Chapter 9 Lighting up
As the frontier of the Arkor Empire, Peace Town has never been a trade-oriented town, but at this time, in the center of the town, all kinds of traders have gathered.
Aunt Eckfield, who roasted sweet potatoes, had the loudest voice: "Roasted sweet potatoes! Roasted sweet potatoes! Ten roasted sweet potatoes only cost one copper coin! Roasted sweet potatoes that can definitely fill your belly! Young man, come and ......try some roasted sweet potatoes."
At this time, it is the height of summer, and the most are still fruit sellers, but there are only one or two fruit farmers in Heping Town, and most of the fruit vendors come on foot from the south-central part of the empire and last about two or three days to reach Heping Town, so whether it is apples or oranges, they can be sold here at a "good price".
Of course, the "good price" is for the vendors, and for most people in the town, they still like to call these fruit vendors from the south black-hearted vendors.
The strangest thing in the market is the fishmongers, they come from the East, a large number of seafood is packed in wooden barrels, after the fishmongers have traveled a long way, and finally transported here, here is at least 300 kilometers from the coastline, even by horse-drawn carriage, it takes more than a week to walk, in addition to all kinds of live fish, there are some strange pearl corals.
Because of the distance, the price of seafood is also extremely high, so this fish market has become the exclusive domain of the wealthy, except for the dozen or so extremely wealthy families in the town, in normal times, the average family will not go to the fishmongers.
The ground is often muddy due to leaking buckets of fish, and the smell of dead fish continues to fill the air.
Pique walked through the fish market with his nose covered, and then walked past the fruit stalls, looking at the delicious fruits, and feasting his eyes.
"These traders from the south have raised the price of fruit so much, where can ordinary people afford to eat it? Ryder complained, "When they can't sell it, just stay there and get moldy!"
Peake shook his head and said, "There will always be people who buy it, you see those people, the cloth bags in their hands are full of fruits, if you want to eat fruits, you have to buy them at night, and when it is later, they will keep the price down." ”
Soon, they saw Aunt Eckfield shouting there at the top of her voice, and Peake said hello: "Hey, Aunt Eckfield, I'm not buying sweet potatoes today, I'm going to church." ”
"Uh, Peake, look!"
Peake heard Ryder's exclamation, followed his gaze, and said in surprise, "Huh, that donkey is a little familiar, a little like our big black feet." ”
Then Pique reacted, "No!, it's Big Blackfoot! What is it doing?"
I saw Big Blackfoot next to a fruit stand, biting the rope around its neck and tying itself to a stake......
"Our door hasn't had time to be repaired yet, so it should have taken the opportunity to escape. Immediately afterward, Ryder wondered, "But I remember how it untied the rope to our wood." ”
"Just look at it. "Pique knows the big black foot best, and knows that untying a rope is nothing to the big black foot, usually when Pique is at home, the big black foot is tied to the dead knot, these days Pique is not at home, the big black foot can untie the knot tied by Ryder with a few bites with his mouth is also expected by Pique.
Moreover, what Big Black Feet is going to do next, Pique has guessed everything.
Not far away, Big Black Foot circled around the stake a few times and tied the rope around his neck to the stake, but Peake knew that the Big Black Foot was tied to the stake on the surface, and in fact, the stake didn't mean much to Big Black Foot.
After the big black foot "bolted" himself, he looked left and right for a while, and then quietly approached the fruit stand.
I saw it take an apple from the fruit stand, and without biting it, it swallowed it as soon as it tilted its head, and then quietly walked to the vicinity of the stake.
Importantly, the fruit vendor didn't notice that a donkey had stolen an apple from his own hands!
This series of movements is so skillful that Ryder can't believe it: "Hell, is this donkey a sperm?"
Peake shook his head, sighed and said, "It's not over yet, you can keep watching." ”
Big Blackfoot didn't swallow an apple after taking it, but took it in its mouth, and when it returned to the stake, it chewed it again, a fist-sized apple, it chewed it four or five times, swallowed it, and then slowly moved to the back of the fruit stand......
