Chen Xiangsheng looked around and found an old man about forty or fifty years old in the corner of the innermost counter, he should be the boss here.

Chen Xiangsheng took the dark blue transparent beads out of his pocket and put them on the counter, and then asked the boss to help put a blue thread on the beads so that they could be worn on his wrist.

The corners of the old man's eyes were full of wrinkles, his hair was already snow-white, and the years had left too many marks on his body.

Seeing the dark blue transparent beads that Chen Xiangsheng put on the counter, the old man's eyes lit up all of a sudden, he picked them up and looked left and right, and exclaimed: "Young man, your beads are really beautiful, can I buy them?" ”

Chen Xiangsheng smiled politely and shook his head: "I'm sorry, boss, I don't sell this." ”

The old man suddenly lost most of his interest, and said impatiently, "You said it earlier." With that, the old man helped Chen Xiangsheng put on the rope.

Chen Xiangsheng couldn't help but complain in his heart, is there anything wrong with this old man, he didn't say that he wants to sell it well......

Fortunately, the old man's craftsmanship was still good, and it only took him a minute to get Chen Xiangsheng's request.

The light blue rope passes through the beads to form a ring, and there is a movable knot on the rope loop, Chen Xiangsheng wears it on his right wrist, although there is only one bead, it looks like a different beauty.

The old man said to Chen Xiangsheng with a smile: "This guest, one copper coin is enough." ”

The currency used by the Mengdan Kingdom is also the currency used throughout the continent, and the currency is divided into copper, silver, gold and amethyst.

One hundred copper coins equals one silver coin, one hundred silver coins equals one gold coin, and one thousand gold coins equals one amethyst coin.

Chen Xiangsheng took out three copper coins from his pocket and handed them to the boss, and then asked casually: "Boss, I seem to have seen a refugee cave just now, why are there so many refugees here who are not well fed and clothed?" ”

The old man took the copper coin, glanced at Chen Xiangsheng, and said, "Young man, you came from Xuedu." ”

Chen Xiangsheng nodded in affirmation.

The old man took out another cigarette and handed it to Chen Xiangsheng, who waved his hand and refused. The boss pumped himself,

He leaned on the counter and said abruptly: "There are already few homeless people here, and Dongbai City is relatively peaceful. ”

"Did you know that the land area of the Mengdan Kingdom is about twice that of the Bai Yu Kingdom, which has caused a situation where the population base of the Mengdan Kingdom is large. However, most of the country is snowy, and it is difficult to produce food crops. ”

Chen Xiangsheng interrupted: "No, most of the area of Mengdan Kingdom is snowy areas, so it shouldn't have such a huge population base from the beginning." ”

The old man looked at Chen Xiangsheng, his eyes flashed with appreciation, and he said calmly: "Indeed, if it was a snowy region from the beginning, Meng Danguo would not have such a large population base. ”

"However, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, more than 90 percent of the country's land has been fertile hills, including mountains and plains."

A steel giant hammer seemed to hammer into Chen Xiangsheng's head, making his brain buzz.

The old man continued: "One night two years ago, the landscape of Mengdan Kingdom underwent earth-shaking changes. ”

"Ice and snow instantly covered more than 90% of the territory of Mengdan Kingdom, allowing people who should have lived in the forests and grasslands to enter the snowy mountains."

"Therefore, most of the food needs of Meng Dan Kingdom can only rely on the import of Bai Yuguo's grain, and at the same time, Meng Dan Kingdom also needs to import a large number of Bai Yu Kingdom's Great Sun Crystal, this cost is undoubtedly huge, and even the country is gradually beginning to be unable to bear it."

"As a result, countless civilians have been displaced as refugees. In order to ensure the normal operation of the city, the city lords began to order all the refugees to be gathered together, forming the current refugee slum. ”

"Every once in a while, the lord of the city would distribute food in the refugee slum, but it was still a drop in the bucket."

Chen Xiangsheng was still puzzled, he frowned and asked, "But why is the lord of Meng Dan Kingdom called the Snow King?" Why is the capital of Mengdan called Snow Capital? How could the country of Mengdan become a country of snow overnight? ”

When Chen Xiangsheng questioned the old man, a middle-aged man wearing a round hat walked out of the door of the store, and when he saw the old man leaning on the cabinet, he immediately scolded angrily: "Who are you? What are you doing here? ”

When the old man saw the visitor, he immediately turned over and came out of the counter, and ran out of the door of the store as soon as he slipped through the smoke.

When Chen Xiangsheng chased him out, he had disappeared without a trace. At this time, Chen Xiangsheng realized that the old man just now was not the boss at all, but the middle-aged man wearing a round hat in front of him was.

Chen Xiangsheng had no choice but to return to the store. Seeing that Chen Xiangsheng turned back the same way, the middle-aged man said in an unkind tone: "What is the relationship between you and the person just now?" What are you doing here? ”

Chen Xiangsheng waved his hand and hurriedly explained: "I came to the boss to make a handmade jewelry, he was just standing in the counter, I thought he was the boss, so I chatted with him." ”

After hearing this, the boss looked at Chen Xiangsheng's appearance, he looked like a decent gentleman, and finally chose to believe Chen Xiangsheng's words.

Seeing that the boss didn't make any more trouble, Chen Xiangsheng breathed a sigh of relief and stepped forward and asked, "Boss, do you know the old man just now?" ”

The middle-aged man directly denied: "I may have seen it, but I don't know it." There are usually a lot of people like him who want to come to my store to steal. ”

"You just said that you came to make handmade jewelry, what's the matter, show it to me."

Chen Xiangsheng pointed to the dark blue transparent bead on his right hand and said, "Here, it's done." ”

The middle-aged man looked at Chen Xiangsheng's right hand carefully, then at Chen Xiangsheng, and immediately scolded: "You are playing with me, where do you have something in your hand?" ”

Chen Xiangsheng's eyes widened, he looked at the dark blue transparent beads on his right hand, it is indeed there, how could it not be? He pointed to the wrist of his right hand again and said to the boss, "It's here, can't you see it?" ”

The boss slammed the table and scolded, "If you make trouble here again, get out of here!" ”

Seeing that the timing was wrong, Chen Xiangsheng hurriedly admitted his mistake and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I made a mistake just now." ”

He took out a copper coin from his pants and put it on the counter, and asked, "Boss, do you know what happened before the land of Meng Dan Kingdom did not become a snowy region two years ago?" ”

In the next second, Chen Xiangsheng was driven out by the boss with his copper coins.

Standing at the door of the store, the middle-aged man scolded angrily: "People nowadays are really unreasonable, there is no honest word in their mouths, and they don't know what nonsense they are talking about when they open and close their mouths." ”

Chen Xiangsheng pinched his head, he felt that the experience just now was like a dream.