Lingzi is not too cold today

Chapter 2 A Call from a Strange Woman
"I'm Aunt Qing."

"I haven't seen you for many years. I just came back from abroad recently."

"I got the phone number from your uncle, and I also know about your parents."

"How's life going?"

Gongsun Jin was a little overwhelmed by her series of questions.

"pretty good."

No matter who asks him how he is doing recently, he will answer "very well", because this answer does not require thinking.

"Is the tuition for college enough? I heard from your mother that you have been studying music."

"Enough, with student loans."

The voice on the other end of the phone paused for a moment.

"Which school did you apply for?"

"Business school."

"Business school? What a coincidence, Xiaomeng also applied for business school. Don't you study music?"

The woman on the other end of the phone was surprised, but also a little disappointed.

"Ah."

Gongsun Jin responded lightly, but did not reply.

"This phone number is my WeChat, you can add it, and we will chat slowly."

"Ok."

After hanging up the phone, Gongsun Jin noted down the number, but was not in a hurry to add WeChat.

He didn't know anything about the original body's relatives, and he didn't want to get in touch with Gongsun Jin's relationship for the time being, at least not now.

The soul currently staying in this body has been changed.

When he first arrives, he needs a little time to adapt and prepare.

"System, are you there?"

Taking advantage of no one around, Gongsun Jin whispered twice, but there was no response.

Damn, aren't all travelers equipped with a system?
You don’t even have a system for this kind of fishing? Author, can you write articles? No wonder it keeps hitting the streets.

"I am here."

Caught off guard, an electronically synthesized female voice suddenly appeared in Gongsun Jin's ear.

"You are the system?"

"Hello, my name is Xiao Ai."

"So it's classmate Xiao Ai."

Gongsun Jin took out his cell phone from his pocket.

Also, how could such a thing as a system really exist?
Being idle is also boring. He sat alone on a park bench and chatted with this virtual machine program for a while.

"Student Xiao Ai, do you think people have souls?"

"If a person has a soul, will he go to a strange time and space?"

Xiao Ai's answers were all dialogues edited by a very mechanical program, not what Gongsun Jin wanted to hear, but he still rambled on.

People who passed by looked at this good-looking boy talking to a virtual program and showed puzzled eyes.

Flocks of white pigeons fluttered and flapped their wings, gradually becoming clearer in Gongsun Jin's sight.

"If the "I" in this world reaches the hometown of "I" and lives as "I", will he be happy?"

Xiao Ai paused for a while, and the program set inside her seemed to be thinking about this problem.

Just when Gongsun Jin thought that her answer was still blunt and mechanical, Xiao Ai said, "Whether it will be happier, I don't know, but at least it won't be more painful than it is now."

Gongsun Jin was slightly taken aback when he heard this.

"If that's the case, all the better."

Even though Xiao Ai is just a program designed by others and does not have the ability to think for herself, Gongsun Jin feels that she has been comforted.

He from another time and space, like Gongsun Jin here, is a very lonely person.

If Gongsun Jin and his soul exchanged time and space, he hoped that this lonely person would be happier.

Pieces of white pigeons landed in front of Gongsun Jin. They rested on the ground, looking at him expectantly.

"Does he often give you something to eat?"

Gongsun Jin suddenly realized.

"But I have nothing on me to feed you."

He fumbled in all the pockets on his body, and finally found a small bag of corn kernels from the left trouser pocket.

"Oh, there are still."

Looking at the wrapped corn kernels, the indifference in Gongsun Jin's eyes eased slightly.

"Eat, eat."

He sprinkled the corn kernels on the ground bit by bit, and watched the white pigeons scrambling to grab the food, feeling bored.

"Student Xiao Ai, time and space, identity, and name have been exchanged. Will I be better off now than before?"

Xiao Ai said very seriously: "It may be better, or it may be worse."

Gongsun Jin nodded slightly, sprinkled the last corn kernels, quietly watched the pigeons finish their food, and smoothed the pigeons' feathers.

