The Little King Next Door

Wang Ye squatted in front of a stall and did not leave.

Lei Mu saw that the stalls were filled with sun-dried seafood that looked like dried sea cucumbers.

"Is this a sea cucumber?" Lei Mu asked as he pinched the brown-yellow dried sea cucumber, which was not very good-looking and made people lose their appetite.

Wang Ye is asking the stall owner for the price.

The stall owner heard Lei Mu's question, nodded and said: "Yes, these are sea cucumbers, smaller ones."

Wang Ye hehe, said angrily: "Uncle, the deceitful son has no penis. This is sea sausage. If you tell me it's sea cucumber, it's easy to deceive us inland people."

The stall owner was not at all embarrassed when he was punctured, and said cheekily: "The sea intestine is indeed called a small sea cucumber, and they all look similar."

"It's far away. How do you sell it? Give me a real price. If the price is right, I'll buy it all. If you ask for a price, I'll buy it elsewhere."

"One silver coin each."

Wang Ye stood up and left, "Brother, let's go see other places."

The stall owner hurriedly shouted: "Hey, little brother, this price is really not expensive. Sea cucumbers are all at this price. I am still a dry product, and it is only sold here so cheaply. If it is inland, this one will cost at least three silver coins. "

"Then sell them as sea cucumbers and see how many people are fooled." Wang Ye didn't turn his head.

"Wait, let's talk again." How could the stall owner let Wang Ye go away like this, this was the first customer who said he wanted to make a round.

People living on the island can recognize that this thing is not a sea cucumber, and few people are willing to eat this thing that looks like an enlarged maggot.People from inland areas, even knowledgeable businessmen can recognize it. Only travelers and those who don’t know much about sea goods will be fooled into thinking it is sea cucumber.

But these people who don't recognize it don't buy too much at once.

These sea sausages are all private goods brought by the stall owner. How much he sells is his own money, because in the past two years, he has tasted the sweetness of using this stuff to counterfeit sea cucumbers to make a little money. It has been a day, and no one has asked the price, and some people have come to laugh at him, saying that he is cheating again.

Now that a child has pointed it out, the stall owner is determined to sell sea sausages as sea cucumbers at a high price.

"Thirty copper coins a piece, if you want, I'll give you all of these." The stall owner said with a distressed look bleeding profusely.

Wang Ye stopped and turned his head: "One and two copper coins, I want them all."

"Impossible, at least 25 copper coins."

Wang Ye didn't mean to talk at all, "Brother, let's go to another house to see."

The stall owner thought that Wang Ye was just making a gesture to bargain, but it turned out that the two brothers really walked away without looking back.

Seeing that the two walked further and further and stopped at another stall, the stall owner couldn't hold back and shouted: "The little brother, come back, I will pay the price you said! I will earn hard money this time. "

After all, Wang Ye still took a fancy to those dried sea sausages.

The quality of these sea sausages is relatively good, and they are all about the same size. They should have been carefully selected, and the stall owner cleaned them up and pulled out all the internal organs.Otherwise, he wouldn't have talked nonsense with the stall owner for so long.

But the stall owner insisted on not changing after being exposed as a cheater. Wang Ye didn't want to make him feel comfortable, so he called a price that made him feel distressed but acceptable.

The stall owner was nagging about the loss of the sale this time, while counting the sea sausages, and when he counted to fifteen, he began to count blindly.

Wang Ye thought that the stall owner was unwilling to sell so cheaply, and wanted to count more, but found that there were more than two hundred dried sea sausages, and this man actually counted the number 120, and looked guilty.

The stall owner calculated the total price of 120 seven copper coins for Wang Ye based on 220 seven pieces and two copper coins each.

Wang Ye: "..." This kind of liar can't bear to be bullied, okay?

Wang Ye silently counted the dried sea sausages counted by the stall owner in stacks of ten, and recounted them in front of the stall owner, telling him: "There are 219 in total here. Two copper coins for each, the total price is 438 Copper coins. Are you sure I only need 227 copper coins?"

The stall owner froze, then started laughing dryly.

The villager next to him finally couldn't listen anymore, and patted the stall owner hard: "Okay, you have met a kind person this time, don't you want to thank you little brother?"

The stall owner said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, little brother, brother just wants to make more money. It's only once a year. We can't make much money a year."

In the end, the villager who looked like the leader made the decision for the stall owner: "I made my little brother laugh, this is a fool who thinks he is smart. You can take all these sea intestines, just give three hundred copper coins."

The stall owner wanted to resist, but he didn't open his mouth after all.

Wang Ye shook his head, "The price I offered, I agreed that two copper coins are two copper coins each, please help me pack it. This is 4 silver and 38 copper coins, you count."

