Many children have asked adults – where do I come from? "Picked up from the garbage" is always one of the answers for adults. And for Hua Zhenxing, this is the standard answer.

Contrary to the dream, the real Black Wilderness Continent has always been full of conflicts, and in a few miles of country, the tribal conflict fifteen years ago was the worst riot in history, killing hundreds of thousands of people, spreading from the cities further south to the port of Africa, where corpses were once strewn everywhere.

At that time, in the street filled with gunsmoke and stray bullets, Yang Tehong heard a cry coming from a garbage can on the side of the road, and he rescued a baby from inside, this child was Hua Zhenxing.

Yang Tehong is very special and makes people not good to evaluate. He is very shrewd in business and even calculating, he likes to calculate everything clearly, and he is never willing to give benefits that should not be given, and he is not willing to do things that are not good for himself.

But on the other hand, he never does anything that harms others and benefits himself, and he does not take advantage of what he should not take. Even if it is a great benefit, as long as it is not something he should take, Old Man Yang will not even raise his eyelids.

For example, if someone has no one at home and has a lot of cash that can be taken away quietly without being discovered, then 99% of the people here will take it. If there is one person in Feisuo Port who will not do that, then this person must be Old Man Yang.

Old man Yang is not generous enough, and he almost never touches on the matter of righteousness and squandering money, but it is impossible to say that he is a miserly person, his personality is very easy-going, and he does not care about many things.

It's quite contradictory to say, a person who likes to be careful in business, gives Hua Zhenxing the impression of "not care", which always feels weird, but it has been perfectly unified in Old Man Yang.

There are often expired food in grocery stores, in fact, there is a margin for the shelf life on many food packaging, and it is not that the expired ones cannot be eaten, and the people here will not care, but Old Man Yang never takes them out to give alms to beggars.

There are a lot of beggars in Filso, they are not professional beggars, but they are all used to reaching out for money and things. Whenever a well-dressed foreigner or foreigner appeared on the street, no matter what they were doing, there would always be a group of children around and ask for money, and some adults would also ask for it, and they would often be stolen by accident.

If the well-dressed local bigwigs appeared on the streets, there would be people who would gather around them and ask for money, and the crowd would often be blasted away by the entourage of the bigwigs. It doesn't matter if you don't get it, if you want to get it, you will earn it, this is the most simple concept of the locals.

Old man Yang has lived here for many years, but he has never given anything to him. Old man Yang never sells expired things, he will let Hua Zhenxing take them out and throw them away.

Old man Yang asked Hua Zhenxing to throw things, to throw them far away, quietly, and in a different place every time, it was like being a thief. These things will definitely not be wasted, and they will be picked up in the blink of an eye. But Old Man Yang doesn't care, as long as he doesn't have anything to do with his grocery store.

Hua Zhenxing had no objection to Old Man Yang's approach, he knew too well what kind of place Feisuo Port was.

Last year, a football player who has emigrated overseas was interviewed and recalled his childhood experience. He was born in Porto Feso, and remembers opening a local burger joint when he was a teenager, and there was a kind female clerk who used to quietly give the leftover burgers sold that day to hungry children in the middle of the night, so he always waited at the back door of the burger joint at night......

Many years have passed, and the former child has grown into an international superstar, and he hopes to find that kind woman and repay her. After the news aired, it caused a lot of sensation, and immediately someone claimed that she was the female clerk, but it turned out that she was exposed as an impostor.

The star didn't find a benefactor after all, and the burger restaurant has been closed for almost ten years, and Hua Zhenxing can be regarded as witnessing the whole process of the matter.

At the time, Hua Zhenxing was only five or six years old, and he could already remember, and the country was gradually recovering from the turmoil a few years ago, and the social order ushered in a rare period of stability. The economy has grown rapidly from the trough, and many countries and institutions have come here to invest, aid construction and do business, and many overseas people have poured into the non-Sogang port.

Just opened a Golden Milk Gate fast food restaurant not far from the grocery store. It is a global chain of franchises, and there are uniform requirements for the management of the food sold, and the burgers made the day before are not sold overnight, and will be thrown away as garbage.

