Chapter 11
The market in the chaotic area is on Hua Street. Both sides of the street are lined with small vendors, and it is very lively with people coming and going.
Jiaojiao, who came to such a place with her father for the first time, was sitting on Yin Zheng's arm. Her tender little white hands were grabbing her father's clothes on his chest, and she was looking at the market in front of her with ignorance and curiosity.
Yin Zheng held Jiaojiao in one hand and carried a mountain-like bundle in the other as he walked towards the meat market.
He was tall, dressed in a simple and neat black short-sleeved shirt and military pants. As he walked, one could vaguely see the explosive muscles on his abdomen. On his exposed wheat-colored arm, one could see a centipede-like scar extending diagonally from the wrist to the elbow, which added a bit of ferocity to his already unfriendly aura.
People passing by the market subconsciously made way for the familiar aura, but when they looked up and saw that the man was holding a fair and tender child in his arms, they were all stunned.
Unconvinced, he looked up again.
He has a tall figure that stands out from the crowd, wheat-colored skin, a wild crew cut, sharp eyebrows, knife-like facial features, different eyes on each side, a hideous scar running from the left side of his face to his jaw, and a unique aura of ferocity that makes people feel oppressed.
Yes, I didn’t recognize the wrong person!
If he hadn't mistaken the person, then why was this monster holding a child?! And the child didn't even look scared!!!
The people in the chaotic area who saw this scene were all stunned. They were so shocked that they temporarily forgot their fear of Yin Zheng. They kept looking at the person in front of them, wondering if they had recognized the wrong person.
Yin Zheng chose to ignore the gazes of these people. Instead, Jiaojiao, who was in his arms, suddenly felt uncomfortable being stared at by so many strangers. She buried her face in her father's arms a little scared.
Yin Zheng frowned when he noticed this and glanced at the people around him with an unfriendly look.
Caught off guard by Yin Zheng's sharp gaze, the people around him were startled and hurriedly looked away, not daring to look again. At the same time, they felt scared for their own boldness.
Why was he staring at this monster like a possessed man?
It can only be said that Yin Zheng's behavior of holding the child was too inconsistent with his own personality, so much so that those who had always feared and hated him could not help but forget in astonishment what exactly was the being they were looking at!
Unaware of those gazes, Jiaojiao quietly poked her face out from her father's arms again.
Yin Zheng also walked to the meat market at this time, put the bag in his hand on the square stone platform made of stones he often used, and then took out a wooden stool from under the stone platform, wiped it clean, and then put Jiaojiao on it.
These stone platforms were built by butchers or hunters at the meat market to facilitate their meat sales. Whoever built the stone platform owned the stall, and even if they were busy and not selling meat, no one dared to occupy it. You have to know that the people at the meat market are not easy to mess with, whether they are butchers or hunters.
Yin Zheng built this stone stall when he was twelve, carrying a large number of stones from the Endless Sea. It hadn't been modified in all these years, so it was now too small for him. Even Jiaojiao, who was sitting on a wooden bench, could vaguely see what was going on in the stall.
But Yin Zheng didn't care. As long as it could be used, it was fine for him.
Jiaojiao sat obediently on the wooden bench, shaking her legs and waiting for her father to tidy up her body. From time to time, she would tilt her head to look at the small bucket of colorful candies outside the grocery store in front of her left.
Looking at the small bucket of candy, Jiaojiao remembered that he had run out of candy. He lowered his head and patted the lichen pocket on his belly with his hand. There was no candy in it, but there were some beautiful candy wrappers.
Thinking of this, Jiaojiao shook her little head happily.
After sorting out the exotic meat, Yin Zheng caught a glimpse of the bloody meat on other stone stalls and realized that the meat market was not a suitable place for a child.
Except for butchers who sell ordinary meat and try to wash away the blood on the meat with water to make it look cleaner and neater and easier to sell, hunters who sell exotic meat do not care about these things and just put the bloody meat out for sale.
Alien meat is a best-seller throughout the entire Blue Star. The energy it contains can enhance physical fitness. Not only do hunters need to eat a large amount of alien meat every day to enhance their physical fitness, but many families who train mecha technicians also buy a certain amount of alien meat every day for their children to eat.
In addition, if you want to become a hunter, you must start eating exotic meat from a young age.
Therefore, many hunters prioritize feeding themselves and their families, and only then sell the alien cores that are useless to them for money.
Therefore, as long as the exotic meat is put on display, there is no need to worry about not being able to sell it.
