Prices Are Soaring, and Nobody Told Me

Ye Feng had worked hard to save 300,000 yuan, and was ready to buy a resettlement apartment. Then, overnight, prices inflated a hundred thousandfold. “As for the prices, they’re all around 30 billion. There’s a slight difference depending on the floor: the better floors are 31 or 32 billion, and the less desirable ones are 28 or 29 billion,” the agent said sincerely. A home that had originally cost around 300,000 yuan now cost 30 billion. The agent’s jianbing wrap cost 1.2 million. A fried dough stick cost 200,000. At the supermarket, a bottle of Coke cost 300,000, a bag of spicy strips cost 100,000, a bucket of laundry detergent cost 3 million, and a pack of Huazi cigarettes cost 5 million. Ye Feng’s 300,000 could only buy a palm-sized patch of ground... How wonderful! Just as Ye Feng was despairing, he discovered that prices were still normal when he paid with his own phone...