5, sister Su Qing
Walking out of the castle, Su Huan habitually glanced at the landmark building of the black light gathering place, the black lighthouse, which is also the origin of the name of the black light gathering place.
The original Black Light Gathering Place was a simple wilderness camp built around the Black Lighthouse, and the original inhabitants provided temporary rest and supplies for the wilderness travelers to make a living, and finally developed into the current size after hundreds of years.
Beyond the outer fort of the Black Light Castle is the inner area of the Gathering Area.
The black-light gathering place, which has tens of thousands of inhabitants, is divided into two areas, in addition to the castle, inside and outside.
The inner area is a more prosperous core area except for the castle, and the black lighthouse stands in the core area of the inner area.
The inner district is also the area where the wealthy people with higher status in the agglomeration live, and the environment is relatively clean.
Although it still can't be compared to the outer fort.
But the road is also neatly paved with stone paved with squares, and there is not much sewage dust or dirt discarded everywhere.
Compared with the inner area, the environment of the outer area can be called poor, and it belongs to the area where the people at the bottom of the black light gathering place live.
Not only is the environment harsh, but the sewage system is inefficient, and sewage and garbage can be seen everywhere.
Su Huan's house is in the outer area.
Originally, his home was at the junction of the inner and outer districts, and it was a property left by his deceased parents, and it belonged to the area where most of the middle and lower classes lived in the gathering area.
But in the past three years, he has spent too much money on participating in the special training of the pilot, and as time goes by, all kinds of expenses have even increased instead of decreasing.
Relying on the meager income of my sister working as an agronomist on a plantation, it was gradually difficult to support herself.
A year ago, in order to pay the special training fee in full, I had no choice but to sell the house and move to a low-rent house in the outer district.
On Nongken Street, near Plantation No. 5, a dilapidated five-story old house with its exterior walls peeling off is Su Huan's current home.
Although Nong Ken Street is located in the outer district, it is a slightly better area in the outer district.
Most of the residents living in the vicinity are farmers, gardeners, and helpers who work on several plantations in the outer districts.
The personnel are relatively simple, which also creates a better environment in Nongken Street, at least there will be no frequent robbery and injury incidents, and it is rare to have a malignant incident that causes death once a month.
This is already a rare good law and order among the dozen or so blocks in the outer district.
When Su Huan returned home, her sister was not at home, and she probably went to work on the plantation.
He first took out the pet egg that had completely changed his fate from the canvas bag.
Ever since he woke up from an accidental sleep, he hadn't looked at the guy closely, but had only made a cursory attempt to communicate the little guy's consciousness twice.
To let the other party break the shell early, in addition to using special items such as dragon scales, the only way to completely stimulate the desire of the young pet to break out of the shell, which is the term called the desire to break the shell.
He was going to strike while the iron was hot, and communicate more with the little one, so that he could get out of his shell harder.
The little guy's consciousness at this time is the same as that of a baby, and he is very dependent on Su Huan, whenever Su Huan transmits his thoughts, as long as the little guy is not sleeping, he will always respond at the first time.
Su Huan happily communicated with the other party through the spiritual bond for half an hour.
When I passed the thought again, I waited for a while and received no response.
He looked into the little one's consciousness, and it turned out that the little dot in the shell was already asleep.
At this time, the young pet is extremely sleepy, which is a normal phenomenon that the other party is still in the nascent stage, and sleep helps the other party develop better.
Su Huan decided not to disturb the other party and waited for the little guy to wake up before continuing to communicate.
He put the little guy in a canvas bag and carried it on his back, ready to take some of the coins that his sister had prepared for Su Huan a long time ago, as a coin for special training expenses, go out to buy some ingredients, cook a big meal for his sister in the evening, and wait for her to go home to celebrate.
Due to the difficulty of distinguishing the authenticity of banknotes, only coins made of precious metals can be circulated in the various settlements in the wilderness.
In Su Huan's hands were two gold coins with large denominations and more than a dozen silver coins with smaller denominations, as well as dozens of steel coins with the smallest denominations.
The coins were all replicas of the Black Light Gathering according to the monetary system of a super-large human settlement.
The names of currencies are also the same as those of the other party.
Gold coins are grams, silver coins are grams, steel coins are grams.
The exchange ratio for each currency is 50:1.
That is to say, one gold gram is equivalent to 50 silver grams, 2500 steel grams.
One gold gram, this is almost half a month's income of his sister as an agronomist, and he remembers that his sister's monthly income is only about 7,000 steel grams.
