7. Family (1)
More than twenty minutes later, Ling Li walked downstairs where he was.
The dilapidated old building structure is similar to the one where Zhou Tong is located. The Ling family and a family named Sun share a room with a single brick building in the middle, and the area of the room is only about ten square meters. Due to the narrow space, there can only be a top and bottom bunk in the room. Ling Li slept in the upper bunk, while his mother and sister slept in the lower bunk.
There is no heating or toilet in the whole building. Water pipes and public toilets are all downstairs. It is impossible for neighbors who line up downstairs to get water and go to the toilet every day to know each other. Each family has no privacy at all. If anyone has a family, it will be guaranteed that hundreds of residents in the entire building will know about it within three days.
Because the space in the room is narrow and stuffy, neighbors usually come outdoors, gather together on the roadside or downstairs to chat or play chess and cards, and will only return home when they are sleeping.
He greeted the neighbors downstairs all the way, and looked at the familiar scenes in the corridor, an inexplicable warmth surged in Ling Li's heart and returned home.
The space in the room was very narrow. After the upper and lower bunks were placed, only an aisle that could only accommodate one person. Although the house was crowded, it was cleaned up by my mother.
When I entered the door, I saw my mother sitting at the head of the bed, holding needles and thread in my hand to sew clothes, while my sister Ling Yan was not at home.
"Mom, I'm back."
"Xiao Li, after school, I went to Boss Zhou's shop to work. Are you exhausted?" Mother Li Fengying stood up, "I'm leaving food for you in the bowl, I'll go and heat you up."
Ling Li walked to the innermost small table and touched the covered pottery bowl with his hand, "Mom, the food is still warm, no need to heat up. What's Yan'er doing? Why don't you do your homework?"
"This is the weekend, and you don't have to go to class tomorrow. Yan'er and his classmates go to the park to play. The place in this house is narrow, so who would like to stay at home?" The mother sighed and said with heartache: "Look at you, your child, you are so busy that you even forgot about the weekend. I'll go out to boil some boiling water for you first." After that, she picked up the iron kettle and walked out.
Ling Li opened the covered rice bowl and saw a bowl of rice full of rice. A plate of vegetarian fried cabbage moved only a quarter, and most of it was left on the plate. He thought about it, and put out half of the rice in the plate, then put out half of the fried cabbage in the bowl, covered the plate, then picked up the chopsticks and mixed the rice and started eating.
While chewing food in his mouth, Ling Li couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.
There are only two relatives, my mother and my sister, who is three years younger than me, at home. I have been in this world for more than three years. The family's life is entirely maintained by my mother's work. My work and life in my previous life were quite leisurely, and I never had to worry about my livelihood. Unexpectedly, after traveling through time, I realized that after several years of inability to eat.
It's really bad to be a salted fish.
According to what I have learned, the surface area of this planet is dozens or even hundreds of times larger than the blue planet in my memory. It has at least three satellites, that is, the moon, and each moon is much larger than that on the blue planet. Every night on a full moon, the wonder of "two moons shine together" will appear in the sky.
According to the history passed down, the technological level of the Chiyan Continent before the catastrophe was roughly the same as that of the Blue Star civilization before it traveled through time, and it was not much higher.
As for how the catastrophe happened, this is also a very puzzling problem.
Li Fengying came back from outside with a kettle, poured a bowl of hot water for Ling Li, then sat down to the bed and looked at his son: "Xiao Li, I heard Guangsheng say just now, you haven't registered for the college entrance examination in three months?"
"Mom, I can't get the score, so don't worry. Besides, I will have to wait until I get back from the field training to decide." Ling Li said calmly: "After the field trial is over, I get my graduation certificate and find a job in the city. Yan'er's academic performance is much better than mine, so we have to provide her."
Li Fengying opened her mouth and finally said nothing, just sighed softly.
The atmosphere in the room was a bit dull. Ling Li smiled and tried to pretend to be relaxed, "As the saying goes, 360 professions, and you don't have to go to college to have a promising future. Oh, I went to the rooftop for a while, and there were still some food left in the bowl. I didn't finish it. When Yan'er came back, she would let her eat it. It was the time to grow up."
Ling Li greeted his mother, walked out of the door, followed the stairs to the roof.
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There are stars in the sky. The moonlight on the ground on the Chiyan Continent at night seems much brighter than on the Blue Star, just like before the sunrise on the Blue Star, and it does not appear particularly dark. Lingli looks at the sky, and two bright moons are like millstones, hanging high in the sky. The moon is bright and the stars are sparse. The moon emits hazy red light, which seems to be several times larger than those on the Blue Star.
Ling Li raised his face to face the night sky and rubbed his forehead. He could feel that there was a translucent jade pendant that seemed to be embedded in his seal hall. This jade pendant was a dark red translucent agate stone he picked up on the Gobi Desert during his trip on Blue Star. It was about the size of a finger and was not very regular. The most curious thing at that time was that there was a round hole at the top, which seemed to be drilled out manually, just enough to penetrate the hanging chain.
At that time, I thought someone had a destiny to be a person who fell on the Gobi Desert, so I wore a platinum necklace and put on the agate pendant as my own body ornament.
Since traveling through time, it has not been visible during the day, but at night, facing the red full moon, it seems that the light can be penetrated by the seal hall on his forehead, just like the legendary Prince Ma opened his third heavenly eye. Although he could not see things, this feeling was very strange.
Gently rubbing the forehead, a very friendly feeling arose. Ling Li couldn't understand why the pendant could appear in this world strangely after he was in a car accident, and was embedded in his skull. However, it turned out that the platinum necklace on it had long disappeared.
Perhaps it is precisely because of it that your soul can be taken to this world and be reborn.
Ling Li knew that this thing must be very difficult, but unfortunately, he had never figured out the correct way to open it.
He raised his face and pointed the agate pendant in the seal hall at the moon in the sky. Through the moonlight, the jade pendant was still hazy and translucent, and could not see the objects. He could vaguely see some dark red complex patterns inside, which seemed to extend out, connecting his brain, and could not see any special places. However, according to the routine obtained in memory travel or fantasy novels, this strange agate pendant that accompanied him from the original blue star to this other world should be the medium for teleporting his soul.
"It's been more than three years..." Ling Li sighed in his heart, his eyes a little dazed, "I am on Blue Star, and I am now continuing my life in another way. No matter what, it's great to be alive."
Chapter completed!