Chapter 1 Begins
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On April 10, 2012, on the plane from San Francisco to Guangzhou, the Chinese Lunar New Year was just a few days away, and the heart warmed when I thought of my long-lost family Situ Nan. (To read the latest chapter of this book, please visit Wèn Aishang Novel Network biquge.info) There is also the lover in her dreams, when she parted at the airport three years ago, Wei'er's love was reluctant, and her tears kept flowing Situ Nan seemed to be yesterday, vividly. Thousands of miles away, Situ Nan has been very busy and has no time to return to China, so the two can only rely on the phone and the Internet to keep in touch. There are still 10 hours to appear in front of him, and when the time comes, surprise her, propose, and he has made this girl wait too long.
After graduating from Aishang Novel Network, Situ Nan was sent by his father to study in the United States, so that he could inherit the family company in the future, Situ Nan studied economics, after graduating with a master's degree, Situ Nan entered a world-renowned financial institution under the recommendation of his mentor, such an opportunity is rare, so Situ Nan gritted his teeth and postponed the time to return to China, after staying in the United States for a year and a half, he applied what he had learned, and his ability was greatly improved. It can be said that he has returned to his hometown.
Situ Nan is a rich second generation, but he has said that he has a good education since he was a child, and his parents are strict, so he has no bad habits. In addition to his hobby of history and philosophy, Situ Nan usually likes music, and when he was able to soak in the school flower Wei'er, he had to rely on talking about the piano. At that time, people were always very stupid and naïve, and once again the two of them cried very sadly when they saw the Titanic, and the tears wet Situ Nan's shirt. After watching the movie, Wei'er asked Situ Nan stupidly, "Ifijunp, doyou."
jump?”
Of course, Situ Nan said "ofcouse, ijump", which moved Wei'er to a mess.
With the power of "Titanic", known as the "Girl Terminator", the two of them were very emotional that night and ate the forbidden fruit! So whenever he was lonely and missed Wei'er, Situ Nan would play the song "My Heart is Eternal".
Just as Situ Nan was drowning in his thoughts, a thunderbolt suddenly hit the plane on a sunny day over the cloudless Pacific Ocean, and the violent vibration woke Situ Nan, and the passengers on the plane panicked. Not long after, the plane lost control before it had time to make a forced landing, and it fell into the sea from a high altitude, killing all the passengers on board.
Situ Nan never imagined that a 1 in 100,000 probability thing like a plane crash would happen to him, and at the moment of death, a person's life flashed through his mind like a movie. Situ Nan thought that he was full of hesitation, and his parents at home couldn't see him, and Wei'er must be very sad when she was studying, so it turned out that this was "ijump"? With the last trace of unwilling anger, Situ Nan's consciousness fell into silence.
The next day, the world reported on this rare air crash in human history, and the list of the dead included a Chinese man, Situ Nan.
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Back in time, one hundred years ago in April 1912, the Titanic, the most luxurious cruise ship in human history, sailed on the vast Atlantic Ocean. Soon after the ship left the English city of Southampton, the hustle and bustle of the docks, the crowds of farewells and the coastline gradually disappeared.
Ladly dressed gentlemen and their well-dressed female companions attended the banquet, the big men chatted to the applause of the women, and the humble waiters busily shuttled through the banquet with their richly held food, so that the guests of the upper class class could be served meticulously. Every qiē on board is magnificent, resplendent and luxurious, and the luxurious decoration is amazing, which is truly an unprecedented cruise ship in history.
During the banquet, a bearded man, Mr. Eames, chairman of White Star Cruises, said excitedly that the reason why it was named Titanic is because it is wide and strong, symbolizing strength and unsinkable, this is a dream ship.
As the largest and most prestigious manned cruise ship at that time, the Titanic was 269 meters long, 28 meters wide, 18.4 meters from the waterline to the deck, with a registered tonnage of 46,328 tons, a net weight of 21,831 tons, and a displacement of an astonishing 66,000 tons. It has four tall chimneys, only three of which are actually useful, and the remaining one is only used as a foil, and the actual use is the kitchen chimney and exhaust. It is a pity that because of the insistence of the chairman of the White Star Company, Ismay, more space was left on the top deck, and the original design of 48 transport boats was reduced to 20, although this is the case, 20 fully loaded transport boats can carry more than 1,000 passengers.
