Bai Zhi told Yun Lai in the note that one of his acquaintances, Sister Song's boyfriend, Yue Yang, lived next door with a twenty-year-old daughter.
The remark has not changed, but Yun Lai will come back soon. There is also a large bag of fragrant roasted nuts hanging on the handlebar of his motorcycle, and a folding table, chairs and a cabinet are tied to the side of the motorcycle. He looks like he is living in a rental house.
The aroma of roasted nuts was so strong that it was so overwhelming that a group of six children from the landlord's house were attracted to the yard by the aroma and kept sniffing.
Yun Lai ignored the children who were watching eagerly, and couldn't wait to untie the furniture tied to the motorcycle. He took the bag of nuts and walked in first, saying in a loud voice: "Honey, you are hungry, eat it while it's hot!"
"I'm not hungry. The daughter of the neighbor on the right brought me four pieces of water chestnut and I ate some." Bai Zhi hinted that the person outside was Yue Yang's daughter.
Yun Lai cracked a nut shell to let the smell of roasted nuts spread. Then he closed the door and took out the lunch box. The smell of nuts covered the aroma of the food. Bai Zhi covered her nose and took the time to eat. Yun Lai peeled the shells of nuts while eating. After the meal, he frowned and chewed a piece of fruit pulp, pretending to eat nuts for dinner before going out to move furniture.
Yue Yang came over to thank Mr. Qiao's wife for giving his daughter new shoes. Yun Lai talked to him and said, "Our eldest son is about the same age as Xiao Lian. He is now taking care of his younger siblings at home."
"Why don't you leave his aunt at home when you have so many children? It would be great for your boss to come out with you." Yue Yang's Jiuxu dialect with Xinglin accent is very standard.
"The child is still learning crafts from his uncle, and there are still two years left until he starts training." Yun Lai now spoke very smoothly in Jiuxu. He pulled out the folding chair for Yue Yang to sit on, and took out the mattress and quilt from the space hand card. Something like that.
Bai Zhi poured a glass of water for Yue Yang, then she took out a sewing kit and a tattered coat, imitating the landlady's behavior, and sat silently mending the clothes while the man spoke.
"Aunt Qiao, I came to your house to borrow some light." Xiaolian came in with a sewing box and a pile of rags. The landlord's children stood at the door and looked in, sniffing.
Yun Lai closed the door without any sympathy, took out a few broken induction cookers and hanging lamps, and chatted with Yue Yang while dismantling the parts. After a while, he put together two working ones, and the remaining pile He lined up the parts in a row, took out a box of parts from the space card, and assembled two more.
"I originally wanted to ask Brother Qiao to dig ginger together tomorrow. Seeing how my life is going, it's better to rely on my craftsmanship to make a living." Yue Yang was quite envious.
"We can't just live like this, just tinker with it and it works." Yun Lai said cheerfully, "Brother Yue, is there anything you want to fix? Bring it and I'll fix it for you."
Yue Yang thanked him repeatedly and took out two broken stoves. Yun Lai took them apart and used the good parts to build a usable one for him. They chatted until late at night. Yue Yang was very cautious and hinted that his opponent "Yi" might not be a good person. He advised them not to travel far away with "Yi", but he did not reveal any personal information. Yun Lai's speech was also impeccable, and he didn't even tell anyone how many children he had.
Bai Zhi felt that Yun Lai was now very wary of anyone and anything related to the Lin family, but Yun Lai still behaved as if nothing had happened. This made her very stressed, and she was even more looking forward to Zhang Tianzhao coming to Xinglin to join them earlier than before.
The next morning, before the neighbors got up, Yun Lai took Bai Zhi out to visit the large open-air market outside the east gate of Xigu City.
The variety of products in this market is much richer than the department stores in Dayu City. Rows of brand-new suspended motorcycles sparkle in the first rays of the rising sun, and there are more than a dozen nutritional supplement stores. The most eye-catching thing is the luxuriously decorated grain store. There are more than a hundred large wooden barrels more than one meter high and half a meter in diameter in the store, which contain various beans, yellow rice and white rice. Although the quality is not very good, A bucket of one color looks very colorful when put together. Most of the beans Bai Zhi had seen on Earth were sold in this store, but she had never seen another twenty kinds. The store even sold bottled rapeseed oil, sesame oil and soy sauce. The vegetable store next to it also has many common varieties on Earth. Cabbages, mushrooms, potatoes, green peppers, and onions look exactly like those in the Earth vegetable market that Bai Zhi remembers. In addition to various tofu products, the tofu counter next to the cashier also has Bagged Japanese tofu is an unconventional product.
