At eight o’clock in the evening, the sky is full of stars and moon.
The nightlife in Hangcheng County has just started, and the rich people come out and start feasting, singing and dancing.
Looking at the distinguished gentlemen in the city running around in carriages, and the dancers in the ballroom standing at the door dressed in seductive clothes to attract guests.
With a backpack on his back and a pair of gloves, Li Zhen wandered around the edge of the city, looking for things that could be used to make a living.
There are still a lot of trash cans, and these are places where you can ‘hide treasure’. But there are plenty of competitors. There are also many orphans like Li Zhen who have no parents, begging and picking up garbage to make a living.
Iron is a very valuable waste product. A catty of iron can be sold for nine coins. Usually, only twenty coins are enough for Li Zhen to live for a month. One hundred coins is enough for Li Chen to teach for one semester in a public high school. Over the years, he has been self-studying, and he has not seen him drop out of school for a day. It can be seen that Li Chen’s attitude towards work is still very hardworking.
From an early age, he determined to be a pillar of the revival of the empire. Like most teenagers, he dreamed of one day being able to enter Imperial College from high school and become a high-profile university student. Get more advanced studies, walk at the forefront of science in this world, and become the pillar of the Kyushu Empire.
Therefore, Li Zhen has always attached great importance to learning knowledge.
Unfortunately, the only public high school in Hangcheng County, the quality of teaching is really bad.
The last time I graduated from Hangcheng County and was admitted to a university was twenty years ago…
No way, there are only two universities in the entire Kyushu Empire, one is the Imperial College of Technology in the capital Zhongzhou. One is Fuxing University in Dongzhou.
There are 100 to 200 million people in Kyushu, and there are hundreds of thousands of students taking the college entrance examination each term. The two universities only admit a few thousand people a year. This is really thousands of troops crossing the single-plank bridge.
The college entrance examination ten thousand years later will be more difficult than ten thousand years ago.
People 10,000 years ago did not have much ambition to contribute to the country or the world.
And everyone after 10,000 years dreams of becoming a pillar of the country, a scientist and revivalist who can be famous forever.
This is a great honor, if you can become a “scientist, inventor, revivalist” recognized by the imperial power of the empire. Your hometown will be proud of you, and the people in your hometown will straighten their backs when they go out, and they are very proud to say that there is a so-and-so in their area…
Li Zhen swore that what he wanted in his life was to be the one who could make the empire proud of him.
Of course, the most important thing right now is to become a college entrance examination candidate and be able to have a qualification to take the college entrance examination.
Due to the fact that there are too many monks and too few porridge, the college entrance examination environment in the Kyushu Empire is relatively harsh, and most businessmen profit from it. Money is needed to open up layers of relationships.
After calculating an account, I want to become a college entrance examination candidate from a fresh graduate, and sit in that examination hall. Requires at least one gold coin to be spent. And this gold coin is equivalent to a thousand coins in the denomination of banknotes…
Slowly, Li Zhen walked to the largest garbage transfer station in Hangcheng County. This place is called “Qiantang Valley”, which is a very deep and narrow valley. It is said that there was a river here in ancient times, called Qiantang River, but no one knows whether it is true or not.
Stepping on the stinky ground of Qiantang Valley, Li Zhen’s eyes became vicious, and he eagerly searched every inch of the ground to find anything of value.
After a while, the back strap was almost full.
Looking at the time, it was already ten o’clock at night, and Li Zhen couldn’t care less about looking for a ‘financial source’ anymore. With the backpack on his back, he quickly ran to the waste recycling bin.
He has more important things to do, he has to go to bed before eleven o’clock every night, dreaming of her…
“It’s very lucky today, you can find the iron cage that the rich family used to keep pets. Here, seven coins.”
The female owner of the scrap yard rummaged through and found a change note of seven coins.
Li Zhen nodded with a smile: “Thank you.”
“Hello.”
“What?”
“Are you really going to take the college entrance examination?”
“I definitely want to participate.”
Li Zhen laughed.
