Suddenly, footsteps were heard outside. Xi Junjie leaned against the wall vigilantly, looked around, and finally picked up a pillow from the bed and covered his chest with it, assuming a defensive posture.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Xi Junjie's expression was getting more and more nervous. Although this person saved him, it was right to remain highly vigilant when he didn't know the other party's identity and requirements.
The footsteps stopped at the door, and the half-closed door was pushed open. Zhenzhen appeared at the door with a cup of hot water. Xi Junjie was stunned for a moment. He rubbed his eyes and found that the person standing at the door with an angry face was indeed his wife. He was stunned at the time: "Wife... Wife..."
Zhenzhen snorted indifferently and handed the cup of water to Xi Junjie. Xi Junjie's mind went blank and he subconsciously put the cup to his mouth and drank all the water in one breath. Then he came to his senses: "Am I dreaming?" Zhenzhen snorted coldly, took the cup from his hand and put it aside, put her warm little hand on Xi Junjie's forehead, and was relieved when she saw that he was not feverish.
Smelling the familiar fragrance of Zhenzhen, Xi Junjie's tense nerves instantly relaxed. He smiled and reached out to hug Zhenzhen in his arms, rubbing his head on Zhenzhen's neck, and said in a coquettish tone: "Wife, I miss you so much. I even dreamed that you kissed me."
Zhenzhen stretched out her hand and was about to slap him away, but when she saw the wound on his forehead, her heart softened and she could only tap him twice in anger: "What did you promise me before you left? You said you would pay attention to safety and not show off, but it's only been a few days and you almost died from a gun."
Recalling the thrilling experience before he fainted, Xi Junjie was also a little scared: "At that time, there was no village or shop in the distance, and there were not many shelters. We really didn't expect to encounter an armed group there. Fortunately, I started running when I heard them firing, and it was dark and they didn't catch up with me."
"Hehe..." Zhen Zhen pointed at the wound on his arm caused by a stray bullet and sneered, "So it's lucky to have a bullet grazed your arm?"
"Fortunately, the bullet didn't stay in my body, I'm fine now." Seeing Zhenzhen's increasingly dark face, Xi Junjie nervously touched his nose, then immediately changed the subject tactfully: "By the way, I remember they all chased after me at that time, who saved me? What happened later? Are we returning home now?" Xi Junjie looked at the familiar mahogany furniture and his mind was full of ideas: "Did they find out that I was from the Chinese embassy and sent me across the border? After I was urgently sent back to China, you were afraid that Mom would be worried if she knew I was injured, so you found a place for me to recuperate first."
"No, we are still in Ba Country, and it has only been five hours since you fell into a coma." Zhenzhen was silent for a moment, and decided to confess her secret to Xi Junjie. Even at the old Li's house, Mrs. Li, Wang Sufen, and Li Muwu only knew about Zhenzhen's ability to control plants, because Zhenzhen was too young at that time, and in order to prevent her family from starving to death, she had to expose her ability, but later on, Zhenzhen never told anyone about these abilities such as teleportation, consciousness, and space.
"Only five hours have passed? We are still in Pakistan?" Xi Junjie subconsciously looked out the window. There were blue sky and white clouds, and lush forests could be seen in the distance. Except for the occasional bird calls, it was completely silent here. It didn't look like the country that had been baptized by artillery fire at all.
"Actually, I have a secret that I haven't told you." Zhenzhen pushed Xi Junjie back into the bed and sat next to him, thinking about how to start the conversation. Seeing Zhenzhen's serious expression, Xi Junjie couldn't help but hold his breath. Zhenzhen scratched her head in distress and turned to ask him, "Have you noticed anything special about me before?"
"You are so beautiful!" Xi Junjie answered without hesitation.
Zhen Zhen couldn't help but burst out laughing. She reached out and rubbed Xi Junjie's head: "Don't think that I won't settle accounts with you just because you praise me."
Xi Junjie laughed twice and quickly changed the subject: "Besides being very beautiful, there's nothing else about it, right?" He thought about it and remembered one thing: "Also, you're very lucky. When we were in France, you almost emptied out the castle."
