The all-powerful wife of the wealthy family

Chapter 169 The Cat and the Mouse
Ainoa, who returned home after grabbing the candy, couldn't wait to meet Josh. She wondered if Cui Nana had given her photo to Josh. She believed that she was beautiful, but she was worried that Josh would not be able to see her. Mei, although she knew that Josh would never treat her like a lover, she still hoped to have a special place in his heart.

Rather, when she came, he had already left.

"Ainoa, I showed Josh your photo, and he said you are the most beautiful Spanish girl, and you will definitely become a very good actor."

Cui Nana printed out all the photos of Ainoa with the portable digital printer she brought, but they were all processed into black and white photos. Although there were color photos at the beginning of the 21th century, the imaging and color of the color photos in the [-]st century are different. Cui Nana had limited equipment and couldn't make perfect initial color photos, so to be on the safe side, she made the most popular and commonly used black and white photos at that time.

In fact, professionals can see the clues, but at most they will think that someone has developed a better photosensitive plate, or used a more advanced photosensitive emulsion.

"Really? Did Josh really say that? But why did he leave without saying goodbye to me?" After Ainoa was briefly happy, she couldn't help worrying that those were all Josh's words to coax her. She coaxed her like an ignorant child and said some irresponsible words at will.

"Josh left in such a hurry that I didn't even see him. He had already left when I came back from the street." When Cui Nana said this, she secretly glanced at Dennis to see if he was angry. It's gone.

Dennis pursed his lips and said, "Your elder sister Cui Nana is not as obedient as you."

Ainoa's eyes widened, and she said seriously: "Why? Sister Cui Nana is so good! At least her Spanish is much better than yours. I have to guess what you say."

Cui Nana laughed secretly, Dennis smacked what Ainoa said just now, and guessed what she meant.

He raised the notebook in his hand and asked, "Who speaks Spanish better than Cui Nana?"

Ainoa recognized that it was Josh's notebook, but she still replied straightforwardly: "Sister Cui Nana said well."

Dennis raised his forehead, "This is your brother Josh's notebook, his very important notebook, an autograph book."

Ainoa's eyes became bright, and she stared intently at the black autograph book. Could it be a parting gift from brother Josh?

"Give it to me?"

Dennis shook his head, "No, I'm going to take this notebook back to Josh."

Ainoa pouted in disappointment, "Then why are you teasing me with it?"

Dennis smiled and said, "Of course there are good things, but you have to say first, who speaks Spanish better, sister or brother."

This time Ainoa happily replied: "Brother said well."

Before Dennis's smug smile fully spread out, Ainoa added: "I'm talking about brother Josh, who speaks the best Spanish. Many of your pronunciations are wrong. Fortunately, I'm smart so I can understand you." .”

Cui Nana sat aside and said, "Why are you coaxing the child?"

Ainoa immediately answered, "I'm not a child."

Dennis said helplessly: "I'm not coaxing her, she's obviously teasing me."

Cui Nana said, "You deserve it!"

Dennis completely bowed his head to the two women, "Ainoa, come here, Brother Josh wants you to sign this book."

Ainoa looked blank, "Why do you want to sign?"

Cui Nana was surprised and said, "Josh asked Ainoa to be the first to sign? Ainoa, this is a very important autograph book for your brother Josh. Only very powerful people can sign on it."

Ainoa took the autograph book with trembling hands. If she doesn't become a very powerful person, will she tarnish the autograph book?

Josh asked her to sign on it, and she was the first one, so, will she really become a very good actor.

Dennis said: "Josh has always carried this notebook with him, but he temporarily let me keep it for you to sign. He said he left in a hurry and didn't have time to prepare any gifts for you. You signed this notebook for him. Yes, it stands to reason that you gave him a gift, but he hopes that you can understand his heart, and hope that this can bring you strength."

Ainoa was so excited that she was full of tears. She was afraid that she would never have the chance to meet Josh again in this life. She wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and then signed her name on the first page. The handwriting was still immature, belonging to 15 years old The girl's handwriting contains hesitation and hope.

"We should be leaving tomorrow. Nice to meet you, Ainoa." Cui Nana hugged the well-developed Spanish girl, and she finally burst into tears in Cui Nana's arms.

