Chapter 119 118. The Past [Two in One]
Zhou Qian spoke very calmly.
It has been five years since the incident. There is no wound that time cannot heal. If there is, then erase the memory of it.
Now he could only rely on the few remaining photos to recall Zhou Ning's past, and he also downplayed the death that he had already experienced countless times in his dreams.
But Huaiyu was stunned.
After a long while, she murmured, "You don't even have any special powers, but you were able to control the mutant plants for a whole year, and you were able to hide her..."
Her eyes sparkled: "Zhou Qian, I think you are amazing!"
Zhou Qian smiled with difficulty: "Yes. I once thought I was very powerful..."
If it weren't for his arrogance and unwillingness, how could he have so easily given up his obsession and wanted to take the dead Zhou Ning to the wilderness? But now think about it -
"Thanks to the Rose Corridor for stopping me. Otherwise, with my ability, I would probably be dead before I could walk a few miles."
It wasn't just the poisonous spiders and mutated banyan trees that he encountered while leading the way that were dangerous; he had already come to realize this during previous missions.
Speaking of the Rose Corridor, Huaiyu was proud of it: "Of course! It's so amazing!"
Zhou Qian glanced at her and said unhappily, "You're even more amazing! You can even live next to it! The last time I built a house for you, that was the closest I've been to it in five years."
Huaiyu is really confused.
"How should I know..."
She thought about it and told Zhou Qian her secret - well, three people already know it so far, so this secret can no longer be called a secret.
"I lost my memory and I didn't remember anything when I woke up. The day I woke up was just the day for the national registration. I chose this place because it's big."
"Who knew it would be the Rose Corridor, the Sanqing Mountain, and a mutation..."
"Amnesia?" Zhou Qian was speechless, and then he couldn't help laughing again, which made his cheeks throb with pain: "Okay, okay! It turns out that I never told the truth from the beginning."
"Tell me, when we first met, there was a warning about the mutation in the Rose Corridor. Did you do anything?"
Huai Yu widened his eyes, looking very innocent: "What can I do? Didn't you say it likes me very much? I just tried my wood ability..."
"I wanted to ask you what was going on, but you showed up in such large numbers, holding guns and looking ferocious, that I didn't dare."
What nonsense!
Zhou Qian didn't believe her innocence, but...
"Did you really lose your memory? Where did you wake up from? Did you feel anything wrong with your body?"
"Are there any wounds on your body?"
It is right to use severe punishments in troubled times, but the more such a situation occurs, the more people will take risks. If Huaiyu really lost her memory, it means that she could not escape the danger she had encountered.
Even this amnesia needs to be considered carefully.
After all, it is not uncommon for the brain to automatically hide certain terrible memories in order to protect its spirit from collapse after trauma.
He frowned and put his hand on the pager:
"I'll have someone take you for a checkup."
"No, no, no!" Huaiyu quickly stopped him.
"No wounds, everything is fine, I can eat, drink, sleep and have strength, no need to check."
She hasn't figured out the relationship between herself and the Rose Corridor. What if they really have some hidden connection, and an X-ray scan reveals that her core is a plant?
Huaiyu had thought of several possibilities, but Rose Corridor remained silent and she couldn't ask anything, so she gave up.
Besides, seeing a doctor is very expensive nowadays, not to mention getting a check-up. With the few tools she has, she can't do anything.
The most important thing is that Zhou Qian will definitely pay for her points, but he is already in such a miserable state, it is better for him to keep some more points.
not to mention……
Huaiyu thought about it and didn't feel like he had any trauma, so he asked seriously:
“Is the past so important?”
"I can't think of anything serious. Can't I just be happy every day?"
"What if the original memory is very painful and I just don't want to endure it?"
Zhou Qian was stumped by the question.
"But what if you can remember who hurt you, or if there are relatives or friends who are too important to be forgotten?"
He looked at the thin girl's small face again, thinking that the inconvenience of the Internet was a disadvantage. This girl obviously looked underage, but her ID card showed that she was 18 years old...
One thing is certain, she is so young, she definitely didn’t have a lover or husband before she lost her memory...right?
"Then I can't even think about it!" Huaiyu said very cautiously.
"I have actually thought about the past," she counted on her fingers, "I can cook, grow crops, identify wild vegetables, and even build my own house - don't laugh, how come my tree house isn't a house?"
“I even built myself a toilet!”
