Chapter 26: Exchange

The lords were all very interested in this question and reported the grain seeds and vegetable seeds they had received.

Then they discovered that the six pounds of grain seeds everyone received were the same: wheat, mung beans, cotton, and potatoes. The vegetable seeds were all four small packets; what they had in common were pumpkin, cucumber, and eggplant, and the last one wasn't entirely the same.

Plot 2 and Plot 6, like Xia Qing, were tomatoes; Plot 4 and Plot 5 were green beans; Plot 7 was chili.

Xia Qing wanted both green beans and chili, so she also pressed the walkie-talkie button and spoke. "Plot 3 Xia Qing, I have tomato seeds, but they have already been sown. I want to exchange for green beans and chili after they sprout, one seedling for one seedling."

"Damn!" Kuang Qingwei suddenly heard a woman's voice and was so shocked he cursed, then hurriedly apologized. "Sister, I'm sorry, my mouth slipped. When I was receiving the territory at the mission hall, I was behind Zhao Ze. Do you remember me? Because I was fourth in line, I missed the double ration by one number."

Xia Qing...

"Don't remember."

Because Xia Qing received double rations, which caused him to be scolded by Tang's eldest lady as a punching bag, Tang Huai spoke first. "I think Xia Qing's proposal is very good; exchanging seeds is not as good as exchanging normal seedlings."

Qi Fu of Plot 5 expressed his stance. "Agree."

Zhao Ze of Plot 4 followed. "Agree."

Kuang Qingwei of Plot 6 immediately followed. "Agree, this is fairer."

Zhang San of Plot 7 followed slowly. "Agree. If my people can't grow a single seedling, I'll buy it with points, or exchange it with medicine."

Tang Huai immediately asked, "What medicine does Brother Zhang have?"

Zhang San replied slowly, "Trauma medicine, antidote, all kinds of quality."

Tang Huai immediately agreed. "Good, I'll exchange. How to calculate?"

After ordering the exchange at 100 points per seedling regardless of the type, Xia Qing asked, "Does anyone have edible plants in their territory? Can they be exchanged? I have evolved perilla, no radioactive elements, harmful element content 1.3 per thousand."

After Xia Qing's words were sent out, Zhang San, who was just slow and lazy, was immediately injected with chicken blood. "I'll exchange! I want it! I'll use medicine to exchange, you set the price. Is 7:30 tomorrow morning okay? Location under the road sign of Plot 3?"

Harmful element content below 5 per thousand is safe food, and the lower the content, the more beneficial it is to the body. Who could refuse content of 1.3?

Kuang Qingwei immediately followed. "Sister Xia Qing, I have a green-light elm tree. When elm coins grow in a few days, how about exchanging three pounds of elm coins for one pound of perilla?"

Only mentioning green light without mentioning harmful element content means it was tested with a primary detector; it could be safe food or optional food. Three pounds for one pound was very reasonable.

Qi Fu also spoke. "Little Xia, I'm Old Qi from the Third Construction Team. I have green-light chive seedlings, ten chive seedlings for ten perilla seedlings with roots, how about it?"

Tang Huai also followed. "Termite mushrooms, harmful element content 2 per thousand, one pound of mushrooms for one pound of perilla."

Before Xia Qing could speak, Zhang San spoke again. "I want all of yours, points or medicine, you choose!!!"

Zhao Ze also followed. "I want to exchange for chive seedlings and perilla seedlings, using green-light Jerusalem artichokes that have sprouted."

The channel was as noisy as a quarrel. Kuang Qingwei spoke to preside over the overall situation. "Let's come one by one. Xia Qing, say which one you want to exchange for, and how to exchange?"

Xia Qing spoke. "I'll exchange for everything except mushrooms, but I don't accept face-to-face exchange. It can be transferred by the investigation team. After ordering the exchange quantity the night before, hand it over when the investigation team passes by the territory for the first time the next morning."

Tan Junjie's team is responsible for the safety of Plots 1 to 10, patrolling a round trip every morning and evening. Asking them to bring goods is convenient and safe.

High-quality safe food termite mushrooms were actually rejected. Tang Huai immediately changed his words. "Three taels of mutton with harmful element content of 8 per thousand, exchange for one pound of perilla."

Three taels of mutton want to exchange for one pound of her perilla? Sure enough, it's the Tang family's style.

