We are unfortunate or fortunate to live in such times, where despair and hope, disaster and struggle, destruction and rebirth are all intertwined in this time and space. God's inadvertent quiver made the billions of people in the robe as anxious as ants—and the magnificence of life was sublimated in it. Now the waves have receded, and the beach is only covered with shells.

Then follow a hundred-year-old woman to pick up a few shells, even a petal of shells, has its natural iridescence.

——Excerpt from "A Hundred Years of Collecting Shellfish", written by Yu Leshui

1

The sunset in early summer is close to the top of the mountain, Yu Leshui visited the Xixia County Dinosaur Egg Museum, drove the BYD hybrid car back to the Laojieling State Guest House where he stayed in the past few days, and prepared to write a manuscript. Yu Leshui, 25 years old, just graduated from university last year and worked as an intern reporter in the social department of Beijing Youth Daily. What she wants to write is a series of travelogues, which are actually tourism promotions made at the invitation of local **, just a few articles that meet the situation, and with her qualifications, it is not her turn to cover hot news and major events. She would never have imagined that it was this trip to the mountains in southwest Henan that allowed her to "split faces" and bump into that historical moment.

Although it was only a timely article, she was really moved when she interviewed the museum. It's a place for her to revisit, having been with her parents since she was 10 years old. The heart of a ten-year-old girl is the most sensitive, and the feelings of that time have always remained in the depths of memory, and after the fermentation of adolescence, today will be transformed into the alcohol of the pen. The exterior of the museum is not very good, with more than a dozen dinosaur sculptures scattered in the courtyard, the shape is dull and lacks aura, but the essence of the museum is in those unadorned holes. Entering the cave is like traveling back in time to 70 million years ago. Beneath this barren sandstone surface, dinosaur eggs are stacked on top of each other, and the caves are everywhere and within easy reach. There are tens of thousands of dinosaur eggs in this area, compared to the hundreds found in the world. The corresponding geological era is the late or late Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic Era, when the dinosaurs that dominated the earth were about to bid farewell to the stage of history.

According to the information, due to some unknown catastrophic factor, many of these eggs were sterile at all before they became fossils. So, what kind of catastrophe did the dinosaur family encounter? Will a dinosaur mother who has been incubating for a long time and can't wait for the birth of her child screaming at the sunset? Why is there such a concentration of dinosaur eggs here, could it be that this is the last refuge of dinosaurs in the cataclysmic era?

The girl Yu Leshui was born with a sense of compassion, saying that she had cried for these dying dinosaurs at that time, but when she stood in a small stone cave, looking up at a nest of dinosaur eggs in a primitive state, she was really stunned. At that time, the father saw the excitement of his little daughter's feelings, and smiled and persuaded that we don't have to be sad for the dinosaurs at all. In any case, dinosaurs have dominated the earth for 170 million years, and no species can compare to them. How long has it been since humans entered the "leadership class" on Earth? It's only a few tens of thousands of years—even from the time of Homo erectus, it's only four or five million years, which is only one-fiftieth of the age of the dinosaurs. Although human beings are the spirits of all things, no one really dares to pack a ticket for whether they can continue the glorious and prosperous era of 170 million years like the dinosaurs. She didn't dare to say that she understood Dad's sigh back then, but she did remember it, and she still remembers it vividly. She plans to incorporate it into the interview.

Yu Leshui wrote a manuscript for this interview while turning left and right on the winding mountain road. It's a country road, but probably because of a large military unit nearby, the road is of unusually high quality, although the road surface is not wide, but it is as smooth as a mirror, and the car is very smooth, only the rustle of tires rubbing against the ground can be heard. Coupled with the fact that there are few vehicles and no surveillance cameras, it is a rare pleasure to get off the car. Yu Leshui opened the car window, let the strong wind blow his long hair behind him, and shouted a few times when the spirit was flying.

Before dinner, she returned to the Laojieling State Guest House, which is located in the deep mountainous area, and felt that the atmosphere was abnormal when she entered the door. The security guard at the door was gone, and a few people in civilian clothes were replaced, and their temperament was obviously not from the mountains, all of them had alert eyes and capable movements, and they were obviously high-level plainclothes security personnel. She secretly wondered, looking at this momentum, is there a big man coming to stay here? As soon as she parked BYD in the courtyard and came to the hall, the chubby hotel manager immediately greeted her with a smile on her face, full of "Henan flavor" Mandarin, and asked her if she was a guest in room 213, and apologized again and again, saying that the hotel was temporarily requisitioned to hold an emergency meeting, and the original guests could only be dispersed to a nearby farmhouse hotel, where the room fee will be refunded twice, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, ** behavior, we really can't do it." Time is too tight, so without permission, I have already taken out your luggage and put it on the sofa. Yu Leshui suddenly ate this closed door, a little swept away, and it was inevitable to be annoyed, but seeing that the manager's apology was so sincere, he had to laugh it. She went to the counter to check out the formalities, found her luggage on the couch, and prepared to carry it out the door.

