Volume 1 Turmoil Chapter 035 The Invisible Rich (3)
"My name is Ouyang Yunyi, Ah Fu is my husband, we were originally an ordinary couple living in the silver ring, and we were pressed by life without breathing space. Three months ago, we met a manager who told us that there was a thriving inn in the copper ring that was selling at a low price. We followed him to see the situation, and saw that the condition and equipment of this inn were quite good, and the price was indeed ridiculously low. ”
"Although Ah Fu and I were worried, we thought about it, if we stay in the silver ring for the rest of our lives, then we will have to look at other people's faces and be angry with others for the rest of our lives...... So in the end, we couldn't help but be tempted to take over the inn. But who would have thought that this transaction would be the beginning of our nightmare. ”
"Nightmares?" Qiu Qiong and Lao Xu's faces suddenly sank, and they couldn't help frowning slightly, and their hearts were filled with unease.
Yun Yi sat cross-legged beside Ah Fu's head, gently stroked Ah Fu's forehead with one hand, his expression became more and more sad, and after smiling bitterly, he continued:
"Greedy Town, on the surface, looks beautiful and prosperous, but in fact, it is rotten on the inside. Mr. Xu, Miss Xu, there is a secret in our town that outsiders don't know. It was five years ago that the town's water source suddenly began to dwindle. In order not to affect the foreign merchants and not to worry you too much, the people above have issued a death order, and whoever tells this secret will be punished with the heaviest punishment immediately. ”
"Five years ago?!" Qiu Qiong exclaimed.
Lao Xu couldn't help but gasp, spread his hands, and shouted in shock: "I'll go, it won't be such a coincidence!" Our town also happened five years ago! ”
Yun Yi raised his head suddenly, his eyes widened, he looked at the two of them in puzzlement, and the corners of his mouth trembled slightly and asked, "There are also changes in Lazy Town?" Mr. Xu, Miss Xu, five years ago, did a black cloud appear in your town from the east? ”
Qiu Qiong and Lao Xu were stunned at the same time, they first glanced at each other, and then nodded in unison. At this time, Qiu Qiong remembered what Lazy had said, he said: "It is different from us 'evil', we are here to maintain balance, and it is to break the balance." I've tried to spy on it, and I've found that it's very ambitious, and now every town is already affected by it. ”
It turns out that what laziness said is true. The power of evil, hate, not only upsets the balance of good and evil in Lazy Town, but also brings disaster to Greedy Town. And, I'm afraid, the rest of the towns weren't spared.
But if this is the case, then as a "person from heaven", can Qiu Qiong, who is a "person from heaven", still be able to listen to nothing, look at nothing, and care about nothing? For a moment, Qiu Qiong only felt as if a boulder was pressing on her heart, and that suffocating feeling returned.
Qiu Qiong lowered her head blankly, sighed silently, and secretly warned herself: "Qiu Qiong, you just came here to buy milk powder." Don't wade into this muddy water, because you don't know how deep it is. What's more, Xiaonuo, Aunt Xue and Fleur are all waiting for you to go back! Qiu Qiong, you just pretend that you don't know anything, you don't have any identity! ”
"Nana? What do you want? Lao Xu called softly.
Qiu Qiong suddenly came back to her senses, looked at Lao Xu for some reason, and replied nervously: "No...... There is no ......", Qiu Qiong smiled awkwardly, thinking: By the way, from this moment on, you will obediently be Xu Nana.
At this time, Yun Yi recovered from his state of loss of consciousness and asked curiously, "Mr. Xu, Miss Xu, do you know what happened to that black cloud?" ”
Qiu Qiong nodded, and said unhurriedly: "That black cloud is actually the power of evil that has been unsealed, and its name is 'hate'......" Then, the two of them complemented each other and told Yun Yi about the gloomy days in Lazy Town.
After hearing this, the expression on Yun Yi's face suddenly became a little more frightened, she looked down at the unconscious Ah Fu, and asked again: "Mr. Xu, Miss Xu, how did you lazy town get through the difficulties?" ”
How to get through this?
Judging from what they have experienced, as long as they find the superfluous evil hidden in the town, and then destroy it, the town will naturally return to its original state. However, once it comes to how to eliminate it, Qiu Qiong will inevitably involve herself.
So, how should it be answered?
Suddenly, Qiu Qiong's eyes rolled and she asked urgently, "Yunyi, who is the town master of your greedy town?" Is it called greed? Aren't they twins? ”
Qiu Qiong envisioned that in Lazy Town, there is a pair of good and evil characters who are diligent and lazy, and in Greedy Town, there must also be a pair of twins who compete with good and evil. If greed is the embodiment of one of the forces of good and evil, then he must have a brother or elder brother who is the embodiment of the other, and "hatred" must be in one of them!
Judging from the situation of Lazy Town, whoever is controlling the town now is the one who is "hated" and bent over. Knowing who is evil, then as long as you find another good person to contend with it, then it is possible for this greedy town to restore peace!
