Hua Zhenxing woke up from his dream, and when he opened his eyes, he saw only darkness. A gust of wind blew by, and he shivered, with a confused expression as if he was asking - who am I and where am I?

It took him a while to come back to his senses, and he looked up at the starry sky between the low eaves. Only then did he confirm that he was still in the streets of Fisoport, and the time was still 2020. Last night, he was beaten by a big man

Heishaer took him to a happy bar frequented by local natives and drank too much. When he came back, he passed out drunk in an alley not far from his home. He leaned against the wall and fell asleep.

Hua Zhenxing couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat. Port Feso was not a safe place. On this night when everyone seemed to be closed, dangers were always everywhere.

In this alley, Hua Zhenxing once saw a dead body with his own eyes. The unknown deceased should have been shot elsewhere and struggled to escape far away. Finally, he fell in a deserted narrow alley at dawn.

Only then was he discovered. Before the police arrived, the deceased’s belongings had already been picked up by passers-by.

In a dangerous environment, the most important thing is to keep a clear head and make correct and timely responses. This is the warning of Old Man Yang who has raised him since childhood. Although Old Man Yang is just a grocery store owner, he is very knowledgeable.

Also very capable.

Hua Zhenxing began to examine himself carefully. He didn't have any injuries on the surface, and there seemed to be no dull pain in his body. The paratrooper's dagger hidden under his left rib, the steel finger tiger on his lower back, and the lighter in his jacket pocket were all still there, and even

The wallet in the right trouser pocket was untouched.

It is easy to be stolen or robbed if you are not careful in Fesoport. Hua Zhenxing is accustomed to carrying a wallet when going out. If you encounter some vicious guy who is not easy to deal with or inconvenient to do it directly, just pay it obediently. In short, you can't let others do it.

So disappointed.

There are also two hidden pockets sewn into his clothes that are not easy to find, containing spare cash. However, most of the local aboriginal gangsters have straightforward personalities or are short-sighted and have no idea of ​​these seemingly simple tricks.

Port Fiso is a seaside city located in the Kingdom of Gilly in the eastern part of the Black Continent. I heard that throughout the world, the Kingdom of Gilly is a very poor and backward place, but the people here like to dress up beautifully, and many of them like to dress up beautifully.

Even if a person has nothing but a little money and only a little money, he still has to find ways to wear all kinds of famous brands and shiny gold chains.

Hua Zhenxing once wanted to wear a chain, which could play a similar role to that wallet while following the local customs. But Old Man Yang told him that the meaning of the invisible wallet in his trouser pocket and the eye-catching chain around his neck was

Not the same.

Everything that should be there is still there. It seems that he did not encounter an accident. He just drank too much and fell asleep sitting under the wall. Passers-by at night have not discovered and taken away his belongings. Hua Zhenxing finally took out a product from his jacket.

The Huawei smartphone made in Dongguo is his favorite thing on weekdays. Through that small screen, it seems that he can connect to the entire universe.

Hua Zhenxing did not light up the screen of his mobile phone, but put it back again. After checking his body and things, he was supposed to go home quickly, but at this moment he was still sitting under the wall and seemed to be distracted again, so he closed it.

The eyes seemed to be recollecting something.

He was trying his best to recall the content of the dream, fearing that the impression would be blurred if there was a slight delay. People often feel that the dream is very clear when they first wake up from a dream, but as time passes, the memories become very blurred and they can only remember

A few fragments, when relayed to others, most of them become the content processed in the brain.

Hua Zhenxing just had a very special dream, but he didn't realize it in the dream. When he woke up and recalled it, he found that the year in the dream was actually 2520, which meant that he dreamed of the future, and at that time

The world feels so good... After a long while, Hua Zhenxing shook his head vigorously and stopped thinking about it for the time being. After waking up from the dream, he would face the real world in front of him.

The dream was absurd and bizarre. He actually dreamed of Old Yang who opened a grocery store. Five hundred years later, he changed his identity and continued to open a canteen. Old Yang’s real name was Yang Tehong. In reality, Hua Zhenxing was raised by him.

Big.

Many children have asked adults - where do I come from? "Picked from the trash" is always one of the answers given by adults. For Hua Zhenxing, this is the standard answer.

There have always been various conflicts on the Black Waste Continent, but within a few miles of the country, the tribal conflict fifteen years ago was the most tragic riot in history, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and spreading from cities further north to Africa.

