Rebel Demon King

Chapter 1079 The West of Timing (3)

When Cheng Mo arrived at the Xidan Book Building, there was already a long queue at the gate where a stack of bronze book sculptures stood.On this day of Great Cold, the weather was gloomy and the temperature was low. Boys and girls wrapped in thick down jackets were not afraid of the severe cold and waited in the cold wind.

Although there were no particularly obvious banners or banners, Cheng Mo could tell at a glance that these young boys and girls came for "Ouroboros-West of Time Series".

Because there are several young people at the door who are cosplaying the characters in "East of Time Series". One of them is a handsome guy wearing black-rimmed glasses, a blue long-jawed suit and a maroon tie. He is obviously a cosplayer. Zhou Ling, he is not so handsome, nor is he so tall.

And next to "Zhou Ling", a turbulent black long straight Yujie is obviously cosplaying Si Caiwei, even though the cosplayer of COS Si Caiwei is already crowded, but the scale is still smaller than Teacher Shen A lot, but as far as the description in the book is concerned, the size is not much different.Cheng Mo knows that Mr. Shen has always disliked her pair of overly plump and arrogant monsters, so Si Caiwei in the book is two or three sizes smaller than her, which probably fits her imagination of a perfect self.

As for the cute girl with dyed pink hair and white silk, crossing her legs and smiling at the camera saying "yeah", at first glance she is Tao Yao from cosplay, uh, she is Yan Yitong.Seeing that the female cosplayer wore a blue dolphin hairpin in great detail, Cheng Mo immediately added a few points to the reduction.

At this time, many boys and girls were queuing up and taking pictures with their mobile phones. In the cold weather, the atmosphere was very lively.

Cheng Mo glanced at the display screen, which showed that the outdoor temperature was only 1 degree. Regardless of whether the COS was restored or not, these teenagers were still very dedicated.In such a cold day, wearing thin clothes, still trying to pose with a smile on his face, except for the boy of COS Zhou Ling, who deliberately pulled his face, looking very cool
Seeing his forcedly playful expression, Cheng Mo felt that he should not have been so aggressive back then.

The silver and black Rolls Royce followed the vehicle and drove slowly to the main entrance.The intercom rang, and Cheng Mo pressed it to answer. Jiang Jun asked, "Comrade Cheng Mo, are you here?"

Cheng Mo glanced at the gate through the one-way glass, and it seemed that many people had noticed this expensive car with a special license plate, so he thought for a while and asked Jiang Jun to drive the car to the front.

However, Cheng Mo didn't notice a middle-aged man standing under the porch of Xidan Book Building, observing this eye-catching elongated bulletproof car.

The middle-aged man looks to be about fifty years old, with his hair combed back neatly, a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his slashed melon face, and a very elegant appearance. He is wearing a dark gray woolen coat, which looks amazing. On the set, you can play the master of the Republic of China without makeup.

If it wasn't limited by the angle, Cheng Mo should be able to recognize this middle-aged man with him once - Shen Ping.

You can also see the little girl in Shen Ping's hands.

The little girl wore two braids, a pompom woolen hat on her small head, watery eyes, red lips and white teeth, skin as white and tender as tofu, and a lollipop in her mouth. Dolls can really make people's hearts cute.She was held by Shen Ping without moving, just stared at the group of cosplayers, and the small cherry mouth with a lollipop in it let out a vague laugh, and she was fascinated by it.

Anyone passing by under the porch couldn't help but want to tease her, but when someone looked at her, she immediately buried her head shyly in the middle-aged man's coat, looking embarrassed.

Seeing the Rolls Royce stopped by the side of the road, as if someone wanted to get out of the car, Shen Ping involuntarily locked his eyes on the Rolls Royce.He has worked in educational institutions all his life and is also a civil servant with a high position. He is very sensitive to this special license plate, and this scary license plate is hung on a Rolls-Royce.But no one got off the Rolls-Royce, and immediately started moving forward again, and it was not long before it was covered by the flower bed and disappeared from his field of vision.

This kind of action probably meant that someone wanted to get off the car, but considering that there were too many people here, he didn't want to attract too many people's attention, so he didn't choose to get off.

