Kotomi opened the window, and the breeze blew up the curtains and her hair.

Her eyes were half-open and half-closed, lazy like a beauty who hadn't woken up, with a faint hint of sadness and loneliness, she turned her head slightly and looked at Okazaki...... It's like facing the audience in front of the TV.

The soft voice is as smooth as ever, but with a hint of unusual flavor.

"The day before yesterday...... I saw the little rabbit, yesterday it was the fawn, and today, it's you. ”

It's beautiful!

I can't say why, but when I saw this scene, the only word that came to my heart was "so beautiful".

This kind of beauty is a very wonderful feeling.

Kotomi's words were also deeply imprinted in Qiao An's heart.

"I saw a little rabbit the day before yesterday, yesterday it was a fawn, today it's your ......"

His father next to him suddenly repeated, with inexplicable emotion and melancholy in his voice.

"Do you know that?" asked the father again.

"Huh?" Probably out of concern for Kotomi, he actually replied to his father's words, and his voice was filled with curiosity.

"Dandelion Girl...... This is a science fiction romance short story by American writer Robert Franklin Young, and it is also his most famous work. The-Saturday-Evening-Post, published in April 1961, was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Story. This sentence is to quote the sentence that has been repeatedly emphasized: I saw a rabbit the day before yesterday, yesterday it was a fawn, and today it is you. ”

The anger in my father's previous words suddenly vanished. With a calm attitude that he had never had before, he said lightly to Joan.

Maybe. He wasn't saying it to Joan. It's just talking to yourself.

It turned out to be a foreign science fiction love short story sentence?

Father even knew this sentence?

Curious though. But he didn't ask anything, as if he asked his father, and this protracted family battle was declared a failure.

The father continued to talk to himself.

"One day, a man in his forties named Mark met a girl in his twenties, Julie, on the mountain. Mark finds himself in love with the girl, but he already has a wife, Anne. He loved his wife very much, but it was very painful for him to find that his heart was in love with another woman. ”

"Hush. What's so painful about this, since they all like it, then take it all. Joan blurted out, her eyes were watching TV, but her attention had already been drawn by her father's words.

His father looked at him deeply and said nothing.

Qiao Anxin was very awkward, he had always ignored his father, but this was the first time that his father did not react to his words, which made him feel that he was being ignored as a "child".

His unhappiness did not come out, since his father did not say it. It's just enough for him to watch the animation quietly.

There was a sudden silence in the room.

After a while, my father's voice sounded again.

Julie says she's from 240 years later. The two happily talked about a lot of interesting topics, her father invented the time machine, Mark asked her if she came here often, Julie said: "Here is my favorite 'time coordinates', I sometimes stand here for hours, keep looking at this and that, the day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, yesterday it was a deer, and today it is you. ”

A girl from the future, looking at the scenery of the "past" in a new way - these are "history" that can no longer be seen in the future.

A beautiful picture unfolded in Qiao An's mind, but just halfway through the unfolding, he was unceremoniously interrupted by Qiao An: "If you always return to the same place on time with a time machine, how can there be yesterday?"

Mark said the same. The father smiled, as if mocking his intelligence, which made Joe Anxin very unhappy.

"Julie said that it was because the time machine, like everything else, was affected by time, so if she wanted to keep the same 'time axis,' she would have to turn its clock hands back every 24 hours, and she didn't do that because she preferred to come back every time she came back to be a different day," the father continued. ”

Jo Ann stopped talking.

Mark fell in love with Julie, and the two agreed to meet again in the future, and an irrepressible curiosity made Mark tremble like a zest for life. ”

"At the age of 20, Mark was a stern young man who had been admitted to law school by his own efforts, and at the age of 24 he had a career of his own, which, though still small at the time, took up all of him—oh, well, not all, when he married Anne, there was a brief period of time when work lost its sense of urgency in a certain way. Then, as war approached, there was another period - this time much longer - where the work was not only distant, but at some times even a little mean. However, after he returns to civilian life, the sense of urgency to work returns and seems to be more urgent with a vengeance, because at this time, he has to raise not only his wife, but also his son, Jeff. As a result, Mark was occupied by his own work, except for the four-week vacation a year, which he had only allowed himself to enjoy in recent years. For the first two weeks, he would go with Anne and Jeff to a tourist destination of the latter's choosing, and for the second two weeks, after Jeff returned to school, he and Anne would be alone in their lakeside cabin, perhaps not alone. ”

After that, my father paused for a long time - but not long, because the animation had not yet aired.

