Plane Supermarket

Chapter 186

Because of Zhao Lei's episode, the banquet did not go on smoothly, but Ye Zhou also became more aware of the power structure in the base.

Although Zhao Qing and Zhao Lei both have the surname Zhao, they are not related by blood. Zhao Lei was the first group of people to follow Zhao Qing. In order to show his loyalty, he changed his surname to follow Zhao Qing.

At the earliest time, it is estimated that Zhao Qing did not have the current status, so the two have been sharing hardships. Under the pressure of external crises, they had to hold each other tightly.

But after Zhao Qing successfully became the top leader of the base, the contradiction between the two began to be exposed.

Zhao Qing firmly controls the dominance of the base, even if he still needs to bow his head in the face of various forces, Ye Zhou doesn't think he is completely weak, and he can give face, but those forces have long been "supported by Zhao Qing" for many years. "Under checks and balances.

As long as the forces of several parties are still there and no one dominates, Zhao Qing can sit safely in that seat.

And Zhao Qing will never let any one take the lead.

Zhao Lei has no chance of winning, at least the current Ye Zhou can see that none of the powers needs Zhao Lei, a person who gained power through violence like them, to become the new boss, and if Zhao Lei has enough force, he can directly Overthrow Zhao Qing, then he won't leave just now.

But Zhao Qing didn't want to attack Zhao Lei himself.

After all, on the surface, Zhao Lei is still his loyal supporter. The first batch of people who followed him, he would definitely kill the donkey. idea.

And other forces probably don't want to touch Zhao Lei either.

After all, with Zhao Lei here, Zhao Qing has a closer relationship with them, so they have to give up more benefits.

It is estimated that this problem has troubled Zhao Qing for a long time, so even if he knows that his actions are obvious, as long as Ye Zhou can "take the trick", no matter whether it is active or passive, whether he can see his thoughts, it will be a success.

Zhao Qing urgently needs a "third-party force" to break the base's inherent power structure and ecological model.

Ye Zhou, a rookie with someone in his hands and supplies, naturally became the most suitable candidate in his eyes.

It's best if it can be done, and it won't cause any loss to him if it can't be done.

After all, Zhao Lei's subordinates are also his, and he doesn't want to weaken his own strength. The best way is to let Zhao Lei die alone, and then safely bring those people back into his sphere of influence.

So Ye Zhou didn't think that what Zhao Qing did was obvious, no matter how obvious it was, as long as it could achieve the goal, it was a good way.

At least after the banquet, Zhao Lei will never bypass Zhao Qing to do business with Ye Zhou.

But when Chen Shu returned to her residence, she still couldn't figure it out. She didn't want to enter the house because of the smell on her body. She would rather blow the air outside to blow away the smell before going in. She and Ye Zhou stood in the corridor outside the stairs. up, watching the late-night base chat.

"So Zhao Qing wants to use us?" Chen Shu didn't understand, "How does he use us? He wants us to confront Zhao Lei, so we can avoid it? He can also point a gun to our heads and let us Do we have to fight Zhao Lei?"

Ye Zhou put his arm on the armrest, he smiled and said, "No, that's not what Zhao Qing meant."

"He actually doesn't want us to turn against Zhao Lei."

Chen Shu didn't understand anymore: "What do you mean? He's ready to let me fight Zhao Lei, and he doesn't want us to turn against Zhao Lei?"

Ye Zhou shook his head: "He just used us to express his attitude, to show that his relationship with Zhao Lei is very tense now, no matter what Zhao Lei does has nothing to do with him, and another thing is that Zhao Lei will think that he has something very different from me. A close contract, at least when Zhao Lei doesn't understand the situation, he will think that I belong to him."

"In this way, even if Zhao Lei wants to come to me for shopping, he can't avoid Zhao Qing."

Ye Zhou looked at the night sky: "If I'm not wrong, Zhao Qing will come to me soon and create space for Zhao Lei and me, so that Zhao Lei can buy things from his hands. Guess he will let Zhao Lei be there What am I buying here?"

Chen Shu could hardly keep up with Ye Zhou's brain circuit. It was obviously just one thing, but it seemed to be many things when Ye Zhou said it. She said in a daze, "What?"

"Water." Ye Zhou, "Now I only sell my water to Zhao Qing, and others will only think that Zhao Qing is the boss. None will be missing."

"But can Zhao Lei buy it?" Ye Zhou asked Chen Shu.

Chen Shu finally thought of it: "Then... Zhao Lei is the real No. [-] person with real power, and may even threaten Zhao Qing's position. What good does this do for Zhao Qing?"

Ye Zhou: "Of course there are benefits. We use a knife to kill people. We are the knife, but there are other people who hold the knife."

Chen Shu finally went numb, she said blankly: "Boss, I give up, I'm not a talent in this field."

