This is an unknown rural town in the south of the empire, and like many cities in the empire, a large number of young and middle-aged people have gone to work in the big coastal cities, and the huge streets are deserted, leaving only local dogs roaming in twos and threes foraging, and the few people left only the old people with dull eyes and sitting on the street corners and staring into the distance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Is it really here?" Su Jibei kept observing the situation outside the car.

"Hey, it's like this in small cities. Liu Gu'an drove the car, "Young people can only walk, the population is concentrated in the big cities, and those who are left are old, weak, sick and disabled, so that some people are still good, many small villages are now deserted villages and ghost villages, people go to empty buildings, there is no fireworks in a village, and there are only a few old people waiting to enter the ancestral graves, and when those old people die, those natural villages for hundreds of years will completely disappear......"

"Do you have to leave your hometown?" Su Jibei looked at the old people outside whose eyes had already lost their vitality and asked, "I like to live such a life of widows in such a small country, how comfortable it is." ”

"That's Beiye, you didn't pursue it. Liu Gu'an smiled, "Don't say anything else, just talk about me, if you don't have this salary from the bureau, just rely on the income from the pancakes, don't talk about entertainment life, even food and clothing are difficult, a person can make do, starvation is not dead, but it is difficult to drag the family with a mouth, my girl goes to cram school every year, Learning this specialty and that specialty, it is tens of thousands a year, I am fortunate to have a house on the snack street to live, if I buy a house with a mortgage like those white-collar workers, and I have to repay the car loan and mortgage every month, human contacts, water and electricity bills, transportation and food, I feel that this life is already desperate......"

"The more developed a region, the better the educational, health and social resources, the more job opportunities, and vice versa. So in order to let the next generation win at the starting line, which parents don't desperately squeeze into developed areas, but the supply and demand of this squeezed market will be tight, and the cost of living will be higher. ”

"As soon as the Asuka School Park was built, the houses in the southern district were sold out almost overnight, you think about how many families are behind these hundreds of thousands of students, and how many consumption and jobs these families will have, driving the entire industry, the southern district immediately became the center of Jiangcheng, commercial streets, CBD, landscape gardens were completed almost overnight, and the northern district was like these small towns and towns, the population was lost, industry and commerce were depressed, and social resources were naturally less, and finally fell into the current urban-rural junction......"

Su Jibei listened silently, thoughtfully.

"Hehe, Master Bei, do you think I'm complaining......" Liu Gu'an suddenly shut up.

"No, you say, I still don't understand enough about this era. Su Jibei said very frankly, "In our era, everyone considered the same things, the country, war, righteousness or something, but in this era, whether it is different classes or different groups of people, the things considered are completely different......

Su Jibei suddenly realized something again: "Wait, Liu Gu'an, do you mean to let me give you a salary increase?"

Liu Gu'an knew that Bei Ye had no concept of money, so he smirked and was noncommittal.

"Wait for today's business, let's go back to Jiangcheng and decide. ”

As the car slowed down, Su Jibei opened the car door and came to his destination, a very dilapidated welfare home in a small town.

"Is this the place?" "Looking at the garbage and dust scattered on the ground, it's hard to say whether there are people living here.

"This is here, this is this!" Liu Gu'an led Su Jibei towards the building, "Master Bei, don't look at this tattered, but this is a trick ...... eyes."

In the corridor, there were trembling old men walking by on crutches, looking at the place with a look of astonishment, when a young stranger appeared in this place.

"Eh, son? Eun, it's all right. ”

Walking to the second floor, next to the public phone in the reception room, an elderly man was sitting in a wheelchair and calling distant children.

"En, I'm eating and sleeping well here, everything is fine, you don't have to worry, you don't have to send me money, my own pension is enough...... I mean, when I'm going to see you...... Oh, it's good to be busy, it's good to be busy, then I... I'm not going...... so as not to cause trouble to you...... Come back if you have time for the Chinese New Year...... Eun ......"

hung up the phone, but the old man let out a long sigh, and suddenly covered his eyes and wept silently.

As soon as he burst into tears, the old men sitting at the doors of several other rooms also began to cry.

"Hey, I'm like this when I'm old. Liu Gu'an sighed casually.

On the third and fourth floors, the situation is more or less the same, not so much that these old people are living their old age here, but that these unaccompanied old people have already waited for death in despair in loneliness.

Finally arrived at the top floor, there is no elevator here, it is inconvenient to go up and down the stairs, almost no one wants to stay on the top floor, but the top floor is a completely different atmosphere from the downstairs, a hot scene -

"Three hundred and seventy-seven! three hundred and seventy-eight! three hundred and seventy-nine! No, no, no, my old waist is not good......" A shirtless old man was doing push-ups on the ground, and in the late spring, the weather was slightly cold, and his body was steaming all over.

An old man next to him was fiddling with something on a pile of machinery, his hands were full of oil, but he was full of interest, and he was humming a little song in his mouth.

The two old men in the north corner somewhere got a mecha engine, wearing a machine suit, were testing the form.

There are also those who read books, practice martial arts, deduce on the sand table, and point out with yellowed schematic diagrams...... In short, it is very lively, and downstairs is simply two worlds.

Liu Gu'an said: "Beiye, after the Chunfu case, the Strategy Bureau, Mr. Big's subordinates, and the bosses of the Asuka family who were dismissed and repatriated are all here. ”

Su Jibei walked in without saying a word, everyone was busy with their own affairs, and no one noticed him for a while.

It wasn't until someone suddenly glanced at it, intentionally or unintentionally, that his eyes widened and he exclaimed: "...... North...... North...... Peking University people!

Only then did everyone's eyes gather on Su Jibei's body.

"Peking University, you're finally back!"

"Peking University!"

"You're back!"

A bunch of old people came up, some burst into tears, some choked and speechless, and some endured the sourness, competing to hold Su Jibei's hand, and had a stomach full of words to say to him.

"Wait, I'll recognize the person first, and see if I remember. Su Jibei stared at the goosebump-haired old men in front of him, trying to recall what they looked like when they were young.

"You are Duan Fei! You used to be from the Operations Department, and then you went to the Criminal Department, didn't you?"

"Yes, yes, Beiye! You really remember me!"

"Are you...... During the Second World War, you worked as a newspaper in the intelligence department for a few days...... And you! You are Xu Siye of Chongzhitang! That bald head over there must be Hu Jiancheng......"

Su Jibei has not forgotten any of them, such as a few treasures.

A group of old fellows were all crying in his roll call.

“…… Master Bei, you are here ...... What is ......" or someone asked, although in this welfare home, but also know about the black incident that happened before and the three edicts, now the strategy bureau no longer exists, only these old people who are left in the wind and years still want to make a comeback?

"You have never given up your skills in the past forty years, and you have been practicing every day, are you waiting for me to say a word so that you can spend your old age in peace?" Su Jibei asked rhetorically.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way! Mr. Cen is here! Mr. Cen is here!" Suddenly, a few people in the back pushed a big box over, it was the first generation of hibernation machines in the empire, and it was also specially designed and built by Mr. Cen for Mr. Cen back then, and only this one was built back then, in order to allow Mr. Cen to reinforce the future.

The hatch of the hibernation machine opened, and an old man with white hair was helped out by everyone, it was the number one thinker in the empire who was as famous as Mr. Big back then-Mr. Cen .

"Xiaobei meets Mr. Cen!" Even Su Jibei couldn't imagine that a great talent like Mr. Cen would be put into this plan by the teacher, and he was amazed.

Mr. Cen didn't say anything, just let out a long sigh.