Finally, one of the aspects was mentioned. Zhen Zhen immediately said, "It's not that I'm particularly lucky. It's that I can see." Seeing that Xi Junjie didn't quite understand, Zhen Zhen added, "I can see everything hidden in the castle. In fact, not only the castle, I can see very far and very deep. I can see deep underground, I can see the bottom of the sea, I can see far away, and even..." She said word by word, "I could see from home that you were almost in trouble in Baguo in order to find two idiots."
Xi Junjie felt a little confused. Although he understood what Zhenzhen said, he still didn't quite understand the meaning. He subconsciously asked, "Looking far away? Wouldn't that be uncomfortable?"
"It won't be uncomfortable." Zhen Zhen said: "This is something I can control myself."
"It's good that you don't feel uncomfortable." Xi Junjie noticed Zhenzhen's nervousness and couldn't help but reach out and hold Zhenzhen's fingers, his eyes sparkling: "My wife is so amazing."
"In fact, I have been different from other children since I was a child." Zhenzhen said softly. Xi Junjie realized that Zhenzhen had a long story to tell, so he moved a seat inside and patted the empty seat next to him: "Lie down, I'll hug you."
Zhenzhen took off her shoes and crawled into bed. She put her small hands around Xi Junjie's sturdy waist and looked up at him. "The year I was born was the peak of the 19th century. Even the rich Northeast China suffered from a famine. I heard from my grandmother that there was no grain or vegetables for several months that year. In addition to eating some food saved from the previous year, we had to rely on mushrooms and wild vegetables from the mountains to survive."
Xi Junjie was already abroad at that time and had never experienced anything like this. Although he knew that life in China was difficult during those years, he did not expect it to be this difficult. Gently kissing Zhenzhen's forehead, Xi Junjie asked distressedly, "Did you suffer at that time?"
"Compared to other families, our life was not hard because I was special." Zhenzhen said slowly, "My family cleared a few acres of wasteland on the mountain and planted some crops. Because the sunlight on the mountain was not sufficient, the crops did not grow very well. At that time, my father was at work, and my grandmother and mother had to take care of the family's land. They carried me up the mountain and put me next to them. At that time, my mother said that the sunlight shone on me, and a golden light appeared, and then the crops in my family's land were ripe."
Xi Junjie was stunned. This kind of thing was simply unheard of: "Isn't this a story that grandma and the others told you to cheer you up?"
Zhenzhen smiled and said, "As I grew up, I gradually discovered my ability to control plants. As long as there is a seed or a little root, even if only a part is left that cannot be seen, as long as it is placed in the soil, I can make it take root and sprout instantly." Seeing Xi Junjie's unconvincing look, she waved her arm toward the window. Xi Junjie followed her arm and looked out the window. Suddenly, the crown of an apple tree appeared from the window, and in the blink of an eye it grew taller than the window. A branch full of apples stretched out from the open window. After seven or eight apples fell on the bed, the branch slowly retracted, and then the apple tree disappeared from Xi Junjie's sight.
Holding a bunch of apples, Xi Junjie was stunned. He turned to ask Zhenzhen: "Am I still unconscious? Then I had a dream about my wife and a fairy tale world." After Xi Junjie finished speaking, he picked up an apple and took a bite: "So sweet, it tastes like the apples grown in our garden."
Zhenzhen poked the purple bump on Xi Junjie's forehead with her finger: "Are you dreaming?" Xi Junjie shrank his neck when he was poked: "Ouch, ouch, it hurts, it hurts, it's not a dream, it's not a dream." Seeing Zhenzhen retract her hand, Xi Junjie smiled and took two bites of the apple and suddenly realized: "I said that we have all kinds of fruits in our garden, and they taste better than those sold outside. It's all because of your ability."
"Yeah." Zhenzhen also sat up, leaned against the headboard and started to eat an apple: "If I wasn't afraid to go too far, I would want to grow lychees and durians."
"This ability is truly miraculous." Xi Junjie looked at Zhen Zhen in admiration, "It's just like a fairy tale in the East."
