Chapter 367: The Old Man and the Snack Shop
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Along the way, the only greenery you can see is the dancing and running cactus, and now at the Elba Oasis,.γ
I thought that the living environment of the Kendia Desert was so cruel that the country's population and economy should be very backward, but when I got here, I saw a lively market with people coming and going.
The buildings of the Elba Oasis are dominated by yellow, and each building has thick mud walls, a rough and uneven appearance, and few and small windows, sacrificing beauty and practicality.
This type of building reduces the transfer of heat from the sun during the day and prevents the heat from losing quickly at night, making it ideal for desert construction.
The yellow buildings on the periphery of the oasis are scattered and gradually converge inward, and the higher the floor height and density of the buildings become higher the more you get to the center, and in the very center of the entire oasis, a palace stands like a flock of chickens.
The Elba Oasis has a place dedicated to the boarding of armored cattle for travelers and merchants, but for a daily fee.
Luo fostered the armored cow to the merchant, paid a considerable deposit, and then walked into the lively market with Lin Nie.
"Where are you going next?" Rowe asked, looking at the passing crowd.
Lin Nie said: "Go see an old friend." β
Luo nodded and didn't ask more.
The further you go inside, the narrower and more crowded the streets become, and on both sides of the street are almost all shops selling all kinds of goods, each with a curtain drawn up to block out the scorching sun.
"Come and see, the red monkey butt fruit, juicy and fleshy, elected to beat the heat!"
"The dry fried insect pot is freshly baked, scorpions, sandworms, ants, and sesame snakes are mixed and sold, one or two are only 998, as long as 998!"
"A rock turtle egg that detoxifies and detoxifies only costs 10,000 rings!"
The chatters of the business owners always echo in the ears, weaving a prosperous street scene.
There were people stopping outside each shop, some of these people were local residents, some were outsiders, and most of these outsiders were adventurers and merchants who came to trade for gold, and pure travelers like Luo accounted for a very small minority.
The desert also sells a variety of special foods and snacks, but they are a bit too unique, and many of them are snacks made with insects.
Whenever he passed by the food stalls, he could always smell the enticing aroma, which was the smell of local spices, which aroused the cravings of Buhara, and made him constantly look towards the food in the shop or stall.
The group walked several streets, and finally stopped in front of a shop with a lot of doors, and the shop was watched by an old man in his sixties and seventies, whose mental power was steadily covering his body.
The products sold in the shop are snacks made from things like scorpions.
Black and red scorpions, fat sandworms, colorful beetles, two-finger-long snakes...
The appearance of these local specialties is basically the same, and the method is not much different, but the snacks sold in the old man's shop are different from those outside, that is, the aroma.
The aroma of other snacks is strong and heavy, and the aroma of the old man's snacks is relatively weak, but it is better than a few points in appearance.
The old man sat on a low stool by the doorway, holding a leaf fan in his hand, his head hung down, as if he was napping, and he was not afraid of the snacks in the stall being taken away.
Lin Nie walked in front of the old man, picked up the crutches he was carrying, and knocked it on the ground, making a muffled sound that made the old man's body tremble slightly.
"Which cow baby, disturbing your grandfather's dreams, is tired of living crookedly, right?"
The old man woke up quietly, and before he could see who was coming, he scolded directly.
Luo and Buhara were speechless on the sidelines, this attitude, it is no wonder that this store has no customers.
Lin Nie listened to the old man's scolding, and his face was still expressionless.
The old man looked up at this time and saw Lin Nie in front of him, and his angry old face was suddenly stunned.
"You are..."
The old man seemed to have seen something incredible, and his eyes widened.
"It's me. Lin Nie said calmly.
The old man seemed to confirm a certain fact in an instant, opened his mouth, and the expression on his face was as if he had knocked over a five-flavor bottle, and he thought of the swear words that came out of his mouth just now, and suddenly felt as uncomfortable as eating stool.
"Sister Nie, I, just now, it was an accident, it was definitely an accident!"
