Chapter 1285

On the weekend, the company where little Porter is located obtained a short vacation. They had four days.

During these four days, they were allowed to leave the military base and go out for a turn, but they must return to the base before resting every night, otherwise, the base would impose severe punishment on soldiers who did not return at night.

When hearing this news, little Porter's face was full of smiles that he couldn't hold back. He immediately started packing his things and called a few friends to go out specifically to "relax."

The military allowing them to go out for a turn is not just to let them relax, but the federal government and the Ministry of National Defense hope to reduce the dissatisfaction of the locals toward the garrison through this way.

Let both sides have a relatively normal contact, let the locals realize that the federal soldiers are not here to hurt them, and they even encourage soldiers to consume.

As long as they can consume a lot, it is difficult not to be liked by the locals. Who can refuse someone who is willing to leave money behind?

Improving the relationship between the military and the local people is the strategy of the Ministry of National Defense, simple, direct, and also very effective.

Little Porter, who came out of the military zone, had already changed into casual clothes. They looked at the low, dilapidated houses around them, and those busy people, and had a very novel feeling.

This situation is not common in the Federation. Although there are many homeless people in the Federation, the city environment is not that bad, and those homeless people are ultimately just a minority.

Everyone here looks like a poor person, like a homeless person, which also gave little Porter and the people around him a very strong sense of superiority.

"Hey, brother, are you federal soldiers?"

Just as they approached the "trading area" outside the military base, a small man took the initiative to greet them.

Little Porter took a look at his companions. Everyone was wearing casual clothes. He asked curiously, "How do you know we are soldiers?"

That small man was probably only 1.6 meters tall?

His hair was all greasy, his face was very thin, a bit long, giving people a kind of cunning feeling.

He had a smug expression on his face for guessing right, "Because you look very strong, gentlemen, which means you have received training. Only soldiers will receive training."

"I have seen some other federal people. They are either very thin, very ordinary, or they look relatively fat. You are the rare kind."

Little Porter did not deny it, "So, what do you plan to do?"

That small man introduced himself, "My name is Paipi—" He looked at the expression on little Porter's face that couldn't interpret this name and wanted to laugh, and didn't feel offended or embarrassed, "This is a very ordinary name. You might find it funny, this is very normal. In the future, you will come into contact with more funny names."

Little Porter originally wanted to laugh out loud, but after hearing him say this, he felt that it seemed indeed there was nothing funny. He nodded, "Okay, then—Paipi, continue, what do you want to do."

Paipi didn't seem to be dealing with federal people for the first time. He didn't seem restrained or uneasy, "Want to make some money?"

Watching little Porter signal him to continue, he continued, "Cigarettes, candy, chewing gum, coffee, luncheon meat cans, especially beef cans, and everything on you can be exchanged for money with me."

"I guarantee I can give you a price you are satisfied with!"

Little Porter looked around. There were some other soldiers who came out with them, and they were also approached by some people, seemingly discussing these things.

"I can give you a price of eight cents for a pack of cigarettes. This is already the highest price that can be given in this area. The price of candy and cans is the highest. I can give you twenty cents for a pound of candy, ten cents for a 350-gram luncheon meat can, and twelve cents for a pound one."

"I can give twenty cents for a pound of beef cans."

He seemed worried that these people didn't understand his quote, so he emphasized, "Federal Sol!"

These prices are actually much lower than the procurement price of the Ministry of National Defense, but for those who don't smoke or don't like to eat candy, don't like to eat luncheon meat or beef cans, this is indeed a good opportunity to exchange for money.

After the war, the Ministry of National Defense and the military did not stop the procurement of combat rations and still maintained a relatively high procurement rate, because compared to the cost of purchasing materials that meet federal food standards to produce on-site, it is not necessarily lower than the price of industrial production cans.

Especially in overseas military missions, compared to complex situations, letting them purchase and then produce food themselves is not as practical as uniformly distributing various cans, and these canned food companies also spent money on public relations.

If the military, the largest procurement party, stopped the procurement of canned food, many canned food factories would face bankruptcy.

Letting them continue to purchase is the most correct choice and decision.

So the military bases in Luli are still dominated by canned food. Officers can open small stoves and eat some freshly made food, but soldiers have to deal with those standardized ration supplies.

Such as "tomato soup cans," "mushroom cream soup cans," "various vegetable cans," "fruit cans," "luncheon meat cans," etc. By the way, there are also various bean cans.

