Carrying My Sugar Daddy Through the Apocalypse – CH77

Chapter 77: I Want to Buy, Buy, Buy

Li Zhuang took the map from his hand, glanced at it, and looked around. “Go for a trip?”

“Okay,” Antonio replied.

“Mmm,” Gu Qingji nodded.

Xiong Jie had no objections either.

Lin Yimu and Ning Yuan naturally had nothing to say. With the main force having no objections, everyone finally looked at Lu Weiyi.

“Me? I’m not going,” Lu Weiyi answered crisply. He had already found Zhuang Mingxu, why should he work hard? Stretching luxuriously, Lu Weiyi called to his little buddy Dean on the side, “Let’s go, let’s go browse the trading area.”

In his previous life, he and Dean had opened a trading center and spent their days treasure hunting in the trading area.

“Okay!” Dean responded enthusiastically. After quickly running over from Antonio’s side, he remembered to ask his beloved if he wanted to go. “Davis?”

Antonio and the others hadn’t recovered from Lu Weiyi’s refusal. Hearing this, he smiled and said, “You guys go ahead and have fun. Remember to bring your guns.”

Lu Weiyi also remembered Zhuang Mingxu at this time. It wasn’t that he was ignoring him, it was just that he had no time for shopping in his previous life. “Are you going?”

“No, Little Yi, take Ai Yi with you and let Ning Yuan follow,” Zhuang Mingxu could see that these people probably wanted Lu Weiyi to go with them, but he hadn’t understood the reason yet. After all, since waking up, he and Lu Weiyi hadn’t had time to communicate much, and the information he got from Lin Yimu was limited.

“Hey, wait,” Li Zhuang interjected, stopping Lu Weiyi, and asked again, “You’re not going?”

“Not going. I’m not short of food,” Lu Weiyi said inexplicably.

“What about when you run out?” Li Zhuang asked.

“When I run out, I have…” Lu Weiyi’s gaze shifted to Zhuang Mingxu and he didn’t continue.

Zhuang Mingxu also understood his unspoken meaning. While feeling happy, he also felt self-reproach, worried whether he in this state could still support him in the future. However, he wouldn’t show his thoughts on his face, instead comforting him, “We have a lot of supplies stored at home, enough for you to eat for a very, very long time.”

“Mmm,” Lu Weiyi responded. At this time, he also realized that everyone probably wanted him to go to use his space to store things. He looked at the others. “My space is full. Last time I stored weapons, I had to throw some things out to fit them in. I’ll study how to upgrade it tonight and then decide whether to go tomorrow.”

“Okay, we’ll wait for your news,” Li Zhuang didn’t think he would lie. There was no need. If he openly said he wasn’t going, no one would force him, after all, his strength was obvious. “I’ll also go take a look at the trading area. Should we all go take a look around?” he asked the others.

“Then I’ll go too. I haven’t seen what the trading area looks like yet,” Gu Qingyue glanced at the time. There was still a while before Zhuang Mingxu’s next infusion, enough time for a trip out. “Qingji, let’s go together.”

“Okay,” Gu Qingji immediately got up and stood next to Gu Qingyue.

“Then you go too,” Lu Weiyi turned back and pushed Zhuang Mingxu’s wheelchair. “See if there’s anything you need.”

“…Okay,” Zhuang Mingxu didn’t want to join in the fun. After all, he had difficulty walking now, and going out would only trouble others.

But he had never received care from Lu Weiyi before. This kind of experience was a bit novel, and even more so, it was filled with the joy of being cared for. It made him feel that his past efforts had been seen by Lu Weiyi, rather than being something indifferent and unrelated.

“Xi Shi and I will wait for you to come back before we go. We should leave someone at home,” Xiong Jie said, putting his arm around Xi Shi.

“Then Ning Yuan and I will go with Brother Xiong and them later.” Everyone else had gone out, and it wouldn’t be safe to leave only Xiong Jie and Xi Shi. Lin Yimu took the initiative to say.

“Okay,” Ning Yuan also thought of this and nodded.

The Yongping City base already had the model of an initial safe base. The formulation and strict implementation of some systems made the entire safe zone look relatively peaceful. Although it couldn’t be compared to before the apocalypse, after experiencing a night of hell and fear, mere safety was enough to satisfy people. Everyone was quickly adapting to the new social system, and at a glance, things seemed orderly.

“Brother Mingxu, is the Qingyuan City base also like this?” Gu Qingyue still had expectations for the place they would live in the future.

“When I left, the army had already assisted Qingyuan City as quickly as possible. Taking the Dragon Gate Villa District as the center, they merged the surrounding residential areas within a 10-kilometer radius to establish a safe base. Inside, they only registered homeowners and residents, and hadn’t yet accepted people from outside. I’ve been gone for so long, they should have established the necessary systems by now. The army’s execution is always surprisingly fast.” When Zhuang Mingxu left, he thought he would return soon, but who knew their group would end up with two cripples.

“I wonder how much food we need to pay to live inside, and if the housing is expensive. There’s no military garrison here, and entering the gate costs twenty catties of grain. I can’t even imagine how much we’ll have to pay to get in over there,” Gu Qingyue thought with some worry.

“It’ll be alright, there will be a way,” Gu Qingji comforted him, holding his hand.

Two grown young men, this kind of behavior looked too intimate, but in this turbulent world, no one cared at all, and the two involved didn’t seem to notice either.

