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After sorting out the things here, I found that many things in the past that seemed ordinary were actually undercurrents, and there was not a moment of peace.
Now that I think about it, that suspicious Children's Palace that was suddenly built was probably the work of the vagrants.
Nian Huairen taught at the Children's Palace in order to get closer to Zhang Can, who was a teacher, and to use this identity to screen on a large scale and monitor those married women of appropriate age and their existing and future children at any time. It seemed that he was ready to find a needle in a haystack.
I don't know why Nian Huairen chose the wrong person. I once thought that my mother Zhang Can would be his target, but he and the wanderers behind him seemed to have too vague an understanding of the first generation Nian Ziqing.
Strangely, this actually doesn't make sense.
——Since Nian Ziqing was most likely one of the experimental subjects looted by the wanderers, then logically, they should know Nian Ziqing's origins, life experience, appearance, and kinship very clearly.
At least if we can make a wish, there must be a way to know where our future selves captured the child from.
Considering the raging and cruel devilishness of the wanderers at the time, it should have been a simple task for them to follow the clues to find the young mother and brutally kill her before she was born.
But the fact is, the Nian family has always existed in past records and has never been erased.
This undoubtedly shows that the plan to capture and kill the first generation of young people has completely failed.
What's going on? Why did the wanderers fail to deliver on such a crucial matter and still can't figure out Nian Ziqing's origins and whereabouts?
Even considering obstacles like the grandmother paradox, they may not have much hope for this plan, but they should still try their best so that it won't be so useless.
I still find it a little hard to believe, but when I think about it, they really seem to be that useless. Otherwise, how could they have picked the wrong person and brought him to our house?
Back then, my mother Zhang Can was holding me and was able to accidentally break into Zhang's Hospital. Now thinking about it, it was probably because these people were unwilling to give up and were secretly doing something behind the scenes. Two years after they "released" her, they brought up the old matter again and wanted to make another confirmation attempt.
But the embarrassing thing is that the young Zhang Can is indeed an ordinary person, and has nothing to do with the Zhang family or the Nian family at all.
What's even more ironic is that while this group of people were desperately looking for Nian Ziqing's whereabouts, the Nian family's legitimate descendant, Broker, was still fine and had met Zhang Can once in the hospital.
This undoubtedly proves once again with its own existence that it is impossible for anyone to find and kill the original Nian Ziqing, let alone prevent the establishment of the Nian family and the loss of contact with the banyan tree.
That’s strange. So, at that delicate moment in time, where are the young people who have been born or are about to be born?
Are the wanderers really helpless?
At worst, if they really couldn't find Nian Ziqing, they could just be a bit cowardly and not create the experimental subjects, completely eliminating the possibility of Nian Ziqing coming into contact with the banyan tree, right? Wouldn't that also solve the problem from the source?
Hiss, it seems that this is really not possible. Creating experimental products is something that is bound to happen.
This may sound a bit strange, as if the wanderers are just asking for trouble.
But I thought about it, if I were to be more serious and look at the timeline, I would find that:
The wanderers' production of the first batch of the yellow bud elixir of immortality should have been carried out almost simultaneously with their plan to hunt down Nian Ziqing, or even earlier than the plan to kill Nian Ziqing.
Therefore, there will be -
They first hunted down the unborn Nian Ziqing to prevent her from becoming a test subject, and then the future Nian Ziqing accidentally became one of the later test subjects and came into contact with the banyan tree;
First, they created a weakened substitute for the banyan tree for no reason, in pursuit of the yellow bud elixir of life. Later, an accident occurred during the development of the elixir of life, causing the banyan tree to disappear and a replacement was needed.
——All these things that sound very strange and counterintuitive happen.
But this is not a problem. As for the banyan tree, the timeline of all related causes and effects has always been reversed.
The abnormal behavior of the wanderers can only mean that in the response of life and death with the banyan tree, they somehow felt that there was an unnatural gap in the closed loop of the banyan tree's birth, and discovered that in the coming future, the banyan tree would suddenly disappear for a long time.
