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It's a pale ceiling again, every time I open my eyes, it's the familiar pale, plain, ordinary, no content to the point that it seems as if my thoughts, emotions, and even human nature will be smoothed out by this pale and ordinary ceiling. However, before there was more disgust, a feeling of sultry warmth soon swept over the body that still felt cold, so that the face and other areas with developed blood vessels were instantly congested. Zhong Li looked at the window on the side, the sunlight illuminated the white window screen as if it was overexposed, and then looked at the small print on the hatch in front of him, "2109/9/18" below "13:46".

It turned out to be an early autumn afternoon, and Fang was still in the ice and snow with several arrows in his body, and he was so frozen that he almost lost his sense of pain, and it was dark all around, but now it was sunny, and there was even a trace of heat. However, Zhong Li had long been accustomed to it, after all, there was a six-fold difference in the speed of time passing between the two worlds, and it was normal for him to wake up at any time and in any climate.

The stealth hatch slowly opened, and the warm and dry wind blew on Zhong Li's skin, and there was a faint smell of detergent in the wind, probably because the housework machine was cleaning up again.

"Biluo spring, lighter, seventy degrees." Zhong Li said while rubbing his eyes, and then stepped out of the cabin and stretched on the spot. Hearing the sound of running water outside the house, a gray cylindrical robot that reached the height of his chest appeared in the slight sound of a motor, carrying a simple round glass pot containing pale blue-yellow tea in one hand like a metal bracket, and a glass disc with a small glass cup in the other.

"The Biluo spring tea you wanted." The robot stood in the doorway, respectfully emitting an impatient female voice, which would have been very disagreeable to strangers when they saw it.

"Put it on the table."

The robot did not follow Zhong Li's instructions and put the things directly on the walnut desk, but first put them on the window sill on the side, turned the small wheels on the mechanical legs, went outside to get two straw mats and put them on the table, and then put the teapot and teacup down on the mat. After the robot did this, it turned the small wheel and stopped in front of Zhong Li.

"Thanks, Yuandun'er." Zhong Li said and touched the robot's round engineering plastic braincase.

Yuandun'er is a housework robot that Zhong Li did in school elective classes, and has been brought back by Zhong Li to be a housekeeper for five or six years. Although before it, there were deacons and maid housekeeping robots on the market that were almost similar to real people, and it was not a problem for Zhong Li to sell as much as he wanted, but Zhong Li never thought about changing to a new one.

Yuandun'er is much worse than the housework machines on the market in terms of appearance and movement, and the time for school electives and the technology provided are only enough for Zhong Li to complete the basic housework functions, and even the language and emotional systems that Zhong Li needs are all completed by his sister Zhong Hui to help him find someone to complete. And why it speaks in a very strange tone is also because when recording the language, Zhong Hui's friend designated Zhong Hui as the language learning object in order to get it quickly, and in the end, its voice and emphasis came from the impatient sister. But perhaps it was this result of disobedience that made Zhong Li even more reluctant to replace this housework machine he built himself.

After Yuan Dun'er left satisfied, Zhong Li pondered what he was going to do, after all, three months of death time is half a month in the real world, in other words, the next time he can land on "Divide and Unit" and return to his life as General Zhong Li, it will be on the afternoon of October 3 at the earliest. While there are a number of other short-term stealth games to play, he doesn't have any nature at all. Although "Split and Combined" is also a stealth game, he feels that it is his real life, a stop for rest in the middle of life, and what the other worlds are like has nothing to do with him, so he doesn't need to spend a little energy.

As for relatives and friends, not to mention, almost all of his friends are over there, even if they die like him, they won't have much intersection in the real world. Although he has an older sister and a younger sister who live here, his sister has just gotten married, and in addition to work, he has to work hard to have children. My sister is still a minor, she has to complete the required time and share of work, and she lives with her parents. As for returning to his parents' house, Zhong Li didn't want to think about it, as long as he saw his father, who was as rigid as the Code of Hammurabi (a written law tablet more than 3,000 years ago), the two would definitely quarrel within three sentences, and his mother would definitely help his father speak again. Except for a meal at home for the New Year, he almost no longer has anything to do with the two.

However, there are a lot of books on the walnut bookshelf at hand that he has not finished, and the last time he turned some books was more than a year ago, that is, he died in front of Yuan Xian seven years ago in "Divide and Combination". He remembered that the last time he flipped through the third floor of the bookcase on his left hand was "Six Tales of Floating Life", in which Shen Fu and Yun Niang's love affair that began when they were young attracted him so much that he only skipped the second or third parts to see the tragic ending of the two.

But he returned there before he finished reading the book, and then he was spoiled by Yuan Xian, and later learned that the fifth and sixth records in the book were made up by later generations, and the dog's tail continued to be mink, so he completely lost the nature of picking up the book again, even if the book was there.

Zhong Li's eyes swept and saw "Liu Ru is Farewell", but he was persuaded to retire after only half a section. In the first section, in order to figure out what Liu Ruye's original name was, he turned out the relevant classic records one by one to corroborate it, and he was dizzy with the annotations alone. He couldn't understand how Chen Yinke could settle down and do such a solid job in the turbulent times more than a hundred years ago, but since then, he has never seen such an academic work in the next hundred years. Maybe the people after that were the same as he is now, didn't have the courage to open such a book.

