Quick Travel System: Age Strategy

[Really, he doesn’t have a system, but he is different from ordinary people.]

"What's up with him?"

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In the fruit shop downstairs, the moment Lu Xiao turned around with his wheelchair, his pupils dilated slightly and the corners of his mouth raised slightly as he walked into the house.

He pushed the wheelchair and stopped at one spot. His facial expression could not be seen in the darkness. The moment he closed his eyes, the sounds from the outside world seemed to be amplified ten times in his ears.

It’s a long story, but this has always been a secret in his heart. He has been able to hear sounds ten times louder than an average person since he was a child.

This "specialness" of his has existed since he was born, and even his parents don't know about it.

He was born with missing legs. His father was a poet who was knocked down and taken away during the era of change.

At that time, his mother had just divorced his father and was pregnant with him. At first, his mother did not realize that he was already in her belly.

Whenever the pressure of life becomes unbearable, my mother would often pick up the cigarettes left by my father and smoke them without caring about her own health.

The mother loves the father, and their divorce was a choice made under duress, and also an alternative "trade-off of love".

So after her father was taken away, she often missed him.

When her belly grew bigger, she realized something was wrong and went to the hospital, where she learned about his appearance.

His mother stopped smoking later on, and it was not until she gave birth to him that she realized how harmful smoking was.

The name Lu Xiao was given by his mother. Lu is his father’s surname, and Xiao means that he hopes he can move forward bravely and fearlessly.

He and his mother had a hard time when he was without his father. Because they didn't know where his father was assigned to, or whether he was alive or dead, his mother usually treated him extra well.

But because he was born with disabled legs, Lu Xiao did not have an easy life when he was a child.

In that era, there were few schools that would accept disabled children into school. Since his mother couldn't find a school, she would teach Lu Xiao at home.

The two of them lived on their father's previous royalties, but the money was gradually dwindling, becoming less and less with each passing year.

He lived a very poor life when he was a child. In order to save money, his mother would take him to pick up coal slag.

Coal trucks often passed by the train tracks, and the dropped coal slag ensured that the two of them could survive the harsh winter.

Sometimes when the coal slag was as small as a fingernail, his mother would collect them together and use them to teach him to read.

Because he had no legs, he often fell and got bruised when he first learned to walk, and sometimes it was so serious that he would bleed all over the floor.

Later, his mother no longer taught Lu Xiao to walk, but would often carry him while walking.

She never showed her vulnerability.

Only late at night would his mother look at him and repent, thinking that she was the cause of his physical disability.

Lu Xiao would hear his mother say this every time. When he was very young, he didn't understand the meaning. It was not until he grew up and saw the cigarettes his mother hid in the cupboard that he understood the meaning of her words.

Xiao Luxiao never blamed his mother. Even if she didn't smoke, would he be born healthy? !

That's not necessarily the case, so his leg problem can't be entirely blamed on his mother.

Xiao Luxiao didn’t meet his father until he was six years old, when he could already speak.

The first time he saw his biological father, he called him "Dad". This was possible thanks to his mother's careful teaching.

She always talked about her father, saying what a great man he was, what literary works he had written, and what great achievements he had achieved.

His mother's admiration for his father also deeply influenced his concept of the word "father".

But my father didn't think so. After experiencing a certain life experience, his mentality had changed a lot.

He didn't want to see anything happening in his life that was out of his control, such as the appearance of Xiao Lu Xiao.

He couldn't bear the fact that his own son was a cripple. It made him feel like he had just escaped from that swamp and fell into another swamp, so he left his family.

In fact, his father told his mother that he wanted to abandon him and take her away from here.

But his mother couldn't bear to let him go, and she felt that his father had become too cruel and could easily abandon even his own child.

His mother refused him, and it seemed that she really didn't want to leave with him.

Her father told her that the house would be transferred to them and he would leave. She was told not to tell anyone else that Lu Xiao was his son as he could not afford to lose face.

The mother cried but finally agreed. Even though she loved her father very much, she had to stay here for Lu Xiao.

In fact, Lu Xiao heard all of this. Since he was a child, this unique hearing ability has allowed him to hear many sounds. He thought it was noisy when he was young, but later he felt that this unique ability made his boring life extremely interesting.

At home, he could hear how other families across the street lived and went to school, and he often envied such a warm life.

He discovered by accident that the eyes are the volume buttons that control the ears' receptivity.

After this day, Lu Xiao never saw his father again, nor did he hear these two words from his mother's mouth again.

……

When he was eighteen years old, his mother held a grand birthday party in the yard to celebrate his birthday.

Although he had no friends and only his mother existed in his life since he was a child, he still lived a happy life.

When he was eighteen, his mother bought him a wheelchair as a gift for adulthood, and he was smart and quickly mastered how to use it.

He thought he wouldn't have to trouble his mother anymore and could take care of her by himself.

But in fact, this was not the case. His mother committed suicide and died beside the railway track where she took him when he was a child.

She lay on the railway tracks without telling Lu Xiao anything.

Lu Xiao hated himself very much at that time. Why did he trust his mother so much when she went out and didn't open his ears to listen to what she was doing?

If she had listened, she might not have died.

After his mother died, the house became his name. He held a funeral for his mother, cremated her, and left her ashes in her room.

He just pretended that his mother was still alive. He always believed that it was because of his troubles that his mother lost hope of living.

So I never went into the house to see my mother.

But when the yard was demolished and he was sorting out his mother's belongings, he saw the newspaper she had hidden under the bed.

A corner piece of news was circled in red pen.

My father got married. At the bottom of the newspaper, there was a line of small words from my mother, "You were clearly married to me, why don't you admit it?" Lu Xiao is your child, and you really have the heart to deny him. Teacher, I love you but I hate you even more. - Last words

At this moment, Lu Xiao realized that his parents' love was actually a teacher-student relationship, which his mother had never told him about.

The date of the newspaper report was a month ago, when he had not yet turned eighteen.

It is hard to imagine how unacceptable she felt when she saw the news, but she did not choose to leave at that time, but instead waited until he turned eighteen.