Past? Future

Outside the hospital, Shi Jiu whispered something in Shi's mother's ear. Shi's mother widened her eyes when she heard the news, but because she was outside, even though she had a lot of words to say, she held them back and finally uttered a word.

"Let's go! Let's buy some delicious food! It's a snack for today!" Shi's mother pulled Shi Jiu towards the nearby vegetable market. "Tell me what you want to eat today! Buy it and ask your dad to cook it for you!"

Shi Jiu burst out laughing when he heard this. "Dad doesn't seem to know we're going to have to prepare a feast today. Will buying so much food be too much for him?"

"No matter what, it's such a big deal, shouldn't he express his opinion?!"

At the end of the shopping, Shi Jiu saw that his mother was carrying a lot of bags, and she even bought a small cart to carry all the vegetables.

"Mom, are we going to make all of it today? We can't finish it!"

After all, I have to do it myself when I get home, which is tiring.

Mother Shi looked at the various fresh vegetables in her box. Yes, she was so excited that she couldn't stop eating. She rolled her eyes and a plan came to her mind.

"Jiujiu, why don't you ask your boyfriend to come over and have a meal with you, so that you can burn off the energy." You can also get to know him at the same time.

"Ah? But we just confirmed our relationship in the past two days. Isn't this a bit too fast?" Shi Jiu was overwhelmed when he heard his mother's suggestion. If he called her over, the whole family would have to cook. Wouldn't that be tiring?

"Mom! How about this? We can go back home today and cook four or five dishes for a good meal. If you want to see him, I'll book a better place for another day. That way, you won't have to worry. Is that okay?"

She was still a little afraid that if she cooked for herself, the workload would be too heavy. Seeing that her mother wanted to say something, she immediately added another sentence.

"We have to go home today and talk about what I just told you, so let's not call anyone over!" These words successfully scared Shi's mother. Yes, there are important things to discuss today!

"Yeah, Mom got it wrong. It's better for us to just eat together as a family."

Seeing that Shi's mother had diverted her attention, Shi Jiu breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously. She had only one idea at a time and it was so erratic.

After the mother and daughter returned home, Shi's father naturally refused to eat so many dishes, but under the pressure from Shi's mother, he had no choice but to show his cooking skills and successfully prepared four dishes and a soup for lunch, which included fish, meat and seafood, and was quite rich.

"What the hell are you doing today? There are so many dishes. This is not the way to celebrate Jiujiu's recovery!" Shi's father complained while eating.

"Talk less, Jiujiu is going to give us a big surprise!"

"Yes, Dad, I won the lottery, tens of millions! I plan to buy you a house in the villa area. I have already picked out the specific type. Would you like to take a look?" Shi Jiu opened the photo album on his mobile phone and pulled out a picture to show them.

"What?" Shi's father was stunned after receiving two pieces of news in a row, while Shi's mother focused on the second half of Shi Jiu's sentence, "What? A house? Let me see!"

So Shi Jiu spent a lot of effort to convince his father and mother and make them accept this decision. After the meal, Shi Jiu felt extremely tired.

Fortunately, Qin Lou didn't come directly to my house...

Two days later, Shi Jiu went to a place specifically for exchanging lottery tickets and completed all the formalities, and then arranged for Qin Lou to formally meet with her family.

The whole process was that Shi's mother kept pulling Qin Lou aside to ask about the specific situation. Fortunately, Shi Jiu had reminded her not to ask too much about the family situation, otherwise Shi's mother would have dug up everything Qin Lou's ancestors had done.

When the whole process was over and they had dinner, when Shi Jiu sent Qin Lou away, he found that his originally tense body had relaxed and he felt much more relaxed.

"How is it? Are you okay?" Shi Jiu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said jokingly.

"It's good. Your parents love you very much." Qin Lou recalled today and felt that he was not so nervous even when he was facing financial difficulties in the early stage of starting a business. He breathed a sigh of relief from the bottom of his heart.

