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"The small one doesn't look like it's worth much..."
"Then I'll buy a medium-sized one. The price-performance ratio of a medium-sized one is very high at first glance."
"The medium one is a bit far away... Wait, why do you expect me to help you make your money back? What about yourself?" Xiao Xiaoxiao was unhappy.
Han Zhou said calmly, "I believe you are more accurate than me."
Xiao Xiaoxiao was a little suspicious, but she didn't think much about it. Her thoughts quickly turned to how to make her money back. She looked back and forth at the prizes on the stool with a serious look, as if she was thinking about how to maximize her profits.
"It doesn't matter if you can't make back your investment." Han Zhou noticed that she was too nervous. "It's just a game, just have fun."
“I will be unhappy if I can’t get my money back.”
Xiao Xiaoxiao muttered something and finally threw the first circle, but unfortunately it was a little short of the piggy bank prize and missed it.
"What a pity, it was just a little bit short." The boss said with regret.
As a stall owner, he certainly didn't want his customers to win any prizes, but the girl in front of him was in a wheelchair and wearing a hospital gown, she looked cute and pitiful. Out of kindness, he hoped that she could get the prize she wanted.
Xiao Xiaoxiao was not discouraged and quickly threw out the second circle, but unfortunately, it still missed the target.
Different from Xiao Xiaoxiao's cautiousness, Han Zhou seemed much more casual in throwing the circles. He threw five circles in different directions in one breath. His movements were graceful, but none of them hit the target.
“You’re such a waste!”
Xiao Xiaoxiao raised her eyebrows, seeming quite dissatisfied with Han Zhou's casualness and felt that he had wasted a great opportunity to make back his investment.
Han Zhou shook his head: "Have you heard of the story of burning the boats and breaking the cauldrons?"
"Break the axe and sink the boats?" Xiao Xiaoxiao was stunned.
This is a story from Han Zhou's previous life, so Xiao Xiaoxiao naturally had never heard of it.
“It doesn’t matter if you haven’t heard of it.”
Han Zhou raised the hoop in his hand high above his head, leaned back slightly, made a throwing motion, and then suddenly threw the hoop in his hand out.
The circle drew an arc in the air and hung firmly on the ear of a big bear doll.
Xiao Xiaoxiao opened her mouth wide. According to her observation, this should be the doll with the highest value among all the prizes.
Han Zhou handed the remaining four rings to her. The expert sighed lonely and said, "I'm never afraid of not making back my money when playing this game."
He has the "powerful throwing" skill that Guzheng obtained from him. Although he is temporarily unable to display the "powerful" characteristics due to his weak physical strength, he still has some accuracy.
Of course, his accuracy can only be reflected in throwing, so he is quite confident in the ring toss game, but if it is a game like hitting balloons, he will not have much confidence.
I don’t know why, although I have never played similar games, I have an inexplicable feeling that "I am not good at shooting."
"What a stinker."
Seeing Han Zhou's smug look, Xiao Xiaoxiao immediately put away her surprised expression, so as to prevent this guy from getting too complacent.
She secretly made up her mind to get a gift that was more valuable than this guy's and put a stop to his arrogance.
At this moment, the boss came over with a big bear doll in his arms, looking distressed, and said, "Little brother, do you know a pretty girl with short hair?"
Han Zhou was stunned: "Why do you ask?"
"I used to do business on South Street. One day, a girl came here wearing the same school uniform as you. She was very accurate in throwing hoops and always won a lot of prizes. The key point is that there are three or four stalls nearby doing hoops, but she only came to mine every time. I came here because my business couldn't continue. The girl threw hoops in a similar way to you and wore the same school uniform as you, so I was wondering if you two knew each other."
The boss smiled bitterly, as if he once again remembered the fear of being dominated by the short-haired girl.
Han Zhou had a strange look on his face, wondering if the boss was talking about the guzheng.
Although Guzheng’s circle throwing is accurate, you shouldn’t keep going to other people’s stalls to take advantage of the situation, right?
