I became a farmer in the apocalypse.

"You don't have to buy if you don't want to!" the shopkeeper said, hands on his hips. "All the official grain stations are empty now, only mine still has grain! If you don't buy, plenty of others will!"

"Boss! I'll buy it! I'll buy 50 jin of coarse rice!" a middle-aged man shouted.

The man's wife hesitated, "It's so expensive, do we really want to buy it?"

The man retorted confidently, "Are you stupid?! If you don't buy now, it'll be even more expensive when food supplies are scarce!"

"Don't forget, three years ago, grain prices suddenly jumped to 300 points per kilogram! Back then, you wouldn't be able to afford it even if you wanted to!"

The woman stopped talking.

The man paid 4000 points, took the 50-pound bag of grain, and left the grain store.

This amount of rice is enough for a family of three to live on for a month.

The others hesitated.

too expensive.

But if I don't buy it, I'm afraid the price will rise even more drastically later.

"Boss, I'd like to buy twenty pounds of flour."

"I'll buy fifty jin of rice."

"Don't rush, take your time and line up one by one."

Jiang Tang joined the queue, but before she could even get her turn, the food was all gone!

"That's all for today, no more left, everyone go." The shopkeeper waved to the people behind him.

"What? It's gone again?"

Another long sigh followed.

"Could there really be a famine?"

"What should we do?"

Jiang Tang thought to herself that she probably wouldn't be able to buy rice today.

As she left the store, she received a call from her best friend, Liu Caiping: "Jiang Tang, did you manage to get any food?"

"no."

Liu Caiping: "Let me tell you, as soon as I received the weather bureau's notification, I immediately went and grabbed 50 jin of grain! I'll share half with you!"

Liu Caiping is Jiang Tang's only and best friend after she came to the Ninth Base.

Jiang Tang was already very happy that she was thinking of her at this moment. "No need, I'll go to the grain station again tomorrow. Maybe I can manage to grab some if I go early."

Anyway, the grain station will definitely put grain on the shelves tomorrow, so there's no rush for now.

If I could grab it myself, I wouldn't need to ask Liu Caiping to give me her share.

Liu Caiping: "Okay, just tell me if you need food."

In the past, Jiang Tang might have really worried about running out of food, but now, thinking about Xiao Li farming outside, she feels inexplicably at ease.

Xiao Li grows enough potatoes in a day to feed her for several months, so what does she have to worry about?

Jiang Tang chuckled, realizing that she had been completely influenced by the atmosphere and was simply being self-anxious. After calming down, she rode her electric scooter back to Rong Community.

I had just arrived at my rented apartment when I received a text message from Jiang Li:

[Sell today's vegetables according to market conditions; the goods are already on their way.]

Jiang Tang felt more at ease after receiving the text message.

Not long after, she received a call from Jiang Yan. As she left the residential area, she saw the military SUV that had delivered goods the day before, driven by a young woman in military uniform.

"Big sister, get in first, I'll take you to the market," Jiang Yan said to Jiang Tang, opening the passenger window.

Once in the car, Jiang Tang asked, "What are we selling today?"

"Spinach and strawberries."

There are still many potatoes left in the field. We won't sell them today; we'll leave them in the field. The mutated birds won't dig them up to eat anyway. We'll sell the spinach and strawberries first.

Jiang Tang: "Spinach is a very expensive imported vegetable, it costs 150 points per pound."

Upon arriving at the market, Jiang Yan carried the goods inside.

30 jin of spinach and 30 jin of strawberries.

The market was also packed with people, all picking out all sorts of good stuff.

Jiang Tang squeezed her way to her stall after a long time, but before she could even put her things on the shelves, someone came running over.

"Boss! Do you still have those big strawberries you sold yesterday? I want to buy those big, sweet strawberries from yesterday!"

Jiang Tang: Yes.

She took some of the strawberries and spinach out and displayed them in the glass cabinet.

These spinach plants are huge; one plant is a full meter long!

Jiang Tang was also stunned.

