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  Zhao Defu, a middle-aged man from Huinan Town, Nanhui County, Shanghai, is a well-known local melon grower.

  Nanhui's watermelon is famous throughout Shanghai, and Zhao Defu's 8424 seedless watermelon is the top brand in Nanhui, with a large size, sweet juice, and a uniform red flesh when cut open.

  Every summer, special customers from the city rush to Nanhui to collect a particular variety of melon. Throughout Nanhui County, his watermelons sell out the fastest and at the highest price.

  After working hard for over a decade, Zhao Defu's income from growing melons not only allowed him to build a small house for his family and buy a truck, but also saved up tens of millions in the bank, making him a minor rich man locally.

  At middle age, Zhao Defu was in the prime of life, but the only thing that made him feel a little unhappy was that his wife had not given birth to a son, which made him feel quite depressed for a while.

  Fortunately, however, their daughter Zhao Lin was clever and quick-witted from a young age. As she grew older, she became increasingly beautiful and elegant. What's more, she was also very considerate of others. With her mother's poor health over the past few years, Zhao De Fu's idea of having another child to carry on the family line had been completely dispelled.

  Zhao Defu just returned from the city with his daughter after delivering melons to a customer, and since the back of the car was empty, he let the boy sit in the back while he and his daughter got on and headed home.

  Zhao Lin turned her head and looked through the rear window of the driver's compartment at the movements of the boy behind, but at this time the boy had returned to calmness. He curled up in the corner of the carriage, his eyes staring blankly at the scenery outside that was rapidly receding into the distance. No one knew what he was thinking about at this moment.

  Zhao Lin turned her head, thinking to herself, she didn't know why she insisted on letting her old dad bring this boy back home, it's just that she always felt like there was something about this boy that attracted her, his thin and weak body made people want to help him, care for him.

  Am I being too soft-hearted again? Normally, I like to pick up stray cats and dogs at home, now I've even picked up a person, and later my mom will scold me again.

  An hour later, Zhao Defu parked the truck steadily in his own yard, and his wife had already come out to greet him when she heard the sound.

  "Ah Fu, why are you so late? I was worried that something had happened to you!" Zhao Defu's wife, Shen Chunfang, is a typical rural woman, small and thin, with a yellowish complexion. Although her family's conditions are not bad, she doesn't like to dress up, and except for an ancestral jade bangle on her wrist, she doesn't have any gold or silver jewelry.

  "Mom! Dad almost got crushed today, so we were delayed." Zhao Lin had already jumped down from the driver's cabin like a little rabbit and rushed into her mother's arms.

  "What? Crushed someone? Who... who was crushed?! Ah Fu, how could you be so careless?!" These words scared Shen Chunfang half to death, her hands and feet turning cold.

  At this time, Zhao Defu also jumped down from the car and scolded Zhao Lin, "Little girl, your mouth is not tight. Don't listen to Xiaolin's nonsense. It wasn't that someone was crushed, it was us who rescued a person from the road."

  As he spoke, he walked to the back of the car, knocked on the carriage board and shouted, "Hey, kid, get down! We've arrived!"

  After a while, hearing no movement in the car, Zhao Defu couldn't help but feel that something was strange. Had he fallen asleep?

  Zhao Lin was over there talking to Shen Chunfang about what had just happened and hadn't noticed the situation here.

  Zhao Defu was puzzled, turned to the back of the car, and looked inside by climbing onto the rear bumper. However, he was shocked to find that there was no one there, the little guy had vanished.

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  At this time, the boy was ten kilometers away from Zhao Defu's home, walking in the opposite direction along the road. His hearing was very good, and he heard the conversation between the girl and her father. This father-daughter pair saved his life, and his goodwill towards them exceeded 50 in his heart, but he didn't want to become a 'trouble' in their mouths.

  So, when the car was halfway there, he jumped out of the car.

  The sky had already darkened, and the country road had no streetlights. The boy walked forward under the moonlight, not knowing where his destination was, but feeling that he should get farther and farther away from that kind-hearted father and daughter.

  The girl's bread and her father's tea water helped him recover some of his strength, in fact, before that, he had not eaten anything for ten whole days, so the hunger level would rise to a dangerous 99.9%, otherwise, not eating for several days was not life-threatening for him.

  The woods by the side of the road suddenly made an unusual noise, and four green lights appeared to be approaching the boy.

  The boy stopped in his tracks, his eyes fixed on the dark forest ahead. Two small red arrows appeared in his line of sight. The boy's brow furrowed, and he knew what the red color represented.

  The little red arrow came closer and closer, finally revealing its figure under the moonlight.

  "Wild dog, attack level one, low health value, weapon - claws and teeth. Combat assessment - it's as easy to take them down as a sneeze." A pleasant female voice echoed in my mind.

  The boy's eyebrows spread out, looking at the wild dog's mangy fur, then looked at his own tattered clothes and couldn't help but laugh dumbly, muttering to himself, "Could it be that you two want to bully me too? Don't you think we three are a bit alike? You'd better leave quickly, otherwise don't blame me for being ruthless!"

