Chapter 17: Hatred 2
Chapter 17: Hatred (2)
The hawker's name is Ivan, and he lives far away from the market. The two took nearly half an hour to reach their destination.
Ivan's living standard is probably moderate among the civilians in Rogge Camp. The house is similar to the earthen brick houses common in the countryside during the summer period. The main room on the first floor plus a low but affordable attic.
Ivan's family has a total of four, the husband and wife and two daughters. The eldest daughter has been married as a wife, and the youngest daughter is * years old. She timidly hides behind her mother and peeks at Zhang Shen. Ivan's wife looks much younger than him, but from her rough hands, she is also a hard worker.
Ivan's tanned leather paper is placed in an empty room.
After the inventory, a total of 113 pieces, five pieces were made into a bundle and piled up into a hill.
"Your Excellency, are you... dissatisfied?" Seeing Zhang Shen piled around the paper several times and frowned, Ivan was frightened.
Zhang Shen shook his head: "I'm just thinking about how to transport so much paper back."
As the lowest-level storage equipment, the shrink hand towel has restrictions on the weight and volume of storage items. Moreover, there are already a lot of fragmentary things in it, and such a large pile of leather paper obviously can't be loaded.
Ivan's eyes turned: "Your Excellency, can I borrow a unicycle to help you move it back?"
Although his family is slightly better, he is not luxurious enough to buy a unicycle. He usually goes to the market to sell things, but he walks and stops to carry them by himself.
"Is it around here?" Zhang Shen asked casually.
"It's at Old Charlie's house on the corner, just a few steps away!" Speaking of the old Charlie in his mouth, Ivan's face was obviously envious and longing. "Old Charlie is lucky. His daughter was looked up by a noble adult and got a lot of money... Otherwise, he would not have spare money to buy a wheelbicle."
"Okay, go and come back quickly." Zhang Shen did not say anything.
In a few minutes, Ivan pushed a wheelb back sweaty. Obviously, he ran all the way for fear of making Zhang Shen impatient.
"Bear by the way, this is the money to buy your leather paper and the cost of transportation." Zhang Shen looked at Ivan's family carrying leather paper to the car and fixing it with something like hemp rope. Suddenly, he patted his head and remembered.
The golden coins made the three people's eyes straight.
"Ten, ten, ten gold coins?? No, no, no, my lord, there are too many, really too many! These things are only three gold coins at most, no, two is enough!" Ivan couldn't help looking at a small stack of gold coins handed over by Zhang Shen and hurriedly refused.
"Receive it. Your paper has helped me a lot. The extra one is my thank you gift."
"If you really feel sorry, make more paper at home these days. Maybe I will come to buy some in a few days. The rest is a deposit."
"This, this...all right." Zhang Shen's words had come to this point, and Ivan had no reason to refuse any more. He grabbed the gold coins with his trembling hands, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and stuffed the money into his wife who was equally extremely excited.
"Sally, I'll send something for the adults. Wait for me at home. Remember, don't go out casually." After solemnly telling his wife a few words, Ivan put the pull rope on his shoulder and dragged the wheelb out.
Walking out of Ivan's door and taking a few steps, Zhang Shen was surprised to find that the alley where no one had moved around had become noisy and lively. Nearby residents walked out of their homes one after another. Adults stood at the door or in the alley. The children's faces were exposed from the wooden windows of the attic, and their eyes were looking at a place.
"What's the situation?" Zhang Shen turned around and asked Ivan.
Ivan put down the car, tiptoed to look a few times, and smiled, "Your Excellency, the old Charlie's family I just told you about is the owner of this wheelbicle."
"Look at this situation, most of his daughter came back, and his uncle also came together." Ivan squeaked his lips and couldn't help fantasizing about his daughter marrying a professional adult in the future.
"Oh." Zhang Shen just asked casually and was not interested.
Continuing to move forward, the people in the gathered alley did not wait for Zhang Shen to speak. Seeing the latter's dress and Ivan's expression, they made way for the two to pass by one car.
At the corner stands a house slightly better than Ivan's house, which is the old Charlie's house.
At the door, a man in his fifties who greeted his neighbors with a smile was old Charlie. Around him, two men and women in obviously different clothes are old Charlie's daughter and son-in-law.
His daughter is really good-looking, with a bumpy figure, a pair of peach blossom eyes, small cherry mouth, rare long blue hair, and natural curl at the tail. Even if she doesn't dress up, she is still a beauty.
She had a happy smile and snuggled up in a man's arms. The latter had an elegant smile and was saying something in her ear, making her cover her mouth and smile. Her eyes were charming and the wind was full of waves.
Looking at the man in a moon-white gown, Zhang Shen narrowed his eyes, and a strange cold light flashed in his eyes.
That man is Xu Ping!
"It turned out to be this scum!" A little dark red emerged from the depths of Zhang Shen's pupils and flashed away.
