Chapter 2: 1995 in Parallel Worlds

Shaking his aching head, Su Huanchuan still couldn't open his eyes.

She didn't know why the pendant was obviously pierced in her heart, but it hurt her head, as if she had been hit by something hard.

Thinking about it carefully, she seemed to have the impression that since the pendant was submerged in her chest, her body began to tumble over the sea, and the pain was so abnormal that when she struggled, the back of her head hit the sharp corner of the bedside table, and she didn't know anything on the spot.

Reaching out and touching his neck, the pendant had disappeared without a trace, and there was no rope left. Su Huanchuan touched his chest and abdomen again, afraid that the pendant would fall on his body, but not only did he not touch the pendant, but even another thing disappeared with him.

What about Lao Tzu's breasts?!

Su Huanchuan jumped up on the spot, and hit the cold and hard car glass with a "bang" on her forehead, and her small body immediately collapsed back, flipping up and down in the gap between the floor of the back seat of the jeep, like a fish out of water.

"Why is the effect of the medicine so short this time?" the woman sitting in the back seat asked the man driving the car dissatisfiedly, and kicked Su Huanchuan hard, "Be honest with me!"

"It's almost there, kick her hard and don't toss. The man waved his hand impatiently and slammed on the accelerator.

Su Huanchuan automatically settled down without waiting for the woman to get down, not because she was afraid of being kicked, but because she knew this woman, to be precise, even if she burned it to ashes and turned into mud, she couldn't forget it.

When she was eleven years old, she was waiting for the shuttle bus at the school gate when a tall, fashionably dressed woman appeared in front of her and said that she was going somewhere and asked her to help lead the way. In the words of the parents of the classmate who stopped the woman back then, Su Huanchuan seemed to be fascinated by something at that time, and followed the woman with straight eyes. Fortunately, because of the kind classmate's parents, she finally followed the bus back home safely, but it also scared her parents enough, and this incident also lingered in her heart like a shadow for a long time, and she always remembered the appearance of that woman in her thirties.

At that time, she was wearing a brown tweed coat, a woolen scarf that was rare in the nineties, and a pair of shiny black leather boots, exactly like the woman sitting in front of her now.

What are you kidding? She has no obsession and no grudges, how can she go back to her childhood? What's even worse is that she hasn't actually returned to her real childhood at all! The parallel world that should have collapsed for herself is now alive in front of her eyes, which makes Su Huanchuan, who has not completely left the protection of her parents until the inexplicable end of her previous life, at a loss for a while, and she lay in the gap of the jeep for ten minutes, until she was dragged out of the car by the woman.

This hateful old Chu is all a good thing he has done! Su Huanchuan tried to twist his hands tied to his chest, thinking indignantly in his heart, if he didn't let himself wear this ghost necklace, if he didn't have to perform that ghost task, how could he ......

Wait a minute!

Su Huanchuan looked at the uneven dirt road under his feet, and he had a lot of thoughts for a while. Although it may be Lao Chu who harmed her when she was eleven years old, but now if it is really 1995, then Lao Chu is also an eleven-year-old child like her, and he is alive and well. As long as she can escape from here, she has a good chance of saving Chu Ling, after all, she still has a full twenty years to go.

This exciting news only made Su Huanchuan happy for a few seconds, but it was really because her current situation was really not good. She is a mud bodhisattva who has crossed the river, how can she still have the leisure to care about Chu Ling, who no one knows where she is now? Su Huanchuan looked at the ravine where she was now that could not be deeper, and a bad premonition rose in her heart.

This small mountain village called Chaiqu Village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and as far as the eye can see, there are the kind of low-rise bungalows and small courtyards stacked with firewood that Su Huanchuan has only seen on TV before. She was being dragged by the woman on the only dirt road leading to the outside world, and it was a difficult road for jeeps to walk, and only the children and poultry and livestock were at ease with it. Su Huanchuan struggled to walk slower, while using her somewhat road-nerd brain to desperately remember the appearance of the jeep, the license plate number, and the structure of the village.

The village is sandwiched by mountains, there is not much room for development, all the houses are basically built along this only main road, the terrain is very simple, but the trajectory of their movements is easy for others to see. Su Huanchuan thought about it for a while, and felt that she couldn't act rashly now, after all, she basically didn't have much combat power compared to the woman now, not to mention the man who was driving behind her. I had to hold my ground and see where the woman would take her.

The three of them walked for a few minutes on a narrow dirt road where they couldn't get into the car, and a particularly dilapidated courtyard appeared in front of Su Huanchuan's eyes. The woman knocked on the door, and soon a short, stocky woman poked her head out vigilantly and opened the iron door of her house.

"His eldest sister, I brought someone here, let's inspect the goods. I'll have to go back to the county later. When the woman saw the buyer, the more standard Mandarin immediately switched to the northern dialect that Su Huanchuan sounded laborious about. The short woman frowned and looked Su Huanchuan up and down, as if she was a little dissatisfied.

"It's so thin! hands are so tender, it's from the city, right?" The woman stepped forward and pinched Su Huanchuan's hand, her hand was so strong that it hurt so much that her tears were about to come out.

"And I'm a little older, I remember. At some point, there was a lame man a little farther behind the door, and he also looked at Su Huanchuan with suspicion.

"Big brother and sister, don't blame the sister for saying something unpleasant, you are a little lonely!" The tall woman stroked her hair and showed a disdainful smile on her face, "What kind of dragon mission is that, the one that has been engaged in for several years, and that group of soldiers are stationed in our village, you don't know, right?"

