It's too late to marry a cat [Interstellar]

"Huiquan."

Suddenly someone called Yahuiquan's name from behind, and he still used the more intimate way of addressing him by omitting his surname. Just as he was about to continue walking, Yashang stopped his feet, turned around, and saw that his temples had turned gray. Old General Donaldo, whose waist was still straight, walked towards him.

Old General Donaldo was the person who indirectly delivered marriage news to Ya Huiquan. He was already in his 230s at the time, and in less than 20 years, the old general will pass [-] and enter a period of decline. However, as far as the current situation is concerned, the old general of [-] is still in the late middle age. Apart from the subtle aging in his appearance, his body functions are functioning well, and he also exercises properly in his daily life. Still able to easily clean up several classes of little bastards.

"Teacher." Yahuiquan greeted the old man politely.

Veteran General Donaldo has been teaching at Hengguang College for a long time, taking three courses: strategic awareness, tactical practice, and history of military theory.

When Ya Huiquan was in school, because he was too young to enter school, he could not keep up with all the practical classes and physical training based on objective conditions, and his personal basic data was only a fraction of the students who entered the school at the standard age.In order to deal with his special situation, the Academic Affairs Center also held a short meeting, and finally decided to let this specially recruited student take an extra year of theoretical courses, learn the compulsory commander theory twice, and consolidate the theory well. In the coming year, I will go to the simulation cabin with the next-level freshmen to practice.

Donaldo, who happened to teach two theoretical courses, became the longest-running teacher.

During Yahuiquan’s first year at Hengguang Academy, one of the things that Donald, who was less than [-] years old at the time, did most often was to carefully inspect the classrooms and teaching simulation cabins before the tactical practical class started. , use the remote connection port externally, and then manually check the magnetic card of each trainee on the machine to confirm that the number matches the person and the card.

The teacher took so much effort, just to avoid a cub who didn't listen to the teacher's warning from sneaking in again, like a cicada who doesn't know how thin its wings are, and also imitates moths to the flames, such a small gadget , thinking about challenging the limit every day, pushing his limited brain into the spiritual field of the simulation cabin——when he was caught, he still looked stubborn!

Ya Huiquan often fought wits with his teacher. In the second year, he was finally able to practice on the computer, and he had already memorized the theory courses fluently.

So in the second year, he changed to a way of fighting wits and bravery—he quietly did homework on the strategic awareness and military theory history brought by Donaldo, and occasionally caught up with sleep.

The teacher no longer has to worry about a little guy sneaking into the classroom of the practical class. Instead, he keeps a close eye on the theory class to prevent a brat who thinks he has mastered the theory from drifting away and daring to fish in troubled waters openly.

In Hengguang Academy, there were many teachers who had taught Yahuiquan, but Donaldo must have been the one who took care of him the most and cared the most for Yahuiquan, who was still young at that time.

After graduation, large-scale wars broke out, and the students who had just grown up and the teachers who were urgently called were assigned to different star area battlefields.

Afterwards, the student's rank climbed steadily, and he stood at a position that was difficult for his peers to reach at an astonishing speed. He also took over an important fortress, and the naked eye became more and more busy.

Even if Ya Huiquan didn’t have any relatives or close friends, during the war years, it was normal for the remote communication network to be unstable. He was stationed in the space base, and interstellar communication was not like making an intrastellar phone call inside the planet. He could contact anyone anytime and anywhere.

Gradually, the relationship between him and some old people became weaker, and it was only logical that he had little contact with them.

At that time, it was very good news to be able to occasionally get a few words, to know which star sector an acquaintance was still active in, and before the person became a fly ash in the universe. "One way contact".

"It's not bad." The old general looked at the young general in front of him, and sighed in the banquet hall where singing and dancing, "I was thinking just now, if you opened your mouth, it would be a businesslike 'General Donald' or 'Smith' ', then at my current age and your age, beating is inappropriate, and I can't beat you, so I guess I can only move my mouth and swear."

