Chapter 38: Hope Without Starvation

Grandma carried Gu Shun to the central square of the city where the gypsies were stationed.

Gu Shun looked from afar, and in the foggy blurred vision, he could see many tents with different styles.

Countless people from the lower city gathered in the center of the city from all directions.

By the time Gu Shun and the others arrived at the entrance of the square, it had been swallowed up by a sea of people.

Grandma hugged Gu Shun tightly, for fear that the thieves and traffickers in the crowd would steal her precious grandson.

The Gypsies are a nomadic people on the continent, who live in no fixed place and live on the basis of buying and selling and prostituting themselves.

In the eyes of the world, they are shrewd and stupid, generous and narrow-minded, well-informed, and like the bards, they know many secrets unknown to the world.

"Shunshun, let's go over there and see the performers."

Grandma listened to the accordion music and singing and dancing in front of her, and felt that her Gu Shun must like these things.

Gu Shun is not interested in acting.

He looked around, pointed to the trading area in the distance, and said, "Grandma, go there." ”

Although Grandma was a little surprised, she still took Gu Shun to the place where the gypsy merchants traded.

I saw that the stalls were full of all kinds of strange gadgets and mechanical tools.

[SL-5 mechanical shell, a discarded and reassembled version of the intelligent robot, identified as garbage]

[Reloading the wrench, a special tool for replacing the jet after the flying car, once broken and welded, identified as garbage]

[The 126th generation of pear mobile phone, pirated assembly, produced by Lan Qiang, identified as garbage]

……

Gu Shun was surprised to find that every time his gaze swept over the things placed on the stall, the introduction and attributes of these items would appear.

But without exception, it's rubbish.

This should be the talent of waste pickers that he just obtained, and sure enough, as the name suggests, he can only identify garbage.

In the crowd in front of the stall, Gu Shun also found a familiar figure.

It was Wang Laohan, who lived next door, who was squatting in front of the pear brand mobile phone and looking carefully, probably wanting to buy it.

"Grandma, let's go to the other stalls."

Gu Shun didn't have any interest in this garbage.

But whether it was the developed Shangcheng introduced from the mouth of the madman Joe, or the strange and ingenious mechanical creations brought by these gypsies, Gu Shun understood.

In this world, places like Downtown are too backward, and he has to leave the small place of Downtown if he wants to get a higher rating in the final Sims review.

This is also the goal that Gu Shun will work towards next.

It's just that at the moment, this goal is too far away. For now, it's better to fill your stomach first and let yourself and grandma live a better life.

"Good, good, my Shunshun."

Grandma continued to walk forward with Gu Shun in her arms, passing by stalls selling strange goods.

Gu Shun's gaze swept over the goods on these stalls one by one, and the talent of the scavengers was activated, and from time to time the attributes of some of these goods would be given.

Occasionally, there were a few things he was interested in, but the price was too expensive for him to discourage him.

Suddenly, Gu Shun's gaze stopped at a stall selling flowers.

"What's wrong, Shun Shun?"

"Let's go to that stall."

Grandma is a little strange, does her grandson like flowers.

She was very obedient and took Gu Shun to the stall.

The people in the lower city can't even fill their stomachs, so naturally no one is bored to spend money on flowers that can't be eaten or used.

The stall owner saw that a few guests had finally come to his stall, so he enthusiastically introduced:

"Just take a look, phalaenopsis, roses, succulents, chrysanthemums, affordable prices, the most suitable for decorating your small home."

When a man from the lower city heard the meat, his eyes lit up and said:

"Can you eat this meat you said, I haven't smelled meat in a long time."

The boss was also a little confused by this question, what age is this, and the people here don't even know how meaty.

"Probably so, everybody calls it that name anyway." The boss half-lied.

"Great, how much will I buy a pot?"

"200 bronze ge."

"It's so expensive, 200 copper Ge can buy a pound of meat foam."

When the downtown man heard the price, he immediately retreated.

The boss hurriedly said: "The meat foam you bought can only be eaten once, you look at this meaty, it can keep growing new leaves from the middle, if each leaf is meat, don't you have endless meat." ”

"You're so right, I bought it, and now I can't eat enough meat."

The downtown man happily took the money, thinking he had picked up a big bargain.

I didn't expect to be able to buy growing meat, and now I can finally have meat to eat.

He has begun to fantasize about his family improving his life, and his wife boasts that he is a real man.

After the guest left satisfied, the onlookers also rushed to buy more meat.

"This is meat that grows on its own, and this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

"Buy it, buy it, I want a pot."

"I want two pots."

"There is really such a good thing, if you don't buy it, you can't buy it, let's hurry up and buy a pot."

Grandma looked at those people's frenzied rush to buy, and she was also a little moved, she said to Gu Shun:

"Shunshun, do we want to sell more meat in the pot, so that my good grandson will have meat to eat."

Gu Shun quickly shook his head, for fear that his grandmother would be deceived.

It can only be said that these gypsies really know how to do business, and the people of the lower city are really extremely ignorant.

They don't know that not only are succulents inedible, but that most of them are poisonous, and they have nothing to do with meat.

But for many people in the lower city who have never seen the world, meaty may really be meat.

Gu Shun turned his gaze to the other flowers and plants on this stall.

Soon his eyes were fixed on an inconspicuous leafy green plant.

[Potato, also known as potato or artichoke, Solanaceae, has a short growth period and abundant yield, but this potato plant has been transported for a long time and is dying, and it is identified as garbage]

When Gu Shun caught a glimpse of this potato from afar just now, he suddenly felt as if he had discovered a new continent, and his heart was overjoyed.

Potatoes are an important food crop, not only high yield, but also solid, drought and flood tolerant, and can adapt to many harsh environments.

On top of that, potatoes produce more starch in a year than the wheat commonly grown in the lower towns, and with careful care, double or even triple cropping in a year is definitely not a problem.

At this moment, the food problem that plagued Gu Shun finally saw the dawn of solution.

He had to get his hands on the potato seedlings.

In the eyes of others, it may be a weed.

But in Gu Shun's eyes, it is an absolute golden grass and silver grass.

"Grandma, I want that."

Gu Shun immediately pointed to the wilting potato seedlings in the small pot.

"You want this? What's so good about a small grass, grandma will buy you potted flowers. ”

"I don't want to spend it, I want this."

Seeing that Gu Shun insisted on buying it, grandma had no choice but to ask the price of this pot of potato seedlings.

Perhaps seeing that this potato seedling was already wilting, the stall owner only symbolically received 5 copper ge, and sold this pot of potato seedlings to Gu Shun.

Gu Shun hugged this pot of potato seedlings like a treasure, and he would finally be able to eat endless potatoes in the future.

Grandma shook her head, "This stupid boy, what's so rare about a grass." ”

Leaving the stall, Grandma continued to walk around the market that the gypsies had temporarily set up, holding Gu Shun.

Gu Shun just wanted to hurry home now and plant this precious potato seedling, if he really died, he would want to cry without tears.

At this moment, a gypsy woman wearing a veil suddenly appeared in front of her mother-in-law and grandson and said:

"This grandma, do you want to give your grandson a divination, my divination is very accurate."

As a person who had received a new century education and studied science in his previous life, Gu Shun was dismissive of such superstitious things as divination.

But the gypsy woman's words surprised him slightly.