The stall owner was overjoyed. He took the coins and started counting them. There were too many copper coins and he couldn't count them, but there were only four silver coins, which were easy to count.

When the stall owner was happy, he not only gave Wang Ye a basket, but also two bundles of dried seaweed.

This kind of sea vegetable is the least valuable on the island, and it is basically given away as a gift.

Looking at these sea vegetables, Wang Ye suddenly sighed.

Lei Mu was wondering why Wang Ye bought so many sea sausages that didn't look very tasty. Seeing him sighing at the sea vegetables, he asked, "What's the matter, don't you like sea vegetables?"

"No, I know a secret, and I really want to tell it, it's killing me."

Lei Mu snorted and patted the child's head, "Is it related to seaweed?"

Wang Ye nodded and couldn't help but said, "I'll tell you when I get back."

There were so many people on the road, Lei Mu didn't have room to put the basket and seaweed in his hand, anyway, this weight was nothing to him.

"Do you like to eat this kind of sea sausage?" Lei Mu asked curiously.

Wang Ye nodded and shook his head again: "Sea sausage tastes really good, but I didn't buy so many to eat as food, but to use them as seasoning."

The dried and ground sea sausage skin is a seasoning no less than monosodium glutamate. Adding it to any dish will increase its taste, and it is more fresh than mushroom powder.

Wang Ye's tongue is used to eating chicken essence with MSG, and he always feels that dishes without MSG are tasteless and tasteless. Now that he sees sea sausage, he will not let it go.

Lei Mu laughed, he had long noticed that Wang Ye's mouth was a bit greedy, he couldn't walk when he saw delicious food, and despite his young age, his cooking skills were surprisingly good.

This is another strange point of Wang Ye, who knows more than adults at a young age.It would be fine if he just had knowledge, but this kid obviously has a lot of hands-on experience, which is weird.

There are historical reasons for Wang Ye's greed. In his previous life, it was good to be full before he killed Lao Wang. It is impossible to eat well.Can children not be greedy when they see what other children want to eat?

But can't afford it.It wasn't until he got involved in the society and had a little money in his hand that he started to buy food that he couldn't afford in the past, but it was impossible to eat better and more expensive food.It was so greedy all the way until he became a big boss in the game, but he was besieged and killed before he had eaten good food for two years.

He is kind to Lei Mu now, and he likes to eat delicious food, in fact, it is all out of a kind of self-compensation psychology.

He knew this in his heart, but he didn't want to change it.Maybe in the future, his compensatory mentality will gradually disappear after his spirit is satisfied, but now he doesn't want to restrain himself, he is afraid that if he restrains himself, he will get more trouble.

"Mumu, let's go over there!" Wang Ye saw something good.

He actually saw someone selling python skins.

He came to the market this time to buy some materials that can make causal weapons, and python skin is the most important material he needs.

Originally, he thought that if he couldn't buy this thing in the market, he would ask Lei Mu to go into the mountain with him to have a look.

The stall owner who sells python skin just arrived today. Others have started to sell their goods, so they started to display their goods here.

There were so many vendors who didn't have time to come on the market opening day like this, and people would come one after another later, after all, the market lasted for a month.

The python skins sold at this stall are very complete, and there are several pieces, big and small.

Wang Ye turned the python skin over and over to look at it.

Other than him, other people noticed the goods from this store.

This stall not only sells python skins, but also some animal furs and rare bird feathers, including the claws and teeth of some wild animals.

"How do you sell this python skin?" Wang Ye's voice sounded at the same time as another person's voice.

The man's hand was also holding the other part of the python's skin.

Wang Ye was not happy, he got the python skin first, but it was relatively long, so he didn't get it all in front of him.

The stall owner saw that Wang Ye was a child, so he didn't care much. Facing another customer, he replied, "This is a black-skinned python, the kind that can eat people. This python grows so big that we disabled two big and small boys to eat it." caught."

The customer interrupted the stall owner impatiently: "I asked you the price, but I didn't ask you how the python skin came from."

The stall owner closed his mouth. He said so much only in the hope of quoting a high price. Seeing that the customer was unhappy, he didn't dare to say more, and quoted a price that he thought was very affordable: "We haven't opened yet. If the customer sincerely wants to buy , this piece of black-skinned python skin counts as one gold and fifty silver coins for you."

"One gold and fifty silver? It's too expensive. You are killing people. Eighty silver coins. I want this python skin." After saying that, the guest was about to roll up the python skin.

Wang Ye endured until now, and finally couldn't help it: "Do you understand what is first come, first served? And the stall owner hasn't agreed to sell it to you, you take a piece of shit! One gold and fifty silver, brother, pay."

Without further ado, Lei Mu took out one gold and fifty silver coins and handed them to the seller.