  The wild dogs didn't understand his words at all, and the two wild dogs pounced on him from left and right. They must have been starving for a long time without finding food, otherwise they wouldn't attack humans.

  The boy didn't panic, his body flashed backward like lightning, and his hands quickly stretched out to both sides, aiming at the dog's head, gently closing in on it.

  "Bang!" Two dog heads collided with each other like Mars crashing into Earth.

  The wild dog let out two mournful howls and after falling to the ground, it quickly got up and ran into the woods in a panic.

  It seems the boy still showed mercy, otherwise these two wild dogs would have been seriously injured or even killed.

  "Hehe, go ahead! Little thing, spare you this time!" The boy smiled lightly, and what just happened to him was as simple as kicking away a small stone.

  "Repel wild dogs and gain 20 combat experience points." A pleasant female voice echoed in his mind.

  The boy's expression suddenly froze for a moment, the smile on his face seemed to be stuck there, he shook his head, sighed, and continued walking forward.

  The boy walked along the road step by step, as if he didn't know fatigue at all, without any intention of stopping to rest for a while.

  The vehicles that occasionally drove by on the road seemed to have ignored this figure, and not a single car was willing to stop and ask why this boy was still walking in the wilderness so late at night. This can't be blamed on those drivers, who knows if this boy is a decoy for those roadside robbers? If they stopped their cars, several big men would jump out from the side of the road and rob them instead, what's the point of that?

  In this day and age, there are too many strange things happening, nothing is impossible, just that you might not think of it.

  Unconsciously, the east had a fish belly white, and it was about to dawn. The boy actually walked for an entire night.

  The scenery on both sides of the road has changed, no longer a monotonous forest or field, low-rise houses have gradually increased, and the dirt road underfoot has become an asphalt road. Looking far into the distance, you can even see high-rise buildings in the distance.

  The boy stopped in front of the entrance to a residential area, and three meters in front of him was an oil strip stand, not far from the large iron gate of the community. The geographical location is very good, and his current hunger level is only 10%, but the aroma of freshly fried oil strips greatly stimulated his sense of smell.

  The stall owner was a man in his forties, deftly kneading the dough on the chopping board. His wife then put the finished fried dough sticks into the oil pot one by one.

  On the iron sieve on the oil pan, more than a dozen freshly fried dough sticks were neatly arranged.

  The boy stood in front of the stall, staring at the fried dough sticks and swallowing his saliva loudly.

  "Hey young man, want some breakfast? How many fried dough sticks do you want?" The boss's wife had already noticed the boy and was enthusiastically calling out to him, thinking to herself that it was a good omen that someone had come to buy fried dough sticks so early.

  The boy swallowed again and stepped forward two steps, saying, "I want...two."

  The boss's wife was taken aback. What's with this boy's strange way of speaking? Which accent is this? However, when doing business, one naturally wouldn't pay attention to these things.

  "Alright! Here, these are two fried dough sticks!" The boss's wife quickly picked up the two fried dough sticks with chopsticks and put them into a small plastic bag, handing it to the boy.

  The boy took over the fried dough stick and took a big bite, it's so delicious!

  "Oil Strip, edible. Each serving of 100g reduces hunger by 15%, continuously restores 5% HP within 5 minutes, and increases delight by 5%."

  Hehe, it's really good stuff. Not only does it reduce hunger by 5% more than bread, but it also increases pleasure. The boy is delighted and chews with a big mouth. Fragrant! Really fragrant!

  The boss's wife watched the boy take his third bite, and found that he still didn't seem to be willing to pay. She couldn't help but speak up, "Hey, young man, two fried dough sticks cost one yuan in total."

  "Money?" The boy was stunned, what is this thing?

  The boss's wife felt a sudden jolt in her heart and thought, "Could it be that we've encountered someone who eats for free?"

  He took a look at the oil strips in the boy's hand, each of which had been bitten into, and even if he took them back, they couldn't be sold anymore. He felt a surge of anger in his heart, thinking, "You ate something without paying for it and still dare to pretend to be innocent!"

  The boss's wife picked up the mooncake box filled with money beside her, shook it in front of the boy a few times, and the coins and metal boxes inside made a clinking sound. She said gruffly, "Did you hear that? This is what money sounds like! You have to pay when you buy things! If you don't have money, then don't buy anything! Do you understand?"

  The last sentence in Shanghainese was learned by the boss and the customer, although it wasn't spoken perfectly, but they managed to imitate it quite well. The boss often incorporates it into her daily speech and feels proud when others praise her for it.

  The boy suddenly realized that the oil strip still needed to be bought with "money". He looked at the mooncake box in the boss's hand, which contained many large and small metal discs, as well as more than a dozen paper slips with the words "One Yuan", "Two Yuan" and "Five Yuan" written on them. It turned out that this was what the boss meant by "money".

  This is going to be tough, the boy knew he absolutely didn't have these things on him, holding a fried dough stick and standing there awkwardly, looking at the furious landlady, not knowing what to say.

  "Oil Strip Stall Owner, Attack Power Level 1, Life Value Medium, Weapon - None. Combat Power Assessment - Dealing with her is as simple as eating an oil strip." A pleasant female voice echoed in my mind.

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