Chapter 176 Trivial matters on the road and time in the mist
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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 slowly left the terminal and found the online taxi he had contacted in advance in the parking lot.
I chatted all over the place with the overly enthusiastic driver, and just when he was about to fall asleep, the car finally stopped in front 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 didn't come 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 before I go home."
"Where are you going? To meet your girlfriend?" Suisui immediately became interested when she heard this, and even her overly curious little face showed the gossip that the village boss Widow Liu and Aunt Wang had when they were gossiping.
expression.
“Meeting a shitty girlfriend”
Wei Ran said angrily, "I'll be back in two or three days. Please take care of the things for me, especially the piano case. Don't damage it. Also, have you bought the things I asked you to buy?"
"Oh! I bought it!" Suisui immediately handed a backpack to Wei Ran, "Why do you want this?"
"Of course it's useful. I'm leaving now. I'm a bit pressed for time."
After Wei Ran finished speaking, without waiting 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, turned the accelerator and drove hard towards the dormitory.
At the other end, Wei Ran, who was sitting in the taxi, was not idle either. From time to time, he would raise his Rollei camera and look at the unremarkable street scene outside the car window, the congested traffic on the elevated highway, and all kinds of things along the way.
The hurried office workers pressed the shutter again and again.
"Dude, have you just come to Beijing?"
Although the car driver with a mouthful of Beijing movies is only driving an Elantra that looks a bit old, the comfortable look on his face with a hint of leisure, and the skillful operation of his hands, he is completely in the car.
What he was pulling was actually a box of tofu that was in urgent need of crossing the Akina Mountain Highway.
"Just got 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 photo taking when I was a kid. The old Seagull's camera is almost the same as the one you have. It has been so many years. Who would have thought that nowadays, any mobile phone is better than what it was back then?"
It was clearly photographed.”
"yes..."
Wei Ran silently clicked the shutter facing the overpass outside the car window, "The common people at that time certainly didn't expect that we would be able to live like this today."
"Who says it isn't!"
The driver's chatterbox also opened up with Wei Ran's sigh, and he talked about the changes around him from childhood to adulthood without any repetition.
From the food stamps that were never enough when I was a child, to the TV set that I could only buy through queuing up for connections when I got married, from the crowded and leaky bungalow courtyard to the house that was allocated to me when my family was demolished. From the 212 little Jeep that used to go off track as soon as I stepped on the brakes.
, to the domestic electric taxi he drives now. Even the standard of measuring beautiful girls in their area when they were young has now become some internet celebrities that he can't understand.
Of course, those more and more advanced weapons and so on are indispensable in the chat. These trivial words are filled with hope, happiness, and pride. But there is no such thing as the early 1938, which filled every Teng County
The despair and fear in the hearts of the people.
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 they should be happy."
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"What did you say?" The driver, who had already brought the topic to the silly old beauty who was not a thing, asked in confusion.
“No, it’s nothing”
Wei Ran shook his head. After paying the fare, he said goodbye to the enthusiastic driver and walked into the bustling high-speed rail station. While waiting for the train, he found a corner and put the bright, clean, and extremely busy waiting hall into the frame.
, and pressed the shutter again.
Also photographed by him were the high-speed train he saw after checking in and the speed information when it ran to its maximum speed. There was also the shiny coin standing steadily on the window sill, and the thin film covering outside the window.
A layer of snow-covered wheat fields, and the villages and towns surrounded by 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 Tengxian in 1938, this city has undergone earth-shaking changes. The densely populated buildings, flat streets, and even the substantial sense of security that you never have to worry about bombers and artillery shells flying overhead are all things Li Hexian felt at that time.
and his comrades could not imagine.
Only less than two kilometers away, when the car stopped, Wei Ran looked at the simple monument on the roadside and was stunned. When he saw the old people and children having leisure activities in the surrounding square, as well as the bustling flow of people on the roadside.
While walking in traffic, a smile appeared on his face again.
Maybe Li Hexian and more people like Li Hexian don't need a big monument. The leisure and peaceful life around them is what they want to see most...
"Master, please wait for me."
After Wei Ran finished speaking, 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.