Everyone who breaks into the heart and life of an adolescent girl will set off a huge storm in her world. The appearance of Josh made her feel the fiery love, although this love did not get the same love back. , but she received Josh's real big brother-like care.

Their departure was another storm, which made her reluctant to give up. A desolate open space was dug in her heart, and it was unknown when dense forests would grow again.

This is undoubtedly a kind of suffering, spiritual suffering, love and pain are born together, pain is not bad, this kind of pain will not make people lose the support of life and spirit, on the contrary, it gives people endless motivation.

This suffering is beautiful, infinitely valuable and meaningful.

Just like the tortures that Cui Nana suffered back then, like the life and death that Dennis experienced again and again, everyone is a victim, or in other words, everyone has been a victim, so those who survive are still alive strong, and those who leave , also left firmly.

Difficulties can be big or small, but big ones don’t necessarily make people collapse, and small ones can destroy everything.

Facts have proved that big difficulties are often easy to overcome, and small difficulties are hard to bear.

Cui Nana said: "Ainoa, don't think about success day and night. Success is not the goal. You have to do what you really like. If you do what you love to the extreme, you are successful and you will be successful."

Ainoa nodded, "Well, I see."

Dennis said: "Also, you must be happy. Unhappy success is failure."

Ainoa listened to a lot of teachings from Dennis and Cui Nana, and she kept their words in her heart.

Dennis and Cui Nana sent Ainoa back to the Pomegranate Flower Tailor Shop. They said goodbye to Bruna face to face, thanked her for taking care of her during this time, and thanked her for helping to find a new place to live.

Bruna has always been clear that they are not people who will stay for a long time, but they still leave earlier than expected. She originally wanted to make a set of clothes for the four children, but now it is too late.

Bruna said: "If possible, come back and see, Ainoa and I will miss you."

Cui Nana touched Ainoa's head and said to Bruna: "Let the child do what she wants, she will be a shining star."

On the way back to the orchard, Dennis asked Cui Nana: "Have you ever heard of such an actor in Spain?"

"No."

"Then how do you know that Ainoa will become an excellent actor? I haven't heard of such a person, so she may not be a star. Don't give her hope, don't ruin her."

"No, I can see that she will be a big star."

In his heart, Dennis doesn't like Cui Nana's overconfident arbitrariness. After all, it is gambling with other people's fate, but Cui Nana doesn't think so. She just encourages a very promising thing. How will Ainoa choose? What she will do is her own business, and she will soon be an adult, at the age where she has to make decisions for herself.

After returning to the orchard, the two of them silently packed the rest of their luggage and put everything into the classic car little by little. This was the last night in Murcia...

Dennis and Cui Nana spent the night in the classic car. This night, ST-1 was about to leave Murcia.

With the help of Josh, Alice took off the camouflage on the ST-1. Arthur stood in front of the huge ST-1 for a long time, his throat constricted in shock, and his feet went numb.

Raul folded his arms and tilted his head to see Alice and Josh chattering up and down, and said to Arthur: "Brother, they don't seem to need your design draft, this big guy has already made it, don't they Aliens."

Arthur opened his mouth, unable to believe what he saw.

Alice opened the cabin door and greeted the two brothers: "Come on, we have to leave quickly in the middle of the night."

Raul smiled and took two steps forward. Looking back, seeing that his brother was still standing there, he took a few steps back, pulled Arthur past him, and walked together.

Josh stood in front of the hatch, beside Alice, and asked, "Is it okay to let them know?"

Alice smiled and said, "We have all found the owner of the design draft, so of course we have to be honest with him."

Alice and Josh sat in their original seats, Arthur sat in Dennis's place, and Raul sat in Trinana's place.

After ST-1 started, Alice spent a long time to detect the data and set the destination coordinates.

Arthur has been watching Alice's operation intently. All these things in his imagination are staged in front of his eyes one after another, like an extremely real dream.

Arthur looked serious, and he asked very seriously: "Who are you—in the end—?"

