Obligations of the elderly

"Okay, it's about time to get down to business." After having lunch at the central church (?) bar (?) in the town center, the uncle said.

Gong Si was startled, watched his uncle stand up, and said calmly: "However, before purchasing the coordinates, you should hire a messenger."

Purchase coordinates?Correspondent?Did the uncle understand the new terms coming out of his mouth? Gong Si followed the uncle with a question mark and left the central church. This time, they went out through the back door of the church. When the uncle opened the door, they appeared in front of them. It is a lively street.

"A must-have set for gold diggers! A set of 998! Just 998!" There are densely packed shops on both sides of the street, and shop assistants are shouting hard at the door of each door.

"The special calling card for the Black Earth Continent! The signal is good! Communication with teammates is not stuck!"

"Sleeping bag monopoly! Sleeping bags made of various materials can save you the cost of staying in a hotel. The accommodation in the Black Earth Continent is very expensive!"

"Xingniao hires, the starting price is 10 yuan a day, and a 3-month deposit is required."

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Among the deafening yelling, the voice of an old lady was especially calm.

This... but I have heard it all the way, and I have heard the most desiring advertisements. Ten yuan a day, 30 yuan in 300 days, and almost 3 yuan in 1000 months. Think about the ratio of flow shield to local currency , this price is quite expensive for a newcomer - the palace will be cleared at once, he looked into the store in surprise, first he saw the old woman sitting at the door, and then saw the whole room in the store... Bird Son?

It's really a bird.

"Ah, that's it, let's go in." The uncle stopped, turned on his toes, and walked directly into the store.

As soon as you enter the store, you will be greeted by the smell of bird droppings!I don’t know if it’s because the birds here eat a lot of seafood. The smell of feces also has a strong salty smell, not to mention how unpleasant it is.

In short, the environment of this store is really not very good.

"The starting price is ten yuan? The price has increased." The uncle didn't care about the smell at all, and just said to the old woman who came in with them.

"Of course, if prices have risen, our store will also have to increase prices accordingly." The old woman said with a blank expression.

Following behind the uncle, Gong Si carefully observed the birds in the store—there was actually only one kind of bird in the store, and it was a white bird that looked only the size of a carrier pigeon, maybe a little smaller than a carrier pigeon, with black eyes. , with a jet-black beak, and a very handsome appearance, ignoring the smelly shit, this kind of bird is actually quite attractive to look at.

They all live in cages, one by one, and each cage has a bird's nest, a small trough for water, and a small trough for food. Sure enough, it was a small fish and a shell.

shell?

Gong Si suddenly felt that this kind of shell looked very familiar, but after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't remember it, and finally the big head reminded him: Yes, this kind of shell looks like the little black bird they bought in the fish market. like shells.

"The one with the red string tied on the cage is booked out. In fact, basically all of them have been booked out. There are only three over there who have not been booked out. One of them has a wing injured and can't work. Look at the side Let’s have those two, if you don’t like it, forget it.” The old lady lacked the self-cultivation of a businessman, she simply introduced a sentence, and then sat down to watch TV.

"Uncle, don't you want to buy a phone card?" Gong Si whispered to the uncle: "Can't we use the network service card we bought before?"

"The environment of the Black Earth Continent is very complicated. Many phone cards that work today but cannot be used tomorrow, and there are even cases where there is no signal when they are three meters apart, so people who have actually been to the Black Earth Continent do not use phone cards. Those who can buy phone cards are all Newcomer." The uncle explained flatly.

Gong Si: Isn’t that false advertising?

"It seems that the key is to rely on the natural navigator in the animal's body." Xiliu said, bending over to look at a white bird in front of him. Unfortunately, the power of bird droppings is too great. He held his nose and retched.

Ignoring him, the uncle just continued to look at the birds. The stench of these birds seemed to have no effect on him. Gongsi even watched him reach out and pick up a bird's poop and sniff it.

"The people who ordered the letter birds must be very experienced gold diggers. They picked good birds. The remaining two, this one has a stomach problem, and the other one is not young." Sniffed two birds respectively feces, the uncle said.

"This...you can smell feces?" Gong Si was dumbfounded as he stared at the uncle's astonishing move.

"Well, I was fortunate enough to travel with a senior gold digger for a while, and he taught me this." Nodding, the uncle did not deny it.

At this moment, Gong Si really admired the uncle, no matter what level it was from!

"The only one you can choose is this old one. Although it may fly slowly, it is in good health. The other one..." the uncle said, raising his voice to the old woman next to him: "This letter bird is also sick. , Its disease is more serious than that of the wing beside it, you'd better take a look."

"Oh?" He adjusted his glasses in disbelief, and the old woman finally walked over from the TV.

No matter what the old woman thinks, Gong Si absolutely believes in his uncle's judgment, only one bird can be used, but no matter how they look at it, they need at least two birds, right?Are there other stores outside?

Just as Gong Si was thinking, Xiliu opened the door from the outside - because it was too smelly, he couldn't help but go out to breathe.

