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Chapter 71 The End of Story



Chapter 71 The End of Story

The incident of love and death in the office became more and more intense, and it escalated rapidly; the version Yan Lanyu told Lao Yu was that Kurosawa Xiaoshisan was playing and spanking in the office. , the version I heard was that Xiao Shisan failed to rape Heisawa and was spanked in the office; Han Yue went home at night and told Chu Ci like a joke. Wei said that Xiao Shisan abused and bullied Hei Ze brutally and inhumanely, and even pinned Hei Ze in the office to spank his butt; when the two called, Xuan Lin eavesdropped on the extension in the bedroom, the line was not clear, and he heard in a daze that it was Xiao Shisan who was crazy Sending QJ to Kurosawa, Kurosawa refused to obey, so he was forced to spank in the office in broad daylight...

So Xuanlin was worried at dinner the next night, and asked Long Jiwei: "What should we do now? Is Xiao Shisan going too far? Even if Kuize has a good temper, he can't just run to QJ's house just because of his kindness." .”

Long Jiwei almost dropped his chopsticks, and asked, "What, little thirteen QJ Kurosawa?!"

Long Jiwei turned his head to discuss with Chu Ci, so Chu Ci understood the version that Kuisawa was impatient with the abuse and rose up to resist, was brutally suppressed by Xiao Shisan and XXOOed; the next day Chu Ci worriedly told Han Yue, Han Yue said it was repaid Well, Xiao Shisan actually ran to beat and forcibly occupy a good woman and man, there is no law; Han Yue went to the Military Commission meeting again that afternoon, met Lao Yu on the way, and the rumors became that Heize was severely injured by Xiao Shisan Disabled, still tied up at home [beep——] [beep——] [beep——] [beep——]; Lao Yu was so shocked that he couldn't speak, he went back to the office in a daze. Came to Yan Lanyu, grabbed his hand and asked, "Thousand-faced Fox, do you know that Kurosawa is dying?"

Yan Lanyu: "..."

Yan Lanyu couldn't figure it out, wondering: "Could it be that Hei Ze and Xiao Shisan love to die, love and play too much, and they are exhausted and dying?"

For a long time afterwards, Kurosawa felt that everyone looked at him strangely, with infinite sympathy and regret, as if he was doing a farewell ceremony for the corpse.

The number of government-sponsored study abroad places has also come down. Guoan has reserved [-] members for its own intelligence organization, a total of [-] targeted training students for its three affiliated schools of international relations, and [-] students for the school of international trade; and one for old Yu daughter Min Min.

Minmin is a nonchalant person, but her academic performance is very good.Besides, her father is a senior national security officer, and among the rare flowers such as Long Jiwei, Xuan Lin, and Yan Lanyu, he is a rare and reliable, hard-working, good old man who wholeheartedly serves the country and the people.Minmin deeply owes her upbringing, and it is only natural for her daughter to inherit her father's career.

After all, she was a little girl who had watched her grow up with her own eyes. Before leaving, Senior Colonel Yan went to help pack the suitcase.He was cautious in doing things, and made a list of necessary things, and crossed out everything, and went to buy what was not enough.After buying it, I packed it and there was still some gaps in the box, so I bought two jars of pickles from Liubiju, sealed them in vacuum packaging, and took them abroad for Minmin to satisfy her hunger.

Coincidentally, that day was a day off, Lao Yu was climbing up and down outside to clean up, so Yan Lanyu sat on the floor to organize the bag that Min Min brought on the plane.The sun shone through the curtains and sprinkled on the clean wooden floor, emitting a slight warm light; Minmin stared at Yan Lanyu's side face without blinking, and suddenly asked: "Little brother, when I leave, do you miss me?" No?"

Yan Lanyu was hesitating whether to stuff the passport in an easy-to-reach outer bag or hide it in the inner pocket; hearing the words, she said casually: "I have something to think about, and it's not that I can't come back. I will take you to the suburbs when I return to China for the New Year next winter vacation." Set off firecrackers, good boy."

Minmin leaned on his back, smiled and said: "But I miss you, and now I miss you. Brother, give me something, I look at it as I look at you."

Yan Lanyu smiled and said: "When you go to college and have a boyfriend, you won't miss me later. What nonsense are you talking about? You've heard the joke carefully."

