Chapter Ninety-Six: The Camel
The blade of the scimitar clung to his skin, and in the heat it was as cold as a block of ice.
Yu Xiaoyao blinked and said with a smile, "Could it be that you don't want to sell jade, so you sell knives instead?"
"Less!" the smile on Hadir's face was gone, "Who sent you? Why did you go around town asking about the story of Huangsha Town, and who told you to come and find the camel that went to the town of no return?"
Yu Xiaoyao said, "Does this have anything to do with you?"
"Now I'm asking you questions, you'd better be honest!" said Hadir, "if you don't want to be stripped naked, tied up and thrown into the desert to feed the vultures!"
"I see. Yu Xiaoyao nodded.
He suddenly reached out his hand, and before he could react, he grabbed Batur's knife with three fingers.
Then the scimitar, which was as sharp as clay, was gently broken in two by him.
"Now," Yu Xiaoyao tossed the severed blade aside with a pleasant smile on his face, "we can have a good talk, right?"
Hadir and Batur looked at the half-cut blade on the ground, and couldn't help but look at each other, and when they heard Yu Yaoyao's words, they all turned their eyes to the man who was still brushing the camel unhurriedly.
The man who brushed the camel didn't even look back, and the movements in his hands didn't stop, but he just said lightly, "Your Excellency is so skilled, but you don't know where the hero is, why do you want to come to us for trouble?"
Yu Xiaoyao smiled bitterly, "It seems that the knife on my neck is your person, right?"
The man said, "If you don't come to trouble us, why do we put a knife on your neck?"
Yu Xiaoyao said, "I'm just an ordinary person who wants to go to the town of no return, why do you have such a big reaction?
The man put down the brush in his hand and sneered, "Among the people who want to go to the town of no return, there are no ordinary people, and your Excellency must not be ordinary people with such good skills." We have unsightly secrets, don't you?"
"Even if I have it, why should I tell you?"
The man turned around, looked at Yu Xiaoyao, and said lightly, "Because, I am a camel." ”
Yu Xiaoyao asked, "You are the camel that can find the town of no return?"
The camel said, "It used to be." ”
Yu Xiaoyao said strangely: "Then can't you find it now?"
The camel said, "I can't find it." ”
"Why can't you find it?" asked Yu Xiaoyao again.
The camel said, "You've asked enough, why don't you tell me about yourself? Who told you to come? Why did you come to me?"
"Mrs. Cat asked me to come, and she told me to come here to find the camels of the town of no return, so that I could get his son back." ”
The camel said, "It seems that you are either a fool or a fool who owes the old woman a great favor." ”
Yu Xiaoyao smiled bitterly, "There doesn't seem to be any difference between the two. ”
The camel said, "Yes, all those who want to go to the town of no return are fools." ”
Yu Xiaoyao said, "So now, can you tell me how to go to the town of no return?"
The camel said, "Why should I tell you if I knew?" unless you pay the old woman's debt. ”
Yu Xiaoyao said strangely: "Mrs. Cat still owes you a debt?"
The camel said, "She owes it not her, but his precious son." ”
Yu Xiaoyao said, "So you did see Fan Shaobai?"
The camel said, "Yes, he owes me a whole fifty thousand taels." ”
Yu Xiaoyao sighed, turned around and left.
"Let's go?" asked the camel.
Yu Xiaoyao said, "I am sure of three things now, first, you are indeed the camel I am looking for. Second, you did meet Fan Shaobai. Third, you really don't know how to get to the town of no return. So, why am I still here?"
The camel said lightly, "I just said that I can't find the town of no return now, but I didn't say that I don't know how to get to the town of no return." ”
Yu Xiaoyao stopped and looked back, "If you know how to go to the town of no return, then you can go and collect the debt yourself, and you will knock my bamboo pole here?"
The camel said, "I can't go to the town of no return because I lack something." ”
"What is it?" asked Yu Yao.
The camel said, "You can find the camel of the town of no return." ”
It sounded like both a crap and a joke, but the camel seemed to be the kind of person who would neither tell nonsense nor jokes, so Yu Xiaoyao looked at him and waited for him to explain.
The camel refused to say any more, but just quietly watched the jade leisurely.
So Yu Xiaoyao understood, "So I'll give you 50,000 taels, and you will tell me that I can find a way to not return to the town?"
The camel said, "Yes, what you want to get, you have to pay for it." If you're going to the town of no return, you'd better keep this phrase firmly in mind. ”
Yu Xiaoyao smiled and said, "Thank you for the advice." Although I would love to buy you this news, it is a pity that I only have five hundred taels on me. ”
The camel said, "Then you'd better come back to me when you've earned enough money." ”
He turned away, picked up the brush, and continued to brush the camel in earnest.
"One last thing. The movement in the camel's hand did not stop, and he said lightly, "If you still want to live here, then don't ask about the secrets casually, especially the secret of the word yellow sand." ”
Yu Xiaoyao smiled: "I didn't expect you to be a good person." ”
The camel said, "Don't get me wrong, I'm just afraid that you'll die, and my 50,000 taels will really not arrive." ”
Five hundred taels of silver is enough to open a small shop, and if it is run properly, it may be enough to earn these fifty thousand taels in a few years.
But Yu Xiaoyao didn't know how to do business, and he didn't have the kung fu to wait for a few years, so he had to think of a way, a way to turn five hundred taels into fifty thousand taels in a short period of time.
He only knows one such method.
He only hopes that there will be a gambling house in Huangsha Town now.
This magical town did not disappoint him, and under the guidance of passers-by, he quickly found a gambling house, and unsurprisingly, this gambling house was called Huangsha Gambling House.
The general gambling house is the most lively at night, and it is not yet dusk, and the front of the Huangsha gambling house is already crowded.
"Big brother, please, I will pay it back tomorrow!" someone begged bitterly.
Yu Xiaoyao's heart moved, and he squeezed into the crowd, and he quickly squeezed into the center of the crowd like a swimming fish.
A thin middle-aged man knelt on the ground, one hand was pressed on the board, and the person holding him was holding a knife in his hand, and said in his mouth, "This is not good, Wu Datou, you also know that this is not only the rules of Huangsha Gambling House, but also the rules of our Huangsha Town, since you can't pay the money, then pay off the debt." ”
After saying this, the steel knife in his hand was raised high, aiming at the hand that was pressed against the board.