Seeing him waving at him, Gong Si seemed to tell him to go out, and glanced at his uncle, leaving the old lady watching the birds, while Gong Si and his uncle walked towards the stream at the door.

"Look." Sitting at the door, Xiliu motioned them to look at the ground.

It was only then that Gong Si noticed a black bird on the ground, which looked familiar.

Isn't this the black bird who sells shells to Big Head in the morning?The one that was still a baby bird - he recognized it.

But how did it get here?Gong Si was puzzled immediately.

The uncle raised his eyebrows, and squatted down directly, his eyes met the bird's. When the little black bird couldn't help but backed up a few steps, the uncle said quietly: "I didn't notice it before. Look carefully, this bird looks exactly like the letter." The birds look alike, but the color is wrong, and the shape is not right..."

"It's a wild letter bird."

Not long after the uncle said these words, an old voice suddenly came from behind Gong Si. Turning around, he saw an old man who was about the same age as the old woman in the store, holding a letter bird in his arms. , it was the one that the uncle said was sick.

"Its color is different from other letter birds, and its size is almost the same as that of adult birds. Letter birds are a very xenophobic group. It is probably because of this reason that they drove it out." The grandfather continued: "Probably It’s because there are a lot of letterbirds in our store, so it comes to us every day, but what’s the use? The letterbirds in our store can’t tolerate it. I originally wanted to keep it in the store, but as long as it is in the store , the other letter birds kept making noises and bumped into the cage, there was no way."

"It is said that there are no black letter birds, but black letter birds are unlucky, and they are also called the messengers of death."

The uncle looked at the young bird in front of him, poked its stomach, but did not dare to resist. The young bird just shrank back, then backed up again, and blew twice. To poke it, I don't know if I was frightened stupid, the two little legs trembled, the little guy didn't hold back, and smashed to the ground with a small section.

A look of being terrified.

In front of everyone, the uncle made another amazing move—he picked up the poop that the little black bird had just pulled out, brought it to his nose and sniffed it, and said lightly:

"A very healthy young bird."

This time it was the turn of Xi Liu who hadn't seen his uncle's amazing move before, to be dumbfounded.

Clapping his hands and standing up, the uncle said to the old man who only reached his chest: "I want to hire the old letter bird inside and the one outside. How much will it cost for three months?"

The old man was stunned for a moment: "The one inside is really old, I'll give you a 700% discount and a zero, [-] yuan for three months."

"As for the one outside..." The old man looked at the little black bird that was still shivering on the ground... well, although it was so big that it was almost as big as an adult bird, it was still a cub.

"This is not a letter bird in our shop, no money."

"Is that so?" The uncle glanced at the little black bird again, and pushed the door open after a while, "Let's deal with the employment of the letter bird inside first."

"This is 700 yuan." The uncle readily took out the money.

"Thanks for your patronage, young man, you are amazing. My old lady didn't even notice that the letter bird was sick, but you did. Hey, didn't you just find it by observing its feces?" Concerned about the contract issue, while full of confidence in the uncle's special skills.

"It's just a little skill." The uncle said modestly, and then skillfully signed his name on the contract, looked around, and asked the old man again: "By the way, can I buy a cage from you? And other letter birds It’s the same as the one with the trough and sink in it.”

"Yes, yes, you don't really want to hire the black letter bird outside, do you? Its feathers haven't fully grown yet, although it is indeed quite strong, but... the legend of the black letter bird is really unlucky. Hey, although I am actually very happy that someone is willing to adopt it, the letter bird is a bird that lives in a group, if not with other birds, at least it must live with people. If a bird lives like this alone, I will I'm worried that it will sooner or later..." The old man said, he could see that he was also concerned about the little black bird outside, and cared about it, but because of the legend, he felt that he had to inform the guests about the situation, so he was quite contradictory , The specific manifestation is that the speech is a bit illogical.

"We're not afraid." Gong Si suddenly came from behind and pointed to the cage next to him: "How much is a cage?"

Obviously, he had the same thoughts as his uncle.

The grandfather quoted a price. This time, the palace did not need to pay the uncle, but the palace directly took the money out of his own pocket. It was probably destined. Coincidentally, the money left in his pocket was not too much, just enough to buy it. a cage.

After buying a cage from the boss, and filling the sink and trough of the cage with the food and water provided by the boss, Gong Si walked to the door, and the little black bird was still there, together with its poop.

Gong Si opened the door of the cage in front of him: "Want to come with us?"

"I can give you a coin every day." He thought again.

I don't know if the little black bird understood what he said, anyway, the small black eyes gleamed from the moment he saw the cage, and before Gong Si finished speaking, the little black bird couldn't wait to run into the cage , It also learned how to close the cage without a teacher, and just as soon as it entered, it closed the door of the cage by itself.

"It seems that I am very happy." Shrugging, Gongsi and his party bid farewell to the owner and wife of Xinniao Shop.