Walking out of the shantytown's wooden house, the sky outside was obviously much brighter than the inside of the room, probably because of the summer, and a glimmer of white light could be faintly seen between the sea and the sky in the east.

Between the fluttering clouds, seabirds flew by quickly.

Farther away are large steamships belching black smoke, some of which have just arrived, others who have set off in the morning.

Pei Chu walked along the crooked and messy shack buildings on both sides, through the muddy alleys, and the roads in the shantytowns were basically the same. Wet, plus mud and sand pooling, unless the weather is not raining and dry for a while, it is normal to go down and splash half a leg of mud.

Only in the part of the market town will there be a paved road of blue bricks and gravel, and on the shanty town, most of the summer workers are too busy to make a living, and there is no place to think of putting this temporary living place in order.

After walking around the shantytown for about six or seven minutes, Pei Chu gradually came to the section of the shantytown closest to the inner mountain wall.

"Bastard, you dare to steal Lao Tzu's money!"

A shout came out of a wooden hut that was crooked and almost collapsed, and a skinny boy who looked no more than eight or nine years old jumped out like a monkey and quickly ran past Pei Chu.

What came out of a shanty hut with a scolding was a strong man with an unkempt beard, the strong man seemed to be hungover, and after seeing the monkey-like boy running away, he glanced at Pei Chu intentionally or unintentionally, turned around, and slammed the wooden door shut again.

Looking at this little episode, Pei Chu was not too touched. The children in the shantytowns are almost all like this, petty theft, struggling to survive. The only thing that is a little different is that the skin color and eyes of the child and the big man are slightly different from the strength of the Xia Empire.

Walking along the dirty and muddy alleys, gradually the number of summer workers living in the outer edge of the shantytown has begun to decrease. Occasionally, people with curly hair and dark skin, some with blond hair, adults and children, but most of them are basically dressed in tattered clothes and look sleepy.

The majority of the shantytowns are summer laborers, but there are still many poor people of other races living here. It's just that compared to most of the summer laborers occupying the position near the dock, the other laborers here can only gather at the foot of the inland mountain.

In Pei Chu's opinion, in fact, the location of living at the foot of the mountain is much better than the location of the laborers of the Xia Kingdom, but this era is not measured by pleasure. Most people have the idea that whoever can live closer to the pier is likely to get more jobs.

When he was drinking last night, Pei Chu had already learned from Liu Sixi that he lived here.

Among the many dilapidated and leaky shanty houses, Pei Chu stopped in front of a slightly more tidy room.

The reason why I was able to recognize this wooden shack as Liu Sixi's was because of a triangular black flag hanging with hemp rope on the pillar at the door.

There are traces of fire burning under the flag, which looks a little broken, but a few vague words can be faintly seen from the black flag.

"Brother Liu? Brother Liu? ”

After looking at the black flag over there, Pei Chu did not step forward to knock on the door, but shouted twice directly outside the door.

Soon there was a sour creak of the wooden door opening, and Liu Sixi, who was dressed in a short shirt, bowed slightly, walked out of the room with a peaceful smile, looked at Pei Chu with a smile and said, "Achu, you came early!" ”

"It's not early!" Pei Chu scratched his head a little embarrassed, when he came, he had already seen the time on the dial of the clock tower in the town, and it was almost half past five, which was much later than the time he had agreed with Liu Sixi.

I don't know if it's because I saw Liu Sixi fight off the monster yesterday, he always feels that facing Liu Sixi now has the feeling of facing the head teacher at school.

In particular, Liu Sixi's shy and introverted appearance, and the contrast caused by the occasional exposed corner, always gave Pei Chu a different feeling.

"It's okay, it's okay!"

Liu Sixi shook his head with a smile one after another, and said with a pleasant face as before, "You were also scared yesterday, I guess you shouldn't be so early today." ”

With that, Liu Sixi walked out of the wooden house, took out an old lock, and locked them seriously, before saying to Pei Chu again, "Let's go, Achu, you come with me!" ”

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Along the narrow and dirty alleyway, the two walked again for about ten minutes until they came to the bottom of a hill behind the continuous shantytown.

It is said that a few decades ago, when the gold rush in Jinshan Port was in full swing, someone found gold on the mountain and picked up doghead gold in an open area on the mountain.

Probably because of the attraction of the gold mines, the seaward side of the mountain was almost dug into it for miles, and it is said that several large companies in the port had blown up gunpowder several times, but they had blown up a pile of rocks so that not even a grain of gold could be seen.

Gradually, no one cared about it here, and after Xia Gong and foreign Samoans, fleeing blacks, and a small number of local Madi people gathered to live in this area, there were no rumors of gold.

However, every year, there will always be a few people who do not give up, carrying hoes and shovels to dig a few times on this mountain, but they are all in vain.

"Achu, watch your step."

Entering the foot of Goutou Mountain, Liu Sixi instructed Pei Chu behind him, and then continued to lead the way in front.

"Got it, Brother Liu!"