In the past, Yin Zheng also hunted alien species like these hunters and sold them directly. But this time, before bringing the alien species back, he thought of Jiaojiao who was going to the market with him and hesitated for a moment. Then he found a stream in the Endless Sea to wash off the blood before bringing it back.
After Yin Zheng placed the exotic meat in place, he sat on Jiaojiao's right. His tall figure completely blocked Jiaojiao's view of the meat market on the right.
His stone stall was located at the first point leading to the meat market. In front of the meat market were some vegetable vendors and small shops selling dried goods. As long as the view to the right was blocked, the children could be prevented from seeing the bloody meat.
When Jiaojiao saw her father sitting down, she quickly held his index finger with her little hand. She looked at Yin Zheng with her dark, bright eyes and said in a soft voice, "Jiaojiao will accompany Dad to sell meat."
Yin Zheng lowered his eyes and looked at his little hand that was struggling to hold his fingers, and his deep gaze softened.
The experience of having someone accompany him in everything he does is a very novel feeling for Yin Zheng.
Under the sunlight, the unusually neat and clean meat on Yin Zhengshi's stall attracted a lot of surprised glances. After confirming again and again that it was exotic meat, someone came forward.
The man who came was a man who looked to be in his forties. He glanced at the meat stall, picked out a piece of meat he liked, scanned the code on the stone stall, transferred the money and wanted to leave.
Jiaojiao, who was sitting on a wooden bench, heard the sound of a thousand crystal coins arriving in her account. Her eyes widened, and she immediately stood up from the bench, holding on to her father's hand, and said in a childish voice, "I'm not leaving."
Yin Zheng, whose eyes had been fixed on Jiaojiao, thought that this man had offended the child in some way, and his eyes instantly shifted to the side. The man who was about to leave immediately stopped and dared not move.
In the morning, when Yin Zheng went hunting in the Endless Sea, Luo Andeli, who was called over to take care of the children, was bored and teased Jiaojiao. He spent the whole morning telling him about how Yin Zheng was bullied by people who cut prices in the meat market.
Although the main reason for this incident was that Yin Zheng himself didn't care at all, it did not prevent Jiaojiao from understanding some of her unhappiness after listening to Luo Andeli's explanation.
Jiaojiao didn't understand anything else, but she understood that those people who came to buy meat were bullying her father. She was so angry that she turned around and stomped her feet. Luo Andeli was very amused by her little appearance.
So when this man came to pay just now, Jiaojiao pricked up her ears to listen to how much he paid.
Uncle Luo An said that as long as Jiaojiao heard that the amount paid was not six thousand, it meant that someone was bullying his father.
The word "six thousand" is easy to remember, so Jiaojiao knew clearly that the number that just sounded was not six thousand at all. He was already ready to go at any time, and he stood up with the help of Yin Zheng's hand, and almost fell off the stool because of his big movement.
The man who stopped looked at the angry face of the child who was standing on the stool and had just barely poked his head out.
Jiaojiao tiptoed and slapped her hands on the stone table with great effort, her eyes wide as black grapes: "One thousand won't do, I need six thousand."
Six thousand is the price of buying a normal twenty-pound piece of level three alien meat, and this is in a chaotic zone very close to the Endless Sea.
Twenty kilograms of level three alien meat can be sold for over □□ thousand in the outer city, and 10,000 in the inner city.
The exotic meat that Yin Zheng sells is almost always grade three. In order to save trouble, he cuts the meat so that each piece weighs precisely 20 kilograms.
It can be said that the exotic meat sold by Yin Zheng is not only sought after by people with some money in the Chaos Zone, but even hunters who are competitors come to buy it.
However, they are much more particular than other people in the Chaos Zone. They know that hunting alien species is a risk of life, so the price they offer will be a little higher, but it will be far less than 6,000.
You should know that even the first-grade alien meat sold by other hunters nearby costs three thousand for twenty kilograms.
However, Yin Zheng was only eight years old when he first came to sell alien meat. That was two months after he came back and killed the four hunters who had tricked him into leaving the outer city.
At that time, he was ostracized by the entire chaotic area and had never known anything about money. Of course, he had no idea about the market price, so it was natural that he was forced to lower the price.
Although the people in the Chaos Zone feared and hated him at that time, money ultimately moved their hearts. You know, level three alien meat worth one thousand crystal coins is not available everywhere.
But as Yin Zheng gradually grew up, his murderous aura became more and more intense. Those who had put down his price were frightened at first, but later they found that Yin Zheng did not care about it, so they continued to be so bold until now.
At this moment, the man's eyes were extremely fierce, and he was looking fiercely at the child in front of him who dared to ruin his good deeds.
