Long before Aoki left Wuzhong, Yao Jingjing already had the ability to enter other people's dreams.

When Aoki taught her to dream, she realized her potential. She is not like Hu Xing, who can learn as soon as she learns, and she is not a natural awakened person like Meimei, Aoki taught her purely for the convenience of observing Yao's mother's mental power, but when Yao Jingjing learned to dream lucidly, her ability suddenly burst out.

Aoki said that Yao Jingjing was a sleepy dry well, so much so that he did not realize her potential in this area when he was in southern Yunnan, and only by digging a few more meters down, the groundwater would continue to gush up, and there would be no time to dry up.

Yao Jingjing's mental strength was not strong enough at that time, and she didn't dare to fall into a dream without Aoki's help. After Aoki left, she slowly tried to go into other people's dreams, mainly her mother's. From Aoki's mouth, she already knew that her mother had been invaded by parasites, and she was scared enough, which was probably the motivation for her to work hard to train her physical and mental strength, and she didn't want her mother to be hurt again while she could only watch weakly.

Yao Jingjing sometimes practices mental power with Hou Biao, and enters each other's dreams. Their abilities are among the best, Hou Biao's mental strength is strong and fierce, while she seems to be more delicate and long.

Aoki has been gone for a year, Yao Jingjing and Hou Biao have been able to dream proficiently, although they are not as magical as Aoki, but they can be called miracles in front of ordinary people.

Yao Jingjing felt very strange when she saw the desert in her mother's dream. With her mother's mental power, of course, it is impossible to support such a large desert scene, but there is a screen-like thing in front of her, which makes sense again, because it is just a two-dimensional picture that she has seen.

The old lady on the screen should be her grandmother, and she heard her mother shouting: "Grandma! Grandmother! ”

The old lady asked again, "What about Cher?" Didn't Cher follow you, where did she go? ”

Yao's mother thought blankly, "Where did Xue'er go...... Where have you been......"

The old lady turned and walked away, and in a moment she was gone, leaving only a trail of footprints in the sea of sand, long, leading to the boundless sky.

Yao's mother cried: "Grandma! Grandmother! Don't leave me! Grandmother! ……”

She ran and chased into the desert. Seeing her hand touch the golden yellow, as if touching a soft LCD screen, rippled a circle, and then her person was bounced back by an invisible force, and the screen shattered to the ground with a bang.

The yellow sand was gone, leaving only a small gray space, and the power of the shattering continued, and the space began to crack, and then with a bang, everything was gone.

Yao's mother sat at the head of the bed, holding the square wooden box in her arms, and called out twice with "grandma, grandma", and two tears overflowed in her eyes.

Yao Jingjing went over and hugged her mother's shoulder: "Mom, what's wrong with you, are you dreaming?" ”

Yao's mother called softly "ah": "Oh, how could I fall asleep!" ”

Yao Jingjing knows that Xue'er is the cat that her mother had when she was a child, and through Aoki, she already knows about Ruxue and the Dream Corridor. Aoki was going to give her the Dream Corridor because it belonged to her grandmother, but she wasn't strong enough at that time to control such a zero-dimensional passage that connected a huge desert space.

What made Yao Jingjing strange and unsettling was that her mother didn't know that Ruxue had guarded the dream corridor in her mind, that there was a desert on the other side of the corridor, and that she hadn't dreamed of her cat for decades, except for that time when she drove away the shadow in the nightmare and later Aoki went into a dream to treat her.

Now why does she often dream that her grandmother asks her where the cat has gone? Was it the potential influence of Ruxue in her subconscious, or was it something else? And is there a connection between the desert she dreamed of and the desert on the other side of the dream corridor, or is it just a coincidence?

Yao Jingjing asked tentatively, "Mom, what did you dream about just now?" ”

Yao's mother said, "Oh, it's nothing, it's just that I dreamed of my grandmother again." ”

Of course, Yao Jingjing can't say that I fell into your dream, she was afraid of scaring her mother, so she said: "You are seeing things and thinking about people, you must have dreamed that you were naughty and reprimanded by your grandmother when you were a child, right?" ”

Yao's mother said: "That's not it, I just dreamed of the Great Desert. ”

"Mom, you haven't been to the desert, have you?"

"I haven't been there, probably because I watched too many TV series in that desert some time ago."

Yao's mother stood up as she spoke, wiping the box in her hand with her hand.

"Mom, what are you taking?" Yao Jingjing asked.

When Yao's mother woke up just now, she vaguely felt that there was a trace of unusual mental fluctuations coming from this box, but she was not very sure whether it was caused by her mother holding her in her arms.

"This is what your grandmother brought back from the north when she was young, and it is full of her letters, manuscripts, and photographs. Later, she probably felt that her limit was approaching, so she burned all the letters inside. I was too young to know why she did that, so I begged her to leave the box for me, and she gave it to me, with a few pictures inside. Yao's mother said.

Yao Jingjing pointed to the glass on the dresser and said, "Why don't you put the photos there?" ”

Yao's mother said: "Those were put there when my grandmother was alive, so they haven't moved." ”

Yao Jingjing said: "It's not easy to save old photos, and I could have taken them to a picture company to restore them, but those photos and glass are glued together, it's a pity!" ”

"Can it be fixed?" Yao's mother's eyes lit up, "Then can you fix it by looking at the photos here?" ”

She carefully opened the box, took out a very old photo album from it, handed it to Yao Jingjing and said, "It's all here, at that time, you were too grandma like a baby, and no one was allowed to see it except me!" ”

When Yao Jingjing heard her say this, she felt so sacred, and her hand to take the album couldn't help but be a little nervous.

She opened the album and found that the photos inside had all faded and mildewed, but they were only slightly better than those on the glass table. She saw one of the group photos, female soldiers in military uniforms neatly lined up in the open space in front of an ancient building, there were three or four rows in front and back, and the handwriting at the bottom of the photo was still legible, which read:

Photography of the General Political Girls Brigade of the enlisted students of the WH branch of the Central Military and Political School, 19.27.35.

Yao Jingjing tried to find out which one was her grandmother from above, but the photo was already very blurry, and the portrait was too small to see clearly, so she had to give up.

There are still some old photos in the album, most of which are not clear to see, and it is impossible to tell who it is or what building, until the last photo is slightly clearer, but this photo has aroused Yao Jingjing's great interest -

In the photo, Grandma Tai looks young, wearing a fashionable scarf, and stands next to a young man, even if you only look at this blurry photo, it gives people a sense of grandeur.

At that time, it was rare for young men and women to take photos alone and get so close to each other, and from their demeanor and movements, they also looked like a couple.

Yao Jingjing had never heard of her grandfather's affairs, and asked her mother, but her mother said she didn't know, saying that it was grandma's taboo and not letting people mention it.

I don't know why, Yao Jingjing always felt that she had seen this man in the photo somewhere. There is also the background of the photo, and she also has an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

Behind the grandmother and the young man is a very thick old mulberry tree, with lush branches and bending and vigorous, and there is a wing-like jet black in the corner on the top of the photo, like a pair of winged wings.

Yao Jingjing carefully took the photo out of the album and saw that there was still handwriting on the back of the photo:

Watson Mulberry and Mulberry Garden, 1931