At first, Shen Ping wondered if his daughter knew such a big shot, but when he saw Rolls Royce left, he stopped guessing, he had always been aloof, not to mention he didn't think that such a big shot would really have anything to do with him.Just as he was staring at the direction where the Rolls-Royce was leaving, before he had time to look back, a tall, thin, white and serious middle-aged woman in a gray fur collar coat came out of the library building.

The middle-aged woman patted Shen Ping's arm, and complained softly: "Why did you hug the deer out?"

Shen Ping glanced sideways at his wife Zhang Rujie, and said angrily: "Xiao Lu insists on coming out to see those actors, what can I do?"

"That's a cosplayer, not an actor." Zhang Rujie said, "It's so cold outside, what should I do if Xiao Lu catches a cold?"

Shen Ping ignored Zhang Rujie, looked down at his granddaughter, and asked softly, "Xiaolu, tell grandpa whether it's cold or not?"

The cute girl named Xiaolu, like a cute little deer, blinked her big almond-like eyes and shook her head, muttering: "No, no, no."

So Shen Ping said confidently: "Look at the deer, it's not cold anymore, so what are you doing standing there? There are so many people, the air is not circulating, and the heating is so hot, what should I do if the deer is so stuffy?"

"She was only wearing a cotton padded jacket, and she didn't wear a scarf around her, nor did she wear gloves." Zhang Rujie raised her hand and turned the little girl's collar up. Seeing that she was still holding a lollipop, she was outraged. Make a call, "Give her candy back, your daughter will accuse you again when she sees it!"

"What's wrong with eating a piece of candy? Which family's children don't like candy?"

Zhang Rujie glared at Shen Ping, and said sternly: "I didn't see that eating too much candy on the Internet is not only easy to caries, but also affects development." Then she smiled and looked at the porcelain doll, "Be good, little deer, take the candy Spit it out, go in with grandma, let's go in and find mom, shall we?"

The porcelain doll obediently spit out the lollipop from its mouth, and reluctantly handed it to Zhang Rujie.

Shen Ping shook his head first, then shook the porcelain doll in his arms and asked, "Xiaolu, tell grandpa, do you want to watch your brother and sister's performance outside, or do you want to go in?"

The porcelain doll immediately buried her head in Shen Ping's arms, and said in a low voice, "I don't want to go in, I want to play. I want to play."

"Okay, okay, grandpa will take you to have fun"

Zhang Rujie glared at Shen Ping, "You still take her to play on the trampoline? If you go to play on the trampoline in such a cold day, if you sweat all over and don't have time to take a shower, you will catch a cold." She grabbed Shen Ping's arm, "Good boy, grandma Take you to read comic books, let's not jump on the trampoline, or Mom will be angry."

The porcelain doll let out an aggrieved "Oh", and hugged Shen Ping's neck tightly again, as if tears were about to flow from her big watery eyes.

Shen Ping couldn't bear it immediately, and said dissatisfiedly: "Why do you take care of the children? It's natural for children to like to play, so don't let her play, then don't let her play, you mother and daughter must be disciplined too strictly." !?" After scolding Zhang Rujie, he looked at his granddaughter with pity and said, "Look how pitiful the little deer is for training us."

"You really don't feel pain in your back when you stand and talk. You used to say that you had a stiff fight with Young Yi and you refused to take it. Now that you've reconciled, you don't take it. You just know how to read and surf the Internet. I let you take it once in a while. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. If there are no rules, how can it be done?"

"It's too late to know. I've been a principal. I'm good at taking care of children. Otherwise, where would Xiaoxi be?" At this point, the middle-aged man's complacent tone suddenly dropped, "Come on, grandpa will take care of you." The deer is going to play on the trampoline."

"Grandpa, don't be angry." The porcelain doll supported Shen Ping's chest with her white tender hands and raised her head, "Little deer. No. Bounce~! Don't. Grandpa and mother. Argue."

Shen Ping smiled, looked lovingly at the well-behaved porcelain doll like a little white rabbit, and said: "It's okay, just play happily, with grandpa here, it's not your mother's turn to discipline you, how can she teach her daughter?"

Said that Shen Ping no longer cared about Zhang Rujie, and walked forward along the eaves with the porcelain doll in his arms.Zhang Rujie followed helplessly, muttering something non-stop.

