Time passes

It passed by in a flash.

One and a half months later, there is still about a month before Guanyinyuan pays tribute.

Gaolaozhuang Market.

At this moment, it seems that the population is sparse, and the prosperity of the past has long disappeared.

The phenomenon of gathering ten people can lose their souls. Over the past month, it has occurred more and more frequently.

Gaolaozhuang seems to be a severely affected area, and almost such things happen every day. It makes people panic and cannot live in peace.

Ordinary people are also afraid, they die inexplicably and unknown. Who dares to gather?

Especially places like markets, they are large-scale gathering places, gathering ten people. After the phenomenon of soul loss occurs, the impact on the market is almost incomparable to its place.

With less traffic, fewer caravans are coming and going, and even the shops in the market are half dead.

After all, relying on the daily life of two or three thousand people in Gaolaozhuang is completely insufficient to support their business.

Zhao Xiaosi is a villager living near Gaolaozhuang, a small village. These villages are all affiliated villages of Gaolaozhuang, not big, with about forty or fifty people. Most of them are in Gaolaozhuang, where their ancestors lost their houses and wandered outside and became refugees.

They gathered spontaneously, snuggled up to Gao Laozhuang and lived a difficult life.

Yu Sujiazhuang, Songjiazhuang, etc. are all different. They have almost no independent special businesses, just mobile locations.

Zhao Xiaosi pushed the wheelbarrow and looked at the huge and majestic city gate of Gao Laozhuang that was approaching, with an extremely envious look in his eyes.

"When can I live in Gaolaozhuang?"

He sighed deeply.

For those refugees from their affiliated villages, their greatest wish is to live in Gaolaozhuang. For this reason, many people have been aiming for this for generations and have worked tirelessly.

There was an old man in their village who was lucky enough to pick a precious herb in the forest. He did not choose to sell it, but he cleverly chose to hand it over to Gao Yunshan, the owner of Gao Laozhuang.

In the end, he was appreciated by Gao Yunshan and moved into Gaolaozhuang. I don’t know how many people envied. You must know that this is the wish of many people, generations of ancestors.

Take Zhao Xiaosi as an example. Their family has been struggling for three or four generations to move into Gaolaozhuang, but their goal is still very far away and there is no hope.

"This time...it must seize the opportunity."

Zhao Xiaosi glanced at his wheelbarrow in a vague way and took a deep breath.

Don't be anxious, hold back your mind and don't make any mistakes.

He discovered something strange two days ago, an egg emitting flames.

This egg suddenly appeared in the chicken coops that were raised by the home one day. I don’t know if it was laid by the old hens or produced by other birds.

Anyway, this egg is very strange, its shape and size are unintentional, but it is strange. Every time noon, when the weather is the hottest, the egg will become red and even light up.

The strange aura emitted from the egg is even chilling. After the egg appears, those old hens did not even dare to approach the chicken coop.

It's really a bit strange.

Zhao Xiao’s fourth ancestor has never seen such a strange thing in the years.

But he is also a little bit of culture. Although he doesn't know what this thing is, he is very scared or even afraid to look at it. But this thing is definitely strange enough, and some strange things are what Gao Laozhuang owner Gao Yunshan likes. So after hesitating for a long time, he decided to hand it over to Gao Yunshan quietly to see if he could exchange it for the right to enter Gao Laozhuang.

No matter how bad it is, it is also good to exchange for some food.

Although the tall and mighty city walls of Gaolaozhuang are even more desirable in this year of natural disasters, they will die without food.

Zhao Xiaosi has raised a few old hens at home and can save some eggs to sell them. His life is still fine and he can barely survive.

This time, a batch of eggs happened to be accumulated, and I could use this as an excuse to mix it into Gaolaozhuang.

He had to do this. After all, the red eggs would attract many people to peek. Although Zhao Xiaosi had never read a book, he was not stupid and would never dare to bring them to Gao Laozhuang openly.

If you do that, you won’t know how to die.

Zhao Xiaosi's wheelbarrow slowly approached the city gate.

"Ye, Xiao Si, are you here to sell eggs again?"

"You dare to come out in this year? You are not afraid of losing your soul!"

"Look, how many are there this time?"

There were two guards guarding the city wall. At this moment, a middle-aged guard laughed and directly lifted the straw mat on the wheelbarrow.

Sure enough, there were a small basket of eggs, about forty or fifty, and some other handmade products. The number of eggs was already quite large, and this was accumulated by Zhao Xiaosi, four or five hens, over a month.

The whole family was reluctant to take a bite of this egg.

"Yes, yes. Adults, I just have some eggs. I really can't live this day. I hope this basket of eggs can be exchanged for some food. My mother, daughter-in-law and children at home are already so hungry that I was dizzy. I had no choice but to brave the vicious sun to come to the market to walk."

Zhao Xiaosi nodded and bowed repeatedly. Because of the heat, sweat fell down his cheeks. A smell of sweat came to his nose.

The guard frowned and pinched his nose.

"It's indeed an egg. OK, hand in a copper plate and go in."

The guard picked up two eggs, pretended to take a look, and then naturally put them in his arms without any intention of putting them back.

Zhao Xiaosi endured the pain and looked at the egg on the guard's chest reluctantly. Then he slowly took out a copper plate from his arms and handed it to the guard.

He was reluctant to leave whether it was a copper plate or two eggs. If it were normal, he would beg for a while to ask these adults to take one less or one more to fill the copper plate.

But now~

"When I handed over that strange egg, it became a success. I have to sue you for a lawsuit. I will compensate you, a blood-sucking worm, what's the point!"

Zhao Xiaosi spitted hard in his heart, pushed the wheelbarrow and walked into the majestic city gate of Gaolaozhuang with staggering steps.

Behind ~

"Oh, boss. Zhao Xiaosi is a stingy person today. I handed over the copper coin and took the egg."

Another slightly smaller young guard looked at the middle-aged guard enviously.

"Who knows, maybe you're in a hurry to enter the market. It's not easy for anyone in this terrible period. I didn't hear him say that his wife and children were about to starve to death."

"Okay, I'll give you an egg and take it back to make up for the child. Don't say that your brother didn't take care of you."

"Okay, stand guard well, it is said that a big shot is coming today."

The middle-aged guard handed over an egg to the young guard again, but naturally he put away the copper plate that should have been handed over to Gao Yunshan.

The young guard took the eggs and the two looked at each other and smiled.

Everything is in vain.

But neither of them noticed that the hand that took the egg had appeared some subtle and invisible red spots, like sunburn.
Chapter completed!