I'm wandering in the world

Chapter 53: Childhood Town (Rest World)

Chen Qingyuan was about to use "obsession" to travel through the time anchor point of the memory world. At this moment, a beam of light burst out from the black stone gate, forming a memory image of him when he was three years old in the gray space. This time it was no longer just him and his parents, but also two elderly people in their fifties who participated...

He remembered that these were the grandpa and grandma who had accompanied him for half of his childhood.

He looked at the card-like "obsession" in his hand and said, "Take me to see my grandparents."

Although he only completed three missions in the different world, during these three times he experienced brutal human traffickers, an idiot love-brained person, a cult, and the wheel of history. He was a little tired physically and mentally... It was time to find a place to relax.

The card "Obsession" turned into a ball of black smoke and gathered into a translucent door.

Chen Qingyuan pushed the door open and walked in. His eyes were instantly filled with all kinds of lights. He didn't know how much time had passed before he heard the sounds of birds and cicadas.

He opened his eyes and found himself standing under a tree.

The sun was shining brightly and the shadows of the trees were clearly visible on the ground.

This is on the mountain, surrounded by a sea of ​​green, with small tea trees.

There were several women wearing straw hats and carrying small bamboo baskets picking tea leaves. Children were running and playing back and forth in the aisles between the tea trees, using simple net bags they made themselves to catch dancing butterflies.

Chen Qingyuan was a little dazed and couldn't recognize where he was.

He walked under the sun, and after a while he felt his hair and clothes getting hot. It was really hot, it must be June. He reached into his pocket to take out his cell phone, but it turned out to be a pager...

Is it a time correction?
Judging from the style and functions of the pager, this should have been the early 1990s.

The tea-picking women noticed Chen Qingyuan's presence and shouted across the waist-high rows of tea trees: "Little brother, if you stand there without a hat, you will get sunburned!"

Chen Qingyuan came back to his senses and responded with a smile: "Oh, I'll go up the mountain to see the scenery and rest here for a while."

The women had almost finished picking tea leaves and had nothing to do, so they asked, "Apart from the tea leaves, what else is there to see in this tea mountain? Why are we suffering like this..."

Chen Qingyuan agreed, yes, yes, yes.

He then asked, "Sister, where is the fastest way to get down the mountain? I heard there is a restaurant in town that sells delicious noodle soup, I want to go and try it."

A woman raised her straw hat and said in surprise: "You are quite good at finding things, young man. Their noodle soup is really good. You can reach the town by walking along the mountain road to the west..."

Chen Qingyuan thanked him and left the tea field.

The woman stared at Chen Qingyuan's retreating figure and asked in confusion, "Strange, do you think this guy looks familiar? His eyes and nose resemble those of Chen Ah Xi when he was young?"

The other women recalled it and suddenly realized: "It's true!"

"Could it be that this is the romantic debt Ah Xi had when he was young?"

"Shh, don't talk nonsense. Even though it wasn't more than a decade ago, it's still a big deal to label you a gangster."

"It should just be a coincidence..."

"Yeah yeah."

In Shanwei Town, the streets are bustling with people. In this era, only extremely wealthy people can afford private cars. Ordinary people mainly travel by bicycle. Of course, there are also wealthy people who ride motorcycles.

Chen Qingyuan felt nothing when he traveled through Hong Kong Island in the early 80s, nor did he feel anything when he traveled through the United States in the th century. However, when he walked through this town that he had been tired of seeing since he was a child, the grass, trees, stones, various hawking sounds on both sides of the street, and various sales houses gave him a feeling of being in another world.

There was a grocery store that sold a lot of gadgets. He walked over and saw a small turtle, a small model made of thin yellow metal sheets, placed in a small box. The turtle's four legs were fixed to the shell with thin wires. If you shook it gently, its hands and feet moved back and forth as if it were alive...

The shop owner was a middle-aged man in his thirties. Seeing that Chen Qingyuan was fascinated by the items, he smiled and asked, "It's very interesting, right? Take one home and display it, or give it as a gift to your children." Chen Qingyuan was indeed interested. As far as he could remember, he had only seen this kind of high-end goods in the hands of his neighbor's older brother.

It's like paying for childhood.

"How much money?" He reached into his bosom and touched a wallet. He opened it and saw a thick stack of bills inside, ranging from one cent to one hundred dollars. The Gray Dimension was really considerate, fearing that he would have no money to spend when he returned to this world.

"5 cents!"

"what?"

"It's really not expensive. This is the latest product. No one else has it!"

Chen Qingyuan didn’t think it was expensive, but when the older brother next door showed off to them when he was a kid, he actually said that this thing was imported from abroad, and the gold color was made of pure gold. This one was at least... 10 yuan, which immediately shocked the children, including Chen Qingyuan...

He took out a red dollar and handed it over.

The boss picked it up and touched it casually, then handed the turtle to him: "Brother, you look unfamiliar, so you may not be from our town. My grocery store has the most complete range of items in town, so take this opportunity to buy some more."

Chen Qingyuan looked up at the grocery store's sign, "Time Grocery Store."

This grocery store does have the most complete range of products in the town. The owner is Liu Shiguang. Later, the grocery store was upgraded to a small supermarket, and his son took over and continued the business...

Chen Qingyuan looked at Liu Shiguang's face. He didn't expect that Boss Liu was quite handsome when he was young. He smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll take a few more things and a bag!"

He bought everything like a stock of goods, such as blow-up balls, bubble paste, and wind-up frogs.

Boss Liu Shiguang couldn't stop smiling.

Chen Qingyuan spent more than 100 yuan and was leaving with a large plastic bag. Liu Shiguang jogged over to him and forced another bag into his pocket, saying that he had spent so much money and the bag should not be torn or leaked on the way.

He walked slowly along the route in his memory and finally found Ah Xi Noodle Soup.

All the memories about this noodle soup shop came flooding back like a tide. Ever since he was old enough to understand, his grandparents had been running this shop and always asked him to eat noodle soup every day, which made him have a deep fear of this kind of thing...

It was lunchtime and there were only a few customers sitting in the store.

Chen Qingyuan walked straight in. The stove of the store was just inside the door. There were two honeycomb coal stoves. The former was used to heat the noodle soup, and the latter was used to heat a pot of stewed ingredients. There were also several side dishes. A man in his fifties was standing by the stove, wearing an apron and cutting green onions. He glanced at him and asked, "Let's see what to eat."

He is grandpa, Chen Axi.

An old woman came out from the inner room carrying a bucket of water. It was Grandma Liu Youmei.

When Chen Qingyuan was a child, he was very naughty. He ran around everywhere and often disappeared. Whenever his grandparents were busy, they would temporarily close the shop and look for him everywhere, fearing that he had been abducted by human traffickers...

Speaking of human traffickers.

It seems that in my childhood memories, a neighbor's child was kidnapped, and the child's mother went crazy and stayed crazy for the rest of her life.

Chen Qingyuan looked at the marinade floating in the pot and said, "Give me a bowl of noodle soup, some pork head, braised eggs, and more chopped green onions. I can eat it..."

Grandpa hummed and said, "Noodle soup is fifty cents, braised egg is fifty cents, and pork head is one piece, a total of two pieces."

Chen Qingyuan took out two one-yuan bills and placed them next to the stove, saying, "Put them here."

(End of this chapter)