Dow and Carbon-Based Monkey Breeding Guidelines

Chapter 827

Jania woke up at noon the next day thinking she had been dreaming.She hadn't run out of the hotel in the middle of the night and sat with two strangers in the cold and rain for a long time just to chat about strange things.She didn't feel that all that was real until she saw that it was still drizzling gray outside the window, and her coat with a large pocket was hanging on the back of the chair in front of the window.

Anti has already gone out to eat.Jania lay on the bed for a while, and finally couldn't resist jumping off, reaching into the pocket of her coat and looking through it.She touched the swing stick and a soda bottle cap, so she knew that everything that happened last night was true.

Jania lay back on the bed and began to think about what she had heard last night.The more she thought about it, the more surprised she felt.What did she hear?Big families, robbers, and death-bearers sound like medieval horror stories.It is also absurd that a playwright is afraid of an imaginary audience.They had been talking nonsense last night, but she hadn't questioned it then.She was brought into the atmosphere, that stormy night where anything could happen.

It annoyed Jania a little to think that Chilabin might be playing with her.A grown braggart will say anything to a young girl so long as he gets adoration for it.Her mother had warned her that more than once...but there was still something unexplainable, she said to herself.These two seemingly incompatible people did travel together, while Zhou Wenxing went to the beach alone on a rainy night.What on earth was he doing there?And, Jania also thought that although she asked Zhou Wenxing's age twice last night, Chi Labin skillfully turned it into a question of professionalism and qualifications.He may have been unintentional, but Jania suspected him anyway.She felt that these two people were very unusual, and unusual often meant danger.

How close can danger be to an average child's life?If Jania were to answer that question, she would think it was a part of life.Adults like her mother and brother tend to make a fuss and feel that children cannot accept concepts that involve essential problems.Death and violence, the fragility and illusion of life.It's just a taken-for-granted view, and it's also forgetful.

The danger is always there, and so is death.People pretended to believe that danger could be isolated from life, like the wilderness from human habitats, in order to sleep soundly like her mother, get angry over trivial things, or escape anxiety and depression like her brother.However, since adults have been children, they should not forget what they thought about when they were young.With a lot of time and an uncertain future, it's easy for kids to think about loss.will i dieWhat is it like after death?Can I not die?If you're having the best time of your life for the first time, how can you not worry about losing it?It's really funny to pretend that you don't remember the danger, and never take precautions and preparations, but when it really happens, you make a fuss and pretend that you are so scared by it that your tears flow.

Jania sighed.She was beginning to feel hungry, and finally decided to get out of bed to get herself something to eat, and maybe meet Chirabin downstairs.She went down the stairs with this hope, but she didn't know any of the guests in the dining room.She asked the counter and knew that Anti had gone to the beach.She then asked the teller about Chi Labin and Zhou Wenxing, but the teller said that she didn't remember these two customers very much.There were indeed a lot of guests in the hotel, but Jania thought it was an excuse, because Chirabin's appearance was hard for those who had seen it to forget.

The weather outside is still gloomy, like a sink full of sewage.Jania didn't want to go out on this day, she would rather stay in the restaurant and chat with friends on her mobile phone by the way.She checks all the messages on her social accounts and finds that Hannah sent herself a virtual greeting card asking how her holiday was; Leslie finds out her new boyfriend lied about being single and breaks up Well, that's not new at all; Emma's family has a new snapping turtle.This is an interesting thing. Jania watched those dynamic videos for a long time.The snapping turtle is quite stylish, but she doesn't like reptiles that much, she prefers animals that can run in the woods and grasslands.Running in the autumn forest, the fallen leaves are colorful, like the wings of a large group of butterflies.She had this dream every now and then, but she couldn't remember when it started.

Jania's fingers slid across her homepage.She was looking for the latest reports on the epidemic situation in Africa, but there was nothing particularly noteworthy.Most news reports are so general that even if her brother had contracted a deadly virus and died of fever, dizziness, organ failure, and death in a rainforest full of bugs and beasts, she probably would never have been on the news. See.But what exactly is this for?It's really unpredictable.

