Wu Wenfan got up very early in the morning, and when he arrived at the beach, there were already many people already on the beach, and there were a lot of things to eat on the beach after the low tide every day. In fact, although there have been no major disasters in Annan in recent years, except for typhoons, they have always been unable to eat, and they can only pick wild fruits from the sea or from the mountains except for planting some rice in the fields. Annan is also a plague-ridden place, people who are often close to the forest on weekdays often have a high fever when they come back, and there are no doctors in this small seaside village, and it is already a high-tech medical treatment to be able to find a god or something, so the common people do not dare to go to the woods to pick wild fruits even if they are hungry on weekdays, so the only place they have left to replenish food is this large beach that can catch the sea.

There were not many people in his village, and at the beginning of the year there were still 30 households, about 100 people, but in the middle of the year, there was a typhoon, and most of the crops in the fields were destroyed, and some of the houses in the village were blown down. There were too many sick people to dispose of the corpses, and as a result, the plague broke out in the village, and many people died. Wu Wenfan felt that he was very lucky, after such a toss, forty or fifty people died in the village, and he was able to survive until the end of the year, and he didn't even get sick.

He carried a small basket made of twigs containing some fish and shellfish he had just picked up from the beach, and he was lucky enough to find a puddle on a rock, which contained several fish the size of a palm. It seems that there is no big problem in wanting to eat well today.

The sun was slowly rising, and seabirds were flying nearby, several of them hovering around him for a while, and one seagull even skimmed over his side and tried to snatch the small fish in his back basket, but without success. Wu Wenfan had to hurriedly hold the basket in his arms, endure the smell of the sea, and step up his pace to run to his small house, which was dilapidated but still able to shelter from the wind and rain.

In the house is his wife Ruan Thi Fang, both of them are ancestors of the Wu Dynasty Guangxi, during the Jiajing period, the Japanese invaded the sea border repeatedly, their ancestors were repeatedly plundered and fled to the country of Annam, and caught up with several rebellions and coups in Annam, so they had to continue to flee south, along the river eastward, they passed through Haiphong, the first intended landing site of the traverser, and finally came to a small fishing village to settle down.

At this time, Yuan Zhenli and Xue Ziliang were arguing on the plane over which direction to fly.

"We only need to keep the 270 course and fly westward, and when we see the floating water island and then turn to the 300 course, we can reach Haiphong more than 100 kilometers, which is the Red River Delta, which is easy to observe."

But Xue Ziliang expressed resolute opposition. "You can't expect to see Bailongwei Island, more than 30,000 square kilometers of Hainan Island are gone, can you expect this small island of more than two square kilometers to still wait for you there?"

"What White Dragon Tail Island? Is it good to have Fushuizhou Island? Bailongwei Island is the name of the monkeys in Annam. ”

"I don't think it's appropriate for you to ridicule the Vietnamese like this, they have a lot of combat experience and a strong will to fight, they are respectable opponents, if you call them monkeys, what should they call you?"

"Fart's combat experience, whether it is anti-French or anti-American, without China is a dead end, right? At that time, if it were not for the fact that the U.S. military could not have crossed the 17th parallel to fight, Vietnam might have been the backyard of the United States long ago. China has supported Vietnam for decades, paid money, guns, and people to direct them to fight, and even sent troops to help them fight, but in the end, it still fought with China. What is there to be called such an ungrateful monkey? ”

"Okay, let's not talk about the name of the Vietnamese, if we can't find Bailongwei Island, we have been maintaining a 270 course, where will we fly?"

"Uh......" Yuan Zhenli stammered and opened a map of Vietnam in the map bag, which was printed out through Google Earth, but the problem was that it was all those bird texts in Vietnam, and I didn't know any of them.

"You see, if we continue to fly in the direction of 270, it will be a good port, but according to the pictures taken on this satellite map, this is called ......" Xue Ziliang took the map and looked at it carefully, "namthinh...... How do you read this? Didn't you translate the map? ”

"Vietnamese...... Nobody understands. "Yuan Zhenli was a little depressed, the plane continued to fly in the direction of 270, and it was estimated that it should fly out for 1780 kilometers." What happened to that port? ”

"I don't think it will be possible to berth a 10,000-ton ship. I remember that your hull is narrow, and the draft should be more than 10 meters. ”

"12 meters." Yuan Zhenli scratched his ears and cheeks a little.

