Origin

Wu Zhongyuan didn't expect that this gray wolf could not only talk, but also curse. It was naturally not a pleasant thing to be scolded, but after thinking about it carefully, he was rude in the first place, and he couldn't blame others for being angry, so he could only laugh twice. Walked away embarrassed.

Not far away, I met another person who was not a human being. However, this non-human person was not a seller, but goods. Lying on a woven cattail mat lay a half-human, half-fish creature. This thing was similar to the legendary mermaid. They are very similar. The lower body is a fish tail, the upper body is a human body, and the arms are slightly longer than human arms. They also have five fingers, but the nails are very sharp, not flat, and are somewhat similar to the talons of an eagle.

This mermaid is about one and a half meters long. It looks like a little boy. It should be a male. It has red hair and a childish look on its face. It is still in its infancy.

The seller was wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, sitting cross-legged, holding a rope in his hand, and the other end of the rope was tied around the neck of the male mermaid.

Next to the seller was a wooden bucket with half a bucket of water in it and a ladle floating on it.

Wu Zhongyuan walked to the front of the seller and tilted his head to see him, but the seller had his head lowered and his face was covered by a bamboo hat.

While he was tilting his head to look closely, he heard the vendor snoring. Upon hearing the snoring, Wu Zhongyuan knew that the vendor was not a human being, because humans could not have such a long breath, and when people snore, they are breathing in and out, but But it only involves exhalation, and it lasts for a long time. It has been beating for more than a minute and is still continuing.

Mermaid is the modern term for this kind of creature. This kind of creature is called a mermaid at this time. This young mermaid has injuries on his body. Many of his scales are missing. He is very lethargic. He lies motionless on the straw mat with only his chest and abdomen. The slight fluctuations indicate that it is still alive.

Seeing that the shark was very dry and the bucket was within reach, Wu Zhongyuan was determined to do good deeds, but he was afraid that the seller would blame him for being nosy. He hesitated again and coughed twice, "What does the shark want to exchange for?"

The seller was still snoring. Wu Zhongyuan asked again, but the seller still didn't respond. On the contrary, the shark managed to open his eyes and looked up at him.

The structure of the shark's eyes is also different from that of humans. There is a transparent film inside the eyelids. The function of this film should be to open the eyes to see things underwater. This film is not used on land. When opening the eyes, the eyelids are raised first, and then the membrane inside is raised, as if opening the eyes twice.

The little shark's eyes were very empty, with no hope of rescue or the misery of being trapped in a foreign land, only dullness and confusion.

Seeing that the seller was asleep and unconscious, Wu Zhongyuan bravely scooped up some water and poured it on the shark, and then took a piece of dried meat from the bag with him.

The seller didn't wake up.

But a one-legged man not far away shouted, "Mo is troublesome. If he dies, I'm afraid he will be dependent on you."

Hearing the shouting, Wu Zhongyuan hurriedly led his horse away. The little shark caught the meat breast in his hand and looked at him.

Seeing that it was getting dark, Wu Zhongyuan went to the west street to look for a place to stay. There were many inns on the westmost street. He found a place with stables to stay. The rooms here were very expensive, and the chicken cage was worth the price. I couldn't pay for the room, so I had to give the sheep to the owner. The store was fair and said there was some leftover, so he gave me a bottle of wine.

Wu Zhongyuan led the horses to the stables and tied them up, fed the horses with fodder together with the men, and then moved the things on the horses to the room.

In today's terms, this room is considered a suite. There is a stone pool in the outer room, which is filled with hot spring water and the water is flowing. The back room is where you sleep, and the bedding is very clean. The room is very warm due to the hot spring floor heating.

Wu Zhongyuan was so sleepy that he wished he could lie down and sleep, but he couldn't sleep. Before leaving, Wu Dalie asked him to go to the gambling house to play. He had no interest in gambling, but he had to go because the inn wouldn't let him bring in the chicken. , rattling, which will affect other guests' rest, and the smell is not good.

The gambling house is on the second street to the east. It is already dark at this time. When you go to the gambling house, you can vaguely see the light of torches in the mountains to the southeast. The area where the light is located should be Badaoling. There are no people. To explain that the psychic magic weapon has not been found yet, or it may have been found long ago, but the person who finds it will definitely sneak away quietly and will never make a noise to show off.

The street next to the inn is the red light district, but when walking on the street, I didn't see any women soliciting customers from outside. There were no people in the town. There was no need for them to run out and freeze in such a cold weather.

There are flags outside the gambling houses with pictographic patterns painted on them. Only these chickens can't go to those high-end gambling houses. They can only gamble on rice grains and salt.

Wu Zhongyuan chose to bet on salt. There were five chickens in the cage, all of which were hens. At this time, hens were more valuable than roosters because hens could lay eggs.

The salt is held in bamboo tubes, divided into large, medium and small. Five small ones are folded into one medium, and five medium ones are folded into one large one. Five hens are exchanged for three small bamboo tubes.