Every month, maybe only a few days can they eat freshly made food. This is a kind of torment for many soldiers.

In order to "improve" the soldiers' food, some military bases will collect all the cans and boil them in a large pot, and then add some side dishes, just treating it as freshly made food.

In short, where there is a military base, there will be canned food.

Soldiers have eaten canned food to the point of physiological boredom, but for the local people in Luli, these luncheon meat cans and beef cans from the Federation are definitely "high-end goods" locally, and they are very popular.

The beef cans they recovered for twenty cents of federal Sol can be sold for more than thirty-five cents after a turn, and they are in short supply.

Many people think that as long as it is something from the Federation, it must be good. Even if it is this beef packed in iron cans, eating this beef seems to allow them to briefly become federal people.

Listening to Paipi's quotes, little Porter didn't have much feeling. He is a non-commissioned officer, and also the grandson of the president. He has privileges, even if this is in the army.

He eats the same freshly made food as the officers every day, and can also formulate his own menu, so he doesn't have much concept of these things.

Instead, his friends were a bit moved. If they took out some things they didn't want to eat and sold them, they could get a few more yuan every month.

Little Porter didn't wait for them to have any reaction and ended the topic first, "I'm not very interested in these. I'm more interested in what we can enjoy here."

"Food, fun things, and those—" He looked around, "Beautiful girls!"

Paipi didn't get the result he wanted, but he wasn't discouraged, because besides doing the business of buying and selling canned food, earning federal people's money clearly could get more!

He slapped his chest hard, "Gentlemen, you can absolutely trust me, a local. I know this city as well as I know my wife's body. No matter what you want, as long as it is here, I can provide it to you."

Little Porter wanted this sentence. He took out a one-dollar bill from his pocket and handed it to Paipi, "I like your confidence. Then first, I have to get some local specialty food. I've had enough of those cooks' meals, eating until I want to vomit!"

Others echoed. Paipi was a bit surprised. This was a dollar given away. His gaze stayed on little Porter. He realized that this was a rich man, and a generous rich man!

He immediately introduced, "If you don't mind, I can take you to find the most local specialty restaurant."

"But I have to say one thing first. These restaurants are not in those beautiful houses. The food supplied in the restaurants in those houses is all cooking methods from the Federation side. Our local restaurants cannot enter such beautiful places, and cannot afford expensive rent."

When the cooperation between the Federation and Xiang Yalan just started, some magazines interviewed some of the first federal people to come to the Xiang Yalan region to seek gold, asking them what interesting things happened after arriving in Xiang Yalan.

One of the guys talked about the problem of eating. He said he used more money than eating a meal in the Federation to eat a beautiful "federal meal" in Xiang Yalan, which almost 100% restored the federal cooking style and technique, which is the stuff on the menus of those restaurants that can be seen everywhere in the Federation.

This made him feel that he was very at a loss, because he had eaten that kind of food countless times in the Federation.

Later he found out that to taste local food, you need to go to roadside stalls, because in the Xiang Yalan region, for locals, federal food is a high-end category and needs to be eaten on formal occasions.

Little Porter clearly also knew about this matter, so he agreed immediately.

Under Paipi's leadership, they soon came to a restaurant that looked relatively lively locally. Everything looked very simple. When they walked into this restaurant, all the locals in the restaurant looked at them.

Little Porter was watched by many eyes without any timidity. He looked around, "It is indeed very bad. I hope their food can make up for the badness of their environment, otherwise, this is our first cooperation, and also the last!"

In order to firmly grasp these people, Paipi immediately cleaned up a table and then went to the back of the restaurant to explain for a while.

After about ten minutes, the dishes he called were served. Looking at the strange food, little Porter suddenly felt that it was actually no problem to go to a high-end restaurant to eat a federal meal.

The Xiang Yalan region is a place with rich materials, coupled with many problems such as local social structure. For locals, it is not just animals like pigs, cattle, and sheep that can be treated as "meat food," but also many other animals.

For example, the food that should be considered the main dish in front of them, roasted lizard tail and roasted python platter.

"You should try this. It cannot be eaten anywhere else. Its main ingredients come from the most flexible tail of the Xiang Yalan giant lizard. The meat quality is very elastic!" When Paipi introduced these things, he would add many limb movements, which made little Porter, who was not very interested, have the idea of tasting some.

He used a knife and fork to stir the black, round meat piece. There was a bone in it, and then he stirred the piece of meat next to it, "Is this forest python?"

