In the afternoon of September, the sky is blue, the sun is warm, and the breeze blows, bringing a sense of coolness.
Lin Zitian came down from a bus with his luggage and stretched. At his feet was a dirt road without cement. Not far from the left was a blue sign with white words: Welcome to Baishui Village.
Baishui Village is Lin Zitian's hometown. When he saw the words "Baishui Village" on the sign, he felt very kind. Standing under the village sign, he said to the system in his mind: "Look, I have arrived at the entrance of the village. I am very close to the target location you designated."
The system did not answer, but silently released a map. The map appeared in his mind in real time. There was a conspicuous red dot on the map, which was the target location designated by the system. Where he was, there was a green dot. The distance between the red dot and the green dot on the map was not more than one centimeter.
Lin Zitian's eyes moved back and forth between two points and finally settled on the red dot. He asked tentatively, "Shall we make a bet?"
"I bet that the target place is my home. You can place your bet at will. I don't dislike any future scientific and technological invention."
"Just in time, I also bet that your home is the target place. The bet is even, without any reward or punishment." The cold mechanical voice said without feeling.
"No fun." Lin Zitian said disgustedly and switched the map to 3D electronic mode. Sure enough, he saw familiar buildings, familiar streets and alleys, and the location of the red dot was his most familiar home.
When he entered Baishui Village, the first thing he saw was a piece of rice with flowers, some of which had already sprouted. A stream zigzagged through the paddy fields. He walked along the stream, with irregular vegetable fields and families on both sides.
In the vegetable field, a dark middle-aged woman bent down to take off red tomatoes and put them into the basket. She looked up and saw Lin Zitian coming. She smiled and shouted, "Xiaotian is back. Is the company on holiday?"
"Aunt Five is good." Lin Zitian raised his voice and said back when the brook was some distance away from the vegetable plot. Aunt Five's husband was also named Lin. If he turned the corner, he could say he was a relative to Lin Zitian. They lived at the head of Baishui Village and the first house in the village.
Lin Zitian shouted a few words with Aunt Wu across the air, continued to walk along the stream, greeted everyone he met on the road warmly, sometimes stopped to chat, and met a group of children playing by the stream. When they saw him coming back, they rushed over one by one. Regardless of whether the hands that had just touched the sand were dirty or not, they came up and hugged their thighs.
He took out the sweets and biscuits in his bag and gave them to eat. The children played while eating, and followed him home all the way.
Lin Zitian's home is at the end of the village, at the foot of a big mountain, built against the mountain. His home is a bungalow, with white walls, gray tiles and doors and windows of the same color system. In the middle is the living room. There are two rooms on both sides. Behind the room is a small kitchen and washroom.
He opened the door and opened the closed window as soon as he went in. There was an unpleasant smell of people who had not lived in the room for a long time. The smell of dust in the room was very thick.
"Huzi, Erni and Youliu, you should take your younger brothers and sisters to play outside first, and you can come here after your brother has cleaned up the house." Lin Zitian put down his luggage and said to the child who was following behind his buttocks and waiting for food.
"Brother, let me help you. I can sweep the floor." The talking Erni is a little girl in Grade 5. She has a round face. When she smiles, her dark eyes become two curved crescents. She runs to the corner to pick up the broom and works quickly.
"I can also help, I clean the table." The tiger's eyes turned and immediately pointed to the dusty table.
"Let me clean the windows." Yo Yo said next. He was a labor committee member in his class. He was in charge of all the students in the class when the school was cleaned. He was cleaning the glass and directing several younger children to help.
5、 Six children were busy working around the house. Lin Zitian became an idle man standing in the middle. Erni swept the floor to his feet and said, "Brother, please sit aside. Don't hinder us from working."
Lin Zitian shook his head in tears and joined the cleaning army. The children in the village were used to working. With their help, the cleaning was not only efficient but also clean and tidy.
"Come, come, come, it's hard for everyone." After finishing the house, Lin Zitian took out all the snacks and put them on the cleaned table for the children to choose by themselves.
The children were busy eating snacks and playing for a while. When they left, Lin Zitian took a comfortable bath, cleaned up the smell of the car that had been in the car all day, and came out of the bathroom. It was evening.
He looked into the kitchen for a few times. There were some firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar. But after opening the bottle for so long, it must be impossible to eat. He threw them all into the garbage can.
