wake up daydreaming

Yu Zhou was still in high spirits when he listened to his grandmother's eloquence.Since when did he become tired? Well, it seems that Chen Yu talked a lot and mentioned the missile crisis.

The Missile Crisis happened 18 years ago and lasted 21 days.At that time, Yu Zhou was not yet born, and Chen Yuqian was only two or three years old. Neither of the two had witnessed this crisis that might lead to an all-out war with their own eyes, but they both knew that the land was like a larger island. On the other side, countless small islands surround the coastline, and most of them are gathered in the waters of the U area, surrounding the U area like an exquisite pearl necklace. This necklace has become a chain to strangle the throat in modern times. The military confrontation continued into the millennium under the multi-party game and continued to intensify under the changing political situation, reaching its peak in the three years before the missile crisis.

During those three years, large-scale military exercises often took place over the U area.Panic is spreading among the people. Every day, a large number of citizens rush to the bank to withdraw deposits or buy foreign exchange. There will also be a run on the airport in stages, and the passenger planes flying to inland areas and abroad are full...

These are all passages in the history textbook, recording the overall appearance of that era, but if you occasionally hear your parents mention it at the dinner table, what Chen Yuqian hears is a completely different version.Regardless of whether the higher authorities want to fight or not, the life of ordinary people must continue, continue to work and live, and even give birth to a new child.If someone asked them why they didn't escape, they would say the same thing as the father of the clothing store owner's wife. It's not that they are not afraid of death, but that they have been here for so many years, and they will live like this in the future.

This is similar to an excerpt from Chen Hong that Chen Yuqian had read.He wrote in his diary: People will only be willing to be depressed when they are conditionally depressed.When the collective is faced with great changes such as the outbreak of war, when survival becomes the first priority again, or the number of people suffering from mental diseases such as depression will drop significantly.

When Chen Hong was about to graduate in his senior year, the first military exercise was launched, and the special period will last for three years.Even looking back from today, it was difficult for Chen Hong to have an optimistic attitude at that time.

So he crossed out the second half of the sentence in his diary: But suicides will increase on a small scale.

——Is there any simmering suffering that actually happened in the past and became the collective trauma of a generation.It may not be completely cured, and a new era has already arrived.

There are also AO supplies vending machines everywhere on the long street.Going back to the time when the missile crisis was still unresolved, how can people believe that the world will become so wonderful in just the past 20 years.

Chen Yuqian followed Yu Zhou three to five meters away. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the inhibitors and masking stickers in the vending machines. There were many brands to choose from. Hanhai Group was the first to seize the market and sold the best.These vending machines are also products of the Hanhai Group. In the first few years of promotion, Xie Qiuyi would post his own photo on the side of the vending machines as a promotion, which meant "I speak for my own products".

She has accepted many interviews and given many speeches, defying Alpha's dominant position in society, and showing herself as an omega entrepreneur, breaking the prejudice against omega from the outside world.She launched a series of pheromone-masking products that indirectly promoted the abolition of gender-based enrollment policies in colleges and universities. She is a very successful social activist. She seems to have never announced to the outside world whether she is married. There is also a 17 year old son.

But as long as Yu Zhou stood with her, people who saw them would definitely say that they were carved out of the same mold.Even Qiao Yi knew that he was Xie Qiuyi's son, but he had to admit that he looked like his mother.No one ever talked about who his father was, and even he kept silent, and all he had was an address that he found out from nowhere.

"When did you come back?" Chen Yuqian tried to stop Yu Zhou.Yu Zhou turned around reluctantly, and answered the wrong question: "I have seen pictures of my father, he wears glasses, very thick ones, no matter how much you wipe them off, you can't clean them."

Chen Yuqian suddenly thought that the grandma had praised Yu Zhou more than once, saying that Yu Zhou's parents were talented and beautiful.

Xie Qiuyi is undoubtedly bright and charming. When she is as young as Yu Zhou, and more delicate and small, anyone standing next to her will be overshadowed. How can a boy with four eyes match her well.Grandma also said that Yu Zhou is like his father, alpha, he is more like his father.

Businessman's mouth deceitful ghost.Chen Yuqian could tell that there was a fictional element, so how could Yu Zhou not have noticed the half-truth and half-false.