Maybe he sensed something, Xu Ping turned his head and suddenly his expression stagnated with a stunned face.
Immediately, he nodded and smiled at Zhang ginseng, signaling friendship.
"Your Excellency, are you and that adult old acquaintances?" Ivan interrupted and asked.
"Old knowledge? Humph, that kind of garbage..." Zhang Shen smiled coldly, ignored Xu Ping's goodwill, and walked straight forward.
Ivan secretly scolded himself for talking too much, shrank his neck, pulled the car with a stuffy head, and stopped talking.
Xu Ping saw Zhang Shen's disdain and contempt, his expression stagnated, and his smile froze on his face.
"Honey, what's wrong?" The young woman in Huaimei didn't know why and asked in a delicate voice.
"It's okay." Xu Ping returned with a gentle smile, but his heart was so angry that he couldn't wait to tear Zhang Shen into pieces.
"Hmm, a scum who has just completed the trial dares to show my face. You are looking for your own death!"
"Wait, as long as there are three virgins, I can advance to the seventh level, and then it will be your death!"
"At that time, let's see how I torture you!"
The beautiful young woman was once again immersed in her husband's handsome appearance and warm smile, and her heart was filled with happiness.
Being disturbed by Zhang Shen, Xu Ping suddenly had a sense of urgency.
"Nana, it suddenly occurred to me that there is another important thing to deal with. I may not be able to spend the night here tonight." Xu Ping's face was full of love and gentleness, and a trace of apology appeared in his eyes.
The woman known as Nana looked stagnant and comforted him in turn: "It doesn't matter, honey, we will have a long time to come, won't we?"
"Hmm." Xu Ping smiled and secretly urged the moves in Yin and Yang, making the woman in her arms more addicted to herself.
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Stacking the paper sent by Ivan in an empty room, Zhang Shen thought about the situation inside and outside the camp for a moment. He felt that the number in front of him would not be enough.
Although the drawing refined into an array does not limit the carrier, as the saying goes, it is easy to go from luxury to frugal. Getting used to the convenience and speed of leather paper, Zhang Shen is no longer willing to draw on the ground.
Moreover, after a few days of actual combat, Zhang Shen found a small technique that can shorten the drawing time.
The essence of refining into a formation is to use the rules of the world. It is not said that it must be drawn on the spot. You can draw other parts except the formula in advance, and then you can directly choose the formula!
Zhang Shen's current level of alchemy is limited to the most basic refining of natural substances, such as softening and hardening soil, the transformation of water and ice, the generation of flames (uncontrollable), etc. As for the transformation of rocks, bricks and soil, water becomes snowflakes, steam, shaping wood, steel and other complex refining. Cheng still can't complete it.
Not to mention the refining of gold, the human body is refined into this high-end atmosphere.
Therefore, there are only a few means that Zhang Shen can use now. In addition to the selection, split and combination of techniques, other parts can be completed in advance, as long as he pays attention to classifying the six basic forces of "earth", "fire", "water", "wind", "light" and "dark".
The ellipse symbolizes "water", the triangle of "earth", the diamond symbolizes of "fire", the square of "wind", the upper string moon of "light", and the lower moon of "dark".
In fact, although there are six basic categories of alchemy, a person's current ability can only make use of the first three...
Concided, Zhang Shen closed the door and walked towards the trading market again.
This time, he went to the other end, an area where the shops were relatively concentrated.
As mentioned above, the reason why Zhang Shen has been buying leather paper from Ivan is that the quality of his tanned leather paper is too good. But without butcher Zhang, butcher Li and butcher Wang, the quality is a little worse.
According to the memory of visiting the market, Zhang Shen went to a store specializing in selling leather paper.
When it was still a few hundred meters away from the store, when Zhang Shen passed an intersection, a familiar figure suddenly appeared in his sight.
"Huh? That's..." The man quickly disappeared into the crowd. Zhang Shen was puzzled and took a picture of [ignorance] and sprinkled some restraining potions on himself, and quickly followed.
Judging from the back and breath, it is indeed that person, but how has the dress changed? Doesn't that guy always dress like five or six people?
With doubts in his heart, someone who was idle followed closely.
The man in front of him didn't seem to realize that he would be followed and had no sense of defense. Although he was fast, he also swaggered through the market and continued to move south. Depending on the direction he walks, it should be the poor area near the wall to the south.
Sure enough, nearly 20 minutes later, the two came to the tighter, lower and dilapidated slums.
The man's goal is very clear, pointing directly to a room.
At the door, a man in his forties and a 15- or sixteen-year-old girl stood there and saw the man coming. The man smiled like a flower on his face, and the girl smiled shyly and sweetly.
The man and the man exchanged a few words and took the girl's hand into the house.
The moment he turned around, Zhang Shen saw the man's appearance.
Although there are a few changes, it is the same as what I guessed.
Xu Ping!