7. Family (1)
More than twenty minutes later, Ling Li walked downstairs where he was.
The structure of the dilapidated old building is similar to the structure of the building where Zhou Tong is located, the Ling family and a family surnamed Sun share a room, and a single-brick building is built in the middle, and the area of the room is only about ten square meters. Due to the cramped space, there was only one bunk bed in the room, with Ling Li sleeping on the top bunk and her mother and sister sleeping on the bottom.
There is no heating or toilet in the whole building, and the water pipes and public toilets are downstairs, and it is impossible for the neighbors who queue up downstairs every day to get water and go to the toilet. Every family has no privacy at all, and whoever has a parent will know about it in less than three days.
Because of the cramped and stuffy space in the room, the neighbors usually go outdoors as much as possible, gather on the side of the road or downstairs to chat or play chess and cards, and only return home when it is time to sleep.
Greeting the neighbors downstairs all the way, looking at the familiar scene in the corridor, Ling Li's heart swelled with an inexplicable warmth and returned home.
The space in the room was very narrow, and after the bunk beds were arranged, only one person was left with a passageway. Although the house was crowded, it was cleaned up by my mother.
When I entered the room, I saw my mother sitting at the head of the bed, holding a needle and thread in her hand to mend clothes, while my sister Ling Yan was not at home.
"Mom, I'm back."
"Xiao Li, after school, I went to work in Boss Zhou's shop again, are you tired?" Mother Li Fengying stood up, "I have food left for you in the bowl, I'll go and give you hot food." ”
Ling Li walked to the innermost small table and touched the covered pottery bowl with his hand, "Mom, the food is still warm, no need to heat it." What did Yan'er do, why didn't he see his homework? ”
"It's the weekend, so I don't have to go to class tomorrow, so Yan'er and her classmates went to the park to play. The head of this house is cramped, who wants to stay at home if it's okay? The mother sighed in her mouth and said distressedly: "Look at you child, you are so busy that you forget about the weekend, I will go out and boil some boiling water for you first." With that, she picked up the tin kettle and walked out.
Ling Li opened the covered rice bowl and saw a bowl full of rice, only a quarter of a plate of vegetarian fried cabbage had been moved, and most of it was left on the plate for him. He thought about it, took out a small half bowl of rice and put it on the plate, and half of the fried cabbage in the bowl, covered the plate, and then picked up the chopsticks and mixed the rice and ate it.
While chewing the food in his mouth, Ling Li couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.
There are only two relatives in the family, my mother and my sister, who is three years younger than me, and I have been in this world for more than three years, and the family's life depends on my mother's work to maintain. In my previous life, my work and life were quite idle, and I never worried about my livelihood, but I didn't expect that after this crossing, I experienced the taste of not being hungry for a few years.
This tastes really bad when it comes to salted fish.
According to what I have learned, the surface area of this planet is dozens or even hundreds of times larger than the blue planet in my memory, and it has at least three or more moons, that is, the moon, and each moon is much larger than that on the blue star.
According to the history that has been handed down, the technological level of this Red Flame Continent before the cataclysm is roughly the same as that of the Blue Star Civilization before its own crossing, and it is not much higher.
As for how the cataclysm happened, this is also a very puzzling puzzle.
Li Fengying came back from outside with a kettle, poured a bowl of hot water for Ling Li, then sat on the edge of the bed and looked at her son: "Xiao Li, I heard Guangsheng say just now, you didn't register for the college entrance examination in three months?" ”
"Mom, I can't pass this grade, so you don't have to worry about it, and besides, this matter will not be decided until I come back from field training." Ling Li said calmly: "After the field trial is over, I will get my graduation certificate and find a job in the city." Yan'er's academic performance is much better than mine, so we have to confess her. ”
Li Fengying opened her mouth, but in the end she didn't say anything, just sighed softly.
The atmosphere in the room was a little dull, Ling Li smiled, and said as relaxed as possible: "As the saying goes, three hundred and sixty lines, you don't have to go to college to be the champion. Oh, I went to the top of the building for a while, there was still some food left in the bowl, I didn't finish it, and when the smoke came back, she ate it, and it was time to grow up. ”
Ling Li said hello to his mother, walked out of the room, and walked down the stairs to the roof.
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There were stars in the sky, and the moonlight on the ground of the Chiyan Continent at night seemed to be much brighter than on the blue star, just like before sunrise on the blue star, it didn't look particularly dark. Ling Li looked at the sky, two bright moons the size of millstones hung high in the sky, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and the moon emitted a hazy red light, which seemed to be several times larger than that on the blue star.
Ling Li tilted his face to the night sky and rubbed his forehead, and could feel that a translucent jade pendant seemed to be embedded in his seal. This jade pendant is a dark red translucent agate stone that he picked up on the Gobi Desert during his trip to the Blue Star, which is about the size of a finger and is not too regular. At that time, the most curious thing was that there was a round hole at the top, which seemed to be drilled by hand, just enough to wear a hanging chain.
At that time, I thought that someone had dropped the ornament on the Gobi, and it was related to myself, so I made a white gold necklace and wore this agate pendant as my own personal ornament.
Since the crossing, it is not visible during the day, but at night in front of the red full moon, his forehead seal hall, it seems to feel that the light can penetrate through, as if the legendary Ma Wang Ye opened the third heavenly eye, although he can't see, this feeling is very strange.
Gently rubbing his forehead, a very intimate feeling arises. Ling Li couldn't figure out why this pendant could appear in this world at the same time after he was in a car accident, and it was embedded in his skull, but the platinum necklace it was wearing had long since disappeared.
Perhaps it is because of it that his soul can be taken to this world and be reborn.
Ling Li knew that this thing must not be simple, but unfortunately, he couldn't figure out the correct way to open it.
He turned his face up and pointed the agate pendant in the hall at the moon in the sky. Through the moonlight, this jade pendant is still hazy and translucent, and it can't see, and it can vaguely see some dark red complex lines inside, which seem to extend out, connected to his brain, and can't see anything special. It's just that according to the routine obtained from memory travel or fantasy novels, this strange agate pendant that accompanied him from the original blue star to this other world should be the medium to transmit his soul.
"It's been more than three years...... Ling Li sighed lightly in his heart, his eyes were a little trance-like, "I've finished on the Blue Star, and now I'm continuing my life in another way." Either way, it's good to be alive. ”
He shook his head vigorously a few times to clear himself up......