But not only did he not puncture it, but he was willing to patronize it again and again.As for Chen Yuqian, he was just a necessity for Yu Zhou to return to the past that didn't need to be too real.Without Chen Yuqian, Yu Zhou can find another person to replace him, any classmate is fine, as long as that person is an Alpha, Grandma will also sigh when she sees her: Hey, you are like your mother, take your Alpha father come here……

After half a month, Chen Yuqian would receive several sets of expensive formal suits for free, and it would be a good deal if he was used, but he couldn't even be a tool person, so he asked in detail without knowing it, which touched Yu Zhou's root realistic nerves.

It is meaningless to see through and talk through.Yu Zhou reminded Chen Yuqian very early on, he quickened his pace, and silently complained in his heart that he disliked Chen Yuqian for being too stupid, always asking questions that shouldn't be asked, Chen Yuqian called his name, he didn't look back, and was so irritable Soon, he heard Chen Yuqian call him again: "Xiaozhou."

The pavement of the ancient street is paved with stone bricks, and Yu Zhou just happened to stand on one of them, like a big cat stuck in some mechanism with nowhere to go.He lowered his head, his sight in front of him was quickly blocked by Chen Yuqian's dark sportswear, and the guard and resistance in his eyes were obvious.

He didn't want to hear Chen Yuqian continue to ask any questions or say anything, and he couldn't guarantee that he wouldn't lose his temper on the spot.He had already begun to believe that it was a wrong decision to bring Chen Yuqian here. Chen Yuqian said: "You were born in a year full of hope, and the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming."

Yu Zhou suddenly became less irritable.

It is late autumn.

The breeze carried the coldness of approaching winter, he took a deep breath, although the depression in his chest would not completely dissipate, but it no longer made him breathless.

"There is a noodle restaurant in front of it, which is also a time-honored brand and very famous." Without giving Chen Yuqian time to react, Yu Zhou grabbed his hand and walked into a small alley.He didn't frown on Chen Yuqian anymore, he was still very considerate, knowing that Chen Yuqian didn't like red meat in restaurants outside, and the few dishes he ordered were all seafood, Chen Yuqian took the initiative to pay the bill, but he didn't grab it.

After eating, they took a walk in the direction of the parking lot. They took a long detour and arrived at a tourist rest area crowded with vending machines. There were snacks, drinks, and plush toys of various themes.

Not knowing who proposed to play, and who scanned the QR code to receive the game coins, the two chose one and started to insert coins.

They are all in college, and they are still two Alphas. They didn't have any expectations at first, and they just used it to pass the time. They were very lucky, and they grabbed the largest one in the machine first.The doll was picked up and lifted into the air, but unfortunately, it fell down a second before the claws moved to the exit of the final destination.

Then Yu Zhou competed.

Knowing that the biggest doll is used to attract the attention of tourists, it is impossible to be caught easily, so Yu Zhou bought a lot after using up the game coins in his hand. Chen Yu's arms were filled with embarrassment.When he finally grabbed the plush doll with game coins worth at least three times the price and successfully dragged it into the exit, Chen Yuqian's small backpack was so full that the zipper couldn't close it.

It's just that the small backpack used to put swimming trunks and goggles shouldn't bear so much, so Yu Zhou immediately took Chen Yuqian to a nearby grocery store, planning to buy another schoolbag, canvas bag or something to put the loot including the big doll.If you don’t look at it, you don’t know, just take a look, this store recently promoted the joint name with Disney.A variety of princess-printed backpacks lined the entire wall, and when they walked past, a four or five-year-old girl was begging her mother: "Mom, mom, I want Rapunzel, Rapunzel! "

"But you already have many princesses." The mother persuaded her daughter not to mess around.The daughter continued to act coquettishly, spreading her arms to step on her feet, trying to reach the top pink model, and the coveted Rapunzel she couldn't reach was taken down by someone with hair longer than her mother.

The little girl suddenly fell silent, as if she really regarded Yu Zhou, who had a pretty face, as a princess from a cartoon.The princess squatted down, smiled, and gave her a palm-sized bear toy, and said softly, "Give me this schoolbag."

The little girl clutched the plush toy and was quietly led away by her mother. She looked back for a long time before the corner, and saw the princess hanging the strap of her schoolbag on the shoulder of the man accompanying him.