Ye Zhou smiled and patted Chen Shu on the shoulder: "Actually, it has nothing to do with us."

"Zhao Qing wants to buy things from me again and use us, and then I will have more bargaining chips in my hand, which is not a bad thing." Ye Zhou has calmed down after the initial anger, and after analyzing the pros and cons It turns out that Zhao Qing is really smart.

At least after his analysis, he found that it was nothing to be used by Zhao Qing.

Except for Zhao Lei, everyone can benefit from it.

So even if Ye Zhou knew what Zhao Qing was going to do, he would not stop it, but facilitate it.

Everyone is after profit, Zhao Lei will not live long.

Ye Zhou raised his arm and smelled his sleeves, and after confirming that there was no peculiar smell, he said, "Go back and take a shower and rest."

Seeing Chen Shu walk into the door, Ye Zhou also returned to the house. He went to take a shower and change clothes first. Before drying his hair, he went to see the sleeping boy. He pushed the boy's door open a little, Make sure the boy is in bed before blowing his hair to sleep.

If Zou Ming wasn't here, Ye Zhou felt that he would not have stayed in this base for long.

But if you change the base, the situation is probably not much better.

From the perspective of the base, a "merchant" with a large amount of supplies cannot become the pillar of the base, but from the perspective of a ruler, a businessman who is deeply tied to his base will weaken his support to a large extent. Base domination and influence.

It's okay to do business for a short time, but once Ye Zhou wants to "settle" in a base, the ruler of that base will never agree.

That is to say, Zhao Qing does not rely on force to rule the base, and the base has no production capacity, otherwise, whether Ye Zhou can come in or not is another matter.

Ye Zhou lay on the bed, replaying what happened during this period in his mind, and decided not to get involved with the base.

He also thought of another way to make Zou Ming safer after he left.

Since Zou Ming is still very weak, he will give Zou Ming a tiger skin.

·

After a period of recuperation, Yang Yue was finally able to put down her crutches. Although she was still limping, she was able to move around normally. Cao'er also found a mask for her. If she felt uncomfortable going out, she could use it The mask covered the injured half of his face.

For this, Yang Yue was very grateful.

She didn't even dare to look at that half of her face. Once she saw it, it would immediately remind her of what happened the night she was injured.

Before sunrise in the morning, Yang Yue put on her mask and went to the supermarket with Chen Shu and the others.

The daily customer flow of supermarkets is very fixed, and people usually come in to shop around the afternoon or evening.

After the initial panic-buying frenzy passed, people in the slums began to save "money".

Probably because I think the supermarket will not be closed for a while, so I want to save more money.

After Yang Yue arrived at the supermarket, she began to help count the goods. Because she can read numbers, she is qualified for this job. Although she is illiterate, she can also memorize the words corresponding to the names of each kind of goods by rote.

Words look more like graphics to her.

In the slums, there are only a small number of people who can read numbers like her, and there is no illiteracy rate, because the entire slums are illiterate.

"You came just in time." Cao'er saw Yang Yue coming in and immediately walked over and said, "There are two customers here, but how can I explain that they are all afraid, go ahead and talk about it."

With Yang Yue, a local, Cao'er was indeed much more relaxed.

Because Cao'er dresses cleanly and decently, people in the slums are afraid of her, as well as the supermarket employees like Cao'er.

People in the slums still can't understand a sentence after saying it more than ten times—it's not that they have mental problems, but that they simply don't dare to listen carefully.

Yang Yue smiled at Cao'er: "I'll go right away."

Yang Yue limped to the person who was standing awkwardly next to the rest area.

Yang Yue didn't know these two people. In fact, she knew very few people. She used to stay in the iron house and seldom went out for a walk. Walking would also consume strength and energy. It's better to lie down in the house.

In front of them was a pair of brothers, both skinny and skinny. They lowered their heads cowardly, thinking that Yang Yue was also a decent employee, so they didn't even dare to peek at her from the corner of their eyes.

"Where do you live?" Yang Yue's tone was very familiar as soon as she opened her mouth, "I live in the front, 104 iron house."

Sure enough, when these words fell, the two brothers immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and dared to look up at Yang Yue.

"We don't have a house." The older man whispered, "We usually sleep by the roadside."

Yang Yue nodded, and she asked again: "Did you bring potatoes?"

The younger one couldn't hold back, nodded and said, "I brought it, I brought it all!"

The elder brother stretched out his hand to pull the younger brother, and the younger brother immediately closed his mouth. Yang Yue pretended not to see it, and just said, "Let's go, first go and exchange the potatoes for money."

In order not to make the brothers nervous, Yang Yue asked when accompanying them to exchange money: "Why are you here now?"

"What happened to you before?"

