Haibang was originally a coastal town, and it had been prosperous. He had no choice but to leave pirates and often robbed ashore, which made the residents frightened and eventually chose to move in to avoid bandits.

As the people walked away fewer and fewer people, they only left in the end. The town became an empty city, with thatch growing everywhere, making these pirates nowhere to rob when they went ashore, and eventually they either sacked or went to other coastal areas.

I don’t know how long it has passed, but someone came here with the courage to come here. When the sea water retreats, it comes to pick up sea goods. When the tide rises, it retreats into the mountains to avoid pirates. As more people gather in the mountains, there are inns.

These people who took risks to the sea never encountered pirates ashore again, so they took the courage to settle down here and formed a village, which is the current seaside.

Wang Pengyu's ancestors were one of these people. They mainly made a living by selling seafood. In order to deal with pirates, they all practiced martial arts. When Wang Pengyu's grandfather Wang Yong's generation, his martial arts skills were particularly superb. By chance, they were appreciated by the old emperor and sent to guard the border, to achieve extraordinary achievements, and finally became the title of Marquis of Wu.

On the afternoon of that day, a carriage passed through the mountain stream path and came to Haibang Village. It turned out that this was the old house of the Wang family, and the three masters and servants of Hu Xiulan were also the masters and servants of Hu Xiulan.

Perhaps because the time was too long and no one was inhabited for care, the courtyard was covered with weeds, some tiles on the eaves had fallen, and half of the courtyard walls collapsed. Standing in the courtyard, you can see the houses outside, some doors and windows had decayed, the rooms were covered with spider webs, and some wooden furniture were piled with thick dust. It seemed that it had been uninhabited for a long time.

The three of them were busy for a while and they cleaned up all the rooms. There were still several master bedrooms that could barely be accommodated. Fortunately, they brought some bedding and other essential daily necessities on the carriage, which did not affect their normal life.

After Wang Zhong packed up, he returned to the carriage to get some dry food he brought. The master and servant ate a little bit, filled his stomach and said, "Mrs. Young lady, I'll go to the market to see if I can buy some seafood. I cooked it to the young master to have a tooth sacrifice and buy some pots and pans, etc. The weeds in this yard will be cleaned up when I come back."

Hu Xiulan nodded and said, "Uncle Wang, we are new to us and are not familiar with the place. Be careful when we buy some coarse cloth clothes for us to change them so that we will not be missed by some bad people."

Wang Zhong nodded and said, "What the young lady said is reasonable, I'll prepare now." After that, he bowed and left.

It was only at dusk that the housekeeper Wang Zhong took a person and pulled a flatbed car full of items back to the old house. Looking at Xiaoyu and the young lady who were coming, he said, "I wanted to buy some seafood, but unfortunately the shops were out of stock, so I can only wait for tomorrow."

Hu Xiulan helped organize the unloaded goods while saying, "I'm asking Uncle Wang to worry."

Wang Pengyu also said: "Didn't Grandpa Wang say that after retreating from the beach, there will be many conchs or something? Will Grandpa Wang take me to the beach to pick up shells tomorrow?"

After hearing this, the person who pulled the cart smiled and said, "Then you have to get up early tomorrow. If you go late, I'm afraid that the things left by the tide will have been picked up by someone."

Wang Pengyu was stunned and said, "Why"?

The person who pulled the cart smiled and said, "Because these things can be exchanged for some money, there are many elderly, women and children here. They cannot go to sea or do physical work, so they can only go to the beach and pick up some sea shells to subsidize their household income."

Wang Pengyu nodded and said, "So that's it. Mother, Grandpa Wang, Xiaoyu will also go to pick up sea shells tomorrow morning."

Wang Zhong smiled and said, "It's also idle. It's better to go and have a long experience. I'll take the young master tomorrow morning."

During the chat, all the items were unloaded, and after receiving the bill, the driver left. Everyone was busy again. They only set the stove and cooked the meals until the moon was on the branches.

