"The pot is burning red!" Fang Xiaoling's shout brought Roland back from his thoughts, "If you want to fry, add oil, if you want to boil, add water!"
"Oh, then... let's stir-fry something." Roland opened the cabinet next to the stove and took out the remaining half bucket of soybean oil. She was about to pour it into the pot when she suddenly remembered something, "By the way. , I haven’t cut the vegetables yet, so I can’t just throw them into the pot and fry them.”
"What are you thinking about? Add some water to the pot first. You can't boil it dry like this."
Roland took out the water gourd from the cabinet and ran outside the door. When she saw the old well pressed by a huge stone plate, the water gourd fell out of her hand and fell to the ground.
Fang Xiaoling also came out, "Don't tell me you can't move that stone?"
"I covered this stone with my own hands." Roland looked at the stone plate for a while, then suddenly turned back and said, "Actually, those vegetables can be eaten raw, I didn't use pesticides."
"Then you have to take a shower, right?" Fang Xiaoling walked over, "Besides, I feel a little thirsty and want to drink some water."
"Okay." Roland sighed softly. She braced herself and felt angry in her Dantian. She didn't know if it was an illusion, but Fang Xiaoling seemed to see a circular airflow under Roland's feet, surrounding her feet. With a loud shout, he pushed his palms towards the stone plate.
There was a stalemate like this for a while, with the stone plate motionless. Roland lowered his arms like a deflated eggplant, "No, Li Mengli's body is too thin, and she can't push it even with Qigong."
"Can't you? I saw that you were quite powerful before. You kicked the old man away with just one kick."
"How many kilograms does that old bone weigh? This is a stone plate weighing a thousand kilograms." Roland had already decided to give up. "I can't push it anyway, so I'll pull out the firewood. If you're thirsty, just eat the cabbage."
Seeing that Roland was really starting to burn out money when he returned, Fang Xiaoling had no choice but to go back to the wooden house reluctantly. She squatted next to the basket and picked up a big cabbage. She peeled off several layers on the outside and only ate the cabbage heart inside. "Don't tell me, I can barely eat it." .”
After Roland knocked the firewood on the ground and extinguished it, he squatted down and picked up a carrot and ate it, "What a waste. Do you know that the cabbage leaves you threw away are not available to many people in the world even in this day and age?" .”
"If you don't want to waste it, then you can pick it up and eat it." Fang Xiaoling didn't care about that. After finishing the cabbage heart, she picked up a cucumber and gnawed it, "This one is more thirst-quenching."
"Why?" Roland snatched half of the cucumber from Fang Xiaoling's hand, "What do I owe you?"
"Isn't there more? Why are you taking mine?" Fang Xiaoling took out a new one from the basket, "It doesn't even have bean paste. I really don't understand why you have to bring me here to eat this thing."
"Yes." Roland stood up as if he had just remembered, went to the cabinet and took out a bottle of Doubanjiang, she squinted her eyes and looked at the words printed on the bottom of the bottle, "March 26, 2021, okay? Expired, this stuff has a long shelf life.”
After eating salty food, the two of them ate with even more gusto, and the crunching sounds in their mouths could not be heard. After a while, half the basket of vegetables was eaten. When the eating speed of the two people slowed down obviously, Roland said, "Xiao Ling, do you still remember the driver who picked you up at the gate of your community?"
Fang Xiaoling chewed it with relish, "That time you came to pick me up? I remember, wasn't that the driver of Liu Erhua's grandson? He was a big bald man. I was very impressed."
"No, the bald man is the third child, who is my grandson's subordinate. There is also a young handsome guy, that one is the driver. He told me to just call him Xiaohu, do you remember?"
"Oh..." Fang Xiaoling didn't bother to recall, she just said perfunctorily, "There seems to be such a person, what's wrong?"
"He is the target of my mission this time, Tian Hu."
After hearing the news from Roland, Fang Xiaoling had the carrot in her hand lying across her mouth but didn't bite it. She recalled the young man who was driving that day, her eyes widened and widened, and she said vaguely, "How about that?" How old is he?"
"Swallow what's in your mouth before you speak."
Fang Xiaoling swallowed all the food in her mouth in one gulp and continued, "He is not older than our real bodies, but he must be older than you, I mean Li Mengli, he must be six or seven years older than Li Mengli. ? What’s more, you are only a senior in high school, and he has already joined the society. Isn’t this harmful to people? "
"Oh, it's not certain who is causing harm to whom." Roland cracked the knuckles of his fingers, "I want to see how many other children are like him who don't learn well, and we can teach them a lesson together."
"Don't break your fingers, it will damage the cartilage. This is Li Mengli's body, please pay attention." Fang Xiaoling burped, but she still felt a little hungry, as if she had drank a lot of water. She turned her head and looked outside the door. , so thin that you can vaguely see the light of the sky under the dark clouds, "The sun is setting, but I still skipped a day of classes with you. The school must have notified our parents, right?"
