Chapter 1 Fishing Village Veterans

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Fulin Island, located at the easternmost tip of the mainland, surrounded by the sea on all sides, has a land area of only three square kilometers, a permanent population of less than 400 people, and fishing is a pillar industry far from the mainland.

For the people living in the fishing villages, they rarely pay attention to the information outside the island, so that whatever is new in the village will become a topic of idle conversation among the villagers. Although satellite television has been set up in the fishing village, the fishing village is becoming more and more deserted.

Most of the young people in many fishing villages choose to move out of the fishing villages and go to the inland cities to work and settle down. Only a small number of young fishermen continue to work as a fisherman.

With the depletion of offshore fishery resources, it is becoming less and less common for fish to go out empty. This also means that the income of the fishermen in the village, who make a living from fishing, has also been greatly affected.

In addition, the risk of fishing at sea is extremely high, and in the event of typhoons or bad sea conditions, fishermen who go out to sea to fish often have their boats destroyed and killed. In this situation, there are more and more people who are eager to get out of the fishing village.

But what puzzled the villagers was that someone came back a few days ago in this kind of village where everyone wanted to flee. Even more puzzling to the villagers, the young man, who could have lived in the city, seemed to have decided to stay in the village for a long time.

The villagers, who often get up early, look at the young man who trotted home from the mountain road, and will also say curiously: "Baowa, you really don't want to go out, and you decided to stay in your hometown?

The young man who was asked still smiled and said, "I think it's good to stay in the village! The air is fresh and not polluted, and you can often swim in the sea, which is a very good life!"

"Alas, I really don't understand, what are you young people thinking!"

Xu Haibao, who knows that returning to his hometown will indeed arouse curiosity and incomprehension, has a reason to go home. Even if his family has moved to a small inland town to live and settle down again, Xu Haibao prefers the freedom of a fishing village.

Back at his old house in the village, looking at this two-story stone house, Xu Haibao still looked kind. This stone house, which records all his childhood memories, is more reassuring to him than the building he bought in the city.

After eating homemade shrimp porridge and looking at the few remaining living materials in his family, Xu Haibao also knew that he needed to ask someone to purchase some things. Since you go back to your hometown, you have to live on your own!

When he came to the wharf at the entrance of the village, looking at the villagers who were about to go to the fishing market in the town, Xu Haibao found an acquaintance and stepped forward and said, "Third uncle, go to the town to deliver fish again?" Did you catch any good goods yesterday?"

"Baowa, do you want to go back to town? There are no good goods, these boxes of fishing goods are worth a thousand dollars at most!"

The third uncle, Xu Licheng, is not Xu Haibao's uncle, but he is also his closest cousin. As for Xu Haibao's father, Xu Liyan, he currently works in a machinery factory in the city. Because of his good craftsmanship, his father's salary in the city was naturally good.

Looking at the third uncle's slightly regretful expression, Xu Haibao said with a smile: "Third uncle, you earn more than a thousand a day, are you still not satisfied?"

"Silly boy, do you really not understand or pretend not to understand? I didn't catch this fish alone, and I have to share it with others! Now this fish is getting less and less, but the oil money is getting more and more expensive. If this continues, I won't dare to go to sea again!"

As Xu Licheng said, most of the fishermen in the fishing village have fishing boats. But if you go out to fish, most of them like to find someone to work with. After all, fishing operations at sea are really difficult for one person to complete.

Even if there are husband and wife fishing, Xu Haibao knows that his third aunt's health has not been good, and now she basically doesn't go to sea. The family's income depends on the third uncle's fishing to make money. When the year is not good, it is a problem to earn living expenses!

"By the way, you kid really decided to stay in the village? What can you do? You can't fish with me too, right? Your dad is too, wouldn't it be nice to let him arrange something for you in the factory? By the way, don't you arrange a job after leaving the army?"

"Third uncle, I'm just a junior non-commissioned officer, and the government doesn't arrange a job for veterans. As for work, I'll take a look at it first. After five years in the army, it is rare to relax and rest for a while.

If I really want to find a job, I think it is better to go fishing with you in the factory! From childhood to adulthood, except for going to the town to go to high school, including me being a soldier, I was at the beach. I don't think I can live without the sea!"

Xu Haibao, who was smiling and arguing with his third uncle, also helped to sort out some of the fish and carry them onto the fishing boat with frozen fish. Although this seafood is not very fresh, it is undoubtedly fresher than the seafood sold inland.

Although Xu Haibao did not tell the truth, he knew that the third uncle would move out of the fishing village and settle in the city in a few years. The reason is that Xu Haixing, the son of the third uncle, is currently working in a foreign trade company in another city.

Even in two years, Xu Haixing will find a girlfriend in the city to fall in love and get married. And the third uncle and third aunt will also move to the city to live with their son and take care of their newborn grandson for their son.

Seeing this, some people may be curious, how did Xu Haibao know what would happen in the future?