It was a real man, tall, taller for a little girl, but only a little taller than a princess.The man was carrying such a young girl's schoolbag, of course his complexion changed, and his pupils trembled, but the man didn't resist too much. After being pushed twice by the princess, he reluctantly went to the cashier to check out.

Being a princess can really do whatever you want.

Well, at least you can do whatever you want with the person who protects you.Who is Rapunzel's guardian? It seems to be called Eugene, and he seems to have a horse. Then this tall and handsome big brother is the combination of Eugene and a horse... Yu Zhou and Chen Yuqian have long been seen. Disappearing from the girl's sight, the girl is still immersed in the daydream that adults have long lost, and she is more determined to be a princess.

"It's not appropriate." Chen Yuqian hugged the pink schoolbag in his arms after leaving the collection store, and covered the printed part with his arms, trying to ruthlessly stuff the bag back to Yu Zhou, so Zhou puts his hands behind his back, and he gets hair strands from the frequency of his footsteps, which is very unpleasant.

Chen Yuqian's new schoolbag is also filled with plush dolls, big and small. He bravely expressed his true thoughts: "I think this does not match my daily image."

"Huh? You also have an image?" Yu Zhou almost laughed out loud.He felt that this schoolbag matched Chen Yuqian very well, it didn't violate harmony at all, on the contrary, it was very harmonious.As soon as his thoughts diverged, he seemed to see Chen Yuqian's future: If Chen Yuqian was not so young, he would be older, graduate, work, marry and have children, and have a daughter who was about the same age as the one he saw in the collection store before, and he would go out for a walk When I was a child, I would definitely wear it casually like today, and then buy what my daughter likes without saying a word, and just carry it on my back.

Chen Yuqian can always remind Yu Zhou of the most ordinary life, which is stable and ordinary, and it is not worth living in the eyes of those who dream of changing the world, but Yu Zhou has never doubted that Chen Yuqian is a very ordinary life. Good classmates, friends, roommates... Chen Yuqian is a very good person.

Yu Zhou began to detour again, to the area where the aborigines were more concentrated in the ancient street. Whenever he met a child on the road, Yu Zhou would stop the child and give out one of the dolls in Chen Yuqian's bag.

The children were quite shy at first, ashamed to take things from strangers, but as soon as one person took things, the others would flock to them, and by the way, they would help their friends who were not present to get another one.The little dolls that Yu Zhou caught from the claw machine quickly ran out, and only the biggest one was left. They also walked to the leisure and entertainment place of Long Street residents. A middle-aged alpha who was old enough to be their uncle witnessed all the dolls. After the process, he waved to the two of them, pointed to the basketball court behind him, and asked if they wanted to join.

"Okay, okay." Yu Zhou readily agreed, and hooked Chen Yuqian's neck to go to the field that was half the size of a standard basketball court.Chen Yuqian can at least temporarily get rid of that pink schoolbag and pile all the things he carries under the ball rack.The players who are about to form a team are of different ages, and the youngest is still in junior high school. After waiting for a long time, the number of players is not enough, so I came to greet the two of them. The junior high school student hit Chen Yuqian's arm several times in order to grab the ball. Chen Yuqian just laughed and pretended to let the kid go.

The junior high school student and Yu Zhou are teammates, they grab the ball and throw it over.Yu Zhou shot a three-pointer that didn't touch the border, and turned to look at Chen Yuqian: "You can't do it, sports student."

"I'm not a basketball player." Chen Yuqian, as always, refused to follow Yu Zhou's aggressive tactics.Yu Zhou was defeated verbally, so he must win it back physically.There are no referees here. Several times, he forcibly broke through Chen Yuqian's defense line. He was fearless, arrogant and unreasonable, but as long as the ball was in Chen Yuqian's hands, he was definitely the most disciplined one on the field. Every step was clean and smooth. Don't rush for quick success, as long as you shoot, you will rarely miss.The more serious he was, the more Yu Zhou wanted to trouble him for no reason, and the 3V3 half-court almost became a friction between the two of them in the end.Yu Zhou was sweating profusely, and his long hair was tied up behind his head. Chen Yuqian stood in front of him to prevent him from entering the inner circle. He bent slightly, slapped the usual breakthrough of the basketball, his chest heaved and panted.

A gust of evening wind blew by, and a few strands of hair sticking to Yu Zhou's neck floated up. Chen Yuqian, who was staring at Yu Zhou and paying attention to his movements, took a deep breath. He took a feint and rushed into the inner circle, and it was another beautiful shot that didn't touch the edge.

