Liang Lin, who asked about the author of his personal teacher's book, sent me a reply a week later.

During this period, I also wrote to Jiang Yiyi, asking her if she knew who the authors of the stories she read were.

Jiang Yiyi told me pleasantly in her reply that she had really learned about the authors of those books, and one of them was a woman living in the Southwest District. The author would share his life sporadically in the epilogue of each book.

Jiang Yiyi told me that before she started to explore the mysteries of life and freedom in the district, the author shared in the postscript that her inspiration for writing these stories came from the old books she read in her father's study bookcase when she was a child. Novels are different from other books from the perspective of men's adventures or children's fairy tales. These love stories written from the perspective of women have brought her happiness, and she has the desire to create her own creation because of this happiness.

When Liang Lin came looking for me, I shared with him what Jiang Yiyi told me in the letter.

Liang Lin frowned and touched his chin, thinking: "The one who lives in the southwest area is the daughter of one of those big families?"

I dug out the map that Liang Lin had drawn in my notes, only to realize that I had never really understood the place where I lived, and I actually thought of things as far away as the universe.

I clicked in the southwest area, picked up a pen and drew a few big houses there: "Is this where the people in the big family live?"

Liang Lin nodded to me, and counted with me: "The big family includes the He family, the Hu family, the Ye family, the Lin family, and the Dai family who is in charge of our education and school management."

I drew five small houses and wrote the names of these families on the ground of their houses.

I clicked on the little house of "He": "What does their house do?"

Liang Lin moved directly to my chair: "Sister, sit over."

I moved to the side, and Liang Lin sat down. Although my chair is not too small, it still looks very crowded with two people sitting on it.

Liang Lin and I huddled together on a chair, sliding his hand on the map, and pointed to a small circular area in the middle of the map: "This is the trade center in the middle."

My gaze followed Liang Lin's fingers: "Yes."

Liang Lin continued: "The He family is responsible for gathering buyers from our upper city to this place to generate transactions. And they collect booth fees from sellers, and draw a certain commission from each successful transaction .”

I let out a long sigh: "That means that every time I went to the market with Auntie Peipei to buy something, Auntie Peipei had to pay the seller a share, and then pay the He family a share?"

Liang Lin nodded: "The amount you need to buy something includes these two parts of the money. If you don't need to pay twice, the money to the He family will be collected by the seller."

I nodded.

Liang Lin suddenly turned his head and smiled at me: "But my sister doesn't need money to buy things."

"what?"

Liang Lin raised his chin slightly: "Because I don't need money to buy things."

I pursed my lips, now I don't ask "why don't you have to pay" because I know: "Because you have the privilege!"

Perhaps because his voice didn't sound particularly envious, Liang Lin reached out and touched his nose, and then continued to explain the second family to me: "The second one is the Hu family."

My gaze was also placed on the map again, and I asked curiously: "What do they do?"

Liang Lin's finger clicked on a very large circled rectangle in the northwest direction: "Responsible for managing the factory."

I was curious: "Your family's factory?"

Liang Lin nodded: "Yes, it's our factory."

I braced my chin and asked thoughtfully, "Why do they do things for your family?"

Liang Lin himself thought for a while, and then told me suspiciously: "Because of historical reasons?"

I reached out and snapped my fingers. After many times of practice, I was able to snap my fingers: "Because they have been doing things for your family since a long time ago?" I smiled at Liang Lin, "Actually, you don't know too well Is it because of some reason?"

Liang Lin coughed, and then pointed to the third Ye surname: "Yejia," Liang Lin pointed across a large part of the map, directly crossing to the southeast area, "this place."

I raised my voice: "Jiang Yiyi's house!"

Liang Lin hummed: "Their family needs to manage, count, collect and distribute a certain amount of food."

I nodded, and very actively reached out and pointed to the next house: "Here, where is the Lin family?"

Liang Lin thought for a while and said, "Maintain the safety of our upper city."

I nodded slowly.

Liang Lin pointed his fingers in the southwest area again: "There are some doctors, teachers, architects and the like living nearby."

Liang Lin thought for a while and said, "It seems that the Lin family is also responsible for the management of these personnel."

"Management?" I asked curiously, "Does Zhao Wenli also need to be managed by the Lin family? Does he need to report to the Lin family at any time?"

Liang Lin took a look at me and told me: "Zhao Wenli should be regarded as our family doctor, who has direct contact with our family and does not need to report to the Lin family."

"I feel that Zhao Wenli doesn't just work for your family, he also needs to go to many places to help other people see a doctor." I questioned.

Liang Lin said: "Because Zhao Wenli is a very kind person?" Liang Lin paused for a while, and then said as if he had come to his senses: "By the way, because Zhao Wenli is a very friendly and honest person, so our family is not for him. Hundreds of Inhibitors? He needs to be able to use them in an emergency, so he's always busy?"

I agree with the statement that Zhao Wenli is a kind, honest, and friendly person, so I accept Liang Lin's explanation.

I nodded, carefully wrote down the information, and said with some regret: "I have lived in the upper city for so many years, and I have never been to many places, nor have I learned anything about it."

Liang Lin squeezed me: "It's okay, I will tell you whatever you want to know in the future, okay sister."

I smiled: "Okay." I added after a while, "But I still want to see it myself." I clicked on the map with my finger, "I have never been here, here, here .” My finger pointed to the dense forest in the northwest, “I will go here in the future.”

Liang Lin smiled and said, "Okay."

