Chapter 62: The journey of rubbing rice never ends
Smelling the girl Lin Jiuxin's question, the young An Ying turned to look at her in embarrassment: "My name is An Ying!" ”
Looking at Lin Jiuxin, a girl who was much taller than him, An Ying always felt that Lin Jiuxin should be half a head shorter than him for some reason.
This strange thought didn't stay long, and he was left behind with Lin Jiuxin's gentle voice.
"An Ying, it's really a nice name, are you reading?"
At this time, An Ying was not like him, who had experienced the ravages and devastation of society, his mind was still very simple, and he answered the question of the sister next door who met for the first time without thinking about it: "Well, I'm in my first year of high school, big sister, are you also a high school student?" ”
At the same time, he was also curious about the identity of the girl in front of him, who was not a few years older than him.
Hearing An Ying say that she was a high school student, Lin Jiuxin smiled from ear to ear: "Me, I'm already working, ......"
Halfway through speaking, Lin Jiuxin was stopped by an inopportune stomach scream. She looked at An Ying, who was holding her stomach and looked embarrassed, pursed her lips and smiled, "Little brother, didn't you eat dinner?" ”
"I ate, I just don't know why I'm hungry again......" An Ying couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground at this time, he obviously ate dinner, and he would have such an embarrassing thing.
"It's still quite hard for high school students to study at night, and it's not surprising that you're hungry when you're growing up again, and you're still a boy.
Okay, don't bother you to enter the house, your parents probably have something ready for you to eat, go inside! ”
Lin Jiuxin pretended not to see An Ying's somewhat embarrassed look, she narrowed her eyes slightly, and while explaining to An Ying to save him from embarrassment, she waved her hand and motioned for him to hurry home and eat something delicious.
Her empathetic behavior also won An Ying a lot of favor, but unfortunately An Ying's parents were outside for a long time, and he didn't have a sumptuous meal waiting for him when he returned home.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shake his head a little disappointed: "My parents are not at home, they have been away for a long time, and there is nothing good to eat at home." ”
An Ying's reply seemed to remind Lin Jiuxin of something, she showed her sister's distressed look for her brother, and she felt a little sorry for An Ying, whose parents had not been by her side for a long time.
Thinking that there were still some leftovers at home that she hadn't eaten tonight, Lin Jiuxin clapped her hands and continued to show an intoxicating smile: "Little brother, I just have some dishes in my house that I cooked too much tonight, if you don't mind, you can come to my place for some supper!" ”
"How embarrassing is that!" An Ying felt that it was inappropriate, he and Lin Jiuxin had just met for the first time, even if they were neighbors, he couldn't eat at will.
He said this, but his body was very honest, and he screamed twice without arguing.
"Little brother, everyone is a neighbor, maybe in the future, sister, when I still want your help, it's okay to come to me for a meal once in a while!"
Lin Jiuxin sent an invitation to An Ying again, and her warm smile was very contagious, making An Ying a little reluctant to refuse her invitations continuously.
He touched his stomach and screamed a few times, and promised Lin Jiuxin: "Okay, big sister, if you need help in the future, you can also find me!" ”
followed into Lin Jiuxin's house, and he sat on the sofa a little cramped when he entered the girl's house for the first time.
The empathetic Lin Jiuxin turned on the TV to relieve his boredom, and said: "Brother, you watch TV for a while, the food is in the refrigerator, I'll heat it up for you!" ”
An Ying nodded, still a little nervous, although his eyes were staring at the TV, his eyes were erratic.
It wasn't until Lin Jiuxin patted him on the shoulder that he came to his senses and found that the coffee table was full of all kinds of hot dishes.
"Let's eat, I found that there are still some raw vegetables and pork in the refrigerator, so I will make more of it, I don't know if you can eat it or not......"
Lin Jiuxin pressed her right palm against her pretty face, squinted her eyes a little annoyedly, tilted her head and complained about herself.
But then, An Ying told her with practical actions that this amount of food was not enough for him at all!
