Chapter 309: 'Honest' Xuanlan
On the top of the pool floated a huge basket, the bottom of which was a wooden plank several meters long and wide, and the sides seemed to be woven from black vines. The heat of the pool steamed up, and there was a strange smell from the basket, like the smell of foggy flour.
When Moqi was a child, he was accustomed to smelling this smell in his own warehouse, and Blackbeard often hoarded a large amount of wheat and flour, and sometimes when the flour could not be sold in humid weather, Fruit Beard would scold and take Moqi to Luncuri to bring out the moldy flour, add a lot of salt and make salty bread and go to Wudaliandao.
That salty bread tastes like this, angry, and then it smells like a stinky salty cha. Lin Qi once tasted a bite of this bread, and the taste was similar to a nightmare, salty and bitter, and because it was not well fermented, biting it was like gnawing on wood residue.
This kind of bread is very popular among the alien tribes of Wudalian Island, where the crop yield is not high, and a piece of low-quality salty bread can be sold for three or five times the price of the fine cream white bread on the western continent. But the church's divine prison also provides this kind of bread, and Lin Qi couldn't help but wonder a little, is there someone in the church who is also doing hoarding and taking away and trading?
Mo Qi was looking at the basket blankly, Xuan Lan had already stood up lazily, he stepped into the water, picked up the things in the basket, and gently placed them on the edge of the pool. He is tall, one step is dozens of Wei, and the strength is infinite, if someone else comes to scatter the contents of the basket, it will take a quarter of an hour, but Xuanlan is a step and a hand.
After taking out the contents of the basket, Xuanlan shook the cable tied to the basket vigorously, and shouted loudly: "The things are packed! You can carry the basket up, don't worry, no one hides in the basket and wants to mix it up!"
The basket was slowly pulled up, rising very slowly, and there was a golden divine light gushing down from above, sweeping over and over again on the hanging basket. It can be seen that the guards above are extremely nervous about this matter, and in just a few breaths, at least thirty detectives have not come down.
Xuan Lan raised his head and watched the hanging basket slowly rise, he counted with his fingers for a while, and then shouted in the sky: "It's almost ten days again, remember to hang ten cows for me tomorrow, otherwise I won't help you guard this exit, if you have trouble, you can toss it yourself!"
After a while, a vague cry came from above: "Got it, I'll send you ten cows tomorrow."
Or is it the old rule, it's all bulls?"
Xuan Lan patted his face with satisfaction, and then he walked out of the water, sat down in place, and waved his hand to those black shadows with a smile: "The food is here, you can distribute it." This little guy is new here, just leave him a copy!"
Those black shadows looked at Lin Qi at the same time, and the eyes of these people had an eerie aura that made Mo Qi uneasy, although they all looked like old men in their last years, the kind that the wind was blowing, but Mo Qi was forced to stand unsteady by their gaze, and he took several steps backwards fiercely, until his back was attached to Xuanlan's toes, and he barely stood up.
A low and hoarse voice came from the crowd: "Such a little guy, has the hair grown together? Hehe, what crime did you throw off? Why can you keep a piece to eat?"
The eyes of those black shadows were as fierce as fierce, Lin Qi went to the mountains to hunt with a black beard when he was a child, and those hungry people who were starving to death due to lack of food in Antian were like this. Mo Qi was silent for a while, and he said lightly: "I am not guilty, I am innocent!"
The dark shadows froze, and then everyone laughed at the same time, especially the old ladies, who bared their teeth and showed only a few big yellow teeth left. They laughed at the same time: "Of course, we are all innocent! Hahaha, there is not a single sinner in the Black Abyss Divine Prison, we are all innocent!"
A thin old man walked steadily to the side of the male food, he nodded to Lin Qi, squinted his eyes and said coldly: "For Xuanlan's sake, you can get a piece of food today." But from tomorrow onwards, you don't want to come here. A young and strong young man like you, you should go and find food and drink by yourself, we are all a bunch of old people here!"
Glaring at him, the old man slowly picked up a slice of salted bread the size of a baby's head, and then picked up a bottle of wood the size of an adult's fist from the side. Lin Qi smelled a faint aroma of wine, the stoppers of these wooden bottles were not sealed properly, and they should be filled with wine According to Lin Qi's experience in drinking wine for so many years, this is the worst quality rum, and three or five coppers in a small wine coffin can be exchanged for a large glass.
