Chapter 68: Foothold (3)
Early the next morning, Chen Shouyi accompanied his parents to look for a rental house.
Houses are not hard to find, and in today's situation of no electricity and lack of orders, most of the factories have been closed, and many migrant workers have rushed home, so there are not many houses to rent.
"Oh, eldest sister, this really can't be cheap, in the past, one thousand and five people rushed to rent, but now it's only one thousand two, which is much cheaper. "The landlord was a well-dressed middle-aged woman in her forties, who looked like a cultured person.
However, bargaining has nothing to do with whether it is a gentleman or not, this is the natural ability of every middle-aged woman.
"You also said that it was before, and now who still comes to rent a house, if we don't rent, you will only be empty here, and there can be no more than a thousand. Of course, Chen's mother's bargaining ability is not weak at all.
"Oh, isn't this temporary, and the power can be cut off forever, and as soon as the power comes, the house price will rise. ”
"Buying and selling are all about the market price, but don't look at whether there is any appreciation, and when the electricity comes, I don't know when?"
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The two women begin to bargain with each other.
Chen Shouyi's two siblings and Chen Dawei stood beside them in a daze, unable to interject at all.
Ten minutes later, in the end, Chen's mother was a step ahead, and the transaction was successfully completed with 1,000 per month.
The house is a five-storey self-built house, with the landlord's family living on the fourth floor, and the first floor being rented to another family.
The remaining second and third floors are still empty, and Chen Shouyi's family chose the third floor.
In order to rent it out, the landlord deliberately built an open-air staircase on the outside of the house, which can be passed through the first floor without hassle.
Because of the less luggage, the move didn't take long.
But the next purchase took a whole day, whether it was pots and pans, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, or various daily necessities, pillows and quilt covers, all need to be repurchased, and even the clothes after the autumn have to be repurchased.
At dinner time in the evening.
Chen Shouyi looked at Chen's mother's frowning brows, and couldn't help asking, "Mom, are you out of money?"
"It's all an adult business, so you don't have to worry about it. Mother Chen said subconsciously, but immediately felt that something was wrong after speaking.
Last night, she tossed and turned and couldn't sleep all night, not all because she was frightened, most of the time, but she kept thinking about the attitude of her son after he killed someone, treating human life and nothing.
Although the son has helped the family kill chickens and fish since he was a child.
But murder is different after all, even if she and her husband watch it from afar, they are flustered and scared.
As a result, his son, as if nothing happened, not only cleaned up the scene calmly, but also pulled the arrows out of the corpse one by one.
She felt that her son must not be the first time to kill someone, otherwise he would not have behaved so calmly at all.
Since it can kill, robbery is even simpler.
If he felt that the family had no money, would his son rob it?
The more she thought about it, the more uneasy she became, and hurriedly said: "The cash is enough in a short time, so I'm worried about whether there will be trouble withdrawing the deposit?"
Chen Shouyi said unnoticed. "Don't take it for the time being, so as not to leak the information, if you don't have any money, I still have some in hand. ”
"How many do you have?" Chen Mu hurriedly asked.
"Nearly 10,000 yuan!" This 10,000 yuan was the last time he withdrew it from the bank, and it has cost a total of several hundred yuan in the past few days.
Mother Chen breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, and then heard Chen Shouyi continue: "In addition, I still have a few pieces of gold, if I sell them, I can sell them for twenty or thirty thousand." ”
He didn't dare to say more, for fear of scaring his parents.
In fact, during this time, he has accumulated more than two kilograms of gold sand, even if the purity of these gold sand is only more than 80, it can be sold for about 300,000 yuan on the black market, and if you add the deposit, he is now 500,000 yuan.
"Where did you get the gold?" Chen Mu immediately said with a serious face, "By the way, I haven't asked you how you have a bow and a sword?"
Chen Xingyue couldn't help but look at his brother, just to see what reason he could make up.
"Well, the gold is actually natural gold, picked up by the stream. After selling it for some money, he bought a bow and a sword. Chen Shouyi was stunned, and hurriedly said the excuse that he had thought of a long time ago.
"How much does it cost?" said Chen's mother, incredulously.
Now she doesn't believe a word about this son's words.
In the past, this son was still very well-behaved, and he listened to her the most, telling him not to dare to go west.
But I don't know when it started, and I didn't know it anymore.
If it weren't for this incident, who would have thought that his son would still have this side, it is estimated that the two people who monitored his family last night were not knocked out by him, but killed by him.
"More than 100,000, all second-hand. In order to prove it, Chen Shouyi returned to his room, found a few slightly larger gold nuggets from the small pocket of his backpack, and put them on the table, making a clanging sound:
"I found a lot of it at the beginning, and now that's all that's left. ”
"And what do you buy swords and bows for?"
Mother Chen glanced at a few golds, and before she could ask again, she was interrupted by Chen Dawei: "
"Don't ask, Shouyi, you can take the gold back, your father and mother are not old, enough to feed this family.
Now that you've grown up and have your own secrets, we don't ask more, and your parents are ordinary people, so they can't care about it. But as a person, you must abide by your own bottom line, and you must not do anything illegal. ”
Chen Shouyi's heart was moved when he heard this, and he hurriedly nodded: "Got it, Dad!"
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In the bedroom at night, Chen Shouyi sat on a chair, holding his breath and staring at the candle tightly.
The candle shook imperceptibly and slightly.
"There is still a faint force, although it has almost become the same as nothing. Chen Shouyi thought secretly in his heart.
Once on Earth, his stat panel's innate ability to "control the atmosphere" was gone. However, he found that this ability was not completely gone, and he was still able to weakly interfere with the movement of the air.
It's just that the ability is too weak, so it is not displayed in the properties panel.
After a while, he drew his sword.
He recalled the feeling he had had last time he had been energized, and he leaned into the flame little by little.
When the tip of the sword approached the flames, the flames suddenly shook violently, as if a breeze was spraying out from the tip of the sword.
He stopped, and at the same speed again, a sword slowly stabbed out, and unlike the first time, this time his mind relaxed.
This time the flames didn't shake much.
"Is this the ability to control the atmosphere, or is it some other unknown force?" he wondered in his heart, "But the degree of deviation of the flame just now seems to be far beyond his own power to manipulate the atmosphere." ”
At this time, his heart moved, and he walked out of the bedroom and found a box of tofu from the kitchen.
Then tear open the package, pour dry water, cut a small piece, and place it vertically on the desk.
Then he gathered his mind, aimed the tip of his sword at the tofu, and stabbed it out little by little again.
He keenly noticed that when the tip of the sword was less than three centimeters away from the tofu, the surface of the tofu began to tremble slightly, and when it approached one centimeter, strips of tofu filaments as thin as hair continued to fall from the surface.
Chen Shouyi immediately withdrew his sword and looked at the piece of tofu carefully for a while, his face surprised.
I saw that the surface of the tofu seemed to be repeatedly cut by some force, and a narrow slit about three or four centimeters long and less than half a millimeter thick appeared.
When he cut the tofu vertically and slice it open, he found that the deepest part was a centimeter deep.
"Could it be that this is sword qi?"