Chapter 7: Modern Times
Time flies, more than 400 years have passed in a blink of an eye!!
Four hundred years later, the surface world!
On a summer night in the south, there is not a trace of wind, the air is mixed with all kinds of smells, filling the streets and alleys, row after row of reinforced concrete buildings are densely packed together, and there is no light when you look up, only a turn of wires intertwined, bypassing one after another narrow streets and alleys that are cramped and poor, as if guiding people to move forward.
That's right, this is the most famous urban village in Big G City-Y Village Erheng Road!
Erheng Road in Y Village is a filthy alley, like a big centipede that can't see the light, winding and circling, hidden behind the tall buildings in the T area!
Xu Ruoping, a college student graduating from medical school, was looking for a rental house, between a store selling cheap ready-to-wear clothes and a food stall, with a steep staircase leading down to a cave-like black opening.
The middle of the concrete road has been rubbed by the constant flow of traffic, and the lights on the side of the road flicker.
Walking on this potholed road with one foot deep and one foot shallow, it is really a difficult test for a girl who has just learned to wear hate.
The muddy road was crowded with people in a hurry, she took out her mobile phone and glanced at it, 6:40 minutes, it was the rush hour after work.
She rubbed her hands that were hurt by the two bags of fruit, walked into a building that had just been built, and there were piles of dried and hard cement slurry scattered around the base of the wall, and went up to the fourth floor, skillfully felt the deadbolt, opened the door, and was faced with a deep, low room, which was filled with heavy tan smoke, and a row of wooden couches against the wall, which was both a sofa and a bed.
Xiaoqian's husband, Zheng Wenqiang, a yellow-skinned guy, is lying on it swallowing clouds and spitting fog, completely ignoring the second-hand smoke of a wife and a child who has just given birth!
He caught a glimpse of Xu Ruoping, and he didn't raise his eyelids, only yawned lazily, and said from between his teeth: "You're here, it's just right, the child's mother wants to drink fish soup!"
Xu Ruoping cursed Zheng Wenqiang thousands of times in her heart, and she really wanted to go up and smoke him with a big ear scraper! When she thought that Xiaoqian was in confinement, she had to swallow this resentment and spittle Xingzi in her stomach!
Xu Ruoping and Xiaoqian are college classmates and roommates, both of them are rural babies, their families are relatively poor, and they have the same illness, so they naturally become good girlfriends who talk about everything!
The personalities of the two people are very different, Xu Ruoping has a flamboyant personality and is upright and bold, so she offends many people in the university and is not liked by the seniors! Approaching graduation, the students have been signed contracts by major institutions one after another through various channels, but they still have no landing.
Xiaoqian, gentle and elegant, timid and afraid, has been unknown in school, if it wasn't for the special roll call, it is estimated that everyone would not have noticed her existence!
During the internship, due to the different internship units, everyone was busy writing papers and looking for jobs, and basically had little contact, Xu Ruoping only remembered that Xiaoqian called her once and excitedly told her that she had a boyfriend, and then how that person treated her so well, and then there was no follow-up!
After their graduation and their classmates found jobs one after another and stabilized! Xu Ruoping got a shocking news that Xiaoqian had a baby!
Wen Qiang saw Xu Ruoping with a coffin face, very interesting, and found an excuse to walk away.
With the sound of his procrastinating footsteps, his piercing whistle sounded in the corridor at the same time, and Zheng Wenqiang's back disappeared into the corridor.
The child is asleep, with a pink face, a red mouth slightly upturned, and even and powerful breathing.
Xu Ruoping took a bowl of fish soup and sat down next to Xiaoqian, glanced at the child in the crib next to her, and suddenly, a shallow black mark passed through the child's ordinary person.
The people are wide and flat, and the son cannot be raised, and then it is dark, that is, there are accidents.
Xu Ruoping was excited, the bowl of soup in her hand almost spilled on the child, and she spun a graceful arc in the air dangerously, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw Xiaoqian on the side in a daze, ignoring the series of frightening actions she had just made.
