Chapter 2 [Can you go back sixty seconds]

  Capital city, Beijing.   The east side of the city, the north exit of Heping Street.   Yesterday's death and resurrection let Dong Xuebin feel quite big, if time did not miraculously backward, they can no longer see Mom, can no longer see Aunt Xuan, he also once had the idea that it is good to be alive. Ruminating all night, Dong Xuebin early in the morning before going to sleep, so the morning from the towel quilt climbed out when it has been more than ten o'clock. Turned down the creaking old spring sofa, he rubbed his eyes to the bathroom to wash up, and finally wiped his face, yawning casually to the tightly closed bedroom door: "Mom, wake up?"   Mom Luan Xiaoping choked voice rushed to ring in the house, "Woke up early, pick up the house, you still eat breakfast?"   "Waiting to eat lunch." Dong Xuebin feel mother's tone is not right, quickly walked over to push the door to see, only to see sitting on the snow-white sheets of the mother is anxious and panicked with the back of the hand to wipe the face of the teardrops, to see their own come in, she a don't head sniffing, quickly and forcibly smiled in the hands of a few black and white old photographs stuffed into the wallet. This is the photo of mom and dad when they got married, more than twenty years ago.   Dong Xuebin's heart ached slightly, sat down next to his mom, "Thinking about my dad?"   "No, no." Mom carefully put away the wallet, wiped his eyes, "just turned up, take out to see."   This picture he did not know how many times in these years, the mother is softer and weaker, every time she thinks of sadness, she often secretly cry by herself. Dong Xuebin is not very good, "Mom, are your son is not capable, learning to learn, ability to ability no, civil service exams are not half grasp can pass, at best winter and summer vacation with Panjiayuan antique market to work, I, I, alas, a few years ago when Dad was hospitalized, if I earned money early to Dad on the best hospitals to see a doctor, Dad may not go. "   Mom touched his leg with her hand, "Don't talk nonsense, my son is the most capable, the future is certainly the life of an official."   Dong Xuebin moved his lips, unable to say anything.   Mom smiled and touched her son's hand, "Don't think so much, mom will give you a good meal at noon."   A small plate of fried shredded meat with garlic, a bowl of boiled cabbage, half a pot of rice porridge - this is a good meal in Dong Xuebin's home. Usually when he is alone at home, he does not want to eat so, often steam a pot of rice casually fried a green vegetable on the day of the two meals, not Dong Xuebin frugal, but the family does not have so much money, it really is a penny broken into two halves to spend.   He, Dong Xuebin, 23 years old, graduated from undergraduate school.   His appearance is ordinary, his height is ordinary, his character is ordinary, and his ability is ordinary.   Family savings: never more than five figures.   The year his father was hospitalized, all of his family's savings were spent, and in the end, even the house was sold, and now this one-bedroom apartment was rented later. After the death of his father, take a leave of absence to rest for too long mom lost her job, coupled with the capital city consumption is too high, the mother simply bit the bullet and went back to the countryside home, trust in a township middle school to find a language teacher's job, to earn money for their own college education, every time only summer and winter vacations break to come to the capital city to live with him for a couple of months.   Rent, utilities, living expenses, daily expenses, relying only on the mother of a person's meager salary is obviously not enough, so Dong Xuebin vacation or weekends from time to time to the supermarket cashier or to the antique city part-time job, in addition to tuition fees, other expenses he can barely earn out, and then frugal some of the monthly almost no matter what the mother to ask for money, rely on yourself.   Bitter is a little bitter, but stumbling four years is also considered over.   After the meal, mom cleaned up the dishes while watching the old black and white movie "Tunnel War" on TV, he went back to the bedroom lying on the broken wooden bed, staring at the ceiling fell off the siding. Left to think, right to think, now the capital of the university basically does not care about the allocation of work, he also got the diploma of the United University, if you can't get into the civil service can't be an official, what should I do in the future?   Alas, if I really have a superpower, how good it would be.   Unfortunately, I tried so many times yesterday, but it didn't work again.   Try again?   The door creaked open, mom poked her head out of the doorway, softly said: "You look at the book, mom went to your upstairs Auntie Xu's house to sit for a while, her son heard that he also want to test this year's civil service, and with you is a test point, mom to see if you can let her son to give you tutorials to make up for your homework, Xiaodong learning is quite good."   Dong Xuebin's chest was a bit clogged, and he hoarsely gave a hmmm.   "Mom will be back in a while." Thud, the door closed.   Gritting his teeth, Dong Xuebin collected his thoughts and made another boring attempt.   Go back! Return! BACK! Backward! BACK!   Suddenly, lying Dong Xuebin only felt his body move, but when he blinked his eyes and looked around, he was helpless and shook his head, get, still no reaction.   At the moment he has already given up trying, squeak, the hut door opened without warning.   Mom poked her head out and looked at her son and said: "You look at the book, mom go to your Auntie Xu's house to sit down for a while, her son heard that he is also going to take the civil service examination this year, and with you is a test point, mom see if you can let her son to you to make up your homework, Xiaodong learning is quite good."   Dong Xuebin froze at once, "Ah?"   Same words, same tone.   This was clearly a scene that had happened about fifty or sixty seconds ago!   Seeing her son react so greatly, her mother blinked sheepishly and whispered, "Mom knows that you love face, but her son Xiaodong got a perfect score on a few of the questions in the national exam last year, so let him give you a lecture, and you'll have a slightly better chance of passing."   Dong Xuebin dumbly said, "I don't mean that."   Mom took a look at his expression, "Then mom went?"   After his mother left, Dong Xuebin slapped himself on the head, "It's done, it's actually done.   He resisted the surprise in his heart, quickly grabbed a small plastic orange peel-colored alarm clock, staring at the time above without blinking, and once again silently recited the "mantra".   Go back! Back! BACK! Back!   Dong Xuebin chanted from the afternoon to the evening, and after having dinner at intervals, he chanted from the evening to the night. Finally, kung fu was not enough, at two minutes and twenty-eight seconds past zero in the night, the time once again went backwards, back to one minute and twenty-eight seconds past zero, a full minute full backwards!   The joy in Dong Xuebin's heart should not be mentioned.   He understood that there was an error in the alarm clock's time, and quickly turned on the old ball-screen twenty-nine-inch color TV.   An evening military program in the upper right corner, there happened to be a time display - 23:59:19.   It took about nineteen seconds to turn on the TV channel, which meant that the moment he used "return" was exactly 12:00 at night. He blinked his eyes and boldly speculated that this "return" could be based on the axis of zero o'clock in the morning, and could only be used once a day, and each time it was used, it would go back to the point in time sixty seconds ago?   God!   If this is really the case, then God is too kind to him!