"Xiao Tian." Five aunts came in with a vegetable basket. "I brought you some vegetables. If you want to eat vegetables at home in the future, you can go to the vegetable field and pick them yourself. Don't be polite to your aunt. There is nothing else in my aunt's house. It's just enough vegetables."
"Thank you, Aunt Wu. Come and have a cup of tea." Lin Zitian took the basket, which contained several red tomatoes, several eggs, a handful of garlic seedlings and a piece of home cured bacon.
"Next time, I will go home to cook." Five aunts waved.
Lin Zitian saw that it was late. It was the time for cooking smoke to curl up in the village. Everyone was making dinner, so he didn't force them to stay. He put the vegetables in the basket on the table, grabbed a bunch of sweets and biscuits from the table and put them into the basket. He handed them to Aunt Wu for her children to eat.
Then he went to the only shop in the village to buy some rice, oil, salt and other spices, washed the vegetables, and casually made a scrambled egg with tomato and a fried bacon with garlic sprouts. His cooking skills were developed from childhood. Two simple home-made dishes tasted good.
After dinner, Lin Zitian moved a small stool to sit in front of the house. In front of the door is a large area of open space, which is barely a small yard.
But his parents died early. He studied in a university for four years in other places, and then worked for more than a year. He basically did not take care of his family. In the yard, except for two peach trees, which grew taller, the rest were overgrown with weeds.
After graduating from university, Lin Zitian stayed in the first tier cities where he studied and worked. As a programmer, his salary was fairly good, but he worked overtime every day and was suspicious of life. His immediate boss is a work maniac. He wishes they could work twenty-five hours a day. Since he entered the company, overtime has become a daily work. The key is that sometimes it is still voluntary.
Although working for a long time, Lin Zitian also persevered. First, the company has a good development prospect and many opportunities for promotion.
Second, he has no girlfriend, and returning to the dormitory without working overtime is also playing games on the Internet. It's better to fight while he is young, and he is determined to make a name in this industry.
However, Lin Zitian didn't stick to his original determination at last. He quit his job and didn't return to the company after returning home this time. The reason was that he woke up two months ago and found a new system in his mind that claimed to be from the future - the Pet System.
The pet system is looking for a partner. Lin Zitian is the first person to meet its requirements. After some exchanges and careful consideration, he has become a cooperative relationship with the system.
The bright moonlight shines in the yard, and several barks and baby cries can be heard from people not far away. I feel the peace of mind that I have not seen for a long time in the noisy city.
He sat in silence for a moment, and recalled what happened after graduation and how he met the pet system and finally became a partner with the system.
Lin Zitian suddenly opened his mouth and said, "You see the situation of Baishui Village. The village economy is backward and the transportation is inconvenient. The road to the village has not even paved with cement. There are many native cats and dogs in the village, but no one keeps them as pets. Do you really not think about it anymore, but change places?"
He is the only person in the yard, so his words are naturally told to the pet system. The first step of his cooperation with the system is to open a pet shop. The address of the pet shop is not selected by him, but specified by the system, that is, the location of the red dot on the map happens to be his home.
Lin Zitian can't understand how the system is selected. In rural areas like Baishui Village, there is no concept of keeping pets for the time being. They keep dogs to look after their homes, and cats to catch mice. They don't usually bathe them, play with them, or send them to pet hospitals for inspection regularly.
In a word, it is not feasible to open a pet shop in Baishui Village. There is no market at all.
The system released the map again. The red target location coincided with the green dot where it was located. The cold mechanical sound became a substantive sound in the yard: "The pet shop must be opened at the selected location. Only when it is opened at the selected location can I absorb the energy it provides and unlock the function."
Lin Zitian patted his head. He was worried. He took out his mobile phone and searched several famous pet stores. He clicked on the content and said, "Other people's pet stores are all open in busy metropolises. It's a small city even if it's tough. I didn't dislike Baishui Village for the first time when I heard that it would be opened in a small mountain village like Baishui Village. After all, no other city is as good as home. ”
"Do we need to consider the market when we open a pet shop? No one in the village will become a customer when the pet shop is opened here. Of course, the situation in the nearby village is similar to that in Baishui Village, and there is no need to expect anyone to come and buy it, so the market will disappear."
As soon as Lin Zitian's broken thoughts were turned on, the pet system just wanted to cover its ears. After learning his chattering mode, it realized that once people talk more, the system can't stand it.