"Nine! Peake, it's only been five minutes, are you sure Big Blackfoot won't be found?"
"Uh? probably not, based on the amount of food Big Blackfoot eats, it won't be satisfied...... And Big Black Feet seems to have a grudge against that fruit seller, some time ago when I took Big Black Feet to pass by his stall, Big Black Feet didn't control himself, eat an apple from him, it was useless for me to apologize, he also took out a whip and slapped Big Black Feet' buttocks, and finally I still took out a copper coin and bought him a basket of apples before stopping, you see, Big Black Feet is a grudge!"
After eating more than a dozen apples, the fruit seller from the south finally found that there was much less fruit on the stall, and he spoke with a southern accent and shouted loudly: "What a shameful thief!
He cursed and looked around with nothing but a tightly tethered black donkey, and he began to wonder if he had misremembered the number of apples.
Looking at the customers around him who were frightened away by his hideous expression, he put on a fake smile and shouted loudly: "Apples and oranges are cheap! A basket of apples is a copper coin! A basket of oranges is two copper coins!"
As he spoke, he took out a few large apples from under the stall and placed them, and five minutes later, without warning, another shout erupted in the market: "Humble, hateful, stupid, shameless thief, who stole my apples!"
"Hahahahaha ”
Peake stood aside and said helplessly, "Do you think this is the end? It's called Big Blackfoot, no, you have to stop it!"
Raisdra stopped Pique, curious to see what Big Blackfoot would do next.
Seeing that Big Blackfoot seemed to think that this method was not enjoyable, he secretly lowered the donkey's head, and his eyes were aimed at the bag of apples under the fruit stand.
What will it do? I saw it use its butt against the fruit vendor, silently approached again, and then, quickly, raised its hind hooves, and bang!
The big black feet' thick hind hooves were like a big stick, aimed at the butt of the fruit seller, and kicked the fruit seller straight out!
"Uh! That's a bit excessive. Peake covered his eyes, and saw Big Black Foot walking away with a bag of apples in his fingers, and couldn't help but sigh: "This thing is too resentful......
"Pique, let's go. Rydra pulled Peake, trying to get out of the crowd, but it was too late, maybe Ryder's laughter attracted the attention of the fruit seller, and the fruit seller who had just gotten up from the ground also realized that something was wrong with the donkey behind him, and when he saw that he couldn't catch up with the donkey, he quickly rushed in front of Peake, pulling Peake's clothes and not letting go.
"It's you! I just saw a donkey with an apple behind me! I know you, you're the owner of the donkey! You pay me for the apple!"
"Don't talk nonsense!" Ryder slapped the fruit seller's hand off Peake's body with a big slap of his hand, and was about to pull Peake away.
Ryder was tall, and the fruit seller thought about giving up when he saw that Peake had such a strong friend and couldn't continue to pursue him.
"Don't go!" At this moment, a tall black horse passed through the crowd with its toes proud, and behind it pulled a carriage of extremely fine workmanship, and a young man with blond hair jumped out of the carriage, and he passed through the crowd, and helped to pick up all the fruits scattered on the ground into the basket, and comforted: "You don't have to worry, I will buy all your fruits today, including the bag that the donkey stole from." ”
"Stop them!" ordered the blond young man.
Ryder was about to pull Pique away when he was stopped by several men who looked like grooms and servants.
"Oh no, that blonde hair is the mayor's son, who usually loves to be in the limelight, heroes save beauty, and see righteousness and bravery, today this is to treat the two of us as the object of bravery. Ryder whispered, "Let's run separately, you on the left and me on the right." ”
"Stop!" The blonde kid saw that Ryder wanted to run, and he took two strides a few meters away and grabbed Ryder's shoulders directly.
