"I ...... Me, this photo ...... ...... this photo? Shen Jie continued to grab her hair: "Yes...... Be...... Be...... I went with you to shoot it, in Cheongpo District? And, with another girl, three people to go...... Is it? Shen Jie desperately recalled.

"Yes." Xiao Yao was surprised: "You, how did you know?" ”

"Yu Luying, is it the Yu Luying you said?" Shen Jie said: "The two of us went to Qingpu with Yu Luying, and the three of us lived together without a car or a house at night, but we were caught by the teacher......"

"Can you remember?!" Xiao Yao shouted excitedly.

"Teacher? Is it your teacher? But that's not Teacher Yao......" Shen Jie said: "I clearly remember you told me that you have only one homeroom teacher for three years of high school, surnamed Yao ......"

"Well, that's a little complicated to explain." Xiao Yao said.

"You, you went to Dongru some time ago, and you were also with this Yu Luying, right?" Shen Jie closed her eyes and said with a depressed face: "I, I was locked up at home at the time? I saw it, but I couldn't see it clearly. ”

……

……

……

It took about half an hour, maybe an hour, for Shen Jie's mental state to stabilize a little.

Immediately afterwards, she proposed to go back to another house to get her marriage certificate.

"Can you drive like this?" Xiao Yao was worried about her safety and grabbed her.

"Little brother," Shen Jie put on her sunglasses again, revealing a confident smile: "You also underestimate your sister's emotional control ability, right?" ”

Well...... When I was a kid, it was okay, but now I ......

It's not that I don't believe you, it's mainly that I haven't seen it too much in the past few hours of meeting.

As soon as Shen Jie was about to go out, Shen Tianyun came back from buying cigarettes, and Xiao Yao ran to the soap room to bake flatbread for her daughter, and at this moment, Yu Luying's call came in.

"Little apple~" Xiao Yao said, "What's wrong?" ”

"What's wrong?" Yu Luying said: "I came back from the western suburbs, and I can't get through to your phone!" ”

"How?" Xiao Yao's neck tilted to the left and clipped his phone to his left shoulder.

"Come out and say it, I don't want to talk about it on the phone." Yu Luying said: "How is the situation over there?" ”

"It's hard to say, the situation is getting more and more complicated," Xiao Yao turned the baked cake over again: "Then let's talk about it when we meet." ”

"Well," Yu Luying said, "come here." ”

Xiao Yao was stunned: "Now?" ”

"Or else?" Yu Luying said.

"No, now, I'm ......" Xiao Yao sandwiched a baked cake on the plate, desperately making up the reasons why it was inconvenient to go out in his head.

He now wants to get tired of his daughter for a while, and Shen Jie went to get the marriage certificate, she said that it would only take thirty or forty minutes to drive back and forth, and she really didn't want to leave at this time.

"Is there anything wrong with you?" Yu Luying asked Xiao Yao.

"No, or just talk on the phone first." Xiao Yao said.

"What's the matter with you," Yu Luying was unhappy: "Okay, I ran around for your business, but now it's become me unilaterally blind?" ”

After saying this, Yu Luying put down the phone.

This Nizi...... Really, Xiao Yao thought angrily and funny: "It's not for you", "I'm for Shen Jie", "It's a matter for the three of us", but now it's "I'm for you"?

Xiao Yao wiped his hands on the rag on the stove, and called Yu Luying directly, ready to tell her to go over immediately.

The call was declined.

Hit again, refuse again.

It's too noisy! Good sleep!!

Mu Fadu, Xiao Yao decided to send these two hot baked cakes to Shen Tianyun, and then asked her to talk to Shen Jie, and he went straight out and killed Yu Luying's house.

As soon as he picked up the dish and was about to send it to Shen Tianyun, there was a knock on the door of the soap table.

To be precise, it was kicked.

Oh my god......

Xiao Yao opened the door, and Yu Luying came up with a punch.

It was obviously face-to-face, but this punch was in the back.

Then, raise your foot and kick lightly on your calf.

"Okay, okay......" Xiao Yao tried to maintain his balance and not let the baked cake fall to the ground: "What's going on with you kid today?" The world is so wonderful, and you are so grumpy, so bad, not good. ”

Yu Luying honestly and unceremoniously reached out and took a piece of baked cake, opened her mouth to bite it, and then widened her eyes: "Hmm——! Delicious! ”

"Really?" Xiao Yao said happily: "Is the heat just right?" ”

"Yes!" Yu Luying said: "It's a bit of a freshly baked feeling - a little bit!" ”

"Great," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "Do you know why Dongru baked cakes are delicious?" Because the bread is love. ”

"It's not my love anyway," Yu Luying said as she walked into the room: "I knew you were baking cakes, I could smell them at home." ”

