Retirement and reemployment

"I'm going out." The old lady changed into her Tang suit and prepared to go to the park with her Tai Chi sword.

She has lived here for 30 years, and she knows the house next door, or she only knew Zhou Wenji once.

After all, Zhou Wenji and her were neighbors 20 years ago, and most of the residents in this community are retired or the family members of the old staff of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs. The old lady knows a little about Zhou Wenji's past.

She was quite happy to run into Zhou Wenji who was walking the dog every day when she went out, not because she was in love, but mainly because she hadn't seen her for more than ten years, so it was nice to be able to chat.

The old lady was full of energy, put on a coat and went out with a red face, turned her head, hey, Zhou Wenji is there.

"Old Zhou, what are you doing towards the door? Forgot to bring the key?" The old lady's voice was full of anger. She was old and her eyes were not very good. After seeing Zhou Wenji's scene clearly, the old lady opened her eyes wide. Eye.

Zhou Wenji is with his relatives? !

Hearing the commotion, Zhou Wenji glanced back. The strong old lady shivered all over, straightened her back, and left with her Tai Chi sword.

That is to say, the old lady resisted hard, walked like flying, and fled away with a whoosh.

She's a pretty open person, she knows about gay stuff, she has an old friend's granddaughter.So the old lady's attitude towards this has always been that it has nothing to do with her.

Anyway, I don't have one in my junior, but Zhou Wenji is... She really didn't expect this.Isn't that the kid he pinned against the wall to Zhou Wenji's family?

The co-author is not a junior in the family, but a partner?

The old lady was thinking about it, and she took a closer look, hey, a young man wearing glasses walked up the corridor.

At this moment, the old lady's thoughts turned quickly, and she remembered almost instantly that this young man had been to Zhou Wenji's house.

This young man with glasses looks pretty good, so could it have something to do with Zhou Wenji?Even if it doesn't matter, it's not very good to go up at this time.

Zhao Lei drove for a while only to realize that his senior had left the keys in his car, the keys to his house.

Afraid that the two of them won't be able to go back, let's make a phone call, but it turned out that the two of them left their mobile phones in their own car at some point, so they had to turn them around and send them to Zhou Wenji.

In the end, after climbing two flights of stairs, the old lady who came down the stairs gave him a glare and said, "Hey! You can't go up now."

"What?" Zhao Lei was grabbed by the wrist by the old lady, and almost used his supernatural power accidentally. The old lady was too fast, so he thought it was an attack.

"You, you are looking for Lao Zhou." The old lady dragged Zhao Lei downstairs, and Zhao Lei was a little confused: "Ah? Well, what's wrong?"

He followed the old lady downstairs, the old lady was very strong, Zhao Lei was afraid that if he forced himself to struggle and hurt the old lady, it would be bad.

But when the old lady said it, he remembered it. This old lady looks familiar, and she should be the neighbor of Senior Zhou.

The old lady slapped her forehead with the other hand: "Oh, you said this, isn't it a coincidence, I just met Lao Zhou at the door, and I want to find him too."

Facing Zhao Lei's confused eyes, the old lady started talking nonsense: "He told me that there was something urgent and it was inconvenient, so he went in. Don't bother him now, go back."

It's fine if she doesn't say anything, Zhao Lei felt that there was something wrong as soon as she opened her mouth.

First of all, the senior was drunk and didn't bring the key, how could he get in?Also said that there is something urgent, is it inconvenient?If there is something urgent for the senior, if he is really urgent, he will contact himself first.

When Zhao Lei looked at this old lady, he didn't think she was a good person.

"What's the matter, senior?" Zhao Lei became serious, and the old lady wanted to persuade her, but with a whoosh, the person in charge disappeared.

Zhao Lei used his own ability, which is also the teleportation he borrowed from the Bureau of Different Administrations. Of course, the teleportation distance is not much, and it is only the position he can see.

But using this to deal with an old lady is enough, Zhao Lei got rid of the old lady and ran upstairs quickly.

"Hey! Young man!" The old lady stretched out her hand towards him, as if she still wanted to keep him.

