Bright Spring

After four days and four nights, the train arrived at Beijing Railway Station in the south of Beijing.After the whistle, the train slowly began to slow down until it stopped on the rails in the station.

With the support of Captain Jin Yiwei, Zhu Gaoxu struggled to get out of the carriage.At this time, he saw an old man with white hair standing outside. The old man was holding a cane in his hand. He was Wang Bin.Wang Bin wore a beam crown on his head and a red official robe, which was very formal and neat.There were also people around him to help him, and there were also many officials and soldiers present, probably from Beizhili.

I haven't seen Wang Bin for several years, and Wang Bin seems to be a little older, but the dark round face is faintly familiar.

"Your Majesty!" Wang Bin's muddy eyes suddenly lit up a little, and he shouted immediately.

He walked forward with a cane anxiously, and suddenly staggered, and the people around him hurriedly grabbed him.Wang Bin called out again, walked over anxiously, then threw away his crutches, knelt down with difficulty and slowly, prostrated himself on the ground, and the people around him did not dare to support him anymore.

"Your Majesty welcomes you respectfully," Wang Bin said.

The officials behind also fell to the ground one after another, shouting long live.

Zhu Gaoxu adjusted his breathing, settled down for a while, stretched out his hand and pushed away the Jin Yiwei who was supporting him, and walked a few steps slowly by himself.He bent down, grabbed Wang Bin's arm quite forcefully, and pushed it up steadily with all his strength: "Get up. Long time no see."

Wang Bin's eyes were red, he raised his head and said in a strange voice, "Recently, I've been thinking about the Holy Majesty a lot, and I'm so happy to hear that the Holy Majesty is coming."

Zhu Gaoxu was extremely relaxed, seeing the only old friend left, he felt like fulfilling a wish again.

"Ha!" Zhu Gaoxu reached out and patted Wang Bin on the shoulder, looking at Wang Bin.That face is also full of wrinkles, and there are many age spots.In this situation, Zhu Gaoxu could hardly imagine Wang Bin's heroic charge back then.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Go to the palace and talk with me."

Wang Bin said: "I accept the order with pleasure."

The two returned to the city in the same car.They boarded the imperial carriage from the Beijing Imperial Palace back and forth, and left the station surrounded by honor guards and guards.

Along the way, the monarchs and ministers chatted one after another. Wang Bin talked about the battle of Liaodong decades ago, and said in a joking tone that if he knew that after winning that battle, he would stay in Beijing and be separated from the Holy One for decades. , it was not as good as nonsense back then.It has been so long, besides the monarch and his ministers are old, Wang Bin is not very particular about his words, Zhu Gaoxu certainly doesn't care.

But as they continued talking, Zhu Gaoxu noticed that what they were talking about was all about the past.

The carriage drove for a long time, and the streets outside the window were lined with taller buildings, usually with several floors.There are carriages in the middle of the street and sidewalks on both sides. The scenery of the city is very different from the past.The scale of the city of Beijing exceeds the scope of the city walls, and the main economic zones are outside the old city walls; moreover, the current inland cities do not have city walls anymore.

On the street, in front of many four-wheeled carriages, there is a model logo of a good horse. This is a brand called "Qianlixue". Manufacturer of horse carriages.Qianli Xueche Factory is a government-run factory.

When people entered the city gate, the scene inside looked like another era. Most of them were old houses, mainly shops and residences.When people arrived at the imperial city, the elegant atmosphere of the palace and towers did not change, but the emperor seldom lived in this palace, and there were very few people inside, which seemed a bit deserted in comparison.

Along the way, Zhu Gaoxu went from the new urban area, to the old urban area, and then to the imperial palace. The architectural style is constantly going back, giving people a feeling of passing through time.

Accompanied by Wang Bin and some officials, Zhu Gaoxu lived in the palace for a few days.Life is very slow, he has to be supported even when he walks, and he gets tired easily, and sleeps and rests intermittently for a long time.When the weather was fine, he was pushed by someone to look around the palace with Wang Bin.

When he was in the imperial garden, he would sit there for a long time, carefully observing the vitality of the sprouts and leaves of willow branches, peaches and plums, and looking at those flowers.Sometimes I look up at the sun and clouds.It is strange to say that Zhu Gaoxu has never been so meticulous and focused on admiring every plant and tree and everything in the world at such an old age. At that time, he was always racked by power, desire, and various matters of interest, or is interested in people.These ordinary things in front of me are really boring.

But he seemed to have a hunch in his heart that he was going to go that way, and everything in the world should never be seen again.In his remaining life, he would seize the opportunity to take a few more glances, but it might not be meaningful.

Sure enough, one day he suddenly fell into a coma, and his physical condition began to deteriorate.Soon, he could barely eat except for clear porridge and water, and it became more and more difficult for him to sit up.

The officials panicked. A group of doctors were on duty day and night in the Qianqing Palace of the Beijing Imperial Palace, and their voices of discussion could often be heard.Then he sent people to the capital to invite more imperial physicians.

Everything is useless. In Zhu Gaoxu's perception, people who get a serious illness will usually die. At worst, they can delay for a few more years. Thinking that they can be cured is a meaningless struggle.Moreover, he is still so old that he can't stand the treatment at all, and the medicine can't be heavy.

Zhu Gaoxu also obviously felt that something in his body was gradually pulling away and disappearing, and the pain in his chest became more frequent.What's more, he couldn't swallow anything, and the food had to be mixed with water to enter his stomach.If you can't eat, you won't last long.

The people around are fearful and worried, and some are sad.On the contrary, Zhu Gaoxu himself seemed calmer, he was ready, he had no regrets or unwillingness, and the only thing left was an instinctive fear.

