"Gone, ahem, ahem. ”

"Yes. Walked with a brocade box. Secretary Wang was respectful to the old man lying on the bed, "When you left, Mr. Lin Hainan did ask for your surname, and I answered as you instructed." ”

"Hmm. Yuan Zhanpeng hummed a faint breath from his nose, and regardless of whether Secretary Wang could hear it or not, he stared at the ceiling with his own thoughts, and closed his eyes tiredly after a while.

Secretary Wang saw that Yuan Zhanpeng closed his eyes and seemed to be asleep again, so he turned up the temperature of the air conditioner, gently opened the door and exited. Yuan Zhanpeng's weak voice suddenly came from behind him: "When he comes tomorrow, cough, remember to wake me up, cough, cough, cough." ”

"Yes. Calmly answered, Secretary Wang waited for another minute, and saw that Yuan Zhanpeng really had no other instructions, so he really closed the door and left.

When Secretary Wang went out, Yuan Zhanpeng slowly opened his eyes again.

There is nothing to see on the ceiling, but Yuan Zhanpeng doesn't know what to see, his body is extremely old, and his organs are also declining, all he can see is everything in this room, and everything else he wants to see can only be just think.

Yuan Zhanpeng, who was lying on the bed, was full of wrinkles, his hair was gray, his eyes became dull due to illness, his lips were dull, his description was withered, the skin on his neck was already loose, and his exposed hands were so thin that only skin and bones remained, and the green tendons were exposed, and the prominent ones were winding on the back of his hands, passing by groups of age spots.

Looking at the man on the bed, no one would have thought that this goosebump-haired old man was only forty-four years old.

Yuan Zhanpeng was engaged in history research, and after graduation, he first stayed in the university to teach, and then went to the research institute through the introduction of his uncle Yuan Zhong.

In 2001, the twenty-eight-year-old Yuan Zhanpeng was a good time to be high-spirited, his work started smoothly, and his love was also harvested.

“…… At that time, in the expedition team, there was a professor of history at Peking University, Yuan Zhong, who was very interested in ancient characters," Lin Hainan took out his father Lin Feng's notes and turned one of the pages, "At the same time, there is also an entourage surnamed Yuan in the expedition team, which is not counted in the formal team, but follows the study, it was recommended by Professor Yuan Zhong to join the team, it is his nephew, and his name is ......" Lin Hainan turned to the part of the personnel information record at the front of the note, "...... It's called Yuan Zhanpeng. ”

“…… Yuan Zhanpeng ......" Feng Jianfei touched his chin and thought about it, "I have an impression of this person, ten years ago when we were young, he should have been honest and in the prime of life, he published a research and research, he was quite famous, and later got married, I also followed my father to eat wedding wine, they all said that this person is very powerful or something......" Feng Jianfei racked his brains but couldn't recall more.

"And what happened later?" asked Lin Hainan.

Feng Jianfei glanced at Lin Hainan, and then suddenly said, "Yes, you have already moved away at that time...... Later, without later, we were not familiar with the Yuan family. ”

"I know a little bit about this. Xu Jin pushed his glasses. is different from Feng Jianfei, Xu Jin's family is a native of Beijing, and in Beijing, it is also a century-old family, and the Yuan family also has a foundation of nearly a hundred years. But Feng Jianfei is different, Feng Jianfei's family and Lin Hainan's family both moved to Beijing because of their father's work relationship, although they both grew up in Beijing since childhood, but the difference between Feng Jianfei and Xu Jin is still whether it is authentic or not.

“…… But we have very little contact with the Yuan family, how to say, my father, my grandfather and they rarely move around, and I nod to the Yuan family's generation," Xu Jin also had some difficulty recalling these things, "We don't know why we didn't have much contact with the Yuan family, I remember my father said, we have no fate with the Yuan family, ah, my grandfather also said similar things, what kind of Yuan family's blessings and so on."

As for this Yuan Zhanpeng, I happened to have chickenpox when he got married, so I didn't go," Xu Jin said this and smiled a little embarrassedly, "Otherwise, I could have met Brother Fei earlier." ”

Feng Jianfei smiled "heh", "Don't, I was rebellious at that time, if you follow me, I will definitely not take you to play." Hahaha. Okay, okay, you hurry up and talk about it, this Yuan Zhanpeng. ”

"Hmm. Xu Jin reorganized his thoughts, "This Yuan Zhanpeng was indeed the best future among the younger generation of the Yuan family at that time, he had studied abroad, he also learned well, and his ability was strong, the Yuan family placed great hopes on him, and under the recommendation of his uncle Professor Yuan Zhong, he entered the research and said, within two years, he published a paper on the study of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. For that time, his views were very novel, but there were reasonable assertions and supporting evidence, it can be said that the limelight was for a while, at that time the Yuan family except for Yuan Zhong, the rest of the people were not in politics or business, there was no big name, everyone said that Yuan Zhanpeng was to inherit the mantle of Yuan Zhong and continue to create brilliance in the field of archaeological scientific research. Anyway, these are the words, but who would have thought that in less than two years, Yuan Zhanpeng had a serious illness. Xu Jin took a bottle of mineral water, suddenly came to the energy again, patted the table, pretended to be a storyteller, shook his head and said: "In other words, back then, the young master of the Yuan family showed his small character Zhanpeng, and he was thirty and had a successful career...... Oops!"

