【Zhou Ye】The Foot of Time

Chapter 20

It's just that no matter how happy it is, Zhou Zekai is still in a bad mood after seeing the Ye family's New Year battles thoroughly.

The Ye family is a big family with a lot of people, so many that they don’t know what to call some relatives without downloading an app and typing in “father-in-law’s third brother’s wife’s sister’s cousin’s son’s wife” to do the math.Such a big family inevitably has all kinds of people, the good ones and the unsatisfactory ones, the old and the strong, the young and the young, and the chaotic ones sat at four tables. It is said that there are still many people chasing Don't come back, otherwise we will have to add another table.Since the Ye family is prosperous and scattered all over the place, there are few opportunities to walk around each other on weekdays, so they make an appointment every year to go to a city together for seven days. It's purely about food and housing. Whether you want to wander around Beijing or stay indoors and play cards at other times, it all depends on the individual.

On New Year's Eve, Zhou Zekai still felt that it was very fresh. The whole family gathered together to have a lively meal, and it was a taste of the Chinese New Year with the Ye family's characteristics.Oh, and, of all the people, he was the one who watched the Spring Festival Gala most seriously.To deal with the bears, they really followed Ye Xiu's method, smashing the red envelopes, of course they had to be good when they took the money, and if they were not, they threw it out.Of course, in terms of the thickness of the red envelopes, those sent out by Zhou Zekai were also the thickest ones—the Time Lords were never short of money, and they really were. Going to the future to see the lottery numbers is not a matter of twitching.

On the first day of the new year, I also felt good.Everyone is non-stop using various methods to pay New Year's greetings and grab red envelopes. Zhou Zekai hasn't had enough fun with red envelopes, something unique to China, so he uses Ye Xiu's account and has been in the relatives group and glory group in his name The red envelopes are distributed and distributed, watching a group of people robbing and robbing, let alone how happy they are.Mama Ye shook her head, saying that Zhou Zekai would turn into a money-spreading boy every Chinese New Year.Regarding this, Ye Xiu said that it was good for Zhou Zekai to be happy.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Zhou Zekai found a new pleasure - mahjong.Zhou Zekai has heard about this board game with Chinese characteristics for a long time, but he has never tried it himself.A group of unknown relatives in the Ye family were playing mahjong in full swing, and there happened to be a table missing one out of three. Of course they would ask Zhou Zekai, a local tyrant, and Zhou Zekai sat at the table just like that.The relatives of the Ye family were very surprised by this, and told Zhou Zekai that they just wanted to ask, because he had never refused to fight in the past, and his attitude was very firm after shouting many times.

So after rubbing in the dark all day, Zhou Zekai finally understood why his future self never wanted to play mahjong.Because my luck is really... not much different from the "Lele" in the glory group yesterday who was always tragic when grabbing red envelopes.He can memorize cards, calculate probabilities, and analyze what cards the other three players want, but no matter how good his brain is, he can match seven pairs of cards no matter what he plays!

In the end, when the cash was empty and had to use Alipay to transfer money, Ye Xiu finally couldn't stand it anymore, and when an old lady at the same table was going to take care of the child, she stepped forward, and then...then all the money Zhou Zekai lost went into Ye Xiu's pocket .

"...How did you fight?" Zhou Zekai couldn't help asking Ye Xiu when he got off the table while eating.Although he is really not short of money, and the red envelopes he gave out yesterday far exceeded the amount he lost today, but the feeling of sending out money and sending out money is really completely different.

"Huh? Just play casually. Anyway, I will always draw the cards I am missing, and most of the cards I throw will not be shot, so just quietly watch your own cards." After sitting on the dealer for two hours, even Ye Xiu, who had a peaceful life, put the joint property of the husband and wife into Zhou Zekai's trouser pocket, and replied so calmly, "You probably have a bad face because you play mahjong. You are good at poker and dice."

So Zhou Zekai solemnly told Ye Xiu that before he was reborn and changed his face, even if he was killed, he would not be on the mahjong table again.

"Then you will never be able to touch mahjong again."

"Huh?" Zhou Zekai blinked, not quite understanding—according to Jiang Botao, he was reborn in the future.

"This problem can't be solved by being reborn... Hey, who poured me the wine? Do you want Xiao Zhou to carry me home?"

In the third year of junior high, Zhou Zekai, who didn't play mahjong, tragically fell into the siege of aunts.What Chinese aunts worry about the most is the lifelong affairs of the younger generation. Even if Ye Qiucai is still studying at 21, he will inevitably be murdered.Although Zhou Zekai and Ye Xiu were a couple and the Ye family had already accepted it—from the reading between the lines Zhou Zekai could guess the earthquake—but they still had a burning soul of gossip.Not to mention the aunts, even among the little girls of the same generation, there are one or two with staring eyes and secretly taking pictures of them with their mobile phones. Once Zhou Zekai and Ye Xiu make some intimate movements, there will be a smile on their faces. exaggerated smile.It is conceivable that Zhou Zekai was eaten a lot of tofu in such a busy environment.

