Dream Guide

Xia Xiaoxiao looked at the wooden house and thought of her daughter who was still in Wuzhong.

She had thought about returning to Wuzhong to be with her daughter, but she was worried that her appearance would bring trouble to the entire Xia family, and she was reluctant to leave the sweet memories on this island. From the day the windmill was born in the Pacific Ocean, she has been living in panic, fearing that the place where she and her husband lived briefly but regarded as their eternal home would be destroyed by a cyclone.

Until she came back here, she saw that the beach in Crescent Bay still exuded the luster of gold and silver at night, saw the doorless cabins floating like boats when the tide rose, and saw the ingenious stone houses on the hillside and the blooming flowers in front of the houses. Purple flowers, she finally believed what Situ once said:

A lover's home will never be swallowed by the tide.

She also finally knew what Situ had been running for all his life - he shouldered the mission of protecting a larger family from being destroyed by a greater disaster. She understood why Situ named his daughter Alice, because this was the fairy tale wonderland he created for her, and that cabin might be the entrance to the dream.

Xia Xiaoxiao walked through the flowers and walked onto the beach, walking gently along the gentle curve left by the sea water, leaving her footprints on the beach. She went around in a big circle and started from the beginning again. The footprints changed from two lines to four. She looked back at her masterpiece, and it seemed like two people were walking along the path of one person. She saw Situ standing on the other side of the beach looking at her and laughing at her for being stupid. She laughed, returned to the stone house with satisfaction, sat down on the black stone of unknown composition, and watched the night fall and the bright stars rise in the sky.

Many years ago, in this night, she leaned on his shoulder and watched the stars with him. She knew more stars than anyone else. Xia Xiaoxiao can name as many stars as Situ, and she also knows the position of each star in the Milky Way, but Situ knows more, and can even name the stars that cannot be seen with a telescope and the planets orbiting them. It looked as if the spaceship he was riding in had docked there.

She knew that he was not the kind of person who talked freely and would not just make up things to make her happy. What he said must be what he knew. She believed those planets were real, no matter how he knew about them.

When she searched all over the world but could not find any news about him, she did not despair, but decided to come back here and wait. This is the nest of love and the place of hope. She believed that he was staring at her somewhere right now, fighting hard to protect their home, the home of her lover, from ever being swallowed up by the tide.

The next day, Xia Xiaoxiao walked through the flowers again, walked to the beach, and walked along the coastline. This time she did not deliberately leave footprints, but let the sea water cover her ankles. It was not until dusk that she returned to the stone house and sat on the stone waiting for the sunset to set and the stars to come.

The third day, the fourth day, the fifth day... She repeated this process every day, repeated the memories in her mind, and repeated looking up at the stars.

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Many years later, when Situ traveled through the Heart of the Ten Suns and saw the silvery beach on the distant earth in the flames of the supernova explosion, with shells all over the ground and purple flowers all over the mountain, Xia Xiaoxiao sat in front of the stone house in a daze, Looking up at the stars, her body has already turned into a hard rock together with her faith, allowing it to be eroded by the ebb and flow of the tide, wind and rain.

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When the setting sun on the sea shines on Xia Xiaoxiao's unpetrified body, Xia Chujue is growing like a sunflower in the Xia Family Manor in Wuzhong. She shows maturity and stability far beyond her peers, and her intelligence is beyond ordinary people. More importantly, she has a spiritual energy that ordinary people don't have, and she can foresee certain things happening and make very reasonable responses.

Xia Wenyuan often lamented that it was difficult to find a suitable successor among his descendants. It was not that they lacked talent in doing business or developing the family business, but that they lacked enough long-term vision and broad mind. Ability and luck can bring a business to the top, but it is difficult to make a family legacy last forever. Only vision and structure can make people go further.

As the signs of aging left by time on his body became more and more obvious, Xia Wenyuan fell into despair for a time and was ready to divide the family property, until he saw new hope in his granddaughter. He began to train a new family successor. When Xia Chujue was eight years old, he prepared a separate chair for her at the family meeting, and asked Xia Bozhou and Xia Zhongwan to take her to Huanyu and Changchun. various important activities in Europe.

Others in the family did not object because the family leader only controls the family property and will not seize the shares and dividends that family members should have. But everyone is worried about the time it takes for the little girl to grow and how long Xia Wenyuan can support it, including Xia Wenyuan himself.

But Xia Chujue did not disappoint. At the age of fifteen, she already knew all the affairs of the family and showed great control. The power of her speech at the family meeting was incomparable with her young body. Her words were sonorous, powerful, and even went straight into people's hearts, leaving a solid imprint on the minds of the participants, so they were executed efficiently.

However, Xia Wenyuan felt a little uneasy. Power is most likely to make a person's heart rot, just like mold growing in a dark corner, cockroaches hiding in the corner. When you see it, it means that there is more corruption in more secret places. Rescue medicine.

He warned her not to get carried away and not to let worldly things pollute her pure heart, although these were inevitable from the moment she decided to let him take over the family.

But the little girl said very firmly: "I am not interested in money!"

She took out all the assets her father left her as proof, which were scattered around the world, including real estate, gold, antiques and shares in many well-known companies. The team of accountants and lawyers hired by Xia Wenyuan worked for a full three months to basically clarify these assets. Its hugeness is far beyond imagination, which is indeed enough to prove that she has no interest in money. At least the Xia family's industry is not enough to breed her desire for power. desire.

When Xia Chujue was eighteen years old, Xia Wenyuan finally safely handed over the helm of the family to her hands and passed away peacefully. He was exactly one hundred years old that year.

Also in the same year, Mei Yiqiu unexpectedly secretly handed over the Third Space and all the properties under Mei's Laboratory to Bishenghua, who then handed it over to Bishenghua along with a part of her custody that originally belonged to Xia Chujue. The properties were merged and handed over to Xia Chujue.

A few years later, Xia Chujue went to North America again and began to integrate the industries left by the Wolf family. At that time, Old Wolfe had long passed away. Qui Wolfe and Huang Liang went north together, following the traces of the White Wolf King, from Alaska to the vast ice fields around the Queen Elizabeth Islands, looking for the Holy Land and the legendary Ice Land. Soul.

After mankind suffered a catastrophe and civilization retreated like a tide for more than half a century, Xia Chujue used the wealth and her abilities in her hands to rebuild the order of the new world and become the hope and actual controller of the world. She accepted people's cheers and worship. Wherever she went, there were crowds of people. However, at that time, her favorite places to visit were the mulberry gardens in Wuzhong, the highlands of Giza, the mines of Beira, and the Arctic ice fields. She found tranquility there, and her spirit stretched to the infinite distance, touching the stars in the night sky.

In the last moments of her life, she finally returned to the island where she had lived as a child. The beach there is like silver and the moonlight is like water. There are shells all over the ground and purple flowers all over the mountains. The doorless cabin was still standing in the water, but she hadn't walked in for a long time, so she couldn't remember the appearance of the man she had a tryst with, only his mission that was deeply imprinted on her consciousness.

She walked across the beach and through the flowerbeds, and saw the stone statue that had been eroded by the wind and rain into shape.

The stone statue looks up to the sky, where the stars shine.

She knelt down in front of the stone statue and burst into tears.