Chapter 147: A Gambler
Li Yuan: “???”
Why don't I know?
What did my father refuse me?
If it really works, maybe I can unlock my past life directly. Although Qin Si is not the kind of person who looks beautiful at first glance, she is very attractive.
And she has a very good figure, and seems to have a kind of delicate stubbornness. This kind of niche temperament is easy to identify with.
But on second thought, it seems to be back to normal.
I had just been admitted to Jiangzhou University last year and my family was very well off. How could I possibly agree to something like this?
Qin Si said, "You are not here to visit relatives, are you?"
"No, I just wanted to come and see this place. I came here many times when I was a child and suddenly I thought of it."
Qin Si smiled, but her smile was very faint, as if some experience had made her dare not smile too contentedly.
"Then I'll go get you some food. It's too late, so just for now. I'll make two dishes just for you tomorrow."
The main reason is that there is not enough time at home and there are no ready-made dishes.
Although there were a few old hens, they couldn't be eaten for a while.
"Do you have noodles? Just cook me a bowl of noodles."
"Okay, if you're thirsty, pour yourself some water. The bottle is right next to you."
"Thank you, cousin."
Li Yuan knew that coming here had caused trouble for Qin Si.
Because looking at the whole house, it seemed unusually shabby.
It seems like I'm still living in ten or twenty years ago.
In his perception, poverty today is not like this.
The five-guarantee households in their village have better food and accommodation than Qin Si.
Something happened in 2020. He heard that an old man in the next village went to the meat stall and asked to buy meat for one dollar. He also said that he hadn't eaten meat for three months.
This was the limit he had ever encountered.
No matter how poor you are, it’s just like this, right?
And there is a special reason for that. The old man has sons and grandsons, but neither of them are very promising, and the old man has a somewhat weird personality.
Li Yuan’s grandparents were like this before. Although their family conditions were good, they were always stingy.
In order to save money, people buy other people’s leftover meat or even rotten meat.
As a result, Li Yuan was hospitalized one time due to excessive eating and was scolded by his parents for several days.
Since then, the two old people have changed their tempers a little.
Qin Si's home really looked like a bare house.
Whose house doesn’t have some junk nowadays?
Qin Si doesn't have any at home.
There is no place for mice to hide as far as the eye can see.
I guess mice don't want to stay either.
Ten minutes later, Qin Si brought in a bowl of noodles, topped with a few green vegetables and two eggs.
Li Yuan loved the smell of the food so much that he took it and started eating.
Qin Si was watching from the side, holding his chin with both hands, and asked, "Aren't you in college? Why are you here?"
"Yeah, the school arranged an outing, but I got separated, so I thought I'd come over here and take a look."
"Outing..."
There seemed to be light in Qin Si's eyes.
Because this kind of thing only appeared in her elementary school textbooks.
Neither the primary school in the village nor the junior high school in the town have these programs.
"Yeah... My phone is broken, so I can't make calls. I have to stay here all day tomorrow and wait for the school teachers to come look for me. They should be looking for me now."
"Okay, tell me about college life so I can see the world."
"no problem!"
Li Yuan finished the bowl of noodles in no time. Although he was still not satisfied, he did not show it.
Qin Si acted very optimistic, and seemed to be trying to resolve his predicament with a smile, but he just couldn't do it.
The more we talked, the more certain I became that she was really only eighteen years old.
She even went to the inner room and took out a fan to blow it specifically for Li Yuan.
Li Yuan felt much more comfortable. After all, the weather was very hot and he ran so far that his whole body was sticky.
Qin Si is very interested in places like the Children's Palace, museums, and science and technology museums.
Although Li Yuan has never been there, he can make up stories...
He also lived in the village when he was a child, and the Children's Palace also only existed in books.
At first he didn't quite understand what that place was and why kids liked to go there to play during their holidays.
I don’t know now, but the Children’s Palace has no appeal to him anymore.
No matter how he made up the story, Qin Si listened carefully until the child in the inner room woke up again.
Most likely he was woken up by the heat.
"Cousin, please bring the fan in. I'll just take a shower. The child can't get too hot. Otherwise, it will be troublesome if he gets sick."
Qin Si asked curiously, "Can you take care of children?"
"Ah? I just saw it on the Internet..."
"Then do you know how to save data? I heard there is an app that can save data, but I don't know how to download it, so I rarely look at it."