How come Xiao Li can grow anything this big? To be honest, Jiang Tang doesn't even know how to start eating this vegetable.

"What huge leafy greens!"

Someone looked at the spinach in the glass case with surprise.

"These are imported vegetables! This is really good stuff!"

"So green! It's so pretty!"

"Boss, why is your spinach different from the ones the importers bring over? And why is your spinach so big?"

It's like taking a spinach and magnifying it three times.

Jiang Tang didn't know how to explain it.

"Isn't it better if it's bigger? The bigger the vegetables, the tastier they are."

The customer asked skeptically, "Really?"

Jiang Tang knew perfectly well that, in theory, bigger vegetables wouldn't necessarily taste better, because growing bigger meant getting old.

However, Jiang Tang felt that Xiao Li had her own merits in growing vegetables, and that the vegetables Xiao Li grew should not be viewed with the mindset of the pre-apocalyptic world.

Jiang Tang took out a spinach and snapped off one of the stems. Although this new variety of spinach looked big, the stem was very thin and tender.

Sure enough, after it was snapped, there was a crisp sound, and the water splashed out.

"oh!"

The guests were stunned.

"Such tender spinach!"

"It's very juicy."

"It looks even tastier than the baby spinach that the importers brought over!"

"Boss, I want to buy a spinach!"

Jiang Tang handed him a large spinach, "7 liang, 105 points."

The person paid 105 points, picked up a spinach, and left.

Someone squeezed through the crowd. "Boss! I'm here to buy your giant strawberries! Your strawberries are really delicious! I've been waiting here since this morning! I finally got to see you!"

"How many kilograms do you want to buy?" Jiang Tang asked.

"Two pounds! I'll buy two pounds!"

Jiang Tang took ten strawberries, put them on the scale, and said, "510 points."

The person paid the points and couldn't resist eating at Jiang Tang's stall right then and there, leaving the whole area in front of Jiang Tang's stall smelling like strawberries.

Jiang Tang has gotten used to it.

Anyway, yesterday there were a lot of people buying and eating here.

……

Even when it's raining, it doesn't affect the flow of people in the market street.

As the largest trading market, the street was still packed with people today, some exchanging goods, some buying daily necessities and tools, and others strolling around looking for bargains.

Many people set up stalls despite the rain.

Fortunately, potatoes are not afraid of the rain. Liu Qing and Wei Zhou, wearing raincoats, were constantly trading. The stall was crowded with people, all of whom had turned to other things after failing to get rice.

Potatoes are the most popular commodity besides staple foods. They are inexpensive, can be stored, and are filling, making them a very practical reserve material.

Liu Qing knew that everyone in the safe zone was scrambling for food, so today's potatoes were being sold at 80 points per pound.

Even so, many people are still vying for it, and business is even better than before.

"Boss, let me go first! I want five big potatoes!"

"Don't push! I was here first!"

"Boss! I was here first! Let me choose first!"

"..."

A group of people almost started fighting in front of the stall.

One man even saw that the stall was run by a mother and child, and secretly reached out to steal.

Wei Zhou saw it and was about to speak anxiously when he suddenly heard a roar from beside him.

"What are you doing?"

Li Tianlei stood up, glaring sharply at the man. "You dare steal right under my nose? Do you know what crime stealing supplies is? Do you want to be dragged to the front lines as a live target?"

Upon hearing this, the man's face turned pale, and he withdrew his hand, obediently retreating to the back.

Li Tianlei walked over and stood protectively in front of Liu Qing and her son's stall, addressing the crowd in front of the stall:

"Don't push or shove! Line up properly!"

His tall, imposing figure, standing at 1.85 meters, was as majestic as a mountain, and his aura was as powerful as thunder.

This immediately calmed down many restless people.

The chaotic scene was brought into order.

Wei Zhou stared at Uncle Li's tall figure with shining eyes, a sense of longing rising in his heart.

He also wants to become a great man like Uncle Li!

Just by standing there, no one dared to bully the mother and child.

He couldn't help but wonder why his father never stood up for him and his mother in crucial moments like Uncle Li did.