Not long after Geng Jiangyue came out of the building, he felt the temperature drop sharply.

He tightened the winter coat that he had specially worn, but it still couldn't withstand the cold outside.

Geng Jiangyue really wonders why, with such a sandy climate as Butterfly Continent, more than 90% of the world's population still lives here without hesitation. It's hot during the day and freezes to death at night. All crops can only be grown indoors, and only a few can be grown outdoors.

Several cold- and drought-tolerant plants like the purple peach tree are still alive, but wild animals have long been extinct.

On the other hand, in the Rainforest Continent, it is said that the weather is like spring all year round and the climate is mild. When wealthy people hold parties in the courtyards of their villas, from time to time there will be some cute little marsupials who will sillyly run in and act cute, begging for food and begging to be touched.

Then it is grilled to medium rare and eaten.

"Oh, you stupid rich guy..." Geng Jiangyue just scolded.

Although I know it's not good to be jealous, I still can't help it.

The temperature was getting lower and lower, and Geng Jiangyue could only jog, hoping to get to his mother's house early. Buses and taxis passed by on the road from time to time, but none of them stopped for Geng Jiangyue. Geng Jiangyue went all the way north, getting closer to the north of the city.

There are fewer pedestrians.

The layout of Sea Lion City is like this. To the south is the GK District, where the city hall, business center and other messy centers are. The rich area is also there, and there are relatively many people on the road after dark.

Beicheng is a purely residential area and an industrial area. Even during the day, only food processing plants and a few machinery factories make some movement. At other times, there are basically no people on the road.

After all, if people living in various super buildings have any needs, they can go to their respective second floors to solve them.

The only people who really need to go out every day are those working in the freight company.

Geng Jiangyue jogged on the road for about 40 minutes, and finally arrived at the super building where he had lived for more than ten years at early 8 o'clock. The appearance of the building was almost exactly the same as his current home, but the atmosphere was much more friendly.

After entering the main door, Geng Jiangyue went up to the second floor and walked to a familiar grocery store.

The grocery store was crowded and there was no business. Geng Jiangyue didn't even have to wait in line. He stuck his head directly into the sales window and shouted to the uncle inside: "McCann, bring me half a catty of fruit candies, half a catty of scallion oil biscuits, two sticks."

Red candle, a bundle of the best incense!”

McCann, who was watching the live introduction of tonight's "Mysterious Professional League" in the grocery store, turned around and saw Geng Jiangyue. He couldn't help but grin, showing his yellow teeth. He stood up and stepped forward and said, "Are you coming back to see your mother today?"

"Hold on, hurry up, I'll go up and burn some incense for my dad and leave right away!" Geng Jiangyue urged impatiently.

"Are you still angry with your mother? Just stay here to sleep at night. What's wrong with your mother believing in God? Why don't you burn incense yourself? It doesn't matter which God you believe in..." McCann mumbled.

, but the movements of his hands were not slow. In less than two minutes, he put the four things Geng Jiangyue wanted into a plastic bag and handed them out from the window.

Geng Jiangyue grabbed the plastic bag, took out his citizen card, swiped the money, and ran towards the stairs without saying much.

My mother lives in a low-rise building, on the third floor, which is a welfare housing——

The meaning of welfare is that the lower the floor, the more convenient life is, and the more convenient it is for individual people living in the building to commute to get off work.

Geng Jiangyue's father used to be a security guard in this building. He was armed with a gun and was a peripheral employee of the city hall. In this kind of super building, his status was quite high. At least it was several grades better than Geng Jiangyue's current situation.

After running up to the third floor, Geng Jiangyue ran quickly for nearly ten minutes before panting and arriving in front of his mother's house.

After ringing the doorbell, a few seconds later, the door opened. My mother, who seemed to have just taken a shower, hugged Geng Jiangyue and was in a good mood. She shouted happily: "You're here? Mom misses you so much!"

Geng Jiangyue understood that this opening was only temporary, and hoped that there would be no quarrel later.

"Come in, come in, the bed has been made for you. How about sleeping at mom's place tonight?" Mom pulled Geng Jiangyue into the house and closed the door. This room is slightly larger than Geng Jiangyue's own small house.

Entering the door is a small living room of five or six square meters, which used to be where Geng Jiangyue slept at night. The small room in the living room was his parents' bedroom.

The sofa in the small living room has been lifted up, and mattresses and quilts have been laid on it. The heater is also turned on. Looking out of the bathroom window, snowflakes are already falling on the patio outside.

Geng Jiangyue put down the bag and let his mother help him take off his coat, but did not immediately agree to stay the night.

Mom opened the bag and took out the contents. First her smile faded slightly, and then she muttered: "Why did you buy these again? I told you these things are useless. If they are useful, nothing will happen to your father."