“Don’t worry about housing. I have four villas in the Dragon Gate Villa District. The three floors are basically all a thousand square meters, enough to live in,” Before coming, Zhuang Mingxu had already communicated with the army and exchanged grain for four adjacent villas. Now it seemed they could be used to win people over. With these people together, plus the help of Lin Yimu, Ning Yuan, and Wu Yue, Lu Weiyi’s future life definitely wouldn’t be too troublesome.

“That’s great, we don’t even have to think about a place to live,” Li Zhuang continued, looking at Lu Weiyi. “Kid, we’ll be relying on you in the future.”

“Sure, pay up,” Since meeting Zhuang Mingxu, Lu Weiyi had visibly become more lively, regaining the vitality of someone in their early twenties.

“How much do you want? I’ll rob a bank for you another day,” Li Zhuang squinted and smiled at him, not his usual mask-like half-smile.

“A villa in Dragon Gate costs over a hundred million, how many banks are you going to rob?”

“You say how many you want, and I’ll even bring you back some gold bars.”

“Can you carry them back?”

“Hmm… if I can’t carry them, I can carry them on my back.” … The pointless conversation was like that of elementary school kids, but the group listened quietly and smiled, as if this was already very good.

The base’s trading market was far from the residential area. Zhuang Mingxu’s wheelchair didn’t have shock absorption, and it would bump whenever it went over uneven ground, requiring them to detour from time to time. The group strolled along slowly, chatting. This slow-paced life, which would have been considered a waste of time before, now felt incredibly wonderful.

More than half an hour later, the group arrived at the base’s trading market. Calling it a trading market was actually more like a street market with stalls. Both sides of a row of roads were full of various things for sale. Every so often, there was a guard in a police uniform, with a real gun obviously holstered at his waist. So overall, the order here was maintained quite well.

As soon as they entered, there were people selling bedsheets and quilts, obviously collected from scavenging. Some were new and some were old. Lu Weiyi remembered the heavy snow that would come soon and went up to ask the price. As a result, two sets could be bought for a pack of instant noodles, and they were brand new.

“How much are you selling this for?” Lu Weiyi then asked the next stall selling mink coats. The entire stall was filled with mink coats for people of all ages. The brand new ones looked quite good in quality.

“One pack of instant noodles… four sets,” the stall owner glanced at the owner next door and quoted an even cheaper price.

“Little friend, it’s so hot, you won’t need these even if you buy them back,” Li Zhuang asked with a smile.

“We’ll definitely need them in winter,” Lu Weiyi replied.

“That’s right, that’s right, the boss is really farsighted. This kind of thing has to be stored in advance to prevent not having it when you need it. My minks are all top-quality, they used to cost tens of thousands each. Feel it, the quality is definitely top-notch,” the mink coat seller praised enthusiastically.

The quilt seller next door was unconvinced. “Boss, look at my quilt. It’s made of pure cotton, very warm in winter. Believe me, these are all genuine cotton,” he said, directly pulling open a corner of the quilt to show the cotton wadding inside.

Lu Weiyi nodded, and Gu Qingyue knew he wanted to buy them. He quickly spoke first. “But they’re all too expensive. You also know we don’t need them now. When winter comes, we can still collect them in advance, we’ll definitely be able to collect some. We’re just running into them now. If the price is right, we don’t mind buying a few.”

“Then… what price are you thinking?” In the middle of summer, these two people’s goods obviously wouldn’t sell well. Hearing that there was interest in buying, they naturally wanted to cooperate, probably thinking in their hearts what kind of fool they had encountered.

“Fifty sets for a bottle of mineral water,” Lu Weiyi spoke first while Gu Qingyue was still thinking about the price.

“This…” The two stall owners looked at each other. Although these things weren’t worth much, it took a lot of effort to bring them back. Fifty sets was a bit too cheap.

“Then forget it,” Lu Weiyi prepared to leave without even waiting for them to haggle.

“Don’t go, boss, let’s talk some more.”

“You know how scarce water is now. Besides, we’re just buying these for convenience, it’s not a necessity. It’s obvious that you’re getting the better deal here. You two are a bit ungrateful,” Gu Qingyue said with a very amiable smile, but his bargaining was not at all ambiguous.

“Okay,” the mink coat seller compromised first, then glanced at Zhuang Ai Yi, who was following them, and added, “I also have about seventy or eighty sets for children there. Would the boss like them?”

“Children’s sizes use less material, one hundred sets for one bottle,” Lu Weiyi forgot about Zhuang Ai Yi’s existence again, but that didn’t stop him from bargaining.

“…Okay,” Lu Weiyi felt that word were squeezed out from between the boss’s teeth, but what did it matter? He was very happy. He turned to look at the quilt seller. “Selling?”

“…Selling,” the boss also gritted his teeth, “but I don’t have fifty sets, only twenty sets in total. How about making up the rest with bedsheets, quilt covers, and silk quilts?”

“Then twenty sets of cotton quilts, forty sets of bedsheets and quilt covers, and twenty sets of silk quilts,” Lu Weiyi’s mind was very quick when bargaining.

“…” The boss was silent.

Lu Weiyi immediately made a move to leave, and the boss finally squeezed out a sentence, “…Okay.”

He hadn’t experienced such days in his previous life, but he clearly remembered that before the first heavy snow, water-based ability users couldn’t produce much water, and the price of a bottle of water had skyrocketed. Zhuang Mingxu had a record of drinking one bottle of water for a week, but he still tried his best every day to spare a little for Lu Weiyi to wipe his face. Even today, thinking about those things made Lu Weiyi feel heartbroken.

Those hard days that Zhuang Mingxu had endured, he had only been a bystander, yet Zhuang Mingxu still felt he had been wronged.