Optional food meat with harmful element content of 8 per thousand has a safe zone price of 50 points per pound.

Safe vegetables also start at 50 points per pound, but her perilla has a harmful content of less than 2 per thousand, and the price starts at 100 points per pound.

Xia Qing groomed the sheep and refused flatly. "Don't eat mutton, are there any others?"

Tang Huai frowned and looked at his team members. Seeing them scratching their heads one by one, he gritted his teeth and pressed the walkie-talkie button again. "A brand-new level-one field protective suit, safe zone price 1,500, exchange for 15 pounds of perilla."

This was about right. Xia Qing pressed the button. "12 pounds, hand over one pound at a time, at most once a week, it won't grow if there's too much. You give the protective suit first."

The protective suit must have been brought by Tang Huai from the Tang family and wasn't his private property. Exchanging a set for vegetables, he could just report a loss of a set later, so Xia Qing predicted he wouldn't object.

The reason for producing one pound of perilla at a time was that Xia Qing wanted them to think there wasn't much perilla in her territory, so they wouldn't covet it.

Tang Huai agreed. "Deal. I'll hand the protective suit to the investigation team tomorrow morning, you give me one pound tomorrow, and we'll talk later."

After Tang Huai finished speaking, Zhang San immediately followed. "I want both meat and termite mushrooms, exchange with medicine."

Zhang San and the sheep boss were like brothers, equally greedy. After Xia Qing agreed on the time and quantity with them, she turned off the walkie-talkie and lay on the table, writing down what she could exchange for: a set of protective suits, an antidote, chives, Jerusalem artichokes, and elm coins, green bean seedlings, and chili seedlings that would be available in a while.

Every time she wrote one, Xia Qing's smile increased a bit. After writing, she laughed like a fool; her vegetables suddenly increased by five types.

Xia Qing didn't propose to exchange with Chinese toon buds because the harmful element content of Chinese toon buds was terrifyingly low. If it were taken to the safe zone, it would definitely cause a sensation, and at that time, the spring in Plot 3 wouldn't be hidden.

After exposure, with her current strength, she couldn't protect the Chinese toon trees, the spring, and the sheep boss.

The spring was fine, but the Chinese toon trees grew on the hillside, and she had already mentioned it to Tan Junjie, so it couldn't be hidden. If Tan Junjie wanted to exchange, he could, but he had to keep it secret for her.

There was one more person who could. That was the person who sent her a text message telling her about the territory, but that had to be after confirming the person's identity and purpose.

Early the next morning, Xia Qing dug fifteen perilla plants with roots and cut one pound of the big ones that the sheep boss hadn't bitten. Five perilla plants were exchanged for a sprouted Jerusalem artichoke from Plot 4, ten plants were exchanged for ten chive seedlings from Plot 5, half a pound was exchanged for an antidote, and half a pound was exchanged for a protective suit.

From the exchange method, it could be seen that Plot 4 and Plot 5, like her, were down-to-earth farmers, exchanging seedlings for seedlings; the people in Plot 6, although slippery, also had the heart to take root here; Plot 2 and Plot 7 were rich households and didn't lack supplies.

Plot 2 was the Tang family's, what was the background of Zhang San in Plot 7?

Hearing the footsteps of the investigation team from afar, Xia Qing greeted the sheep boss and carried the perilla toward the new isolation zone on the north side.

"Sister Qing!" From a long distance, Su Ming waved and greeted Xia Qing enthusiastically.

Just as Xia Qing waved, the sheep boss rushed out and stood in front of her, assuming a posture of one man guarding the pass, ten thousand men unable to open.

Xia Qing smiled and rubbed its head, whispering soul-bewitching soup. "Sheep boss is the best, hearing movement, you came out to protect me without even eating, I'm so moved, sheep boss is too good!"

"Old Cao, what is Sister Qing whispering to the sheep?" Xia Qing heard Su Ming ask Cao Xianyun in a low voice.

"Can't hear clearly." Cao Xianyun replied in a low voice.

"Quiet." Tan Junjie lowered his voice. "Less nonsense."

Xia Qing, who was lowering her head, raised her eyebrows, confirming that Cao Xianyun's hearing evolution degree wasn't as high as hers. This also matched Xia Qing's estimate—her hearing evolution was no lower than level four. ===== CHAPTER 27 =====