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Coming home from evening self-study, Yu Kelan also brought that box of chocolates with her.
A box of chocolates worth 99 yuan – she really couldn't bear to eat it.
Girls had no resistance whatsoever to beautiful things.
Whether it was the exquisite translucent outer gift box or the chocolate wrapped in gold foil, Yu Kelan couldn't bear to tear it open.
Yu Kelan lived in an old residential complex.
Upon entering, she found no lights on, and Yu Kelan breathed a sigh of relief.
Then she changed into her slippers.
"Mom probably isn't back yet. I should quickly hide this box of chocolates while I have the chance."
Yu Kelan mumbled to herself, then prepared to turn on the light.
"Click!"
But at that moment, the light turned on by itself, and Yu Kelan's body stiffened.
Sitting on the chair opposite Yu Kelan was a middle-aged woman, looking at her with a serious expression.
"What are you trying to hide from me?"
Xu Lanhua said flatly.
Yu Kelan's stiff body softened, and she immediately felt resigned to her fate.
"Mom, weren't you working the night shift? How did you come back so early?"
Yu Kelan asked with a bitter face.
Xu Lanhua worked as a cashier at Lianhua Supermarket and usually returned very late after inventorying goods at night.
Xu Lanhua said indifferently, "The supermarket had a power outage, so I got off work early. And if I hadn't come back this early, how would I have seen my good daughter hiding things from me?"
"Now, give it to me quickly."
Xu Lanhua still held considerable authority over Yu Kelan.
Despite Yu Kelan's reluctance, she could only obediently hand over the chocolate.
"This..."
When she saw the box of chocolates, Xu Lanhua was stunned.
Because this kind of imported chocolate was only sold at Lianhua Supermarket.
And it just so happened that she had sold one box at noon.
"It couldn't be such a coincidence, could it?"
Thinking of the young man in the school uniform, Xu Lanhua couldn't help but smile wryly.
"I'll keep the chocolate for now. You go wash up and sleep."
In the end, Xu Lanhua chose not to pry further.
Being able to raise such an excellent daughter, Xu Lanhua also knew how to handle these matters.
Her daughter was grown up and had her own privacy, and she was in her rebellious phase. If she pressured her too much, it would backfire.
Also, she herself had information about the person who bought the chocolate, so she could investigate slowly and didn't need to ask Yu Kelan anything.
"Oh."
Looking at her beloved chocolate with some reluctance, Yu Kelan obediently went to wash up.
Meanwhile, Lin Ge returned home to find his parents preparing dinner for him.
At this time, students were truly struggling.
Having cold steamed buns for lunch was one thing.
Dinner had to wait until after evening self-study. If Lin Ge hadn't bought snacks, he might have been faint from hunger by now.
"School's out?"
Lin Ge's father was named Lin Ye.
But contrary to the temperament of his name, Lin Ye was a slender, spectacled middle-aged man.
He worked as a technical inspector at a winery.
He usually didn't talk much; his mother, Yu Lan, generally made the decisions at home.
"Mm."
Looking at his father, who still had black hair, Lin Ge felt a deep sense of closeness.
In the later years, the winery closed down early, and both parents were laid off very early.
But to gather enough tuition for Lin Ge's university, both parents worked tirelessly, doing odd jobs day and night.
However, Lin Ye was a technical worker after all. The long-term labor quickly broke down his body.
Lin Ye passed away due to an old illness just a few years after Lin Ge started working.
Yu Lan, missing her husband, followed him a few years later.
Without his parents, even if Lin Ge achieved success in his career, he didn't want to get married.
If not for an accident at the age of 30 that led to him having an 18-year-old young lover, he probably would have lived out his days alone.
"Seeing my corpse, that little girl must have cried very sadly."
Lin Ge shook his head helplessly.
He now wanted to find his young lover.
See how she was doing.
But then he remembered that his young lover was probably only 6 years old now, playing in the mud somewhere, so he dismissed the idea.
"Let fate decide."
Lin Ge thought.
"Also, I need to accelerate the progress of my career. At the very least, I can't let my parents work so hard."
"Without saying too much, they must live to at least 100 years old."
His career, of course, referred to the system's sign-ins.
Lin Ge had lived two lives. Even without a sign-in system, he could have made a name for himself based on his experience from his previous life.
What's more, he now had a sign-in system.
In 1993, an era where gold was everywhere, having capital meant starting ahead by an entire equator's distance.
Not to mention people, even pigs could fly.
Therefore, Lin Ge was not worried about his career at all.
"Xiao Ge, come and help serve the dishes."
Yu Lan's voice came from the kitchen.
Although Lin Ge wasn't hungry.
But whether it was the taste of his mother's cooking or just to get another look at his parents, Lin Ge still ate two large bowls.
The old couple, however, didn't know Lin Ge's thoughts.
They had worked all day, and after Lin Ge finished eating, they went to sleep.
Lin Ge finished his meal, washed his bowl and chopsticks, and then returned to his bed.
Having experienced a rebirth and attended a day of classes, Lin Ge felt no sleepiness at all.
He was waiting for midnight, waiting for the next day's sign-in reward.
On the first day, he had just been reborn, and the system automatically signed him in and claimed the reward for him.
From then on, he had to sign in himself to get each day's reward.
"System, sign in."
Feeling that it was probably past midnight, Lin Ge spoke to the system.
1993, this was the only drawback.
The only clock in the house was hanging in the living room.
Not to mention a watch, he didn't even have a clock by his bed. His sense of time was very vague.
"Looks like I need to buy a watch tomorrow, otherwise I'll be fumbling around every day, without even a concept of time."
Lin Ge secretly thought to himself.
"Sign-in successful. Reward to Host: one Honda Win 100 motorcycle."
"Keys have been issued. The motorcycle is downstairs at the Host's building. Please collect it yourself."
The system was already issuing rewards.
"Honda Win 100? It can sign out something like this?"
Lin Ge had expected the system's rewards to be cash or advanced technology.
He didn't expect the system to give him a Honda Win 100 motorcycle.
The Honda Win 100, the most classic motorcycle of the 1990s.
Lightweight, stable, with good shock absorption, it was a globally popular motorcycle at the time.
It sold for 13,700 yuan.
In this era, the annual income of an ordinary person was around 2,000 yuan. To afford a Honda Win 100, it would take at least six years.
In later generations, this bike would be worth at least 300,000 yuan.
In Jiangbei City, if a young person rode a Honda Win on the streets, they would definitely turn heads.
"Perfect. Going to school is quite a leg workout. A motorcycle isn't bad."
"Most importantly, I can also take girls for rides."
Lin Ge was just a little surprised.
But he was quite satisfied with this sign-in reward.
If he remembered correctly, in the second semester of his senior year of high school, Wang Cheng got a Flying Pigeon bicycle from his parents and began his journey of taking girls for rides.
A bicycle definitely couldn't compare to a motorcycle in terms of prestige.
But this also depended on the era.
After 2000, bicycles became a common mode of transport for students going to school.
In 1993, students relied on their two "divine legs" to go to school.
Bicycles were naturally for adults who needed to go to work.
Anyone who rode a bicycle to school would definitely make other students green with envy.