9. Family (3)
Ling Yan'er's academic performance is much better than Ling Li. He basically ranked in the top five in the class every time he took the exam. In fact, Ling Li is not stupid in his studies. Only the damn memory and habits of another world often interfere with his thinking. Ling Li took three years to slowly adapt to the natural science system that is completely different from Lanxing on the Chiyan Continent. Unfortunately, his academic performance has fallen a lot. If he wants to catch up, he is about to graduate from middle school.
This is also destined. If there were no adventures, he would be an ordinary person in his life, and his future would definitely be much worse than his sister.
"The porridge is almost cold, eat it while it's hot." said her mother Li Fengying. Because of the difficult life, she was only in her forties, and wrinkles were obviously on the corners of her eyes and forehead.
Ling Li noticed that his mother filled his bowl with rice porridge, but there were only half of his bowl. After sighing for a moment, he didn't say anything. He sat on the stool, picked up the chopsticks, and quietly drank the porridge.
When he and his mother started eating, Ling Yan'er had almost eaten.
"Yan'er, have you eaten?"
"Hurry up, it's not too late to be in the class today."
Several girls' voices came from outside the door.
The door opened, and a girl with a round face leaned in. It was Hu Jiawen, the sister of Ling Li’s classmate Hu Shiyou upstairs.
"Okay, let's go now." Ling Yan'er quickly put on her coat, but did not carry her schoolbag like she did in the sky. "Mom, brother, I'm going to school."
Several little girls chattered and left together.
After finishing the meal with my mother, Ling Li took the bowl into the pot and prepared to brush the pot.
"Li'er, put the pot underground. I'll take a vacation today. You sit there first, I have something to tell you." My mother took out a small bag from the dark mahogany cabinet behind the door and said to Ling Li.
Ling Li sat down when she heard this. Her mother sat down at the head of the bed, put the small bag in her hand on the small square table pieced together with wooden boards, and then took out a smaller red cloth bag from it.
"In another week, you graduates will participate in the field training organized by the school. Although the teacher who led the team is taking care of it, there is still some danger in survival in the wild." The mother opened the red cloth bag, revealing a stack of large and small banknotes. "This is the 2,000 yuan that my mother has saved in the past six months. You can buy some weapons and protective things."
"Mom, no need. Boss Zhou just gave me a short knife yesterday. The teacher at the school gave me a pair of arm guards. It was almost enough." Ling Li quickly shoved, then took out the short knife from his schoolbag and put it on the table.
He pulled out a small part of the short knife. When he was made last night, the sky was dark and the lights in the store were dim. Only then did he find that the surface of the blade was covered with a dark red color, rather than the black iron color of the ordinary steel knife. He felt a little strange in his heart.
"How can you, a child, get the benefits of others for nothing?" said the mother. "Anyway, the money is prepared for you. You can take it all, buy clothes, shoes, etc., and you wear leather shoes, and it is not convenient to move in the wild." She said as she pushed all the money in front of Ling Li.
Ling Li thought about it and found that what his mother said made sense, so he counted out 1,000 yuan from the banknotes, "In this way, I will take 1,000 yuan to buy a pair of shoes and a sportswear, and the rest will be treated as pocket money. What if there is any urgent need for training in the wild." A cheap sportswear costs about 100 yuan, while sports shoes suitable for walking and climbing in the wild cost at least 300 yuan. He also made some wealth.
"How can this work? You can take all this money. In front of your classmates, you have to be respectful. You can't be underestimated." The mother insisted on stuffing the remaining money to Ling Li.
"Mom, this face cannot be exchanged for money. I will never take the rest anymore. It's better to buy Yan'er a new dress. It's a big girl and she's wearing school uniform all day long." Ling Li blocked it with her hands and was very firm in her attitude.
Li Fengying knew that her son was stubborn and had made up his mind, so she couldn't persuade him. She had to sigh and put the remaining 1,000 yuan with different face value and sizes, then carefully wrapped it and put it in the cabinet to lock it.
Ling Li put a thousand yuan into his top pocket, put the knife in his schoolbag and placed it on the side of his pillow, "Mom, I got the benefits of Boss Zhou yesterday. Today I went to help him with a day's work, so I won't come back to have lunch."
"You kid, you are thinking about buying clothes and shoes." Li Fengying gave another instructor.
Qingyacheng is a rectangular three-level barrier city about 16 kilometers long and ten kilometers wide. The city has a population of more than 800,000. Among them, the north city is the inner city, the east and west areas are military camps, while the south city accounts for only a little more than a quarter of the entire city, but it accommodates half of the population and factory area of the entire barrier city, and is a typical civilian area.
In the barrier base city where every inch of land is valuable, there are not many high-rise buildings due to the limitations of building materials. Most civilian areas are square and standard six-story or seven-story buildings, densely arranged with very small spacing, and most civilian families live in a small room of one or half.
Even if it is crowded, the living environment of people in the barrier cities is much better than those pioneering barrier bases outside the city. At least under the protection of the city's tall walls, people's safety is still guaranteed. And those wild pioneer bases may be completely destroyed in a beast tide at any time...
There is no way, the living space and capacity of the city are very limited, and it is impossible to accommodate everyone. In the Eastern Federation, more than 60% of civilians still live in those dangerous wilderness bases.
Compared to them, the current life of Ling Li's family is quite good.
Of course, this hard-earned hard-earned life is still the pension my father exchanged for after sacrificing his life in the pioneering operation organized by the government.
Lao Zhou’s hardware store is about a little over a kilometer away from the residential community where the Ling family is located. There were no buses in this era, and even bicycles were expensive and the Ling family could not afford them. There are motor vehicles in this world, but the power is not to use internal combustion engines, but to use the so-called source energy stone as power, which is similar to the so-called new energy electric vehicles in my memory.
However, although the cheapest source energy car is only tens of thousands of yuan, which is not very expensive, the source energy stone is very expensive. Unless it is an official, an army, or a wealthy family, ordinary people cannot afford it.
For ordinary civilians, the Eleventh Road is the most commonly used means of transportation.
Chapter completed!