kvmb Chapter 160 The Young Widow 11
Chapter 160 The Young Widow 11
Chen Lihong's wedding day finally arrived. Although the wedding scene was not particularly lively, it was still decorated in a simple and festive manner. After carefully dressing up, Chen Lihong stood in the wedding room with mixed feelings.
According to custom, she invited her mother, Lin Cuilan, to attend the wedding. When Lin Cuilan received the invitation, she simply responded calmly, without showing much joy or excitement. On the wedding day, Lin Cuilan arrived on time, wearing a decent outfit and a cold expression on her face, as if she had nothing to do with it.
During the wedding, Lin Cuilan sat quietly at the banquet like an outsider, watching the busy crowd and the festive scene around her without taking the initiative to help. Other relatives helped greet guests and serve tea, but Lin Cuilan just ate the food on the table, as if this wedding had nothing to do with her.
Seeing her mother like this in the crowd, Chen Lihong couldn't help but feel a wave of sadness. Now that she was married, she had expected her mother to feel a little more, but she hadn't expected her mother to remain so indifferent.
To Lin Cuilan, her three children, Chen Jianhua, Chen Jianjun, and Chen Lihong, were like strangers, no matter what kind of lives they led. In her heart, her second daughter-in-law, Lin Ruan, was the center of her life. As long as she and Lin Ruan could live a happy life together, nothing else mattered.
After the wedding, the guests gradually dispersed. Chen Lihong looked at her husband, Wang Qiang, who was tired but smiling, and secretly vowed to live a good life with him and build a warm home. However, she didn't know that because of the drug Lin Ruan had given her, her wish would never come true.
A few years later, Wang Qiang's mother abused and scolded Chen Lihong because she couldn't have children. She also pressured Wang Qiang to divorce Chen Lihong, but Chen Lihong refused and begged him. Unemployed at the time, she worked like a slave at home for a few years before she died of health problems.
After the meal, Lin Cuilan left without even saying a word of advice to Chen Lihong.
In the early morning, sunlight gently filtered through the window, scattering into the corners of the house. As usual, Lin Cuilan rose early, stretched briefly, and then headed into the kitchen to prepare breakfast. The flames danced cheerfully in the stove, and steam gradually rose from the pot of water. Lin Cuilan deftly placed noodles in the pot, then cracked two eggs into the mix, creating a fragrant pot of egg noodles.
After making breakfast, Lin Cuilan walked to Lin Ruan's door and knocked gently: "Ruan Ruan, get up and eat." Lin Ruan's lazy voice came from the room. After a while, she rubbed her eyes and walked out of the room. After washing up, the two sat at the table and ate breakfast.
"Don't work too hard today. If there are difficult customers, don't get angry with them." Lin Cuilan reminded Lin Ruan while picking up eggs for her.
"I know, Mom. You should also make sure to rest at work." Lin Ruan answered vaguely with noodles in her mouth.
After dinner, Lin Ruan packed up her things and prepared to go to work at the supply and marketing cooperative. Lin Cuilan stayed at home and took the dishes into the kitchen to clean them.
Today, the supply and marketing cooperative had more customers than usual. Although the farm implement counter in front of Lin Ruan was still empty, people were constantly crowding over the counter, which was extremely annoying to Lin Ruan. Like the other salespeople, she was shouting impatiently to maintain order.
During the lunch break, Lin Ruan was off duty, so she went home to eat. As soon as she walked in, a familiar aroma hit her. "Mom, I'm back!" Lin Ruan shouted.
"You're back. Is the supply and marketing cooperative busy today?" Lin Cuilan asked, poking her head out from the kitchen.
"It's quite busy, there are so many people." Lin Ruan walked into the kitchen and saw braised pork stewing in the pot, as well as stir-fried beans and cold cucumber salad, all of which were her favorite dishes.
The mother and daughter sat at the table, eating and chatting. Lin Cuilan said, "The neighborhood office is organizing a cultural performance recently, letting residents create their own programs. It's going to be really lively." Lin Ruan asked curiously, "Are you participating?"
Lin Cuilan said with a smile: "I am responsible for organization and coordination. It is quite interesting to watch everyone rehearse."
After lunch and a short rest, Lin Ruan returned to the supply and marketing cooperative to work. The afternoon work was still busy, and it was not until the evening that Lin Ruan returned home with a chicken he had taken out of the space.
Tonight's meal is stir-fried shredded potatoes, tomato and egg soup, and steaming steamed buns.
Lin Ruan handed the fish to Lin Cuilan. Lin Cuilan placed the chicken in a basin with water and then sat down at the dining table.
The mother and daughter enjoyed a warm dinner. After finishing the meal, Lin Ruan was looking at her high school textbook, but her consciousness had long been immersed in the space.
Perhaps because this world offered no real challenges, Lin Ruan rarely asked the system for help. She usually went directly to the entertainment and living room floors when entering the space. Just today, she remembered that her useless system, Dog Seventeen, hadn't appeared in ages.
