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As soon as the huge dilapidated mecha was transported into the machine repair room, the originally spacious and tall machine repair room instantly seemed narrow.

After the Iron Armored Father took Shao Jun up and down, inside and out, he sighed: "I just said that this girl is showing off! What a mess it is! You can tell that the energy cabin was broken by the Zerg's kick." And the engine compartment! It will cost a lot of money to repair it! First check if the engine can still be connected. It’s over, there’s no way to fix it! Waste of time!”

The two tossed all night, but failed to connect those intricate wires. The engine was still as quiet as a dead fish. The armored father was very depressed. He drank some wine and cursed and left. Only Shao Jun still did not give up, and was alone in the machine repair room In the big damaged hole, he patiently traced the lines one by one.

In the middle of the night, the machine repair room was extremely quiet. Little Jasmine came to see him still unplugging the cables, and she said with guilt, "Did dad run away again? It's too late, you should go back to sleep too! There's still something wrong in your eyes." Remember to take off the colored pupil lenses and wash them, otherwise your eyes may become inflamed."

Shao Jun looked at her and shook his head and smiled. Little Jasmine's eyes were dazzled by his smile, and she said in a low voice: "Father... Actually, he was really smart when he was young, but later... my mother passed away He’s too sad, he drinks too much all day long, and alcohol damages his mental strength, so he’s getting worse and worse at repairing things.”

"When I was young, Rose took over. She followed her father up and down to repair every day, and slowly taught herself. Later, she gradually repaired the things sent by the shop."

She sat beside Shao Jun with a slightly sad face. While reminiscing about the past, she saw that Shao Jun was still concentrating on wiring, and asked him, "Will you not bother me?"

Shao Jun shook his head, stroked Little Jasmine's ponytail, and smiled comfortingly.

Little Jasmine stroked her ponytail: "In the past, Rose combed my hair. She is so strong and she can do everything well. She thinks that she can be smarter and learn better than the nobles. She also thinks that she can do it too." Driving mechas, she likes mechas and all kinds of weapons. When fighting the Zerg, she also joined the militia organization, and briefly used the biological mech humanoid armor a few times. She said it was very exciting! More accurate than others, don’t you think it’s ridiculous? When the militia was recruited, everyone retreated, and only she moved forward. Unfortunately, the empire didn’t like to use female soldiers and threw her to the medical soldiers. After the war, she came back and spent the whole day I mixed with the female medical soldiers I met when I was a medical soldier, and organized some kind of Shiratori society, saying that it was to help poor women."

"Later, she managed fewer and fewer stores at home, and she often ran out. Dad was unhappy that business was being delayed, so he quarreled with her all day long... Later, something happened. Dad and Rose had a big quarrel. Dad Just let Rose go, Rose is also stubborn, she went out and never came back, now Tiantian Church wanted the Shiratori Society, said they were witches, the family came to check several times, but everyone knew that she had a big fight and left So it doesn't implicate us, but I'm really worried about her, and my father should also be very worried, but we can't contact her anymore."

Shao Jun just listened silently, occasionally smiled at the little girl, and the little girl confided in her heart more and more: "I don't like these machines at home, but I can't help it. I want to eat, I like music, and I want to take an exam. If you have a harp level, you can join a band in the future and go out to make money, but the church band only accepts saints who have converted, who leave home to practice penance in a monastery, and who will never marry. I want to take care of my father. I don’t care about him who comes home, he drinks too much and his nerves are badly damaged, and I don’t care about the family, the family is over..."

"The tuition fee of the Conservatory of Music is too expensive. I can only secretly find pirated resources on the Internet, but they are too confusing. I can't afford a good piano, and now I can't even pay the exam fee. On the day of the exam, there are people watching My Qin laughed at me, but my father didn’t agree. He wanted me to learn mechanical repair like Rose, and said that I would at least have something to eat in the future, even if I repaired household robots, agricultural machinery, sprinklers, and harvesters. , During the war years, I won’t starve to death, but I still like playing the piano.”

"I heard that in the alliance, everyone can receive compulsory education, and they can learn what they like to learn. As long as they want to learn, there are conditions. Poor people can also get scholarships and go to the conservatory of music-in fact, we also have nobles here. Institutional, recommended by the lord, but those quotas were bought by rich businessmen. It is impossible for us poor people to take the self-examination. The more difficult it is, without professional teachers, I can’t even read the music score. gone."

"Why were we born in the empire? Hey, but Bibi, those who were born as serfs, we are so happy, and after fighting against the Zerg for so many years, we are still alive, which is already very good! As long as we are alive, we are already happy It's over!"

