Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

Yan Fan's speed was quite fast. He bought the [Willow Juice] almost at the same time as the young man.

Gu Tongwan also happily paid 25 points and received a cup of [Willow Mango Juice], which was ridiculously expensive even in the base.

I paid an extra three points here to buy a paper cup of slightly better quality, then poured some willow mango juice worth 15 points from Yan Fan, and then took a sip carefully. The taste was not very good, like mango and orange juice that had been left for a long time and was almost going bad, with the smell of rotten fruit, but this fruity smell was rare in the end times where fruit could no longer be grown normally due to the extremely hot weather.

No wonder the price of a glass of juice is almost as high as that of a pound of staple food, and so many people are lining up to buy a glass.

Gu Tongwan continued to pour a glass of 25-point juice. He immediately felt a chill in his throat as soon as he took a sip. There was enough ice cubes here, and the three-point sugar was not too greasy. In addition, the rotten taste was lighter. At most, it was not a very good juice to drink, but at least it smelled relatively sweet.

It’s sad that the boss said that if the food doesn’t taste good, we should return the money. This shows that he is very confident in the ingredients he uses.

The man who had insisted on buying two cups of juice for testing also showed a surprised look on his face, and then gave the boss a thumbs up, "Okay, boss, I finally understand why you can sell it at such a high price. The fruits here are all very fresh. Could they be fruits just picked from the farm? There are still fruits in this weather, where do you get them from?"

The female boss was putting a fruit called "Orange Mango" into a juicer, which had thorns on the surface and golden flesh when cut open. It was made into juice. Her movements were quick and you could tell at a glance that she did similar work often.

After pouring the juice into another kettle and putting it in the refrigerator, she finally had time to take care of the man.

“How can they be fresh? They’ve been picked three to five days ago and have been kept in the freezer. But they’re definitely better than those rotten fruits across the street that have long been thrown away from the processing plant.” The female boss’ tone carried a hint of disdain. It was obvious that she didn’t like doing business against her conscience, so she would rather make less money than use rotten fruits like other stalls.

The man didn't intend to give up, and continued to ask: "Since the high temperature last week, there has been no fruit for sale around here and in the base. How can you still get fruit here? Madam, do you have any special channels to get the goods?"

At this time, the lady boss frowned, her eyes began to flicker with hostility, and she began to doubt the man's identity. Her attitude was not as good as before. "Do I need to answer you all this? Besides, I will never tell anyone about my business secrets. Otherwise, they will steal my business."

"No, no, to be honest, the elderly in my family like to eat fruit, and it is really hard to buy fruit during this period. Although we can still buy some cabbage and radish, the quality is not very good. During this period, they basically eat all kinds of frozen meat or canned meat. The children and the elderly can't eat fruit. After a long time, their stomachs can't stand it. We adults don't really have a problem. We just want the elderly and children at home to feel more comfortable."

The female boss pursed her lips. In fact, she understood what the man meant. He just wanted to get the sales channel of the fruit from her. She was a resident of the black market camp about 80 kilometers away from the base. Recently, there were a lot of people visiting the gastroenterology and digestive departments of the camp hospital. Not to mention other things, even her neighbors had problems such as constipation and indigestion. When they were chatting these two days, they mentioned that if the extreme heat did not pass, they really could not bear it.

In fact, these fruits were grown by the female boss's brother. His family had an orchard before the end of the world. Their family had been planting various fruits since their grandfather's generation. By her generation, they even started live streaming to sell goods on the Internet platform. At that time, she had more than one million fans on the entire network. Because of the high-quality and inexpensive fruits and the participation in charity to help farmers, her reputation has always been very good. There was even hope to build a dried fruit processing factory near the orchard to make snacks of various fruits, so that the income could double. However, before the factory was built, a heavy rainstorm wiped out everyone's hope and turned the orchard, which had been worked hard for many years, into ruins.

If there weren't a few pieces of idle land in the camp that the lord allowed to be used for cultivation, their family wouldn't even know how to continue living. After all, a life of fighting or hunting mutant beasts was not what they wanted.