"There's something even more mythical." Zhen Zhen smiled and said, "When I got older, I found that I could disappear from one place and appear directly in another place."
Xi Junjie almost choked on the apple in his mouth. He covered his throat and was confused again: "What does this mean?"
"Like I just told you, I can see very far. As long as it's within my sight, I can move there in an instant." Zhen Zhen looked at Xi Junjie, her tone not as relaxed as before: "Just like when I saw you were in trouble at home, I immediately left home and went to Ba to rescue you."
"You came here right away?" Xi Junjie tried to understand what Zhen Zhen meant: "In a few minutes?"
"In fact, it only took me a few seconds to get there, because I was going to deliver milk to the twins, and by the time I found out, you had already abandoned the car and ran away." Zhenzhen was a little annoyed: "I should have shown up earlier, so you wouldn't have gotten hurt."
"It's not too late actually." Xi Junjie smiled and hugged Zhenzhen: "If it weren't for you, I would be dead."
After hearing this, Zhen Zhen immediately turned around and glared at him: "How dare you say that."
"So where did you rescue me to?" Xi Junjie recalled the strange scene he saw from the window: "It seemed like there were a lot of blue and white porcelain outside."
"My treasure trove." Zhen Zhen looked at Xi Junjie and asked excitedly, "Would you like to visit it with me?"
Xi Junjie nodded immediately and couldn't wait to put on his shoes and get out of bed. The two walked out of the building hand in hand. Only then did Xi Junjie realize that there were so many things here.
"These are all the things I have collected since I was a child." Zhenzhen pointed at them ostentatiously: "When the country has corresponding policies in the future, I will open a private museum."
Xi Junjie nodded. Private museums are not uncommon abroad. As long as Zhenzhen is happy, they are fully capable of opening a museum for fun. "Fortunately, we made a fortune in France. The annual income is enough for you to maintain the operation of the museum."
As soon as Zhenzhen heard the word Qian, she immediately pulled Xi Junjie to the back of the building, where there were three hundred large wooden boxes. Xi Junjie touched one of them and looked at Zhenzhen in confusion: "This doesn't look like an antique."
Zhenzhen smiled and said, "What's valuable is what's inside." After that, she pushed down the lid of the box, and a box of glittering gold almost blinded Xi Junjie's eyes under the sunlight.
"Gold?" Xi Junjie picked up a stick and weighed it, then looked at the hundreds of large wooden boxes and was dumbfounded again: "There can't be so many of them."
"This is the gold that a bully in Yunnan Province hid during the liberation. Later, he was shot and these became ownerless." Zhenzhen waved her hand, and all the box lids fell down. Xi Junjie didn't need to look at them one by one. Just by looking at the light reflected in the sun, he knew that each box was full. Zhenzhen also picked up a gold bar and played with it in her hand: "You know I don't know how to invest other than opening a factory and building a business, so I'll give this gold to you. Make sure they make money."
"Okay!" Xi Junjie smiled and said, "I feel a lot of pressure. This is the first time I've seen so much gold." Xi Junjie paused and added, "It seems to be more than the last batch of gold coins." Xi Junjie put the gold bars back into the box, looked around, and asked curiously, "You put so many valuables here, won't others find them?"
"I told you it's my treasure place." Zhenzhen took Xi Junjie's hand and walked to the border of the space. Xi Junjie looked at the door-like thing that was shining with light, which seemed to surpass his imagination again. Zhenzhen took his hand and walked through the door to the passage. Xi Junjie looked at the passage composed of light and marveled at the wonder of this place again. The two walked for more than ten steps to one end of the passage, walked through the light and stepped out. Xi Junjie found that the passage disappeared, and he was standing at the place where he was attacked yesterday: "We are still in Baguo."
Zhenzhen smiled and said nothing. She pulled him back into the corridor and walked to the other end. When they went out, Xi Junjie found himself in his home in the imperial capital. He turned around in surprise and heard the giggling of the twins coming from the other side of the wall. He almost ran over.
