Rebirth of the Father of Anime

Kotomi opened the window and the breeze blew up, rolling up the curtains and her hair.

With her eyes half open and half closed, she looked as lazy as a beauty who hadn't woken up, with a hint of sadness and loneliness. She turned her head slightly, facing Okazaki... and seemed to be facing the audience in front of the TV.

The soft voice was as gentle as ever, but it had an unusual flavor.

"The day before yesterday... I saw the little rabbit. Yesterday it was the deer. Today, it's you."

What a nice view!

I can't say why, but when I saw this scene, the only word that came to my mind was "so beautiful".

This kind of beauty is a very wonderful feeling.

Qin Mei's words were also deeply imprinted in Qiao An's heart.

"I saw the little rabbit the day before yesterday, the deer yesterday, and you today..."

His father next to him suddenly repeated something, with inexplicable emotion and melancholy in his voice.

"Do you know this sentence?" the father asked again.

"Huh?" Perhaps out of concern for Qinmei, he actually replied to his father's words, with curiosity in his voice.

"The Dandelion Girl... This is a science fiction love short story by the American writer Robert Franklin Young, and it is also his most famous work. It was published in "the-Saturday--" in April 1961, and was also nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Story. This sentence is the one that is repeatedly emphasized in the quote: The day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, yesterday it was a deer, and today it is you."

The anger in his father's previous words suddenly disappeared. He spoke calmly to Qiao An with a calm attitude that he had never had before.

perhaps. He wasn't talking to Joan. Just talking to myself.

It turned out to be a sentence from a foreign science fiction love short story?

Father actually knows this sentence?

Although I am curious in my heart. But he didn't ask anything, as if if he asked his father, this long-lasting family struggle would have failed.

The father continued talking to himself.

“One day, a man named Mark, who was in his forties,

I met Julie, a girl in her twenties on the mountain. Mark found that he fell in love with this girl, but he already had a wife, Anne. He loved his wife very much, but he found that his heart actually fell in love with another woman, which made him very painful. "

"Hey. What's so painful about this? Since you all like it, let's just stop it." Qiao An blurted out. Although his eyes were looking at the TV, his attention had already been attracted by his father's words.

His father looked at him deeply and said nothing.

Qiao An felt very awkward. He had always ignored his father, but this was the first time that his father had not responded to his words, which made him feel like he was being ignored as a "child".

His displeasure didn't show, since his father didn't say anything. Just enough for him to watch animation in peace.

The room suddenly fell silent.

After a while, my father's voice sounded again.

"Julie said she came from 240 years later. The two happily chatted about many interesting topics. Her father invented the time machine. Mark asked her if she came here often. Julie said: This is my favorite time. "Coordinates', I sometimes stand here for hours, constantly looking at this and that. The day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, yesterday it was a deer, and today it is you."

A girl from the future looks at the scenery of the "past" with novelty - these are "history" that can no longer be seen in the future.

A beautiful picture scroll unfolded in Qiao An's mind, but just halfway through, Qiao An rudely interrupted: "If you use a time machine to always return to the same place on time, how could there be yesterday?" He could think of any question, and he began to doubt the authenticity of the story, and whether his father had deliberately told him nonsense.

"Mark said the same thing." His father smiled, seeming to be mocking his IQ, which made Qiao An feel very unhappy.

The father continued: "Julie said that it is because the time machine is affected by time like other things, so if you want to maintain the same 'time coordinates', you must change it every 24 hours." When the clock hands go back and she doesn’t, that’s because she prefers it to be a different day every time she comes back.”

Qiao An stopped talking.

"Mark fell in love with Julie, and the two agreed to continue meeting here in the future. An uncontrollable curiosity made Mark's whole body tremble like a passion for life."

"At the age of 20, Mark was a serious young man who passed law school through his own efforts; at the age of 24, he had his own career. Although it was still small at the time, it took up all of him - oh , well, not all, there was a brief period when he married Anne - the work sort of lost its sense of urgency. And then, with the war, there was another period - this The second was much longer - the work became not only distant, but even a little menial at times. However, upon his return to civilian life, the urgency of the work returned and seemed even more pressing with a vengeance, for by this time, Not only did he have to support his wife, but he also had his son Jeff. As a result, Mark's work took up all of his life, except for four weeks of vacation every year - which he only allowed himself to enjoy in recent years. The first two For the next two weeks, after Jeff returns to school, he and Annie will stay alone in their lakeside cabin. Maybe he is not alone."

