Dawn of a New Era

Early the next morning, Chen Shouyi accompanied his parents to find a rental house.

It is not difficult to find a house. In the current situation of no electricity and a lack of orders, most factories have been closed, and many migrant workers have rushed home, so there are not many houses for rent.

Oh, big sister, this can't be cheap. In the past, it was 1,500 yuan, and people were rushing to rent it. Now it's only 1,200 yuan, which is much cheaper. The landlord is a well-dressed middle-aged man in his forties. The young woman is refined and gentle, and looks like a cultured person.

But bargaining has nothing to do with being gentle or not, it is the innate ability of every middle-aged woman.

You also said that was in the past, who still rents a house now? If we don't rent, you will have nothing but space here, no more than a thousand. Of course, Chen's mother's bargaining power is not weak at all.

Oh, isn't this temporary? The power outage can't last forever. When the power comes, the housing price will immediately rise.

Buying and selling are all based on the market price, but not on the ability to appreciate in value. When the electricity comes, I don't know when it will be?

...

The two women began to bargain with each other.

Chen Shouyi's two siblings and Chen Dawei stood by the side in a daze, unable to speak at all.

Ten minutes later, it was Chen's mother who was superior in the end, and the transaction was successfully completed at 1,000 a month.

The house is a five-story self-built house, the landlord's family lives on the fourth floor, and the first floor is rented to another family.

The remaining second and third floors were still vacant, and Chen Shouyi's family chose the third floor.

In order to rent it out, the landlord specially built an open-air staircase on the outside of the house, so you can pass through from the first floor without trouble.

The move didn't take long as there was less luggage.

But the next purchase took a whole day, no matter the pots and pans, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, or various daily necessities, pillows and quilt covers, they all need to be repurchased, and even the clothes after autumn have to be repurchased .

at dinner time.

Chen Shouyi looked at Mother Chen's frowning brows, and couldn't help but ask, Mom, are you out of money?

This is an adult's business, so you don't have to worry about it. Mother Chen said subconsciously, but immediately felt something was wrong after she finished speaking.

Last night she tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep, and it wasn't all because of fear. Most of the time, instead, she kept thinking about her son's nonchalant attitude after killing people, ignoring human life and nothing.

Although my son has helped the family kill chickens and fish since he was a child.

But killing people is different after all, even if she and her husband watched from a distance, they all looked flustered and frightened.

As a result, his son, as if nothing happened afterwards, not only cleaned up the scene with a calm face, but also pulled out the arrows from the corpse one by one.

She felt that her son must have killed someone for the first time, otherwise he would not have acted so calmly.

Now that you can kill, robbery is even easier.

If he felt that the family had no money, would his son go to rob it?

The more she thought about it, the more uneasy she became, and hurriedly said: The cash is enough in a short time, so I am worried about withdrawing the deposit, will there be any trouble?

Chen Shouyi said without realizing it. It's better not to withdraw it for the time being, so as not to leak information. If there is no money, I still have some on hand.

How many do you have? Mother Chen asked quickly.

Nearly 10,000 yuan! The 10,000 yuan was withdrawn from the bank last time, and he spent a few hundred yuan in total in the past few days.

Chen's mother was relieved when she heard this, and Chen Shouyi continued, I still have a few pieces of gold. If I sell them, I can sell them for twenty or thirty thousand.

He didn't dare to say more, for fear of scaring his parents.

In fact, the gold dust he has accumulated during this period has already exceeded two kilograms. Even if the purity of the gold sand is only over 80, it can be sold for about 300,000 on the black market.

If you add the savings, he now has a small amount of 500,000.

Where did you get the gold? Mother Chen immediately said with a serious face, By the way, I haven't asked you why you have a bow and a sword?

Chen Xingyue couldn't help but look at his brother, just to see what reason he could make up.

Uh, the gold is actually natural gold. I picked it up by the stream. After selling some money, I bought a bow and a sword. Chen Shouyi was stunned, and quickly explained the excuse he had thought up a long time ago.

How much did it cost? Chen's mother doubted.

Now she doesn't believe a word of what this son said.

I picked up gold by the stream, if there is gold that has already been picked up, it will be your turn?

In the past, this son was very obedient, and he listened to her most, telling him to go east and dare not go west.

But I don't know when it started, and I didn't even know myself.

If it weren't for this incident, who would have thought that his son would have this side. It is estimated that the two people who watched his family last night were not knocked out by him, but killed by him.

It's more than a hundred thousand, and they're all second-hand. Chen Shouyi said. To prove it, he went back to his room, found a few larger gold nuggets from the small pocket of his backpack, and returned them, placing them on the table, making a clanging sound. :

I discovered a lot at the beginning, and now this is all that's left.

Then why do you buy swords and bows?

Chen's mother took a look at a few gold pieces, and was about to ask again, but was interrupted by Chen Dawei:

Don't ask, Shouyi, take the gold back, your parents are not old enough to support this family.

Now that you have grown up and have your own secrets, we don't ask too much, and your parents are ordinary people, so we can't control it anymore. But as a human being, you must abide by your own bottom line, and you must never do illegal things.

Chen Shouyi's heart was moved when he heard this, and he nodded quickly: Got it, Dad!

...

In the bedroom at night, Chen Shouyi sat on a chair, held his breath, and stared closely at the candle.

The candle flickered imperceptibly.

There is still a weak force, although it has almost become nothing. Chen Shouyi thought secretly in his heart.

As soon as he arrived on Earth, his attribute panel's innate ability of controlling the atmosphere has disappeared. But he found that this ability has not completely disappeared, he can still slightly interfere with the movement of the air.

It's just that the ability is too weak, so it is not displayed on the attribute panel.

After a while, he drew his sword.

He recalled the feeling of arousing his energy last time in his heart, and with all his concentration, he leaned towards the flame little by little.

When the sword tip approached the flame, the flame suddenly shook violently, as if a breeze was blowing out from the sword tip.

He stopped, and again at the same speed, he stabbed out slowly. The difference from the first time was that his mind was relaxed this time.

This time the flames didn't flicker much from beginning to end.

Is this the ability to control the atmosphere? Or is it some other unknown power? He wondered in his heart: However, the degree of deviation of the flame just now seems to be far beyond his own ability to manipulate the atmosphere.

At this moment, his heart moved, he walked out of the bedroom, and found a box of tofu from the kitchen.

Then tear open the package, pour out the water, cut a small piece, and put it upright on the desk.

Immediately, he concentrated his mind, aimed at the tofu with the tip of the sword, and stabbed out little by little again.

He keenly noticed that when the sword tip was less than three centimeters away from the tofu, the surface of the tofu began to vibrate slightly, and when it approached one centimeter, strands of tofu as thin as a hair kept falling from the surface.

Chen Shouyi immediately withdrew his sword and looked at the piece of tofu carefully for a while, with a surprised expression on his face.

I saw that the surface of the tofu seemed to be repeatedly split by some force, and a long and narrow gap appeared about three to four centimeters long and less than half a millimeter thick.

When he cut the tofu vertically with a sword, he found that the deepest part was as much as one centimeter deep.

Could this be the sword energy?