Life in siheyuan era

Zhou Zhiyuan sat in the leather sofa, watching Aunt Yu place the tea tray on the coffee table. He heard Wenbin's voice, "I've made a lot of money in the stock market these past two years. If you want to make money, this is the place to be. With your skills, you'll be a millionaire in a few years."

Hearing this, Aunt Yu looked at Zhou Zhiyuan in surprise, then turned and walked out.

Zhou Zhiyuan calmly replied, "You have money, but are you happy?"

Wenbin sighed and replied, "I'm not as happy as I was those years. We were poor enough back then, but life was fulfilling. Everyone helped each other and there was great camaraderie."

"Why did you want to come back to this place?"

"People always think the road they haven't traveled is better."

Wenbin replied, and seeing Aunt Yu gently close the door of the living room, he immediately changed the subject, "How did you find me?"

"The letters you gave to Editor Ma were destroyed by him, but based on the Imitation Song typeface you used, I asked an expert to write it five or six times, and they confirmed your handwriting. Then, based on the typeface, I roughly deduced your personality and age, and then I thought of you. I've seen the Imitation Song typeface you wrote on the bulletin board."

Then he said, "Let me be honest with you, do you know about overlapping?"

Hearing this answer, Zhou Zhiyuan asked in surprise, "You can't overlap two people at once, can you?"

"You know that too."

Wenbin praised, then replied, "It's difficult, but luckily I have time to cultivate it. At most, I can overlap one and control the other."

"Was Gu Chengliang also cultivated by you?"

"It's really a pleasure talking to you. You understand everything with just a hint. Gu Chengliang is the one I control, not suitable for overlapping."

"You shouldn't have been tempted by beauty."

"That was Gu Chengliang's original intention. He liked Han Xue, it has nothing to do with me. I can be lustful, but I can't marry someone I like."

"Once you have children, you can't escape?"

"Yes, if you have attachments, you will be discovered sooner or later."

After saying this, the two fell silent for a while. Zhou Zhiyuan suddenly asked, "When are you planning to escape?"

Wenbin was stunned, then smiled, "You really are smart! I was still hesitating, but I'm ready to escape now that I've seen you."

"Why were you hesitating?"

Hearing him ask, Wenbin looked at him in surprise, then replied, "Let me think about it before I answer you."

At this time, Aunt Yu knocked on the door and came in, whispering, "Sir, the meal is ready."

Aunt Yu's husband, Brother Yu, was a chef. He quickly cooked eight dishes. When Zhou Zhiyuan and Wenbin walked into the dining room, the wine glasses were already filled with white wine.

But neither of them drank alcohol. They sat opposite each other and ate their own food.

Seeing this scene, Brother Yu and Aunt Yu looked at each other, then muttered in their hearts, "The negotiation is not optimistic. The Zhou guy is going to liberate XG."

The couple felt conflicted about the liberation. There was no oppression over there, but it was very poor, and recently there has been a new movement.

But Wenbin had a unique perspective on this movement, saying something profound, "What does it have to do with the common people?"

The two of them didn't understand this, but Wenbin didn't explain. Seeing that he was lost in thought again, the couple felt uneasy.

But at this moment, they heard Wenbin ask in a low voice, "Do you know they are having a movement over there?"

Zhou Zhiyuan replied calmly, "It doesn't affect the normal life of the common people?"

"How do you know?"

"The nature of the organization determines it."

Hearing this reply, Wenbin smiled and asked again, "Isn't that blind loyalty?"

Zhou Zhiyuan replied seriously, "Although we are weak, our industrialization is developing rapidly, a hundred times stronger than the old society; although we are poor, we are much richer than the old society."

"We defeated all the invaders. I participated in the self-defense counterattack on the plateau. In terms of numbers, we didn't have as many enemies as they did, in terms of weapons, we weren't as advanced as they were, and in terms of logistics, our supplies were extremely difficult, while the enemy's supplies were much better than ours, but we won, and we won easily."

"Our organization has done this, but the organization you are loyal to has done nothing. Are you saying I am blindly loyal?"

Zhou Zhiyuan's rebuttal left Wenbin speechless. After a long while, he solemnly said, "The plateau counterattack is a miracle in the history of war."

Zhou Zhiyuan replied indifferently, "We didn't think so much. We thought about sacrifice, but we never thought about failure."

Zhou Zhiyuan's answer left Wenbin speechless again. After a long while, he asked, "I don't understand why there has to be a movement?"

