Wu Zhongyuan didn't expect that this gray wolf would not only be able to speak, but also scold, and it was naturally not a pleasant thing to be scolded, but if he thought about it carefully, he was rude, and he couldn't blame others for being angry, so he had to laugh twice and leave embarrassed.

After walking a short distance, I met a person who was not a human, but this was not a seller, but a cargo, on a straw mat woven of cattails lay a half-human, half-fish creature, this thing is very similar to the legendary mermaid, the lower body is the tail of a fish, the upper body is a human body, the arms are slightly longer than the human arms, and there are also five fingers, but the nails are very sharp, not flattened, some similar to the talons of an eagle.

This mermaid is about 1.5 meters long, it is the appearance of a little boy, it should be a male, the hair is red, the face is childish, and it is still in its infancy.

The seller sat cross-legged in a cloak and hat, clutching a rope with the other end of the rope tied around the mermaid's neck.

Next to the seller was a wooden barrel with half a bucket of water in it and a scoop floating on it.

Wu Zhongyuan walked directly in front of the seller and tilted his head to see him, but the seller lowered his head and covered his face with a hat.

was tilting his head to look at it, but he heard the seller snoring, as soon as he heard this snoring sound, Wu Zhongyuan knew that the seller was not a human being, because it is impossible for human beings to have such a long breath, and people snore and breathe, but it is only exhalation, and it lasts for a long time, it has been playing for more than a minute, and it is still continuing.

Mermaid is a modern term, this creature is called a merman at this time, this young merman is injured, the scales on the body are missing a lot, the spirit is very sluggish, lying on the grass mat motionless, only the slight ups and downs of the chest and abdomen, indicating that it is still alive.

Seeing that the merman's body was very dry, and the bucket was within reach, Wu Zhongyuan had the heart to do good deeds, but he was afraid that the seller would blame him for being troublesome, so he hesitated again and again, and coughed dryly, "What does this merman want to change?"

The seller was still snoring, Wu Zhongyuan asked again, but the seller still didn't respond, but the merman reluctantly opened his eyes and looked up at him.

The structure of the merman's eyes is not the same as that of humans, and there is a transparent film inside the eyelids, which should be used to open the eyes underwater to see things, and this film is not used on land, when the eyes are opened, the eyelids are raised first, and the film inside is then raised, as if the eyes have been opened twice.

The eyes of this little mermaid are very empty, there is no expectation of longing for help, and there is no misery in a foreign land, only blank and blank.

Seeing that the seller was asleep, Wu Zhongyuan had the courage to scoop up some water and pour it on the merman's body, and then took a piece of dried meat from his baggage and put it with him.

The seller didn't wake up, but a one-legged man not far away shouted, "Mo Duo, if you die, I'm afraid I will rely on you." ”

Hearing the shouting, Wu Zhongyuan hurriedly led the horse away, and the little mermaid grabbed the dried meat in his hand and looked back at him.

Seeing that the sky was about to get dark, Wu Zhongyuan went to the west street to find a place to live, there were many inns on the westernmost street, he found a stable to live in, the room here is very expensive, this cage of chickens can not be worth the room fee, can only give the sheep to the family, the store is also fair, only there is a surplus, and sent a pot of wine.

Wu Zhongyuan led the horses to the stables and tied them up, fed them with his men, and then carried the things on the horse's back to the house.

In today's parlance, this room is a suite, and the outhouse has a stone pool with hot spring water inside, and the water is flowing. The back room is a place to sleep, the futons are clean, and the room is warm due to the hot spring geothermal heat.

Wu Zhongyuan was sleepy to death, he wanted to lie down and sleep, but he couldn't sleep, Wu Dalie asked him to go to the gambling house to play when he left, he was not interested in gambling, but he couldn't go away, because the inn didn't let him bring the chicken in, clucking, it would affect the rest of the guests, and the smell was not good.

The gambling house is on the second street in the east, it is already dark at this time, when you go to the gambling house, you can vaguely see the light of torches in the southeast mountain, the area where the light is located should be Badaoling, and no one has come back to show that the psychic weapon has not been found, and it may have been found a long time ago, but the person who found it will definitely sneak away quietly, and will never shout to show off.

The street next to the inn is the red light district, but since walking through the street, I haven't seen any women soliciting customers from outside, and there are no people in the town, so there is no need for them to run out and suffer from the cold on such a cold day.

There are flags and flags outside the gambling houses, and there are pictographic patterns painted on them, only these chickens can't go to those high-end gambling houses, they can only go to gamble on rice grain and salt.

Wu Zhongyuan chose to bet on salt, there were five chickens in the cage, all of them were female, and at this time the hen was worth more than the rooster because the hen could lay eggs.

The salt is served in a bamboo tube, which is divided into large, medium and small, five small folds and one medium, five folds and one large, and five hens are replaced by three small bamboo tubes.

