The heart of the pretender is sincere

If it is in modern times, it takes about 3-4 hours to drive from Shanghai to Nanjing, and it will be faster to change planes, but it is now 1940. At this time, it is most suitable to take a train from Shanghai to Nanjing. After all, the whole journey takes more than 9 hours. Driving is tiring.

Lingxi has thought about what Nanjing would be like in 1940, perhaps like the current Shanghai, like old photos of the era, a little dilapidated but also impacted by new culture, and it is in a time when the old and the new are combined.

She thought that if one day she really set foot on the land of Nanjing again, she would definitely cry, but now Lingxi looked at the people coming and going in front of her, and unexpectedly found that she was very calm. The modern and prosperous Nanjing is different from the war-torn Nanjing when she fled two years ago, which made her hesitate to take this step.

Ah Cheng saw Lingxi's hesitation, and he took her hand, "Are you timid to be close to home?"

The corners of Lingxi's mouth curled up and she smiled and looked at Ah Cheng, "It's kind of like that, Nanjing now is completely different from the Nanjing I remember, and I can't find my way home now. "

"If you can't find your way home, then ask someone for directions, and have you forgotten, you still have a home in Shanghai." Ah Cheng touched Lingxi's head, the touch was still as soft and smooth as ever , Lingxi, who was forced to cut her mushroom head, looks much younger than her actual age, and her face is also smaller because of her hair. She looks like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old female college student.

"Well, let's find a hotel to store our luggage first, and then I'll take you to have breakfast. I remember that there is a shop on the Qinhuai River that has very delicious vegetarian steamed stuffed buns. Let's try it together."

Lingxi decided to come to Nanjing temporarily. She stayed in the hospital for seven days after waking up. She still clearly remembered the things in the dream. She remembered that her father in the dream told her to take her boyfriend to Nanjing. They looked at it, but she was hesitant until yesterday, when the stitches on her forehead were removed and she went to the barber shop to cut her bangs. The eldest sister comforted her and said that it doesn't matter if the photo is burned, the bracelet is broken, and the hair is cut. Just rely on these dead things, as long as you remember it in your heart.

At that time, she took Ah Cheng who had just come home from work and said that she was going to Nanjing. Ah Cheng agreed without thinking about it, and then the two immediately called someone to help buy a train ticket, and packed up after dinner without stopping. Some simple luggage went to the train station. After more than 9 hours of journey, I finally set foot on the land of Nanjing.

"Mister and Miss, are you going to the Qinhuai River?" At this time, a rickshaw driver heard the conversation between the two and came together. There are many rickshaws parked here in the train station every day waiting for work. Qian, he has already practiced the ability to see all directions and listen to all directions. Lingxi and Ah Cheng have been very eye-catching since they got off the car. The driver originally thought that the two people should be picked up by that car, but after listening People guessed from the dialogue that they probably left Nanjing for a long time, so they had the courage to come forward and ask.

Ah Cheng understood the driver's Nanjing dialect, so he looked at Lingxi to ask her opinion, since Nanjing is her home field, he naturally wouldn't overwhelm the host, and they really came in a hurry and didn't prepare anything, a rickshaw was a good choice.

"Yes, but we have to go to the Central Hotel first, can you drive us there? Then go to the Green Willow Residence."

The place Lingxi chose is a famous century-old store in Nanjing in modern times. After many years, she almost thought that she had forgotten the Nanjing dialect long ago. After all, she never spoke the dialect whether in school or abroad. At this time, when speaking of Nanjing dialect, she was able to blurt out without any sense of disobedience, which surprised her a little.

Calculating the distance between the two locations, they can earn a lot of money, and seeing that the two of them are also well-dressed, there will be a lot of rewards, the driver nodded happily, "Okay, okay, sir, please come on." car, the younger one will take the two of you there."

It’s not that Ah Cheng has never been to Nanjing. The elder brother lived in the Central Hotel when he came to Nanjing for a meeting. Before going abroad, they also visited Nanjing. Ah Cheng also ate the vegetarian steamed stuffed buns in Luliuju, but they are now being ignored. Lingxi came to these two places again as a son-in-law, and her mood was completely different. She could eat two more vegetarian buns.

Lingxi felt like a tourist. They listened to the famous "Qinhuai Scenery" on the Qinhuai River cruise, went to the Confucius Temple to ask for a lottery, and visited most of the famous scenic spots in Nanjing in one day. Sincerely hope that the two of them will not be disturbed, and it is estimated that they can visit all the attractions in one day.

The next day, Lingxi took Ah Cheng to Nanjing University. The current Nanjing University should be called National Central University. It was only in April this year that the Wang Puppet Government issued a request to resume school. The original Nanjing University had already followed in 4 □□Moved to Chongqing.

The two of them just wanted to wander around the school casually. Lingxi had a deceptive age face, and Ah Cheng had been working for several years after all. At that time, the two appeared in the school hand in hand, which was really eye-catching.That's why the two of them walked around for less than 10 minutes before they were stopped by two teachers who saw the road was uneven!