Alice sat upright, and said: "We came here in 1. I am the leader of the ST-1 first research team of the Shuttle Research Center. This ST-[-] is our latest research achievement. This time It is a flight test. Josh is a volunteer. His parents are both senior researchers of the research center. Dennis and Cui Nana are also with us. Dennis is a doctor of the research center, and Cui Nana is a volunteer like Josh. She is A photographer. We set the time around [-] in order to find a blueprint for the study of the shuttle."

Arthur gradually calmed down, "Is that my design draft?"

Alice nodded and said, "Actually, I don't have much hope. Because your design drafts were all lost later, and there were not many clues left. We stayed in Murcia for so long, one is because There was a small situation before, and the three of them were injured to some extent. They need some time to recuperate. The main reason is that I don’t know where to find you. It’s God’s will that I bumped into you in a small place. Your design draft shouldn’t disappear silently. Arthur, I didn’t expect you to be so young, much younger than you imagined. , researched the prototype of the shuttle, and also grasped the key central issues, which really admires me."

Arthur smiled wryly and mocked himself: "I would rather not have designed such a terrible thing. I just thought it was fun at first. I didn't expect that so many people would be staring at my blueprints. Now, it's not worth destroying them or giving them away. If I gave this, that would kill me. If I gave that, I wouldn’t be allowed to live. I had to separate and hide everywhere. No one got all the design drafts, so I had a few more days to live. I think I'm especially sorry for Raul, he is also involved now." Arthur sighed a long time.

Raul leaned comfortably on the back of the chair, crossed his legs, and shook his feet, "Brother, don't you always sigh and sigh like this, I think this is very interesting, cat and mouse, play together, how exciting, anyway They can't beat us."

ST-1 sailed smoothly at an altitude of [-] meters in flight mode.

Austria is a country that Josh has always wanted to go to but has no chance to go. This country longing for a peaceful and prosperous life has not been able to avoid war and famine in the end.

As an international metropolis, Vienna has brilliant art and is the heart of European culture.

In the 21st century, Josh didn't have the chance to come, but he waited for this day when he went back a century.

"Josh, do you want a cookie? Josh—" Alice called him three times, but Josh didn't hear him.

"What are you thinking, your soul is gone." Raul walked over and patted Josh.

Alice smiled and handed over the biscuit and said, "He is so happy."

Arthur tasted a 21st century biscuit and asked, "What is he happy about?"

Alice replied: "Vienna is the place he always wanted to go, and his idol is there."

Raul asked: "Josh, who is your idol?"

Josh licked off the biscuit crumbs from the corner of his mouth and said, "Zweig."

"Steffen Zweig? The writer?"

"Yes."

Arthur said lightly: "Oh, him."

"You know?" Josh sat up excitedly.

Arthur said: "I know him, but he doesn't know me. In terms of seniority, he is my brother. Zweig studied philosophy at the University of Vienna. You should know that."

Josh suddenly realized that he ignored the fact that Arthur is now a teacher at the University of Vienna, "I know, I started studying philosophy at the University of Vienna, and then transferred to the University of Berlin to continue studying philosophy. I was so excited that my mind couldn't turn."

Arthur seemed very satisfied with the taste of the compressed biscuits, and ate one after another, "The year before last, he wrote a one-act play, I remember it was called..."

Josh rushed to say: "It's "The Comedian of Change"!"

"Well, yes, this is it, and it was staged. Unfortunately, I don't have time to watch it. My students have watched it and said it was very exciting."

Alice put a whole bag of compressed biscuits in Arthur's hand, and said softly, "If you like it, take it and eat it."

Arthur nodded, and then continued to say to Josh: "I have a colleague who taught Zweig before, let's find a chance for you to chat."

Josh asked excitedly: “Can it?”

Arthur said with certainty: "Of course, it's not difficult. She likes Zweig very much. He is her favorite student. She said that Zweig must be a very good writer in the future, and he must be able to write a lot. Excellent work with depth."

Josh fell silent suddenly, he thought of Zweig's death, it was a pity, a pity.

Raul noticed Josh's emotional change and asked, "What's wrong?"

Josh sighed deeply, and said: "He committed suicide in the end, on February 22, [-]. Before he took the poison, he wrote the suicide note. Ending his life without dignity, he said that mental work is the purest joy and personal freedom is the noblest wealth in this world."

