Ling Yan'er's academic performance is much better than Ling Li's, basically he will be in the top five or so in the class every exam, in fact, Ling Li is not stupid in his studies, only the damn memories and habits of another world often interfere with his thinking. It took Ling Li three years to slowly adapt to the natural science system on the Red Flame Continent, which was very different from Blue Star, but unfortunately, his academic performance had fallen behind a lot, and if he wanted to catch up, he would be about to graduate from this middle school.

This is also doomed, if there are no adventures, he can only be an ordinary person in this life, and his future prospects will definitely be much worse than his own sister.

"The porridge is getting cold, eat it while it's hot." Her mother, Li Fengying, said that because of the difficult life, she was only in her 40s, and the corners of her eyes and forehead had obvious wrinkles.

Ling Li noticed that her mother had filled her bowl full of rice porridge, while her own bowl was only half a bowl. sighed in his heart, but he didn't say anything, sat on the stool, picked up chopsticks, and drank porridge quietly.

When he and his mother started eating, Ling Yan'er had already eaten almost enough.

"Yan'er, have you eaten well?"

"Hurry up, it's not too late for today's class activities."

There were several girlish voices outside the door.

The door opened, and a round-faced girl poked her head in, it was Hu Jiawen, the sister of Ling Li's classmate Hu Shiyou upstairs.

"Alright, let's go." Ling Yan'er quickly put on her coat, but she didn't carry her schoolbag like she had done in the sky. "Mom, big brother, I'm going to school."

Several little girls chattered and left together.

After eating with his mother, Ling Li received the bowl into the pot and prepared to brush the pot.

"Li'er, put the pot on the ground, I'm on vacation today. Sit there first, and I'll have something for you. I saw my mother take out a small bag from the dark mahogany cabinet behind the door and say to Ling Li.

Hearing this, Ling Li sat down, and her mother sat down at the head of the bed, put the small burden in her hand on the small square table made of wooden boards, opened it, and then took out a smaller red cloth bag from it.

"In a week, your graduates will participate in the field training organized by the school, although there are teachers who lead the team to take care of them, but there are still some dangers to survive in the wild." The mother opened the red cloth bag, revealing a pile of large and small bills, "Here is the two thousand yuan that my mother has saved in the past six months, you can take it to buy some weapons and protective things." ”

"Mom, no need, Boss Zhou just gave me a short knife yesterday, and the teacher at school also gave me a pair of arm guards, which is almost enough." Ling Li hurriedly excused himself, then took out the short knife from his schoolbag and put it on the table.

He pulled out a small half of the short knife, and when it was made last night, it was already dark, and the lights in the shop were dim, and then he found that the surface of the knife was glowing with a layer of dark red, not the black iron color of ordinary steel knives, and he felt a little strange in his heart.

"You kid, how can you get the benefits of others for nothing, how can this be done!" The mother said, "Anyway, this money is also prepared for you, you take it all, buy clothes, shoes or something, you wear leather shoes, and it is not convenient to move in the wild." She said as she pushed all the bills in front of Ling Li.

Ling Li thought about it, and what her mother said made sense, so she counted out a thousand yuan from the banknote, "In this way, I will take a thousand, buy a pair of shoes and a sports suit, and the rest will be regarded as pocket money, in case there is any emergency when training in the field." A cheap sports suit costs about 100 yuan, while the sports shoes suitable for walking and climbing in the field cost at least 300 yuan, and he also made some money.

"What kind of business, you take all the money, in front of your classmates, you have to have a face, you can't let people look down on you." Mother insisted on stuffing the rest of the money to Ling Li.

"Mom, this face can't be exchanged for money, I will never take the rest, it's better to buy new clothes for Yan'er, it's a big girl, and she wears a school uniform all day long." Ling Li blocked it with his hand, and his attitude was very resolute.

Li Fengying knew that her son was stubborn, and after making up her mind, she couldn't persuade her, so she had to sigh and put away the remaining 1,000 yuan banknotes of different denominations, and then carefully wrapped them and locked them in the cabinet.

Ling Li put a thousand yuan into his jacket pocket, put the short knife into his schoolbag again, and put it on the side of the pillow, "Mom, I got the benefit of Boss Zhou yesterday, and today I will help him with a day's work, and I won't come back for lunch." ”

"You kid, you're thinking about buying clothes and shoes." Li Fengying instructed again.

Qingya City is a rectangular three-level walled city about 16 kilometers long and 10 kilometers wide, with a population of more than 800,000 people. Among them, the northern city is the inner city, the east and west districts are military camps, and the southern city only accounts for a little more than a quarter of the entire city, but it accommodates half of the population and factory area of the entire walled city, which is a typical civilian area.

In the city of the barrier base where every inch of land is valuable, there are not many high-rise buildings due to the limitation of building materials. Most of the civilian areas are square, standard six- or seven-story buildings, densely packed and spaced very thinly, and most civilian families live in one or half rooms in small rooms.

No matter how crowded it is, the living environment of the people in the city is much better than that of the pioneer base outside the city, at least under the protection of the city's tall walls, people's safety is still guaranteed to a certain extent. And those wild pioneer bases could be completely wiped out in a beast tide at any time......

There is no way, the living space and capacity of the city are very limited, it is impossible to accommodate all the people, and in the Eastern Federation, more than sixty percent of the civilians still live in those dangerous wilderness bases.

Compared to them, the current life of the Ling Li family is relatively good.

Of course, this hard-won hardship is still the pension that my father got back after sacrificing his life in the pioneering action organized by the government.

Lao Zhou's hardware store is about a little more than a kilometer away from the residential area where the Ling family is located, and in this era, there were no buses, and even bicycles were expensive, and the Ling family could not afford them. There are motor vehicles in this world, but the power is not the use of internal combustion engines, but the use of the so-called source energy stone as the power, which is similar to the so-called new energy electric vehicles in memory.

It's just that although the cheapest price of this kind of source energy car is only a hundred thousand, it is not very expensive, but the source energy stone is very expensive, unless it is the government, the army or the rich and noble, ordinary people can't afford it.

For ordinary civilians, No. 11 is the most commonly used means of transportation.

Ling Li walked out of the house, looked up at the red sky in the east, hesitated slightly, and decided to go to Lao Zhou's hardware store first. As for buying shoes and sportswear, I will go to the commercial street again when I have time, anyway, Lao Zhou's hardware store is not far from the commercial street in the civilian area......