Chapter 002 People's Park, absorbing wood energy
The cursing outside lasted for more than ten minutes before it stopped.
Not long after, Ye's mother's voice came from outside, calling for dinner.
Several brothers and sisters came to the table laughing and playing. The family was having a great time and the atmosphere at home seemed to have returned to normal.
No one came to invite Ye Qing to dinner, as if this person didn't exist at all.
No one remembered that the breakfast they had was prepared by the original owner at five or six in the morning.
Ye Qing just felt that his original self was really pitiful, having to go through eight generations of suffering to be born into such a family.
There are five children in the family. The eldest brother and the youngest brother live in one room, the eldest sister and the youngest sister live in another room, and only the original body lives in the cramped storage room separated by the balcony.
In the storage room of less than three square meters, there is a very simple wooden bed.
The utility room was filled with a mess of old southern items; even the lower bunk bed was occupied, leaving only an aisle that was barely wide enough for one person to walk through, leading to the ladder above the bunk bed.
On the outside of the bunk bed, an old sheet that had been washed so much that it looked pale was pulled over as a curtain to cover it.
This small bed, which is less than one meter wide, is one of the few places for Yuandi to breathe in this home.
Over the years, she has been sleeping and studying on this bed.
There was a window at the foot of the bed, one of the panes of which had been broken years before.
But Ye's parents were reluctant to spend money to replace the glass, so they picked up a piece of unwanted wood from the garbage station and nailed it to the window.
The size of the wooden board was a bit small, resulting in a gap of about an inch left after the window was blocked.
When winter came, the cold wind would whiz in through this gap, freezing me so hard that I could only curl up into a ball under the quilt.
The original body had mentioned the matter of replacing the glass to his parents, but as soon as he mentioned it, he was scolded by Ye's mother. Ye's father even accused the original body of being "unable to endure hardship and work", which scared the original body so much that he dared not speak again.
Now, Ye Qing looked around the dilapidated window and the junk room with nowhere to move, and felt it was extremely ironic.
She sighed silently in her heart:
Perhaps death is a relief for you. There is nothing to be nostalgic about such relatives. Instead of suffering in this world, it is better to reincarnate early. In your next life, you must choose a pair of parents who love you!
I don’t know if it was Ye Qing’s illusion, but after she finished repeating these words silently, she felt her body lighten, as if something suddenly left her body.
She suddenly realized something and looked around subconsciously.
But I saw nothing.
But Ye Qing already knew what was going on. She couldn't help but curl her lips and said softly:
"Don't worry, I will live well in your place. I will definitely live hard and make the most of it. I will definitely not waste the life you gave me!"
From today on, the past is just a prologue, and the end of the world and the wasteland are all thrown behind her. She is now Ye Qing in the 1970s. In this parallel time and space, she not only wants to live freely, but also live beautifully!
When Ye Qing came out, the six members of the Ye family had almost finished their breakfast.
The table was littered with cups and plates, but it was obvious that no one had left any food for Ye Qing.
Ye Qing was not surprised by this. He didn't even look at the table and walked straight out the door.
We were already in the hallway, and we could still hear the Ye family talking in the distance:
"You don't even know how to say hello, and you've read so much that you've become a dog!"
"What does she mean? Is she mad at me? Does she really think I'm afraid of her?"
"Where are you going, Second Sister?"
"Who knows? Go wherever you want. If you have the guts to leave, don't come back!"
"No, Mom, if she leaves, who will wash the dishes today?"
“…”
Ye Qing twitched the corners of his mouth, but didn't take this family to heart.
There is still a week left before she goes to the countryside, and she must make preparations within this week. One is to complete the upgrade of her superpowers as soon as possible, and the other is to make money.
Now she has to go out and embrace nature and absorb more wood energy!
As soon as you walk out of the tube building, several flower beds come into view at the door.
As soon as Ye Qing saw the lush shrubs and verdant camphor trees in the flowerbed, the rich vitality that filled his face made his heart beat faster and he swallowed his saliva subconsciously.
But Ye Qing didn't dare to stay, mainly because she knew what was happening when she was absorbing wood energy.
Her wood-related ability is a bit special. In the process of absorbing the wood energy of a plant, she will also feed back to the plant, allowing the plant to sprout new buds and bloom flowers in an instant.
This process is completely out of Ye Qing's control. At least for now, she can't control it freely.
Therefore, Ye Qing did not dare to touch the plants near the tube building, for fear that the plants she touched would suddenly grow new leaves and flowers crazily. This scene would seem weird to anyone, and she had no way of explaining this anomaly.
If she dared to do this downstairs in a residential area, she would probably be sent to the laboratory for sectioning within a day.
Therefore, the place she could go had to be far away from residential areas, preferably somewhere sparsely populated, so as to avoid being targeted.
