Chapter 425: Trading
The whole island was still dark, and the sky was just dawning, but Mr. Yi had quietly left the stilted building and hadn't even eaten.
I stagnated my energy and refined my qi, without the slightest hesitation, and followed Mr. Yi out of the stilted building.
Mr. Yi spotted me, looked back at me, and without saying a word, continued towards the village, and I followed him.
When I came to the village, many villagers had already walked out of the house, fiddling with fishing nets or cutting fish to prepare to dry the fish.
Mr. Yi walked over with a smile, found a villager who was about to have breakfast, approached and talked to them, and then took out some things and gave them to the villagers, and the villagers added a pair of dishes and chopsticks, and Mr. Yi ate breakfast like this.
I nodded knowingly, it turns out that on this island, everything has to be exchanged with the villagers, just like when you go to the island, you have to give gold to visitors from the sea.
But I came in a hurry, and I didn't have any gold, silver, or jewelry, so I was in a hurry, and I would starve if Mr. Yi ate and drank spicy food on the island.
I pondered for a moment, and then went to find another villager who had gotten up early and was cutting and drying dried fish, rubbing my hands together embarrassedly:
"Well, big brother, you should be able to understand me, right? I've just arrived on the island and I don't know the rules, so what should I do if I want to eat? ”
The eldest brother of the villager pointed in the direction of Mr. Yi and stretched out his hand to me:
"Eat, you can, pay for it."
Sure enough, all the villagers in this village lost their money.
I rubbed my hands together and said embarrassedly:
"I came in a hurry, I didn't have any money with me, is there any other way?"
As soon as he heard that I didn't bring any money, the face of the eldest brother of the villager suddenly darkened, and he waved his hand like a fly, and sure enough, all the villagers in this village fell into the eyes of money.
But I didn't give up, and I stalked the eldest brother of the villagers for a while, as long as I was willing to give me food, I could do anything, and finally let the eldest brother give me the knife to cut the fish:
"Finish cutting the fish, dry it, and give you a bowl of rice."
Although I have never cut a fish, I have just seen the operation of the villager brother, and it is not difficult to learn from the control of the body of the Qi Refiner.
One after another, I cut the fish quickly, faster than the villager brother, I don't know how much, hundreds of fish were cut open and dried by me in a while.
At this time, Mr. Yi had already finished breakfast and was looking at me with a smile:
"The inhabitants of this island are all insatiable, and it is impossible to walk here without gold or silver.
A word of advice to you, even if you are hungry, don't even think about working for the villagers to get food and clothing, otherwise you will die a miserable death, haha! ”
Mr. Yi laughed, then walked away with his hands behind his back.
I frowned, I have seen the urine sex of the island's residents, but why can't I work for the villagers, is there something hidden here.
But I haven't noticed anything wrong yet, and I do need to have breakfast, and the food in the stilted building was eaten by Mr. Yi last night.
After finally cutting all the fish, it was finally time to eat, and the eldest brother of the villager brought a bowl of rice for me to squat on the ground to eat, while he himself ate it with his wife and children on the table.
I don't care if I eat squatting or sitting, but the bowl of rice given by the villager brother is too little, only two-thirds of the normal bowl, and there are no side dishes.
In addition to rice, the villagers' eldest family of three also had fish soup, dried fish and fried shrimp as side dishes, and they ate very heartily.
Such a comparison, it's just that you don't treat me as a person, and I can't help but have a nameless fire.
"Big brother, I said okay to give me food, I still do so much work, you eat so heartily but don't even give me some side dishes, isn't that right?"
The elder brother of the villager pushed me away impatiently:
"Say yes, here you go, a bowl of rice."
"Love to eat, don't eat."
After saying that, he went back to eat with his wife and children, and without looking at me, I was a little annoyed, and forced myself to sit down and try to grab a steamed fish, but my hand could not reach out, as if I was stopped by a mysterious force.
I was slightly stunned, and then tried to grab the steamed fish from the bowl of the villager brother, but the result was the same, I couldn't even stretch out my hand.
I tried to get the dried fish from the roof again, but I still couldn't reach out, and then I finally understood why Mr. Yi said that fights were forbidden on the island, and why he couldn't give the village name a job.
The island is shrouded in a mysterious and powerful force, where we cannot harm the villagers, nor rob them of what they have, and the insatiable villagers will exploit us unscrupulously and give us a pitiful reward.
Picking up the bowl of rice, I was a little depressed in my heart, the first time I encountered such an aggrieved thing, but I didn't have anything to say, I could only endure the anger and eat this bowl of rice first, and finally had some food in my stomach.
After eating, I wanted to leave, intending to go to the beach to catch a few fish to satisfy my hunger, but the villager stopped me and assigned me a bunch of work.
The hundreds of fish I helped him cut early in the morning were not worth the bowl of rice he gave me, and Zhou's skin was not so black.
But the eldest brother of the villager didn't let me go, and I couldn't leave his yard at all, so I could only work according to his assignment.
In this way, I was supported all morning, and I didn't take my share of lunch, and in the afternoon, I cut the fish for two hours, and the villager brother released me.
Leaving the villager's house, even if I had Qi Refining Realm cultivation, I felt a little tired, and my stomach was even more empty, and the white meal I ate in the morning had already been digested.
When I returned to the stilted building, my legs and stomach trembled a little, but Mr. Yi came back with a greasy mouth, and nodded to me with a smile, I felt even more depressed.
Tomorrow I won't be able to help the villagers anymore, so I'll have to find some other way to get something to eat, and it's good to go to the beach to catch fish.
Early the next morning, when Mr. Yi went to the village, I had already come to the beach, made a simple harpoon out of a tree branch, and walked into the sea to prepare the spearfish.
But I stayed all morning, and there were not a single fish, shrimp, crabs, starfish, and even very few shells.
This sea seems to be dead, and there are no living creatures such as fish and shrimp in it, but where do the fish that the villagers eat and dry come from, and there are indeed no boats out to sea to fish.
I had no choice but to pick two coconuts by the sea, and dug up the coconut meat to satisfy my hunger.
When he returned to the village again, Mr. Yi was still in the village, he exchanged a small gold bead for a fresh fish with the villagers, and then used the gold beads to exchange salt from another villager, and the villagers who traded with him were all smiling.
A gold bead can only be exchanged for a fresh fish, is the price on the island so expensive, if so, I may have earned a bowl of rice for a day's labor.
But after a day of observation, I realized that the price of goods on the island is not like this......