I was a god in the 18th century

Chapter 562 Extra (Xia Qingdai Chapter 4)

The two played on the rooftop for a while, and then Du Zhong took Xia Qingdai's hand and walked into the castle.

"Come inside and I'll tell you slowly."

"it is good."

Xia Qingdai let him pull her into the attic of the castle. What she saw was a large piece of dust-proof white cloth, which was the same as it had been for two hundred years. The only difference was that there were no servants busy sewing and ironing inside.

The two of them walked up the stairs to the attic and heard the old wooden stairs creaking.

"Is this staircase going to be repaired? It sounds dangerous." Xia Qingdai reached out and wiped the handrail of the stairs. To her surprise, there was no dust at all, which showed that it had just been cleaned. "Has anyone cleaned this place?"

Du Zhong replied casually: "Well, there is a butler and some people taking care of this castle."

"How many people live in this castle now?"

"One housekeeper, six cleaners, and twelve gardeners."

"That's a lot. The salaries of these people alone must be quite a lot every year, right?"

Du Zhong looked at her and smiled: "Well, you can look at the account book yourself later."

Xia Qingdai blushed, not knowing what she was thinking about. She smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll watch it myself."

Soon the two of them arrived at the door of Xia Qingdai's former room. It seemed to be the same as it was more than two hundred years ago. Judging from the appearance, there had not been much change.

"Why hasn't this place changed at all?" Xia Qingdai murmured.

When she pushed open the door and walked through the living room, study and bedroom, her eyes suddenly widened like bells and her face was full of disbelief.

"It really hasn't changed at all. How is that possible?" She quickly ran to her cloakroom, pushed aside the gauze covering her clothes, and saw a row of silk empire dresses inside.
It seemed that she came to an ancient castle not from the 21st century, but from the 18th century.

Du Zhong said calmly, "I arranged this last time when I came to handle the inheritance formalities. Are you satisfied?"

Xia Qingdai gently brushed across these silk skirts, and said with a look of nostalgia in her eyes: "You are thoughtful."

Du Zhong just smiled faintly.

After visiting Xia Qingdai's room, the two went to Owen's former suite. This place was not the same as Xia Qingdai remembered, and many decorations even showed signs of time.

“Are these antiques?”

"Ah."

The two of them kept walking around the castle, just like two cats patrolling their territory. The cleaners they met along the way just smiled and greeted them silently, without making any noise to disturb them.

After a long time, Xia Qingdai finally came out of her memories and sighed, "Although the furnishings are similar, it is not the same as it was in the eighteenth century after all."

Du Zhong calmly replied, "We should always look forward. Let's go. I'll take you to the back mountain to have a look."

"Okay." Xia Qingdai followed Du Zhong out of the castle and headed toward the back mountain. She pointed ahead and asked with a smile, "I remember that there was your laboratory by the waterfall over there. Is it still there now?"

"No." Du Zhong looked in the direction of her finger, his eyes filled with nostalgia, "How could there be such a thing in this time and space?"

"No?" Xia Qingdai tilted her head to look at him, "I actually don't quite understand how you came to this world? Why did you become like this now?"

"Don't worry, you'll know soon enough."

Du Zhong kept the secret and took Xia Qingdai's hand and walked into the depths of the dense forest.

After walking around for an unknown amount of time, Xia Qingdai suddenly saw a big banyan tree in front of her. "Ah, what a big old banyan tree, it looks like the one in your Chaoge Village. It must be a thousand years old, right? Why haven't I noticed it before? There's actually a tree house here. Aren't you afraid that this thousand-year-old tree will be crushed?"

"It's not that easy to break." Owen helped Xia Qingdai climb up the tree house, and then he climbed up himself. "Lie down and feel it."

"Oh." Xia Qingdai and Du Zhong lay side by side on the spotless floor of the tree house. Above their heads was a slanted skylight, through which they could see patches of white clouds passing by.

Only then did Du Zhong slowly begin to tell Xia Qingdai what happened in Fucui Villa after she left without saying goodbye.

When Owen discovered that Xia Qingdai had disappeared, he went crazy looking for her all over the mountains and plains. When he couldn't find her, he realized that she had left, so he began to wait in the castle.

After waiting from dusk to dawn for countless days and nights, I finally had to believe that the goddess would never appear again.

If it weren't for the letters sent by Staunton and others from London, which pulled him back to the world from nothingness, he might have sat there until his death.

Finally, he decided to cheer up and fulfill his promise to Xia Qingdai. He said that he would ascend to that position and dedicate the entire European continent to her.

Although Xia Qingdai disappeared, he had to keep his promise. Maybe in this way, they could meet again one day.

After that, he began to spend most of his time in London's upper circles and gradually built his own political power.

To reach that position, his greatest helper is his family's patron saint who has already made a name for himself. But this is also where his greatest obstacle lies, because this island country is dominated by Protestants.

Fortunately, the younger sons of the noble families can unite and form a considerable force.

Hard work pays off. After years of painstaking efforts, he not only gained support within the party, but also won the friendship of the King of England and ascended to that position.

At this time, the world was full of wars, and he did not hesitate to expand outward. He even reached a cooperation agreement with Wen Renyi, who was far away in the east. Wen Renyi opened Tianjin Port for him, and the two sides exchanged what they had and developed their own power maps tacitly.

"Did Wenren Yi succeed in his rebellion?"

"I'm not sure, but when I left, he had become the largest separatist force in China, and our trade ports also expanded from Tianjin to Zhoushan."

"Oh, it seems that half of the country has been conquered. What a pity, I didn't see it. Please continue."

"Okay." Du Zhong smiled faintly and fell into memories again.

A few years later, Britain conquered more and more territory, and the European landscape was completely changed. However, although he conquered the world, he never waited for someone to share his happiness.