Those pigeons let him touch obediently, as if they were already familiar with the temperature of his palm.

After eating the food, the pigeons did not fly away immediately, but stayed here, listening to Gongsun Jin's silence like countless days before.

Gongsun Jin was thinking at this moment, if Yuanshen finally fed this bag of corn kernels to the pigeons, would he not commit suicide?
In this world, after all, there are still some creatures who like him, and it's not that he is not needed.

"The past is like smoke and dreams, and it has gone with the wind. Let's look forward to tomorrow. After all, the future is long, and tomorrow will be a new day."

Gongsun Jin recited softly, not knowing who she was speaking to.

Maybe it's for the soul residing in this body, or maybe it's for Gongsun Jin who has gone to another time and space.

Or, maybe both.

This is his favorite sentence in "Gone with the Wind".

It was getting late, bid farewell to the pigeons, and Gongsun Jin walked towards home.

Even if there are student loans, how to solve the daily living expenses?
The original owner sang very well, he just hummed a few lines casually, and he could feel it from the intonation and breath.

Do you want to follow the path of a singer?

But there are many people who can sing in this world, and not many people can support themselves by music.

It's not that if you sing well, you can make money by making a short video and posting it online.

It is not that easy to make money. No one promotes short videos, no one helps to operate them, and it is not so easy to monetize traffic.

What's more, he doesn't have any equipment or resources now, and he doesn't know much about brokerage companies and short video platforms.

Even if he wants to realize the original owner's dream and become a singer in the future, it's not now.

Gongsun Jin was a little worried. On the one hand, he didn’t want to see his original dream die, and on the other hand, it was also because he in another world had also faced the dilemma of not being able to pay for tuition, so he could empathize with him.

After a while, he turned on his mobile phone and searched for "writer's assistant". Looking at the familiar icon, Gongsun Jin had some expectations in his heart.

"Do you want to go back to your old job? You can't escape the readers' reminders even if you travel through time."

Before coming to this world, he was an online writer, and he insisted on writing articles on the Qidian Chinese website during college.

At the beginning, I didn't understand the direction of the market, nor did I understand the requirements of the contract, so I plunged into it with a passion for writing, and crossed the river by feeling the stones.

After a period of groping, I reluctantly signed the contract, earning some pocket money by earning the perfect attendance bonus.

At that time, the perfect attendance bonus was 600 yuan a month. He tried to double open, and he could get 1200 yuan a month.

At that time, he relied on the money to meet his usual living expenses.

Of course, it doesn’t just rely on the manuscript fee from the website. There is no manuscript fee income during the free period before it is put on the shelves.

So he usually works part-time in the cafeteria, making bibimbap and delivering food.

The stalls in the cafeteria include two meals, plus 600 yuan a month in salary.

During the holidays, I tutor children, teaching English and mathematics, and distribute leaflets when I have nothing to do.

The counselor will occasionally introduce the work in the school to the students in the department, such as cleaning or opening the door to the classroom in the morning. He has always been the most active one.

Therefore, even though he is the poorest family in the dormitory, he has the most pocket money at his disposal every month.

Compared with other college students of the same age, this is what he is most proud of.

The tuition fees and living expenses for the four years of university were all earned by himself.

Although his college life was very hard and tiring.

He is not considered a top student, and he thinks that he is mediocre in intelligence and ability.

An ordinary college student does not have a system or a strong family background.

After traveling to this world, is it possible to hit the water in the middle of the current, and the waves hold back the flying boat?
Gongsun Jin felt that she should be what Pu Shu sang in the song.

Ordinary is the only answer.

His only gold finger is that he can overcome laziness and earn money if he has no money.

He will never commit suicide because he missed his dream and has no money to go to college.

The tenacity of living alone, and the strength left behind after many hardships.

These things happened to be what the original body lacked the most.

Therefore, for Gongsun Jin now, it is not that difficult to survive alone in this world.

(End of this chapter)