A long black car Hongqi arrived at the door, and a plainclothes man stepped forward to open the door of the back seat, and a small old man with silver hair got out of the car. The old man's appearance and clothes were very ordinary, and Yu Leshui didn't recognize him at first sight, but the unassuming and obviously different bearing on the old man's body made Yu Leshui can't help but take a look at him. She recognized him and couldn't help but get her adrenaline pumping - could it be that the god of luck was going to favor her as an intern reporter? This is He Lao, He Guoji, an important member of the ** more than ten years ago, who has been retired for many years, but seems to be busier after retirement. It is said that he is alert, able to make good decisions, has a broad vision, is thoughtful, has a wide range of contacts, and his identity is not sensitive after retirement, so he often acts as a special envoy to deal with some urgent or confidential matters at home and abroad. The reason why Yu Leshui knew about these situations was because the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Ge had blown the wind for the reporters at a banquet. Mr. Ge, who is wide-hearted and fat, loves to joke but has a strong sense of dedication, said that if any of you are lucky enough to bump into this old man outside the capital in the future, you must keep an eye on it, and it will most likely dig up an explosive big news. Mr. Ge said, and also distributed a recent photo of He Lao to everyone, otherwise Yu Leshui would not be able to recognize it today.

A secretary-like man greeted him, ushered the old man in the door, placed him on the sofa in the hall, and whispered something. Yu Leshui hesitated for a moment at the door, deciding that he couldn't let go of this opportunity to be delivered to him. She plans to stay at a nearby farmhouse and then pause her scheduled series of interviews and keep an eye on it. Of course, looking at the situation here, the secrecy measures must be very strict, and I dare not say that I will definitely be able to bite a crack in the egg, so bet on luck. As soon as she left the hall with her bag in her hand, she heard a roar in the sky, a helicopter emerging from a hollow in the mountain, reaching overhead in an instant, and then landing in the courtyard, its rotors stirring up the fallen leaves in the sky. This is a six-seater military AC311, covered in camouflage. The hatch opened, and two armed policemen each helped two people down, and the two people who were supported were disabled. One is a middle-aged man, in his fifties, with a square face, slightly gray hair, and a very strong body, but his left leg is supposed to be prosthetic, and he walks with a noticeable lameness; The other was a big boy, in his early twenties, with a thin build, a body with a more severe disability than that of a middle-aged man, with flabby shoulders and a marked duck step in his walking, which was quite difficult to shake up and down. The two immediately evoked the memories of Yu Leshui more than ten years ago, but they couldn't remember their names for a while. She was nervously searching in her mind, but the older boy recognized her first, and shouted happily:

"Sister Yu! Sister Yule Water! ”

Yu Leshui suddenly remembered his name. "It's you, Chu Tianle! That's Uncle Ma! Uncle Ma is an old friend of his father, living in seclusion on a nearby mountain, and Tianle's mother and son met her nearby. She hurried towards the two of them, but a plainclothes man popped out like a native grandson, stuck in front, and waved his hand at her with a smile. The two armed policemen over there also hurriedly "hugged" the two, but actually dragged the two of them around Yuleshui and walked towards the house. Yu Leshui was puzzled by this scene, several soldiers were so unkind, and they didn't let the old people they met by chance say a few words of greetings? ! This is really abnormal, maybe the identity of the two of them at this time is criminal? Chu Tianle over there suddenly stopped, pulled out his left arm from the support of the armed police, first pointed to the sky with his left finger, and then hugged his hands into a ball, and closed it a few times to the center. The armed policeman who supported him was angry and stopped him in a low voice. Chu Tianle sent a naughty smile to this side, and left with the armed police with a grin.

Yu Leshui did not delay and drove away from the hotel immediately. At the moment when Chu Tianle smiled, she was already convinced that these two people were by no means criminals, and criminals would not have such a bright smile. They seem to have been caught up in some big secret. Chu Tianle's dumb riddle undoubtedly said: ** is trying to block a secret, and the order to block it comes from the highest level.

So what could be the shocking secret? Especially involving two disabled people living in seclusion in the mountains, plus a mysterious He Lao? But she didn't care about it at this moment, she had to leave here quickly, in case the security guards here woke up and enclosed her - at least she had seen the dumb riddle that Chu Tianle had played, and she had already been involved with that secret.

