eyes outside the box

Under the big banyan tree in the community, the children played games around the banyan tree, while Duan Jiuze sat quietly by the flower bed not far away and watched them play.

"I'm a minister! I want to marry Princess Qianqian!"

"I am the emperor! I declare that your minister is dead!"

"I want to live again! Then marry Qianqian."

"No! To die is to die! A person can only live once! How can he live again! Don't play tricks!"

"Why only live once!?"

"Because you only live once!"

……

Listening to the children's quarrel, Duan Jiuze suddenly remembered a scene he had seen on TV before——

Standing in the air-leaky classroom, the young supportive female teacher, with bright eyes, said to a group of plainly dressed rural children seriously: the most precious thing in a person is life, and life belongs to everyone only once, and a person’s life should be like this Spend: When he looks back on the past, he doesn't regret for wasting his years, nor is he ashamed of doing nothing.

——This is what Paul Korchagin said in the book "How Steel Was Tempered".

Duan Jiuze thought, what a good way to say this.There is only one human life, the only one.It is precisely because there is only one time and cannot be repeated, so people cherish life so much and try not to waste time.

It is also because of this passage that Duan Jiuze has always had clear goals and plans for his life, because he knows that life is only once, so he tries to make the most of every day he lives.

It's just that I don't know what went wrong, Duan Jiuze lived three lives.

With more than one life, Duan Jiuze doesn't know whether the current third life is the end or the middle point.

Duan Jiuze didn't know the answer, or maybe he died in this life before he could get a glimpse of the answer.But no matter whether he knows the answer or not, there is one thing Duan Jiuze can be sure of—living again and again is not necessarily a good thing.

Perhaps for some people, living continuously is a good thing.But for Duan Jiuze, who is doing well in the shopping mall, he knows that no one in this world can get something for nothing. If there is, it must be a trap aimed at him.So for the inexplicable rebirth at the moment, Duan Jiuze's heart is not ecstatic, but worried.

Because he didn't know why he was reborn again and again, and what was the point.Duan Jiuze also discovered that the three lives he has experienced now, each life has different family backgrounds, relatives and friends, and there are also a few similarities.

For example, when it comes to names, everyone’s names have not changed. Duan Jiuze’s mother is Wang Qin, friends Lin Chuan, Wen Qian, etc. This has never changed.But Duan Jiuze's parents were not always loving and harmonious for three generations, just like a model.

In the first life, they were obviously a model couple that everyone envied, but in the second life, Duan Jiuze's father was a loser who abandoned his wife and son.In this life, it is still a single-parent family, but the father died for some reason, not an abandoned family.There are other similarities and differences, Duan Jiuze has compared them one by one, but can't figure out the reason.

In Duan Jiuze's cognition, if he hadn't traveled to a strange era, then rebirth, everything should be developed according to the life he lived, and he, according to the cheapness of his own memory, lived very successful.But none of the few times he was alive today developed according to the usual rebirth.This point is really puzzling.

When he was reborn in the previous life, Duan Jiuze thought that God wanted him to live a different life, so he gave him a different family environment and so on.But that jumping life passed too fast, Duan Jiuze just figured out everything and then fell into the pure white world, and then came the third life, Duan Jiuze had a completely different family background.

Duan Jiuze couldn't convince himself that this was God's compensation for jumping too fast in his second rebirth. Even if God wanted Duan Jiuze to live a different life, he couldn't give Duan Jiuze the chance to be reborn again and again, right?After all, God is not the second uncle of Duan Jiuze's family.

It's just that no matter how many questions there are, no one can answer them, not even a person who can analyze these situations together.

When Duan Jiuze was stuck in his own world and kept thinking, the children were still arguing——

The child who played the role of the emperor said: "A man only lives once!"

The child who played the role of the minister retorted: "But we are just a game, and we can live indefinitely."

……

Duan Jiuze didn't notice the quarrel behind the children, but Yang Bowen came out of the blue and yelled a few times in front of Duan Jiuze, bringing Duan Jiuze back to reality.

"Zeze!—Zeze!——" Yang Bowen stood excitedly in front of the expressionless Duan Jiuze, pulling something in his hands.

"Zeze! Look! This is the fairy grass left by the gods! I was the only one who discovered it!"

Yang Bowen stared at Duan Jiuze with bright eyes, and his small face was full of expressions of "I'm great! Compliment me! Compliment me!".

Duan Jiuze glanced at the weeds in Yang Bowen's hands, then looked away, and looked under the banyan tree not far away - the children who were playing together had already dispersed, Duan Jiuze thought, maybe they should go back to eat.Sure enough, Wang Qin called their names the next moment.

