The girl's abrupt words caused the atmosphere in the room to freeze.
There was a look of surprise on everyone's faces.
"What did you say?"
The first person to react was Li Nanke, who looked at Meng Xiaotu with an extremely serious expression, "What did you call Grandma Meng?"
At this time, the doubts that had always lingered in the man's heart were gradually dissipating.
"I said, my grandma is also called Meng Shuangshuang."
Meng Xiaotu said.
The nervous girl did not realize the seriousness of the matter.
Li Nanke froze on the spot.
Meng Shuangshuang...
Grandma is also named Meng Shuangshuang...Is this a coincidence?
Everything I had seen and heard from Grandma Meng... now was like pearls strung together by threads, worn around the neck of the truth, peeling away the fog.
Li Nanke recalled the scene when she met Grandma Meng for the first time, when she suddenly became excited for no reason.
At that time, Grandma Meng seemed to recognize him, and even asked him about a person's name... Brother Bei!
Could it be that Brother Bei is Bai Beiyan! ?
Li Nanke's mind was in chaos.
Why is this happening?
Shouldn't both be from two years ago? Why did you suddenly become so old?
"It seems that the name Meng Shuangshuang is very common."
Bai Buai was stunned for a moment after hearing the girl's words, but didn't think much about it.
After all, subconsciously, he and Shuangshuang separated two years ago.
Shuangshuang is now about twenty years old.
"Forget it, I won't talk to you anymore, I'm going to do business first. When I find you both, I'll treat you to a good drink."
Bai Buai smiled brightly and said to Meng Xiaotu, "Miss Xiaotu, you can have whatever you want this time. There is no shop like this after passing this village."
Having said that, Bai Buai signaled the guards to drive the carriage.
Watching the carriage go further and further away, Li Nanke finally told the truth without any dialogue.
Maybe there is still a glimmer of hope in his heart.
I hope Grandma Meng and Meng Shuangshuang just happen to have the same name.
Although he knew this hope was slim.
Looking at Li Nanke's ugly face, the thoughtful Shangguan Guan saw the clues, frowned and said, "Don't tell me that Grandma Meng is the Shuangshuang girl he is looking for."
As soon as these words came out, Meng Xiaotu and Leng Xinnan's expressions froze.
"No...it's impossible."
Meng Xiaotu stuttered, "Didn't you say she was the girl I met two years ago? My grandma is already over sixty years old. This is impossible. It should just be the same name..."
The girl did not want to accept this truth.
But thinking of the image of grandma waiting alone, the girl's voice gradually became smaller.
Shangguan Guan raised his head and glanced at the sky, and whispered to Li Nanke: "Do you still remember that when we left, two red clouds appeared in the sky? It means that we are not the only ones traveling through time and space, but there are other people."
Others... Li Nanke sighed.
Now it all made sense.
Girls Shuangshuang went to Phoenix Mountain to look for medicinal materials. When they went to stay at a Taoist temple at night, for some unknown reason, they mistakenly traveled to Phoenix Mountain in the future.
Perhaps it was because she was carrying a gift from the old Taoist priest.
Or maybe Phoenix Mountain was affected by the red rain.
In short, that night, two people from different time and space intersected at that moment.
According to Grandma Meng's age, she should have traveled to Phoenix Mountain forty-six years later.
And they traveled to Phoenix Mountain two years ago.
But Meng Shuangshuang didn't know that he had traveled through time and space from beginning to end, because the Taoist temple was protected by a magic circle and basically remained unchanged.
But when she returned home later, she was lost.
The reason is that Phoenix Mountain has changed and she cannot go back.
This also explains why Bai Ruyue was very surprised when she heard Shuangshuang say that there were many bandits nearby because of famine.
As the eldest princess, she knew very well that there had been no major famine near Yuncheng in recent years.
As for the Peach Blossom Spring, it was left by an old Taoist priest decades ago and was accidentally opened.
After thinking this through, Li Nanke's mind suddenly became trance-like.
Not only does Bai Bu like that a love that is not easy to come by will end in tragedy.
But...
They both waited for forty-eight years.
Forty-eight years...this is such a long number.
I thought of the other person sitting alone in front of the door day after day, year after year, looking at Phoenix Mountain.
There is also the red rope that has been kept.
The man's heart is clogged with countless emotions.