After Liang Lin introduced the situation in Shangcheng to me, I started to ask him: "Then this proves that the female author mentioned by Jiang Yiyi may be from the few families you mentioned, but she may also live in the city. Someone in the family of a doctor, teacher, etc. in the Southwest District, or their children?"

Liang Lin said, "You can say that."

I nodded in understanding, and after getting to know a little bit, I went to ask Liang Lin: "Then did your teacher say any useful information?"

Liang Lin's eyes lit up, with a look of praise on his face, he said triumphantly, "Big news!"

I immediately looked at Liang Lin in surprise: "What!"

Liang Lin squeezed a little closer to me, and then said: "My teacher, just took a brief look at the titles and authors of the books I wrote down, and told me very clearly that these books were published a long time ago. It was brought from the lower city. But what we are looking at in our hands should not be the original, but a new one that has been reprinted."

I wondered: "Are there any books in the lower city?" In my image, everything in the lower city is a mess, and it seems that there is no way to have anything related to rationality.

Liang Lin said: "My teacher told me that we were all in the lower city a long time ago. It's just that some people moved to the upper city."

"Move?" I didn't agree with the word, and said a little funny: "Didn't you escape?"

Liang Lin shook his head with a serious face: "Our Shangcheng is developing very well now, it is very safe, and there is no mess, so it is definitely wrong to use the word escape."

I supported my head and laughed for a while, and found that I was almost squeezed under the seat by Liang Lin: "Don't squeeze me anymore!"

I couldn't help but muttered, "You squeeze when you're sleeping on the bed, but why don't you squeeze when you're sitting on a chair?"

Liang Lin apologized to me very obediently, and moved to the side: "I can't help it." He smiled and explained to me without much apology.

"Hold me back." I said with a straight face.

Liang Lin was amused by me, he laughed for a while, then moved a little to the side, and then continued: "The book was brought from the lower city, but the author must not be from the lower city."

Liang Lin pushed the notebook forward, and finally pointed at the shaded downtown area: "My teacher told me that the content of these books cannot be beyond the thinking and cultural level of people in our place. Written, impossible even to imagine.”

I don't know whether to praise Liang Lin's teacher for being very rational, or to say that he looks down on people.

Liang Lin lowered his head and looked at the map for a long time, his finger tapped again and again in the direction of the city. He pretended to be mysterious and dragged out his tone: "Sister, does it mean that—" Liang Lin Lin deliberately paused.

I stared at Liang Lin, and after a while, I saw Liang Lin's eyes looking at me expectantly, and couldn't help smiling and asked, "If I don't follow your words, will you just stay stuck there and not go?" Did you say it?"

Liang Lin said, "Cooperate with me, sister."

"Okay, okay." I curled my lips, and asked Liang Lin in the tone of listening to bedtime stories when I was a child: "What does that mean?"

Liang Lin, who was very easy to satisfy, immediately smiled, and he added the following words: "It means that there may be a road leading to the outside of the lower city."

I think this inference is reasonable, but I still have doubts: "But why did the group of people you moved to the upper city choose to go to the upper city to open up wasteland instead of going outside through that road?"

I said, "You have also seen Su Jiarui, and his living conditions should be better than ours." I gave an example, "For example, they can take vehicles flying in the sky, watch colorful and sound movies, and even have extra inhibitors." available to us."

Liang Lin shook his head, unable to explain my question.

I took a deep breath, then lay down on the table and sighed: "Why does it feel like the whole thing is getting more and more complicated?"

Liang Lin tilted his body and lay down on my back to hold me down. He also sighed: "That's right."

Liang Lin lay on top of me, making me unable to move. Liang Lin and I just spread out in front of my table and remained silent for a long time.

In the quiet air, my thoughts slowly became clear. I felt that I had to make a plan first, and complete the plan slowly without delaying my study.

The first item of my plan is to apply to Zhao Wenli when I meet Zhao Wenli at night: "Zhao Wenli, can I learn to draw?"

Zhao Wenli first answered me: "Of course you can, as long as you want." Then he asked me, "Why did you think of learning to paint? Can you be busy enough to learn a new course now?" Zhao Wenli even laughed when he said, "You won't give up after two more lessons, will you?"

"Wow, Zhao Wenli, you actually laughed at me!" I looked at him with wide eyes and condemned him with my eyes.

Zhao Wenli glanced at me with a smile, and apologized to me: "Well, I shouldn't have laughed at you."

I snorted, and then explained to Zhao Wenli the reason why I wanted to learn painting: "I think I grew up in the upper city, but I don't know many places. The book says that people's memory is limited, and I So I need to learn to draw and write them down in the form of pictures."

Zhao Wenli agreed with my idea very much, knowing that my attitude was serious, he didn't tease me about things that I might give up in class.

He even took me to an art teacher the weekend after I finished applying to him.The teacher gives us two classes every weekend. My art class classmates are all elementary school students who are younger than me. They have been learning to draw since they were young, and they are already much better than me.

Because I started to learn art, and my swimming training didn't stop.

This caused my life in the second and third grades of junior high school to become very busy, and my life was very fulfilling. I went to class every day, went to swimming training after class, and started to run around with my drawing book to draw after school. Time to go to the art teacher to take classes and receive professional art guidance.

The art teacher praised me for my talent, and asked me if I wanted to work in design or architecture after graduating from junior high school.

Because I ran outside all day, I discovered a lot of beautiful scenery that I hadn’t discovered before. When I heard the teacher’s question, I smiled and replied: "No, I might want to be a traveler!"

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