Love at Second Sight [Interstellar]

Hearing this, Zhuang Yan subconsciously glanced at Zhou Yuchen, but the latter lowered his eyes and did not respond to his gaze.

"This..." Zhuang Yan felt a little troublesome, and stroked the photon pen in his hand, "Why don't you bother me?"

"What's the matter, Zhuang Yan?" Zhou Dun smiled cheerfully, "Don't you want to come to my house? Did my wife and I give you a bad impression, or did Yuchen make you unhappy?"

"None, Marshal." Zhuang Yan had no choice but to answer, and at the same time he knew that this visit was unavoidable. If it was Zhou Yuchen's proposal, he could still decline it, but Zhou Dun was his elder.

"Then it's settled." Zhou Dun said happily, "You will arrive at Shimen Star tomorrow afternoon, and Claudia and I will wait for you at home."

So around four o'clock in the afternoon the next day, Zhuang Yan's spaceship deviated from the original route along with the fleet of the Second Army and flew towards Fomalhaut.

Zhuang Yan looked at the distant bright star by the porthole. Fomalhaut is the star and the name of the entire star system. In ancient Chinese, Fomalhaut means "military gate" and "shimen" It refers to the military gate, "North" refers to the direction, and "Luo" refers to the defense facilities such as the fences on the battlefield in the cold weapon era of the ancient earth. In the eyes of the Chinese on the ancient earth, this star represents the northern general in mythology.

Thinking about it now, it fits the identity of the Zhou family from generation to generation.

The fleet began to enter the space station on the outskirts of the galaxy, and the broadcasting systems of all the spacecraft were connected to the space station, and a hearty and vicissitudes male voice resounded above Zhuang Yan's head: "Welcome home, children."

Even though Zhuang Yan came back to this galaxy for the first time, he could hear a hint of kindness from these words.

The fleet passed the galaxy space station, continued to fly towards the inner circle of the star, and finally entered the gravitational range of a planet with the largest area in the middle planetary belt, passed through the planetary space station, and entered the atmosphere.

As the spaceship approached the ground, Zhuang Yan finally saw almost the whole picture of the main star city of Fomalhaut. Different from the grandeur and elegance of Qatar, the romantic prosperity of Fontainebleau, and the lush greenery of his own hometown Begonia, this star The buildings are full of militarized simplicity.There are many military bases scattered outside the main city, and the streets inside the main city are radioactive. It can be imagined that the traffic must be quite convenient.And there is an open space in the center where the roads converge, and the area should be large when viewed from above, but I don't know what it is for.

The spaceship gradually entered the landscape, and then landed close to the ground.

Zhuang Yan stepped off the spaceship and heard the voices around him speaking in a language he was not familiar with, which was the local language of Fomalhaut.Zhuang Yan's spaceship followed Zhou Yuchen's "Green Field" closely. After Zhou Yuchen gave instructions to his subordinates, he came over and walked out of the tarmac with Zhuang Yan, got on the hover car outside, and flew towards the destination.

Zhuang Yan looked at the buildings passing by the window and said, "Can't you stop for a while?"

Zhou Yuchen said, "Why?"

Zhuang Yan glanced at him and said, "I'm empty-handed." You should bring some gifts when you come to visit, right?

Zhou Yuchen said, "They will be very happy when you get there. As for gifts, just don't refuse their request."

ask?what request?Zhuang Yan was a little nervous. Logically speaking, he could regard this as a visit to a friend's house, but he thought that Zhou Dun would not invite him just because he was a friend of his eldest son.

He glanced at Zhou Yuchen, and Zhou Yuchen glanced at him. Zhuang Yan turned his gaze away. If he had known earlier, he might as well have resolutely refused.

The main city is quite big, and the suspension car drove for a full hour, and finally stopped on the street in the residential area. Zhuang Yan got off the car and walked into this small, semi-old house, which had almost the same color tone and style as the nearby houses. , There are many magnolia trees planted in the front yard, and the trimming of the flowers and trees is not very delicate, but the dark green creepers that cover the walls rustle in the late-night wind, adding vitality to the building.

"Ha, you are here, a little later than expected." Zhou Dun opened the door for them, still wearing an apron, "But the food is just right, and it will be ready in 15 minutes."

"Hello, Zhuang Yan." Claudia was sitting on the sofa, wearing a homely beige sweater and an elegant knee-length skirt with ruffles, but what didn't match her intellectual attire was her calmness of a soldier With sharp eyes, he also got up at this time, shook hands with Zhuang Yan, and then went to the counter: "Do you drink Pu'er? It's still black tea."

"Pu'er is good." Claudia's movements were crisp and smooth, and when the tea was brewed, Zhuang Yan hurriedly stood up to take it, sat down again, and took a sip. Claudia said, "How are you? Asians like tea ceremony, Zhou Dun said that my tea is not bad to drink."

"It tastes good, thank you." Zhuang Yan looked calm.The room was warmer than the outside, and he was hot. Zhou Yuchen took off his coat, walked over to Zhuang Yan, and Zhuang Yan took off his coat and hung it on the mahogany rack next to him.Both of them were wearing only a shirt, and they were sitting on two small sofas.

