Chapter Fifty-Six: If You Don't Forget, There Will Be Echoes
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Cheng Mo brushed the labyrinth on the second floor alone for an hour, and walked around the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang for more than two hours before returning to the body, the reason why he was full of interest is because Cheng Mo found that the underground labyrinth of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is actually very interesting, and the scenes in each room reflect the historical situation of the Qin Dynasty at that time, from commoners to wealthy merchants, from the ruling class to myths and legends, covering all levels of the Qin Dynasty, which is of great help to future generations to understand the history of the Qin Dynasty....
Cheng Mo even tasted the wine of the Qin Dynasty, which Cheng Mo speculated was brewed from glutinous rice, sorghum, and barley, which was not high in degree and had a bitter taste. Since you have drunk wine, you have to taste the "food" of the Qin Dynasty, and the taste of the skewers is worse than that of the wine, only a little bit of salt, which is very fishy, even for people like Cheng Mo who are not picky, they find it difficult to swallow.
In this way, even if modern people are a sling, they can kill the quality of life of Qin Shi Huang in seconds.
In addition to being interested in history, Cheng Mo was a little curious about whether the real Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum had these labyrinths, logically speaking, they should not exist, and there were no these labyrinths in the restoration model of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum that Cheng Mo saw during the day, but there was a corridor outside the labyrinth. According to Cheng Mo's conjecture, the maze should exist again.
Of course, it makes no sense to think about these things for the Chosen One, and Cheng Mo wants to explore the root cause of it, also because of his interest and the purpose of wanting to understand the purpose of the "Land of Relic Relics" created by the "Chosen One System", Cheng Mo firmly believes that the choice of "Land of Relic" is definitely not untargeted.
After returning to the ontology, Cheng Mo looked up some information about the Qin Dynasty and the "Soul Flag" on the Internet, but unfortunately the Internet is not omnipotent, and such a professional and unpopular knowledge can not help even if it is "Du Niang......
At noon, Bai Xiuxiu called Cheng Mo to eat, and went to the "Yanyan Chinese Restaurant" on the second floor of the hotel, this restaurant has only eleven independent private rooms, all of which are facing the landscape of Qujiang Pond, Bai Xiuxiu is the most expensive "Ziyan", to be honest, the two of them eat in a private room of more than 200 square meters, and they are so luxurious that they are lonely.
In addition to the 180-degree view of Qujiang Pond, the room is filled with various artworks, creating a modern Tang Dynasty feeling.
Foie gras melts in the mouth in the shape of a cherry, champagne in crystal crab jelly has a complex but wonderful taste for the taste buds, and steamed yam with Hokkaido milk is soft and sweet, making it hard to believe that yam can be so delicious.
In addition, there are caviar suckling pig slices, Chang'an special gourd Xiaochun chicken and Tianzhu special curry lobster, Bai Xiuxiu ordered a big table again, although Bai Xiuxiu doesn't eat much, but Bai Xiuxiu likes to watch others eat!
When eating, all of Bai Xiuxiu's dishes were just a taste of dragonflies, even if the amount of food was not much, Cheng Mo could see that Bai Xiuxiu was more satisfied, but Bai Xiuxiu was still only a superficial taste, which made Cheng Mo have to admire Bai Xiuxiu's perseverance, fasting or bigu is an extremely painful thing, for ordinary people, patience for ten days and a month has reached the limit, and if you can persist for a long time, it is simply the rhythm of becoming an immortal.
Cheng Mo had to sigh that women are willing to pay no matter what the price is in order to stay young forever.
The sun was shining outside the window, the Qujiang Pool was sparkling, and in the Ziyan box, in addition to the faint aroma of food, there was also the aroma of wine, Bai Xiuxiu asked Cheng Mo to exercise his drinking, and taught him a series of knowledge about wine, including the pairing of wine and food, the etiquette of opening the corkage, and the posture of holding the glass.
Cheng Mo is also serious about learning, for a person who wants to go undercover, this is more practical knowledge.
When the meal was over and the tofu pudding dessert was served, Bai Xiuxiu told Cheng Mo that she was going to leave Chang'an in the afternoon and return to Star City, after all, she was not as idle as Cheng Mo, in addition to the matter of Taijilong to deal with, there was also Gao Yun's work to preside, and the next time Chang'an was on Saturday, and that time was probably the time when the new students entered the underground palace.