"Don't don't, don't don't ......" Xiao Yao grabbed her: "Don't go in yet." ”

"What are you doing?" Yu Luying deliberately asked, "Is there a woman in it?" ”

"There's no need," Xiao Yao said with a bitter face, "What if the rhyme suddenly comes out?" You also stole her cake - and Shen Jie. ”

"What's wrong with my sister?" Yu Luying said disapprerovingly: "I just want to see my sister." ”

"Tsk, are you stupid," Xiao Yao stretched out his index finger and pushed Yu Luying's forehead: "It was approved by Xiao Shen Jie to split legs with you, but the Shen Jie inside doesn't know about this, what will she think?" ”

"Then go see her as an ordinary friend, what's the matter?" Yu Luying said disapprerovingly: "What else is a split?" It's hard to hear! ”

Saying that, Yu Luying still stopped, stood among the soap chips and continued to nibble on her baked cakes, without meaning to give Shen Tianyun a piece at all.

"It's not ugly, it's actually a split," Xiao Yao said, "I'll tell you, she has already remembered a little." ”

"What do you remember?" Yu Luying said inexplicably: "What do you remember?" ”

Xiao Yao took Yu Luying's hand and went out, and the two wandered around casually and came to a small river.

This river should not be a tributary of the Suzhou River, because it is very clear and has no smell at all, in the first semester of high school, Xiao Yao and Yu Luying often came here to play together.

It's sunset, and the soft sunlight shines on the river, creating a mesmerizing landscape.

The river flows slowly and is crystal clear, like a mirror-like ribbon. The breeze blows, gently stirring up the water, rippling, tiny ripples glittering golden in the setting sun.

There is a large slope from the embankment to the side of the road, and when you stand on the river and look back, you will find a small dirt slope. There is no third person in the field of vision, as if it were an outdoor private space.

Being able to find such an "isolated" "paradise" in the center of the city, Xiao Yao has always felt that it is a "lucky" thing, and all that is missing is a beautiful woman.

Of course, there is no shortage now.

This side of the riverbank is overgrown with a variety of verdant plants, from weeping willows to delicate flowers, adding life and color to the whole landscape. The willow branches hung low on the water, swaying softly, as if playing a soft music for the river.

The tall buildings in the distance are gradually dyed with an orange-red halo under the reflection of the setting sun. The sky gradually turns a soft pink and pale blue, like a brilliant watercolor painting.

Xiao Yao and Yu Luying sat quietly on the stones by the river, the breeze caressed their cheeks, Yu Luying was wearing a pair of big and thick slippers on her feet, barefoot without socks, at this time, she was putting the slippers aside, gently stirring the water with her little feet.

Xiao Yao picked up a few small pebbles around him, aimed at the center of the river, and started to float.

The pebble whistled away from his fingertips and flew quickly towards the river.

It streaked in a graceful arc in the air, time seemed to slow down, and Xiao Yao could clearly see its trajectory - as if dancing in slow motion.

Eventually, pebbles meet the surface of the water. At this moment, the water splashed everywhere, and the water droplets jumped in the air, emitting a subtle vapor. The splash spreads out, forming a circular ripple that spreads outward like ripples.

The pebble did not stop its steps, and was still jumping at high speed, leaving a small waterline at its tail. With each jump, it creates a circle of new ripples, new ripples, spreading in all directions, while old and new ripples collide and scatter into more fragmented and complex shapes.

"Time is a long river, and we are these pebbles." Xiao Yao pointed to the water and said.

"I knew you would say that." Yu Luying hugged her knees and leaned back.

"That Shen Jie's memory...... I spent more than half an hour, maybe an hour, with her, and I felt that her memories were now like these colliding ripples. Xiao Yao explained to Yu Luying.

"Messy? Is it? Yu Luying asked Xiao Yao.

"Well, to put it a little exaggeratedly, it's a bit like fragmented memories are being reassembled, yes, fragments, and like an amnesiac person is recovering his memory......" Xiao Yao frowned: "It's hard to describe in words, I even feel now that new memories are 'rewriting' old memories - of course, it's just my feelings." ”

"Is it like a disc that can be re-erased and burned?" Yu Luying also frowned.

"It's a bit like, but it's not exactly the same," Xiao Yao thought for a moment and said, "Old memories won't really be overwritten, at least not yet, but will they be slowly ...... 'denied'?" ”

"'Negative'?" Yu Luying moved her little nose in confusion: "Can you give me an example?" ”

"The example in front of me is," Xiao Yao said while thinking, "Well, in fact, Shen Jie and I only got married at the age of 30, right?" ”

"How do I know you? Pretty much. Yu Luying pouted.