In many places overseas, this kind of waste will be sorted in a timely and specialized manner, but it is difficult to do so in the port of Africa. One of the female clerks who gave leftover hamburgers to the children around him was one of them, and he was shortly thereafter selected by scouts to take him to the overseas club's academy, and it is unclear what happened next.

Those children can't afford to buy burgers in the store, and some of them take home the burgers given by the female staff...... Later, more and more children waited at the back door in the middle of the night every day, and the hamburger was not enough, and of course some people couldn't get it. The kind female clerk will explain with apologies that the burgers are all leftover from the day's sale, and the business in the store is so good today......

So I don't know when ago, there were always some idle adults and children who were disturbing customers inside and outside the store. The social environment in the port of Africa was fairly stable at that time, but it was only relative. The troublemakers are all locals, and the police rarely pay attention to this kind of thing, so I'm afraid they won't be able to manage it.

Some people don't have complex moral logic in their minds, and often only think about the most direct cause and effect of interests. The more left, the more they can get...... Half a year later, the fast-food restaurant closed...... Many more years had passed, and the female clerk had long since disappeared.

This kind of thing may not happen in other places, but in Feisuo Port, Hua Zhenxing is not surprised at all.

Hua Zhenxing also asked Old Man Yang, why did he save himself in the first place? Old man Yang is a man who never asks for trouble, not that the port is a dangerous and chaotic place. As long as it doesn't involve the affairs of Old Man Yang himself, he will hardly interfere, and he will go around any mess he encounters, why would he brave the rain of bullets to pick up a child from the trash can?

Old man Yang took a sip of wine at that time, lifted his chopsticks and ate a few bites of side dishes, and then said slowly: "I don't suffer a loss in raising you, you have to take a long-term view, otherwise where can I find such a smart and capable guy as you...... Have you ever heard of child brides? ”

Hua Zhenxing had really heard of a child daughter-in-law, which was said to be a matter of the old society in the eastern kingdom, and he couldn't cry or laugh: "If your old man has a daughter who doesn't want to marry, it's understandable to accept me as a child son-in-law." ”

Old man Yang's eyes glared: "What nonsense?" That's called an inverted door! The written title is into the fold, and I have never heard of it since childhood...... I'm just making an analogy, your identity is a child boy, you have been trained since you were a child to help me work, and my old man can enjoy life. ”

That's right, as long as Hua Zhenxing was a child, as long as he was at what age he could do something, Old Man Yang would let him learn almost anything. Hua Zhenxing did not go to school to study, but Old Man Yang got a full set of textbooks and various teaching materials for Dongguo Primary and Secondary Schools in the 80s and 90s of the last century, and it is said that he is the most solid in terms of basic education.

Hua Zhenxing's literacy was taught by Old Man Yang himself, and the enlightenment books he read when he was a child were at most a variety of recipes, including a lot of printed bound books, which were full of pictures and texts, but Hua Zhenxing at that time always thought it was a comic book.

One of the reasons why Old Man Yang is actually not stingy is that he understands the enjoyment of life very well, just look at the recipes he collects, the focus of which is the major cuisines of the Eastern Kingdom. Regarding the question of eating, which can be sublimated from the most basic physiological needs to the noblest self-transcendence, Old Man Yang thinks that he is a very noble person.

Old man Yang has a wide range of roads, and Feisuo Port is also a cargo distribution center, and he can always get all kinds of ingredients and spices from all over the world, especially in the east. Of course, it is not enough to open a restaurant, but it is more than enough for him and Hua Zhenxing to enjoy themselves. Since the age of ten, Hua Zhenxing has shouldered the heavy responsibility of cooking.

When he was twelve years old, Old Man Yang made a joke: "Now that you go to Dongguo, you can also be rated as a special first-class chef, and your cooking level is finally barely qualified." ”

Hua Zhenxing didn't know what level the special level was, so he checked it on the Internet. He would have been using the computer in Old Man Yang's store to access the Internet a long time ago, and it was from then that he had his first smartphone of his own, and he had a formal monthly salary, and Old Man Yang used to occasionally give some pocket money.