She drove out of the gate in a hurry, not noticing that He Lao was standing at the door of the hall watching her at the moment. This old man was not dazzled, and just now he saw the dumb riddle that Chu Tianle played to her. He glanced at the secretary, who nodded slightly, summoned a plainclothes man, and asked him to ride a motorcycle to follow the fishy car. The secretary walked to the counter to check the information registered by the female guest at the time of her stay.

2

It's not hard to find a hotel again. It is a famous tourist area, and there are many farm hotels, and the conditions are good and the prices are also affordable. Yu Leshui quickly found one, parked the car, washed up, and had a simple and delicious farmhouse dinner. She put her belongings in the house, took off her T-shirt and skirt, changed into sportswear, changed her high heels into hiking shoes, and quietly returned to the Laojieling State Guest House. She was going to scout around the courtyard wall of the hotel to see if there were any loopholes in the guards. Looking through the gate, there are not many parking spaces in the courtyard, only a dozen cars, and it seems that the scale of the "emergency meeting" that will be held is not large. The hotel is next to the mountain, and some places are very difficult to pass, so you have to use both hands and feet. Outside the west wall, there is a large persimmon tree with dense branches and leaves, facing the main building of the hotel. Yu Leshui pondered at it for a while, thinking that if he hid in a tree and peeked, he might be able to observe some of the situation in the courtyard, and if Uncle Ma and Chu Tianle happened to live in the room facing this side, maybe they could secretly contact the two of them through some means (such as reflecting sunlight with a small mirror). She plans to come here early tomorrow morning with her binoculars, and hide in the trees while there is no one at night, waiting for her chance. The persimmon tree is quite tall, the trunk is thick, and it is not easy to climb, but Yu Leshui has been wild since she was a child, and her parents have always indulged her, so climbing trees and swimming are not a problem. Although I haven't returned to my old business for some years, I won't lose my children's skills back then. Thinking of this, Yu Leshui can't help but be happy: as the saying goes, many skills are not pressing, art masters are bold, and the words of the older generation are definitely wise sayings.

As night fell, she returned to the farmhouse, showered, and slept in bed, full of pre-battle excitement for the secret operation that would begin tomorrow. There was only one thing she really couldn't figure out: what kind of secret would two disabled people living in seclusion in the mountains get into it?

She wanted to say hello to the newspaper first, but for some reason, her phone kept getting through. So she sent a text message to the director of the social department:

"Sister He and the editor-in-chief: I bumped into Mr. He here, and there is a 'big' news, which may be delayed for a few days. Detailed progress will be communicated at any time. ”

She slept on the bed with her arms crossed, thinking about her thoughts in the sound of the drinking order next door, Chu Tianle's bright and naughty smile just now kept shaking in front of her eyes. When she met the Chu family's mother and son in this area, Tianle was a rather autistic boy. No wonder he was autistic, fate was indeed too cruel to this seven-year-old boy at the time.

In the summer of the age of ten, Yu Leshui drove here with his parents, it was a semi-public and half-private trip, and his father wanted to come to southwest Henan to inspect the Great Wall of Chu and other cultural relics, and by the way, he took his wife and daughter out to play. My father was a knowledgeable and good tour guide, and under his guidance, the ordinary scenery along the way showed a desolate and thick historical heritage. He said that although the Central Plains was relatively backward in modern times, it was one of the most important birthplaces of the Chinese nation, and in terms of provincial scope, it was among the best in the country. With more than 4,000 years of history from the Xia to the Qing Dynasty, the Central Plains has been the political, economic, and cultural center of China for 300 years, and more than 20 dynasties have built their capitals here, including the earliest dynasties in China: the Xia Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty, and the Zhou Dynasty (Eastern Zhou Dynasty). As far as the whole world is concerned, the Central Plains is also one of the most important centers of ancient human civilization. It's just that because the Xia Shang culture was discovered relatively late, its name is not very well-known. This is the birthplace of Pangu mythology, there are relics of the activities of Emperor Yan and Yellow Emperor, it is the burial place of Yin Shang's oracle bones, and the former residence of Laozi Zhuang Zhou. There are also Nanzhao ape man, Pei Ligang culture, Yangshao cultural relics, etc., and the Great Wall of Chu to be investigated this time is also the earliest Great Wall in China. Many surnames of the Chinese ethnic group originated in the Central Plains, and the famous Hakka people migrated from the land of Heluo in the Central Plains. Dad also joked at the time that it was because of his respect for history that he never participated in the fun of the rustic Central Plains people in society. Ten-year-old Yu Leshui listened to it with relish and realized the weight of history.

Of course, she could never have imagined that fifteen years later, this center of ancient civilization would become the center of the modern world because of an event.

