Chapter Twenty-Six: Arriving Home
The place where the group reappeared was in an abandoned factory in the southern suburbs.
Although the southern suburbs are dilapidated and backward, they are placed in the current situation of large-scale construction and development in the country. But if you turn back the time to forty or fifty years, Jingnan City, a city adjacent to the imperial capital, is also ranked among the top county-level towns and towns in the country-huh? Why does adding the word township feel a lot lower? -- The abandoned fertilizer factories in the southern suburbs are now the abandoned fertilizer factories in the southern suburbs, which accounted for more than half of the country's sales. At its peak, the city had the potential to become a municipality (amusing but true).
Unfortunately, in the late 70s of the last century, the emergence of new technologies and the impact of the market finally abandoned these factories, and the city of Jingnan began to slump from then on.
Today's abandoned factories are still roughly the same as they were at the beginning, but they are dilapidated, half a century has made this building leak rain and wind and light, at this time it is evening, the last rays of sunlight shine on the outer wall of the factory, and the light through the cracks in the wall pull out a spider web-like light and shadow in the factory. Let everyone who sees this scene involuntarily sigh - it's a miracle that this ruined place didn't completely collapse.
However, this shabby, empty place is the perfect place to travel back in time: it's deserted, inaccessible, and perfect for doing something unseemly. For example, Hao Shen often played here with his classmates when he was a child.
After confirming the landing location, Hao Shen, who was the first to walk out of the portal, stretched a big lazy waist at that time, although this crossing was short, but Hao Shen's spirit was always tense, and now he saw the familiar scene of the earth, and suddenly felt a sense of relief.
The second person to walk out of the portal was Hao Xiaomei, the little girl's face was full of excitement, and the first thing she saw after jumping out was the mottled slogan of "hard work, self-reliance, how fast and easy to build socialism" in the old fertilizer factory in the sixties and seventies of the last century, and she was suddenly startled: "Brother? We came back fifty years earlier? ”
Hao Shen: "............ This old fertilizer factory! What do you think? ”
"Oh. Hehe......" Hao Xiaomei looked around and recognized this place, stuck out her tongue embarrassedly, and stood aside honestly.
The third one who came out was Lilith, the alien girl looked around with an indifferent expression, her eyes flashed, she looked at Hao Shen and said in surprise: "This is your planet?" I can't believe you're born in such a wasteland. ”
Hao Shen: "......"
At this moment, Hao Shen really wanted to take Lilith to the imperial capital and the magic capital to have a look, and tell this stinky little girl what the glorious twenty-first century is. But then when I thought about the identity of this girl, I could only sigh: with Lilith's knowledge, even the earth in the 21st century is probably similar to a primitive society.
The blue light of the portal turned off after the last one of the system jumped out, and the system popped out and Hao Shen almost reacted: he stretched his waist exaggeratedly, and then breathed a sigh of relief in a relaxed and satisfied tone: "Ah, I'm finally back, it's still cool on earth." ”
Hao Shen is speechless again, to be honest, just the system is like this ball, if Hao Shen doesn't say it, who can know that he stretched his waist?
"What? Look at the hair? Comments? The system immediately noticed Hao Shen's strange eyes and became impatient.
"No ......" Hao Shen quickly turned his face away, but then remembered his identity: it seems that he is the protagonist and the system is just a thing created by himself, when did he be so polite to this kid. But think about it, this time the emergency system really played a very big role, if there was no system, not to mention how long Hao Shen, who was completely inexperienced, would be trapped on that planet, just by almost harming Hao Xiaomei, this is not something Hao Shen can accept. Well, for Xiaomei's sake, I don't care if this product is big or small.
“…… Then let's go home, it's almost five o'clock, just in time for dinner, I'll go buy some groceries later, and welcome Lilith anyway. Hao Shen thumped his hands and simply arranged the task.
For this, neither the system nor Hao Xiaomei has any opinions, Lilith glanced at Hao Shen and said thank you softly, which surprised Hao Shen again, this girl actually understands human feelings?
"Why are you looking at me like that? I'm not an idiot, of course I know thanks! Lilith blushed and looked at Hao Shen in annoyance.
But you're lacking in heart. Hao Shen, the system, and even Hao Xiaomei's eyes all conveyed the same message.
The old fertilizer factory is not far from the old staff building, or simply said that the old staff building is actually the industry under the name of the fertilizer factory, and it is Aunt Liu and Uncle Liu's small restaurant to turn left when you go out, and it will be dinner time after a while, the old couple are busy, and when they see Hao Shen and they come back, they turned their heads to say hello in their busy schedule.
"Yo, Squire, Xiaomei, are you back? Have you eaten? Hey, this little girl is ......."
"It's ...... Xiaomei's classmates, yes, Xiaomei's classmates, don't you come to play with Xiaomei, haha......" Hao Shen hurriedly introduced it in a fake way, and then flashed directly, "We won't come here to eat, I'll just go back and get a few dishes to eat at home, you are always busy." ”
Hao Shen's popularity in the staff building is not bad, and the miserable past of the Hao family has also made Hao Shen's brothers and sisters gain more attention, those uncles and aunts in the staff building who see Hao Shen will say hello, Hao Shen can only cope all the way, until he enters the house, he let out a long sigh.
If you don't experience the enthusiasm of those uncles and aunts, I'm afraid no one can imagine it. Most of the residents in the factory were employees of the fertilizer factory, and most of them are around 70 years old who have survived to the present. In the southern suburbs, although it is poor, it is also extraordinarily peaceful. These old people have been retired for many years, and they squat in the alley to bask in the sun and gossip about who's little who makes money outside, or the little grandson of so-and-so will bring his girlfriend home in junior high school, etc., anyway, it can be summed up in four words: idle eggs hurt.
But despite this, the hearts and eyes of these old people are not bad, although the enthusiasm is a little too much.
After resting at home for a while, Hao Shen asked Hao Xiaomei to accompany Lilith and went out by himself, "What, you guys talk to yourself first." I'm going to buy some ingredients - let's have a hot pot in the evening, I'll buy some mutton. Xiaomei, you will clean up and take out the pot later, the system, there is still half a bottle of sesame in the refrigerator, you adjusted the sauce...... Don't object, I know you can. ”
After the arrangement, Hao Shen pedaled the electric three jumpers and went straight to the vegetable market, bought all the materials, and went home to light the fire and eat.
Hao Shen used hot pot to entertain Lilith, which is actually the highest standard. There are no famous restaurants in Jingnan City, and it is easy to cause accidents when Lilith, an alien girl, takes her to the hotel when she first arrives, and the hot pot can be high-end or low-grade, all in the materials. In addition, it is true that the family has not eaten hot pot for a long time, so Hao Shen's decision is not affected by either the system or Hao Xiaomei...... Well, it's not that there are no opinions at all, and the system began to complain about why Hao Shen didn't make a mouth for him.
At first, Hao Shen was also a little worried that Lilith would not be used to it, but after getting the alien girl's comment that "it tastes very good", Hao Shen still felt quite relieved. However, in addition to being relieved, Hao Shen was also a little disappointed, he also wanted to see the plot of Lilith being conquered by the hot pot culture, most novels have examples of aliens being conquered by the earth's cuisine and finally becoming foodies. But now it seems that novels are just novels after all, how can anyone become a foodie just because of a hot pot?
Looking at Hao Shen's expression, Lilith opened her mouth slightly, but in the end she didn't say anything: she really wanted to explain that as a high-level creature in the universe, Dire actually didn't need to eat to obtain energy......