The sky was bright, and the breath of the sea breeze unconsciously made people frown. Most of them are still asleep, and Du Yuming and the others are no exception, they didn't stay up yesterday and fell asleep.

Liao Fan, who had slept for a day and two nights, finally woke up, and there was still some darkness around, but through the light outside the window, he could see the surrounding situation clearly.

After slowing down for a while, Liao Fan finally realized that something was wrong with him, but Liao Fan didn't realize that he had slept for a day and two nights.

"How can you be so thirsty!"

Liao Fan watched several people sleeping on their backs, and it was impossible for them to help, so Liao Fan decided to get up and find water by himself.

"Hey~ I didn't sit down, I didn't sleep, I still snored and grinded my teeth, I really can't stand you!"

Liao Fan took a chair and sat at the table, because of the high fever, his head was still a little dizzy, but he was not sleepy at all, and he didn't want to go back to bed to sleep.

And it's so early, most people are still sleeping! It's too boring to sit like this by yourself!

Since there was such a rare opportunity to be alone, Liao Fan decided to go out for a walk alone, anyway, there were few people who could recognize him, and there were not many people in the morning, and he was walking around the beach.

Several people slept like dead pigs, and they didn't notice Liao Fan leaving.

Because for more than a month, Liao Fan stayed at the beach in Shantou, and he was not interested in coming to the beach early in the morning!

On the contrary, due to the busy time of the month, Liao Fan had never been to a nearby fishing village, and the food he usually went to get was bought by the soldiers.

Since he had such a good opportunity today, Liao Fan decided to go to the nearby fishing village to have a look, anyway, he didn't wear a military uniform, he was just an ordinary person at this time.

People in fishing villages often get up early, because fishermen have to get up early to go out to sea to fish! As for women, children and the elderly, they basically stay at home, and if they have land at home, they can do some farm work! Women who don't have land do some sewing and mending work at home.

Chickens in fishing villages have been crowing two or three times, and smoke is rising from some fishermen's homes. However, the first dog barking today was caused by Liao Fan.

Some people in the village were curious that someone would enter the village so early! Moreover, this quaint small fishing village is almost all year round, and there are only merchants who sell things, and there are no strangers entering at all.

The fishing village is not as big as Liao Fan imagined, with dozens of families and hundreds of people! Especially in the morning, when the smoke is rising, the whole village is the quietest, and no stranger enters the village, and the dogs raised in the village do not bark at all.

Although strangers came, there was no one in the village who came out of the house! Liao Fan walked around the village, and finally met an old man.

"Hello old man!"

Liao Fan stepped forward and took the initiative to greet him, but the old man seemed to have some problems with his ears and didn't hear what Liao Fan said at all.

"I've eaten, I've eaten, huh!" The old man kept nodding.

Liao Fan smiled, a little helpless, he understood that the old man had a hearing problem, but he didn't expect to get such an answer. Liao Fan looked around, hoping to find a second person to talk to, but he was a little disappointed.

"Since you've eaten, I'll sit here with you!" Liao Fan said with a smile.

Since the old man is willing to sit here, there will definitely be people passing by here during the day.

"Where's your child, old man?" Liao Fan didn't give up and still tried to communicate.

"Eighty, it seems to be eighty-two, eighty or eighty-two, I don't remember!"

It doesn't seem to be your average deafness.

"I'm not asking how old you are, I'm asking what about your children?" Liao Fan raised his volume, and gestured with his hand, trying to make the old man understand what he meant.

Looking at Liao Fan's teeth and claws, the old man seemed to understand what Liao Fan meant, and his eyes showed very sad feelings.

After a while, the old man's old voice answered Liao Fan's question: "They are all dead, my sons are dead in war, my grandson is dead in war, I am waiting here for them to come back." ”

Sending a white-haired person to a black-haired person may not be the greatest tragedy in the world, but this kind of pain is not something that everyone can bear, and the old man who should have been in the same house for four generations has not even seen the last face of his children and grandchildren, and he has not even sent the corpse back.

Liao Fan wanted to ask his son and grandson again about the specific cause of death, whether they were killed on the battlefield or killed by little devils at home because of the war, but considering the old man's emotions, Liao Fan did not speak.

At this time, the old man was already very excited, and the dry tobacco in his hand kept knocking on the stones, as if the ashes in the smoke pot would never finish!

Liao Fan took the initiative to take his dry tobacco and tobacco pouch from the old man's hand, and then helped him pack the cigarettes and light them with a fire fold!

The old man took a deep breath of cigarette, it seemed that there were so many things in the world, only the dry tobacco in his hand could soothe the indescribable pain in his heart.