"But when I showed her the marriage certificate for her 22-year-old, she immediately had a mess."

"A marriage certificate for marriage at the age of 22?" Yu Luying said.

Xiao Yao was suddenly shocked, and his throat was sweet.

He suddenly realized that he hadn't told the third person other than himself and Shen Tianyun about the marriage certificate.

Chun Chun accidentally said that he leaked his mouth.

It's like when I was a child, I put my feet in a footbasin filled with hot water, and when I saw my mother's angry face, I realized that I forgot to take off my socks.

Now that you've said it, the best thing to do is to bring it over quickly and lightly.

"In her memory, she actually remembers that we got married at the age of 30, and she can remember the situation at that time - which road, which civil affairs bureau, it was a snowy day, what kind of clothes she carefully selected at that time, what kind of clothes I was wearing, that is, the situation at that time, she can remember and remember vividly." Xiao Yao said.

"Hmm." Yu Luying just said "um" lightly, and did not ask him about the marriage certificate.

But when she saw the ...... A little earlier, when the marriage certificate was married," Xiao Yao continued, "There was another scene in her mind about getting the certificate. It was on another road, at another civil office, and it was summer, and she and I were younger...... A completely different memory burrowed into her head. ”

"That is, she remembers that you got the certificate twice." Yu Luying said faintly.

"No, she remembered that we only got the certificate once, but these two times, it was the first time." Xiao Yao explained.

"In general, we call this 'Alzheimer's disease.'" Yu Luying said.

"That's right," Xiao Yao nodded, "But you know that Shen Jie is not Alzheimer's, we made her like this." ”

"......" Yu Luying was silent.

"At first, when that memory entered her head, she instinctively resisted," Xiao Yao continued, explaining: "If I understand correctly, she feels as if she is in the dark, watching a movie film, as if she is watching a fragment of someone else's memory as a bystander, and it does not belong to her...... That's what she told me. ”

"Isn't it a bit like ...... That hallucination? Yu Luying said: "The day I went to Dongru with you, I inexplicably felt that Dongru was very familiar, even though I knew that it was my first time here; When I went to your junior high school alma mater with you, it felt very familiar, and I even remembered a chess game somewhere, but it was the first time I went to ......."

"Well......" Xiao Yao groaned slightly, "It shouldn't be quite the same." ”

"How so?" Yu Luying asked him.

"Look, although you have that inexplicable sense of déjà vu," Xiao Yao said to Yu Luying, "but you are still very firm and remember very clearly that you are going to Dongru for the first time, the first time you go to my school, isn't it?" ”

"Yes," Yu Luying replied as a matter of course, "Otherwise? ”

"But Shen Jie," Xiao Yao said, "I soon couldn't tell which memory was true and which memory was fake." ”

"Oh......"

"At the beginning," Xiao Yao said, "she still insisted that she got married at the age of 30, and felt that she couldn't be mistaken, but soon she wavered, feeling that the credibility of the two memories was about the same, and in the end she began to admit that she seemed to have married me earlier, and felt that the memory of getting married at the age of 30 might be wrong." ”

"It's terrifying......" Yu Luying muttered.

"This process of memory replacement lasted about ten minutes, and in the process, I could see her pain with my naked eyes - the kind of headache that cracked, desperately clutching her hair......"

"It's so pitiful," Ms. Yu said, "it's like someone has forcibly tampered with it or implanted it with memory." ”

"Actually, it is not a forcible falsification of memories, it should be said that it is forcibly tampered with into 'correct' memories by the changed world line." Xiao Yao said: "To adapt to the new reality - I guessed so. ”

"It's so pitiful," Yu Luying sighed: "If a person has even her own memories replaced, is she still herself?" Is she still the same person? Is she still alive? Xiao Yao, don't wash her memory anymore! ”

"I'm not, I don't, don't talk nonsense." Xiao Yao denied Sanlian: "After I discovered such a principle, I didn't find it, anyway, I never told her about me and Xiao Shen Jie, nor did I show her any more related items that would stimulate her memory - this is also what Shen Jie herself meant." ”

"That's good." Yu Luying agreed: "That's how it should be. ”

"However, the good thing is that the old memories, from the current point of view, will not disappear, but will slowly become strange and blurry, and lose the sense of identity." Xiao Yao said: "Of course, the time sample is still too small, and it is too early to draw this conclusion. ”

"Just in case, you should ask her to write a diary and write it down," Yu Luying pointed out, "What if it will be completely forgotten after ten days and half a month?" ”

"I think so too," Xiao Yao told Yu Luying, "I have asked Shen Jie to write down all the parts where the double memory appears, and she said she would write it." ”

"How did things come to be like this," Yu Luying said as if muttering, "How can a person remember that he got married at the age of 30 and married at the age of 22 at the same time?" If there is a difference of one and a half years, there may be memory bias, but it is 8 years ......"