The porcelain doll slapped her hands happily and said, "Grandpa, well, grandpa, well."

Seeing the innocent smiling faces of the porcelain dolls, Shen Ping felt happy again just now when he was depressed because of thinking of certain things. If you eat too much, your teeth will be broken, and then you will become missing teeth, and you will not be able to eat anything delicious. So the deer can’t eat too much candy!”

"I know. I know" the porcelain doll said in a vague tone, "you have to eat to grow taller."

"Yes! Our little deer is really a smart girl!"

Holding the porcelain doll, Shen Ping walked to the end of the main entrance of the Xidan Book Building, turned a corner, and walked more than ten meters to the east entrance of the building. This is also the entrance to the children's book area. There is an area on the second floor where children can play. area, such as plastic balls, trampolines, toys, wooden horses, etc.
Just as he was about to reach the entrance of the east gate, Shen Ping saw the Rolls Royce with a special license plate parked at the entrance of the Civil Aviation Building diagonally opposite. Originally, Shen Ping just glanced at it casually and didn't intend to look any further. , but when a figure he couldn't forget jumped into his eyes, Shen Ping's figure froze for a moment, and his smiling face suddenly changed color.

He watched the man get out of the car and put on his hat and mask. Before the man could look this way, he walked stiffly and rushed into the east gate with a plastic curtain. The rather hard windshield hit the corner of the porcelain doll's eyes, and the porcelain doll lay on his shoulder and began to cry, but Shen Ping seemed to have not heard or responded at all.

Zhang Rujie who was following behind saw this scene and immediately grabbed Shen Ping's arm, "What are you doing? Why are you so careless."

Shen Ping turned around and saw Zhang Rujie's worried face, and it took him a while to recover. He immediately handed the porcelain doll wiping away his tears to Zhang Rujie's arms, "You take the deer up to play, I won't call you, you Don't take her down."

Seeing that her husband's face was cloudy and cloudy, as if she had witnessed some great event, Zhang Rujie took the porcelain doll, first asked "what's the matter", and then began to softly coax the porcelain doll.

Shen Ping said with a cold face: "Don't worry about it, quickly hug the deer up." He walked to the east gate, stood by the gate, and looked outside through the plastic curtain that was lifted by the wind from time to time.

There are still many pedestrians in Xidan in winter. Although the ordinary-looking young man has already put on a hat and mask, he is still very eye-catching in the crowd.Although Shen Ping only saw him once, he was very impressed.

The weather was not very good that time, the sky was lightly raining, he was a high school student at the time, holding an umbrella, standing in the cemetery, straighter and colder than the tombstones in the rain, there was an unforgettable feeling Hidden a very deep arrogance.

Shen Ping has always been good at observing people, so even though Cheng Mo at this time has changed a lot compared to when he was in high school, Shen Ping still recognized him at a glance.Of course, he was determined not to admit that it was because he lost a bet with Cheng Mo and was forced to visit Luo Jiayi's tomb, that's why he couldn't remember Cheng Mo.

But Shen Ping's reaction just now was not because of the fact that he was forced to go to the Yangmingshan cemetery a few years ago.

Speaking of that incident back then, no matter how Cheng Mo slapped him in the face, Shen Ping had to be willing to let go of this entanglement and the estrangement with his daughter before going to Yangmingshan.Whether it is to push the boat with the current, or to take advantage of the slope to get off the donkey, it is true that he is very disgusted with Cheng Mo's actions, and it is also true that there is a trace of gratitude deep in his heart.

The reason why Shen Ping reacted so strongly was because of the love story between Cheng Mo and his daughter.

Although Shen Youyi never mentioned who Xiaolu's father was, but from the name "Cheng Linglu" registered on the household registration, it can be known that Xiaolu's father is the top student in both subjects that Shen Youyi is proud of.Shen Ping gritted his teeth in hatred when he thought that his daughter was helpless and had no relatives to take care of him in the hospital, so he gave birth to Xiaolu, and this scumbag was actually vacationing in the Mediterranean Sea with his daughter's best friend.