A tall shadow suddenly covered the man, and the man with vicious eyes suddenly met the gaze of Yin Zheng, who had been standing behind Jiaojiao for some unknown time. He was horrified, and the viciousness in his eyes instantly disappeared. He paid six thousand crystal coins in a flattering manner and left in a hurry.
He knew that Yin Zheng had murderous intentions towards him at that moment. If the child had not been there, he might have been dead. The man was so frightened that he wanted to run away.
Jiaojiao, who had been staring wide-eyed at the butcher's stall, returned to her usual self after the man paid. He turned around, took Yin Zheng's finger, patted his chest with his small hands, and raised his fair and tender face to say childishly and seriously, "Daddy, don't be afraid. Jiaojiao is here."
Yin Zheng lowered his eyes and looked at his little hands that were red from slapping the stone stall, then picked him up and went to a black clinic not far away to buy a bottle of medicinal wine and came back to wipe his hands.
After applying the medicinal wine, Jiaojiao lowered her head and sniffed her hands. She couldn't help but wrinkled her nose and raised her hands to show her father: "Stinky."
"It doesn't stink." Yin Zheng said as he took out four crystal coins and gave them to him. He raised his chin and pointed to the grocery store in front of his left house: "Go buy some candy."
"No." Jiaojiao, holding the crystal coin, shook her head, and looked at Yin Zheng seriously with her bright black eyes: "Dad is bullying me, Jiaojiao is here."
Yin Zheng reached out and poked his face: "You won't be bullied anymore."
No one can bully him unless he wants to.
As for the third-level alien meat worth one thousand crystal coins, he just didn't care about it in the past. Now that the child cares so much about it, he will definitely not sell it like this.
"Really?" Jiaojiao tilted her little head.
"Yeah." Yin Zheng lifted him down from the stool and said, "Go ahead. I'll stay here and watch over you."
"Okay." After landing, Jiaojiao held four crystal coins in her hands and walked towards the small grocery store with her short legs.
People along the way instinctively made way for him when they saw him. Wasn't that a waste of time? They didn't even consider whose child this was. If they bumped into him, they could lose half their lives.
Jiaojiao walked to the small grocery store and was about to hand the crystal coins to the owner on tiptoe when suddenly a thin dark woman rushed over from the side and grabbed the four crystal coins in his little hand into her arms.
Zhou Dafang had just arrived at the market, and the first thing he saw was Jiaojiao, who was wearing new clothes and holding crystal coins.
She was surprised at first that the child was still alive, and then she came up with some bad ideas.
The owner of the black market does not allow the buying and selling of children. This child was not starved to death because she and Laizi picked him up and raised him for a few days. Therefore, anyone who wants to raise this child has to go around them.
Since the child had enough money to sell candy, the family who found him must be quite wealthy. It would be a shame for the reputation of the beggar couple if they didn't take the opportunity to extort some money from him.
It would be even better if the family who picked up the child didn't want to pay and returned the child to them. The child is so beautiful that if you raise him for a few years and sell him, you might get more money. At that time, it would not be considered as buying and selling a child.
With these thoughts flashing through his mind, Zhou Dafang rushed forward quickly, grabbed Jiaojiao's arm, and quickly put the four crystal coins into his arms.
"Oh my son, why are you here? Your father and I have been looking for you for a long time. Who was that heartless person who secretly took you away? I have been crying all these days. What a heartless person..." Zhou Dafang grabbed Jiaojiao's arm, sat on the ground and started crying. She was crying so hard that she didn't notice the horrified expressions of the people around her.
The eyes of the people around him all expressed that, was it that fearless scammer who bumped into Yin Fenggou?!
Jiaojiao was stunned for a moment when she was suddenly caught, and then she reacted and took two steps back, trying to get out of her hand.
Zhou Dafang noticed his movements and was afraid that he would break free, so she pinched his arm hard and continued to cry: "Don't you know that your father was so worried about you that he became sick. He went to a black clinic and spent a lot of money on treatment. Now he is still lying in bed and can't get up..."
Jiaojiao, who was pinched by her, pursed her lips and her eyes turned red. Before she could shed tears, the person in front of her suddenly flew out, rolled several times on the ground and stopped only after hitting a stone pillar. One of his hands was still bent at a twisted angle.
Yin Zheng held Jiaojiao in his arms, with murderous intent surging in his intact right eye. The aggression that permeated his body made it almost impossible for the onlookers to breathe.
