Chapter 120 The Strangest Human
On the other side, the candlelight flickered and stayed on for most of the night.
Zhao Guodong looked in disbelief at the palm-sized plant root that his daughter had pulled out of the basket. He swallowed dryly for a long while before asking dryly, "Yuanyuan, this...did you dig it up in the mountains today?"
Zhao Yuanyuan was very satisfied to see her parents' expressions of disbelief and delight. She raised her chin slightly, pretending to be innocent and ignorant, and said crisply, "Yes, Mom and Dad, I wanted to go to the mountains to find herbs before, so I found a herbal medicine book and saw that the leaves of ginseng looked like this, so I dug it up and brought it back."
She didn't even explain it very clearly.
But Zhao Guodong and Liu Cuifang did not have the time to think about the logic behind it. Their whole attention was focused on the ginseng and they were reluctant to look away even for a moment.
"Boss, how old do you think this ginseng is?" Liu Cuifang swallowed and looked at the ginseng as if she was looking at some priceless treasure.
Zhao Guodong came back to his senses, carefully put the ginseng down, and lowered his voice again, "This is a good thing. No matter how many years it has been, the roots are not broken. The whole fresh ginseng is valuable no matter where it is taken."
"Should we keep it for ourselves or sell it as soon as possible?" Liu Cuifang was a little undecided.
After all, ginseng is a good thing to save lives. One piece in your mouth can keep you alive. Who doesn’t want to hide one at home to be prepared?
But then she thought again, she and her man are at an age where they are strong and healthy, and there is no need for this thing at all. It would be more cost-effective to sell it for money.
Zhao Guodong wanted to keep it for his mother, but as soon as he revealed his thoughts, his arm was twisted hard by his wife.
"Head of the family, don't blame me for speaking harshly. You know the situation of our family very well. If we had more, how could I not want to leave it for mom? But we only have this one branch. As the saying goes, help in emergencies but not in poverty. We have two children to study, and the burden is almost entirely on you. If you can sell the ginseng, you will have some more free time. When you live a better life in the future, it won't be too late for us to honor mom slowly."
Zhao Yuanyuan agreed with Liu Cuifang's words from the bottom of her heart. She took out this ginseng from the spiritual plant space not to keep it for her grandmother to prolong her life.
She would never give her things to irrelevant people, even if it meant throwing them away and feeding them to dogs.
Zhao Yuanyuan snorted in her heart, but her face remained innocent. Seeing Zhao Guodong struggling, she couldn't help but puff up her face and asked unhappily, "Dad, if we don't sell this ginseng, will my brother and I have to drop out of school soon? I want to study hard and become a learned person in the future, more learned than my parents."
Dropping out of school has always been a pain in Zhao Guodong's heart. The older he gets, the more he regrets his impulsive behavior when he was young.
Hearing his daughter say this, his originally wavering thoughts suddenly calmed down.
He withdrew his gaze from the ginseng, was silent for a moment, then clenched his fists, suppressed the guilt in his heart and said to his wife and daughter: "Then I will take it to the town or county tomorrow to ask for the price. If the price is right, I will sell it."
Upon hearing this, Liu Cuifang and Zhao Yuanyuan, mother and daughter, both breathed a sigh of relief and smiled with satisfaction.
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The next day.
Xingxing waved goodbye to dad first.
I saw my dad leaving home with a nervous look on his face.
Qiuqiu slept in a swallow's nest under the eaves last night and overheard the whispers between the two families.
Now looking at the stars and gazing at Zhao Guodong's back, I couldn't help but tell the children in detail what happened last night.
Finally, Qiuqiu made an accurate comment: "Judging from how unlucky I am with the protagonist, I'm afraid this ginseng won't be easy to sell."
It’s not Qiuqiu’s fault for his bad mouth, but the protagonist of this world doesn’t know what’s going on. He is really a little unlucky.
Xingxing's nose twitched slightly, and then she whispered to Qiuqiu: "Auntie fried eggs this morning~"
Xingxing is now somewhat familiar with the smell of scrambled eggs.
When he was a little zombie, ordinary scrambled eggs were actually very unpalatable to him. Only eggs laid by mutated chickens had a more normal taste. Unfortunately, Xingxing had outstanding five senses, so if the taste was slightly off, such as the fishy smell of eggs, it would immediately be magnified many times in his sense of smell and taste.
Later, Xingxing turned into a human cub, but the smell he once sensed was not forgotten.
And the aunt was reluctant to add oil, so the smell of the scrambled eggs was particularly obvious, with the fishy smell of eggs and a little bit of burnt smell.
Even so, scrambled eggs are a rare delicacy for Xiaoyueliang.
Xingxing raised her hand to wipe away the sparkling saliva from the corner of her sister's mouth, and then stuffed a small piece of candy into her mouth with her backhand.
Qiuqiu was very worried, "Baby, if human babies eat too much candy, they will get cavities, and the worms will eat all their teeth!"
Qiuqiu had once told Xingxing this truth, but at that time Xingxing was just a poor little zombie who was in debt. The points he accumulated from studying hard were not enough for him to buy a few candies.
Xingxing, who was raising a younger sister for the first time, listened to Qiuqiu's advice, so after his younger sister finished eating the candy with her little face in her hands, Xingxing immediately took her back to brush her teeth again.
Little Yueliang opened her mouth obediently for her brother to check. Her neat and white teeth had no black spots caused by insects, so her brother said he would give her candy tomorrow!
But what you can't get always seems to be good.
For example, scrambled eggs.
Little Moon follows her mother like a little tail, holding an egg in her hand, and has asked at least ten times when she can eat the egg.
