Plane Small Bookstore [System]

The afternoon sun shone warmly on her body, Zhou Lu squinted her eyes, and her body was lazy.She was sitting on a bench by the street, dangling her two short legs, licking the strawberry-flavored lollipop in her mouth, her mood was as clear as a clear blue sky.

Here she waits for her husband who buys her a cake.When I get older, I like to eat these sweet things.When she was young, she lost all her teeth, not to mention sweets, she couldn't even chew noodles.Now that she is older and her teeth have grown back, she can eat as much as she could when she was younger.

At this time, a young man with wrinkled face and stooped body sat beside her.With sugar in her mouth, she glanced at him with puffed cheeks, and her gaze almost immediately stopped at the book he was holding in his hand.

"You also like Tagore's poetry collection." She took the initiative to talk.

The young man nodded with a smile and asked, "You like it too?"

Tagore's poetry collection brought back a long memory of her.

Maybe people just like to recall the past when they are old.She smiled and asked, "Young man, would you like to listen to me tell a story?"

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The first time she met the mysterious bookstore owner, Zhou Lu was still a 67-year-old young man, so she was bent and sick all over, and had to take a few steps to catch her breath.

The reason why she went into that strange bookstore was because she got lost.That day is the day when the social care department pays alimony to citizens over the age of 60.Because of her poor memory, she found herself lost not long after she went to the city hall to collect her pension.

She walked up and down with the strange crowd, and entered a bookstore in a daze.The owner of the bookstore is a handsome young man who looks very old.

Seeing her coming in, the boss immediately stopped teasing the black cat with his fingers, stood up, and asked with a smile, "Hello, how can I help you?"

Zhou Lu smiled embarrassedly: "Excuse me, how to get to Baiqiao Street?"

The boss thought for a while, and then clearly and smoothly told Zhou Lu the specific route.Fearing that Zhou Lu would forget, he even drew a detailed road map on paper and handed it to Zhou Lu with both hands.

Zhou Lu was a little moved, her gaze stayed in the bookstore for a few seconds, and then she decided to buy a few books here.

"I want to buy a few books here." She asked, "Do you have any books here that you can recommend to me?"

"Which book do you want to read?"

Zhou Lu hesitated for a moment.Although every resident of Utopia already understands the basic common sense after breaking open the life fruit from the mother tree, but if you want to find a good job in the future, simple common sense is not enough, and you need to learn systematically.So at the age of 75, she entered a school specially set up by the government for citizens to study.This year is her eighth year of study. Although her memory, physical strength and eyesight are poor, she has been working hard.

However, this all changed a month and a half ago.A transfer student came to the class.He was a gentle, humorous young gentleman, the same age as Zhou Lu, but much smarter than Zhou Lu.

Zhou Lu took a sneak peek at the boss. She thought that when the transfer student got old, he would be as handsome as the boss.But it’s okay even if he’s not handsome when he’s old, because the ugly young life is too long, and the good old life is too short, so no one cares about the skin on the outside, they pay more attention to the inner soul.

Zhou Lu felt that he had an interesting soul.

She... wanted to be closer to him.

Get along with interesting people, as if even yourself has become interesting.It's the kind of magic that only funny people can do.

So she sincerely asked the boss, the "experienced person", "What kind of books did you like to read when you were in your 60s?"

The boss was obviously a little surprised. He thought carefully for a while before answering carefully: "I don't know... maybe it's a collection of poems?"

"Poems?"

The boss nodded slightly, lowered his eyes and smiled slightly: "Yes, some poems can only be read quietly after a certain age."

"Then get me a book of poetry."

The boss walked into the bookcase, took out a book with a green cover that she couldn't put it down in the future, and handed it to her, "This is the complete collection of poems by my favorite poet Tagore. The lines are beautiful and the meaning is profound. It is a classic."

Zhou Lu took it, and casually opened a page to read a few lines, and was touched by the beautiful and magical lines that were like divine inspiration.

This is a short poem called "When Time Gone": "If Time Gone,

The birds no longer sing,

The wind is tired too,

Then cover me with a thick veil of darkness,

As at dusk you wrap the earth in a quilt of sleep,

Gently close the petals of the water lily.

The journey is not over, the luggage is empty,

Clothes are torn and stained, people are exhausted.

You drive away the shame and embarrassment of travelers,

make him under the night of your mercy,

Rejuvenate like a flower.

