Amid the sound of hurried footsteps and the noise of the vehicle starting, a new day begins.

Lin Ling opened the curtains and looked at the crowd of people entering and leaving the community. Since graduating from high school, he has never been downstairs at this point in time, and his life is monotonous like that of an ascetic. During the daily maintenance of "Eternity", if there is nothing else, most of the time he is either sorting out the box of notes, pre-learning the lessons in advance, or writing "The Great Magician Falman".

It's just that today, Lin Ling wants to go out shopping.

The reason is simple, you run out of toilet paper at home.

Although the toilet has its own flushing and drying functions, Lin Ling feels that it is more comfortable to use toilet paper.

He opened the drawer and took out a bank card.

When he went offline, he had already confirmed that the acquisition fee of 10,000 gold coins had reached his electronic account.

Lin Ling took out the mobile phone that his father had used and threw it on the table, then opened the drawer and took out another miscellaneous mobile phone about the thickness of a brick, took out the chip inside and put it in his pocket.

Now that you're out of the house, let's go and change to a more convenient mobile phone.

Out of some habit, he opened the empty closet, took out a short-sleeved shirt to change, put on a satchel, changed into sneakers, and went out.

"Where is Kobayashi going so early?"

The neighbors who went to work next door looked at Lin Ling strangely, and in their impression, even if the thin Lin Ling went out to see a doctor, most of them waited until after nine o'clock.

"Take a trip."

Regarding the neighbor's nosyness, Lin Ling, who was in a good mood, just smiled and said, "Buy some soap, toilet paper, garbage bags or something." ”

"It's hard to live alone." In fact, his neighbor only asked casually because of his friendship with his parents, and did not think about getting any answers. Of course, if Lin Ling ignored her or was casually perfunctory, or even just a little casual, then don't blame her for turning this matter out when there is no topic to talk about and using it as a topic for time with the housewives who are also idle.

"It's fine."

Lin Ling pretended to shrug his shoulders easily, he actually only had a general impression of what his neighbor's name was.

"If you want to buy daily necessities, it's more cost-effective to go to a hypermarket." Perhaps it was a rare conversation about the relationship, and his neighbor burst out with rare enthusiasm, "There is a free shuttle bus to the hypermarket in 1o minutes, right at the door of the soup dumpling restaurant, and the shuttle bus back is two hours later." ”

"You need a shopping card to shop in a hypermarket, right?" Lin Ling frowned with some embarrassment, when his parents were still at home, they often took him to the hypermarket to shop, but the discounted goods there had to show the shopping card at the time of settlement, or report his own phone number.

When Lin's father and Lin's mother left, he canceled the phone number he originally used and re-registered a new number for him to use. He did not know whether the membership card that had been obtained through this number could still be used after the phone number was cancelled.

"It's okay, you just need to give my phone number, you wait." The neighbor's aunt returned home enthusiastically, and after a while, she came out with a note with a phone number, "Anyway, we rarely go there, so you should have activated our membership card." ”

"Thank you."

Lin Ling thanked him sincerely.

"Whatever you like, it's all neighbors." His neighbor said and closed the door.

Are distant relatives better than close neighbors?

With a smile, Lin Ling put the note in his pocket. At this time, the elevator reached the floor where he lived, and there was a soft "ding" sound.

"Wait." During the morning rush hour, the elevator stops almost every stop.

Lin Ling didn't want to wait for another elevator, so he hurriedly ran to the closed elevator.

"Wait a minute." A greasy hand pressed the elevator door before it closed, touching the protector.

The touched protector allows the closed door to open again.

Lin Ling was able to enter the elevator safely, and he nodded at the kind person who gave him a "helping hand" and said, "Thank you." ”

"Thanks?" The greasy hand picked up the oil cake again, and the young man of the same age who used to be a junior high school classmate and a high school classmate with Lin Ling said vaguely while chewing the oil cake, "The class of the top student has been in for a long time, and you have become polite, Lin Ling." ”

"Hahahaha."

Lin Ling let out a hearty laugh that even he felt stunned. In fact, he couldn't even remember the name of the man, but vaguely remembered that they used to call him Datou.

For this reason, their group of people has been scolded by the eldest man and his wife several times.

"Big head."

Once the old memories are opened, they get out of control like a derailed train.

Lin Ling habitually put his arm on the shoulder of the big head, he looked at the descending floor indicator light with emotion, since his parents left the earth, he had no contact with his neighbors' peers, and due to their different schedules, they rarely had the opportunity to meet on weekdays. Even if they occasionally meet each other, they are like strangers, and a polite greeting is the end of the greeting.

"You, after all these years, still like to eat such greasy things in the morning." Lin Ling said and patted his bulging belly, "If you don't quit this mouthful, I'm afraid you won't be able to lose weight no matter how much you exercise." ”

"I'm strong, you can't envy me." The big head said habitually.

"Ahem."

A crisp cough rang out behind them.

Lin Ling turned his head, and now the big head and his wife were standing behind them, but the big head didn't remind himself like a nobody.

