Chapter 52: Sweets
Eighty years old, Arouca has been living on Apocalypse Island for more than forty years, with gray hair, shrunken and wrinkled faces. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the past forty years, he has experienced everything, and he has watched the evolution of Apocalypse Island little by little.
In fact, in recent years, the development speed of all aspects of construction on Apocalypse Island has been getting faster and faster, which has a lot to do with the economic system of the East China Sea, and it can be regarded as a blessing from the ancestors.
Aluka worked on Apocalypse Island more than 40 years ago, and more than 40 years later, he is still working on Apocalypse Island, although he has a few more children and grandchildren, but he is still working. The evolution of Apocalypse Island has little impact or benefit for people at the bottom of society like Aluca, and all that can be experienced is more and more complex exploitation.
The bourgeois economic system has made the capitalists stronger and stronger, the status of the businessmen higher and higher, the power of money more and more terrifying, and the workers more and more.
But because this is still a world with a large number of slaves, not many workers feel that they are being exploited every day, in other words, this is a world where workers have not yet woken up to protect their rights.
Of course, these are not the most important things, the most important point is that the gap in individual force in this world is too great, even if the workers awaken themselves, I am afraid they cannot be the opponents of those powerful monster-like upper echelons.
So if nothing happens, this flawed economic system will continue in the East China Sea for many years until someone comes to break the circle. The one who broke all this with his own hands may be the ancestor himself.
More than 40 years ago, Aluka was a cargo porter, strong enough to carry nearly twice as much cargo every day, so after a few years of work, he received a lot of raises, and then he had a daughter-in-law and children. After a few more years, Aluca's back was injured and he couldn't do the work of moving goods, so he worked as an errand boy on the construction site, buying something for his former workers, serving tea and water to the foremen.
After about a dozen years, Aruka was too old to run errands, so he finally left his familiar construction site to work as a groom.
Being a groom is not an easy thing, and one of Aluca's co-workers was a veteran of the horse trail who taught Aluka a few tricks, and Aluka barely became a groom in a small family.
Spending his days with horses as a companion to support his family, Aluka spent more than ten years like this, until he was old enough to raise horses.
He knew that his life was almost over, but fortunately his children were now grown up, and some of his children not only had their own jobs, but some even had their own families. When they grew up, they no longer needed him to worry about it, and even came up with the idea of letting him live in peace, which indeed seemed to be a reasonable thing.
But Arouca has been busy all his life, and he is really not used to being idle, so he once again found a job that can be done by an elderly person, that is, to help people raise flowers.
When he was a child, Aluca's father was a gardener, and for some reason, Aluka looked down on the job of a gardener, thinking that it was a lazy job. So when he grew up, he went to move goods, but he didn't expect that he would still be a florist when he got old.
After all, Aluka is old, so he only takes care of five pots of flowers, but these five pots of flowers are all precious varieties, and their owners are the eldest lady of a noble family. This eldest lady Aluka has also been in contact for two years, at the beginning this eldest lady was still a grumpy little princess, but in the past two years, under the education of the family, she is now more and more ladylike, but also more and more lacking in spirituality and vitality.
The job of the gardener, who only takes care of five pots of flowers, is of course not very busy, although Aruka is old, but he can still support it, he will pray to the gods from time to time in the process of busyness, praying that the gods will give him some surprises in his boring life.
Otherwise, this life is too boring, and if you think about it carefully, it seems that he may not need to live for so long, and it is not interesting anyway.
While taking care of the flowers, Aluka suddenly smelled a strange scent, not the scent of the flower in front of her, and probably not the floral scent of other flowers.
It's so fragrant, what the hell does this smell like?
Alucca smelled greedily, he had never smelled this smell since he was a child, it was so fragrant, it seemed to smell sugar but there was something different.
Was this a surprise, did the gods hear my prayers?
Aluka was seduced by the peculiar scent, and at last he put down the gardener's tools, and now he seemed to think that it would be good to go out and see where the scent came from. He was too bored in his life, and any surprises and differences would make Aluka excited, because he knew that he didn't have many years to live.
Aluka walked out, walking faster and faster, and as he smelled the scent, he spotted a group of people who seemed to be looking for the source of the scent like him. Finally they discovered that the source of the fragrance was the bell tower in the old square, which was not high, and the windows and balconies above allowed the people inside to contact the outside.
Standing above stood a man with terrifying black hair and black eyes, who was operating a strange large machine, with bursts of fire in his hands.
"It's going to explode!" the man shouted, and the large machine suddenly turned on, and the next moment there was an explosion.
The voice was so loud that the audience exclaimed, and Aluka was so frightened by the sound that she almost flashed her waist again.
There were many, many white flower-like objects in the large machine, these strange things not only made people look appetizing but also smelled bursts of fragrance, this black-haired and black-eyed man took out some strange dark red liquid in front of everyone's eyes, as if conjuring a trick to mix these white flower-like objects with the dark red liquid.
Then the peculiar scent emanated from the mixture, and the whole audience cheered loudly, and the sound of loud cheers formed a wave of sound one after another, and there were no less than a thousand people gathered here.
The black-haired and black-eyed man was Li Gongzhe, he smiled and threw out all those white flower-like objects, and with skillful force, he sprinkled these white flower-like objects evenly throughout the old square.
The crowd began to bend down without exception, all of them were picking up that kind of white object, and Aluka couldn't stand the stimulation of the fragrance and picked up one, and people in this era are not very hygienic, so Aluka put it directly in his mouth.
"Oh my God, he can't be the legendary ancestor, this kind of taste is really..."Aruka had never eaten such a delicious thing, his life at this moment did not seem to be in vain, in his heart this is something that only the superior can eat.
"It's so delicious!" A girl next to Arouca couldn't help but call out with her buttocks bent over and picked up for a long time, Aluka looked at her and seemed to be a rich person, how could she face this sweet tooth so much?
"Wait, you, you're the eldest lady. Aluka and the eldest lady looked at each other and were taken aback, and the eldest lady quickly hid the white flower-like objects behind her, and her pretty face turned red.
Li Gongzhe looked at the chaotic scene in front of him from the top of the bell tower, and his heart was also very satisfied.