Seeing Cheng Mo, a scumbag who had the guts to run over, Shen Ping was furious in his heart, wishing he could rush out and beat him up.But his daughter didn't know what kind of demon she was, and she still couldn't forget this scumbag, as if she was still waiting for him to change his mind, Shen Ping was furious in his heart.

"What the hell are you looking at?"

Shen Ping turned around and pushed Zhang Rujie, suppressed his anger and said in a cold voice, "I told you to go up."

Seeing that her husband was really angry, Zhang Rujie softened her attitude immediately, and said in a low voice: "Go up, go up." She hugged the tearful Shen Linglu, turned around and walked towards the elevator, "Xiaolu, be good, Xiaolu, don't cry! Grandma took Xiaolu to jump Jump on the trampoline."

Shen Linglu raised her chubby little hand, rubbed her eyes and muttered: "No more bouncing, no more bouncing. Grandpa is angry and mother is angry."

Shen Ping was heartbroken, but he didn't care to appease Zhang Rujie and the tearful granddaughter. He cautiously walked out of the east gate. Seeing that Cheng Mo had turned a corner and walked towards the main gate, he tremblingly said softly, "Beast! There is still a face to find!"

He also walked quickly to the corner, poked his head slightly, and saw that Cheng Mo first walked to the entrance to take a look, and then stood at the end and started to line up.He stopped peeping, stood at the corner of the building and thought for a while, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, found a number in the address book and dialed it.

After the call was connected, Shen Ping forced a smile on his face, as if the person talking was right in front of him, "Yixiao! What are you up to?"

"Teacher, I'm not busy. Isn't it the Chinese New Year soon? I'm rushing to hold various summary meetings, commendation meetings and so on."

"Then are you free now?"

"Now!? Is there something wrong? Teacher"

"It's nothing serious. I just want to thank you for your help to Xiaoxi in the past few years. You can see that publishing is also helpful. You are also looking for someone to adapt a TV series. I will treat you to dinner tonight or something."

"Teacher, you don't need to be so polite. I didn't help Xiaoxi, mainly because her works are excellent. After her new book is released, I will try to get her a few awards and see if there is any funds left. Can she be so outstanding?" The writer supports me."

"These are trivial things, the teacher just wants to see you. Aren't you Xiaolu's godfather?" Shen Ping said earnestly, "Xiaolu is here too! She mentions you every day!"

"Teacher, I know what you mean." The man on the other end of the phone sighed, and after a long time of deliberation, he said in a depressed tone, "A while ago, I took the ring and flowers and ran to find Xiaoxi. I don't care about anything, I don't mind that she has someone else in her heart, and I don't mind what happened to her in the past. I stood on the street and said loudly that I like Xiaolu, and of course I like her more. I half kneeled on the sidewalk, bright I took out the pigeon egg that I spent half my life savings on, and said hoarsely that I would really protect the happiness of their mother and daughter. The passers-by around applauded, and the driver stopped and honked. My friends all jumped She came out, singing, dancing, throwing flowers and so on, but Xiaoxi refused very simply, she told me very clearly, saying that we can only be friends with me, or even the kind of keeping distance Friends, she said that she is an orphan and widow, and if others see her, she will gossip.”

The man's words were sincere, and there was a little resentment. Shen Ping said annoyedly: "Xiaoxi has been stubborn since she was a child." After a pause, he changed the topic, "But I think she still has a good impression of you. Both of you She studies literature and has a lot of common language, you are such an excellent person, to be honest, Xiaoxi is lucky to have a man like you like her."

"Teacher, don't say that. I really think I'm not good enough for Xiaoxi. Oh, don't say it. If you say too much, you will cry. My friend also laughed at me as a toad who wants to eat swan meat."

"You are not worthy, who else is worthy? You come here quickly, and our family will have a meal together."

"Teacher, please don't! I'm not afraid to tell you that the day I was rejected, I was drunk alone, cried for a long time by the Xiangjiang River, and almost jumped into the river. It was her bodyguard who sent me back to the hotel. Let me see Xiaoxi today." , I'm really afraid of embarrassment!"

"How precious a man's tears are! You are willing to shed tears for Xiaoxi, which shows that you really like her! How can you give up so easily? Don't just give up like that! Teacher and teacher's wife support you!"