Everyone cares about face, and he was worried that he would be looked down upon by the dealer if he bet one by one. Wu Zhongyuan just bet all-in. After shaking the cup, the three dices were one, two and three respectively.

Seeing the one, two, three, Wu Zhongyuan's heart went cold. This was a comparison, not a golden flower. It was six points in total, and he was dead.

The other party lifted it up, one-two-one, Wu Zhongyuan suppressed his laughter. The other party was walking in the right step, and one-two-one came out.

A small gamble makes me happy, laugh it off, and come again.

It's better to go all-in, no matter how bad it is, it won't be worse than one, two, three, lift the cup, three, three, four.

The other party lifts the cup, two, three, four.

After a narrow victory, Wu Zhongyuan had two medium-sized bamboo tubes and two small bamboo tubes in his hand.

At this point, he began to hesitate. Now he faced three choices: one was to stop, the other was to reduce the bet, and the third was to go all-in.

After hesitating, he still chose to go all-in. The reason why he did this was not out of greed, but to prevent himself from getting lucky. If he stopped at this time, he would have locked in the gains. This kind of unearned gains would It makes a person question the hard work and effort of his own strength and try to take advantage of others. This problem must not be developed.

Lifting the cup, you can see that there are four small bamboo tubes filled with salt, which are as big as mine.

In the next round, Wu Zhongyuan only bet on a small bamboo tube. As long as he won, he could collect a large bamboo tube and stop.

If the result is a tie, the banker wins. This is also a way for gambling houses to make profits.

Four in the middle and three in the small, all-in, anyway, it is an unexpected fortune. It is not your own in the first place. Even if you lose, you will just give it back to others.

In the end, he did not lose, one grade, four grade, and one grade.

If it were anyone else, he should have stopped at this time, but Wu Zhongyuan still hasn't stopped. Gambling is not a good thing in the first place. It's not good to lose, and it's even worse to win. It really breeds luck. Getting something for nothing is not the way to go!

Continuing, the bet on two hit the mark, and the result was a disastrous failure.

No more playing, the big bamboo tube is carried on the back, the medium-sized bamboo tube is carried, and the small bamboo tube has no strap, so it is held in the hand.

Although he lost the final round and lost two medium-sized bamboo tubes, Wu Zhongyuan was in a very good mood. No one could maximize profits. Even after hard work, it was impossible to return the grains to the warehouse. If a person pursues The essence of profit maximization is greed and calculation. This person will never feel happy. As everyone knows, as long as you gain more than you lose, it is considered a successful life.

In addition, while focusing on gains and losses, you should also underestimate gains and losses. These salts are not yours in the first place. If you lose, you will just give them back to others. After all, you have won a lot from others.

The reason why people in the world feel pain is often because they regard other people's or ownerless things as their own, eager to possess them all, but forget that no matter how much they get, they are actually extra earnings.

Everyone here knows what is in the bamboo tube, and they are so greedy when they see him carrying it on his back. They look at him with strange eyes. As the saying goes, rare things are valuable. Salt is scarce at this time, and salt is the mother of all tastes. Only with salt can food taste, and if you don't eat salt, you will lose strength. If it's more serious, you will get sick or even die. He actually carries dozens of kilograms of such a good thing on his body. It's strange that others don't envy him.

Sensing the strange looks from passers-by, Wu Zhongyuan wanted to go to the inn, but Wu Dalie asked him to wait here. He couldn't go far, so he looked around and rushed to another gambling house.

But this time he didn't go there to try his luck, but to exchange things. Since this gambling shop was for gambling on elixirs, it naturally had elixir reserves. He wanted to exchange for a red qi-replenishing elixir to help him as soon as possible. Be promoted to a noble and prosperous person.

Salt is a good thing, but elixirs are even better. Blue and purple elixirs cannot be exchanged for salt. Although red elixirs are not rare, they cost him a large tube of salt. He didn't understand the market and was worried that others would cheat him, so he bargained. Finally, someone gave him a light red pill, and he finally agreed.

In fact, he was already a cave god, so this elixir was useless, but he could take it to A Luo.

What Wu Dalie said before was correct. After dark, there are more and more people on the easternmost street. Not everyone dares to go to Badaoling to look for psychic weapons. There are still people who are doing business down-to-earth. of.

Wu Zhongyuan had nothing to do, so he went to the east street. Now he had something that could be easily exchanged. If he encountered something he wanted, he could exchange it.

As soon as he arrived on the street, he heard someone greeting him. He followed his voice and saw that it was the man wearing a raincoat. The man had his head lowered before. He didn't see the man clearly. This time he saw clearly that he was a man in his fifties. The old men on the left and right have sinister eyebrows and rat eyes.

Maybe after waking up, he heard people around him saying that he had stayed here before. When the old man saw him, he called him over and wanted to exchange the shark for him.

