Zombies take me as air

Chapter 255 Market
"Agreed!" Kong Qi nodded and shook Lu Xiangbei's hand tightly.

The inside of Huadu is full of excitement, and the people here don't seem to be worried about zombies or wild beasts raiding.

The streets are full of people, and near the city walls are farm fields.

The area enclosed by the city wall is very large, enclosing the entire city.

The farmland is being cultivated, and the shops on the street are open.

They found the inn mentioned by the rider and asked the price of the hotel.

The proprietress is an older lady in her 40s, wearing a blue printed dress and a blue turban on her head.

The hotel is divided into upper and lower floors, with a total of six guest rooms, three single rooms downstairs and three double rooms upstairs.

The proprietress looked at the two of them and asked with a smile, "You just came here?"

Lu Xiangbei replied 'yes', while Kong Qi was concerned about the price.

"What currency is in circulation here? Don't you have money to exchange things?"

The proprietress smiled and told her that gold is used for transactions here, and silver is not acceptable.

However, it is also possible to exchange things, but the food must be paid for the accommodation fee, and other things are not required.

Kong Qi pretended to be embarrassed and asked her what to eat, but they might not have it.

The proprietress waved her hand and said, "Food is fine, but vegetables are not."

"How much food for one day?" Lu Xiangbei asked.

The proprietress stretched out two fingers and shook: "Two catties."

"Ah? It's so expensive?" Kong Qi was doing a full set of dramas, and her eyes almost popped out when she heard the price of two catties of grain for one night.

Her surprise wasn't all feigned, although she didn't understand the current prices, but two catties of grain would feel like a big loss in exchange for accommodation.

"We might as well sleep on the street." She then shook her head.

"That's fine, as long as you're brave enough." The proprietress had something in her words.

"What? Are you arrested? You are not allowed to sleep on the street?" Kong Qi asked.

"No one was caught, but there were other things who caught him. If someone caught him, he would be punished at most. If he was caught by something that wasn't human, he wouldn't even be able to save his life."

"Is there anything that is not human in the city?" Kong Qi sounded strange, if there are monsters that catch and eat people in the city, why is the proprietress gloating so much?
"Yes, and only come out at night, nothing during the day."

Kong Qi looked at Lu Xiangbei, and felt that this was a ghost story deliberately made up by the proprietress to deceive them.

"Two catties is two catties. Let's stay for one day." Lu Xiangbei patted Kong Qi on the back, implying that she should stay first.

Kong Qi coughed and said, "That's fine, just two catties of dry corn kernels, we don't have anything else."

She said this to Tian Niu, who ran from her new home to the space to stand by when they entered the city.

She is now the logistics team leader for Kong Qi and Lu Xiangbei, she has to watch out for such a dangerous thing as entering the city.

No, there is a task soon.

Kong Qi and Lu Xiangbei each carried a hiking bag, but there was no food in it.

Lu Xiangbei faced the proprietress, and turned his back to Kong Qi. Kong Qi pretended to go to his backpack for food, and reached in here, and the sweet girl in the space handed out the food bag.

The two of them handed over the 'things' under the cover of the backpack, and it looked like things were taken out of the backpack.

They had no way of knowing how much each other wanted in advance, so the grain bags contained five catties of corn kernels.

Kong Qi carried a small scale with her, which was used for buying vegetables in the morning market and night market before the disaster. Now she weighed out two catties and handed it to the proprietress, and put the remaining three catties of grain back into Lu Xiangbei's backpack.

It is not surprising that people who walk in the last days carry some food on their bodies.

If there are too many, it is dangerous.

Lu Xiangbei asked to live on the first floor. The first floor is full of single rooms. Kong Qi knew that for safety reasons, if someone wanted to harm them, they could live on the first floor so that they could jump out of the window and escape.

The two of them live in Room [-] and Room [-] respectively, and the two rooms are adjacent to each other.

After entering the house, the first thing they do is check the room.

There is electricity in this place, and if there is electricity, there may be monitoring equipment.

After the inspection, they rested in the room for a while, and Kong Qi could see the market outside through the window.

The window of Lu Xiangbei's room faced the backyard, where various vegetables were grown.

Kong Qi left the room, knocked on Lu Xiangbei's room, and invited him to go shopping in the street together.

The horseman said that there were seeds for sale in the market, and Kong Qi was in the room, secretly putting a few more catties of grain into her backpack.

The two went out to go shopping, and the bicycles were parked in the hotel yard.

The proprietress said that as long as the things are placed in the yard, she will be responsible for watching them. If they are left outside the yard, she will not be responsible for losing them.

There is no need to ride a bicycle to go shopping, so they leave the car in the hotel and let the proprietress watch.

Judging from what the proprietress meant, if it wasn't for scaring them on purpose, it meant that the security in the city was not very good.

So Kong Qi carried the backpack in front of her body, and she was afraid that someone would steal the contents of the bag.

Lu Xiangbei simply put his backpack in the hotel and didn't carry it out.

He put a pin/hole/camera in his backpack, it's best if no one steals his things, if someone steals, the machine will take a picture.

The hotel was only two streets away from the market. It was afternoon, the sun was shining brightly, and all the people in the city came out for activities with confidence.

There are everything sold in the market, as well as cattle, sheep and livestock.

Kong Qi asked the owner of the mutton stall where there was a place to sell seeds, and the owner pointed to a shop called 'Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers' and told her that was it.

Kong Qi thought she didn't make it clear that she wanted to buy vegetable seeds, not flower seeds, but thinking about it, the owner who sold flower seeds might know where to sell vegetable seeds, so she dragged Lu Lu to the north.

The shops on the market street were one by one, and none of them closed down. They looked the same as before the disaster.

They walked into the 'Valley of Thousand Flowers', but there were no flowers in it, and it turned out to be a grain and oil store.

The boss is a young girl, wearing a long snow-white dress, two braids are black and long, hanging down to her waist.

There is a small silver bell tied into the tail of the braid, and the boss also wears two thin silver bracelets on his wrist.

"Uh, boss, do you sell seeds? Fruit trees, vegetables, grains, any seeds are fine, as long as they are edible." Kong Qi had never seen such a fresh and beautiful grain and oil store owner, and her words were a bit unnatural.

This girl was so fairy-like, she was so ungrounded, Kong Qi unconsciously lowered her voice when talking to her.

"I only have flower seeds here." The girl smiled slightly, pointed to the shelf on the wall, and said, "There are some kinds that can be eaten, such as roses."

"Ah... how do you sell it?" Kong Qi was a little embarrassed. She didn't really want to buy flower seeds, but looking at this beautiful girl, she felt that it was not good to buy nothing.

"We don't buy it." Lu Xiangbei pulled Kong Qi up, turned and walked out of the store.

"You're really embarrassing." Kong Qi looked at Lu Xiangbei with admiration.

"I think that woman is very strange." Lu Xiangbei dragged Kong Qi away quickly, and the two quickly drowned in the shopping crowd.

"What's wrong? Is there a feeling of being otherworldly?"

"I just think she's dangerous."

(End of this chapter)