Chapter 205: Stop fighting (Fat)
After discussing with Lu Wenyuan for a while, Tan Xin left the Reiki Research Institute.
She had originally planned to take advantage of her rare day off to experience this alien world, but she suddenly received a message from her own mentor, asking her to find some time to persuade Professor Xiao Wang, who had been online all day and all night. If she couldn't persuade him, someone would be sent to unplug the Internet cable.
Now that the task has been successfully completed, Tan Xin is in a good mood and walks briskly on the road.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I turned the corner, I heard a heated argument.
"Why don't you let my ox cart pass? This is my own ox! You, you, you - how can this be reasonable! Do you know who my son is? My son is a disciple of the Taiyin Sect!"
The person who said this seemed to be an elderly lady, her voice was as loud as a bell and full of energy, and the smugness and pride in her tone could not be concealed.
The other person spoke in a strange tone of Central Continental dialect, not sounding like a native NPC near the Taiyin Sect: "I don't care who your son is, bullock carts are not allowed to pass this road! This is the rule! Even if the city lord comes, I will still say so! And who are you trying to fool, old woman? Everyone knows that the disciples of the Taiyin Sect are from the Blue Star Realm! How can you say parents!"
The old lady didn't understand what 'Blue Star Realm' meant, and thought that the other person was cursing her. She immediately got angry and said, "What Blue Star Realm, Red Star Realm! How dare you curse me? I'll let my son beat you to death!"
Seeing that he really couldn't make sense, the other person also got angry and snorted, "Hmph, don't talk about what you are, an old woman's son who pretends to be someone else. Even if you are a monk, you will be killed in Chang'an City! Where did you come from, a country old woman? How come you don't know anything?"
"Where did you come from, you country bumpkin? You can't even speak Central Continental dialect properly! What are you trying to do with your pig's nose sticking onions?"
Tan Xin, who rarely heard such arguments, was curious and walked over to see the noise, hoping to get a closer look. However, as soon as she saw the two people arguing, the old lady in the middle of the quarrel waved and called out, "That fairy! Take care of it! Where did you invite this slave from? Why won't you let my own cows walk? Isn't this road meant for people to walk on? What's her excuse!"
Tan Xin looked at the other person awkwardly, feeling quite at a loss as to what to do.
The other person was also an elderly woman, who looked much younger than the old lady, but had a head full of silver hair. She explained, "I'm from the health department of the Urban Management Bureau. I happened to be checking here and saw that she insisted on driving the ox cart on the cement road. Animal-powered carts are prohibited from driving on cement roads throughout Chang'an City. I'm not targeting her!"
The old lady looked incredulous: "What a joke! If the roads are not moving, why are the cars moving?!"
The woman rolled her eyes. "It's not that we don't use carts, it's that we can't use animal-drawn carts, that is, carts pulled by livestock! You don't know anything and I don't know how you stayed in Chang'an City!"
The old lady was so angry that her face turned red. She yelled, "What do you care how I live! If this cart doesn't need animals to pull it, what can it use? Are you going to pull it? Pull one for me to see! You are really looking for trouble!"
"Hey, both of you calm down, calm down,"
Tan Xin understood the general idea and explained to the old lady in a gentle voice: "Well, there may be regulations that prohibit livestock from walking on cement roads, but there is no problem with dirt roads like takeaway roads... By the way, why did you drive the ox cart here?"
Tan Xin's words no longer had that tone of contempt, so the old lady was too embarrassed to get angry with her, and just replied: "We are just about to move here! My son is still behind us, and I thought it would be better to hurry up and get a car to move the things first, but I didn't know that Chang'an City is so weird! Cars are not allowed to pass on the road! How can we complain?"
At this point, she glanced at the woman opposite her and started to complain to Tan Xin: "I've never heard of anyone so unreasonable! If cars are not allowed on the road, does that mean people can't sleep in the beds or warm food on the stove?"
"Yes, yes, this is what the authorities in Chang'an City didn't make clear. That's not what they meant. You see, Chang'an City is clean, isn't it because there are no livestock or anything like that that produces excrement? Otherwise, it would stink so badly, how could it be so clean, right?"
Tan Xin said tactfully: "The car can definitely move, but the cow can't, that's what they mean!"
The old lady curled her lips in dissatisfaction: "What a joke! If there is no manure on the road, what can it still be called a road? If not a cow, what can pull the cart?"
"Uh... this..."
Tan Xin was completely helpless, feeling a bit like a scholar meeting a soldier, unable to explain himself even when he had a point.
The woman at the side immediately sneered, "Do you think anyone can come into Chang'an? You have no idea what you are talking about! If you don't know anything, just go back to where you came from and avoid making a fool of yourself here!"