Seeing that the first transaction was completed so quickly, the seller happily took the coin: "Thank you for your patronage, this python skin belongs to you two."

The seller couldn't help but said: "I'm telling the truth, my price is really not high. This python skin is so strong that it can't be easily scratched by a knife. It can be used as leather armor. We have a special way to deal with it. Only then can the leather be cut so well. By the way, do you have room to put it in the basket? No, I will find you a basket to put it in."

"Okay, give me a basket." Wang Ye tried to pull the python skin over.

But the customer refused to let it go, and said angrily: "I asked the price first. I quoted [-] silver coins before, and the stall owner didn't say no. Why do you have to give it to you now? The stall owner Your business is too dishonest!"

The stall owner was angry, and immediately quarreled with the customer: "Why are we not doing business properly? I sold python skins that cost one gold and fifty silver coins, and you paid back eighty silver coins when you opened your mouth. We didn't agree at all. Now others The money has been paid, what are you doing here, you are easy to bully when we are from Snake Island?"

The busy Snake Island people all looked this way when they heard the sound, and a few particularly strong ones came out of the palm house.

The guest was so angry that his face turned red, he threw down the python skin forcefully, pointed at the nose of the Snake Island man and said harshly: "Okay, I will remember you all."

The guest pointed at Wang Ye and Lei Mu again, "If you dare to grab something from me, just wait!"

Wang Ye snorted: Where is the idiot.

Lei Mu took a step forward, grasped the guest's finger, and gently snapped it off.

"Ahhh!" The guest screamed: "My finger! Let go, let go!"

Lei Mu said calmly: "Has no one taught you not to point at people casually?"

The guest couldn't help crying out in pain, and passers-by stopped to watch.

Seeing that the man was really in too much pain, Lei Mu let go of his palm.He didn't break the man's fingers, but just taught him a little lesson.

"You wait for me!" The guest didn't dare to point his finger at anyone again this time, holding the finger that was almost broken, ashamed and annoyed, he got into the crowd angrily.

"Big brother, that person seems to have a bit of status, be careful." The stall owner reminded Lei Mu.

Lei Mu nodded to him: "Thank you, you too."

The stall owner waved his hand nonchalantly.The people of Snake Island are not afraid of that person's revenge, and those who know Snake Island will not easily provoke them, including those big businessmen and travelers from outside.Those who don't know them about Snake Island will naturally know the consequences after they provoke the people of Snake Island.

Wang Ye and Lei Mu didn't even care.

Wang Ye bought the main material he wanted, and the next step was to choose a good piece of wood that can be used as a piano bar, piano tube, piano shaft, and piano bracket.

In addition to this, there are materials for bridges, bows and strings.

The materials for the bridge and the bow are easy to find, and the strings are more troublesome. He doesn’t want to choose silk strings that are not too strong, but good steel strings are not easy to get in the game. If it’s not possible, he plans to get some strings from the earth improvise.

If it's not for causal weapons, it's better to make them yourself. He wants to save trouble and buy one directly on Earth.

That's right, Wang Ye's causal weapon is the erhu.

And he will choose the erhu as his causal weapon, which is also related to the experience of his previous life.

After he ran out of the children's welfare home, he wandered for a while. At that time, he met an old man playing erhu on the street.

It can't be said that he met, he took aim at the other party's money box.

At that time, he was starving to death and was thinking about how to make money when he saw a blind old man playing the erhu in the middle of the underground passage.

Pedestrians passing by would occasionally throw some change into the iron box in front of the old man. Wang Ye saw with his own eyes that someone threw a hundred bill into it.

He just kept staring at the hundred-dollar bill, wishing he could breathe out and blow out the bill.

But there was no wind that day, and the wind in the underground passage was almost nonexistent. No matter how much he used his thoughts to exert power, the banknotes lay motionless in the iron box.

Before he knew it, he was getting closer and closer to the old man.

But Wang Ye felt that stealing money from a blind old man was too tasteless, so he squatted next to the old man, hoping that others would also throw money at him.

Then someone really threw money at him, but the person who threw the money probably thought he was the grandson of the old man, smiled at him, and put the money into the old man's money box...

Just when he was about to be overwhelmed by hunger and decided to take the hundred-yuan bill from the blind old man's money box, the old man stopped playing the violin, and the first thing he did was put away the money box.

At that time, Wang Ye didn't know that the old man was only wearing sunglasses, not really blind.So he pulled the old man to play tricks on him, saying that he had guarded the money box for him for a long time, and the old man had to pay his wages.

The old man asked him how much he wanted, and he played a little tricky and said that it only cost ten yuan.

The old man asked him what he wanted ten dollars for.

His stomach growled in response.