From the perspective of the wanderers at that time, it is inevitable that there would be a fear that is too groundless for outsiders:
Once they lose the banyan tree as an anchor (kite string), it will be difficult for them to stay for long. There is a one in ten thousand chance that they will be forced to restart their wandering and leave this world before they turn into a banyan tree.
This is a matter of life and death. If it is not handled properly, the closed loop may be broken by the migrating rats, and the banyan tree will not be able to be born. By then, the entire cause and effect time will be a mess, and God knows what will happen.
Under such hidden dangers, it can be said that the wanderers were somewhat forced to create the yellow bud "elixir of immortality" in order to obtain absolute permission to stay in this world.
So at least, they must hold on until the moment the banyan tree is born, to preserve their own small closed loop, and then they will have the opportunity to move forward slowly in the future.
Therefore, before they successfully obtain the elixir of immortality, they dare not stop even if they know it is drinking poison to quench thirst.
This is a darkly humorous mess, a circular paradox in which it is impossible to determine whether the chicken or the egg came first.
But it's funny, because it means that until the very last moment, they still didn't know that Nian Ziqing was Nian Ziqing.
I don't know whether I am feeling more gloating at this moment, or more helpless and angry about the unexpected disaster that our family has suffered. I can't help but sigh in the darkness.
The little fat cat had no idea why I was having cramps and was mad. He looked at me and thought I had taken the wrong medicine. He was so scared that his fur stood on end and he ate heavily at the small pill in his saliva pocket.
I burst out laughing, suppressed my annoyance, patted the cat, and asked it to myself:
"Donzai, tell me, a person can't predict the future before he is born and hide himself and his family invisibly."
That would be like being a god.
Dongzai didn't know what I was asking, but he decided to show his support for me. He nudged me with his back and meowed back and forth.
I stroked the cat, lost in thought, and thought the whole thing over again.
...What else is missing?
The whole inference should be generally correct.
When I ask myself honestly, I know that although I have had some adventures, I am still just an ordinary mortal. All I have is some temporary cleverness. I dare not say that my guess at this moment is the absolute truth.
But this chain of logic does fit all the information I have come across so far, and it is unlikely that there will be a second answer that fits better.
——Could it be that the first generation young man was really so mysterious and fell directly from the sky?
As I was inadvertently complaining in my mind, I suddenly froze in place, realizing an extremely simple truth, and my mouth suddenly became dry.
...as if it had fallen directly from the sky; there was no information available to the outside world; even the wanderers turned a blind eye to it and could not find it no matter what.
Such candidates do exist.
Lian Nian Huairen didn't know that he was not in the wrong place. Nian Ziqing was right there, and he was Zhang Can's flesh and blood.
But it’s not Sanyi, and certainly not me. Because just as Nian Huairen wrote, Nian Ziqing is not “he”, but “she”.
It’s my younger sister Xu Ping.
I felt dizzy and my hair stood on end.
Yes, with the answer right in front of me, I spent a boring and stupid time thinking about it for a long time and still couldn’t think of anything related to it.
If Pingping was young, everything would be logical. For a time, she did not exist to the outside world.
Come to think of it, the only outsider who knew that there might be a "Lan Lan" in our family over the years was the broker.
But given the character of the master's wife, she only showed concern for the stranger Zhang Can out of kindness. Even if it was Xu You and other members of the Zhang family, the broker would not bring this up as a topic of conversation. To her at that time, Zhang Can just had a minor hallucination.
She didn't know that someone was hunting the first generation of young people.
As for other people, because of Nian Huairen’s neurosis and hysteria, even if they found that Zhang Can seemed to be trying to take care of a ball of air, they would probably think that she was just a poor crazy woman who was tortured by postpartum depression.
Ah... I suddenly realized clearly how "Nian Ziqing" disappeared.
Because the wanderers didn't pay much attention to Nian Huairen, and Nian Huairen always looked down on Zhang Can, an ordinary person.
