Song of Time – Dusk Awakening Verse

The day is just right.

The blazing sunlight passed through the half-open glass window in the Jiehai Room, and hit the already empty iron box, reflecting irregular spots on the white wall. The young man was sleeping soundly, wrapped in a silk quilt on his side, haggling from time to time, and wondering if he dreamed of any rare delicacy.

The decoration of the dormitory rooms is very simple but not simple. These sets of tables, chairs and bed cabinets seem to be ordinary, but they are all made of precious golden silk wood or ebony wood. They have gone through hundreds of years of time precipitation. It's an antique and a lot of value.

The sun gradually moved to Jie Haibai's tender little face, and the hot tingling sensation finally successfully awakened him from his dream. He frowned and sat up, stretched his waist and yawned greatly, blinking sleepily, looked up at the quartz wall clock at the door, the hour hand had already stopped at 10 o'clock.

"Crap! Overslept again!" The confused boy hurriedly got out of bed and rushed into the bathroom. After a while, he hurried back to the bed with a mouthful of toothpaste foam. He opened the calendar on the desk, saw the red "Saturday" on September 30th, and walked back to the bathroom with his head dumbfounded.

When Jiehai finished washing, a few light knocks happened to be heard at the door, and he quickly replied "coming", turning out his shirt and trousers to put on hurriedly, then stepped forward and opened the door.

Outside the wooden door, the dormitory manager, Mrs. Ye, stood with her arms crossed in the aisle filled with bright sunlight. She was angry. When she saw Jiehai, she broke her head and covered her face and said, "You little lazy cat, it's time to get up. , Ah? The sun's **** is exposed! Young people know to be lazy!

This seemingly harsh but caring remark made Jie Hai's heart warm, and he couldn't help but be happy. The old man yelled a few words and saw that he was still in this shameless appearance, sighed and raised a small bamboo basket from his side. He handed it forward and said with a straight face: "The canteen is finished early...I'll pick a few for you, hurry up and eat!"

"Thank you, mother-in-law!" Jie Hai smiled and took a glance at the bamboo basket. Inside were a few omelets and a cup of soy milk, a standard breakfast for students from Naguo.

"Who made a hippie smile with you, huh? Go, bring the iron box yesterday, and I want to return it to others!" The mother-in-law gave him an angry look.

"Oh! Iron box..." Jie Hai thought of the iron box, and immediately remembered the agreement on the note that he would have a business tomorrow morning. He shouted and patted his forehead, hurriedly ran to the table, grabbed the iron box and stuffed it with it. After leaving Granny Ye, she turned her head to look at the bell by the door, the hour hand was already at 11 o'clock.

"Crap! I have to go quickly...goodbye, mother-in-law!" Time is running out, Jie Hai grabbed an omelet from the basket and held it in his mouth, put on sandals, picked up the backpack and ran out.

Granny Ye stared blankly at Jie Hai rushing past her, and habitually reminded her: "Be careful on the road, don't always leave things behind!"

Jie Hai's vague response came from a distance. The mother-in-law shook her head helplessly, picked up the bamboo basket and secured the door, and walked downstairs slowly.

The dormitory area is located on the easternmost side of the Royal Academy. Jiehai flew west along the gravel path, passing through the pointed wooden arches, and after running on the boulevard for a short time, I saw the one that seemed to lean into the sky like double wings. The main teaching building.

The whole building is about fifty meters high, and the main body has 10 floors, which are spread backwards in an arc shape. The building is covered with large pieces of white jade-colored waterproof tiles. The left is the junior high school, and the right is the high school. There is a 10-meter wide road in the middle that leads directly to the playground behind.

Because today is a rest day, the building is empty and silent. The young man ran to the side of the building panting, and a silver-gray enclosed elevator was erected on the white jade-like wall in front of him.

This fashionable "Nan Lai Product" was newly built the year before last. It is said that there were many resistances during the construction. In the end, His Royal Highness used "special reasons" to make the courtyard reluctantly agree. Anyway, it was at least quite popular with students. Jiehai walked into the elevator, pressed the button on the top floor, and ascended to the roof steadily. He walked out of the elevator quickly and looked up. In the center of the roof, the gorgeous golden student union spire resembles a shining crown, which stands horizontally between the two tall buildings. .

This all-wood trapezoidal tower is nearly 20 meters long and is divided into five floors. The bottom floor is an iron-wood and steel flyover over ten meters wide. Moving up is the activity department, secret service department and personnel department. The top floor is the president’s office. The pure black tower has countless complicated carvings with light gold patterns. Under the eaves, lanterns of different shapes are hung according to the number of layers. There is also a red jade phoenix statue standing at the top of the tower, which is very engraved with charm. , Lifelike.