Minmin didn't speak, hummed a song and squeezed Yan Lanyu hard, pushing Yan Lanyu forward.

After a while, she got bored of playing, rolled off Yan Lanyu's back again, lay down on the floor and stared at him.After watching it for a long time, I couldn't help asking: "Little brother, why are you still so young? You were like this when I was a child, and you are still like this when I grow up... Will there be a day when I am old and you are still a handsome young man?"

Old Yu vaguely heard a few words amidst the rumble of the vacuum cleaner outside, and then shouted: "Minmin—! Don't moles Senior Colonel Yan—!"

"Got it! Is it annoying?" Minmin lowered her voice, and said coquettishly: "Little senior brother gave me something."

Yan Lanyu said casually, "Oh, what do you want?"

"I want your necklace." Minmin rolled her eyes, stretched out her hand and pulled out a thin leather rope from Yan Lanyu's neck under the collar of her shirt. At the end was a small gray-white piece that looked like a piece of iron, but it was more beautiful than a piece of iron. Fragments with richer texture, said with a smile: "I want this, little brother..."

Without saying a word, Yan Lanyu's expression changed.

There was silence in the room for a long while, Minmin withdrew her hands shyly, "If you don't give it, you won't give it, you wear this, and you will wear it for the rest of your life."

Yan Lanyu asked coldly: "Who told you, Yu Jingzhong?"

Minmin timidly said: "No...no..." But the answer was clearly written in her expression.

Yan Lanyu ignored her, got up and walked out.

Minmin didn't know where the courage came from, she rushed up and hugged his waist, angrily said: "If you don't give it, you won't give it! Why are you so arrogant! Do you think I'm rare, I pity you!"

Yan Lanyu stood with her back to her, Minmin buried her head in his neck, feeling very wronged in her heart, her eyes turned red when she was wronged.

"You are just such a person, waiting for something that you can't wait for a lifetime, you can't see the good things of others, and you are alone there year after year complaining about yourself, you are a big fool..."

"I pity you, you know, let's see who still cares about you, I just want to treat you well...you are a big fool..."

Yan Lanyu bowed her head in silence, Minmin choked up and said, "Little senior brother, you... just wait a little longer, I will grow up and become a good woman, I will take care of you..."

The roar of the vacuum cleaner stopped at some point, and Lao Yu ran to the door of the room, intending to reprimand his daughter, but when he saw the situation of the two of them, he froze in place in a daze.

The afternoon breeze passed through the treetops, and the sound was like a weeping tide.Yan Lanyu sighed silently, gently pulled down Minmin's hand, and stroked her head.

The day Minmin boarded the plane happened to be a school holiday, so little classmate Ye Shisan took his father and mother and his skewers, and ran to see off the plane with great interest.

The strange thing is that Lao Yu came, but Yan Lanyu didn't.Before Minmin left the customs, she looked back several times, with disappointment and sadness that could not be concealed in her eyes.

Lao Yu walked out of the airport gate while lighting a cigarette, and sighed: "Long Jiu, Qianmianhu originally meant to send your little Shisan to go, and Xiao Shisan's special training course results are amazing. Everyone thinks that he is a talented person...not to mention that he is good at skills and young, so he will be trained more in the future, and he may be able to go overseas..."

Long Jiwei said with a stern face: "I said that I can't give him special treatment. The special students are all from universities or even graduate students. Who is Xiao Shisan, and why should he be given special treatment?"

Old Yu wanted to say that your little thirteen had difficulty in getting into college, right? He got thirty points in math in the midterm exam, right? The day the grades came out, he squatted at the door of the teacher's office crying out of breath, and the girls in the class were all so distressed. I coaxed it over and over again... It's rare that your child has the specialty of being an intelligence officer, so don't force him to solve the three-dimensional geometry problem, wouldn't it be good to go abroad to hone it for a few years?We are short of overseas special service personnel!

Ye Zhen's ears moved, and he asked curiously: "Can I also study abroad? My grades are very poor."

"It's not just about studying, there are other things," Old Yu said kindly: "Of course, at your age, studying is a task that cannot be ignored, mainly language and social relations. Extensive social relations are the winning factor for intelligence personnel to succeed. For example, Qianmianhu has more than [-] different identities in more than a dozen countries, and each identity has its own huge intersecting information network..."

Ye Zhen didn't know why, so he asked: "Can you take Chuan Chuan with you? Accompanying you or something."