Jumping a few more books that were boring just by looking at the name, Zhong Li saw "Tao'an Dream Memories", in which Zhang Dai wrote about the interesting things in Suzhou and Hangzhou in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, from natural scenery, to places of interest, to cultural and interesting things. He had read some chapters of this book sporadically before, and when he came to Yangzhou to ask for a knife, he visited the area of Suzhou and Hangzhou along the way, and found that many places were almost the same as those described in the book. I think that when Yuan Qizhi and others established the world of "Separation and Combination", they also referred to a lot of similar literature.

Zhong Li took the book out of the shelf, thinking that there were many interesting things described in the book, which he could use for himself to do in his spare time. Compared with tool books such as "Luban Book" or "Building French Style", he feels more comfortable and casual to do some small crafts in this way of "nonsense" after relying on literati experience, regardless of whether he can come up with a serious result in the end.

As he was flipping through the catalogue and wondering which section to read, the communication terminal in his ear rang. He raised his left arm in front of him, tapped his head to the right, and the wristband on his left arm projected a foot-sized image in front of him, and in the center of the picture was a girl with short hair and bangs and wearing a work uniform.

"You're back?"

Zhong Li threw a roll of his eyes at the wristband, "When you grow up, you won't even call your brother?" ”

"Okay, brother, brother, brother......" Zhong Min called four or five times in a row in different tones, and after seeing Zhong Li's face full of embarrassment, he stopped and said, "Why are you willing to come back?" Could it be that he is dead again? ”

"Talk like I'm a vegetarian."

"Otherwise, how can you be willing to come back?"

Zhong Li smiled helplessly, "Yes, that's right, I'm dead again." ”

Hearing Zhong Li say that he was dead, Zhong Min suddenly behaved happily. "Really? It's a rarity. Then I'll go over in the afternoon and play with you for two days. If I don't play with you again, you'll forget about this lovely sister. ”

"Don't you have to go to work?"

"Today is Friday, after work, I told my father that my sister would stay at my sister's house for two days."

"Don't you think our mother said that you affect people's married lives?"

"Then she doesn't want to kiss her sister when she gets married? What's wrong with letting her rest for two days? ”

"Okay, okay, you little sun, but quickly find someone who can cure you and take you in."

"Non-existent." Zhong Min grinned. "Alright, the afternoon work begins, see you in the evening."

"Wait a minute, what are you going to eat at night? I heard my sister say that the western restaurant at the door is closed. ”

Zhong Min rolled his eyes. "Can't you just do it yourself? Is an afternoon enough for you to order some ingredients? Or is my sister not tired enough of your General Zhong Li to cook it himself? ”

Hanging up the communication, Zhong Li saw that the time was already 2:01 in the afternoon, if you want to cook Zhong Min's favorite dishes, you must place an order now, so that when Zhong Min comes, you only need to cook or heat the prepared things to have dinner.

He used his wristband to pull out the ingredients for delivery, and when he saw that the filet mignon was free today, he was even more determined about what he wanted to do, so he added the ingredients to his order one by one.

"Steak, two servings, free; eggs, three, free; One bag of high-gluten flour, free; a piece of butter, free of charge; Onions and mushrooms are half a catty each, and they are also free...... "Zhong Li first checked the free things, these commonly used ingredients for Zhong Li, a legal citizen who has completed compulsory education and work, the amount of a year is basically inexhaustible, plus sometimes the material is overproduced, and many cheap ingredients will be free for a limited time, so first check the free things, and finally add the necessary items in the charging items, which is a shopping method for unemployed vagrants like Zhong Li. After all, they don't do anything, and their annual income is only 500 yuan of the rated subsidy.

Zhong Li then opened the charging item, Parma ham and table wine combined cost him a total of ten yuan, and the rest of the ingredients and tools were in the kitchen. Although he doesn't cook a few times a year, he will always keep an eye on whether these things have deteriorated or been lost, so that when to use them, these things are complete.

After selecting the ingredients, Zhong Li placed an order, and the payment amount went directly from his vital signs authentication account, and he hesitated for a moment in the delivery method, although the delivery fee of three cents was nothing to him, but it was rare that the weather was not bad, so Zhong Li decided to go to the distribution site to pick it up.

The ingredients he ordered are sorted and packed by artificial intelligence from various warehouses and put into transportation pipelines, which distribute the packages to the receiving stations where they need them through underground conveyor belts. With the exception of the lower city and individual self-built houses, each residential area has a receiving station, where the AI will manage the parcels that are picked up together, and the ones that need to be delivered will be picked up by the delivery machine and sent to each final station.

Zhong Li took a shower for more than ten minutes, and when he saw that the things he ordered were basically in place, he changed into a light and breathable gray sweatshirt and went out. Since he lived in a single-family residential area on the ground, and the site was still a little far from his house, he called Yuanduer to go out with him.

"It's a nice day." The moment he pushed open the door, the bright and white sunlight in front of him shook Zhong Li's eyes, and the blue shadow under the eaves of the corridor looked so deep. "It's a good day for leisure."