Chapter 3: Suspected Parallel Worlds
After receiving the books and returning home, after seeing the time on the electronic clock as 11:45 a.m., my mother began to wash her hands and prepare lunch.
When Tang Yuyan and her mother came back, Yu Ran and Yu Chen were still watching cartoons.
After they noticed that Tang Yuyan and her mother were back, Yu Ran and Yu Chen said respectively, "Mom, sister, you're back" and "Mom, eldest sister, you're back."
Tang Yuyan changed her slippers at the door, and said while walking with her textbook, "Well, I'm back, it's a little hot outside today, and there are quite a lot of people from the school." When you watch cartoons, don't get so close to the TV, go to the sofa and watch them, and if you sit so close, you will become short-sighted. ”
After speaking, Tang Yuyan casually put the textbook in her hand on the coffee table, and then said, "I'll go and help my mother choose vegetables first, and you should go to the sofa and sit and watch TV." After finishing speaking, after watching Yu Ran and Yu Chen obediently sit on the sofa, they went directly to the kitchen.
Take a small bench on the edge of the dining room and sit down at the kitchen door, and start choosing vegetables, Mom has already started to wash rice and stew rice. After the mother saw Tang Yuyan coming, the mother and daughter chatted and were busy with lunch.
In fact, Tang Yuyan has a small problem, that is, she is particularly afraid of the oil ideas that splash out of the vegetable pot when stir-frying.
This is a small problem formed when Tang Yuyan was in the third or fourth grade of primary school.
At that time, while her mother was stir-frying, she asked Tang Yuyan to come over to help serve the rice, because the rice cooker was next to the wok, she was scalded by the splashing oil, and she was so frightened that she almost threw away the bowl in her hand.
Since then, every time Tang Yuyan sees cooking and stir-frying at home, when her mother asks her to help, she only helps choose a dish at the door, and if she wants to serve rice, it must be after her mother finishes frying the food.
If you want to serve food, you also ask your mother to serve the food a little far away from the vegetable pot, so she goes over to serve the food. It can be said that as soon as the stove works, Tang Yuyan will never get close.
Her mother also said to her N times, "It's okay, look at my hands, I've been cooking for you for so many years, and I'm not doing anything if I have been splashed with so much oil", but these words are useless to Tang Yuyan, who already has a psychological shadow.
Later, when Tang Yuyan was in the third year of junior high school, the family moved to C City in the north, and one day, on a whim, his father praised other people's fathers for being able to eat their daughter's food when their daughter was so old, and he also wanted to eat a meal cooked by his daughter.
This is my mother said that she was afraid of stir-frying, afraid of splashing oil ideas, Dad only knew, and said that no wonder her mother ran far away every time she stir-fried.
After everyone in the family knew that Tang Yuyan was afraid of stir-frying and splashing oil ideas, when her mother thought she was a big girl and wanted to teach her to stir-fry, Tang Yuyan began to stink back and say, "Mom, you know, I'm afraid of those, I'll help choose vegetables, don't learn to stir-fry." After saying that, she started to choose vegetables with her hands and feet, and her mother was helpless.
Tang Yuyan's father thought that he must help his eldest daughter overcome this psychological shadow, and he must eat the eldest daughter's fried dishes.
During that time, whenever my mother stir-fried and cooked, my father asked Tang Yuyan to watch from the side, you can stand a little farther away, but you must watch, my mother explained while cooking, and Tang Yuyan listened and watched at the door.
After watching her mother's cooking for half a month, Tang Yuyan also roughly knew the order of stir-frying, and knew what seasonings would be used when stir-frying.
Dad saw that Tang Yuyan had learned about the same, asked her mother to prepare the ingredients, handed over the kitchen to Tang Yuyan, and asked Tang Yuyan to make a decent dinner, everyone left the kitchen and went to the living room to watch a drama and wait for Tang Yuyan's dinner.
Tang Yuyan, who was staying alone in the kitchen, was also flustered, although she could see it, but she hadn't learned her hands yet. Also, she is still afraid of oil and doesn't dare. I really want to shout, "Father, my son really can't do it!" ”
But I've watched my mother fry the dishes for half a month, and it shouldn't be a problem to try it myself. After a meal of psychological comfort, Tang Yuyan turned on the switch of the natural gas pipeline and prepared to stir-fry.