As the actual controller of the entire campus, the Student Union of the Royal College has great powers, including the planning of various campus activities and celebrations, the cleaning and maintenance of the campus environment and buildings, the personnel management of each class, and even the arrangement of academic year courses and examination time The formulation of the policy is complicated, big and small. Therefore, although today is a rest day, there are still many office workers working overtime in the tower.

Jie Hai was completely unfamiliar with them, and didn't dare to disturb others' work. He gently walked up the wooden spiral staircase. When he arrived in front of the president's office, a little sweat appeared on his forehead. He wiped off his sweat, and just wanted to step forward and knock on the huge flower-framed wooden door, but he heard a deep question from inside: "It's almost two weeks, I can't make a decision?"

Then came a weaker middle-aged man’s voice: "His Royal Highness, it’s just a matter of funding...Most of the budget next month has been donated by you, and there is an urgent need for manual preparation for the autumn harvest in various fields. It's really a bit..."

After the man finished speaking, there was a moment of silence in the room. Jie Hai didn't know who the speaker was. He rolled his eyes, moved closer and put his ear to the door, and heard a dull young voice saying, "Go find Fan Bin. Advance some national deposits first, and then return to him when the dividends arrive next month."

"This……"

"Why, there is a problem?"

"No no... The subordinates are just afraid that His Royal Highness will take this to make trouble..." The middle-aged man made a long tone hesitantly.

"I have an idea, do it now." The young man seemed a little impatient, raising his voice to end the conversation.

"Yes! The little one is leaving now!" The middle-aged man hurriedly agreed. Hearing a rush of footsteps, Jie Hai hurried to the side. As soon as the door opened inward, a thin figure in a gray and white official uniform walked out of it. He wiped the sweat from his face with a striped square handkerchief, as if he hadn’t seen a teenager, walking hurriedly. Ran downstairs.

Jie Hai hid by the door and touched his nose with a guilty conscience. In order to avoid embarrassment, he waited for a while before coming forward and knocking on the door.

"Come in." A faint response came from the young man in the room. Hearing the familiar voice, the young man couldn't help showing a knowing smile, straightened his clothes, opened the door and walked in.

The room is brightly lit, and a large square black wooden table is placed in the center of the door, which is neatly stacked with various documents and books. There are many photo frames of different sizes hanging on the walls on both sides, all of which are photos and portraits of the presidents of the past dynasties. Due to the different frame materials, it looks a little messy at first glance.

On the left hand side of the door is a row of dark brown soft leather sofas, a few lavender tulips are inserted in the celadon vase on the dark wood coffee table, and on the right hand stands a black lazy silver knight armor, which is expensive with good magical barriers. Metal production is scarce, and it has always been a top luxury item sought after by princes and nobles.

In front of the French window behind the square table, a slender figure was facing away from him, with his arms around him, standing as if loose. He was wearing a thin black shirt, tight light gray breeches underneath, and a long, dark ponytail hanging straight to his waist, which looked no different from the uniforms in the college. Hearing the sound of closing the door, the man slowly turned around, revealing an extremely delicate white jade face.

Perhaps it was because the things he had just talked about were not going well, his long sword eyebrows under his bangs were slightly frowned, and his eyes were sharp in his half-closed peach eyes, but he turned soft after seeing Jie Hai. He glanced up and down at the young man, then looked at the lacquered gold grandfather clock in front of the door, snorted softly, and pursed his thin lips, leaking an unpleasant question: "What I can write is the morning talk. What time is it? "

Jie Hai scratched his head in embarrassment, and didn't know how to answer this long-lost friend—His Royal Highness Prince Shun of the Empire. He hadn't rested on the soft Yunjin bed in the dormitory for a long time. He fell asleep and couldn't wake up at all. But if he told the truth, he felt unable to lift his head and his face was panicked.

Reluctantly, he glanced at the clock secretly, seeing that the needle hadn't reached 12 o'clock at that time, he was relieved immediately, pointing to the clock and grinning sophistry: "It's not 12 o'clock, it's still morning, it's still morning."

"...Okay, don't play tricks, sit down and tell you something." Shun knew that he had been traveling from the South Island all the way back to Beijing, and that he had encountered the accident last night. He must be exhausted and there is nothing surprising about being late. He didn't say any more, just as he believed his nonsense, pointing to the sofa and letting the boy sit down, then took an edict from the desk and put it on the coffee table.

Jie Hai hurriedly sat down on the sofa and glanced at the edict, only to see that it read: "Jie Hai, a student from Class 4 of the second year of the high school, is appointed as a special off-campus activity planning and investigator for the Student Union. In case of such circumstances, it will take effect immediately!” The date behind it was written on September 25, signed with the full name of His Royal Highness Long Feifeng Wu, "Shun Odewen", and a bright red phoenix seal.

