Chapter 2 Modern

Alive!

He has never had enough to eat at the farm these days.

Zheng Fa was also ashamed. After eating all kinds of delicious food in this world, it was even harder to swallow pig grass leaves...

After all, it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

As for the more delicious bacon, he always gave them to his sister and mother.

After all, I am living a good life in this world, and I would not be able to get over it if I tried to snatch that little bit of meat.

Five years ago, his father passed away. He cried all night before falling into a deep sleep. When he closed his eyes, he found himself in this wonderful world.

From then on, every seven days, he would come to this world in his dreams, and after another seven days, he would return to the original world. It was very similar to what this world called time travel, except that he, a person from another world, traveled to this world in the so-called "wearing another world".

From then on, he would eat a lot in this world for seven days, and then return to Xuanwei Realm - this was the name given to the world by the people in that world. He would almost starve for seven days in Xuanwei Realm.

I'm used to it now.

Zheng Fa touched his slightly bulging belly and walked out of the house.

He lived in a two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment in a teachers' apartment building of Qingshui Middle School. The building had a total of six floors and was built in the last century.

Thirty years have made this building seem a little out of date. Not only is there no elevator, but the corridor is narrow and dark, the iron handrails are rusty, and there is even moss growing at the corners of the corridor.

In the eyes of others, this house is old and may not be as comfortable to live in as those new communities, but Zheng Fa is very satisfied with it. The houses he has lived in since he was a child were all built with mud bricks mixed with straw. When he first came to this world, the white walls and transparent glass in the room made him think he had come to a fairyland.

Not to mention lights, televisions, cars and mobile phones, which are things that people in this world take for granted.

After getting to know this world a little, he actually thought that this was the fairyland that the storyteller talked about at the market - there were iron birds flying back and forth in the sky at a speed of thousands of miles a day.

A small screen can let you know what is happening thousands of miles away.

After learning a little more, he realized that the people in this world were actually mortals, and their bodies were even weaker than those in his original world.

Zheng Fa's family had been tenant farmers of the Zhao family for generations and had nothing special about them. However, the Zhao family was not an ordinary family, but a family of prominent status. All blood relatives and children in the family practiced martial arts, and those with outstanding talents could even enter the legendary immortal gate.

But for the people in this world, let alone cultivating immortality, practicing martial arts seems to exist only on TV or in ghost videos.

Zheng Fa, however, did not look down on the people in this world. He felt that as mortals, they were able to achieve those achievements that seemed like immortal achievements as described by the storytellers. This was even more worthy of admiration.

He is now a senior student at Qingshui High School. The apartment building he lives in is right behind the teaching building, and it only takes five minutes to walk to the classroom.

As soon as he walked to the classroom door, he heard the male classmate sitting in the first row by the door shouting to him: "Zheng Fa, Lao Chen is calling you!"

"Got it!" Zheng Fa replied, and put his backpack on the seat. He also heard the boy asking, "Zheng Fa, what did you do?"

Zheng Fa was also thinking about this and felt nervous.

Lao Chen is their class teacher and Chinese teacher.

Being called to the office by the head teacher early in the morning is definitely a terrifying event in a student's life, even if the student is a time traveler.

I walked to the teacher's office, pushed open the slightly mottled yellow wooden door, and next to the nearest desk, Lao Chen's bald head was unusually bright under the morning light.

"Teacher Chen."

"Zheng Fa, come and sit down!"

Zheng Fa felt relieved as Lao Chen's attitude didn't seem to be a bad thing. He sat in front of Lao Chen with his legs together and his hands on his knees.

Highlight the well-behaved one.

"Why are you so nervous?" Old Chen smiled when he saw his sitting posture: "I just want to ask you, you are also a senior in high school, which university are you going to apply to?"

"I..." He didn't expect that Lao Chen was asking him this, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Actually, teachers usually don't care about this matter. It depends on your personal wishes. Ordinary students can just discuss it with their families. But your situation is special after all..."

Old Chen didn't finish his words, but Zheng Fa understood what he meant - when Zheng Fa traveled through time, he was only twelve or thirteen years old, but in this world he was already an orphan.

The original body's parents were teachers at Qingshui Middle School. They died in a car accident, which was even more tragic than the one in the Xuanwei Realm, but the security in this world is much better.

On the one hand, as his parents' former workplace, Qingshui Middle School has always been helpful to him. Although it only waived tuition fees, at least he did not have to worry about his studies.

On the other hand, the community has always provided corresponding subsidies, and with the house and inheritance left by my parents, although my life is not rich, I have enough food to eat.

If we compare this world with the Zheng family's life in another world, this world can almost be said to be a happy place.

Including Lao Chen, all the teachers in the class knew Zheng Fa's background. Either out of pity or out of friendship as a colleague, they usually tried not to mention words like parents and family in front of Zheng Fa.

