Chapter 4: The Hourglass of Time 4
Night falls.
Su Ziyu sat on the stone steps at the door and looked at the stars, I don't know why he kept recalling some things in the past, and he missed the leisurely life on the earth very much. In the past two days, he felt that the attitude of other people in the village towards him had changed a little, this was an unfriendly change, ordinary people may not feel it, but it was quite obvious to the Suzi fish under the fence of the child. Here I have to mention his past, Su Ziyu should have a happy family and a good childhood, but my father was not angry, he became a damn drug addict, and finally everything became fragmented.
I don't remember a lot of things when I was a child.
Su Ziyu has been fostered in his uncle's house since he was five or six years old, and his childhood life was not very good, because the uncle himself has a son and a daughter, and the family conditions can only be said to be very ordinary. At first, Su Ziyu actually had a very bad time, because the eldest aunt was very realistic and disliked him, thinking that the uncle had added a big burden to his family. But fortunately, Su Ziyu has been very smart and sensible since he was a child, and he knows how to adapt to the environment, rather than waiting for the environment to adapt to him. In this case, he began to help the family with some housework at the age of six or seven, and little by little changed the whole family's perception of him.
His sister and brother became much kinder to him, and no longer thought that he was an enemy who would rob his parents of their affection, and his aunt was much nicer to him, at least knowing that he was a well-fed child.
It wasn't until Su Ziyu started school that his childhood became much better.
The reason is simple.
He can read, he can study better than other children, and his grades are basically at the top. Being able to read is the best talisman for a child like him who has no parents. Because he can read, he will not be bullied in school, and even the person who scolds him as a 'wild child', as long as he cries and tells the teacher, the teacher will teach that person a good lesson and let the parents come by the way. Because he can read, the eldest aunt's attitude towards him is getting better and better, thinking that this is a child who will have a future career, no longer treating him as a burden, and later even treating him better than his own son, Su Ziyu said when he was eight years old, 'I will definitely study hard, and I will definitely repay you well in the future', this sentence he later said twice, once in high school, once in college.
It's so helpless to let a young child talk about retribution, but he really has no other way.
For a weak child, reading is his most beneficial protection.
At that time, the proportion of rural children dropping out of school was quite large, and Su Ziyu never bothered about tuition fees, and after his sister and younger brother did not like to study very much, he became the hope of the whole family. Because he can read, he had a good time in high school, there were a lot of bastards in the school at that time, and it was normal to fight in private because of some trivial things in adolescence, and after entering junior high school, the teacher can no longer be his umbrella, he reads and fights more than others, and picks some ruthless places to start, and no one dares to bully him after one or two fights in private.
Faced with a child in the rebellious period, he must learn to protect himself.
Su Ziyu made a smooth transition all the way to the college period, and he was admitted to a pretty good university, Fudan University.
After the end of high school life, Su Ziyu moved bricks in the construction site for a while, mainly to earn some living expenses, because the tuition fees have brought a great burden to the uncle's family. The construction site is a good place, as long as you are willing to work hard, you will get money, and there are no requirements, there will be no arrears of wages, and you can exercise by the way.
In college, he was truly independent, no longer had to be careful to please the people around him, no longer needed the care of his uncle, no longer needed the protection of teachers, no longer had to look at people's faces, he was looking for the direction of the future while working and studying, and finally studied computer science, but after graduation, he ran to do mobile games. At that time, it happened to usher in the outbreak period of mobile games, basically as long as it was done well, there were tens of millions of monthly turnover, and he successfully entered the management class a few years after graduation, and entered the ranks of millions with an annual salary, which can be regarded as a slight achievement.
During this period, Su Ziyu also fell in love several times, but he didn't make it to the end, he may be a little lonely in nature and don't know how to love someone.
After work, he helped the family rebuild the house, and his cousin later married a wife who also helped him buy a house in the city. But the uncle stopped him, and the man, who often didn't dare to say anything when he was scolded by his daughter-in-law, shook his head and refused, insisting that he only give a down payment, and asked his cousin to return the down payment to him later. This man who rarely speaks has his own insistence, as if Su Ziyu is a man who does not owe favors and must repay him, and since then he has settled in Shanghai, and later raised a fat orange cat.
