Chen Huihong's Maybach slowly drove into the underground garage without attracting anyone's attention.
all the best.
Qin Huai put on his hat, scarf and mask again before getting off the car, ensuring that even if Zhao Rong and Qin Congwen were standing in front of him, he would not be able to recognize him at the first time. After hearing six directions and looking in all directions, he dragged his suitcase and quickly slipped into the elevator.
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It wasn't until he walked out of the elevator to the door of Luo Jun's house that Qin Huai took a breath. Zhang Shumei opened the door.
"Master Xiao Qin, the room has been cleaned for you. Time is limited, and the bed is a temporary air mattress. You can see if it suits you. If not, I will find someone to change the bed in my room to the guest room." Zhang Shumei said.
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There are no guest rooms in Luo Jun's house. The rooms in his house are only the master bedroom, a second bedroom, a studio, a video room and a showroom. Luo Jun uses the servant's room to store sundries. Zhang Shumei, the live-in nanny, lives in the second bedroom.
Qin Huai took a look and found that Zhang Shumei had temporarily arranged the audio-visual room and turned it into a guest room. The room was quite large and suitable for living in. It was bigger than the master bedroom of his house. "It's good, no problem." Qin Huai said with a smile and opened his luggage.
He took out the 20 kilograms of shortcakes and fruit embryos in the suitcase. Qin Huai brought a change of clothes except shortcakes and fruit this time. There was nothing to organize, so he took the things and went
Living room. Chen Huihong is already eating the fruit plate.
Luo Jun was still sitting on the sofa watching TV. When he saw Qin Huai coming out, he gave him a look, cleared his throat and said loudly: "Xiao Zhang, the same old rules, Chlorophytum." Five minutes later, Zhang Shumei packed up and carried a big bag.
Have fun going out.
Qin Huai went to the kitchen to steam fruit for Luo Jun. As soon as he entered the kitchen, he found several bowls of ingredients on the stove. The ingredients for tangerine peel tea.
The intention is already obvious.
"Mr. Luo, do you want to make tangerine peel tea?" Qin Huai stuck his head out and asked.
"Otherwise." Luo Jun said in a strange tone, "Master Xiao Qin is really busy with everything. He came all the way back just to complete the task quickly, and he is not even willing to give the task target a bowl of tangerine peel tea."
Qin Huai:..
Which palace drama have you watched recently?
Anyway, making tangerine peel tea is not troublesome, it is just a matter of course. Qin Huai first put the fruit into the steamer to steam, and then started to make tangerine peel tea. He searched in the cabinet again, found the ingredients prepared by Zhang Shumei, and started kneading the dough.
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It's a rare time to come back, so it's time to make some delicious snacks for Luo Jun and Chen Huihong, so that they can see the results of their studies at Huangji. After learning the cooking method for a week, the pastry has improved by leaps and bounds.
Soon, after the dough is kneaded and placed on the chopping board to rise, the fruits in the steamer are ready to be cooked.
The tangerine peel tea still needs some time, but don't rush, the fruit has not yet colored. Qin Huai mixed the red cabbage juice and created it randomly, and the time was very accurate. When the four fruits were colored, the tangerine peel tea in the pot also
Out of the pot smoothly.
Luo Jun was already sitting at the dining table. Qin Huai filled three bowls of tangerine peel tea and took them out on a tray. He also sat down and had some together. Chen Huihong, who couldn't wait for a long time, couldn't wait to pick up the fruit, took a bite, and was satisfied.
Squinting his eyes, he ate happily. Luo Jun was unmoved. He didn't even look at the fruit on the plate. He calmly picked up the spoon and drank the tangerine peel tea slowly.
Spoon after spoon, this movement and expression were very familiar to Qin Huai. The only difference was a piece of newspaper, which was how Luo Jun drank tangerine peel tea in his memory after getting up every morning. After five or six minutes, he finished the bowl of tangerine peel tea.
Chen Huihong was almost nibbling on the second fruit. She looked a little full. She held the last half in her hand without moving her mouth for a long time. Luo Jun put down the bowl without taking the fruit and looked a little hesitant.
"Oh, don't hesitate. It's a knife to extend your head, and it's a knife to shrink your head. It won't be a loss if Xiao Qin reads the memory. If Xiao Qin reads the memory and makes a new snack to help you successfully overcome the disaster, wouldn't you still be dissatisfied?
Well, you can live for many more years!" Chen Zhonghong advised as a person who has experienced this.
Luo Jun rolled his eyes at her angrily: "You think I am you and don't remember anything. Do I care about living for many more years? It's not as popular to be reincarnated after death now."
After saying this, Luo Jun moved his hands, picked up a fruit, put it to his mouth, hesitated for a moment, and took a small bite.
Almost at the moment Luo Jun started chewing, the game prompt sounded in Qin Huai's mind.
"Ding, congratulations on completing the side mission [The Taste of Memory] and receiving the mission reward [A Memory of Luo Jun]."