Wu Zhongyuan waved his hand towards the old man, indicating that he was not interested in the shark.

The old man only said that the shark was a good thing. He could wash it off and dry it to make shark wax, which could be used for lighting.

Seeing Wu Zhongyuan's hesitation, the old man said that he was kind-hearted and that even if he didn't use the sharks to make wax, it would be good to buy a free life. It was not expensive and only cost a medium-sized tube of salt.

Wu Zhongyuan relented, "It's very weak, I'm afraid it won't survive."

"It's possible, it's possible, it's just that if you've been out of the water for a long time, it'll be fine if you get into the water." The old man said.

"There is no river water around here, where can I put it?" Wu Zhongyuan was worried.

"Yes, yes. There is a river not far to the south, extending in all directions. It can go wherever it wants to go." The old man said again.

"Can you speak?" Wu Zhongyuan asked the shark.

The shark didn't answer, but the old man answered, "Yes, yes, it's just the shark's language, you can't understand it."

Seeing that Wu Zhongyuan was still hesitating, the old man stood up and came over to take the bamboo tube in his hand. "Releasing animals is a way of accumulating virtue. Go quickly."

"Then it wouldn't be immoral for you to catch it?" Wu Zhongyuan looked the old man up and down. This guy had short hands and short legs, and he walked with a swaying figure. He was either a turtle or a tortoise.

The old man took a tube of salt in his hand, stopped talking to him, and staggered toward the west street.

"What a good old turtle, please be gentle and don't kill anyone again." Someone nearby laughed and scolded.

Wu Zhongyuan originally thought that the turtle spirit had gone drinking, but he didn't expect that this guy actually went to look for flowers and willows.

Seeing Wu Zhongyuan turn around and look, someone from the side came over and said, "It's dark and the road is slippery, and you don't know the way. I'll help you to release him."

Wu Zhongyuan glanced at the man, rolled up the shark in a straw mat, held it with both hands, and walked south.

The man didn't get any advantage, so he took away the barrel left by the old turtle.

The old turtle didn't lie. There was really a river in the south of the town. When he reached the river, Wu Zhongyuan put down the straw mat. When the shark saw the water, he became energetic and jumped into the water.

The shark knew that Wu Zhongyuan had saved him. After entering the water, he stuck his head out of the water and looked at Wu Zhongyuan.

Wu Zhongyuan waved his hand at him, "Let's go home."

The shark man said something.

The shark's words were somewhat similar to the calls of dolphins, but Wu Zhongyuan could not understand him. He smiled and waved his hands again, "Be careful, don't get caught by bad guys again."

Seeing Wu Zhongyuan waving his hand, the shark also raised his hand and waved to him, then turned back into the water and headed east through the waves under the water.

People are different. There are good people and bad people. When a person doesn’t know whether he is a good person or a bad person, he might as well do something good and see if he is in a good mood. If so, then he is a good person. Good people. If you do bad things and feel excited and in a good mood, you are a bad person.

Although human nature is complicated, it is not very complicated. Many times the truth is on the surface, without so many twists and turns and hidden secrets.

Wu Zhongyuan is in a good mood now. The world is huge, and the chance of meeting this shark in the future is very slim. He does not expect this shark to repay him. He is very willing to help the weak, but the weak are not necessarily worthy of help. The premise is that this weak person is innocent and kind, which is the case with Xiaomeren.

After watching the shark leave, Wu Zhongyuan walked to the river and washed his hands, then untied his waist rope and peed on the bank. After tying the waist rope, he washed his hands again and then stood up to return.

After walking far away, he vaguely heard an urgent cry coming from the river. He had heard this sound before. It was the voice of a shark.

At this time, the shark's voice was rapid and high-pitched, appearing very urgent.

Upon hearing the shark's cry, Wu Zhongyuan immediately turned around and ran towards the river. When he reached the shore, he saw the shark he had released earlier floating on the water, holding a long red sword in his raised right hand.

Seeing Wu Zhongyuan's return, Yuren looked very happy and said something eagerly. Seeing the astonishment on Wu Zhongyuan's face, the shark pretended that Wu Zhongyuan didn't understand his words, and moved his hands to indicate that the sword he was grabbing was picked up from the bottom of the river downstream.

Wu Zhongyuan was stunned not because he didn't understand what the shark said, but because the shark had called him urgently before, with a loud voice, which attracted many people who were searching for the psychic weapon in the distance. At this time, this group of people were standing On the other side of the river, the sharks had their backs turned to them, so they never saw it.

The little shark was very happy to be able to repay Wu Zhongyuan for saving his life, and kept talking quickly. It wasn't until someone on the south bank shouted "Luan Feng Sword" that it suddenly became alert and hurriedly threw the long sword in its hand to Wu Zhongyuan and dived to escape.

Although Wu Zhongyuan took the long sword in his hand, he was secretly complaining that with so many people watching, this thing was a hot potato.

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