"You want money?" He snorted, "Money is not a problem, you can just offer me a price, there is no need to play this show for me here." ”

The man's full name was Kugin Alecshan, and Qiu Xuan had seen him in the genealogy on that wall a few minutes earlier. Nominally the second generation of Alec Mountain who is still alive today, he is also the younger brother of the patriarch.

"I want money." Qiu Xuan smiled and followed the other party's words. "Let's see what's wrong with this umbrella first, and I'll be able to estimate what price I should pay then...... After all, Lottie is my friend, so I can't ask for more money from my 'friend'. ”

Hearing this, the brown-haired girl stiffened and looked back at her in disbelief, obviously unable to understand when they became friends.

And Ku Jin raised his eyes after a little thought, and did not reach out to take the bone umbrella handed over, but Lao Cheng said: "We can pay three hundred dollars of silver and pay the full amount in one lump sum, how about it?" If I'm right, this amount of money should be a lot of money for you, enough to squander for a long time, right? ”

If it weren't for stepping on the land of Alec Yamamoto's family now, Qiu Xuan would probably have turned his face on the spot.

Three hundred dollars of silver is indeed a huge amount of money, for an ordinary citizen of Drow City who works on the ground, if she gets this money, she can not only use it to eat a long-lost full meal, but also a considerable part of the surplus to do her own things.

This Kujin had obviously briefly investigated her identity in a very short period of time before, so now he was sure that Qiu Xuan would definitely agree. Because it is useless for an ordinary laborer who "has a meal but no meal" to hold such a bone umbrella, and exchanging money for food is the top priority.

And Qiu Xuan knew that ten days ago, when the redhead was still in Zhuoer City, he reached a deal with the first black merchant at the price of 500 yuan for a bone umbrella - this is still the price at which the umbrella was sold when it was not "genuine", and the blonde black merchant Alecshan was just an intermediary, and the finished goods delivered to the buyer in the end could at least double again.

Therefore, Kujin's so-called price of 300 yuan to buy an umbrella has already given you the greatest convenience based on the tone, but in fact, he is simply relying on his own profession to bully outsiders who don't know how to do it.

After hearing this, the first person to show a strange expression was the brown-haired girl. She first subconsciously glanced back at her titular uncle, and then, as if thinking of something, opened her mouth, but in the end she didn't say a word.

Qiu Xuan glanced up at the two of them.

"Three hundred dollars, it's a bit too much!" She sorted out her facial expression for a moment, and the movement of waving her hand even carried a little panic. "Mr. Alecshan, as I said, although I am short of money, I can't bully people like this!"

"Do you say that a broken umbrella is still a problematic umbrella, and you actually give the price of three hundred dollars of silver! When I say this, everyone else has to scold me for being greedy and saying that I am a bully! No, no, no, I see, you give me fifty dollars, and I'll give you the umbrella directly! What do you say, Mr. Alecshan? ”

Kukin's expression on the other side was a little stunned after being stunned for a moment, and after reacting, he glanced at the other party with a "really stupid" gaze.

And now, after seeing Qiu Xuan finish speaking, she really wanted to hand over the bone umbrella at a price of fifty yuan, the brown-haired girl Lottie pursed her lips and looked like she had done a great psychological struggle, and finally she really couldn't pass the conscience level, and said: "Oh, my uncle agreed to make a deal with you at a price of three hundred yuan, how can you still bargain?" Fifty dollars is too ...... If it's less, it's three hundred, or it's just three hundred. ”

She said that her tone sounded a little empty even to herself, and Kujin snorted meaninglessly and opened her mouth. "Yes, since you're a friend of Lottie's and she said so, then you can say yes. It just so happens that we can ...... Make a friend, right? Maybe it will be able to help in the future. ”

Qiu Xuan also smiled, "No, no, no, it's too much, I'm already very content with fifty dollars." As for three hundred dollars? Three hundred dollars, isn't this bullying an honest man! I can't do that kind of thing. ”

Kukin: "......"