Bai Xiuxiu asked Cheng Mo again if he would go back to Star City with her, although Cheng Mo had to enter the place of the ruins of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang every night, as long as Cheng Mo did not choose to activate the carrier in a place other than the resurrection point that had been marked, and bear some more activation costs, it would not affect Cheng Mo's body to move at will.
In fact, Du Leng's academies are not in Chang'an at the moment, they are all in the capital, and they also came over on Friday, and after entering the "Land of Ruins" and marking the resurrection point, the main body returned to the capital, completing their studies in the school during the day and entering the Land of Ruins at night.
Cheng Mo thought about it for a while and decided to stay in Chang'an for a few more days, because he had some questions about the Qin Dynasty and the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum that he wanted to figure out, and Professor Yuan Zhongyi, who was known as the "father of the Qin Warriors", was in Chang'an.
Cheng Mo told Bai Xiuxiu that he wanted her to help contact him and get an opportunity to visit Professor Yuan, Bai Xiuxiu naturally did not refuse, but just reminded Cheng Mo that he had 200 million consumption tasks to complete, and he must not forget...
Thinking of this, Cheng Mo's head was big again, 200 million!
Although Cheng Mo knew that Bai Xiuxiu would not allow him to refuse, but thinking that a month was too short, Cheng Mo said: "Sister Bai, I'm just a 17-year-old ordinary high school student, and getting rich overnight is too high-profile and eye-catching, right?"
Bai Xiuxiu smiled faintly: "When you sit in the Rolls-Royce arranged by Xie Minyun for you, why aren't you too high-profile? Your name is hanging all over Yuelu Mountain, why isn't it too eye-catching? Now tell me that getting rich overnight is too high-profile and eye-catching?"
Cheng Mo held the stainless steel spoon speechlessly, and said after a while: "These are completely different things..... I got off the car in a hidden place, and as for the sign of Yuelu Mountain, who knows it's me?"
"Oh, in this case, I will help you arrange it clearly, do you want to win the billion-dollar jackpot of the welfare lottery, or do you want to inherit a large inheritance from overseas!" Bai Xiuxiu asked seriously.
Hearing "inheriting a large inheritance from overseas", Cheng Mo's eyes immediately unnaturally moved away from Bai Xiuxiu's charming face, and looked down at the tofu brain in the blue and white porcelain bowl, the bright spoon was customized, the mirror stainless steel was as smooth as a mirror, without a trace of scratches, clearly reflecting Cheng Mo's immature face, Cheng Mo quickly inserted the spoon into Bai Huahua's tofu brain, and then expelled his appearance from his mind.
"Actually, I don't need to, I should be able to use Lin Zhinuo's identity, right?" said Cheng Mo lowered his head and pretended to drink tofu brain.
Bai Xiuxiu looked at Cheng Mo and whispered, "If you want ....."
Cheng Mo knew that Bai Xiuxiu wanted to ask him if he wanted to know about his mother's news, so he quickly interrupted Bai Xiuxiu without hesitation, "No need, I'm fine now, there's nothing I want to know!"
Thinking of the scene when Cheng Mo was drunk yesterday, Bai Xiuxiu looked at Cheng Mo motionlessly like this, and didn't speak for a long time, to a certain extent, Bai Xiuxiu and Cheng Mo are the same disease, and they are both people who have lost their loved ones who can share the weight of life, so Bai Xiuxiu feels that she can actually understand Cheng Mo's feelings.
Bai Xiuxiu watched Cheng Mo eat a bowl of tofu brains without saying a word, and when Cheng Mo put down the spoon expressionlessly, Bai Xiuxiu's heart moved slightly, and pity arose, and she involuntarily reached out to take a tissue and gently wiped her mouth for Cheng Mo, and said in a caution-like tone: "Sometimes the more you tell yourself not to miss someone, the more you will miss the other person, because what you have to do with determination is exactly what you can't do no matter how hard you struggle..... So there's no need to be so deliberate...."
