Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Xiao Family's Shop
The creek is murmuring.
A group of women took the shabby clothes of their respective homes and scrubbed them vigorously by the river, talking about the length of the family from time to time.
"Aunt Rong, do you think this is true or false? Can those big families have such good intentions? A woman in her thirties stopped washing her clothes, raised her head and frowned at a woman with a somewhat old face and black and white hair not far away.
If the big family doesn't squeeze themselves and other poor people, will they still sell these precious drugs to themselves and other poor people at such a low price?
Will they want the poor to rise up and compete with them for a share of resources?
"I don't know, maybe!" The woman sighed and looked out at the mountains in the distance, where the clouds and mist were entwined, but the green mountains were the territory of the monsters.
When the woman came to the chattering room, the woman named Aunt Rong had already washed her own clothes, just two sets of clothes, and it didn't take long to wash them.
After saying hello to the woman, Aunt Rong carried a small wooden bucket and walked slowly along the river towards the home. The hardships of life have already squeezed her body to old age.
The old woman walked through two groves and returned to a small house that was a little shabby and had a few tools in front of it.
This is the outskirts of Utan City, there are thousands of such small houses densely arranged, and this is only a corner of Utan City, you can imagine how many such small houses there are in Utan City, and how many low-level people live here.
Poverty is representative of these people.
They have the same name - mud legs.
"Mother, you're back." Aunt Rong just put down the small wooden barrel, a young man with a resolute face and a little dark skin in the small house walked out, seeing the old face of his mother's face, black and white hair, and the back bent by the hard life, the young man swore in his heart that he must let his mother live in the big house, and he would not need to work hard for life in the future.
He just needs a chance!
"Son, why did you come back today?" Aunt Rong stared at her son and saw something different in her eyes.
"Mother, I have something I want to discuss with you." The boy hesitated for a moment, but still said his words.
"Hmm." Aunt Rong replied lightly and didn't ask more.
"Mother, I want to ...... I want to ......," the boy paused, making up his mind, "Mother, I want to take some of the family's assets and buy that energy liquid." ”
"Alas!" Aunt Rong sighed lightly.
"Mother, I heard that if I take this energy solution, my physical fitness will be greatly enhanced, and even if I can't become a fighter, I can cultivate a few more acres of thin fields." Hearing his mother's sigh, the young man was in a hurry and immediately said the words he had thought of.
"Hmm." Aunt Rong responded, didn't say anything, just said, "You come in with me." ”
Aunt Rong went into the house, fumbled and found a small bag, handed it to the young man, and said: "This was originally intended to be saved for your daughter-in-law, but now that you are older, I can't limit your thoughts, I just hope that you will be careful." ”
The boy clenched the small bag in his hand, which contained all the belongings of his family...... 57 silver coins is all my hope for the future.
The weight of this small bag was like a mountain, and it weighed like a thousand pounds in the hands of the young man.
"I, Zhang Yan, swear, I will definitely get ahead and let my mother live a happy life!" The boy swore in his heart, and his eyes were as bright as the stars.
Aunt Rong sighed slightly in her heart, ten years ago...... The husband is also like a son, he wants to make a good life, so he goes out on adventures with the team, and the first few times he has gained a little bit, but ......
Once, at the edge of the Demonic Beast Mountain Range, he encountered a first-order demonic beast, and the entire team was ...... Then the orphans and widows were left.
She naturally knew that her son's dream was to become a fighter, but even if his physical fitness was enough and he didn't have exercises, he couldn't become a fighter.
This little home is just a small microcosm of Utan City!
After the appearance of the energy liquid information, every family is full of hope, especially some teenagers, take out the few possessions in the family, waiting for the dream to set sail!
When the ten days were up, the doors of the Xiao family's renovated shops opened, and after a lively ceremony, the surging crowd all lined up to enter the shops to buy suitable energy liquids for their own use.
A bottle of energy liquid of the Fighting Power level can be purchased for only 10 silver coins, and each bottle can increase the user's fist strength and physical fitness by at least 50 kilograms.
Such a cheap energy solution is simply a blessing for all poor families.
The stage of fighting power is the basic level, the stage of expanding the meridians and nourishing the body with the power of fighting, and the general basic exercises are such effects. And it takes seven or eight years to use the basic exercises to cultivate the body to reach the peak of fighting power - 500 kilograms of boxing power, and some people with poor qualifications need ten or more years.
This is still the case of resources assistance, without resources, poor families, this time is longer, and even when people reach middle age, their bodies have not even reached their peak.
And now with the energy liquid, the physical fitness is advancing rapidly, and it is very easy to reach the peak of the body, the peak of the realm of fighting power, and there is no need to go through long-term meridians to cultivate.
The energy of the energy liquid is enough to expand the body's meridians.
In front of a Xiao family's shop in the south of Utan City, Zhang Yan got up early and was already lining up in the queue, and the long line extended to the front of some shops next to him, occupying more than half of the road and occupying the doors of many shops, but the shopkeepers of these shops did not dare to get angry.