The wind swept away, and these dishes were quickly swept away by An Ying. With a full stomach, he patted his belly with satisfaction and expressed his gratitude to Lin Jiuxin: "Big sister, the dishes you cook are so delicious!" ”
"If you like to eat, if you are still hungry after evening self-study, you can come to eat with me!" The dishes she made were all eaten by An Ying, and Lin Jiuxin happily put away the dishes and chopsticks.
When An Ying heard this, she hurriedly shook her head: "Big sister, this time it's enough to trouble you, if I am still hungry after self-study at night, I can buy some barbecue at the school gate to eat." ”
Lin Jiuxin smiled gently, but she didn't force it, she packed up the dishes and chopsticks, she motioned to An Ying to sit for a while, and she walked into the kitchen with the dishes and chopsticks.
An Ying also politely stayed with Lin Jiuxin for a while before returning to his home.
However, what he didn't expect was that if there was a first time, there would be a second and third time......
Three years of high school is not long, nor is it short, and his journey to eat has lasted for three years.
He went from being much shorter than Lin Jiuxin to being half a head taller than Lin Jiuxin, and before he knew it, he was also at the age of going to college in other places.
It's just that the moment he stepped on the plane, his whole world, whether it was people or things, was distorted in a terrifying way.
An inexplicable force deleted his memory back to the night he met Lin Jiuxin one day in his first year of high school, and he also changed back to his appearance when he was a freshman in high school.
Standing in front of his house in a daze, his eyes were full of confusion and incomprehension when his memory was deleted, so that he didn't notice Lin Jiuxin, the girl who came out to take out the garbage.
"This brother, don't you have the key with you? Why are you standing at the door in a daze? ”
But as Lin Jiuxin, the girl who came back from taking out the garbage, patted him on the shoulder, he also instantly took on the role of this period again.
"Bring it!" An Ying patted his own forehead, showing an embarrassed look.
At this point, An Ying has started a new round of rice rubbing journey, repeating the exact same actions and experiences in the past.
It was as if he was imprisoned by an invisible force during the period between his freshman year of high school and his flight to a foreign university, repeating his journey of rubbing rice again and again.
This seems to be a warm memory of the sister next door, but in fact it is a never-ending time cage, wanting to lock An Ying forever in this time.
I don't know how many times An Ying has returned to the original point and continued his high school life. But this time, the day before the winter vacation of his third year of high school, he saw something that should not have appeared in front of him during this time period: the amulet that Lin Jiuxin asked for him, a delicate red sickle moon pendant.
This sickle moon pendant was given to him by Lin Jiuxin in the morning in his normal timeline, and it was absolutely impossible to appear in this time period, but it appeared like this!
Looking at this scythe pendant, An Ying's mind instantly flooded into some memories that should not exist in this period either, but they were immediately forcibly erased by an invisible force.
Although the Kazuki pendant has not disappeared, it can no longer remind An Ying that this is not reality.
After experiencing an eternal cycle of time again, An Ying saw something that he could not have seen at this time at a high school sports meeting: a photo of Lin Jiuxin, who was younger than now, and her eight or nine-year-old brother.
In an instant, memories that did not belong to this period appeared in his mind, but they were soon forcibly erased by an inexplicable force.
Entering the next cycle with the photo and the Kazuki pendant, An Ying still repeats his past experiences, but each time he repeats, he discovers something new that doesn't belong in this time.
As there are more and more such things, it is becoming more and more difficult for that inexplicable force to suppress An Ying.
When An Ying's suspicion and distrust of this world accumulates to a certain limit with the repeated experiences, it is difficult to erase the memories that do not belong to this time period.
The whole world began to tilt and collapse as his true memories recovered, and An Ying's immature teenage appearance gradually changed back to his normal timeline.
The flickering thunder hastened the destruction of this shattered world, and An Ying hung his dead fish eyes that were indifferent after being ravaged by social friction, and returned to reality with shattered illusions.
Being in a town distorted by a mysterious power, the never-ending journey just now also made him understand what this mysterious power is!