Paipi nodded and said, "Yes, this thing is as thick as a bucket at its thickest, more than ten meters long, and the meat quality is very delicious. You will never forget it after tasting it once!"

Then he introduced other materials. There are fried snake skin here, some fried birds, etc. As for insects, they were not served. Paipi believed that federal people couldn't get used to that.

But even so, this food made little Porter and these people a bit unable to eat. Federal people seem not so picky about food, but in fact, it is not.

They don't eat animal internal organs, don't eat animal limbs. The "meat" that can be seen in the market basically only has the torso part of the animal.

Not to mention things like birds, they wouldn't appear on the federal people's menu at all. They would even treat the behavior of eating birds as something only natives would do!

Little Porter gathered his courage and tried some. It has to be said that when a person gets rid of past stereotypical prejudices and truly embraces the world, he can find its beauty!

This food was unexpectedly delicious, whether it was the lizard's tail, python meat, or those fried things, especially the fried snake skin.

These snake skins taste very good, and they poured a kind of sweet and sour sauce on the snake skin, plus a little spicy pepper, which was very refreshing and delicious.

After eating this meal, it cost less than a dollar, which made everyone have a clearer understanding of local prices.

If it were in the Federation, such a rich meal would not be reasonable if it didn't cost seven or eight yuan or even more than ten yuan!

After finishing lunch, they strolled around the local city center under Paipi's leadership. Although it looked very dilapidated and backward, it was still the most prosperous place here, and some high-rise buildings were being built.

Paipi said that these high-rise buildings were all houses built by federal people. They locals didn't have so much money to build those high-rise buildings, and every Luli person longed to work in these high-rise buildings.

In the afternoon, they experienced local specialties, a kind of massage. Locals used some vegetable oil plus spices, which made everyone completely relaxed!

Because the muscles that had been tense for long-term training were also completely pushed open, everyone seemed to have gained a new life!

In the evening, they ate some snacks. There was still some time before the military base rested. Little Porter finally couldn't help it, "Is there—a place here where you can spend money to solve it?"

He gave Paipi a look and expression of "you know what I'm talking about," and the latter understood in seconds.

In one day, he received a reward of five yuan from this Mr. Porter, which was equivalent to his income for ten days or half a month. If he could firmly hold this cash cow, he believed that the days ahead would be much better.

"If you are talking about women, of course!"

Little Porter's face was full of smiles, "I am not short of money. I like clean ones, not the kind that specifically does this business."

His father said that his brain was full of tadpoles. This sentence was not nonsense. The enjoyment during the day was just so that he could obtain the original happiness he liked more relaxedly at this moment.

But he didn't want to get involved with those cheap prostitutes. God knows how many different sticks those people had received with the so-called federal price of a few cents. Although he liked this sport very much, he didn't like that kind of old hand.

Paipi stared at little Porter for a while and said, "There is, but the price might be relatively high."

Little Porter asked, "How much?"

Paipi considered it, "If you want to find the kind that occasionally does it to subsidize the family, you need at least—more than two yuan."

"If you want an original one, you have to prepare ten yuan."

Little Porter had almost no hesitation, "A very fair price. Help me find one who is married and occasionally does this, and looks better."

Paipi originally thought that this little young master who looked like a rich family would find an original one, but he didn't expect him to stare at those little married women. Then a playful smile appeared on his face. Clearly, this was an old player.

"No problem, I need some time. You can rest in the hotel or hotel for a while. After I pick up the person, I will bring them to find you."

Little Porter shook his head, "No, I want to go with you. Although I believe you won't lie to me, I believe my eyes and ears more."

"If satisfied, I will give you five yuan."

Paipi nodded. He looked at the others, "What about you?"

Little Porter's other friends didn't care, but they also asked to be cleaner, don't get those too low-end goods, and they couldn't afford the money.

Next, they saw Paipi's way of working. He took these people to some places in the city that didn't look very wealthy and went directly to find certain people's homes, letting little Porter choose.

This was little Porter's first time choosing an ideal target in this way, and there were many families where not only the hostess was there, but also the host, and their children.

The embarrassed expression on these people's faces instead increased a certain distorted emotion in his heart. Finally, he chose a little married woman in her twenties who had been married for two years and had a child.

Her husband and children were both at home. After he confirmed, Paipi directly pulled the couple into the room to talk, talked for about ten minutes, and then the three of them came out together.

He walked to little Porter's side and said, "You can go to the hotel, or you can play here. I think you will like this—"