The interest of the White Star Company was not only in the pursuit of speed, the luxury and sophistication of the Titanic at that time was unprecedented. The boat is equipped with a swimming pool, gym, Turkish bath, library, lifts and squash court. The first class common room is decorated with fine wood panelling, premium furnishings and a variety of premium finishes, and goes to great lengths to provide a level of service never seen before. The sun-drenched Café de Paris offers a wide range of premium refreshments for the first class. The living environment and lounges of the Titanic's second- and even third-class cabins are just as upscale, even better than the first-class cabins of many passenger ships. Three elevator doors are dedicated to first-class passengers, and second-class also has an elevator, while third-class cabins have to climb stairs.
"Full speed ahead!"
On the deck, a red-faced and white-bearded captain held this black tea in his hand, watching the huge ship he was driving against the wind and waves, with indescribable pride. This is a dream cruise ship from the United Kingdom to the United States, with all the noble pleasures you need, and you have the honor to be its captain in your life.
"By the way, what happened to that hapless sailor?" Captain Smith turned back to ask the young assistant beside him.
"Stoney hasn't woken up yet, but the doctor has taken care of it, and he will wake up in a while." Wallace said. Stoney, a newly recruited sailor, was smashed in the head and fainted in the morning while loading and unloading the rich man's car on board. This unlucky guy is the cousin of Boatswain Mu, and Wallace only knew that he had a good relationship with Mu, so Wallace went to see him just now.
"Hmm." Captain Smith answered and said nothing. With 2,200 passengers and 900 crew on board, how could the captain care about some humble sailor? The reason why he mentioned this matter was because the Titanic's maiden voyage had encountered such an unlucky thing, so he was a little impressed, and just asked casually. Mr. Eames, the chairman of the White Star Company, promised that by the next week in New York, Captain James would be honorably retired.
Unbeknownst to Smith, in the sailor's rest cabin, a young man woke up from his bed, and had just opened his eyes with difficulty, and memories flooded into his mind like a tidal wave. I fainted with a headache, and it took me a while before I slowly woke up.
When Situ Nan woke up, his mind melted into the memories of another person, this person is also called Situ Nan, 17 years old this year, a mixed-race child, his father is Chinese, and his mother is British, but now the two elders have passed away. Old Situ used to be a sailor, following the ships of the British Empire to run around the world, and later when he was older, he married a local widow in England, and opened a small Chinese restaurant after settling down, and a few years later the old Chinese sailor gave birth to a son Situ Nan with the British widow, whose English name is Stoney. Because of the old man, the old Situ couple especially doted on this hard-won son, holding it in their hands like a heart baby. With the connivance of his parents, this Situ Nan became an idle second slipper, mingling with hooligans on the street all day long, stealing chickens and dogs, gambling, peeking at women taking baths or something, in short, in addition to killing people and taking drugs, the police station is not missing. After the old Situ and his wife both left two years ago, Situ Nan was left without anyone to take care of, and he became even more unscrupulous, and in less than half a year, the savings of Lao Situ's hard work for half a life were lost, and the Chinese restaurant was also gambled away by Situ Nan, and since then he has become an out-and-out homeless person.
Fortunately, Situ Nan has a cousin Mu, that is, the nephew of the British widow ran back to see the old Situ family, and found that the family was ruined. After returning from the old Situ's house, Mu took Situ Nan to run the boat. It just so happened that Situ Nan was so fresh and fresh, and he was tired of being a street prodigal and thought it was not bad to go to sea on a boat. For more than a year, Situ Nan has followed his cousin Mu to a lot of places, met all kinds of people, gained a lot of knowledge, and changed a lot under Mu's strict education.
Maybe it's because he saw that Situ Nan's appearance is good and he has become a qualified sailor, so this time Mu also brought his cousin Situ Nan after becoming the sixth mate of the Titanic. This morning, while loading goods in Southampton, Stuart was accidentally smashed in the head. For some inexplicable reason, 100 years later, it happened that the soul of a young man named Situ Nan was attached to the sailor of the same name.