Cheng Mo didn't know why he didn't dodge Bai Xiuxiu's child-like action, so he let Bai Xiuxiu gently wipe his mouth clean, and when Bai Xiuxiu put down his hand, Cheng Mo raised his head, his face was full of calm, and said in a calm tone: "I think, missing this kind of thing is only happy when it can be responded, if it is just one-sided, whether the other party is alive or dead, it is a kind of sorrow." ”
This time, Bai Xiuxiu didn't jump like thunder because Cheng Mo reflected herself, but smiled, "Missing this kind of thing is not as unbearable as you said, don't dwell on the past, just take out those unhappy plots and chew them repeatedly." If you think about the happiness you once had, you will never forget, and there will be an echo. Pick up a pot of wine, light a lamp, and listen to a rain. Where there is rain, there are traces, where there are lights, there are people, and where there is wine, there are souls....."
Bai Xiuxiu read a line from her favorite "The Grandmaster", and then picked up the red wine glass on the table, her slender and round arm half held the crystal glass, the wine in the glass was ruby-like color, covering half of her cheeks, a pearl pendant earring swayed on Bai Xiuxiu's flawless and exquisite face, and on the other side, grape wine swayed in the luminous glass, constituting a kind of bewitching beauty.....
"In fact, memory is like red wine, some bad quality red wine cannot be preserved, you have to drink it within two years, and some good quality red wine, as long as you keep it properly, the longer you store it, the better the taste..... If you look at this bottle of Lafite, the edges of the wine have noticeably faded from the young purple color to a ruby red color, so it is probably from around 2000.... 2000 was a good vintage for Lafite, so the price of 2000 Lafite is also quite expensive....." Bai Xiuxiu said as she turned the glass in her hand and looked at the shaking liquor inside.
Cheng Mo also raised his glass, tilting the wine glass slightly like Bai Xiuxiu, at an angle of about 30°-45°, observing the color of the edge of the wine in the glass, "The price is just the meaning that human beings give to it, just like human beings give meaning to thoughts.... Therefore, the moment is the most important thing, the moment it tastes good enough is really good, and the person sitting in front of you at the moment is the person who can make you feel happy.... You don't need to pin your taste on the price of nothingness, just as you don't need to pin your happiness on the thoughts of nothing...."
Reasoning is such a thing, Cheng Mo will not admit it.
Bai Xiuxiu drank all the wine in the cup in a non-aristocratic way, and then she put down the glass, her plain white face was flushed, and she looked even more radiant, "It's not nothing! For me, missing is a fragmented puzzle composed of the sweet life of the past, missing, just to make my memory more complete, don't let no one remember him in the future..... While I'm still young and can still see people, Qingming can accompany him to have a few more drinks, and when I get old that day, I won't go to see him.... Let my daughter go..."
Only then did Cheng Mo know why Bai Xiuxiu was so afraid of getting old, but what surprised him even more was Bai Xiuxiu's last sentence, although he was surprised, Cheng Mo was still able to ask quietly: "Do you have a daughter?"
Bai Xiuxiu picked up the wine decanter placed on the marble table and poured herself a glass of wine again, "Not yet, there will be in the future, I have frozen eggs, I am looking for the right person, if the age allows, I will do IVF, if not, I will find a surrogate ....."
Cheng Mo naturally wouldn't let go of this opportunity to leave a mark in Bai Xiuxiu's heart, "Then you don't have to look for it, no one is more suitable than me." ”
Bai Xiuxiu unceremoniously ignored Cheng Mo's self-confidence, and sneered: "Don't say that you are not handsome enough, a heart patient who has lacked love since childhood.....?"
Cheng Mo didn't mind Bai Xiuxiu's ridicule, shook his head and said as if promoting himself: "It's true that I have heart disease that can be inherited, but the current gene editing technology has been able to eliminate this, I guess this money is nothing." In addition, if your so-called 'suitable' is the best, I think you are mistaken, not the best is the most suitable, you should know that the species that can survive in this world are never the strongest, such as dinosaurs, but those species that can adapt to changes the most, such as humans, people like me who can survive in extreme environments, enough to prove my 'suitability'!"
Bai Xiuxiu picked her straight and beautiful Chang'e eyebrows, and said in a tone that a rich woman was picky about jewelry that couldn't meet her grade: "Since this is the case, then you should try to prove it to me! Anyway, I'm still young, so I'm not in a hurry." ”
Cheng Mo's Taoism is not as profound as Bai Xiuxiu after all, even if he said a lot of presumptuous words when facing Bai Xiuxiu recently, he still didn't dare to look at Bai Xiuxiu's swaying gaze at this moment, but he felt that Bai Xiuxiu's coercion and teasing were really invisible, even if it was just such a simple action of raising eyebrows, it made people's hearts shake.