That day, they visited the Dinosaur Egg Museum in Xixia County, stopped at noon in a small mountain town, and found a restaurant for lunch. When I got out of the hotel, I saw a mess on the street, with cars from the industrial and commercial offices and the health bureau parked, crowded with onlookers. Yu Leshui is the age of good things, my mother didn't hold it, she had already gone to the innermost part of the crowd to watch the excitement. It turned out that a local industrial and commercial office and the Health Bureau jointly seized a clinic. The clinic is small, a façade room, and the furnishings are simple and messy. The walls are full of plaques or pennants such as "Hua Tuo Reincarnation", "Wonderful Hand Rejuvenation", and "Three Generations of Traditional Chinese Medicine Family". The doctor, a thin old man in his fifties, wearing a wrinkled white coat, was begging the confiscator at the moment: "I have proper procedures, I never practice medicine to make money, but to accumulate virtue and do good, to serve the people." One of the older of the seizers said angrily:

"Forget it, Hu Laochen, you can save some spit. If nothing else, are you just saying that this 'three-generation family of Chinese medicine' is true or false? I know that your family has been working for three generations, and you didn't get a diploma until you were in your forties. The doctor's face was flushed and he couldn't speak. I'm afraid these pennants weren't given by the patient, they were made in the same store, right? It's too unprofessional to fake, and I don't know how to change my handwriting. Hu Laochen, if you don't receive a report from a patient, we won't come to seize you. If you want to say that we are here to seal it to save you, fortunately you haven't killed anyone yet, and when you kill a few people, you will have to wear the silver bracelet that doesn't cost money. ”

Yu Leshui was not interested in watching it anymore and squeezed out the crowd. Although she said that she was born to sympathize with the weak, but looking at the situation in front of her, the thin old man was definitely a liar and did not deserve sympathy. At this time, she saw a mother and son, who had obviously come from afar, the mother was carrying a rather large cheap striped bag, pulling a boy of about seven years old, both mother and son were dusty, tired, and the embarrassment of the situation was clearly written on their faces. That is Chu Tianle and his mother Ren Dongmei. At that time, Xiao Tianle was already sick, walking like a duck and staggering, and always stumbling for no reason. When the mother saw what was happening, she hurriedly put her travel bag on the ground, let the boy sit on it and wait, and squeezed into the crowd by herself. After a while, I heard her crying inside: "Why do you want to close Dr. Hu's clinic?" Please, my child is still pointing to Dr. Hu for help. ”

After that, on the way to send the mother and son to Uncle Ma's house, Yu Leshui learned everything about this boy in detail, and it can be said that because of the arrangement of fate, she went straight into the heart of this autistic boy. Fate was too cruel to Xiao Tianle. He suffers from a terminal disease, progressive muscular dystrophy, and pseudohypertrophy, the worst prognosis of all, which modern medicine has not been able to do so far. This disease is due to the dyst on the X chromosome

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Caused by a structural abnormality in the gene that prevents the cells from making anti-atrophic muscle proteins, eventually rendering the patient unable to walk or breathe. It is a sex-linked recessive genetic disease that only affects boys, and the proportion of the disease in the population is about 1 in 3,000 to 1 in 20,000. Patients generally develop the disease around the age of 5, become unable to walk by the age of 15, and die from heart failure and other causes at the age of 25 to 30.

Xiao Tianle followed his parents to famous hospitals across the country. At a young age, he was accustomed to hiding behind his mother, timidly looking up at the tall white-clothed gods, who always looked down on him with the usual indifference. Every time before the doctor gave the diagnosis, my mother always made an excuse to let him out, so he curled up alone in the folding chair embedded in the wall in the hallway, guessing what was being said in the room, and the faint fear gradually took root in his young mind...... Then Dad suddenly disappeared from his life, forever. He asked his mother where his father had gone, and when she heard this, she burst into tears without saying a word. Later, Xiao Tianle stopped asking.

They only found a savior half a year ago. Although Dr. Hu's white coat was wrinkled and the clinic was dirty and messy, he said with confidence: "I can cure this disease, and I will protect you from the roots!" It's just that the baby has to suffer, and if you want to get rid of the root of the disease, you can only fight poison with poison. The price of medicine is not cheap either. In the next six months, they have been using the ancestral prescription of Dr. Hu Shen to treat the disease, which is to apply a very poisonous liquid all over the body, and the skin and joints are ulcerated, so that Xiao Tianle trembles all over his body when he says the medicine, and his mother has to tie his hands and feet to the bed before applying the medicine. Mom cried and said, "Lele, you bear with it, Lele you must hold back!" It's a cure for you. "Xiao Tianle is a very obedient and brave child, and he really gritted his teeth and endured it. Suffering has made him precocious and sensible, and he has to work hard to cure his illness, both for himself and for his mother. At that time, Tianle's mother was only thirty-four or five years old, but she was already emaciated like an old woman in her fifties and sixties.

