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“Aunt.”
“Third Uncle.”
“A’Jing, you’re back. You didn’t come back last New Year.”
“Didn’t your parents come back together with you?”
“A’Jing, you look more graceful with your glasses. You really have Character of a college student.”
Su Jing dragged his suitcase and went into the village to see the villagers one by one. Su Family Village was a small village and they were very familiar with each other. Although Su Jing seldom cames back after he entered junior high school, as one of the only two college students in Su Family Village, he has always been the pride of the villagers. It’s just that the villagers don’t know. It’s time for college students to walk around like dogs.
After graduating from the University more then a year ago, Su Jing changed several jobs and found a satisfactory job. When he was getting better, he was dismissed because he offended his supervisor. Su Jing was in such a bad mood that he didn’t even go out to find a new job. This time, he came back mainly to have rest and adjust his mood.
“A’Jing, you finally remember to come back.”A young man with dark skin and strong body in shorts was carrying two baskets of fish.
“A’Liang I heard that you became a dad.” Su Jing smiled. This young man is Su Liang. He is the same age as him. When he was a child, he did many things like stealing chickens and dogs. However, he got married last year and had a daughter.
“Haha, that’s why you’re so incompetent as an uncle. You haven’t given her any gifts before. Why don’t you bring a girl back with you?” Su Liang put down the two heavy baskets of fish and laughed.
“No, I’m single.” Su Jing made a bitter face.
“Hey hey, why don’t you go to Shi Qing to talk about olden days? I heard she’s still single. Maybe she’s still waiting for you.” Su Liang winked.
“Don’t talk nonsense here.” Su Jing rolled his eyes but remembered the sweet face. He has seen many beautiful women in these years, but that face has always been the most memorable.
Shi Qing and Su Jing were classmates in elementary, junior and senior high schools. She was a beautiful girl at school and was considered one of the school flower. Both of them were top-notch learners. They have become good friends because they used to discuss various subjects together and there were also many rumors because they were close to each other.
Shi Qing’s college entrance exam results are several points higher than Su Jing’s. She could’ve gone to many famous schools, but she did not go to college because her father was accidentally injured and they spent her family’s savings on his treatment. There wasn’t any money left for her to go to college.
Su Jing often went to her home to help her from time to time at the end of the college entrance examination to the time before she went to university. However, her ability was limited and he could not help much. After going to university, although he often chatted with her on QQ, she was gradually alienated.
I heard that her family had paid off their debts in the past two years, and her father was able to work again. Although they are still poor, their life is getting better and better.
“Don’t wait any longer. You’ll regret it when she’s taken away. Why don’t you come to my house in the evening, we will talk more than while eating good things. For now, I’ll have to get these fish dried.” Su Liang said.
“I’m a little tired from driving. I’m going to go to bed early tonight. Let’s talk about it tomorrow.” Su Jing waved his hand. Su Family Village was near the sea. Most of the villagers were fishermen. He knew that the good things Su Liang mentioned must be all kinds of seafood.
After saying goodbye to Su Liang, Su Jing strode towards his house and looked at the old house that was on the brink of collapse. Su Jing laughed bitterly: “How did my family house become like this?”
Su Jing’s parents are both teachers. In his junior high school year, he moved to the city. At first, he used to fix this house every year. Then he would come back here on New Year for vacation. Later, he simply didn’t bother to fix it. He came back to uncle’s home for a few times, so the old house was completely abandoned.
Su Jing originally thought that even if the house was wasted, it should be tidied up to live, but did not expect that the old house has become a ruin.
Su Jing had a headache as he took out the key to open the door lock of the courtyard, but the rusty keyhole could not insert the key at all. He shook it vigorously and the lock broke directly. He threw the lock and the key away helplessly.