The female boss frowned: “Forget it.”
“Why?”
“To become an examinee, you need at least more than 1,000 Kyushu coins. With this money, you can live a good life and don’t need to pick up garbage every day for a living. You can start some small businesses, and you can marry a wife in the future But the thousand-odd coins are just the qualifications to become candidates. What if you fail the exam? What if you fail the exam? Those who fail the exam are worthless. In fact, there are hundreds of thousands of people who take the college entrance examination every year, and every year Among those who failed the ranking, there are also hundreds of thousands… more than a thousand coins, and they will be in vain.”
Li Zhen was silent for a moment: “I must pass the exam.”
“Is it worth it to be so persistent? For a fee of more than 1,000 coins, hundreds of thousands of candidates will compete with you. More than 1,000 coins is not important for a wealthy family. But for you, it takes three years to collect garbage and scour waste products It’s just a qualification for reference… Sigh. Hangcheng County can’t produce people who can be admitted to college. The last time they appeared was twenty years ago. It hasn’t happened since then. “
“I can!”
“Why do you insist on taking the university entrance exam? In fact, more graduates take the exam, and they don’t expect to be able to pass the exam. They just need a level of qualifications. In the future, their parents will arrange better jobs for them. You have passed the college entrance examination. And you? You have no parents, no backers, and it is useless for you to ask for such qualifications. Why bother?”
“I can pass the exam. For sure.”
“Hehe, the college entrance examination will start in ten days, let’s not talk about anything else, do you have enough money?”
Li Zhen was silent for a long time, did not speak, and left.
The female owner of the scrap yard shook her head and sighed: “A stunned person. Picking up scraps for three years and saving money on food and clothing, just to make a fool of yourself? I don’t believe you can. Because the entire Hangcheng County has not been released for 20 years. Those who passed the exam.”
“…”
Back in my shack, it was already half past ten. It was dark.
It’s still very noisy outside, rich people are eating supper and making noise.
Picking up the seven coins obtained from selling scraps, he walked to the center of the house, dug a hole in the sandy ground, and took out an iron box from it.
Opening the iron box, a stack of plastic banknotes lay neatly inside.
This is the common currency of the Kyushu Empire, called ‘Kyushu Coin’. The material is made of plastic that is easier to preserve in a windy and sandy environment, but it is extremely difficult to imitate, because its craftsmanship was designed by scientists from Imperial College using ancient technology.
Sitting cross-legged on the ground, he counted all the money again, and sighed: “Seven hundred and twenty coins. Alas, I have saved so much in three years.”
Don’t be discouraged either.
There are still more than ten days, so you can think of some solutions to your heart’s content. You can also ask her if there is any way to make up the cost of the college entrance examination.
There is no bed in the shack, no furniture of any kind, just a wall of old books.
Li Zhen lay down on the sandy ground, covered his body with a layer of plastic to keep out the cold, and fell asleep quickly…
He fell asleep, fell asleep in this world.
Wake up in another world.
Once again, I came to a familiar yet unfamiliar space. It was pitch black in all directions, and there was only a waning moon in the sky, but I couldn’t see what kind of scenery around me.
Li Zhen sat on the ground casually, looked at the waning moon, absorbed in it, and waited.
No matter how late, she will always come…
Under another starry sky.
In an upscale neighborhood, a girl in pink pajamas was reading a book under a desk lamp.
‘jingle bell’
When the alarm bell rang, the girl’s eyes narrowed into crescent moons, and an expectant smile appeared on her face: “It’s eleven o’clock again, and it’s time to go to bed again.”
“Dad, I’m sleeping.”
“You are about to take the college entrance examination, review again.”
“Sleepy.”
“Not allowed, I told your uncles and aunts that you will definitely be admitted to Peking University. Don’t let me down.”
“Mom, I’m really sleepy, take care of your husband.”
“Hey, let the child sleep when she is tired.”
“Hmph, then you sleep, but you are not allowed to play with your phone.”
“No.”