If Bai Buai hadn't gone to Phoenix Mountain at that time, would everything have been different?
If there is another chance to travel through time and space, can it be changed?
But after they have been struggling for so long, aren't they just hoping to change the past? Looking back, nothing has changed.
"Great cleverness, is this true?"
Meng Xiaotu's eyes turned red and she almost shed tears. She suppressed her emotions and asked in a crying tone, her eyes full of expectation.
She would rather the person her grandma was waiting for was dead than accept such a trick from God.
Li Nanke was silent for a long time and said, "I will tell you what I have experienced, and you tell grandma. If she doesn't react, it means it's not her."
Others had sad looks on their faces.
The facts are already in front of us, and the chance of misunderstanding is almost impossible. Li Nanke's words are just to comfort the little rabbit.
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After the setting sun sank behind the Western Mountains, the mist gradually spread as the setting sun fell.
Grandma Meng sat facing the afterglow of the falling sunset.
The old man is used to this.
The two words "wait" seem to have been integrated into her bones, into every blood vessel and every nerve fiber, and she has kept her past promises under the witness of time.
She is like an old withered carving or a withered leaf.
Meng Xiaotu, who had already returned home, stared at her grandma for a long time before she regained her composure and sat next to the old man pretending to be relaxed, "Grandma, the great cleverness is back."
Grandma Meng didn't speak, she just held the girl's hand, squinting her wrinkled eyes with a smile.
The girl's delicate white hands are in contrast to the old man's rough, boneless hands, as if time and space are overlapping, as if they are reflecting each other's youth and old age.
"Grandma, this time the clever ones experienced a very magical story. They returned to Phoenix Mountain two years ago and killed a bad woman who turned into a monster.
But the funniest thing is that little prince Bai Buai..."
Meng Xiaotu did not dare to look at the cheeks of the grandmother next to her. She looked at the red clouds that were gradually shrinking in the sky. She bit her lips and said in a relaxed tone,
"He never believed in love, and he used to often brazenly say that there was no woman in the world worthy of his love.
He said that once people fall in love, they will taste very bitter.
so……"
Meng Xiaotu's eyes were red, and her voice was a little choked.
She raised her head hard and swallowed back the tears that were swirling in her eyes, and continued to say with a smile, "So he changed his name to Bai Buai, saying that a man should "acquire but not love."
But this time, he actually fell in love with a girl from a mountain village whom he had never looked down on before.
That little girl has the same name as grandma. "
Meng Xiaotu felt her grandma's hand tighten and tremble. She closed her eyes, tears could no longer be controlled, flowing down the corners of her eyes
slide.
The girl still didn't look at her grandma's expression at this moment, and said with a choked voice, "He said that he wanted to marry that girl, and he wouldn't be afraid even if he was kicked out by the family.
He wanted to stay with that girl forever and live a happy life.
So when they parted, he made a promise to the girl and asked her to wait for two years. In two years, he will go find her and marry her in a sedan chair...
Bai Buai told the girl his real name, which was... Bai Beiyan. "
Meng Xiaotu murmured: "Now Bai Buai has gone to find that girl, do you think he can find her..."
The girl blinked her thick eyelashes, tears filling her eyes.
She squeezed out a smile and turned to look at her grandma, but Ke Mohu's tearful eyes could not clearly see the expression on her grandma's face.
I always feel that the figure of grandma in front of me seems to be gradually disappearing in the haze.
Grandma Meng did not speak.
Except for some initial emotional changes, her face remained calm as usual, staring blankly into the distance.
The two were silent.
Different from the previous silent atmosphere, this time's silence is more like an invisible farewell.
It wasn't until the last ray of light on the horizon disappeared behind Phoenix Mountain that grandma stood up tremblingly. Meng Xiaotu wanted to help, but she waved her hand and refused.
The old man walked towards the house step by step on crutches.
In the distance, Li Nanke watched silently.
Her hair turned white, her teeth fell out, her eyes were blurred, and her waist was bent...
Suddenly, the little girl who once carried the bamboo basket overlapped with her.
The old man returned to the house and took out the box.
The red rope inside lies quietly.
Grandma Meng's rough fingers gently rubbed the red rope, a smile appeared on her face, "No wait... No wait..."