"The first two, yes, they are talking about you two, you two come here!"

The two came to the two teachers with puzzled faces, "What's the matter?"

"You two let go of your hands first." Ah Cheng's Shanghai accent made the two teachers feel like they were facing a formidable enemy, and they really were not locals!

Although Ah Cheng was very puzzled why the two teachers, a man and a woman, were so hostile to him, but out of the Chinese tradition of respecting teachers, he obediently let go of Lingxi's hand.

When she let go of her hand, the female teacher quickly pulled Lingxi behind her, and then the male teacher began to question Ah Cheng, "Where did you come from, what are you doing in our school, and what are your plans? Where are the female students going!"

The male teacher interrogated Ah Cheng, but the female teacher pulled Ling Xi aside, she was very gentle, patient and thoughtful, "What department and grade are you from, student, where is your family? It's not easy for a girl to go to university now. , the man next to you looks decent, but he must be at least ten years older than you, don't be fooled by the old man outside when you are still so young, and study hard to be serious!"

This misunderstanding is a bit big, Ah Cheng took a lot of effort to explain his relationship with Lingxi, and that the two are really only three years apart!He also explained everything clearly about his family background and work, even took out his work certificates and showed them to the two teachers, and the two teachers let them go with suspicion. This trip to Nanjing University ended with a 10-minute stroll Cross-examination II ended in 10 minutes.

After coming out of school, Lingxi couldn't help laughing anymore, "Brother Ah Cheng, you still have to take good care of yourself in the future, hahahahaha, no way, my stomach hurts from laughing, hahahahaha, it looks bad now A few years after the age of ten, what if others think you are my father hahahaha..."

Ah Cheng put Lingxi's hand into his arms very calmly, leaned into her ear and whispered, "What does that matter, if it's true that I'm getting older and you're still so young It’s not bad, but it’s also a beautiful thing to know that a tree of pear blossoms presses crabapples!”

Lingxi is very contemptuous of this kind of colorful words. A good line of poetry has been distorted from the original meaning, but she is not afraid to retort, "Hmph! It's still suppressing Haitang. I think Lian Po is old and can still eat. !"

Ah Cheng stopped in his tracks, looked at Lingxi's proud look and raised his hand to pin a lock of her hair behind her ear, "Lingxi, remember what you just said, we will get married in less than two months , when the time comes, I will definitely let you see if I can still eat!"

***

Before going to bed at night, Ah Cheng helped Lingxi blow-dry her hair as always. In the past, Lingxi’s hair was too long and it took time and effort to blow it. Now it is much more convenient to change to short hair. Afterwards, Lingxi took Ah Cheng to the window and pointed He whispered to the ruins at the place, "Brother Ah Cheng, do you know that there is the Jiangdongmen area, and many years later, people will build a memorial hall to commemorate the compatriots who died two years ago."

Ah Cheng knew the location of Jiangdongmen, it was the burial place of many Chinese people after the massacre, if a memorial hall was to be built, that place would be the most suitable place, and if a memorial hall could be built, it would at least prove a One thing, that is, the Japanese lost!

Ah Cheng was a little strange, "How did you know what happened many years later?"

Lingxi looked up at him, met his bright eyes, and said seriously, "Because I have been there."

"Ah?!" Ah Cheng didn't understand. Did she mean that she had been to the current Jiangdong Gate, or the memorial hall that was built many years later?

Lingxi pulled Ah Cheng to take a piece of letter paper from the table, and then went back to the bed and sat cross-legged. This paper was specially asked for by the hotel front desk when they came back. It was originally agreed that only one letter was needed, but the front desk delivered it A stack, "Brother Ah Cheng, let me tell you a secret, a secret that even the eldest sister doesn't know, and I will only tell you!"

Ah Cheng also imitated Ling Xi and sat cross-legged opposite her, "Let's hear it."

Lingxi put down the paper in her hand, and took Ah Cheng's hand with both hands, "Before I tell you a secret, I'll ask you a question. We've known each other for so long. Do you think I'm different from others? It's not what I'm talking about here. The same is not about personality and appearance, but something that is contrary to your cognition."

"Yes!" Ah Cheng nodded. He had discovered this problem a long time ago, but it was difficult for him to ask about many things. However, doubts always existed. Since Lingxi took the initiative to bring up this topic today, he no longer had any worries. "You... don't seem to care much about filial piety?"

Ah Cheng's words were already very tactful. Lingxi wanted to say that she didn't care, but she didn't have the concept of filial piety at all in her mind. If the elder sister hadn't mentioned the matter of filial piety, she would have forgotten that in this era, the death of her parents is a Three years of filial piety!She smiled and nodded, "That's right, is there anything else?"