"I'm so capable and smart, and you see my Mandarin is pretty standard, right? I can't even remember the dialect, and I'm so young... I shouldn't be a poor girl from a poor mountainous area, right?"
"Then the question is, what circumstances would lead me to be both knowledgeable and good at all this hard work?"
Following her train of thought, Zhou Qian also frowned: "Agricultural student?"
Huaiyu: “…Ah?”
Zhou Qian also sat up straight and imitated her by counting on his fingers, analyzing: "Isn't your house a greenhouse? It's normal for agricultural students to build a greenhouse, right?"
"Farming. I've never been an agricultural student, but I think you need to know how to farm, right?"
"Cooking is so simple, just cook it until it's done!"
"As for identifying wild vegetables... maybe you have a wealth of knowledge?"
His analysis made so much sense that Huaiyu almost believed it. Then Zhou Qian looked at her in confusion:
"Being an agricultural student isn't something to be ashamed of, right? Why did you just say it as if it was something scary?"
Huaiyu snorted and choked: "I thought I might be a clear-headed and intelligent college student, and then be trafficked to a poor mountain village to give birth to a child and work, where I was beaten and scolded, and lived a miserable life..."
She stared at Zhou Qian with eyes wide open: "Didn't you say that? I'm really good at pleasing people... I must have suffered a lot to be so pleasing!"
"Is that right, Brother Zhou Qian?"
Now it was Zhou Qian's turn to be dumbfounded.
After thinking about it, this guess is quite reasonable!
Zhou Qian was completely numb.
As a patient, he shouldn't have to worry about such complicated past and future. But Huaiyu seemed to be muddled along, like a child walking in a busy city with a bomb in his arms, which made him nervous.
After thinking about it, he realized another problem——
"You know so much, why is your skin so good? You don't even have calluses on your hands?"
“Whether they are agricultural students or trafficked, there will always be some traces of labor.”
Huaiyu thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it's because I'm born with a fast recovery speed?"
She spread out her hands, and her soft palms appeared in front of Zhou Qian. She turned them over and over but still could not find any traces of work: "I haven't been idle during this period, but you see, there are no calluses or wounds."
Zhou Qian frowned, unable to think of anything.
The two looked at each other for a long time, until the nurse came into the room to prepare the medicine, Huaiyu came back to his senses: "Ahhh, it's almost three o'clock! I have to catch a car quickly, otherwise I won't be able to get home before dark."
"Zhou Qian, I'll come see you tomorrow!"
"Put dessert in your mouth! Don't be troublesome, Brother Zhou Qian. If you are fine, just be Zhou Qian - I am at least ten years older than you!"
"Okay, Brother Zhou Qian." Huai Yu laughed and ran very fast.
While preparing the medicine, the nurse looked at Huaiyu again: "Is that your sister? She looks so cute. She must be well protected at home, right?"
Zhou Qian nodded, and then couldn't help but ponder -
Yes, Huaiyu’s personality is so contradictory.
She can show weakness and speak sweetly, and she is well-behaved and innocent.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
The former seems like a survival skill, while the latter seems to be a result of one's own personality.
There's nothing much to say about the survival skills you develop after six years of the catastrophe. Just survive.
But as for the latter, in today's world, which girl can be protected so innocently?
There was a slight stinging pain on the back of his hand. The nurse was lowering her head to insert the needle, while Zhou Qian stared at the ceiling, slowly thinking about the future.
…
Huaiyu didn’t have so many thoughts.
She has a small mind, and the longest-term consideration she has made is just building a toilet and a tree house - oh, and growing vegetables in the vegetable garden can also be considered a long-term plan.
Now that she was out of the hospital, she looked around at this place that she had never taken a serious look at before, and soon waited at the bus stop outside the door again.
But today, there were almost no people on the bus. She waited for a full hour for the bus that usually runs every 30 minutes.
"Master, get off at Hongsheng Trading Market."
The driver looked at her and said, "Hongsheng? Isn't the street closed for Labor Day?"
Huaiyu: ...
I forgot! I go there every time I go into town. It's a conditioned reflex.
She had no choice but to change her destination: "Then let's go to the administrative hall." After changing trains there, she should be able to get home before dark.
The bus was shaking, Huaiyu was sitting on it in a daze——
The Rose Corridor, Zhou Qian, his own past... one question after another connected in his mind, and finally became a tangled knot that could not be untied, and Huaiyu decisively gave up on it.
