lyra sleepless

Yegor clapped his hands, and the deep expression on his face disappeared in an instant. He pretended to be happy and said, "The dinner party of the Consulate is about to start. We shouldn't stay here for a long time. You still have to lead the first dance."

"Yegor."

"Huh?" The secretary-general who was walking out turned around inexplicably, and faced the helpless expression of the young consul: "Just call me You Jing, I can't stand you calling me honorifics."

Yegor stared at him for a while, then suddenly smiled: "You are still half a child, it doesn't matter, you will get used to such a title soon. The Consulate is a very serious workplace."

"I'm serious." You Jing said sincerely, scratching his head, "You look older than me, and besides, as a consul, I should ask you for many things."

"It's nothing," Yegor gestured to end the conversation. "We'll be together for a long time."

If you're lucky enough, he added mentally.

"Yegor."

"I said no, Your Excellency the Consul." Yegor replied without thinking.

You Jing quickly waved his hand: "I want to ask you another thing. You just said that I am already the best consul in the endless mirror?"

"That's right." Yegor said, "Most consuls will experience vomiting, shock, and even temporary blindness and deafness. Of course, these situations will not be made public. In this way, you are indeed a qualified officer."

"So, my question is, how many consuls have you seen?"

In other words, aren't consuls tenured for life?

You Jing wondered about this for a long time.Perhaps the separation of powers system was designed too well. The position of consul in Lyra, like the position of justice in the lighthouse country, is safely stipulated as a lifelong tenure.But according to that old fellow You Bushu, "The executive officer acts like flowing water, but the secretary-general is unshakable."How did Yegor do it? Could it be that this guy has the art of immortality?

Yegor showed no expression, and held out a hand: "It's good that consuls have life tenures, but most consuls don't have a very long life span."

What?

"On average, there are about one assassination operation against the consul every year." He said indifferently, "It's easy to hide from the open, but hard to prevent from the back. The days of peace are too long, and maybe many people are too idle to panic."

Are you going to assassinate the consul in a panic?What kind of boring and decadent life is this? !Don't they have better pastimes, like rock 'n' roll or marijuana or something.

You Jing covered his eyes in desperation, how could he use his own way of struggling to get back to Earth, maybe one day a bullet would hit him, and his pale little soul would land again in the high math class on the home planet up.

"Isn't the capital star banning guns? How did those KB elements do it?"

"For a deliberate killer, banning guns has no practical effect," Yegor said, "but this way, when we find someone with a gun, we can clearly identify them." They were found guilty and immediately arrested."

You Jing glared at him: "After I've been murdered?"

Yegor spread his hands: "So this time we found a soldier to serve as the consul."

This is, do you expect him to be able to defend himself?

I don't know if the real Youjing can do it, but he definitely can't.Before he could protest, Yegor said to himself, "Here we are."

The white door opened in response, and the loud music drowned them like flowing water.The people who were chatting in twos and threes in the banquet hall stopped and nodded to their new consul.The crowd parted a path as smoothly as a piece of butter being cut, allowing You Jing to walk to the center of the hall.

The speech was prepared by Yegor, and whatever he read would be met with applause.While reading it, You Jing thought maliciously, did Yegor never revise this manuscript, and just used it for the sixth time.

When the dull and boring speech was finally finished, You Jing and the audience breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, and the dance officially began.The consul is the first to choose his partner.

Yegor knew that You Jing was angry because of his remarks just now, and the kid even gave him a glare when he entered the door.But he never expected that You Jing would invite him to his first dance.

Yegor's face was as gloomy as water. He had been in power in the government for so many years, and he could not be alarmed by any storm.He didn't know if You Jing did it on purpose, and it didn't matter, Yegor had long been used to being viewed with colored glasses.Even if You Jing is not now, it will be in the future.

He calmly held the consul's hand that was reaching out to him, and made a circle, and the two of them naturally fell into the node of the music.

After a few beats, Yegor felt his hand being pinched, he raised his head, and You Jing whispered to him, "I can't dance, what should I do?"

The last time he danced, the girl who had a crush on him invited him to the Christmas ball of the Foreign Language Institute. Wearing a formal dress to dance ballroom dance made him feel uncomfortable. He stepped on her several times, and finally You Jing felt embarrassed. , with a big wave of his hand: "I'll take you to see how our socialist department celebrates Christmas!" The last two people ate potato chips, camped in the wild with the nerds from the astronomy department in twos and threes to watch the stars all night, The nerds praised: "Winter stargazing is good, there are no bugs in the wild!"

Later, before there was any later, You Jing came to this ghost place.But he still remembered that night when the bright Sirius and the three stars shone brightly, and he held the girl's cold little hand.

There is no Lyra in the starry sky in winter, and there is no such calm and brilliant starry sky in Lyra.

Yegor's hands were also cold, even though the hall was warm and lively.He carefully examined You Jing's face and said, "That's why you danced with me, isn't it?"

You Jing nodded.

Yegor stomped on him hard: "What a bad reason? Then why didn't you invite You Zheng to dance?"

He prides himself on being top-notch in self-cultivation, and he can't show his emotions or anger, but this silly boy can always hit his anger point just right.

And this silly boy immediately wanted to turn around: "Hey, is my elder brother here?"

"The Consul's inaugural ball, as a high-ranking military officer, of course he will come." Yegor almost sighed at his IQ, "I don't even know this, is he really your brother?"

Yegor himself didn't realize how close he was to the truth in an instant.

"Actually, I'm not very good at dancing either." Yegor said frankly.

"Understood," You Jing grinned, "You just stepped on my foot again, and I'm sure you didn't do it on purpose this time."

He exerted some strength on the hand on Yegor's waist, "Then let's just go around in circles."

Yegor watched the current consul foolishly leading himself around the crowd in a speechless manner, and couldn't help but worry about the future workload.

Generally speaking, the more stupid the consul, the easier it is to control it, but those members of the Council of Elders wouldn't send him an idiot, right?Yegor frowned. Being a nanny was not included in his work plan.

In the next second, Yegor felt that You Jing led him to turn sideways with forgetfulness, and the two of them bumped into another pair of dance partners.full responsibility.

Annoyed, he wanted to cut this paragraph out from the monitoring of the Consulate, but the other party said coldly first: "Sorry." Eye.He heard You Jing mutter, "Julian."

Before recovering, the dance continued.You Jing snorted again and repeated: "Julian."

He asked in a daze, "What did you say?"

"I said, that person is very similar to the careerist in a novel I have read. Hey, Yegor, did you just call me 'you'?" You Jing smiled triumphantly: "Very good, keep it up .”

Yegor was absent-minded: "Really, I didn't expect that you still like literature."