Six Hundred and Ninety-Six Parallel Lines

The door of the humble room was pushed open from the outside, and a family of normal Ilanhill civilians, the room was filled with a faint smell of food during dinner.

Being able to eat a full meal is already one of the benefits they have received under the rule of the empire for the people in the edge area of ​​Alan Hill.

They didn't have such a good life in the past, and of course they didn't care about improving their food.

It's different now, every month they can eat something that they never imagined before.

At the beginning, they worked hard to exchange for some Bud mustard. These pickles were cheap and plentiful, giving them hope of living in poverty.

Later, after eating pickles for more than a year and finding that food became more and more abundant, the people whose income had doubled several times finally began to work hard on the patterns of eating.

About half a year ago, vegetables began to appear on people's tables, and sweet potatoes and potatoes began to increase.

Then, people who had pursuits began to buy cheap canned ham and canned fish, etc. Although they knew that most of the space inside was filled with starch, the taste was really good, enough to make people happy for many days.

Of course, time is still moving forward, and society is constantly developing. Now decent families have started to eat fresh meat and eggs.

They can occasionally consume some cooked food, such as fragrant roast chicken, roast rabbit, stewed large pieces of meat from mountain beasts, and so on.

Fat meat and skins have also begun to appear on people's tables, which also shows that most of the areas ruled by Alan Hill have initially solved the problem of food and clothing for the people.

Leaving behind his schoolbag, the boy who had just returned home from get out of class at the best local No. 1 senior high school was all dirty, threw off his sneakers, and ran to the table in the kitchen, which was covered with plates. Update the fastest mobile terminal::

Then, a slightly disappointed voice sounded. This strong boy was obviously dissatisfied with the dinner prepared by his mother: "Huh?...Eating canned fish again..."

These canned fish are all produced in coastal areas, so the brands are naturally similar, and the taste is also the same.

At the beginning, he liked the taste very much, but as time passed, he was no longer satisfied with this canned product that had nothing to do with freshness at all.

As the saying goes, half a child eats a poor man.

This is the time when the body grows, and the boy can eat several bowls of rice for a meal, and his favorite is the roast chicken cooked food hung in a row in the supermarket two streets away.

"What did you learn at school today?" My mother was cutting a piece of tofu in the kitchen. This kind of white and tender food from the Serris area has become more and more popular among ordinary people.

After she got home from get off work, she started making dinner, and she has been busy until now without taking a break.

For this mother, getting her children to come home from school with a hot dinner is a top priority.

The boy threw his schoolbag on the small bed that belonged to him, and went back to the kitchen to fight for the best interests of his mouth: "Mom! We have been eating this kind of canned fish for three days in a row. I want to eat roasted fish." Chicken!"

"The roasted chicken in the supermarket is too expensive. Your father is just an ordinary factory fitter. How can you have the money to let you eat several roasted chickens every month." His mother's helpless voice came from the kitchen, with A little tired.

What used to be the proudest occupation of the worker has become less sought-after. News of layoffs is often heard in large factories, and competition in small businesses is also fierce.

The housewife who is a textile worker, the textile factory she belongs to has been trying to reduce costs recently. Compared with those big cities that have developed, the only advantage of a small town like theirs is cheap labor resources.

Factories in big cities are being automated and numerically controlled... the original workers are in danger of being eliminated, and traditional skilled workers can no longer keep up with the progress of the times.

I heard that many factories in Serris have been completely robotized, and there are only a few managers in them, and the labor cost has been reduced to a level close to zero.

As a result, those small businesses with no technical advantages began to relocate to the periphery of the empire. Today they live here, and tomorrow they will move to farther and poorer places to squeeze those poor people who have not yet escaped poverty.

In the ordinary family in front of me, both men and women are the lowest-level labor force. They are the kind of people who are about to be eliminated by the times. Although their lives have improved a little, they are destined not to make any qualitative leaps. .

"You haven't mentioned your courses in school, where are you going!" The mother, who had already budgeted for her own money, obviously didn't plan for today's roast chicken, so she continued to ask.