Shao Jun looked up at her, smiled again, obviously applauding her words, and stretched out his hand to make a gesture of plucking the piano.

Little Jasmine understood: "Do you want to listen to the piano? I'll play it! Let me sing you a song. My sister taught me to sing."

The little girl took out a mottled harp with peeling paint, and even one of the strings of the harp was just connected. She stretched out her fingers and plucked it lightly, singing softly:

"There the heart is fearless and the head is lifted high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not yet been divided into fragments by the narrow walls of home and country;

There the words were spoken from the depths of truth;

There, unremitting efforts stretch their arms towards perfection;

Where the springs of reason are not sunk in the deserts of habit;

There, the mind is guided by you, towards the ever-relaxing thoughts and actions

—Enter the heaven of freedom, my father, and let my country wake up. "

(Note: Tagore's "Gitanjali")

The moonlight was like water, and Little Jasmine's singing was crisp and tender, and the sound of the piano was like a clear spring. Although it was a little stagnant at times, it was as agile as the wind, echoing in the spacious machine repair room.

With a smile on the corner of Shao Jun's mouth, he buried his head in the piles of threads, connecting the threads all the way, his hands moving quickly, as if with divine help.

Until late at night, suddenly rumbling!The engine is on!

It's online!

Little Jasmine stopped plucking the piano in her hand, stared at the engine that was working normally, laughed loudly and cheered: "That's great, Xiao Hei! You really fixed it! That's great!"

She cheered and jumped on Shao Jun's back and hugged him: "You are really amazing! I think you are better than my sister! It's great! I really found a treasure! I thought it couldn't be repaired! In fact, I didn't Tell Dad, they have found several mecha shops but failed to fix it, so they simply threw it to us, and said that if it can’t be repaired, they will be sold to us as scraps at a discount! Hahaha I love you to death! You are such a big baby !"

Shao Jun was at a loss as he raised his dirty hands. Although he was smiling, there was doubt in the depths of his eyes—he really wasn't a clone, was he?Otherwise, how can I explain my mecha preparation skills that I can learn without a teacher?I left the prince myself, will those who target the prince send other people?

The next day, my father was also very pleased to see the repaired engine. He happily summed up the prices and listed a long list of prices for materials, parts, coatings, etc., and went to quote the other party.

The customer never imagined that this small broken machine repair shop could repair the mecha, and the price he asked for was still reasonable. Dad hummed and went out to buy parts, so he asked Shao Jun to hide in the machine repair room obediently and not to go out casually.

Shao Jun actually likes being in the machine repair room. The parts here fascinate him, and there are countless machines waiting for him to repair. He should have studied it. When he picks up those parts, he knows where they should be placed. He should have done it before. Very hard and long study.

Of course, Little Jasmine insisted that it was because he had high spiritual power: "A person with high spiritual power can learn everything very quickly!"

Shao Jun frowned, feeling that he should not be a genius, as if someone once hatedly scolded him as a scumbag who didn't even understand junior high school courses.

But someone did teach him, one by one, and he seemed to have assembled a mecha, a very, very huge mecha.

Much bigger than this one.

He looked up at this standard mecha that had participated in the war between the Empire and the Zerg. It had a dark green fuselage, shoulder turrets full of power, and dense grenade holes exposed on its legs. It was indeed a real killing weapon.

It is said that this one is still a small mech.

A really large mech cannot fit in this machine repair room, and requires a very, very large space, so the mecha repair shop occupies a very large area.

Although from his point of view, the mech maintenance yard of Iron Armored Papa is already very, very large, and because of this he was able to live here, because the mecha maintenance room is too big, and most of the soldiers who came to search were too lazy to search carefully , just stepped on the aircraft to take a symbolic turn in the maintenance room, collected some money for some money, and then went home.

Soon after Dad purchased the parts, they began to work overtime day and night to repair the mechs conscientiously.

For some reason, Shao Jun liked this kind of concentration, as if he had once assembled a mech with such concentration, assembling parts one by one, and assembling them line by line.There are only parts in the whole world, and this feeling of being so focused and selfless makes him feel very peaceful, forgetting all his troubles, and forgetting the feeling that he is a wanted clone on the run.

He just focused on installing and wiring parts one by one, and sometimes he even forgot to eat, and he had to wait a long time for his father and little Jasmine to come down to eat.

He pretended so fast that even the old man who had previously disliked him for eating too much shut up and stopped scolding, but looked at his eyes more and more surprised, he quietly pulled Little Jasmine and said in a low voice: " Could it be that you really brought a noble mecha maintenance slave here, I heard that there are hundreds of slaves responsible for the maintenance of some noble mechas."

