Volume 3: The Struggle of the Last Days Chapter 198 Shoehorn Face
The ghost market is located on the edge of a small town, this town is like an old man, dilapidated, vicissitudes, this town has only one color, that is, gray, endless gray, covering the sun, sheltering the breeze, only to the inhabitants of the town, leaving a dull monotony, here, the most lacking is hope, whether before or after the severe disease strikes.
Bai Yunlian reined in the horse, let it stop on a small slope by the side of the road, and then gently took off her helmet and put on an almost airtight hoodโa special order from the officer, though the meaning was unknown. After doing this, she looked far away again in order to get more information about the town.
Contrary to the imaginary situation, there were no iron horses, sandbags, or military police on duty at the two main entrances and exits of the town, and there were only one or two people who looked like walking corpses on the empty streets, and the cars on both sides of the road seemed to have not been used for a long time, and they were like iron coffins, rotting there silently.
The ghost market is located in the northwest corner of the town, so to get there, you have to walk through the center of the town, which is not too far but is eerily quiet. When riding by, Bai Yunlian could feel from time to time that there were a stream of eyes around her, staring at her, but when she looked sideways, she found that these gazes, with the only exception, were from some civilians who poked their heads out of the windows.
Strange, how does this place seem defenseless, is there not a single infected person in the vicinity? Bai Yunlian was suspicious, so she jumped off the horse, held the reins, and hid in the huge body of the white horse. Although she knew that this town was indeed safe, she still felt in her heart that her movements should not be too ostentatious.
As she approached the center of the town, Bai Yunlian finally saw a few patrolling people, but they were holding iron rods in their hands, and they were wearing hats instead of comforting military hats. These people turned a blind eye to the strange visitor in front of them, and they didn't even look at it. But this made Bai Yunlian feel even more strange, because even Ren'an, who had been hollowed, was a hundred times more heavily guarded than hereโat the very least, as soon as a stranger and the other appeared, within two minutes, the soldiers of the garrison could rush to him or her in three dimensions.
When she almost arrived at the gate of the ghost market, Bai Yunlian finally saw a little "real world" thing, it was three rows of iron railings, arranged in the shape of snake cakes, behind the iron railings, supporting a large parasol, under the parasol, there was a soldier with a gun, it looked like he was on active duty, but his spirit was not very full, and his posture of standing guard was far worse than that of Jia Zhongquan's men.
Blocking Bai Yunlian was a piece of red paper, which was plasticized, and it was written that the opening hours of the ghost market were: seven in the morning to eleven o'clock, and from eight in the evening to three in the morning the next day. It's really a ghost market......
Bai Yunlian was a little unhappy, because she not only came early, but also too early! It's not even four o'clock in the afternoon, and there are still more than four hours to go! What to do, go back? No, this time and again, the time is about the same, it's not cost-effective. Then you can only walk around.
After a while, Bai Yunlian followed the path out of the city, which was located between two mountains, so it was a strip-like structure, and the building in the middle was the highest, and then gradually decreased to both sides until it disappeared into the dirt, and the shape of the whole complex was like a flattened "human" shape. Bai Yunlian was stopped at the bottom of the word "human", and what stopped her was a middle-aged man with a shoehorn face, this person had two rows of yellowed teeth, on the yellow teeth, there was a short nose, and on the nose, there was a pair of eyes as small as soybeans, but bright as a wolf.
"Hey, hey, military master. It's really time for you to come, this Daiyu and Yuanchun, but they're all ready. The man didn't wait for others to ask, so he said like a river, "As long as you have a little bit of this, it's okay, hahahaha." โ
The man's gesture is very strange, the fingers of his right hand except for the thumb, half-gripped, and the thumb keeps making a "pressing" posture. Seeing that Bai Yunlian was unmoved, the man beckoned to a two-story dilapidated house and shouted, "Come out, come out." โ
In a short time, three men came out of the back of the house, the first two were women, and the one behind was a sturdy bearded man, who was two heads taller than the two women, and each arm was thicker than the thighs of the two girls, and now, in each of his hands, he grasped a stockless shotgun, and two black muzzles, and estimated that they were on the backs of the two girls.
The shoehorn grinned at a woman who looked older, and the woman resisted for a moment, and then obediently stood beside the shoehorn face. She looked like she was about thirty years old, her hair looked so crisp, and although her black eyes were smiling, she couldn't cover the smile, and there was no lifeless stagnant water under her eyes.
The shoehorn face thought that he understood what Bai Yunlian meant, and unceremoniously pushed the woman away, and stretched out his hand to pull the other younger one over: "Oh, the small one is really, the military master obviously likes the tender one, but he pulled an old host up, it should be beaten, it should be beaten." Hahaha. The shoehorn face pulled the girl who was obviously much shyer than the old host with his right hand, and slapped himself twice with his left hand.
