Linhai City, the towering city wall on the side near the coast has been polished extremely smooth by the sea breeze all year round. Looking from a distance, it looks like a sleeping black giant, silently looking down into the sea.
Outside the city wall, there is a cluster of low bungalows. There are even some shacks that cannot be called houses, scattered together, tightly attached to Linhai City.
The weather is bad today and the sea is windy. The people who drove the sea came back and said that there was a huge storm in the depths of the sea.
Wang Wu moved the dried fish in the yard into his house early. This kind of weather is the most prone to rain. Although if it rains heavily outside, the "house" he lives in will inevitably be baptized by rain. But he knew that the rain on the beach came and went quickly.
As long as you are quick with your hands and feet and are not unlucky enough to encounter too strong a rainstorm, most of the harvest can still be saved.
Wait until he collected all the dried fish and piled them in a corner of the room where they were not easily affected by moisture. For a while, the whole room was filled with the fishy smell that is unique to the salt and light during the salting process.
However, Wang Wu, who has lived by the sea all year round, is really used to this smell.
So much so that no one who walks on the streets of Linhai City does not have such a faint smell of the sea. For locals like Wang Wu who were born and raised here, they can be recognized from afar just by their noses. Distinguish it.
He hurriedly and slowly finished cleaning up the dried fish in the yard, then picked up a wooden spoon and put the dinner that had been reheated in the pot with a slight rice aroma and mixed with fish meat into the bowl. .
People on the beach often only cook one meal a day. After finishing the meal in the morning, have a full meal. When you come back in the evening, reheat the remaining half.
Generally speaking, at this time, the busy day can basically be considered to have come to an end.
Unlike in the city, you can light oil lamps outside the city. So everyone goes to bed early after eating dinner in order to accumulate energy for work the next day.
Outside the city is not like inside the city. The wealthy and well-established men in the city eat three meals a day, with a variety of vegetables to go with their meals.
While eating the rice, which was not that delicious and could only fill his stomach, Wang Wu, holding the bowl, couldn't help but think about it. Although I have never eaten three meals a day, or even eaten vegetables, at least I still lived in the city before.
There is very little land in Linhai City. It is either black rock as hard as black iron, or it is all fine sand. So the little land around us has been used to grow food. I heard that this is not enough.
It is necessary to rely on the constant flow of caravans carrying large trucks to transport the grain that makes the wheels of the ground wheels creak. Then the caravan filled the vacated cart with various kinds of dried fish collected and dried by each household and transported them back.
Therefore, those who can eat the vegetables grown on very little land are the most powerful and noble people in the city.
However, for ordinary people, they do not have their own delicacies. One of the sandy radish is a specialty of the seaside people. That kind of radish is only suitable for planting in sandy soil. I used to like this delicacy very much.
You must know that by steaming the crisp radish and the fat fish with the rice together, the unique fragrance of the radish and the fat of the fish can be infiltrated into the rice. Even the adults who came from afar were amazed when they ate it.
It's a pity that I can't eat it now, Wang Wuba thought with a sigh. The saliva that surged out from the thought of radish made the rice stuffed in his mouth slide more smoothly into his gullet.
At that time, I was still living in the city, and my father was a steward. Therefore, my father's favorite reward for himself was that if he performed well in school in the city, his mother would cook him a meal of radish.
Of course, it took a lot of effort for my father to get himself into school. After all, people in the school are more likely to be selected by the city lord's mansion to participate in the training of immortal masters.
Therefore, in addition to money, schools sometimes require connections to get in. This is also a way for the not-so-rich families in Linhai City to get ahead.
Wang Wu sighed and took a few more mouthfuls of rice. I was still young at the time, and although I was a little confused about the name Immortal Master, I still didn't fully understand the meaning.
Therefore, although I was not the worst when I was in school, I was definitely not the best.
Especially in order to play with those in the school who have richer families, he would always save the breakfast money his father gave him so that he could keep up with those classmates and play all kinds of novel things.
Now that I think about it, it's not like I don't have a chance. Maybe if you work harder based on your talent, you might be able to be selected in the final selection.
It's just that he didn't eat well at the age when he should have grown tallest, so he has always been thin and small. So when it came to the final level, it was still just a little short of meeting the minimum standard for selection.
Of course, even this is not the worst situation. After all, as long as their father is around, their family can still live peacefully in Linhai City.
But at this moment, a huge tide of beasts attacked Linhai City. My father immediately lost his job because of the decline of business in the city due to the impact of this beast wave.
In addition, my mother also suffered a double blow from her father losing her job because of this incident, and she fell ill out of anger.
My father spent all his savings but failed to cure my mother's illness. In the end, he had no choice but to mortgage his house in the city and asked for two bottles of elixir from the immortal master.
But even so, my mother's life was only saved for three more months. Because my father could not bear such a blow, he was exhausted mentally and physically and struggled for several more years before finally letting go.
Every time he thought about this, Wang Wu was thinking, what would his fate be like if he had worked harder and been selected by the city lord's palace?
At least I have a salary to get, so I don't have to let my father support me so hard alone.
At least with an identity, you can keep your house in the city. It’s not like he was eventually driven out of the city and ended up living in this unprotected shack where he could die if a slightly smaller beast wave attacked.
I don’t have to work from dawn to dusk fishing, and in the end I can’t even save enough money to marry a wife.
Wang Wu thought so, completely unaware that the night outside seemed to be getting darker.
Women's exclamations came from several shacks in the distance, and Wang Wu calmly leaned over the rice in his bowl. There must have been a woman from another family complaining about being beaten by her husband, or a few half-grown boys who were caught peeking at the woman taking a shower.
In a place like this where every poor household may not have the money to buy rice tomorrow, the complexity and tension of interpersonal relationships is even higher than in the city, so much so that I have long developed the habit of taking care of things as little as possible. .
After Wang Wu finished eating, he walked to the stove and was about to wash the dishes. He saw a dark shadow standing outside the fence of his house, staring at him through the half-open door.
"who?"
Wang Wu became nervous. The black shadow outside the house was blurry and unclear under the moonlight without any light.
The exclamations in the distance turned into louder cries. After seeing that the black shadow still didn't make any sound after he shouted and asked, Wang Wu slowly squatted down.
The moves he had learned in school seemed to be awakening in his body. He reached out and touched the stove on the side, and grabbed the thickest piece of wood that was still half-burned from the stove. stick.
"thump!"
In the dark shadow, a corpse fell on its back.
The body was crumpled like the dried fish in the house.
The corpse's teeth were very black and all the teeth were turned out. The mouth was opened wide, as if trying to breathe desperately. His eyes were so wide that even the whites of his eyes bulged out.
Isn't this Uncle Wu from Dongtouwu? As soon as Wang Wu had such an idea, the black shadow quickly rushed towards him in a straight line.
The black figure ignored the stick he swung with a spark on it and pounced straight into Wang Wu's body.
"it hurts!"
This was Wang Wu's last thought in the human world.