But she couldn't go to remote places whenever she wanted.
Firstly, this was the 1970s, and without a letter of introduction, going abroad was out of the question;
Secondly, she has no money at all now.
Before Ye Qing left, he had searched the original bed inside and out, and found only 1.2 cents in total.
This 1.2 cents was earned by my original self when I was on duty as a cleaner at school.
With such a small amount of money, Ye Qing must calculate it carefully and spend it wisely.
So after much thought, she finally circled out two places.
One is the People's Park seven kilometers away from Yantang Old Street, and the other is the mountains around the suburbs of Shanghai.
In the 1970s, there were two types of public transportation available in Shanghai: trolleybuses and buses.
You can take the trolley bus to People's Park, and the ticket is four cents per trip.
To go to the suburbs, you have to take the bus, which costs seven cents a trip.
Ye Qing didn't have enough money, so he could only go to People's Park temporarily.
As for going to the suburbs, that would have to wait until she found a way to get the money.
People's Park was one of the few public parks in Shanghai in the 1970s. It has about four hectares of public green space for citizens to relax and play.
The reason why Ye Qing chose this park as her first stop to replenish her wood energy.
The main reason is that this park has dense vegetation, and there are many towering old trees that are decades or even hundreds of years old. These old trees contain rich energy, which is of great help to her ability upgrade.
At the same time, in the process of absorbing supernatural powers, she can also give back to the old trees, giving them new vitality. It can be said that the two complement each other and achieve the purpose of mutual symbiosis.
Ye Qing came all the way to the People's Park, and then walked around inside and observed quietly.
There weren't many people in the park, and most of them were playing on the lawn by the lake or walking on the sidewalk around the lake.
After seeing a hole in the wooden fence, Ye Qing quickly rushed through it while no one was paying attention.
After going several dozen meters deep into the woods and making sure that the people outside who were strolling around the park with their children could not see what was happening inside, she could finally do her job without worry.
Every few steps, Ye Qing would pick a tree to absorb energy.
Any tree she touched would suddenly start dancing madly, regenerating at a speed visible to the naked eye, blooming and growing leaves, with petals fluttering to the ground.
At the same time, the light green light rushed into Ye Qing's body from the palm of her hand. She could feel that her wood-type ability was expanding rapidly. The more vitality she absorbed, the lighter and more relaxed she felt.
After absorbing it for nearly three hours and having almost toured the entire park, Ye Qing stopped.
Looking back, Ye Qing felt a little sorry.
She estimated that in just two hours, she had visited at least a hundred large trees.
Before she traveled through time, she had spent seven years in the apocalypse to barely upgrade her supernatural powers to level two. But now, in just one morning, she could vaguely feel that her supernatural powers were showing signs of a breakthrough.
With so much abundant energy, Ye Qing would naturally not be stingy in giving back.
She found a lot of tree seeds that had fallen on the ground in the woods, and she picked them up.
After being catalyzed by the wood-type energy, these seeds quickly took root and sprouted, quickly rising from the soil until they grew into saplings one or two meters high, standing straight and healthy.
By the time we finished planting the trees, it was already afternoon.
After working for five or six hours, Ye Qing was already starving.
She still had eight cents left in her hand. A steamed bun in the state-owned restaurant cost two cents, but she needed a food coupon, so even if she wanted to eat it, she couldn't.
But she couldn't not eat. Given her physical condition, Ye Qing was afraid that she would faint from hunger on the road.
Ye Qing quickly came out of the woods and began to wander around, trying to figure out how to get food coupons.
Just as I was racking my brains and thinking hard, I heard a arrogant and provocative voice not far away:
"Old Wu, given your lousy fishing skills, if you can keep your catch alive today, I'll give you my entire monthly allowance, not to mention five dollars!"
"Haha, count me in!"
"My allowance is not enough. My wife is very strict. But don't you like my chess set, Old Man Wu? If you can catch a fish today, I will give you my chess set!"
“…”
Ye Qing looked in the direction of the sound and saw a few retired old men fishing with fishing rods on the lakeside not far away.
Ye Qing understood what was going on after listening for a while.
Because one of the old men, named Wu, was so bad at fishing that he always came back empty-handed, the other old men kept chatting and making fun of him.
As a result, an old man started betting before he could even finish his conversation.
When the other old men heard this, they also became interested and took out their own prizes with a smile.
As for Old Man Wu, facing the ridicule and mockery from several old friends, he suddenly became angry and annoyed, and his face turned red with choking.
He wanted to avenge his past, but he knew his fishing skills very well and knew that the possibility of turning things around today was slim.
Ye Qing was standing not far away. When he saw the frustrated look on Old Man Wu's face, his eyes suddenly brightened up.
Isn't this a ready-made opportunity to earn money?
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