It's a bit of a mouthful, in short, this Situ is not another Situ.
After Situ Nan woke up, he lay quietly on the boat in a daze, more precisely, the memory left by the predecessor who peeked at this body, which was conducive to Situ Nan's familiarity with the current environment. Interestingly, Situ Nan grew up in a completely different background from his predecessor, a well-educated rich man, a gangster on the streets of England a hundred years ago, and they were not the same, but the two had the same hobby of music. Situ Nan took out the harmonica left by his predecessor from his pocket, which is the evidence.
Take things as they come. It's a pity that he can't see Wei'er, Situ Nan's heart was gloomy for a while, and he walked to the mirror to take a look, fortunately, this face made him very satisfied, with deep eye sockets, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, a high nose bridge, a little hooked, a typical Westerner's three-dimensional outline, black eyes and hair with oriental colors, people can't say that mixed-race children are very beautiful. It's a pity that the environmental hybrids that are tried are somewhat discriminated against, but as long as you have the strength, people will naturally respect you, and the hybrids have more advantages in genes! Thanks to the training from fighting on the street and running boats since he was a child, although Situ Nan is only seventeen years old, he is tall and handsome, and with a smile on his lips, he is not worse than the actor Jack of "Titanic"!
I wonder if I'll see Jack and Rose on the ship? They are fictional characters in the movie, and Situ Nan has no bottom in his heart.
Hey, even if Jack and Rose appear like a movie in the time and space they are in now, will they still have earth-shattering love?
The development of history has a strong inertia, can its own appearance change the fate of the Titanic? Situ Nan had no confidence at all. Maybe the ship will sink soon, and whether he will survive by that time is another matter?
The real history is that only about 700 of the 2,000 and 200 passengers on board survived, and more than 1,500 passengers died forever at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. More than 2/3 of passengers are fatal.
The above is just the number of passengers, of which the cruise ship, which is part of the White Star Shipping Company, has 900 crew members on board, and in fact the death rate of crew members is higher.
In his previous life, Situ Nan only knew that the ship Titanic sank on its first voyage because it was loaded with an iceberg, but he didn't know the specific time and location, even if Situ Nan ran out now and told people that the ship was about to sink, no one believed it, and the worst result may be that he was locked up as a madman, and it is not impossible to be thrown into the sea. Hey, you can get off halfway by bus, but you can't get off the boat halfway by boat, you're really miserable, you just died once and it may end in a few days, how can you do such an unlucky thing when you do transportation? Situ Nan's heart was cold.
"Hmm" his stomach screamed, and suddenly there was a strong feeling of hunger, Situ Nan hadn't eaten for a long time, and he was almost hungry. No matter, even if you die, don't be a starving ghost!
As soon as Situ Nan wanted to go out to find something to eat, a man in uniform came in at the door, in his thirties, holding a plate of food in his hand, and when he came in, he smiled and said, "Stoney, you are finally awake." I'm so worried. ”
Situ Nan knew that this was his backer cousin Mu, and it turned out that the dead "Situ Nan" had a lot of memories about Mu in his head, which were now inherited by Situ Nan, and Situ Nan loved Mu, a cousin who was a little greedy for money.
Mu saw his cousin Situ Nan staring at the lamb chops in his hand, and hurriedly handed them over and said with a smile: "This is a good thing!" It's delicious. I got it from the kitchen above. Eat quickly, you're hungry. ”
After Situ Nan wiped out a plate of lamb chops, he found that Mu looked at him with a little doting, and couldn't help but feel embarrassed, as if he was a little annoyed by his poor appetite. In fact, he was also afraid that Mu would find out that something was wrong, after all, he was a "fake" and took possession of someone else's cousin's body.
"Don't you have to be on duty?" Situ Nan asked weakly.
"Haha. Didn't I tell you I worked the night shift? Mu smiled, "Okay, see you're okay, I still have something to do, let's go first." Mu patted Situ Nan on the shoulder and turned to leave the room.
Thinking quietly, now that his body was fine, Situ Nan went to the deck to take a walk and take a look at the cruise ship known as the Dream Ship.