Arthur held the biscuit in his hand and didn't continue to eat. He said, "This is indeed what Zweig would say. He has always been so eager for peace, but the war seems to be getting closer."

Arthur's intuition is very accurate. In other words, it has been less than half a year since the Sarajevo incident. Disputes everywhere have become more intense, small conflicts continue, and swords are already at war among capitalist countries. Anyone who cares about current affairs has already heard To the taste of a big war.

Josh suddenly had a crazy idea, what if he stayed here, in the twentieth century, in this world.So, can he tell Zweig not to leave so early? Although Zweig was over 60 years old when he passed away, in Josh's mind, he was still too young or too early. Such a genius , such a pacifist, such a spiritually rich and noble person, should have enjoyed life and creation more.

However, Josh quickly denied his crazy idea, and he stayed. What about Jolan and Jack? friends.

Everyone has only one place that belongs to him in his life. Everyone should know where this place is. If you leave this place, you will lose your deep roots and ruin your future.

Fortunately, Josh quickly understood this truth.

In fact, the First World War did not directly affect the city of Vienna, but the indirect impact is self-evident.

Josh wants to relax for a while and enjoy life in this music city. All the storms, let’s wait for it to come down. Anyway, there is Alice who knows how to plan for rainy days. Since he always says he is a child, then he can be a child with peace of mind Well, still be a wayward child.

The child who planned to be self-willed decided to chase the woman he likes in this beautiful city.

Perhaps, the timing is not so ripe. Although there is no right time, it is still considered a good place. The right time, place, people and all three things are a good thing. It is rare to meet once in a lifetime, so it is better not to expect it.

Raul asked Alice, "How long will we be there?"

"One hour."

At this time, it was only ten years before the "Aviator [-]" was manufactured. "Aviator [-]" was the first aircraft that relied on its own power to carry out manned flight. After the successful test flight, aviation talents gradually began to develop.

The Vienna International Airport may not have been built yet. Josh opened the database and checked. It was indeed in 1938 that a military airport was built there. The location is the location of the later Vienna International Airport. It belongs to a place called Schwechat , more than ten kilometers away from the urban area, they left the classic car to Dennis and Cui Nana, without convenient self-transportation means, and no flights to and from, where ST-1 landed and where it was better to hide, became a big problem.

ST-1 is a big target. If it is too close to the center of Vienna, it is easy to be found, so it can only be parked in a remote and desolate area. Arthur asked Alice to export the longitude and latitude map. After thinking for a while, he entered a landmark, but Alice did not propose question.

She had to trust him, there was no other choice.

Raul came over to take a look, scratched his head and thought for a moment, then smiled strangely.

Lauer pointed to the destination on the screen and said, "Do you know where this is?"

Alice: "Where?"

Josh: "You know?"

Raul rolled his eyes: "Of course I know, that's my brother's house."

"Family?"

Arthur explained: "To be precise, it is my secret laboratory."

Raul put on a weird face and said, "People who know this place probably won't live long."

Arthur said seriously: "Who said, aren't you still alive? And you've known it for the longest time."

"Can I be an ordinary person!"

"They're only more extraordinary than you."

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In the eyes of those around him, Arthur is a strange boy, and he is also an overly smart weird boy. He can always quickly find the loopholes in your words. The truth and which ones are lies, he is not guessing randomly, but can find sufficient evidence, some details, you may not be clear, but he is clear.

Therefore, he is at ease with Alice and Josh. Although he has not known them for a long time and is not clear about their lives and past, he is very sure that they are reliable people in this chaotic, dark place full of assassinations and intrigues. In daily life, it is rare to have a partner who can walk hand in hand.He needs them and they need him.

Such a clever boy was thrown in a foreign country. His withdrawn and taciturn personality is not easy to be loved by others. Although there is a fellow in the school to take care of him, that person is not sincere. , Determined whether the child was still alive, dropped a few small change, and left in a hurry.