Claudia asked Zhuang Yan a few words, and Zhuang Yan answered a question. She is not as good at talking as Zhou Dun. In addition, Zhuang Yan is usually unsmiling. Sometimes without Zhou Yuchen interjecting, the conversation becomes a bit awkward. Stiff, but Zhuang Yan could feel her kindness.

"Yuchen, come and help me in the kitchen." Zhou Dun said in the kitchen.

Zhou Yuchen got up and went to the kitchen, Claudia also got up and said "excuse me" to Zhuang Yan, then walked to the indoor bar outside the kitchen, and said to Zhou Yuchen, "I'm not bad, am I?"

"What do you think? Mom." The mother and son glanced at Zhuang Yan who was sitting on the sofa. He was holding a small teacup, dazed in a daze. Zhou Yuchen said, "If you leave him alone, he will be more comfortable. "

"Okay." Claudia sighed, turned and walked up the stairs next to the bar.

"Where are you going?"

"Go and change this outfit."

Zhou Yuchen couldn't help laughing, and turned around to enter the kitchen. Zhou Dun, who was watching the fire, glanced at him, put down the lid of the pot in his hand, supported the sink with one hand and said, "I just communicated with Mr. Zhuang before you entered the door. He said that Zhuang Yan never mentioned to him about remarrying Andor."

"No?" Zhou Yuchen was taken aback.

"Hmm, have you misunderstood someone?"

Zhou Yuchen's expression changed from surprise to doubt in a few moments, and then he suddenly understood. He sighed and smiled to himself. Zhou Dun came over and patted him on the shoulder: "Be patient."

Zhou Yuchen nodded, pondered for a while, then turned to look at Zhou Dun with a smile and said, "Why is mother dressed like that?"

"Didn't you say that Zhuang Yan likes a warm family atmosphere?" Zhou Dundao, "That dress was a gift I gave her the year before last. She scoffed at my taste and never wore it."

This Zhuang Yan was still in a daze in the living room, when suddenly there was a knock at the entrance door, he looked back, and there was a pair of boys and girls standing at the door, both of them looked very good.The two children stared at him, Zhuang Yan stood up, nodded and said, "Hello."

The young man put down the huge bag he was carrying, walked over and shook hands with Zhuang Yan and said, "Hello, Mr. Zhuang, my name is Zhou Yulang, and this is my sister Zhou Xiaohuan."

Zhou Xiaohuan lay behind Zhou Yulang, looking at Zhuang Yan with a bit of hostility.

"Are you back?" Zhou Yuchen walked out of the kitchen carrying a plate of dishes. Zhou Xiaohuan yelled "Brother" and ran to jump on him. Zhou Yuchen held his forehead to keep distance: "I'm carrying the meat."

Zhou Xiaohuan was persistent and insisted on holding Zhou Yuchen's arm. When he was sitting down for dinner, Zhou Yuchen glanced at Zhuang Yan and pulled away the chair in front of him. Zhou Yuchen.

Zhuang Yan sat between Zhou Yulang and Zhou Xiaohuan, and Zhou Xiaohuan said again, "Brother, I want some soup."

"Brother, I want some soup." Zhou Yulang on Zhuang Yan's left squeezed his throat expressionlessly and said tenderly, "Who are you calling?"

Both Zhou Dun and his wife and Zhou Yuchen laughed out loud. Zhuang Yanrao was so emotional that his face tensed up because he didn't laugh.Zhou Xiaohuan said angrily: "Zhou Yulang!" Shouldn't we join hands to fight against the enemy now? This guy turned his elbow outward!

"Zhuang Yan." Zhou Dun scooped up a bowl of soup for Zhuang Yan and said with a smile, "Stay here for two days before leaving."

Zhuang Yan's gaze matched Zhou Yuchen's again, and he understood what Zhou Yuchen meant by "request".Zhou Dun simply planned to keep him for two days in the name of having a meal.

Zhou Dun said with a smile: "It's a coincidence that you came here. Fomalhaut's 'Celebration Day' will be in two days. You can take a look at our customs."

Zhuang Yan felt that he shouldn't have stayed.But he couldn't even play the routines of Admiral Zhou back then, let alone the wily and calculating Marshal Zhou, not to mention that he was already under his roof.

The only two children in the room who didn't expect Zhuang Yan to stay were the two children, but unfortunately they didn't have the right to speak.After dinner, Zhou Xiaohuan continued to cling to her elder brother. Zhou Yuchen stroked her long hair: "I brought you a gift. Don't you like the dress designed by Master Moben from Andorra?"

The girl couldn't resist the temptation of the skirt, so Zhou Xiaohuan ran outside the house to look for her gift in the suspension car, and when she returned to the house, she found that both Zhou Yuchen and Zhuang Yan had disappeared: "Where's the eldest brother?"

Zhou Dun and his wife were reading newspapers on the sofa, and newsletters. Zhou Yulang glanced at her and said, "Dad asked them to go shopping." That's why they shouldn't form an alliance with this idiot.