The boy pinched a fish tail out of the can, hung it into his mouth, and boasted while chewing: "Mathematics is my strong point. I have mastered all the things I learned recently. The teacher said I can pass the exam of falling dragon." City University, but I think that if my family can come up with a sum of money, my score can almost be enough to pass the self-financed Seris Second University..."

He is the hope of the whole family. In this typical ordinary family, the only one who is most likely to change the future is him who is still studying.

And this boy really lived up to expectations. His grades are very good in the class, and he is the kind of "good student" who is likely to enter a good university, get a better education, and find a decent job after graduation.

The teachers in the school also pay more attention to him, and even a few little girls like to ask him for advice.

Mother's voice of cutting things weakened: "Seris? Where is the university good, but the cost is too high... There is no way for a family like ours to let you go to Seris to study."

"Mom! If I can go to Serris Second University, it will be easy to find a job after I come out." The boy sat at the dining table coquettishly.

"The problem is, the money your father and I earn in a month is not enough for you to spend three days in Serris..." The mother weighed the family savings, and felt that this kind of thing should have a showdown with her son earlier , Let him dispel this idea.

That's Siris! It was a prohibitively expensive place. I heard that the city is so huge that there are 15 districts and 44 subway lines. Thinking about it makes people feel dizzy.

The broadcast news often introduces the only super city in the world. Even if you have never been there, you can know how prosperous and expensive it is.

The cheapest housing prices there are as high as 120 gold coins per square meter, which is enough to buy a not bad house in this small town on the edge.

"It's not that exaggerated." Of course the child didn't believe it, and muttered a little unwillingly.

"It's that exaggerated." The mother shook her head resolutely: "Your father went to Serris. At that time, his monthly salary was only 1 gold coin, and the hotel in Serris cost 70 silver coins a day."

"The time you said was three years ago!" The child did not understand the dilemma of his parents and insisted on his ideals.

"It's more expensive now. Remember Uncle Bud?" Mother asked, mentioning an acquaintance. Bud had been their neighbor, and still was. It's just that the Badto people found a job to go to Serris to work.

Washing dishes in a small restaurant in Serris, I heard that there is a salary of 1 gold coin per day, which is called a luxury.

"Him? Didn't his boss open a small restaurant in Serris?" The child nodded immediately after hearing about Uncle Bud's deeds.

"Yes, I heard from your father that he sent Bud back to borrow some money from his acquaintances to turn around his business." Mother said with a sigh.

This is not a random fabrication. Bud did come back a while ago, and he did come back to help his boss borrow money. However, it was obviously not so easy to borrow 1,000 gold coins in this small city, and in the end Bud could only return empty-handed.

"How much to borrow?" The child was very curious about such gossip.

"Yeah, I asked your father, is he going to borrow 100 gold coins...he actually said that he wants to borrow 1,000 gold coins..." The mother put the fried tofu on the table and put it in front of the child, Said seriously.

The child stuck out his tongue. Three thousand gold coins was too far away for him. He was good at mathematics, so of course he understood what three thousand gold coins meant to a family like theirs.

"Okay... I see." The child was sullen, lowered his head and put the rice in his mouth. There were some sweet potatoes in the rice, which made the taste really sweet.

But when the boy ate it into his mouth, he tasted a bitter taste. He has worked very hard, but he is still far away from the world he yearns for.

The girl he liked came here from Seris with her father. The girl's father is a city magistrate with a high income, the girl's grades are also very good, and her knowledge is also very enviable to the boy.

The girl had eaten the sweetest ice cream in Serris, and touched the mottled gate of the old palace with her own hands. As long as she stood there, her aura was different from other girls.

She has a beautiful dress that no girl here has ever seen, she has a history of empire that is so expensive at first glance, she has a beautiful pink bicycle, and she has a pair of wink and wink that can make people dream big eyes.

Today, this beautiful girl told him personally that she will go back to Seris a year later, and it is estimated that she will be admitted to the second university of Seris.

"I heard people say that Dothan University is also good." Seeing her son's depression, the mother said distressedly: "At the end of this month, if we have a balance, Mom will buy you a roast chicken, why? Sample?"

"Hmm..." The boy responded after swallowing the fragrant but hard-to-swallow meal. There are many, many things, things that are kept in his heart, and he hasn't fantasized about them. For him, they are already over, like two parallel lines.

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