The first thing Yu Zhou did after sitting in the passenger seat of the Mercedes-Benz was to turn on the air conditioner to the maximum. As soon as he let go, Chen Yuqian turned the dial engraved with the air volume back to its original position.

Yu Zhou turned it to the maximum again, and Chen Yuqian turned the air volume back to the minimum, saying, "I know you're hot, but blowing like this will give you a headache."

Chen Yuqian must be hot too, so he opened the car windows on both sides with a palm gap. After the car started, there was wind pouring in from the windows. Yu Zhou blew it for a while, and closed his side first.

"It's really cold." Yu Zhou opened his eyes and said nonsense, the skin between his nose and lips was still a little sweaty.He had a great time playing, and was even more tired after the end. After getting in the car, he turned sideways to the window in a daze, as if taking a nap and falling asleep.Chen Yuqian cooperated to close his own side, and the space in the car was closed again. After strenuous exercise, the smell of pheromones inevitably leaked from the masking stickers. fluttering in the air.

Chen Yuqian looked in the right rearview mirror.

From the corner of the eye, Yu Zhou's side face and facial features are more three-dimensional and sharp in the dark night, with a natural sense of refinement. Under the cover of long hair and the background of the night outside the window, there is more atmosphere than showing the whole face. This The boy who is brighter and more attractive than many omegas is an Alpha, exuding a tea wood aroma very similar to Chen Yuqian from the inside out.

Chen Yuqian didn't even know the obvious difference between his and Yu Zhou's pheromones along the way.

He parked the car smoothly in the underground parking lot of the off-campus apartment where Yu Zhou lived.After the engine was turned off, the indicator light on the roof of the car glowed a bright yellow light, and Chen Yuqian put his hand on the door handle, and was about to leave as dutifully as the driver during the day, and then walked back to the school gate for 10 to [-] minutes to give the little turtle Unlocking the lock on the wheel, Yu Zhou finally turned his face and said slowly, "Today three years ago was the day I split up."

Chen Yuqian silently withdrew his hand.

He knew the meaning behind this sentence.

The differentiation of the third sex characteristics of most people occurs in puberty at the age of 12-15.Females generally mature early, while males generally mature late. Chen Yuqian and Yu Zhou both differentiated at the age of 14. For several days, he felt a fire in his chest, very hot, but weak all over.He didn't want his family and teachers to worry, so he went to class and training as usual, but he fell into the deep pool and almost failed to surface, and was carried to the school infirmary by the coach at the time.He remembered that the coach had been blaming him all the way, saying that he didn't need to work so hard, and that he had reached the susceptible period, so he could rest for two days.

Chen Yuqian's junior high school only had one physiology class a week.The teacher is still young, but he doesn't like to explain the knowledge thoroughly. The most common sentence is to let everyone read the book by themselves. It is clearly written in the textbook that the alpha will have a susceptible period.

Alpha induces estrus, not as hot as omega, but during the susceptible period, the will is the weakest, and it is most susceptible to the influence of omega pheromones.

Then Chen Yuqian was taken for a more thorough physical examination.After confirming that the alpha glands were developing normally, he was sent to the household registration information department to complete the nanochip injection.After a light needle prick, he has a more complete ID.The day of differentiation is like a person's second birthday. It is clear whether you are an alpha with stronger physical functions, an omega with fertility, or a mediocre beta who makes up the majority of society.

Chen Yuqian remembered that his parents were very happy after he differentiated into an alpha, after all they already had an omega.The vast majority of parents would expect their children to differentiate into alphas who are more likely to become elites. Some wealthy families even spend a lot of money on genetic testing to confirm the third gender of their children in the womb.Yu Zhou's mother had the most advanced medical team at the time, and it was not difficult to confirm the child's gender.

She must have known early on that what was in her stomach was an Alpha, an Alpha who came to enjoy the prosperity of this thriving world after the missile crisis was over.

"...Happy birthday." Chen Yuqian said to Zhou.

The light on the roof of the car was yellow and bright, Yu Zhou smiled lightly, and there was a sense of sadness and loneliness in his eyes.

And when he smiled, Chen Yuqian found it hard to resist, he had no choice but to accompany Yu Zhou upstairs, and did not forget to take the pink princess backpack with him after closing the car door.