every breath

Zhuang Yu clearly knew that he was dreaming.

In the dream, he held a bouquet of flowers in his hand and pushed open a door. It was a white room with only a simple bed and a low cabinet. The window that occupied most of the wall was half open, and the morning sun shone obliquely. When you come in, you can just see the roses in early summer blooming outside the window. The rich red petals are blooming in large blooms, and the half-open buds are set off by the jagged green leaves. There is infinite vitality hidden in the tranquility.

In the dream, Qin Xuanyang, dressed in white, was sitting by the bed, looking down at a book.

He sat down beside Qin Xuanyang, turned his head and asked, "What are you reading?"

Qin Xuanyang smiled, closed her lips, then opened a gap slightly, rounded, and then closed again.The deep voice clearly came from his lips, but he couldn't hear it in his dream.

"What did you say?" He asked anxiously.

Qin Xuanyang leaned close to his ear with a smile, opened her mouth slightly——

Then he woke up.

He opened his eyes, and before he could sort out the clues in his dream, he noticed that it was raining heavily outside.

It wasn't heavy rain, it was heavy rain.

Bean-sized raindrops fell from the sky without interruption, from early morning to morning, and there was still no sign of stopping.The weather forecast says the rain will last all day.

Due to the bad weather, the original plan to go to the old district today had to be cancelled.Zhuang Yu and Yuan Yang stayed in the living room at home, and the programs on the TV were not interesting, which could not arouse their interest.They were all in a low mood, occasionally watching TV, occasionally watching the pouring rain falling tirelessly outside the window, and listening to the rumbling thunder from time to time, they couldn't help but feel the aura of the end of the world.

"This kind of weather is really depressing." Yuan Yang sighed, and glanced at Zhuang Yu, "Brother Zhuang, you are not in good spirits, did you not sleep well last night?"

"Always dreaming."

"What did you dream about?"

Without waiting for Zhuang Yu to answer, he started to talk with great interest: "I, I once dreamed that I would drive a spaceship to Mars for an adventure. The Martians on Mars look just like the octopuses on our earth. Hundreds of tentacles, they occupy the entire mineral resources of Mars and are unwilling to be mined by humans on other planets, so a big war broke out with the mining team sent by the earth. This is the best dream I have ever had !"

Yuanyang, who couldn't stop talking about aliens or spaceships, had completely deviated from his original question, Zhuang Yu smiled: "I have never had such a powerful dream."

"Ah, I remembered that there are some good science fiction novels in the study. Do you want to read them? Anyway, it's raining so hard, and there's nothing to watch on TV. Why don't we do something nutritious." Yuan Yang was very interested Highland proposal.

Speaking of books, Zhuang Yu remembered the dream in the morning again.

"What books do you have in your study?"

"It's too much, let's go, I'll take you there." Yuan Yang led Zhuang Yu to the second floor while speaking.

The study room in Yuanjia is shared by everyone, and you can put any books in it, so there are all kinds of books, from astronomy and geography to home cooking, from horror reasoning to literary romance.But usually everyone doesn't go there very often. On weekdays, the study is mainly Yuanchen's workplace.

When Yuanyang pushed open the door of the study, she saw Yuanchen sitting on the desk by the window, thinking hard in front of the computer. Her habitual writing action was to bend her knees and put her feet on the chair, hugging herself into a ball.

Seeing that she was not busy typing on the keyboard, Yuanyang knew that she must have encountered a bottleneck: "Where did you write?"

Yuan Chen turned the chair: "It's almost finished, I'm thinking about how to write the protagonist to death."

"Why do you always have to write people to death? It's really pitiful to be the character in your novel." Yuanyang said and led Zhuang Yu in. The three walls of the study were filled with bookshelves, from the floor to the ceiling. It's all books.He pointed to the bookshelf on the right side and said, "This side is mainly my books, and the corner over there is my father's and my mother's books. They are not nutritious, and I don't think you will like them. There is also that one." He pointed to the books on the entire opposite wall, "They all belong to my sister. She reads very mixed books and reads everything."