"Don't worry, the girl has just taken a bath and is clean." The shoehorn smiled, stretched out her right hand to the girl's waist, and pulled hard, the girl subconsciously reached out to pull, and a blush rose on the right side of her face, and her courage and strength also disappeared at this moment, and as soon as she let go of her hand, ten miles of spring light was exposed to the air.
"This one, it's an Internet celebrity, an Internet celebrity. A lot of people just want to say a word to her when they spend a lot of money. The shoehorn's face seemed to be showing off his "trophies", "Exactly, peach and plum years." Hahahaha, the military master is young and promising, but only she can be worthy of a big hero like you. Hahahaha. โ
Bai Yunlian admires the tongue of the shoehorn face a little, because, now, she is not only covering her face, but also wearing a gray military raincoat, with full-fingered tactical gloves on her hands, and her whole body is really only revealing a pair of black eyes like ink, not to mention any signs, she is even sure that this shoehorn face, even her own gender, can listen to what he said, as if she is an old acquaintance who has been pushing cups and changing lamps for many rounds. If it weren't for the fact that the shoehorn face had misgendered from the beginning, she would have almost recognized his "compliment".
Perhaps, the ancients often said that "people's words are terrible", there is such a meaning, right?
Bai Yunlian glanced at the Internet celebrity girl, she was wearing a red short-sleeved jersey with a white sunscreen sleeve, and a pair of black slacks on the lower half of her body. Now she was half-bending her legs so that her pants would not fall off her knees. The girl wore two braids, and her eyes were covered with a layer of humiliating mist. It's quite pitiful.
They're doing pretty well. Bai Yunlian's first thought was this, because the hair of these people was black, and it did not turn white due to lack of salt, but the next moment, she figured out the reason - listening to the tone of the shoehorn's face, it was not the first time he had done this kind of thing, that is to say, it was through these girls that he exchanged for the living materials of all of them!
"Master Jun, why don't you give you a twenty-percent discount?" Seeing that there was no response for a long time, the shoehorn face took the initiative to say, "Seven folds!" โ
"In this way, six folds, no more. Six-fold, how about she accompany you for one night? โ
"Oh, I see, I see. Look at my elm head. It turns out that you like this, Master Jun. The shoehorn slapped his head on the face, snapped his fingers, and the bearded man understood, and escorted the two women back. Not long after, the footsteps sounded again, but this time it was two men with their upper bodies exposed, facing Shang Ke, but their bodies were bony and thin, of course, this is not to blame anyone, they are all hungry.
"Tasteful, right?" The shoehorn blinked his face and laughed lewdly.
He seems to be quite good at adding drama to himself?
At this time, a lot of people came from afar, and they were no different from the emperor's patrol, and sure enough, when the shoehorn face was seen, he said "unaccompanied", and then held up a smile to greet him, and it was no less than a clever tongue just now, nodding and welcoming the guest into the house, and after a while, there was a scolding and crying in the house.
After a while, the crying stopped, and then those people walked out of the house, but among them, there were clearly two more people, one was the sportswear girl who was pushed out just now, and the other, Bai Yunlian had time to see her back, wearing a pink coat and a double ponytail, looking younger than the other girl, and it was estimated that they were only twenty-eight years old, but they were all tied up like zongzi now.
"Hehehehe, has the military master thought about it? This girl is not waiting for anyone. The shoehorn's face blossomed, and he held a pile of paper with something printed on it in his right hand and gently patted it on his left hand. There was a "pop", "pop" sound.
"Those people, who are they?" Bai Yunlian pressed her left hand to her mouth and deliberately lowered her voice.
The shoehorn's face was on the rise, and there was almost no suspicion, so he blurted out: "Of course it's Yuan Gongzi." Oh, besides him, who else can be so windy and spend a lot of money. โ
The shoehorn proudly showed the paper in front of Bai Yunlian's eyes, it turned out that these were food stamps, and if you hold it, you can get the corresponding food. But precisely because the daily ration per person is very, very limited, so these various food stamps are more expensive than gold everywhere, so the word "throwing a lot of money" is really not used in the shoehorn face.
"Inquire about something." Bai Yunlian put her right hand into the raincoat and took out two food coupons from it, this one can be exchanged for one kilogram of rice, and the other can be exchanged for ten spoons of salt, these are all given to Wei Yilin by the old head of the regiment in order to show his sincerity of cooperation - of course, what Bai Yunlian brought was only a small part of them.
The smile on the shoehorn's face narrowed a little, and the look in his eyes was like being poured a plate of cold water, and the meaning was simple and clear: not enough.
Bai Yunlian was not annoyed, put away the two food stamps, and then gently exposed a small corner of the small piece of hare meat that was still fresh, this piece of meat, she originally prepared for Wei Yilin, but this providence was to make people in the end.
"Where's this?"
The left side of the shoehorn's face moved slightly, the index finger of his right hand also flicked, and his eyes also showed greed. But he didn't let go at all.
Bai Yunlian nodded, put away the rabbit meat, and then pulled over another thing - horse reins. Of course, she didn't want to give the horse to the shoehorn face, but to take the reins and go.