"Zeze—Wenwen—go home for dinner—"

Hearing Wang Qin's voice, Yang Bowen turned his head to look at Wang Qin happily, happily grabbed the "fairy grass" in his hand, walked towards Wang Qin's arms with short legs, and showed off the "fairy grass" in his hand by the way. Grass jelly".

After Yang Bowen set off, Duan Jiuze got up slowly and walked towards Wang Qin's direction step by step.

"Are Wenwen and Zeze having a good time? We have to go to school tomorrow, so we have to take a shower after dinner tonight."

Yang Bowen hugged Wang Qin's thigh, pouted, and said unhappily, "Wenwen don't go to kindergarten, I won't take a bath tonight."

Seeing Yang Bowen hugging Wang Qin's thigh, Duan Jiuze lowered his head silently, pretending that he didn't see it - as an adult, he just felt indifferent to all kinds of coquettishness.

Wang Qin picked up Yang Bowen, looked at Duan Jiuze who followed quietly, and walked upstairs while talking with a smile.

Wang Qin and her two children live in Qixing District. The house has two bedrooms, two living rooms, a kitchen and a bathroom.One room for Wang Qin and one room for two children, it is more than enough for living now.The beds in Duan Jiuze and Yang Bowen's room were still made of wood, with bunk beds. It could be seen that Wang Qin had also taken into account the fact that the two children had grown up.It is estimated that the three of them will live in this house for at least ten years.

"Wenwen and Zeze are watching cartoons for a while, and my mother adjusts the water temperature. When it's ready, I ask you to take a bath."

Yang Bowen, who was staring at the TV intently at the moment, did not answer, but Duan Jiuze answered "Yes".

Today, Duan Jiuze and Yang Bowen are only about five years old, so every time they take a bath, Wang Qin must help them wash.I still remember that when I took a bath for the first time, Duan Jiuze had a dark face, and he refused to let Wang Qin help him take a bath—just kidding, he is not a real child, Wang Qin bathed him... Don't mention how awkward it is.Although in the end Duan Jiuze, a child, did not win over Wang Qin who is an adult...

Because of this matter, Duan Jiuze has lived with Wang Qin and Yang Bowen for so long, and has been looking forward to waking up one day, and he will arrive in this world decades later.

However, the fact is that Duan Jiuze grew up day by day, and the situation in his previous life never happened again.

Because Duan Jiuze seemed more sensible and Yang Bowen was a little more lively, Wang Qin always felt that it would be better for the two of them to go to the same class because their personalities complement each other.

When I was in the second grade of elementary school, I don’t know where the children in the class heard the rumors that Duan Jiuze was picked up by Wang Qin, and that Yang Bowen and Duan Jiuze were not biological brothers.

During the break, some good friends always get together to discuss these "I only tell you two, you are not allowed to tell others" secrets.

"I heard from adults that Aunt Wang picked up a child to raise, not her own!"

"Every time Aunt Wang comes here, she likes to hug Yang Bowen. Yang Bowen must be her own."

"Yes, yes! Aunt Wang likes the sports committee member! The sports committee member must be her own!" Yang Bowen is the sports committee member in the class. The little girl who talked has always liked Yang Bowen. Every time she talked about Yang Bowen, she liked to use the sports committee member instead. It seems that when talking about Yang Bowen with others, it is so shy to say Yang Bowen's name.

"I heard that the child I picked up was born in a garbage dump. It's so dirty. I met Duan Jiuze today. I want to take a bath when I go back!"

"Me too! Me too! I want to take a shower when I go back!"

……

Duan Jiuze could hear these words from time to time, but he didn't care.His troubles are the pure white world that appeared in his dream, and the airport hall that cannot be cleared by thick fog.When Duan Jiuze became a vegetable in his last life, he stayed in the pure white world. Except for the person who has been taking care of him, he never heard the voices of other people.The only color in the pure white world appears only because of that person's words.And the color will fade, if that person doesn't keep talking, the color will fade until almost nothing.

Duan Jiuze originally thought that the pure white world was unique to the brain world of vegetative people, but after it appeared once or twice in his dreams, Duan Jiuze suddenly thought, could this be a clue?Could it be a clue that he was reborn more than once?There is also the airport hall where the thick fog cannot be dispersed. Duan Jiuze remembers that he also dreamed about it in his previous life, and... there is a sense of familiarity.It's just that the current Duan Jiuze can't tell.

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

Yang Bowen stood behind the few children who shared secrets with each other, but said this sentence with a loud voice. The angry voice was not only loud, but also resounded through the whole class.

Even Duan Jiuze, who was thinking about clues, was pulled back to reality by the voice.