Chapter 632

That mulberry is very big. The trees are full of mulberry fruits, red or purple, which makes people salivate. Red silkworms can be seen faintly, lying on the mulberry leaves eating.

The size of the tree can't be seen without comparison in the painting, so the painter drew many children under the tree, and seven or eight people surrounded it hand in hand. Two brave children climbed up the tree to pick mulberry and startled a huge crow at the top of the tree.

Looking at this picture, the lifelong flower suddenly remembered the fuzzy old picture he found under the willow that day.

Mei Tuo didn't say where the pictures came from, and she didn't ask all her life. She is a straightforward person and doesn't like to ask questions. If you can say that the professor will naturally tell her. If the professor doesn't say it, there are reasons why he doesn't say it.

For lifelong flowers, this set of drawings can be regarded as the selection of charcoal, rather than the icing on the cake of the current project. She has been suffering from not knowing the exact appearance of the mulberry garden in that year, and she can't find any historical data about the mulberry garden. Except for the few short records in the county chronicles and the ancient willow tree in Liuying lane, no one can prove that this place has existed, let alone tell the lifelong flower how to restore the appearance of the mulberry garden.

The lifelong flower looked through it several times and determined that the place where the willow is now is the location of the giant mulberry in that year. In those years, the mulberry garden was divided into two parts, the mulberry tree was in the middle of the front garden, and the willow tree was by the lake in the back garden. This is consistent with the ancient legends she knows.

"Thank you so much, professor." lifelong flower sincerely thanked you.

"You don't have to thank me. I'll come here in the rain so late, and I won't give you anything for nothing. I want you to do me a favor."

He was stunned all his life and said, "Professor, please say as long as I can do it."

Mei Zhuo said: "Don't rush to promise. It's easy to say, but it's not easy. Once you promise to do it, you may need to wait and insist all your life, just like some things you are insisting on now. If things really develop to the most unfortunate step as I expected, you need to shoulder the responsibility that shouldn't belong to you, and you may lose it Bear a bad name and a bad name and spend the rest of your life in self doubt and negation. You need incomparable firm faith and fearless courage to face the consequences this has brought to you and the world. Of course, I will always stand in front of you and bear everything before you. "

Lifelong flower didn't understand very well. She looked at the professor suspiciously and said, "can you make it simple, such as what do you want me to do and what is the worst consequence?"

The professor took a deep breath of his cigarette, and then took out of his pocket something like a car key with a red button on it.

"All I want you to do is press this button at the right time."

Lifeflower took it over and looked. It was really like a car key, and there was even a car logo on it. It was a triangle with two vertices connected, with a thin line passing through it.

"That's it?" she pressed with her thumb.

"Yes, that's it."

"What are the consequences?"

"It's not sure yet. The best result is that nothing happened; the worst result..." the professor spits out a thick white smoke and blocks his wrinkled face. "The worst result is that mankind returns to the 1960s."

"Time travel?"

Lifelong flower knows that the professor is a famous scientist, but it is hard to believe that the little key in his hand is a time-space machine. Even if it is true, what's wrong with being able to travel through time and space?

"No! It's not time travel." the professor's face is still hidden behind the continuous smoke, "In 1960, the world's population exceeded 3 billion and reached 4 billion by 1974. The population in the 1960s was almost half that of today. If you press this button, the worst result will be the loss of half of the population on the earth, and human science, technology and civilization will return to the level of the middle of the last century. That's why I said that mankind will return to the 1960s."

Lifeflower was startled and quickly moved her finger away from the red button.

"Don't worry, it has a fuse on the side," Mei said. "You must turn on the fuse before you can trigger the switch."

"Professor..." all her life, she wanted to ask what this is, nuclear bomb? Genetic weapon? But she thought it was impossible.

The professor seemed to see her mind, laughed and said, "don't worry, it's not what you think. I'm not crazy enough to be anti human. On the contrary, it's saving mankind. Maybe it won't succeed, but I'll try my best."

I don't know whether she smoked too much, laughed too loudly, or was in poor health. Mei Tui coughed violently and her silver hair was shaking.

"Why me?" asked the lifelong flower.

"Two reasons... Cough, cough..." the professor coughed a few more times before he calmed down slowly, "I must give it to the person I trust most. There was a very suitable person to choose, but he is not here now. Like you, I have been waiting for him to come back. But I don't have much time left. I must find another person. He is the person I trust most, and you are the person he trusts most, so I think of you. This is the first reason. Of course, it's not enough for me to make a decision The heart gives you such an important thing. "

Life spent nodding to understand, "so, what's the second reason?"

"The second reason, cough..." the professor coughed, but he was still reluctant to take his pipe away from his mouth. "The second reason is... Cough... I saw hope from you when I saw you just now!"

"Hope?"

"Yes, hope! This is the most important thing. Hope gives people courage and firm belief support, so that people can survive in the worst environment, whether dirty, pain, shame, sadness, loneliness... Hope is also the only driving force for us to live in the vast and dark universe!"

All her life, Hua didn't understand these things, but she decided to accept Mei's entrustment. She believed in the old man with silver hair, just as she believed in the wood of a chicken nest.

"I promise you," she said, looking at the key in her hand. "Does it have a name?"

"Name?" Mei was stunned. "Ah, it's time to take a name. Just call it the key of dreams."

"The key to the dream..." she murmured several times in her life, "so when should I press this button?"

"At the right time," Mei said.

"When is the right time?" she was puzzled all her life.

"Then you will know. This is a sword of Damocles. As a sword holder, when it needs to be cut off, your heart will get the due prompt. Follow your heart!"

The professor said and stood up. "It's worth the trip today. It's too late. I should go, too."

Take him out for a lifetime.

When passing the bird shelf, the professor sniffed like a hunting dog, picked up a piece of sauce elbow meat from the bird food box, smelled it, then put it into his mouth, chewed and said, "Oh, it tastes good!"

Then suddenly he asked, "did you buy a space box?"

All her life, Hua was surprised and said, "yes, what's the matter?"

The professor took another piece of pickled pork elbow and said, "lock it in the cabinet. Remember, never use it."