Zhou Luoyang opened his slightly drunk eyes and looked at Du Jing in a trance.
Du Jing's expression was calm, the kiss seemed to be just a natural expression of emotion, and it was also a simple response to Zhou Luoyang's many complicated thoughts.
When the sound came, Le Yao's door was opened, and Du Jing immediately got up from the sofa and sat aside instead.
Le Yao looked at the two of them, the atmosphere was very strange, Zhou Luoyang was lying on the sofa, Du Jing was sitting beside, no one spoke.
"What's wrong?" Zhou Luoyang said.
Le Yao didn't know what happened before, and only regarded it as an ongoing topic, the silence brought about by being cut off because of his own appearance.
Le Yao said, "Brother, where is the luggage I brought back from school?"
Zhou Luoyang got up and went to get him a suitcase.
"I'm going to take a bath." Du Jing said.
Zhou Luoyang hummed, and stopped by to get Du Jing to change his clothes.
"Are you still learning the piano?" Zhou Luoyang glanced at Le Yao's piano score and decided to accompany him for a while to talk.
Le Yao said easily: "I studied it at home before, so I signed up for the music elective."
Zhou Luoyang felt very sad. Le Yao was in the home of his father and stepmother. He had always been blessed with natural conditions and had no worries. However, after the car accident, his life changed overnight, and he began to endure hardships with him.
"I'll buy you a piano in a few days," said Zhou Luoyang, "you can practice at home."
"Don't buy it," Le Yao said immediately. "It's not often used, and even second-hand is expensive."
Zhou Luoyang checked Le Yao's homework. In the past month, every course was an A+. His stepmother once put a lot of effort into him, and he never had to worry about studying.
"Is Du Jing paying all the bills at home?" Le Yao is still habitually using Japanese.
Zhou Luoyang said: "It will improve soon, trust me."
He knew that it was already a heavy burden for Le Yao to bear his kindness as his elder brother, not to mention that there was another stranger at home. No matter how deep Du Jing and Zhou Luoyang are, they don't do anything about Le Yao.
"Le Yao," Zhou Luoyang asked, "do you have something on your mind?"
"Ah?" Le Yao immediately denied it and said, "No, why do you say that?"
Zhou Luoyang sat beside the bed, pulled the wheelchair, faced Le Yao, and said, "Le Yao, your tuition, living expenses, and expenses are all using your father's inheritance, and you don't owe anyone anything."
Le Yao said with a smile, "I never thought about it that way, I just think you are working too hard."
Zhou Luoyang said: "I'm fine, you really don't have to worry."
Le Yao said, "Dad's legacy isn't much left, is it?"
Zhou Luoyang said seriously: "The ones under your name are the same as before."
When Le Yao was brought back, the two brothers had a serious communication once. The father's inheritance plus the death insurance for the two of them was not very generous, so they could only reluctantly think it was okay.
After all, Zhou's father needs to maintain the family's expenses in Tokyo, and his savings are not much. Due to the economic environment, the small company still has foreign debts. This inheritance spent a lot of money in the ICU treatment of Le Yao, and Zhou Luoyang was also shocked by the expensive medical expenses in Japanese hospitals.
After insuring all the compensation, clearing the debts during his lifetime, and deducting the inheritance tax, Zhou Luoyang gave up his share of the inheritance and let Le Yao inherit it all.
The money was enough for him to finish college, pay for his tuition, and have a small balance left. Zhou Luoyang didn't use the money in Leyao's name to make up for the shortfall in his life. First, he didn't want him to bear the pressure of his own;
But he had to make it clear to Leyao, and he didn't want him to feel that he was under someone else's fence and that both brothers were being raised by Du Jing.
"As for me," said Zhou Luoyang, "I am confident that I have negotiated with Sotheby's today and will participate in their auction. Soon the economic problems will improve and the debts will be paid off."
Le Yao nodded. He had never been in contact with any collectibles industry, and knew nothing about it.
Zhou Luoyang knew in his heart that if he sold the last bit of his grandfather's collection, he could barely survive the difficulties in life, but once he did this, he would never be able to turn over again.
For the rest of his life, he could only find a job in a company, raise his younger brother, and live a life of not being full or starving.
Only by holding on to his grandfather's legacy, paying off his debts and reopening, will the industry take his abilities seriously.
This is why he has been eager to find a partner all the time, even if he is in debt, he has been slow to submit his resume to work. As long as there is enough money for him to purchase goods in the early stage and support his expenses, he is completely confident to support his family and even make Le Yao live well.
"Trust me." Zhou Luoyang touched Le Yao's head and kissed him on the forehead.
Le Yao nodded. Zhou Luoyang closed the door and came out. Du Jing had already taken a shower and was lying on the bed. He was looking at the date on the watch and looked up at him.