Lottie: "......"

The brown-haired man then restrained his expression and glanced at the seemingly indignant man, and for a moment he was not sure whether this person was sarcastic or really stupid. But on second thought, according to the results of a hurried glance before entering the hall, this person named Afu had just come to Drow City a month ago, and as soon as he arrived, he had entered the Jima Mansion on the ground to work, and there had never been anything unusual in a month.

It seems that the only thing that went out of the ordinary was to participate in the just-concluded Gluttony Contest ticket distribution and pass the selection, but this is nothing, after all, the Gluttony Contest is the last hope for the precarious people at the bottom of Drow City. As for getting the tickets...... Probably because of luck.

Kujin made a brief analysis in his heart, and a smile fell back on his face, and he was about to say something when he heard the other side interrupt him.

"So be it, Mr. Alexandre." Qiu Xuan unhesitantly folded the bone umbrella and placed it on the huge long table in the center of the living room, "Although I don't understand, I'm really interested in this." I'm still only fifty dollars enough, but the remaining two hundred and fifty ...... Can I stay for a while and see how you fix this umbrella? ”

"Absolutely!"

It was Lottie who blurted out, a girl whose mind was not so turning, who had been in a state of guilt for a long time. Hearing Qiu Xuan's words, he immediately crossed over to Kujin and agreed, and after blurting out, he seemed to realize that something was wrong, and glanced at his parents carefully.

Kujin gave a meaningful warning with a look in his eyes, and when he looked back again, he was already smiling politely. "Well, few young people nowadays are willing to take the initiative to learn a craft, and of course it's a good thing that you want to stay."

As he spoke, he naturally picked up the bone umbrella that Qiu Xuan had placed on the table, as if it was already the pride and imperative of the thing in his hand. Qiu Xuan stood next to Lottie with a somewhat apologetic gaze, watching this person's expression change from calm to frightened.

"What's going on......"

He muttered to himself as he slowly slid his fingers over the skeleton of the umbrella handle, and the more he touched it, the more wrong it became, until he looked up in this direction without caring about the little bit of stance.

"How did you get the crack in this handle? Well, which of you dropped it? How the hell did you get it! ”

"No one fell, it gradually ended up like this over time." Nature

As if he hadn't heard this, Cunkin shook his head and kept repeating "No, no", while beckoning Lottie to go to his studio to get tools.

Qiu Xuan sat next to him and watched him look down and study hard for almost two hours, and finally, Ku Jin wiped his almost sweaty coat and looked up from the table.

His voice was hoarse and rough, "This umbrella is not completely 'genuine'. ”

"What, it can't be!" Lottie exclaimed, "I've checked it several times, and it's genuine." I'm not as good as you, but I'm not even mistaken! ”

"It's not!" Ku Jintou shouted without looking back, "Listen to what I say, this umbrella is genuine, yes, but it's not completely genuine!" It is the 'defective product' of the genuine products! ”

“…… What the? ”

"Lottie, do you remember the pair of tooth earrings that Big Brother found in the Undeveloped Resource Zone? It is made of two symmetrical premolar teeth on the same person. Kujin sat on the work chair and looked in a direction from afar, and said, "When we got those earrings, we thought they were genuine, but on a winter solstice day, when the eldest brother used it to listen, something happened. ”

Thirty years ago, in a mountain pass that crisscrossed between Oser and a beam, a knight of the law enforcement team discovered an undeveloped resource mine under the land on his way on a mission.

This is big news, Beelzebub, including the lords of the land, attach great importance to it, and immediately recruit a group of mining teams, ready to dig out that resource land overnight.

Halfway through the digging, the patriarch of Alex Mountain, Kukin's eldest brother, risked his life to go to Beelzebub and beg him to stop mining the resource immediately.