She frowned as she swiped through the photos on those news pages.Most of them are dying faces full of pain, or close-ups of the deformed and distorted bodies of patients.It's mostly locals... that doesn't mean tourists are safe.She didn't really think her brother was an idiot who couldn't take care of himself, but two full years of "finding himself" was a bit too long.Those postcards that were sent seemed so formal and rigid, not at all like her brother's speaking habits.Maybe it's because her brother's written habits are very different from his spoken language?Not impossible.She did not know whether he kept a diary.

Stop pretending, she said to herself, you know what he is like.

A basic fact had been fully accepted by Jania from a long time ago.When she was still young, she observed everyone around her from a child's perspective, and at the same time listened to everyone's evaluation of each other.If there was one hard-to-find lesson she learned from this observation, it was that everyone was covering up and lying.All people, big and small, have more than one face.That's not out of some kind of deliberate brewing, it's just a social need for role-playing.She was surprised at how calm and tense her mother's voice was during negotiations, and if in another occasion carefully planned by Malcolm, Yu Qingshu could also giggle like a little girl.When she confronted Jania, she became the third person again.The three voices hardly sounded like they were coming from the same mouth.Of course, not just her mother, everyone she could observe was pretty much the same.

And her foreign brother with a huge family fortune is the worst liar she has ever known.

Adults' judgments in social interactions can sometimes be unfathomably wrong.That's because they have established a fixed set of observation and interpretation models, so it is difficult to simulate another set of completely different models.Long ago, Jania knew her brother was standing on the edge of a cliff.A dangerous, destructive heaviness tormented him, prompting him to wander alone in the parlor and the front yard at midnight.There were many nights when she woke up from a dream and realized what was happening outside her door.But at that time, she already knew that she was powerless, so she lay quietly in the bed and waited with bated breath.

What is she waiting for?Maybe she didn't know it at the time, but the 16-year-old Jania knew exactly what the answer was: She was waiting for a signal.A signal of the final moment.Perhaps that was the sound of the pistol safety being undone.Maybe it was the sound of a chair being kicked down.There was one possibility that worried her most: that the opening of the pill bottle was so soft that she might miss it.

When that moment came, of course she would rush out.She would leap out of bed like a cheetah and head straight for the living room and backyard.She'd catch him and make him undeniable.Then she would ask Yu Qingshu to find him a psychiatrist instead of letting the mother and son go around in circles year after year.That whole thing is hell.There's no way her mother didn't know, no, that doesn't make sense at all, but there's no evidence to prove it.As a lawyer, perhaps Yu Qingshu valued evidence far more than intuition. Over the years, she tested her son with professional patience, as if testing whether her client had concealed important facts from her.But her brother was also a great liar.He concealed it almost flawlessly.Yu Qingshu is not sure, as for the other side——

Jania tilted her neck and curled one corner of her mouth.She didn't know that big family, but one thing has always impressed her: On a certain New Year's Eve, her mother's ex-husband's new wife called her brother.But her brother happened to be out.It was Yu Qingshu who picked up the phone.The lady on the opposite side began to talk to her mother—what was it all about?She actually heard the woman on the other end of the phone praising her brother. "Stable and generous", "A reliable and good man", "Able to take care of things like his father"...

Jania will never forget the expression on Yu Qingshu's face at that time, like a hundred naked men wearing grass skirts dancing belly dance in front of her mother.

Fallacies arise out of ignorance and shallowness, of course.But Jania always believed that the evaluation was not groundless, and that was one of the roles played by her brother.That was a great liar.She clutched her phone and thought, why on earth did he go to Africa?Is it because he finally can't continue acting?She wasn't going to be fooled so easily because she was Jania.But unfortunately, she is Jania, a 16-year-old high school student who cannot travel to Africa alone.But it will be different when she finishes college. She wants to be a successful zoologist. Of course, she should have the opportunity to go to Africa for investigation, and sooner or later she will find out what her brother is doing.She'd pull him out of the rainforest, like she'd done in elementary school.

