A flying bird with white feathers and black beak fluttered its wings across the ground and swooped down.
Passing through the thick old city walls and towers, the bird slowed down and landed gently on the tallest dark red tower in the city. While combing its feathers, it looked down.
There are clusters of gray buildings in the city with different types of buildings.
Light yellow houses and pavilions rise one after another, and courtyards with raised eaves and corners can be seen everywhere.
In the middle, there is a huge square square.
The ground of the square is paved with stone bricks more than one meter wide, and there are also huge patterns of strange monsters, which are extremely clear.
This is a large open space where markets and markets are usually held.
At this time, it was crowded with people who came to watch and listen to the lecture.
In the middle of the square, high on a simple wooden platform, there is a white-robed Taoist with a crane in his hand holding a whisk and preaching loudly.
"The most learned people, if they recite the ten faults, they will be the guards of the five emperors and the leaders of the three realms..."
"You are a bachelor, your filth has not gone away, your body has not yet penetrated your true nature..."
"Oh! It's coming, it's coming!!" Someone shouted in a low voice in the crowd.
Soon a Taoist held a wooden basin and took out handfuls of copper coins. After walking for a while, he stopped, then grabbed a handful of copper coins and threw them under the wooden platform.
He didn't throw much, but it still caused the crowd below to bend down to pick it up.
Wei He squeezed in the crowd and looked at the old Taoist preaching on the high platform from a distance.
He is 1.7 meters tall, has a slightly dark lip, and a childish and ordinary face. He is wearing a gray linen short shirt and black cloth shoes that are still in good condition.
Looking at the old road on the wooden platform.
He paused only for a moment, then walked towards home with the fried cakes he bought in his hand.
While squeezing through the crowd, he had to endure all kinds of unpleasant smells coming from the surrounding area.
The smell of sweat, feet, saliva, and even a slight smell of feces and urine.
Wei He lowered his head and glanced at a piece of dog poop that had been trampled on the ground on his right, and quickened his pace.
Cross the square, turn into the streets, and then pass through several alleys full of yellow dust and garbage.
Wei He quickly returned to his only home in this city.
My home is in a small alley, one of a row of dilapidated small bungalows.
There are also shabby clothes hanging to dry outside the house, with subtle differences in color between men and women.
Wei He moved the rotten wooden stool that was partially blocking the door and walked into the dark room.
"Second sister, I'm back." He said loudly.
In the corner of the room, a thin woman stood up.
The woman was washing clothes with her sleeves rolled up, her hands were wet, she smoothed her hair with her forearms, looked at Wei He and smiled.
"Why did you come back so early today? Xiaohe."
"I stopped working early, so I came back first." Wei He explained.
"Is the renovation work of the Mu family's main house finished?" She walked to the window, and the dim light shone on her body, revealing a slightly delicate face. Although the skin was rough and the texture was slightly poor, her figure was curvy and beautiful.
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Her name is Wei Ying, the second sister of Wei He.
Wei He also has an eldest sister named Wei Chun, who is also the backbone of the family and hangs out with the Blackwater Gang in the city.
This is also the key to the Wei family being able to maintain relative stability in their surroundings.
"I finished it a long time ago, and I will help repair a few guest rooms next to it." Wei He replied.
It has been a few months since he came to this world, from confusion at the beginning to calm acceptance later.
It only took him three months to reach the point where he is now running for a living.
Three months is really fast.
The Wei family's parents are still alive and they have two sisters.
The eldest sister Wei Chun is very good to him, the second sister Wei Ying is also very good to him, and his parents keep all the good things for him.
The patriarchal mentality, coupled with the family's poverty and lack of access to birth control, led the Wei family's parents to have two daughters in a row before finally giving birth to a boy, Wei.
This also made the whole family attach great importance to Wei He.
"Sister is not back yet. Little brother, please be careful when going out recently. When I went out to look for sewing work, I heard someone's house was taken into custody in the middle of the night." Wei Ying lowered her voice and looked a little nervous.
"You haven't come back yet? How much was taken from that house?" Wei He's expression changed.
"I heard that half of the salary was just given. The rest is not enough for the family to live in the back... And in the Mouse Alley opposite, someone was robbed yesterday. After a little resistance, one of his fingers was missing."
"It's midnight again. Didn't those gang members just leave?" Wei He asked.
"I don't know... maybe it's another wave of newbies coming to grab the territory." Wei Ying sighed, picked up a piece of clothing, took the needle and thread and started to mend it.
"Anyway, you are outside, so you must be patient and be careful. If you encounter someone who robs someone, just give it to him. We are still at home, so you will not go hungry." Second sister Wei Ying warned her seriously.
"I know." Wei He nodded.
He looked a little numb.
He came to this world, traveled through time and was reborn as Wei He, an ordinary and ordinary young man.
It's not like he has nothing to rely on.
It's just that this dependency cannot be started at all now.
It was a bead, or rather, the pattern of a bead, imprinted on the center of his chest.
Judging from the remaining information in his mind, the name of the bead is the Breaking Realm Bead.
And the ability is also very simple.
That's breaking through.
When it accumulates enough energy, it can help him break through the realm of martial arts.
The reason why he knows this is because the beads left a bit of information in his mind when he traveled through time, like an implanted memory.
Whether it is true or not remains to be determined.