Opposite these two shops is a dim sum shop that specializes in selling steamed buns, steamed buns and fried dough sticks pancakes. Although the steamed buns cost as much as a Sanxu gold, there were dozens of people queuing up. The transparent window of the bakery next door displays large lobsters, French baguettes, croissants, buns and red sausages. The number of people queuing up is several times more than the number of people buying buns.
It is relatively easy for locals in Star Forest to obtain random star gates. The earth's materials here are so abundant, so there must be many people coming from the earth with the help of random star gates. Bai Zhi looked left and right. The yellow-skinned people over thirty years old looked like they were from the earth.
After visiting several luxury stores, Bai Zhi wanted to buy some seeds. However, she walked around the market and couldn't find a store selling seeds. She bought ten pounds of miscellaneous beans with Sanxu gold at a corner store and she was done. Shopping mission. Yun Lai exchanged the repaired stove hanging lamp and usable parts for a lot of old junk. When they got home, the neighbors and the landlord had all gone out. Yun Lai moved the tables and chairs to the yard to do repair work, so that he could talk to "Yi" easily.
The landlady found a broken stove out of nowhere and asked Yun to repair it. Yun Lai took it apart and found that only two parts were broken, so it took her more than ten minutes to replace them.
The sun moved to the center of the sky, and the sunlight was scorching. The neighbors, especially "Yi" haven't come back yet.
It would be unreasonable to pretend to wait and see. Yunlai collected the useful parts that he had dismantled, loaded the junk that he could not use onto the motorcycle and went out.
Bai Zhi mended clothes all morning, feeling that she had nothing to do.
Let's chat with notes. Yue Dongting has sneaked out of the hotel in the safe zone to meet Zhang Tianzhao and the others. Now they are splitting up to find out how to get to Xinglin. They are very busy. Let's go shopping. She has already gone to the largest market in Valley City in the morning. The business level of this place is similar to the rural market in the early days of China's reform and opening up in the movie. There are many people and lively products, but it has a slightly new industry that is eye-catching. The products were prohibitively expensive and she didn't need them, and the quality of the produce wasn't as good as what she had in her backpack.
The landlady's children were running around in the yard, and the landlady was sewing and looking after the children in a shady area. Bai Zhi thought about it for a while, then took a sewing box and a piece of rags and went over to chat with the landlady.
The landlady didn't know whether it was because she had been lonely for too long or because Yun Lai's repair of her stove had already boosted her friendliness level. Once Bai Zhi started talking, she could talk endlessly for a long time.
"You came at the right time, the harvest festival is coming soon, and there will be a lot of delicious food in the market." The landlady looked at the soup simmering on the stove at the door of her kitchen, and sighed happily, "There are things you can eat now. Much more than when we were kids."
The old liar Regan emphasized more than once that the standard of living in Black Mirror City is higher than that in Star Forest. Bai Zhi took a walk today and felt that the variety of food available in the market in Valley City was close to that of the earth before the end of the world. According to the landlady, this change only started in the past few decades. To change the living conditions of plants in a place in such a short period of time, does the Lin family have meteorites in their hands?
Bai Zhi said in a casual manner: "We saw a shop selling long baked dough sticks in the market today. The various kinds of scones there are really delicious."
The landlady said, "That's a bakery. The Lin family, the bun shop next door, and the big food and vegetable store are all run by the Lin family. The Lin family is the richest man in our Valley City. When I was a child, their family was poor for a while. , not only did they start to stir up trouble again within two years, but they also took over all the property and slaves of their in-laws, the Yang family and the Song family."
slave? Bai Zhi was stunned for a moment. She had never seen slaves in Black Mirror City. The wilderness in Xinglin was quite chaotic, but the people she saw in the city didn't look like slaves. She asked tentatively: "How many slaves are there in the Lin family now?" ?”