In fact, this has a lot to do with Xu Haibao's decision to return to the village. As Xu Haibao said, he has dealt with the ocean all his life, and he has indeed never left the ocean much.

After being discharged from the army in his previous life, Xu Haibao did not return to the village to live, nor did he follow his father's arrangement and went to the machinery factory as an apprentice. Instead, with the help of an old comrade-in-arms, he found a job in a company engaged in ocean salvage.

As a former naval submariner, Xu Haibao knows how to drive a boat, and he is one of the few good at deep diving. With this ability, Xu Haibao has also become a sought-after commodity for many salvage companies in the salvage industry in his previous life.

Before being reborn, Xu Haibao, who was hired by a foreign salvage company with a lot of money, followed the deep divers recruited from all over the world into the Bermuda Triangle known as the 'Devil's Sea' and was responsible for the seabed exploration of a shipwreck.

No one expected that that deep diving exploration would become his swan song. was swept directly into the boundless darkness of the sea by a sudden undercurrent of the sea. At that time, Xu Haibao regretted taking this job very much.

But what shocked Xu Haibao the most was that when he woke up again, he found himself lying in the army hospital. And the reason why he was hospitalized was also engaged in a deep diving exploration under the sea, but he accidentally had an accident and almost hung up.

Xu Haibao, who was rescued back to the ship by his comrades-in-arms and finally managed to escape, was also allowed to retire from the army because of this mistake that almost cost him his life. When he returned to his hometown after being discharged from the army, Xu Haibao was still in a state of confusion.

The main reason why Xu Haibao finally decided to go back to his hometown to adjust his state was that he found an extra bead in his brain. As for where this bead came from and what it was, Xu Haibao didn't know anything.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that even if this bead goes to the hospital for brain CT, it still can't show anything. waited until Xu Haibao, who was in the city last time and went swimming in the sea by chance, but found that his body had undergone some changes.

It wasn't a change in his body, but after his body dived into the sea, he could clearly feel that the water pressure on his body was much less than before. Even if he is freediving, he can swim quickly when he goes deep into 100 meters of water.

That is, after being discharged from the army, he inadvertently went to the sea, which seemed to stimulate the nameless pearl in his brain. A mysterious and mysterious memory appeared in his mind out of thin air. Xu Haibao, who has read some fantasy novels, knows that this should be the inheritance of the nameless pearl.

Xuanshui Jue, a method similar to cultivating truth!

With the mentality of giving it a try, Xu Haibao has been practicing and meditating accordingly since he retired from the army, and he has slowly unearthed the benefits brought to him by the Nameless Pearl. After all, Xu Haibao felt that this nameless pearl was the golden finger brought to him by rebirth.

In addition to strengthening his water-based affinity, Nameless Pearl also increased Xu Haibao's physique. And the reason why Xu Haibao chose to return to his hometown was also because he found that the more water in the cultivation place, the faster the cultivation speed.

Even in a very fortuitous process, Xu Haibao discovered that there was still a space for the nameless pearl. It's just that this space is made up entirely of water and air, and the area is not large. Xu Haibao tried to get in, but found that he couldn't get in at all.

I don't know if it's because the inside of the bead is too small, or if it's something else. Some fish and shrimp can be stored in the internal space of the beads. To Xu Haibao's delight, the fish and shrimp can still survive inside.

Since he retired from the army, Xu Haibao, who has not interrupted his cultivation, also found that as he completed the first layer of the Xuanshui Technique, the space of the Nameless Pearl has expanded a little. The boundless clouds and mist inside the space seemed to have been dispelled.

This made Xu Haibao feel that the spatial area of the Nameless Pearl might also have something to do with the level of his cultivation. If you want to see the true face of the Nameless Pearl, you need to continue to cultivate diligently.

Most importantly, through this rebirth adventure, Xu Haibao felt the possibility of the existence of higher-level life forms. This makes Xu Haibao also look forward to how wonderful his life will be when he is reborn in this life.

Looking back on his previous life, he traveled across the oceans and traveled the world with a salvage ship that worked on it, and he made a lot of money. But for his family, he is always ashamed. It is rare to live a new life, and Xu Haibao feels that he needs to make up for some of his debts to his family.

In order to avoid being too shocking, Xu Haibao would go to the top of the mountain behind the village every morning to cultivate. Although the sea breeze is strong there, for Xu Haibao, it seems that there are more water elements that can be collected there.

Compared to staying at home and cultivating, staying in that place to cultivate is more effective. And running down from the top of the mountain every morning seems to have become a habit for the villagers. As for the excuse for covering up, it is the habit of morning jogging developed by the troops.

Seeing the third uncle's fishing boat leave the dock, Xu Haibao knew that when the third uncle came back, it was estimated that it would be afternoon. A round-trip voyage of dozens of nautical miles is a large expense for villagers living in fishing villages.

In the face of the harsh conditions, most of the villagers in the fishing village had to stay at home. Perhaps it is this kind of living environment that makes the villagers living in the village more eager and yearning for life outside the island!

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