The middle-aged man's name was Zhao Defu. He was from Huinan Town, Nanhui County, Shanghai. He was a famous local melon farmer.
Nanhui's watermelons were famous in Shanghai, and Zhao Defu's 8424 Seedless Watermelon was the best brand in Nanhui. It was big, juicy, and had red flesh.
Every summer, customers from the city would come to Nanhui to collect the watermelons he planted. In the entire Nanhui County, he sold the watermelons the fastest and at the highest price.
After working hard for more than ten years, Zhao Defu not only built a small building for his family and bought a truck with the income from planting melons, but he also had a deposit of more than one million in the bank. He was considered a little rich locally.
It could be said that a middle-aged man was full of success. The only fly in the ointment was that his wife did not give birth to a son for him. This made Zhao Defu depressed for a while.
Fortunately, his daughter, Zhao Lin, had been smart since she was young. As she grew older, she became more and more beautiful. What was even more rare was that she was understanding. In addition, her husband's health had not been good for the past few years, so Zhao Defu's idea of going against the wind and having a second child to carry on the family line was completely dispelled.
Zhao Defu had just returned from delivering melons to a client in the city with his daughter. The trunk was empty, so he asked the boy to sit in the back of the car. He and his daughter got into the car and drove home.
Zhao Lin turned her head and looked at the boy's actions through the rear window of the driver's seat. At this moment, the boy had returned to his usual silence. He curled up in the corner of the car and stared blankly at the rapidly passing scenery outside. No one knew what was going through his mind at this moment.
Zhao Lin turned her head around, thinking about something. She didn't know why she insisted that her father bring this boy home. She just felt that there was something about this boy that attracted her. His thin body made people want to help him and love him.
Was he overflowing with love again? He usually liked to pick up stray cats and dogs. Now that he had picked up a person, his mother would scold him again.
An hour later, Zhao Defu parked the truck steadily in his small courtyard. His wife heard the sound and came out.
"Ah Fu, why are you so late? I was worried that something had happened to you!”Zhao Defu's wife, Shen Chunfang, was a typical rural woman. She was thin and small, and her face was yellow. Although her family's conditions were not bad, she was not willing to dress up. Other than a jade bracelet on her wrist, she did not have any gold or silver jewelry.
"Mom! Dad almost ran over someone today, so we were delayed.”Zhao Lin had already jumped down from the driver's seat like a little rabbit and jumped into her mother's arms.
"What? He crushed someone? Who…who did he crush? Ah Fu, how can I be so careless!”This sentence scared Shen Chunfang so much that her hands and feet turned cold.
At this moment, Zhao Defu also jumped out of the car and scolded Zhao Lin," Little girl, you can't keep your mouth shut. The child's mother, don't listen to Xiao Lin's nonsense. We didn't run over someone. We saved someone from the road.”
As he spoke, he walked to the back of the car and knocked on the door." Hey, kid, come down!" We're here!"
After a while, Zhao Defu heard that there was no movement in the car. He could not help but feel a little strange. Could he have fallen asleep?
Zhao Lin was talking to Shen Chunfang about what had happened just now and did not notice the situation here.
Zhao Defu was puzzled. He turned to the back of the car and looked inside. He was dumbfounded. The back of the car was empty. The kid was gone.
At this moment, the boy was ten kilometers away from Zhao Defu's house. He was walking along the road in the opposite direction. His hearing was very good, and he heard the conversation between the girl and her father. The father and daughter had saved his life, and his favorability towards them exceeded 50. However, he did not want to become the 'trouble' they mentioned.
Therefore, he jumped out of the car halfway.
The sky was completely dark, and there were no street lamps on the dirt road in the countryside. The boy walked forward with the light of the moon. He did not know where his destination was, but he felt that he should be as far away from the kind father and daughter as possible.
The girl's bread and her father's tea helped him recover all his strength. In fact, before that, he had not eaten anything for ten days, which was why his hunger and thirst had risen to a dangerous 99.9%. Otherwise, he would not have been in danger if he had not eaten for a few days.
Suddenly, there was an unusual sound in the woods by the road. Four green spots of light approached the boy.
The boy stopped and looked into the dark forest. Two small red arrows appeared in his field of vision. The boy frowned. He knew what the red represented.
The little red arrow was getting closer and closer, and finally revealed itself under the moonlight.
"Wild dog, attack level 1, low HP, weapons-claws, teeth. Combat ability evaluation-Dispelling them is as easy as sneezing.”A pleasant female voice sounded in his head.
The boy's brows relaxed. He looked at the mangy fur on the wild dog's body and then looked at his tattered clothes. He could not help but laugh and muttered to himself," Could it be that the two of you want to bully me? Don't you think the three of us are a little similar? You'd better leave quickly. Otherwise, don't blame me for being merciless!”
The wild dogs did not understand him at all. The two wild dogs pounced on him from the left and right. They must have not found food for a long time and were starving. Otherwise, they would not have attacked humans.