Waking up under your loving night. 』

Zhou Lu knew from birth that everyone's soul would return to the mother tree after living for 80 years.Then after a few years, the mother tree will bear the fruit of life, and they will wash away their memory and fatigue, and come to this world again.The cycle of life and death is endless.

Therefore, every citizen of Utopia, including Zhou Lu, does not think about the past, does not love the past, is not afraid of the future, and is not afraid of death.

Zhou Lu has no memory of death in her previous life, but she thinks that the so-called death must be just like the poem said, just a long dark sleep.The exhaustion and pain of her 80 years of life will be swept away in the loving embrace of the mother tree.She will be repurified into a pure, new life, when she will awaken in the loving night of the Mother Tree.

So she bought the book, and read it over and over again in the years to come.

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Speaking of this, Zhou Lu said to the young man with unconcealed pride, "I may have bought the first collection of Tagore's poems in China."

The young man was shocked when he heard the words, and he lost his voice: "Could it be that the bookstore is Kaiming Bookstore?! The owner is Mr. Le Jing??"

Zhou Lu nodded reservedly: "That's right."

The young man couldn't help being awed, and looked at Zhou Lu with envy in his eyes: "I've seen his name in history books. Mr. Le Jing has a mysterious origin, his birth and death dates are unknown, and he appears and disappears. The books he sells The origin of the author cannot be found out, but it has caused shocks in various fields in the country. Even now, our school Chinese class has to learn the books sold in his bookstore!"

Of course Zhou Lu understood how important and mysterious the bookstore owner named Le Jing was.So today, 60 years later, she still cherishes that memory, which is unforgettable.

The young man asked again: "The historians are speculating that Mr. Le Jing may not belong to this world. Well...you understand what I mean. After all, the people in many books are really strange. They turned out to be born from the belly of a human woman." I was born here, and I was born as a baby, and it grows one year every year, and the most terrifying thing is..." The young man opened his eyes wide, as if seeing something terrible and unimaginable: "Everyone's natural The life expectancy is different! Some people may live for more than ten years before dying, while others can live for more than 100 years!"

Zhou Lu nodded in agreement: "Yeah, their growth experience is the opposite of ours. They are born as happy and energetic as we were when we were old. Then when they are old, they are old and weak, deaf and dim, How sad it must be."

The young man hammered his sore back, deeply appreciating it.He couldn't help asking: "And then? Did you meet Mr. Le Jing again later?"

Zhou Lu's gaze was long, immersed in memories again: "Later..."

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When we met again, it was already 20 years later. At that time, Zhou Lu was 47 years old and had been married for 13 years.The groom is the transfer student she met when she was 67 years old.

That year, with the help of Tagore's poetry collection, she managed to strike up a conversation with the transfer student.They read poems and discuss together, and the two young hearts are getting closer and closer, and they are also complete because of each other.Finally, after graduating from school, they came together and became a legal couple.At that time, she and he were both 60 years old.

They are gray-haired, they are stooped, they are young and ugly.But they all knew that there was a golden soul hidden under the other's ugly and withered body.But even the most loving couples will eventually quarrel.In the past few years, because of some trivial frictions in life, the two of them had quite an unpleasant quarrel.Although both of them knew that they still loved each other, this love had already absorbed the smoke of more than ten years of marriage and became greasy.

Over the years, Zhou Lu has thought of that mysterious bookstore owner more than once—to be honest, he is still the matchmaker between her and her husband!If it wasn't for that book of Tagore's poems, she and he wouldn't be together.Now that she's in trouble again in her marriage, she longs for some enlightenment about her destiny from her boss again.

But she has never seen him.

At the same time, the discussion about Lejing in the society has gradually turned into old news that no one cares about.It was at this time that she met Le Jing again.

At that time, she had just got off work from the newspaper office, so she chose to take a detour because of the traffic jam, and then she was caught off guard and reunited with the bookstore.

It's still the same location, the same bookstore, and the owner's appearance is the same as the first time I saw it.

She stared blankly at the gentle and calm boss for a while, then suddenly asked: "Do you still remember me? I bought a collection of Tagore's poems from you 20 years ago."

Hearing the first half of her sentence, the boss, who was still a little confused at first, slowly raised his eyebrows and said softly, "It's you. You look much younger."

