Siheyuan's Journey Through the Ages

Chapter 29 Continuous Harvest

"Brother Cai, I've seen you pull a cart before, you must be very familiar with this city."

"That's right. When I was pulling a cart, I traveled all over the city. There was no place I didn't know."

Ma Qing was delighted: "Do you know where to find a scrapped locomotive? I particularly like this kind of big iron thing. It has a sense of power and beauty. I don't have the chance to look at a scrapped locomotive normally, so I want to go and have a look." Ma Qing pretended to be excited. He really had no other choice. Ma Qing really couldn't think of where to get a large amount of metal. As long as he could find a locomotive, he would basically achieve metal freedom. "

"Old locomotives, your hobby is really peculiar. However, I don't see locomotives very often. But when you suddenly mention old locomotives, I really don't know what to say for a while. Let me think about it." Cai Quanyou pondered.

Ma Qingdao did not urge him. He poured another glass of wine and put the side dishes in front of Cai Quanyou, motioning him to eat the dishes and drink the wine. Cai Quanyou quickly waved his hand to refuse.

"As far as I remember, the new market in the eastern suburbs was an industrial zone set up by the Japanese. I seem to have seen it, but I can't guarantee it now. As you know, the steel production campaign that started last year has made ironware a rare commodity. You can go and take a look, but don't hold your hopes too high."

"Okay, as long as we have a direction." Ma Qing happily took a big sip of beer, feeling relieved.

The next day, Ma Qing rushed to the eastern suburbs. He was stunned when he arrived. There were huge rows of blast furnaces and dense pipes, just like a heavy industrial area. Ma Qing looked at the steel supports and wished that the robots could come out and pull them all back into the space.

Ma Qing continued walking eastward along the railway. He found nothing for the whole morning until he ate the dry food he brought with him. In the afternoon, he finally found an abandoned factory building. At least from the outside, no one had been there for many years. Ma Qing climbed over the gate and entered the factory. He found that the factory was not small. There was a three-story factory building in the middle of the factory. Ma Qing did not rush to go in. Instead, he walked around and found no one after the radar scan. Then he entered the factory building. As soon as he entered, Xiao Qi told him a good news.

"There are a lot of metal parts and racks on the second and third floors of the factory. Most importantly, this factory has a basement with a large number of gold and silver detection reactions."

"Don't worry about the gold and silver for now. Let's go around the factory first. If no one is around, take all the metals away. I don't want to look for this shit anymore."

After Ma Qing finished touring the three-story factory and confirmed that no one was there, he found a corner and opened the space door, and ordered the robot to collect metal and bring it into the space. In just 10 minutes, the universal robot cut, collected, and moved all the useful materials in the factory, even the broken glass was not spared.

Then Ma Qing came to the entrance to the basement that Xiao Qi mentioned, but this entrance had been sealed with cement. It looked no different from an ordinary cement floor. What else could be said? The robots cleared the way and the demolition was done violently. After a while, Ma Qing entered this basement that no one had been to for more than ten years.

The situation in the basement was very simple. There was a big safe, several wooden boxes, and two skeletons. Ma Qing almost vomited because of the nausea. What else was there to say? It was the same old routine. The robots just moved everything away except the bones. The stimulated Ma Qing left here as quickly as possible and was too lazy to even do the cleanup work.

When Ma Qing got home in the evening, he received a list of items sorted out by Xiao Qi in the space, including 1802 kilograms of iron, 45 kilograms of aluminum, 20 kilograms of tin, 40 kilograms of gold, 5432 oceans, and a number of other metals. Basically, if there is no large-scale manufacturing in the space, there will be no shortage of metals in the short term.

Ma Qing breathed a sigh of relief. It was really difficult to get more metal in this era. Fortunately, there was space. Wait, if it weren't for this space, I wouldn't need so much metal. This was like a nesting doll. Ma Qing also figured out the origin of the basement. Through the few words in the safe in the basement, Xiao Qi told Ma Qing a rough story: There was a guy named Sakata from Japan who came to China to do business. During the Japanese occupation of Beijing, he and his son-in-law in the army plundered China's wealth. The plundered money and antiques were placed in Sakata's factory. Before the Japanese were defeated, the two began to move their property to Japan, but some of the property was transported away in time. It is estimated that the two Japanese devils found someone to do the masonry work. When they were about to seal the mouth, they killed the workers and threw the bodies into the basement, completing the final sealing work themselves.

"What a beast, what a bastard, he actually let these two people get away, God has no eyes." Ma Qing cursed. In addition to silver dollars, there was also a box of antiques in the several large boxes in the basement. However, according to Xiao Qi, they were interesting but only a little interesting. None of them were particularly precious cultural relics. They could be used to decorate the Bubble Palace which was about to be built.

The heating of the Bubble Palace has ended, but the temperature has not dropped yet. We can move in tomorrow. Ma Qing stood beside the field in the supplementary grain area, looking at the large area of ​​green plants in front of him, feeling very happy. After more than two months of planting, the potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes in the space are growing well and can be harvested in another month.

Ma Qing asked: "Seventh Brother, can we start raising some chickens, ducks, geese and rabbits now? The leaves of potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes can also be used to feed them. I am craving meat so much."

"In theory, it's possible, but it's too inhumane. You feed leaves to people and you want to eat their flesh."

Ma Qing was speechless. It seemed that Xiao Qi, as an intelligent life, did think about problems a little differently from normal people. He also blamed himself for being a fool. In fact, he could have raised some chickens, ducks, geese and rabbits a long time ago. There were leaves in the ground and small fish in the water. There would be no problem at all.

So, early the next morning, Ma Qing found a pigeon market which he had not been to recently and prepared for a big shopping spree. Ma Qing patted the 10 big unity bills in his pocket and walked towards a stall selling chickens with confidence.

The chicken seller was a rural old man, his skin tanned by the sun and his face covered with fine wrinkles. It was called a stall, but in fact there was only a rooster on the ground, and a bag next to it was open, revealing a few eggs.

"Uncle, how much do you sell this chicken for?"

"Little kid, this chicken is twenty yuan each." The old man said, holding up two fingers.

Ma Qing covered his pockets full of money and thought, how can I shop happily at this price? All the money at home is in the bank, and the cash on hand is less than 1 yuan. I only brought yuan with me. The prices are too scary. An ordinary worker needs a month's salary to buy a chicken.

"Is it so expensive? Can it be cheaper?"

"It has always been this price, how can it be more expensive?" The old man curled his lips and said, "Chickens are so expensive nowadays, people can't even eat them. It was not easy for me to raise this chicken. If my family was not short of money, I would not sell it. Besides, this is a Bailin chicken, it grows slowly and has good meat quality."

(End of this chapter)