When Zhao Lei reached Zhou Wenji's floor, he didn't dare to stop for a moment, and ran towards Zhou Wenji's house.

This is not a long corridor, but there is a door in the middle of the houses at both ends. Usually this door is not closed, but now it is closed.

Zhao Lei suspected that it was the old lady's handwriting, so he quickly opened the door and rushed in.

Push the door and rush...

rush in.

Zhao Lei and Disi looked at each other, Zhao Lei was dumbfounded.

And Tisi can't speak now.

Now Zhao Lei knew why the old lady stopped him, probably because he saw something he shouldn't have seen.

Zhao Lei froze in place, holding two mobile phones and a necklace in his hand.

But Zhou Wenji is very busy now, it seems that he doesn't intend to talk to him, probably it has something to do with Zhou Wenji's drinking.

Zhao Lei took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

As if nothing had happened, he held up his own glasses: "Senior, your cell phone and keys have been left in my car."

Hearing the voice, Zhou Wenji finally turned around.

How would you describe that look?Zhao Lei only felt that this was not the kind and amiable senior in his impression, his eyes were too terrifying.

Just like a tiger that was interrupted halfway through eating meat, it was so fierce that it felt like it could jump up and tear people apart at any time.

Zhao Lei held out his phone and keys, Zhou Wenji briefly let go of Di Si, came over to get the things, led Di Si into the door and closed the door firmly.

Zhao Lei: ...

He turned around slowly, went downstairs slowly, and sat back in his car slowly.

After being silent for a long time, he called Wang Ba: "Hey, Wang Ba, are you still drawing fan pictures of Senior and Disi?"

"Ah? No, no." Wang Ba subconsciously minimized the interface, and his tone was not so confident.

Damn it, why is this guy Zhao Lei able to see what he is doing from such a distance?This man is just too scary.

Could it be that this bastard installed a surveillance camera in his home?

"I see." Zhao Lei's voice was very decadent, like an ignorant boy who found out that his father and his classmates were getting together.

Hearing his figure, Wang Ba subconsciously said, "What's wrong? Is something wrong? Is there any problem at home?"

Although he doesn't like Zhao Lei, after so many years, they still have a basic plastic friendship. Zhao Lei's tone sounds like he has been hit by something.

"I have to tell you what happened." Wang Ba was a little anxious.

"It's nothing serious." Zhao Lei was silent for a while, Wang Ba became more anxious, but finally Zhao Lei only left a sentence: "Those fan links, please send me a copy, I'll take a look."

He just suddenly felt that it was not unreasonable for the so-called domineering president to fall in love with me, at least in terms of eyes, Zhou Wenji looked quite domineering, worse than worse.

In other words, because the senior is usually too gentle, he always thought that Zhou Wenji should be, ahem, the recipient, but now it seems that this is not the case.

Today, Diji will probably be very hard.

In fact, Disi did not realize the crisis behind him.After Zhou Wenji pulled him in, Zhou Wenji fell asleep by himself, or got drunk?

Disi hugged the unconscious Zhou Wenji, not knowing what to do, he was completely surrounded now.

It felt like a festival was going on in his head, and the fireworks were going off, but now he couldn't even take a step. It didn't mean that Zhou Wenji fell on him.

He just simply...doesn't want to move.

"Ah!" Anthurium flapped its wings and came galloping, its cry was no longer chirp chirp chirp.There are also Wangcai and Xiaomi, who came to attack people after Zhou Wenji came in.

Wangcai himself would not participate in this kind of flattery without grade, but when he entered the door, Zhou Wenji fell over, startling the big orange cat.

Quickly jumped off the TV, ran to Zhou Wenji and Di Si and circled around, meowing while walking, for fear that something might happen to Zhou Wenji.

But Disi ignored all of them, he held Zhou Wenji in his arms, but he didn't even dare to go to see Zhou Wenji.

I just feel that this is really too unreal.

Like a dream.

Wangcai got annoyed, he meowed angrily, stood up with his paws, and scratched Disi's leg hard.

Wangcai's claws had never been cut, and Disi's trousers were quite thin. His special system meant that he didn't need to wear such thick trousers.

