On the Seven Towers

"My name is Carmela. I am Agordo's mother. After all these years, there are still outsiders who can remember him... I don't know whether I should be happy or not." The old woman led Xiao Chen and Luo Ling. Go sit down on the sofa in the living room, "You guys sit down first, I'll go to the kitchen."

Xiao Chen looked at the furnishings in the living room and found that there were many photos placed on several cabinets and side tables in the living room. He recorded all these scenes in his own meditation world. Perhaps a photo or a corner of a room would become the most deadly weapon at a certain moment in the battle.

Luo Ling walked by the cabinet and looked at the photos in the photo frames. Some were photos of the old woman when she was young. Most were of her, her husband and their two children. Slowly, the children in the photos grew up. They turned into two identical young people, "Hey, Xiao Chen, look here."

Xiao Chen looked at these photos with a surprised expression: "Here... there are two identical young men. Agordo also has a twin brother?"

The two people in the photo always appear everywhere at the same time. They have played together since childhood, went on outings with their parents, observed animals in the wild, planted trees in the forest together, played football together when they were older, and appeared together in a group of friends. middle school, and later graduated from middle school at the same time and attended the graduation ceremony together.

Xiao Chen looked happy and said: "This is an unexpected surprise. Seeing that these two people have been together in their lives, Agordo's brother is the best mirror. We can learn a lot from him."

"Those are Bermudo and Agordo. They are both very good children. They are smart, kind, compassionate, and love life." Carmela went to the kitchen and brought coffee and a plate of cookies. "I just made this this morning. My sons like it very much. You guys should try it too."

Kind? sympathetic?

I wonder how this mother would feel about her son having just caused casualties in another world that halved the population of the mainland. Xiao Chen secretly cursed.

Carmela glanced at the photo and said, "Fortunately, Bermudo is still here, otherwise I really don't know how I would live my life."

Luo Ling's heart moved when she saw an old pencil drawing on the wall opposite the living room. Judging from the yellowing of the paper, it couldn't have been drawn by the Agordo brothers. She asked: "Whose work is this? It's so lifelike."

"This is the work of my husband Federo. He is a person who loves nature very much. He once worked as an associate professor of botany at the University of Barcelona. When he was young, he often went to the wild to draw pictures of various animals and plants. It’s beautiful.”

"He is a person who loves nature very much. The kind of person who will laugh sincerely when he sees a beautiful flower or a cute pine tree. He doesn't want to hurt them, so he draws them." Talking about himself Carmela seemed very happy about her husband, as if she rarely had the opportunity to tell these past events to others, "He sometimes stayed in the wild for a day or two, and sometimes he would travel with the Agordo brothers. They paint together. The relationship between father and son is very good, and they even have some weird quirks.”

Carmella said and laughed to herself.

"What's wrong?" Luo Ling asked curiously.

"Yes. I used to say that they were a savage with two little savages who wandered in the forest every day and never knew how to go home. When I was young, I got angry more than once because of these things.

But they have always been like this and never changed. Maybe this is what makes them cute. "Carmela sighed softly," Federo not only likes these things, but he has also been running for environmental protection. He often takes my sons to participate in such protests. "

"Are you protesting against pollution?" Xiao Chen asked.

"Well, that's it. You know that Spanish river water pollution is also quite serious. It was even more so in the early years. He has run many times just for these things. Not only this, but also about protecting endangered animals, protecting forests, and opposing nuclear testing. They all participated in anti-whaling, anti-toxic waste and other activities, and sometimes I went there. What impressed me most was the protest against the Rainbow Warrior explosion. I went to the demonstration with them. , our whole family was even photographed on TV together.”

"The other problem with these guys is that they don't like new things very much." Carmela looked around the room and said, "Look at the TVs in the room. They are all old things from more than ten years ago."

Xiao Chen and Luo Ling exchanged glances. No wonder the child raised by this family chose to become the god of nature. This is very important information and may explain to some extent the motivation of the other party in doing many things. Xiao Chen knew that in the eyes of some extreme environmentalists, human rights and interests were far less important than the natural environment, and the development of science and technology had to give way to the preservation of nature. The extreme ones among them would even vigorously oppose the application of many new technologies. If this Agordo is also such a person, then his actions in the other world can be reasonably explained.

"Aren't they all a little weird? But they are also very cute guys." Carmela said with a smile while taking a sip of coffee.

"Well, yes. However, it seems that these works are quite old, right? Are there no recent works?" Luo Ling asked.

"It has been almost ten years since Phaedrus died."

"Ah, I'm so sorry." Luo Ling covered her mouth.

"Nothing, I'm very happy to chat with you today, it reminds me of the past days, people should remember more good things, right? Fedro had lung cancer, he always said that if it weren't for the bad smog weather in Barcelona and the pollution in the river, he wouldn't have died so early. Poor guy." Carmela looked up at the painting and said, "After Fedro died, Agordo and his friends rarely went to paint. They grew up and had a lot more things to do. Later they all went to college, they were both talented children, and they all went to the University of Barcelona. Then one of them went to study in China, and the other stayed at home after graduation to help me take care of the business. I haven't been in good health these years, so I handed over the flower garden and flower shop run by my family to Bermudo."

"Why did Agordo choose to go to China at that time?" Xiao Chen asked.

"Because there was an exchange program with China at that time, with a very good scholarship. The two of them had traveled to many places before and had always been interested in China. They both had the opportunity to go there, but fortunately one of them decided to stay and take care of me. Otherwise, I might have lost my two sons."