Chapter 7 Night Market
Wang Shentong wanted to go out to set up a stall in the afternoon, but was stopped by Yuen Long.
"L.A. is so hot in the afternoon, that's why I'll go out for a walk like this, and I'll be bumped into by you. ”
Yuen Long said that the night market in Los Angeles was very lively, because more than 10 years ago, there were monsters raging in Los Angeles, and the people did not dare to go out at night, and the city lord did nothing, so the people of Los Angeles were very worried for months. A few months later, he changed to the new city owner, who is now the current one. The lord of the new city brought an army, not many in number, but all of them were elite, this army took turns patrolling at night, searching around during the day, and finally, after half a year, there were no more monsters in Los Angeles. People have been suppressed for too long, and all of a sudden there is no curfew, they are all active, and gradually form a night market culture, which has developed to the present, which is a characteristic of Los Angeles.
The two of them have been here for a while, but they basically haven't gone out at night, when they first arrived in Los Angeles, they were relatively wealthy, and they still walked around during the day, but later, they couldn't eat, so naturally they didn't have the leisure to visit the night market.
Helping Wang Shentong tidy up the piano, Yuen Long is about to leave.
"I'll have to go back to my lodgings to pack up and get in touch with tomorrow's carriage. ”
The two offered to send him off, and Yuen Long waved his hand: "It's not worth sending, there will be a chance to meet in the future." So he took Zhu Xiaorong's model and left.
Most of the night markets in Los Angeles are mobile stalls, on a first-come, first-served basis, so although it is an evening business, someone will go to occupy a place in the afternoon, and when the two arrived, there were already long queues of stalls on the street.
The night market in Los Angeles is very lively, and security is naturally a top priority.
Tonight, it is Zheng Yang's turn to patrol North Street.
Zheng Yang has been very unhappy in the past two days, yesterday for his brother-in-law to get angry and return without saying much, the hero does not suffer the immediate loss, he can digest it slowly, but I don't know which one kills a thousand knives and has a mouthful, from this morning, various versions of the 'Zheng Yang eating deflated' incident began to circulate, what "the strong man in the nuclear realm was beaten by a child", please, who was beaten? He Zheng Yang clearly surrendered before being beaten. The most outrageous and the most widely circulated is "Qin Shengyuan Long Shen Yun disturbed Zheng Yang's state of mind, and the strong man in the Gathering Core Realm was defeated by the hands of children", this rumor was personally relayed to him by his good brother Goji. If it weren't for the thought that the two brothers who were injured were still lying in the infirmary, which calmed him down, he would have to go to that stinky boy to fight again, even if he was beaten to the point that he was half-paralyzed, he would have to rub his skin a little.
Now Zheng Yang is walking on the street, feeling that everyone is looking at him with strange eyes, Zheng Yang knows in his heart that not so many people know him, people look at him because he is an officer and soldier, but Zheng Yang is still uncomfortable.
One of the four senior soldiers who accompanied him was involved in yesterday's accident, and he saw Zheng Yang's discomfort, so he encouraged him loudly: "Don't worry, boss, no one here knows that you are Zheng Yang who was defeated by a child yesterday." ”
Now Zheng Yang is much more comfortable.
After the people on the street learned that he was the hero of that story, they didn't dare to touch his moldy head, and when Zheng Yang passed by, they all lowered their heads and did their own thing.
There is only one exception for the stalls.
"Yo! Isn't this Uncle Bing!" Wang Shentong greeted him warmly, "Uncle Bing, come and see Qin." ”
Zheng Yang laughed with him: "No, no, no, what about my official business......"
Wang Shentong became more enthusiastic: "Look, you can't arrest me back because I obstruct official business." ”
"No, no, no......" Zheng Yang was forced to look at the piano, he stretched out his hand and touched the strings tremblingly, and then immediately retracted as if pricked, "Good piano!"
"Why don't you buy such a good piano?"
"No, no, no, the cheap is strictly controlled, and I don't have much money in my hands. Zheng Yang glanced up at Ji Lin and found that his attention was not on him.
What a terrifying child, this is also an age of study in Los Angeles, but the combat power he showed yesterday has a crushing advantage compared to himself in the early stage of the Gathering Core Realm, I am afraid that he can break his wrist with the powerhouses of the Shengmen Realm, and compared with the young master of the same period, it is not much better. Such a talented child, how big a family background can be cultivated, he also knows how terrifying it should be to come out to experience life, and grow up in the future, please yourself while you can please now, face or anything is the least important, he Zheng Yang is a smart person.
"Brother Bing and uncle are all married?" Wang Shentong pretended to be shocked.
"The blind cat bumped into a dead mouse. ”
"Have children?"
"Not big. ”
"Hobbies are meant to be cultivated from an early age. ”
"Children are stupid. ”
"Practicing the piano develops the intellect. ”
"The child was born with a disability and did not have long hands. ”
"With your feet...... It's not good, right, then buy it back and play it, so that he can accept more artistic edification. ”
"My child is a deaf ......"
Ji Lin looked at Zheng Yang, and Zheng Yang's cold sweat broke out all of a sudden.
"The descendants of the dragon, of course, must have all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique and beauty," Zheng Yang took out the money, "How much does it cost?"
"Fifty thousand. Wang Shentong said with a smile.
Compared to the dreary daytime, the night market in Los Angeles is like a child who has just finished his homework, and the air is filled with happiness.
After the sun had completely set, a white light suddenly burst out of the center of the city, screaming and rising upwards, as if to pierce the sky, but suddenly, the white light was lost, and the sky returned to silence, and after a while, a wide and scattered light of various colors bloomed from the darkness, and then a grand explosion awakened the vitality of the whole city, and people began to cheer.