He raised his eyebrows and noticed that there was a banner on the stall with the words "Ring-tossing master Zhang Weibo, a record that has not been broken for ten years" written on it.
He asked curiously: "Boss, who is this Zhang Weibo?"
The boss smiled sheepishly: "This is me. Don't look at me like this. I used to be very good at ring tossing. I was famous in my hometown. My wife said that using such a slogan can attract more living rooms, so I used it."
I finally understand why Guzheng wants to take advantage of you...
Han Zhou mourned for his boss for a few seconds and was about to persuade him to change the banner when he suddenly saw a figure in school uniform in the distance.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 390 Your hat looks pretty nice
In order to make a profit, Xiao Xiaoxiao was extremely cautious every time he threw the rings. Unfortunately, after throwing several rings in a row, the only thing he caught was a piggy bank that didn't look very valuable.
She remembered that she also had a piggy bank like this when she was a child. It was filled with many coins, and she could hear a crisp sound every time she shook it. She wanted to give the piggy bank to her parents after filling it up, but before that day came, her parents handed her over to human traffickers.
If I remember correctly, the piggy bank seemed to be placed in a cardboard box under her bed in her bedroom. So many years have passed, and I don't know whether it has been discovered, or whether it has been filled or smashed.
The sunshine in early winter was not warm. Xiao Xiaoxiao tightened her loose coat, put away her thoughts, stopped thinking about the past, and focused on how to make her money back.
Looking at the few loops on her hand, she felt a little distressed. She gritted her teeth and decided to ask Han Zhou for advice on how to improve her hit rate of looping. However, she pulled the guy's sleeve several times, but the other party still ignored her.
She looked up and noticed that Han Zhou was staring into the distance in a daze. She followed his line of sight and found that he was looking at a girl wearing a mask and a baseball cap.
The girl's hair was very long, almost covering her hips. Although most of her face was covered, it was not difficult to tell that she was very beautiful. At this moment, she was standing in front of a stall observing the chess endgame on the ground.
It is worth mentioning that this girl, like Han Zhou, was also wandering around outside in school uniform when she should have been at school, but the school uniforms they were wearing were obviously different, indicating that they were from different high schools.
"Do you know her?" Xiao Xiaoxiao asked curiously.
"I don't know him." Han Zhou shook his head.
"She knows you?"
“I don’t know him either.”
Xiao Xiaoxiao's face fell: "Then why are you still staring at me?"
"You don't understand, this girl is a little special."
"Tsk, what's so special about it? Is your hair extra long?"
Xiao Xiaoxiao rolled his eyes and said with disdain, "I told you that you are a scumbag. You can't take your eyes off a pretty girl."
"You won't understand even if I tell you." Han Zhou shook his head without further explanation.
A week ago, the day he first met Xiao Xiao Xiao, something suddenly went wrong with the status bar - for some reason, he could no longer see other people's identity information at any time.
Although this function returned to normal the next day, some "aftereffects" still occurred, that is, he still could not see Gu Zheng's identity information.
As his "support" for survival, the biggest difference between Guzheng and others is that she is an "unlockable character" certified by the status bar.
During this week, Han Zhou had been thinking about the reasons and significance of this change. Until he saw the girl wearing a mask and a baseball cap in the distance, he finally had a bold guess -
Like Guzheng, there is no identifying information on this girl's head, including her name.
To this day, Han Zhou has never seen anyone with the same situation as Guzheng, just like he has never seen any other unlockable characters in the past.
The guzheng is special.
So...will this girl, who is also so special that her information cannot be viewed, be an unlockable character like Guzheng?
He didn't know if it was an illusion, but Han Zhou always felt that this girl looked familiar, as if he had seen her before, but he couldn't remember when.
But this is not important. What is important is that this girl may become his second source of points. Han Zhou was a little excited. He no longer worried about whether he had seen the other party before. With the idea of "it is better to kill the wrong person than to let her go", he planned to go over and chat with the girl in front of the chess board.