Later, the old man took him to have a meal, but that was all, and he didn't do anything superfluous.

But he tasted the sweetness, and ran to the underground passage again the next day, and the old man came again.

Just like this, he got acquainted with the old man, and the old man also knew that he was homeless, but he didn't take him home to raise him.

To put it funny, he was rather disappointed then.

The old man is a widow. It is said that he once worked as an erhu player in a big theater troupe, and then retired. He has no wife, no children, and no relatives.

Wang Ye has been in contact with the old man from the age of eight and a half to 16 years old.The old man taught him how to play and make erhu when he was in a good mood, without asking where Wang Ye lived or what he usually did.

Wang Ye would beat up the old man if he had nothing to do. If the old man could sell the erhu he had made, he would give him a little pocket money as salary.

During that period, in order to support himself, Wang Ye raised a dog, a Tibetan mastiff, for a so-called big brother on the road.

And he was able to find such a job that included food and lodging because no one else dared to approach those two Tibetan mastiffs, but he did.

On Wang Ye's 16th birthday, he bought a cake with the salary he earned from raising a dog to find the old man, only to find that the old man was lying on the bed and his body was cold.

In fact, the old man is not young, he is over 80, if not for Wang Ye's company, he might not be able to hold on for such a long time.

It wasn't until the old man died that Wang Ye called the police. In the chaos, he found out that the old man had stomach cancer a long time ago, and it was a miracle that he could survive for so many years.

Wang Ye had nothing to do with the old man. He said he was the old man's disciple, but he didn't have any inheritance rights. Naturally, the old man's family property and real estate had nothing to do with him.

Moreover, he thought that the childless old man was not really childless. He had a son who was separated from his wife for some historical reasons. This son was also taken away by his wife since he was a child, and he had almost no contact with him.

But after the old man died, the police notified there.

The old man's son came over and inherited all the old man's inheritance.

For his disciple, the old man's children and grandchildren did not get close to him, nor did he persecute him too much.

Although the man's wife said sour words, saying that the old man must have saved money for so many years, she asked where all the money went and whether it was taken away by this kid.It means that they want to get this unknown deposit back from Wang Ye through the police.

But the old man's son acted like he had a little conscience, saying that they had already got the property and everything in the house, so stop being so greedy.It is said that as a son, he has never supported the old man for a day, and this young disciple took care of the old man for the last few years. It is also right for the old man to give him his savings.

In fact, the old man's son knew very well that his old father had been sending money to his old mother.And the old man lived on a meager pension, deducting the money the old man sent them, and then deducting the living expenses and medical expenses. Even if the old man had some savings, it would not be much, and he also got the old man's retirement salary card.

Wang Ye didn't bother to pay attention to this family, and he didn't want to watch them act. He never took a cent of the old man's deposit at all.

He owes nothing to the old man.

The old man taught him how to play and make erhu, and also gave him food.But every time he comes, he will clean the old man's house, cook and wash clothes for the old man. When the old man is sick, he is also the one who goes to buy medicine and vegetables.

The old man became unsteady later, and almost all the erhus in the next two years were made by him, but he only got a small fraction of the money the old man sold the erhu.

The old man didn't have much affection for him as a teacher and apprentice, and teaching him was more like trying to relieve his loneliness and find something to do.

His heart is not so easy to warm up, he feels that the relationship between him and the old man is completely an exchange of interests, just like the relationship between him and the big brother on the road.

For this reason, after he was reborn, he never thought about going to the old man. He only thought that when he had money, he would send some to the old man, and then find someone to take care of him so that he could live for a few more years. In front of the other party.

A big hand suddenly fell on his head.

Wang Ye raised his head.

Lei Mu's thumb brushed under his eyes, "What sad things are you thinking about?"

Wang Ye's nose was sour, and he threw himself forward to his big wood, hugged his waist, and murmured: "When I was young, I always thought that I was not lovable, and no one liked me."

Lei Mu: "Oh, it seems that you are very self-aware."

Wang Ye stared at his big boy in disbelief, only to see Lei Mu's eyes were full of smiles.

"Mumu!"

"Call me brother."

"No! You call me Dad first."

"Fuck off."

"Don't roll. Mumu, do you like me?"

"improvise."

"Tch, you obviously like me to death. You died for me in your last life. The first time Dad shed tears when he grew up was because of you~"

"Nonsense. Can you still remember things from your previous life?"

"Of course, I have a good memory." Wang Ye's bad mood that had just sprouted flew away, and he didn't have a temper that would hurt spring and autumn.

Lei Mu only treated it as a child's joke, and Wang Ye sighed that no one would believe the truth.

The two laughed and laughed all the way, carrying a bunch of things back to the stall in Haigou Village.