Age of Legends

Chapter 13: Real as Iron, Start Over

Zhang Chen woke up from the bed. It was another early morning. He got dressed and walked to the door. He hesitated for a moment as he stretched out his hand, then turned the door open.

Huang Huifen was busy in the kitchen, steaming buns for him.

Don’t even think about asking you last night what you want to eat today. At Huang Huifen’s place, you can eat whatever is available. Don’t be picky!

Zhang Chen’s main goal at home is to be easy to raise.

Fortunately, Huang Huifen’s cooking skills were quite good, so Zhang Chen could still just eat and wait for death.

Zhang Zhonghua also got up, washed up, and waited for Huang Huifen to bring the plate to the table, just like Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen nodded to his father, "Dad."

Zhang Zhonghua reached out and touched Zhang Chen's head.

Seeing that Zhang Chen didn't react, he said "Huh" and reached out to touch it again.

Zhang Chen was a very well behaved child when he was young and was very popular among his parents and elders. This is why Wang Shuowei's father Wang Bowen forced Zhang Chen to be his godson.

Zhang Chen has been rubbed on the head by his elders since he was a child, of course this is because of his father's signature action.

It's true, even though he's a high school student, he's still treated like a child by his father.

At first, Zhang Chen was very disgusted and rebellious.

Then, before he knew it, he took the college entrance examination and went to university. In the blink of an eye, Zhang Zhonghua hadn't touched his head for many years.

Huang Huifen passed away, Zhang Zhonghua became thin and haggard, and he could no longer reach out his hand to Zhang Chen. The teenager and child in his eyes before became the main force to carry the burden of the family. When he realized this, he could no longer touch his head.

I’m afraid that he isn’t strong enough, and I’m even more afraid that I won’t be able to make him strong.

Touched it again.

This time, Zhang Chen took the initiative to tilt his head and move closer.

Zhang Zhonghua looked at Zhang Chen in surprise, "Okay?"

"please."

Zhang Zhonghua waved his hands instead, "It's boring. Why don't you resist?"

Zhang Chen, "..."

It turns out that all I had to do was not resist and he would not continue. After all this time, I am still your adult's toy.

Huang Huifen brought the steamed buns to the table. Seeing the two sitting side by side, she became furious. "You two masters, An Yi An Yi, you are really the bosses. You still want me to serve you..."

Then there was a lot of complaining.

This is what Huang Huifen must have, every day. If you help her, she will think you are clumsy. If you don't help, she will say you are an uncle. In short, the first step of getting up early is to be scolded.

This is a suffocating family environment!

Zhang Chen looked at the two people quarreling in the morning and his eyebrows drooped slightly.

NanGuang Company was undergoing restructuring, and soon the company's main business would be divested or sold off in packages. My parents were soon transferred to other positions, and we could barely afford to pay their salaries.

After that, Zhang Chen needed money to go to college, so Huang Huifen took a leave of absence from her job and opened a fruit stall.

Huang Huifen's health had problems during that period, and now, it feels like that fate is approaching again.

Before the torrent of fate, one must change the direction of the future.

At least for Huang Huifen, it would be better if she didn't touch the fruit shop that caused her suffering in her previous life.

Of course, in the future, I will need some effective ways to change this excellent mother's stubborn thinking.

After breakfast, I took the seven dollars that Huang Huifen had left on the shoe cabinet.

In fact, Zhang Chen had no intention of asking Huang Huifen to return the money to Shen Nuoyi.

Shen Nuoyi's money must be repaid. Zhang Chen is not that poor. He searched yesterday and found a black leather bag at the bottom of the bookcase in addition to the papers.

The purse was one that Huang Huifen had used before and discarded, and it contained a large bundle of Zhang Chen's coins.

They were all in pieces, totaling more than three hundred yuan.

For Zhang Chen at the moment, this is a huge sum of money.

Where did this money come from?

First of all, it’s not the New Year’s money. Every year, a lot of Zhang Chen’s New Year’s money is taken away by Huang Huifen with the reason that “others give you New Year’s money, so I also want to give it to other people’s children”. She only keeps a few hundred yuan for the New Year and spends it all with Wang Shuowei and others.

After Zhang Chen saw Wang Shuowei’s GB game console in his first year of high school, he became obsessed with the game “Dragon Quest” in it.

So he decided to save money.

Doesn’t he have seven yuan of “living expenses” every day? He can take the bus for free with the bus card that Huang Huifen has charged, and he eats cheap meals at school, so he can save one to two yuan a day.

This way he can save 500 yuan to buy a GB game console.

So Zhang Chen relied on this kind of perseverance and saved 335 yuan as of yesterday.

How did Zhang Chen feel when he saw the money? He felt that he could learn from his mistakes and take the postgraduate entrance examination in his later life, and there must be a reason for his perseverance. He believed that if he had learned from the lessons and took another year to take the postgraduate entrance examination, he would have been very likely to make up for the 30 points and pass the exam.

Unfortunately, Zhang Chen encountered setbacks and failures everywhere, which made him give up again and again.

And this time, on his journey of rebirth, he was so eager to face fate.

Looking back, at least all my savings now are thanks to my strong and self-disciplined self who wants to own a favorite game console and play my favorite games.

Zhang Chen went out and took the morning bus.

Looking at the scenery of Rongcheng in the millennium as the car started, he wondered what he could do now as a high school student.

First of all, he has to improve his grades, so he can't skip classes. Not only can he not skip classes, but he also has to study hard and concentrate on making up for the unfamiliar high school courses. There is no better place to get a solid grasp of high school course content than at school.

This time, he also wanted to go to a good university. He didn't want to be swept downstream by the diversion of fate. Although from his current experience, being downstream was nothing. As long as a person did not give up, he could turn things around in any environment, not to mention in the future Internet information society.

But, there was no choice before. The most precious thing in life is the freedom to choose.

Many people spend their entire lives fighting for this kind of freedom.

If you can have this choice through your own efforts, then why not climb higher mountains and see better scenery?
If you have the ability, you will naturally take the responsibility.

Moreover, what you are fighting against is the torrent of fate.

He no longer wanted to be the muddle-headed self of his previous life, the one who would only become a deserter under the crush of fate.

Another point is that he also needs to do something to accumulate capital without affecting his studies.

In this way, at the right time, the roc will be able to soar with the wind.

If you stand in the wind, even a pig can fly. If you are a roc, looking down at those tornado pigs, wouldn’t that be a kind of freedom and ease?

The bus to Yude High School kept getting filled with people and became more and more crowded.

People were shoulder to shoulder, and those without seats held on to the handrails. At that time, Rongcheng was still a bus-connecting city with a black rubber-covered shuttle car in the middle. It was large and long and could accommodate many people.

In addition, the bus group replaced a batch of buses this year, which are equipped with televisions and broadcast news from the local channel of Rongcheng TV every day.

It can also be regarded as a form of entertainment for passengers.

Many morning news are broadcast from here every day, which is also a symbol of the modernization of Rongcheng as a big city in the millennium.

While Zhang Chen was watching the TV news on the car screens, some ideas suddenly came to his mind.

Well, the first pot of gold has yet to be implemented.

The long pass of Xiongguan is really like iron, but now we are crossing it from the beginning!
(End of this chapter)