Although Cheng Mo was defeated again, Cheng Mo would never do this kind of thing by admitting defeat, no matter what, since he started this extremely difficult challenge task, he couldn't give up halfway, so Cheng Mo pondered for a moment, lowered his eyebrows and said: "I'll prove it to you, so don't worry, you must wait for me to ....."
Cheng Mo's voice was soft, but his tone was very firm.
Cheng Mo's words made Bai Xiuxiu's expression stiffen for a moment, but she quickly jokingly leaned down slightly and reached out to rub Cheng Mo's hair, "Hey, don't be so serious, okay? I'm an old woman in my thirties, I can't afford to wait for you to grow up..."
Cheng Mo unexpectedly reached out and grabbed Bai Xiuxiu's wrist, stopping her movements, Bai Xiuxiu's hand was very cold, soft as boneless, "Okay, don't wait, I will protect you, protect the little girl in your heart, so that you won't get old....."
Bai Xiuxiu first chuckled, then covered her mouth with her other hand, sat on the chair and smiled, leaning back and forth, as if tears were about to burst out of laughter.
Cheng Mo had never seen Bai Xiuxiu smile so presumptuously, and let go of the hand holding Bai Xiuxiu's wrist, "Is it so funny?"
"It's funny that you are seriously telling lies, or are you telling lies! Cheng Mo, you have never confessed to a girl, right?" Bai Xiuxiu said while laughing and panting.
Cheng Mo glanced at Bai Xiuxiu, and saw her towering breasts rising and falling in front of him, and he still felt a trace of frustration in his solid heart, and he said expressionlessly: "No...."
"Don't use such exaggerated statements next time, this kind of talk can only deceive a little girl like Xie Minyun, and it won't work for an old woman like me, in fact..... As long as you say the truth, very simple words can be very moving. Bai Xiuxiu reached out again and knocked on Cheng Mo's head.
Bai Xiuxiu's elusiveness made Cheng Mo feel what it meant to "a woman's heart needle" again, and he also doubted some of his "routines", Bai Xiuxiu knew it well, he regretted for the first time that he didn't watch some romance to enhance his actual combat experience, so that his performance was too exaggerated, and Cheng Mo thought that the reason why he made such a mistake may be influenced by the few Qiong Yao dramas he had watched.
Although Cheng Mo doesn't like Aunt Qiong Yao at all, even if he doesn't watch Qiong Yao's dramas, some clips will enter his field of vision everywhere, such as the classic lines in "Deep Love and Rain", after He Shuhuan left, Ruping's monologue: "The first day Shuhuan left, I missed him, the second day Shuhuan left, I missed him, and the third day when Shuhuan left, I thought about him, I missed him, I missed him." ”
As long as he went to his uncle's house for the New Year when he was a child, he would be forced to watch "Huanzhu Gege" with his uncle's family, in fact, what impressed Cheng Mo the most was not Er Kang's nostrils, but the sentence that Ziwei said affectionately to Er Kang: "The mountains are edgeless, the heaven and the earth are together, and you dare to be with you."
and Er Kang opened his nostrils and said to Ziwei with tears and snot falling down together: "Ziwei, I love you so much that my heart aches!"
Ziwei: "You hurt, I hurt too! You hurt, I hurt even more!"
The young Cheng Mo's inner OS at that time was: "The adult world is really childish and ridiculous, since it hurts, don't love it! If you want to love, don't be afraid of pain? Is it more painful to fall in love than to get an injection?"
Investigated and investigated, in addition to the fact that the philosophy book made him have no good impression of love, Qiong Yao drama is definitely the culprit.....
Unexpectedly, he racked his brains to be able to impress Bai Xiuxiu's words, but he was still shrouded in the shadow of his childhood, and he actually said such a sensual word, but Cheng Mo quickly forgave himself, after all, he really had no experience, and the experience of being forcibly kissed and accused of Bai was useless, he muttered unconvinced: "If you tell me the truth, you want to kick me again..."