Zhou Luoyang took a bath and lay down easily.
"Go to the store tomorrow?" Du Jing said.
"Just take a look and leave." Zhou Luoyang turned off the light and said in the dark, "Will the big boss take us out to play?"
"Where do you want to go?" Du Jing replied, "Driving to go shopping outside the city?"
Zhou Luoyang didn't think about it either. When the National Day came, the city of Wan was full of people. Now the square must be full of people, waiting for the flag raising ceremony on No. 1.
"Remember when we went to Taihu Lake for a spring outing?" Zhou Luoyang said.
"Remember." Du Jing said, "I heard later that the three couples broke up."
"Even Fangzhou was divided," Zhou Luoyang said. "Life is like a white horse, it's just a sudden."
"Zhuangzi." Du Jing replied, "Go to sleep, maybe you will turn into a butterfly later."
Zhou Luoyang laughed, closed his eyes, and spent his most secure night in the past year.
At 7:30 in the morning, the alarm clock on the mobile phone rang. Zhou Luoyang was sleepy. He found his mobile phone on the bedside table and turned it off.
Du Jing was washing up, Zhou Luoyang was frizzy, playing music, and went to the restaurant to make breakfast for Du Jing.
"Le Yao?" Zhou Luoyang's consciousness was still in chaos, he knocked on Le Yao's door, opened the door and went in, "Going to school."
"Oh, I'm living on campus, I haven't moved in yet." Zhou Luoyang said to himself, suddenly realizing that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
He stood in the kitchen for a while and opened the refrigerator door.
In the refrigerator were the lunch boxes that Du Jing brought to the company at noon.
Zhou Luoyang looked around the house, Le Yao hadn't moved in yet, Du Jing's bento was still there, and the ingredients to celebrate the move in the evening were also there.
"Du Jing?" Zhou Luoyang said immediately, "Du Jing!"
Zhou Luoyang took out his mobile phone and glanced at the date - September 30th.
Record this pending item: open the store for trial business, and leave school with music.
"Du Jing!!!" Zhou Luoyang's voice resounded in his new home, "It's here again! Time goes backwards again!"
Du Jing brushed his teeth in front of the washbasin, looked up in the mirror and looked at Zhou Luoyang with a strange look, and sighed briefly.
Zhou Luoyang turned off the music, and the house was silent. Du Jing sat at the dining table and said, "Why don't you continue listening?"
"We... repeated September 30th!" Zhou Luoyang felt chills behind his back, his hair stood on end, "The third time! Du Jing!"
This scene is already a little scary.
"Yes," Du Jing replied simply, correcting the time on the table below, "I have found it."
Zhou Luoyang looked at his home, and felt that the world was unreal. This was definitely not an illusion. Repeating the third time backtracking made him feel as if he was in a game world that was being manipulated by someone, as if someone was secretly in the dark. All this is arranged in the middle, and the files are constantly read and returned.
"Breakfast," Du Jing said, "I want breakfast, I'm hungry."
Zhou Luoyang: "..."
Zhou Luoyang looked at Du Jing subconsciously and said, "What time is it? Are you still thinking about breakfast?"
Du Jing asked politely, "Is breakfast cancelled today because of the time rewind? Even though I ate the same meal 24 hours ago, people will still be hungry."
Zhou Luoyang: "..."
Five minutes later, Zhou Luoyang put the quick-frozen dim sum in the microwave oven. The family hadn't opened yet, so he could only use the Weibo stove temporarily. Everything is exactly the same as it was twenty-four hours ago.
He made coffee for Du Jing and put it in front of him, he was already stupid.
"Twelve o'clock in the evening," Zhou Luoyang murmured, "or, at 0:00 on October 1st, in our sleep, we were taken back to twenty-four hours ago."
"Well." Du Jing looked at the daily news on his mobile phone, drank black coffee, and said, "Today I go to work, you go to the store, you will meet someone from Sotheby's, and I'm going to visit at any time. The French embassy, once again rejected by the minister mercilessly."
With a ding of the microwave, Zhou Luoyang took out his breakfast, packed it in plates, and cooked buckwheat porridge with hot milk for him to drink.
Du Jing: "Eat quickly, change clothes and go out after eating."
Zhou Luoyang said: "I... this... I'm a little scared, Du Jing, what does this mean?"
Du Jing: "As usual."
Zhou Luoyang felt that his spirit was about to go into trouble and said, "Du Jing!"
Du Jing raised his eyebrows to look at Zhou Luoyang, and Zhou Luoyang said, "No, I have to find out the reason behind all this, or I will go crazy."
Du Jing looked at Zhou Luoyang.
Zhou Luoyang: "I'm a little scared, Du Jing. You promised to check this phenomenon before, but it hasn't happened again for a long time, but... I think now, maybe you need to... "
"I checked," Du Jing said, "I always take your account to me."
