Post-apocalyptic mermaid stranded

In autumn, the clouds are light and the sea breeze is cool.

The damaged asphalt road with various street stalls and small shops is uneven and leads directly to the pier.

Gu Baiqing walked slowly on his shadow, nodding to familiar people from time to time, and stopped in front of a dilapidated wooden house at the end of the street.The man huddled in the corner of the door was snoring, with messy hair and gray clothes, he looked like a lump of mud.

Gu Baiqing kicked the door frame, "Hey, wake up."

"Earthquake! Earth——" The man jumped up in shock, and wanted to run out before he opened his eyes. After being pushed back, he saw Gu Baiqing, looked around again, and then patted his chest and let out a long sigh , "It's you, you scared me to death, when did you come back?"

"Yesterday." Gu Baiqing leaned on the bamboo pole in front of the door, squinted his eyes and yawned, "What's the news recently? Let's hear it."

Lai Mazi touched his nose and patted his legs, and said quickly and skillfully as if he had repeated it eight hundred times: "Mermaids don't like hot weapons, and they don't like to see groups of iron bumps running rampant on the sea. You also know that mermaids That tantrum, said to start a war, the navy had to retreat to the port. A while ago, the four continents signed the Lao Shizi contract and rowed the high seas, saying that ships with hot weapons could not cross the line, otherwise they would be retaliated by mermaids You can only ask for luck.”

"Sooner or later." Gu Baiqing was noncommittal, turned his head to look in the direction he came from, and pointed his fingers, "Why are there so many faces?"

"There are only so many lands that can grow food, but they can't feed so many mouths. They used to say that people who go into the sea are looking for death, but now they all come here." Lai Mazi grinned and showed his broken teeth, quite a bit Proud, "Rent a boat, buy a sail, buy a fishing net, buy a compass... I haven't been in the water yet, so I grabbed the equipment first, so I made a fortune first, hehe."

"Then it will be cheaper for me to stay." Gu Baiqing also returned a smile.

Lai Mazi looked up to the sky and lamented: "Long Lang Qiankun! When did you not give you the lowest price? Anyway, I am a regular customer."

Lai Mazi said this with his heart in his chest, the heavens can learn from him, he has done his best to brother Gu, how could it be cheaper?He can't do business at a loss, don't talk about feelings in the last days, it will hurt your life.

When it came to feelings, Lai Mazi glanced at him up and down, and said suspiciously, "Brother Gu, do you still have contact with your aunt?"

"Auntie? Which auntie?" Gu Baiqing was absent-minded as he touched the bamboo pole that was stuck into the ground crookedly by his side, "Are you still selling bamboo poles?"

"Weaving bamboo rafts, sell them if someone orders them, and earn money by hand. How many aunts do you have?"

"Handmade money." Gu Baiqing smiled, probably not many people would be willing to pay the handmade money, so he said clearly, "A lot of people died."

"What do you need to say? Either you don't even dare to go near the sea, like a mermaid floating on the sea every day, waiting to pull people into the water to tear them up and eat them raw; or you think you are omnipotent, Just pick up a few boards and put them together before you dare to go to sea. You think they are just going to help merchant ships to earn some pocket money, or catch some fish and shellfish on the beach. Who knows that people really think that a few boards can cross the ocean It’s gone! Look at them one by one, it’s uncomfortable if they don’t die.” Lai Mazi spat hard, “Now the navy is idle and has nothing to do. It’s unlucky to fish for corpses by the sea every day, and have to clean up the wooden boards and bamboo chips in the port. Hey, say What about your aunt, do you still have contact?"

"No contact, why?"

"Looking for you," Lai Mazi looked at him pityingly, "I've been found here. He's taller than me, fair and tender, and when he came up, he called Uncle and asked me if I knew Gu Baiqing. Don't Look at me, I didn't say anything, that kid asked people whenever he saw him, and everyone in the port knew that someone was looking for you, did you see him? If you want to see me, I will give you the address."

"No, we are destined to be together for thousands of miles~" Gu Baiqing hummed a little song, "No fate—"

"elder brother!"

"..." Gu Baiqing stuck his breath in his throat, feeling the fear of suffocation.

Lai Mazi snorted: "Do you think you are a bitch?"

"It's not that I'm mean, it's that I'm unlucky." He suffocated until he rolled his eyes.

"elder brother!"

While speaking, the person came running over, with one hand on Gu Baiqing's shoulder and the other on his waist, panting heavily, he couldn't write a word.Gu Baiqing frowned and looked down at him, then turned to look at Lai Mazi with a dazed expression.

At this time, pretending to be a fool is really like a fool, Lai Mazi curled his lips, and a hint of schadenfreude was accidentally revealed in his tone, "He said his mother wants to see you."

Use you as a translator?Gu Baiqing swung his eyes like knives.

The visitor who was ignored finally finished breathing, only to realize that Gu Baiqing didn't even look at him, he couldn't help being a little annoyed, and deliberately raised the volume and said loudly: "Brother, Mom said I miss you, I've come here to look for you many times , They all said they didn't know where you were, why didn't you go home when you came back? Mom hasn't got out of bed for two days, you can go back with me to see her. "

Good boy, as soon as his voice brightened, everyone walking around turned their heads to look over.