"Smith" is Donaldo's last name.

Ya Huiquan is arrogant and sticks to his own way, as if the world is big and the universe is big, and no one is as big-tempered as him.

But in front of the teacher who had taken good care of him before, and only recently handed him a reminder, he paused for a moment, and silently accepted the somewhat pungent sentence on purpose.

"It's good to see you're still in shape," was all he said.

Donaldo heard that the tone of Yahuiquan's reply was a little blunt, as if he was not used to this kind of words that actively cared about someone. Regarding Yashang Admiral's mouth that can "tick a hundred with one", although he has been with him for many years The contact with the students is getting less and less, and I haven't experienced it positively, but I have also heard the rumors that "the general on the cliff is mean and first-rate".

Therefore, the old general can understand that to accept his ridicule without saying a word, and return a word of concern, this is already the best that Yahuiquan can do.

As a student, he doesn't know how he grew up. When he first entered school in his teens, he was still a little guy who couldn't hide his mind and his emotions were not so closed. , the whole person is more and more closed in, and then gradually the years pass, and the other party has completely grown into an appearance of shutting himself tightly.

Even occasionally wanting to express concern, to show a little sincerity, seems to be unfamiliar with the business, and I don't know how to do it.

"So-so, maintained at the average level of the late middle-aged and young people." Donaldo shook his head slightly, his tone and expression eased, becoming very gentle.

This was the first time he met Ya Huiquan after the war. He came here to chat with the students and ask about the situation.

Yahuiquan still calls him a teacher, and the general Yashang who has been vigorous and resolute for decades will still express his concern in a slightly awkward way. The old man should know how to grasp the boundaries better than the young, and he will not really hold on to the airs of a teacher and put on a show in front of others endless.

"On your side, is everything okay?" Donaldo asked with concern, and then looked Yahuiquan up and down carefully, "When you were sent back, the medical surveillance center issued three danger notices in succession. Your subordinates who accompanied you back to the star were all terrified, how are you recovering?"

"Very good." Yahuiquan replied with a precious word.

He is not familiar with the business of accepting other people's concern calmly, as if he just wanted to stop this kind of greeting immediately.

It's a pity that Donaldo is still physically strong, and his mental outlook is also excellent. However, in terms of chanting and oral impromptu composition, he seems to have these two "bad habits" that middle-aged and elderly people are accustomed to.

"How can it be very good?" The old general didn't receive the hint that the young man wanted to stop, "Who are you perfunctory with this? You have reached the point of recuperating in the recuperation cabin for a long time, even if the medical monitoring center judges that you can be discharged from the hospital , the list I gave you must have been going home for recuperation, and there were a lot of doctor's orders attached, right? Hey, when I saw your expression, I guessed that you usually don't follow the doctor's orders. Nine out of ten young people under the age of [-] don't take doctor's advice seriously, when to take medicine, when to do rehabilitation, when to start to resume high-intensity work-all rely on artificial intelligence reminders. If technology goes backwards For hundreds of years, no matter how good your body is, you can wipe it out..."

Yahuiquan: "..."

Admiral Yashang had a calm face at first, then remained expressionless, and after that, even though his facial features didn't change much at first glance, the corners of his eyes and brows were frozen as if he didn't move at all.

However, just because General Ya was so solidified, not far away, Pelencui and Lu Siming, who had automatically given up their social distance out of consideration for the general to catch up with General Donaldo, watched the general's expression silently. .

Peilantui suddenly elbowed Lu Siming.

"I think the general is falling asleep with his eyes open," he whispered.

Lu Siming: "...I think so too."

What made the two captains unanimously feel even more amazing was that Li Dandan was not afraid of the old general's nagging!

It was different from the general on the cliff who was about to fall asleep with his eyes open and wished he could become deaf on the spot and couldn't turn his head away.

