It has been a year since Liu Mang traveled here and he has accumulated an energy value of 9.7.
It's a pity that this energy value can only be watched and cannot be spent, and it will not help one's own improvement.
Based on my experience of reading novels in my previous life, this energy value should be used in exercises.
There must be a skill first before the energy value can have any effect.
Unfortunately, where can I learn the exercises?
The previous life only existed in martial arts fantasy novels.
There may be some hope in this life, but it is also very difficult.
The easiest way is to go to a martial arts gym in the inner city to become an apprentice. I heard that there are real martial arts masters there.
Not to mention that people from outside the city must rely on documents to enter the inner city, and documents can only be obtained by gangs. The entrance fee alone requires dozens of taels of silver, which is really not what he can hope for now.
Another one wanted to join the City Lord's Guard, but they only recruited people from the inner city.
If you want to become an inner-city person, you need a lot of money to smooth the relationship. This is another project run by gangs.
If you want to learn martial arts skills, it seems you have to go to the inner city. But if you want to go to the inner city, you can't go around the gangs. Liu Mang felt helpless.
He also tried to find solutions in the outer city, such as giving alms to the old beggar at the door of the market, fishing and chatting with the old fisherman by the river, and treating the blind man in the village to eat yellow beef...
But it's all in vain, it's not that easy to find experts outside the world.
Do you really have to join a gang first?
But now I have no power to protect myself. This world is very dangerous and I only have one life!
Liu Mang was thinking while carrying the goods, selling his physical strength.
Occasionally, when one person can't move it and it's difficult for two people to use their strength, he needs to step in and win a round of applause from time to time.
The time came to Chen hour in a blink of an eye, and many people came rustling on the pier, and everyone was looking forward to it.
Regardless of whether they were on the day shift or the night shift, there were even those who had been injured while moving goods before, all of them were limping around with their injured bodies.
As per usual.
Monthly money is paid on the fifteenth day of every month.
After working hard for a month, this is the day I have been looking forward to.
However, at noon, Mr. Guo was still on the cargo ship and had no intention of coming down.
At this time, commotion gradually appeared in the crowd.
Everyone looked at each other, and a bold middle-aged coolie stepped forward and asked the swordsman guarding the bow of the boat on the shore: "Is Mr. Guo on the boat? Everyone is waiting for him to hand over the monthly payment. Can you please go in and inform me?"
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The swordsman looked at him disdainfully, but ignored him.
"You!" The coolie's face turned red, but he didn't dare to make any move.
At this time, everyone saw that something was wrong, and they all rushed to the bow of the ship.
"Master Guo, Master Guo, are you in there!"
"The monthly payment is due today, you won't forget it, right?"
"My family's food supply is about to run out, and our family of five is waiting for this money to save their lives!"
The crowd was very excited, their faces were red, they were all working hard, and no one had a bad temper.
Liu Mang stood among the crowd, not shouting, but staring closely at the cabin.
He still has some money at home, which is not at the end of his life. But it is the money left by his dead father, which is at the bottom of the box, and cannot be touched easily.
After more than ten breaths.
"What are you doing? Do you want to rebel?"
The short and fat Mr. Guo got out of the cabin. He smelled of alcohol and rushed in front of everyone without fear. He pointed at the forehead of the person in front and forced that person to keep retreating.
A group of swordsmen surrounded him from all directions.
The gleaming sword shone brightly in the sunlight, causing everyone present to mute their voices.
"Are you going to rebel? Ah! Do I not want to pay?"
"Last month I shipped a batch of goods to the inner city, but it was sealed for no apparent reason. I lost thousands of taels of silver in vain. Who should I ask to reason?"
"It's difficult for you, and it's difficult for me too!"
“The money hasn’t arrived in my account this month, I’ll send it to you next month!”
Mr. Guo shook his head and said, and then his style changed:
"If anyone makes trouble again, get out! I give you free food and drink every day, aren't you satisfied?"
After Mr. Guo finished speaking, he wanted to leave.
Many people in the crowd showed resentment, but they dared not speak out.
It's hard to find money-making jobs these days, and I don't know how many people want to work in the dock.
At this time, the middle-aged coolie who was the first to ask questions stood up again: "Mr. Guo, everyone is really short of money. Even if you can't give them all, you can give them half."
Mr. Guo cast a sidelong glance at this man, then a swordsman said a few words next to him, and his eyes instantly turned sinister.
"You want money, right? That's great, I'll give it all to you!"
The middle-aged coolie showed joy when he saw several swordsmen walking up to him. Regardless of his resistance, they directly subdued him and pressed his right hand on the cargo box.
"What are you doing!" The middle-aged coolie said with a look of horror on his face.
'bass!'
Mr. Guo pulled out a dagger: "You are looking for trouble, right? You were the first one to cause trouble just now, and now you are here again?"
"Do you think my nickname, Guo Yanluo, is for nothing?"
There was a flash of white light, and the thumb of the middle-aged coolie's right hand flew out.
"Ah...ah!"
There was only a man with tears in his face rolling on the ground and wailing, and three hundred coins scattered beside him.
The crowd that had gathered disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Everyone understood that this man was finished. Without his right thumb, he would not be able to do any heavy work in the future.
"Lao Er Zhou's family has three children, hey..."
Next to Liu Mang, an old man with half-white hair sighed.
Hearing this, Liu Mang felt very heavy in his heart, feeling quite sad that a rabbit had died and a fox had died.
A sigh of depression was pent up in his heart, and when he went back in the afternoon, he had a dull expression on his face all the way.
The muddy path was extremely difficult to walk on, which made him feel even worse.
Liu Mang violently kicked the bulging mud in front of him, causing it to fly directly into the weeds next to it.
"Cao!"
The kicking and scolding made him feel a little relieved from his depression.