Luo Jun's last memory was obtained.
Qin Huai looked at Luo Jun and asked cautiously: "Do you...do you have anything else to tell me?"
Qin Huai knew very well that Luo Jun must know what the memory content he was about to see was.
Luo Jun was silent for a long time, and Qin Huai also sat at the dining table and waited for him for a long time without clicking on the game panel.
Finally, Luo Jun spoke, his voice a little hoarse: "Remember her appearance, don't forget it."
Qin Huai nodded, clicked on the game panel, and selected [Luo Jun's memory].
Select Yes.
[Memory loading——]
"boom!"
Fire, loud noise, disaster.
When Qin Huai entered his memory, all he saw was devastation.
It was obviously dark night, but the burning firelight illuminated the surrounding area very brightly. There were ruins of bombed walls and charred and collapsed houses everywhere. From time to time, there were creaking and shattering sounds. There were no cries or calls for help. It felt like
All living things were reduced to nothing in the ruins.
Qin Huai looked up and saw the planes hovering in the sky and continuing to drop bombs.
"boom."
In the distance, another bomb was dropped.
This is not the real and fake bombing seen in movies, this is really happening in front of our eyes, and the roar is so loud that it can deafen people's ears.
This is not a disaster movie, this is a real disaster.
Luo Jun was in the ruins, leaning against the half-collapsed dangerous wall, and by the light of the fire, standing there calmly reading the newspaper, as if everything Zhou Qi had nothing to do with him, his expression was leisurely and calm, as if he was waiting at the door of the cinema.
Liu Tao finished watching the movie.
Soon, the plane hovering in the sky flew away. Before Luo Jun finished reading the newspaper, he turned a page and looked up at the sky.
"It goes on day by day, it's really annoying."
After speaking, Luo Jun patted the ashes on his body and found a brightly lit place to continue reading the newspaper.
After reading one picture, there is another. When the fire in one place burns out, replace it with a bright one.
It was difficult for Qin Huai to evaluate this behavior, which seemed to be similar to digging into walls to steal light, and he didn't know what to see. After all, there was nothing around, not even living people, so he might as well join Luo Jun and watch with him
newspaper.
The two of them just read the newspaper together, reading the newspaper until dawn.
Qin Huai even counted in boredom. Luo Jun took out a total of 22 newspapers folded into small tofu cubes from his pocket. It was obvious that he was well prepared and came out specially on the night of the bombing.
Came to read the newspaper.
In the past, Luo Jun usually only took three or four cards with him when he went out.
Luo Jun unhurriedly folded the finished newspaper into tofu cubes, put it in his pocket, and walked towards the east.
That's the direction of the sun.
It was just dawn, and the light was not strong, but it was enough for Qin Huai to see the scene in the distance clearly. Basically, wherever the bomb fell, only the remains of the explosion were left.
The houses did not completely collapse. In some low-rise houses, only broken bricks and burned wood could be seen. In some cases, part of the wall collapsed but the main body was still intact. If you were very lucky, it was even intact and was only seriously damaged by the spread of the fire.
Black exterior wall.
Luo Jun walked slowly, and Qin Huai followed him. After walking a few streets, Qin Huai faintly heard crying coming from the distance.
People who had been hiding in the air-raid shelters all night finally came out of the air-raid shelters one after another after making sure that the plane had left before dawn.
Some people looked at their homes that had become ruins, collapsed and threw themselves on the ruins, crying, frantically rummaging through the ruins for belongings, and roaring at everyone who tried to get close to the ruins like wild dogs guarding their food.
Some people want to take advantage of the situation and see lone women and thin young men holding wooden sticks to threaten each other to hand over their belongings. Even though their pockets are already full of items that do not belong to them, they still greedily want more.
But more often than not, people are calling the names of their loved ones everywhere. When they see familiar people, they rush up to them and ask if they have seen so-and-so and if they are with you. It is a chaotic situation.
Luo Jun obviously didn't like such crowded and chaotic crowds. He kept avoiding people along the way. After walking through slums one after another, Qin Huai saw the small western-style buildings in the distance. Qin Huai had never seen these western-style buildings before, and it was very strange.
Apparently Luo Jun has left Shu and came to a new place.
The area of ​​​​the western-style building was obviously not directly bombed, but was only slightly affected. The buildings were well preserved, maybe because of the terrain. Qin Huai took a look and felt that this area was indeed not easy to be bombed. In such a dangerous period,
It's a wealthy area for a reason.
Luo Jun walked towards the innermost three-story western-style building. Before he could reach the door, Liu Tao rushed towards him with an anxious face. He first looked at Luo Jun's face, regardless of whether his hands were dirty or black.
I touched his cheeks, ears, and chin as if I was afraid that I was wrong, and then looked at his neck and arms after making sure there were no injuries.
Liu Tao's hands were trembling, and her whole body was trembling with fear. She looked very embarrassed.
