yun Feifei turned around and rode her bike towards the town.

She had visited almost all the shops near the town entrance, so she rode straight inside, intending to visit the shops she had not visited yesterday.

When I passed by the grain store where I bought food yesterday, I found that there were even more people gathered at the door.

Unlike the chaotic crowd yesterday, people today lined up in an orderly manner, but the line was so long and winding that it almost blocked the road.

Yun Feifei was glad that she had bought a lot of food yesterday. The food was enough for the family to eat for a year or two.

At the same time, she regretted buying too little and thought about stocking up, but looking at the long line, how long would it take before it was her turn?

Just as she was hesitating, she saw a clerk coming out of the grain shop. It was the clerk who received her yesterday.

Yun Feifei walked forward with a look of surprise, handed over a dollar, and asked if she could get another batch of food.

The guy saw someone stopping him and was about to yell when he saw a dollar being handed to him.

Look again, isn’t the owner holding the money the distinguished guest you just entertained yesterday?

The war has already caused food prices to rise a lot, and now after the locust plague, food prices are still rising.

The wealthy and well-connected families had already stored up large quantities of food, and now only the poor villagers were coming to the store to buy food.

They bought them in quantities of a few kilograms or more than ten kilograms, and this amount almost used up all the money the villagers had.

It was a rare occasion for a customer to come and buy hundreds or even thousands of kilograms of grain at one time, so of course he still remembered it.

When the waiter heard that Yun Feifei asked for food, he immediately took the dollar from her hand.

Yun Feifei saw the guy take the money and asked him to deliver three times the amount of grain as yesterday.

After hearing this, the waiter happily welcomed Yun Feifei into the store, took her to the back hall, and asked the shopkeeper to entertain her.

When Yun Feifei came out of the grain store, she bought food worth fifteen hundred dollars.

She had not originally planned to spend so much money on buying food, but when she heard the shopkeeper say that today's food price was five dollars a load more expensive than yesterday, and would continue to rise, she increased her purchases.

This time the quantity is quite large, so the grain store won't be able to prepare all the goods and deliver them to your door until three o'clock in the afternoon.

After leaving the grain store, Yun Feifei rode her bicycle to the small courtyard.