Qiao An vaguely seemed to feel something: one was sudden and violent, and even people couldn't control themselves, and the other was a dull daily life, every day was uneventful, nothing new, rushing for life.

The dull is boring, the novelty is exciting - this is an extramarital affair.

The father continued to tell the story of Mark, Julie, and Annie, and Joan's attention was completely drawn to the story told by her father—as if she had gone back to her childhood, before she went to bed. His parents gently told him countless strange stories.

He remembered his father, whom he admired most as a child. Because his father never had to read a book when he told him stories. My father's brain was a great library of countless stories.

Anne and Julie, what choice will Mark make in the end?

JoAnn was deeply intrigued.

Mark and Julie talked about a lot of topics and their lives, and they shared many common hobbies, although transcendentalism, Berkeleyism, and the theory of relativity were not suitable topics for a man and a girl to talk about on the top of a hill in September, especially since the man was forty-four years old and the girl was only twenty-one, and Mark had only realized it until just now. Fortunately, however, compensation is yet to come - the two men's pleasant discussion of transcendentalism leads not only to the "earlier" and the "later" Their critique of Berkeleyism not only highlights the inherent flaws inherent in the pious bishop's theory, but also makes the girl's face redder, while their review of the theory of relativity proves not only that energy is indeed always equal to mass times the square of the speed of light, but also that knowledge, far from being an obstacle, is an attraction to women.

For the next few days, Mark would go to the mountains every day to meet Julie. However, one day, the girl did not come to the mountain. For several days, the girl did not come.

Even so, Mark still visits it every day. What to expect. A few days later he saw the girl again, Julie's father had died. Julie was heartbroken. Mark comforted Julie.

And there was also a problem with the time machine, she didn't know how to replace the parts, and maybe she would only be able to make another trip.

"In case I can't come, remember - I love you!"

Julie confessed to a man who was more than twenty years older than herself.

Then Julie disappeared, and Mark went to the hill every day, but the girl was never seen again. Mark sat on that granite for hours, staring at the spot where the girl had disappeared.

I saw a rabbit the day before yesterday, a deer yesterday, and you today.

"In the end, Julie never showed up again?and Mark continued to be with Annie?" Joan asked, saying that such an ending was regrettable, but he felt that it was nothing more than that.

The father didn't answer, took out a cigarette, prepared to light it, thought about it, but put it down.

"Anne is Julie, and Mark opens the suitcase that Anne has never let him open. Inside was the white dress he had seen Julie, and a note was attached to it: I saw a rabbit the day before yesterday, a deer yesterday, and you today. ”

", if that's the case, how can he not recognize ......" Joan said and generally stopped.

Twenty years ago, Mark didn't know Jolie, and Julie did some things - such as changing her name in order to avoid the plane-time police (her act of traveling through the planes was considered stowaway, and the space-time authority forbade crossing).

Julie can't tell Mark who she is, because twenty years ago, Mark didn't know her at all, and twenty years later, she has grown old, and she is no longer as young and beautiful as she was at the beginning, Julie still won't tell her identity, and Mark doesn't recognize Julie at the first time - maybe he never thought about that aspect, his wife who has been married for twenty years is a girl from two hundred and forty years later that he has only met twenty years later.

Twenty years ago and twenty years later, Mark was in love with the same person.

And the good side is Mark's eternal love for Julie (Annie).

On the other hand, why did the person he loved so deeply "change his mind"? After all, the ordinary warmth could not withstand the stimulation of the sudden arrival? Or is it that the dullness and boredom have worn away the once fiery love?

He looked at his father.

"Finally, what happened to Mark and Anne?" Jo reassured knowing that they would definitely be together, but he confirmed to his father anyway.

"The two of them walked hand in hand towards the house together......

Father said a word, then got up and went to the bedroom, presumably to see Joan's mother.

At this moment, the animation happened to be played, and the familiar song of the "Dango Family" sounded.

Joan watched silently, and in the singing, he felt a feeling that he had never felt before. (To be continued......)

PS: The eleventh of "9999 Ways to Die Porters":

He Chen: Yo, Master Pei.

Bell Grylls: The day before yesterday it was a rabbit, yesterday it was a fawn, and today it was you......

He Chen, pawn.