That big glass of bad wine could fill at least four or five of these wooden bottles! You can see that the church is very critical of these prisoners!
Another old man stepped forward and slowly took his share of food. There were not many wooden bottles, only about a hundred, only the old men in front got a bottle of wine, and the old man in the back only had a piece of salty bread. Mo Qi also saw that the old people who took food here were divided into front and back, high and low according to some special rules, the person who took the food in front had the highest status, and the old man who took the food in the back naturally had a lower status.
In the end, when all the old people had taken their share, there was still a small half of the food left from the hanging basket.
The thin old man nodded to Lin Qi, and casually pointed to the salty bread: "Little guy, you can take a piece of bread, even today, it won't be given to you tomorrow! ”
Mo Qi glanced at the old man, bowed to him slightly, and then walked over to fetch the smallest piece of salted bread.
When these old men took the bread just now, Lin Qi carefully distinguished the taste of this salty bread, which was no different from the taste of those salty bread that the Black Tiger family had walked with, and it seemed that the quality could not catch up with the bread produced by the Black Tiger family. After all, although the Black Tiger family uses moldy flour, it is at least pure flour, and there should be a lot of bran in these salty breads, so you can imagine what the taste of this bread will be.
But in this divine prison, this is all the hope of an old man to live.
Mo Qi's heart was a little heavy, he didn't know what charges these old men were imprisoned here, but as he said just now, Lin Qi thought he was innocent. Then, these old people must not be willing to talk about their own affairs, maybe in their hearts, they are all innocent, everyone is innocent.
After weighing the heavy salty bread in his hand, which was about a pound on the right, Lin Qi took a few steps back.
A group of old men stepped forward and wrapped the remaining salty noodles in a piece of delicately woven cloth that they didn't know what kind of cloth was used, and then they carried the male black bread and walked slowly to the few fierce stone cinnamon in the distance. After a while, they turned the stone pillar and disappeared into the darkness.
Mo Qi brushed the black bread in his hand and smiled bitterly. He looked up at Xuanlan and asked him in a strange way, "Why don't you take one?,...
Xuan Lan leaned lazily against the stone wall, he glanced at Lin Qi and shook his head: "I can eat all that little thing in one bite, and they will starve to death." Tomorrow they will send ten cows down, and if I eat them, I will survive ten days. ”
A low bowel whine came from Xuanlan's stomach, and he licked his lips and muttered in a low voice: "When my father and daughter were still selling, they always told me that we could eat as much as we wanted outside, outside this damned prison! My father used to eat fifty sturdy men and fifty bulls in one meal, but now I have ten days to eat a full meal." ”
Mo Qi looked at this big guy and couldn't help but be speechless for a while.
Listening to Xuanlan, he was born in the Black Abyss Divine Prison? In other words, he has never been to the outside world.
Squeezing his belly hard, Xuanlan quacked and laughed: "But it's okay, I'll guard this road for the people above, one won't let the newcomer be scalded to death by boiling water, and the other won't let the old man slip up, I can have ten cows to eat in ten days." ”
He pointed to the direction in which the old men had disappeared, and said with a fluttering eyebrow: "Also, I will help them carry things, help them deter those demons, and prevent those old guys from being gentle and sassy, after they die, their bodies will be mine!"
With grinning teeth, Xuan Lan sighed very resentfully: "But they died too slowly, I calculate, the old guy I ate last time died of illness was two years ago, and it was ten years ago!
The female blue tilted her head and looked at Mo Qi, his huge eyes looked unusually simple and honest, but what he said made Mo Qi's scalp tingle for a while. Lin Qi shook his head, nodded his toes and patted Xuanlan's foot bones vigorously, then turned around and walked in the direction where the old men left.
This is the way of survival of the Black Abyss Divine Prison, and this is the way for Xuanlan to sell! Mo Qi has no way to accuse anything, because from today onwards, he will also sell here! Live well, and then find a way to get out of here! Jing Qi is confident, this place will not live for him for a lifetime, and no one can live for him for a lifetime!
"Xuanlan, your name is Xuanlan! I remember, I'll accompany you to chat when I'm free!"
Mo Qi glanced back at Xuanlan, who was sitting there without moving, and screamed violently.
Xuanlan nodded slightly, and then there was no other movement. He was hungry, and he didn't have the strength to do anything else.
Lin Qi watched him sit there quietly, sighed heavily, and then strode into the darkness. (To be continued)