Qiu Qiong's train of thought was correct, however, she didn't expect Yun Yihui to shake her head, and replied coldly: "Our town lord is indeed greedy, but he is an only child. And, three months ago, he disappeared. ”
Qiu Qiong was so frightened that her hairs stood up, and she exclaimed suspiciously: "What? Son? Still missing?! ”
Yun Yi smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, it is precisely because of his disappearance that this greedy town is completely messed up. To be precise, the lives of the people in the copper and silver rings are completely chaotic. ”
Lao Xu frowned, his uneasy mood became even more overflowing, and he asked lightly: "Is it also related to water sources?" ”
Yun Yi nodded and said, "Yes, with the disappearance of greed, the entire town was suddenly cut off from water. In the past five years, everyone has become accustomed to water outages, and it is common to save water and use water on a regular basis, and it is common not to take a bath for several months. So, in the early days of the water cut, no one took it seriously. But when someone reacted and went to the market to buy drinking water, they suddenly found that there was not even a bottle of drinking water on the market. ”
"No?" Lao Xu exclaimed, and said affirmatively, "Impossible! ”
Lao Xu remembers very clearly that when he came to Greedy Town three months ago, he obviously gave Ah Chai fifty boxes of water according to the order, and there were sixty bottles in that box. Then how can there be 300 bottles of water on the market, how can there not even be a bottle?
"There is not a single bottle of drinking water on the market because there is an unscrupulous speculator who bought all the drinking water in the copper and silver rings before the water cut. When everyone was thirsty, he would sit on the ground and sell a bottle of water for ten, twenty, or hundreds of times. In order to drink water, people have to bite the bullet and give money. ”
"However, the price of drinking water has risen as if there is no cap. Now, half a bottle of water can be exchanged for a gold bar. The life of the people living in the copper ring was already difficult, and many people died of thirst on the streets because they could not afford to buy water. And many people in the silver ring also dragged down their entire family because they wanted to buy water. ”
Qiu Qiong was stunned for a moment, and thought to herself: "Half a bottle of water, just a gold bar!" In Lao Xu's car, there are more than a dozen boxes of water! How many gold bars do we get, and we're going to be rich?! ”
In the end, Yun Yi sighed helplessly, shook his head and said, "Mr. Xu, Miss Xu, you should have seen a group of crazy people on the way here." They were driven crazy by the sky-high price of drinking water, and now they will go out of their way to grab a truck when they see it coming into town. Because of this, people from other towns did not dare to come to the town, and the inn's business naturally plummeted. ”
"That's why I say, that's where the nightmare begins. However, although the inn has no visitors, fortunately, the former owner of the inn still has a lot of boxes of water in the storeroom in order to provide free drinking water to each room. That's enough water for us to survive. ”
"However, the rumors that leaked out of nowhere, the people outside knew that there was still drinking water in our inn, and they all broke in like crazy and asked us to get water! We gave it to them once for free, thinking they wouldn't come again! But I was wrong, the people of our town are too greedy after all!
"They shamelessly ask us again and again, how can we afford to give! In desperation, Ah Fu had no choice but to protect the inn, and when they came to one, he repelled one. However, for three months, they still ran desperately to make a nuisance! ”
Qiu Qiong couldn't help but be shocked, and suddenly said: "It turns out that it's really because of Ah Annoyance, those crazy people didn't dare to chase after them!" But after saying that, Qiu Qiong felt that something was wrong again, frowned slightly, and asked puzzledly, "But, aren't those crazy people all outside?" Who caused the annoyance's injury? ”
Yun Yi slowly stood up, limped to the dining table, took a plate with some food, carefully brought it to Qiu Qiong and Lao Xu, squeezed out that standard smile again, and said gently: "Mr. Xu, Miss Xu, I forgot that you haven't eaten yet." You eat first, and when you're full, we'll talk. ”
Somehow, Lao Xu suddenly fell into silence, with a thoughtful look on his face. And Qiu Qiong saw that Yun Yi deliberately opened the topic, as if she was deliberately hiding something, and her heart suddenly became angry, only to see her grab Yun Yi's arm, and shouted with a very serious expression: "Yun Yi, tell me quickly, who made him like this?!" ”
Yun Yi struggled to break free of Qiu Qiong's hand, and replied with great embarrassment: "Miss Xu, I originally wanted to tell you, but I can see at a glance that you and Mr. Xu are both kind people, and I really have no reason to let you get involved." Annoy, he'll be fine, Miss Xu, you don't care. ”
"No! As you said, those people are desperate! If it weren't for Ah Annoyance, we would still be out there now, and we don't know what would have happened! Yunyi, just tell me! Qiu Qiong shouted urgently.
Yun Yi saw that Qiu Qiong was hard-hearted, and knew that he couldn't hide it, so he said in a low voice: "Alas, the person who injured Ah Fu was his brother, in order to snatch the two bottles of water in his hands. And those two bottles of water were given by Mr. Xu. ”
At this moment, Ah Fu, who had been lying on the ground in a coma for a long time, suddenly opened his eyes, only to see him sit up straight suddenly, two big fists fixed in front of him, and shouted in horror: "You give me back the water!" ”