"Mr. Monet, Chen said on the telegram that he had encountered something very strange in his hometown, what do you guess would be?" On this day, Michael asked Monet boredly while waiting for Chen Yuanqi's return by the dock.

Monet shrugged and replied, "How can I know this, you can just ask him when he gets off the boat later!" ”

"Isn't it like we'll have to wait a long time, hey, I knew I was going with Chen in the first place!" Michael sighed.

Monet shook his head and said: "You are not right, because you are different from Chen, although he grew up in the United States, but after all, he is Chinese, and you are a foreigner at first glance, and you are not going to a big city like Shanghai, you are going to a mountain village, so you may encounter grand treatment beyond your imagination, and you may also encounter treatment beyond your imagination, there is no need to take this risk!" ”

"It's not that dangerous!" Michael muttered.

Just as Monet was thinking about how to explain to him, the boat happened to arrive at the shore, so the two stepped forward to pick up Chen Yuanqi, but when the two saw Chen Yuanqi, they couldn't help but be startled: "OH MY GOD!" Chen, what's wrong with you? How did you become so dark and so thin, I almost didn't dare to recognize you! ”

"Hey, my hometown is not as good as Shanghai, let alone New York, so I can't get used to eating or living, and I have encountered a major event, so I don't have much to eat and drink, so I am naturally a little embarrassed!" Chen Yuanqi explained.

"What the hell happened to you?" Michael asked.

Chen Yuanqi waved his hand and said, "I can't say a word or two, I'll tell you slowly when I'm resting tomorrow!" ”

It wasn't until the third day that Chen Yuanqi invited Monet and Michael to his home, first poured a cup of coffee for both of them, and then asked Monet slowly: "Tony, you write science fiction, do you know what dreams are?" ”

Because the study of dreams in this era was not thorough, and Monet himself was not a psychologist, he replied casually: "Dreams are probably the process of playing back at night, although the body is asleep, but the brain does not stop resting, and the things that have been experienced or thought before are played in a form that we cannot understand. ”

"Do you think what you dreamed about is true?" Chen Yuanqi asked.

Monet thought for a moment, then replied, "It's hard to say, but there must be a real part." ”

Then he asked rhetorically, "Why did you suddenly remember to ask this?" ”

"Because what I experienced this time is related to dreams! You may not believe it, but I have had very strange dreams since I was a child, in which I appeared in a very strange place that I had never been to before, there were a lot of things, buildings and people that I had never seen before, and I promise that I had never been to or even heard of since I was a child. But I can be sure that it must be a country, because the people I saw in the dream are Chinese people at a glance, and the language they speak although I can't speak it but can understand it, and when I grow up, I inquire, only to know that this is a dialect of Shandong, and my hometown is Shandong, so an important purpose of this return to China is to go to my hometown to see, to see if what I dreamed of is true! Chen Yuanqi explained.

"In that case, it seems that your dream is real!" Monet asked tentatively.

Chen Yuanqi nodded and replied: "That's right, after I arrived at my hometown, I found that everything was exactly the same as what I saw in my dreams, the rows of poplar trees, the strangely shaped wells, and the oil mill that I had never seen but dreamed of countless times in my dreams, all of them were exactly the same!" ”

Michael chimed in: "Well, this is quite strange, after all, you have never been to your hometown, how can you dream of these scenes in your hometown!" ”

Unexpectedly, Chen Yuanqi shook his head and said, "This is not the strangest thing, Tony, do you know what I dreamed about in my dream?" ”

"Where are we going to guess this?" Monet laughed dumbly.

"You don't believe it, my dream is very tragic, first I was beaten by three men, and then I was killed by a woman, the saddest thing is that this woman is still the woman I love deeply, and the reason why I was beaten by those three men was to help her keep a secret, but she killed me in order to kill her! Are you bad enough? ”

"Well, you're miserable!" But halfway through the words, Monet suddenly reacted and hurriedly asked, "Could it be that even this thing is true?" ”

Chen Yuanqi nodded and replied, "That's right, it's true!" Because I clearly remembered that I was beaten and killed in that oil mill, I asked the local elders, and at first they refused to tell me when they saw that I was a foreigner, but then I spent some money before they would tell me that there was indeed a young man who was killed by a woman in the oil mill more than 20 years ago.

It is said that this man, the woman and the three men who beat me together killed two passing rich merchants, and snatched a lot of gold, silver and jewelry from them, and the deceased was responsible for keeping the jewels temporarily, and then a few people shared the spoils when they returned to a safe place, but the woman seduced the deceased behind his back, telling him not to tell the three men where the jewels were hidden, and then the two eloped with the gold, silver and jewelry, and finally died in the hands of this woman. All the gold, silver and jewels were taken from this woman, and she disappeared from all else, and no one ever found him again! Even more coincidentally, the year this deceased died was the same year I was born! Tony, you know the legend of reincarnation in China, right? ”

After a glance at the story told by Chen Yuanqi, Monet was a little scary: "Are you saying that you are the reincarnation of the deceased who died unjustly?" ”

Chen Yuanqi nodded and replied, "Although it sounds ridiculous, this is the only most reasonable explanation I can think of at the moment!" ”

At this time, Michael reacted and asked Chen Yuanqi: "Chen, is it possible that the old man is lying to you?" ”

Chen Yuanqi shook his head and replied: "This is absolutely impossible, because I have never told them this dream beforehand, and more than one old man told me this story, they can't discuss it to lie to me, right?" ”

PS: Recently, I am rewatching Jian Xilai's "Great Sage Live Room", I don't know why many old books can only be seen on mobile phones now, but they are blocked on computers? It's not a violation......