Chapter 4, Luck is also an ability

“I might have some kind of ability too,” Ren Xiaosu said.

Yan Liuyuan, who was sitting at the door of the shack and was picking at the curtains to look at the starry sky after the rain, froze for a moment, “You mean ……”

“I’m not quite sure yet, I have to try it out,” Ren Xiaosu sat on the ground beside Yan Liuyuan, “There are legends in the market town that some people can make a train go from nothingness to reality, I didn’t believe it before, I only believed it a little bit after I saw you, and now that I might have a strange ability as well, it’s a very strange feeling. ”

Yan Liu Yuan’s ability was luck.

This was a very inexplicable ability, when Yan Liuyuan wished that Ren Xiaosu could hunt prey, even if Ren Xiaosu walked in the wilderness doing nothing, there would be sparrows inexplicably falling in front of him.

Only this ability had a backlash, usually reacting as Yan Liuyuan having a high fever after wishing, or other minor illnesses and disasters.

This was the reason why Ren Xiaosu wanted to shelter Yan Liuyuan in the first place, he didn’t believe in it at first, but then he couldn’t even believe in it.

Suddenly a shooting star crossed the sky, Yan Liu Yuan subconsciously wished as if he put his hands together, only to be stopped by Ren Xiaosu: “Don’t wish indiscriminately, something will happen.”

Nowadays, Ren Xiaosu had rarely used Yan Liuyuan’s luck, he said it was because he had been able to hunt prey and didn’t need Yan Liuyuan’s ability anymore, and Yan Liuyuan never bothered to refute it.

The skinny Yan Liuyuan looked at the meteor that had disappeared and said, “Why does the meteor fly so fast, what if everyone is too late to make a wish?”

Ren Xiaosu thought for a moment and said, “It flies fast, maybe because it doesn’t want to hear what you wish for.”

Yan Liuyuan turned around and looked at Ren Xiaosu in a daze, “……”

……

Yan Liuyuan was Ren Xiaosu’s night watchman, but it didn’t mean that he had to keep watch for the whole night, in the middle Ren Xiaosu would replace it, after all, during the day Yan Liuyuan still needed to go to class.

After all, during the day, Yan Liuyuan still needed to go to class. This situation was very torturous, and not getting enough sleep was a big problem, but surviving in this kind of environment, no matter if it was Ren Xiaosu or Yan Liuyuan, they both had no choice.

Early in the morning Ren Xiaosu led Yan Liuyuan out, all the things of value with him, even his large iron pot.

Without any surprise, when they returned to their shack at night, it must have been rummaged through.

“I’ve heard that no one steals anything at all in the refuge barriers as they don’t close their homes at night,” Yan Liuyuan carried his bedroll on his back and then watched as Ren Xiaosu carried that big iron pot wherever he went, which was practically all their belongings.

On weekdays, Yan Liuyuan had to go to school with his bedroll on his back, and the other students were pretty much the same, everyone was used to it.

“Bullshit,” although Ren Xiaosu yearned for the life inside the refuge barriers, he firmly didn’t believe that there were any places in the world where the night was never closed, “Some people think that people in the refuge barriers fart all the time and the air is all sweet.”

“Then you can’t always carry a pot around on your back,” Yan Liuyuan said.

“What do you know,” Ren Xiaosu explained, “I found this pot with great difficulty, it can cook and catch sparrows, if we don’t have this how can we live?”

Ren Xiaosu carried the iron pot on his shoulder with one hand, and carried the huge sparrow with one hand, many people cast envious glances at Ren Xiaosu as he walked along the road.

It was important to realize that in today’s species order, humans had long since ceased to be a species at the top of the food chain.

It was rumored that in the past, sparrows were less than the size of a palm, but now? This thing can peck a man to death in one bite.

Not everyone has the ability to catch sparrows, not everyone has the patience to lie down in the wilderness for a day and a night, everyone is a few years have not seen meat and fish people, say do not envy Ren Xiaosu that is false.

Ren Xiaosu brought Yan Liuyuan to the gates of the refuge barriers, the towering walls gave a great sense of oppression.

By the time they reached here, the buildings had produced changes, and even brick and stone houses could be seen.

The closer one got to the barriers, the cleaner, tidier and richer they looked. The people who lived here were all more or less related to those in the refuge barriers, perhaps because they were good at kissing ass, perhaps because they still had loved ones in there.

But no matter what, these stragglers, collectively known as the “contaminated” people, could not enter the barriers.

Ren Xiaosu walked into a house with the word “grocery store” written on the door, selling cigarettes, matches, ironware, food and clothes, but the prices were all very expensive.

The old man in the house was extraordinarily happy when he saw Ren Xiaosu: “This sparrow looks not small!”

Ren Xiaosu threw the sparrow onto the glass counter, “How much?”

“Aigoo, take it easy, this glass can be expensive,” said the old king painfully, and then he smoothly threw the sparrow on the iron scale next to him, “Three catty six taels, can ah Xiaosu.”

At this time the old king’s hand abacus snapped, chicken claw like withered hand like clockwork, abacus playing clanking: “Today’s market is a catty of two hundred dollars, you’re considered to be 700 it!”

“900,” Ren Xiaosu said firmly: “It’s almost winter, and there are fewer sparrows recently, so 900 can’t be any less.”

Old Wang was not happy, he pushed the abacus in front of Ren Xiaosu: “We are sending this to the barriers for the nobles to eat, it is true that there is a shortage of meat in the barriers, but there is a price for everything, we have to follow the rules.”

The words just fell, the old king saw Ren Xiaosu neighboring the sparrow turned ready to go out, he hurriedly pulled the sleeve of Ren Xiaosu’s torn jacket: “Where are you going?”

“I’m going to ask Old Li about the price of the grocery store over there,” Ren Xiaosu said.

Old Wang’s hand suddenly gripped a little tighter, today there are stewards in the barriers specifically explained to collect wild game, this news can be more than just his family know.

The old king smiled open a big pile of wrinkles, said: “How much do you want to sell?”

Ren Xiaosu still want to go: “I ask the price and then say.”

The old king smiled very kindly: “That is not delayed six yuan school time, 900 on 900!”

“What did you say in your last sentence?” Ren Xiaosu calmly asked.

“Isn’t that a delay ……”

“And then the last sentence.”

“How much do you want to sell?”

“1200.”

Old Wang: “????”

After a long time, the old king painfully pointing at the money, stained with saliva counted again and again, afraid that he gave the wrong number.

The final price is 1198, Ren Xiaosu also made his own concessions ……

A sparrow sells 1198, not the price is too false, not just this sparrow head is big, the main thing is that this 113 refuge barriers in the unusual can not eat wild food.

Rare things are expensive, the old king will not do money-losing business, this sparrow sold to the powerful family, the turn can make a small profit, but also can fall a little favor.

Old Wang face of heartache to a pile of change into the hands of Ren Xiaosu, then do not know what he remembered as if he lowered his voice and said: “Xiaosu ah, the next time you want to catch the sparrow can not be directly dead, there are noble people want to live, the price is higher!”

Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment, “Why do you want them alive, kill them now?”

“No,” Old Wang shook his head, “You don’t understand, this is someone who wants to raise sparrows for fun!”