Half a year of treatment has no effect, but Dr. Hu said in advance that this stubborn disease will take two or three years to take effect. This time, the mother struggled to scrape together enough money to bring her child to the follow-up appointment. Now that she suddenly learns that the only savior turned out to be a liar, Tianle's mother was heartbroken in an instant, and her spirit completely collapsed. She sat on the stone steps in front of the clinic, her eyes lost and she muttered to herself, "What should I do?" What should we do?! Yuleshui's father Yuzifu and mother Zhang Jun are both hot-gutted people, and when they saw this, they hurriedly squeezed over and squatted in front of her to persuade them. Zhang Jun said: "Eldest sister (I later learned that Tianle's mother is younger than her), don't be sad, it's actually a good thing to know that this doctor is a liar, lest he delay the child, let's go to the big hospital for treatment." ”

Tianle's mother shook her head miserably, "Where else can I go?" Everywhere it should be. Besides, my mother and son are already exhausted, unless I go to sell my eyeballs and kidneys. She suddenly took Zhang Jun's hand, "Big sister, where can you sell organs, do you know?" I really want to sell kidneys. Big sister, help me, I must persevere, and I must not let the baby die in front of my mother. ”

This scene is very clear in Yu Leshui's memory, and it has always maintained a painful sharpness. At the age of ten, she was already keenly aware of the mother's words: she said, "I must not let the baby die in front of my mother", instead of saying "I will save the baby", it was obvious that she was desperate from the bottom of her heart, and now it was only the last struggle. There is also an ominous implication in this sentence, perhaps the mother has prepared to commit suicide with her son in a time of complete despair.

Yu Leshui's nose was sour and his throat was choking. She saw that her parents' eyes were also red.

She turned her gaze to the small patients outside the crowd. The boy sat alone on a shabby blue striped duffel bag, holding a small bottle of cheap bubble water toys that children often play with. He was blowing bubbles, blowing very attentively, the hustle and bustle in the crowd, his mother's crying, did not affect him at all! This stark contrast weighs on the hearts of onlookers. After that, Yu Leshui realized that Xiao Tianle's autism was actually a helpless escape. A gloomy mountain of calamity towered over the road of his life, and he had absolutely no power to climb it and no way to get around it, so he had to close his eyes and not look at it, hiding from it for a moment. Yu Leshui sympathized with him very much, walked over silently, touched his head, and sat next to him on the luggage. The boy looked at her, but didn't speak, still concentrating on blowing bubbles, just moving his body to make room for her. The boy had clear eyebrows and bright eyes, and because he was sitting at the moment, he couldn't see anything sick. But there is one thing that is different from the average little boy: his expression is very cold, and he covers himself in a cold shell, isolating his mind from reality.

He carefully blew out a large bubble, which hung at the front of the blowpipe, trembling and expanding, and the colorful sunlight flowed briskly and unpredictably on the film. The bubble was originally spherical in shape, but as it grew larger and larger, it became oblate spherical due to gravity. The boy pulled the blowpipe out of his mouth and blew lightly on the big bubble, which was blown apart and divided into a dozen small bubbles, different in size but equally colorful and rising. He stared at the bubbles, watching their vibrant colors slowly fade until they burst apart. Then he blows out a big bubble and blows it into a small bubble. After repeating this a few times, the boy spoke:

"Sister, look, I blew on the big bubble, and I was supposed to blow it up, but not only did it not burst, but it will automatically split into several small bubbles."

After that, Yu Leshui learned from Tianle's mother that Tianle was already quite autistic at that time, and even with his mother, he didn't talk much. It is quite unusual for him to take the initiative to say so many things to Yu Leshui at this time, maybe "you two are born to be destined" (Tianle's mother's words).

Seeing that he was so fateful but addicted to childish games, Yu Leshui felt bitter in his heart, and said softly:

"This phenomenon is because of surface tension. The surface tension of bubble water is relatively large, which can make the water film automatically coalesce into bubbles. Little brother, when you grow up and learn to read, you will understand after reading the books "Interesting Physics". ”

Xiao Tianle shook his head and stubbornly repeated what he had just said: "I can't figure it out. It was supposed to be broken, but it wasn't. ”

