Invade the World

  Chapter 296 The Home Where Time Re-flows

  "You...help me entertain guests?"

  Zhu Qingyue suddenly felt a little funny. She shook her head and reminded with a smile:

   "You were avoiding them just now."

  The mother did not respond, but looked at her daughter tenderly.

   However, anyway, Qingyue thought, her mother had indeed walked out of this home. Even if there are only one step and two steps, even if it is only for the visitor to take the initiative to open the door once.

The astronaut who landed on the moon once said, "This is a small step for me and a big step for mankind" when he walked out of the space capsule; Zhu Qingyue believes that for her mother, that step out of the house tonight , Is undoubtedly a sign of a major turning point in life:

  Mom’s condition is gradually getting better, and she is gradually becoming able to live like a normal person—

  At first, the woman always nestled in the dark and cramped bedroom without leaving the house; later, she became able to move freely at home, and later, even when her daughter was not at home to take care of her, she was able to live well alone.

  During this process, Zhu Qingyue did not do anything specifically. If anything has changed in her life, she met Xu Xiangyang and Lin Xingjie.

  I made friends for the first time in my life, and tasted the taste of love for the first time in my life.

  There is no lack of jealousy, bitterness and boredom, but even these negative emotions are still a splendid and vivid embellishment compared with the pale life of the past.

  It's like splashing paint on an empty white board, and smearing as much as you like;

  Like a person who has only eaten white rice, salt and boiled vegetables from birth, for the first time in his dishes enjoy the stimulation of the tongue tip brought by the seasoning...

  Zhu Qingyue's mood is similar.

  Gloomy cold colors, acrid and bitterness, these things that are by no means beautiful in the senses of others, but for those who experience it for the first time, it is tantamount to discovering the New World.

  At the moment she touched her, only joy suddenly appeared in her heart, nothing else.

  This passionate mood is hard to confide to others, it is enough to dilute any kind of regret afterwards, and even now, whenever she thinks back, she still feels uncomfortable.

  ——Is her mother's condition getting better because her mentality is changing toward a healthy direction?

  ...No, not at all.

  Think calmly. Of course, there can be no direct connection between her mental state and her mother's physical condition.

If it is because her mother saw that her mood improved, her mentality also changed positively... Let’s not talk about whether the mother’s attention to herself has reached that level-it sounds like It’s because she lives for her daughter—in fact, in the past nearly ten years, in order to cure her mother’s illness, Zhu Qingyue has already tried countless methods in addition to the medicine and surgery provided by the hospital. .

  Provide treatment methods other than orthodox medicine in modern medicine, called "complementary therapy" or "alternative therapy", including acupuncture and bloodletting therapy with profound cultural background, and...

  Psychotherapy.

  Doctors often say that patients should maintain a positive attitude as much as possible, which is conducive to the treatment of the disease.

  Although no one knows to what extent this “benefit” can reach, no one can deny its effect.

  Isn’t that often said in inspirational stories in magazines? The unconscious vegetative lying on the sickbed suddenly wakes up after hearing someone's call or a familiar song;

  Or someone who was judged by a doctor to have less than one year of life expectancy, but with the company of family and friends, they lived for decades.

  This is not a fiction or exaggeration. In history, people with physical illnesses did create examples of treatment results that even professionals would be amazed by some mental stimulation.

  This is the context that she felt when she first came into contact with the word "miracle" when she was young.

   However, the so-called "miracle", on the other side of it, is the cruelty of "uncopyable", and its true meaning is "almost impossible to happen".

  At least for her mother, psychotherapy has no effect.

  Even if she tried to make her mother laugh, using funny and even deceptive ways (such as lying saying that her father is coming back, and will stay with her afterwards, etc.) to make a woman feel better, the result still remains the same.

  Even the hard work and all the pressure she has endured with the little girl have become meaningless.

Whenever she came to the bed, the withered woman lying on the sickbed would only look at her quietly and quietly with those turbid eyeballs that looked like dusty glass marbles; and then with heavy breathing and A fierce cough, every night that the mother and daughter depend on each other is prolonged extremely long...

  The lifeless stare is really creepy. Even Zhu Qingyue takes a long time to accept the changes in her mother.

  So, why did the mother’s condition get better at this point in time?

  For long-term patients with relatively stable conditions, the reasons for the changes in their bodies are often very complicated, and even the attending doctor may not understand the whole picture.

For example, long-term struggles with diseases have led to a certain unknowledge of the immune mechanism... The human body is so miraculous, even the world’s most cutting-edge medical technology is compared with the secrets hidden in the human body. It's just a taste.

  So, Zhu Qingyue is more willing to believe that this is a coincidence, a kind of accident;

  The overlap of the time points of changes in her and her mother is a sign—a spiritual, even religious sign.

  In other words, this is a miracle that happened to her and belongs to Zhu Qingyue alone.

  It’s no wonder that Qingyue would be deeply grateful to the two friends, especially Xu Xiangyang, the source of the changes so far, who first pushed her and Xingjie.

