The castle walls are immensely smooth by the perennial sea breeze on the side near the coast. From afar, it looks like a sleeping black beast, silently looking down into the sea.

Outside the city walls, there is a stretch of low bungalows. There are even some shacks that can't be called houses, sparsely placed next to each other, clinging to the seaside city.

The weather is bad today and there is wind at sea. I heard the people who rushed to the sea come back and say that there was a great storm in the depths of the sea.

Wang Wu moved the dried fish dried in the yard into his house early, this kind of weather is the most likely to rain, although if it rains heavily outside, the "house" where he lives will inevitably be baptized by rain. But he knew that the rain on the beach came and went quickly.

As long as you are quick with your hands and feet, and you are not so unlucky to encounter too strong rainstorms, most of the harvest can still be saved.

Wait until he has gathered up all the dried fish and piled it up in a corner of the room where it is not easy to get wet. For a moment, the whole room was filled with the fishy smell peculiar to the salting process of sea fish, after the full effect of salt and light.

However, for Wang Wu, who lives by the sea all year round, he is too accustomed to this taste.

So much so that walking on the streets of Linhai City, who does not have such a faint smell of the sea, for locals like Wang Wu who were born and grew up in Si, they can be distinguished from afar just by their noses.

He hurriedly finished cleaning up the dried fish in the yard, picked up a wooden spoon, and reheated the pot, with a slight aroma of rice, and put the dinner mixed with fish and meat into the bowl.

People by the sea tend to cook only one meal a day. After cooking in the morning, eat a full meal. When you come back in the evening, heat up the remaining half again.

Generally speaking, at this time, the busy day can basically be regarded as an end.

Outside the city is not like the city, where you can light oil lamps. Therefore, everyone lies down early after dinner, so as to accumulate the energy to work the next day.

Outside the city is not like inside the city, those rich and powerful lords in the city eat three meals a day, and there are all kinds of vegetables to eat.

Eating rice that was not so delicious and could only fill his stomach, Wang Wu, who was holding the bowl, couldn't help but reverie. Although he had never eaten three meals a day, or even eaten any vegetables, he had at least lived in the city before.

There is very little land in Linhai City, either black rock as hard as black iron, or it is all fine sand. So the little land around is used to grow food, and I heard that this is not enough.

It was necessary to rely on the endless flow of caravans to carry large carts and bring in grain that crunched on the wheels of the carts. Then the caravan loaded the empty carts with dried fish of all kinds that had been collected by the families.

Therefore, those who could eat the vegetables grown on very little land were the most powerful and noble people in the city.

However, for ordinary people, they are not without their own delicacies, and one of them, sand radish is a specialty of the seaside people. That kind of radish is only suitable for growing in sandy soil, and I used to love this delicacy.

If you steam the crisp radish and the fatty fish with the rice, you will be able to soak the rice with the unique flavor of the radish and the fat of the fish. Even the adults who came from afar ate it and were amazed.

It's a pity that I can't eat it now, Wang Wuba thought with a sigh. The saliva that gushes out at the thought of radish makes it easier for the rice stuffed in your mouth to slide into your esophagus.

At that time, I was still living in the city, and my father was a small steward. Therefore, my father's favorite reward for himself was that if he did well in the school in the city, his mother would make a meal of sand radish for himself.

Of course, it took a lot of effort for my father to get himself into the school. After all, the people in the academy are more likely to be selected by the City Lord's Mansion to participate in the training of immortal masters.

Therefore, in addition to asking for money in the school, sometimes you have to rely on relationships to get in, which is also a way for people who are not rich in Linhai City to get ahead.

Wang Wu sighed and took a few more mouthfuls of food. I was still young at the time, and although I knew the name Immortal Master a little ignorantly, I still didn't fully understand the meaning of it.

Therefore, although I was not the worst when I went to school, I was definitely not the best group.

Especially in order to play with the richer family in the school, he will always save the breakfast money that his father gave him, so that he can play all kinds of novel things with those classmates.

Now that I think about it, it's not that I don't have a chance. Maybe with your own talent, you can work a little harder, and when it comes to the final selection, you may be able to choose.

It's just that he didn't eat well at the age when he should be the tallest, so he has always been thin and small. So much so that when it came to the final level, it was still a little bit short of reaching the minimum standard for being selected.

Of course, even this is not the worst situation, after all, as long as the father is there, their family can still live in Linhai City safely.

But at this time, a huge beast tide hit Linhai City. My father lost his job because of the impact of this beast tide that caused the withering of commerce in the city.

In addition, my mother also fell ill in a fit of anger because of the double blow of her own and her father's loss of work.

My father spent all his savings and failed to cure my mother's illness, so he finally had to grit his teeth and mortgage the house in the city, so he asked for two bottles of elixir from the immortal master.

But even so, it only saved my mother's life for three more months. My father was exhausted because he couldn't stand such a blow and struggled for a few years, and finally gave up.

Every time he thought of this, Wang Wu was thinking, if he was a little bitter at that time and was elected by the City Lord's Mansion, what would his fate be?

At least I have a lot to take, so I don't have to let my father support me so hard.

At least with an identity, the house in the city can be kept. I don't want to be driven out of the city in the end, and wander into this unsafe shack where a small tide of beasts could kill you.

I don't have to get up early and fish in the dark, but I can't even save the money to marry a daughter-in-law.

Wang Wu thought so, completely oblivious to the fact that the night outside seemed to be thicker.

A woman's exclamation was heard from a few shacks in the distance, and Wang Wu calmly lay on his stomach the rice in his bowl. It must be whose woman complained that she was beaten by her husband, or a few half-old boys peeking at a woman taking a bath and were discovered.

In such a place where the poor may not be able to take out the money to buy rice tomorrow, the degree of complexity and tension in interpersonal relationships is even higher than in the city, so that I have long developed the habit of taking care of things if I can.

After Wang Wu finished eating, he walked to the stove and was about to wash the dishes. He saw what appeared to be a dark shadow standing outside the fence of his house, staring at him through the half-hidden door.

"Who?"

Wang Wu became nervous, and the black shadow outside the house was blurry and unclear under the completely unlit moonlight.

The exclamation in the distance turned into a louder cry, and after seeing that he shouted and asked, the black shadow still didn't make any sound, and Wang Wu slowly squatted down.

The moves he had learned in the school seemed to be beginning to awaken in his body, and he reached out and reached into the stove on his side, grabbing the thickest stick, half-burned from the still warm hearth.

"Plop!"

In the shadows, a corpse fell on its back.

The corpses were crumpled, like the salted fish in the house.

The corpse's teeth were black, and all the teeth were turned out. And the mouth is wide open, as if trying to breathe desperately. The boss with his eyes was also staring, and even the whites of his eyes were wide.

Isn't this Uncle Wu from Dongtou House? As soon as Wang Wu had such a thought, the black shadow quickly rushed towards him.

I saw that the black shadow ignored the wooden stick he swung with a spark and rushed straight into Wang Wu's body.

"It hurts!"

This was Wang Wu's last thought in the world.