The child raising buddy is also a buddy, and Old Man Yang not only manages food and housing, but also pays wages. Hua Zhenxing, who has read recipes as comic books since he was a child, has a broad and profound foundation of major cuisines and cuisines in the East, not to mention places like Feisuo Port, even the so-called various delicacies on the entire Black Wilderness Continent are similar to pig food in his eyes.

But Hua Zhenxing does not discriminate against pig food, and he is also very able to endure hardships. The recipes that Old Man Yang asked him to read were not all from the Eastern Kingdom, some of them may have been written by the old man himself, and there were even hand-drawn books, and the materials in them were all-encompassing.

It not only introduces what can and cannot be eaten, but also what special functions they have, how to deal with them, and what occasions they can be used.

Old man Yang also took Hua Zhenxing to the field many times to teach him to identify, collect and process various materials on the spot. Hua Zhenxing himself probably didn't know, but by the time he was a teenager, he had almost become a wilderness survival expert and an expert on animals and plants.

The most infuriating thing is that Old Man Yang not only asked Hua Zhenxing to read the recipes as comic books, but also let him cook on the Dan stove all the time. It is a very simple Dan furnace, with a hearth underneath and a semicircular or square pot on the top, with a total of nine mouths, with different shapes, and I don't know what material each is. Frying, stir-frying, cooking, frying, steaming, boiling, stewing, and stewing all use these nine pots.

As long as you pay attention to the heat and technique, although it is difficult but not impossible, how to steam things? Hua Zhenxing finds his own materials to process the grate. Some pots come with heavy lids, and some also need Hua Zhenxing to find materials to make a suitable new lid.

Although the Dan stove is clumsy and difficult to operate, it is also very tall compared to simple cooking utensils such as earthen pots and earthen stoves used by local residents. As for the more high-end modern cooking utensils, Hua Zhenxing couldn't touch them when he was a child.

He's always used these Dan stoves as pots! It wasn't until he was thirteen years old that he had the opportunity to go to the workers' dormitory of the Dongguo Aid Project, and saw those really good modern cooking utensils. Then he searched the Internet with pictures and realized that those were not pot stoves at all, but ancient Dan furnaces in the Eastern Kingdom.

Those nine Dan furnaces are antiques from the Eastern Kingdom collected by Yang Tehong, and this old man is also broken!

Hua Zhenxing was raised by Old Man Yang, but their relationship doesn't feel like father and son, or even like grandchildren. Hua Zhenxing's name was taken by Old Man Yang, but he didn't have the surname Yang, as for why he was surnamed Hua, because he was a Chinese from the Eastern Kingdom. In fact, people from many countries in the East look similar, and I don't know why Old Man Yang thought at a glance that the baby was Chinese......

Thinking of this, Hua Zhenxing suddenly realized that his state was a little problematic, and he didn't go home in the middle of the night, but actually leaned against the wall of the alley to recall the past. The contrast between dreams and reality had too much impact on him, and his mind was inexplicably in a trance.

Looking up and seeing that there was not a trace of clouds in the sky, the stars were very bright, as if giving people an illusion, as long as he stood on the roof and stretched out his hand, he could pick one off, this is indeed the place where he has lived since childhood.

In the same way, as long as you know the exact location, you can tell the time by the starry sky...... It's about three o'clock in the morning. There was wind, and the sound of the wind whining and intermittent in the distance was like a wild dog on the prairie roaring, and when it blew closer, it was like the spikes on a porcupine's body rubbing.

Hua Zhenxing heard movement not far away, and there was a faint smell of urine in the wind, someone was passing by nearby in the middle of the night, and was looking for a corner to be convenient. Then he heard a gunshot, the echo was a little ethereal, and it should have been far away.

It's time to go home, Hua Zhenxing stood up and moved his hands and feet, his somewhat stiff body gradually became soft and flexible, and then quietly left along the wall.