In the afternoon, the Atlantic Ocean was calm and sunny, and when Situ descended south to the lower deck, there were already many passengers around him, smiling and obviously enjoying the journey brought by this dream ship.
The wide deck provides a platform for children to play, a few lively children are playing football, and a father is holding a cute little girl and counting the cheerful fish on the sea by the railing.
When Situ Nan walked over, he saw a handsome young blonde man next to him who was engrossed in drawing. Is he Jack? Situ Nan was pleasantly surprised.
At this time, suddenly a few crew members led a dog to the deck, there were thousands of crew members on board, so Situ Nan didn't know the crew who had just walked by, and he was wearing civilian clothes, so everyone on the deck met in Pingshui.
At this time, a man in a hat said angrily while leisurely smoking a cigarette: "There is another first-class guest, and he has come down with a dog to." ”
The handsome blonde guy smiled after hearing this: "So that we can know what kind of identity we are!" ”
"Am I going to forget it?" The hooded man took a puff of cigarette and shook hands and said, "Hello, my name is Tommy Wren!" ”
"My name is Jaxson Dawson." Blonde dudes arrived.
"My name is Fabrizio," said a young man with a very tender face next to Jaxson.
Sure enough, it was Jack. Looks like he's right. Situ Nan also stepped forward and introduced: "My name is Stoney. The crew of this ship is resting just now. ”
That's how Stuart met Jack, Fabry and Tommy.
"Why do you have black eyes and hair?" Fabry asked curiously.
"I am of mixed race, my father is Chinese and passed on the black color to me, and my mother is British and passed on the shape to me." Situ Nan said with a smile.
"Oh. I see. Fabry said.
Fortunately, several people were born in the market, there is no discrimination, everyone meets in Pingshui and spends a boat together, which can be regarded as a kind of fate. A few young people chatted slowly and became acquainted.
Suddenly, Tommy felt that Jack kept looking behind him, and when he looked back, he saw a beautiful and plump woman standing on the deck on the second floor, a lace dress, and a bright belt that showed off her beautiful figure. She held on to the railing, looking at the sea, the breeze gently blew the millet hair in Rose's ears, and set off her tender whiteness, standing on a higher overtime, with the afternoon sun, Rose was like a goddess.
Breathtakingly beautiful!
The painter's eyes are bright, his mind is delicate and sensitive, Jack was flashed, he has been to many places, he has seen many beautiful women, but he has never been so throbbing as now.
Situ Nan looked in the direction of Jack, it was Rose! Just like the appearance of a movie, Situ Nan finally met the heroine. What a beautiful woman with all kinds of charms!
No wonder Jack couldn't take his eyes off it, and even Fabry next to him waving his hand in front of him couldn't affect Jack's distraction.
"Oh, man, forget it! You don't have a chance to get close! Don't do that, okay? Tommy teased.
Maybe it was a sense of her heart, Rose turned her head to look, and her watery eyes glanced at her inadvertently.
Until a tall and handsome man came over, and Rose disappeared after arguing with him. Situ Nan knew that the man in the suit above should be Rose's fiancé, Hawke, the son of the American Iron King, and then Hawke also left.
After Rose leaves, Tommy and Fabry continue to chat, and Jack has no intention of drawing, looking absent-minded. Situ Nan looked at it and smiled secretly in his heart, buddy, soon your chance will come.
Situ Nan looked at the sea from afar, a vast expanse, and he couldn't see his head, even if the Titanic was moving forward quickly, it seemed that he would never be able to reach the end in the vast sea. Situ Nan felt lonely, yes, Mo Min traveled to the Titanic wonderfully, Wei'er, I have been separated from you for a hundred years. One hundred years! What a distant time, as if this could never go to the Atlantic.
I really want to wake up and return to my original appearance, but the reality tells Situ Nan how slim this hope is, maybe I can only find you in my memory!
Situ Nan took out a harmonica from his pocket, gently put it in his mouth, and slowly played the once familiar melody "My Heart is Eternal", the lingering emotion was like the chant of the sea, which made Situ Nan's heart ache!
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