After that, my father paused for a long time - but not long, because the animation had not finished broadcasting.

Qiao An vaguely seemed to feel something: one was sudden and violent, which even made people unable to control themselves; the other was ordinary daily life, calm every day, nothing new, running for life.

Ordinariness makes people bored, novelty makes people feel excited - this is extramarital affairs.

Her father continued to tell the story of Mark, Julie and Anne, and Joan's attention was completely attracted by the story her father told - as if she was a child before going to bed. His parents gently told him countless strange stories.

He thought of the father he admired most when he was a child. Because his father never had to read when telling him stories. My father’s brain is a huge library of countless stories.

Anne and Julie, what choice will Mark make in the end?

Joan was deeply attracted.

Mark and Julie talked about many topics and their own lives. They had many common interests, although transcendentalism, Berkeley and relativity were not suitable for a man and a girl on the top of a hill in September. topics of conversation, especially since the man was forty-four years old and the girl was only twenty-one, and Mark had not realized this until just now. But fortunately, the compensation is yet to come - the two people's pleasant discussion about transcendentalism not only led to the conclusions of "earlier" and "later", but also led to the subtle spark in the girl's eyes; the two people's discussion of Berkeleyism The criticism not only emphasized the inherent flaws in the devout bishop's theory, but also made the girl blush even more; and the two's review of the theory of relativity not only proved that energy is indeed always equal to mass times the square of the speed of light , and proves that knowledge, far from being a hindrance, is an asset in attracting women.

In the next few days, Mark would go to the mountain to meet Julie every day. However, one day began, the girl did not come to the mountain. For several days, the girl didn't come.

Even so, Mark still goes to see it every day. Looking forward to something. Huangtian paid off, and a few days later he saw the girl again - Julie's father passed away. Julie was heartbroken. Mark comforted Julie.

There is also a problem with the time machine. She doesn't know how to replace the parts and may only be able to make another trip.

"In case I can't come, please remember - I love you!"

Julie confessed her love to a man who was more than twenty years older than herself.

Then Julie disappeared. Mark would go to the hill every day, but the girl never appeared again. Mark sat on that granite for hours, staring at the spot where the girl had disappeared.

I saw a rabbit the day before yesterday, a deer yesterday, and you today.

"What happened in the end? Julie never showed up again? Mark continued to be with Anne?" Joan asked. Such an ending was regrettable, but he felt that it was nothing more than that.

The father didn't answer, but took out a cigarette and prepared to light it. After thinking about it for a while, he put down the cigarette.

"Anne is Julie. Mark opened the suitcase that Anne had never let him open. Inside was the white dress he had seen Julie wearing. There was also a note attached to the dress: The day before yesterday I I saw a rabbit, yesterday I saw a deer, and today I met you.”

"Nonsense, if that's the case, why can't he recognize it..." Qiao An stopped after he finished speaking.

Twenty years ago, Mark didn't know Julie, and Julie also did some things - such as changing her name - in order to avoid the time and space police (her behavior of traveling through time and space was considered smuggling, and the time and space administration prohibited travel).

Julie couldn't tell Mark her identity, because twenty years ago, Mark didn't know her at all, and twenty years later, she had grown old and was no longer as young and beautiful as before, and Julie still didn't know how to tell Mark her identity. When Mark revealed his identity, he did not immediately recognize Julie—perhaps he had never thought about that aspect. The wife he had been married to for twenty years was a man from the second generation whom he met twenty years later. A girl one hundred and forty years later.

Twenty years ago and twenty years later, Mark fell in love with the same person.

The good thing is Mark's eternal love for Julie (Anne).

On the other hand, why did the person he loved so deeply change his heart? Can the plain warmth not be worth the sudden excitement? Or is it that plainness and boredom have worn away the once sincere love?

He looked at his father.

"Finally, what happened to Mark and Anne?" Qiao An knew they would definitely be together, but he still confirmed it to his father.

"The two of them walked hand in hand towards home..."

The father just said a word, then got up and went to the bedroom, presumably to see Qiao An's mother.

At this moment, the animation just finished playing, and the familiar song of "The Tuanzi Family" sounded.

Qiao An watched silently, and in the singing, he felt something he had never felt before. (To be continued...)

ps: Extra "9999 Ways Porters Die" Part 11:

He Chen: Oh, Mr. Bei.

Bear Grylls: The day before yesterday it was the rabbit, yesterday it was the deer, today it’s you...

He Chen, died. ()