"Don't worry, your parents have a good impression of you. You can come over often to eat for free!" Shi Jiu could see the attitude of his father and mother, and tidied Qin Lou's clothes. "Okay, go back and rest early."

Qin Lou nodded and finally kissed the corner of her lips, "Okay, let's go travel to City B in a few days."

"Um."

After seeing Qin Lou off, Shi Jiu returned home. Shi's mother rushed up to her and held her hand, "Jiujiu, I think Qin is a good kid. You two should have a good conversation..." She said a lot of other things, which were mixed with the expectations that parents have for their children's second half of life.

Shi's father was also drinking tea and nodding in front of the coffee table, responding from time to time. Finally, when he heard Shi's mother say, "I was really worried that you didn't want to find a boyfriend. After all, you didn't have a boyfriend when you were in school..." Shi Jiu was a little dazed.

She...actually, it was just like what Shi's mother said. Before this incident, she really hadn't thought about finding someone to be with. Her biggest wish was probably to work hard, save some money, and be able to support her two elderly parents in the future...

Coming back to her senses, she smiled at Shi's mother and said, "I think it's a good idea too. We're going to City B in a few days. Are you really not going?" They had just discussed this matter at the table, but her parents didn't seem to be interested, so she asked another question.

"Oh, let's not go. You two can go and have fun. We would rather go somewhere closer. If you have time in the future, we can go together." Shi's mother waved her hand. City B was too far away, and they had no intention of traveling far for the time being.

"Your mother is right. It's all right if you two have fun." Father Shi said as he took a sip of tea.

Seeing that her parents really had no intention of traveling, Shi Jiu had to prepare the necessary things for the trip on her own. She was also quite curious about City B. She had always stayed in the safe zone before, and when she went out, there weren't many places to see outside.

Three days later, Shi Jiu and Qin Lou bought plane tickets and went directly to City B. As soon as they got off the plane, they were arranged to rest in a high-end hotel.

After washing up, Shi Jiu stood in front of the French window, overlooking the night view of City B, and sighed, "Xiao Qin, didn't you originally live here? Why did you come to stay in a hotel?"

Qin Lou had just come out of the shower. The misty water vapor made him softer than usual. He was wiping his wet hair. "I live quite far away. I have an apartment in the city, but it's not yet renovated. I might as well live here. It will be more comfortable for me to travel these days."

Even though the Qin family still existed, he would never set foot in that place again in his lifetime. He remembered that after waking up, he immediately collected evidence. Now... the Qin family should only be an empty shell...

Qin Lou's eyes were dark and unpredictable when he thought of those things, but when Shi Jiuwang looked over, he hid these emotions and raised the corners of his mouth slightly, "Why don't you take a good rest today and get enough energy before going out to play?"

Before Shi Jiu could react, she suddenly fell into a warm embrace. A sweet scent filled the air around her. When she lay on the soft big bed, she realized that Qin Lou actually used the same shower gel as her. The sweet fragrance produced different chemical reactions on both of them. The violent panting sounded unique under the dim light.

"Xiao Qin..." Shi Jiu whimpered as he felt the fatal touch. His hand, which was placed outside the quilt, suddenly tensed up at a certain moment, grabbing the white sheets under him, and then was tightly wrapped by Qin Lou's slender fingers, with their ten fingers intertwined.

"Jiujiu, how about calling me another name?" The sensitive earlobe was bitten lightly like a dragonfly touching the water, repeatedly, and had already been stained with pink.

"Woo..." Shi Jiu's eyes were blurred with tears, but she did not respond to him. Qin Lou reluctantly slowed down his movements, touched her shoulders, and buried his face in her neck.

"We...must stay together forever, okay?"

After a long time, the room returned to peace, with only warm warmth flowing.

In the dead of night, Qin Lou, who was originally asleep, felt his consciousness drifting away, and in a blink of an eye he came to an unfamiliar scene, no, it should be a scene he had not seen for a long time: a bun shop that was a bit shabby but did a lot of business.