Living in such an environment, Yang Yue was almost forced to become a conspiracy theorist. She subconsciously thought that someone prevented the brothers from coming here.

But my brother said, "I dare not."

Like most people in the slums, they don't trust this sudden supermarket.

Can a potato be exchanged for so many things?Even if they were killed, they would not believe it.

They relied on their instincts to firmly believe that there must be some conspiracy in this supermarket. In the end, they dared to come because they saw that many people around them had changed things, but there were still many people who did not dare.

Less than one-third of the bottom-level people actually exchange money and food from supermarkets.

After the two brothers took over the "money" from Cao'er, their hearts were half relieved, but they were still hunched over and bent over. It was estimated that they were only in their 20s by looking at their faces, but judging by their posture, they were said to be in their forties. No one doesn't believe it.

When they got to the shelves and faced the rows of food, they were not very excited, but cowered like thieves, just like other low-level people who came to the supermarket for the first time.

Seeing that they didn't dare to move, Yang Yue took two shopping baskets from the side, and then picked up a large piece of bread and asked the two brothers: "Do you want this? Although it is relatively dry, it can be stored for several days. Others are more than two The sky will be bad, this can be kept for at least a month."

The two brothers nodded hurriedly.

But when Yang Yue asked about the third item, the younger brother finally couldn't help raising his head, and asked in a low voice, "I heard from them that there is self-heating rice."

Yang Yue knew why he wanted self-heating rice, because besides the heating bag, there was also a bag of water inside, half of the bag could barely heat the rice and ingredients, and the other half could be saved.

If you are more ruthless, you can directly save the whole package. After all, the food in the self-heating rice is actually cooked, not to mention that they can eat it even if it is raw.

I have eaten raw potatoes, but what can't I eat unheated cooked rice?

"Yes, yes, but this will be broken the next day." Yang Yue led them to the shelf where the self-heating food is placed, "If you want to buy, buy what you eat today, and come back tomorrow to buy."

Although Ye Zhou promised that Zhao Qing's supermarket would not sell water, he didn't count it as selling water. After all, water is not a commodity, but an "ingredient" in the commodity.

The younger brother immediately became happy. He grabbed his brother's arm, pointed to a box of self-heating rice and said, "This one has meat!"

Yang Yue smiled: "Almost all, you can look at the pictures, what is in the picture, what is in the cooking bag."

After all, they cannot read, and most people just look at pictures.

The elder brother couldn't help showing an excited expression, he said over and over again: "Okay, okay, come tomorrow, come tomorrow too."

The younger brother looked at Yang Yue carefully, and finally he couldn't hold back and asked, "Are you working here?"

Yang Yue was taken aback.

She didn't know if working in a supermarket counted as work or not.

After all, she hasn't really met the supermarket owner yet.

She has seen him from afar, seeing that man who is different from everyone here, he is tall, handsome and personable, he will hold the boy's hand, and talk to the employees with a smile on his face, he Every time she appeared, she couldn't tolerate other people in her eyes.

But she dared not approach him, or even let him see her.

Every time Chen Shu said that the boss wanted to see her, she tried every means to shirk it.

So without the boss talking, she is not considered a regular worker, and she doesn't even know if she will be paid.

But Yang Yue didn't care about salary, what she got now was something she couldn't get in exchange for everything.

Yang Yue smiled and said, "No, I'm just here to help."

The younger brother felt a little regretful, but he quickly asked again: "Then can we come to help?"

He was not the first to ask this question, Yang Yue was about to speak according to the previous rejection template, but Cao'er walked over and said, "Come on, we just happen to be recruiting."

The brothers' eyes widened, but before they could get excited, Cao'er said, "Come talk with me in the back."

Great joy dazzled the minds of the two brothers, and their previous vigilance disappeared. They immediately followed Cao'er to the small office behind the cashier.

Usually, Cao'er calculates income and expenses here.

"Sit down, you're welcome." After leading the two of them in, Cao'er went to pour two glasses of water.

After putting two glasses of mineral water in front of the two brothers, all their doubts were dispelled. Two glasses of such big water were enough to buy their lives. Even if there was a sea of ​​fire in front of them, they dared to jump.

"That's right." Cao'er said after sitting down, "There are still many people in the slums who dare not come to the supermarket to shop."

The two brothers looked at each other and felt that Cao'er was talking about them.

Cao'er went on to say: "So I asked you to do something, not to make you busy in the supermarket, now there are enough people in the supermarket."

"But as long as you can refute the rumors in the slums and make more people willing to come and shop, then even if there are no people in the slums who have never been to the supermarket in the future, you will still be paid every month."

Cao'er threw out a condition that the two of them could never give up: "One person, three thousand a month."

The brothers were suffocating.

They took out all the potatoes this time, but only one thousand and sixteen came back.