As a result, because there were still water droplets in the pot, the oil was poured in, and after a while, the pot began to crackle like fireworks, Tang Yuyan quickly took out the lid of the pot, covered the pot, and waited for the pot to not sound, before putting the dishes that had already been cleaned into the pot, and when the vegetables and oil touched, there was a crackling sound.
Tang Yuyan held the lid of the pot in her left hand to block most of the splashing oil ideas, and from time to time held the vegetable pot to prevent it from running around, holding a spatula in her right hand, stir-frying for a while, after a while, Tang Yuyan was not sure whether the dish was cooked, so she poured a small half bowl of water into the pot, thinking that even if it was not cooked, it would be cooked.
After this dish was ready, Tang Yuyan started the second dish, scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
Maybe this is the result of not learning to see the meeting, Tang Yuyan first cut the tomatoes into cubes, and after cutting them, she took out a larger bowl, beat three or four eggs into the bowl, and began to stir. After the egg white and egg yolk are mixed evenly, start to fry the tomatoes first, and pour the egg liquid after the tomatoes feel that they are about the same, but the finished product does not look good at all, and it can be said that this plate of tomato eggs is a failure. The eggs are neither lumpy, nor are they the kind of shredded eggs in the seaweed egg soup, and the eggs she scrambled are like some granules, in short, she has no appetite when she looks at them.
Finally, there is a potato stewed pork ribs, the pork ribs are cooked by my mother in the afternoon, you only need to add seasonings and put potatoes in the stew for a period of time to eat. As a result, Tang Yuyan didn't know how much to add, and she added too much without paying attention, in her mother's words, the big ingredients she used for this portion of pork ribs were enough to stew three or four pork ribs.
When Tang Yuyan brought the dishes to the table, she obviously felt that her family's appetite had decreased greatly, and she felt that it was difficult to eat it herself. Although water was added to the first dish, it was still not cooked and was still half-raw; I forgot to put sugar in the scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and the taste is a little sour; There are too many ingredients for stewed pork ribs with potatoes, and the taste is a bit heavy. Basically, there is nothing to eat except rice.
After the devastation of that night, Dad probably knew that his eldest daughter had no talent for cooking, so he didn't force her to learn how to cook. Instead, let her learn to stew, stew indiscriminately, stew a few dishes, whatever she stews, this dish is always cooked in the end, so that she will not be served half-cooked dishes on the table.
It's far away, back to 2009, at this time, my mother also knew that Yu Yan was afraid of splashing oil ideas when stir-frying, and after Tang Yuyan finished choosing the dishes, she let her leave the kitchen and go to watch cartoons with Yuran and Yuchen, and her mother started stir-frying.
In fact, in addition to taking care of the children's life and study, the mother will hardly interfere with them, as long as they do not violate the law and discipline, they can do whatever they want.
Tang Yuyan returned to the living room and looked at the story of a group of sheep and a group of wolves fighting wits and courage on TV, and felt that it was really boring, she used to be young, and she didn't feel tired of watching it every day with her younger brothers and sisters, but now she didn't want to watch it anymore, and after picking up the textbook that was on the coffee table just now, she went to the study.
Tang Yuyan looked at the eight brand-new textbooks in front of her, and after looking through the contents of the textbooks, she made sure that the contents of these textbooks were not easy to eat. Sitting in a chair, I brace my head and start to wander.
After her mother beckoned everyone to finish lunch, Tang Yuyan consciously began to clean up the dishes and go to the kitchen to clean.
Mom said, "Sure enough, it's different when I go to junior high school, Yu Yan has taken the initiative to wash the dishes now, and she has to continue to keep it." ”
At this time, Tang Yuyan, who had already walked into the kitchen to wash the dishes, remembered that in the past, washing dishes and mopping the floor at home and cleaning up were all required to work with her sister, and she was absolutely unwilling to do more work, and she didn't look like an eldest sister at all.
"Got it," Tang Yuyan replied. After washing the pots and pans and cleaning up the kitchen, Tang Yuyan, Yu Ran, and Yu Chen chatted in the living room for a few more minutes, and then went back to their rooms for a lunch break.
After all, the company stipulates that the lunch break is from half past eleven to two o'clock in the afternoon, and the noon time is so long, so why don't you sleep.
After this morning, Tang Yuyan began not to doubt whether she was in a dream or not.
Tang Yanran thought that if she woke up during the lunch break and was still the same as she is now, then it would mean that she had really crossed over, and she had traveled to August 30, 2009, the day when the first year of junior high school was reported.