Seeing that the husband and wife were thoughtful, the woman struck while the iron was hot, and hurriedly continued: "I have inquired, and the girl with the highest pass rate of the test is a girl of this age, and after passing, she will be regarded as a child soldier! A monthly subsidy of 300 yuan per person, and a bonus for those who have good training results, will catch up with the wages of urban workers." Even if you can't be selected, you will be sent to the army and beaten for two months, this person will be solid, and he can do anything! So now the people who go to our village, the price is different from before, and the most valuable thing is such a big girl, if it weren't for the appointment with the two of you, I would have no problem doubling the price as soon as I changed hands. However, when it comes to trading, integrity is the most important, so I still sell it at the original price.

Seeing that the tall woman was going to take Su Huanchuan away, the man was silent for a long time and then spoke: "Old sister, the villagers, stay here, I only have a thousand for the time being, and the rest will be given to you before the New Year, do you think?"

"What is this called? It makes me look like a debt collector. The woman seemed to be a little bored, crossed her arms and thought for a while, and finally raised her hand, "That's it, write an IOU." ”

"Good, good!" the man hurriedly responded, and wrote a rudimentary IOU in pinyin with a typo, and both husband and wife signed it and pressed their fingerprints.

The woman took the IOU, left Su Huanchuan and left. Su Huanchuan looked at the couple vigilantly, and her mind was very confused. These two people are too bold! If what the tall woman said is true, and there really is a unit stationed in this mountain, then if they take themselves there to participate in the regular army selection, they will be exposed if they shout casually! How can they obediently cooperate with them to participate in the selection honestly? So whether that place exists or not, Su Huanchuan is highly skeptical about this, this may just be a code between them and the tall woman, and it is very likely that these two people want to resell themselves again!

When Su Huanchuan was thinking, the short woman had already dragged her into the hall of the black hole. The hall is very small, one table and two chairs are almost filled, the wall is pasted with the chairman's portrait, and there is a faded Guan Gong clay sculpture on the table.

Behind the living room leads to the kitchen, behind which there is a small, cluttered storage room, built separately from the house, with a large lock hanging from it. was dragged here, Su Huanchuan finally determined his thoughts, used all his strength to break away from the woman, turned around and ran back, shouting "help" as he ran.

But probably because he ran too slowly, the man sitting on the chair in the hall didn't even bother to move, and only stretched out his foot and kicked at Su Huanchuan's knee, and Su Huanchuan "plopped" and fell into the mud.

Damn, why is this ground so hard! Su Huanchuan was so pained that she burst into tears, and she had the heart to get up and fight. The woman obviously saw her thoughts, and she struck first, and it was a big slap when she stepped forward without saying a word. Su Huanchuan wanted to dodge, but her thin little body was like plastic foam and concrete compared to a woman, which caused her to dodge with all her might, which was basically equivalent to not dodging, and the woman's slap was very completely pasted on her face, and she rolled her a few times and hit her head on the threshold. Su Huanchuan suddenly felt that the sky was spinning, her eyes were full of stars, and her ears were buzzing.

While speaking, the woman had already ridden on Su Huanchuan's body, and slapped her left and right with a bow several times. Su Huanchuan subconsciously struggled to dodge, but it was still useless, and the only gain was probably to understand the strength gap between herself and women. The woman scolded in dialect while beating, and only stopped after beating more than a dozen times, not because she was tired, but because she saw the gate of the courtyard, the three boys of the old Liu family in the east of the village were probably picking up firewood and passing by, and they were standing at the door of her house at this time.

"The rabbit cub is not afraid of being blinded by his eyes, hurry up and get out! Be careful I will let your father smash your skin!" The woman picked up a wooden stake and threw it at the three boys of the Liu family, and the child ran away like a frightened rabbit, ran for less than two steps but stopped, and looked back at Su Huanchuan, who was lying on the ground with a swollen face.

"The little cub is fat, see me clean you up for your father!" the short woman scolded, pointing at Liu Xiaosan'er and about to go over to beat. Liu Xiaosan'er shrunk his neck and took two steps back, but he still had no intention of leaving.

Su Huanchuan lay on the ground for a long time, finally relieved a little, and was slowly climbing up with his face covered, when he suddenly saw the child with Chai He on his back at the door. The heart's mouth immediately hurt heartbreakingly, and it was exactly where the pendant had been submerged before. She only felt that the feeling of turning over the river and the sea when she first put on the necklace had returned, her body was hot and cold, and the pain was unbearable, and there was a mark on her heart that was very similar to the shape of the pendant. Almost subconsciously, Su Huanchuan unconsciously shouted out the name she was thinking about: "Chu Ling!"

In an instant, the body returned to normal, Su Huanchuan sat on the threshold and covered her heart, panting for breath while glancing at the little boy who was still standing at the door and not leaving. He was staring at himself with wide eyes in surprise. The mouth opened and closed, as if there was something to say.

"It's you, right? I know it's you! Chu Ling, when you hear it, you agree!" Su Huanchuan ran to the door in three or two steps, and slapped the iron door hard and shouted at the child. The boy listened to her and took two steps forward, but did not say anything, but kept watching her silently.

"I really think I won't dare to hit you, right? Get out of here!" The short woman snatched Su Huanchuan back, picked up a long stick and stabbed Liu Xiaosan'er who was standing outside through the iron door. But the kid didn't know what kind of offense he was guilty of, so he kept standing in front of the door and refused to leave, facing the woman's angry stick, that is, dodging at will, as if he decided that the woman would not really go out to beat him.

In the end, the short woman could only give up helplessly, after all, this was someone else's child, although Lao Liu beat herself fiercer than anyone else, she didn't want to cause this trouble. So after expelling Liu Xiaosan'er several times without success, the woman didn't bother to pay attention to him anymore, but directly pulled Su Huanchuan's hair and dragged her back to the house.