It seemed to be night, with only a gray light.

Smack!

Smack!

Heavy footsteps rang out again outside the door.

Accompanied by the sound of heavy footsteps, there is a faint burst of crisp metal symphony sound of "long and long" when walking.

Pei Chu covered his mouth and nose with his hands and curled up behind an old carved wooden door, trying not to make the slightest noise.

Smack...... Smack......

The footsteps approached little by little, and Pei Chu felt that his heart seemed to be beating rapidly, with a chill on the back of his neck, and the hairs on his body stood up.

He didn't know what the footsteps outside the door were, but he instinctively felt an inexplicable palpitation, as if there was a monster walking slowly towards him outside the door.

He remembered a supernatural movie he had watched in his childhood, and the plot seemed to be about the corpse of a person turning into a monster after death, and this kind of monster could not be seen, but would be found by following the breath and sound of the person.

He felt his body tremble slightly, like a lamb that had strayed into a tiger's den, and the only thing he could do in his trembling was to hold his breath and try not to notice the monsters outside the door.

He's scared!

I'm afraid that the person outside the door with heavy footsteps and a faint metallic grinding sound will notice him.

Smack!

Smack!

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Pei Chu had already shrunk his body behind the door, and he felt the footsteps outside the door.

It seems to be patrolling for something, or discovering something strange, and is patiently observing.

Time seemed to freeze here, and after a long time, the footsteps outside the door seemed to sound again, step by step, slowly moving away in another direction.

Pei Chu put his ear to the door and listened quietly, it seemed that after a long time, after making sure that there was no sound, he gently let go of his covered mouth and nose, and let out a long breath of turbidity.

The tension seemed to be relieved a little by this time, and his gaze unconsciously swept over his environment.

It was a room he felt unfamiliar with, a log table slanted and a few chairs next to it broken and scattered. On the floor next to the log table was a shattered screen that had fallen to the ground, and behind the screen was a collapsed antique wooden bed with a tattered gauze tent.

The mottled walls had large pieces of skin peeling off, and the dusty floor was littered with broken fragments such as vases and porcelain.

The whole room looked as if it had been severely damaged, and almost all of the furniture was in tatters.

Where is this?

Pei Chu had a question in his heart.

He slowly stood up and looked left and right, as if he couldn't remember how he was here.

Turning his head again, Pei Chu only noticed at this time that what he had been hiding was an antique carved wooden door.

He placed his hand on the wooden doorknob, and with a tooth-aching creak, the door slowly opened.

At the moment when the door opened, suddenly, Pei Chu felt an unprecedented palpitation, and it seemed that the hairs on his whole body stood up.

A black shadow flashed in front of him, and vaguely it seemed that a huge ball, carrying an unrivaled momentum, smashed down on his head......

……

"Achu, Achu, it's time to get up!"

In the haze, it seemed that a rough voice sounded in my ears.

"Ahh

Pei Chu sat up suddenly, his eyes widened, and his empty eyes seemed to be mixed with the fear of Fang Cai's nightmare.

"Achu, what's wrong with you?"

The rough voice in my ears sounded again.

Pei Chu's eyes seemed to slowly gain focus at this time, and in front of him was a cramped and gloomy wooden house, and he was lying on a simple bed made of rough wood. There was no decent mattress on the bed, just a wooden board covered with a somewhat blackened straw mat.

Standing in front of his bed was a middle-aged strong man in a gray cloth short coat, tall and strong, with black heart hair in the middle of the open gown, and a thick beard on his face that almost covered half of his face, but he did not have any hair, and his rough scalp was covered with a layer of blue.