Hu Xiulan looked at the food on the table and sighed, "Uncle Wang is not young anymore. I'll leave these cooking tasks to me in the future. You just need to teach Xiaoyu to read well."

Wang Zhong smiled and said, "How can you work hard for the young lady? I have already agreed with the coachman today that Ming will ask his wife to come and help cook. Let's pay them some money. As for Xiaoyu's homework, the young lady doesn't need to worry, and leave it to the old slave."

After dinner, washed them, they went back to the room to rest, and they were speechless all night. In the morning, before dawn, Wang Pengyu got up, put on the coarse cloth clothes that his mother prepared for him yesterday, looked at the sleeping mother, and walked out of the room.

When I left the room, I found that the butler Wang Zhong was practicing in the yard with his carry-on waist knife. His body movements were flexible and changeable, and his sword force was powerful and fast. A set of sword techniques was completed in one go.

Wang Pengyu suddenly remembered the scene in his dream. The warrior in armor cut three swords into the air. The power of the chopping was not comparable to that of the sword technique used by Wang Zhong.

Wang Zhong put away his knife and looked at Wang Pengyu in a daze and said with a smile: "Young master is up. I'll take you to the beach to pick up shells." As he said that, he carried a basket, took Wang Pengyu's hand out of the yard and walked eastward.

Haibang is only more than two miles away from the beach. It took them a short while before they arrived at the beach and found that many people had arrived here, carrying tools and carrying baskets, spreading on the beach, picking up some things exposed on the beach.

The sea water blew up and rushed towards the beach, and after a while, it retreated again, threw some things and retreated behind people rushed over and began to pick them up.

Wang Zhong also led Wang Pengyu into the crowd, quickly picked up the things around him, and pulled Xiaoyu and followed everyone to retreat to the heights before the waves surged.

When he reached the height, Wang Zhong looked at the seashells in the box and said, "Young Master, don't walk away here later. I'll just pick it up by myself, so I can pick it up more."

Wang Pengyu sighed helplessly and said, "It was Xiaoyu who implicated Grandpa Wang. When he went back, Xiaoyu would definitely follow Grandpa Wang to learn martial arts well. He will be as good as grandpa in the future."

Wang Zhong laughed and said, "It's not easy to practice the old master's martial arts." After saying that, he jumped and rushed to the beach that retreated from the sea. This time, without Wang Pengyu's drag, he grabbed the other people and picked up a lot of good things, and envious eyes came from all around him.

When the red sun rose to the sea, Wang Zhong looked at the things piled up in the basket on his back, such as kelp, shells, crabs, and sea cucumbers. Looking at these spoils, Huang Zhong laughed and said, "Young Master, we have a good taste today."

Wang Pengyu also excitedly held a huge conch and said, "Grandpa Wang, this colorful one is really beautiful."

Wang Zhong smiled and said, "When we go back, we will eat its meat and keep the shells for fun. It's getting late, so let's go back."

Wang Pengyu agreed, holding the beautiful conch in his hand, followed Wang Zhong jumping and walking towards the house.

After returning home, I found a woman in her thirties was waiting at the door of her house. It turned out that she was the one who agreed to come and do things yesterday. Wang Zhong handed the basket to the woman for handling, and pulled Wang Pengyu and said, "Young master, the old slave doesn't know much about literacy. The only thing I took out is this little martial arts. Let's start with basic skills."

Looking at Xiaoyu nodding, Wang Zhong smiled and said, "The so-called basic skills are similar, they are nothing more than horse stance, weight-bearing, to train muscles, increase strength and body flexibility."

Let's start with the horse stance. As we said, we split our legs and half-squatted down, stretched our hands to demonstrate. Wang Pengyu also followed Wang Zhong's movements.

Wang Zhong put away his horse stance, corrected Xiaoyu, nodded and said, "Yes, we don't need to support it for long at the beginning. As long as the thigh muscles get hot, then increase the time every day. After breakfast, we will practice weight-bearing running."
Chapter completed!