With these 7,000 steel grams, she not only supported Su Huan's high special training expenses for the pilot, but also gave Su Huan a sheltered house and no worries about food and clothing.
If you just eat coarse grains, 2,500 steel grams is enough for a family of five to have no worries about food and clothing for more than a month.
But if you want to eat fine grains, meat, and expensive spices, you can't eat a few meals with 2,500 steel grams.
The coins in Su Huan's hand totaled six thousand five hundred steel grams, and he took out ten silver grams and five steel grams from it and went out.
He calculated based on recent prices that the money was enough to buy meat and spices for two people, and there was still plenty to buy some fruits and vegetables.
With the money on his back, he went straight to the market.
Farm Reclamation Street is adjacent to Plantation 5, where my sister worked, and is close to the water, with several large food ration markets.
Any food ration market in the entire Gathering Ground is run by the Gathering Place's ruler, the Black Light Castle, who is subordinate to the Gathering Place's Castle, the Black Lantern Management Society.
The only way to provide food to the common population is the food ration market.
Except for the underground black market, no private buying and selling of food supplies is allowed.
This is the case with the food ration markets on these farmyard streets.
Su Huan is going to the biggest, and it is also the one that her sister Su Qing often goes.
All the stall staff in the distribution market are hired by the management committee, and the food is in short supply and cannot be sold, so they are naturally not too keen on soliciting business, and they all look like willing people have taken the bait.
Su Huan first went to the stall selling raised pork and cut two catties of fat and thin pork belly.
Then I bought some garlic, ginger, peppercorns, peppers and other spices, and finally bought a few pieces of black potatoes covered in mud and a handful of green-looking vegetables.
When he returned home with the dishes, he unexpectedly found that his sister Su Qing was sitting on the sofa in the living room with a broken leg supported by bricks.
"Sister, why don't you go to work today?" Su Huan was a little puzzled.
With a slender figure, black hair, wearing a pair of white-washed slim jeans and a white shirt, Su Qing, who was wearing an old gray and yellow windbreaker, immediately rushed up and grabbed his ears when he saw Su Huan coming back.
"It hurts! Painful pass! Sister, let go! Why is this? ”
"You know it hurts?! Where did you go last night when you didn't go home? I went to the outer fort early this morning to look for you, and I couldn't get in, so I could only wait at the gate in a hurry! Later, one of the guards told me that you left through the side door, and I guessed that you were back, and you still know that you are back! Today I'm going to give you a twist in your ears! Su Qing, who was three years older than Su Huan, had a pretty face at this time and roared angrily.
Su Huan then remembered that he had always gone home on time in the past, and yesterday he fell asleep on the city wall for some reason, and the old lady must have been nervous enough.
What he should have thought of was only a series of things from Zhou Qing to meeting the castle lord later, so that he forgot about it.
"Sister, let go first, you listen to my explanation."
"I successfully established a bond with the pet egg yesterday and became a master, and our general special training also took me to meet the castle master in person, and it was dawn after some entertainment." Su Huan himself didn't know why he fell asleep on the city wall, so naturally he didn't know how to explain it to Su Qing, so he could only fool the old lady with a half-truth and half-false excuse.
"Really?!" Su Qing was directly stunned when she heard this.
The reason why she was so anxious was that she was afraid that Su Huan would not be able to think about it for a while because she was going to be assigned to the search team.
At this time, I almost couldn't believe my brother's words.
Su Huan knew his sister's temper, facts speak louder than words, and he directly took out the pet egg.
Su Qing saw the cracks on the pet egg at a glance.
Although he has not participated in the special training of the master, his younger brother will often talk to her about the special training during the three years of special training, and he naturally knows some common sense under the influence of his ears and eyes.
She looked at the pet egg and was stunned for a moment.
It took a while to react.
It was not the surprise that Su Huan expected, but his eyes were red.
Su Qing stood on tiptoe and rubbed the head of her younger brother, who was half a head taller than herself.
He said sadly, "If your parents knew that you had succeeded, they would be very relieved." ”
"Our old house is not complaining about the sale."
"My brother will also be a big man in the future."
As a native of the gathering place, Su Qing naturally knows the meaning of the master's representative.
From Su Huan's mouth, he also learned that during the three years that his younger brother participated in the special training, there were six or seven hundred trainees in the special training of the castle master, and in the end, there were only one or twenty people, including Su Huan, who really became the master.
As long as these people can grow up alive, they will be big names in the gathering place in the future.
Su Huan reached out to wipe the tears from the corners of her sister's eyes and gently patted her back.
He knew that Su Qing had had a hard time in the past three years, at least not easier than his younger brother.