Zhou Lu shook her head and corrected: "I'm not young, I'm getting old." She looked at the boss's unchanging appearance, and had countless thoughts in her mind. In the end, she just wrote lightly: "The boss is well maintained. age."

The boss smiled and asked, "What book do you want to buy this time?"

"I'm married." Zhou Lu showed a trace of exhaustion on his face, "So do you have any books about love and marriage?"

"Yes." The boss got up and took out two books from the bookcase and put them on the counter. He pointed to "Pride and Prejudice" and said, "This is love." He pointed to "Fortress Besieged" and said, "This is marriage and life."

Zhou Lu didn't read it this time, and stuffed the book into the briefcase after paying directly.Then she raised her head to look at Le Jing, her eyes were full of exploration and anticipation that she didn't realize: "Can we meet next time?"

The corner of the boss's lips curled up, and this smile had a mysterious meaning in her heart for no reason: "As long as you live long enough, then we will meet again in the end."

Zhou Lu also laughed, her gaze was indescribably calm: "I may have changed my appearance and identity at that time, but 'I' is still 'I' after all. When I stand in front of you, I hope you Can recognize me."

"Well. I will definitely recognize you."

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"And then? Then?" The young man asked impatiently, "Have you ever seen him again?"

Zhou Lu shook her short legs floating above the bench, bit off the last piece of strawberry lollipop stuck to the candy stick with a snap, and said vaguely and depressedly: "No more. Since that time Another 40 years have passed, and I have never seen him again." She puffed her cheeks like a child, pulled out the candy stick from her mouth and threw it into the trash can, "Maybe I won't see him again until I reincarnate. "

"That's it." The young man couldn't help being a little disappointed, then he remembered something, and asked, "Then what happened to you and your husband in the end?"

"Here, here!" Zhou Lu's eyes lit up, she stood up and waved to the front, and saw a little boy holding a plastic bag running up to Zhou Lu panting, looking at Zhou Lu who was smiling so hard that his teeth could not see his eyes. Lu, frowning, said old-fashionedly: "I told you to wait for me, but you still run around! Do you know how worried I am?"

"My legs are sore!" Zhou Lu shook the boy's arm coquettishly, and kissed him on the face: "Give me a kiss, don't be angry."

The boy's face was flushed with naked eyes. He glanced at the young man in embarrassment, pulled Zhou Lu, and whispered: "Someone is here! Be careful!"

Zhou Lu looked at the young man with a smile, and introduced generously: "Let me introduce you, he is a classmate of the transfer student, my husband Ji An."

The young man was stunned, staring at the old couple who looked at each other and smiled, and their eyes were lingering. He thought that he didn't need an answer anymore.

Saying goodbye to the young man, Zhou Lu and Ji An walked home hand in hand.

Along the way, Zhou Lu chattered to Ji An about the conversation she had with the young man, and Ji An listened carefully with a smile.

Zhou Lu clenched Ji An's little palm, leaned her head on his shoulder, and said in a low voice, "I really thought we couldn't go on."

Thinking of that time, Ji An also had some palpitations, "Fortunately, you brought back "Fortress Besieged" from Boss Le."

"Yes." Zhou Lu closed her eyes lightly, smelling the bitter aroma of her favorite dark chocolate on her husband, her voice was peaceful after thousands of sails: "Marriage in the world is like a wall, and people outside the city want to rush in." , People in the city want to escape "There is no perfect marriage, the important thing is that it is rare and confused."

The two fell into a pleasant silence, enjoying the sweet silence of this moment at the same time.

After a while, Ji An clenched his wife's hand, and suddenly said: "We are much luckier than Fang Hung-chien and his wife. We are not obsessed with appearances, but share the same interests. From gray hair to black hair, from shrunken to tall and straight, we are the real souls." companion."

"That's right." Zhou Lu opened his eyes, and echoed, "In the world of "Fortress Besieged", people actually rely on appearance to choose a partner instead of talent and temperament. It's really scary."

"That's why we are happier." Ji An lowered his eyes, looked affectionately at his wife leaning on his shoulder, and said with a slight smile, "In the past few years, I have been thinking about how we will die."

Zhou Lu's smile was slightly restrained, and her eyes were a little sad: "Yes, we are all seven years old, and we are not young anymore."

Ji An stroked her hair reassuringly, and said softly, "Don't be afraid, I will accompany you."