Xu Ruoping is a folk casual cultivator, and she has quite a lot of attainments in physiognomy.
Physiognomy is an important cultural crystallization of the ancient ancestors of our country, it belongs to the culture of numerology, also known as physiognomy, physiognomy, including astrology, physiognomy, bone physiognomy, physiognomy, palmistry, and arithmetic, etc., is a kind of traditional magic, mainly through the external observation of people's physical characteristics and words and deeds to predict people's good fortune and misfortune, poor and rich.
Since Xu Ruoping practiced physiognomy, she has had several times when she has encountered problems, and she is extremely accurate, so she deeply believes that everyone's appearance and temperament are hidden mysteries, which invisibly affect her own fate.
And the example of physiognomy fulfillment, there are also records in the official historical materials, such as the "Da Dai Li Ji" said, "Xi Yao takes people to form, Shun takes people to color, Yu takes people to speak, Tang takes people to sound, King Wen takes people to degree, these four generations and five kings take people to know the world." From this, it is known that Yao Shunyu and the founding kings of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties all selected talents through physiognomy.
Even the famous "LΓΌ's Spring and Autumn Period", which is famous in history, also has a description of physiognomy in "Ji Chunji: On People".
The status of physiognomy in metaphysics can be seen!
Xu Ruoping just glanced at Xiaoqian's child so lightly, and she actually saw that this child was about to have a murder, if this robbery failed, there would be only one consequence - braided back to his hometown to sell salted duck eggs.
She was shocked beyond measure, but it was inconvenient to show too much on her face, after all, this matter is not easy to explain, if one accidentally becomes self-defeating, not only will her kindness be treated as a donkey's liver and lungs, but she may not even be able to be a friend in the future.
After thinking about it for a while, I had to rub my hand on the edge of the bowl silently, wipe the overflowing soup clean, and pass it over, and said vaguely: "Fortunately, the child is still healthy." Not to bluff you, most babies like you who are in a hurry to get pregnant and are born prematurely have congenital heart disease. β
She was talking in her mouth, but her heart was like a big ball of cotton wool, which was blocked to death.
As a folk casual cultivator of karma, he must follow the teacher's teachings, everything in the world has cause and effect, and everyone has its own ghost and god jurisdiction, and it is not allowed to use the practice without permission and tamper with the fate of mortals at will.
But as a best friend, her son is in trouble but stands by and is indifferent, is it still a person?
Xiaoqian came back to her senses, looked at the other party's eyes scattered, as if she was wandering out of the world, she was stunned in her heart, and then said: "Look at your mouth, it hasn't changed at all." β
The rules and regulations floated in Xu Ruoping's mind like a movie, and when she was entangled in her heart about intervening or pretending to know nothing, Xu Ruoping was told by Xiaoqian, and she realized that she had just come up with an occupational illness, and she had to shrug her shoulders and said innocently: "I'm sorry, my mouth is too fast, just say whatever I think, don't go to your heart, ah." β
"Come on, Dr. Xu. Xiaoqian said.
She took the fish soup handed over by Xu Ruoping and drank it with a grunt.
"Be careful, look at you hungry, I really don't understand how Zheng Wenqiang takes care of you. Xu Ruoping snatched the bowl from Xiaoqian's hand and said, "There are many more, I'll go and serve you another bowl." β
"Walk carefully, don't wake this little one. β
"Got it. β
It was another bowl full of crucian carp and papaya soup, Xiaoqian showed a knowing smile while drinking, and a few strands of sweaty hair were pulled on her face, looking extremely haggard.
"I heard that you are about to get engaged at the end of next month, right? β
Xiaoqian's shallow eyes flashed with a hint of faint light, sweet, sour, bitter and spicy, and she couldn't tell whether she was happy, sad or worried.
"I really envy you, I just left a Chen Kunfeng, and I came back with Xu Jun. Girls are beautiful and have good figures, but they are different. I really want to gossip, I heard that Xu Jun is your junior high school classmate, or your first boyfriend, what kind of moving story is there, tell me, how about it?" Xiaoqian asked.