Looking at Pei Chu's appearance of waking up suddenly, a trace of surprise flashed across the middle-aged strong man's face, and he asked tentatively, "What's wrong?" Are you having a nightmare or are you homesick? ”

Looking at this strong man with a fierce appearance, Pei Chu let out a long breath, first reached out and gently patted his face twice, squeezed out a smile and said, "Uncle Fang, I'm fine, I may not have slept very well recently." ”

"Can't sleep well?" Fang Yunhu grinned, a mouthful of white teeth showed under his thick beard, "I don't think you're like it, you fall asleep every day as soon as you lie down, I can't wake you up with this scream!" ”

"It's a nightmare!" Pei Chu pulled a coarse cloth short coat from the head of the bed and put it on his body, exhaled a little turbidity, and dragged his tired body to crawl off the bed.

"Nightmares?" Fang Yunhu frowned slightly, glanced Pei Chu up and down, and from his point of view, he could see that Pei Chu's eye sockets were obviously sunken, his face was a little pale, and he looked a little listless, and said with a little guess, "I'm afraid you haven't just come to Jinshan City, and you are a little unaccustomed to the water and soil." After work in the evening, I will take you to the city to find a pharmacy to catch the medicine that calms the nerves, the pharmacy is opened by an old man from his hometown, and you will be alive again after a post of medicine to keep it. ”

"That...... Let's talk about that again......" Pei Chu couldn't help scratching his head when he heard that he was going to the city to grab medicine.

"Is there no money?" Fang Yunhu seemed to see Pei Chu's difficulty, asked with a smile, and then patted his chest, "Uncle still has it here, you can use it first when the time comes." We work hard, and this body bone is the most lossy. ”

Pei Chu didn't say yes or no, but after putting on the short coat, he said to Fang Yunhu: "Uncle Fang, let's go to work first, otherwise Mr. Varna will deduct the money again." ”

"How dare he?" Fang Sheng's voice suddenly raised a few points, and there seemed to be a bit of anger in his tone, "That old boy from Varna, if you dare to touch my money, I will have to beat him to death." Look at it, at the end of the month, if he doesn't make up for the money he deducted before, you can see who will unload his family's ship next month. ”

"Don't talk about this, Uncle Fang, let's go first!"

Seeing that Fang Yunhu seemed to be angry, Pei Chu didn't dare to continue to talk about this topic, but dragged the other party out of the cabin quickly and walked outside.

Outside the cabin, you can see a large complex of low-rise wood and brick and stone buildings, a shanty town next to the wharf in Jinshan City, where most people depend on the wharf a few kilometers away.

Stepping on the muddy and dirty alleys, Pei Chu could see a steady stream of dock workers emerging from various low-rise buildings along the way, everyone was almost the same, barefoot or wearing straw sandals, coarse cloth shorts no longer than the knees, crumpled short coats, and the exposed skin was bronzed.

Basically, everyone is a yellow-skinned and black-eyed Xia Gong, and occasionally there are one or two blonde and blue-eyed people, or those who are completely black, and they will not make up for the Xia Gong group.

"Fangtou, this is going to work!"

"Brother Tiger, do you still need people over there? I have three or four brothers here who haven't started work for a few days."

"Xiao Chu, I see that you don't have any energy today, what's wrong?"

Along the way, familiar dock workers came over in twos and threes and greeted Fang Yunhu.

Fang Yunhu came to Jinshan City five years ago, because he is so cool and generous, he is willing to stand out for some laborers, deal with people outside, and get along with each other for several years, and he has some prestige among this group of wharf workers.

Even Pei Chu, who came out of his hometown to seek refuge with Fang Yunhu, has many people close to him in this residential area where laborers gather.

He and Fang Yunhu are considered fellow villagers, his father helped Fang Yunhu's family when he was young, so he came to Jinshan City by boat from the empire for more than half a month half a year ago, and Fang Yunhu has always taken good care of him.

The empire has been in recession year after year, either famine or civil strife, and the villagers of these coastal provinces and cities have no other way out but to follow the ship to the side of the Federation to work hard.

Although there is not much money and life is hard, it is still possible to have something to eat, which is always much better than in China where no one even sells himself. I searched and searched for a living, and I said that I could save a few taels of silver at the end of the year and send it back to my family.