The folk customs of this street are relatively simple, and there are many horse-drawn carriages coming back, and the wheels and hooves of horses sway the dirt in the mud, and the crisp bells mix with the charm of the Chinese countryside in the seventies.

Of course, this is not China, but an unnamed town in Thailand, where women walk on the road with huge pots on their heads, they walk fast and steadily, and the basins above their heads contain all kinds of fruits and vegetables.

The men gathered in groups, in the humble tavern, each boasting of his heroic deeds, such as going to the sea to catch a shark, or maybe he had served as a soldier in his youth, and he had made meritorious contributions to the army, and he could hear all kinds of things in the tavern.

I thought that if I were a fiction writer, I would be able to collect a whole set of stories in a tavern in Thailand and compile them into a book.

This is a small town on the edge of Pattaya, built on the seaside, and in the north of the town is a group of stilted buildings, and you can see the endless sea when you live on it, which is very beautiful.

Xue Meiniang and I have been coming to this place for three months, from the original language barrier, to now I can speak fluent Thai vernacular, after all, Thai Chinese and Chinese are also similar to a certain extent, it is not difficult to learn by heart.

At that time, after we got off the plane, we originally planned to settle in Pattaya for a while, but because there are many Chinese in Pattaya, I didn't want to leave China and cause some unnecessary trouble again, so I agreed with Xue Meiniang to live in this seaside town for a while.

The main means of transportation here are still ox carts and motorcycles, there are few cars, after all, it is a small place, the road conditions are very bad, originally we planned to go to Vietnam, but unfortunately I heard the plane driver say that Vietnam does not welcome Chinese, after all, the war half a century ago made China and Vietnam completely tear their faces, and Thailand is a peace-loving country, relatively good to talk more, but the gap between the rich and the poor in Thailand is very large, the rich live in high-rise villas, the luxury of the most luxurious houses in Shanghai, The poor don't even have a home, and the small town I live in now is only under-average, and the people are very friendly.

Before we set off, Lao Shu also gave the restaurant plate to others, and the extra money was given to me as travel expenses, I knew that Lao Shu wanted me to develop abroad and make a comeback.

At first, I remembered that the jade trading house that I and Quan Xi had painstakingly operated had come to naught, and all the things in the store had been handed over to the treasury, although I was helpless, but if I thought about it carefully, the money in it was also from my gambling stones, and it was not really earned, and now I got rid of this wealth, which is also a good thing, after all, the reincarnation of cause and effect, I can be regarded as getting retribution.

After a while of drinking in the tavern, I planned to go back to my residence, a house I bought, because the house was simple, I only spent less than a thousand yuan, for the local people, this is already a huge amount of money, so at that time after I bought the house, a few thugs came to make trouble, I at first just wanted to teach them a lesson, but Xue Meiniang knew, Xue Meiniang broke their legs without saying a word, so the people in the town said that I raised a tigress, but I thought to myself that it would be okay, At least no one cares about my family's Xue Meiniang.

When I went back, I saw a woman holding vegetables, this woman looked at me blankly, in this town, if I fancy any woman, as long as I spend a sum of money, I can enjoy her body, her man will never say a word, this is a sick town, people are desperately short of money.

If someone goes to Pattaya and then comes to this town, they will feel that this town is a hell, almost every third family will have a woman selling meat, and the family depends on the money from this woman selling meat to live, the locals have regarded it as the norm, but I have been here for three months, and I still can't accept this setting, such a system is simply purgatory for women.

The woman came up and held out her hand, she meant that she wanted me to give her money, and she would take me to her quarters, and then vent, I smiled, ignored her, and she was unimpressed, and continued to reach out to the next passerby.

I returned to my accommodation, this is a bamboo building close to the sea, the scenery is very good, open the window to see the boundless sea, looking at the sea, my mind seems to have become open, in this realm, it makes people refreshed and relaxed. The tide is rising, and the waves in the sea are rushing towards the shore one after the other. Some rose up like rolling hills; Some hit the reef by the sea, splashing waves several meters high, making a "whoosh. Wow." What a wonderful sound it was.

Xue Meiniang said that she liked the quiet and roaring appearance of the sea...... Looking at the vast and boundless sea in the past, majestic and vast, the narrow, crowded, and noisy city was all dusted away, and the troubles in my heart were also thrown out of the clouds.

When I got home, Xue Meiniang was washing kelp, of course we also need a serious job here, I met a few friends here, they are fishing, they go to sea once a month, and I joined them, they admired my strength, as if I was a human flesh machine, no matter how heavy the fishing net I could pull out, so they gave me a nice name, called horse killing chicken.

Don't think that this horse killing chicken is a scolding sentence, in fact, in our local language here, horse killing chicken is a strong man meaning, in this place as long as a man has the ability, you can take more than two wives, which led to the first time I went into the sea to catch twice as many sea fish as others, and then many women came, wanting to marry their daughters to me, of course, this was politely rejected by me.

Because I was also collecting kelp and seaweed along the coast, I simply hired these women, and I would give them fifty baht a day for each woman who helped clean up the kelp and seaweed, so there were a lot of people who came, and people were happy to serve me, and the seaweed and kelp I bought, as well as fresh sea fish, would be transported to the dock and sold to those purchases from the Pattaya Hotel, and the profit could be multiplied several times.

I believe that if I didn't work as an onmyoji, I would be a qualified businessman, maybe I wouldn't make much money, but I would have almost come with a small amount of money.

When Xue Meiniang saw me coming, she immediately wiped her hand on her apron, and she smiled: "Haoran, I'm back, I've cooked some pork bone soup here, you eat more, and you have to go to sea tomorrow morning." ”

I kissed Xue Meiniang lightly on the forehead, took the pork bone soup in her hand, took a small sip, and suddenly a warm feeling flowed from my heart, very comfortable, maybe this is the so-called happiness.

However, before this warmth was gone, suddenly a woman in a hurry came running up, and she said to me in a panic, "My child, my child has fallen into the sea!" ”

As soon as I heard this, I immediately put down the pork bone soup, and Xue Meiniang and I ran towards the beach together, only to see a child fluttering in the water, surrounded by women and children, and there is a lot of kelp in this sea, people generally dare not swim, lest the kelp wrap around their ankles.

At this time, I saw that the child was no longer good, so I immediately took off my shoes, and a fierce man entered the sea, and then began to swim towards the child, and when the child saw me coming, he actually grabbed me by the neck, and the natural reaction of people when they were dying was to grab everything that could be grasped.

I didn't panic and wrapped him around, strangled his chest, and swam towards the shore, and at this time, the worst thing happened, the kelp wrapped around my legs, so I couldn't move, I saw that there was no one around, and immediately kicked my feet twice, and suddenly a wave of heat gushed out from the soles of my feet, kicking the surrounding kelp away, and I returned to the shore with the child in my arms.

The child was lying on the sand and coughing, and the woman knelt before me and was about to kowtow to me.

Xue Meiniang and I helped her up, and said a few nice words, she was willing to get up, Xue Meiniang looked at me and smiled, I also felt funny, so I asked, "What are you laughing at?" ”

"I feel like my man has become so reliable." Xue Meiniang's smile is very charming and very gentle.

I snorted and touched the back of my head.

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