Little Jasmine said softly: "That's great! You see that he is so powerful, why should he be a slave to those nobles, and his children and grandchildren will be slaves? He ran out and followed us, and we will give him some money when the time comes ,Is it not good?"

The old man scratched his hair, and was a little annoyed: "It's not a long-term solution! There are so many people in the city, and now he stays in the machine repair room all day, and people can't see him in the shop. How can he still do it?" Hiding in the machine repair room for a lifetime? If you are found harboring escaped slaves, you will also be turned into slaves!"

Little Jasmine curled her lips: "Let's talk about the future in the future! There are too many escaped slaves! At that time, just say we don't know, and if you don't rely on him, we will almost run out of money, and we won't be able to pay at that time." We will become fugitive slaves when we pay taxes! Next year’s business tax, we still have a big gap! There is also a shop rent, the lord has posted a notice, saying that next year the price will increase again!”

The old man gritted his teeth and said, "Don't worry, this is already much more expensive than Fanxing City! I said a long time ago that I'm going to move. I can't live here anymore. The rent is going up every year!"

Little Jasmine said: "Let's make do with it, we moved, what should we do if Rose comes back and can't find us? What about Shiratori's skills, I think they are all unreliable, didn't they all say that marriage is not allowed? She can't stay Right? As far as Xiao Hei's ability is concerned, now we have earned it!"

The old man sighed: "Let's find a way to find Rose. If we find her, let's go back to our hometown to farm. There is no more war now. Why don't we go back and repair agricultural robots and agricultural vehicles? It's better than the tight time now .”

Little Jasmine bit her lips: "If I had known today, why would you be so impulsive to drive away Rose?"

The old man's face changed, and after a while he said angrily: "Who told her not to kill that evil seed! She has lost all my old face for several lifetimes!"

Little Jasmine was furious: "Your face is more important than Rose! She has been with us for so many years! Just because there is an extra child in her belly, isn't she your daughter? Isn't she our relative? We can't take care of her." Raise a child!"

The old man said: "Who knows what kind of rubbish it is! The blood of the rape is flowing in the veins! Why should I raise the child for him!"

"She wants it! If she wants it, let her have it! Can't we teach a child? You are always like this, never worrying about our feelings as daughters, always selfish, only thinking about yourself, drinking every day Damaged mental strength, completely unable to control myself, Rose supported the whole house, taught herself to repair, and later joined the militia, joined the army, how about you? Never praised us! Always hit us! I just like playing the harp, you always It’s just useless to learn that! It’s always ridicule and blow!”

"When did you realize that if we like it, that's fine? Even if it's a child, if she likes it, let her have it! No matter how difficult the life is, we should spend it together, and we should support whatever we like. This is a family!"

Little Jasmine slammed the door and went out.

The old man wiped his face and took a deep breath, obviously emotional.

The wide door of the machine repair room was pushed open, and Shao Jun looked at his father with some embarrassment. He didn't mean to listen, but Jasmine yelled too loudly.The old man glared at him, then wiped his face again: "What do you little girls know, how can it be so easy to have a child and raise a child!"

"Find a good man, isn't it good to marry? With a bad seed, how can you marry a good man? If you give birth and regret it in the future, it's better not to have one in the first place."

"They are all children, thinking that love can save everything. Life is so difficult. When the time comes, life will be difficult. Even the children will not forgive, and there is no money to learn the piano. The little girl's family will join the army for the little military salary to support the family. I don't Do you know that the children are working hard? It is because it is too hard, so I don’t want them to go on a more difficult road!”

"The responsibility of a life is so easy to bear. When I was young, I had to eat and wear clothes. When I grew up, I had to go to school, study and learn things. When I was in the rebellious period, I would fight against you every day. If I didn't learn well, I would gamble and fight. Who knows? What kind of a rapist is left behind, thinking about it in the future will make my heart suffocate."

"They're all too young to think about what's going to happen. Of course, those of us who came here are afraid that they will make mistakes."

"If you make some mistakes, you will never turn over again, just like their mother, who married me and never had a good life in her life."

"Too young."

The old man sighed heavily, found a thick cigar, and then fumbled around in his pocket. Shao Jun took out the lighter and lit it for him. His hair: "You are also a good boy. I will take you back to my hometown in the future. With your skills, it is no problem to support the family."

"I was wrong. Jasmine is right. A family needs to take care of each other. You should pay more attention to Rose and Jasmine in the future. When Rose comes back, you can call her sister. She is also good at repairing and can play with mechs." , you will definitely like her."

"Wait until I find her, I apologize to the two sisters."

"If you do something wrong, you have to apologize. If you apologize, you are still a family."