[Ode to Joy] My surname is Tan, my ancestor's original surname is Ming

Wang Manchun immediately hung up the phone as if hearing a magic voice.

The hut, which had been noisy all afternoon, was finally quiet.In Wang Manchun's heart, it was like a small drum that was not very obedient, ding ding, dong dong, ding dong, beating softly and without rhythm.She reads, the drum is playing, she listens to music, the drum is playing, she takes a shower and hangs out the clothes, the drum is still playing.The volume was getting louder and the rhythm was getting more and more chaotic, and finally she couldn't bear it anymore, and she got out of bed and opened the curtains to peek.

In the last afterglow of the setting sun, the Mercedes-Benz was still parked in place, motionless, showing no intention of leaving.

Wang Manchun picked up the phone, put it down, stood with his back against the window for a while, picked it up again, and put it down again.The phone screen turned on and off alternately, and finally froze on Assistant Tan Zongming's number.

She pulled him back from the blacklist and dialed him out.

"Sister Fan!" The little assistant was so happy that she almost cried, "Sister Fan, you are finally willing to talk to us..."

"Get Tan Zongming away from my door!"

The little assistant wanted to cry, "We are not with Mr. Tan..."

"Not with him?"

"Boss Tan told us to go back, he wants to be alone..."

"Are you kidding me!" Tan Zongming's injury made him want to die alone, "You just leave when he tells you to leave?"

"Yes...he asked us to send him a location screenshot every half an hour...you can go anywhere, but you can't stay in Suzhou...Sister Fan, go and see him, we've been away for almost three hours ..."

The little assistant sent a screenshot of the positioning. The little red dot was located on the edge of Suzhou City, ten kilometers away from the Jianjin Bridge.

Wang Manchun had no other choice but to roll up her long wet hair, put on a pair of loafers and slam down the stairs, and ran to the alleyway deep in the night.

"Tan Zongming, are you finished?!" She opened the car door and yelled at the man in the back seat, "Apart from this little trick, what skills do you have? I will accompany you to the end!"

Holding the pot of braised pork in his arms, Tan Zongming looked at her pitifully, "Can you accompany me to the bathroom?"

"..."

"I've been sitting here for over five hours..."

"..."

She really wanted to slam the door of the car and turn around, leaving him here alone, helpless, and making a fool of himself in the end...

But even if she wasn't the original Wang Manchun who was overwhelmed by love, she was still a Wang Manchun with a good conscience.She cursed silently in her heart, then snatched the pot from his arms and threw it aside, "Wheelchair or crutches?!"

"There are all of them. The wheelchair is in the trunk, and it's at my feet..."

Wang Manchun pushed the wheelchair to the door and fixed it, helped him to get on the wheelchair from the back seat, put the crutches across the back of the wheelchair, and pushed him back.At the stairs of the old house, Wang Manchun was in trouble.The bathroom on the first floor is at Grandma Wang's house, but the two elderly people have already rested, so it's not easy to knock on the door again.The hygienic condition of the public restrooms in the alley was so poor that someone as young and energetic as her was unwilling to use it, and Tan Zongming, who had been a playboy all his life, would definitely be even more uncomfortable.

"I'll carry you up."

"..."

"Hurry up! I don't care about peeing my pants for a while."

"..." Tan Zongming endured it.

If Grandma Wang pushed the door out at this time, her eyes would definitely fall out.The graceful and slender girl Fan stepped up the narrow paulownia stairs step by step with the tall man on her back. Although she walked slowly, her back was steady, and her small back seemed to contain infinite energy.Tan Zongming leaned on her back and did not dare to move. It was not until Wang Manchun stood still at the door on the second floor and asked him to touch the keys from his pocket that he whispered in her ear, "Xiaomei, you are awesome."

"shut up!"

After she was reborn, she worked hard to transform Fan Shengmei's powerless body, not to work hard for him like a cow or a horse!

Boss Tan shut up obediently, not daring to mention a word.

After solving his physical needs, Tan Zongming came out of the bathroom on crutches. Wang Manchun had already used pillows to make him a comfortable position on the old hardwood sofa. There was also a high stool in front of the sofa for him to sit on. leg.Tan Zongming sat down in the past, and while moving his swollen knee joints, he looked around this small room that couldn't be simpler.Just finished dinner, the smell of the food in the room has not completely dissipated, he sniffed and said, "Xiaomei, I haven't eaten yet..."

"Hungry!" Wang Manchun gritted his teeth and stared at him, "Tan Zongming, don't pretend to be pitiful to me, and don't try to get too far. Don't think that this room belongs to you after you enter this door. You'd better call them over immediately. My place closes on time, so I won’t accept you!”

"Xiaomei, I have been in the United States for a while, and I know that Andy and the others came to look for you, and they came back overnight after catching a plane. After all this effort, I just want to say a few words to you." He stretched out his hand on the sofa, "Xiaomei, come here, let's speak calmly and clearly."

Wang Manchun turned his back to him, "I don't want to hear anything, you go!"

"Xiaomei, during the period of coma after the car accident, I returned to your original era."

Wang Manchun froze.

"I woke up and found myself standing outside the gate of No. 76. It was raining, and I was holding an umbrella. The girl named Wang Manchun called Shige and ran towards me with a smile, but I couldn't hug her. The one who hugged her was Minglou, I'm in his body."

Wang Manchun turned around slowly, meeting Tan Zongming's deep gaze on her.She couldn't believe it, but his eyes were clear.

"I can see, hear, feel, and think, but I can't control any part of my body. Minglou is too powerful, so I can only live on him as a transparent shadow. He doesn't realize me either, but he often doesn't understand me. I feel a headache."

