Human Shackles

After a long time, Luo Kai was awakened again by the stinging pain from all over his body. He knew that he was alive because he felt pain now.

The old fisherman went to the mountains every day to look for herbs, crushed them into mud, covered Luo Kai’s whole body, and wrapped him tightly with a bandage, his kind eyes reminded him of father.

In the following days, the pain was with him all day long. His injury was too serious. No part of his body was intact. A hole was blown in his butt by shrapnel, and his bones were exposed directly. The wounds were soaked in seawater and swollen and became homes for some Insects.

This is a poor small fishing village. There are probably only a dozen households. They rely on planting crops for their livelihoods. The seaside is mostly saline soil. The harvest can be imagined. It’s not that they don’t want to fish, but these In recent years, there are fewer and fewer offshore fish, and it is difficult to get a good harvest.

The old fisherman is not good at words. He doesn’t even have a name. Others call him cripple. His life is obviously very difficult. In order to fill the belly of Luo Kai, he borrows food all day long. This makes Luo Kai unavoidable. Feeling guilty, I can only repay him when the injury heals.

Luo Kai finally had his first full meal in more than a year since he came to this World. His stomach is like a bottomless pit. The rice tank can usually give the old fisherman a week’s ration. He ate it clean once, and it was still eaten raw. He also didn’t expect that he could eat it so much. The raw rice was broken down and cleaned not long after it was eaten, and even the swelling did not appear.

With sufficient food, the body’s recovery speed has increased several times, and it takes about half a month to get out of bed and walk around.

On this day, Luo Kai clenched his fists and felt that his physical strength had recovered a lot, so he went to the field with a cane to watch the old fisherman dig a ditch.

The old fisherman’s house is on a small hillside. It is a small courtyard built of broken stones. In front of it is a paddy field. The soil is too salt-alkaline. The rice is stubborn and the backyard is planted. A few acres of coffee trees and tobacco are not harvest season yet, and the coffee beans are still very green.

People take food as their heaven. Obviously, this rice field has cost the old fisherman a lot of hard work. This is a sandy land with a lot of rubble. You need to pick up the rubble first, and then carry it with fertility. Only the black soil can grow food, rice likes water, and it is necessary to dig a ditch nearly 2-3 li to attract river water for irrigation.

Seeing Luo Kai’s arrival, the old fisherman laughed at him with a grin. The ridge in front of him beckoned him to sit down, smoking a dry cigarette and telling his story.

The old fisherman has no children and has serious rheumatism. Because he has not received effective treatment, he has a lame problem. He has only one younger brother. When the family was separated, because the younger brother had a pair Wife and son, the old fisherman gave both the house and the land to the younger brother. He found a barren hill and built a house. The land before and after the yard was reclaimed into fertile land by him. When he said this, he stood up and pointed. The old face covered in wrinkles was full of pride in the field under his feet.

In this way, Luo Kai temporarily stayed at the old fisherman’s house. He recovered very quickly. It didn’t take long for the old fisherman to work on the ground. At the beginning, he didn’t understand anything, but the learning speed was very fast. Become a veteran of crops.

A little bit of time passed, and Luo Kai’s injury finally recovered completely. His vigorous energy had nowhere to vent, so he simply helped the old fisherman open up the wasteland around him. This work is not easy. Pick up all the big stones, and then carry fertile black soil from the woods three kilometers away, so that the land has nutrients.

Luo Kai only sleeps for two or three hours a day, with the scorching sun during the day, and the moonlight at night, traveling between the woods and the small courtyard. Two months later, the wasteland around the small courtyard is covered by black soil. , The old fisherman planted Fruit Trees on it.

Most youngsters in the fishing villages work outside, some in factories in the city, and some in large farms. Those who are left are old and weak women and children. The fishermen know that the old cripple’s house takes them in. I have a strong labor force, and often come to ask Luo Kai to help. The fishermen are very simple and they inevitably give some dried fish and bacon after finishing their work.

Whenever two people are together, the old fisherman always likes to pass on his knowledge, how to make tobacco, the medicinal properties of herbs, the skills of spear fishing, how to make it by hand. Aromatic coffee, brewed fruit wine, etc.

This World’s household registration system is perfect. People like Luo Kai who don’t even know where he comes from naturally attracted attention. The village chief in the fishing village discussed with the old fisherman for a long time. At the cost of ten catties of tobacco, the village head was finally willing to help Luo Kai settle his household registration.

Actually, the fishermen have already guessed the origin of Luo Kai. The scar of 9527 printed on Luo Kai’s chest reveals his origin. There are only two people in this World who have such a mark. One is Slave is a prisoner. First is fine, because Xingma’s laws have long forbidden slave trading, but it is very difficult to implement it.

This World industry is not very popular yet, so population is an extremely important resource. Generally, the people who raise slaves are large farmers, and these people control the food trade of the entire country, so on Although the surface bans slave trade, it is still rampant secretly.

The fishermen all think that Luo Kai is the slave who escaped from the big farm. The slave’s status in this World is extremely humble and very pitiful.

Soon Luo Kai’s identity was established. The identity certificate was an iron plate, which indicated Luo Kai’s age and household registration. Luo Kai didn’t know how old he was, so he compiled it. A 18-year-old, his household registration followed the old fisherman, and his kinship belonged to the adopted son of the old fisherman.

With such a super labor force as Luo Kai, the old fisherman is completely free and goes to the beach every day to fish. He has extremely high fishing skills and will gain every time. Of course, most of these gains are in Luo Kai’s stomach. Since his injury recovered, his appetite has grown. If it weren’t for his work, he would have worked hard enough. The old fisherman was afraid that he would not be able to feed him.

Gradually, Luo Kai’s stick-like body became stronger. One year later, his height jumped up a few centimeters, about 1.9 meters, and his immature face became firm and developed. The muscles are angular, and the scars are scattered all over the body, revealing a sturdy aura, which looks like a character in a comic from the outside.

This body has too much energy. It may be that he has slept for too long in the past year. Now that he is free, he no longer wants to sleep.

He only sleeps for two to three hours a day, and if he wakes up with nothing to do, he will become very anxious, and ordinary farm work has become increasingly difficult to satisfy his excess energy.

Later, he simply started the most basic “skinning” in the cultivation martial arts. He only wore a pair of pants. He was shirtless regardless of cold or heat. His skin became dark and rich when exposed to the sun for a long time. Luster, with explosive power at a glance.