"Hello Auntie." Lin Ling immediately removed his hand from the shoulders of the big head. He still remembers that when they were children, a little ruffian from the outside community bullied the big head, and his mother took a rolling pin and knocked the little ruffian along with the child's parents. Since then, his reputation has spread far and wide, and a group of children of the same age have been obedient to his wife when they see him.

"Lin Ling, go out so early, are you feeling better?" The big head asked with a smile. The smiling expression reminded Lin Ling of the time when the parents of those little ruffians asked her for medical expenses, but she asked how much with a smile as she took out a rolling pin from her handbag and knocked on the door of the other parent's head.

"Go to the hypermarket and buy some groceries."

Lin Ling repeated what he had said to the neighbor's aunt to the eldest head and his wife. Of course, he didn't forget that the eldest and his wife's colleagues were his family's insatiable relatives, so at the end, he added a paragraph crying poor: "I don't know if it's a discount on daily necessities today, I hope it won't be in vain." ”

"It's hard to live alone, isn't it?" The eldest lady didn't wait for Lin Ling to answer, so she said the high-sounding words as an elder, "Come to our house for dinner when you have time." ”

The possibility of these words coming from compassion is far less than the expression of wanting to save face.

"Thank you, Auntie."

Lin Ling said ambiguously, leaving plenty of face for the big man and his wife in front of so many neighbors in the elevator, and at the same time tactfully told the big head that his wife didn't take these words seriously.

Elevator to the ground floor.

Lin Ling followed the flow of people out of the elevator, and after saying goodbye to the big head and his wife, he walked to the soup dumpling restaurant alone, mingling with a group of elderly old men and old women, waiting for the shuttle bus to pick up.

The shuttle bus arrived at the door of the soup dumpling restaurant on time.

Lin Ling got on the bus among the elderly and was lucky to get a seat in the row of seats at the back of the bus.

The shuttle bus starts and heads to a multi-store.

Lin Ling leaned on the armrest of the seat and looked at the scenery outside the window.

How long has it been since you left the house at this point in time?

After the shuttle bus circled around several nearby neighborhoods, the number of passengers in the bus also increased.

Some familiar passengers began to talk about trivial matters that sounded to Lin Ling, while others watched the advertising TV in the carriage to see what today's specials were.

Lin Ling watched the advertising TV casually, but he sighed in his heart that he was lucky to have the opportunity to relive such an ordinary and simple life.

The shuttle arrives at the hypermarket.

Middle-aged or elderly people who had already set a rush to buy in the car rushed down.

Lin Ling was the last to get off the bus, and when he arrived at the shopping cart collection point, the neat two shopping convoys had been torn apart by the swarming customers, and the staff who maintained order held the hands and feet that were hit and shouted "Be careful".

"Today's Specials ......"

The radio at the store broadcasts information about discounts.

On the moving walk, customers who flock to the store are restless as if they are suffering from anxiety, and because the pedals of the moving walkway automatically lock the wheels of the shopping carts, customers who want to save time need to go around the maze of shopping carts in order to successfully insert themselves in front of them.

Lin Ling, who was honestly queuing, was hit by the shopping cart behind him, and when he arrived at the floor, he was run over by the shopping cart that suddenly crossed his toes.

Those who were born on the part of the child walked forward on their own as if they didn't feel it.

Fortunately, Lin Ling was not so fragile that his body would collapse at the touch of it, he secretly sighed that he was unlucky, walked into the hypermarket with the flow of people, and grabbed a shopping basket at the entrance of the store.

Middle-aged and elderly customers holding tablets or printing lists rushed into the store with carts and shopping carts, fruits, drinks, snacks, fresh products...... All the discounted goods are the goods they urgently need, and all the special products with buy one get one free are basically swept away by them.

Broken eggs, ruined vegetables and abandoned merchandise are crammed into the shelves.

Lin Ling originally wanted to buy a bag of 2o rolls of toilet paper.

But the discarded goods were piled up in front of the brand he was used to.

He looked back at the shelves of discounted goods crowded with a crowd of people scrambling, in fact, even if that brand of toilet paper was discounted, the price was not much different from the brand of toilet paper he wanted to buy. Moreover, that brand of toilet paper is paper-thin, for people like him, if he doesn't fold two or three layers and then use it, it is better to learn from Indians to use their fingers directly.

Bad luck......

Lin Ling sighed and put down the shopping basket, he swept the abandoned goods aside, took out two bags of toilet paper and just wanted to put them in the shopping basket, but now the shopping basket at his feet has been taken away by someone at some point. Frustrated, he walked out of the daily chemical area with two bags of toilet paper, and suddenly saw an empty shopping cart in the middle of the road, and no one used it.

After looking around for 2 seconds, Lin Ling decisively put two bags of toilet paper into the basket and ran away happily with the shopping cart.

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Think about the past.

A few years ago, when I was at a low point in my life, when I was not doing well, I was deceived by the recruitment information of a large chain city on the first day, and I sold frozen hairtail fish at the gate of the city for a morning, and the sales were quite good.

Then he was officially scheduled to work in the afternoon of the same day.