These words stirred up a hornet's nest. The old lady was so angry that she was panting. Before she could say anything, the woman added, "What about your son? How could your son let your son come? How dare you brag! The immortals of Taiyin Sect are all blue star immortals without fathers or mothers! How dare your son, a pauper and a scoundrel, be qualified?"
"Why!"
When Tan Xin heard this, she immediately thought to herself that it was bad.
As expected, she only shouted once, and before she could stop him, she saw the old lady rushing towards the woman in a rage, pulling her hair and beating her, while shouting, "You are a rotten piece of wood! You are a dead person who doesn't do good deeds with your mouth! I will tear your mouth apart! I will teach you to talk nonsense and bury your conscience!"
The silver-haired woman was not to be outdone. She grabbed the old lady's headscarf with her backhand and pulled it hard. Then she scratched her face, cursing: "You old witch! You gave birth to a turtle for nothing! The old bastard gave birth to a little bastard! Your whole family of turtles is drowned in the cesspool!"
It was the first time that Tan Xin had seen such a quarrel between country women. She was stunned for a moment, but when she realized what was happening, she became extremely anxious. She wanted to go up and push the two people apart, but she didn't know how to intervene. She could only stamp her feet and shout, "Hey! Hey! What's going on? Aunts, stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!"
This happened to be heard by another player passing by, who laughed so hard that his stomach hurt.
This place can be regarded as the most remote corner of the entire Chang'an City. It is almost diagonally opposite to the teleportation array. Even the natives rarely come here. There are only a few scattered farming players and native NPCs living nearby. The only advantage is that there is an uncultivated wasteland to the north, and there is a small stream nearby. There is no need to worry about irrigation problems, and it is very suitable for reclaiming wasteland and farming.
This passing player is a well-known farmer, his ID is [Don’t say I’m a loser], and his real surname is Cai, Cai Tan.
Cai Tan opened up several acres of land by himself, and planted all kinds of things. He turned his "farmland" into a "botanical garden". Sometimes when research institutes want to find seeds, they will ask him first if he has any seedlings!
At this time, Cai Tan was preparing to go home and log off, when he suddenly heard the famous "Stop fighting!" on the road. He was so happy that he hurriedly detoured to watch the fun.
Cai Tan was shocked when he saw Tan Xin, a player with the same ID, and two NPCs fighting each other. He asked in surprise, "Oh my! What's going on? Why are the NPCs fighting each other?"
Tan Xin had no experience in dealing with this kind of thing. When she saw Cai Tan, she felt like she had seen a savior. She was so anxious that her eyes turned red: "What, what should I do?"
Cai Tan, however, looked like he was just enjoying the fun and said nonchalantly, "Don't worry about it! Why bother? Let them fight. It has nothing to do with us! This is the first time I've seen NPCs fight! It's exciting!"
"No, you can't fight like this! How can we stop them?"
Tan Xin became even more anxious. Others thought it was a game, but she knew it was real people! If something bad happened because of this little thing, and she just watched from the sidelines, she would feel guilty!
Seeing how anxious Tan Xin was, Cai Tan was too embarrassed to show his gloating expression. He tried to close his mouth that was about to split behind his ears, coughed twice, and suggested: "Call someone! Call Sheriff Mimi! We are not the police!"
"Oh yes, yes!"
Tan Xin was confused by the situation and suddenly realized what was going on. He quickly called up the system panel, found the option to call the police in the city services at the bottom, and submitted the location and description.
"Don't be so anxious! We've already called the police, we can just let the NPC handle it later!"
Seeing that Tan Xin had called the police and was still as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, Cai Tan didn't quite understand, but he kindly pulled her aside and gave her some advice. Then he asked, "Hey, hey, hey, how did they start fighting? Can you tell me more about it?"
Tan Xin was finally calmed down by Cai Tan's attitude. She thought that this matter really had nothing to do with her. This was a world of cultivating immortals, so minor bumps and bruises were not considered injuries. So she told Cai Tan the whole story.
After hearing this, Cai Tan slapped his thigh and said, "I said this rule is inhumane! You see, the common people have to rely on animal-powered carts to pull things, and you don't allow cars to go on the cement road, which forces everyone to rely on manpower! I don't know what god-like Happy came up with this idea! Oh, we players have Qiankun bags, which are not available on the stage. It's convenient, but what about the NPCs!?
"Let's not talk about anything else. Take my next-door neighbor, who still has to push a wheelbarrow every day when he goes to the fields. He's so tired! Tsk tsk tsk! I don't even want to say a word!
"You said this is already in the game, why are you doing this kind of empty formalism and face-saving project! Once the data is refreshed, the dirt on the cement road will be wiped out! At the very least, it won't stop the cows and horses from shitting!"
Tan Xin thought what Cai Tan said made sense at first and nodded frequently, but later he kept talking about something more and more outrageous and she couldn't help but twitch her lips.
How could he come up with the idea of asking cows and horses to stop shitting!
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