It was these ridiculous contempts that became the best cover for the darkness under the lamp, making them miss the weakest and most inhuman state of Ping Ping.
As Xu Ping grew older and became more like an ordinary person, it was no longer just me and my mother Zhang Can who could see her. She never left the house and stayed at home. She was guarded by a sentry box inside and Zhang Tianyi and Sanyi outside to prevent anyone from watching.
Later, she went to the hospital for treatment due to her weak health and occasionally came into contact with the outside world. As she grew older, more people could see her.
But because our family had been abandoned long ago and there was an information gap, the most dangerous people Xu Ping encountered at this time were the group of outsiders represented by Wang Yongfu.
Although they came to cause trouble, it had nothing to do with hunting down Nian Ziqing. Instead, they were working for the elixir of immortality.
Therefore, they just treated her as an insignificant experimental candidate and dealt with her perfunctorily, casually handing her two unsuccessful yellow sprout immortality pills as screening reagents.
As for those ordinary doctors who might have been accidentally involved in this matter, who had examined and treated Xu Ping seriously and knew that she was "her", they knew nothing about Nian Ziqing.
Doctors would not inexplicably publicize whether their ordinary little patients were male or female, nor would they deliberately mention it to Wang Yongfu and others. There was a clear distinction between ordinary people and vagrants.
What’s even more unfortunate is that during this period, there was also me who was passively confusing the audience.
To the outside world, it was actually me who had been in trouble and had to go to the hospital frequently since I was a baby. After all, the first time I went to the hospital, it was by accident that they arranged for me to go there.
Nian Huairen must have known that the Xu family had a suspicious idiot who was in poor health and had many strange things happening to him. He looked like the type of snack that ghost stories loved to eat, but he was such a useless "he" who was only here to cause trouble.
I guess for a long time, Nian Huairen was annoyed whenever he mentioned me, and classified me as one of those failed examples of casting a wide net, and he was too lazy to even take a second look at me.
Children at that time did not have obvious developmental characteristics and were somewhat difficult to tell whether they were male or female. Apart from my mother, who else could tell the difference between Xu Ping and me?
The only thing I am concerned about is that the wanderers know the existence of the "Blue Star" Holy Child, and they may be wary of me for a moment.
But the power of my wish coming true only lasted a short time, and it was always balanced, never manifested obviously. It was too far-fetched to say that my identity was determined based on the nickname "Lanlan". I should not have been overly noticed, but it further cleared us of "suspicion".
In this way, all the mysteries surrounding Nian Ziqing are explained.
...So, my sister Pingping is not dead?
She just couldn't stay in the present time for some reason, otherwise she would wither. So by chance, she accidentally went to the past, found a place that suited her, and eventually grew up healthily, grew old well, and lived out her own magnificent life.
Will it, huh?
I felt like an electric shock all over my body. Fate was so mysterious that it gave me such good news that I never dared to imagine.
As I mentioned before, when Pingping "died", my brother was the only one left by her bedside. Pingping discussed with him, hoping to end the meaningless bedside lingering and get a clean release.
Oh my God, there must have been some misunderstanding. Pingping disappeared after coming into contact with the cavity, making Sanyi think that the separation in front of the hospital bed was a farewell forever.
I felt dizzy and my whole body suddenly felt light-headed. It was an indescribable ecstasy and dreaminess, as well as some inexplicable mixed feelings. I almost wanted to jump up immediately, rush out of the old house, and yell into the thick fog.
She is alive. Pingping just left home and is out of sight, but she is alive and well. Xu Ping is alive!
Looking at the blurry old photo again, the old lady who was old but still full of vitality was incredible and strange, and completely beyond my imagination. She had friends, comrades, and younger generations around her, and her personality and appearance had changed drastically.
She has changed so much.
But we finally found her.
I thought, I must look stupid if I couldn't help grinning, but tears immediately flowed down my cheeks.
It turns out that in this world, there are still traces of her life. Xu Ping really existed.
She is not the little girl as tall as I remember, but a very remarkable person.
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