Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse

Chapter 388: Chapter 388: Making Money by Selling Food

Seeing Lu Hao nod at her, Su Jin said to Xing Taian, “My price is 20 Crystal Cores, for one jin of rice or flour.”

What?

Xing Taian was stunned on the spot. Had he heard wrong?

20 Crystal Cores could be exchanged for one jin of grain?

And it’s rice or flour, not unprocessed rice or wheat?

“Miss, are you serious?”

Yan Gang was also taken aback. If they really could make the purchase, they wouldn’t have to risk their lives going to those swindling bases, and fewer of their teammates might die.

“It’s true, you can start counting the Crystal Cores.”

Su Jin said with a smile, exchanging the food in their storage space for Crystal Cores was her ultimate goal, and she couldn’t believe such a good thing was happened to them.

Xing Taian also came to his senses and shouted to Yan Gang, “Hurry, hurry, call the brothers to start counting the Crystal Cores.”

“Excuse me, how much grain do you have available to sell to us?” Xing Taian asked.

“You should be able to exchange as much grain as you have Crystal Cores.”

Su Jin used the word “should,” fearing that being too definite would scare the other party.

However, Xing Taian was clearly still shocked; he thought it would be impressive if they could purchase a few dozen jin of grain.

“You…”

He wanted to ask how they came to possess so much grain.

“We used to run a grain and oil market before the Apocalypse, and we collected some more along the way afterward,”

Lu Hao lied without a moment’s hesitation.

“I see, a grain and oil market is great!”

Xing Taian didn’t ask further. A grain and oil market was a big place; with additional grain storage, it made sense they had lots of grain.

Yan Gang quickly returned with more than a dozen teammates.

Although there were some villagers in the other parts of the village who would go out to kill Zombies during the day, Yan Gang had been instructed by Xing Taian to keep this matter quiet, so he only summoned the comrades from the yard.

“Captain!”

A dozen young men, thin to the point of emaciation, entered. They were astonished to see several boxes of Crystal Cores on the ground. What was the captain planning to do?

“Alright, everyone’s here, let’s start counting the Crystal Cores,”

Xing Taian said while counting.

The men looked at each other in confusion.

Why count the Crystal Cores now? And who were this man and woman?

Yan Gang repeated what they had discussed earlier, and the dozen or so people all looked at the man and woman with surprise.

They could buy grain?

Could these two be swindlers?

Or perhaps they were selling at a very high price?

But it would be understandable if Yan Gang had been deceived, surely the captain wouldn’t be foolish enough to be tricked, right?

With that thought, the dozen or so people began counting with reassured hearts.

Soon, the entire room echoed with the sound of counting, “1, 2, 3, 4…”

To save time, Su Jin and Lu Hao also began counting.

Finally, after tallying up everyone’s count, the entire room was in shock—they had over 34,000 Crystal Cores?!

When had they managed to accumulate so many Crystal Cores?!

“It’s not surprising. The younger people in the village had found Ordinary Crystal Cores before, and they all donated them to us without compensation. Add to that the ones we get daily and the last Zombie Tide, it adds up,”

Xing Taian thought for a moment and then said, after which he looked eagerly at Su Jin and Lu Hao.

34,000 Crystal Cores meant 1,500 jin of grain. Would they be willing to sell that much?

Su Jin tried to hide the excitement in her heart. Never mind 1,500 jin, she had 15,000 jin!

“Do you guys have enough food? If not, we can buy less,”

Xing Taian said.

“Cough cough, we have just about enough. We even have some spare chicken eggs, do you want some?”

Su Jin still coveted those 4,000-plus Crystal Cores. The chicken eggs in her space had started to fill up the second storage room, the first one was already full…

“Chicken eggs? There are still chicken eggs these days? How much are you selling them for?!”

Xing Taian asked excitedly.

“Five Crystal Cores per egg,”

Su Jin said; the eggs from the chickens and ducks in her space were definitely nutritious.

The room full of young men swallowed hard, finding Su Jin’s words increasingly outrageous. Five Crystal Cores for an egg?

How come they were finding it harder and harder to believe?

“Buy, buy, buy, whoever has spare Crystal Cores, bring them all to buy together. Once this chance is missed, there won’t be such an opportunity again,” Xing Taian said.

Seeing no one move, Su Jin smiled, took out several baskets of chicken eggs from her space, and placed them before everyone.

“This is! These are real chicken eggs!”

“C-Captain, am I dreaming?”

…

“These eggs were also from a farm we came across when we passed by a village last time. They will slowly deteriorate in the space too, so it’s better to sell them to you at a low price,”

Lu Hao explained.

“You guys are so lucky!”

Xing Taian’s eyes shone brightly as he looked at the two of them. Could this be the legendary koi luck?

“Not really, we’ve just been to more places,”

Lu Hao said with a smile.

Su Jin then started to take out food from her space.

The room full of people watched as bags of rice and flour appeared from the girl’s hands, too excited to even speak.

At this moment, Su Jin was like an angelic figure in their eyes.

Recalling how many streets filled with zombies they had to cross to trade for food at the base and the toll fees they had to pay each time, everyone suddenly felt a pang of regret for those Crystal Cores.

Suddenly, someone realized something and hurriedly ran out and then back in, but when he returned, he took out a bunch of Crystal Cores from his pocket and put them on the table.

They wanted to exchange all their Crystal Cores for food!

This way, they would no longer have to be fleeced by those people!

Lu Hao watched these excited young men and wanted to laugh, but also felt a bit of heartache at the same time.

No matter how much hardship they had gone through, they still maintained a passionate and positive spirit. This quality was truly precious.

While Xing Taian was busy counting the food, Su Jin took the opportunity to collect the Crystal Cores scattered on the floor into her storage bag.

Feeling the joy of her wallet getting fuller, Su Jin happily took out some braised meat and eggs, as well as some variously packaged space foods and set them on the table.

“This is for you guys. This meat is from mutant animals we processed just a few days ago,” Su Jin said.

In fact, there was no mutant animal meat left in their space; this meat was all from animals within the space. She said it was from mutant animals to avoid suspicion.

“No, you’ve already sold everything so cheaply, we can’t take any more from you,”

Xing Taian refused without hesitation.

“Keep it. Consider it a treat from us to you guys. You’ve done what we couldn’t do, it’s not been easy!” Lu Hao said sincerely.

…

A few young men started to purse their lips and cry upon hearing this. They had done so much, sacrificed so many comrades, and never thought that one day they would be thanked by someone.

But when someone truly appreciated what they had done, all that was left was the urge to cry.

Xing Taian didn’t say much, just clenched his fist and performed a set of moves with Lu Hao, the same ones often done in the military among brothers.

When the two men exchanged punches and then clasped hands tightly together, they both smiled.