Chapter 632 (1/2)
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.”