"Yes, you see that the sandbar in this map doesn't feel deep, according to the photos on the map, it won't be more than 6 meters, if you drive in, it will definitely run aground. In addition, there is no mountain on the side of the sea, and if it is just a sandbar, it cannot be used as a safe haven, so it is not suitable for use as a base. ”

The two were arguing, and the sharp-eyed Yuan Zhenli suddenly pointed to the distance ahead, "Look, there are birds!" ”

Xue Ziliang looked up and saw that there were indeed birds flying in the distance, and there were three or four, and some of them had even begun to wonder what this plane was, and were flying towards the plane with eager energy.

"Brother Xue! Hurry up and disperse it, we can't collide with them here......" Before the words fell, the gun in Yuan Zhenli's holster had already been taken away by Xue Ziliang.

With the three shots of "pop papa", the frightened seagull hurriedly flew towards the west.

"Keep up! Frightened birds and beasts can easily fly to their nests. Seagulls are not good birds that fly long distances. Xue Ziliang took out the magazine and checked the remaining empty cartridges, loaded the magazine back, and then stuffed it into Yuan Zhenli's holster.

Wu Wenfan cooks his meal on a stove made of a few stones in front of his small house. The entrails of several fish were being tossed aside, their scales peeled to the ground, and his wife was sweeping them off the floor by the stove with a broom tied with leaves.

"Xianggong, I'm afraid we won't be able to live like this for long." Ruan Thi Phuong whispered as she lowered her head and swept the things on the ground. This voice is probably only heard by Wu Wenfan.

"Huh?" Wu Wenfan was a little surprised, he knew that what his wife said would not last long, and there must be worse things to come. Because in the past few years, yesterday has always been a little easier than today, and today is always a little more comfortable than tomorrow. It's as if your life is slipping into hell. "What's wrong?"

"The concubine body seems to have a ......," Ruan Thi Phuong whispered. At the same time, a breeze blew, blowing the stench from the garbage heap they had been piling up for a long time, and she quickly covered her mouth and ran to the other side to retch.

Wu Wenfan suddenly felt like a bolt from the blue, they had three children, the first child was born, and he died of illness without even drinking a few sips of milk; The second child was finally raised to the age of two, but one day the couple went to work in the field and were picked up by a group of monkeys running out of the woods. The third child was a daughter, who went to the mountains to pick mushrooms one day when she was six years old, and after coming back and eating them together, she vomited and vomited and vomited, and finally died in August.

"When did you find out?" Wu Wenfan asked while stroking his wife's back.

Ruan Thi Phuong retched for a while and couldn't spit out anything, except that water was water. After relieving his breath for a while, he replied, "Yesterday I suddenly felt very easy to vomit, so I feel that it may be there." ”

In ancient times, there was no early pregnancy test strip, whether there was a pregnancy or it was to rely on Lang Zhong's pulse measurement, or you could only wait until you were pregnant to know, Ruan Thi Fang had several pregnancy experiences, but she had experience in whether she was pregnant.

"Alas...... How did this hard-working child catch up with this famine? Nguyen Thi Phuong said gloomily.

Wu Wenfan couldn't help but sit on the sidelines and look around at the small fishing village around here. This small fishing village is not large, that is, about 30 households, but after the miasma in the middle of the year, many people died, although there is still some food, but it must be saved for next year's sowing, and there is not much ration left this year. What you can harvest from rushing to the sea every day is enough to eat for a day, and if the weather is bad, I'm afraid you won't be able to pick up anything. There used to be a few small boats in the village, but at the beginning of this year, the imperial court came and said that they wanted to create a naval army, and they were all requisitioned and left, and now even if you want to fish, there are no boats available.

He sat aside and thought for a while, recalling the legend of his own people that eating crabs could slip tires, and turned over in the back basket. There were a few small crabs in the basket, waving large clips at him. He stared blankly at the crabs, and after a while, he made up his mind and threw a few crabs aside.

There are three unfilial pieties, no queen is the greatest, he Wu Wen Fan ancestor is also a rich family, the family is unbearable and fled to Annan after experiencing several plagues, a large family is left with him alone, Ruan Thi Fang's family is similar, they have always wanted to have a child to continue the incense, even in this famine year, since the child is here, let him be born, whether he can grow up, can only depend on his luck. Thinking of this, Wu Wenfan couldn't help but caress his wife's head a few times warmly, and said, "No matter how much, when the child comes, we will give birth to him." Ruan Thi Phuong also showed a rare smile and nodded at Wu Wenfan, and at this moment, another breeze blew, carrying some burnt smell. Wu Wenfan saw the direction of the wind, quickly jumped up, and exclaimed: "It's broken, it's broken!" The fish porridge was burned. ”