Because he had never lived with his parents in this world, he was grateful to them in his heart, but he did not have much affection for them. However, Zheng Fa understood this little bit of warmth.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Lao Chen could only continue: "Tell me what you think, and I'll give you some reference."

Zheng Fa was naturally grateful.

Although Lao Chen looked a little rough, he was always responsible. It was not even seven o'clock yet, but he was already sitting in the office. Zheng Fa knew that he was there almost every morning.

"I want to study physics." Zheng Fa also thought about going to college.

Perhaps reading is not a pleasant thing for the young people in this world.

But Zheng Fa cherishes it very much.

He attended elementary school for one year when he was a child. At that time, he was not very fond of studying and even preferred to do farm work.

But later, his father had an accident and he no longer had the conditions to go to school. Instead, he began to miss school.

In the village, only Wang Gui, the son of Manager Wang, had completed elementary school and was later chosen to be the Seventh Young Master's servant.

The other children in Zhuangzi don’t have this condition.

Therefore, the other children in Zhuangzi were very envious of Wang Gui for being able to go to school.

This is even more true for Zheng Fa.

Now that he has the opportunity to study, and even go to university, the world's top institution of learning, he naturally yearns for it.

Studying physics...well, he has the best grades in physics.

Another reason is that he has a genuine curiosity about so-called science.

He had read the history of this world. A few hundred years ago, the situation in this world was not much different from that in another world.

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It even seems more lifeless because there is no immortal way or martial way.

The world has undergone tremendous changes in the past few hundred years, and in his opinion, the biggest reason is the knowledge called science.

He was full of longing, admiration, and even fascination for it.

"Physics? Pursue an academic career?" Old Chen thought about it and decided that since the kid's family was not well off, pursuing an academic career might be the right path for him.

"So do you have an ideal university?"

“Jiangnan University.”

"Jiang University?" Old Chen glanced at Zheng Fa and said, "It's not easy to get into Jiang University. With your current grades...it's difficult!"

It seems that he is not optimistic about Zheng Fa.

But after he finished talking to Zheng Fa, he looked at the student's back as he walked away, with a look of satisfaction in his eyes.

A female teacher sitting opposite Lao Chen asked curiously, "Is this the child from Teacher Zheng's family?"

"Yes." Old Chen nodded.

The female teacher showed some sympathy and surprise on her face: "Didn't you say that this child's grades weren't very good? He entered our high school because he was a teacher's orphan, so his grades were given some consideration."

"This child's grades were really bad when he first entered school." Old Chen smiled a little proudly: "At that time, no other class teacher wanted him, but he came to my class."

"It is indeed difficult to get into Jiangnan University!" the female teacher nodded.

Jiangnan University is ranked among the top ten universities in the country, and its Department of Physics is one of its flagship majors.

"No, you don't know this kid. From freshman to senior year, his grades have been rising. He was at the bottom of the class in freshman year, but in the middle of the class in sophomore year. Now in his junior year, he can occasionally rank in the top ten."

The female teacher was a little surprised: "It's so powerful? Does Jiangnan University really have hope?"

Old Chen shook his head: "No, it's a bit late. His current score is at least 20 points short of Jiangnan University... What a pity."

…

Zheng Fake had no idea of ​​Lao Chen's admiration and regret for him.

He had no relatives or friends in this world and knew that the information he could obtain was too little.

All we can do is work hard.

As usual, he had lunch in the school cafeteria, sitting opposite him was his deskmate and good friend, Wang Chen.

Looking at the food in front of him, Wang Chen's face was full of despair: "Does the chef in the cafeteria sell eggplants at home? How come this eggplant and beans are served every day?"

Let’s take a look at a few other dishes.

The water spinach lay at the bottom of the plate, looking like it had been ravaged.

A pig hair on the braised pork stood upright and showed off its might to him.

"These people in the kitchen are all relatives of the principal, right? These dishes have been cooked from the first year of high school, but they are still so bad! They really don't forget their original intentions!" He looked at Zheng Fa opposite him: "Accompany me to the supermarket to buy some bread later!"

On the opposite side, Zheng Facai poured the braised pork sauce on the rice, stirred it twice with chopsticks, and then shoveled the last mouthful of rice into his mouth.

The expression on his face was one of enjoyment and satisfaction that was almost pious.

After he swallowed the rice, he raised his head, as if he had just heard him speak, and looked at Wang Chen a little blankly: "Why don't you eat anymore?"

Looking at the rice plate in front of Zheng Fa that was cleaner than if it had been washed with water, and then looking at the food he had hardly touched, Wang Chen opened his mouth, unable to speak, and even a little doubting himself.

Is it really that delicious? He picked up the chopsticks and took a few gulps with his eyes closed...

Ugh! (End of this chapter)