In such a lack of caring childhood, Arthur firmly injected spiritual power into himself. He constantly sought the meaning of life, stayed away from the mundane life, and found surprises in the fantasy world. However, no one To truly understand him, no one understands what he said, which is almost an idiot's dream.

He is very sensitive to numbers. When he feels lonely and scared, he will hide in a bookstore behind the primary school and read books with numbers and pictures.

The big sister who looks after the bookstore is very kind and never rushes him, even if he never buys a book.

The eldest sister often buys him a few slices of bread, or pours him a cup of warm milk in cold weather.

When he finished reading all the books on mathematics and science in this bookstore, the eldest sister suddenly disappeared. I heard that she fell in love with painting and went to the Academy of Fine Arts to study.

What a good thing, he thought.

He was a little sad, but not particularly sad, because Arthur always felt that he could meet her again. This seed of hope was buried deep in Arthur's heart. If we meet again, he must thank her well and tell her that he like her.

Arthur's uncharacteristically fast intellectual development, which many parents and many children craved, terrified Arthur, and for a long time he felt himself a freak.

In fact, this is mainly because his emotional development is not very good, far behind his soaring intelligence.

This imbalance makes him always say inappropriate words and do ridiculous things.

In this way, Zelle went to high school step by step. As a mother, Zelle failed to give Arthur a little maternal love, but fortunately, through hard work, she was able to send money to her eldest son on a regular basis. Not much, but at least Arthur could D.

Zelle doesn't blame her son for complaining about her. She thinks it's reasonable for Arthur to hate her because she hasn't fulfilled her responsibilities as a mother. But what Zelle doesn't know is that Arthur never complained about her. He has always been very understanding. His mother, this emotionally stunted child, loves his mother deeply and longs for maternal love, but he doesn't know how to express it, which forms the current strange mother-child relationship.

Finally, one day, a person who understood the crazy things he said in childhood appeared. This person never showed his face, but he wrote to him and sent a huge amount of money to Arthur, wishing him good luck. Make research results early.

He said when he was a child that people can fly to the past and the future, just like a car, if you want to go east, you can go east, if you want to go west, you can go west.

After many years of designing and researching, he finally got a clue. At the last moment, many people appeared all of a sudden, vying for his design draft.

At first, Arthur felt that it was all the equipment and tools provided by the mysterious man.Therefore, in return, he should give the design draft to this mysterious person.

However, the mysterious person suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.

Before, they were in single-line contact, and only the other party came to find him. Arthur never knew how to contact him, who he was, where he was from, what he did, and what his purpose was.

This made Arthur lose his way for a while. He was reluctant to destroy the design he had spent more than ten years of painstaking efforts on, but this hot potato was not easy to arrange.
At this time Raul contacted him, and Raul said he could help him.

The two brothers only met once, and they exchanged letters afterwards. In order to prevent the letters from being stolen or read in the middle, they communicated in a secret language that only they understood. It's too short, and many details cannot be exhaustive, but there is a magical connection between the brothers, and an unexplainable tacit understanding. The brothers can always easily understand each other's meaning and intention, which makes some people feel very headache, because even They can easily intercept the letter, but they can't understand the meaning of it.

At the beginning, Arthur divided the sixty pages of design drawings into six equal parts, each with ten pages, and put them in ten different places. Later, some design drafts were found by snatchers or robbed halfway, forming the current A situation scattered all over the place.

In Oupai's wood carvings, only one blueprint was found. This one was originally put together with the other nine. In order to find all the design drafts.

Alice asked Arthur: "Now how many drawings can you determine the location of?"

Arthur shook his head and said: "I'm not sure, because someone has been following me, and I can't go back to check whether the drawings are still in the original place, so I must say for sure, then, only this one in my hand stretched."

"Arthur, what are you going to do with these drawings?"

Arthur didn't answer Alice's question first, but instead asked, "If it were you, how would you deal with it?"

Alice smiled and replied: "If I were you, you would give me these drawings and let me bring them back to the 21st century. Here it is the sinner who caused the disaster. After 100 years, it will become the hero."

Arthur doesn't think so, "Alice, you should know that it will inevitably lead to contention everywhere, here it is, 100 years from now, even more so, although I'm not sure what it will look like in 100 years, but obviously , you need it to show that I have answers to questions you haven't solved in 100 years."