It’s better to have a good meal than to think so much!
Alas! Hongsheng Market is closed, so I can’t even buy some noodles to make dumplings!
Zhou Qian was injured so badly, we should cook lots of dumplings to help him recover! She made a list of plans to buy noodles, meat, and shepherd's purse in her mind, but before she could decide how many fillings to use in the dumplings, the car stopped at the entrance of the administrative hall.
Huaiyu had just got off the bus and was about to wait again when he suddenly saw a staff member coming out and posting something on the bulletin board at the entrance of the hall.
She subconsciously leaned over to take a look -
"Schools have officially resumed, and teachers registered with the original Education Bureau can return to work with their certificates..."
Oh, work!
Huaiyu was invigorated, but then calmed down. She had no hope for this job. From the words on her notebook, it was clear that she could not become a teacher.
What's more, she even applied for her ID card on the spot.
[Recruitment in 2066...]
No, no! Whether it was a serious criminal who escaped from prison or a mutant plant that almost killed Zhou Qian, she couldn't beat any of them anyway, so people should have some self-knowledge.
The last one——
"Hey, has the selection for the garrison troops begun? You can sign up through military academies or special ability training institutions, or you can sign up individually..."
Huaiyu was a little restless.
She didn't want to be a garrison soldier, but her supernatural powers were strange and bizarre. So far, only Lin Xuefeng had taught her some basic knowledge, and the rest she still had to rely on learning.
This feeling is also quite uncomfortable.
But her heartbeat only lasted for a moment, and soon she remembered more secrets about herself and could only sigh sadly.
Because of Labor Day, it was really dark when I got home. Huaiyu took the desk lamp and went to see the eldest cub, the second cub, and the little chick one by one. Then he opened the curtain and squatted in front of Ketaro's house:
"Taro, you are so smart, don't you feel wronged to sleep here all the time?"
"I'm sorry, I didn't know you were so smart - do you want to sleep in the house now? I can make a nest for you with a basin."
She couldn't help laughing after she finished speaking: "If you don't like such a simple life, I have a camp bed."
Zhou Qian is so energetic now, all thanks to Kataro's pills. Huaiyu looks at it now and feels that his whole body is shining with the golden light of "The Best Taro in the World", so naturally he tries every means to be nice to it.
However, Kataro is a determined, representative and hardworking classic model worker. Even now, when it is dark, he is still holding a pile of bamboo leaves and chewing them slowly.
At this moment, after hearing Huaiyu's series of questions, no matter if I understand them or not, I will just spread my wings to show my appreciation -
Working! Don't disturb.
This expression is naturally not as intuitive as language, but Huaiyu seemed to understand it, and smiled again: "Okay then. I'll take you further tomorrow to see if there are any fresh plants."
Taro works diligently and does not ask for anything in return, just for this little hobby. What else can she do if she doesn't support him? If it doesn't work, she can take him to Sanqing Mountain!
She always felt that the tree cocoon that she didn't find must be very important.
But there is something more important right now.
I didn't make it to the market, and now I haven't bought anything. I can't cook bean sprout porridge tomorrow, right? That's too insincere.
Huaiyu thought about it over and over again, and even though he was exhausted after a day of running around, he still walked to the vegetable garden with a lamp in hand.
After all the trouble and delays, the fields were only kept alive by the hasty watering she did this morning.
But the cowpea vines have already grown very long, but the trellis has not been built yet...
Huai Yu silently wrote down what he had to do tomorrow morning. At this moment, he held a cowpea seedling in his hand, and then slowly exerted the force to induce birth.
In the dead of night, there was only that lamp on the ground. A group of insects of all sizes gradually gathered from the distance, desperately chasing the light source.
While Huaiyu was slowly using his abilities, he curiously recalled his conversation with Zhou Qian today.
"Xiao Yu, your personality doesn't seem like that of a child from a happy family - haven't you noticed? If someone is kind to you, you want to pay them back a thousand times over."
“Only when you lack support and enough love in your childhood will you treasure all the kindness.”
I looked at the backstage blankly, and a friend on Weibo gave me a reward for being a leader...
Wow! Thank you! The first leader of this book!!! Good night!
The next door will still be late, maybe before 1 a.m. My schedule is a bit messed up, I will try to get up earlier tomorrow.