People want to save face, worried that one by one will be looked down upon by the dealer, Wu Zhongyuan directly bet all in, shake the cup, and the three dice are one, two, three.

Seeing that he shook out one, two, three, Wu Zhongyuan's heart was directly half cold, this is a comparison of size, and it is not a gold flower, a total of six points, and he is dead.

The other party lifted it, one-two-one, Wu Zhongyuan couldn't help but laugh out loud, the other party was taking the right step, one, two, one came out.

Gamble happily, laugh it off, and come again.

It's still all-in, no matter how bad it is, it won't be worse than one, two, three, four.

The other party lifted the cup, two, three, four.

narrowly won, Wu Zhongyuan had two medium-sized bamboo tubes and two small bamboo tubes in his hands.

At this point, he began to hesitate, and now he was faced with three choices, one was to give up, the second was to reduce the bet, and the third was to go all-in.

After hesitation, he still chose to go all-in, the reason why he did this, not out of greed, but to put an end to his own unearned luck mentality, at this time if you stop, you will lock in the income, this kind of unearned income will make a person on the strength of the hard work and efforts to question, and vain attempts to opportunistic, must not develop this problem.

The cup is still its own size, and the bamboo tube filled with salt is four medium and four small.

In the subsequent game, Wu Zhongyuan only bet on a small bamboo tube, as long as he won, he could make up enough for a big bamboo tube, and he would stop.

The result is flat, and the flat is the banker's win, which is also the way for the gambling house to make profits.

Four out of three small, all-in, anyway, it's a windfall, it's not your own, even if you lose, it's just to be returned to others.

As a result, he didn't lose, one big four in one small one.

If you change to someone else, you should stop at this time, but Wu Zhongyuan has not stopped, gambling is not a good thing, it is not good to lose the bet, and it is even worse to win the bet, and it will really breed a fluke mentality. Getting something for nothing is not the right way!

Continued, bet on two hits, and ended in a fiasco.

If you don't play, the big bamboo tube is carried on your back, the medium-sized bamboo tube is carried, and the small bamboo tube is not strapped, so you can hold it in your hand.

Although he lost a game in the end and lost two medium-sized bamboo tubes, Wu Zhongyuan's mood was very good, no one can maximize benefits, and it is impossible to return the particles to the warehouse after hard work, if a person pursues the maximization of interests, its essence is greed and calculation, and this person will never feel happy. As everyone knows, as long as you gain more than you lose, you will already be considered a successful life.

In addition, while valuing gains and losses, we should also look down on gains and losses, these salts are not their own, and if they lose, they are just returning them to others, after all, they have won a lot of others.

The reason why people in the world feel miserable is that they take other people's or ownerless things as their own, and they want to possess them all, but they forget that no matter how much they get, they actually earn extra.

Everyone here knows what is in the bamboo tube, seeing that he is carrying it and carrying, so greedy, looking at his eyes are not right, the so-called scarcity is expensive, at this time salt is scarce, salt is the mother of all flavors, there is salt food to taste, and people who do not eat salt will have no strength, and if it is a little more serious, they will get sick and even die, such a good thing, he actually carried dozens of catties on his body, and it is strange that people are not red-eyed.

Sensing the strange eyes of passers-by, Wu Zhongyuan wanted to go back to the inn, but Wu Dalie asked him to wait here, and he couldn't go far.

However, this time he did not try his luck in the past, but changed things in the past, since this gambling house is betting on pills, he naturally has a reserve of pills, he wants to change a red qi tonifying pill to help him become a red qi high xuan as soon as possible.

Salt is a good thing, but the pill is even better, the blue and purple pill salt can't be exchanged, and the red pill is not rare, but it also makes him pay the price of a lot of salt. He didn't understand the market, he was worried that others would cheat him, and he bargained, and finally someone gave him a light red pill, and he was willing.

In fact, he is already a cave god cultivator, and it is useless to ask for this elixir, but he can bring it back to Ah Luo.

Wu Dalie was right before, after dark, there were more people on the easternmost street that were easy to change, and not everyone dared to go to Badaoling to find psychic soldiers, and there were still people who did business in a down-to-earth manner.

Wu Zhongyuan had nothing to do, so he returned to the street to the east, he now has something that can be easily exchanged, and if he encounters something he wants, he can also change it.

As soon as he arrived on the street, he heard someone greet him, and following the reputation, it was the man in the robe, who had been keeping his head down before, and he didn't see the person's appearance clearly, but this time he saw it clearly, it was an old man about fifty years old, with long thief eyebrows and rat eyes.

It may be that when he woke up and heard people around him say that he had stayed here, the old man saw him and called him over to exchange the merman for him.

Wu Zhongyuan waved his hand at the old man, indicating that he was not interested in the merman.