Suogang was once littered with corpses.

At that time, in the streets filled with gunpowder smoke and flying bullets, Yang Tehong heard cries coming from a trash can on the roadside. He rescued a baby from inside. This child was Hua Zhenxing.

Yang Tehong is very special. She is very shrewd in business and even cares about everything. She likes to calculate everything clearly. She is never willing to give benefits that should not be given and is unwilling to do things that are not beneficial to herself.

But on the other hand, he never does anything to benefit himself at the expense of others, and never takes advantage that he should not take. Even if it is a huge benefit, as long as it is not what he deserves, Old Man Yang will not even raise his eyelids.

Old Man Yang is not generous enough, and he is almost never involved in charity matters. However, it is not to say that he is stingy. His personality is very easy-going and he does not care about many things.

It is quite contradictory to say that a person who likes to care about everything in business gave Hua Zhenxing the impression of "not caring about it". It always felt strange, but in Old Man Yang, it was perfectly unified.

There are often expired foods in grocery stores. In fact, the shelf life on many food packages has a margin, and it is not impossible to eat the food that has just expired. People here don't care, but Old Man Yang never gives alms to beggars.

There are many beggars in Fiso Port. They are not professional beggars, but they are used to asking for money and things. Whenever there are foreigners or outsiders who are relatively clean and neatly dressed on the street, no matter what they do, there will always be a group of them.

Children come around and ask for money, and some adults also ask for money. Their belongings are often stolen accidentally.

If the well-dressed local dignitaries appear on the streets, people will crowd around and ask for money. The crowd is often pushed away by the entourage around those dignitaries. It doesn't matter if you don't get it, if you get there, you will make money. This is the simplest of local people.

concept.

Old Man Yang has lived here for many years, but he never gives anything away. Old Man Yang also never sells expired things, he always asks Hua Zhenxing to take them out and throw them away.

Old Man Yang asked Hua Zhenxing to throw things far away, quietly, and in a different place every time, just like a thief. These things will definitely not be wasted, and they will be picked up in the blink of an eye. But Yang

The old man doesn't care, as long as it doesn't have anything to do with his own grocery store.

Hua Zhenxing had no objection to Old Man Yang's approach. He knew very well what kind of place Fesoport was.

Last year, a football star who had already immigrated overseas was interviewed and recalled his childhood experiences. He was born in the port of Fiso. He remembered that when he was a teenager, he opened a burger restaurant there.

The leftover hamburgers sold that day were secretly given to these hungry children, so at night he was always waiting at the back door of a burger restaurant...

Many years have passed, and the former child has grown into an international superstar. He hopes to find that kind woman and repay her. After the news was broadcast, it caused a great sensation. Someone immediately claimed that he was the female clerk, but it was exposed.

It's an imposter.

After all, the star never found a benefactor, and the burger restaurant was closed for almost ten years. Hua Zhenxing witnessed the whole process with his own eyes.

At the time, Hua Zhenxing was only five or six years old and could already remember. However, the country of Kilili was gradually recovering from the turmoil a few years ago, and the social order had ushered in a rare period of stability. The economy had grown rapidly from the trough, and there were also

Many countries and institutions have come here to invest, assist in construction, and do business, and many overseas people have flocked to Port Aiso.

A Golden Milk Gate fast food restaurant opened not far from the grocery store. It is a franchise store of a global chain and has unified requirements for the management of the food it sells. If the burgers made the day before are not sold overnight, they will be thrown away as garbage.

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In many places overseas, this kind of garbage will be sorted and processed in a timely and specialized manner, but it is difficult to do so in Fiso Port. A female shop assistant gave the leftover hamburgers to the children around her, and the star was one of them.

First, he was selected by scouts and taken to the youth training camp of an overseas club shortly after. It is not clear what happened next.

Those children couldn't afford the burgers in the store, and some would take home the hamburgers given by the female clerk... Later, more and more children were waiting at the back door at midnight every day, and there were not enough hamburgers. Of course, some people couldn't get them.

The kind-hearted female clerk will explain apologetically that the burgers are all leftovers from the day's sale, and the store's business is very good today...

So I don’t know when, there were always some idle adults and children disturbing customers inside and outside the store. The social environment in Fiso Port was relatively stable at that time, but it was only relatively speaking. The troublemakers were all local people.