"It must be a hundred thousand by any means. The Lin family has enclosed a large area of land in Dongshi to plant trees and new varieties of food. Gee, they say that their good things are piled up in mountains, and the energy boxes are only thrown away after half use! In their case You can make a fortune by picking up garbage at the back door of your home!" Seeing Bai Zhi's stunned look, the landlady began to let her imagination run wild and brag. Bai Zhi listened with a smile, squeezed out what the landlady said, and sorted out the history of the Lin family in the past thirty years: Thirty years ago, the Lin family was just an ordinary rich person who ranked among the top in Valley City, with more than 20 people. Years ago, when they teamed up with their in-laws, the Yang family and the Song family, to excavate a newly discovered underground ruins, something went wrong. The sons of the old head of the Lin family either died or opened a temporary star gate and ran away. After a few years, the separated children of the Lin family came back one after another, bringing back a large amount of food, seeds and hundreds of thousands of slaves. Several in-laws continued to excavate the site and fought for more than once. The Lin family not only accepted the in-laws' property and became the richest man in Valley City, but also became the owner of Valley City.
Bai Zhi asked gossipingly: "Are the Yang family and Song family still rich?"
"The Yang family has moved all the more than ten rooms to Dayu City. I don't know what's going on now. The Song family has more than twenty rooms. Those who are rich can still live in the city, but they are not as rich as before." The landlady said with emotion. , "No matter how poor a rich person is, he is still richer than poor people like us."
"Sister-in-law, you are right." Bai Zhi sighed and agreed while threading the needle. She now wanted to go to the place where the Lin family farmed.
The shadow of the courtyard wall grew longer and longer. Bai Zhi mended the second piece of clothing and began to mend her trousers. The landlady gossiped for a long time, but she really had nothing to say and fell silent.
"Yi" and a black brother ran into the yard, rushed to the room he rented, and closed the door.
The landlady pretended not to notice, and Bai Zhi didn't do anything. She pulled the threads together, cut them and knotted them, lowered her head and continued to sew clothes.
A dozen strong men rushed into the yard, and the bald man in the lead asked: "Did anyone come back just now?"
The landlady pointed to the closed door of "Yi" and said nothing.
The bald man gestured to his men to spread out and guard the entrance. He and his younger brother clung to the wall, signaling the landlady to call the door.
The landlady was very reluctant, but she didn't even dare to say no, and walked forward with a grimace on her face.
There were two loud bangs in the door, followed by the sound of a heavy object hitting the person, and then the sound of pain.
One of the bald man's men jumped out and pushed the landlady away, then kicked open the door.
The rental house had no windows, and the only door opened in a dark corridor. It was dark inside during the day. The bald man took out the hanging lamp, turned it on and hung it on the door frame. Bai Zhi carried her clothes home and stood at the door of her house to watch the excitement.
On the bed and floor of Yi's room were boxes of nutritional supplements and bottled water that had been smashed open. Yi fell to the ground and a heavy motorcycle fell on him. Brother Hei fell next to him, with a hole in his head and another motorcycle on top of him. He was obviously knocked unconscious.
Is this an explosion of space equipment? Bai Zhi thought that the large box of space equipment she had put away might have exploded, so she stopped watching the excitement and pretended to be timid, closing the door and taking out the big box for inspection. Most of the space equipment in the box remained intact, with only one metal sign broken into several pieces, and several other stone signs with cracks on them. Bai Zhi thought for a moment, put the cracked piece into her coat pocket, and put the rest back. Put it in the box and put it in your backpack.
Bai Zhi's perception was very keen, and it was strengthened by chance yesterday. Even if the door was closed, as long as she concentrated a little, she could still use her perception to "see" what was happening outside the door.
She "saw" the bald man grinning and waving his hands, lifting up his shirt and taking off two space cards from his waistband, and asked his younger brother to collect the things.
One of the bald man's men peeled off "Yi"'s shirt. There is a cyan circular mark slightly below the collarbone of "Yi". The unconscious Brother Hei also had the same mark under his collarbone.
"It turns out they are runaway slaves from the Lin family. You," the bald man kicked a younger brother, "go to the city and tell the manager of the Lin family that we have captured two runaway slaves."
The younger brother ran very fast. The landlady ran even faster, yelling at her six children to go home, and locked the door.