But at this time he had become a conscious being, and others could not see him at all, and could even pass through his body. He stood next to the bun shop, watching time pass by little by little, and more and more people came to buy breakfast. Finally, he saw himself.

Xiao Qinlou, who was shorter than his peers due to malnutrition in junior high school, was squatting in a corner, staring at the bustling bun shop with cold eyes, wondering what he was thinking.

People were coming and going on the bustling streets, and everyone was busy with their own important things. No one noticed him at all. Just when the bell rang in the campus, he stood up and prepared to enter the campus. A bun fell from the sky and landed accurately in his arms. He looked in the direction and saw a girl with a backpack on her back waved at him, then turned and entered the campus.

Xiao Qinlou squeezed the still hot bun hard and flattened it. After standing there for a long time, he ate it quickly and entered the campus.

As an outsider, Qin Lou did not expect this to happen again. At that time, he happened to encounter a family change. His mother died when he was still young. After his stepmother married into the family, she would do things on the surface at first. However, when he was in junior high school, his stepmother no longer pretended and even intensified her deductions from his food and living expenses.

He didn't have much living expenses this week and didn't even have money to buy breakfast. As for why he didn't eat at home, the black-hearted woman didn't even let the maid prepare his portion. After several days, he stopped asking why there was no breakfast for him.

He had calculated that if he didn't eat breakfast this week, he could only eat lunch, so he had no choice but to bear it. Moreover, Qin Lou's self-esteem was even stronger at this time, and he had no intention of going to Qin Peng to complain.

It was at this time that he realized what kind of people Hu Lanjia and Qin Peng were, and he also felt disgusted with Qin Hang, who had been taught to be willful. At that time, his mental development was not yet mature, and apart from studying, his mind was filled with hatred and disgust for his family. Naturally, he was not a sunny person. The classmates around him were unwilling to play with him. The teacher knew roughly about his family affairs, but was unable to help.

He originally thought that he would grow up in such emotions and environment, but a bun that day disrupted his original life trajectory.

The next day, Qin Lou went to school as usual. Before he reached the bun shop, someone patted him on the back.

"Hey! Were the buns from yesterday delicious?" A naughty and funny girl appeared in front of him, but he didn't want to respond to her and continued walking forward with a stern face.

"Say something! If you don't think it tastes good, I'll send it away another day." Shi Jiu muttered behind Qin Lou when he saw that he didn't say anything.

Hearing this, Qin Lou stood still, "Why are you giving it to me?" Shi Jiu saw that he seemed a little unhappy, his eyes rolling, "Because I need to get rid of this, and you just need it!"

"Why buy it if you don't want to eat it?" Qin Lou didn't believe her words, but he was also curious about her actions. Was she doing it out of pity for him... When he thought of this, his anger increased.

"It's a long story!" Shi Jiu felt overwhelmed at the thought of having to deliver buns for the next month. Now that Qin Lou brought it up, he immediately started to complain bitterly.

"A few days ago, I secretly went to a nearby reservoir to play, and I accidentally saved the little daughter of a bun shop owner. I almost didn't make it, so I had to send her home. She was only five or six years old, but she burst into tears as soon as she got home. I tried to hide it, but I couldn't. I told the story in a few words, and then I got beaten up. I was so embarrassed standing there."

When Shi Jiu thought about it, he felt a little scared. "After her parents finished their mixed doubles match, they said they wanted to thank me and asked my parents to come over. I was so scared when I heard that. If my parents knew I had secretly gone there to play, my life would be in danger. So I tried to persuade them that I was just passing by and it was unnecessary. In the end, his family gave me a month's supply of steamed buns as a thank you gift. But I usually eat a full meal at home before going out. My parents and I have breakfast together, so I have to eat. He even waited at the door for the buns, afraid that he would miss me. He would force them on me as soon as he saw me."