After being forced to chat round after round like this, Zhou Zekai suddenly felt that Chinese aunts who didn't work in intelligence agencies were really out of their wits.

"Huh? Don't you know?" Ye Xiu blew on the tea, still calm, "China's unknown intelligence agency, the main force of the Chaoyang people, is them. They are good at catching drug addicts and prostitutes."

Zhou Zekai immediately stood in awe.

So on the fourth day, when Zhou Zekai thought of those Ye family relatives, he didn't want to get up.Fortunately, Mama Ye was going to go shopping that day, so Zhou Zekai volunteered to carry things for Mama Ye for a long time, so he had a chance to breathe.On the fifth day of the new year, the last day of his vacation, Zhou Zekai finally dragged Ye Xiu out of the army of relatives, turned around and sat in a restaurant box.

"Hahahaha..." After ordering, Ye Xiu, who had a slightly round face, couldn't help laughing, "I'm still wondering how many days it will take for you to be unbearable this time. I think they wanted to introduce you to us at the beginning. When you were dating, you literally had 'I'm so angry I don't want to talk' written all over your body hahahaha!"

Zhou Zekai rubbed his temples - he really couldn't understand the practice of some elders meddling in the private life of the younger generation, which is unimaginable in Galli Frey, what kind of partner he finds is his own business, regardless of whether the other party is a man or a woman. How big would the racial gap be without gender!You must know that in his age when pansexuality was everywhere, even if someone announced that he was married to a stone, it would not be a big surprise.

"But it happens once a year. I ran away from home for so many years since I was 15 years old, and in the end I ran back to pay the crimes I owed all over again."

Yes, once a year.For people who are over a thousand years old, even if they are elders in terms of blood relationship, they are still children in Ye Xiu's eyes, right?In Ye Xiu's eyes, even if he is more than a hundred years old, he is still a young junior.

But...run away from home?

Ye Xiu was 25 years old when he became a fixed point, but he returned to his home when he was 21 years old to accompany his relatives, that is to say, he knew that the 21-year-old himself was not by his family's side, and this companionship had lasted for many years. Say... After Ye Xiu ran away from home at the age of 15, he never returned home until he became a designated point?And when he became a fixed point, he used the holographic projection capsule, pretended to be a 15-year-old boy, replaced himself back then, and returned home—it was precisely because of this that the Ye family did not find out that their underage son had escaped home , did not look for it, which made Ye Xiu run away from home successfully.

A 15-year-old kid, where did he go alone...

No, not alone.

He must have met Lord Grim's master, a time lord, who took Ye Xiu on a journey.And there were accidents in those adventures, which caused Ye Xiu to become the fixed point at the age of 28, and finally inherited Lord Grim—so, the time lord may no longer be alive.

In this case... everything makes sense.

Looking at Ye Xiu's old eyes—maybe only considered mature in the eyes of many humans—and thinking about the key points, Zhou Zekai couldn't help but say, "You... have experienced a lot."

"There are too many. Don't mention the places we have been to together. I can't count the places I have traveled." Ye Xiu obviously misunderstood, "However, the number of trips to extraterrestrials is still relatively small. After all, things in the universe I don’t know you, so most of the time I’m wandering around the earth. There are too many places to go in the world of tomorrow, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign. Especially those forgotten histories. If you don’t see it with your own eyes, you always feel that it’s useless to own one Where's the TARDIS?"

Zhou Zekai didn't intend to explain that he didn't mean it that way, but followed Ye Xiu's words to agree: "Well... there are natural wonders."

"That's right, the meteor shower that occurs once in hundreds of years is nothing."

Indeed, the magnificent spectacle in the universe that Zhou Zekai has seen is enough to be remembered for a lifetime: the first star of the collision between the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy, the birth of the Medusa waterfall, the shining sky of Cotter Palluni being ignited, The Sky Shadow Comet burns out before hitting M28, Push's disappearing moon returns, and Roebuck's sun and moon overlap once in a billion years...

It was so beautiful that even though Zhou Zekai was not good at expressing it, he couldn't help but describe those places to Ye Xiu.

While eating, he talked one by one. Although the words were so succinct, Ye Xiu still listened with great interest, and yearning appeared in his eyes as expected.That longing gaze made Zhou Zekai feel a desire. He didn't want to just express it through words, he should take Ye Xiu to experience those miracles together.

"In the future, I will take you with me."