"Wait until the night before we turn 0 and we're going to lie hand in hand in a nursing home bed and look at each other. You're a few hours older than me and I'll watch you go back first, but I'll be looking at you soon So you don't have to be afraid."

Following her husband's words, Zhou Lu couldn't help sketching out the relevant scenes in her mind, and she gradually became a little crazy.

"In this way, when we sleep underground with the mother tree, we will hold hands. Maybe we will be husband and wife after reincarnation!" Ji An said excitedly.

Zhou Lu threw herself into her husband's arms happily, nodded vigorously and said, "Yes! You must find me in the next life!"

"Okay. If you don't come, I won't marry."

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This is the third time Le Jing has come to this plane.

B58 plane.A magical plane.

There is only one country in this plane, called Utopia.

The residents of Utopia are all born from the fruit of a huge tree. Everyone is 80 years old when they are born, and they will be one year younger every year.By the time they are 0 years old, they will become a newborn baby who stops breathing in bed.Then professionals from nursing homes will bury them under the tree of the mother tree. Their corpses will become the nourishment for the growth of the mother tree, and their souls will return to the tree, waiting for the day of reincarnation.

The citizens of Utopia have no parents, and the society and the country are their parents. After birth, they are adopted by the welfare institutions of the state, receive education under the arrangement of the state, and then look for jobs according to their own specialties.

Because of the government's sound welfare policy, the people here are peaceful, contented, optimistic and happy.It is also because they live younger and younger, the combination of the elderly and the calm and the youthful vigor is wonderfully combined, giving birth to an incomparably wonderful national identity and culture.

This is a veritable Utopia.

The doorbell rang, and an elderly woman walked into Lejing's bookstore in a panic, "Excuse me, do you know how to get to Lantian Road?"

Le Jing blinked and suddenly smiled: "I found you."

"Long time no see, Zhou Lu."

Looking at the confused face of the old woman, Le Jing suddenly remembered a line from a movie:

All encounters in the world are reunions after a long absence.

This sentence could not be more appropriate in this situation.

The author has something to say:

About the setting that people are born from trees, I first knew this, not from the official setting of the birth of elves in Western Fantasy, but from a book "Twelve Kingdoms" by Japanese female writer Inuimi Ono.

When I first read this book, I was still in junior high school. Although I didn't understand some profound connotations at that time, the setting and plot still surprised me.

In distant Penglai, there are twelve countries, and the king of each country is elected by the native unicorn born in Pengshan.If the king's actions violate the way of heaven, Qilin will suffer from the disease of losing the way. If the king does not correct his mistakes in time, Qilin will die of illness, and the king will die within a year after Qilin's death.Pengshan will bear the fruit of the country's new kylin in the second year, and the people of the country will ascend the mountain on Anhe Day, and the new kylin will accept the apocalypse and elect the new king of the country.But if the king goes to Pengshan to abdicate, then only the king himself will die, and Qilin will survive to elect a new king of the country as soon as possible, so as to end the natural disaster caused by the absence of the king as soon as possible.

书中设定，人和家畜是自里木里诞生的。想要孩子的夫妻在木上系带祈祷。在木下不能杀任何生物。1日得鸡鸭等禽类、2日得狗、3日得绵羊和山羊、4日得野猪和家猪、5日得牛、6日得马、7日和9日以后是人。家畜在一星期内孵化。而结出人类的果实，就是卵果，颜色是黄色的。不是父母无法摘下卵果。

There are still many novel settings in it. Until now, I admire the author’s imagination. You must know that this book was written in 1992, although it was barely finished in 2013 (…)

In the article, I like Yangzi the most. She is the queen of the Qing Kingdom. Because of the eclipse, the fetal fruit was lost to the eternal life, so Yangzi grew up in the world of normal humans.Later, Qilin traveled across the world to find her, and Yangzi returned to Penglai. After a series of adventures, she finally became the qualified queen of the Qing Dynasty.

In addition to Yangzi, there are many stories about the monarchs of other countries, all of which are very interesting!

Although "Twelve Kingdoms" is full of tears now, and it is also very cold among Jinjiang colleagues, but I still can't help but want to send you Amway!

As for the next dungeon, I will use the setting of the article "Quick Time Traveling to the Unlimited College Entrance Examination" next door.Although that book is black history, the writing is terrible, but some settings can still be used orz

ps Don't watch it because of my words!Don't look!Don't look!If it weren't for the fact that the v text can't be locked, I would like to lock it up orz