Chapter 2: A New World Behind the Door
Lin Musen opened his eyes suddenly when he heard his wife's call, hurried to the door, stood with his wife, and watched his son come from afar.
Lin Sanqi stopped the tricycle and saw the concerned looks of his parents. He felt a little embarrassed.
"Dad, Mom, why are you standing at the door in such hot weather?"
Wang Wenjuan asked weakly, "Qizai, are you okay?"
Lin Sanqi jumped off the tricycle and said with a forced smile, "Mom, I'm fine. It's just too hot. You're not feeling well. Go back and rest."
Before Wang Wenjuan could ask any more questions, a 16-year-old girl came jumping down from upstairs. It was Lin Sanqi's sister, Lin Bingqiao.
"Big Boss, you're back? Mom and Dad have been worried about you for a long time, afraid that you might jump into the sand river because you're upset."
Wang Wenjuan was so angry that she slapped her daughter's shoulder: "You poor girl, how can you say that about your brother? Have you finished your homework?"
Lin Bingqiao stuck out her tongue:
"It's too hot upstairs, and you guys don't want to turn on the air conditioner, so I came downstairs to rest for a while. Boss, I'll get you some water so you can wash your face."
The Lin family has air conditioning, but they didn't turn it on in such hot weather. It was obvious that the Lin family's financial situation was not very good, so they tried to save as much as possible.
Lin Musen had been silent since his son came in. When his son finished washing his face and sat next to the fan to enjoy the breeze, he tried to ask:
"Is your girlfriend already on the train?"
Lin Sanqi lowered his head and hummed softly. His eyes were a little red again.
Lin Musen sighed softly, patted his son's shoulder and said comfortingly:
"Forget it, it's just that you two are not destined to be together.
Don't blame her. It will be difficult for you to find a job in the future without a diploma. Besides, our family's financial situation is not good and we cannot provide you with material support. So it is normal for the girl to break up when she sees no hope.
She hasn't done anything to wrong you. You've been together for four years, and she's always been devoted to you. Given the current situation, we can't ask her to sacrifice her own future and be with you, regardless of her parents back home.
She doesn't owe you anything, and you don't owe her anything, so let's just be even.
At least, your breakup was peaceful, unlike Mingzi next door, who broke up in a huge fight, even losing his last bit of dignity, making the villagers laugh and being looked down upon by his fellow clansmen.
Lin Bingqiao sat beside him, holding her heart, pretending to be in pain, but she started singing:
"Breaking up should be dignified, no one should say sorry. How can I feel indebted? I dare to give and I dare to be heartbroken. In front of the camera is our former self, cheering, crying and shouting at the top of our lungs~~~"
Lin Sanqi was trying hard to hold back his tears, but his sister's singing broke him down and he burst into tears.
Wang Wenjuan saw this and slapped her daughter on the back in anger: "Are you going to die? How can you comfort your brother like this?"
Lin Bingqiao was young and didn't know what sorrow felt like. She retorted:
"What's wrong with being heartbroken? At worst, I can just find another one. My boss is so handsome, so many young women are vying to date him, right? Classmate Lin Sanqi, smile, men don't cry easily~~~"
Lin Sanqi was also amused by his playful sister:
"Okay, I will definitely find you the most beautiful and outstanding sister-in-law in the future."
When Lin Musen saw that his son had recovered, he and his wife looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief. At the critical moment, one still needs such a happy person to cheer up.
"Okay, okay. It's so hot out here. Go take a shower and turn on the air conditioner. You take a few days off. I'll go talk to Grandpa about how to deal with your job."
"Okay, I'll go back to my room then."
In the bathroom.
While Lin Sanqi was showering with his eyes closed, his mind was filled with the last image of his girlfriend before she got on the train.
Thinking that this might be the last time they met, Lin Sanqi was filled with sadness and regret.
At the same time, Lin Sanqi also knew that he had to cheer himself up and think about how to make money to support his family, otherwise he would be letting his parents down.
When Lin's mother gave birth to her youngest daughter, she suffered heavy bleeding and was almost dead. Although she was rescued later, her body has been weak and she has developed a chronic illness.
Usually they rely on a secret recipe handed down from their ancestors to prolong their lives, but most of the herbs on this recipe are made up of precious Chinese medicines. With the soaring prices of Chinese medicines in recent years, the Lin family has long been unable to bear the burden.
In addition, there is a college student and a middle school student to support, so the Lin family's financial situation is not optimistic.
As the times changed, Lin's father's Chinese medicine clinic business became less and less popular.
When villagers are sick, they like to go to the fast-paced Western medicine clinic for intravenous drips. If that doesn't work, they take antibiotics. No one has the patience to use traditional Chinese medicine to slowly treat the disease.
This also led to the fact that the money earned by Lin's father's Chinese medicine clinic was less than that earned by Lin's mother's rice shop.
The Lin's Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic is an ancestral business, filled with sentiment and ancestral teachings. Lin Musen has no choice but to bite the bullet and inherit the family business, barely making ends meet.
As the eldest son of the Lin family, Lin Sanqi knew this very well, so he could only secretly encourage himself:
"Come on, Lin Sanqi. A sharp sword is forged through constant grinding, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold. You can do it! Let those who look down on you see that you, Lin Sanqi, are a true hero!"
It took me more than half an hour to take a shower.
Lin Sanqi put on a vest, shorts, and a pair of flip-flops. While wiping his hair with a towel, he opened the bathroom door and prepared to go out.
Then Lin Sanqi was stunned, opened his mouth wide, and rubbed his eyes hard:
"Am I hallucinating because I'm too sad?"
The scene on the other side of the bathroom door was not Lin Sanqi's room, but a huge space similar to an underground air-raid shelter.
Lin Sanqi stepped through the bathroom door in disbelief and stood in this huge and inexplicable space, looking left and right.
The space is huge, about the size of two football fields.
It is very tall, like a conference hall, at least more than ten stories high.
There was nothing in the space, it was as bright as day, there was no sound at all, it was terrifyingly quiet, and there was only a door opposite.
Lin Sanqi is a young man after all, and young people often have a fearless and adventurous spirit.
If a more mature person encountered something incredible, he would immediately exit this inexplicable space and go back to the bathroom to observe.
But Lin Sanqi was shocked and a little excited. When he saw the door opposite, he wanted to go and see what was on the other side of the door.
When he reached the door, Lin Sanqi took a deep breath, opened the door and walked out, but was stunned again.
A courtyard appeared in front of me. It looked a bit shabby and a bit quaint, just like the old courtyards in Peking.
Yes, the more he looked at it, the more it looked like a siheyuan, and there were many people in the yard looking back at him.
Lin Sanqi secretly exclaimed in his heart: Damn it, how can there still be a living person?
(End of this chapter)
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