According to the calendar of the empire, it should be late June now, but the climate conditions of each planet are different (in fact, the length of day and night is also different, but in order to achieve unity, all empire stars adopt a consistent artificial lighting system ), the temperature of the main star of Fomalhaut at this time is about the same as that of the ancient Earth when the spring and summer transition.

Zhuang Yan walked through the front yard when he went out with Zhou Yuchen, and saw that the magnolia tree had already formed snow-white and plump buds.

Zhou Yuchen didn't drive a floating car, but called a floating car at the terminal, and there was no need for guards to accompany him here. The two sat in the open floating car and drove along the straight road to the center of the main city. Intersection.

The colors of the buildings in the city are mostly gray, ivory, and various dark colors. Under the illumination of the street lamps, the colors are patchwork. Perhaps it is approaching the celebration day, and many houses are hung with colorful silk lanterns. Pedestrians come and go on the street. Yan is too cold to feel like a weapon.

The floating car drove straight for half an hour, and finally came to the city center that Zhuang Yan didn't know what to use before.

This is a wide grassland, nothing on the grassland, only a lot of strange "gate"-shaped marble buildings, only as tall as a person, or horizontally, or several columns, or stand alone there, forming a long corridor , People who come here for a walk walk together under the building.

Zhuang Yan didn't know what these buildings were used for. From a distance, he saw patterns on the surface of the marble, but when he got closer, he realized that they were names.

He stood in front of the names, and Zhou Yuchen said beside him, "This is the name of those who have sacrificed to defend Fomalhaut since Fomalhaut was built."

"Does everyone have it?"

"I don't know, maybe." Zhou Yuchen looked at the names together with him, "Every name is engraved by their family members and comrades in arms. If one day I die on the battlefield, maybe the mecha or battleship I was on Will explode and burn in interstellar space so my body won't stay, and then they'll come here and carve my name somewhere."

As he said that, he looked back at Zhuang Yan, and the two looked at each other. Zhuang Yan felt that Zhou Yuchen's mood had improved again, and the feeling that they lacked when they got along these days returned.

They, like the others, walked side by side through the long corridor of marble doors.

"Look at these names, Gene Hades, Maggie Sale, Svetnara Mikhailovskaya, Asian, Ryoji Tanaka..." Zhou Yuchen read those long-standing chisel marks "Although you don't know them, after reading them for a long time, they can make you feel at peace. You seem to understand your place in the universe. You are just a grain of sand floating in your own direction. Come back here, you It will not be forgotten.”

Their footsteps were rustling on the soft grass, and there were low voices in the distance, and the vast clear starry sky above their heads.Zhuang Yan understood the significance of this place to the people who call Fomalhaut their hometown.

He saw quite a few young couples, men and women, looking at each other, talking, hugging, and kissing in front of a certain stone gate.

"They are praying for heroic spirits to bless their love." Zhou Yuchen whispered in his ear.

Zhuang Yan looked at Zhou Yuchen, Zhou Yuchen smiled at him, and continued to lead him forward. They crossed the grass and came to the opposite street, which was full of restaurants and bars.

Zhuang Yan was originally worried that Zhou Yuchen would cause a commotion walking in the street like this, but obviously he was too worried.They entered a tavern where they bought local specialty drinks and snacks. There was a lot of people inside. Behind the counter in front of the door stood a girl with honey-colored skin, tall and pretty. When she saw Zhou Yuchen, her eyes lit up and she said, "You're back. ?”

"Yes." Zhou Yuchen was in front of the counter, "'Snow Sweeping', two copies are ready-made, and four copies are packed."

Of course, they communicated in Shimen's language, which Zhuang Yan couldn't understand, but Zhou Yuchen let him sit at a table by the window.

The surrounding guests also looked over, looked at Zhou Yuchen, and also at him, but this kind of look was different from the kind of spying eyes of news figures experienced in other places, and it was gentle and generous, just like meeting someone in a tavern. An acquaintance, take a look, say a few words, and continue their conversation.

Zhuang Yan was sitting at the table and saw Zhou Yuchen ordering with the girl behind the counter. The girl said something, Zhou Yuchen smiled and turned to look at Zhuang Yan.

He quickly turned back to the table, holding a wooden tray with two ready-made local snacks on it.After a while, the girl brought a bowl of golden honey-colored drink herself, and dipped a round, white fruit in the bowl. She placed it in front of Zhuang Yan, and looked at him with a smile while holding the wooden tray.

Zhou Yuchen said: "She gave you this bowl specially. She said that it is rare to see a handsome guy like you in Shimen."

Zhuang Yan was originally attracted by the strong aroma and wanted to taste it, but he was too embarrassed to reach out after hearing this.In the past, I heard that Fomalhaut is a planet rich in beautiful men, and Zhou Yuchen is the representative. Today, seeing is believing. Many young men sitting in this tavern are handsome and tall.Therefore, Zhou Yuchen's explanation sounded like a joke to him.

Zhou Yuchen looked at him with a smile, and said to the girl in the teacher's language: 【He is very shy. 】

The girl said: [Did you take him to see Yingling? 】

Zhou Yuchen and Zhuang Yan looked at each other, the latter still had a look of embarrassment on his face, he had no idea what they were talking about.

He smiled slightly: "Yes."