"I 'heard' the wrath of the Father." "On this winter solstice, I brought back these tooth earrings from the mines, and I heard with my own ears the Father warning us not to continue our exploration. ”

That's right, the patriarch at that time, as the technician needed by the mining team, followed him to the development site. However, in a few days, he found the human bone artifact from the excavated mine, and brought it back to the family, ready to "listen to God" on the upcoming winter solstice.

No one knows what the patriarch heard on that winter solstice, only that when the patriarch came out of the dark room, the whole person kept repeating "disaster is coming" in a crazy mouth.

Then none of them looked at him, and he went to Beelzebub single-handedly. At that time, Beelzebub's only reaction to the madness of an "apostate" was to have him tied up and returned to Alexandre's house.

No one listened to the patriarch, and the mining of the resource area continued day after day. Finally, one day the "disaster" really came, but this so-called disaster was not the prophesied wrath of the Father, but on the day it was about to be completed, a man covered in black powder rushed into the mine that had been cleared with a torch.

The entire resource area was blown up, and even a Grade B beam that was connected to it collapsed in a crumbling state.

Later, a relatively intact finger was found in the blasted rubble, and that finger was unusual for ordinary people, with only one bone joint. Only the patriarch of Mount Alec had such fingers in Drow, and the identity of the man who had destroyed the entire mine by self-destruction was identified.

In order to protect themselves, the new patriarch of Alex Mountain announced that they had already dissociated themselves from the dead patriarch, and that the former patriarch had gone crazy because the pair of human bone ornaments he had obtained were "defective".

Alec Hills compared the difference between the human tooth earrings that killed the former patriarch and those "genuine" products in the past, and finally a new generation of young people found the clue, and he found that the pair of earrings were absorbing the "qi" of the living as if they were alive.

Although it is very subtle, if it is not for the psychological preparation for a long time, normal people will not be able to find this at all.

So in order to test this hypothesis, Alecshan spent some money to buy a dead slave on the black market, and wore the pair of earrings on his earlobes without taking them off. Every day, this man did the same work and ate the same muddy soup as other slaves, and for a long time he was no different from ordinary people.

But a year later, Alecshan, who had been involved in the incident, saw the slave again in the factory, and he had been deflated like a sucked human skin, leaving only the outer layer of his body to keep him moving.

Another year passed, and the slave was completely "dead". The bed he was lying on was already smelling so bad that he could smell it from several meters away, and he didn't eat anything or drink a drop of water every day, and the whole person was like a human skin slumped on the bed.

Everyone thinks that such a "person" cannot live anymore, but this "human form" is indeed still beating in the heart.

They were so incredulous that they didn't take the earrings off, nor did they give anyone anything to feed the slave. And so another year passed, and the figure lying on the bed was still alive.

When the next step in the experiment, the young man finally removed the earrings from the human skin. With a pop, the things lying on the bed completely turned into a foul-smelling dust, and the wind blew and covered the room.

And all this was brought about by the human tooth earrings that "drove crazy" the former patriarch.

Of course, it is impossible for the Alexanders to regard this evil thing as "genuine", but in addition to absorbing vitality, this ornament itself cannot find fault from any angle, and it cannot be said in good conscience that it is the same as those imitations outside.

So they call this "defective product".

In fact, the story that Kukin told Qiu Xuan was not that detailed. After all, it was an outsider, and he only briefly mentioned the matter of the defective evil sect, and the detailed paragraph in the back was what Lottie quietly told her.

According to the previous events, it can be seen that this girl of the younger generation of Alec Mountain is still not as dog as the second generation, and she still retains a bit of innocence and kindness or "conscience" after all.

Whether it's helping her uncle deceive people, or deliberately bullying people who don't know how to use outrageous numbers like fifty yuan, especially before this bone umbrella "defective product" was brought on Qiu Xuan for a long time because of her own negligence, she may feel that she is also a little sorry for Qiu Xuan.