His cat was sitting on his arm, the whole cat was very contented, while looking up at the old man who kept chattering in front of him, he seemed to be listening very attentively, and at the same time, it occasionally flicked its tail to tangle human hand.

The reason why Yahuiquan didn't really fall asleep was because of the intermittent stroking of cats.

"...Speaking of which." Finally, Donaldo's short essay on "Unhealthy Habits of Contemporary Youth" was finally published. His voice suddenly changed, and he remembered something again.

Yahuiquan used up a hundred thousand points of patience, swallowed back the sentence "Why haven't you finished?", and reluctantly responded: "Huh?"

The old general said: "I have read the report, you were so seriously injured before, because after the total device in the core of the natural disaster was blown up, you still insisted on staying in the high-energy response center for 5 minutes, and the mecha was burned to the ground. If the last layer of skin comes out later, the energy of the body will be exhausted, and you will have to be directly exposed to the central area, and there will be no ashes left."

Ya Huiquan seemed to wake up suddenly. Since Donaldo said a certain key word, his whole person has undergone a subtle change.

The compromise and gentleness just now disappeared, and in the blink of an eye, he returned to impeccable coldness.

"Why didn't you come out right away, what were you doing inside..." Donaldo didn't say the last word "what", and his voice disappeared in his throat.

He raised his head while he was rambling, and happened to see Yahuiquan's expression clearly.

The old general was stunned by Ya Huiquan's expression for a while, and he called the student's name in a soft voice: "Huiquan?"

It was not the teacher's call that thawed the general on the cliff.

It's his cat.

Li Dandan wrapped her tail around the man's hand again. Its fluffy and warm tail swept over the back of the man's hand repeatedly, slowly softening the hand that had suddenly become cold and hard.

"...It's nothing." Ya Huiquan finally said after a while.

He carefully brushed the cat's tail, lowered his eyes, and covered the too compelling gaze just now.

"It's useless," he said.

Donaldo knew he had stepped on a minefield.

Although he didn't understand where the minefield was at all, he knew that he shouldn't ask too much about the previous topic, and it's best to make as few preliminaries as possible in front of Yahuiquan in the future.

Taking advantage of the cat that he forgot to pay attention to for a long time, the old general immediately changed the subject, bowed his head and said to the cat, "Mimi."

Li Dandan is probably really a civet who is proficient in firefighting and disaster relief. It also said to the old general: "Mi."

Donaldo calmly breathed a sigh of relief, and he continued following the cat topic: "I almost ignored you, Mimi, why are you so obedient? Walking around in such a noisy place with people, it's not noisy Don't be fussy, I didn't notice you just now, you are like a natural part of Huiquan's body, like a cat decoration growing on his body, you two are one piece."

The old general caught the cat and made a comment. Seeing that Ya Huiquan had no objection, he reached out and stroked the kitten's furry head, and sighed twice in a row that it felt so good.

When Donald withdrew his hand from the cat's head and the old man began to study the breed of the cat, Ya Huiquan seemed to have returned to the past, and there was no abnormality at all.

Hearing Donaldo say "Mimi" to the left and "Mimi" to the right, he finally couldn't help it: "It's not called Mimi."

"Then do you want me to call it the name you gave it?" The old general raised his eyes from the cat. He looked at his student and thought of the amazing Li Dandan. After a moment of silence, he asked the other person again. , "Huiquan, tell me with your conscience, can you say this name yourself? Can you call me first?"

Yahuiquan: "..."

Since the deity who gave the amazing name couldn't say it, I tried to correct the teacher's address so that the old man would stop calling the cat "Mimi" and had to give up.

But for the sake of the man's face, Admiral Yashang also refused to lose face in front of the teacher, so he pretended to be normal and said: "I usually don't take the cat out, it's called at home."

After listening to it, Donald was silent again.

As a teacher, he suddenly became a little worried. He was very afraid that he, a student who had always been closed, would suppress himself for too long and secretly go crazy at home alone.