Ryder was two heads taller than him, but he couldn't break free from his control, and soon, characters like the groom servant next to him joined in and controlled Ryder with great force.
One of them was dressed more modestly, and looked like a butler, with a big mouth and a whoa-wah-wah, but he couldn't say a word, and Ryder thought to himself: this is a dumb butler.
All eyes were on Ryder, who was trying to escape, but Peake didn't move, no one noticed him, instead, watching the crowd push him to the back......
Now is a good time to escape.
Run?
Of course not!
Let's not say that Ryder was caught, that is, Ryder was not caught, and Pique had no intention of escaping.
The young man questioned Ryder: "You are a thief, your donkey eats other people's apples, naturally you have to pay others, do you want to run away if you don't lose money?"
Ryder refused to admit it: "Why do you say it's my donkey, I just passed through here." ”
"What are you running if it's not your donkey?" the young man smiled lightly, he had a thin face, the corners of his thin lips were raised, and his eyes were sharp, as if he had won the battle: "Do you dare to swear to the gods?"
"Hmph, it's not my donkey, do you have what it takes to catch that donkey, what are you going to do with me?" Ryder planned to die and not admit it.
"It's my family!" Peake finally pulled away from the crowd, squeezed in, and said sincerely: "I'm willing to compensate this boss for his losses, let him go." ”
The blonde young man froze when he heard this, and looked at his butler and servant in embarrassment.
Peake took out a bag from his bosom, took out two copper coins, handed them to the fruit seller, and said, "A basket of apples and a copper coin, and those that fell on the ground, give you two copper coins, it is very reasonable." ”
"The two of you were meant to be together. The fruit seller said in disgust, "Moreover, your donkey has not only stolen my fruit once!"
The blond young man saw someone "turn himself in", thinking that he had caught the wrong person, which was a little embarrassing, but then the fruit vendor's words made him refreshed, it was good that he didn't catch the wrong person, he thought about it, and said to the onlookers: "Okay, okay, everyone, be quiet, I, Gei Pizza, as the son of the mayor of the town of Peace, have the responsibility to protect everyone's interests, and if you have any trouble in the future, you can go to the mayor's house to find me, and I will do my best to help everyone's ......"
"Well done!"
"Gey is doing well!"
Some of the onlookers recognized it early as the son of the town mayor's family, and those who didn't know it also knew it after this "righteous and courageous act", and they praised it one after another.
"It turned out to be the son of the mayor's family, no wonder he looks so handsome. Some young girls thought so.
"Master Pisa, I will buy fruit at my house and give you half price!" The fruit seller chased after the carriage and shouted loudly, "Give you half price!"
While the blonde boy was giving his speech, Pique took the opportunity to knock Redra out of the crowd.
Ryder cursed unconvinced: "This kid from the mayor's family is too good at installing lights." ”
"Uh, what do you mean by installing lights?"
Then you may not have heard the joke that your grandfather told, that is, a group of blind people get together, and everyone can't see the road, and then there is a blind man who says, I have a lamp, let's just go with me, but in fact he doesn't have a lamp, just to show off, and in the end, the blind people are all taken to the ditch by him, which is called installing lights. Ryder finished explaining, and then continued viciously: "Don't let me meet this guy with a golden retriever with a lamp, let me meet him alone and see if I don't beat him into a lamp!"
"Hahahaha install lights, this kid is really good at lights. Peake recalled the appearance of the golden retriever boy's speech, and laughed: "If you feel wronged, you can tell Big Black Feet, Big Black Feet will help you vent!"
"Pique, why didn't you run just now, they caught me and couldn't do anything to me. Ryder thought about it for a while, and felt that Peake was really righteous, at this moment, his heart welled up with emotion, but he still hated iron more in his heart, "It's not okay for you to be so honest all the time, you laugh there stupidly all day long, and you will be cheated by others every time you go out." ”
"Let's not talk about that, the important thing is that we have to hurry up and buy holy water, by the way, we have to find the big black feet......"