"Is this a fresh pumpkin? How to sell it?"
Huanxiao stopped at a stall and watched the woman next to her selecting vegetables and asking the price.
Perhaps it is because she has not been exposed to the sun for a long time that the woman looks fair. Her skin condition is much better than that of ordinary people.
There were many bandages wrapped around the woman's arms, and blood stains oozed from the bandages, staining the white bandages red.
But the woman didn't feel any pain at all, and seemed to take the injury as a normal thing.
"Five pieces each, no bargaining."
The person sitting at the stall was a skinny old man, and most of the stall owners in other stalls were also skinny old people.
The stall owner's face was full of acrimony and indifference, as cold as an emotionless ice cube.
The woman who wanted to buy a pumpkin shouted:
"Five pieces? Are you crazy for trying to earn human and animal coins! In other stalls, pumpkins of this size and appearance cost at most three pieces, but you are actually asking for five pieces?!"
"Whether you want to buy it or not, others will buy it if you don't."
The stall owner had a cold face and a very bad attitude.
The woman who wanted to buy a pumpkin said angrily:
"I wanted to buy your stuff because I thought you were pitiful, but then you thought about how you'd kill me? It's such a kindness that goes unrequited. You keep these dishes, and I'll see how you deal with the ghost owner when you close the stall."
After saying that, the woman left angrily, stepping hard on the ground as if she was venting her anger on the floor.
Huanxiao followed without hesitation.
The woman noticed that Huan Xiao was deliberately following her, so she stopped and turned her head to warn:
"Why are you following me? Don't think that I will give you human and animal coins because I see you are malnourished. Who can get human and animal coins easily? Don't follow me anymore!"
When Huan Xiao came to this place, he discovered that the humans in Human and Animal Street are generally very fat. Most of them are as round as inflated balloons. There are only a few people who are relatively thin, but they are also overweight. A lot of weight.
Compared with the pedestrians in Huanxiao's world, the people in this street of humans and animals are really too fat. Therefore, Huan Xiao received many looks that seemed to be looking at a disabled person along the way. They seemed to sympathize with Huan Xiao's lack of obesity.
Seeing the woman's misunderstanding, Huan Xiao explained with a smile:
"No, I just don't know how to buy things. How do I get human and animal coins?"
"...Huh, you were kept at home to gain weight? You didn't succeed, so you were abandoned by your family?"
The woman's expression was a bit complicated, with a mixture of disgust and pity.
Ready-made excuses, don't use them in vain.
Huan Xiao nodded, "Yes, so I want to earn human and animal coins on my own!"
"With your small body? Forget it, how about I reward you with two pieces, and you can just buy some steamed buns and make some fat." In the woman's heart, pity finally defeated her disgust.
She took out two black coins slightly smaller than one yuan coins from her pocket and threw them into Huanxiao's arms.
Huan Xiao took it in confusion, then blinked and waved:
"Thank you for your kindness, but I want to know how to get the human and animal coins. I can get them on my own."
Huan Xiao returned the two human and animal coins to the woman.
The woman frowned, carefully put the human and animal coins back into her pocket, then looked around at Huan Xiao, shook her head, and said nothing.
"...Don't I meet the conditions?" Huan Xiao didn't expect that the currency here is quite difficult to get, and there are actually restrictions.
However, the woman shook her head again.
Then she pointed to a road and said:
"Look, keep walking in this direction. At the end, there is a black shop. Just go there to exchange human and animal coins. However, I still have to remind you..."
The woman hesitated to speak, which made Huan Xiao feel a little confused.
"Reminder of what?"
"In exchange for human and animal coins, you need to exchange your meat. You should think carefully before going. They will charge at least a pound. I'm afraid that if you go in, you will be dead when you come out."
After the woman finished speaking, she shook her head and left. When he left, he was still mumbling:
"It's pitiful. Why are there such thin children now? They are almost reduced to bones."
Huan Xiao listened from behind and complained silently in her heart. Even if she picked a random person from her world who was slightly fat according to medical standards and came here, I'm afraid he would be said to be "thin as a bone". The aesthetics of fatness and thinness here have been deformed. .
But after getting the news she wanted, Huan Xiao followed the path pointed by the woman...
Along the way, strange eyes always fell on Huan Xiao, who followed him all the way.
Human beings scorn and gloat because they see people thinner than themselves, so they have a sense of pride and pleasure in trampling on the weak.
The ghosts were curious and confused, because they had no idea why a ghost wanted to exchange human and animal coins. Could it be that this ghost wanted to exchange human food for food and then feed it to humans?
They didn't understand, but they were shocked!
Huan Xiao, who was the center of attention, finally walked to the black store, referred to as the black store.
The person exchanging human and animal coins was a fierce-looking ghost, with a look on its face as if someone owed it money.
When it saw Huan Xiao, it gave a strange look, ignored the other people who came to exchange human and animal coins, and asked Huan Xiao:
"Need to exchange human and animal coins?"
"Yes, can I exchange it for this?"
Huanxiao took out the only remaining head from the storage compartment.
The other people who came to exchange human and animal coins were shocked, but they didn't have much fear. They seemed to be used to this kind of thing, so they were immune.
The ghost in the store weighed the head in his hand, nodded, and gave Huanxiao two hundred human and animal coins.
Huan Xiao had no objection. Anyway, the head was given by someone else. She thought it would be enough to exchange it for seven days of food.
She originally thought that if the head could be exchanged for less human and animal coins, she would take out the six pieces of human skin in the storage compartment and exchange it, but now it seems that there is no need for it.
However, other people who saw this scene exploded!
"Two hundred? Isn't there only fifty for each person's head? Why can she get so many?!"
"If I had known that human heads were so valuable, I wouldn't have eaten them before. It was such a waste..."
"She can't be a human being kept in captivity by some ghost master, right? She can actually get four times the human and animal coins."
Several pairs of greedy eyes stared at Huan Xiao, and several of them had already set their sights on Huan Xiao...
After getting the human and animal coins, Huan Xiao left the black shop.
Occasionally she would stop and look back, and she would find several sneaky figures following her.
Huan Xiao pretended not to see it and continued walking forward.
Passing by several stalls and seeing fresh fruits, Huan Xiao stopped next to the stall.
"How do you sell these apples?"
"Two coins are one pound, five coins are three pounds." The stall owner is a stooped old man, his voice is trembling, and he speaks very slowly.
There are bandages on his hands and exposed calves. These places must have been cut into flesh and blood and exchanged for human and animal coins.
The color of the bandage is a little dirty and it hasn't been changed for some time.
Huan Xiao took out five human and animal coins and said, "I want three catties."
Apples are easy to store and will definitely be fine for seven days.
The old man smiled crookedly and said:
"Okay, okay, I have chosen the ones for you. These are the fruits newly shipped to Human and Animal Street. They are better than the fruits sold where I used to live..."
However, as he spoke, the old man fell silent.
As if recalling bad memories, he stopped talking and stared at the wound on his hand in trance.
Seeing that the old man seemed to be in a sad mood, Huan Xiao guessed that the old man must have strayed into the ghost world when he was young and never found his way back.
The old man was in a depressed mood, but he quickly weighed three kilograms of apples to Huan Xiao.
Huan Xiao thanked him, paid the human and animal coins and went to the next stall.
