Chapter 47 This Goldfish Is Not That Goldfish
After lunch, Bai Tang and the others went back to their rooms to rest for about an hour.
Bai Tang checked the time, then called them to go to the service hall together to exchange contribution points.
Gu Yanxu told Lin Feng and Lin Zhou to stay at home to avoid any visitors or thieves, since they hadn't brought an electric fence with them when they came to the base.
I can only go out another day and find an opportunity to openly and legitimately bring the electric fence back and install it on the door, so that my yard will be more secure.
However, the small courtyard they bought has a 2.5-meter-high wall, and there is broken glass along the wall. Moreover, it is close to government and military areas, so thieves generally wouldn't dare to come here.
Bai Tang drove one of the SUVs, taking Gu Yanxu, Bai Jiyang, and Lin Fan out to the base's service hall.
Bai Tang's driving skills were quite good; at least she drove safely to the service hall.
As soon as the car stopped, Lin Fan and Bai Jiyang couldn't wait to get out.
The two of them rushed to carry the wild rabbits and pheasants.
Gu Yanxu then walked into the service hall.
Bai Tang couldn't help but laugh as she watched the two of them scrambling for the work: "What are you two fighting over? The staff at the service hall will have someone carry it in and put it on the scale."
Just as he finished speaking, Gu Yanxu came out of the service hall with several staff members.
Gu Yanxu pointed to the dead rabbits and anesthetized pheasants in the cage and said, "These are all. You can move them in and calculate how many contribution points they are worth."
The rabbits died because they bit into the canned food one by one. When catching pheasants, Bai Tang put the canned food into her spatial storage and used a tranquilizer gun.
The staff carried the rabbits and pheasants into the service hall and then weighed them.
The three wild rabbits weighed a total of 90 jin (45 catties). Based on the price of fresh meat, each jin (0.5 kg) is worth 150 contribution points, for a total of 13,500 contribution points.
While weighing the four pheasants, Bai Tang said, "These four pheasants were just anesthetized and unconscious. Should you report this and see if you want to try raising pheasants?"
The staff member thought Bai Tang's words made sense and quickly said, "Please wait a moment, I'll go and report to my superiors."
After saying that, the staff member went to call the base to report the situation.
After waiting for a while, a few people walked in through the entrance of the service hall.
A man who looked like a leader asked, "Where can I find live pheasants that can be raised?"
The staff quickly stepped forward: "Team Leader Chen, those are the pheasants that those guys over there caught with tranquilizer guns."
The middle-aged man named Captain Chen walked over and said to Bai Tang and the others:
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Chen Weiliang, and I'm the captain of the base's expedition team. I heard you caught a few live pheasants?"
Bai Tang: "Hello, Captain Chen. We caught a few live pheasants and wanted to exchange them for contribution points, but we don't know how you plan to calculate the price."
As the two were talking, the four pheasants in the cage next to them, having lost the effects of the anesthesia, shakily stood up.
Seeing that they were indeed live pheasants, Captain Chen made the decision: "How about we pay you 10,000 contribution points for a pair of pheasants?"
The staff nearby were stunned; two live pheasants could actually be exchanged for 10,000 contribution points!
However, Bai Tang didn't think anything of it. Taking the four pairs of pheasants to the base for breeding could temporarily solve the problem of the base's grain reserves gradually decreasing.
The Shengshi base is so large that even if the government has stockpiled grain, it cannot withstand spending without receiving any.
That's why Chen Weiliang said: A pair of pheasants is worth 10,000 contribution points.
Bai Tang readily agreed, "Sure, I'll give you contribution points."
As she spoke, she handed over her card, and soon a staff member credited 33,500 contribution points to Bai Tang's card.
Just as Bai Tang and Gu Yanxu were about to leave, Chen Weiliang followed them and said:
"We don't know your names yet. Tell us, just so we can make friends. If you catch any more live wild animals in the future, our base will take them in."
Gu Yanxu saw that Captain Chen was a good person who could get things done for the base.
He began by saying, "My name is Gu Yanxu, this is my wife Bai Tang, and these two over there are my younger brothers, one named Bai Jiyang and the other Lin Fan. Please take care of me if I need anything in the future, Captain Chen."
Chen Weiliang said, "Okay, okay, you can go ahead if you have something to do."
After Bai Tang and the others left, Chen Weiliang remembered who Gu Yanxu was. Wasn't he the top businessman in Shengshi, President Gu?
Chen Weiliang thought to himself: It seems that capable people are still capable even at this point. I should continue with my work.
After Bai Tang and his group left the service hall, they drove towards the stalls set up inside the base.
Bai Tang even went to that old man to buy "goldfish".
After driving for a short while, they parked their car in a small parking lot next to them.
Several people got off the bus with black backpacks on their backs and walked towards the street where the stalls were set up.
Gu Yanxu quickly led them to the old man's stall from that day.
When the old man saw them arrive, he quickly said, "You've finally come! I've been waiting for you ever since it stopped snowing. I was just afraid you wouldn't take my things, since my wife has nothing to eat at home."
Bai Tang said, "We're here now. Something came up a few days ago and we were delayed. Let us see what you brought today."
The old man said, "I haven't told you my name yet. My name is Pan Senjiang. I used to be an antique appraiser. You can just call me Old Pan."
Bai Tang also gave a brief introduction to the group.
Bai Tang: "Old Pan, didn't you say you had a few 'yellow croakers' at home? Did you bring them today? We'll take them all."
Old Pan secretly took a yellow croaker out of his pocket and showed it to Bai Tang.
Even with the naked eye, Bai Tang couldn't tell whether it was real gold or not.
So I called out "Mumu" in my mind, asking it to recognize the name.
Mu Mu eagerly said, "Sister's 'yellow fish' is real~ and those little antiques are real too~"
Bai Tang pretended to be knowledgeable and looked at the "goldfish" in her hand before returning it to Old Pan.
Gu Yanxu, meanwhile, was looking at the few small antiques on the side.
Old Pan rubbed his hands nervously. At this moment, Bai Tang spoke up: "Old Pan, I've looked at them. These 'yellow fish' are all quite good, and these small antiques are also quite nice. Name your price, and I'll take them all."
Old Pan quickly did the math: 10 yellow croakers, each weighing one jin of grain, totaling 10 jin of grain; five small jade antiques, totaling two and a half jin of grain.
After listening to Old Pan's calculations, Bai Tang then spoke:
"Okay, we'll give you 13 jin of grain in total, to round it up for you. I know you're selling these things because you really have no other choice, but there's one thing: once I buy them, you can't redeem them."
It wasn't that Bai Tang was being aggressive, but rather that all these things would eventually be absorbed by Mu Mu and turned into ashes. If Elder Pan wanted to go back in the future, Bai Tang wouldn't have anything to give him.
Old Pan nodded and said, "I understand these transaction rules. I don't want to redeem it anymore. I'm just an old man, and I can't afford to redeem it."
Bai Tang discussed with Old Pan about paying him 3 jin of rice, and Old Pan wanted to exchange the remaining 10 jin for wheat flour, or coarse flour, since his wife was from the north and liked to eat noodles.
Bai Tang asked Lin Fan to take out a ten-pound bag of flour wrapped in a black plastic bag from his bag, and then asked Bai Jiyang to take out three pounds of loose rice from his bag.
Bai Tang had placed these items in their bags beforehand, just in case Old Pan wanted something else.