After a long flight, Weiran’s flight finally landed smoothly at the Capital Airport.
After waiting for a while to pick up the luggage, Wei Ran, who was still not feeling well, slowly left the terminal and found the online car-hailing car he had contacted in advance in the parking lot.
The over-enthusiastic driver was chatting all over the place, and just when he was about to fall asleep, the car finally stopped at the gate of Suisui's university.
When he comes back this time, he doesn't plan to go home yet. Since he doesn't plan to go home, naturally the luggage can only be left here with Suisui.
After dialing Suisui’s phone number, the latter learned that he had arrived at the school gate, and immediately hung up the phone while yelling. In less than ten minutes, he rushed over on a battery car. .
"Are you really back so early?" Suisui asked happily, "Our school will not send transcripts so early."
"I am not I came back for your transcript."
Wei Ran patted the suitcase and piano case that were left together. "These two boxes will be kept in your dormitory for two days. I have to go out for a while before I go home. Let’s go.”
“Where are you going? To see your girlfriend?” Suisui immediately became interested, and even the overly curious faces of the village head Widow Liu and Wang appeared. A gossip expression used only when the auntie is making irresponsible remarks.
"Meeting a shitty girlfriend"
Wei Ran said angrily, "I'll be back in two or three days, please take care of my things, especially the piano case Don’t break it. Also, have you bought the things I asked you to buy?”
“Oh! I bought it!” Suisui immediately handed a backpack to Wei Ran. What do you want this for?"
"Of course it's useful. I'm leaving now. I'm a little pressed for time."
Wei Ran didn't even wait for Suisui to agree. He bent down and got into a taxi that had just stopped, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"There must be something wrong with being so impatient..."
Suisui muttered, bent down and put the suitcase and piano case on her little electric donkey, and turned the accelerator The child drove towards the dormitory with difficulty.
On the other side, Wei Ran, who was sitting in the taxi, was not idle either. From time to time, he would raise his Rollei camera and look out the window at the unremarkable street scene and the congestion on the elevated highway. The traffic flow, as well as the hurried commuters along the way, pressed the shutter again and again.
"Dude, have you just come to Beijing?"
Although the driver of a car with a mouthful of Beijing movies only drove an Elantra that looked a bit old, he had a smile on his face. There was a hint of leisure in the comfort, and the skillful operation of the hands, but it was as if what was being pulled in the car was actually a box of tofu that was in urgent need of crossing the Qiu Mingshan Highway.
"Just here," Wei Ran replied calmly. While speaking, he raised his camera and took a photo of a tall building in the distance.
“Your camera looks like it’s old”
The driver said with a nostalgic look on his face, "I have seen this kind of thing when I was taking photos when I was a kid. The old seagull's camera is similar to the one you have. It has been so many years. Who would have thought that nowadays, any mobile phone can take clearer pictures than it did back then."< /p>
"Yeah..."
Wei Ran silently pressed the shutter towards the overpass outside the car window, "The people at that time certainly didn't expect that we can live like this today. "
"Who says it's not the case?"
The driver's chatterbox also opened up with Wei Ran's sigh, and he talked about the changes around him since he was a child. .
From the food stamps that were never enough when I was a child, to the TV set that I had to wait in line to buy through connections when I got married, from the crowded and leaky bungalow courtyard to the house that was allocated to me after demolition of my family. From the 212 small Jeep that used to veer away as soon as I stepped on the brakes, to the domestic electric taxi I am driving now. Even the standard of measuring beautiful girls in their area when they were young, now he has some internet celebrities that he can't understand.
Of course, the more and more advanced weapons and so on are indispensable in the chat. These trivial words are filled with hope, happiness, and pride. Only the despair and fear that filled the hearts of every Tengxian people in early 1938 were gone.
Wei Ran, who had become an audience member, silently put on a new film, looked out the window at the high-speed rail station getting closer and murmured to himself, "If they could see all this today , maybe he should be happy..."
"What did you say?" the driver asked confusedly, having already brought the topic to the stupid old beauty.