"The teacher asked me to think about it."

"What else are you thinking about? I told you Xiaolu's father is back!"

"Ah!? Are you back?"

"Come here quickly, don't let that scum get close to their mother and daughter."

The man on the other end of the phone was silent for a long time before he said, "Then I'll come here! Although I don't know who he is, this scum who left Xiaoxi and her daughter silently for several years must be a beast." Something worse. I'd like to see who he is."

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Cheng Mo wore a hat and a mask and moved slowly with the team. Before the sky completely darkened, he followed a couple in front of him into the Xidan Book Building and bought two copies of "Ouroboros" for 73.6 yuan. ——The hardcover edition of "The West of Time Sequence", under the command of the security guard, Cheng Mo walked through the side hall among the crowd, walked around dozens of steps, and walked to the signing sale in the flickering light and shadow. hall.

The line didn't look long, but in fact it was stacked several layers sideways, so it was still very long. At present, Cheng Mo's position is still a little outside the hall, and Shen Youyi is still not visible.He took out his mobile phone and checked the time. It was just a few minutes after four o'clock, and there was almost an hour before the end of the signing.

Cheng Mo looked around, all of them were students on winter vacation, most of them were high school students and college students, and their age was not much different from him.Some of the girls brought flowers.Everyone was discussing the book they just got, some were discussing the plot, some were discussing the illustrations, some were discussing about the author Nanxi, and some were worrying about whether they would be able to catch the autograph today.
Amidst the noisy chatter, the team moved slowly, and as they got closer to the rostrum in front of the hall, when the author Nanxi could be seen immediately, the voice of the team also became quieter.Inexplicably, Cheng Mo's heart became uneasy,
At [-]:[-], Cheng Mo could already see Shen Youyi's position. He stood by a bookshelf against the wall, tiptoed slightly, and looked at Shen Youyi through the crowd. She was wearing a Gray loose turtleneck sweater, sitting in front of a long table covered with red cloth, behind is a large poster of "Ouroboros-West of Time Series". Light saber and Si Caiwei holding a pistol standing back to back
Six or seven staff members stood next to the poster, including security guards from Xidan Book Building and staff from the publishing house. Shen Youyi, wearing a mask and a pair of metal glasses, lowered his head and just signed. Occasionally, the staff would come forward if they asked for a group photo. come to refuse.In short, no one can see her true face, but only by virtue of those deep and charming eyes, one can judge that she is a great beauty.

The boys and girls in the team began to talk about Shen Youyi's appearance. Some people said that Nanxi was for publicity, so he didn't want people to see his face; Low-key, don't want to label yourself as a beauty writer
Only Cheng Mo knew why, she didn't want others to know that the author was her.

Cheng Mo looked at Shen Youyi through the crowd, as if separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, he thought he should be a little happy, but his heart was full of unspeakable complex emotions, at this moment he couldn't restrain himself from wanting to be with him. Her impulse to meet, no matter what situation she is in now, as long as she is doing well, he feels that he can calmly talk to her about past experiences, about those forced and unexplainable misunderstandings, anyway, he must Shen Youyi should give an explanation.

The team kept moving towards the rostrum in zigzags, but Cheng Mo's heart became more and more entangled. He walked out of the team and fled the hall to observe Shen Youyi's thoughts from a distance; he also walked up to Shen Youyi and waited for her to sign, and then took off his mask Confront her desires.

Two thoughts agitated in his heart, and his heart was still torn between retreating and advancing.He has always felt that he is not the kind of indecisive person, but when facing Teacher Shen, he tasted a kind of hesitation.

Everything can only be blamed on fate. Fate has tricked people and arranged for Gao Yuemei to intervene in it, making him not know how to face Teacher Shen.

Finally, it was getting closer and closer, and Cheng Mo's heartbeat was getting faster and faster. He thought he wouldn't be excited, but he became excited uncontrollably.He was almost to the point where he could reach out and hug her within a few steps.

After much thought, Chengmo decided to ask Shen Youyi for his autograph while wearing a mask. If she could recognize him, she would take off the mask. If she didn't, she would continue to investigate for a while.