“…”
Since that strange feeling appeared a year ago, eleven o’clock every night has become the agreed time. He and she, both fell in love with going to bed before eleven o’clock.
Until 11:30, Li Zhen was a little anxious waiting, and she finally appeared in this dark space.
“True!”
“To!”
The two meet. Staring at each other, after a while, they laughed at each other again.
He didn’t remember her last name, he only knew her name was Zhen. She didn’t remember his last name either, she only knew her name was Zhi.
“What did you do today.”
“I told my teachers and classmates what you told me today. Many people applauded me when I said that the world was destroyed by nuclear fission.”
Zhi frowned: “I was guessing. After all, we are now in an era of peace. The third world war has not started, and I don’t know when it will start. But guessing, it will definitely be a nuclear bomb or something. .”
“Anyway, I think it’s very reliable.”
“Come on, real classmate, I’m going to teach you math tonight. What did you learn last night?”
Li Zhen recalled a moment and said: “The relationship between functions and calculus.”
“Yes, yes, calculus. Alas, I’m not very proficient. I’m actually bad at mathematics, and I only study mathematics hard to teach you. I didn’t expect…to study mathematics for you, I now The mathematics test will be the first in the school. How can it be reasonable.”
“Hey, it’s a pity that you can’t bring your books from ancient times to the dreamland, otherwise I will learn by myself.”
“Hey, what is the ancient times. You are only in the ancient times. We are a modern technological civilization, okay?”
“Our new calendar is 10,000 years old.”
“Call me sister, you are more than ten thousand years younger than me.”
“…”
“Hey, when the shell is fired from the barrel, what does the range of its operation depend on, aside from the original power?”
Li Zhen frowned and asked uncertainly, “Angle?”
“Yes, at what angle, can the shooting range reach the furthest?”
“No… I don’t know.”
“Remember, the 45-degree angle. This is an application of calculus. Under known conditions, use functions to find unknown conditions… Advanced mathematics is very important, and it will definitely not be a simple number Games. You have to use them in various fields. By the way, after 10,000 years, mathematics will really be lost?”
“It can’t be said that it is lost. The application of mathematics in daily life has always been there, but you have not studied mathematics so thoroughly like you 10,000 years ago. There is no advanced mathematics.”
“Ah, how happy the students will be after 10,000 years…”
“…”
Aren’t you happy? Are you happy?
Li Zhen smiled wryly.
The time in the dream is the shortest and the happiest.
He can meet his beloved ~IndoMTL.com~ and can absorb knowledge like a vampire.
He could never have imagined that people 10,000 years ago had researched various disciplines to the extreme. How unimaginable.
As for the subject level 10,000 years later, the words “primary school level” are used to describe it.
Over the past year, Li Zhen has learned too much knowledge far beyond this era in his dreams, so he is eager to be admitted to Imperial College. Only after entering Imperial College of Technology can his knowledge be valued and he can make a great contribution to the revival of the Kyushu Empire.
Even often teases him, saying that he has the spirit of a revolutionary pioneer.
Li Zhen doesn’t know what a revolutionary pioneer is. He only knows that everyone in this world has the same thoughts as himself. It’s just that I am more urgent than them…
Wandering in the ocean of knowledge, time passed unknowingly, very short.
Suddenly, a strong feeling of heart palpitations came, and Li Zhen was no stranger to this feeling. It is the tearing feeling when the dream is about to end.
“It’s over.”
Until he spoke suddenly.
Li Zhen was a little disappointed: “Is it so fast?”
As soon as the words fell, Zhi’s body began to fade and was about to dissipate. Li Zhen lowered his head, and his body was also slowly fading, as if being torn apart by some mysterious force.
The two looked at each other tenderly.
With a heartbeat, the two suddenly shouted to each other tacitly: “What’s your last name!”
“…”
This is the way to say goodbye at the end of a year of dreams every night. Every time I forget to ask the other person’s last name, every time I can only remember it at the moment of parting.
There were a few times when they knew each other.
But after two days, I will forget again.
Dreams are always easy to be forgotten…