"If I just want to sell you some fruit, that's fine. I don't have much here, so I can still give you three or five kilograms. But I've reminded you that in tonight's weather, if these fruits are not frozen in time, they will rot before tomorrow once they leave the refrigerator. In this weather, the speed of decay is five or six times faster than usual, so I don't recommend you buy too much."

"Thank you so much. I know this too. I have an ice-type mutant with me, so it should be no problem keeping the food fresh on the road." The man smiled and handed over the card.

"You dare to buy from me without even asking the price. Aren't you worried that I will rip you off?" The female boss raised her eyebrows and made a deliberate sarcastic remark.

"There's nothing to worry about. If I were really afraid of everything, I wouldn't have come to the black market."

It turns out that he is a rich second-generation. I guess his family is not short of money.

The woman showed a playful smile on her face. After taking the card, she nodded to the man who had been busy with the refrigeration. She saw the man stop what he was doing, opened the freezer, and was taking out a lot of fruits and putting them into bags.

"Three kilograms of mutant mangoes and some apples, 35 points per kilogram. I'll give you a small change, so just give me 100 points in total."

Gu Tongwan glanced at the fruits. They were all shriveled but not rotten, so although the price offered by the proprietress was expensive, it was not particularly outrageous. However, the fresh fruits she had sold before were 70 points per kilogram, which is 35 points per catty. Calculated this way, isn't it a big loss? If there is a next time, she might be able to raise the price a little bit more appropriately.

But there was nothing she could do after thinking about it. After all, it was not a good first business to try out the waters. Moreover, the boss must have deliberately raised the prices. Otherwise, if everyone came to her door to ask her to sell fruit, the business would surely fail.

Perhaps it was because Gu Tongwan stood there for too long that the female boss's eyes fell on her. He smiled back calmly, "The juice is delicious." Then he turned his head and said to Yan Fan next to him, "Drink these two glasses of juice. I'm not thirsty for the time being."

Yan Fan was a little puzzled, thinking to himself that he spent forty points just for the comparison. This guy was really generous and had no idea how hard it was to make money.

Although he felt indignant, he still gulped down the juice. He felt that the one worth 15 points was okay at first. After all, he had been living in the base for so many years. The taste of food was not important to him. The most important thing was whether the food could fill his stomach. But when he drank the second juice, the aroma of the fruit still made his eyes light up, and he couldn't help licking his lips.

As expected, there is no harm without comparison. The ingredients used in the second store are obviously good, and there is no rotten and sour smell.

But even so, it was not as sweet as the glass of juice I drank at her house. I could smell the rich fruity aroma of that glass of juice even before I put it in my mouth.

After the man left, Gu Tongwan already had an idea in his mind, but before he opened his mouth, the female boss thought he wanted to buy fruit as well, so she shook her head and said, "Don't be so polite. I don't have much fruit left here. I really can't sell it. I still have to continue making juice. If I can't sell it all tonight, I can sell you some more."

"I'm not here to buy fruit. Quite the opposite. I want to ask the boss if he wants to try to buy some fruit. I have some fruit on hand, although not much, but I can't finish it myself. If the boss wants, I can sell it to you."

The female boss's eyes suddenly turned different when she looked at Gu Tong Wan. It wasn't one of welcome or surprise, but rather one of vigilance and suspicion.

The attitude shown by the female boss was basically what Gu Tongwan expected, so she smiled and said, "I have a few more samples here. You can take a look at them before deciding whether to cooperate with me."

As he said this, he took out the apple he had placed earlier from a backpack and handed it over.

This apple was taken out of the foam box when I got off the car. Only about half an hour has passed, so the skin still retains its original moisture and is not shriveled.

The female boss hesitated for a moment, but when she saw the plump and beautiful apples, a flash of surprise appeared in her eyes. However, it only took a few seconds before she immediately reached out and took the apple.