Somehow, the old man smiled awkwardly, then wept inexplicably, and finally smiled happily, and the expression that changed between breaths seemed to have changed in fifty years.
"What about Sa Ling?" Looking at the old man like a child at a loss, a look of remembrance appeared in Lin Nie's cloudy old eyes.
"She. β
The old man's eyelids drooped, and he said in an unrelieved tone, "It's long gone." β
"Is it...," Lin Nie said in a low voice, "She finally went there." β
"Well, I can't stop it, I really can't stop it. The old man stretched out his hands and stroked his forehead, and the tears squeezed out of his withered old eyes, I don't know whether he was happy with Lin Nie's arrival, or sad about the person named Sa Ling.
Lin Nie was silent for a moment, directly changed the topic, and said, "I will stay here for a while with two juniors, is there enough spare room in your house?"
"Enough, sure enough!" the old man jumped up from the low stool, and then asked eagerly, "Sister Nie, how long will you stay here?"
Lin Nie looked back at Luo and Buhara, and said lightly: "It's been a long time." β
As soon as the words fell, she was the leader of the house and walked into the store.
The old man was stunned and watched Lin Nie walk into the store with ease, his mood was extremely complicated, he hadn't seen him for decades, he could recognize Lin Nie at a glance, and Lin Nie could also recognize him at a glance, but the two of them really changed a lot.
"Uncle, then we'll go in too. Luo looked inside the store and said.
"What old man, call me so old, call me Sago!" the old man wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and glared, not to mention, quite powerful.
The corners of Luo's mouth twitched slightly, and he said again: "Brother Sa, can we go in?"
"Come with me. Sago nodded in satisfaction and walked into the store.
"Can I eat these, Sago?" said Bukhara, who stayed where he was, pointing to the various snacks on the stall.
Sage glanced back at Bukhara and said, "Sage is happy today, you can eat as much as you want, it just so happens that you are here to help me watch the stall." β
"Good!" Bukhara nodded vigorously.
Luo's heart skipped a slight beat, and he said, "Isn't this okay?"
"My territory, my way. β
After Sa Ge finished speaking, he walked inside without looking back, he still had to clean Lin Nie's room, as for Luo and their room, he didn't wait.
Luo Mu sent Sage up the stairs, looked back at Buhara, and said, "Take it easy." β
After speaking, he followed Sagoa down the stairs.
At first, Buhara just wanted to taste the taste, so he casually caught a black and red scorpion and threw it into his mouth.
Sago's house occupies a small area, but it has three floors, with shops at the bottom and rooms on the second and third floors, and he cleans Lin Nie's room while asking Luo to go to the third floor to clean his room.
Luo didn't know the relationship between Sage and Lin Nie, but judging from Sa Ge's performance, Lin Nie should be a very important person to him.
If you want to clean the room by yourself, Luo will not complain, and when he walks into the room full of clutter on the third floor, the white smoke font suddenly reacts.
"Huh?"
Luo suddenly looked at the debris piled up on the stone bed, was there a treasure in it?
After a pause, he didn't hesitate and began to carry the mountains of miscellaneous items on the bed.
Half an hour later, a rough female voice came from outside the house.
"Sa Lao'er, your store has been robbed!"
When Sage heard the voice, he confessed to Lin Nie, so he ran to the bottom and was dumbfounded when he saw that the snacks on the stall were all empty.
Buhara sat on the ground with a satisfied expression, and outside the store stood an aunt who had a tonnage that had a fight with Bukhara.
Sagoe looked at Bukhara, who was sitting on the ground, and asked, "Didn't you let you watch?"
"I'm watching. Buhara's face was puzzled.
Sage pointed to the empty stalls and asked, "What about these?
Bukhara shook his head and said, "I've eaten it all." β
"Have you eaten it all!?" shouted Sago.
On the third floor, Luo poked his head out of the small window and shouted at Buhara: "Let you take it easy, you have really eaten it all!"
When Buhara heard the voice, he raised his head and looked at it, and said aggrievedly: "But Brother Sasa let me eat as much as I want." β
"..."Sago.
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