The next morning, wearing a suit and tie that I had urgently bought yesterday afternoon, I walked past every colleague in the office building who looked surprised and whispered behind me with my head held high, and went upstairs to ask for leave from the fat leader.

After knocking on the door, the slightly witty fat face of the fat leader, who was trying to sign the papers, rose from the pile of documents, and the bean-sized eyes that were trying to open in a pile of fat and fleshy faces looked at me first, his expression was obviously stiff for a second, and the flat and fat nose twitched, and then squeezed out a little smile, and said in a serious and steady voice: "Xiao Xu, come in, come in!"

I walked in, stood at my desk, and said, "Leader, I want to take a day off." ”

His smile disappeared in an instant, and he looked up at me, with a clear sense of superiority in his eyes: "Why?"

I said, "I'm going to get a license to get married today." ”

He was stunned for a moment, and his fat face spread out with a smile like a flower in bloom.

"That's right, Xiao Xu, you've done a good job of secrecy, I haven't heard you have a girlfriend!" he said.

I laughed and said, "yes, yes, it was quite sudden." ”

Coming out of the leader's office, I walked downstairs to the flower bed, took out a cigarette to light it, and waited quietly.

A few minutes later, a red sedan came speeding up from the street traffic, and a beautiful tail-flick stopped in front of me.

The window rolled down, and Mi Min, who was wearing sunglasses, said to me expressionlessly, "Get in the car." ”

I pulled the door open and sat in the passenger seat, and she started the car and said to me, "Change your clothes in the back seat." ”

I reached out and took a casual suit from the back seat and changed it into, and I knew by feeling that it was at least more expensive than the suit I bought in the mall yesterday, and the T-shirt worn by the fat leader was given to him by Lao Fan who spent half a year as a bonus.

I honestly changed my clothes, and the car had already stopped at the door of the photo studio opposite the Civil Affairs Bureau, which was pasted with ID photos and wedding photos in ten minutes.

I got off the station, but she got out of the car and walked around the front of the train, stood in front of me and looked up at my face carefully for a few seconds, then reached out and tore off the dark blue tie I was wearing and threw it into the window, straightened my collar for me, and then took my hand and pulled me into the photo studio.

After the photo shoot, we sat wordlessly on the bench in front of the photo studio counter and waited for the photo to be printed.

After an awkward silence, she turned to look at me, reached out and took out a tissue to wipe the sweat from my forehead, and said softly, "It's too late to regret it now." ”

I ignored the surprised look of the little girl at the counter next to me, and said to her with a stiff smile, "I was just wondering if I could be a good father." ”

"Bang", the display photo frame on the counter fell over, and the little girl in the photo gallery said in a panic: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." ”

She ignored her little sister's apology, smiled at me and said, "I was also wondering if I could take care of two children at the same time." ”

I looked at her smiling face, and suddenly realized that it was the first time I had looked at her from such a close distance.

Her hair was combed back and tied in a ponytail at the back of her head, her hair was full and supple, radiating a faint sheen in the early morning sun, fluffy hidden under a squirrel, and a strand of bangs on her forehead dyed red, fluttering gently in the windless photo studio. Under his narrow forehead, he wears a pair of glasses with black edges and red stripes, and a pair of smart eyes with a smile behind the thin lenses. The small nose is straight and delicate, there is a little baby fat on the face, and in the middle of the two shallow dimples, a small mouth of Yin Tao with a bright red lipstick seems to be slightly closed.

"Look at what?" she blushed, turned her head, her chest heaved slightly, and then whispered, "You just have to be a good husband, I hope you don't regret it." ”

When she came out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, she snatched the marriage certificate from my hand and put it in her bag, and said to me with a smile: "It's so easy to cheat." I can't run away now, right? Sister is honest, and if she says she is responsible for you, she will be responsible for you. ”

I was speechless for a moment, she looked like a big man with his legs crossed, smoking a cigarette, and said to the little girl who was crying under him, "Don't be afraid, my brother will be responsible." ”

I waved my hand and said lightly, "Don't pretend, go see my son." ”

She suddenly became completely imposing, and followed me and said, "You are really boring, just kidding." ”

Fifty kilometers away, I met my son in a neighborhood called Century Garden, which has the same name in almost every city. He was a little over a year old, chubby and extremely cute, with two small grape-like eyes that twinkled like twinkling stars in the night sky.

Seeing me, he was not at all afraid, and struggled out of the nanny's arms and stretched out two chubby little hands to me. I hurriedly took my son, and at the moment when I hugged him into my arms, I suddenly had a wonderful feeling of blood connection, I looked at him and thought, this is my son, it is the continuation of my life, I must use all my strength and courage to protect him, educate him, accompany him to grow up, get married, and have children. Let him have a flawless life.

"Alright, alright, it's time for him to go to class. But Mi Min interrupted my reverie at an inopportune time, took my son from my hand, handed it to the nanny, and said, "Excuse me." ”

The nanny aunt in her forties looked like she was shrewd and capable, and said to me with a smile: "The nursery school is downstairs, you talk first, and I will come over to cook for you later." ”

I hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, thank you." ”

After the nanny went out, we sat down on the sofa in the living room and were silent for a while.

I coughed, broke the silence first, and asked, "Can you tell me why?"

But she raised her head and said unruly, "What do you know so much?"

I was speechless for a moment, so I could only be silent and look at her.

She also looked at me, and after a while, she said helplessly: "Okay, let me tell you, if you think there is any problem, you can ask it." ”

Born into a family of intellectuals in Jiangnan, she was of course born in the latter stages of the movement that swept the country, and her parents had gone from being physics lecturers at nationally renowned universities to two ordinary workers in rural cadre schools.