Youmi patted Xu Jin's tiger back, "Can you do it, what are you pretending to be, what are you reading, tell me quickly, what kind of disease does Yuan Zhanpeng have! You are going to suffocate me!"

"Why are you in such a hurry to gossip...... Yumi made a gesture to beat Xu Jin again, Xu Jin hurriedly dodged, and said in a stacked voice: "I said I said, but I can't say much!"

"Didn't you just say you knew?!"

"I mean, I know a little bit. Xu Jin shrank his head and dodged Yumi's attack with his teeth and claws. "Yuan Zhanpeng has a strange disease. ”

Yumi sat back in her place and asked, "What's that disease?"

It was said that Yuan Zhanpeng was more than ten years old in one day, and he got old all of a sudden, his face changed, and everyone was startled by him when he was eating dinner, and his wife was directly frightened and fainted. Yuan Zhanpeng was also bedridden, saying that his body organs had also declined, and now he was just living on infusions and the like, and he didn't know how long he could live. ”

"Still alive?" Lin Hainan confirmed to Xu Jin, who nodded affirmatively: "Alive, I heard someone mention it years ago." ”

"When did he get sick?"

"Six or seven years ago. Xu Jin thought for a while and said.

"But what kind of disease is this, how can he suddenly get old?" Yumi couldn't figure out what kind of disease could make people age in an instant, and Yumi had never heard of such a thing before.

"I really don't know about this!" Xu Jin emphasized again to Yumi sincerely, "That's why it's a strange disease." This incident was reported by their family's nanny, saying that Yuan Zhanpeng was like a monster at that time. The nanny in their family also worked for three or four years, and then left the Yuan family and stopped working. ”

"Like a monster?" Lin Hainan raised his eyebrows, Xu Jin also smiled, "At that time, there were all kinds of things, more of them said that Yuan Zhanpeng had committed something and wanted to run away, and some said that the Yuan family had fallen out by themselves, after all, Yuan Zhong was the main family, and Yuan Zhanpeng's family was a side branch, anyway, there were different opinions." ”

Youmi pouted: "I also think something happened to Yuan Zhanpeng, otherwise how could people grow old in an instant?"

Xu Jin said that he didn't know, shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands like Yumi.

How can people grow old overnight? Yuan Zhanpeng also wanted to know.

The breeze smiled, but it was lonely, and there was only a night photo left of pride.

is not as unbearable as the outside world speculates, Yuan Zhanpeng, as the only archaeological researcher of the Yuan family after Yuan Zhong, has undoubtedly inherited the mantle of Yuan Zhong. The Yuan family is not without other cultural relics workers, but compared to others, Yuan Zhanpeng is too good. Thinking of the glorious years, Yuan Zhanpeng couldn't help but show an expression of nostalgia.

But on that trip to the oasis, they discovered the secret of time.

Then, about seven years ago, time suddenly flew away in his Yuan Zhanpeng. In an instant, he was so fast that he didn't have time to react, he saw his wife's eyes that were wide open because of shock, and he was rapidly aging, his originally ruddy face was sunken in an instant, and his eyes were cloudy, like a monster, like a painted skin, tearing open the bloody skin at once, revealing a terrible appearance.

Yuan Zhanpeng was not too shocked, he had a premonition as early as when he came back from the oasis, he knew that this was a secret about time and space, a cry from the heart and lungs of the earth, metaphysics was illusory, but science was real. If Uncle Yuan Zhong was still alive, he would definitely understand what was going on. It's a pity.

“...... It's a pity, there is only a pride left...... "I already clearly feel that my life is coming to an end, this time, Yuan Zhanpeng still came to the oasis again, just to see Lin Feng's child Lin Hainan, and tell him everything he knows.

"I haven't heard much of this Yuan Zhong. Yumi suddenly remembered, turned his head and asked Xu Jin.

Xu Jin grabbed his hair, and before he could speak, Lin Hainan had already said: "This is normal, because this Professor Yuan Zhong died of a serious illness on the second week after returning from the oasis, and he was only fifty-three years old when he died. ”

"Dead?" Yumi was surprised.

Lin Hainan nodded, "In the team that entered the oasis at that time, except for my father Lin Feng who was missing, there were two people who died of illness in the desert due to the environment, and there are very few people who have come back now." ”

Yumi couldn't help but glance at Xu Jin in surprise, "None of them have half a hundred, right?!" Since the accident of the expedition team in 2001, although sixteen years have passed, those members were all young at that time, and some were upright and prime, Lin Hainan also introduced that the average age of the team at that time was thirty-one or twelve years old, and the oldest was Yuan Zhong.

Lin Hainan nodded, "In my father's notes, there is such a sentence, 'In the depths of the oasis, what we discovered was the secret of time, and it also answered some of my doubts for a long time. It's really guilty, as a human guilt. ’”