"Your father is an only child. You and your parents don't live with your grandparents, but your family has a very good relationship." Ah Cheng deduced this point. Lingxi said that her parents and She is an only child herself, and she often said that her parents would ask her to go to grandparents or grandparents for dinner when they were busy.Ah Cheng can understand the fact that he is an only child. There are too many children who can't support them in this era, but he can't understand the fact that he doesn't live with the elders and he is the only child in the family!In the past, I heard from Lingxi that her family relationship is very harmonious and there is no reason to separate. You must know that if he or the elder brother Mingtai dare to move out after marriage, they will not be whipped to death by the eldest sister !

Lingxi nodded sharply, "Brother Ah Cheng is indeed an agent, he is very careful and can find problems, and then?"

"You are not familiar with Nanjing, but you speak Nanjing dialect very well." These two days, Lingxi never visited relatives or friends, like a tourist who has done a lot of homework, only knows the famous places in Nanjing, Other places are not as familiar as he is. Even if Lingxi went abroad to study at the age of 15, and now she has forgotten a lot after seven years, it shouldn't be like her, and Lingxi has always had a good memory. It is impossible for her to forget so quickly. !

"Then you have so many questions about me, but you don't come to ask me, aren't you afraid that I'm a big liar who just came here to deceive you and deceive your heart?"

Ah Cheng smiled, "Then you are not a professional liar at all, you didn't cheat anything from me and you compensated yourself to me, and even if you are really a liar, I will be happy with it."

This sentence makes Lingxi's heart beat violently. At this time, Ah Cheng is wearing pajamas, and his freshly washed hair hangs down naturally. He doesn't have to comb his hair back into a big back and apply hairspray like when he was working. Now he doesn't have any Defense and camouflage are the most honest look, "Then I will add another one for you, remember the song "Daoxiang" I once sang to you, there is a line in it that says, the paper airplane in childhood finally Fly back to my hand."

Ah Cheng only heard Lingxi sing the song "Rice Fragrance" once. At that time, he only thought it was a very warm song. Ah Cheng found the problem, "Paper airplane? Is it the one flying in the sky?"

"Yes." Lingxi picked up the paper prepared before, and quickly folded a simple paper airplane, "Look, this is a paper airplane, you just need to give it a little external force and it can fly out, but the movement Be light, brute force is not enough."

With a slight toss of Lingxi's hand, the paper plane flew out of her hand, flew in the air for a certain distance and then fell to the ground. Ah Cheng looked at the paper plane and turned back to Lingxi, with a gleam in his eyes. Puzzled even more, "In my childhood, there was no such a paper airplane."

"Well, of course you didn't in your childhood, because the world's first manned aircraft, Aviator 1, came out in the United States in 1903. After that, although the manufacturing of aircraft was also developing rapidly, due to the limitations of the times, Today, aircraft cannot fly long distances due to the impact of engines and fuel, so you need to take a boat when you come back from France. However, with the development of technology over time, when you go from Shanghai to Paris in seven or eighty years, it will be There will be a direct flight, and the whole flight will take about 80-14 hours, plus the transit time, you can arrive within about 18 hours!"

Ah Cheng can understand what Lingxi means. He believes that technology will definitely develop faster and faster in the future, and the speed of the aircraft will also increase, but he can't understand why Lingxi can be so sure. Could it be that the world will be 80 or [-] years later? , she has seen?

"You are 25 years old and I am 22 years old. If you were born in 1915, it is normal to calculate that I should be born in 1918, but I want to tell you that I was born in 2003. The interval between us is not 3 years but 88 years!"

Lingxi didn't continue talking, she wanted Ah Cheng to digest the information first, after all, it took her a long time to accept the matter of crossing time and space.The decision to tell Ah Cheng to Lingxi is also after careful consideration. Whether he thinks she has a fever, whether she thinks she is dreaming, or whether she thinks she is not clear-headed, Lingxi has thought about many kinds of Ah Cheng's reactions, and responds to each of them. This reaction thought of a coping strategy.

It's just that there was a reaction that Lingxi didn't expect, that is, Ah Cheng got up and turned off the light, then put her in his arms and pulled the quilt to sleep.

Lingxi was stunned for a while before she realized, "Brother Ah Cheng, what is your reaction? Do you believe what I say?"

Ah Cheng hugged her even tighter, "Lingxi, will you leave me?"

"No!" In the darkness, Lingxi lay on Ah Cheng's body and pressed his face against his chest and said firmly, "We are separated by 88 years, but we can meet each other in the best years of each other. God's arrangement, I believe that the mountains and the seas that I love can be flattened, unless you don't want me, or until the end of my life, I will never leave you."

The hotel's curtains are very shading, and Ah Cheng, who has adapted to the darkness at this moment, can only see Lingxi's vague outline. The breathing between the two is entangled. On the top of her head, she turned over and pressed Lingxi under her body, then lowered her head and quickly found the position of her lips and kissed her, and she was only willing to let go after a long time.

"Lingxi, I don't care how many years have passed between us, I just know that you are by my side now and you won't leave me. That's enough. No matter where you come from, even if you are a mountain spirit, I will always be there for you." Won't let go, you only need to know one thing, that is, I love you!"