The old man only said that the merman is a good thing, washing, peeling and drying to make shark wax, which can be lit for lighting.

Seeing Wu Zhongyuan's hesitation, the old man said that he was kind and benevolent, that is, he didn't use sharks to make wax, and it was good to buy and release them, and it was not expensive, as long as a medium-sized cylinder of salt.

Wu Zhongyuan's heart softened, "It's very weak, I'm afraid it won't survive." ”

"Yes, yes, it's just that it's been out of the water for a long time, and it's good to enter the water. The old man said.

"There's no river around here, where can I put it?" Wu Zhongyuan worried.

"Yes, yes, there is a river not far to the south, which extends in all directions, and it can go wherever it wants. The old man said again.

"Can you speak?" Wu Zhongyuan asked the merman.

The merman didn't answer, but the old man answered, "Yes, yes, it's just the merman's language, you can't understand it." ”

Seeing that Wu Zhongyuan was still hesitating, the old man stood up and walked over to take the bamboo tube he was carrying in his hand, "Releasing life is accumulating virtue, go quickly." ”

"Then isn't it a lack of virtue for you to catch it?" Wu Zhongyuan looked this old man up and down, this guy has short hands and short feet, and he walks with a shaky figure, either a turtle or a king.

The old man took a tube of salt in his hand, stopped talking to him, and staggered out into the west street.

"What an old turtle, get it lightly, don't kill people again. Someone nearby laughed and cursed.

Wu Zhongyuan thought that this turtle spirit was drinking, but he didn't expect this guy to go looking for flowers and ask willows.

Seeing Wu Zhongyuan turn around and look back, someone on the side came over, "It's dark and the road is slippery, and you don't know the way, I'll help you send it to be released." ”

Wu Zhongyuan glanced at the man, rolled the merman with a straw mat, supported it with both hands, and walked south.

The man didn't pick up the bargain, so he took the barrel left by the old turtle away.

The old turtle didn't lie, there was really a river in the south of the town, and when he arrived at the river, Wu Zhongyuan put down the straw mat, and when the mermaid saw the water, his spirit was greatly lifted, and he jumped into the water.

The merman knew that Wu Zhongyuan had saved him, and after entering the water, he poked his head out of the water to look at Wu Zhongyuan.

Wu Zhongyuan waved his hand at him, "Let's go, go home." ”

The merman opened his mouth and said something.

The merman's speech was somewhat similar to the call of the dolphin, where could Wu Zhongyuan understand, and smiled again and waved his hand, "Be careful, don't be caught by the bad guys again." ”

Seeing Wu Zhongyuan waving his hand, the merman also raised his hand and waved at him, and then reflexively entered the water and broke the waves from the water to the east.

People are different, there are good people and bad people, when a person doesn't know whether he is a good person or a bad person, he might as well do a good thing to see if he is in a good mood, if so, then you are a good person. If you do something bad, you feel excited, you're in a good mood, you're a bad person.

Although human nature is complex, it is not very complicated, and many times the truth is on the surface, without so many twists and turns.

Wu Zhongyuan is in a very good mood now, the world is big, the chance of meeting this merman in the future is very small, he doesn't expect this merman to repay himself, he is very willing to help the weak, but the weak are not necessarily worth helping, the premise of help is that the weak man is innocent and kind, this is the case with the little merman.

Seeing the merman leave, Wu Zhongyuan walked to the river and washed his hands, then untied the waist rope and sprinkled urine on the shore, tied the waist rope and washed his hands again, and then got up and returned.

When he walked away, he faintly heard an urgent cry from the river, a voice he had heard before, it was the voice of a merman.

At this time, the merman's voice was rapid and high-pitched, and he seemed very urgent.

Hearing the merman's shout, Wu Zhongyuan immediately turned around and ran towards the river, and when he arrived at the shore, he saw the merman who had been released before floating on the water, holding a red long sword in his raised right hand.

Seeing Wu Zhongyuan's return, the merman looked very happy and said something eagerly. Seeing Wu Zhongyuan's stunned face, the merman only thought that he couldn't understand his words, and added a movement in his hand, indicating that the long sword he grabbed was picked up from the bottom of the river downstream.

Wu Zhongyuan was stunned not because he couldn't understand the merman's words, but because the merman had eagerly called him back, and the voice was very loud, attracting a lot of people searching for psychic soldiers in the distance, and at this time this group of people was standing on the other side of the river, and the merman turned his back to them and never saw it.

Being able to repay Wu Zhongyuan for saving his life, the little merman was very happy, and kept saying something quickly, until someone on the south bank shouted 'Luan Feng Sword', it suddenly became alert, hurriedly threw the long sword in its hand to Wu Zhongyuan, and dived to escape.

Although Wu Zhongyuan took the long sword in his hand, he was secretly complaining, so many people are looking at it, this thing is a hot potato......