"Yes, you are right. However, in the established history that has happened, these manuscripts of yours are lost, or destroyed, they are reduced to ashes, and your years of hard work are in vain. gone."

"Perhaps, this is its fate, and it is also my fate."

"Arthur, I think there is more than one way of history. When we come here from the future, the stories here will definitely change. Whether it is big or small, history has changed, because in the previous history we did not Not here at this moment."

Arthur said seriously: "There are mutable and immutable things."

Alice sat quietly, thinking, looked at Arthur, Arthur smiled lightly, and said: "Although we have a small disagreement on this matter, there is one thing I think the same as you. I will give you all the drawings, not because of the trouble it caused here, not for my own safety, anyway, my life and death are becoming less and less important, maybe I died early because of these design drafts , I just hope that you didn't come here in vain."

The reason is so simple.

Alice did not expect that the first step of finding the design draft would be taken so smoothly.

At least, they've found the right direction to look for.

Everyone is very clear about the difficulties and tests ahead, but fighting side by side can still bring people strong confidence and strength.

Not knowing if Dennis found Cui Nana, Alice looked at the gradually enlarged destination on the screen, longing for the return of the two little friends.It took Arthur a week to get from Vienna to Murcia, throwing off the trailing tail all the way, and tossing and turning all the way. It only took about two hours to take ST-1 from Murcia to Vienna. Knowing the journey, how long Dennis and Cui Nana will have to travel, they do not have enough documents, crossing the border may be somewhat troublesome.

Alice discussed with Josh whether to take ST-1 back to pick them up when Dennis finds Cui Nana, but considering that ST-1 is the only tool to return to the 21st century, it is best to minimize its wear and tear and reduce failures probability, and finally decided to let them figure out a way to come over slowly.

ST-1 landed on a very empty grassland. Later, Josh and Alice were surprised to find that this lawn was actually a part of Arthur's secret experiment base.

The vision at four o'clock in the morning was not very good. Josh vaguely saw a row of low houses in the distance, with red tiles and white walls, which were very ordinary, but when he walked in, he saw a different scene.

Most tall buildings rise from the ground and go straight into the sky. Arthur's house was indeed built on the ground, all the way down, down, down...

There are a total of twenty floors down, and the shelves on each floor are also very high, with an average of two meters.

The expansion area of ​​each layer is not the same, which was introduced by Lauer to Josh and Alice.

The only floor on the ground is probably a camouflage to deal with guests and foreign intruders. At first glance, the decoration and furniture of ordinary people show a picture of the life of an ordinary middle class.

But this floor is not where they live.

Arthur led them into a bedroom at the back, and walked around the room inadvertently. He didn't know where he was, entered the password a few times, and slowly rose up from under the desk by the window. A small black ladder, wide for one person, with Raul leading the way, Arthur at the end, and after all four people walked down, the ladder closed automatically.

Josh smelled a faint fragrance of flowers, which seemed to be coming from under his feet, but when he looked down, there was only the cold concrete floor.

"Sweet?" Lauer turned to Josh and said.

Josh looked around, and there were no flowers beside him, "Where is the fragrance of flowers coming from?"

Raul said proudly, "You can't imagine that my brother is a super construction worker, right? Everything you see here is built by him."

Josh wasn't surprised at the time, but was really shocked when he found out that the "whole" that Raul said had twenty floors.

"However, this was all designed by me. My brother didn't move a single place, and built it as it was."

Raul said that he didn't explain the floral fragrance for a long time, so Josh had to ask again.

"Oh, the fragrance of flowers, when my brother mixed the cement, he mixed the foam of petals into it. Those are the flowers he planted before, mainly jasmine and roses. By the way, there is also green tea in it, which smells good. Well, this smell has not faded at all for so long, Arthur may have put something that can lock the smell, he always walks alone, and only goes to school when there are classes, most of them I have my own time here, so I can tinker with it.”

How many broken petals are needed, and this is a labor-intensive and time-consuming project. It seems impossible to complete it with only one manpower.

However, Arthur accomplished all this perfectly by himself.

(End of this chapter)