Siheyuan: The Temptation of the Mountains

"No, I only want to exchange it for food. Do you have any?" The older brother with glasses pushed his glasses and tightened the mask on his face.

"Yes, I'll give you two kilograms of corn flour in exchange for a snuff bottle. Is that okay?"

Seeing that this big brother had a lot of antiques on his stall, Lin Ze lowered his price severely.

The eldest brother was a little hesitant, and was thinking about raising the price.

Lin Ze turned and left. There was no shortage of treasures in his space. What's more, in this era, these jade wares and antiques were of no use at all.

"Switch, little brother, I'll switch!"

The older brother with glasses hurriedly called out to Lin Ze, "Two kilograms is two kilograms. I will give you as many antiques as you have grain."

When Lin Ze heard him say this, he moved closer and carefully selected it in the moonlight.

Lin Ze didn't know much about these things, but he compared the choices in the space and soon selected several exquisite and small jade rings, snuff bottles and other small items, as well as some elegant and high-end porcelain.

Just these things were only exchanged for 20 kilograms of food for Lin Ze.

Lin Ze was very satisfied. He put all the porcelain and jade wares into the backpack and actually put them into the space.

After exchanging antiques, Lin Ze walked back a few steps. There was a stall in the corner. There was nothing on the stall, only a man in a Zhongshan suit sitting on a small stool.

"What are you selling?" Lin Ze asked curiously.

"Selling bills. I have all kinds of bills here." said the man in the Zhongshan suit.

"Do you have cotton coupons?" Lin Ze asked.

Everything in my grandpa's house is good, except the bed, which is a bit shabby. The bed is made of straw and the blanket is also made of straw.

The man pulled out a stack of bills from his coat pocket and picked out a few cotton bills.

"One dollar and fifty cents a pound, and I only have thirty pounds here." The man said in a dull voice.

"One dollar and fifty cents a pound? The price of your cotton ticket is the same as the cotton in the supply and marketing cooperative."

Lin Ze shook his head and stopped looking at the bill man.

He walked three or five more stalls and happened to see a middle-aged woman selling cotton.

"Auntie, how much is this cotton per pound?"

"I won't sell this cotton, I'll only exchange it for food."

Lin Ze saw that the cotton in her basket was slightly yellowing and was a little dissatisfied. He touched it with his hand and found that there were seeds in the cotton.

"Sure, I have some food here. How about I give you a pound of cotton for a pound of cornmeal?"

The masked aunt nodded happily, "Okay, okay, of course."

Although cotton is precious these days, it is not as expensive as grain. Sometimes people line up to buy grain in the supply and marketing cooperatives, and the person at the end of the line has to pay a few cents more per pound than the person at the first.

Lin Ze asked, "Aunt, how many pounds of cotton are there in your basket?"

"Sixty kilograms of cotton, young man, can you eat it?"

"That's just right. I have more than 60 kilograms of corn flour in my backpack. The extra is for you, Auntie."

After Lin Ze finished speaking, he also put his backpack on the ground.

The masked aunt hurriedly took out her wooden scale and came over to Lin Ze to weigh the weight.

"Sixty-five kilograms. Minus the two and a half kilograms in the backpack, there are still sixty-two and a half kilograms of food. This is really a lot."

Lin Ze smiled without saying anything. His backpack was the same model as his aunt's and was almost the same size.

The two of them exchanged backpacks directly, and the masked aunt hurriedly left Pigeon City.

Meanwhile, Lin Ze covered the backpack with a piece of cloth he had bought earlier, and with a thought, the cotton in the basket immediately turned into food.

He continued to walk through the Pigeon Market, but he didn't want anything in particular. He just wanted to watch how others bought and sold things and enjoy the fun.

These businessmen all spoke in low voices and sometimes communicated with gestures, which was quite interesting to watch.

Lin Ze was tired from walking around, and happened to see a gun seller in a corner. Two pistols were clearly placed on a snakeskin bag.

"How much is this gun of yours?"

The gun seller looked at Lin Ze and whispered, "The long gun is 150 yuan, and the pistol is 50 yuan each. They are definitely useful."

Lin Ze was shocked. This price was not cheap. He carefully picked up a gun and checked it. He found that the gun was quite new.

"Can it be cheaper?" Lin Ze tried to bargain.

"This is already the lowest price. In today's world, guns are valuable items," the gun seller said firmly.

Lin Ze thought about it and decided to buy the gun. He took out two hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it to the gun seller.

The gun seller handed Lin Ze a pistol, and took out a long gun and bullets from his snakeskin bag, and warned Lin Ze, "Be careful with it, don't get into trouble."

Lin Ze nodded, asked the seller for a snakeskin bag, put the gun in it, held it against his chest, and left the corner.

He thought that with these two guns, he would be less dependent on his grandfather's hunting rifle, and would be safer in the days to come.

Thinking so, Lin Ze left the Pigeon City and walked along the path towards his grandfather's house carrying a backpack.

Just after leaving Pigeon City, Lin Ze hid in the bushes and put the two guns into the space.

Once he was far away from Dove City, he entered the space.

Just as he entered the space.

Not far behind Lin Ze, a voice asked, "Where is that kid who bought the gun?"

When Lin Ze heard the sound, his heart tightened. He sat up from the bed and listened attentively to the movement outside.

I only heard a rustling sound in the grass, and someone was coming from not far away, looking for something.

"Strange, we clearly saw him walking this way just now," one of them said.

"He must have hidden himself. Let's look for him again," another person echoed.

Lin Ze forgot that he was in a space. He held his breath and his palms were sweating slightly from nervousness.

He realized that his purchase of a gun might have been targeted by someone with ulterior motives.

Suddenly, an idea occurred to him.

Lin Ze quietly took out some stones from the space, came out of the space, and threw them far away.

The sound of the stone falling to the ground attracted the attention of two dark shadows, and they immediately chased in the direction of the sound.

Lin Ze took the opportunity to slip out of the space, quickened his pace and fled the scene in the opposite direction.

He didn't dare look back and ran all the way. Whenever he felt uneasy, he would quickly go into the space for refuge until he was sure he was safe.

That night, Lin Ze spent more time and took a detour to reach Linjia Village.

When we were almost at my grandfather's house, it was almost dawn. I looked at the time and it was half past four.

Lin Ze filled his backpack with rice and flour and held two big fish in his hands.

Then I knocked on my grandfather's door, still feeling scared as I recalled what had just happened.

"Fortunately, I am smart enough, otherwise I would be in trouble." Lin Ze secretly rejoiced.

After three knocks on the door, Lin Changgui's voice rang out in the room, "Who is it?"