Saying that he finished silently shrunk his body subconsciously, as if he was guarding against Bai Xiuxiu's kick and kicking him away.
However, Bai Xiuxiu put away her exaggerated smile, wiped the tears from her eyes, and gently scratched the tip of Cheng Mo's nose, "It's all your fault, I made all the crow's feet laugh..... However, some people say that they want me to spoil me.... I'm still very happy...."
Inexplicably, at this moment, Cheng Mo actually produced a violent pleasure, and dopamine rushed straight to his brain, just like an incomparably complex math problem, which he saw as the dawn of unraveling.
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In the afternoon, Bai Xiuxiu returned to Star City, but Bai Xiuxiu left the driver, bodyguard and car to Cheng Mo, and helped Cheng Mo make an appointment to go to Chang'an Jiaotong University tomorrow afternoon to meet Professor Yuan Zhongyi, the "father of the Qin Warriors".
Cheng Mo went to the Chang'an Bell Tower Bookstore in the afternoon to buy a lot of books about the Qin Dynasty and came back to see that the province would see Yuan Zhongyi tomorrow, in case he said the wrong thing. When buying books in the bookstore, Zhou Yun sent a text message to Cheng Mo again, telling him that Bai Xiuxiu had left.
Cheng Mo didn't say that he already knew, he just said "very good", and didn't even say thank you, the reason why Cheng Mo was like this was to slowly establish a relationship between superiors and subordinates and control Zhou Yun's thoughts.
Regarding how to help Zhou Yun be promoted, Cheng Mo is still planning, and all of this has to be done after establishing a relatively strong relationship with Zhou Yun.
That night, Cheng Mo's fourth squad was twenty minutes earlier than the other squads, which was far from the idea of grabbing six hours on Saturday, but after a night of running-in, Cheng Mo and they finished a little better than yesterday, and Cheng Mo and they grabbed half an hour.
The reason why the quota is only ten minutes higher than yesterday is also because of the higher difficulty on the second floor.
On Wednesday afternoon, it was another good day, and Cheng Mo went out to find Professor Yuan Zhongyi, hoping to find the answer he wanted from Professor Yuan Zhongyi. Chang'an Jiaotong University is not far from the hotel, to the direction of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda is facing west, there is the high campus of Chang'an, in addition to Chang'an Jiaotong University, there are many famous schools, such as Chang'an Political Science and Law, Chang'an Post and Telecommunications, Chang'an Fine Arts.....
However, these schools are far less famous than Chang'an Jiaotong University, which is one of the Nine Schools Alliance (C9, known as the Chinese Ivy League).
Because it is the time of class, the campus of Chang'an Jiaotong University is quite dense, two lines of tall magnolia along the main road of the campus to extend inward, passing through the famous Wutong Avenue, it is the most beautiful moment of this road, the late autumn golden to create a gorgeous and bleak beauty people can't help but stop, at this moment there are many people in this picturesque long street to take pictures.
It's just a pity that the buildings of Chang'an Jiaotong University are lackluster, almost all of them are built in the eighties and nineties with special imprints of the times, white porcelain, former Soviet style, and square fountains all have a strong nostalgic style.
Yuan Zhongyi and Cheng made a silent appointment to meet in his exclusive reading room of Qian Xuesen Library, and it is admirable that an eighty-year-old man can still insist on coming to the library to read books every day.
When Cheng Mo found Professor Yuan's exclusive reading room on the second floor of the library according to the text message sent by the contact person, the red wooden door of the elevator was open diagonally, Cheng Mo stood at the door frame and knocked on the open wooden door, and shouted: "Hello, I'm looking for Professor Yuan!"
Professor Yuan in a blue tunics is sitting at the desk by the blue glass window reading a book, he is wearing golden reading glasses, his face is full of deep wrinkles, the back of his hands is full of age spots, there is a thermos cup on the old burgundy desk, the curling heat is steaming, the sun shines on Professor Yuan's gray hair, shining a dazzling light....
Professor Yuan didn't look back, but the middle-aged woman standing behind him immediately turned her head, "You're Cheng Mo, right?"
Cheng Mo nodded and said, "Yes!"
The middle-aged woman smiled: "I just contacted Sister Li with you, Professor Yuan's ears are not good.... I can't hear much, especially when you're reading, you come in!"