Seven-year-old Chu Tianle still can't explain his thinking to outsiders, in fact, even if he does, ten-year-old Yu Leshui won't understand. In the following decades, after fully understanding her husband's extraordinary talent and his amazing intuition about the physical world, and after years of getting along with the geniuses of the "Friends of Joy Academy of Sciences", she truly understood the confusion of seven-year-old Chu Tianle and understood where his thinking beam was focused. Yes, my explanation of surface tension is correct, but it is only dead book knowledge, not the perception of the heart; It's just a superficial explanation, not a deeper mechanism. However, Chu Tianle's jade-like soul is directly connected with nature. He didn't understand the law of entropy and self-organization at the moment, but he instinctively felt that the world should go into disorder. So after he blows sideways, if the big soap bubble bursts, it should be the "most natural" ending. But the large soap bubble did not burst, but only divided into a dozen smaller but equally delicate spherical structures. There is the hand of God interfering here, or there is a subtle order hidden in nature that works automatically. The meristem of a few small bubbles actually implies the most profound self-organizing mechanism for the evolution of the universe. The famous American physicist John Wheeler once said: We can only understand how wonderful the universe is if we first understand how simple it is. Seven-year-old Xiao Tianle has intuitively sensed these two points: simple and wonderful.

At that time, Yu Leshui didn't know what to say, so he could only sit silently with Xiao Tianle, watch him blow out big bubbles, and then blow the big bubbles into many small bubbles. Watch the bubbles float in the air and burst apart. She saw her parents leave the crowd, the two discussed for a while, and then her father took out his mobile phone, talked to someone for a long time, and finally thanked him again and again with a happy face, obviously an important gain. Mom and Dad immediately walked back excitedly, squatting in front of Tianle's mother, Dad said softly: "This sister-in-law, my lover and I have made an arrangement for you mother and son, you see if it's okay." I have a friend named Mashiki who happens to be living in seclusion on a nearby mountain. He is a disabled person, and it is too difficult to live alone in the mountains, so I have long advised him to find a nanny, and now I want to ask you to help him. As for the child's illness, you don't have to worry about it, although Ma Shiqi lives in seclusion in the mountains, he has a wide range of contacts and has strong economic strength. We have just spoken to him, and he promised to do his best to contact him at home and abroad, and if the disease can be cured, he will be responsible for all the expenses. What do you think? ”

Hearing these words, Tianle's mother's distracted eyes suddenly glowed with a strange brilliance. She looked at the two benefactors in front of her in shock, and couldn't believe that the fate of mother and son could take such a sudden turn. She was speechless, choked, and just nodded her head repeatedly. Then she stepped aside and whispered the good news to her son. Here, Leshui's father smiled and said to his daughter:

"Help people to the end, let's just drive this lady and son to your Uncle Ma." Shui'er, do you think it's okay? ”

"Absolutely! Mom, Dad, you are the best people in the world! ”

"Really? Parents are so happy to have a daughter's evaluation! I also think we should be good people. However, the best good guy is your Uncle Ma, and he may spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for this. ”

"That Uncle Ma is also the best person in the world, and you are tied for the first place in the world!"

The family beckoned the mother and son to get into the car, turned around and drove towards the mountains. Yule Shuiyuan was sitting in the front row, and at this time he had to change places with his mother in the back row and squeeze together with the two of them. Along the way, she kept asking about Xiao Tianle, and asked in great detail. Tianle's mother answered all her questions one by one, and Xiao Tianle remained silent, but his pupils clearly shone with a strange brilliance, which was a flash of joy. Yu Leshui thought with relief, it seems that Xiao Tianle's autism is not serious, as long as he sees the hope in front of him, he will break out of that cocoon.

When the sun was about to set, Dad parked the car on the side of the road, talked to Mr. Ma on his mobile phone, asked about the remaining path, and then said to the mother and son:

"That's all the car can go here. You follow this path to the top of the mountain, and you will be there for about a dozen miles, and Mr. Ma will have someone waiting for you in front of you. Sister-in-law, no, you should be called the eldest sister, do you have any problems walking this way? "Tianle Mom even said that there was no problem." Well, we'll have to get down the mountain before dark, so let's say goodbye here. Good luck. ”

Tianle's mother took the child out of the car and reluctantly held Zhang Jun and Yu Leshui's hands. She wanted to say a few words of sincere thanks, but her throat choked and she couldn't say a word. She suddenly fell to her knees and kowtowed to the three benefactors. The Yu couple was taken aback, and hurriedly stepped forward to pull her, and Zhang Jun whispered:

"Don't do that...... Don't do that...... Big sister, hurry up...... You see, in front of the child......"

At that moment, the tears of the fish and water flowed down the ground. Looking at Chu Tianle, he lowered his head silently, tears swirling in his eyes, but he couldn't help but not flow out. Tianle's mother was pulled up, she wiped her tears, tied her luggage around her waist, squatted down, and asked Xiao Tianle to lie on her back. Tianle stubbornly shook off his mother's hand and staggered forward, Tianle's mother hurriedly said goodbye to the three of them and chased the child. Before turning into the back of the mountain, the two turned around and waved vigorously to this side, only to hear Xiao Tianle shouting:

"Goodbye uncle and aunt! Goodbye, Sister Leshui! ”

The three of them had been watching the two backs disappear in the mountains and forests. Dad turned the car off the narrow mountain road with difficulty and drove down the mountain, and the three of them didn't say much along the way, silently savoring the sweetness gushing from the bottom of their hearts.

