My Boss, the White-haired Nun

"Empathy?" Ji Zi was taken aback. "What's the meaning?"

"It's literally." Gong Ming smiled.There was an obvious look of memory on his face.Holding Ji Zi in her arms, she swayed slowly.

"Before I crossed over, I was from China. I was an only child, and my parents were healthy. The elders of the previous generation were also alive. In a middle-class family, my father is a civil servant and my mother is a doctor. My father has two sisters, and my mother has an older brother. The family lives in a In a small third-tier city, my parents are from rural areas, so they are very frugal on weekdays, so the family’s finances can be considered well-off. The two parents met each other on a blind date, but the relationship is harmonious, and they don’t blush much on weekdays. Although I It’s not particularly proud of them, but it can be said to be quite satisfactory, and they passed the postgraduate entrance examination safely. Before graduation, they have already received an offer and can go to work after graduation. Sounds like a normal and happy family, right?”

"Although at this time, it's usually a reversal..." Ji Zi hesitated. "But you just used words such as affluence, harmony, and stability to describe it. I really can't think of any room for reversal."

"Indeed, there is really nothing to reverse in my generation." The man subconsciously raised the corners of his mouth and laughed.

But soon his smile faded away.His expression started to turn cold.

"But what about the previous generation?"

Ji Zi was puzzled.

"Before time travel, my words...was a child in 22 at the beginning of the 01nd century." Gong Ming looked at the girl in his arms.Read it softly.

"My parents gave birth to me relatively late. My mother was born in 1970, and my father was born in [-]. Can you understand that?"

"Yeah." Ji Zi nodded. "Seven years... What's the matter? My father's generation is still in the sixties."

"You are from the Far East. Of course, you don't think there is anything in the [-]s. Because in the [-]s, the post-war economy in the Far East has recovered to a high level, and the average economic level of the people has been very developed. Limited by the technological level of the times, there is still a gap compared to now." Gong Ming patted her head.

"But China is different. Although China has begun to show signs of development in the [-]s, it was still very poor at that time, especially in the countryside at that time."

"..." Ji Zi blinked, and suddenly remembered what Gong Ming was talking about.

She had seen such stories in history books. The positive development of China's economy in the latter part of the 21st century only started in 72.And before that...

"My father took me to see the house he lived in when he was a child. The adobe house was less than [-] square meters. The roof was covered with thatch and the bottom was covered with plastic sheeting. Once it was windy and rainy, the house would leak water. A family of five We sleep together in a small bed at night. My eldest aunt has been watching cattle for the production team since she was four years old, earning a little "work points"-you can understand it as money in the social environment at that time. "

Speaking of a noun that Ji Zi probably didn't know, Gong Ming paused and began to explain.

This is a long, long memory for him, but when he said these words, he was still coherent, and it was obvious that these things had been hidden in his heart for a long, long time.

"Even at that time, my family was discriminated against by others even for earning 'work points'. No matter how old or young they paid the same amount of labor, they received less goods than others. Because my family ancestors had 'landlord status' when it was judged."

Gong Ming sighed lightly, even when he talked about discrimination, there was no such thing as hatred in his words, just endless emotion.

"From the perspective of later generations, it is difficult to judge the right or wrong of this kind of discrimination. Even if God said that a person's sin will last for three generations, why should others be more merciful than God? But at that time, because of the landlord The elders who tag me have indeed suffered a lot."

Gong Ming told the story in a calm tone.

"My grandpa's generation actually had four brothers and sisters, but in the end only my grandpa and his brother survived, and the other two starved to death. My father actually called them the eldest aunt and the ones I had always known. In addition to my little aunt's older sister and younger sister, there was actually a younger brother whom I only found out later, but he died seven days after he was born."

"Why..." Ji Zi was taken aback. "Why did you die suddenly?"

"Because of tetanus." Gong Ming hugged her tightly and said softly.

"Limited by the medical conditions at the time, many mothers did not have a formal medical environment when they gave birth, and the people who delivered the babies did not have mature medical knowledge. The scissors used to cut the umbilical cord were often not sterilized. In that era, the 'seven days' of birth was a time point for For babies, it is a gate of hell. Many, many children fall through this barrier, and sometimes even their mothers are involved. There is work to survive, but if they cannot survive, they can only be buried hastily. People even grieve There is no time, because the living will continue to live with difficulty."

