Chapter 19: Why the Broken Arm?!
After saying goodbye to the middle-aged musician, Xu came to the fifth floor of the bell tower.
On the fifth floor was a gray-haired old man, dressed in a white cloth coat, his hair was gray and his temples were gray, and dense wrinkles pulled from his forehead to the corners of his mouth.
The old man was holding his left hand, playing the harmonica slowly and gently.
Seeing Xu Shenju's arrival, although he was surprised for a moment, he still ignored it and continued to focus on his harmonica.
The harmonica sounded plaintive and angry, whimpering, and seemed to splash a little tear.
However, Xu Shenzhu, who walked to the fifth floor, was not as relaxed as before, and his originally heavy mood seemed to be pressed by a thousand pounds of stone after seeing the old man.
The old man's right hand is the same as Qixi's grandfather, it is a broken arm!
Xu Shenzhu's pace at this moment is like a thousand pounds, and his barely open steps are already difficult.
"Grandpa, why are you ...... A broken arm in the right hand? ”
Although Xu Shenzhu felt that it was rude, the fact that the musician on the fourth floor was under house arrest told him that this Wind Valley Cloud Island was hiding too many secrets!
"Young man, are you new to Wind Valley Cloud Island?"
The old man raised his eyebrows slowly, stopped playing the harmonica, looked at Xu Shendu, the person in front of him looked at the instrument Yu Xuanang, the temperament is extraordinary, judging by the old man's many years of experience in dealing with the world, the person in front of him must not be an ordinary person.
Xu Shenzhu looked at the old man, but did not admit it, nor did he deny it.
"Heh, if outsiders can enter Wind Valley Cloud Island, it must be for the sake of the factory."
Xu Shenzhu looked at the old man, his hands clenched into fists, and his nails even penetrated into the flesh slightly.
[Factory?!] Another factory?! What the hell is a factory?! ]
"I do go to see the factory, old man."
Xu Shenzhu replied honestly, full of pity for the group of musicians under house arrest in front of him, and even full of anger towards Fengshen at this moment, with mixed feelings.
"So, you're here for the smoke bomb too?"
The old man is like a wise man, looking at the juniors in front of him, but perhaps because he has reached his old age, he doesn't care much about anything.
"Poison smoke bombs?!"
The first time Xu Shenzhu heard such a thing, it seemed that he was instantly choked by a python.
"Don't you know? Didn't you come to Wind Valley Cloud to buy poisoned cartridges? ”
The old man was also taken aback, frowning and looking at Xu Shendu, guessing what the identity of the person in front of him was.
"I'm here for a friend. So what does the poisonous smoke bomb have to do with your broken arm, old man? ”
Xu Shenzhu was keenly aware of the connection in the middle, and took a step forward towards the old man.
"You can make a lot of money by going to work in a factory and making poisoned smoke cartridges. But there will always be a few accidents every year, and once the accident happens, there are always a few unfortunate people, will be infected by poison, because the hand is generally the first contact, once infected, if not immediately arthropods, it will spread to the whole body, poison death. Unfortunately, I was once such a poisoner. ”
The old man left his seat and walked towards Xu Shenzhu as well, stopping when he was still a few steps away from Xu Shenju.
The person in front of him was different from the others sent by the Wind God before, and instead of simply inspecting the factory, it seemed that he was looking for something.
"Why do you have to do such a dangerous thing?"
Xu Shenzhu also frowned incomprehensibly.
"Hahaha."
Hearing this, the old man instantly looked up to the sky and laughed, as if he had heard an extremely childish joke.
"Young man, no wonder I see that you have an extraordinary temperament and are well dressed, and it seems that you are not bad for money. People who are not poor in money really can't understand why poor people do a lot of things they know are dangerous. ”
The old man's laughter was clear and almost sad.
"If you don't have enough to eat every day, and you're hungry, do you really care when it's time to die? You're just, can you live one day at a time, right? ”
A smile and a sigh met from time to time on the old man's lips, and this smile was more painful than a sigh.
And Xu Shenju, as if he suddenly understood something, staggered back a few steps, ashamed of his arrogance and ignorance.
"So, in order to make money and have a full meal, everyone has to go to work in the factory, make poisonous smoke bombs, and endure the pain of being poisoned at any time and needing arthropods?"
"If you go to the top floor and take a look, most of them are middle-aged people who want to support their families, both old and young, and they have to take risks to make this quick money. Many times, in order to support his family, men often become an iron warrior who is not afraid of risks, after all, looking at the children at home who are waiting to be fed, what will not be done? You're too young......"
When the old man thought of his wife and children at home, he sighed with emotion, even if he was under house arrest here, even if he had broken his arm, it was enough to ensure that they had no worries about food and clothing.
Xu Shenzhu lowered his head, thinking of Xu Chengying's smiling face, and then remembering that even in the face of a strong enemy, his parents still thought of protecting themselves first, and tears filled his eyes.
Xu squatted down weakly, holding his head in his hands, feeling incompetent, angry, and lamented by the arrogance of the middle-aged musician who had just promised to save the fourth floor.
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Lan Wu took out a large diamond and a few gold ingots from his pocket again and handed them to the boy who was blocking him on the third floor.
"In this way, is it enough?"
When the boy saw so much gold, silver and jewelry, he understood that he was a valuable person in front of him, and from the indifference at the beginning, he immediately turned into a polite and polite greeting, with his right hand attached to his abdomen, and his left hand stretched out to the left, guiding Lan Wu forward.
"Welcome, please take a look at the third, fourth, and fifth floors. If you want to buy the most expensive things, you are at the top, the most private place. ”
"Thank you."
Lan Wu followed the direction indicated by the boy and walked into the room on the third floor, where a variety of rare seasonings and ingredients were displayed in front of Lan Wu's eyes.
From bottom to top, a variety of seasonings such as salt, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, vinegar, cooking wine, white wine, sweet noodle sauce, bean paste, tempeh, tomato sauce, sesame sauce, salad dressing, sugar, rock sugar, brown sugar, chili, sesame pepper, Sichuan pepper, star anise, bay leaf, cinnamon, black pepper, white pepper, cumin, cumin, five-spice powder, curry, tofu milk, chopped pepper, pickled pepper, starch, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence, oyster sauce, etc.
In addition, there are rare spices that are not common, such as the white boxed in a fine flake, which is mixed with hollow pyramid-shaped crystals, salty and warm, and has a wide range of uses; The color is bright yellow, and the spicy taste of the nasal passages is English mustard mixed with white mustard seeds and brown mustard seeds; golden syrup refined from crystalline molasses into viscous syrup; There are also yeast that sinks at the bottom after brewing beer that can be concentrated and eaten, and yeast spreads that are black and thick.
These blue crows have only heard Daddy describe how rare and magical they are, the first time they have seen them with their own eyes, and this shelf is so complete.