Qin Si took out his cell phone.
"I know. I'll help you. Go and take care of the child first."
"good."
Li Yuan waited until Qin Si left before taking the phone.
No password, just slide to unlock.
It is an old machine from four years ago. It could be sold for more than a thousand yuan at the time, but now I guess no one would want it even for a hundred yuan.
The legendary P6, a first-generation pit machine, has no other advantages except for its good looks.
The P8 that follows is a little bit better.
As for the so-called data-saving software? There is no such thing as data-saving software. It’s good enough if it doesn’t consume much data.
He took a look and saw that Qin Si had turned off the mobile data function. After turning it back on, he helped her check the package.
The monthly rent is 19, and there is only 500MB of free traffic, and subsequent charges are one dollar per MB.
He remembered that the data traffic charges had not changed for many years.
Seven or eight years ago, it was one dollar per trillion, and it is still the same now.
He has a campus card with a lot of data, and he has wireless internet on weekdays, so he hardly has any data traffic anxiety.
As a result, in just a short while, Qin Si's mobile phone card was successfully delinquent.
When he couldn't access the Internet at all, Li Yuan took out his broken cell phone and pulled out the SIM card.
Then he overlooked another reality.
That is, Qin Si’s mobile phone card is a big card, while his own mobile phone card is a small card.
The card slots do not match.
He tentatively inserted his small card, supported it with his hand, and pushed the card slot little by little.
However, after turning on the phone, nothing was displayed on Qin Si's phone.
He knew it must be crooked.
Take it out and try again.
But no matter what, Qin Si's phone couldn't connect to the chip of his SIM card.
After all, he can't do it perfectly, and there will eventually be deviations in the joints inside.
unless……
He can fix his small card in the middle of the card slot to prevent the small card from moving back due to some slight resistance when he pushes it.
After a while, Qin Si coaxed the child and came out.
Li Yuan said a little embarrassedly: "Cousin, I'll go to town tomorrow and get it for you. I'll use the wireless network to download it for you. It's a little difficult to get it right now."
"Okay, go take a shower first, and I'll make a bed for you on the roof. It's cooler there."
"Yeah, okay."
Li Yuan hasn't experienced the feeling of sleeping on the roof for a long time.
When I was seven or eight years old, I often slept because power outages were common at home in the summer.
Then the whole family went to the rooftop to enjoy the cool breeze, look at the stars, and when they woke up it was already dawn.
Qin Si first carried a bucket of water to the roof and poured it on it.
Then he brought two benches, propped up bamboo necks on them, and then laid a mat on them.
Li Yuan simply showered, used his T-shirt as a towel to wipe his hair, and then left it aside.
After Li Yuan came up, Qin Si said with a smile: "We college students are going to be wronged."
"I have to thank my cousin for taking me in, otherwise I would be hiding in a pigsty right now."
"This isn't much better than a pigsty. When we get to town tomorrow, I'll lend you a cell phone and I'll be able to put your SIM card in it. Remember to call your teacher and ask them to pick you up."
Qin Si saw the scene where Li Yuan fiddled with his SIM card for a long time but failed to get it inserted.
This is just like people from two different worlds, they are not a match in any way.
"OK."
Li Yuan agreed.
"Then I'll go down first. If you have anything, remember to call me from the window downstairs."
"Uh-huh."
Li Yuan lay on the cool mat, which felt icy cold. It was obvious that Qin Si had wiped him with water.
It's not too dry yet.
Participating in the fate of others is actually a very powerless thing.
Qin Si didn't want to say these things, and he certainly wouldn't ask any more questions.
Now he is very comfortable, without a mobile phone or a computer, and does not need to receive any noisy information from the outside world.
Look up and you will see the sky full of stars, look down and you will see...
The figure in the yard was scooping water little by little with a ladle and pouring it over his head.
He lay down with his hands under his head.
I fell asleep before I knew it...
When I woke up, it was already past five in the morning. Although I had only slept for six hours, I felt very energetic.
After letting go of everything, I found that I was not so impetuous anymore.
After all, it would be a sin to look at it for even a second.
Normally, I would feel like I’m missing out if I didn’t take a look at it once.
People are always greedy, and even their desires are endless.
Qin Si was busy in the morning, watering the vegetable garden, killing chickens, and washing vegetables.