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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. After waiting for a while, he gently dug up handfuls of soil with his hands.
Carefully put it into the white porcelain jar.
Just 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..."
Halfway through the words, the aunt immediately realized something when she saw the white porcelain jar in Wei Ran's hand and the black and white photo held up on his mobile phone. She stopped cursing and asked cautiously, "
Housheng, 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 elderly phone, turned on the flashlight function on it, and stood quietly to help Wei Ran illuminate it.
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 there were several more people around Wei Ran.
Strangers holding up mobile phones to help illuminate.
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 as if no one was watching, "Team Leader Li, it's time for us to leave. I'll take you back to Sichuan to see!"
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As he spoke, Wei Ran picked up the heavy white porcelain urn and solemnly saluted the not-so-large monument with a non-standard military salute. Then he bowed to the strangers who were surrounding him before taking the urn.
I picked up my 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 personally opened the door for Wei Ran and said in Mandarin with an accent, "
Let's go, you can't accept this money. Also, as a rule of the elders here, don't look back on the road. Young man, have a safe journey."
"Thanks!"
Wei Ran, with red eyes, 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 a K-shaped car that went directly to Chengdu.
Head train.
This train, which takes nearly 30 hours in total, is definitely not the fastest, let alone the most comfortable, but as the driver said, at least it won't go back.
It was midnight, and the transit train stopped at the platform on time. Weiran 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, then took out a bottle of liquor and two disposable cups from his pocket that he bought before getting on the train. After filling them up,
In the empty carriage, I quietly told about the changes in later generations that I didn't have time to finish talking to Li Hexian at that time.
The long 29 hours and 30 minutes passed quietly while Wei Ran was talking 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, "Squad Leader Li, I will send you to the starting point of your departure from Sichuan.
You leave it there for now. Then I will go find Sui'an's son and ask him what he wants. If he wants to invite you back to your tribute, I won't stop him."
Completely ignoring the surprised looks from the people around him, Wei Ran walked out of the station in a hurry. With the help of his mobile phone navigation, he walked step by step to Shaocheng Park, which was five kilometers away. He also observed this place that he had never been to before.
The city, smelling the spicy aroma that occasionally drifts through the tip of the nose, listening to the slightly familiar yet strange dialects.
After walking through streets and intersections, when the sun was already halfway up the sky, Wei Ran finally saw the monument to the fallen Sichuan Army anti-Japanese soldiers 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, a slender Mauser bayonet appeared in Wei Ran's hand.
Using this bayonet, he dug a shallow hole under the tree, gently put the white porcelain urn and the film taken along the way into it 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 daze, Wei Ran seemed to see in the steaming mist a young soldier wearing a military uniform, with a 20-ring potbelly box hanging on his waist, and a large knife and a brand-new bamboo hat on his back.
This soldier, whose face could not be seen clearly, stood up straight amidst the cheers of many similarly dressed soldiers, and allowed a short-haired woman wearing the national uniform cheongsam, whose face could not be seen clearly, to use a spoon to scoop out the cotton balls one by one.
Put the glutinous glutinous rice balls into your mouth, and put a spoonful 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 amidst the laughter of many comrades. Finally, before everyone could react, he mustered up the courage to hug the thin man.
woman in cheongsam.
Gradually, the water mist from the bowl of cold glutinous rice balls became lighter and lighter, and the face of the young soldier became clearer and clearer.
Until the end, when Wei Ran saw clearly that it was indeed Li Hexian, the other party held Miss Zhou with a happy face in one hand. While standing up straight, she slowly raised her right hand towards Wei Ran, and at the same time, the man with the
A contented smile appeared on his bookish face.
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
The figure also disappeared instantly.
When the tearful Wei Ran 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 his left hand, but he couldn't ignore it.
Resisting 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 whirlpool, the original sentence "The glutinous rice balls cooked by Miss Zhou's own hands" had been replaced by "I exchanged them with two taels of shredded tobacco" at some point.
A small word.
He stretched out his hand to take out the contents of the red vortex. This time it was still the same food box, but the weight was frightening. He gently opened the lid of the first layer, and to his great surprise, Wei Ran found that it was full of food.