There was someone next to him who knew who Jiolin and Wang Shentong were, and took the initiative to explain to them: "This is the monthly fireworks night in Los Angeles. ”
"Once a month. He watched infatuatedly, and for the first time he understood the romance of this border city.
Young people gathered from all directions, and out of that place came out of the street some people playing gongs and drums, singing and dancing, laughing and laughing as if they were not troubled.
Wang Shentong was singing loudly to the music, if it weren't for business, he would have joined them a long time ago.
These young people were all children in Los Angeles more than ten years ago when the monsters were at their most rampant, and at that age when they had to put everything down to play after studying private school, they were the most vulnerable group and were bound for too long.
Young people now want to regain their former happiness tenfold and hundredfold, and despite the suspicion of overkill, everyone enjoys it.
In the midst of such extreme excitement, a voice that was so light that people ignored asked, "Excuse me, is this really the piano signed by Prince Yuen Long?"
A plainly dressed girl stood in front of the booth of the two, looking at Yan Lin with a somewhat cramped gaze. Wang Shentong was still singing, as if he hadn't heard the girl's inquiry.
"What?" asked her.
"This," the girl stretched out a small finger, pointed to Yuen Long's signature, and said timidly, "Is this signed by Yuen Long Gongzi himself?"
Youngen looked at the girl. The girl was obviously well-dressed, and her hair was coiled up in the most fashionable look of the moment, but the bun was too high and her face was too small to look appropriate. At the age of fifteen or sixteen, there is no need to apply rouge, and the face is a faint crimson because of the shyness that belongs to a girl for a long time, which is combined with her eyes with affection, which makes people can't help but feel a little pity. The girl's clothes are extremely ordinary, and the materials are not luxurious, but they are very neat, and there is a flower embroidered on each of the two cuffs, which is asymmetrical, and there is a stitch that is wrong, and it is a little scribbled.
She's a cute girl, but not like she can afford a piano.
Yi Lin replied to her: "It was signed by Yuen Long, and the piano was also personally chosen by him," Yi Lin was afraid that such a concise answer would make the girl feel that she looked down on her, and asked: "Miss, did you buy it for your own use?"
"Ah, no, isn't it ......" the girl shook her head, "it's my little sister, she's about to have a birthday, she likes Yuen Long very much, I want to make her happy," the girl's eyes were a little red, and she whispered in a voice that she could almost only hear, "After all, this may be her last birthday......" As if she felt that she was talking too much, the girl sniffed and was about to ask for the price. Her fingers first pointed to the one in the most luxurious case, hovered above it for a moment, and then moved to the plain packaging next to it.
"So, how much is this?" the girl's voice became more and more inaudible.
"This," Yi Lin was a little embarrassed, "this is ten thousand. He tried his best to keep the price as low as possible, although the difference was not too big for the girl to afford.
Sure enough, after hearing Yelin's offer, the girl's eyes darkened significantly, this was not a price she could accept at all, and she was not even qualified to bargain.
"Well, thank you. The girl bowed slightly, and was about to leave.
"How do you do business!" Wang Shentong didn't know when he hadn't been singing, "People are interested in asking, don't they introduce the price to others?"
Ji Lin felt inexplicable, obviously the price you set, these are all 20,000 pianos, is it possible to introduce her to the 200,000 yuan?
"Miss," Wang Shentong chased after him, "Let's get to know better." ”
"No, no," the girl was startled, "I won't buy it." ”
"It's really good. ”
"I know, but it's not quite right. The girl bowed.
"Such a good piano is not suitable?" Wang Shentong picked up the piano in the most luxurious piano case and shook it in front of the girl. In order to show the difference, Wang Shentong not only prepared a unique package for it, but also asked Yuen Long to write some insights on it.
The girl's eyes lit up again, she pursed her lips, tried several times, and finally mustered up the courage to ask, "How is this sold?" Although I knew that it was impossible, I still wanted to ask clearly, so that I could have hope.
Ji Lin didn't want to hear it anymore, he didn't understand what the meaning of Wang Shentong calling the girl back, humiliating her with a more expensive qin?
Wang Shentong pretended to be thoughtful and said, "Three thousand." ”
The girl's eyes were wide open, her face was full of incredulity, and she straightened her back.
Wang Shentong looked embarrassed: "Ouch Miss, three thousand is really cheap," he touched his chin and looked around at the girl, "I see that you sincerely want it, in this way, two thousand and a half, can not be less." ”
"But......" The girl couldn't hold back the excitement in her heart, "it will cost 18,000 ...... just now."
"yes, that's really 18,000, what's wrong?"
"This obviously looks more expensive......" The girl wondered for a moment if the boss was lying to herself, but immediately dispelled this idea, she listened to the legend, the appearance of these two boys is completely in line with the legend, it is right to know Yuen Long, then the signature must also be true. When she heard the piano she asked at the beginning was 18,000, she thought to herself that it was really like this, it was a very normal price, but this one looked so much better than the one just now, and the boss actually only said that it would cost 2,005.
Wang Shentong took the piano and observed it repeatedly: "Why do you think it's expensive?" He pointed to the words written in Yuen Long, "Is it because there are too many words? Or is it that the piano case is good-looking?"
Without waiting for the girl to answer, Wang Shentong continued: "It is precisely because it is the cheapest that I have to write so many words, and I am afraid that it will not be sold if it is packaged in the most beautiful piano box!" Wang Shentong handed the piano to the girl, "Doesn't your sister play the piano to see its sound quality, and also to see how many words it has? ”
The girl was amused by Wang Shentong, although it was only for a moment.