Pei Chu looked at the rubble and strange rocks all over the ground, and nodded solemnly.

Many of these rocks were blown down by gunpowder, and although they seem to have passed a long time, many of the corners and corners are extremely sharp.

He is now wearing straw sandals given to him by two Yunhu, and it is okay to walk on the dirt road, but in this kind of sharp stone pile, you have to be careful. Of course, his body has been operating barefoot on the farmland since he was a child, and the calluses on the soles of his feet are very thick, and it is not so easy to be stabbed.

Looking at Liu Sixi who was walking in front, Pei Chu suddenly felt that the other party's temperament was starting to be a little different from Fang Cai, and his rickety waist seemed to be straightened again, as if he had returned to the feeling he had when he faced the monster invasion last night.

"Hey!"

"Hah!"

Just as he was passing by the location of a rock fragment, a neat shout suddenly came.

Pei Chu was slightly stunned, but when he saw Liu Sixi in front of him, he didn't stop at all because of these voices.

Soon, after the two passed a messy pile of rubble, Pei Chu saw a rather open space.

The gravel in the middle of the clearing had been cleared, and more than a dozen teenagers about the same age as him, shirtless, were standing in a queue horizontally and vertically, moving their hands and feet together, practicing martial arts.

On both sides of the open space, there are also many exercise equipment such as wooden stakes, sandbags, stone locks, ropes and other exercise equipment, which looks simple but has a bit of a scene.

With the shouts of these dozen teenagers in unison, between the movements, a breath of majestic blood rushed to the face.

"So many people?"

Pei Chu was a little surprised, he thought that Liu Sixi said that he was willing to teach him martial arts, which was the kind of movie and television acting, a person who secretly taught himself in private, but he didn't expect that a lot of people had gathered here.

After Pei Chu and Liu Sixi appeared, more than a dozen teenagers in the open space were still practicing their fists and kicks, their expressions were focused, and no one threw any eyes at the two.

"This is my Yiyong Gate of the entry boxing, ten shape boxing, taken from the dragon, tiger, lion, leopard, snake, crane, elephant, horse, monkey, Biao of the essence of the ten shapes, pay attention to the steady step, hard bridge hard horse, strong and powerful, big open and close. If you enter the door with this set of boxing techniques, you will not be able to get close to three or five idle people. ”

Liu Sixi, who was walking in front, stopped at some point, saw the puzzled look in Pei Chu's eyes, and explained with a faint smile.

"Volunteers? Ten Shape Fist? ”

Pei Chu didn't care too much about what Liu Sixi said about being able to defeat three or five people, he didn't see anything special about the moves practiced by these teenagers on the side, except that Huha's shouting was louder, and the performance routines he saw on TV were similar.

Instead, he keenly grasped the key point in Liu Sixi's words, and almost blurted out the question, "Brother Liu, what is the Yiyong Gate?" Are you a member of the gang? ”

After Pei Chu woke up from the dream, Fang Yunhu introduced a lot of things about Jinshan Port to him, one of which was that the Xia people of Jinshan Port gathered here, and many people formed many secret societies in order to resist the oppression of whites and others.

For example, Fang Yunhu himself is one of the small leaders of the Xia Ren Gang, and he can win the respect of many laborers in this shantytown, which is inseparable from this layer of identity.

In reality, Pei Chu has never seen any real gangs in the small county where he lives, but he has heard that some young people in the past have become gangs and gangs, collecting protection fees and monopolizing business for projects. And some of the movies and TV he has watched have never been less about gangs.

"Gang? Where are we what gangs. Liu Sixi seemed to feel that he was a little speechless, shook his head with a smile, and changed the topic, "We are a place to teach boxing and practice boxing." Achu, you have lived in Jinshan Port for a while, and you know what kind of life we summer workers who have crossed the ocean from the empire to come here. Not to mention that the work was oppressed by the whites in the company, and other Samoans and blacks, who were also foreigners, were paid higher wages than us. We are also human beings, so why should we be a head lower than them?

I just hope that in my spare time, I can teach some of our young people from the empire a little self-defense martial arts, and when the time comes, they can also have the courage of five steps of blood. ”

"Uh......" Pei Chu looked at Liu Sixi, who was quite a bit of a cliché in front of him, and suddenly felt that Liu Sixi's identity was more complicated than he thought.

He really knows a little bit about Liu Sixi, no, it should be said that he knows too little about this world, even if he has the identity memory of the original world, he is also living according to this identity trajectory in this dream, but he doesn't have too deep experience of what Liu Sixi said.

It's just that Xia Gong works hard here, he knows it, even if he is a leading figure in Xia Gong like Fang Yunhu, he can't get rid of his status as a laborer, and he can't even get overtime pay.

"Don't talk about that." Liu Sixi seemed to feel that he had explained a little too much, and he wanted to cover it up, and a slightly shy smile appeared on his face again.

Just as he opened his mouth to say something else, a figure next to him quietly walked up to the two of them.