In recent years, extremely expensive scientific experiments have been carried out in parallel with the fight for world domination.

He spent huge amounts of money to support several teams of physicists and mathematicians, and never gave up his research on time machines.

Xia Qingdai once told him that she came from the future.

He firmly believed that since she could come to his world, his world must have a door to the future. However, as time went by, the hope of success became increasingly slim.

The turning point came in the early morning of a certain day when he was at the second-floor window sill of his London villa, lighting a candle and concentrating on painting the portrait of the goddess as usual.

Suddenly, a Sanskrit sound woke him up from his flow state, and then he saw wisps of white smoke floating towards him from the goddess statue.

At first he didn't know what it was, but soon the white smoke began to work its magic, filling his no longer young body with vitality and vigor again.

When Owen mentioned the white smoke, Xia Qingdai already understood in her mind, isn't this the power of faith!

She was wondering why after she upgraded one day, she could no longer absorb the power of faith. It turned out that it was all sucked away by little Owen from the 18th century!
If she hadn't upgraded quickly, allowing the power of faith converted into true qi to be endless in her dantian, she might have lost the title of humanoid CT, and then she would have completely lost her golden finger.

"It seems that the speed of time on both sides has become different since I left."

"Working backwards from the results, there is indeed a big gap."

"Go on, I want to hear more."

"it is good."

Owen continued to say that shortly after the power of faith appeared, he rushed back to Fucui Villa day and night, and went straight to the old banyan tree with a clear goal.

The day Xia Qingdai disappeared was the day the old banyan tree inexplicably appeared. He didn't believe that there was no connection between the two.

The fact was just as he expected, there was a new change here - among the swaying shadows of the trees, the shadow of a woman who looked very similar to Xia Qingdai was looming.

He tried many ways but couldn't communicate. Finally, he tried to mobilize the mysterious white smoke that penetrated into his body, and he was surprised to find that he could talk to the phantom.

She said she was Xia Qingdai's mother and could help him fulfill his wish of traveling through time and space to find Xia Qingdai.

The price he had to pay was the vague white smoke - that is, the power of faith.

Owen did not doubt or hesitate, and immediately agreed to her exchange. Although this white smoke could make him return to his youth, he did not care. What was the point of keeping the goddess' youth?
Even if she is not Mother Xia, but just a devil who seduces people, he is willing to make a deal with her as long as there is a glimmer of hope.

Mother Xia said that the plane he was in had already changed history. Just like the wings of a butterfly, every flap would cause a chain reaction and lead to a different future.

So his future is not Xia Qingdai's future.

If he wanted to go to Xia Qingdai's world, it would be equivalent to traveling to another dimension, and the cost would be very high.

But he doesn't care.

After that, with the help of Mother Xia, his time machine finally made rapid progress.

Through repeated experiments, he began to be able to transmit wealth to the future and test the stability, and the person who responded on the other side was none other than Mother Xia.

Not every time these things can be transmitted successfully, many are directly annihilated in the black hole of time.

This transfer lasted for eight years until he had transferred all the wealth he had accumulated throughout his life except for fixed assets.

Finally, he decided to try the time machine himself.

If you succeed, the relationship will continue; if you fail, everything will be wiped out.

He had made adequate preparations and gave a conditional will to the new heir of the Irving family whom he had chosen, his cousin's son.

Among his fixed assets, only Fucui Villa was inherited from the ancestors of the Owen family. The rest of the land was his private property, so he had absolute distribution rights.

And his lifelong involvement in London politics and the group of lawyers and judges he cultivated, led by his uncle and cousin, were sufficient to ensure that his wishes were protected to the greatest extent possible.

Although the time and space of both sides may not be consistent, the world he is going to travel to two hundred years later may not be the future of this world. But it is better to be prepared than not, what if there is a connection?
Afterwards, he entered the time machine, and Ren Xia's mother drained away all the accumulated power of faith in him.

After that, he fell into chaos.

On a dark and windy night, a baby suddenly appeared under the old banyan tree in Chaoge Village and was picked up by an infertile man.

"Then how did you awaken your memories of the previous time and space?" Xia Qingdai tilted her head and looked at him and asked.

"First it was a dream, then my memory came back, and then I came to England and found your mother."

Xia Qingdai was silent for a long time before she asked again: "Is it really my mother?"

"It's very likely that you look alike."

"What about her?"

"She's gone. I don't know where she went. Maybe, to another time and space."

Xia Qingdai had no memory of her mother, so when she heard the news that she had left, although she felt a little disappointed, she was not very sad.

If you never had it, then it doesn't matter if you lost it.

She suddenly turned sideways, looked at him and smiled: "So should I call you Owen or Du Zhong from now on?"

"Let me introduce myself. My English name is Isaac Owen and my Chinese name is Du Zhong. Dear lady, do you have any questions?"

"Haha, no more!"

Looking at Xia Qingdai's sunny and smiling face, he suddenly moved slowly towards her.

The two were together in a confused state, but it has always been a platonic love.

But at this moment, something seemed different.

Xia Qingdai felt that her soul was being sucked deep into his eyes. She couldn't help but want to get up and move away, but someone who had already noticed it held her down, and pressed his warm lips against hers, taking away all her breath.

Xia Qingdai felt her mind go blank, and her whole body floated up and down in the air.

A large white cloud floated through the skylight.

The extra chapter is over. This chapter is about the size of two chapters. Thank you for your support and companionship along the way. Overall, this book did not achieve the desired results in the later period because of its niche subject matter and insufficient writing skills. Of course, I became busy with work in the later period and could not keep updating steadily, which also had an impact. I will continue to work hard on the next book. See you in the rivers and lakes.