"Back then, my little grandson liked to fill me with cigarette pouches, but a group of soldiers came, and they took them away to be soldiers! I sent a letter back a few years ago, but there has been no news since the year before last! People say he's dead, I don't believe it, I just sit here every day and wait for him, and he'll come back. ”

Although I don't know how many children he has and how many grandchildren he has, for the old man, his last hope is his only grandson.

Liao Fan also knew that his grandson might not be able to come back, and this empty and protracted war had caused countless human tragedies to this ancient country. Although Liao Fan doesn't know how many people have died, but in a low-level family like this, I'm afraid that nine out of ten households have experienced the torture of losing their loved ones.

"He's going to be back, he's going to be back!"

No matter how long he can live at such an age, maybe a little hope is that the dry tobacco in his hand can soothe the biggest pain in his heart.

After a while, someone from the village finally came out! They were very curious when they saw Liao Fan, although this person had a dark face, his physique was very strong.

A few women took the initiative to talk, and after a sentence or two, their purpose was revealed, because the girls in their family were old enough to be married, and there were not many men in their village and nearby villages, so the marriage of girls became a big problem.

Liao Fan smiled and declined, telling the villagers that he already had a favorite girl! But they are still unyielding, and they don't even mind Liao Fan marrying a few more.

"Ahem," Liao Fan coughed dryly a few times, and then changed the subject, "Why are there so few men in your village?" ”

"This is a long way to say, from the beginning of the Westerners, we continued to draw out strong men to become soldiers, and then later Sun Wen made a revolution and recruited soldiers, until now, no one in our village can come back." An eldest sister said to Liao Fan.

"He had four sons, all of whom died on the battlefield, and nine grandsons, three of whom were killed by the little devils when they were haunting the little devils, and the rest were all captured. None of them have come back until now. ”

One by one, the eldest sister pointed to the old man and said: "Now he is confused, he doesn't know whether he eats or not, and our village takes turns to bring him food, twice a day!" ”

Liao Fan glanced at the old man, he didn't know if the old man was really confused, but he still remembered his children.

"By the way, young man, we haven't asked you where you're from?"

"Me? I'm from the north, I've been living here for more than a month, and I'm leaving in a few days! Liao Fan said vaguely.

"Oh, look at you don't want our people here!"

"Don't you have any income here except fishing?"

"The mountains eat the mountains and the sea eat the sea, and the land by the sea cannot grow crops, so we can only eat the sea."

"Don't you have any plans to do business?" Relying on fishing alone, relying on the current situation, more than ten generations of fishing should not necessarily be able to get rich.

"Doing business? We take the fish we have caught and sell it at the market, whether it is a business or not! ”

For the locals, the condition for survival is the sea, and it seems that without the sea, they have no way to live.

Of course, changing their minds is the most important thing, just as changing their minds is that a man must have several wives!

However, changing their minds also requires changing the local demographics, and after a war, the young people in the village were almost lost, and it is difficult to change the minds of the older generation, but it is very simple to change the minds of young people.

When Liao Fan was talking to the villagers, a group of people in his residence went crazy! Du Yuming was the first to wake up, but he didn't see Liao Fan.

So he went out to look for it, and he searched everywhere he could, but he still didn't find Liao Fan! He chuckled in his heart, Liao Fan was lost!

"Oh no, Brother Fan is gone, Brother Fan is gone!"

Du Yuming woke Liao Jundong and the others up, and roared to tell them that he had not found Liao Fan.

"Mortal?"

Liao Jundong's first reaction was to look at the bed, because when he fell asleep last night, he was sure that Liao Fan was still lying on the bed, but why was Liao Fan gone when he opened his eyes?

"Did you find it?"

"I've searched all the way, but I haven't found Brother Fan!" Du Yuming has been looking everywhere.

"What about the guards at the door? Did they see the mortals? ”

"Brother Liao, the guards reported that Brother Fan went out for a walk! Maybe come back in a moment. ”

When Liao Fan left, he did tell the guards to go out for a walk and come back in a while!

"Is there anyone around?"

"Nope!"

"I'll get out and find them! Brother Fan, if something goes wrong, who will bear this responsibility! Du Yuming yelled at Huai Yuanliang.

Liao Fan's life is related to the safety of the country, and now many people want Liao Fan's life, how can there be no one around Liao Fan to protect him at this time.

Huai Yuanliang immediately summoned all the people under him and asked them to go to find Liao Fan, even Huai Yuanliang left here, he was Liao Fan's guard captain, Liao Fan had a problem, and he, the guard captain, had the primary responsibility.