Chapter 2: Rotten Planks
After school in the afternoon, Chen Shouyi finally got rid of the suggestion of two friends to go to an Internet café to play for a while, and rode home alone.
"Mom, Dad, I'm back. ”
It's still early to eat, not the busiest time, and there is not a single customer in the restaurant, Chen's mother sat in the cash register, pressed the calculator over and over again, and didn't raise her head:
"If you're hungry, if you're hungry, ask your dad to make you a rice bowl first. ”
Dinner in restaurants is always very early, because the time to eat is often the busiest.
"Let's wait for my little sister to come and eat together!" Chen Shouyi dropped his schoolbag and said listlessly.
"Then you don't need the pestle here, go back to the room and do your homework!" Chen Mu Jiang Fen glanced at him and said with a look of disgust.
"I didn't have much homework today, and I had already finished it. ”
"Then help your dad kill the fish, with your results, I don't expect it. ”
Chen Shouyi is also a person who is used to being hit, and he has always been submissive, but he didn't react at all when he heard the words, and immediately ran obediently to the kitchen.
Chen Dawei said with a smile while processing the ingredients: "Don't listen to your mother, go back to the room to read, there is only one year before the college entrance examination, two books may not have much hope, and three books I think can still be spelled!"
"Who made your son stupid, it's not that I don't work hard, but if I can't do well in the exam, what can I do?" Chen Shouyi couldn't help but whispered, during this summer vacation, he didn't have a day off, and he went to cram school, but his grades still didn't improve much.
He was most afraid of his mother since he was a child, so he could only tell his father about it, and he would never dare to talk to his mother.
As he spoke, he grabbed a fish, and after he fainted, he skillfully scraped the scales.
"This is to ask your mother, when you are pregnant, you don't stay well, you have to go to the fields to run, but you fell and gave birth to you early. Chen Dawei was in a good mood and said with a happy face.
Compared to the smart dick, he still likes this stupid son, this son is like him.
"It's my fault!" Chen's mother, who was settling accounts in front, suddenly raised her head when she heard Chen Dawei's voice: "You don't want to think about it, I was just busy farming when I was pregnant, and I didn't go to bring you water, you died of thirst." ”
"Who blames you!" Chen Dawei immediately paused for a moment when he heard the knife that was cutting meat, and hurriedly said.
Chen Shouyi squeezed out a gloating smile.
In this family, the yin and yang are serious, his mother has the highest status and speaks the most effective, his father can only rank third, and there is a sister in front of him, of course, he is the most useless.
"Shhh
It seemed that he was happy and sad, Chen Shouyi's knife to scrape the fish scales accidentally used too hard, and he immediately cut his fingers, and soon the blood flowed.
"I told you not to do it, go wash it quickly, and put the band-aid under the coffee table in the living room upstairs. Chen Dawei glanced at it and said hurriedly.
injured his hand, Chen Shouyi naturally couldn't do it, so he hurriedly washed his hands and walked upstairs slowly.
His house is a self-built house facing the street, the upper floor is inhabited by people and the lower floor is a restaurant, when it was first built, it was still a suburban village, and with the expansion of the city over the years, this house has become more and more valuable.
He went upstairs and found a band-aid, and as soon as he was done, he heard the sweet and greasy voice of the old girl downstairs.
Hearing Chen's mother's completely different attitude towards her daughter and him, Chen Shouyi secretly pursed his lips.
This sycophant!
Don't look at the outside that he is so protective of this sister, in fact, the relationship between the two has not been very good.
From grabbing toys, snacks, and pets when I was a child, to comparing grades and awards when I grew up.
The presence of his sister always makes him feel like a place to go, like walking garbage.
What makes him sadest the most is that when he can't grab it when he is a child in the future, he can still beat her to tears, and now even this is powerless.
She is now a quasi-martial arts apprentice, and even if she lets him use one hand, she can crush him.
"Brother, I heard my mother say that you killed a fish and cut yourself!" Soon, my sister Chen Xingyue also walked upstairs and said with a smile.
Chen Xingyue combed a ponytail, her skin was fair, she looked delicate and lovely, and she was full of vitality.
But only Chen Shouyi knew how dark this sister was.
"What's the big deal, it's just a little bit of skin!" Chen Shouyi tried to put on the majesty of his brother, and said lightly, from her expression, he could see the taste of schadenfreude.
Chen Xingyue didn't get to the bottom of it, took the remote control, and turned on the TV.
"As we all know, the Otherworld is a world ruled by gods, and the social form in it is still in an uncivilized period, similar to the early Stone Age and the Bronze Age, but with the recent exploration of pioneers, the otherworld is undergoing drastic changes.