Share the most beautiful scenery with your favorite people.If you can't even do this, it's useless to own a TARDIS.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Zekai did not see joy and anticipation in Ye Xiu's eyes. There was some kind of complicated emotion in the eyes of the other party. Zhou Zekai had seen it before - when he first met Ye Xiu and asked for his name. At that time, on the day of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the sullen Ye Xiu's face... He didn't understand it before, and he still doesn't understand it now.

For a moment he didn't even know what to say.

Under the sudden silence, Ye Xiu seemed to have discovered something, suddenly suppressed the emotions in his eyes, and said with a smile: "That's great, compared to what you said, the places I went to are simply worthless." mention it."

"No." Zhou Zekai suppressed the suspicion in his heart, and shook his head at him, "I want to hear...you go there more than me."

Ye Xiu took a deep breath, took a bite of his meal, and said, "Although I am older, I have worked longer hours than you, and the places I go to are definitely not as many as you imagined—Glory is a lifelong career, let alone For a rare talent like me, it is really difficult to retire. I prefer to read those ancient mysteries. When I was a child, the set of "Eternal Mysteries" was almost torn by me. Speaking of it, I am the craziest The first time I went to participate in the construction of the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang must have been, by the way, there are still bricks I built on the Great Wall..."

Zhou Zekai heard him talk about the hanging coffin in Longhu Mountain, about the disappearance of the ancient kingdom of Loulan, and how he saw the construction of the Hanging Temple with his own eyes. Biology, which is Cao Cao's tomb, who carved the big characters in Jingshiyu, who is the Mona Lisa, how did Atlantis sink...

The time footprints of the two time travelers, it really can't be finished in a day and a night.In addition to the places they have been to, Zhou Zekai has so many interstellar war experiences, and Ye Xiu has countless glorious incidents. If you take any one out, you can write a wonderful novel.The two ate while talking, and they ate slowly. In addition, the food in this restaurant tasted very good, and they accidentally ate too much. Zhou Zekai recalled the feeling of being full on the first day when he came to Ye Xiu's house.

"Your time is mainly the same as the heart, and it would be nice to have two stomachs." Ye Xiu couldn't help teasing seeing Zhou Zekai holding on.

Zhou Zekai said that this is really impossible.

"Don't say that once I really wish I had two stomachs. Ge... yes, the capital of Gloni Star, the pilaf there is so delicious."

"Hmm! It's delicious." Zhou Zekai had also been to that place, and remembered the special food there, so he immediately nodded and reconsidered.

"Hey, you've been there too?" Ye Xiu was surprised. "It looks very ordinary there. Could it be that you went there to maintain the peace of the universe?"

"Watch the double solar eclipse. Buka restaurant, recommended."

"Eh? Its two suns will have a solar eclipse?" Ye Xiu was surprised.

"Once in ten thousand years."

"If I have time, I will go to see it that day, maybe I can meet you in the restaurant."

Zhou Zekai smiled.This was impossible, because he didn't meet Ye Xiu that day in his memory.If Ye Xiu really saw him that day, he couldn't come up to say hello or be seen by him, otherwise it would be a mess.So he replied: "Next eclipse, let's go together."

"Okay, let's eat at the one you mentioned."

"...a thousand-year-old shop?"

Ye Xiu, who had reacted, couldn't help laughing: "Damn me, that restaurant will definitely not be there next time the solar eclipse. Eh, what about this—you had dinner at that restaurant for lunch?"

Zhou Zekai recalled: "Lunch. Watch the solar eclipse in the central square in the afternoon."

"Then it's over. We still go to that day, avoid your route at that time, and don't see you in the past, so as not to disturb the timeline. After watching the solar eclipse, go to that restaurant for dinner, it's okay ?”

Zhou Zekai thought about it carefully - this method is indeed feasible.As long as I don't bump into my past self, it is in line with my memory of watching the solar eclipse alone and not meeting acquaintances from the beginning to the end, and the timeline remains the same.

"Then choosing the day is worse than hitting the sun, let's set off now?"

"Uh..." Zhou Zekai glanced at the transmitter on his wrist, "There are...three hours left for vacation." His seven-day vacation was about to end, and three hours was not enough for them to complete this plan.The double solar eclipse can't be watched in one go, it lasted for six hours from the beginning to the end, not to mention eating.

"Is that so..." Ye Xiu didn't show the disappointment in his eyes at all, "Then forget it."

"Go again next time." Seeing that Ye Xiu wanted to go so much, Zhou Zekai wrote down the location.

Ye Xiu shook his head, and did not continue the topic: "By the way, where did we just talk about? Oh yes, you fought against Dalek in Orion, and after you won, you were awarded the Baise Flower by the Queen at the Betelgeuse celebration." wreath."

"Correct."

"Xiao Zhou, you should be considered to have experienced hundreds of battles by now." Ye Xiu sighed, "Much better than me. When I fought, I died over and over again."