The apple is a beautiful red color, without any shriveling or spots. Such apples are almost invisible in the end times because most of China's soil has been destroyed due to the acid rain period. Basically 80% of the soil is no longer suitable for growing any crops. Only a small part of the soil has been studied by the Agricultural Science Institute of the base and can be used to grow the most basic staple crops. The wanderer base and the black market camp outside the base also manage part of their own land, but the results have been less than ideal.

After Gu Tongwan entered the base, the price of coarse noodles had increased from about 10 points per catty to 15 points per catty. Due to the recent hot weather, the price has even increased to 18 points per catty. Not to mention the meat and fruits that are no longer for sale, the prices of the remaining vegetables have at least tripled.

"Excuse me, sir, what is your name?" The female boss carefully handed the apple to the man next to her, who immediately put it in the refrigerator.

"No need to call me Gu, just call me Mr. Gu." Gu Tongwan smiled. It is better to hide your identity when doing business outside.

The female boss didn't care whether the name was real or fake, so she leaned forward and whispered, "Boss Gu, how many apples like this do you have? Do you have other fruits besides apples? How many can you give me at a time?"

"In addition to apples, there are also some snow pears, but they are all small plantations, so the most I can give you is 100 kilograms of each type, no more." In fact, the apples had been harvested three times before, and each harvest was around 300 kilograms, but Gu Tongwan didn't want to sell too many fruits at once, as this would give people a feeling of inexhaustible supply.

Things become more valuable the fewer they are.

Her idea now is to find a few more downstream buyers so that the supply will not be too much each time. However, if there are three or four downstream buyers, the goods circulating in the market will not be too much, and most of the fruits in the space can be dispersed. Anyway, the space has been producing fruits all the time. If she only consumes them by herself, she is afraid that she will not be able to finish them in this lifetime. But if she sells them, she can still get a fixed income every month.

This idea had actually always been in my mind before, but the black market had not yet opened, and I couldn't find anyone to cooperate with in the base, so I shelved the idea for the time being.

However, the prices of fruits and vegetables have been rising due to the high temperatures during this period, and the reopening of the black market has provided her with a new platform for her business.

Yan Fan, who was there the whole time, couldn't help but mutter in his heart, this guy is really good at doing business, it's not enough that he earned four or five thousand points on this trip, now he has started to make new business partners.

Sure enough, opportunities to make money have to be created by yourself, unlike me who just thinks about making a little money to fill my stomach every day.

After some discussion, they finally sold a total of 50 kilograms of apples and 50 kilograms of pears at 55 points per kilogram. The other party paid a deposit of 300 points first, and Gu Tongwan will transport the remaining goods directly to a temporary rest area 15 kilometers away from the base at noon tomorrow. The female boss and her husband will be waiting there to inspect the goods around 1:30 p.m.

Her husband should be the man who has been working silently next to her. He is also an ice-type mutant, so he can keep the fruits refrigerated and fresh at any time. If he is not there, the fruits will definitely be shriveled when they are brought back tomorrow.

The base is 120 kilometers away from the wanderer base camp and 80 kilometers away from the black market camp. During this distance, there is a place similar to a "temporary rest area" every 15 to 20 kilometers. In fact, they are some adobe houses left over from nearby villages after the end of the world. They can be used as a place for people who go out to take a temporary rest and drink water, or occasionally spend the night.

This trip earned him nearly 10,000 points. Gu Tongwan was very nice while driving and even hummed a little tune in the car.

After returning to the base, Gu Tongwan got off the car to settle today's wages with Yan Fan. He had just bought a knife on the black market for 120 points, leaving him with 80 points. Gu Tongwan gave him two bags of compressed biscuits, two cans of meat, and three packs of instant noodles, which actually exceeded the 80 points.

But what Gu Tongwan was thinking was that it was not easy for him to come with him tonight, and besides, he had been using his supernatural powers to keep the fruits fresh, so it was indeed worth the price.

But the most important point is that Gu Tongwan really saw the value of Yan Fanwei, and it would be a good idea to take this opportunity to build a good relationship with the future S-level psychic.