"No, it's nothing"
Wei Ran shook his head, paid the fare, said goodbye to the enthusiastic driver, and walked into the bustling high-speed rail station. While waiting for the bus, I found a corner, put the bright, clean, and extremely busy waiting hall into the frame, and pressed the shutter again.
What he also photographed was the high-speed train he saw after checking in and the speed information when it reached its maximum speed. There is also the shiny coin standing steadily on the window sill, as well as the wheat fields outside the window covered with a thin layer of snow, and the villages and towns wrapped in the wheat fields.
It wasn't until the train stopped at Tengzhou Station that he put away the camera with satisfaction and took a taxi non-stop to the Tengxian Defense War Site.
Compared with Teng County in 1938, this city has undergone earth-shaking changes. The dense buildings, flat streets, and even the sense of security that you never have to worry about bombers and artillery shells flying overhead were all things that Li Hexian and his comrades could not imagine at that time.
Only less than two kilometers away, when the car stopped, Wei Ran looked at the simple monument on the roadside and was stunned until he saw the elderly and children enjoying leisure activities in the surrounding square. , and the bustling flow of people and traffic on the roadside, a smile appeared on his face again.
Perhaps Li Hexian and more people like Li Hexian do not need much discipline.The monument and the leisurely and peaceful life around them are what they want to see most...
"Master, please wait for me."
Wei Ran finished speaking Then he opened the car door and took out from his bag the small white porcelain jar that he asked Suisui to help him buy before he came back.
"Monitor Li, I will take you home."
Wei Ran took out the photo of Li Hexian and Miss Zhou and gently placed it on the table under the monument. He gently stroked the cold monument, waited for a moment, and then gently scooped up handfuls of soil with his hands and carefully placed it into the white porcelain jar.
As soon as he started to take action, an aunt who was watching the square dance trotted over, pointed at Wei Ran and said, "Why are you so heartless? How dare you poach..."< /p>
Halfway through the words, the aunt immediately realized something after seeing the white porcelain jar Wei Ran was holding in his hand and the black and white photo held up by his mobile phone, and stopped cursing abruptly. He asked cautiously, "Young student, what are you..."
Wei Ran raised his head and pointed at the soldiers carved on the side of the monument, "Send one of them home."
The aunt was stunned when she heard this, and after sighing, she silently took out her senior phone, turned on the flashlight function on it, and stood quietly to the side to help Wei Ran illuminate.
Soon, the other square dancing aunts gathered around curiously. After a while of whispering, the speakers playing prairie music in the distance became quiet, and Wei Ran's side , there were also several strangers holding up their mobile phones to help illuminate the scene.
At the same time, there were some parents with their children speaking softly to their children in dialect.
After a long time, the white porcelain urn was finally filled with soil. Wei Ran carefully picked up the photo that was pressed by his cell phone, and said in an unobtrusive voice, "Monitor Li, it's time for us to leave. I'll send it to you." You go back to Sichuan and take a look!"
As he said that, Wei Ran picked up the heavy white porcelain urn, solemnly saluted the not-so-large monument with a non-standard military salute, and then He bowed again to the strangers watching around him, then picked up his backpack and walked to the rough truck that had been waiting on the side of the road.
When the taxi stopped at the entrance of the train station, the taciturn driver tore off the payment QR code and put it in his pocket. Then he got out of the car and opened the door for Wei Ran in person, using his belt. He said in Mandarin with an accent, "Let's go, you can't accept this money. Also, as is the rule of the elders here, don't look back on the road, young man, have a safe journey."
"Thank you!"
With red eyes, Wei Ran bowed solemnly again, walked into the station with a backpack containing a white porcelain urn, found a remote location and sat down silently, waiting patiently for the direct flight to Chengdu. A K-shaped train.
This train, which takes nearly 30 hours, is definitely not the fastest, let alone the most comfortable, but as the driver said, at least it will not go back.
It was midnight, and the transit train stopped at the platform on time. Wei Ran followed the information on the ticket and walked into the soft sleeper compartment.
As the train slowly accelerated again, Wei Ran put his backpack in the corner of the bunk, and then took out a bottle of liquor and two disposable cups from his pocket that he bought before getting on the train. , after filling it up, in the empty carriage, he quietly told about the changes in later generations that he had not had time to finish talking to Li Hexian at that time.
