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Chapter 13 Barely Edible
"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 cook, add water!"

"Oh, let's make some dishes." Roland opened the cabinet next to the stove and took out half a barrel of soybean oil left. She was about to pour it into the pot when she suddenly remembered something, "That's right. , I haven’t chopped vegetables yet, so I can’t just throw them into the pot for frying.”

"What on earth are you thinking? Add some water to the pot first, you can't boil it dry like this."

Roland took out the water ladle from the cabinet and ran to the door. When she saw the old well under the pressure of the boulder plate, the water ladle came out of her hand and fell to the ground.

Fang Xiaoling also came out, "Don't tell me you can't move that rock?"

"I built this stone with my own hands." Roland looked at the stone plate for a while, then suddenly turned around and said, "Actually, those vegetables can be eaten raw, and I didn't apply pesticides."

"Then I have to wash it too?" Fang Xiaoling walked over, "And I feel a little thirsty, and I want to drink some water."

"Okay." Roland sighed softly. She stepped on her horse and sank into her dantian. I don't know if it was an illusion. Fang Xiaoling seemed to see a circular air flow under Roland's feet, surrounding both feet, and Roland saw With a loud shout, both palms suddenly pushed towards the stone plate.

After a stalemate like this for a while, the stone plate didn't move at all, and Roland dropped his arms like a deflated eggplant, "No, Li Mengli's body is too thin, even with qigong, she can't move it."

"Can't you? I think you were pretty good before, and you kicked that old man away with one kick."

"How many catties are those old bones? This is a stone plate of a thousand catties." Roland had already made up his mind to put down the pick. "Anyway, I can't push it. I'll go and pull out the firewood. If you're thirsty, just eat cabbage."

Seeing that Roland was really starting to draw back his salary when he returned, Fang Xiaoling reluctantly went back to the wooden house, squatted next to the basket, picked up a Chinese cabbage, peeled off several layers of the outside, and only ate the cabbage heart inside, "Don't say it, I can barely eat it." .”

After Roland knocked the firewood on the ground to extinguish it, he squatted down and picked up a carrot and ate it, "It's a waste, do you know how many people in the world can't eat the cabbage leaves they want to eat, even in this 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 she finished eating the cabbage heart, she took another cucumber and gnawed it up, "This one is more thirst-quenching."

"Why?" Roland snatched half a cucumber from Fang Xiaoling's hand, "I owe you?"

"Isn't there more? Why grab mine?" Fang Xiaoling took out a new one from the vegetable basket, "I don't even have bean paste. I really don't understand why you have to bring me to eat this thing."

"Yes." Roland stood up as if she had just remembered, and went to the cabinet to take out a bottle of bean paste. She squinted her eyes and looked at the words printed on the bottom of the bottle, "March 2021, 3, okay? Expired, this thing has a long shelf life."

After getting salty, the two of them ate with more relish, and the crisp sound in their mouths was endless. After a while, half a basket of vegetables was eaten. When the eating speed of the two obviously slowed down, Roland said, "Xiao Ling, do you still remember the driver who picked you up at the gate of your community?"

Fang Xiaoling chewed with relish, "The 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. He is my grandson's subordinate. There is also a handsome young guy. That is the driver. He said he can be called Xiaohu, remember?"

"Oh..." Fang Xiaoling didn't bother to recall, so she just said perfunctorily, "It seems that there is such a person, what's wrong?"

"He is my mission target this time, Tian Hu."

After hearing the news from Roland, Fang Xiaoling held the carrot in her hand and didn't bite it down. She recalled the young man who drove the car that day, her eyes widened and she mumbled, "How can I do that? How old is he?"

"You swallow what's in your mouth before you speak."

Fang Xiaoling swallowed all the food in her mouth in one gulp, and continued, "Compared to our real body, he is not too old, 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 high school student, and he has been mixed into the society, isn't this a disaster?"

"Heh, it's not certain who will harm who." Roland wriggled his knuckles, "I'd like to see how many other children like him don't learn well, and I'll teach them a lesson along the way."

"Don't break your fingers, it will damage the cartilage. This is Li Mengli's body. Be careful." Fang Xiaoling hiccupped, but still felt a little hungry, as if she had drunk a stomach full of water. She turned her head and looked outside the door , so thin that the light of the sun can be seen faintly under the dark clouds, "The sun is about to set, and I still skipped a day of class with you. The school must have notified our parents, right?"

"Yeah." Roland took out his phone and checked the time, "I asked Tian Hu to meet at the rooftop bar at six o'clock, and it's time to go there."