The police paid little attention to the matter and probably couldn't do anything about it even if they wanted to.

Some people do not have complex moral logic in their minds and tend to only think about the most direct cause and effect of profit. If the burgers in the store cannot be sold, wouldn't there be leftovers that day? The more leftovers, the more they can get...

...Six months later, this fast food restaurant closed... Many years have passed, and the female clerk has long disappeared.

This kind of thing may not happen in other places, but when it happened in Fesoport, Huazhenxing was 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 person who never asks for trouble, and Feisuo Port is a dangerous and chaotic place. As long as Old Man Yang himself is not involved, he almost

You won't intervene and will just walk around when you encounter any trouble. Why would you brave a hail of bullets to pick up a child from the trash can?

At that time, Old Man Yang took a sip of wine, picked up his chopsticks and ate a few bites of side dishes, and then said slowly: "I won't suffer any loss in raising you. I have to take a long-term view, otherwise where can I find a smart and capable guy like you...

Have you ever heard of child brides?”

Hua Zhenxing had really heard of child brides. It was said to be a thing in the old society of the Eastern Kingdom. He couldn't laugh or cry: "If you have a daughter who doesn't want to get married, it would be understandable to accept me as a child bride."

Old Yang glared: "What nonsense are you talking about? That's called intruding in the door! The written title is "brother-in-law", and I've never heard of one who raised her from a young age... I just made an analogy, your identity is a child-raised boy, and you have been trained to help me since you were a child.

Live, and I, the old man, can enjoy life."

This is true. As long as Hua Zhenxing was able to do something at any age, Old Man Yang would let him learn almost anything. Hua Zhenxing did not go to school, but Old Man Yang got a

, a complete set of textbooks and various teaching supplementary materials for primary and secondary schools in Dongguo in the 1990s, which are said to be the most solid in terms of basic education.

Hua Zhenxing was taught literacy by Mr. Yang himself. When he was a child, the most enlightenment books he read were various recipes, including many printed and bound books, which were full of pictures and texts. Unfortunately, Hua Zhenxing at that time always thought they were comic books.

One of the reasons why Old Man Yang is not stingy is that he knows how to enjoy life. You can tell by looking at the recipes he has collected. The focus is on the major cuisines of Dongguo. Regarding eating issues, you can start from the most basic

The physiological needs have been sublimated to the noblest self-transcendence. Old Man Yang considers himself a very noble person.

Old Man Yang has a wide range of routes, and Feisuo Port is a distribution center for goods. He can always get various ingredients and seasonings from all over the world, especially from the East. Of course, it is not enough if he wants to open a restaurant, but he and Hua Zhenxing can enjoy it.

It is more than enough. 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 be rated as a special first-class chef. Your cooking skills are finally considered acceptable."

Hua Zhenxing didn’t know what the special level was, so he checked online. He had already used the computer in Yang’s store to access the Internet. It was then that he got his first smartphone.

, and with a formal salary every month, Old Man Yang used to give me some pocket money occasionally.

The child support clerk is also a clerk. Old Man Yang not only takes care of food and accommodation, but also pays wages. Hua Zhenxing, who has read recipes as comic books since he was a child, has a broad and profound foundation in the major Eastern cuisines, not to mention a place like Fesokang.

Even all the so-called delicacies in the entire Black Wasteland are similar to pig food in his eyes.

But Hua Zhenxing does not discriminate against pig food, and he is also very tolerant of hardships. Not all of the recipes that Old Man Yang showed him were from Dongguo. Some of them may have been written by the old man himself, and there were even hand-drawn books with all-inclusive materials.

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The above not only introduces what can and cannot be eaten, but also includes what special functions they have, how to handle them, and in what situations they can be used.

Old Man Yang also took Hua Zhenxing to the wild many times, teaching him to identify, collect and process various materials on the spot. Hua Zhenxing himself probably didn’t know it. By the time he was a teenager, he had almost become an expert in wild survival.

Also an expert on flora and fauna.

The most irritating thing is that Old Man Yang not only asked Hua Zhenxing to read the recipes like a comic book, but also asked him to cook in an alchemy stove all the time. It is a very simple alchemy stove with a furnace below and a semicircle or square top.

There are nine pots in total, with different shapes, and I don’t know what materials they are made of. These nine pots are used for frying, stir-frying, cooking, deep-frying, steaming, boiling, stewing, and stewing.
To be continued...