Su Ziyu didn't have much material needs, so when he had a little money, he liked to travel and collect some strange collections, until he bought a golden hourglass from a second-class dealer, which was said to be from Egypt.
Then, he was pitted.
"Alas. I don't know what happened to my fat orange! Su Ziyu looked at the night sky and couldn't help but sigh.
Uncle they don't have to worry, cousins and cousins are all by their side, there are villas in the countryside, there are small buildings in the city, Su Ziyu made proper arrangements for them after making money, and also bought endowment insurance, which can be regarded as repaying their parenting grace. Since living independently, he basically goes back to see it during the Chinese New Year, and there is nothing to worry about there. There are almost no friends who really make friends, and the people in the big cities are very realistic, so it can only be said that Su Ziyu can be a person and get along well. The only thing that worried him the most was the orange cat, because it had been with Suziyu for a long time, and then he was too fat to have any ability to hunt.
"Let's hope someone adopts it. Just don't become a stray cat. Su Ziyu muttered.
He patted his ass and stood up, the whip marks on his back had healed, but he still needed some rest.
The next day.
When he got up, he heard the commotion outside, and when he pushed the door out, he saw a young man holding a sword, he seemed to be called Roth, it should be this pronunciation, the other party's gaze was not friendly, and the attitude of the people in the village towards him was slowly becoming worse, although Su Ziyu didn't do anything, but these people have rejected him more and more.
Xenophobia.
It may be that he has inadvertently offended someone, and the residents of the village sometimes point fingers at him.
"Sue." Fortunately, Linna's attitude towards him was still very kind, she brought food to Su Ziyu and pushed away the young man who was in the way. There is no way for the two parties to communicate normally due to the language barrier, but Su Ziyu felt that something should have happened in the village, something very bad.
Lena didn't teach him swordsmanship today, they set traps around the village.
There were two villagers outside watching him, and he seemed to be restricted from his range of activities again, and the young man named Luo looked at him very unfriendly, and Su Ziyu didn't know why, anyway, the past two days suddenly became very unkind to him. I don't know if it's an illusion, but he vaguely smells a smell of blood, which is easily recognizable, coming from the second wooden house in front of him.
Time passed day by day.
Lena came a lot less often, and every time she came over, her expression was a little low, the young man named Roth often followed behind, his eyes were always fixed on Su Ziyu, and the man named Ken rarely showed up, and once in a while he seemed to find that he had a wound on his arm and a circle of bandages wrapped around it. Su Ziyu didn't know what was going on, he couldn't communicate with these aborigines normally, and his range of activities was limited to the vicinity of the wooden house.
"You must learn to be patient." Su Ziyu told himself.
He is a man who is good at adapting to his environment, and he knows very well that it is easy to get into trouble nowadays, especially when the aboriginal people are increasingly rejecting him. Because of the golden hourglass, Su Ziyu may not stay long in this world, to be honest, the people here are a bit fierce, he doesn't want any accidents to happen at this time. To be honest, he was also very confused now, he didn't know what he should do, and every day he waited for his spirit to recover and study the mysterious golden hourglass, trying to understand the incomparably intricate runes engraved on it.
But he gained very little, because it was an extremely mentally draining affair.
However, his harvest was not for nothing, he found a rune similar to a scale, with some special marks on it, and unlike when he encountered the snake man, he found that there was an additional rune mark on it, which was most likely the world coordinates recorded by the golden hourglass, and one of the symbols in it may represent the location of the earth.
Night falls.
Su Ziyu's injury has almost recovered, so he went to bed a little later than usual, he used to go to bed at eleven or twelve o'clock, and this habit has not been completely changed. Because he has no mobile phone or computer to play, he can only look at the stars in the sky at this time, and when he is bored during the day, he draws a chessboard on the ground and plays chess with himself.
Sure enough, life on earth is colorful, and life here is too boring.
As a game developer, he plays games for a while every day, and he has very little entertainment here.
"Ahh
Just when Su Ziyu was about to fall asleep in a daze, a terrible scream suddenly woke him up. There was a sudden chaos outside, there were bursts of footsteps, some panicked and messy talking, many torches were lit, and he finally couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart, and quietly put on his clothes and slipped out of his room.
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