Her hair was disheveled, her clothes were wrinkled, her hands were dirty, and one of her shoes was missing. There were large beads of sweat on her forehead, residual tear stains on the corners of her eyes and cheeks, and her beautiful silk dress was scratched.
There were many small cuts on her hands. If you look carefully, you can see that there are many small wounds on her hands that are bleeding faintly, and sand and small stones are stuck in the wounds.
Luo Jun saw Liu Tao's hand.
"What's wrong with your hand?" Luo Jun grabbed his hand and asked.
Liu Tao didn't answer, big tears fell directly from her eyes, her lips trembled and she choked, "I thought you were dead."
"The Liu's shop you went to last night said they were almost blown to the ground by the Japanese. Many people were killed. Even the air-raid shelters were trampled and crowded to death. I wanted to go find you before dawn.
, Uncle Zhang didn’t let me go out. He and Li Ping went to look for you after dawn and I never came back. I thought you..."
Liu Tao couldn't speak anymore at the end and hugged Luo Jun and burst into tears.
"How about we stop looking? I'm not looking for my parents anymore. Let's go back to Shanghai. We really can't go further south. It's too dangerous here."
"Secretary Liu's Chuntao didn't have time to run when she went out to buy groceries the day before yesterday. One of her legs was blown off and she had to be dragged home and lay there waiting to die. Last night when I was in the air-raid shelter, I heard that Minister Cao's wife
They said that the bombings would only increase in the future, and the Japanese would force us to do whatever they wanted, such as supplies. I couldn’t understand what they said. I only knew that Mrs. Cao wanted to leave here and go back to her hometown."
"She already wants to leave. It will definitely be unsafe in the future. Boyan, let's stop looking for her and leave."
Luo Jun didn't speak, just held Liu Tao's hand to comfort her. After Liu Tao's voice stopped shaking and her body stopped shaking uncontrollably, he helped her straighten her hair. "Go home first and put on your shoes."
There are a lot of gravel on the ground. Stepping on the ground with bare feet will cut your feet."
Liu Tao followed Luo Jun home.
Compared with the small foreign-style house where Liu Tao and Luo Jun lived in Shudi last time, the one where Liu Tao and Luo Jun live now is obviously larger and more luxurious, and there are more furniture and ornaments in the house. There are no newspapers in the living room, presumably
Put them all away and put them upstairs.
Luo Jun asked Liu Tao to sit on the sofa. He got up and got him a pair of shoes, helped Liu Tao put them on, found a clean towel, wetted it with water, wiped Liu Tao's face, and then wiped his hands.
Liu Tao sat blankly throughout the whole process, like a doll, as sluggish as after a shock. "You don't have to worry too much about me." Luo Jun sat next to Liu Tao, "I'll be fine."
The switch on the doll was turned on, and Liu Tao was awakened from fear by Luo Jun's voice. She trembled and looked at Luo Jun with her eyes wide open, as if to determine whether what just happened was her hallucination or real.
Liu Tao looked at Luo Jun like this, and her tears fell uncontrollably.
"You're crying again. You've never cried before. I remember you told me that when you were a child, you were practicing in a theater troupe, and the troupe leader beat you with a wooden stick. Even if the stick interrupted you, you wouldn't cry." Luo Jun
Helplessly.
"That's different." Liu Tao whispered, blinked her eyes, and shed two more tears, "I don't want to either, but I can't control myself."
"How about we go back? Sister Ahong sent me a letter last year, saying that the concession is now very safe. Although prices are high and food prices vary day by day, you find a house for her and you don't have to pay rent. She and her man earn a lot of money."
The money is enough to support a family.”
"Where is Leader Liu?" Luo Jun asked. Liu Tao stopped talking.
"There's been no news from the troupe leader for a long time." Liu Tao lowered her head and said, "I haven't received a letter from the troupe leader since he wrote to me three years ago that the troupe was moving south."
"There are many bandits on my road, and some bandits have guns. The class leader will definitely not take the train to save money. They may..." Luo Jun did not give Liu Tao a chance to escape: "They should be dead."
"I told you to accompany you to find your parents. When we went to Shu, they had already left Shu. After several years of inquiry, we got the exact news that they had come to Shanshi." "But after arriving, we found that they were no longer there.
Address, the current situation is very chaotic, but the information I heard is genuine."
“It’s not safe here, is it safe outside?”
"Lease in Shanghai is not safe, and outside the lease it is often bombed. There is a war in the north, a war in the Central Plains, and bandits are rampant even in the south. The city is not safe, the countryside is not safe, and these are troubled times, where can we
How about finding a safe place?”
Liu Tao looked at Luo Jun blankly.
"Don't worry about me, I'll be fine."
Liu Tao obviously didn't understand the meaning of this sentence, and it was impossible for her to understand it. She could only look at Luo Jun blankly. "When we got married, I promised you that I would help you find your parents."
Chapter completed!