"Gou Shiqi, Gou Shiqi, where are you?" It seemed that Lin Ruan's voice had become louder after working as a salesperson for so long.
The system quietly poked its head out and whispered like a thief: "I'm here. (???)"
Lin Ruan put her hands on her hips and asked loudly, "Where have you been all this time? I even suspected you had run away!"
The system shrank back and said pitifully, "Lin Ruan, I seem to have become a bad system. (┳◇┳) I've been reflecting on myself during this period."
Lin Ruan then became interested, and immediately put on a melon-eating smile, as if changing his face. "Tell me, what happened to you?"
The system lowered its eyebrows and said, "I was thinking, 'The turbulence of space and time has dragged us into this cyclical world. We don't know how long this world will cycle. I was afraid I wouldn't have enough energy to travel again, so I withheld the energy that was supposed to be submitted to headquarters and told them that I had run out of energy due to the turbulence of space and time.'"
Lin Ruan asked curiously, "Can your headquarters trust you?"
Seventeen said with a bitter face, "That's impossible. I don't know when headquarters will inspect it, so I've been hiding in your space and dare not go out. And... and I converted the energy into energy stones and stuffed them all into your space. But the energy stones are unstable, so I suppressed the upgrade of your space to avoid the space vibration causing the energy stones to explode and end us both."
Lin Ruan: ????? ?????
She took a deep breath and said softly, "What did you say just now? Could you please say it again, slower and with more punctuation?"
Seventeen said pitifully again: "I converted the energy into energy stones and put them in your space. Maybe the energy stones are unstable, so I suppressed your space upgrade this time to prevent the space from vibrating and causing the energy stones to explode, which would be the end of us both."
Lin Ruan's head buzzed after hearing this. Could it be a psychological effect? Even though she was extremely angry, she lowered her voice and whispered like the system, "Seventeen, you won't tell me such a big thing unless I ask you?"
The system said: "What's the point of telling you? I'm afraid you won't agree to let me in."
Lin Ruan: Sooner or later, I will be killed by this crappy system.
With a quick glance, she knew where the energy stone was buried. Lin Ruan could only say, "Wow!"
The stones, each only the size of a fist, filled with violent power, were densely piled up at the end far away from the spiritual vein, forming an endless mountain range!
The system was not stupid. Not only did it put up various protective shields stored in the interstellar space, it also arranged a lot of formation talismans collected in the world of immortal cultivation, such as those that isolate spiritual energy, prevent earthquakes, suppress explosions, and so on. The mountains were covered with dense talismans. Lin Ruan squinted his eyes and looked over. Even the good luck talismans were used.
Lin Ruan: ……
She took a deep breath and suddenly became curious about a question: "Tell me, how much energy does it take for you to take me across the world every time?"
The system stammered, "An energy ball... less than..."
Lin Ruan: Good guy! Good guy!
Her voice lowered: "Seventeen, you are really the type who either stays silent or makes a splash, and when you do, you become a sensation. When you are greedy, you get something big."
System Seventeen hung his head, not daring to look at Lin Ruan.
Lin Ruan suppressed his anger and asked, "How long do you think it will take for headquarters to come and inspect?"
Seventeen hesitated for a moment and whispered, "I checked as soon as I left your space, but I haven't found an excuse since I disappeared for so many days."
Lin Ruan lied without hesitation. She said casually, "Why bother coming up with an excuse? Just say you crashed due to shock."
The system said, "When you bought the house, didn't I help you search for it and forge your identity? That was when I submitted the report to headquarters. If it had crashed, it should have crashed when I came across it, not a few days later."
Lin Ruan said, "Isn't this a small matter? Show me the source code and I'll run it through for you. Your sister Lin didn't learn anything in StarCraft for nothing. Let me add a bug trace for you. I guarantee that headquarters won't be able to find it."
The system didn't think much about it. If it operated on its own, it would definitely be discovered by the headquarters. However, if it was operated by external forces, there would be no such problem. The only thing it doubted was whether Linruan was reliable. But now there was no other way, so it could only give it a try.
Lin Ruan hadn't gotten angry with the system because she was waiting for this opportunity. She carefully examined the system's source code and keenly noticed more than a dozen resets. As she delved deeper into the source code, she discovered that these resets seemed to be tied to the host's soul thickness. As long as the host's soul reached a certain thickness, the reset would be triggered.
Thinking that headquarters would be arriving soon, Lin Ruan didn't do anything. He simply added a bug to the system's code that would randomly crash after a strong shock. He then said to the system, "The bug has been added. After all, it was my fault. I'll check it out again after headquarters is fully aware of it."
At this moment, the system only wanted to escape the inspection of the headquarters. The emotional module made it subconsciously choose the maximum self-protection when the crisis came, and showed great guilt after surviving the crisis.