Xie Jiaxiu was annoyed by her daughter's pestering. After answering again and again, she finally couldn't help but stop and took the egg from her daughter's hand. She deliberately said with a stern face: "There is already a chick in this egg. If you eat it, the mother hen will have no chicks. She will come to your bedside at five o'clock every morning to crow, just to wake up a lazy bug like you!"
An angry mother hen is scary like that.
Little Moon was frightened, clenched her hands timidly, hid behind her brother and pouted and retorted: "I'm not a lazy bug!"
snort! !
The kid who didn’t get to eat the scrambled eggs turned around and ran out angrily.
Xingxing looked at the egg in her mother's hand, then at her sister's quickly disappearing figure, raised her head, and softly exposed the adults' lie: "Mom, there is no chick in this egg yet."
Xie Jiaxiu: "...Oh, maybe I made a mistake."
Staring at her mother's guilt-free face, Xingxing felt a little helpless.
"Mom, can you cook a sugar-water egg for my sister?" He still wanted his sister to eat the egg.
Xie Jiaxiu knew that her son could be a little clever sometimes, so she couldn't just perfunctorily answer him. She could only squat down, touch his head, and explain in a gentle voice, "There is only one hen laying eggs in our house. This egg is from yesterday, and we haven't found today's yet. Mom wants to pick up the second egg later, and then cook some egg soup for lunch with some sesame oil, and ask your grandma to come and eat with us."
As the elderly get older, they actually need more nutritional supplements than young people.
But although my mother-in-law looks powerful, she is actually reluctant to eat or wear anything, and wants to leave anything good to the younger generation in the family.
Xie Jiaxiu doesn't have many conflicts when getting along with her mother-in-law, and is willing to take care of the elderly for the sake of her husband. After all, her parents are no longer around, and her mother-in-law is the only elder for the couple, and she is also the grandmother of Xingxing and Xiaoyueliang.
There is an old saying in the countryside: Big teaching is small teaching.
In fact, children see and remember what adults do.
Parents and relatives are the first teachers children come into contact with in this world.
Xie Jiaxiu hopes that her two children can grow up in a warm and harmonious environment, and that they will respect the elderly and love the young when they grow up, rather than being stubborn and unable to distinguish right from wrong.
After listening to her mother's words, Xingxing pursed her lips, as if she understood something.
When he walked out to find his sister, Xingxing reached out and grabbed the ball, and whispered to it in his heart: "I know why the world consciousness requires you to bind humans to be the savior in the end times."
Qiuqiu exclaimed in surprise, and asked blankly, "Why?"
It pondered over this question for a long time, but still hasn't come up with an answer that is even remotely correct.
How did Xingxing suddenly know?
What happened just now? It was just an egg.
How did the stars suddenly think of the end of the world from an egg?
Qiuqiu's small round body is filled with question marks of all sizes.
Xingxing walked along the road, slowly speaking out the thought that had suddenly flashed through his mind as he walked.
“Because humans work hard and unite.”
Everything is undergoing tremendous changes in the apocalypse.
Animals, plants, humans, including insects and ants, etc.
In such a complex food chain, only humans can be bound to become the savior.
And the ball is bound to itself... Xingxing suddenly realized that zombies were also mutated from humans, so the binding was successful.
If the ball had bound to another zombie animal or mutant plant instead of itself, perhaps the world consciousness would not have allowed it to bind successfully.
“Only strange humans are cared about by the world consciousness.”
Xingxing doesn’t understand the deeper principles, but his eyes have seen a lot, and his head has also thought hard about a lot.
He didn't know what inheritance meant, but he saw humans' responsibility and love for their young, and their responsibility and respect for their elders.
If Xingxing was a well-educated little zombie, he would be able to say that famous saying at this moment: The young should be well cared for and the old should have someone to rely on.
But he was an illiterate little zombie, so after trying to explain for a long time, he could only utter one sentence: the strangest human being.
Maybe, when he grows up a little bit, he will understand a little more?
The stars aren't so sure.
Qiuqiu was stunned for a long time.
It suddenly thought of a day at the end of the world.
The head of the General Administration set a problem for Xingxing.
About which came first, the chicken or the egg.
Coincidentally, it was also an egg that triggered Xingxing's thinking that time.
Stars always seem to look at the world and problems from a special and novel perspective.
The premise of this special perspective seems to be guided by someone intentionally or unintentionally.
Because the stars see it with their own eyes, they think seriously about it.
Then, Qiuqiu seemed to understand a little.
As Xingxing said, humans are indeed a little strange.
It is not unity, nor inheritance, nor respecting the elderly and loving the young.
It's about "guidance" and "education".
The stars have a strong learning ability, and when they meet humans who are good at guidance and education, the inspiration they emanate will surprise even the system.
"Xingxing, watch more, think more, and learn more. It's not just you, but me too." Qiuqiu became serious.
Humans are more than just food to the stars.
For Qiuqiu, humans are no longer just a string of dispensable life data in the mission world.
"Stars, human beings have many characteristics, but the most worthy of our observation is the value they create."
Weird humans are always good at creating different values.
Not only do they create value for themselves, they also seek value for others, and then refute or acknowledge the existence of more value.
Just now, Xie Jiaxiu found enough value for her mother-in-law He Guizhi.
Things and people that have value are the least likely to be abandoned.
Human society seems to be made up of these complex, invisible values, large or small.
So they were inseparable.
Even at the end of the world, when many values collapse, humans can find new values for themselves and their companions and strive to unite and survive.
Animals and plants only talk about survival, life and death, but humans alone rely on laws and morals to maintain the value of life.
At this moment, Qiuqiu felt his own growth through enlightenment.
Xingxing looked in the direction of the village entrance where her sister disappeared, stopped and fell into deep thought.
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