"..." Ji Zi didn't know what to say, so she could only hug Gong Ming's body back, as if she wanted to comfort him, and also seemed to need strength from his body temperature to face such a story.

"My father told me that starving to death in an age earlier than him was the simplest and most common way to die. A person with a sallow and emaciated face like a skull may have been talking to you and you at the last second." You work together, and the next second, a flower will fall on your back, and then you can't wake up again."

"..."

"And my mother's side is much better, at least she could have enough to eat in those days." Gong Ming changed the focus of the topic slightly.

"My grandfather is the director of a township hospital. He can't talk about earning money, at least he has a stable meal. My grandmother runs a small shop opposite the hospital, selling some candies and tea. The main business is yellow paper, because the hospital accepts There are a lot of white and white weddings and funerals, but there is no fixed time for these things, and often the door will be opened in the middle of the night as long as someone calls, what price can paper be sold for? Earning is nothing more than hard money.”

"That sounds like..." Ji Zi was silent for a while, as if hesitating about something.After blinking her eyes, the mature female warrior suddenly blushed, showing a little bit of a girlish look.

"Auntie's house is better than uncle's?"

"...Well, that's true." Hearing such a title, Gong Ming was stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously laughed.

"But to be honest, I really didn't expect that I would hear these two words one day. I have been in this world for 1 years, and I have gotten used to me being a child without parents."

Ji Zi just hugged him tightly and raised her hand to touch his face.

"Actually, there's no need to feel sorry for me. I've never experienced that kind of era." Gong Ming stroked Ji Zi's hair.

"When I was born, my parents had already settled in the city, and even moved from the south to the north because of my father's work." Gong Ming said softly. "I lived a very happy and prosperous life since I was a child. It's like what I told you before. I only heard such stories from my parents."

"But I can see the wrinkles on my father's brows, I can see my mother's frugality in daily life, I can see the thin and stooped bodies of the elders, I can see the uneven walls of the adobe house, and I can see the small shops in the hospital. The dilapidated benches, tables and chairs. At least, I can still see the traces left to them by that era from them."

"And that's still modern times, what about the more distant era?" Gong Ming asked suddenly.

"Looking through the history books of China, every time there is a natural disaster, there must be a disaster. I have read countless books and countless film and television works since I was a child, and none of them dared to directly describe that kind of despair. I can only learn from the frequent occurrences of starvation in the history books. Eat each other, go and make up such a scene."

"Those skinny ghost-like people who fell down in a blink of an eye are lying in pieces on the dry and cracked ground. What kind of scene is it like? The last moment of those human corpses will also be distorted Is it a struggling face? Are their sculpture-like hands stretched out to the sky begging for mercy from someone or a god? The skinny skeletons on the dry and cracked earth are surrounded by the copper pot for boiling people, but there is no one in the pot. Is it also a person who is as skinny as they are and can’t even squeeze out oil and water? I can seem to see the god of death hovering over nothingness, laughing and harvesting the souls in those dry bodies like wheat. If All the gods have a shred of conscience! How can they watch their believers suffer such suffering!!"

"..." Ji Zi fell silent, and could only remain silent.

"I really feel sorry for that scene." Gong Ming closed his eyes, raised his head, and his eye sockets were slightly red. "I really... really hate that scene!"

"That's why you keep emphasizing that you are just a mortal?" Ji Zi asked. "Because you actually... hate the so-called gods?"

"Since they all claim to be gods." Gong Ming raised his head and looked at the sky, his eyes were far away, as if he wanted to meet some hidden existence.

He had met him three times, but he did not succumb to its divine power.

"Then it must be something that can see people's vision? Otherwise, even if there is boundless power, no matter how much people are treated like ants, they are just a bluffing shepherd!"

However, the sky is still clear and the clouds are rolling and relaxing.

Gong Ming sneered and looked away.After looking at Ji Zi again, he hesitated for a moment before continuing.