  Zhu Qingyue once said that Xu Xiangyang is “the person she respects most”, but the word “respect” may seem superficial; rather, it is a kind of worship.

  ……

   "Your two friends, I finally saw them."

  Mom said.

"Ok."

  "I don’t like them very much. For you, they are both too dangerous. Is that guy your boyfriend? I don’t like it very much; and that girl, I don’t like either."

  Emphasized "dislike" three times in a row...

Zhu Qingyue blinked.

  At that moment, a lot of harsh words appeared in her mind.

  Since the last few words of "old lady" that were screamed along the impulse, but inexplicably cool afterwards, the girl took advantage of this momentum and conceived several methods one after another.

  This time is not an insulting term, but a whole set of cursing programs.

  If someone dared to hinder the relationship between him and those two people, even if the other party was her mother, Zhu Qingyue would not be merciful.

She thought that her mother would still torture herself with an indifferent attitude like in the past, or say "you will be betrayed, you will be abandoned, you will become like me" and so on-she almost hears her ears becoming callous Up.

In Zhu Qingyue's view, elders are synonymous with stubbornness. They always like to use their own life experiences to limit the trajectory of the future that has not happened to young people; and once they are chained, the future may really be as they expected .

  She would naturally refute such stupid remarks without hesitation.

  But her mother just looked at her faintly, and then said:

   "However, you have grown up. This is your choice and I will not interfere."

"……thanks."

  Zhu Qingyue smiled sincerely.

  Change occurs in the present continuous tense

  Whether it is her or mother. The time in this house is no longer stagnant, it starts to flow slowly, like a free wind, like a gurgling stream...

  Like a ship that has been docked in the port for more than ten years and has not moved.

  The former owner abandoned it, and the ship’s skin was rusty. In the eyes of people living nearby, this ship is already a fixed scenery in the daily world, no different from the reefs on the coast.

  However, it was such a ship, but one afternoon it welcomed a new crew member. White smoke came out of the chimney again, and the siren sounded again. In the eyes of people's surprise, it was about to set sail, ready to sail to the magnificent sea...

  "In the future, our lives will definitely be better, right?"

  The woman nodded gently.

  The smile on Zhu Qingyue's face became more and more vivid.

   "Since you want to change, then change more thoroughly!"

  When sending the two friends away, she habitually turned off the lights again, letting the room return to the familiar darkness and silence.

  But at this moment, her mother had already walked down the stairs, but she was about to open them again.

   "Da Da Da" footsteps from top to bottom, from the stairs to the room, from the living room to the corridor.

  The room is brightly lit in an instant.

  Zhu Qingyue walked down the stairs slowly, came to the woman, and asked with a smile.

   "How is it, mom, are you still used to it?"

  Under the brilliant shining of the crystal chandelier in the living room, the woman's withered and thin face also seemed a bit angry.

  She still nodded silently.

"Great." Zhu Qingyue said with a sigh of relief, happily, "You always keep the room dark, and I dare not open it. After a few years, it will become a habit... I was worried when I was a child, you Have you become a vampire?"

  Faced with her daughter's joke, the woman didn't say anything, just sat down on the sofa gently.

  Her sitting posture is very correct, she looks like the kind of lady who has been nurtured by a good family atmosphere.

  Speaking of it, it is precisely because of the inheritance of such a mother that the squad leader will develop that fascinating lady temperament.

   "By the way, you haven't had dinner since you got up, right?"

  The girl looked at her mother with a smile, and after a while, she looked up at the wall clock on the wall.

  "It’s a bit late, let me make a supper."

  The squad leader walked to the sink, tied the apron, and skillfully picked up the kitchen knife and the cutting board next to it, and took out the tomatoes in the bag and put them under the faucet for cleaning.

   "Let’s make noodles today, how about tomato and egg noodles?"

  Zhu Qingyue did not hear her mother's response. But this is a trivial matter, she has long been used to it.

   While humming a familiar tune, she began to carefully chop up vegetables.

   Behind the scenes came the enthusiastic and exaggerated conversations on the TV screen.

  The sound of chopping knife and chopping board colliding with each other echoed in his ears.

  The window opened a gap, and the plush curtain was gently moved by the night wind.

  Separated by a glass door, the mother and daughter sat quietly with their backs to each other.

  The flowing wind in the room has become bigger, not only the curtains, but even the cloth on the coffee table in the living room is blown up, as if being touched by a small hand.

  Zhu Qingyue wiped the sweat from her forehead, she did not look up, and continued to concentrate on cutting vegetables.

  Because the room is no longer dark and no light, the glass door between the kitchen and the living room can clearly reflect the figure who is busy alone.

  There was no one on the sofa, but there was a slight depression near the center. It was probably because the same position lost its original elasticity after being sat for a long time, and it deformed a little bit.

  But at first glance...

   is like an invisible guest sitting there.

  The unpowered TV screen is completely dark, like an entrance to the abyss of the universe.

  (End of this chapter)