In a haze, he thought of the gradual development of human beings from primitive people to the industrial age. He was unconscious for tens of thousands of years, as if in the snap of his fingers.Even the tens of billions of years when the universe was just forming stars had never had his consciousness and had nothing to do with him.And there are still hundreds of millions of years in the future, and it may be just a snap of the fingers for me, but what about after the snap of the fingers?Eternity is like an endless abyss. He is very afraid, but he also understands that he cannot escape.

When Zhu Gaoxu was awake, he called Wang Bin and the military officials, and issued the last imperial decree: All the officials in Beijing have been loyal and loyal, and no one is guilty.After Zhen's death, everything about the funeral was kept simple, and Qi Hong was asked to inherit the rule according to the ritual system.

After hearing the imperial decree, Wang Bin knelt down beside the bed and cried loudly.

Zhu Gaoxu moved his arm, and Wang Bin hurried forward.Zhu Gaoxu said slowly: "This time, you can't stop it for me."

Wang Bin said: "I would like to exchange my life for the longevity of the Holy One."

Zhu Gaoxu's mouth showed a playful smile.

Wang Bin said a lot more, he seems to be in good spirits, and he should still live for a few more years.Zhu Gaoxu heard what he said intermittently, and didn't hear many of them clearly, so he didn't know what he was talking about.Sometimes Wang Bin seems to be saying, what started in the wilderness, met the Holy One, and from then on won the honor of the Holy Majesty and made a fortune.He had a good wife and beautiful concubines in his life, a house full of children and grandchildren, and he lived to be in his eighties, all thanks to the grace of the Holy Spirit.

I don't know how long it took, Wang Bin's voice came again: "In the next life, I still want to follow the Holy One and be the pioneer of the Holy One."

Zhu Gaoxu whispered: "Okay, see you in the next life."

However, it seems that it is not easy for a person to die, so Zhu Gaoxu struggled for a few more days.In the end, even water can't be swallowed, and it can only be soaked into the body.

Once he saw all kinds of strange and indescribable images, which expanded infinitely like a balloon, and there were all kinds of dense and colorful things. He thought that people still have a little consciousness after death?Unexpectedly, he woke up again later, still lying on the bed, in a daze, without any strength in his body.Only then did he vaguely understand that he might be more or less conscious when he was in a coma.

Then the things in my mind became very strange, and the things I had experienced went back in my mind like watching a lantern on a horse.Everything was not continuous, and some things he thought he had forgotten long ago, and scenes he hadn't thought of for a long time, now became extra clear.He even saw the hidden hairs on the bodies of Semuren Asari and Yisuwa, and recalled the voices of Miaojin, Yao Ji, Guo Wei, Enhui, Du Qianrui and others, like the laughter of bells.He felt more and more comfortable and relaxed, and the pain was no longer felt.

Finally, at some point, Zhu Gaoxu only felt a burst of darkness, and then he no longer had any consciousness, and everything became nothingness.

9 Chapter Ninety

Zhu Gaoxu opened his eyes, and a white scene suddenly appeared in front of him.At this moment, he seemed to enter this white world from the boundless darkness.

Soon he found a hanging bottle beside him, and looking down the plastic tube, it was indeed leading to his wrist veins.Then he turned his head and slowly saw the curves and data on the side screen, as well as various modern things.

And Zhu Gaoxu was lying down, and there was a huge screen in front of him, which seemed to be a TV of at least 50 inches.

Zhu Gaoxu froze there, his heart was at a loss, there seemed to be some vague information in his mind, but he couldn't remember it, and his head hurt when he thought about it a little bit harder.But he still remembers that he was with Wang Bin not long ago. Didn't the electric lights not come out at that time?Look at the big TV in front of you again.

He regained his senses for a while, turned his head to search for a while, and chose a white thing that looked like a remote control board.Fortunately, he is not completely ancient, and he still remembers how the TV was turned on.

"Welcome, I'm Xue'er." The remote control board suddenly brightened and spoke, which startled Zhu Gaoxu and almost dropped it to the ground.

In an instant, the room was a little brighter, but I didn't see where the light was at all.And it surprised Zhu Gaoxu a little, a person by the wall moved, but she didn't cross her legs, but moved over, as if there were wheels at the bottom.She said, "Mr. Liu Gang, do you feel uncomfortable?"

Zhu Gaoxu asked "artificial intelligence?"

The man nodded and said, "Yes, is there anything I can do for you?"

Zhu Gaoxu shook his head.

The robot said, "Wait a minute, I will call a doctor for you now."

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at the remote control panel in his hand, and found that it was a full touch screen. Fortunately, there were Chinese characters on it.So he touched the switch with his finger, and sure enough, the TV turned on all of a sudden.

There were several men and women sitting in the studio, including a foreign man. It was probably a talk show variety show.The clothes they wore were also a bit strange in Zhu Gaoxu's eyes. The actor's collar was cross-collared, but it was not Hanfu, and his hair was short.

There's a woman beeping on the TV, and everyone else is watching her, keeping fake smiles on their faces.

The woman is saying "...in that experiment, two groups of people were chosen completely at random. But soon they identify with their own group and start to see people in the other group in a prejudiced light."

The foreign man dressed up very coquettishly, as if he had put on makeup, and said in Chinese with a startled expression, "Ms. Wang said that they all have the same skin color?"

Ms. Wang smiled and said, "Not only the skin color, but also the standards of education, height, and wealth are all randomly selected. Be careful, they don't know it themselves. This is just an experiment."

Another woman is older) said, "In reality, there are great differences between people, so prejudice and discrimination are more likely to occur. I think that 'Kunlun slave', 'ghost', and 'reek' are all recognized Intellectual prejudice, in fact, there is no distinction between good and bad among people, and these discriminatory terms should not continue to be used.”