"Xiao Xiao, you play here for a while. When you run out of hoops, you can ask the boss for more. I'll be back soon."
Xiao Xiaoxiao, who was throwing the ring, was startled when she heard this. She subconsciously clenched the ring in her hand and opened her mouth to say something, but in the end she only answered with a "OK" and continued to throw the ring without saying a word.
Han Zhou handed the big bear doll in his hand to the stall owner and said with a smile: "Boss, I'll leave this thing here for you first. Can you please help me take care of this girl?"
"okay!"
The boss patted his chest and said it was no problem.
He put the doll on the bench and saw the girl in the wheelchair lowering her head sullenly, throwing the ring in her hand around casually. He asked with a smile, "What's wrong, little girl? Are you unhappy?"
"No." Xiao Xiaoxiao replied sullenly.
"Are you worried that your brother will leave you here alone?"
"No!"
Xiao Xiaoxiao denied loudly, turned her head uncomfortably, and said dissatisfiedly, "And he is not my brother."
"What? He's not your brother!" The boss was shocked and asked with a vigilant look on his face, "Then who is he to you?"
It is not impossible that such a little girl with limited mobility could be abducted by a stranger.
"Yes Yes……"
Xiao Xiaoxiao didn't know what the relationship between her and Han Zhou was. After thinking for a long time, she still didn't know how to answer. She was a little impatient for a moment, but when she looked up, she saw her boss taking out his cell phone with a serious expression, as if he was going to call the police. She suddenly became anxious and hurriedly spoke out to stop him.
"No, don't call the police! He's my brother!"
The boss looked at her doubtfully and confirmed, "Are you sure he is really your brother?"
"Yes...sure." Xiao Xiaoxiao said reluctantly.
"I'll just say it."
The boss immediately put away his solemn expression and said with a smile, "I didn't plan to call the police. I took the phone to look at this."
He handed the phone to Xiao Xiaoxiao. On the screen was not a dialing interface, but a memo.
The memo recorded a lot of information, but it was quite brief. Some items only had two or three words. It was estimated that only the boss himself could understand it. Xiao Xiaoxiao looked puzzled, wondering why the boss showed her this.
"Sorry, sorry, you probably don't quite understand."
The boss also realized that his memo was too brief. He scratched his head awkwardly and explained, "These are the ways I wrote down to coax my daughter. She is only two years old. She either cries or makes a fuss all day long. She is also often angry and difficult to coax. Every time I coax her, I have to write down the method so that I can use it in the same situation next time."
Xiao Xiaoxiao's face drooped: "Are you saying that my temper is almost as bad as your daughter's?"
"Of course not." The boss smiled awkwardly, "But just now when your brother left, your expression was very similar to my daughter's expression when I left the house. She always seemed to think that I would abandon her and run away alone, and every time she would hold on to my legs and not let go."
Xiao Xiaoxiao clenched the remaining ring in her hand, lowered her head for a long time without answering, and asked after a while: "So you will abandon her?"
The boss's original intention was to comfort Xiao Xiaoxiao with his experience as a father. He didn't realize that he had said the wrong thing. There was an abandoned child in front of him. He smiled and said, "Of course not. Who would abandon their family? Didn't I set up the stall just for that girl?"
He said in the tone of a person who has experienced it, "I think you are deliberately trying to make your brother hate you by being bad-tempered. This is not good. Your brother should have seen through it a long time ago. If you quarrel in the future, he will definitely use this incident to laugh at your childishness."
Xiao Xiaoxiao looked a little unnatural. She wanted to deny it directly, but after hesitating for a while, she asked, "Is it... so obvious?"
The boss showed a meaningful smile on his face: "To those who care about you, all your reactions are very obvious."
He was satisfied and thought that he had done another good thing today and successfully enlightened a little girl's heart. He would definitely show off to his daughter when he returned home.