Chapter 186: Outrageous Prices
The Pet Beast Center was thriving.
However, the situation in Qingshan City was even worse than Leng Qing had imagined.
When everyone was at the Pet Beast Center, Song Tiantian included them in the meal distribution.
But upon returning to Qingshan City, there was no eight-hour rest system to begin with.
Then there was the food. As a Six-star Beast Tamer, Leng Qing’s meals were naturally quite good.
However, Leng Qing felt it was not as good as the Intermediate Beast Food from the Pet Beast Center. The energy contained within was sufficient, but the taste was very poor.
Moreover, Leng Qing had also eaten the Advanced Beast Food from the Pet Beast Center, which was exceptionally delicious.
The head chef here claimed that this method perfectly preserved the inherent energy of the ingredients.
But Leng Qing had eaten Fierce Beast Meat of the same quality, and she felt that Song Tiantian’s Advanced Beast Food was slightly better, and most importantly, it tasted good! Even when cold, it was delicious.
This kind of canned food, under normal circumstances, Leng Qing would heat it herself.
After heating, it was incredibly fragrant! Eating it with rice was indescribably delicious.
However, the taste here, Leng Qing felt, was comparable to Cold Fragrance Number Two. While not as bad as Cold Fragrance Number Four, it wasn’t good either.
If you eat something tasty, it doesn’t fill you up!
Originally, Leng Qing couldn’t accept eating Fierce Beast Beast Food, but Song Tiantian said that she only became so strong by eating Beast Food.
Leng Qing couldn’t accept it at first, but she noticed everyone started secretly eating Beast Food.
Even Huang Xiaohua, who disliked Song Tiantian the most, was eating Beast Food. Each time, she would pretend to take out a jar and heat the Beast Food in it.
She would then add two leaves on top and disguise it as her own cooking.
The taste was the taste of Beast Food, but Huang Xiaohua adamantly denied it, claiming she used a secret recipe seasoning.
Then, the more casual people nearby would simply heat the canned food. The two smells were identical, but Huang Xiaohua still insisted she was cooking her own meal.
Leng Qing envied Huang Xiaohua a little. She heard that Huang Xiaohua’s grandfather was still at the Pet Beast Center and often sent some Beast Food for Huang Xiaohua to eat.
Returning to Qingshan City brought many inconveniences. Although there was more money in her account.
But the prices in Qingshan City were now extremely high. Vegetables had actually risen to a thousand yuan per jin.
However, the vegetables at the Pet Beast Center were still five yuan per jin. It’s just that it’s not open to the public now, and each person can buy a maximum of five jin per day.
The variety was limited, with only one or two types of vegetables.
The price difference was simply astronomical.
Even Leng Qing had the thought of reselling supplies.
She used to think that jobs at the Pet Beast Center, earning five to six thousand, were ridiculously low-paying. But now, here the salary is fifty to sixty thousand, yet vegetables are a thousand yuan per jin. This is worse than earning a low salary at the Pet Beast Center!
Furthermore, the people in Qingshan City looked worried and unhappy, unlike at the Pet Beast Center where everyone was cheerful.
Everyone felt they had a bright future.
And on the balconies of every household, some scallions and garlic were planted.
In reality, no one lacked food or drink.
And below the city wall, the lively snack stalls, the ones with poor skills had been eliminated, leaving only delicious food and barbecue stalls.
Thinking about it, Leng Qing started to drool. Fortunately, she had left her family at the Pet Beast Center.
She had also found them jobs.
Her father became a ready-made District Chief at the Pet Beast Center, and her mother surprisingly became a Security Guard.
The reason was simple: the welfare for Security Guards at the Pet Beast Center was too good.
Her brother’s wife’s family members who could become Security Guards all became Security Guards.
Now, if you want to become a Security Guard, Song Tiantian no longer accepts applications because the number of Identity Tokens is limited.
Besides, this many people is enough.
If you want to go to work again, you can only find a job in a factory.
Leng Qing communicated with her family every day, asking about their situation.
Perhaps it was after her cultivation Breakthrough that her thoughts began to change, or perhaps as time passed, her thoughts slowly began to change.
When she was young, she found her family’s nagging annoying and didn’t want to deal with them.
But now, although she wasn’t old, her mindset had undergone many changes.
She started contacting her family more often and began thinking about how to improve her family’s cultivation.
After her elder brother’s death, although her parents didn’t say anything, they were extremely dejected.
It wasn’t until her nephew visited that their spirits lifted a bit.
But after only a few days at the Pet Beast Center, her parents’ mental state had improved significantly. Although busy every day, they were much more fulfilled and happy.
Leng Qing never cooked herself, so she didn’t buy groceries and didn’t know the price of vegetables. It was only because her family bought groceries that Leng Qing now knew the vegetable prices.
Leng Qing remitted a sum of money to her mother, asking her to hire a Nanny to help with chores.
She realized that with her current wealth, the monthly salary for a Nanny was equivalent to just one meal in Qingshan City.
This was outrageously absurd.
Just thinking about it felt absurd.
The key point was that the people under her were asking if they could continue to Support the Pet Beast Center.
Everyone tacitly agreed not to publicize the situation at the Pet Beast Center, because they all knew that the benefits and treatment at the Pet Beast Center were so good that it wouldn’t be their turn.
But everyone who returned wanted to go back to the Pet Beast Center.
Although here, the Fierce Beasts they hunted were their own.
However, the daily battles left no time to clean up the Fierce Beast Corpses below the city wall, and there had already been several incidents of stealing Fierce Beast Corpses.
The combat intensity here was extremely high.
Basically, they could only rest for two to three hours a day.
If injured, Medicine was also scarce, and everything was lacking.
Huang Xiaohua had more than once suggested to Song Ruyu that the meals be made tastier, and that chefs could be sent to the Pet Beast Center for training.
Then, the treatment for everyone should also be improved.
Huang Xiaohua felt that everyone’s treatment was too poor, not even as good as Defending the City at the Pet Beast Center without a salary.
She felt the Pet Beast Center was very convenient, and here, it was too troublesome to process Fierce Beast Corpses herself, and selling them directly was too cheap.
She felt that the treatment for all those Defending the City was very poor and had repeatedly made suggestions to Song Ruyu in public.
Even Leng Qing, who was not good at communication, could see that Song Ruyu’s face had darkened.
Huang Xiaohua was a bit too straightforward.
Her affection for someone was very obvious.
Her unhappiness was also very obvious.
When Huang Xiaohua was at the Pet Beast Center, she didn’t feel that the treatment was particularly good, but she didn’t feel it was bad either.
But coming to Qingshan City, the difference was too stark.
Huang Xiaohua had already Breakthrough to become a Four-star Beast Tamer, and could be considered a pillar of strength.
Song Ruyu, perhaps feeling that the situation in Qingshan City was not good and Resources were limited, or perhaps annoyed by Huang Xiaohua, asked Huang Xiaohua to take money to the Pet Beast Center to Purchase Supplies from Song Tiantian, and also to invite a skilled chef over.