Bai Zhi lit an oil lamp, continued to pretend to mend, opened the notes and quickly refreshed what happened just now.
Yunlai said he would be back soon.
Haifengqiu wrote a few dozen seconds later: Yunlai, don't go back, put on a mask and rent a better house outside Xigu City, close the door and stay indoors, right away. Bai Zhi, if they want to take you away as a slave, they should open a random star gate first and then teleport to Yun Lai. If they don't cause trouble, Yun Lai will go back after the Lin family leaves.
Yun Lai agreed and told Bai Zhi to be careful.
Bai Zhi replied that she would modify the note if necessary and wait for the Lin family to come.
Yue Yang and Xiaolian came back each carrying a basket. It was discovered that there was a stranger in "Yi"'s house. "Yi" and his friend fell to the ground naked. The father and daughter did not react at all. They opened the door and poured out the water chestnuts in the basket. Yue Yang went out again carrying the empty basket. Xiaolian knocked on Bai Zhi's door with a small basket of water chestnuts.
Yue Yang is more likely to be a runaway slave than "Yi". Why doesn't this man realize that there is danger? He went out but left his beautiful daughter behind!
Bai Zhi opened the door and found the bald man staring at Xiaolian with his eyes narrowed, almost reaching Xiaolian's face and chest. Although Bai Zhi has never really been in contact with that kind of person, she also knows what a man who looks at a little girl like that will do next. She pulled Xiaolian into the house and closed the door. She said, "This time the water chestnuts are better than the last time. I want both." She took out a pen and paper and wrote: The two people opposite the door are escaped slaves of the Lin family, and the leader Inform the Lin family that someone is coming. The bald man looked at you like he had evil intentions just now.
Xiaolian looked at Bai Zhi writing in surprise, pointed at the two lines and shook her head.
Xiaolian is... illiterate?
Bai Zhi was unable to put away the paper and pen, changed her method, picked up the water chestnut and looked at it, and said: "I think what you sent this time is good, and I want to buy more. Please take me to the place where you dig water chestnut to see how much there is. , so that I can buy whatever money your uncle asks for."
Xiaolian was very smart. Although she didn't know why, she still answered simply: "Okay, Auntie, I'll take you there."
Bai Zhi opened the door and signaled Xiaolian to lead the way. The bald man blocked the door before them and shouted: "Where do you want to go? Stay inside!"
Bai Zhi wanted to speak, but Xiaolian suddenly raised her leg and kicked the bald man to the opposite side. Some of the strong men in the room went to help the bald man, while others rushed out to stop them.
The move has already been made, there is no point in avoiding it. Bai Zhi knocked one of them unconscious, and all the strong men in the aisle fell down in a few hits. She grabbed Xiaolian and rushed out of the aisle, ran to the yard, took out a motorcycle and jumped on it. Xiaolian's movements were not slow, and she jumped into the back seat and hugged her waist. The motorcycles rose into the air and met head-on with a group of motorcycles whose target was obviously the landlord's yard. Bai Zhi turned the steering wheel and turned a nearly right-angled corner and flew out of the city.
"Aunt, my dad is in front." Xiaolian pointed to the cobweb-like alley below and shouted, "Dad!" Yue Yang looked up at them, then looked behind them, dropped the basket and shouted: "You go first!"
Such a father is a good father. Bai Zhi now felt that Yue Yang was okay, so she lowered her height and got closer to him, grabbed his arm with one free hand and lifted into the air, immediately increasing her speed to ninety yards. Like a strong wind blowing, the motorcycle traveled more than ten kilometers in the blink of an eye, and then another dozen kilometers in the blink of an eye. Get into the tall concrete forest that has been abandoned for who knows how long before the pursuers rise into the air.
After landing, Xiaolian showed no fear at all and said happily: "Auntie, you drive a motorcycle really well!"
"Be quiet. Aunt Qiao, what happened?" Yue Yang was worried. A gust of wind blew by, and a few grains of sand fell on his gray hair.
"The two guys with bald heads chasing each other came to the house and said they were runaway slaves of the Lin family." Bai Zhi paid attention to Yue Yang's facial expression when she spoke. Although Yue Yang still maintained a worried look, his pupils shrank slightly.
