Except for Great Xia, there are few countries in the world that can gather twenty female elephants.
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Two thousand kilometers away.
Xijing City.
Zhang Ruijie stood on the balcony of his studio apartment, opening a crack in the window, and was happily smoking.
Nowadays, cigarettes are considered a luxury item.
A pack of regular cigarettes that used to cost twenty now has its price skyrocketed to one hundred and fifty.
Given a regular person's wage of two thousand five hundred, who can afford to buy them?
Though the government gives every twenty-year-old adult a voucher to purchase cigarettes, few are willing to buy them.
This is one of the few vouchers where there are plenty available, but not many buyers.
A few days ago, on Zhang Ruijie's thirtieth birthday, he reluctantly bought a pack of cigarettes, only indulging in three a day at most.
He puffed away for a while until even the cigarette butt was burned out, before reluctantly throwing away the stub.
