Chapter 149: The Milky Way (I)
New Year's Day is getting closer and closer, after all, after a few months of delay in Germany, Jolene's results in these mock exams have not improved, and every time she sees the results, she is very disappointed. Fortunately, her parents don't make any requirements for her at all, as long as she is healthy and healthy like this.
But Qiao Lin is different, every time she can't sleep, she will silently send a message to her brother, although she always argues with her brother, but her brother is interesting! Fighting with her brother is addictive.
This time, my brother disappeared once again, without any warning and without leaving any message, and he disappeared into the darkness of the night. As soon as she worries about her brother, she no longer worries about her grades.
Mom and Dad didn't know where he went, and Mom's resentment was particularly deep: "Two days ago, I discussed with him when to visit him, but now I can't get in touch." Well, at least tell us where to go!"
The Qiao family is used to Qiao Nan's "elusiveness", and Song Minrou, the eldest lady of the Song family, obviously seriously lacks understanding of soldiers. She was worried that her parents would not agree, so she secretly bought a ticket to Rongcheng, and after arriving in Rongcheng, she had to get her father to find Qiao Nan's troops and let Qiao Nan come out to accompany her.
Song Yizhi had no choice but to comply, but the news he got was that he had gone on a mission and had no return date at all. Min Rou went crazy on the spot, crying and shouting for her father to find Qiao Nan. The Grand Duke is sexual, who can get her?
Song Yizhi was simple and rude, and asked his henchmen to find a few younger brothers to secretly protect Min Rou. Anyway, she has enough money in her card, and there is still enough time before school starts in March, so she can play outside if she wants!
Two days later, Song Yizhi called her and said at the end: "Your mother said that Wei Chenglin can participate in the professional group competition after practicing for another two or three years." ”
Song Minrou immediately bought a plane ticket and came back.
Song Yizhi really knows his daughter too well. As long as anyone surpasses her, they are her enemies, and even if she takes the second place in the exam, she can cry like the end of the world. Wei Chenglin is her childhood nightmare, as long as she takes it out to stimulate her, she has no heart to eat, drink and have fun, and she will definitely come back to practice.
So, Song Minrou only went out for three days, and then a gust of wind blew back. In order to find out Qiao Nan's news, she also deigned to go to the wonton restaurant and asked Qiao Lin about Qiao Nan's whereabouts with a straight face.
At first, Jolene didn't have a clue. In high school, there were so many military fans in every class, and for Qiao Lin's classmates, Qiao Nan was their idol.
When Qiao Nan lost contact, it was already mid-December 2007, and several classmates took turns to ask Qiao Lin: "Can't you get some news from your brother?"
"What's the news?"
"Border issues!"
Jolene was confused: "Where is the border problem?"
Those boys were very depressed, where do they start? They said mysteriously: "Of course, I can't see the news on the surface, but some people in some military forums say ......."
Their trickery gave Jolene goosebumps: "Say there is a conflict at the border?
The boy lowered his voice and said the place far enough to be seen only on a map. I heard that the terrain is high, oxygen is scarce, and the combat environment is extremely difficult.
She followed the clues provided by her classmates, and painstakingly opened some forum posts, and some words such as "confrontation", "conflict", and "army increase" gradually came into view, and Jolene was so frightened that she closed the computer.
The loudspeaker came in through the window, it was some vendors walking the streets and alleys selling New Year's goods; the old man and his children were playing in the courtyard, and when they were tired of playing, they went to buy snacks; the No. 2 Middle School not far away was quiet, and most of the students went home during the big break; Wei Chenglin was downstairs playing his newly written tune, and the beautiful sound of the piano warmed this winter afternoon.
Everything was so peaceful, but Jolene didn't know why she was so sad. It's so peaceful these days, war? That's a concept that only appears in textbooks.
However, after shopping around the Internet, Jolene realized that the war has never stopped, and there have always been people fighting and fighting for this hard-won peace.
In the words of recent years, it is "how can there be any quiet time, but someone is carrying the weight for you".
While Jolene was worried about those trivial things, her brother was guarding every inch of the country in the dusty vast field, withstanding the dense rain of bullets, or maybe he was sneaking into an enemy camp like a ghost in the dark night when he couldn't see his fingers, and exchanged a night of bloody fighting for a few years of peace on the border.
But no matter whether they succeed or fail, they are destined to be incognito, and all their efforts will not be known.
Of course, they may also be blown away by bombs, smashed into a sieve by bullets, or they may be taken to a prisoner of war camp and never to return......
Jolene quickly interrupted her thoughts, remembering what her mother had said - knowing too much would become poison. She never thought that her brother would actually fight when she didn't know that war still existed, but now that she knew, her peace of mind was shattered.
For a few moments, Jolene decided not to call her brother "pig" anymore, after all, the book says that he is the cutest person.
Sun Ruiyang has not yet had a winter vacation, and in addition to Xu Na, only Wei Chenglin is the only one who can comfort Qiao Lin. But that guy was stupid, except for the words "Brother Qiao Nan will be fine" over and over again, he couldn't spit out anything new. In order to comfort Jolene, every time she searched her intestines.