Su Jing coughed because of a burst of dust as he entered. Seeing the situation inside made Su Jing cry without tears. The roof was broken and the sun was shining directly in. However, there was a lot of water in the house, which should have been leaked the previous day. On the left eaves, there is a large swallow bird nest and a few little swallows chirping out. On the cabinet, a Cat protects three kittens behind her as she raises her hair and paw and threatening Su Jing with her bared teeth. The whole room has a strange smell.
“Am I coming back to adjust my mood or to suffer?”
Su Jing sighed helplessly and went straight through the front hall and towards the backyard. The old house was near the sea. From the backyard, he could see the sea directly. It was a real seascape house. Whenever he was in a bad mood, he liked to lie on the grass in the backyard and watch the sea.
This time, however, he did not see the sea. He saw the backyard overgrown with weeds. It was like a virgin forest. A litchi tree and an orange tree have fruit, but they are not ripe yet. There was also a loquat tree and a plum tree, which had passed the fruiting season.
“I have to clean up or I won’t be able to live.”
Su Jing found that most of the rooms were leaking. Fortunately, his room was not leaking. He carefully cleaned his room and then simply cleaned up the other rooms and living room.
After finishing these, it was already twelve o’clock in the evening, Su Jing was too tired, he just took a shower and ate some snacks and slept.
At 3 or 4 a.m., Su Jing was woken up by a thunderstorm and couldn’t sleep anymore. Heavy rain hit the tiles of the house loudly, especially when the tiles fell off the eaves from time to time, the sound was too loud.
“Boom”
Su Jing was startled by a loud noise.
At first, he thought it was thunder, but when he felt the sound near his ear and kept on going, he noticed that something was strange and he looked out of the window and he was immediately started as if he had seen a ghost.
He saw that there was a huge spherical vortex over the courtyard, which is just like a wormhole in a science fiction movie.
From the center of the whirlpool, a large number of things poured down and fell on the backyard. The litchi and loquat tree were overwhelmed.
He didn’t know if it was an illusion. Su Jing felt that he had vaguely heard several voices in the sky.
“Haha, success!”
“After a lot of hard work, we finally found a stable space and time tunnel in different time and space.”
“Re-experiment a few times. If it is feasible, then in the future all the garbage from all major space-time dimensions can be sent to this tunnel…”
With the disappearance of the whirlpool, the voices in the air also gradually disappeared.
The rain has gradually stopped and the whole world returned to the calm state.
Su Jing twisted his thighs hard and the pain made him realize that this was not a dream and that the heap of garbage in the courtyard was telling him that it was not an illusion.
Can you give me link raw?
You can read it on lnmtl
idk who is translating this but it’s pretty bad. Not as bad a machine translation but it’s clear that the no-one is really trying here…
Lots of missing words like in “You really have Character of a college student.”, or idiotic phrases like ” it was already twelve o’clock in the evening,” instead of simply saying it’s midnight…
You seem pretty picky for getting something free
ah yes its free so no need to point our mistakes, of course why didnt i think of that.
would you like some food? its poisoned but dont complain coz its free…..
just coz its free doesnt mean the translators arent getting donations or money from ads.
free doesn’t explain doing a bad job when its still your job.
I think we live in a world where many people feel entitled to things they didn’t do anything for. Also the food analogy doesn’t really work. Food is a need in life while literature is a want. Most people work to pay for the food they get as well. If I paid for food and it was poisoned then I have a right to complain. You can also die from poisoning but you won’t die from a few bad translations.You are getting a free service that isn’t something you need to survive. I know if I was translating stories I wouldn’t be doing it for long if I just got a bunch of comments from entitled pricks when I only get small donations once every month or so. Those people that donate are usually people that don’t complain either. They like the story and want to read more of it and they donate to not only get more translated faster but also to support the translator. Btw it shows when you like your own comment. Just saying.
Have you seen the amount of ads on the website. Yh I’m sure they’re living on the streets with how little they make (that was an analogy, don’t take it seriously as I assume you would).
