Chapter 1 The Man from Above
"The original world has experienced an apocalyptic crisis, and a terrifying creature called "zombies" has wreaked havoc on the world. But this terrifying existence was exterminated by a young man who called himself the Grim Reaper, and the Grim Reaper also established a paradise known as the Peach Blossom Garden. ”
I saw an old man dressed in a long robe, telling a group of children a story about the Peach Blossom Land in front of a breakfast shop. While talking, I ate the fritters in my hands with relish and drank soy milk.
The children around him were all gray-faced, but listening to the story told by the old man, their eyes lit up. Even the workers who were about to go to work in the factory after eating breakfast listened with interest to the old man's story.
"I saw the Grim Reaper holding the broken sword in his hand, with some banter in his eyes, and stabbed at the vampire......"
The old man told the story of death and the Peach Blossom Spring, which everyone knows, but the old man's version is different, he adds certain episodes of his own imagination to the story, and people listen to it as if the old man is telling the story of his time.
From time to time, the old man would also make some movements that he thought were cool, which caused everyone to laugh.
But Su Yue on the side was different, he had read these stories in the books he kept privately at home. Su Yue, who was in the early shop, only cared about loading his mother's fried fritters for the guests, then beating the tofu brain, pouring soup on the guests.
"I said Su Yue, why is your family getting smaller and smaller?" Some regulars frowned as they ate the fritters in their hands, as if they were dissatisfied with Su Yue's drawing.
Su Yue looked at each other with helpless eyes, meaning: Because of what, don't you know it?
The regulars also understood and didn't say much, just looked around, as if expecting someone to arrive.
No, whoever you think about will come, just as Su Yue was seriously selling breakfast, I only heard the person next to him muttering: "Ouch, someone looking for trouble is here." Su Yue looked up, and the culprit who caused the fritters to smoke was here.
The man who came was tall and big, with much more muscles than the coolies around him, and he was a big man with a rough face. I saw him look around and greet the crowd who were eating breakfast, and when he looked at Su Yue, he found that Su Yue was also looking at him quite hostilely, so he laughed.
The people around looked at the rough man and Su Yue, and they all laughed secretly in their hearts, because they knew that they would be able to spend less money on this meal today.
Although the rough man in front of him was smiling brightly, no one around him was a fool, and they all saw the cunning of this man, in fact, this man often patronized Su Yue's early shop, but he always bargained.
"Ten fritters, a bowl of tofu brain and tofu. ”
"Okay, eight red coins. ”
The big man in front of him looked embarrassed, he searched his pocket, and took out five red coins from his pocket.
"Oh, you see, it's a coincidence, I don't have a shortage of orange coins and yellow coins in my pocket, but I just don't have a few red coins, five counts. After that, the rough man also showed Su Yue his pocket, which was yellow and orange, but he couldn't see the bright red.
Su Yue's face suddenly looked bad when he heard this, and he thought that this product was worthy of coming to find trouble. But looking at the other party's pocket coins, he knew that he couldn't afford to offend the other party.
Today's world has adopted a new currency, using the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple to show the value of different colors of currency. However, the blue, blue and purple currency can only be used by nobles of prominent status, just like the ancient official silver, it is a crime for ordinary people to own these three colors of currency.
Other red, orange, yellow and green currencies are used by the public, but due to the different working abilities and incomes of the people, the color of the currency in their hands has also become the color of their rank.
Just like Su Yue, the currency earned every day is basically the lowest level of red coins, and because it costs a lot of red coins to buy materials, pay various taxes, pay rent, etc., the remaining red coins are only enough to exchange orange coins for one thousand. Therefore, the few orange coins in the family have also become the currency that marks the rank of the Su Yue family.
"Hmm...... No, brother, this is a small business, we can't afford to be cheap!" Su Yue knew that he couldn't afford to offend the other party, but seeing so many people around him, he really couldn't give him cheap.
Because...... Su Yue has lowered the price for him more than once, once Su Yue lowers the price again, can the people around him who eat breakfast be happy? "What's the matter? Bullying us is not as big as others?
Well, then we can only sell it at the reduced price. Fortunately, the price does not increase but can be drawn, and as the price decreases, the fritters also become smaller and thinner. And what about tofu brains? Don't worry, there is enough soup, and the tofu will definitely not give you that much.
"Haha, don't, we're all brothers, and we're still missing these two money, hurry up, five!" The rough man heard Su Yue, who was nearly 20 years younger than himself, call him brother, and felt a little funny, and patted Su Yue on the shoulder. He turned around and found a place to sit. Su Yue also knew that this was the master who was not taking advantage of the unpleasant, so he didn't say anything more, it was a big deal to continue to smoke sticks, fritters into rods, and tofu brain soup. Shaking his head, the work in hand was not delayed at all.
Just waited for the rough man to gobble up the food, and the people around him had already finished eating and left, probably because they were afraid that the fritters would become rods and the tofu brain soup would be left, no one would take the opportunity to bargain as before, and the old man was shaking his head and just about to leave.
"Wait, old fellow!" the rough man suddenly made a face and stopped the old man who was leaving.
"Huh?" The old man was a little inexplicable, and he didn't seem to have anything to do with the big man.
"Recently, someone has come from above, so it's better not to tell this story, otherwise ......"
As soon as he heard that there was someone above, the old man was frightened and hurriedly nodded at the rough man, as if the rough man in front of him was the person above, and then turned around and ran away. And Su Yue's hands trembled with fright, and the soup that had just been sprinkled on the tofu brain overflowed a little out of the bowl.
The city where Su Yue is located is called Congee City, which is named because of the low-lying terrain of the whole city. Although there are high-rise buildings around, they are all pre-apocalyptic buildings, and they have long been surrounded by plants. Only the ground floor building is barely cleaned, giving people the feeling of a pre-apocalyptic slum.
Therefore, very few of the nobles above will come here in person, and once they do, something big will definitely happen.
"It's not as scary as you think, but I heard the story of the Peach Blossom Paradise here, so I came to inspect it. The rough man looked at Su Yue and said.
"Then you come today, in fact, ......" Su Yue suddenly realized, the rough man in front of him could know that there was news about the nobles above, and it was definitely not an ordinary big businessman or hunter. And the rough man nodded with a serious expression as if confirming what Su Yue was thinking.
"Little brother, you have to throw away the unnecessary things in the house lately, or you will be frozen to pieces by that bad-tempered nobleman. ”