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When Li Nanke found Bai Buai, he was in the government office and lost his temper at the official responsible for managing household registration.
"Why can't I find a big living person?"
Bai Buai glared at the little official with a red face, his face full of eagerness and fear, "Tell me, did her family move? Or did she go away for some other reason?"
"My young prince, I... I really don't know."
The official looked sad, "I have carefully checked all the household registrations in Xiaolei Village in recent years, and there is no such person as you mentioned. Did you remember the name wrong?"
"Remember your mother's fault!"
Bai BuAi wanted to raise his fist to hit someone, but was stopped by Li Nanke.
Seeing Li Nanke appear, Bai Buai felt as if he had seen a savior, and said quickly: "Old Li, I can't find Shuangshuang. I've been looking for a long time today. I've searched almost all over Xiaolei Village and can't find anything. I can't even ask anyone." have no idea.
I thought maybe her family had moved, so I came to ask, but this bastard couldn't find it. Do you think they would both marry into the courtyard... No, no, that won't happen. "
Bai Buai grabbed his hair, almost going crazy.
He thought he would be able to meet his sweetheart smoothly, but who knew that it had only been two years, but he couldn't even find him.
Unless the illness dies.
But even if you die, it will be stated in your household registration.
Li Nanke looked at Bai Buai quietly. After the other person calmed down a little, he asked the frightened official softly: "Has Xiaolei Village never changed?"
"Of course - no, no..."
The official suddenly remembered something, shook his head and said, "Thirty years ago, Xiaolei Village was divided into upper and lower villages, but later Xiaolei Village was divided and changed into He Village. Then it was gradually moved to the city. So now Xiaolei Village Leicun is the former Shangcun."
"Wait, what do you mean?"
Bai Buai looked at Li Nanke doubtfully, confused. "What's up and down."
"Is the old household registration book of Xiaxiaolei Village still there?" Li Nanke ignored him and asked the official again.
"Let me go look for you."
official
Wiping the sweat from his head, he hurriedly went to look for it on the wooden frame.
Soon he brought an old and yellowed record book and said happily: "Yes, the record book is still there!"
"Please look for the name Meng Shuangshuang."
Li Nanke said.
"good."
Officials quickly searched.
Bai Buai scratched his head and said with a puzzled expression: "Old Li, what we are looking for is from two years ago. What's the use of looking for something from more than thirty years ago?"
"You'll know after a while," Li Nanke said.
Bai Buai's eyes were suspicious, "Did you know something? Did you find Shuangshuang?"
Li Nanke remained silent.
In less than half a minute, the official found the person he was looking for. He raised his head and said to Bai Buai, "My young prince, you have found the person you are looking for!"
"Where!"
Bai Buai's eyes were bright.
But in a blink of an eye, I thought that this household registration was from more than thirty years ago, and I frowned.
The official said: "This Meng Shuangshuang used to be a villager in Xiaxiaolei Village and lived with her aunt. Later, the village was changed to Hecun. Five years later, the higher-ups issued policies to gradually incorporate the people of Hecun. Within the city, subsidies will be provided.
But Meng Shuangshuang refused to enter the city and lived alone in his original place. It has been almost thirty years now..."
Listening to the official's statement, Bai Buai froze on the spot.
After a while, he came back to his senses and said angrily: "What the hell are you thinking about? This is not the person I am looking for! This is not the person I am looking for!!"
"But...but this is Meng Shuangshuang."
The petty officials were sweating like rain.
Bai Buai still wanted to shout angrily, but Li Nanke forcibly dragged her out of the office.
Arriving in a remote and deserted alley, Bai Buai was still chattering and cursing.
"You can still be an official at this level. Damn it, it's so hard to find someone. By the way, why did I forget about Nie Qianhu? It's much better to let the shadow guards find him than these losers..."
"It's Little Rabbit's grandma."
Li Nanke said.
"..." Bai Buai blinked, "You, you, what did you say? Wait a minute, you didn't say that Little Rabbit's grandma was just Shuangshuang. Brother, they just have similar names."
"That's her."
"Bullshit!"
Bai Buaihuo said angrily, "Others are idiots, are you too? We went back to Phoenix Mountain two years ago, two years ago, brother! Will you become an old man after two years?"
Li Nanke looked at the excited young prince and said calmly: "Both of us have also traveled through time and space."