It hurts to be scratched this time, and Di Si finally reacted, and after reacting, he laughed, the corners of his mouth almost went behind his ears.

He picked up Zhou Wenji a little, carried him happily to the room, changed Zhou Wenji into pajamas, and put him on the bed.

Then he started to laugh silly, smirking with his chin in his hands, and making hey hey sounds from time to time.

Wangcai turned around and left in disgust. Anyway, this big guy was so happy, at least it showed that there was nothing wrong with their shit-shoveling officer.

And always liked to sleep with Disi, Anthurium was kicked out by Disi this time, and Disi not only drove it out, but even closed the door.

"Gah! Ah!" Anthurium flapped its wings to express its dissatisfaction, but Xiao Mi didn't wag her tail. The goose and the dog just watched the door being slowly closed, and the two disappeared from his sight.

Zhou Wenji was dreaming, and the dream was not comforting.

He stood in front of the tombstones, and he knew that he was probably dreaming, but he didn't know how to wake up.

He looked at the tombstones one by one, and the first one was his elder brother who died young.

In fact, he has never seen the face of that eldest brother, so there is no photo on this tombstone.

Zhou Wenji walked forward, passing by tombstones, from elders whom he had no memory of, to friends who had fallen into the water and died.

Starting from this friend, pictures began to appear on the tombstone. Some Zhou Wenji couldn't see their faces clearly, so they probably didn't have much impression.

And Zhou Wenji turned into a child in this dream, a kid who was only one or two years old, wearing patched old clothes, he walked forward slowly, and his body was growing.

From the thin jacket when he was a teenager to the decent Chinese tunic suit that his family made for him when he first came into contact with the Bureau of Abnormalities.

His time is passing, one by one tombstone.

Then what?right.Then he became the number one in the Bureau of Different Administration, and then came across a tombstone, oh, that was his captain, a rebellious rich second generation, it was said that his parents were abroad, and he insisted on staying in China.

Later, he died very early, because he was on a mission and died in order to protect a group of children.

Zhou Wenji continued to move forward, and met the former bureau chief, he was a good old man with a wig on his head all the year round, the only time he was angry was because of what?

Zhou Wenji had already forgotten, but he remembered the scene at that time.

The director was so angry that he slapped the table, and the wig on the top of his head flew off. At that time, he hit a little girl who was an intern on the face, which scared the little girl to tears.

Zhou Wenli smiled at the tombstone.

Going forward, Zhou Wenji saw the guy who said he liked him, and then put a curse on him.

At this time, Zhou Wenji is already 26.

Zhou Wenji looked at his hands. He was wearing an old-fashioned suit. Through the reflection of the puddles on the ground, he saw his own appearance, which was the one he was familiar with.

He has been like this for more than 40 years.

Zhou Wenji continued to move forward, stepping on puddles, the water splashed, and his reflection was shattered.

He was familiar with the next person.

Until walking, Zhou Wenji felt a little tired.

He looked at his hands again, the originally slender hands had already developed fine lines.

he is old?

Zhou Wenji looked at the tombstone next to him, oh, that's a cute little girl he once knew, and Zaiyi had a good relationship with him back then.

It is said that the girl was originally a waiter girl in a backward feudal area, but later she slipped away, and then died in a battle.

Zhou Wenji fumbled around, and took out a small mirror from his pocket, it was still pink, probably it was given to him by the girl at that time.

Zhou Wenji took a mirror to look at his face, his face was still the same, but wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes.

The hands were trembling when they touched his face, how old was he at this time?

Oh, more than 40.

Go on... go on!

Zhou Wenji speeded up, although his current physique is not as easy as when he was young.

The mirror in Zhou Wenji's hand disappeared as he left the tombstone, like dust.

His eyes skipped over the tombstones one by one.

Until he finally saw his family, headed by his mother, followed by the Zhou family.

At this time, Zhou Wenji was already in his fifties, but he actually looked more wrinkled and had more gray hair on his temples.

Zhou Wenji seemed unable to run anymore, he ran to his mother's tombstone, and knelt down as if unable to bear it.

