In fact, Zhangxian County is not a poor place, and it is rich here with the surrounding coal resources.

The only areas that are rich are minerals and county towns that have major transportation routes.

What does not appear to be poor is only the number of people per capita.

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"Gollum ......"

Wake up in the middle of the night, and play the lonely music with an empty stomach.

Tossing.

The boy curled up his tiny body, letting the noisy guy in his belly extinguish the fire for a while.

There is only one bowl of porridge to drink at night, and although there are not a few rice grains in the bowl tonight, it is obviously unrealistic to survive a long winter night with just one bowl of porridge.

The energy that the bowl of porridge could provide was exhausted, and the body still needed a lot of heat to maintain a relatively comfortable illusion by covering the quilt on the winter night, which was not too thick and not too thick—even if the quilt was covered with the coats worn during the day and left by the predecessors of more than one year and month.

"Hey~Black Boy~ Awake?"

The boy's room was a converted old-fashioned student dormitory, and all the utensils were used, especially the bunk bed he used to live in at this time.

The boy slept on the top bunk, and the voice calling for the boy came from the lower bunk.

"Hmm. ”

The boy curled up in the bed answered softly, and they all deliberately kept their voices down in the darkness.

"Hungry?"

The brother in the lower bunk is really caring, and he gets to the point in one sentence.

"It's fine. ”

The boy on the top bunk replied that the hunger was not so strong tonight, and that he knew from his watch that there wasn't much time left for the night.

The watch is also a legacy of a certain senior, and when it was handed over to the boy, it was no longer fully functional, and it was all up to the boy to repair it himself.

He was actually quite talented mechanically, his old broken watch was repaired and it was already working properly, and he even put some phosphor on the dial so that he could read the time on the watch at night.

It's 3:05, according to the boy's rough reading.

Breakfast at half-past six was only a little more than three hours away, and the thought of such a thing made the boy feel that the rest of the night was not so difficult.

Hunched over and squeezing his stomach, the boy known as the black boy feels that he has the capital to sleep again.

"I've got half a loaf of bread here -- the one that came down from the table, and I've already eaten the other half, Boy, and I'll give you that half-bread. ”

The brother on the lower bunk got up from the bed and placed a piece of bread on the side of the black boy's pillow.

"What are you doing here?!"

By the light of the emergency light at the door, the black boy saw this clearly, and he stood up and asked.

"Ha, thanks to the care, I'm probably going to leave tomorrow, I'm much older than you, and now that the orphanage has become like this, people of my age should go out and fend for themselves. The brother on the lower bunk is not tall, he should still be a child who has not yet grown up, but his tone is embarrassed, and he sounds like an adult.

"Brother Ming...... ...... you!?"

Blackboy clearly knew something, and he sat up from the bed at once.

Looking for the eyes of the lower bunk brothers in the dark, Blackboy almost couldn't druffle his voice.

"Brother Ming, are you sure you want to go there to do something...... it's not a good place. ”

Blackboy tried to keep his brother, but the other party's eyes didn't allow him to come up with any didactic words.

"Ha, I've already gone through a complete primary school education, to be honest, I've even dabbled in some junior high school stuff, don't worry, I won't be deceived. Maybe I'll come back to see you after I get my salary~" Brother Ming said in a low voice, he grabbed the edge of the top bunk, "By the way, don't tell others about this, I don't want them to know for the time being." ”

"Okay......" Brother Ming's tone and eyes made it impossible for the black boy to refuse.

The fact that the orphanage is almost out of food has long been known to Black Boy.

Because in the past, when he was awakened from hunger, he would take Brother Ming and other friends to the kitchen to steal food, but now, he has completely given up that idea.

At this moment, the orphanage kitchen probably won't even have a single mouse.

He didn't know how to keep his friends, just like he didn't know how to fill the rice jar in the orphanage, and many times he would think: If we had stolen food a few times before, would there be more rice in the rice jar now?

Never before has the feeling of remorse been so strong as it was tonight.

Lying down, without touching his friend's parting gift, Blackboy felt an indescribable taste in his heart - like acid water in his stomach poured into his heart.

"If the rice jar is filled, Brother Ming will be left behind. ”

A small thought grew in Blackboy's mind.

Just how can a child like him fill the huge rice jar in the orphanage kitchen?

The night is not over yet, and Black Box still has a lot of time to think about it.

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The train never stopped, and its destination was about a port.

When the coal train is connected to the coal ship, how many doorways can be used in the troublesome shipping procedures to make a coal that should be extremely cheap increase in value all the way to the point that it can support countless coal bosses?

Mo Xie didn't know about this problem, but it didn't prevent him from taking some coal from the car to find warmth on this cold night.

The appetite for the sword qi entrenched in his dantian was really big, and Mo Ye's speed of relying on his own heating to transform his fighting qi could no longer keep up with the devouring speed of the sword qi. This sword qi had already begun to directly reach out to the heat in Mo Ye's body, as if he wanted to skip the 'intermediate process'.

If this continues, the sword qi that has just 'opened the meat' is very likely to eat Mo Ye, the host, all the way, to the point that there is not even any scum left.

So Mo Xie took out an enamel basin from the necklace space (extremely commemorative, don't ask me what memorial value is, there is a pit here. Lighting a fire, Mo Ye directly stretched his right hand into the charcoal fire.

"Energy storage channel, open!"

Carrying the collateral abilities he gained when he strengthened his dragon bloodline, Mo Xie linked the five 'energy storage pipes' together to form a spacious wire that directly connected his right arm to his right arm.

The heat generated by the charcoal fire is constantly transmitted to the dantian through the 'energy storage pipeline', and then it is swallowed by the sword qi.

After strengthening his own bloodline to the intermediate level, Mo Xie's 'energy storage pipe' has the ability to collect and release energy to the outside world, and the loss of energy in the process of collecting and releasing energy is extremely low.

This ability is extremely useful, at least in the future, when the sword qi in his body is 'hungry and thirsty', Mo Ye has a special feeding method.

It's just that if you let people who know that Mo Ye put the 'energy storage pipe' in the charcoal fire to "barbecue", he will definitely jump out and give him a 'heavenly thunder curse'.

"Sao Nian, you have a lot of ideas, here is a set of tricks for killing flies with nuclear bombs, take it and learn it. ”

Those who know how to do it are not on the side for the time being, but there is a copy of the "Holy Scriptures" that know how to do it

(l~1`x*>+``+