Since then, the family has kept in touch with Mr. Ma. It's a pity that although Uncle Ma asked around, there was no cure for this terminal disease in the world. However, Uncle Ma said that the mother and son lived very comfortably and happily in the mountains, and later he recognized the sick and disabled Chu Tianle as his righteous son, and he was completely relieved here. In the meantime, Uncle Ma also made a phone call and said happily: "Do you know the old fish? You've sent me a genius! Don't look at this baby's crooked disease, the brain is more powerful. When I was in school, I always thought I had a brilliant brain, but I was far worse than him! Right now, I'm teaching him a freshman year of high school. ”

Chu Tianle was only eleven years old that year, and Yu Leshui, who was three years older than him, was just in the second year of junior high school.

Since then, Yule Water High School, going to college, has a heavy workload, has its own circle of friends, and has less contact with that side. She only occasionally knew from her parents' chatter that Chu Tianle had been learning from her godfather. Also, it seems that Uncle Ma and Tianle's mother are in love - but at the moment, what state secrets will these two disabled people get involved in? She really couldn't figure it out.

3

In the early hours of the next morning, Yu Leshui put on sportswear and hiking shoes, brought binoculars and small mirrors, as well as dry food and drinking water. She only brought a small bottle of drinking water, because the amount of water she had to drink was strictly controlled today. She was going to "squat" in the tree all day, and it would be inconvenient to want "convenience". When the innkeeper opened the door, she kindly said: "It's still dark, be careful when climbing the mountain, a girl's house, why don't you bring a companion?" Yu Leshui said with a smile: "I'm a bold person with excellent martial arts, auntie, you don't have to worry about it." She came to the outside of the hotel, found the big persimmon tree in the vast morning light, and climbed up with her hands and feet. The boy who climbs the tree is still there, but it is not as good as before. As she sat on the branch of a tree out of breath, she thought to herself that if this operation really digs up a super news, "Lady Climbing a Tree" is also one of the selling tidbits. Looking through the wall with her binoculars, the lights in the various rooms were not yet on, so she settled herself on the branches of the trees and calmly ate her breakfast.

The glow finally rose, and there was movement in the rooms. She used her binoculars to scour the rooms to see if she could find the two men. Blessed by the mountain gods, I really found it! The two lived on the second floor of the main building, a double room, and were going in and out of the bathroom at the moment. Although only vague figures can be seen from the outside, the disability of the two is a clear feature, so they will never be mistaken. She pulled out a small mirror, but the sunlight was far away, and she couldn't use the reflection to contact the two. She had to wait and pray that the two would not leave the house when the sun turned to this side. Just then, the phone rang, and it rang at an inopportune time! Yesterday, the phone seemed to have a problem, and it couldn't get through, but it rang now. It's not far from the yard, and it's quiet in the early morning, so it's hard to be heard by the guards inside. She hurriedly took out her mobile phone, an unfamiliar number appeared on the screen, she pressed the call button, lowered her voice and asked:

"Hey, who's that? I'm in a hurry. ”

In the phone was a man's calm voice, standard Mandarin: "Miss Yu Leshui, come down, I'm under the tree." She was taken aback and looked under the tree, and sure enough, there was a plainclothes person who was talking on his mobile phone with his face up. She panicked and didn't know what to do. I heard the phone say again: "Come down!" You don't have to hide in the tree and peek, He Lao invited you to go. ”

Yu Leshui could only smile bitterly, knowing that he had lost miserably this time. Since the other party knows his name and mobile phone number, he wants to use clever words to get by. She climbed down the tree, embarrassed to face the handsome plainclothes, and thought to herself that if a reporter took a picture of her dignity and posted it on the Internet, it must be similar to a chicken thief. Plainclothes said calmly:

"You are a girl, you are quite professional in climbing trees, I admire it. It's just that the level of anti-tracking is too poor. I've been with you since last night. Yu Leshui was even more embarrassed, thinking that he was being targeted by the other party when he climbed the tree quite "ladylike", and he really felt stripped naked. "Come with me, you can interview He Lao directly, so that you can write your 'big' news."