The boy didn't panic. He moved his body backward like lightning and quickly extended his left and right hands. He aimed at the position of the dog's head and gently closed them in the middle.
Bang! The two dog heads crashed into each other like Mars crashing into Earth.
The wild dog let out two whines. After landing on the ground, it turned around and ran into the forest in a panic.
It seemed that the boy had shown mercy. Otherwise, these two wild dogs would have been seriously injured even if they did not die.
"Hehe, go! Little thing, I'll spare you this time!" The boy smiled lightly. To him, what happened just now was as simple as kicking away a small stone.
"Defeat Wild Dog. Obtained 20 battle experience points.”A pleasant female voice sounded in his mind.
The boy's expression suddenly froze, and the smile on his face seemed to freeze. He shook his head, sighed, and continued walking forward.
The boy walked along the road step by step, as if he did not know fatigue at all, and did not have the slightest intention of stopping to rest for a while.
The cars passing by seemed to have ignored this figure. No one was willing to stop and ask why this boy was still walking in the wilderness at this late hour. It was not the drivers 'fault. Who knew if this boy was the bait for the bandits? You parked the car, and a few burly men jumped out from the roadside and robbed you instead. Why did you do this?
In this day and age, there were too many strange things. If there was nothing you couldn't do, you might not be able to think of it.
Unknowingly, the sun was rising in the east. The sky was about to brighten, but the boy had actually walked for an entire night.
The scenery on both sides of the road had already changed. It was no longer a monotonous forest or field. There were more and more low houses, and the dirt road under their feet had become an asphalt road. From afar, they could even see high-rise buildings in the distance.
The boy stopped at the entrance of a residential area. Three meters in front of him was a youtiao stall, not far from the big iron gate of the community. The location was very good. His current hunger level was only 10%, but the fragrance of the youtiao that had just been cooked greatly stimulated his sense of smell.
The stall owner was a middle-aged man in his forties. He kneaded the dough on the chopping board while his wife put the dough sticks into the oil pan one by one.
More than ten freshly fried youtiao were neatly placed on the iron sieve in the oil pan.
The boy stood in front of the stall and looked at the youtiao, swallowing his saliva.
"Young man, do you want breakfast? How many youtiao do you want?" The lady boss had noticed the boy a long time ago, so she greeted him warmly. She thought to herself, I didn't expect someone to come to buy youtiao so early. It's really a good sign.
The boy gulped again and took two steps forward." I want…two."”
The lady boss was stunned. Why was this boy talking so strangely? Where did this accent come from? However, businessmen naturally wouldn't care about these things.
"Good! Here, these are two youtiao!" The lady boss swiftly picked up two fried dough sticks with her chopsticks and placed them into a small plastic bag before handing it to the boy.
The boy took the fried dough stick and took a big bite. It was really fragrant!
"Youtiao, edible. Every 100 grams consumed will reduce hunger and thirst by 15%. For five minutes, it will recover 5% of HP and increase pleasure by 5%.”
Hehe, it was indeed a good thing. Not only did it reduce hunger and thirst by 5% more than bread, but it could also increase pleasure. The boy was happy and chewed it in large mouthfuls. Fragrant! How fragrant!
The lady boss watched the boy take a third bite and realized that he had no intention of paying. She couldn't help but say," Hey, young man, two youtiao are one yuan in total.”
"Money?" The boy was stunned. What was this?
The Lady Boss's heart skipped a beat as she thought,'Could it be that I've encountered freeloaders?”
She looked at the youtiao in the boy's hand. Every youtiao had been bitten. Even if she took them back, she couldn't take them anymore. She couldn't help but feel angry. She thought,'You ate the food and didn't pay, but you still played dumb!'”
The lady boss picked up the mooncake box with the money in it and waved it in front of the boy. The sound of coins colliding with the metal box came from inside. She said angrily," Did you hear that? Here! This was money! You have to pay to buy things! Don't buy anything if you don't have money! Do you know?"
The last Shanghainese was learned by the lady boss from the customer. Although she did not speak it clearly, she imitated it very well. The lady boss often put it into her own spoken language. After receiving praise from others, she would often feel proud for a while.
Only then did the boy understand that the youtiao needed to be bought with money. He looked at the mooncake box in the lady boss's hand. There were many large and small metal discs in it, and more than ten pieces of paper with the words 'One Yuan,''Two Yuan,' and 'Five Yuan.' It turned out that this was the 'money' that the lady boss had mentioned.
This was difficult. The boy knew that he definitely did not have these things on him. He stood there awkwardly with the youtiao in his hand. He looked at the angry lady boss and did not know what to say.
"Youtiao Stall Lady Boss, Attack Level 1, Health Points Medium, Weapon-None. Combat ability evaluation-Dismissing her was as easy as eating fried dough sticks.”A pleasant female voice sounded in his head.
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