After queuing for 3 hours, Zhang Yan finally arrived at the door of the shop, he looked inside in the queue, the shop was not gorgeous, but very simple, but simple or not, it didn't matter, the most important thing was that the shelves behind the counter were full of potions of various colors.
The energy liquid used by the first-order one-star, two-star, and so on fighters, and even the energy liquid used by the second-order fighter-level, the blue Dou Qi recovery liquid, the red life healing liquid, and even some various anti-fire, anti-poison, anti-ice, mental abnormalities and other potions, except for the energy liquid and the recovery of Dou Qi potions, there is no star difference between other healing potions and anti-fire potions, only the difference in level.
However, Zhang Yan didn't dare to look at it more, those potions were not something he could afford at all, his purpose was just the cheapest energy liquid.
It didn't take much time, Zhang Yan entered the shop, and he saw at a glance that there was a super strong man sitting in the shop, a middle-aged man with a violent breath, and the aura on this middle-aged man's body was like an abyss, as if devouring the spirit of people.
He quickly turned his head away, not daring to look further.
This middle-aged man is naturally a strong man guarding the shop, and his strength is at the peak of the Great Dou Master, and he is a member of the Temir family. The Xiao family opened a full hundred shops today, most of the guardians are members of the Temir family, the Xiao family's background is still a little worse, there are too few powerhouses at the level of the Great Dou Master, there are only five, Xiao Zhan is already at the level of Dou Ling, and the rest of the people are the Great Elder, the Second Elder, the Third Elder, the Fourth Elder, and the Seventh Elder.
The strength is very balanced.
This was also the reason why the second elder dared to fight against Xiao Zhan before.
At the same time, Temir and the Xiao family formed hundreds of Dou Division-level patrol teams to patrol the city, a Dou Ling-level support team, and a town guard team of the Dou Wang powerhouse.
The rest of the Douhuang are all sitting in the Temir Auction House, once someone wants to die to rob the Xiao family's shop, under the suppression of such a team, they will not be able to send Utan City at all.
In particular, there is Yun Long, a newly promoted Dou Sect peak-level powerhouse.
Even if several major families of the Gama Empire came to attack, it would be impossible to retreat in their entirety.
Utan City is as stable as Mount Tai.
The strong man with the bright face is enough to suppress everything!
Soon it was Zhang Yan's turn, he stood in front of the counter,
"Guest, what do you need?" The beautiful waitress behind the counter asked with a smile.
The soft and gentle voice made Zhang Yan a little nervous, he had never spoken to such a beautiful woman, at this moment, he felt that his tongue was knotted, and he couldn't speak when he opened his mouth several times.
Even though there were a few rehearsals before, when it came to the end, he was still confused.
"Guest, you can think slowly, don't rush, take a look first." The waitress saw Zhang Yan's shabby clothes, slightly tanned skin, and somewhat dry hair, and knew in her heart that this was a child from a poor family.
The good service attitude did not make her make a disdainful demeanor, but used a gentle and gentle voice to caress the teenager's nervous mentality.
These women were all newly recruited waitresses in Utan City in the past few days.
At the time of training, the supervisor said.
"The people who can enter our Xiao family's shop are guests, our Xiao family's VIPs, whether he is rich or poor, even if he just comes in to take a look, he is also a guest of our Xiao family, and he needs to be treated with the best service attitude."
"Everyone's fate is uncertain, the other party is poor at the moment, but it doesn't mean that he will be poor in the future, the young master said well, thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, don't bully the young man to be poor, I will explain again, you have to keep in mind for me, every guest who enters our Xiao family's shop is a VIP of our Xiao family's shop, even if he can't afford to buy any goods, you must treat it with the best service attitude."
Generous salaries, prudent and stern teaching, enough to transform these thousands of newly recruited waitresses.
With a salary of ten gold coins per month, who dares to let go easily.
After all, these waitresses' families are not wealthy, ten gold coins are enough for a family to barely belong to the middle class in Utan City.
So...... Every guest who comes in, these waitresses take it seriously.
The good service attitude warmed Zhang Yan's heart, calmed his heart, and his nervous expression slowly relaxed, and finally said, "Big sister, I need a bottle of basic energy liquid." ”
"Okay, a bottle of basic energy liquid, ten silver coins." The waitress smiled slightly, bent down slightly and took out a white glass bottle from under the counter, and said with a gentle smile: "Guest, this is your basic energy liquid, and the glass bottle will be recovered by our Xiao family for the value of ten copper coins." ”
The value recovery of ten copper coins?
This glass bottle is really expensive, Zhang Yan thought to himself, ten copper coins can buy five large baked cakes, enough for himself to eat, and he is very full.
A silver coin is only 100 copper coins.
"Okay." Zhang Yan let go of the hand that was holding his arms at all times, opened it gently, reached out and took out a small bag from it, and took out ten silver coins in it, which was all the money he brought out today.
Poor people, these ten silver coins are simply life.
Although it is not much, it is already close to one-fifth of his family's property.
So even after hours of queuing, his hands never left this position.