Zhou Luoyang said incoherently: "I know it's hard to get results, but..."
Du Jing said calmly, "You get a part of the truth, do you want to hear the result?"
Zhou Luoyang: "I don't even know now, whether my memory was brought back 24 hours ago or... Wait, what did you say?!"
At this moment, Du Jing gently stroked the sleeve of his left shirt with his right hand and showed Zhou Luoyang the strange watch on his wrist.
"Before going to bed last night, I did an experiment," Du Jing said. "Using it, we went back 24 hours to our time."
When the truth came out, Zhou Luoyang seemed to be petrified, looking at Du Jing's eyes for a long time.
Wanshi morning rush hour:
"September 8th," Du Jing explained while driving, staring intently ahead, "The first time I came across it, before twelve noon, the date was adjusted once, do you remember what happened next? "
Zhou Luoyang murmured: "After I woke up in the warehouse, I went back to 12 noon on September 7th... Yes! That's true!"
Du Jing hung up and said casually: "Our guess at the time was that the area where the warehouse was located caused this phenomenon, and you also said that it might be a problem of dimensional confusion."
Zhou Luoyang said: "But the second time it happened, we were in Hangzhou."
"Well," Du Jing said, "Nanping Evening Bell, in Jingci Temple, I checked and adjusted the date on the outer ring of the dial."
Zhou Luoyang said: "I asked you at that time, did the watch stop? Was there anything unusual at that time?"
Du Jing said: "No, it's just a subconscious behavior. I was idle and wanted to find something to do, so I turned the outer edge around."
Zhou Luoyang remembered that at twelve midnight that day, the time went back twenty-four hours.
Du Jing added: "The connection between the first time and the second time was only this watch. At that time, I began to doubt it. Once back at noon, once at midnight."
Zhou Luoyang said: "Then the third time, last night."
"Or tonight," said Du Jing, "the past day has become the future corresponding to the 'now'. In short, I tried it. In the interval, turn the date on the dial one turn, and we will go back twenty-four hours at the same time at twelve o’clock at midnight.”
Zhou Luoyang was a little confused, but he didn't interrupt Du Jing.
The road conditions were exactly the same as yesterday, and there was a traffic jam, only to hear Du Jing say: "If you turn the dial once at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and at twelve noon, we will return to the day before. noon."
"So it can be confirmed that the time coordinate of this rollback is divided into two points. It depends on when you move the dial. Night corresponds to night, and noon corresponds to noon."
Zhou Luoyang said: "I... don't quite understand it, but it can be said that we can choose to go back to the noon or night of the previous day, right?"
Du Jing started the car, followed the traffic slowly, and replied, "Yes, this mechanism is actually very interesting..."
"But why the two of us?" Zhou Luoyang can confirm that except for him and Du Jing, no one else knows that he has retraced the time, indicating that Ming Dai is in Du Jing's hands, and he is the one who adjusted the date, so why does he also Follow backtracking
Du Jing thought for a while and said, "Perhaps when it was repaired for the first time, some recognition program was triggered, and it brought you and me into the same system. It is also possible that every time we are together, and this The backtracking distance has a sphere of influence.”
Zhou Luoyang was short of breath, and Du Jing said, "There is still analysis, do you still want to hear it?"
"Why are you still so calm?!" Zhou Luoyang said, "What the hell did we get? Oh my God! Where did this watch come from?"
"You have to ask your grandfather," Du Jing spread his hands and said, "The watch is your family's heirloom, how do I know? Do you want to take it apart now?"
"No, no." Zhou Luoyang immediately rejected the proposal and said, "What did you... What did you want to say? What else is there to analyze?"
Du Jing was so calm that Zhou Luoyang was mad, talking about the whole incident of the two of them going back in time, as rational as they were discussing what to eat for dinner.
"Operations during the AM period will roll back 24 hours at noon and the cut-off point at the end of the AM period, that is, the entire process of the AM period, plus the entire PM period of the previous day; operations during the PM period will roll back 24 hours. The entire PM time, plus the AM of the previous day, return to the AM time period." Du Jing made a "loop" gesture and said, "The operation area is twelve hours, but the return time is twenty-four hours, including Twelve hours in the operating area plus twelve hours in the past, or twelve plus twelve, what does that mean? Think about it.”
"What?" Zhou Luoyang's thoughts were chaotic, and he could no longer understand Du Jing's analysis.
"That means," Du Jing said, "if we want to, we can turn back the time twenty-four hours and twenty-four hours without stopping, and take twelve hours as a stage to go back one after another, and go back through the entire period of human history. The long river, even back to the moment when the universe was born."
Zhou Luoyang was quiet for a while and said, "Can you give me your medicine? I think I need some Valium tablets."