"I'm worried that he might ask for information without seeing me. It would be terrible if he leaked it to my parents." After this incident, Shi Jiu never dared to go to the reservoir to play again. However, someone needed to deliver the buns, and it was not easy for her classmates to deliver them. So, she met Qin Lou who was in need.

This reason was not as insulting as he had imagined, and Qin Lou's mood stabilized a lot. However, when he thought that this was a thank-you gift from his boss to Shi Jiu, he hesitated, "Wouldn't this be a bad idea? After all, it's a token of someone else's kindness..."

Hearing this, Shi Jiu immediately said, "It's okay, I asked the boss, he allowed it, so classmate, are you willing to help me share the burden?" At the end, Shi Jiu clasped his hands together and made a pleading gesture.

"Can I give you tutoring as a thank you?" Although Qin Lou needed breakfast, he didn't want to eat for free, so he thought of exchanging knowledge for food.

"Great! My science is not that good, thank you so much, classmate!" Shi Jiu didn't expect that he could get a tutoring position for free, so there was no reason for him to refuse it.

Qin Lou watched their entire conversation from the side, and his originally dusty memories gradually became clear at this time. It was also because Shi Jiu broke into his life. He had breakfast every meal this month, and he could even choose buns with different fillings. In the process of getting to know each other, he also tried to talk about his family. Shi Jiu also used some suggestions that were not very mature but enough to soothe his heart, allowing him to focus more on himself. In the end, Qin Lou was able to get good grades in his studies and successfully get away from home. Shi Jiu's encouragement at that time played an indispensable role.

A month later, Qin Peng and his family moved to City B due to the development of the company's business. Naturally, he had no ability to resist, so he had no choice but to follow them. He originally wanted to say goodbye to Shi Jiu, but when he went to the class to find her, he learned that she had a high fever for the past few days and had finally recovered and was resting at home.

After meeting again in the hotel, he wondered from time to time whether it was the high fever that caused her to lose some of her memory and even change her personality. The scene in front of him slowly faded away, and he returned to the bed. Shi Jiu was still sleeping soundly beside him. He reached out and pinched her cheek. The warm touch brought his consciousness back, and now he felt the reality.

But he would never forget the girl who threw him the buns that day. Her bright smile was like a dazzling light that dispelled the haze in his heart. Later, in the hotel, she once again pulled him back from the edge of darkness...

"Don't leave me again..."

******

Among the distant stars, a crystal clear planet is moving. Looking closely, you can see that there seem to be countless data flowing in the planet, giving people a mechanical and mysterious feeling. However, the broken edges show that the planet may have suffered a considerable attack before.

This is the Space-Time Administration.

After completing the mission, 001 rushed back to the headquarters to hand in 233's consciousness. After receiving a large amount of points, he happily selected a suitable database in the bureau and planned to pay a large fee, and then he lay down.

But for some reason, the prices in the database have been rising very fast recently. Now, it seems that the prices have almost doubled. Just when 001 was hesitating, the small system next door quietly told him the truth: In fact, the problem of the traitor has not been resolved. Now many lower planes need the system to take on tasks to repair them. But they are afraid that the system will not be proactive, so they have to raise the price.

"I have completed the mission, but haven't those traitors been dealt with yet?" 001 exclaimed. The traitors this time were too powerful.

"It probably still takes some time." After the small system said this, it left immediately. It still had a mission to complete.

Just as 001 was secretly selecting the pension database with fear, black light continued to emerge from the broken edge of the planet, as if it was swallowing or assimilating.

——End of the full text——

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For me, this is really my first novel in my life. In fact, this is a series of works. There will be two and three later. Of course, the background and settings are different, but there is the invisible background of the Space-Time Administration. I guess those two books will not be published so soon. Although the pre-collected background also has a system, it has nothing to do with the Space-Time Administration. The introduction will be placed below. If you are interested, collect it. It is estimated that the work will be published at the end of October.