This is all their savings, and usually working in the slums, the potatoes that can be saved in a month can be exchanged for money. It is estimated that the two brothers do not add up to a thousand, because they usually have to eat, and they are two grown men. There is no strength to work at all.

The younger brother immediately nodded sharply: "Do it, we are willing to do it."

Cao'er looked at them gently.

She was in a trance for a moment, and she didn't know why, but she saw the shadow of her own brother from his brother.

She hadn't thought of her siblings for a long time, she didn't dare to think about it, thinking of it meant tearing open the wound, thinking about it over and over again, she had to tear it open again and again until the blood was bloody.

"As for the place to live." Cao'er said, "I will arrange it for you."

The two brothers were stunned by this series of surprises. They looked at Cao'er, and then at the water glass in front of them.

Cao'er: "Drink, from now on, each of you will get a bottle of water every day."

There is nothing to say now, for the sake of this huge benefit, even if the two brothers only wanted to take advantage at first, now they are ready to work day and night for the supermarket.

Cao'er personally sent them out.

Seeing the two brothers walking out with the water bottle hidden in her arms, she crossed her arms and leaned against the wall to watch their backs.

I don't know how long she watched, until they disappeared from her vision, and she walked back again.

Yang Yue saw that something was wrong with Cao'er. After sending the two brothers away, Cao'er began to mechanically tidy up the things on the counter. After wiping the dust more than a dozen times, she finally made up her mind.

"What's wrong with you?" Yang Yue cautiously came over to care about Cao'er.

Because Cao'er and Ye Zhou lived together, they didn't have much contact with each other, and Yang Yue didn't dare to get close to her, so she seemed cautious in caring.

Cao'er was stunned for a few seconds before looking at Yang Yue, and then said with a smile: "It's nothing, I thought about the past, but it's not a good thing."

So Yang Yue didn't ask, she didn't like to expose people's scars, but she looked at Cao'er's smiling face and whispered, "You look like..."

Cao'er knew what she was talking about: "I learned it, don't I look like a boss?"

After Cao'er's attention was diverted, she became lively: "The boss's smile is the kind of smile that looks very gentle, but it won't make people look down upon."

Yang Yue nodded: "Very nice."

Cao'er was keenly aware of something, and she immediately said, "The boss has no personal affair."

In Cao'er's view, it is impossible for an immortal to be with a mortal, but she did not persuade her anymore. In her opinion, a person like Yang Yue is just like her. Slowly you will figure it out by yourself.

Looking back on it later, it can be regarded as a very good memory.

Yang Yue looked at Cao'er and smiled with difficulty: "I know it in my heart."

They didn't continue to say anything, and went to do their own things.

·

The brothers soon got new news when they arrived at the supermarket that night—they had a place to live, although it was still in a slum, although it was just an ordinary tin house.

"Really let us live?" The younger brother kept asking Cao'er, afraid that Cao'er would suddenly regret it.

There are so many things happening in one day that they are almost losing their minds.

Cao'er handed the key to his brother: "Go in and have a look."

After all, he was going to work for the supermarket. After consulting Ye Zhou, Cao'er redecorated the interior of the tin house and changed a door. Cao'er considered that these two people might be in danger in the future, so he decided to I took some thought.

From the outside, the iron house looks like an ordinary one. Even the door has been camouflaged, and if you pass by the door, you can't tell the difference from the ordinary wooden door.

The walls are also reinforced inside.

In the tin house, in addition to a complete set of tables and chairs, the floor is laid, a four-piece mattress is placed in the middle, and there is also a simple wardrobe. The sizing puts intentionally distressed clothing and pants.

"I, do we really only need to persuade people to go to the supermarket?" My brother finally couldn't help asking Cao'er who was standing beside him.

And the younger brother has already flung himself on the bed regardless, with his head held high, howling in an unpleasant way.

Cao'er nodded: "But I want to make it clear to you that if you do this, you will definitely offend the people who do business here. They may make trouble for you or even attack you. The supermarket is not open 24 hours a day. When we are not here You have to protect yourself when you are in a situation.”

Cao'er restrained her expression: "You still have one last chance to choose."

The two brothers were quiet, they knew clearly what kind of danger they would face in the future if they agreed.

But just when Cao'er thought they would regret it, his brother suddenly said: "Even if we don't work for you, our life is not much better than what you said."

The younger brother also said: "At least there is water to drink, so I won't go hungry."

The two brothers looked at each other the same way and smiled: "It's not a loss!"

Cao'er turned her head, she had shared joys and sorrows with her brothers and sisters before.

But she never had another chance.

"Come to the supermarket tomorrow morning, and the daily water will be distributed to you in the morning."

After finishing speaking, Cao'er left the tin house.

Her pace was fast, so fast that she seemed to be running.