The three words "Tianda" were accented, and Yu Leshui guessed smartly that this clearly referred to the text message she sent yesterday. Yu Leshui was stunned for a moment, the embarrassment receded, and his anger suddenly filled his chest. "You ...... Violating citizens' freedom of communication? ”

Plainclothes said simply: "It depends on whether you, a citizen, break the law or not." ”

The angry Yu Leshui went out and said menacingly: "What did I do? What did I do? Can you handle me climbing trees and digging birds' eggs? She suddenly remembered the telescope dangling on her chest, and she didn't wait for the other party to point out this flaw, she first held up the telescope, "I brought the telescope to see what kind of bird it was, so as not to hurt the national protected birds." Can you handle it? Are you going to detain me? Show me the detention warrant! ”

This volley of indiscriminate artillery stunned the plainclothes. But the other party was not an idle person, and immediately smiled and said, "Did I say I was going to detain you?" Don't you blush when you spread rumors to your face? I just said that He Lao invited you to go and help you fulfill your wish and cover this big news. ”

Yu Leshui sneered: "I really want to thank you for your hospitality, but you are an overlord treat, you can't go away, right?" ”

"Where, where. However, if Miss Yu doesn't go, please don't mind if I follow behind, you can just pretend that you don't notice me. Then I followed me until the detention warrant arrived. He smiled, "But I don't think it's necessary, with Miss Yu's temperament, I will never dare to see Old He just because he is a big man." ”

Yu Leshui knew that he should accept it when he saw it, and he also changed his smile, "You are excited, I can't wait to go." Besides, it's a handsome guy like you who invites me, how can I save your face. Hey handsome guy, can you leave a name and phone number? Oh, I already have a phone number, so leave a name and I'll treat you to coffee when I get back to Beijing. ”

"Does this mean an affair? I'm so honored. But I don't have to keep my name. The boy should take the initiative to invite a treat, I have your phone number, and I know your name, that's enough. ”

The plainclothes took her to the gate of the Laojieling State Guest House very kindly and handed her to another plainclothes person. The second plainclothes man was reticent and said just one word: "Please." So he took her straight to a room on the second floor. It was a presidential suite, the living room was large, and the diminutive He Lao sat on a single sofa, and only his silver hair could be seen from behind the sofa. Sitting on the couch opposite—Chu Tianle and Uncle Ma! When Chu Tianle saw her, he happily shouted:

"Sister Leshui!"

He tried to get up to greet him, but he didn't get up after two attempts. Uncle Ma turned around and helped him up, and said to He Lao unhappily:

"Old He, I understand your caution, but it's a bit too much to trap this girl in." He said calmly, "Old He, let's not repeat the mistake of SARS. ”

He Lao didn't get up, pointed to the other single sofa and said, "Miss Yu, please take a seat." He turned around and said to Mr. Ma, "It's not me, it's Xiao Chu who swept her in, and she jumped in by herself." Besides, is this incident comparable to SARS? Mr. Ma, if the collapse you found is real, not to mention the real consequences, psychologically speaking, this is also a catastrophe that mankind has never experienced. As a politician, even if you can't save the crashed plane, you should at least try to stabilize the mood of the passengers, so as not to cause eccentricity due to panic and cause the plane to fall prematurely. After a pause, he gently rebuked, "Mr. Ma, such important information, you should notify ** as soon as possible, instead of notifying the observatory." ”

When Ma Shiqi heard this, he said abruptly: "Old He, you are right. However, we would like to ask the Observatory to confirm before reporting the case, so that it is safer to avoid us lying about the military situation. ”

"I understand your intentions, but your approach is likely to leak the secret ahead of time."

Yu Leshui was dumbfounded at this time: Big collapse! A catastrophe that humanity has never experienced before! These are terrible words. She blurted out, "What are you talking about?" Uncle Ma, what big collapse? ”

He Lao immediately turned his head sideways and glanced at her sharply, "You don't know? I've seen Xiao Chu gesture to you, and your text message says 'big news' - of course, your communications have been blocked at that time. ”

At this time, Yu Leshui completely forgot about the "infringement of citizens' freedom of communication", and honestly said: "I may have guessed wrong." I think Xiao Chu made such a gesture," she clenched her hand into a ball and pressed it to the center a few times, "It means that ** is trying to block a big secret." His gesture, "she pointed to the sky," she said, "meant that the order to blockade was given at the highest level. As for what exactly the news of the blockade is, I have no idea at all. ”

He Lao stared at her for a long time, and saw that she was a little embarrassed. His gaze was complex, and strangely enough, there seemed to be deep pity in it. "I see." He Lao sighed, "It's me who is all soldiers, and I shouldn't have involved you." "The girl in front of me is obviously a sunny girl, and she should spread her wings in the crimson glow, and not be broken by heavy disasters." Now that they have been involved, they have to move forward together. Girl, I'm afraid you'll have to be mentally prepared. You're too young to face what you've heard for a while. ”