With this thought, Tang Yuyan slowly fell asleep. This time, she dreamed that the day after the suspected crossing, Tang Yuyan, who had entered the dream again, still couldn't speak, couldn't make any sound, and could only quietly watch the movie-like scene in front of her.
As the saying goes, once born and twice cooked, Tang Yuyan, who is now encountering the same scene, is not afraid at all, she reached forward and touched it, as if to confirm, after finding that there was a transparent film in front of her, her heart became more stable, and then sat down on the spot and looked at the scene in front of her.
At this time, the person in front of her, Tang Yuyan felt that it was her and not her. Because the person in front of her has experienced all this, she has not yet experienced.
Tang Yuyan looked at the person in front of her who was exactly the same as her, fell in love with a man after a few spring and autumn periods, got married and had children, and occasionally quarreled over trivial things after marriage, but they would also support each other when they encountered difficulties, so they kept seeing her children grow up and get married, she was full of white hair, and after living a comfortable and plain life, the scene in front of her disappeared.
After waiting for the blank in front of her, Tang Yuyan felt that she might have really crossed over. The scene she saw in the dream before she crossed over was the starting point she wanted to change the most, and the scene she saw in the dream just now should be the trajectory of her original life.
Tang Yuyan thought again, could it be that the great god of crossing saw that my life was too dull and wanted me to live a vigorous life, so he let me pass through.
If the life of that person just now really exists, and I have crossed over now, but it has no effect on him in the slightest, does that mean that this is a similar parallel time and space, it should be, because everything she is familiar with here has not changed, but some small details related to her have changed, but it does not affect the whole. Her mom and dad are still her mom and dad, as are her younger siblings.
Tang Yuyan thought that since she had crossed over, she must live vigorously and no longer be timid and weak.
After thinking about it, Tang Yuyan's consciousness slowly retracted and slowly woke up from her sleep.
After waking up, Tang Yuyan sat up after looking at the surrounding environment. She felt that she should think about what the future should be.
In her previous life, she should be regarded as a previous life, after all, she is now with the memories of the next ten years.
Tang Yuyan thought that she didn't study hard in her previous life, and after the end of the second year of junior high school, her father asked her and her sister Yuran to follow their lobby sister, second cousin, and sixth cousin to go to the north to escape the summer vacation together.
When Tang Yuyan was in her third year of high school and wanted to register for the college entrance examination, she found that her family's household registration had not moved to the north for many years, and the Education Bureau did not allow Tang Yuyan to participate in the college entrance examination registration, saying that she did not have the conditions to apply for the college entrance examination.
Tang Yuyan is studying in a Sino-foreign joint venture international middle school, the principal after learning about Tang Yuyan's situation, told Tang Yuyan that Tang Yuyan should go abroad, because going abroad will not involve the problem of household registration, Tang Yuyan was a freshman in the international class and the second year of high school before transferring back to the domestic class, the principal said that Tang Yuyan's level of second foreign language is still good, even if she decides to transfer back to the international class now, there is no problem to go abroad with the students of the international class in three months, so that Tang Yuyan and her parents are thinking about it.
After Tang Yuyan went home, she discussed with her parents, and finally decided not to go abroad, chose to stay for a year, and continued to take the college entrance examination after meeting the registration conditions for the college entrance examination next year.
After repeating for two or three months, the registration for the second year of the college entrance examination came. This year, Tang Yuyan was still unable to participate in the college entrance examination registration, the reason was that her parents did not pay social security, and the new college entrance examination policy stipulates that the parents of candidates from other places must pay social security for two years or more before they can participate in the college entrance examination.
Tang Yuyan's mother is a housewife, and her father works in a private company, so she has no awareness of paying social security, so she has not paid social security before. However, after Tang Yuyan's father knew that his child had to pay enough social security for two years before he could take the college entrance examination, he still went to pay social security, and paid social security for two more years. However, the policy stipulates that it is not a social security payment that is paid year by year, and it is not allowed to register for the college entrance examination if it is paid at one time, and in the end, Tang Yuyan is still unable to take the college entrance examination.
Later, Tang Yuyan's parents discussed with her that she might not be good in the exam if she repeated her studies for a year, at most she would go to a secondary college, and she would simply study for a junior college, and now she will go to a junior college and still graduate with her peers. Although Tang Yuyan was reluctant in her heart, she was forced by the situation and could only choose to go to a junior college in the end.