Kurosawa shook his head, cool and expressionless, but his face was a little red that was not easy to notice.

Long Jiwei stopped them from discussing this topic again, but was preempted by Lao Yu: "You can bring it if you want, haha, but it depends on whether Gu Chuan has time. The bodyguard company has just started on the right track, and the business is very busy. ..."

"Can you stop hooking my kid so that he doesn't study hard? Special students or something, we can talk about it after his third year in high school!" Long Jiwei couldn't bear it anymore, "If you have nothing to do, I'll find you some work right now—put your head down Turn back 180 degrees, see that silver Lexus parked by the side of the road?"

Everyone turned their heads back in unison, and even Kurosawa, who took it upon himself to pretend to be cool, couldn't control his curiosity.

I saw the sun shining down from the tree-lined road outside the airport. In the driver's seat of a car by the side of the road, Yan Lanyu was wearing a light blue fine-grained slim-fit shirt with rolled cuffs. A small section of chain rope was faintly exposed at the open neckline. Leaning on the open car window, revealing slender and strong arms.

He squinted his eyes and looked in the direction of the plane in the sky, his soft black hair was blowing in the breeze, and it seemed like a pleasing picture for an instant.

Long Jiwei held Ye Zhen by the back of the neck, and said coldly: "Want to abduct Xiao Shisan? Let's solve your own troubles first."

Old Yu: "..."

Ye Zhen's mid-term exam results are all down. Compared with the final exam before the winter vacation when Kurosawa was scolded by the teacher, this time the results have improved a lot--mathematics has improved from zero to three. [-] points, barely passed English, and [-] points in history and geography!

However, chemistry and physics still maintained a stable performance, one seven points and one ten points; Chu Ci was so angry that he called for education that night, but in the middle of the education, Uncle Han Yue became so beastly that he dragged Teacher Chu Ci to bed to continue education. Thirteen therefore escaped from the tiger's mouth and did not mention it.

In order to reward Ye Zhen for his rare progress, Kuisawa decided to take him back to Dalian for a trip during the May Day holiday.

Xuan Lin sneered at this: "Is it worth rewarding for this achievement?! If you want to find a reason to take him out to play, just say so! This child is just spoiled by you!"

Xuanlin's anger is justified: it wasn't Kuisewa who was scolded by the parents in the mid-term exam. Heisawa went out of the country to buy arms; His head was bloody, he wished he could transform himself on the spot, put his tail around his neck and kill himself.

But in front of Ye Zhen, who was only thinking about going out to play, and Kurosawa, who was full of courage, Xuan Lin's obstruction was insignificant at all.On the first day of the holiday, Xuanlin woke up to go to the bathroom early in the morning, and when he passed by the door, he saw Ye Zhenwo sleeping sprawled on the small bed, snoring and spitting out snot bubbles at the same time; as a result, when he came back to the cage and woke up, he suddenly found that Ye Zhen was gone. The quilt on the bed was lifted, and there was nothing left. There was only a note on the table: "Dear Uncle Xuanlin, I went on a trip with Chuan Chuan, and I will be back in seven days! I love you Ye Shisan."

Xuan Lin tremblingly looked at the wide open glass window, and suddenly five thunders struck the top.

It has been almost two and a half years since Ye Zhen left Dalian to study art in Yunnan.

Along the way, Ye Zhen was talking about buying gifts in Dalian, going to Miaojiang to see Baoweng, seeing the gentle and beautiful sister of the Miao nationality... He kept talking about entering the hotel, looking out from the big floor-to-ceiling glass windows, and seeing the blue sky in the distance. the sea.

Kurosawa was much more straightforward. He took off Ye Zhen's clothes, put on his swimming trunks, and wrapped them in a big towel: "Go, go swimming!"

Go for a swim!

Sunshine, sand, beach!

The long-lost two-person world, ah two-person world!

Satisfied, Kurosawa grabbed Ye Zhen and kissed him several times along the way; when he got to the beach to see it, it was noon and there were not many tourists, and there were colorful tents everywhere to block the view, so he was even more satisfied.

The waves in the distance rolled snow-white flowers onto the reef, splashing water mist all over the sky, and the warm sea breeze rolled in a slightly salty smell, which made people feel refreshed.Ye Zhen squatted on the beach and carefully poked the water surface, worried: "But I can't swim, what should I do?"