You remember the number 22 very well, Xiao Yao thought to himself.

"Do you know Mandela?" Xiao Yao asked Yu Luying coldly.

"You know," Yu Luying said, "is it the leader of the Republic of South Africa?" ”

"No poke," Xiao Yao said, "Do you remember when he died?" ”

"Huh?" Yu Luying said: "The last century, right? The 80s? The 90s? ”

"Was it the 80s or the 90s?"

"I can't remember, in the 80s," Ms. Yu said, "I should have died in prison and then ......."

Xiao Yao didn't sell Guan Zi anymore, because he was in a hurry to go back to have dinner with his wife and children: "Congratulations, you are mistaken, Mandela is still alive." ”

"Huh?" Yu Luying was taken aback: "Liar, right? How can it be? ”

Xiao Yao waved his arm: "I don't believe you, go to the Canhua Internet café to search now, why lie to you." ”

"That's not right......" Yu Luying rubbed her chin with her tiger mouth: "How is this possible?" I remember ......"

"Nelson Mandela died on December 5, 2013, as Shen Jie told me," Xiao Yao told Yu Luying, "You don't have to worry and be distressed, because you are not the only one who remembers wrongly." When Mandela died in 2013, many people's first reaction was, "Is he fucking alive?" ”

Yu Luying: "......"

"Those who made it were able to recount the reports they had watched, the TV footage of the funeral, and even the tear-jerking speech of Mandela's widow," Xiao said. When this statement was put forward, it received a large number of responses from netizens, saying that they had the same memory. ”

Yu Luying: "I...... Speechless. ”

"Since the news of Mandela's death was published in 2013, people around the world have found themselves confused with their memories of Mandela, from the time of his death to the cause of his death." Xiao Yao said: "There is even a special term called the Mandela effect. ”

"The Mandela Effect?" Yu Luying smiled deliciously: "It sounds like the effect of global warming in a greenhouse." ”

"The Mandela Effect is a psychological effect in which the collective memory of history does not correspond to historical facts." Xiao Yao said: "Why do you think this phenomenon occurs? ”

"I ...... How do I know, I'm not engaged in psychology," Yu Luying thought for a while: "It's just a simple rumor, right?" ”

"It's possible," Xiao Yao said, "However, it's normal for one person to have wrong memories, and a group of people have wrong memories at the same time, and they are the same wrong memories, don't you think it's strange?" ”

"What are you trying to express?" Yu Luying asked Xiao Yao.

"What does that make you think?" Xiao Yao inspired: "I don't believe you really can't think of it. ”

"The subconscious of the group, the mirror of our daily leveling under the bridge." Yu Luying said: "Some people use the subconscious space of the group to tamper with the memory of the public. ”

Xiao Yao was stunned: "What do you think?" ”

"Huh?"

"This is a very interesting hypothesis," Xiao Yao nodded, "I didn't think about it in this way, but it was very interesting, very interesting." But the question is, what good is it to tamper with this mass memory? Whoever does something that doesn't benefit is not necessarily because it's fun, right? ”

"How do you know it's no good?" Yu Luying retorted: "Then what do you think of? ”

"I think it's simple," Xiao Yao said, "could it be that someone went back in time and resurrected Mandela?" Or did it save Mandela's fate from dying in the 80s? ”

Yu Luying: "......"

At this time, Yu Luying's phone rang, and it was Yu Lihua urging her to go home for dinner.

"My mother told you to go to dinner together, are you going?" Putting down the phone, Yu Luying said to Xiao Yao.

"I ......" Xiao Yao looked embarrassed.

"I know," Yu Luying nodded, "I'll help you think of a reason to tell your mother." ”

"I'm sorry, but tomorrow." Xiao Yao stretched out his hand and pinched the back of Yu Luying's chubby hand.

"Tomorrow our family may not invite you, resurrect Mandela's eldest son." Yu Luying said.

"Alas, it's really hard to be a man." Xiao Yao said.

"So what else does she think about now besides getting the certificate one day?" Yu Luying suddenly thought of something and asked Xiao Yao.

"She remembers that the three of us went to Navarre to see the wedding dress together, she remembers that we were arrested by Song Haijian, she remembers that she is now locked up by her father, and remembers that I went to Dongru ...... with you"

"How did you make her remember so much? Doesn't it mean that there has to be an object or description of the stimulus? ”

"Oh, just that little time, that little sample, what kind of scientist are you and me? I'm just deducing a hypothesis based on what I've seen as a veteran reader of "The Emperor of Science Fiction......"

Night is slowly falling.

(End of chapter)