Next, the family began to find a college for Tang Yuyan, maybe it was a disaster, almost all colleges and universities only recruit students who can participate in the unified examination, like Tang Yuyan who can't take the college entrance examination, even if they accept it, they can't issue her with a graduation certificate.
Fortunately, through the efforts of his family, he finally found a school that was willing to accept candidates like Tang Yuyan, and the school did not give graduation certificates, but they could apply for distance education for students, and they could get a graduation certificate for distance education when they graduated. In this way, Tang Yuyan received vocational and technical studies at that junior college.
After crossing over, this can be said to be one of the fates that Tang Yuyan wants to change the most, she longs to go to college life, not to go to a junior college casually.
At the junior college, she studied hard every day like a joke, and her roommate said that no matter how much she studied, she was still a junior college, and it was better to play games with them. Think about it, you are studying alone in a dormitory, and the other classmates are playing the play she is going to do now, and laughing at you from time to time, do you still have the heart to study?
Fortunately, Tang Yuyan's character is not bad, and she met a girlfriend with a similar personality and a good treat for her, they encourage each other to study hard, this may be Tang Yuyan's most memorable friend in college.
Of course, there is no hurry to get into college, she is only 12 years old and has not yet celebrated her 13th birthday, as long as she works hard, everything is still too late. After graduating from a junior college and being away from campus for a year, Tang Yuyan was still nervous and excited when she picked up the textbooks of her junior high school. If she has the opportunity once, she will definitely take advantage of it.
Tang Yuyan's parents pay special attention to the learning situation of Tang Yuyan and her children, but the enthusiasm for learning is not very high.
Tang Yuyan thought that she had to stimulate Yu Ran and Yu Chen's enthusiasm for learning. She has to make Yu Ran and Yu Chen like learning from the bottom of their hearts, love learning, this may be a difficult task, but as long as she is a good role model and gets a good score in the exam first, I believe it should not be difficult to stimulate Yu Ran and Yu Chen's enthusiasm for learning.
There must also be a mother to supervise Dad's diet, and after ten years, there are many physical problems with Dad, three highs, gout, everything. Every time I had gout, my dad walked with a limp. But even if Dad is uncomfortable and limping, he will insist on driving to school every weekend to pick up Tang Yuyan home, maybe this is Daddy's love for his children, as deep as a mountain.
Now that Tang Yuyan has crossed over, from now on, let my mother supervise my father's diet. She remembered that the Chinese and Western doctors who treated her father in the past had said that her father's gout was caused by not paying attention to his eating habits and eating too much of the high purines and high fats. For the sake of the family and work, Dad will participate in some drinking parties every week, and it is impossible for him to order some light food in the restaurant, and slowly some problems will appear in his body.
In a family of five, only Dad works alone, he has to be as strong and reliable as a mountain, and he can't fall, so you can imagine how much pressure Dad is on. Tang Yuyan decided that she must study hard in the future, and at the same time, she must also take care of Yu Ran and Yu Chen, and try not to let her parents worry about them.
By the way, if you still want to go to the north to study, go for it, maybe only when you go to school, the family stays together for the longest time. Tang Yuyan thought that this was also what Tang Yuyan realized after graduating and joining the work. After work, I can only go home twice a year, once for the National Day and once for the New Year, and my father has to go on a business trip to work or something, and the number of times we meet is even less.
Tang Yuyan sat in the bedroom to sort out her thoughts and got up to clean up. After cleaning up, I went directly to the study to get a new textbook, and then nestled on the sofa in the living room to read.
Since you have decided to study hard and get a good grade, you will not regret it or disappoint your parents, so if you don't read or study, you can't just rely on imagination. In her previous life, Tang Yuyan's academic performance has been hovering in the middle and lower reaches of the class, and in this life, Tang Yuyan is inspired to be a top student.
In this way, Tang Yuyan read the new textbooks at home for a day and a half, and after reading the textbooks of almost every homework, she marked the places she didn't know much or couldn't understand, and the new semester started.
Because Tang Yuyan has been studying hard every day in the past two days, she didn't play with the computer, she didn't watch TV, she got up at half past six in the morning and slept at half past ten in the evening.
Mom also praised her, saying that she really grew up and knew that she loved to learn. Influenced by Tang Yuyan, Tang Yuran and Tang Yuchen also slowly looked at the textbook. For Tang Yuyan, who wants to change the attitude of her younger siblings towards learning, this is a good start.