Zhenzhen took his hand and went back to the space: "Do you find it strange that Mr. Wangwo and Mr. Zhang Renze are so nice to me?" Seeing Xi Junjie nodding, Zhenzhen smiled and said, "When I was doing sports, I had just mastered the ability of teleportation. When I had nothing to do, I teleported quietly for fun. As a result, I happened to meet Wangwo who wanted to jump into the lake to commit suicide. At that time, my brother mentioned Mr. Wangwo and I also read the articles written by Mr. Wangwo, so I blindfolded him and brought him to this space. At that time, there were no cultural relics in my space, only these empty foreign buildings. When I found a good place in the valley of the imperial capital, I decorated it exactly like here, and moved him out while he was sleeping."
Xi Junjie had always felt that the mountains around this space looked familiar. When he heard Zhenzhen say this, an idea suddenly occurred to him: "The valley where I proposed to you?"
"Yes, it was that valley, so I was surprised when I knew you chose to propose there." Zhen Zhen smiled and said, "Later, Mr. Wangwo asked me to save his friends. They lived there for seven or eight years until the movement ended. In order to prevent them from going there again, I razed it to the ground and restored it to its original state."
"No wonder they love you more than their own children." Xi Junjie finally understood: "This is a life-saving grace."
Zhenzhen smiled awkwardly: "After I came to the capital, I said that it was my uncle who saved them, but because of his status, my uncle couldn't come forward. Now he doesn't want to mention it anymore, so let's just pretend it never happened."
Xi Junjie smiled: "The gentlemen are all scholars, and the master is in a high position. If it weren't for you, the two sides would never have had any contact. When you said in the name of the master, it was as if the matter had never happened. The gentlemen were afraid that this matter would cause trouble for the master, so they kept silent. I saw that both sides were mainly polite at the full moon banquet."
The two walked into the western-style building hand in hand again. Zhenzhen pushed Xi Junjie to the dining table and brought him a bowl of steaming chicken noodle soup, two baskets of steamed buns and a few side dishes. "No matter how long the food here has been there, it looks like it was just put in. I have quite a bit of stock here."
Since leaving China, Xi Junjie had not had a proper meal and basically relied on compressed biscuits and mineral water to fill his stomach. Seeing the delicious food on the table and his smiling wife sitting next to him, Xi Junjie's appetite was greatly opened. He ate two bowls of noodles and a basket of buns before he felt completely alive.
The two sat on the sofa again, and Zhenzhen poured him a glass of red date water: "You stay here to recuperate for the next few days. When the Chinese troops come, I will put you back to your original place. But the matter of the space is my biggest secret. Even my grandma and mom don't know about it. You have to keep it a secret for me."
Xi Junjie had seen his wife's special ability, and naturally knew what kind of uproar it would cause if this ability was known to outsiders. He immediately said, "Don't worry, I know the seriousness of the matter. We can't even tell the twins about this. After all, they will have their own families in the future, and they might let it slip at any time."
"I know." Zhenzhen said, "You've been tired for several days. Drink some water and go upstairs to sleep. I have to go home now. Mom will be worried if she sees me not at home at night. If you wake up and have anything to say, just call me. I can hear you."
After going through a life-and-death experience, Xi Junjie was even more reluctant to part with Zhenzhen. When he heard that Zhenzhen was leaving, he suddenly felt empty inside. He couldn't help but hold Zhenzhen's hand and looked at her pitifully: "Would it be okay if you stayed with me?"
Zhen Zhen's nose felt sore, and she interlocked her fingers with Xi Junjie's: "I'll sleep with you."
The two of them lay on the soft bed. Xi Junjie wanted to talk to Zhenzhen for a while, but as soon as his head touched the pillow, a feeling of fatigue came over him. He hadn't had a good rest in the past few days and had been tense all the time. Now that he was finally safe and saw the person he loved again, Xi Junjie really couldn't hold on any longer.
Seeing Xi Junjie falling asleep in a moment, Zhenzhen couldn't help feeling heartbroken. She hugged him quietly for a long time before leaving the space.
