Subsequent to this episode, Qi and Orville the Second eloped to the primitive version of what is currently Las Vegas, then returned with a thousand dollars, which Qi had earned with a lucky twist of the wrist. On their reappearance in Panhandle County, they lived in the cave of his birth, now empty due to the death of his mother Margarita from food poisoning, that poisoning having been caused by her intake of a kettle of rancid sweet and sour pronghorn. To augment their ill-got Vegas coin, they set up a mom-and-pop market catering to the illiterate crowd. Eventually Qi gave birth to a son, Orville Slack, Junior.
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