Zhou Dafang, who was lying on the ground not far away, curled up on the ground and vomiting blood all over her face and neck. This kick took at least half of her life away. Whether she would survive or not depended on whether she was willing to seek medical treatment.
Yin Zheng looked at her coldly and originally wanted to go forward and kill her, but when he looked at Jiaojiao in his arms with red eyes and wide eyes looking at him, he realized that this scene was not suitable to appear in front of a child, so he covered Jiaojiao's eyes and turned to walk towards the meat stall.
Luo Andeli, who came out of the black market to see Jiaojiao, happened to see this scene. He glanced at the woman who was curled up on the ground not far away and couldn't move. There was a faint smile in his green eyes, but his eyes were no different from looking at a dead object.
The Laizi couple were not good people. They had at least several lives on their hands, half of whom were children around eight or nine years old, who were sold by them to some old men with sexual fetishes in the outer city.
In the chaotic area, eight or nine-year-olds are no longer considered children, so they dare to buy and sell secretly.
In the past, Luo Andeli was busy with other things and had no time to deal with these two small fry. Unexpectedly, they would fall into his hands on their own initiative.
Since it has hit his hands, just clean it up. After all, the chaotic area is his territory, and it is not a big deal to have garbage in front of him all the time.
Luo Andeli happily sent a message to his men and walked briskly to the meat stall.
At this time, Yin Zheng was rubbing medicinal wine on Jiaojiao's arm in front of the meat stall. Luo Andeli's eyes fell on the white and tender arm with five fingerprints. He felt a little irritated for some reason, so he shifted his gaze to Jiaojiao's little expression with red eyes and pursed lips to avoid crying.
He walked forward with an exaggerated expression, crying out, "Oh, my poor Jiaojiao."
Jiaojiao glanced at Luo Andeli with a gloomy expression and said nothing.
Seeing this, Luo Andeli stepped forward and squeezed onto the wooden bench to sit down. He reached out and patted Jiaojiao's little hand, then pointed ahead with a mysterious look on his face and said, "Look, are they glaring at your dad?"
When she heard his words, Jiaojiao's gloomy expression disappeared and she immediately looked up with red eyes.
Children are very sensitive to feelings of disgust, and Jiaojiao is no exception. So when she looked up and saw those people looking at her father implicitly, she immediately stood up from her father's arms and glared back in displeasure.
Seeing him like this, Luo Andeli immediately leaned over and whispered something in his ear.
After hearing what he said, Jiaojiao raised her hands on her hips and said with round eyes in a very imposing manner: "What are you looking at?"
"Be careful or I'll beat you to death." Luo Andeli continued, holding back his laughter and shaking his shoulders.
"If you keep your voice down, I'll beat you to death." Jiaojiao imitated his words in a very awkward manner.
Looking at his little appearance with red eyes pretending to be fierce but with a baby voice, and the person opposite him who was stunned by this scene, Luo Andeli finally couldn't help laughing out loud.
"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha..." Jiaojiao, who didn't know that Luo Andeli couldn't hold back his laughter, imitated his laughter and laughed loudly at the people opposite.
"…………" Luo Andeli laughed so hard that his whole body trembled and he almost fell to the ground.
No matter how unsympathetic Yin Zheng was, he could see that Luo Andeli was teasing Jiaojiao. He glanced at Luo Andeli and then hugged Jiaojiao back into his arms.
But I have to say, it feels good to be protected by the little guy.
Looking at Jiaojiao who was still angry in his arms, Yin Zheng's lips curled up slightly.
Luo Andeli, having been warned, suppressed his smile and sat upright. He glanced at the meat on the stall and waved his hand, "Well, I'll take all your exotic meat."
Luo Andeli bought the exotic meat in a big sum of money. After his men came to move the meat away, Yin Zheng stood up and walked out holding Jiaojiao.
"Where are you planning to go?" Seeing that the direction they were heading did not seem to be the way back to Yong Street, Luo Andeli asked curiously.
"Go to the outer city and buy toys." Yin Zheng said concisely.
"Is that so?" Luo Andeli waved his hand regretfully. "It's a pity that I still have some unfinished business, so I can't accompany our little Jiaojiao to buy toys."
Yin Zheng nodded coldly, turned around and left with Jiaojiao in his arms, not even giving Luo Andeli a chance to say goodbye.
Luo Andeli, who was ruthlessly abandoned, stretched himself in half on the spot, turned around and walked back listlessly, with a frown on his face and no energy at all.
As expected, I still like to stay with that child. Even if I do nothing, I feel relaxed and comfortable inside.
Well, no wonder people on the Internet say that children are a very healing existence.
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