He looked at the photo carefully and suddenly smiled.Tears fell from the corners of his eyes.

He bent down and kowtowed three times to his mother's tombstone. After kowtowing, he got up and didn't run this time.His hand caressed the tombstone carefully.

Going back, the next twenty or so yuan are all his family members, and they stop at Zhou Wenji, who is in his 50s.

Men, women, young and old, some died at sixteen, but only three or four years old were shown in the photos, because Zhou Wenji had never seen what they looked like when they grew up.

Zhou Wenji glanced back after passing these tombstones. There was a long, long string, and he didn't know how many people he had bid farewell to along the way.

It was as if he had lived until now, only to say goodbye.

Going forward, Zhou Wenji didn't run away this time, because his old friend was next.

In fact, he also saw one when he was running just now, and he died on a mission.

When he met Yanlong, the string was also the tombstones of his comrades in arms.

The more An walked forward, the older Zhou Wenji looked, he had a good foundation, and he was a handsome old man even when he was old.

Zhou Wenji looked over one by one, and he felt that his eyes were also cloudy, his legs were becoming more and more unable to walk, his eyes seemed to be a little shorter, and his back was also bent.

It seemed that the curse didn't exist here at all. He turned from a child running around with his bare buttocks into an old man.

That is?

Zhou Wenji squinted his eyes, stared at it for a while, and suddenly laughed out loud: "Liu Dequan."

Liu Xia's poetic grandfather, he has come here all this time?

Looking forward, only the girl named Hu Die and the child named He Liu were left.

Zhou Wenji walked past all the tombstones, stopped at the last one, and couldn't help but sit down and take a breath.

After running for such a long time, he has forgotten how long he has been running.

And the road seems to end here.

Suddenly, as far as he could see, the road was extended by another section.

There were puddles on the ground, and Zhou Wenji could see what he looked like now.

Zhou Wenji looked at it, and suddenly laughed hahahaha: "Liu Dequan, you idiot, why are you all getting older, I am much more tidy than you."

He smiled, suddenly lost his temper, got up, and continued walking.

Only this time he changed faster.

With just one step, he is as old as ten years old.

Zhou Wenji touched his wrinkled face like an orange peel, looked up, and continued to move forward.

Two steps, three steps.

At the fourth step, a tombstone appeared beside Zhou Wenji.

On it was Zhou Wenji's name, and a photo was also posted.

In the photo is an old man, how can you see Zhou Wenji's handsome appearance when he was young?

Just like all the old guys in the world, his face is wrinkled.It is sparse on the head, although it is not bald, but it is definitely not as thick as when I was young.

They are all traces of time.

Zhou Wenji couldn't move anymore, but he saw the photo clearly.

Zhou Wenji laughed again, the wrinkles on his face were drawn away with his movements, and the gully deepened.

Unable to walk, Zhou Wenji simply lay down, lying in front of his tombstone.

He looked at the sky, the sky was dark.

This place is black and white, only black and white.

"It's like this." If there is no curse, his life is like this. After saying goodbye to countless people, he will also turn into dust. He is the guy who has lived from the early part of the last century until now.

He should be eliminated by the world in this century, not by time.

"It's very comfortable to lie down like this."

Zhou Wenji closed his eyes, this journey should be over, he will be buried with his memory.

He was asleep, or dead?

It's been a long time.

He suddenly felt the temperature, the temperature of the sun.

Zhou Wenji suddenly opened his eyes and sat up from the bed.

He made such a big move that Disi, who was holding him, was taken aback.

Disi rubbed his eyes: "Zhou, what's wrong?"

Zhou Wenji stared at Di Si in a daze, the sunlight hit Di Si's face through the crack of the window, Zhou Wenji had never felt that the sunlight was so dazzling and beautiful.

He squinted his eyes, always feeling that the sunlight was too transparent, and it covered Disi's face with big blobs of warm color.

He's not used to it, it's like a new life for him.

Zhou Wenji smiled lightly, and laughed out loud.

The past has been buried with him.

Those 70 years of life have been packed into a ball, thrown into a coffin, sealed with soil, and the dust has settled.

And his present life seems to have quietly restarted.