The long 29 hours and 30 minutes passed quietly as Wei Ran talked to himself. When the train stopped at the terminal, the sky outside the window was already turning white.
"Go home"
Wei Ran, who was already a little tipsy, carefully picked up the white porcelain urn in his bag and whispered to himself as he walked out. He said in a loud voice, "Squad Leader Li, I will send you to the starting point of Chuanchuan and put you there temporarily. Then I will go find Sui'an's son. Then I will ask him what he means. If he wants to invite you back, You Zi Gong, I won’t stop you when the time comes.”
Completely ignoring the surprised looks from the people around him, Wei Ran walked out of the station unhurriedly, step by step with the help of his mobile phone navigation. He walked towards Shaocheng Park five kilometers away, observing this city that he had never been to before, smelling the spicy aroma that occasionally drifted through his nose, and listening to the slightly familiar yet strange dialects.
After passing through streets and intersections, when the sun had already risen more than half of his body, Wei Ran finally saw the monument to the fallen soldiers of the Sichuan Army in the Anti-Japanese War standing at the intersection.
After a slight hesitation, he walked into the park and inquired with the old man who had gotten up early to exercise, and finally found a tall osmanthus tree in the corner of the park.
Gently placing the white porcelain urn he had carried all the way under the tree, Wei Ran appeared in his hand with a slender Mauser bayonet.
Using this bayonet, he dug a shallow hole under the tree, gently put the white porcelain urn and the film taken along the way and covered it with moist soil, and then took out the Big red food box.
As the lid was opened, a burst of water vapor and a faint scent of osmanthus evaporated from the large white porcelain bowl.
In a trance, Wei Ran seemed to see a man in military uniform in the steaming mist, with a 20-ring belly box hanging on his waist, a large knife and a brand-new bamboo hat on his back. Young warrior.
This soldier whose face could not be seen clearly stood upright amidst the cheers of many similarly dressed soldiers, and allowed a short-haired woman wearing the national cheongsam, whose face could not be seen clearly, to stand upright. Use a spoon to put the glutinous glutinous rice balls into your mouth, and put spoonfuls of clear soup sprinkled with sweet-scented osmanthus into your mouth.
Finally, the young soldier simply took the big white porcelain bowl, and drank all the soup in it while many comrades laughed. Finally, before anyone could react, he mustered up the courage to hug the thin woman in cheongsam.
Gradually, the water mist from the bowl of glutinous rice balls gradually became lighter and lighter., the young warrior's face became clearer and clearer.
Until the end, when Wei Ran saw clearly that it was indeed Li Hexian, the other party held Miss Zhou, whose face was full of happiness, by one hand. While standing upright, he slowly raised his hand towards Wei Ran. The right hand, and the face with a hint of bookishness also evoked a satisfied smile.
Almost subconsciously, Wei Ran also stood up straight and raised his right hand to the height of his eyebrows. But before he could react, the cool wind blew away the remaining mist, and the two hazy figures disappeared instantly.
When Wei Ran, who was in tears, came to his senses, he found that the food box under his feet had disappeared at some point.
"Is it an hallucination..." Wei Ran muttered to himself, and then he noticed a flash of heat coming from the tattoo on the tiger's mouth of his left hand.
Resist the urge to take it out immediately and take a look. He took one last look at the carefully buried ground under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, strolled out of the park and found a hotel to stay.
After he carefully checked and confirmed that the room was safe, he summoned the strange notebook that had been covered with metal cover, and the latter was automatically turned to the back of page eight.
With just one glance, Wei Ran noticed that under the slowly rotating red vortex, the original sentence "The glutinous rice balls cooked by Miss Zhou's own hands" had been replaced by "I used two "Two shreds of tobacco for exchange" are just a few small words.
He reached out and took out the contents of the red vortex. This time it was still the same food box as before, but it was frighteningly heavy. Gently opening the cover of the first layer, Wei Ran was extremely surprised to find that it was filled with 9mm pistol bullets!