Li Yuan saw Qin Si’s child for the first time.
He looks about three or four years old, a little boy, and is very clingy.
When he saw Li Yuan, he didn't dare to say anything and just kept getting closer to Qin Si.
Qin Si was not afraid of trouble at all and was very patient throughout the whole process, even when he was forced to put down the work in his hands.
The lunch was very sumptuous, with a stewed old hen and three additional dishes.
He was already being treated as an important guest.
Li Yuan saw the chickens being slaughtered. There were only two old hens in her family.
Anyway, it was pretty weird from beginning to end.
Those who only raise two chickens in the countryside either don't have that much money and just want a few local eggs.
Or they can’t even afford to raise chickens…
However, Qin Si's craftsmanship is really good, at least several levels better than Zhou Ranran's.
Qin Si would tear the chicken into strips and feed it to the little boy.
"Cousin, is this your child?"
Li Yuan finally asked a question.
Qin Si immediately said, "If it's not mine, how can it be yours? My biological child, do you understand?"
She emphasized the word "biological" very much.
Li Yuan saw that after he asked the question, the little boy, who obviously loved eating meat, stopped what he was doing.
He waited until Qin Si finished answering before continuing to eat.
After dinner, Qin Si said she wanted to take the children to town to play.
At the beginning, the child was very interested and active, and took the initiative to ask to walk by himself.
But less than 500 meters later, the little boy stopped walking.
Qin Si had no choice but to hug him.
A three or four-year-old child is very heavy, weighing twenty or thirty kilograms, and needs to be carried while walking five miles.
"How about I hold the baby?"
As soon as Li Yuan finished speaking, he saw the child struggling violently on Qin Si.
"Okay, okay, mommy will hold you."
Qin Si comforted the child.
Li Yuan could only keep moving forward.
Qin Si needs to change arms frequently to be able to persevere.
But it seems that Qin Si is quite happy to do these things.
She always seemed so patient.
When they arrived in the town, Li Yuan felt tired, but Qin Si didn't say a word.
Qin Si first took Li Yuan to a mobile phone store. "Uncle Wen, this is a relative of mine. His phone is broken. Can you lend me a phone so he can install a card and call home to pick him up?"
The mobile phone store owner took out a mobile phone without saying a word.
"Thank you, uncle."
Li Yuan took the phone and said something.
At the same time, he also said to Qin Si: "Cousin, leave your phone here too. I'll make a call and help you install the data-saving software."
Qin Si looked around and said, "Okay. I'm on the second floor of the supermarket at the door. If you can't wait, you can leave your phone there."
"I can wait."
Li Yuan took Qin Si's mobile phone, and Qin Si also went to the second floor of the supermarket with the child.
It was a children's playground.
Although it is not big, it is a supermarket in the town after all, so it is nice to walk around and have fun.
Li Yuan prepared his mobile phone card, downloaded the payment software immediately, and then logged into his account.
First, he recharged Qin Si’s mobile phone card with 10,000 yuan, then opened Qin Si’s phone and deleted the recharge text message.
In order to prevent her from finding out, the number 10086 was blacklisted.
Then, Li Yuan said to the boss, "Uncle, how much is this phone? I've already used it, and you probably won't be able to sell it, so I'll just buy it."
Who knew that the boss said disdainfully: "You, the Zhang family, are capable of this? If you could come up with the money, you wouldn't be bullying Qin Si all day long."
Li Yuan: “…”
He knew what shovel meant, it just meant rubbing.
To put it in the local dialect, it means that the family just happened to have cooked a meal, but you insisted on taking advantage of it by grabbing a shovel.
There is something behind what the boss said.
"You misunderstood. My last name is not Zhang."
"Hmm? Who are you?"
The boss looked much better.
Li Yuan said: "Qin Si and I are cousins. She is my cousin. When I was on a business trip, my phone broke down and I couldn't pay. My car broke down on the way, so I went to her house for a meal, and then she brought me to the town..."
"Isn't it Zhang Changgui's?"
"No, who is Zhang Changgui?"
"A gambler. I haven't seen him for half a year. I guess he died outside."
Li Yuan immediately asked, "You seem to know a lot about these things. To be honest, Qin Si and I were also engaged when we were children, but I don't know why she got married so suddenly. Can you tell me about it..."
