It's snowing heavily.

Trading bazaar residential area management center.

The staff inside were busy until eight o'clock in the evening, but there were still people queuing outside.

There are too many survivors asking to turn on the heating. Nowadays, heating bills are very cheap to collect.

It's even cheaper than renting, and it only costs a few tenths of points per day.

Even if you stay for a month, you only get a few points.

This is still affordable for most survivors.

Of course, some survivors felt that the temperature was not too cold now, so they bought some charcoal at a cheaper price for heating.

There are not many pedestrians in the trading market business district.

The total area of ​​the trading market is only a few thousand acres, but it is home to more than 200,000 survivors, which can be said to be very crowded.

Especially in residential areas, it is more crowded.

Areas A, B, and C are overcrowded.

The distance between the buildings in Area C is very small, so it looks like there is a huge flow of people.

The workers who installed the heating pipes are still working today.

Pipeline installation is now done in two shifts.

The installation was being carried out day and night.

Because their temperature may drop later, the lower the temperature, the more difficult the subsequent installation work will be.

Although the temperature has reached minus seven or eight degrees, it is not very difficult to install the pipeline.

If it reaches minus 30 degrees Celsius or even higher, it becomes extremely difficult to work outside.

.......

Residential area.

Area A.

Xie Dongming braved the white snow and walked into the room.

There is heating in the room, and you feel warm as soon as you enter.

He turned around and closed the door behind him to avoid wasting heat.

"Lao Xie, how is the business in the store?" When the wife saw her husband coming back, she put down her needlework and walked over.

She was sewing clothes from animal skins, they opened a barbecue restaurant, and they used to go out hunting.

When the business in the back store was good, they rarely went out to hunt animals themselves.

Instead, buy the hunted animals from the survivors, or buy them from the third shop in the trading bazaar.

Over time, they also saved a lot of animal skins, which they sewed into warm clothing.

The animal skin is very warm and can withstand temperatures of dozens of degrees below zero when worn.

After hearing his wife's inquiry, Xie Dongming smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"The weather is getting colder, the flow of people is much less, and business is not as good as before."

The wife nodded and frowned:

"This is also normal. Now that the city is closed, I heard that the construction of the wall has stopped. Many people have lost their jobs. Consumption has been downgraded. It is normal to be reluctant to eat meat."

"It's just that if we can't sell the meat we stocked up before, we will suffer a big loss."

Before the blizzard came, they stocked up on some meat so that they could still sell it after the city was closed.

To this end, they allocated 80% of their mobile points and used them all to stockpile meat.

Considering their size, this is a big deal.

Xie Dongming took the hot tea handed over by his wife, took a sip and said:

"Not necessarily. Maybe business will get better if we wait a little longer."

"What do you say?" asked the wife.

Xie Dongming looked at Zhu Ziming opposite, and Zhu Ziming smiled thoughtfully and said:

"According to internal information, there will be major construction projects in the future, and a lot of people will be recruited by then."

Xie Dongming’s wife asked doubtfully:

"But the buffer city has been stopped, and the walls have been completed. What other big projects are there? It can't be inside the trading market, right? There is no room for construction in the trading market...

"

"Sister-in-law, no."

Zhu Ziming explained:

"There are guards on the buffer city wall now, why? Why not simply retreat to the trading market."

"That's for double protection of the trading market!" Xie Dongming's wife said.

"More than that."

Zhu Ziming continued:

"I observed it when I passed by the Trade Market Industrial Zone. There is a factory there that produces a lot of greenhouse building materials. I'm afraid they will be used in the buffer city."

"Furthermore, a level 3 person I know told me that a recruitment notice for the construction of a greenhouse in the buffer city should be issued in the next two days or so.

Think about it, the buffer city is so large, there will definitely be a lot of greenhouses built, and it will probably require a lot of manpower."

The old man Xie Dongming was there and threw a corn silk cigarette to Zhu Ziming.

"The price of corn silk cigarettes has increased again. Now a pack of cigarettes costs 5 points."

Zhu Ziming took it, lit it with a match and sighed:

"There is no way, the city is closed, prices may rise later!"

"By the way, who is watching in the store now?"

Xie Dongming pursed his lips and replied:

"Zihao and Wen Qian, there are few guests now, so I asked everyone else to come back."

"Um."

Zhu Ziming thought for a moment and said:

"Now that the No. 3 store has implemented food control, the price of meat has increased, and there are also limited purchases. I wonder if we need to increase prices in our store now, otherwise we will lose money."

Xie Dongming raised his head and took a deep breath before replying:

"Okay, then let's increase the price by 10%. If the No. 3 official store raises the price later, we will follow suit. By the way, has the No. 2 tortilla shop raised the price? They..."

"No, it's still the same price."

Zhu Ziming continued attentively:

“Corn tortillas and multigrain cakes are guaranteed food supplies, so I don’t think there will be any big fluctuations.

The barbecue meat we sell is actually a luxury product, so the price increase is normal."

Today, more than 99% of the survivors in the trading market eat corn tortillas or multigrain tortillas, as well as the recently introduced sweet potato pancakes and potato pancakes.

Tortillas and sweet potato tortillas, corn tortillas are the same price.

Both are worth 0.25 points each.

And, like the tortillas, they are the same size and the portions are very solid.

But the taste is just different.

As for multigrain tortillas, they are mixed with more vegetables, cooking oil, and salt, and they taste better than corn tortillas.

These cake-like foods are easy to preserve, simple to make, and easy to satisfy your hunger.

The most important thing is that it can provide more energy and is very suitable as a staple food.

It is the cheapest food in the trading market and the most affordable food.

From top to bottom, people eat this kind of food.

It is the thing with the largest supply and largest sales volume in the trading market.

Sometimes, even level 2 and 3 personnel can be seen eating this kind of food.

But for them, it is just an emergency alternative food.

In the Da Zhangshu Base, the food production area in the north, the most important crops grown are these three categories:

Corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes.

Because these three types of crops have the highest yields, they are relatively simple to take care of.
To be continued...