Now it is up to the famous sociologist Professor Luo to comment in detail.
......”
The program of another world has always been of great interest to him, Chen Shouyi simply sat on the sofa and watched it with relish, and after watching it for a while, he turned his head and asked suspiciously: "Today, why don't you do your homework." ”
Chen Xingyue kept staring at the screen, and said expressionlessly: "I have been escorted by the Beijing Martial Arts Academy. ”
"What!" Chen Shouyi turned his head in surprise, and stammered a little when he spoke: "You...... You've passed the Martial Arts Apprentice Exam. ”
"Not yet, but it's coming soon, my teacher estimates that after another month of practice, I will be able to pass the assessment. ”
"But ......"
"This year, there are 30 guaranteed places in the school, and I am one of three who have been allocated to the first year of high school. Chen Xingyue didn't wait for Chen Shouyi to ask, and immediately interrupted.
This calm and natural tone almost made Chen Shouyi go awry.
The martial arts academy and the college entrance examination are staggered, and it is a spring enrollment, which means that his sister, who is two years younger than him, will graduate from high school half a year earlier than him.
"You haven't told your parents yet?"
"Of course, this kind of important thing has to be said at night!" Chen Xingyue said.
Chen Shouyi said angrily: "Then why did you tell me first?"
"Who made you my own brother, of course I have to tell you the good news first!" Chen Xingyue finally couldn't hold back, and a big smile appeared on her face.
It's really a disgusting sister, and her heart is probably black.
Chen Shouyi's body was completely damaged, but he still tried to control the facial muscles that he wanted to twist, shut his mouth, and when he heard her speak again, he estimated that he was afraid that he would be suffocated from internal injuries.
He stared at the TV tightly, but just now he was still watching the program with relish, but at this time he was bored, thinking of his gloomy future, he couldn't sit still anymore, and picked up his schoolbag:
"I went to read a book. ”
"It's time to eat now!"
"Don't eat...... Uh, wait for me to help me get to the bedroom. ”
Walking to his bedroom and closing the door, Chen Shouyi immediately showed a look of frustration, why are the girls in the class so cute, but his sister is so annoying.
This is a naked show-off, sprinkling salt in his wounds!
He took out his math textbook from his bag, but he couldn't read it in his distraught.
He pushed open his math book and walked over to the bedroom window cabinet, ready to change his mood.
The window cabinet is his bookshelf and his collection room, which contains a collection of other worldly objects in addition to various reference books and anthologies, which are his favorites.
Bronze axes, leather shields, several stone slabs carved with mysterious totems, and several wooden plaques in a strange style give people a savage atmosphere.
However, these are all imitations bought from a handicraft store, and even a layman like Chen Shouyi can tell them at a glance.
The material of the bronze axe is obviously the product of industrial smelting, and the skin of the shield is also made of old cowhide tanning, as for the totem of those stone slabs, there is no trace of time at all, and even the stone is granite that can be seen everywhere on the earth.
However, not all of them are imitations, and Chen Shouyi suspects that it should be an original product of another world.
It's a rotten plank.
It was dark in color, in very poor condition, almost rotten, and had thousands of holes on it, as if it had been eaten by termites, indicating that its original body was probably some kind of supernatural object, with an extraordinary origin and a priceless value.
It wasn't until they arrived on Earth that these supernatural forces disintegrated, and the material quickly corroded.
It has become a real rotten plank, and even if it is thrown on the ground and encounters an illiterate person, no one will pick it up.
In fact, it is true, this rotten wooden board was picked up by Chen Shouyi on a demolition site, and it was like a treasure.
He opened the cupboard and pulled out the rotten plank.
Under the corrosion of this cosmic rule, the inside of the wooden board was already full of holes, but he could still feel that its material was still extremely hard, faintly showing the extraordinaryness of the original body.
On the mottled surface of the wooden plank, several mysterious patterns can be seen.
He has studied, this is a narrative painting, many ancient murals on the earth, are in this form, it seems to describe the major development process of some otherworldly civilizations.
That world was the first time that humans used fire.
Use text for the first time.
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In the upper left corner of each painting, there is a mysterious and complex emblem pattern, each of which is different, as Chen Shouyi, who often watches explanation programs in another world, has long known that this is the logo of the gods of another world, and there is more than one.
It's a pity that this is useless, no matter how mysterious the item is, if it falls to the earth, it will degenerate into ordinary.
He gently stroked the plank and let out a sigh that he didn't know how many times it had been, if only this thing had supernatural powers.
Thinking of himself holding a wooden plank in his hand, countless bright lights, swaying the earth, he couldn't help but smirk.