The old general didn't ask about "marrying a cat", nor did he mention it.

As the person who brought the news of the marriage to Yahuiquan, since he got the news that "Yahuiquan is married", he guessed that this should be a countermeasure specially used by Yahuiquan to block people.

And he expected that for a man as big as Ya Huiquan, who would be able to play steadily in the position of general for many years, he must have a strategy in mind for everything he does, and students have their own ideas.

However, Donald did not expect that it was true that he revealed that he was married as a countermeasure against marriage, and that "marrying a cat" was really an accident.

His train of thought was in a crooked manner, similar to that of the civil servant who was still pestering Ms. Lion in the corner of the banquet hall.

The man has been chasing his target of incitement for quite a while. His speech is very circuitous and he likes to make detours. Every time he points out a topic, there are always layers of foreshadowing in front of him, and he especially likes to be vague.

The way he talks is roughly like this -

"I didn't expect Huiquan to choose a cat, but he is not a person who likes small animals. When we were classmates, I knew him well. He never showed interest in this area... …Have you read the recent Star Alliance Daily? In other galaxies within the Star Alliance, there have been several instances of interracial marriages, and those who chose interracial marriages, without exception, have seen a significant rise in public support , seems to be using marriage to gain fame..."

Anyway, there are so many twists and turns, this person has two central thoughts.

First, Admiral Yahuiquan Ya doesn't keep pets at all, and he doesn't like small animals. His marriage to cats is probably a political strategy. It is very scheming to continue to increase his approval rate through this method.

Second, considering that in the special forces united outside the territory, there are many members whose heterogeneous genes are deeply related to the cat family. Is it inappropriate to choose a cat to occupy the position of spouse? Who are you deliberately satirizing?

Ms. Lion didn't know if she was really interested in what the man said, or if she just didn't want to part with the dim sum tower in front of her. Anyway, she didn't leave, and ate a whole plate of dim sum to the accompaniment of the babble.

"What do you think?" The man provided service in a timely manner, and brought a drink to the lady who had just swallowed the last sip in a very gentlemanly manner.

Ms. Lion was not polite to anyone, brought it over to drink, and then told him: "In my opinion, you have quite a lot to do."

man:"……"

"Besides, General Ya has a classmate like you who is a talker, does he know?" Ms. Lion said again, "Does he know that he and you are quite familiar in your mouth?"

The man never expected such a development, and he could hardly maintain his handsome appearance.

He managed to find a smile, and answered the woman's playful gaze: "We are really classmates. There is no deception about this. Besides, you were also present when the bilateral meeting was held last time? I mentioned it at that time." Joining the meeting spring is a classmate's business."

After listening to Ms. Lion, she was a little surprised that the "old classmate" turned out to be true, and her eyebrows twitched.

She said "Oh" slowly.

"Do you remember?" the man said immediately.

"No." Ms. Lion answered with a smile after saying "Oh".

She seemed to think that the man's entire facial features were very inflexible. Ms. Lion took a second look, put down her wine glass, and finally told the man before walking away: "You have found the wrong person. My wife is Usanna, not my sister Usanna." Sha, this Mr. "Guan Ting Duo", I strongly suggest that next time you learn to recognize the people who are united outside the territory first, and then discuss with them whether Yahuiquan has any objections to us, otherwise, you really look like a Just a joke—if you didn't have the dim sum tower next to you just now, you would have been beaten by me."

Ms. Lion’s sister is still Ms. Lion. In the entire extraterritorial joint special forces, there are a total of three lion gene carriers. They are the eldest sister Usansa, the second sister Usanna, and the younger sister Usando. They are the three sisters with similar appearance. , but they are not triplets, and only those who have not done enough basic homework and are impatient to pick things up will do stupid things that no one even recognizes clearly.

Usanna really liked the dim sum tower just now, and she felt a little regretful when she left. If it wasn't for the image of her own army, she would have left with the table on her shoulders, listening to fools talking nonsense.