Kurosawa hugged Ye Zhen from behind, casually kissed the back of the neck, and said, "It's okay, I'll teach you. The first step is to learn how to swim. Be obedient and don't move..."

He breathed on Ye Zhen's bare back, grabbed Ye Zhen's wrist and made a planing motion forward, and at the same time, his long legs were still wrapped around his feet, rubbing against Ye Zhen's whole body itchy, he laughed madly while struggling , Rolling around on the beach, covered in sand.

Someone on the beach heard the sound and looked over, but it was too far away to see clearly, and Ye Zhen's figure was thin, so he thought it was a man bringing his girlfriend to the beach to play, so he didn't care.

Ye Zhen was thin-skinned, and while he was struggling, he frantically stuffed sand into Heisawa's mouth, cursing: "Put me up quickly! What if someone sees me, ah, ah, ah, it's so embarrassing!"

Kurosawa poohed a few times, then said casually, "What's the matter, just pretend to be Japanese when you're ashamed."

Ye Zhen: "..."

Kurosawa said enthusiastically, "Come on, let me teach you how to swim, turn around and let me hug you..."

Ye Zhen: "No, I can do it myself! Don't pretend to be self-serving—! Ahhh, let me go, I ate a lot of sand..."

Even though Ye Zhen had a developed motor nerve, it took him a whole afternoon to learn how to dog-plan - it's not bad to be able to learn how to dog-plan under such shameless harassment.

In the evening, the sky will be dark, and the golden red sunset hangs on the sea level, as if the melted gold water and the sea are mixed together.Snow-white seagulls skimmed across the water, and Kurosawa jumped out of the water, shouting: "Ye Zhen!"

Fifty meters behind, Ye Zhen popped his head out of breath, and said angrily: "It's really unfair to bully the weak, if you have the ability, let's compare!"

Kurosawa dived over to support him, and slowly swam to the shore.They played several games in the afternoon, and Ye Zhen lost every game. After the comparison, Ye Zhen would probably suffer from cramps.

It was nearly a kilometer away from the beach where they went into the water. As soon as they landed, Ye Zhen was paralyzed, lying on the beach panting, and said, "You are a shark."

Kurosawa was a little proud: "That is."

"You must be able to swim at a very young age. It's not fair. I will practice every day when I go back. One day..."

"One day we can try being in the water," Kurosawa said solemnly, "Although I haven't tried it, it is said to be very exciting."

Ye Zhen was expressionless, and kicked Kurosawa's face.

They rested on the beach for a while, and the sky was getting dark, and the distant sky had been stained with dark gray.Back at the hotel at this time just in time for dinner, Kuisawa helped Ye Zhen up, and was about to walk back, when suddenly Ye Zhen said, "This place is so familiar, why do I seem to have been here before?"

"Ok?"

Ye Zhen hurriedly waved his hands to tell Kuisawa not to speak.Under the gloomy sky, there are large bushes growing on the cliffs by the sea, and the steep rocks cover the sky, like sharp teeth of wild animals, protruding abruptly and ferociously.

The sound of the sea tide is endless, as if it has never stopped crying since ancient times, whimpering from a far away place, rushing to a distant place.

Ye Zhen's face was gloomy, and he said for a long time: "I want to... climb up that mountain and have a look."

At this time, the sea breeze has cooled down, and it is estimated that climbing a mountain back and forth will be delayed until very late.But Kuisawa didn't have time to object, Ye Zhen had already strode towards the foot of the mountain.

The hillside is not high, but it is rocky and the weeds are knee-high, and it is easy to slip when climbing barefoot.It took the two of them a long time to climb to the top of the hillside. They could only hear the sound of the tide coming from the bottom of the cliff, which was vast and far away, hazy and unclear.

The hillside is in the shape of a T, with a long road extending from one end to the cliff, and the two ends are as steep as if cut by a knife. From time to time, the sound of small insects chirping can be heard in the bushes.Ye Zhen stood on the cliff and looked back, his face could not be seen clearly in the shadows, and it took him a while to hear him say in a hoarse voice: "I have been here before."

Kurosawa's heart moved, and he asked, "When?"

"A long... a long time ago... when the terrain was higher, there were many broken rocks that fell from the top of the mountain, and I hid in this place..."