So they’re getting money from ads, money from donations and they still can’t spend 15 minutes reading their own chapters to make sure there aren’t any stupid mistakes and errors. Just shows the dedication going into this. BTW I don’t care if I liked my own comment I liked the other guys and mine, just not yours, don’t see anything wrong with it but I guess you felt a need to point it out?
Yeah, because liking your own comment is pretty lame. Usually when people like a comment it’s because they like or agree with what they are saying. You basically just gave yourself a pat on the back after writing your comment. You said they have ads but most people use an ad blocker of some sort and with the small amount of traffic they get on this website I doubt they make much from the ads either. You also just described the job of an editor which not everyone can afford to have or are able to do.
Ah yes the impossible job of an editor that’s impossible for anyone except those especially trained in it since birth right? They’re all millionaires and wouldn’t edit this since its so impossible hard to realise where to type “the” in. Great translators clearly very proud of their work.
Everyone should give themselves a pat on the back, I agree with mine and original comments so i liked them nothing more or less about it, not sure why your fixated on that point though?
BTW you seem to be making a big deal out of someone pointing out the errors in the work, which seems like constructive criticism telling translator where the mistakes were. 🙂
Yeah sure it’s free but that doesn’t mean that they would be free of criticisms and such plus if they want to earn money from this kind of work, they need to provide good quality when they’re translating which you can see on various successful translation sites.
… ever heard the saying you get what you paid for? Unless you’re one of those that are donating, then all your bitching and moaning is simply like the other guy said. you being an entitled prick. If you’re not then just take it as is or walk off. it’s not like anyone’s forcing you to read this.
It’s MTL so obviously its free.. its just has minor editting i bet a proofreader could do a way better job
The whole, “Shut the F*ck up it’s free” mentality in this community came from a time when there was a scarcity of novels. Yes I know your comment was from 2 years ago… this time was from before then.
This scarcity drove people with good reason to defend the novels and translators they liked voraciously. Because if enough negative comments accrued in those times of all free, largely no ad translations… translators translated based on motivation… and if that took a hit… well the translation generally got dropped without others to pick it up. Now constructive criticism should always be allowed, then and now. But back then criticism of all kind was bundled together as negative which is why so many say if it’s free, shut up. Which is wrong.
So back then while being understandable but in the end the wrong approach to handling criticism it makes a certain kind of sense.
But today it just doesn’t. There is no more scarcity, there is frankly an excess, so the way to stand out is quality and release rate. Now most people have to be madly in love with novels to read them if they have low quality. I can’t count the number of novels I’ve been interested in but have dropped due to bad quality translations. Why would I suffer through it when I can go read a hundred other novels in various places that do have a high quality of translation.
This novel is not the worst I’ve seen by far, not to say it isn’t rife with errors though. To point it out and even offer suggestions should not be met with you making the “it’s free” argument. His comment is completely valid, it isn’t toxic, it is constructive. If anything your comment is the more toxic one that led to a comment chain of arguing and negativity.
Essentially. We’ve all grown past the time of having to defend translators from constructive criticism. They should take it and grow, no one is expecting immediate improvement. They get better, the translation gets better. We all just point out that there is a fault and the good ones point out where the fault is. That is only good. From that point if it is ignored then there will be a drop in viewership which in more recent times is what leads to novels getting dropped, not these commenters not defending translators from constructive criticism.
I agree with you it needs some work. They can just throw it through a “free” grammerly account and it will spit out much better work.
Muito interessante. Espero que não seja abandonado daqui um tempo.
Thanks for the translation.
I hope the main heroine is someone cool.
I like Shi Qing but it feels like their destinies have stretched and departed a long time ago. Like it’s too late now
Can’t you please add a next chapter/previous chapter button?
That would be awesome for navigation!
Next page button is at the top of the chapter
Thanks!
Next chapter button is at the top of the chapter
would’ve been better if it’s at the bottom. oh well.
Opa interessante