"Foresight, not something that ordinary people like you and I can understand."

"Is this a personality cult?"

"That's right, I admire him, and I admire him wholeheartedly."

This conversation silenced Wenbin again. The two ate in silence. Brother Yu and Aunt Yu knew that XG was about to be liberated.

At this time, Wenbin asked in a low voice, "When will XG be liberated?"

Hearing this, Brother Yu and Aunt Yu perked up again, listening to Zhou Zhiyuan say in a deep voice, "XG is the gateway to the world. Under the circumstances of being surrounded on all sides, XG will not be liberated."

This sentence plunged Brother Yu and Aunt Yu into conflict again, but they heard Wenbin exclaim, "Brilliant, you LX thought of the current predicament more than ten years ago."

Zhou Zhiyuan replied in a deep voice, "As a semi-colonial country, after a century of poverty and weakness and warlord infighting, and then after the tragic War of Resistance against Japan, independence and autonomy are not so easy. When we get through it, the motherland will be a first-class power."

These words silenced Wenbin again. The two continued to eat in silence, then put down their chopsticks at the same time. Wenbin picked up a napkin to wipe his mouth, and then said, "Two ordinary people don't talk about politics. Let's start formal negotiations."

At this time, Brother Yu and Aunt Yu realized that the two had not discussed the main topic just now, but then they felt strange. Zhou Zhiyuan was not liberating XG, so what were the two of them talking about?

But this was not something they could worry about. Watching the two figures walk up the stairs, they looked at each other and shook their heads together, then walked to the dining table.

Brother Yu and Aunt Yu cleaned up the dining table, while Zhou Zhiyuan and Wenbin sat on wooden chairs in the small living room on the second floor, drinking tea.

Wenbin took a sip of tea, put down the teacup, and said solemnly, "I can't reveal core secrets, but I can tell you that I came from three hundred years ago. I was able to get out of the Yin Array because of three conditions."

"The first condition was that the time machine accidentally hit the eye of the Yin Array, which is the extremely cold place, because my companion went crazy on the road. It wasn't easy to stop the time machine, so my first choice was to escape from that place."

"The second condition was that the timing of my escape was very good. It happened to coincide with the Yin Array being readjusted. I wouldn't have been able to escape a minute later."

"The third condition was the infighting of those soldiers. The sound of weapons clashing, scolding, and screams guided me."

"After coming out, I discovered a wonderful thing. I can quickly integrate into the crowd and find overlapping bodies. This avoids exposing my main body. After integrating, I found that we actually have a common ancestor, Fuxi and Yanhuang."

"I have worked in many professions, officials, businessmen, Taoists, and monks. I also participated in the revolution, but I chose the wrong organization."

"Nie Yucheng must die. Before he became my number two overlapping body, he killed his girlfriend for wealth. And I, as this overlapping body, didn't do anything good either, so I don't want him to live too long."

"That's all I can tell you. Don't ask about my world, I won't tell you. But you have also been to my world. Before they sent you back, they erased your memory, but they only erased this memory, but enhanced your cultivation. It must be to compensate you."

Wenbin told him some facts, and Zhou Zhiyuan then told him about Prince Rui and that figure.

Hearing this news, Wenbin said in surprise, "Prince Rui? We don't have such a title, they probably came up with it themselves after seeing your books?"

Then he said, "My companion was caught and taken back. This Prince Rui's cultivation is very high!"

After saying this, he looked at Zhou Zhiyuan again and asked suspiciously, "Why did he take you there?"

Then he revealed a look of realization and asked in a low voice, "Prince Rui is a young woman, right? She likes you quite a bit."

Wenbin spoke to himself, able to deduce everything, but Zhou Zhiyuan had no memory at all.

Then he heard Wenbin say, "The Yin Array is a wall separating two worlds. We are not allowed to cross the Yin Array to enter your world, but curious people are an exception, like me and my companion."

"We have a department called the Thunder Law Division, which specializes in arresting those who break into the array privately, and also arresting those stowaways who break into our world."

"From your description, Prince Rui should not be an enforcer of the Thunder Law Division, but to be able to take you there for three years and safely send you back, it means that her identity is extremely high, she should be a cultivator of Yunshan."

"Damn it, I leaked secrets. Let's not talk about these things, let's talk about a collaboration. I need a chance to leave and you need to go back, let's work together to do this thing well, and then go our separate ways."

Hearing him reveal his thoughts, Zhou Zhiyuan nodded. His plan was pretty good, and he had no reason not to agree.