Every winter, there is always an old man next to the auspicious wonton restaurant, where he sells roasted sweet potatoes. Whenever the children in the family home came home in groups, Wei Chenglin would always buy a piece of roasted sweet potato with his meager pocket money and share it with Qiao Lin.
Jolene loves to eat roasted sweet potatoes, and is often scalded to the point that her feet are jumping, and her tongue is drooping, like a puppy. When Wei Chenglin looked at her, he would smile, even if he was beaten by her, he still wanted to laugh.
They usually went downstairs after eating, sometimes the snow fell on their shoulders, sometimes the moon shone overhead, and every night was quiet, so quiet that only the two of them were left. Qiao Lin ate very happily, and Wei Chenglin felt very happy when he watched her eat.
"Wei Chenglin!"
"Huh?"
"Why are you laughing again?" Jolene woke him up with a golden sweet potato sticking to the corner of her mouth.
"Oh?"
Wei Chenglin didn't know when he started giggling again? He touched his lips and thought to himself, he must be stupid, just looking at her, why are you laughing?!
Qiao Lin took the last piece of sweet potato in her mouth and flattened Wei Chenglin's cheek with her palm, and Wei Chenglin instantly turned into a duck's beak.
Qiao Lin couldn't help laughing, she let go of her hand, continued to eat the roasted sweet potato, and said, "If you smirk at my brother like this, my brother will definitely teach you a lesson." ”
After that, she cleared her throat and said in imitation of her brother's tone: "Wei Chenglin! What are you laughing at? Don't show your teeth! Still laughing? Get out of the queue, prepare for push-ups! What are you glaring at? Are you going to beat the instructor?"
Wei Chenglin smiled even more happily: "Haha! You are exactly the same as Brother Qiao Nan!"
"That's right, we're brother and sister!" Jolene ate the roasted sweet potato and continued to imitate, "Usually when I am on video, my brother trains Betty like this." 'Jo Betty, look ahead, face the instructor!Why, don't understand the command?50 push-ups, prepare!'"
Wei Chenglin staggered with a smile: "Betty was taught stupid by Brother Qiao Nan, right?"
"Maybe in Betty's eyes, my brother is a fool!" Jolene clapped her hands and said, "Betty didn't pay attention to him at all, and my brother reprimanded him, 'Yo, boy, are you in a bad mood......?'
"Don't say it, I laughed so hard that my stomach hurts! No wonder your Betty is stupid and scared by Brother Qiao Nan, right?"
Jolene's big eyes turned into a small crescent: "Don't you think, my brother is actually quite interesting?"
"Brother Qiao Nan is already very interesting!"
"I miss my brother. ”
“……”
Qiao Lin was like a child, one second she was still making Wei Chenglin laugh, and the next second she lowered her head and didn't say a word.
Wei Chenglin panicked all of a sudden. Zhao Yanfen was originally eavesdropping on the laughter of the two children in the kitchen, and she was very relieved to hear it, but suddenly it quieted down, and her first reaction was that Wei Chenglin made Qiao Lin angry. She wanted to open the window and scold her son - what a rare opportunity like this, how could this stinky boy make Jolene angry?!
Unexpectedly, Wei Chenglin actually brought Qiao Lin home, Mrs. Wei was about to go to bed, but when she saw her grandson leading Qiao Lin here, she immediately trembled and went to wash the fruit. Wei Chenglin said to his mother: "Mom, I want to play a tune, can I?"
"It's past ten o'clock, and if you wake up those old ladies, they'll be scolding you again!"
Qiao Lin also said: "I understand your kindness, I will play it another day!"
Wei Chenglin had already opened the lid and said, "I'll just play a section, and I'll play it for two minutes." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the piano sounded, but in twenty or thirty seconds, the lights in the building came on again. When everyone pushed open the window and scolded, Wei Chenglin's piano sound stopped abruptly. Suddenly in a teasing mood, Wei Chenglin smiled mischievously.
"Does it sound good?"
Wei Chenglin turned around and asked Qiao Lin, only to find that Qiao Lin was secretly crying.
"Sister Jolene, don't cry...... I...... Alas!" Wei Chenglin was very annoyed - every time Sun Ruiyang comforted Qiao Lin, she could smile, but when he comforted her, he often helped her, it was really useless!
Jolene wiped away her tears with the back of her hand and said with a smile: "It's strange, the first time I heard this song, I could actually cry!
Wei Chenglin was relieved. He remembered that Dean Liu once told him that when you love someone, or miss someone, until you can't extricate yourself, you will find that nothing can express your emotions, except words, or musical notes.
"Cheng Lin, is this song a pop song that just came out? tell me the name, I'll go home and download it!"
"It's called 'Milky Way', and I wrote it. Wei Chenglin was very happy, but he never said, "I wrote it when I missed you", he didn't have the courage yet.