After the Realm Breaking Bead accumulates energy, it will change from a translucent color close to skin color to pitch black.
And now, even though more than three months have passed, Wei He still hasn't seen the bead pattern turn black.
At most, the color is slightly darker.
Also, he barely had enough to eat every meal now, and there was no way he could have any extra energy to save for Zhuzi.
The energy needed for this bead mainly depends on his daily diet, converting excess food into essence, absorbing it, and slowly accumulating it.
At the beginning, Wei He still had hope for it, but later, three months later, the excitement brought by hope has slowly turned into indifference.
He undressed and lay down on the bed for a short rest. There were only three beds in the house, one for his parents, the eldest and second sisters barely squeezed together, and one for him.
In a house that is less than 60 square meters, three beds can only be squeezed into one place, and the rest of the area has to be placed with stoves, tables, chairs, etc., which is extremely crowded.
But this is already a middle-income family among the surrounding civilians.
After sleeping for a while, Wei He got up and planned to go out for a walk.
He has the Realm Breaking Bead, and he thought he would have the opportunity to find some decent Kung Fu Sanshou practice, and then use the Realm Breaking Pearl to break through the realm and improve it.
But now, there is no Kung Fu Sanshou or anything like that. In the Blackwater Gang, the eldest sister can only hold her own by being ruthless and ruthless.
And the Realm-breaking Pearl didn't move at all.
Wei He felt helpless, so he walked around the city several times every day after work.
He was small, his clothes were shabby, and he looked like he didn't have much money, but no one looked for trouble from him.
When I got up, my second sister Wei Ying was already asleep on the only table.
Wei He carefully went out, closed the door, and walked out of the alley to the right along the door of his house.
Ahem...
As soon as we got out of the alley, there were bursts of coughing coming from the right side outside.
He looked up and saw Sister Zhang, a neighbor who often looked for work with his second sister Wei Ying, covering her mouth with her hands, lowering her head and coughing continuously.
"Xiaohe, stay away." Someone on the side pulled him.
The person pulling him was a short old man holding a cigarette pole.
Wearing a white mantle that was stinking with sweat, he pulled Wei He out of the alley and walked a few more steps.
Then he lowered his voice and said with an ugly face.
"There has been a plague in the city recently... I don't know what happened to the girl from the Zhang family. She has been coughing since she came back a few days ago. You have to be careful, don't let the news spread. Let your second sister be careful as well.
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"Thank you, Grandpa Wang." Wei He's heart trembled. He had heard about the plague earlier. It was said that it had been spreading in the north of the city, but now it had suddenly come to him...
In the past three months, he has also tried hard to use his advanced thinking as a time traveler to help his family solve financial problems.
Unfortunately, they all ended in failure.
No matter what method you use, you can't avoid one point in this city.
That's the gang.
Each of the lower-level areas has its own territory, and different gangs manage different areas.
Whether you open a shop or do small business, you have to pay money to the gang. There is no background, and if the business is slightly better, you will be targeted at the first time.
Then the result is that either the business is given away and I become a part-time worker.
Or you have to pay a large amount of money every month and only earn some hard-earned money.
This is a bad era where civilians will be targeted as long as they have some money.
Wei He didn't stop, and quickly left the alley, passing through the alleys in the city. He soon came to an old gray courtyard.
The sound of reading aloud could be heard constantly in the courtyard. From time to time there was also the deep voice of an old man scolding me.
At the gate of the courtyard, there is a plaque hanging, which reads: Lecture Hall. Three big red characters.
Wei He found a suitable ground along the wall, sat down, and listened quietly while leaning against the wall.
Lecture Hall, a place where wealthy families in the city send their children for enlightenment.
It is said that the masters there are also scholars who have obtained academic titles.
"You have almost mastered the basic writing here. Anywhere, writing and knowledge are the prerequisites for mastering everything."
Wei He lowered his head and scribbled on the dusty ground with his fingers, practicing the calligraphy he had learned before.
"Wei He!" Suddenly, a half-year-old child with braids sneaked up to him and shouted.
"This is for today." Sheng Xiaopian threw out a roll of paper hidden in his arms and threw it into Wei He's arms.
"Old rules, half a tael of silver." Wei He said calmly.
"Okay, okay, okay! Hurry up, I will need it tomorrow morning." Shengxiao braid lowered his voice, took out a piece of broken silver from his arms, threw it to Wei He, and then walked away.
This is a ghostwriting assignment.
Wei Helai picked up a business while he was studying secretly.
His name is Li Bian, and he is the only son of a wealthy businessman in Feiye City. He spends a lot of money.
Wei He collected the broken silver and calculated it.
"In this way, the tuition fee is almost the same as going to Old Man Zheng to learn Huishan Quan."
Since he has a golden finger, he will naturally not give up the method of opening it easily.
The information about the Realm-Breaking Pearl mentioned that it was a skill that broke through the realm. Wei He tried to practice some ordinary Sanshou fighting techniques under the training of his eldest sister, but it was useless.
Later, from his eldest sister, he learned that there are some people in the world who master a method called Nei Lianfa.
This group of talents are the real masters in the world, just like the Blackwater Gang where the eldest sister belongs, there are such masters among them.
It's just that the internal training method is not easily passed on to others. Wei He also relied on his eldest sister's relationship to search for more than a month before he found a place nearby that could teach the internal training method, that is, Old Man Zheng's place.