Zhou Zekai repeated the word: "War?" Ye Xiu is in a peaceful age, how could he go to war?

"I haven't told you what you've seen so far? I'm a veteran—I didn't know Lord Grim had to feed me sugar back then, and I stopped at the wrong time and was trapped a hundred years ago..." Ye Xiu's voice A little more heavy.

Zhou Zekai looked at him in astonishment: "Before Jianguo...?"

"Yeah." Ye Xiu smiled bitterly, "I was there at that time. Although I felt pain and anger for me, it was an unreachable history after all. There were only cold dates and numbers, There is that standing monument. That was probably the time I was least willing to go to. After all, even if I die over and over again, it can’t change the fact that this country was brutally invaded. Not only because that period of history is a fixed point, but also because of that time, People need to wake up."

Zhou Zekai understood Ye Xiu's meaning in an instant. Even if he had the TARDIS, no matter how long he lived and saw many times, he also had the feeling of being insignificant before the wheel of history, so he grasped it right away. Ye Xiu clenched his fist unconsciously.He was about to say something, when suddenly a strange feeling surged in his heart, something, something that he suddenly understood flashed across his mind, and he almost missed it——

He had heard what Ye Xiu said just now, and it seemed that there was no difference in a single word.

Decades ago, when he met Ye Xiu for the third time, he only heard a small part of the recording in Lord Grim!

Zhou Zekai stood up abruptly.

"Ok?"

Facing Ye Xiu's blank stare, Zhou Zekai knew that this was by no means the current Ye Xiu's recording, but someone was indeed recording their conversation, and this recording ended up in Ye Xiu's hands.Just why did you record this passage?They have been talking about their respective journeys. Could it be that the enemy wants to obtain information about the time assassination?Thinking of this possibility, he couldn't help but tremble in his heart. He took out the sonic screwdriver in his pocket and scanned the box. It didn't take long before he found the bug under the table.

Ye Xiu also showed a hint of surprise when he saw the bug, and then nodded to Zhou Zekai.Zhou Zekai looked at the data displayed on the small screen of the sonic screwdriver, pointed to the wall, and the two immediately rushed out of the box, turned around and pulled out their guns at the same time, and directly kicked open the half-hidden door of the box next door——

"Ah?" Ye Xiu lowered the muzzle of his gun, "Why are you?"

The two teenagers in the room raised their hands pitifully - Zhou Zekai also knew these two kids, they were Gao Yingjie and Qiao Yifan, and he had met Qiao Yifan twice before.

The two of them made a lot of noise. Fortunately, the private room was located in a remote place and no one saw it, but the sound of the door panel hitting the wall was very loud. Ye Xiu quickly locked the door before the people in the other private rooms poked their heads out to check, turned around and paid the bill. The recorder began to "interrogate".

"What's going on? Put the bug on and record. Didn't you say that you must never disturb me when I go home? If there is something urgent to solve, just write it on the message board and wait for me to see it It'll be there in time."

"But..." Qiao Yifan said hesitantly, "Senior, you asked us to record. You said that you would eat in this box at this time of the day, and asked us to record all your chats next door and give it to you. "

"He also told us that we will be caught and not close the prison door, otherwise we will be kicked." Gao Yingjie added, looking a little aggrieved.

Ye Xiu was taken aback for a moment, but then he understood: "That's it... I know." After hesitating for a while, he handed the recorder back to them, and said hurriedly, "Go, I'm still there Waiting for you?"

"Yeah." Qiao Yifan took out the voice recorder, "Then senior... are we leaving?"

"Wait a minute." Zhou Zekai frowned and stopped them, "Why?"

Gao Yingjie was stunned for a moment before he realized what Zhou Zekai was asking, he shook his head and replied, "Senior didn't say anything, he just said it was useful."

Zhou Zekai felt uneasy in his heart—why did Ye Xiu, the future Ye Xiu record this conversation?What is the purpose of this?Zhou Zekai couldn't figure out why it was necessary to record everything he had already told Ye Xiu.He instinctively felt anxious, as if something crucial had been overlooked by him.

"Xiao Zhou is fine, you will always know about the future."

Ye Xiu's voice was like a tranquilizer, instantly calming the turmoil in Zhou Zekai's heart.He looked into Ye Xiu's eyes, and responded sullenly, "Yes."

"Don't worry, it's coming soon." Ye Xiu smiled, and that smile seemed to condense the lifelong insights of a person who has seen all the vicissitudes of life, "It won't be long."

Yes, not for long.

It's just that in the near future, after Zhou Zekai sorted out the matter, he would rather not know all of this——

Don't know how big and cruel a joke time has played for the two of them.

========

TWT... the foreshadowing of the recording is half filled... as I write this, I feel pain in my heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys...