In November, Zhou Xiu finished her last set of questions and was about to go to City B to participate in the National Middle School Mathematics Competition.
The National Mathematics Winter Camp for Middle School Students, referred to as CMO, the top 60 contestants with the best results will form the national training team. The competition entered the CMO stage, and the strongest students from all over the country gathered to compete on the same field. The level of difficulty was very high, and it was very difficult to win the gold medal.
The gap not only exists between provinces with strong and weak education, but there are also huge differences among members of the same provincial team.
Although Zhang Qi won the first prize in the provincial league by chance thanks to Zhou Xiu's notes, he failed to join the provincial team. Xu Haobo also failed in the provincial team selection. There are 15 people in the provincial team, 8 of them are from No. 4 Middle School, and only Zhou Xiu, Xi Shaoyuan and Xie Cheng from Yude are on the provincial team.
Zhang Qi himself said he didn't mind. He laughed and said, "I'm lucky to get the first place in the province."
The provincial team is where the gods fight. Zhang Qi did not take the college entrance examination, but getting the first place in the province can be considered as the fulfillment of his dream of competing for many years. Xu Haobo expressed his satisfaction. He plans to stay in China to study, and the provincial first prize will enable him to get extra points in the independent enrollment of colleges and universities.
Before departure, Yude generously provided first-class tickets for three students and a leading teacher.
After getting on the plane, Zhou Xiu found that it was a first-class cabin with independent seats that provided great privacy and comfort. He immediately took out the book from his bag and started reading it in a hurry. Before the plane took off, Xi Shaoyuan came over and handed Zhou Xiu a glass of milk and told her the precautions that Lao Wang had given her.
Xie Cheng noticed Zhou Xiu was reading a book, "Still reading?"
He lowered his head and took a closer look, and found that Zhou Xiu was reading The Lancet. He smiled and asked, "Xiu Xiu's English is so good now?"
The Lancet was recommended by Dr. Liu. He found that Zhou Xiu was eager to learn, so he gave her a whole year's worth of journals that he had collected. In addition to The Lancet, Zhou Xiu also read other tumor journals. Although it was ridiculous, she was indeed trying to understand Zhou Cheng's illness.
It took Zhou Xiu a long time to respond to Xie Cheng's question. She shook her phone and smoothly opened Google Translate to show him.
Xie Cheng burst out laughing.
He watched Zhou Xiu quietly. He knew what happened to Zhou Xiu's father. He had only seen Zhou Xiu lose her composure that day. In the evening, Zhou Xiu returned to her study state. Others could hardly see the depressed look on her. She completed self-adjustment in a very short time. He admired her sincerely.
Xi Shaoyuan watched Zhou Xiu finish drinking the milk before leaving.
The first-class flight attendant loved serving these three young and beautiful children. She asked Xi Shaoyuan and Xie Cheng if they wanted blankets, and replaced Zhou Xiu's water-based pen with a pencil. She even made three trips just to take care of food and drinks. If Zhou Xiu hadn't frowned to indicate that she needed to read quietly, she probably wouldn't have been able to stop their enthusiasm.
The flight attendants seldom see such good-looking children. The three students are unusually good-looking, especially the two boys, who are like natural clothes hangers, with broad shoulders, narrow waists, and long, straight legs. A breath of youthful vitality blows towards you.
It is worth noting that at the same time there was a popular young man in the first class cabin. The flight attendants couldn’t help but sigh in their hearts that the young man without the retouched photos was far inferior to these two teenagers.
After arriving in City B, Jiang Jiajun's text messages rolled out impatiently, inviting Zhou Xiu to his home for dinner. Zhou Xiu thought about the relationship between Jiang Jiajun and Jiang Huai, pondered for a moment, and replied, "Thank you, but that's not necessary."
There were 8 students from No. 4 Middle School who made it to the provincial team. When the students from No. 4 Middle School heard that Yude came here in first class, they couldn't help but envy him. Lu Liu crossed his arms and said jokingly, "I now know why Xuxu and Xie Cheng went to Yude."
At this time, the advantages of key private high schools become apparent. This kind of behavior of the rich will never work in public high schools.
The teacher of No. 4 Middle School received the envious looks from the students, and his heart ached. He said to his students with a stern face, "Everyone is tired today, go back and have a rest!"
Privately, he despised Yu De's nouveau riche behavior. He would be better off thinking about how to improve students' grades if he had such free time.
That night, students from provincial teams from various provinces gathered on site to report.
Lao Wang called out these three most beloved students and said with a smile, "Xie Cheng, Xi Shaoyuan, and Zhou Xiu, you should take a good rest these two days and conserve your energy so that you can do well for the exam the day after tomorrow. Especially Zhou Xiu, since I caught you doing the exercises in the middle of the night, I will punish you by making you do ten sets of exercises when you go back."
He said to Xie Cheng earnestly, "This is your second time participating in the national competition. Don't hand in your paper early like you did last time."
Last year, Xie Cheng ran back from the winter camp without saying goodbye. Lao Wang heard that he handed in his paper early, half an hour early, and finally missed the national training team by 3 points.
Others didn’t have enough time to finish their tests, but he managed to hand them in early! Lao Wang was depressed for the whole year last year, and his heart bleeds whenever he thinks of this incident.
He looked at the three students and said in a gentle and encouraging tone, "The principal said that Yude must win a gold medal this time no matter what. I believe in you. You are all excellent children. You are the strongest class of students I have ever taught."
Finally, Lao Wang gently reminded Zhou Xiu to eat well.
"I seem to have lost weight. I've been working too hard recently!"
Even the straight-laced Old Wang noticed that Zhou Xiu had lost weight, which shows that she had indeed lost a lot of weight during this period.
In the evening, Zhou Xiu did not write the test paper as usual, but called Liu Mei.
She chatted softly with Liu Mei with a smile on her lips, and her eyes on her peaceful face revealed a deep tenderness. On the phone, Liu Mei reminded her to study hard for the exam, and Zhou Xiu nodded in agreement.
At this time, the gold medal means not only honor to Zhou Xiu, but also hope to Zhou Cheng. Zhou Xiu has been preparing seriously for this day for a whole year.
Many fans in Zhou Xiu’s live broadcast room knew that she had entered the finals. Even though she was not live tonight, there were occasional encouraging comments.
"Anchor, come on, national tournament!"
"The anchor is a person with ideals. The happiest thing in the world is to fight for one's ideals."
"I'll do my best to be on the same field with you. I've been looking forward to this day for a long time."
Zhou Xiu opened the page and looked at it for a while. He felt warm in his heart. He felt filled with these encouraging words and was brimming with strength.
She fell asleep early that day. In her dream, she saw her father's smile as bright as the sun, his busy figure around the stove, and the curling green smoke and the smell of rice from the woodshed.
He carried her on his back to someone else's banquet. Zhou Xiu scraped the scales of the fish, and Zhou Cheng made it into a delicacy with a smile. He used the money he earned to pay for her tuition and buy her delicious food...
The next day was the opening ceremony of the winter camp. This year's opening ceremony invited important figures from all walks of life, including the Director of the Education Department of City B, the Secretary General of the Municipal Government, the Vice President of Tsinghua University, the Chairman of the Mathematical Society, the Vice Chairman of the National Science and Technology Association... The concluding speech was given by an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who is very prestigious in the mathematics community.
Academician Tian said: "Mathematics is the foundation of all natural sciences. Every great change in human society is supported by mathematics. If we, the Chinese nation, want to achieve national rejuvenation and stand among the world's strong nations, we must firmly grasp the key of mathematics. I hope that all young people will study mathematics well, take over the burden of building socialism from the pioneers of the previous generation, and strive for the rise of China.②"
There was warm applause at the scene, which lasted for a long time.
Zhou Xiu was silent in his heart. It was indeed mathematics that drove every advancement in medical technology. Recently she read some medical books and had a deep understanding of this.
For example, BNCT technology has appeared in the last century, but its nuclear neutrons need to be produced by nuclear reactors. A series of expensive costs such as high radiation, nuclear safety, nuclear storage, etc. have made this technology progress slowly. These problems were not solved until the development of electron linear accelerator-driven photoneutron source devices.
The examination began after the opening ceremony.
On the first day of the exam, Zhou Xiu glanced over the three major questions. The first number column was answered fairly well. It was a college entrance examination-level easy-to-scoring question, and Zhou Xiu took less than 20 minutes to solve it. The students in the examination room were all in good condition and finished the first question with smiles on their faces.
The second question was about number theory, which was much more difficult. However, she had studied number theory and advanced algebra carefully for a period of time in her second year of high school, so it didn't take much time to write it. After Zhou Xiu finished writing, he subconsciously looked at the time. It was still early, so there was no need to rush.
Zhou Xiu was stuck on the third question for a long time. She stared at the question and concentrated on thinking and organizing her thoughts for half an hour. It is still a number theory problem, and it is very complicated. Zhou Xiu had already gone through all the questions before, but she didn't expect to be stuck on this one. She must be too young and impetuous...
Half an hour later, Zhou Xiu found a solution to the problem using the principle of inclusion and exclusion, and it took him two hours to complete the verification. The process was extremely tedious and mind-consuming. This question may have been taken from a professor's paper. It is very skill-intensive but has no practical significance. The time came to 11:03, and there was about an hour and a half left until the end of the exam. The gold medal was of great significance, so Zhou Xiu did not dare to be careless. He went back to check it carefully, which took another hour.
At 12:10 in the morning, Zhou Xiu packed up her test paper and draft paper, handed it in, and left.
Everyone looked at the thin figure who walked out of the examination room decisively, holding a simple transparent pencil case, without looking back.
Zhou Xiu didn't know how much pressure she put on the students in the same examination room when she walked out of the examination room. The test paper she handed in was filled with dense writing, and the hearts of all the students in the examination room felt as if they were filled with lead. When Zhou Xiu left, most of the students in the examination room were still stuck on the second question. The draft papers on the table were piled up thicker and thicker. Some people spent ten sheets of draft paper but still couldn't solve the second question.
The second day's exam was more difficult than the first. Zhou Xiu didn't even have time to check the time. He concentrated all his energy on the questions and used up all the scratch paper very quickly. In the cold winter day, beads of sweat gradually appeared on Zhou Xiu's forehead.
When she wrote the last sentence "f(x)=x", she finally felt relieved.
Many people can’t help but sigh after taking the exam: My competition career ends here. Some people also lamented that they would have to take the college entrance examination when they returned...
Lao Wang was waiting for the students in the hotel calmly. On the one hand, he was waiting for the winter camp to end and the official announcement of the results. On the other hand, he was actively contacting the team leader. When he saw Zhou Xiu actually ran out, he suddenly felt under great pressure.
"Why are you out so early? You didn't even attend the award ceremony?"
The education at No. 4 Middle School is nationally renowned. The teachers at No. 4 Middle School are not worried about winning gold medals. What they care about is whether their students can enter the national training team. Lao Wang has led the team in many mathematics competitions. Apart from a gold medal won by Xie Cheng last year, he has won very few gold medals in his teaching career. I finally came across a few good talents and worked hard to coach them.
Lao Wang has high expectations for this year's competition.
Zhou Xiu ran out in a hurry, "I've already told the team leader, it's too late to tell him, I'll go to the airport first."
Old Wang was extremely upset. Not only was Xie Cheng like this, but even the most reliable Zhou Xiu was like this as well. His heart was crushed into powder. But when he looked closely, he saw that the student's eyes were red and filled with tears, and he was trying hard to control his emotions while talking to him. Old Wang was shocked.
The rebuke on his lips suddenly turned into unconditional tolerance. He took Zhou Xiu's luggage and said seriously:
"Hurry up, Zhou Xiu, I'll take you there."
Lao Wang was using his mobile phone to check the earliest flight to City C, and when he refreshed his page, he found that all the tickets were sold out. At this time, a black Bentley stopped at the door of the hotel. Xi Shaoyuan called Zhou Xiu and said that he had bought the tickets and asked them to get in the car.
After Zhou Xiu arrived at the airport, he persuaded Lao Wang to go back.
"Teacher Wang, I can go back by myself. Thank you for sending me to the airport."
Lao Wang was in a dilemma. He didn't know what happened in Zhou Xiu's family. He suddenly remembered that the student had asked for a period of leave before the competition, and he was very worried.
Zhou Xiu was the most self-disciplined and sensible student he had ever met. He was emotionally stable and he rarely saw Zhou Xiu lose his composure. Zhou Xiu's eyes were now red, and tears could fall at any time as she spoke.
The tickets for Zhou Xiu's flight have stopped selling, so even if Lao Wang wanted to send her back, there was no way.
Zhou Xiu waved goodbye to the teacher and turned to go to security check. A sweet female voice announced the flight information. People were coming and going in the airport, and everyone was in a hurry. The moment she turned around, she saw Xi Shaoyuan's figure in the crowd.
He was wearing a long white down jacket and looked at her from a distance with a calm expression.
Xi Shaoyuan walked towards Zhou Xiu and said, "No need to queue, it's faster to go through the VIP channel."
After the plane took off, Xi Shaoyuan handed Zhou Xiu a pack of napkins and said calmly, "Don't worry, just wipe it off."
Zhou Xiu asked Xi Shaoyuan why he was here. Xi Shaoyuan asked, "How did you do in the exam? I heard from someone at your exam room that you handed in your paper early. I asked Xie Cheng to stay and help us collect our medals."
After a while, he didn't hear Zhou Xiu's answer, so he took out his handkerchief and put it in her palm, "Listen... Zhou Xiu, cry if you want."
Having said that, he turned around and returned to his seat.
The single seat in the first-class cabin was very private. Zhou Xiu was staring blankly with her handkerchief in her hand, as if she had not yet recovered from her shock.
Severe heart pain hit like a tsunami. How could it be... like this?
After the exam, everyone gathered together to share their feelings and made plans to go out for dinner. The atmosphere was unusually relaxed and pleasant, and the air seemed to be filled with sweetness.
Zhou Xiu got the phone and turned it on and found more than a dozen missed calls, mainly from Liu Mei, with two missed calls from Dr. Liu interspersed in between.
She dialed Dr. Liu's number, and Dr. Liu's calm voice came from the phone: "Zhou Xiu, are you still in City B? Come back."
Zhou Xiu's joy after the exam disappeared, and she had a bad feeling. Sure enough, she called Liu Mei, and Liu Mei sobbed on the phone and said, "Xiu'er, your father is dying... Come back and see him for the last time."
…
After getting off the plane, Zhou Xiu's cell phone kept ringing.
Xi Shaoyuan urged the driver to drive faster. Zhou Xiu saw Zhou Cheng with tubes inserted all over his body on the video call.
Seeing his weak and haggard appearance, her heart ached so much that she couldn't breathe.
Zhou Cheng, who had undergone chemotherapy, actually did not have a good appetite, but he would always finish the food Zhou Xiu made with a smile on his face, looking like he was enjoying everything he ate. But after Zhou Xiu left, he would vomit violently, and Liu Mei would then feed him some porridge and sugar water.
In order not to worry Zhou Xiu, every time she came to the hospital, he always forced himself to be in high spirits and pretended to be in good condition. I tossed and turned in pain in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep, and my entire vest was wet. By mid-November, Zhou Cheng no longer had the energy to "act" and tactfully advised Zhou Xiu not to come to the hospital.
As soon as Zhou Xiu got out of the car, he ran towards Zhou Cheng's ward with all his strength.
Doctor Liu finally saw the two dusty children. He said to Xi Shaoyuan with regret, "I tried my best. His disease was discovered too late. If it had been discovered half a year earlier——"
He said, shaking his head. Xi Shaoyuan couldn't say anything more, he just nodded to him, "Thank you."
Zhou Xiu saw Liu Mei collapsed and cried beside Zhou Cheng's bed. The tubes in his body had been removed, and he had no reaction and was not breathing.
Zhou Xiu felt as if her heart was pierced by thousands of arrows. She lifted the white cloth and saw her father's swollen belly, his unrecognizable face, and his thin cheekbones with marks from years of sunburn.
She couldn't believe it. Zhou Cheng was clearly still there as she rushed over. Clearly he was still there - his stomach was still rising and falling with air, and his eyes were open.
Zhou Xiu had asked the system countless times in her heart, why is this happening?
If starting over again still can't change the ending, what's the point of starting over?
She thought that as long as she worked hard enough, Zhou Cheng's ending would be different. Their family would live happily for the rest of their lives. He and Liu Mei would witness every important moment in her life together. A hundred years later, she would be able to see Zhou Cheng off to his grave without regrets.
She will use her grades to tell the world that although she is not a boy, she is more promising than boys. She will become Zhou Cheng's pride and make him envied by everyone in the village.
But now all this beauty has been shattered! All of this is just Zhou Xiu's fantasy!
Liu Mei looked up and found that something was wrong with Zhou Xiu. She was trembling all over, her face gradually turned blue, and she even had difficulty breathing. She quickly patted her daughter's back, tears streaming down her face, "Xiu'er, don't scare your mother—"
She didn't want Zhou Xiu to see Zhou Cheng in this state. A patient in the late stage of cancer looks quite scary, with edema and sores all over his body.
She found an excuse to send her daughter away, and she wanted to see Zhou Cheng off for the last time herself.
"Mom hasn't eaten anything all day. Xiu'er, can you buy me something to eat? I didn't eat dinner yesterday either... Shaoyuan, please help me look after Xiu'er."
Zhou Xiu was driven out of the hospital by Liu Mei in a daze. She tried her best to maintain her emotions, knowing that if she continued like this it would hurt her body. Liu Mei was already sad enough, and she must not make Liu Mei sad again.
Today the weather in City B is unusually sunny and haze-free, and the sunlight, like broken mercury, is dazzling. It was raining in City C, just like the day when she resolutely came from the mountains to the big city and was drenched like a drowned rat. She was full of hope at that time, so no matter how cold the rain was, it felt warm. Now Zhou Xiu was wearing a down jacket and holding an umbrella, but she was shivering from the cold.
The restaurant across the street started playing pop music, and the rustling sound of the rain brought a hoarse and soulful song.
"I always asked for things from you, but never said thank you. It was not until I grew up that I realized how hard it was for you."
"Every time I leave, I always pretend to be relaxed. I smile and say go back, but then I turn around and tears well up in my eyes."
As soon as Zhou Xiu heard the prelude, tears started to fall as if her tear glands were pierced.
When she was a child, her younger brothers and sisters always had new clothes to wear, but Zhou Xiu didn’t. She complained about Zhou Cheng for a long time. After Zhou Cheng found out, he went around the village asking people to find him odd jobs. He always asked her with a smile: "Xiu'er, look what Dad bought for you?"
Then he conjured up books and new clothes from the county.
"I wish I could hold your warm hand like before. But you are not beside me, so I ask the breeze to send you my best wishes."
At this moment, Zhou Xiu wanted to hold his calloused hand and see him for the last time.
She didn't know that Zhou Cheng was so ill. If she had known this, she would rather not participate in the CMO and stay to accompany him through his last period. He always proudly introduced her to others as a good student. He wanted to attend another parent-teacher conference, to watch her take the college entrance exam, and to see the *** Square in person. However, he did not accomplish any of these simple things...
The male voice in the song is always full of regret, turning into an increasingly intense cry, "Time, please slow down, don't let you grow old anymore."
"I would give everything I have in exchange for your staying with me forever."
"Thank you for everything you do. You support our family with your own hands. You always try your best to give me the best."
Zhou Xiu squatted down and hugged her head, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably.
Why does someone like her have a chance to start over, but Zhou Cheng doesn't? She is arrogant and self-righteous, while Zhou Cheng is kind and hardworking. He has never done anything bad in his life, but he has suffered a lot. If possible, Zhou Xiu would rather give this opportunity to Zhou Cheng.
Xi Shaoyuan chased out and saw Zhou Xiu suddenly squatting down, hugging her knees and crying on the side of the road. The heavy rain soon soaked her hair, and the rain flowed down the corners of her clothes. She looked as pitiful and helpless as when they first met.
Xi Shaoyuan held an umbrella to protect her from the rain. He squatted down and stared into Zhou Xiu's eyes, and said calmly: "Zhou Xiu, be strong."
"I know you are in pain, but uncle would not want to see you like this."
He ran to the restaurant across the street and changed the song that made Zhou Xiu cry.
Xi Shaoyuan squatted down and said to Zhou Xiu seriously: "Everyone's life is always full of separation and regrets. People are born lonely. Parents, lovers, friends, and relatives can't accompany us throughout our lives. All we can do is cherish them when we are together, and don't regret it when we leave."
"I heard from Dr. Liu that your uncle has watched your competition videos over and over again and even slept with your medals in his hand at night. He is very happy to have such an outstanding daughter like you. Xiuxiu, don't blame yourself. You have done very well."
Zhou Xiu's tears fell even more violently, and mixed with the rain, she could no longer tell which was rain and which was tears.
Xi Shaoyuan said: "Let's go back and see him off for the last time."
After a long time, Zhou Xiu cried until she had no more strength left. She figured it out, stood up and went back to the hospital. She wanted to see Zhou Cheng off for the last time.
Hot tears fell on Xi Shaoyuan's hands. He wiped them with a tissue, and wiped the water droplets on Zhou Xiu's body at the same time, and went back to the hospital with her.
A staff member from the hospital's organ donation center asked Liu Mei if she was willing to donate Zhou Cheng's body for medical research. At the same time, staff from the funeral home contacted her, asking about Zhou Cheng's cremation and funeral arrangements.
Liu Mei said tremblingly that she wanted to donate her husband's body, and signed her name with the pen tightly in her hand.
Zhou Xiu still couldn't understand why the system wanted to find her a year ago.
If nothing can be changed, what's the point of starting over?
Last year, the school organized a physical examination for all students. After Zhou Xiu finished the examination, she asked her parents to do one as well. Zhou Cheng smiled and refused at the time because he was busy and his business could not do without people. On the other hand, he was reluctant to spend money on it. If I had a physical examination, would the results be different?
Zhou Xiu had never hated poverty so much. If they had enough money and time, everything would be different today. If she didn't need to be busy making money, she wouldn't leave Zhou Cheng. If they still stayed in the small village, Zhou Cheng wouldn't be so tired and she could spend the whole year with him.
But there are no ifs in her life. Until the last period of her life, Zhou Xiu was still busy doing exercises and studying.
Zhou Xiu covered her face and cried. At this time, the system sighed and said, "Xiu Xiu, your idea is actually wrong. Everyone is equal in the face of life. The poor can get sick, and the rich can get sick too. If you don't believe me, look to your left."
Zhou Xiu had tears in her eyes, and through her blurry vision, she saw a six-year-old child.
The child murmured with tears on his face: "Doctor Liu, will mommy never come back?"
"I really hope... that my mother can have a magic pill like in the cartoons, and that after taking it, she can become lively and active, and that she can still play with me like before."
The childish words made the farewell even sadder. His father suddenly burst into tears and touched the back of his head silently.
Zhou Xiu recognized the child; he was Aunt Li’s child in the intensive care unit upstairs. They were a well-off family, and her father was the president of a listed company. She vaguely remembered that he drove a luxury car to the hospital on the day he was admitted, but she didn't expect that he would be gone in just one month.
Aunt Li's family bowed deeply to Dr. Liu, "Thank you, Dr. Liu, for letting her have a good month."
They shook hands tightly with the doctors and nurses.
The system slowly said, "You see, there is no difference between the rich and the poor in the face of disease. The fundamental reason why people are vulnerable to disease is the backwardness of science and technology. Thousands of years later, there will be no cancer or genetic diseases on Earth. Humans have solved the five major medical problems of cancer, AIDS, leukemia, ALS, and rheumatoid arthritis."
It showed Zhou Xiu another different life, and a colorful picture appeared in front of Zhou Xiu's eyes.
Humans in the future will live very long lives. There will be no cancer, no AIDS, no leukemia... everyone will be healthy and happy.
At the end of the video, it is a girl's life.
She grew up in the mountains and left the mountains with the help of a kind-hearted person. She had excellent grades and went to Harvard after graduating from high school. Three years later, her father passed away. In grief, she decided to conduct research on conquering cancer. After graduation, she joined the G-Mendelian Laboratory, which was led by Harvard and jointly established by the Medical Schools of Oxford University and Cambridge University and the Wuhan Institute of Biology in China, and is dedicated to solving human genetic problems.
After decades of hard work and research, her team discovered that cancer lesions can be interfered with by removing tumor stem cells. From then on, human cancer history has taken a turn for the better: cancer can be completely cured. To this end, she and her entire team worked tirelessly and diligently. Before her death, the therapies and medical devices used to treat cancer had been popularized, and the cancer cure rate reached 99%.
Outside the ward, Zhou Xiu stared at the brilliant scene in front of her infatuatedly, and couldn't help but murmured enviously: "It's great..."
At the same time, the hot tears in his eyes slowly flowed down his face.
This is Zhou Xiu's life.
Zhou Xiu couldn't believe that this was something he could do. It would be great if Zhou Cheng could use this result. He was able to see her take the college entrance examination with his own eyes, and the whole family would go to *** to watch the flag-raising ceremony and enjoy their old age.
The system took off its hat to Zhou Xiu and saluted. "Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Captain Simon of the 2876th Machine Regiment. Hi, doctor.zhou."
"Unfortunately, such a Zhou Xiu has only appeared once in history. A tiny mistake changed the course of history. You once died because you were abandoned in childhood, you dropped out of school and missed science, you died unexpectedly because you worked to earn money, and you became depressed because of your father's death..."
It was not until 5,000 years later that a letter left by human scientist Einstein for the future was fully published. In the letter, Einstein wrote: "Our era is full of creative inventions, which have greatly facilitated our lives."
"Compared with those who truly contribute to society, the general public's intelligence and moral character are much lower."
"In the era I lived in, society was filled with wars and invasions, and fear struck everyone's heart. Scientists died in the process of fleeing, like a fleeting meteor in the sky. There were many admirable people among them. If they could survive and give full play to their strengths, today's society would not be what it is now..."
He proposed a human scientist protection plan, attempting to use quantum cryptography as a means of connecting and communicating between future people and modern people. In the early 21st century, the United Nations' highest-level confidentiality department secretly established the P.S Center, which was funded by financial allocations from various countries. It wasn't until 2020 that it received the first quantum radio wave code from the robot Simon 5,000 years from now.
This part was highly encrypted by the United Nations at the time and was known as the P.S Plan, where P stands for project and S stands for scientist.
Zhou Xiu is a member of the P·S plan list. Because of her early death, the history of cancer eradication by humans was delayed by three hundred years. During these hundreds of years, many outstanding scientists have died of cancer, like brilliant meteors flashing across the sky.
Zhou Xiu wiped her tear-soaked face and murmured, "I understand, but Zhou Xiu is Zhou Xiu, I don't need to be saved. 'She' tried so hard, but the one she wanted to save the most was probably Dad."
The person who needs to be saved the most is Zhou Cheng, and the system should be installed on Zhou Cheng.
The system said regretfully: "Uncle's life span is destined to be only 40 years, which cannot be changed. The food he eats, the excretions he breathes, the transportation he takes, the daily necessities he consumes, and even his every tiny action will have immeasurable changes in the future."
The chicken that Zhou Cheng ate 5,000 years ago, if it had not been eaten by Zhou Cheng, it would have produced at least five more chicks in its lifetime, and the chicks would have given birth to chicks, and the descendants would have been endless. The disappearance of one chicken now will lead to the disappearance of several large chicken farms 5,000 years later.
It smiled affirmatively at Zhou Xiu and said, "But the good news is that future humans are willing to bear the impact of his extended lifespan, because of his daughter——"
The light screen in front of Zhou Xiu showed the scene of everyone signing a treaty 5,000 years later. Creatures of different skin colors and races in the future gathered together and solemnly swore an oath.
"I am willing to be a vegetarian for ten years for Grandma Zhou's father."
"I am willing to help Professor Zhou reduce his travel and save paper and electricity."
"I am willing to give one day of my life to Father Zhou."
"I am willing to reduce the expenditure on wind, electricity, light, food and all other energy sources."
The system smiled and said: "Xiu Xiu, please accept the gift given to you by the future now."
With a dripping sound, Zhou Xiu's tears splashed down her cheeks and fell to the ground. From this moment on, the ward in front of Zhou Xiu changed: the flow of people moved backwards as if in rewind, and the second hand on the clock hanging on the wall rotated counterclockwise rapidly week after week, and time slowly flowed backwards from 18:49:01 to 17:29:13.
The words on the body donation form signed by Liu Mei disappeared stroke by stroke.
The child who pulled his father to ask if there was a panacea for his mother stopped crying and slowly retreated from the 4th floor to the intensive care unit on the 5th floor. Zhou Xiu seemed to be standing in the vortex of time, feeling the power of the lost life being loaded back bit by bit.
That was Zhou Cheng's friendly smell.
The nurse reinserted the tube into Zhou Cheng's body, and finally time went back to the moment 16:49:50. Life was poured into Zhou Cheng's body in an overbearing way, and the connected electrocardiogram suddenly changed from a still straight line to a sawtooth wave.
Zhou Cheng slowly raised his drooping hand and opened his eyes again.
Time finally returned to normal. Liu Mei lay on the side of Zhou Cheng's bed and cried loudly, "Xiu Xiu will be back soon, can you hold on for a while and wait for her?"
"Don't you want to see her one last time?"
Zhou Cheng coughed, unplugged the oxygen mask and the tubes on his body with difficulty, and sat up straight. "What... are you saying to discourage me? I'm fine. Isn't Xiu'er taking an exam? Why did you call her back?"
Zhou Cheng patted his belly which was full of ascites. Normally, he felt so much pain all over his body that he wished he could die. Unexpectedly, all the pain was gone now. He felt unprecedented relief, which was incredible. He even thought he was dead, otherwise how could he not feel any pain at all?
He said cheerfully, "I'm fine. I'm not in pain anymore, really."
Liu Mei watched in horror as Zhou Cheng actually sat up, as if he had a last burst of energy. She examined him inside and out and asked him what ails him.
Then, Zhou Xiu was dragged back to the car that was rushing from the airport to the hospital. Xi Shaoyuan urged the driver to drive faster and comforted him, "Don't worry, we will definitely make it."
In the dim vision in the carriage, the video call on the mobile phone was connected. Looking at the two people in the video, Zhou Xiu suddenly burst into tears.
In the video, she saw Zhou Cheng scolding Liu Mei for making a fuss, and then he turned to her and said, "Xiu'er, Dad is fine. Oh, you came back so early, have you finished your exams?"
The corners of her mouth gradually pursed up, and she replied to Xi Shaoyuan with tears in her eyes and a smile, "Well, I will definitely catch up this time."
The car's wipers kept swinging back and forth. At this moment, the quietness inside the car formed a sharp contrast with the noise of the heavy rain outside, as if they were two different worlds. As the lights came on, cars sped past the city, and the shadows of neon lights were reflected in Zhou Xiu's dark eyes.
The future was waving and saluting her, and a warmth welled up in her heart.
…
The author has something to say:
①From Socrates’ famous saying
② Refer to the 2020 China Mathematical Olympiad and the 36th
Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the National Winter Mathematics Camp for Middle School Students
Tian Gang, President of the Chinese Mathematical Society
③A letter from Einstein to the future
④The song is from Chopstick Brothers, "Father"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
