The blue, warm waters undulated, washed onto the shore and then quickly receded.

Another wave crashed onto the beach, like a gentle kiss on the lips, leaving a moist color, and then quickly receding.

This tremendous force, which has nourished countless lives, has brought many animal carcasses from the ocean, shells, conchs, fish and shrimp carcasses and some rare turtle shells.

A pair of dark-skinned feet stepped over it, and then a hand reached down and picked up a white shell the size of half a head.

It was a young boy with curly black hair, blown by the sea breeze, like a long seaweed at the bottom of the sea, the boy was about fifteen or sixteen years old, and his face was the usual one of a fisherman by the sea, except for a pair of dark eyes that sparkled in them.

He wiped the white shell off his clothes, then lifted it up and looked at the sun.

The white shells reflect the sun's rays and glow with a little fluorescence.

A smile tugged at the corner of the boy's mouth, and he carefully slammed the shell into the bag he was carrying diagonally.

It was at this moment that several smock fishing boats appeared on the distant sea, like a few leaves, gradually approaching him in the calm sea.

The boy put his hand on his forehead a pergola, looked at it a little, and hurried back.

Many of the teenagers on the boat were his own age, and they bullied him a lot in the village.

"Shrimp balls!"

Who knew that the other party's eyes were sharp, and Lao Yuan shouted.

The boy looked at them with disgust, feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart.

"Shrimp balls, why don't you follow your father to feed the sea cucumbers, what are you still messing around here?"

"You're the shrimp ball! Lao Tzu is called Li Shangyu, remember, Li Shangyu! ”

Shangyu's father gave him this name because he hoped that his son would no longer be a shrimp farmer, but at least be able to successfully climb that level, and it would be good to become the youngest betta farmer.

Since he was a child, he didn't fit in well with these children of the same age, and one of the most important reasons was probably because he was different.

Li Shangyu did not have any interest in fishing and raising sea cucumbers, but had a soft spot for sword casting, and every day he studied what kind of materials had what kind of use, such as these shellfish, including stones in the sea, he wanted to make them into his own swords.

Knowing his dream of becoming a swordsmith, his peers in the village, including some elders, laughed at him.

Li Shangyu, a shrimp man, actually wants to become a swordsmith, which is ridiculous.

To some extent, it is not without precedents for civilian swordsmiths, but most of the swordsmiths have certain requirements for the economy, and it costs a lot of money to compare the tools of sword casting, as well as sword-casting materials, which are accumulated and not something that they can afford.

Therefore, if a commoner wants to become a swordsmith, he must first worship under the swordsmith and become a free apprentice for ten or even twenty years, and the other party must be willing to accept you.

During this time, all the value created by the apprentice belongs to the master, and not only that, but there may also be additional payment to the master for living expenses.

Unless they are particularly highly qualified or have a particularly good luck and are very suitable for the swordsmith's eyes, under normal circumstances, the swordsmith will not choose these lower-level shrimp people as apprentices.

For these reasons, the villagers didn't believe that Li Shangyu could really become a swordsmith at all, and the elders also thought that Li Shangyu was wasting time by doing all these things now, and many children of the same age as him were now able to take charge of their own affairs, and their fishing skills were honed very well, and they would soon become an important labor force in the family, and then start a family and pass on the bloodline.

And this eccentric child, who is not too young, is still messing with these useless things, and I really don't know what to do in the future.

Except for Li Shangyu's father, almost everyone was in opposition.

But his father doesn't think so, even if it's a dream, there must be such a generation that can take a step forward, even if it's just a small step, but also to move towards a higher life, so that if it accumulates, one day, his descendants will get rid of the identity of this shrimp people.

In order to make this dream come true, he also invited the most educated grandson in the village to teach Shangyu the writing for a period of time, so compared to other children, Shangyu is the most literate.

However, after all, as these villagers said, he couldn't afford Li Shangyu's sword casting costs, and he had saved for ten years and was going to buy him a casting furnace, but he never thought that he had encountered a catastrophic typhoon in the past two years, and there were pirates constantly invading the coast.

It wasn't until His Majesty Kenrin Sakura eliminated the pirates that their lives were back on track, but in this way, for the sake of post-disaster life and daily expenses, almost all the expenses they had saved before were put in, and the casting furnace that Shangyu wanted was even more out of reach.

Shangyu's father didn't think about letting him go as an apprentice with the swordsmith, since he was 7 years old, he has been running around for this matter, but the answers he got were all refusals.

It's not because he didn't give enough gifts, it's because of his family's status as a shrimp people, and another reason is that this child in his family is too special, and he once studied with a swordsmith for a few months, and the master couldn't stand the problem that he couldn't bear to disturb him every day, so he returned him.

Now Li Shangyu has no choice but to be at home by himself, research his own, and from time to time make some shellfish toys to sell, hoping to make up for the cost of his sword-casting furnace.

He glanced back at the ships on the sea, then turned and walked towards his home.

Sea eagles circled in the sky and let out a soft chirp.

Li Shangyu remembered a sentence from Master Yue Chuanwo who he had seen in the Qiankun Mirror before-

"The finch knows the ambition of the bird."

One day, these people will no longer look down on themselves!

……

When he got home, he carried his harvest for the day and went headlong into his manufacturing room.

It was a three-square-meter room, filled with all sorts of materials he had picked up, and in addition to shells, there were also the remains of many animal carcasses, and if he was not careful, he would step on a hard skull.

He opened the Qiankun Mirror and studied some of the sword-forging remedies that appeared from above.

It was at this moment that a message popped up and startled him.

"From the Webster's Sword Forge Shop."

"Lao Tzu!" Li Shangyu scolded and hurriedly opened it with nervousness.

He remembered that a week ago, he saw the recruitment news of this swordsmith on the village billboard, and sent the answer to the test question out of the mood of being a dead horse and a live horse doctor, but he didn't expect to receive a response today.

"Congratulations on passing the test, please go to the Wei's Sword Forge Shop in Mengjian Kingdom between April 10th and April 17th for an interview......"

"Dad!" Li Shangyu almost crawled down from the attic.

His father's sturdy sturdy back glistened in the sun, and he thought something had happened to the boy when he heard his urgent voice.

"What's wrong?! Fell?! ”

"Dad!" A bright smile bloomed on Li Shangyu's face, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, "I received it from Master Weigong, hmm...... It's called ...... Interview notification! ”

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