There was a buzzing in Wang Manchun's head, and Tan Zongming's voice suddenly became a little hollow.It turned out that he was so lifelike that it was difficult to tell the truth from the fake. In a sense, he had become a part of Minglou.

"I watched him travel between the governments of Yan'an, Chongqing and Nanjing, strategizing and outsmarting, watching him play everyone in his hands, watching him be ashamed of being loyal and filial to the Ming family, and watching him Wang Manchun's love is used to the extreme, watching him often tossing and turning at night, thinking about the mirror, the Ming stage, and the little girl who cried all night outside Ming's house ten years ago."

Wang Manchun closed his eyes, the past flooded like a flood.

"He gave a necklace at the ball on the 76th. Wang Manchun was wearing a white dress, wearing a lily diamond ornament, and her hairstyle was exactly the same as yours on the day in Hong Kong. He hugged her and said that you are all right, after all these years, you are still so beautiful .Minglou has told too many lies, and sometimes he can't even tell which is true and which is false, but at that moment, I can feel the truest thoughts in his heart. Wang Manchun, for the first time in his life , and the woman I loved for the last time."

Wang Manchun opened her eyes, her vision was blurred, and she could no longer see Tan Zongming's expression clearly.

"It is also this woman who bowed down to the enemy on the 76th, killed innocent people indiscriminately, cursed Mingtai, arrested Mingtai, pulled out Mingtai's nails one by one, and wrapped them in a handkerchief to give to Mingjing. She wanted to get rid of Everyone around Minglou, so Minglou belongs to her alone, for this day, she..."

Tan Zongming's voice stopped abruptly.

"Why didn't you say it? Tan Zongming, what else did you see, tell me!"

Tan Zongming shook his head, "Stop talking, Xiaomei, you look terrible..."

Wang Manchun took two steps and grabbed Tan Zongming by the collar, "Say it or not!"

Tan Zongming held her hand that lay across his neck, "Simply put, I saw everything Minglou could see, until he personally killed Wang Manchun."

In just a few hours of coma, he seemed to have watched a movie as long as a lifetime.In the movie, there are family, country and world, love for children, deep and subtle thoughts, and endless love and hatred.

"After Wang Manchun died, Minglou stood alone for a long time. I think he regretted it, not because he regretted beating her to death, but because he regretted not being brave enough to take her to France. If 16-year-old Wang Manchun left with him, then It will be a completely different life."

Wang Manchun slowly let go of his hand, and his fingertips slipped silently from Tan Zongming's chest.

"I've always laughed at you for having too many strange ifs, but standing in front of Wang Manchun, who is dying, I would actually hope that they would have one, if time goes back, if life starts again, if they don't meet that country-broken family age of death.

"I hope they start again in reincarnation and have a happy ending, and Wang Manchun is just a memory that Fan Shengmei misplaced. Whether it's hysteria, dual personality, or even schizophrenia, I'm not afraid. It's just an episode. I My little beauty will always be my own little beauty.

"But you said in front of me, Senior Brother, I'm sorry."

His little beauty turned out to be not Fan Shengmei, but Wang Manchun, the Wang Manchun who was born and died for Minglou, the Wang Manchun who had to apologize to Minglou because he wanted to marry Tan Zongming—why did he apologize?She has been responsible for all the people in the world in her life, and the only one she has lived up to is Minglou.

But she just apologized, panic, embarrassment, fear, betraying Minglou is a more serious crime than betraying the country.

What about him?What is he, a stand-in?A thought?A kind of nostalgia?A little boring sustenance?

"You are chilling and scared. I am more chilling and scared than you. I want to compete with the person you have loved for 20 years. I want to compete with the person who will always live in your heart. When will all of a sudden come back and compete, I'm fighting a man-to-man war against my grandpa, and I hardly see a chance of winning."

That test was cruel and full of temptation, he couldn't resist at all, he almost held his breath listening to her rejection of "Ming Lou"'s request.He got the answer he wanted at the price of making a wound in her heart that might never heal.

Tears dripped down on his knees, smeared, spread, and black flowers bloomed.

"Tan Zongming, you look down on me and my promise to you." Wang Manchun said with tears in his eyes, holding back his sobs, "Even if I'm not the Fan Shengmei you like, or the Tan Shengmei you want, Madam, even if you find out that everything is false, but I love you, it is true.

"It's a pity you don't believe me."

He always said that she was insecure, and now, the most insecure person is himself.

Tan Zongming was speechless, under the apricot-yellow chandelier, his drooping eyelashes cast long black shadows.

After a long time, he used his crutches to prop up his body little by little, and finally stood in front of her, "Xiaomei, I'm sorry, please forgive me."

Wang Manchun burst into tears.

Tan Zongming took out a handkerchief from his pocket and gently pressed it under her eyes.The smoky blue plain silk was the one she had used when they first met.The familiar temperature and breath could not wipe away the tears but aggravated her sobbing. Wang Manchun couldn't help sobbing, Tan Zongming simply threw away a crutch and hugged her with one hand.

"Xiaomei, don't take back your promise." He pressed his lips firmly between her brows, "Come home with me, Mrs. Tan is not here, Mr. Tan is very sad."

Wang Manchun wrapped his arms around his waist and hugged him deeply, and the past year passed by in front of her eyes one by one. Her Mr. Tan gave her the sweetest and gentlest memory in the two lifetimes.

"I'm sorry, Tan Zongming." She let go of him, picked up the crutch and handed it to him, "Go back, you will have a better Mrs. Tan."

The author has something to say:

For those who want to be, you can cancel it with peace of mind when you see this (who, come and take a group photo), this is the finale, look at my sincere face hahaha