"Okay, what do you know? If it's useless, why is the city hall plastering mysterious charms all over the world?"

Geng Jiangyue frowned slightly, picked up two red candles, and walked to the niche in the entrance hall behind the door. The niche was empty. Geng Jiangyue squatted down, opened the cabinet under the niche, and took out his father's tablet and an incense burner from it.

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As Geng Jiangyue expected, my mother immediately lowered her face and said angrily: "I'm just afraid that you will be unhappy, otherwise I would have taken away these messy things and thrown them away. God wouldn't like you if they still took up space. You

It’s when you do this kind of disobedience to God too much that your spiritual power will disappear. If you listen to your mother and praise God with your mother every day, how come God doesn’t let you go to college?”

"It's the laws of the Central and Southern Union subcontinent that prevent me from going to university, not your god..." Geng Jiangyue arranged the memorial tablet and the incense burner, inserted the red candle, turned around, took out three more incense sticks to light, and then placed the memorial tablet on his father's tablet.

I bowed before him and inserted the incense.

My mother’s brows became more and more furrowed, and her face looked quite dissatisfied.

She deliberately made an unbearable look, and put on a sinister tone, and began to murmur: "God, forgive my son, he doesn't understand, he didn't mean to anger you. Please forgive me."

He, please forgive him..."

Geng Jiangyue heard the veins on his forehead beating slightly, but he could only hold back and say nothing.

He knew that if he talked back at this time, his mother would definitely get angry.

When she gets angry, she has to leave immediately.

And if I leave, the few incense sticks I just lit will probably be in vain...

Enduring his mother's indiscriminate remarks, Geng Jiangyue patiently waited until the three sticks of incense were burned, then bowed again, then extinguished the candles, and carefully put the tablet and the incense burner back into the cabinet under the alcove, so as not to worry about it.

Mom made excuses and threw away the memorial tablet and the incense burner while he was away. You must know that the memorial tablet and the incense burner are not cheap. It would cost at least a hundred yuan to make them new. If the place where he lived was not too small, they would have been properly placed.

Space, he had already taken the memorial tablet and incense burner back to his home.

"I'm leaving." Geng Jiangyue stood up and said directly.

My mother, who had been nagging her endlessly, refused again and said, "Why are you leaving right now? You haven't even said a word? How long has it been since you last talked to your mother? You don't want your mother."

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Geng Jiangyue said speechlessly: "Why haven't I talked to you? Don't I talk to you every day in the game?"

My mother was dissatisfied and said: "It's a game! It's work! Can't we talk face to face?"

Geng Jiangyue raised his hand and looked at the time, it was almost 9 o'clock...

"What do you want to say?" Geng Jiangyue cooperated reluctantly.

My mother immediately asked: "How much do you pay for the candy and biscuits?"

Geng Jiangyue couldn't help but go crazy: "Isn't it the same every time? Half a pound of fruit candy, half a pound of biscuits for eight cents!"

"I'm just asking casually to see if you have been deceived by McCann. Those businessmen are very bad..." My mother is accustomed to treating Geng Jiangyue as a retard. She opened the bag and took a look, then complained without saying anything.

"Why is it apple flavor again? I already told you I don't like apple flavor. There are also scallion oil biscuits, I don't like them either. You can take them back and eat them yourself."

"Okay, okay, just pretend, say no every day, and you'll eat faster than anyone else when I leave!" Geng Jiangyue really didn't know what to say to his mother, so he put on his clothes and headed out.

Mom hurriedly stopped her, holding a bag of biscuits and fruit candies and stuffing them into Geng Jiangyue's hand: "Take them back!"

"No need! It's too troublesome to hold it in your hand!"

The two of them pushed behind the door for a long time, but Geng Jiangyue was more determined in the end and forcibly kept the candies and biscuits. But the mother was not finished yet. She took out a six-pointed star from her pocket, forced it to Geng Jiangyue and said, "Take this."

Well, God will bless you on the way."

"No, I don't believe it! My dad has tattoos all over his body, so it's still useless..." Geng Jiangyue walked out of the house with a cold face and left without looking back. His mother followed a few steps and looked at

Geng Jiangyue's retreating figure showed a bit of worry in his eyes, and there was really no way to make Geng Jiangyue stay, so he could only shout to Geng Jiangyue from a distance: "You go back by car! Don't save these few dollars!"

"I know! Go to bed early!" Geng Jiangyue replied loudly and ran around the corner of the corridor in a blink of an eye.

My mother stood at the door of the house and watched for a long time, holding the six-pointed star tightly in her hand, feeling empty in her heart. It wasn't until the corridor light blinked twice that she was frightened, hurried back into the house, and quickly closed the door.
Chapter completed!