"Yes." Roland took out his cell phone and checked the time. "I made an appointment with Tian Hu at the rooftop bar at six o'clock. It's almost time to head there."
While Roland was looking at the time, Fang Xiaoling noticed the missed calls on the phone screen, "Thirty-two missed calls?! Are they from our parents?"
"It doesn't matter what Li Mengli's parents and the public security bureau's landline number are. Anyway, I will go back in time in a few days. If they like to make trouble, they can make trouble." Roland put the phone back into the pocket of his leather jacket, stood up and stretched. "Let's go, just so you can see my ability to complete the task. My highest record is half an hour. Sometimes when you meet a scumbag, the difficulty will increase. After all, you have to make the other person truly fall in love with me from the heart to complete the task." Task."
"I'm not going, I want to go home." Fang Xiaoling's tone was firm. She knew she couldn't persuade Roland, but she still wanted to make a last attempt, "Sister, can you really not feel it?"
"How do you feel?"
"The existence of a certain soul." Fang Xiaoling said seriously, "I think you are too focused on the mission goal. From time travel to now, I can often feel Li Mengling's soul, even at this time, it is somewhere , staring at my every move with his eyes."
Roland stretched out his palm and placed it on Fang Xiaoling's forehead, "Are you okay?"
"Really!" Fang Xiaoling pushed away Roland's hand, "I swear, many times, she would even talk to me. At first I thought it was my illusion, but just now when I saw the missed call on your phone , I was really sure I heard her voice!”
"Haha, what's the sound? Want you to go home quickly so that her parents won't worry?" Roland shook her head. She had traveled through time and space tens of thousands of times, but now she was going to be given any hints by a guy who had just arrived? This is simply a fantasy. She would rather believe the words of the fortune tellers on the street than Fang Xiaoling.
"Yes! She seemed to be banging on the glass that imprisoned her, shouting for me to go home quickly and not to worry her parents." Fang Xiaoling stood up and grabbed Roland's sleeve, "Sister, you heard it too The voice of Li Mengli’s soul, right?”
"Ah, I heard it, I heard it, let's go quickly." Roland was obviously perfunctory, just like a parent perfunctorily claiming to have seen Ultraman's child, "You don't have to go if you don't want to, come back If you're in the city, take a taxi and go home first."
"Then when I go back, how can I tell my family about your situation?"
"Just say I went to play with my friends." Roland walked out the door first, and after walking a few steps she continued without looking back, "Forget it, just say I'm dead, so they don't have to change. It’s very annoying to bother me with phone calls and blocking one person after another.”
Fang Xiaoling followed up with small steps, "Then I'd better go and play with your friends."
Roland rode a motorcycle to take Fang Xiaoling to a place in the city where it was easier to take a taxi, and let Fang Xiaoling go home by herself. When they were leaving, Fang Xiaoling shouted to the motorcycle that her sister would come back early. Roland pretended not to hear. , and left without looking back. Fang Xiaoling knew in her heart that this farewell might be an eternal farewell in this world.
"It's okay." Fang Xiaoling looked at Roland's back and said in a voice that only she could hear, "We will meet in another world."
At this time, Roland felt like she had been freed from a burden. She straightened her waist subconsciously, and used the rearview mirror to push the two pieces of hair that were floating in front of her forehead behind her ears. She increased the accelerator and shuttled through the passing vehicles. After a while, I arrived at the rooftop bar downstairs. The reason why it is called the rooftop bar is because the bar is on the rooftop of the building. It is a well-known open-air bar in the city, where handsome guys and beautiful women gather. It is famous that there are many people queuing in front of the four elevator doors. When the elevator that Roland was waiting for opened, it was empty inside. No one came downstairs. It was as if the elevator was a human-eating machine that prevented people from getting in or out.
When Roland entered, the elevator was already crowded with people, but the elevator did not sound an overweight alarm. It seemed that as long as people could squeeze in, it could reach the top floor safely. Roland fumbled for a lipstick from his trouser pocket, and then The casing of a lipstick was a small mirror. She was crowded, and it seemed that someone took the opportunity to touch her thigh with the back of his hand, but she didn't care. She called this situation "do as the Romans do in town", not to mention that this was not her my body.
The elevator door opened, and people crowded out, as if eager to fall into the embrace of heaven, and the theme of the bar today was indeed like a paradise. The lawn covers the ground of the entire bar, and soft white light shines on people's faces from all directions. Even the background music is gentle light music. The only thing that does not match the theme is the noisy and noisy voices of people, their wine glasses clashing, hugging each other. Hugs and laughter, it seems that no matter how the surrounding environment changes, it is just a formality for them and cannot change the normalcy they carry out every day.
Roland looked at the grinning people. He felt that they were all happy, but also felt that they were all lost. This theme of heaven, like a mirror, reflected the devils who had been suffering in hell in the past.