Zhuang Yu glanced at Yuanyang's bookshelf, and it was either popular science books revealing the secrets of space and the universe or science fiction novels.Yuanyang excitedly took out several books: "I strongly recommend you to read Clark."

Although Yuanyang was particularly active in trying to draw him into the science fiction circle, he still tactfully expressed his refusal: "Is there... Shi Tiesheng?"

Yuan Chen turned the chair again, her eyes lit up: "Oh, you want to read Shi Tiesheng?"

After speaking, he pointed to the bookshelf behind him: "There, it's all him."

Zhuang Yu walked to the bookshelf, his eyes resting on a green spine.

This is it, the book Xuan Yang is reading in the dream.

He gently pulled it out, turned it over, and saw that very familiar sentence again. At that moment, he seemed to have returned to that white room, sitting with Qin Xuanyang, and asked in a low voice:

"What are you looking at?"

Then Qin Xuanyang answered the title of the book softly, smiled, and said, "Let me read a paragraph to you."

His voice flows through time, through memories, into the present, and into the past.

——If you are sad that this world will lose you one day, if you are afraid of the infinite extinction, you might as well think about it, there was no you in this world, and you were once in that infinite extinction among.

"You like Shi Tiesheng?" Yuan Chen looked at him with interest.

Zhuang Yu put the book back to its original place: "Influenced by a friend, I once read some of his prose. But I didn't read much."

Yuan Yang also interjected: "I only remember one of his articles, "I and the Temple of Earth"."

"That's from the Chinese textbook. Can you read anything else besides science fiction?" Yuanchen complained.

"Carrots and greens have their own preferences. I don't attack the horror novels you write, and you don't mind me reading science fiction." It is rare for Yuanyang not to confront each other immediately. "Mainstream literature thinks about human nature, and science fiction thinks about the future. I prefer to look forward."

"It's up to you, Fat Man." Yuan Chen seemed not in the mood to argue with him, and turned back to the computer, "Anyway, I have to think about how my protagonist will die..."

A white light fell outside the window, and then the three people in the room heard a burst of thunder that almost burst their eardrums.The electric light that had been on because of the rainy weather flickered for a moment and then went out suddenly.At the same time, the light was extinguished, and Yuanchen's computer screen.

The three of them stood in the house like a night, and realized one thing at the same time: the power was out.

Two seconds later, Yuanchen gritted his teeth and said, "Damn, my file hasn't been saved yet."

The torrential rain outside will not stop for a while, and the electricity seems to be unable to restore for a while.

Unable to work and have no entertainment, the three of them went back to the living room downstairs, lit candles and sat on the sofa helplessly.After the speechless situation lasted for 10 minutes, Yuanyang proposed to play games to pass the time.

Yuan Chen was not very interested, but he did not deny his proposal.Zhuang Yu nodded.The resolution to play the game was thus passed.

The question is what game to play.

"Truth or Dare."

"What tricks can the three of us play?"

"Try it." Yuan Yang put his hands behind his back, "We stretch out our palms and backs at the same time, the one who is different from the other two will be considered as the loser, and he will be punished. Choose one challenge from the truth or the big adventure, OK?"

Yuan Chen glanced out of the window, and stared at Yuan Yang with a wicked smile: "With this weather, if you are unlucky and choose the big adventure, I will let you go for a run outside."

"Are you still my sister?" Yuanyang rolled his eyes contemptuously, "Okay, okay, are you ready?"

Zhuang Yu asked: "Who will ask the question of the truth?"

"The two winners each ask a question." Yuan Chen loosened his shoulders, and then looked at his younger brother maliciously, "If you choose the truth, I will ask you to cry."

Yuan Yang moved to Zhuang Yu's side, and was speechless to his sister: "Are you enmity with me? Who is this... Okay, are you ready? Three, two, one!"

The palms of the two are up, and the palm of the other is down—Yuanyang was unfortunately hit.