Jania was absorbed in this matter.She got so absorbed in her thoughts that she shook her hand as she stirred the coffee and almost knocked over the cup.Without blinking, she pulled out the paper towel and wiped it clean before the coffee dripped down the table.After all this she looked around unconsciously, wondering if anyone had seen her spill the coffee.As luck would have it, someone was staring at her at the landing, and had probably been staring at her for a while.

Zhou Wenxing walked over with his plate.Jania could no longer pretend she didn't see it.She hoped that Zhou Wenxing would be as unreasonable as last night, and find an empty table to sit by herself.But today he seemed to be in a good mood again, with coffee and a thin piece of black bread in his hand, and his steps were light and steady.He walked straight across to Jania and sat down, looking at her spilled coffee cup.

Jania grabbed the sugar bowl beside the glass: "You want this?"

"No, I don't drink sweets."

"Not at all?"

Zhou Wenxing shook his head with a smile.His quietness left Jania speechless.She wasn't very good at thinking about this kind of introverted people-meaning she didn't know how to get along with them-and this person seemed very mysterious.She didn't forget what kind of story he told last night.If that story wasn't completely made up, the man had been through a lot more than he appeared to be.

Jania started staring at him again.She was observing all the details of him to compare with the story of last night.Has he ever fiddled with herbs for a long time?It wasn't an easy job either.He should have scars and calluses on his hands.Have it?She can't see it at all.

"What are you thinking?" Zhou Wenxing asked.

Jania knew she was staring too clearly, but she wasn't trying to hide it.It's not the middle of the night, the restaurant is full of customers.She shook the coffee cup and said simply, "I'm thinking about what you said last night."

Zhou Wenxing didn't look surprised.He smiled and asked, "Do you think that's a joke?"

Jania wasn't about to jump into this trap.She bypassed the question and said with a look of interest, "How did you come to this country?"

"Come across the sea."

"You mean by boat?"

Zhou Wenxing seemed to think about it, and quickly admitted: "Yes."

"What about your brother? Has he recovered from his illness?"

"It was cured a long time ago."

"Is he still working in that family's family?"

"No, I left a long time ago. We left together."

"Then why didn't he come here with you?"

Zhou Wenxing shook his head lightly.His expression rarely changed, always docile and peaceful, so Jania couldn't tell if she was asking the wrong question.But from her point of view, at least Zhou Wenxing wasn't angry, he was just thinking.

"Well," said he after a while, "after we left our native land, he planned to go across the sea to accomplish a business. I was supposed to go with him, but we had an accident at sea. "

"Is it the accident that Chirabin mentioned last night?"

"I guess so, because I only had that one accident. At that time I fell into the waves, and although he tried to get me back on the boat, he was finally opened by the waves. At that time we We lost touch with each other until I heard he was here."

"Here?" Jania asked, a little surprised. "You mean this country?"

"It's hard to say. It would be more appropriate to say 'this land'."

"How do you say that?"

Zhou Wenxing smiled at his coffee cup.Jania felt her heart beating violently—it had nothing to do with the girl's eruption, she just felt that the air was suddenly cold, as if their table had been moved to the freezer alone.

"Is that Miss Jennifer?" Zhou Wenxing asked suddenly.

"...Yes." Jania said, she did not forget the name she reported to Chilabin last night, "I am Jennifer Eisen."

"Do you have an older brother or sister?"

"There is one."

"How are your relationships?"

"not bad."

As if revenge for her previous question, Zhou Wenxing said in a cheerful tone: "Why didn't he travel with you?"

Jania put down her coffee cup suddenly.She looked at him silently and sternly.

"What's the matter? Is it an inconvenient question to answer?"

"No. Nothing inconvenient. It's because he went to Africa and hasn't been back for two years."

"Go so far away."

"He's going to study insects."

Jania stared at Zhou Wenxing closely.The latter's reaction was flat, but also with a little interest, like many outsiders who heard the news.Then Zhou Wenxing nodded and said, "Jennifer, do you want to see your brother?"

"I don't know," Jania said deliberately vaguely.

"What if I could let you see him tonight?"

"what?"

"Literally. I can let you see him tonight if you want."

(End of this chapter)