Chapter 12. Exchange of sanitary products
"Captain Zhou."

The two saluted Zhou Qian, then laughed and said, "What do you want me to do?"

Zhou Qian thought for a moment and pointed at Huaiyu who was not far away: "Ask her what she wants to exchange for? What do she want to exchange for? As long as it's not excessive, anything under 200 points will do."

The two were speechless.

What does "not excessive" mean? There must be a limit.

But since Zhou Qian had given the order, one of them walked towards Huaiyu and said, "Little girl, what do you want to change?"

Huaiyu loosened the hem of her clothes: "Mung beans. What can I exchange for it?"

After all, she is a girl, and her mind is more delicate than that of Zhou Qian, a big man. The other party looked her over and whispered: "Toiletries, glycerin, elastic ropes, clothes... can all be changed."

"Wow……"

Huaiyu opened her mouth slightly, her eyes shining, because she needed everything the other person said so much.

But...with just two handfuls of mung beans, I can only pick a part of them, right?
She was struggling, not knowing how to choose, so she could only look at the person in front of her pitifully: "Sister, how much can I get for mung beans? Can you give me some advice?"

At this moment, another female officer came over and said, "Hello, can you let me test the mung beans first? If the quality is high enough, the above ones can basically be exchanged for one."

Huaiyu was very surprised!
I don't know the quality of the mung beans, but they look so plump, so they shouldn't be too bad, right?
The other party took out something similar to a thermometer and gently scanned the mung beans in his pocket:
"Di-"

The instrument emitted a long beep, and the number "9" appeared on the light green screen.

Zhou Qian also saw it and was a little disappointed at the moment - it was not a "3" like the pine nut last time.

But on second thought, "9" is also quite good, belonging to the quality of high-quality grain. So he nodded to the female officer, who put away the tester and said with a smile:

"One meter long elastic rope, two soft and hard bristle toothbrushes, and a 400g tube of toothpaste."

"Two towels and a set of one-size-fits-all underwear."

"You can redeem all of these at once. You can also replace the items with something else. You can tell me what you need first."

Another person smiled and explained: "The mung beans in your hand are about half a pound, of excellent quality, and the market transaction contribution points are about 20-30."

"After all, as you know, the top demand nowadays is high-yield crops, and mung beans are not included. So despite the excellent quality, the price will be discounted."

Huaiyu did not reply immediately, but pondered: "So yesterday I exchanged pine cones for waterproof tarpaulin, and the captain paid part of it for me, right?"

"No." Zhou Qian quickly replied: "The pine nuts you sent are of very good quality, a higher grade than excellent. But because the yield is not high and the planting cycle is over 20 years, the official contribution score is 50."

It takes about fifteen to twenty years for Chinese pine to start bearing fruit. If it is planted directly from seeds, it is indeed too slow.

But despite saying so, Huaiyu thought to herself: when she handed over the seeds, Captain Zhou gave her the tarpaulin without checking it.

So, he actually paid part of the difference at the beginning.

Therefore, she did not ask how many points the officer sister had asked for. Instead, she lowered her voice and said:
"If I only need a towel, can I exchange the other one for a pack of sanitary napkins?"

The female officer was stunned for a moment, then patted her on the shoulder and said, "I forgot that although you look skinny, you are actually a grown-up girl. How about this, I will personally pay for two packs of sanitary napkins and two rolls of toilet paper for you. Your towel can be exchanged for a bottle of thirty small water purification tablets."

"Do you know how to use water purification tablets? This is a home-use type, one tablet can purify three liters of water."

Huaiyu's eyes widened! She hadn't drunk any water in the past few days and didn't realize there was such a thing.

But the problem is...she doesn't even have a container to hold water.

So he raised his head shyly, his eyes sincere: "Then... do we have any unwanted buckets or bottles or something like that?"

"Or where is the garbage dump in our city? I can go there to pick it up."

After hearing this, the female officer had no idea that—

Is life really so difficult? What have you been doing in the six years since the disaster?

She didn't know Huaiyu's zero contribution, but Huaiyu knew it herself. However, she didn't feel ashamed. After all, she had to build a house by herself. Being poor and destitute was clearly an oppression of the world.

It's amazing that she is still self-reliant now.

But now urban life has just barely gotten back on track. After the disaster, many things are only distributed by the government, and the resources of these daily necessities are actually quite tight.

The two female officers discussed with Zhou Qian for a while, and finally one of them returned to the base, carrying a large red plastic bucket in one hand and an empty mineral water bottle in the other:
"Give!"

"Check it out. Everything is in there. These two barrels are our help to you. If you have good seeds in the future, you can continue to bring them in exchange."

Huaiyu accepted it with gratitude.

Although the world is not kind to her, everyone she meets is very nice to her. She is very satisfied!
She thought for a moment, then took out the handful of wheat from her pocket: "Thank you, sisters, thank you, captain brother, thank you, logistics uncle."

"This is the wheat I got. I'll give it to you."

Zhou Qian didn't want to accept her things, but the wheat in front of him was really only a small handful, pitifully small in quantity.

Looking at the serious look on the girl's face, he paused, but finally reached out and took it.

After thinking about it, he couldn't help but be curious: "You picked up the pine cones next to the roses, but this wheat... there can't be wheat ears there, right?"

Even if there is, the winter wheat is not yet mature and last year's spring wheat has passed the winter. How can we still pick it up?
"No."

Perhaps because daily necessities suddenly became much more abundant, Huaiyu smiled with great satisfaction and obedience:

"I dug a vole hole and there were a lot of them in there."

Everyone:...

If we didn't know that the government had distributed nutrient solution and beans to supplement protein to you, everyone would really want to raise funds to buy you some food.

They are so hungry that they have to dig vole holes. Isn't that too hard?
It has been six years since the disaster, and their normal lives have been forced to come to a halt. Life resources are somewhat scarce... but with the government to back them up, I've never heard of them being so scarce.

When I looked at her again for a while, I had vaguely put aside the impression of zero contribution points and began to feel pity for her.

Zhou Qian paused, and then added: "If you work harder to save more things, I will apply for a field kettle for you next time you come."

As for how much he had accumulated, he didn't say. Anyway, as long as the other party came, he would just pay for it.

　Coming!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)