Xi Junjie slept for a whole day and night. When he opened his eyes again, he smelled the fragrance of food coming from downstairs. He wiped his face and sat up. Xi Junjie picked up the cup of warm water on the bedside and drank it all. Then he put on his shoes and went downstairs.
Zhenzhen brought the hot chicken soup to the table and used a spoon to serve a bowl to Xi Junjie first: "I just made this, and it's even fried with oil. Have a bowl first." Xi Junjie took the chicken soup and smelled the full fragrance. He smiled and looked at Zhenzhen who was shuttling between the dining room and the kitchen: "I didn't feel hungry when I was sleeping, but I felt very hungry after I woke up."
"Eat more if you're hungry." Zhenzhen quickly put out five or six dishes. Because Xi Junjie's diet had been irregular in the past few days, except for the nourishing chicken soup, all other dishes were light.
"I want to take a shower after dinner. My hair is dirty." Xi Junjie waited until the chicken soup in the bowl was half cold and then took a sip slowly.
"No." Zhen Zhen refuted mercilessly: "If I wash it and it's white and tender, what will you say when the rescue team comes?"
Xi Junjie then remembered his situation and couldn't help but laugh and shook his head: "I was so confused that I had forgotten about it."
Zhenzhen smiled and picked up two bites of food for him. "Your disappearance has been reported back to China. Dad didn't dare tell Mom, and he was so anxious that he had a circle of blisters on his lips. Now China has set up an emergency rescue team, and they are driving from the border to Pakistan. I expect to arrive at this place tomorrow morning. I just found a very hidden pit deep in the woods. When they get there, you can hide in it first."
Xi Junjie nodded, and then asked the question that concerned him the most: "Have all the overseas Chinese returned to China?"
Zhen Zhen used her consciousness to check the situation in the neighboring countries, and said to Xi Junjie, "Not yet. The neighboring embassy has collected a group of houses for them to rest for two days. Because of the ongoing war, some people are not in good health. China's emergency medical rescue team has arrived and is treating them. I estimate that after finding you, they can all return home together."
Xi Junjie nodded. Because he had slept for too long, he was not very sleepy. He read a book all night until the early morning, and then fell asleep in a daze. He didn't know that the rescue team composed of special forces and medical personnel was running at full speed, hoping to find the rescue team as early as possible, and arrived several hours earlier than Zhenzhen expected. On the other hand, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was constantly contacting the armies of the two countries, asking them to verify whether there were any troops blocking the Chinese evacuation team and whether they kidnapped diplomat Xi Junjie.
Seeing that the rescue team was about to arrive, Zhenzhen hurriedly removed the gauze on Xi Junjie's head and arms, moved him out of the space and stuffed him into the pit. In order to make it more realistic, Zhenzhen also put some dry grass on his head and patted a lot of dirt on his body. Seeing that there were no flaws, she returned to the space alone. Xi Junjie didn't go to bed until the second half of the night because he was reading. At this time, he was sleeping soundly and had no idea that he had been moved by his wife.
Shao Hong led the way and parked the car at the same location as that day. Twenty special forces soldiers immediately spread out in a circle to look for Xi Junjie's traces. The pit that Zhenzhen found was particularly secretive, and there were weeds covering it outside. The special forces soldiers passed by twice and did not find anything unusual until the third carpet search.
Pushing aside the tall and thick pile of dead grass, the special forces soldier was pleasantly surprised to see the "unconscious" Xi Junjie. He immediately picked up the intercom and shouted, "Xi Junjie has been found, the coordinates are longitude xxx latitude xxx, requesting support! Requesting support!"
The special forces quickly converged on the coordinates where Xi Junjie was found. The medical staff ran quickly with a stretcher. Two special forces lifted Xi Junjie onto the stretcher. As soon as Xi Junjie opened his eyes dazedly, an oxygen mask was put on his mouth, an IV nutrient injection needle was inserted into his hand, and the wounds on his forehead and arms were bandaged again.
Seeing Xi Junjie's dazed look, the medical staff beside him burst into tears: "Don't worry, we are here to save you."
Xi Junjie smacked his lips, and the taste tasted like chicken soup.
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