While Roland was checking the time, Fang Xiaoling noticed the missed calls on the phone screen, "32 missed calls?! Did our parents call?"

"Li Mengli's parents, and the landline number of the Public Security Bureau, it doesn't matter, anyway, I will travel back in a few days, so they can make troubles if they like." Roland put the phone back into the pocket of the leather jacket, got up and stretched, "Let's go, just to let you see my ability to complete the task. My highest record is half an hour. Sometimes when I meet a scumbag, the difficulty will increase. After all, I have to make the other person fall in love with me from the bottom of my heart. Task."

"I'm not going, I want to go home." Fang Xiaoling's tone was very firm. She knew she couldn't persuade Roland, but she still wanted to make a final attempt, "Sister, can you really not feel it?"

"Feel what?"

"The existence of a certain soul." Fang Xiaoling said seriously, "I think you must be too focused on the mission goal. From the time travel to the present, I can often feel Li Mengling's soul, even at this time, somewhere , staring at my every move with eyes."

Roland put his palm on Fang Xiaoling's forehead, "Are you okay?"

"Really!" Fang Xiaoling pushed Roland's hand away, "I swear, many times, she would even talk to me. At first I thought it was my own illusion, but just now when I saw your missed call , I'm really sure I heard her voice!"

"Haha, what's the sound? Tell you to go home quickly so that her parents don't worry?" Roland shook his head. She has traveled tens of thousands of times, but now she is going to be given some hints by a newcomer?This is simply fantasy, compared to Fang Xiaoling, she would rather believe the words of those fortune tellers on the street.

"Yes! She seemed to be knocking on the glass that imprisoned her, yelling for me to go home quickly and not worry her parents." Fang Xiaoling got up and grabbed Roland's sleeve, "Sister, you heard that too. The voice of Li Mengli's soul, right?"

"Ah, I heard that, let's go now." Roland was obviously perfunctory, like a parent who keeps claiming that he saw Ultraman's child, "You can go if you want, go back It’s downtown, take a taxi and go home first.”

"Then I'm going back, how can I tell my family about your situation?"

"You just say that I went to play with my friends." Roland went out first, and after a few steps she continued to add without looking back, "Forget it, just say that I'm dead, so that they don't have to change all the time." It’s very annoying to call me every day, block one and change another.”

Fang Xiaoling followed with small steps, "Then I'd say you go and play with your friends."

Roland rode a motorcycle to take Fang Xiaoling to a place in the city where it was better to take a taxi, and let Fang Xiaoling go home by herself. When parting, Fang Xiaoling called her sister to come back early to the motorcycle going away, but Roland pretended not to hear , and left without looking back, Fang Xiaoling knew in her heart that this farewell might be a farewell in this world forever.

"It's okay." Fang Xiaoling looked at Roland's back, and said in a voice that only she could hear, "I'll see you in another world."

But at this moment, Roland felt as if she had gotten rid of the burden. She subconsciously straightened her waist, and used the rearview mirror to stroke the two hairs floating on her forehead behind her ears. She stepped up the accelerator and shuttled through the traffic. After a while, I came to the downstairs of the rooftop bar. 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 outdoor bar in the city, where handsome men and beautiful women gather. Famously, there were many people queuing in front of the four elevator doors. When the elevator Roland was waiting for opened, the inside was empty, and no one went downstairs. It seemed that the elevator was a machine that could eat people, so that people could only get in and out.

When Roland entered, the elevator was already full of people, but the elevator did not issue an overweight alarm, as if it could reach the top floor safely as long as people could squeeze in. Roland fumbled for a lipstick from his trouser pocket, then The casing of a lipstick is a small mirror. She is crowded, and it seems that someone touched her thigh with the back of his hand, but she doesn't care. She calls this situation "do as the Romans do", not to mention, this is not her my body.

The elevator door opened, and people rushed out, as if eager to fall into the embrace of heaven, and the theme of the bar today is indeed like a paradise.The lawn covers the entire floor of the bar, and soft white light shines on people's faces from all directions. Even the background music is gentle and light music. The only thing that doesn't match the theme is the noisy voices of people, their glasses colliding, hugging Hugging, laughing and talking, it seems that no matter how the surrounding environment changes, it is just a form for them, and it cannot change their daily routine.

Looking at the grinning people, Roland felt that they were very happy, but at the same time felt that they were all lost. This theme of heaven, like a magic mirror, reflected the devils who were suffering in hell in the past.

(End of this chapter)