Chapter 1: Go to the Magic City to Find Relatives
Chapter 1: Go to the Magic City to Find Relatives
Xishuangbanna.
In July and August, the climate is very hot and humid, and it rains frequently.
The food at home gets moldy all the time.
In order to cope with this frustrating environment, the locals invented a type of stilt house.
Made of bamboo and built on a cliff.
In the bamboo house, a 17-year-old boy was busy packing things.
"There are so many useless things at home, I need to make some space."
When the old man was around, he would often pick up things he didn't need for no apparent reason.
After a long time, the house was filled with things.
Li Kang just traveled to this world a few days ago. According to his observation, it seemed to be 1993.
Unexpectedly, the day he woke up, he was in a mourning hall. His only relative, his grandmother, had passed away.
My biological mother, Yuxiang, was a local Dai person and passed away due to illness a few years ago.
She used to be a famous beauty in the area, but later she fell in love with an educated youth who went to the countryside, and that led to the birth of him.
Later, the educated youth left here in 78 and no news was heard from him since then.
Yuxiang became sick with lovesickness and endured for more than ten years, but finally she died three years ago.
Left this world forever.
My grandmother also passed away a few days ago.
In other words, as soon as Li Kang came here, he became a lonely man.
"I'm so unlucky at the beginning. Others at least have a grandfather or relatives at the beginning, but I have nothing."
"At least before I traveled through time, I was from a well-off family, with no worries about food and clothing, and I was a foreign language major student."
"How come we are back to 93 and have such a miserable life?"
Before his rebirth, Li Kang was a college student who had just graduated from the Foreign Languages Department.
Without grandma, Li Kang even had trouble getting food.
For lunch, I had a bowl of chopped chili peppers and some rice, and that was just the way it went.
Before she passed away, grandma also collected some insects, such as grasshoppers.
Li Kang felt like vomiting after taking a look at it.
I also need to take a nap after eating.
Li Kang has had problems sleeping these days.
Often have nightmares at night.
In his dream, a voice kept urging him from behind, "Go find Daddy."
"Go find daddy."
……
The horrific echoes in his mind often woke him up in the middle of the night.
When I woke up, I was sweating all over.
"What the hell is going on? Is he possessed by a ghost?"
Li Kang could only make up for his sleep during the day, but as soon as he fell asleep, the voice rang in his mind again.
"Go find dad quickly. I want to see dad."
Li Kang replied in his dream: "Is that you? Li Kang. Do you want to see your biological father?"
"Li Kang, go find my father quickly. I want to see him. Ask him why he doesn't want me and my mother."
The voice in your head is like an echo in the dark night. Hearing it too much can easily lead to a mental breakdown.
Li Kang thought, "Of course, she is an educated youth from the city, she must have been married somewhere else now."
It’s not like he doesn’t understand this era.
In 93, many of the children born to the educated youth in the countryside had grown up. As the college entrance examination was opened, most of the educated youth returned to the city, either to college or to work hard in big cities.
When you have a new life in a new place, who would want to talk about the past?
Most people don't want to talk about that sad experience.
But children always want to know their biological parents when they grow up.
Li Kang knew that although his predecessor was dead, the obsession in his heart had not dissipated and had now affected him.
"I won't be able to sleep until this problem is solved."
Li Kang actually wants to stay in Xishuangbanna, where there are beautiful girls, beautiful scenery and a beautiful home.
Why should he go outside? He only has one year left before the college entrance examination.
It will be the same when you pass the college entrance examination and go to a big city.
But after grandma passed away, the predecessor could no longer wait.
My obsession before death was to see my father.
Li Kang was also unable to sleep due to the obsession of his predecessor.
"Where does my father live? How can I find him?" He was asking about his previous incarnation's obsession.
"I don't know. My father's name is Li Jianhua. He went to Shanghai." I don't know any other news.
"It's just a name, how can I find him?" Li Kang was a little helpless, but there was always a feeling of panic in his heart.
I could only get up and pack my things.
"Okay, okay, I'll get ready and go to Shanghai to find our father."
There was nothing in the house before. Before her grandmother passed away, she left him her mother's dowry, a pair of bracelets and some gold and silver jewelry.
Li Kang didn't plan to take these things away.
"Why is there only this little cash?"
How can I go to Shanghai if I don’t even have enough money to buy a train ticket?
Li Kang searched the old lady's wallet and only found 120 yuan.
Train tickets at that time were not cheap. After several years of inflation, the price has reached 175 yuan per ticket.
It’s about this number, and it definitely won’t be done with just a hundred dollars.
It is more than 2,000 kilometers from Yunnan to Shanghai. With the green train running at an average speed of 180 kilometers per hour, it takes three days and two nights to get there.
There is a line in the lyrics that is very vivid
[We walked and stopped along the way, following the traces of the boy's drifting.]
I kept stopping and starting along the way, and wasted a lot of time.
Perhaps he felt the reluctance of Li Kang in reality, and the obsession of his predecessor Li Kang made him even more uneasy.
It even affects the heart.
My heartbeat suddenly started to accelerate and I even had palpitations.
"I'll go, I'll go. Even if I don't have money, I'll go without paying the ticket." Li Kang hurriedly comforted her, covering his chest, and only then did his heartbeat slow down.
"No, if this continues, I will be killed by the obsession of my predecessor. I have to leave for Shanghai immediately."
Li Kang packed up his things at home and took a pen and a small notebook with him.
I didn’t bring anything else with me and was ready to set off for Shanghai.
Before leaving, he took one last look at this home, as if saying goodbye to his family: "I'm going to Shanghai to see my cheap father and then I'll be back."
Li Kang left without telling anyone, as his fellow villagers would certainly not feel comfortable with him going to Shanghai alone.
Instead of making them worry for nothing, it’s better to just leave.
Be sure to return to school before the end of summer vacation.
I have just written this book, please forgive me for any shortcomings.
(End of this chapter)