In the dark wooden shed, the fire of the small coal stove was booming, boiling water churned up and down in the kettle, and the hot steam kept squeezing the lid, making a pounding sound. Anne was still cheering, but Wang Heidi took back the letter, stuffed it back into the depths of her shirt pocket, and plunged into the darkness.

A little spark passed by the darkness, accompanied by the pungent white phosphorus smell, Wang Heidi pulled up the lampshade of the kerosene lamp and lit the wick with a match. In an instant, a little light began to appear in the dark little room.

"There is no more lamp oil." Looking at the kerosene left in the kerosene lamp, Wang Heidi couldn't help but take out the five-finny nickel coins from his pocket and fiddled with it with a frown. Thanks to the 1889 general strike that caused countless casualties and wounded, the empire to compromise with the workers and establish a relatively complete public welfare system, allowing Wang Heidi to receive a shabby rescue fund.

Wang Heidi, who has an accounting qualification certificate, patiently calculated these arithmetics that even elementary school students didn't want to do, so that the hard life could continue.

"It seems like another expensive expense..."

"Heidi, my child, don't you have to go to school?" The sound of oldness and weakness came from the depths of the wooden shed, followed by the creaking sound of the bed board being pressed.

That was the voice of Heidi Silem's seriously ill mother Hathaway. Wang Heidi hurriedly raised the kerosene lamp and walked over.

"Hathaway, I've graduated from high school."

As the light approached, Hathaway's skinny figure gradually appeared. In less than three months, Hathaway's illness worsened rapidly and was already in the late stage of cancer. She collapsed in the bed and was dying. Because it was difficult to replenish nutrition, her whole body was sunken, and even the skeleton veins on her chest were clearly visible. Her hair had completely fallen, leaving only her bare brain. Under the bleak light, Hathaway was like a skeleton man from hell.

When Wang Heidi just came here, Hathaway was already in the middle of cancer. She concealed her condition from her family and carefully took care of the heroes to save the beauty. Wang Heidi, who was seriously injured in the head, left the best and expensive medicines to Heidi until she could no longer stand up. Affected by the illness, Hathaway was already blind and was a little confused most of the time. But even so, out of a mother's instinctive love for her son, she still cared about Heidi's study.

Wang Heidi traveled over and occupied Heidi Silem's body for no reason, and enjoyed Hathaway and Frasy's love for no reason. Since he couldn't go back, Wang Heidi treated Hathaway and Frasy as his relatives, determined to respect them well and fulfill his obligations for Heidi Silem.

"Oh, is it time for supper?" Hathaway asked in a speechless manner: "It's time to have a meal."

Wang Heidi nodded, dragged the small dining table covered with rags, and put the cup containing brown sugar water and a piece of dry black bread. Hathaway had no strength to eat alone, so Wang Heidi helped the old Hathaway up, picked up the hard black bread and broke it into small pieces, and fed it to her bit by bit with brown sugar water.

"Heidi, why don't you eat?" Hathaway said in confusion when she saw that her son had never moved the dishes, knife and fork from beginning to end.

"I've eaten it." Soon, the small piece of black bread disappeared from Wang Heidi's fingertips. Wang Heidi hid in the shadow of the light and rubbed her hungry stomach and explained: "I've been helping Mr. Shrekt take care of his fruit stall recently, and the reward is two meals a day."

Hathaway is the second daughter of the Schneider family, a fisherman of Hekendorf. She went to church school for a few days and didn't know much knowledge. She didn't understand Treschke's pan-Germanyism, nor did Hoffman-vn-Falles-Leben's idealism. She just relied on her life experience and simply and stubbornly wanted Heidi to learn more. In the view of Hathaway, who was doting on children, Wang Heidi should not be buried in the Keel Pier. He who was very interested in psychology should go to the University of Berlin to compete with Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche [3].

Wang Heidi did not dare to tell Hathaway that he was working as a porter at the dock, nor did he dare to tell Hathaway that he secretly went to Keel Naval Academy to sign up for the admissions exam and was likely to be admitted to the military academy. Wang Heidi did not want to make the seriously ill Hathaway unhappy and had to use the warm-hearted Mr. Shrekt as a shield.

"Mr. Shrekt is a good person. Their family has helped us a lot. Heidi, you must repay this love in the future." Hathaway half-sitted on the bed, grabbed Wang Heidi's hand and explained.

Wang Heidi nodded. Although Hathaway couldn't see it, he believed that with the tacit understanding between mother and son, she would understand Wang Heidi's choice. Wang Heidi brought a basin of water, wiped Hathaway's body, grabbed the medicine box on the table, and helped Hathaway take the medicine.

There was not much painkiller left in the medicine box, and it was another expensive expense. Looking back on the days when he spent money on Taobao and JD.com, the once rich and handsome Wang Heidi wanted to cry with grievance.

Hathaway is already terminally ill, and no medicine can stop the approaching of death. You should know that even in the future with advanced technology, cancer is still an absolute world-class disease. All Wang Heidi can do is prepare enough painkillers to make her end of her life less painful. Unfortunately, even with such a simple wish, Wang Heidi, who swears to save the world, still can't support it.