After the movement ended, they moved back to the city, but they were no longer the high-spirited young scholars they had been. They have become ordinary university teachers who read from the textbook, no longer caring about the cutting-edge theories of physics, watching news broadcasts and TV dramas every night, teaching students according to books during the day, and disdainful of the questioning of the classical theories raised by students.

After graduating from the junior class of USTC with a major in theoretical physics, he was assigned to work in the Institute of Physics, which is one of the units established during the third-line construction period next to my school.

Mi Min, who has grown up as an adult, is getting more and more beautiful, even if she is plain-faced, wearing a mask all day long, wearing work clothes and a white coat, she can't stop the attention of the single older men in the unit and even the leaders of the second marriage, which makes her miserable.

Hearing this, I smiled and said, "Why don't men marry women when they get married, can't you find a suitable one?"

She gave me a blank look and said, "You know what, they look like a few heroes in classical novels." ”

I laughed out loud and asked, "Which ones?"

She smiled slightly and said, "Black Whirlwind Li Kui, Drum Flea Time Migration, Bantam Tiger Wang Ying, and so on." ”

I laughed, but she kicked me up and said, "What are you proud of? You think I've taken a fancy to you?"

I stopped laughing and said, "Then why are you climbing the old chimney?"

She didn't answer me directly, but she pursed her lips and smiled, "Do you know about quantum entanglement?"

I was stunned for a moment and said, "Is it the ghostly teledistance effect that Einstein said?"

She looked at me and said, "It seems that there are also benefits to writing novels, since you have so many rejection letters, it means that you are also a person who dares to think." ”

I smiled, but her next sentence made me freeze directly.

"I went to climb the old chimney that day to end my life. She said leisurely, turning her head to the balcony, where there was a pot of blooming tulips.

In addition to her work at the Institute of Physics, out of her hobby, she began to think about some advanced theoretical physics problems, including the relationship between quantum entanglement and the human body, and she studied the quantized description and relationship between consciousness and soul.

I raised my hand, she stopped, ignored me, went to the kitchen and poured two glasses of water, gave me one, picked up one and took a sip of herself, and asked, "What's wrong?"

I said, "Before he died, Albert Einstein said that the end of science is theology, and you want to explain theology with science?"

"What kind of nonsense? Everything became what Einstein said. She said dismissively.

Then he looked at me and laughed, and said with interest: "Your brain circuit is indeed a bit peculiar, you don't care why your wife went to jump the tower, but you are very interested in scientific theology or something." ”

I smiled a little awkwardly and said, "I don't understand much, and I love to learn." ”

She gave me a blank look and continued her story.

In order to explore the existence of the soul, she privately used the unit's electron-positron collider to try to strip out a part of her soul to see if she could achieve the soul out of the body but still direct her body movement.

I stared at her dumbfounded, and although I didn't understand how she did it, could she shoot a stream of high-energy electrons into her head?

She laughed out loud and said, "You must be imagining me shooting a stream of high-energy electrons at my head, right?"

I smiled awkwardly, but she said, "I won't say the specifics, and you don't understand it." ”

However, just as she was getting ready to start the electronic collider, the leader who looked like a bantam tiger Wang Ying discovered her attempt. Then there is the bloody plot in the Taiwanese TV series, and the leader uses this as a threat to ask Mi Min to marry him.

When Mi Min broadcast the recording of the leader forcing her to be broadcast on the unit's radio station, the matter was revealed to the world, and then the leader was transferred, and she had to undergo a full range of mental examinations.

"The pheasant has three brocade feathers. "The boy let out a word, saying that he was going to put me in a mental hospital." ”

"So you want to die a hundred?" I said.

"I'm not afraid to go to a psychiatric hospital, the key is that my parents have disconnected me from the newspaper. She smiled at me, took a cigarette out of her pocket, lit it, smoked it, thought about it, extinguished it again, and said, "Damn, I forgot that I was married." ”

I laughed and said, "Why are you going to jump off the tower and toss me?"

She said: "Don't get cheap and sell well, I don't think that as a woman, I will die before I get married and lose money." ”

Seeing that I didn't speak, she said, "When I was intertwined with you, I suddenly didn't want to die. ”

I looked at her in amazement.

She smiled and said: "I want to see if fate will entangle us after I have a relationship with you, maybe no matter where you are, we will eventually be entangled to death, just like Einstein said: ghostly overdistance." ”

I held my head and lowered my head, silent.

She continued: "Don't be like this, I looked at the secret base you arranged, and read your annotations on martial arts novels, I know that you and I are the same kind of people. ”

I looked up at her inquiringly.

"People who don't follow the rules and are full of whimsy. She laughs.

I ignored her, I had conceived the plot of the novel, but her story and the way I came into contact with her made me feel like a crazy woman.

I leaned back on the couch, took out a cigarette and lit it, took a puff, and said, "What happened?"

Later, Mu Min's mentor rushed to the research institute and pleaded with the leader, and Miao Min wrote a 10,000-word review of his thoughts and behaviors, and finally got forgiven by the leader and the unit, and continued to work in the unit under the condition of regular mental examination. Later, she found out she was pregnant.

"You are really accurate, and my sister won the bid once. She crossed Erlang's legs, clasped her hands and said. If it weren't for the glasses and the appearance of Peugeot, she would look like an old girl in a Hong Kong drama.

However, I am still very grateful to her, she brought me a lovely son, and let me have a concern for the first time in this ordinary, vulgar, busy, and difficult world.

I reached out and took her hand and said, "You've worked hard. ”

She was grabbed by my hand, her face flushed, obviously a little flustered, but she quickly calmed down again, and said, "Xiao Xu has helped me a lot, and those ancient heroes don't come to provoke me." ”

I laughed out loud.