Just as Cheng Mo calmed down and waited for the critical moment, a tall and handsome man walked towards Shen Youyi holding a little girl who looked like a porcelain doll. The little girl held up an ice cream and shouted: "Mom, mom Dad took me to eat ice cream"

Shen Youyi put down his pen, turned his head to look at the little girl, and glared at the little girl, as if he was going to blame her for barking, but before she could speak, the man said, "I'm here to get the clothes. Played on the trampoline and sweated all over."

Shen Youyi's attention was immediately attracted by his daughter, and he quickly got up, touched the porcelain doll's face, then touched the porcelain doll's body, and then blamed with a little dissatisfaction: "Yixiao, how could you She's going to play on the trampoline!"

Standing in the crowd, Cheng Mo's consciousness became blurred. He couldn't hear the obvious alienation in this sentence, but watched Shen Youyi stand up and pinch the porcelain doll's sweaty little face twice. As for saying Something happened, the sound became distant and no longer meaningful.

Cheng Mo felt that his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of hazy mist, he wanted to see but couldn't see clearly, only the sound of "Dad" was really spinning in his mind.Cheng Mo never thought that he would be tricked by his father-in-law, let alone that his daughter would cheat her.He only felt his heart beating violently, as if being urged and stimulated by something, it was about to jump out of his chest.

"If she wants to play, just take her to play. I'll get two pieces of clothes and change them for her."

Shen Youyi shook his head helplessly, then turned around and took out two pieces of clothing from the bag on the chair and handed them to the man.

Just when Shen Youyi opened his mouth and was about to say something, the man said again first: "Hurry up and sign the readers, they are all waiting! Don't waste time."

Shen Youyi turned his head and saw that the boys and girls were still standing in the hall, so he immediately turned around, sat back on the chair, first raised his eyes to the little reader who had been waiting for a long time, and said softly: "I'm sorry to keep you waiting for a long time. Waiting." Then he opened the page and wrote two beautiful and long characters on it - "Nanxi".

Cheng Mo stood there for a long time, unable to move, until the person behind him pushed him, and he looked back in a trance.

A tall boy holding several copies of "Ouroboros-The West of Time Series" said to him: "Hey! It's almost time for you, let's go!"

Only then did Cheng Mo regain consciousness, he said "oh", and said to himself: "Forget it, I can't catch up, so I won't sign."

He walked out of the team and walked towards the exit without looking back.But there are pictures of the past in their minds, they are sitting at Shen Youyi's house, the wind and rain outside are dark, the flickering lights are warm, Shen Youyi is cooking in the kitchen wearing an apron, and he sits at the dining table and waits quietly.He was sitting on the back seat of the motorcycle, and Shen Youyi led him across the long Monkey Stone Bridge. The waves were surging under the bridge, and the greenery of Yangming Mountain was fading. He held his breath, hugged her waist tightly, and felt Fast and furious, and warm and sweet.He remembered the night when he grew up during the summer vacation. That night the classroom was like a gorgeous temple. The Yuelu Mountain outside the window was silent and the shadows of the trees were shaking. She wrote on the blackboard, "Last night, the stars and last night wind On the west side of the painting building, on the east side of Guitang. I don’t have a colorful phoenix or two flying wings, but I have a clear heart.” He carried her back to her dormitory. In the cramped and dark room, they talked to each other and slept in each other’s arms.

Thinking about it at this moment, it seems that everything is just his own fantasy, Cheng Mo doesn't want to delve into it, and doesn't want to look back, he thinks that's fine.At least he was sure that he shouldn't have unrealistic dreams, but he couldn't help but miss Teacher Shen's arms. He always slept peacefully in her arms, and he seldom dreamed in her arms. , I just feel that I am sleeping in the deep and quiet sea, next to the luster of corals and flicking water plants, and the gentle night is the embrace of Teacher Shen.

He thought of the painting painted by Mr. Shen again, the densely packed paintings filled with his name, all of which were like absurd dreams full of metaphors.

Cheng Mo walked out of the hall quickly. One night in the summer of 2020, a child grew into an adult.A woman gave him the tenderness he had never had before, and made him feel the warmth of home.

Unfortunately, in the winter of 2024, he seemed to have forgotten his way home and lost the key to get home.

(End of this chapter)