"There really is an edict..." Jie Hai was quite surprised. He thought that Brother Jinyuan had only said this last night to deceive Yuming, but he didn't expect it to be true.

"Nonsense..." Shun tilted his foot on the seat and glanced at him, as if he was a little unhappy with this suspicion. "Will I just talk nonsense?"

"No, no, of course not!" Jie Hai quickly changed the subject with a haha, "By the way, you are looking for me in such a hurry, what is the matter?"

The prince did not answer, but looked at him silently, with a look of rejoicing in his eyes. Since the news of the divine storm in Mingjinggang a few days ago, he thought of his friend's unexpected late arrival, and he was worried. After ordering people to investigate, he found the name of Jiehai in the list of ships stationed in Hong Kong. Fortunately, the other party was lucky, and finally came back without incident, which also left a big rock in his heart.

The sudden storm caused great damage to the southernmost port of the empire. In the past few days, he has been busy with disaster relief arrangements and fundraising matters. He is completely unable to walk away. He called the other party to come here. In fact, he has not seen him for many days, wanting to see if he is safe and sound. That's it.

But of course he would not confess his thoughts to his mouth. He pondered for a moment and clicked on the armrest of the chair. He said unintentionally: "I heard you encountered a storm on the road... Ming Whale Harbor was severely damaged by the disaster. I plan to do a charity fundraiser at the college in the near future. You are a personal witness. I want you to write a notice about your experience and use words to be sensational..."

"Don't worry, wrap it on me!" Jie Hai is best at writing reports and the like. He patted his chest refreshedly, carefully stuffed the edict on the coffee table into his backpack, and took out a slender paper box from it. , Handed it to Shun Dao, "By the way, I brought gifts for you and Brother Jinyuan. Open it and have a look."

gift? The prince glanced at the paper box, and finally a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He didn't expect this kid to be quite interested. He reached out to take the paper box and opened it in the expectant eyes of the other party, but there was only a long white tail feather inside.

"...What is this?" Shun knew that his family was not wealthy, and he didn't expect much at first, but he never expected it to be such an inexplicable thing, even though he had always been shocked, he couldn't help but feel shocked.

"Cough! This is an incredible good thing. I'll show it to you." The prince was confused by this gift, but Jie Hai was full of confidence. He clenched his fist and coughed like a professor, and sold it. Guan Zi took the paper box and put his hands on the box with only one small hole left, signaling the prince to come forward. Shun looked through the hole, and the Toba in the box was glowing with a faint white fluorescence, which made people feel extremely holy in the dimness.

"How is it? Great! This is the legendary bird feather. A guest stayed in the store a few days ago and didn't bring any money, so he had to use it to pay the bill as a last resort. I begged my mother for a long time to come over!" Jie Hai picked up With one stroke of the paper box in front of Shun, his eyes widened, just waiting for him to agree and admire.

"...Thank you." The prince couldn't laugh or cry in his heart. Where is the feather of a **** bird, I'm afraid that his kind friend will be deceived again... He didn't reveal it, but took the paper with a smile. Box and place it gently on the desk.

Seeing him accepting the gift with a smile on his face, Jie Hai was naturally satisfied, closed his schoolbag and patted his stomach with a smile: "If there is nothing else, I'll go first. I rushed over just now, and I have nothing else. I didn't eat it yet."

80% of this kid just woke up... Shun shook his head unchecked, and was helpless to his friends who often get confused on trivial matters. He waved his hand at will, but he did not forget to remind him: "Remember to come to the Student Union on Monday. , You can be regarded as a righteous'princeling' now..."

The Student Union has always had an unwritten tradition. The president is always the best of the younger generation of the contemporary royal family, so it is also dubbed the "Princeling". Since Jie Hai became friends with him inexplicably, he has long been included in his sphere of influence. Hearing this, he suddenly felt that his identity had been improved instantly, as if he was officially recognized. He laughed and winked at the prince, said "yes!", then turned and ran to the door.

Shun looked at his back and sighed. He didn't see him one summer vacation. He still looked frizzy. He was really diligent and diligent when it came to business. He wouldn't make a mistake at all, and he didn't know what that little head was. Constructed... He smiled and shook his head and walked slowly back to the table, glanced at the feathers in the paper box, couldn't help but uttered: "A feather, how do we divide the two of us... This silly boy ..."

His Royal Highness paced to stand again in front of the French windows, the golden sunlight shining on his jade-like face, slightly dazzling. He squinted his eyes and looked out. In the distance, there was a huge white tower that supported the sky and the earth. From time to time, bursts of divine light of different colors flashed from the tower surrounded by flying clouds, and then disappeared without a trace. In the shadow of the clouds.