At this moment, Yuanchen smiled brightly.

In order to avoid becoming a lamb in the storm, he hurriedly shouted: "I choose the truth!"

"Very good, please listen to the question!" Yuan Chen slapped his thigh, and immediately threw out the question that had been brewing for a long time, "Did you have a crush on your classmate Xiao Yaoyao when you were in sixth grade? Did you even steal her homework book?" ?Say it!"

"These are two questions! You can only ask one!" Yuanyang protested solemnly.

"I'm asking on behalf of Zhuang Yu. He doesn't know you very well, so how would he know what to ask you! Xiao Zhuang, don't you think so?"

"Brother Zhuang, how could you treat me like this!"

Zhuang Yulue, who was at the side, regretted being involved in this troubled water, and he should have strongly rejected the option of playing games now.However, the matter has come to this point, he had no choice but to say: "I... I'd better ask myself."

Yuan Chen stared directly at Yuan Yang: "Quickly answer the first question and tell the truth, brother."

He gritted his teeth and snorted, "So what if I have a crush on her!"

Yuan Chen smiled triumphantly: "I knew it. Xiao Zhuang, it's your turn."

Zhuang Yulue looked at him naturally: "Then why did you steal her homework?"

The corners of Yuan Yang's mouth twitched: "Brother Zhuang, it doesn't make any difference whether you ask or not. You have fallen into the trick of Yuan Chen, a treacherous minister. You are acting as a pawn for a tiger."

However, in line with the principle of respecting the spirit of the game, he still bite the bullet: "I was not sensible at the time, and I wanted to order something with her signature. It would be weird to ask her directly, so..."

After one round, the morale of Comrade Yuanyang has been hit by half.

The second round of the game started. With an order, the Yuan brothers and sisters seemed to be competing with each other, and the speed of their shots was like the wind. Zhuang Yu was a step slower, but he still lost—only he was alone with his palms up.

He smiled: "Let's be honest."

Asking Zhuang Yu is no better than asking Yuan Yang, one is a guest whom he has only known for a few days, and the other is a younger brother who grew up together.Yuan Chen pondered for a while, then asked: "How many times have you been in love?"

He thought for a while: "Two, no, three times."

Yuanyang answered the previous question tacitly: "Why did you break up?"

"The first two times we broke up within two months of dating. It's hard for me to explain the specific reason. It should be that the other party thinks that I don't pay enough attention to this relationship. I was the one who was dumped."

"What about the third time?"

Zhuang Yu smiled slyly at Yuanyang: "I only answer two questions. If you want to ask questions, you can only wait until the next round."

Yuanyang sighed, at this moment he suddenly received the gaze from his sister.The two siblings made eye contact for a while, and both showed sly smiles at the same time.

So for the third time, Zhuang Yu lost without any suspense.

Yuanyang continued to ask the previous round of questions: "Tell me, why did you break up for the third time?"

Zhuang Yu stared at the candle and smiled wryly, the candle flame flickered in his pupils: "Probably because I'm serious."

Yuan Chen asked: "Why did you break up after you were serious?"

"Because," he paused, and sighed silently in his heart, "it was just a game."

Yuan Yang and Yuan Chen looked at each other, both a little confused.They were about to continue the next round, so as to find out Zhuang Yu's love history, when the lights above their heads flickered suddenly, and with a "pop", the lights in the living room turned on again.

They were stunned at the same time, Yuanchen was the first to react, and ran upstairs excitedly while saying: "I have to hurry to see if my files can be recovered!"

"Sister, the game is not over yet!" Yuanyang watched her sister happily jump upstairs, ignoring their game.

Zhuang Yu also got up from the sofa at this time: "Then I'll go back to sleep for a while."

"Hey Brother Zhuang," Yuan Yang held him back, "I haven't finished talking yet, you guys really broke up later, and you haven't contacted me anymore?"

Zhuang Yu showed a meaningful smile and patted his head:

"Stop asking. The game is over."