The money Frasey left for Wang Heidi before going to sea was gone, and Wang Heidi's meager salary was not enough to support expensive drugs. Wang Heidi stammered and suggested in a low voice, "Catherine's chemical factory recruits workers, thirty Finneys a day, and also takes care of a meal, Hathaway, I want to go..."

Katherine was a classmate of Heidi at Tim Kleger Middle School. Her father was Keel's business tycoon Dick, who owned many factories and trading companies. Since Katherine's mother Verani learned that Heidi had started dating her only daughter, she deliberately wanted to break them up.

Verani wanted Wang Heidi to let go, and the exchange was to introduce him to a decent job. Wang Heidi refused, not because Wang Heidi fell in love with Catherine, but Verani's cold tone offended Wang Heidi's only pitiful self-esteem. But now, Wang Heidi doesn't care about self-esteem, which is something that cannot be eaten. In the face of the life and death of his relatives, how much is the boy's dignity worth?

"Silem, don't go! Your future is not in the dirty and dark factory of Kiel, and in the spacious and bright school of the University of Berlin!" Hathaway turned his head hard and grabbed the corner of King Heidi's clothes, with a hint of anger on his weak and pale face. "If you are short of money, please lend it to your uncle Schneider, who will definitely borrow it for the sake of his dead grandfather."

"Uncle Schneider..." Wang Heidi snorted coldly. It would be better to believe Andersen's fairy tale than to rely on Schneider to borrow money. It was because Schneider blocked the door and collected debts several times that Wang Heidi was forced to let go of his self-esteem of the son of the second-generation rich and the second-generation official son-in-law, deviated from the code of conduct of an otaku, and went to the dock to "moving bricks".

Wang Heidi was determined to let the facts rot in her stomach. Looking at the broken ceiling, she laughed at herself: "Hathaway, I'm sorry, I failed to get into the University of Berlin."

"I didn't get the exam..." Hathaway was a little surprised, and then she began to comfort her only child again. "The University of Berlin is the pride of the German nation. It's no big deal if you can't get the exam, and it's the same with going to Kiel University. Heidi, don't give up your ideals no matter what, don't give up studying no matter what. Once you put down your textbooks, you will really have no chance to make a name for yourself in your life."

Wang Heidi has heard this once, and it was mentioned tirelessly and repeatedly by a nagging mother. Unfortunately, Wang Heidi was young and frivolous and confused by his wealth in those years, and did not understand the profound meaning of the words. Now, Wang Heidi, who has suffered enough, has begun to understand his mother's painstaking efforts, but some words can no longer be heard.

Ideal? Is it the ideal of marrying a beautiful wife when I was a child because I liked young kindergarten teachers? Is it the ideal of studying psychology because I liked "Detective Conan" when I was young? Is it the ideal of replacing Xiang Shaolong because of time traveling through culture? Is it the ideal of saving the world because of the stimulation of an old Taoist priest on a certain month and day without wearing underwear without spider silk? Or is it the ideal of saving the world because of the poverty, inferiority complex that I can't get rid of, and I hope to have a good meal and have a good rest for a day?

"Fuck the emperor's tyrant, fuck the lone hero, fuck the bloody journey!" Wang Heidi felt a sense of resentment in her heart, sighed without any brainstorm, and promised to join forces to comfort Hathaway. After Hathaway fell asleep, Wang Heidi was reluctant to waste the lamp oil, quickly put out the lamp oil, threw the bowl and spoon into the pool to wash it clean.

With the faint light that penetrated from the ceiling, Wang Heidi lay on the small dining table and carefully picked up the remaining crumbs on the table and twisted them into her mouth.

"This is a roast chicken carefully cooked by my little girlfriend, sprinkled with sesame oil and scallions, and added a little salt. Yes, the color is bright and fragrant but not greasy. I will eat its thighs first..." Heidi squinted her eyes and tried to imitate the optimism of seniors such as Kong Yiji, Xu Sanguan, Chaplin, etc. The bread crumbs melted in their mouths, and there was no smell left. Wang Heidi's face was lustful, and pressed her hungry stomach, picked up a large glass of water and swallowed it.

A floor-to-ceiling mirror was placed behind the door of the wooden shed. In the mirror, the boy's things grabbed the air and pursed his lips looked quite funny. The Chaplin-style silent film fell into the painting ten minutes after the screening. The boy in the mirror held a large glass of water and drank happily. After enjoying it, the boy burped and jokingly said to the air: "Well, the salt is too much, it's too salty..."

【Note】

1.Treischke: German historians proposed famous sayings such as "War must be considered as the law stipulated by God", which had a huge impact on Germany. Some people even joked that it was Treischke that triggered the First World War.

2. Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche: Richard Wagner is a great German musician and philosopher, Nietzsche is also a great German philosopher, and at the same time they are also a pair of life and death enemies with no one.

3. Hoffmann von Fallesleben: A German poet who once wrote the poem "Germany, Germany is above everything else".;
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