"Okay, why don't you say that everyone in Dazhen has traveled through time and space? Forget it, I won't bullshit you, I'll go find it myself!"
Bai Buai pushed Li Nanke away and walked out of the alley.
"She has been waiting for you for forty-eight years."
"You won't be my Shuangshuang even if you wait for a hundred years!!" Bai Buai turned around and said angrily, his cheeks and neck turned red, and his eyes were almost bloodshot as he stared at the other person.
At this moment, Bai Buai clearly understood the truth.
But he didn't want to accept it.
Li Nanke understood the man's mood and didn't care if the other party was angry with him, so he told the truth that he had deduced.
"She traveled to Phoenix Mountain forty years later, and we traveled to Phoenix Mountain two years ago, and then we met... Do you think I believe it?"
Bai Buai laughed when he heard this, waved his hands and said, "Anyway, I won't believe anything you say now."
"She has the half of the red rope."
"What does the red rope mean? I can buy you a cartload of red rope now!"
The man roared, his nostrils widening due to inner excitement, and large beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
Li Nanke stopped talking and gave the man time to buffer his emotions.
If it had been anyone else, their mentality would have collapsed.
Bai Buai stared at him, a blue vein on his temple beating lightly. In the end, he turned around and left without saying anything more.
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When Li Nanke returned home, it was already dark.
The food is still on the table.
From the dishes, it can be seen that this time it is Mrs. Luo Qianqiu who is cooking, not the little cook Yu Hongye.
"Ms. sir, you're back."
The gentle and quiet woman, like a picture, sat quietly at the table. When she saw the man coming back, she put down the medical book in her hand and stepped forward to greet him.
The woman was about to take off the man's coat, but the next second, the man hugged her.
Luo Qianqiu looked confused, "What's wrong, Mr. Xian?"
Li Nanke didn't say a word, but held his wife tightly in his arms, deeply smelling the refreshing fragrance and warmth on the woman's neck, as if he wanted to rub the woman into his heart.
Sensing that her husband was in a bad mood, Luo Qianqiu stopped asking and gently hugged the man's waist with both arms.
The two hugged each other, enjoying the moment of warmth and tranquility.
The stars in the sky outside the door flickered, as if countless eyes were watching the couple.
After a long time, Li Nanke let go of his wife.
"I don't want to stay in the Night Patrol Division anymore, I don't want to go to the capital anymore, and I don't want to pursue any fame or fortune."
Li Nanke held his wife's little face and said softly,
"I want to take you far away, live in seclusion in a small mountain village, and live a mediocre life for the rest of your life."
The man's voice was very soft, but there was a firmness to it.
After witnessing the tragedies of Shangguanguan and Bai Buai, he became increasingly afraid that one day the same tragedy would happen to him.
Then he will go crazy, really crazy.
Instead of pursuing those illusory fame and fortune, it is better to spend your life with the person you love.
Don't wait until one day you suddenly look back and realize that what you have lost is irretrievable.
Luo Qianqiu looked at her husband lovingly, happiness gradually spread in her beautiful childlike eyes, and she nodded lightly, "Okay, my husband will support me in whatever I do as a concubine."
"You won't leave me."
Li Nanke asked, very seriously.
Luo Qianqiu shook her head, "No, unless my husband drives me away."
Li Nanke hugged the woman into his arms again and said with emotion: "Asking what love is in this world can teach you how to make love between life and death."
Outside the door, Yu Hongye, who happened to be walking by, heard these words and paused on the spot.
The woman chewed these words carefully, and a blur appeared on her charming face, which finally turned into a sigh.
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Outside the courtyard gate, a woman in green clothes and a bamboo hat stood quietly.
Her beautiful and plump figure is like a charming mountain spirit at night. Under her loose clothes, her curved and concave gourd waist, as well as her extremely rich plumpness, all exude the charm of sex.
This woman is the one who came to Yan Yunfang before.
She was called Master's Wife by the other party.
From Yan Yunfang's mouth, the woman learned the whereabouts of her young apprentice Luo Qianqiu, so she looked for him.
Looking at the closed courtyard door, the woman hesitated in her heart.
Recalling what happened in Linggu in the past, the woman sighed softly, turned and left, her long hair floating in the night wind like a cloud that had no intention of staying.