Ye Zhen paused, and said softly: "Several bullets were shot in his body, and the blood flowed all over the ground... Later, he fell off the cliff from here."

He looked back at his heels. The black rock on the cliff was hard and silent. After a hundred years of war, it looked at him silently.

Kurosawa said in a deep voice, "But you still survived."

"Well, it's very strange. Now that I think about it, it was noon when I went down the mountain to Lushun City, and it was the next night when I touched the Japanese military camp. It took more than a day to walk dozens of kilometers on foot. According to the footprints and I searched for the retreating direction of the Japanese army from the traces of broken bushes, and then walked from Lushun City to this beach... After taking advantage of the chaos to attack the Japanese barracks, I fell from here in the early morning of the third day. It’s strange that I didn’t die.”

Ye Zhen paused and took a deep breath.

"When I woke up, I was lying in the grass. I didn't expect that when I closed my eyes, my feet would jump. In just a second in mid-air, the world under my feet had passed for hundreds of years..."

Kurosawa couldn't help asking, "Did you still have injuries when you woke up?"

Ye Zhen shook his head.

"There is no scar, only a sprained ankle. The strange thing is that I felt smaller at the time, and my physical condition seemed to grow back to about a year old."

Kurosawa thought for a long time, and said: "Perhaps we can make a hypothesis, that is, time, as the fourth-dimensional coordinates that frame this world, may produce gap-like...anomalies due to the influence of some higher-dimensional spaces, and you are in The moment I jumped off the cliff, I passed through two overlapping gaps..."

"The first gap allows you to travel back to a year when you were dying, and then the second gap randomly transports you from a year ago to hundreds of years later. This can explain that you were not seriously injured when you appeared in modern times , because you didn't just wear it once, but..."

Kurosawa fell into thought again, and said after a while: "It is even possible that the time gap is random. At that moment, you passed through hundreds, thousands, and countless gaps, and appeared in endless parallel worlds at the same time. , and the year 100, more than [-] years after that war, was nothing more than a coincidence of final landing ground."

Ye Zhen's eyes were red, and he said lightly: "Really, it seems that I chose the luckiest landing place."

Kurosawa half-kneeled down, and sat with him on the cold rock, only to see the waves of the sea in the distance, and finally beat slowly and gently on the beach, leaving behind wet sand.

"After you go back, tell me more about that era when you have time. I heard that your mother looks very much like Long Jiwei?"

"Well, very similar. The eyes are exactly the same."

"Do you have friends?"

"Many...but all dead."

Ye Zhen was silent for a while, and said in a low voice: "Actually, I also regretted it. If I didn't jump from here and survived, maybe I could lead the army to fight like my brother, overthrow the late Qing Dynasty, establish the Republic of China, and participate in the Anti-Japanese War... If I've lived long enough, maybe I'll live to see the founding ceremony in [-]..."

Hei Ze laughed when he said it, and jokingly said: "I guess you will be able to stand on the platform at that time, maybe you can see you in the history books."

Ye Zhen didn't smile, and said lightly: "I regret it very much. I missed that turbulent era, the only era when I could justify, kill, and revenge with blood for blood."

Kurosawa didn't answer, just patted his shoulder gently, his palm was dry and strong.

"Then what are you going to do in the future?"

"Hmm... I don't know." Ye Zhen said, "Maybe I entered the secret service as Lao Yu said. Haven't I been registered by them for a long time? Besides, I don't know what else... What else can I do for the people around me."

The night wind carried the smell of the sea and whizzed past them.In the distance, the sky is twilight, and the fishing lights are reflected on the dark sea, like bright stars scattered in the depths of the sea.

Ye Zhen turned his head to look into Kurosawa's eyes, and said softly: "They have done so much for me, I hope one day I will be able to protect them, to protect thousands of people in this era who are as unarmed as my parents and folks back then. In the event of a war, people can only be slaughtered at will."

Kurosawa stared at Ye Zhen, the rippling light of the sea seemed to be reflected in the depths of each other's pupils.

After a while he smiled and said, "Okay."

A hundred years of vicissitudes have changed, and the silent time overlapped at that moment, and all the pages with mottled history in the middle disappeared silently.

They came from the gap that time missed, taking this moment as the origin, walked side by side under the starry sky, and slowly walked into the distance.

The author has something to say:

I don’t know if there will be a side story ╭(╯3╰)╮... still not sure...


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