A strong man with round arms and a thick waist was also shocked by the sound, and he walked up in a daze, slapped the hand on Gu Baiqing's shoulder, and stretched his arm to put it on it. The boy who was different from others asked in confusion: "Bone Demon, who is this little boy? Didn't your mother leave early? What's wrong with him, what the hell?"

"You are..." The boy blushed, glanced at the bulging biceps of the strong man, and his arrogance weakened, "I am his younger brother."

"I didn't ask you, shut up." The brawny man rolled his eyes and became aggressive, "Hey, brother, haven't you been entangled by a liar? In a word, buddy will help you settle it."

settle?Settle what?The boy turned pale with a swipe, and looked around only to realize that so many people had surrounded him at some point, almost all of them were black-skinned rough men, and everyone looked at him with malicious eyes, scaring his neck. Shrinking, he could only look at Gu Baiqing in fear, and said in a trembling voice, "Brother, I am self-reliant, brother, tell them quickly."

"Oh, that's what you say." Gu Baiqing nodded indifferently.

The onlookers suddenly burst out laughing.

"Pengci, this is it."

"A few days ago, there were people who recognized their father on the spot. It's a big fuss."

"The one who recognized his father is thin and small, much more pitiful than this kid."

"This kid is white and fat, and everyone is more pitiful than him."

"Bah! At first glance, it looks like a lazy scum, and his mother is also miserable. No wonder he can't get out of bed."

Sentence after sentence, the people around laughed heartily, making Zhang Zili's face red and white, and his breathing became short of breath, but he didn't know what to do, he didn't dare to run, he could only shrink back Looking at Gu Baiqing intently.

Seeing his wimpy appearance made him sick, and the messy sounds around him made his head swell again. Gu Baiqing blinked sleepily, patted the paw pressing on his neck, and said impatiently: "Don't press me, I'm exhausted Yes. The good show is over, so what should I do? If you stay, you will have to collect the ticket money."

"Hey, let's go." The strong man didn't talk nonsense, patted him on the shoulder, waved his long arm, yelled, turned around and left.

Zhang Zili quietly breathed a sigh of relief, but before he could finish his breath, the strong man had already walked to his side, and a wrong shoulder knocked him staggeringly, almost falling to the ground.

"Boy, if you dare to play tricks again, you will be crippled." Zhang Zili was frightened by this sentence, and the strong man left with satisfaction.

The gathered crowd also dispersed slowly. Zhang Zili stood still and lost his arrogance, wishing he could run away.No wonder, no wonder his parents never let him approach the port, these reckless bastards don't make sense at all!

"Don't be dumbfounded."

The familiar voice made Zhang Zili look up quickly, but Gu Baiqing was talking to Lai Mazi beside him: "Where did you just say that?"

"Oh, by the way, there is one more thing." Lai Mazi watched a good show, and his interest would fade away, and he said lazily, "Coins were issued two months ago, gold coins, silver dollars, copper coins and shellfish. Copper coins Numbers are marked, one, five, ten, twenty and fifty, ten shells are exchanged for one copper coin, thousand fine silver, forty-nine gold, and the weight is engraved."

"It's all coins?"

"If something happens, the banknotes will become waste paper. Who would dare to take them?" Lai Mazi reminded him, "People returning to the voyage have waited for a few days to change them, and the black market has also opened. My personal suggestion is to go to the bank to change them, which is more cost-effective. It is also safe, and it is catching up with the promotion of coins. There are rewards for the large amount of exchange. The port ships have also been officially managed by the army, and only coins are accepted. Three shells for civilian ships and one copper for commercial ships are just docking fees. Shell copper will be commonly used in the future Coins, and you can figure out the rest yourself.”

"Sigh, the bamboo raft is really better, and the management fee is saved." Gu Baiqing sighed while touching the bamboo pole.

"Don't touch it, take it away if you like it, and sleep with it at night." Lai Mazi rolled his eyes and saw Zhang Zili again, so he said with a smile on his face, "I said, my brother, I charge for news. Is there any money?"

Zhang Zili was fascinated by what he heard, and was taken aback by the question, "I, I didn't..."

"Don't make trouble with him, he has no money." Gu Baiqing finally remembered this brother, and after Zhang Zili looked over gratefully, he smiled slightly, "It's better to put the necklace away properly, don't you worry about being robbed when you go out with it?"

necklace?Lai Mazi's eyes lit up, and his gaze slid around Zhang Zili's neck. Sure enough, he saw a silver light, and immediately stretched his hands forward, "Boy, I will give you a friendship price today for your brother's sake, just that one." necklace."

"You, you are robbing!" Zhang Zili covered his neck and hid.

"Don't talk nonsense, and don't go out to inquire about it. Your Lord Lai has always marked the price clearly, and you are not deceiving!" Lai Mazi's face turned cold, with fierce eyes, "Who do you care about that broken necklace? Listen, thirty coppers, pay the money."

"No! No money!" Lai Mazi's skinny body was incomparable to a strong man, and Gu Baiqing was standing here again. Zhang Zili felt that the lost courage had returned, and he stared angrily with his chest straightened out.

"Hehe." Lai Mazi clapped his palms, and two strong men walked out of the dilapidated hut behind him.

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