At this moment, a scream and a deep roar of a wild beast suddenly came from the front.
Liu Mang expressionlessly took out the ax from his arms and walked forward carefully.
Turning a corner, he saw a gray wolf attacking a middle-aged man wearing gray cloth.
The gray wolf is very thin, not much bigger than a dog, and you can even see the protruding bones on its body.
The man in gray clothes had blood on his left leg. He held a dagger tightly in his right hand and stared at the gray wolf.
His face was a bit raw, he probably wasn't from Liujiacun.
The gray wolf pounced fiercely and threw the man to the ground.
"Beasts don't want to hurt anyone!"
Liu Mang was furious, rushed forward, and struck the gray wolf lifelessly with an axe!
The gray wolf may have been too focused, but he still bit the man beneath him and was easily hit in the head by Liu Mang.
It screamed and hurriedly ran away.
"Where to run!"
Liu Mang suddenly kicked the ground, his body was like an arrow leaving the string, he caught up with the gray wolf in an instant, and struck it with an axe, killing it.
Liu Mang was still uneasy, so he slashed hard several times until the gray wolf made no sound at all, and then he stopped attacking.
"Cao, I feel comfortable now!"
He looked back and found that the man in gray he had rescued had run away inexplicably.
He didn't care much, but looked at the translucent attribute panel in front of him.
The energy value in the last row suddenly changed from 9.7 to 10.
That's right, the energy value of Liu Mang's system is accumulated by hunting and killing creatures.
After coming to this world for a year, Liu Mang killed chickens, ducks, dogs, fish and other animals. Every time he got more or less energy points, he had accumulated 10 points so far.
In fact, he still had a bold idea in his mind.
But you have to acquire the technique and have the power to protect yourself before you can perform it.
He looked at the gray wolf corpse in front of him.
This is a good thing. If you sell it in the vegetable market, it should be worth a lot of money.
Just as he thought, Liu Mang went to the vegetable market and sold the gray wolf carcass to the big butcher Zhou Daguan.
He earned a full two taels of silver, equivalent to two thousand Wen, and he needed to work at the dock for two hundred days to get it.
Liu Mang got the money, felt much better, and walked home.
On both sides of the muddy dirt road are gray adobe houses, some with holes in the walls blocked by straw.
Most of the outer cities have adobe houses like this, and some are even in worse condition. They can only live in thatched houses. They may collapse at any time in strong winds and rains.
Only in the inner city can you find red brick houses.
Liu Mang's house is located on the east side of the dirt road.
When he was about to reach the door of his home, the wooden door of the neighbor's house on the right suddenly opened, and a plump woman walked out.
But I saw that she had fair skin, dark and moist eyes, an oval face, and very long eyelashes.
The gray cloth could not hide the curvy figure at all.
The only thing that was a little uncoordinated was that her hands were holding a wooden toilet painted with red paint.
There was a faint smell coming from the cracks in the toilet seat.
This is Liu Mang's neighbor Wang Sun. Her husband's surname is Wang and her own surname is Sun. As for the name, Liu Mang, an outsider, cannot understand it.
"Sun..." Liu Mang thought for a while and felt that no matter how he addressed him, he felt uncomfortable, so he nodded as a greeting.
Wang Sun's face turned red, she lowered her head shyly, and hurried past Liu Mang.
Such a beautiful woman was married to a cripple.
Liu Mang shook his head and continued walking home.
The door of the neighbor's house on the right suddenly opened at this time.
A skinny old man with half-white hair suddenly appeared at the door. Like a lifeless zombie, he looked at Liu Mang coldly.
Next to his feet, there was also a dirty yellow dog squatting. It was blind in one eye, and its only remaining eye was shining with an unfriendly light.
Liu Mang nodded and said, "Hello, Uncle Wang."
Uncle Wang didn't respond, just looked at him expressionlessly.
Liu Mang was accustomed to this and walked directly into the house.
Uncle Wang is also a person with a cold face and a warm heart.
When he came into this world a year ago, he was in very poor health and could not move while lying on the bed.
The mother of this body dragged the sick body and took care of him for a whole month. Sometimes she didn't have the energy to cook, so she asked Uncle Wang for some hot food.
After surviving this month, Liu Mang escaped from the hands of death.
It’s unrealistic to say that he had much affection for Liu’s mother from the beginning, but the life-saving grace was real, and with the possession of his son’s body, Liu Mang couldn’t do anything to leave Liu’s mother alone and go out to be happy by himself.
A bad thing.
Therefore, he and his mother Liu lived together for a year, and their relationship grew day by day, and they gradually got used to the existence of such an old lady.
"Tie Niu is back."
Mother Liu had already served the porridge and said feebly. Her sickly old face turned to look at Liu Mang expectantly:
"Did you get the monthly payment?"
Liu Mang took out a broken piece of silver and said with a smile: "It's half a tael, more than expected."
"How come there are two hundred more coins?" Although Liu's mother was a little confused, her face was full of joy.
"Master Guo thought I did a good job, so he rewarded me a little." Liu Mang drank the gruel in one gulp, feeling that it was not enough, and licked his lips and said.
Mother Liu didn't ask any more questions. After all, this was a good thing.
late at night.
Bang bang bang!
Bang bang bang!
Violent knocking came from outside the door.
"Where is the person? Stop sleeping!"
"Open the door quickly, open the door quickly!"
"If you don't open the door, I'll kick you!"
There seemed to be more than one person outside the door, and their tone was very unfriendly.
When Mother Liu heard the noise outside the door, she was so frightened that her voice trembled.
"Tieniu, leave them alone."
"Mom, don't be afraid, I know it."
Liu Mang lit the oil lamp, quietly picked up the ax beside the bed, and walked steadily towards the wooden door.