"He sent someone to notify the Lin family manager. Just when you came back, Xiaolian gave me water chestnuts. The bald head looked at Xiaolian with something wrong. You are not at home, and neither is Lao Qiao. I don't feel safe at home. I told Xiaolian that I wanted to see how many of your water chestnuts you had. When he opened the door, Baldhead refused to let us go and told us to stay in the house. Xiaolian kicked him. I pulled her and ran out."
"Aunt Qiao is so awesome, she can knock down one of them in one go!" Xiaolian straightened her wind-tossed hair, "Dad, we can't live in Valley City anymore."
"You kid." Yue Yang sighed, "You kicked Aunt Qiao away and took her away. What will Uncle Qiao do?"
"Old Qiao has gone out and won't be back for a few days. Don't worry about him. Brother Yue, do you have a safe place to stay nearby?"
"It's a bit far. It's a bit difficult to get there before dark. We can't use motorcycles, so let's walk faster." Yue Yang answered.
Bai Zhi put away the motorcycle and signaled Yue Yang to lead the way.
Yue Yang was very familiar with the terrain in this area. Not far away, he moved a concrete block more than two meters high, revealing a hole that was half a person high. Xiaolian bent over and went in. Bai Zhi followed her for a few meters. Later, Yue Yang came in and moved the piece of concrete back to block the entrance. The light that wasn't bright enough in the first place was gone, and it was so dark in the cave that you couldn't even see your fingers. Although Bai Zhi could "see" the situation in the tunnel without using her eyes, she still asked: "Can I use lighting equipment?"
"I'll do it." Yue Yang took out a small thing that was exactly the same as the earth-made hand-operated flashlight that Bai Zhi once owned. With a gentle "dah-dah-dah" sound, a small ball of blue-white light illuminated the room. The tunnels of dust.
It’s really a flashlight made on earth! If it is still usable after more than twenty years, it does not necessarily mean that it has been well preserved. Yue Yang probably has space powers and comes with his own storage space. Bai Zhi looked at the small flashlight curiously. After the initial surprise, she was able to think calmly: the utilization efficiency of energy blocks is very high. The energy box that can be recharged is a by-product of large-scale use of energy blocks and is more economical than batteries. practical. Her compressed energy crystal ring is more powerful than the energy block, so the Energy Research Institute of Yangzhou Star has long given up on the application of electrical energy. However, after Senior Xu took away Yunlai's engine and biodiesel manufacturing technology, Gu Tianbai arranged a team in Tucheng to try to make small household appliances compatible with energy blocks, energy crystal rings and ordinary batteries, and transformed many small appliances similar to rice cookers. Home appliances. However, there was no market for the manufactured products in Luoyang Star. Only Qi Haoyu was very supportive and took a spaceship worth of small household appliances and two production lines with him when he left.
Bai Zhi is writing notes to report to her friends what she did, where she was, what she saw, and what she thinks she discovered; at the same time, she feels that the third brother is super awesome. They have energy crystal rings that are more powerful than energy blocks, and they really don't need to use electricity. However, energy-deficient areas can use solar energy or use human power to generate electricity. There is still money to be made in applying electric energy.
Zhang Tianzhao's notes excerpted the location of Bai Zhibao and there was no change after that.
Hai Fengqiu spoke for Hao Xing, and after asking a few questions, he started to refresh the screen:
This hand-pressed flashlight may be a secret signal for Yue Yang and his accomplices to meet each other. They may not know each other, but hand-pressed flashlights are only available to people from the earth, and the sound they make can also alert the accomplices that someone is coming. People who are not from the earth would not think that this flashlight does not use an energy box. At most, they think it looks a bit unique.
This kind of flashlight was among the supplies Dongting and Hao Xing packed up before departure. It is under cabinet 29 of container No. 3 in everyone's backpack. Bai Zhi, please find one and use it as a spare.
Bai Zhi found a box of small hand-operated flashlights in cabinet No. 29. This container was filled with small household appliances produced in the world. Most of the outer packaging had not been removed. The words "Exclusively for Lin's Supermarket Chain" were written on it. All.
The Lin family opened a chain of supermarkets just to make it easier for Lin’s father to stock up on supplies and bring them back to Xinglin. Yun Lai is obviously very good, why would the Lin family give up on him? Bai Zhi silently took out a small flashlight and put it alone in her backpack.
