Carrying a large package on his back, Yu Hu nodded vigorously in the face of his father's questioning eyes, and said in a positive tone.
Though the expression on the old man's face was obviously more hesitant.
"They don't seem to welcome us."
Yu Hu's expression was a little bit awkward, and he approached his father and whispered.
"Maybe it's not that they don't welcome us, but...they don't understand what we are talking about."
The old man was stunned.
'They don’t understand?'
It can’t be...because that outsider in a blue coat understood him.
Yu Xiaoyu glanced at her father and elder brother, then at the wall in front of her, curiosity filled her big black eyes.
This was the first time she left Bett Street so far.
At this time, a familiar figure appeared at the gate. When she saw the face clearly, Xiaoyu's eyes suddenly lit up.
However, there were too many strangers nearby.
Hidden behind her elder brother, she only showed half of her face, looking at those people timidly and curiously.
Surrounded by a crowd of blue coats, Chu Guang arrived before the three and stopped.
Looking at the old man who was standing before the other two, before Chu Guang greeted them, the old man suddenly kneeled on the ground, bewildering everyone around him.
Chu Guang was also dumbfounded.
Yu Hu looked surprised, but before he had time to ask, his father grabbed his arm and pulled him to kneel down Chu Guang.
She didn't understand what her dad and elder brother were doing, and didn't know what she should do, so she tried to imitate the actions of her old man and her elder brother.
"What are you doing…? Get up!" Chu Guang felt very troubled, and stepped forward to lift the old man from the ground.
But the old man refused to get up. He just lowered his head, and his Adam's apple moved for a long time, before he finally said, "Thank you. You saved our family!"
He was old, he could only work for two or three more years at most. In fact, he was already struggling to work this year.
And his son Yu Xiong, as the eldest son of the Yu family, was also the strongest labor force in the Yu family, and could be said to be the pillar of the entire family.
If something happened to Yu Xiong, their family would suffer from hunger and cold.
The old man knew very well in his heart.
This outsider not only saved his son's life, but also saved his entire family.
But Chu Guang didn't think about it this much. He didn't have to calculate everything. It was easy for him to save them anyway.
"Please, get up…. You're putting me in a tough spot."
Now was not the time to be humble, he couldn't let them kneel all the time.
With that said, Chu Guang used a little strength in his hands to lift the old man from the ground.
Perhaps because of what Chu Guang said, the old man didn't continue to kneel after he got up. Instead, he reached out his hand to remove the package from his second son's back.
It was a package with deerskin and some animal fur on it which looked heavy.
The old man held it in his hands, handed it to Chu Guang's hand, and said sincerely,
"You are the benefactor of our Yu family, and we can't let you waste precious medicine in vain."
"We have nothing else to give you. These furs are peeled off from mutant hyenas and reindeer. There are seven pieces in total... Except for the tribute left to the town mayor, this is all our property."
"I know these things are not enough to repay your kindness, but if we do nothing, we will feel uneasy."
"Please, accept them!"
If he really accepted all the wealth of a poor person, he would feel uneasy too.
Chu Guang didn't know whether to laugh or cry for a while. He couldn’t accept them, nor could he decline them.
But at this moment, Chu Guang's heart suddenly moved, thinking that even if the old man took these furs back, they would sell them to the old leeches on Bett Street, and then they would be ripped off, unable to exchange for many things.
He remembered clearly that there was a sign hanging in front of the old Charlie's grocery store, saying that a mutant hyena skin could be exchanged for two chips, and a reindeer skin could be exchanged for four chips.
Among the seven skins, four were from mutant hyenas and three were from mutant reindeer. At the price of Bett Street, this old man could only get twenty chips at most.
This kind of unequal transaction was already exploitative, not to mention that these twenty-point chips could hardly be exchanged for anything good on Bett Street.
For example, if they wanted to buy green wheat on Bett Street with chips, they needed three chips for a kilogram. The price itself was almost three times that of Brown Farm!
It was equivalent to ten animal skins that could keep out the cold, because of the unfair deal, they could only exchange less than ten kilograms of grain.
And this was still before the price of food increased.
'Is this reasonable?'
'It is very unreasonable!'
Of course, these survivors often used the chips to exchange salt or other daily necessities. Direct purchase of grains was still relatively rare. After all, they would plant some shofar potatoes themselves, they would also dig roots, catch mice and hunt animals for food.
But in any case, what the old leech was doing was too much.
Chu Guang had long disliked him!
So Chu Guang decisively reached out and took all these furs, handed them to the player closest to him, and said,
"Send them to the warehouse and bring in one kg of coarse salt. I will pay you five copper coins."
Although five copper coins was quite a lot for such a small mission, it was not as interesting as watching the cut scene.
The player looked reluctant.
Although he couldn't understand anything they said, it was not like he had never watched an anime without subtitles before.
But the administrator had already stuffed things into his hands, and he didn't give him a chance to refuse.
Seeing that he didn't move, and the cut scene couldn’t continue, even if the player was doubtful, he could only run into the base.
It didn’t take much time for the player to quickly run back carrying a black plastic bag.
Chu Guang took the coarse salt from his hand and stuffed it into the old man's hand.
"I have accepted the fur. The coarse salt is almost one kilogram, so you can treat it as a gift!"
The old man was taken aback and saw the salt in the bag. He immediately became anxious, and quickly pushed the bag of coarse salt back, refusing to accept it.
"I couldn’t possibly accept it!"
"You are the benefactor of our Yu family, how can I accept your gift!"
'One kilogram of coarse salt!'
On Bett Street, a hundred grams of coarse salt would cost two chips, and one kilogram was twenty chips. Not to mention that they would always cheat when they weigh salt, and they would increase the price when it was of good quality.
Although the bag of salt that Chu Guang brought was also coarse salt, the quality was much better than the one sold in the grocery store under the name of the old town mayor.
At least it looked better, and its color wasn’t so yellow.
Pushing the plastic bag back without any explanation, Chu Guang smiled as he looked at the old man.
"Next time if there is this kind of fur, you can bring them to me."
"One hyena skin can be exchanged for one hundred and fifty grams, and deer skin can be exchanged for three hundred grams."
"We will take as much as you have!"