Chapter Twenty-Four: Love Is Entangled

Ma Feila's stalking of Qiao Nianchao did not win Qiao Nianchao's love for her, and in the end, Ma Feila took Qiao Nianchao down, or in the summer vacation of that summer.

During the holiday, Ma Feila naturally came back on the same train as Qiao Nianchao, in the same carriage, and with two adjacent seats. The two of them sat all the way so intimately, and Mafila was so happy that he wanted to die. Since she had a good impression of Qiao Nianchao, she had never been alone with Qiao Nianchao for such a long time.

That time on the train, she sang all the way, singing with a flushed face and a high spirit. She sang all the songs she thought of, and finally ran out of words, and sang all the "I Love Beijing Tiananmen" she learned when she was a child, and finally the train finally entered the station.

Before leaving for the military academy, Ma Feila called his father's driver and informed him of the number and time of his train, and the driver was a young man about the same age as Ma Feila, and he was very shy to take Ma Feila's bag. Qiao Nianchao wanted to take the bus back by himself, but was stopped by Ma Feila. She said: Why don't you sit in a car?

Qiao Nianchao said: I'm afraid that my dad will see it and talk about me.

Ma Feila said: This is not your father's car, it is my father's car, what are you afraid of?

In the car, Ma Feila was like arriving at home, she leaned on Qiao Nianchao's body, Qiao Nianchao dodged, she squeezed forward, and finally Qiao Nianchao had nowhere to go, so she could only let Ma Feila lean on it like this.

She said in the car: How are you going to spend a month off?

He said: How else can I live, read books and sleep.

She said: It's boring.

When the two of them parted, Ma Fela said, "Tomorrow at nine o'clock in the morning, you will come to my house to look for me."

Qiao Nianchao was noncommittal.

The next day, Qiao Nianchao had long forgotten about looking for Mafila. In the morning, my father knocked on his door, and my father said, "It's a holiday, don't be weak, go, run with me."

He had to put on his clothes and run with his father. My father has been running all his life, and although he is old, he can still run, and it is not easy for him to run behind his father. His father had never let him run with him. It wasn't until he was running that he realized his father's intentions.

There are some retired or in-service old comrades living in the courtyard, they are running, or practicing swords, tai chi, or so on, and the old people feel that there are few of them, and when they are active, they have not yet blown the wake-up trumpet. Deputy Chief of Staff Qiao ran in front, he followed behind, and his father's colleagues looked sideways at the two of them. Among these people, Qiao Nianchao knew some of them, and some he felt familiar, but he couldn't name or hold them. When he lived in the compound, he was still in school, and he didn't care about his position and identity at all, so he blindly called his uncle and uncle, and he was familiar with each other anyway.

Father, Deputy Chief of Staff Qiao, pointed back with his thumb and said: My old son, read the dynasty. Just got back from the Army Academy and was on vacation.

Someone else would cry out, "Oh—

When the father saw the newcomer, he said: This is the old son Nian Chao, who has just returned from the Army Academy.

Someone else said again: Oh-

……

That morning, my father took him around the compound as if he were exhibiting, and introduced everyone he met. The father finally returned satisfied.

Qiao Nianchao knew that his father was very satisfied that he could go to the Army Academy. When he came back this time, his father's attitude took a 180-degree turn. When he came back for dinner that night, his father opened his wine cabinet and said to him, "Son, what kind of wine do you drink?"

His father already regarded him as an adult, even his own comrade.

My father took his glass and said, "Dry."

He had no choice but to do it.

My father said, "You will be an officer as soon as you graduate from the Army Academy."

The father also said: the army of the future is yours.

When my father said this, his voice became a little desolate. He noticed that his father had more gray hair on his sideburns.

My father said, "In two years, I should be retired, and time flies."

In his childhood and adolescence, he remembered his father always so young and walked "tom". In the past two years, I don't know if I'm older, or if my father is really old, my father is really a little old in his eyes.

It was only after a few glasses of wine that his face turned red.

At that moment, he somewhat understood his father.

He was tossed by his father in the morning, and as soon as his parents left after breakfast, he fell asleep again. When he woke up, he found Marfila pinching his nose. As soon as he turned over and sat up, he found that he was only wearing a vest and shorts, and immediately fell down again, covered himself with a towel and said, "Get out, get out quickly, don't you see that I am not dressed."

Ma Feila also blushed, and said as he walked out: "People are not big, and they are quite feudal."

He washed his face, and when he appeared in the living room, Marfila said, "Let's go to the movies."

He shook his head, his suggestion to Mafila was not a little more energetic.

Last night, his mother told him that Fang Wei had also returned. Fang Wei is in nursing school, and he is also at home during the holidays. Mother said this intentionally, when he first left as a soldier, his mother seemed to see that he and Fang Wei had some signs. In the past, when my mother and Fang Wei's mother met, the two women didn't have anything more to talk about, they didn't work in the same unit, and they rushed home in a hurry when they came back from outside, so how could they have so much time to talk.

Since he and Fang Wei left as soldiers, the two mothers seem to understand a problem, maybe when the two of them will become mothers. So, they took the time to talk together, even if they were carrying food in their hands, they had to put it on the side of the road to chat.

She said: "The child has a letter?"

The other said: Here he came, saying that he was good in the army. Did your child write from me too?

She said: Here, boys are not as good as girls, a few days ago, his father went to the army and trained him well.

The other said: Boys mature late, and such children will have a future of interest.

She said, "Oh—

The other also said: Oh-

The two of them left, and it seems that there is still a lot to say, and the time relationship can only be said here.

When we met again, one said, "What's wrong with your girl?"

The other said, "Still like that, what about your boy?"

One said: He himself said that he went to feed the pigs, and it was better than your girl, who was in the hospital and in good condition.

The other said: If the conditions are good or bad, young people have to exercise, and what they had when they first came to the army were not trained by themselves.

One said: This is reasonable, it's better or worse to go by yourself, others are also in a hurry.

The other said, "Not really......

At that time, the fate of the two children was holding the hearts of the two mothers, and there was another meaning, in case they became mothers, they would have to worry about it together.

Mother didn't know that he no longer had any contact with Fang Wei, just like two different trains, which didn't go the same way at all. Although he had no contact with Fang Wei anymore, his emotions were still affected when he heard Fang Wei's name.

When Maphila saw that he was so bored with him, he said, "Do you miss her again?"

He said, "Who do I think?"

She said: I'll call Sister Fang Wei in a while, let's go to the movies together.

He said, "Love goes to you."

She sat for a moment, then stood up, threw the cushions on the couch and said, "It's boring."

The next morning, my father repeated what he had done yesterday, and before it was even dawn he called him up to run, and then he went on display as if he were on duty. As soon as his parents left, he fell asleep again.

Later, he was awakened by a loud noise, coming from the living room, and there was a knocking sound from underneath the living room. He sat up and came to the living room, when they were young, they were like this, someone came to him, got under the other party's house, knocked on the floor, three long, three short, at that time it was the signal they agreed. But I haven't played this kind of game for a long time, and now this kind of code has appeared again, he doesn't know who the person under the tunnel is, he is on the wall of the living room, and easily found the key to the tunnel entrance, but he didn't expect the lock to open all of a sudden, he just opened the tunnel entrance, and was dragged down by the people below, and he fell into it with a black rumbling, and when he got up in the tunnel, he found that Ma Feira was smiling at him.

Out of nowhere, the Maphila found a lantern, and the lantern was bringing them a piece of light.

He said, "What the hell are you doing, it scared me."

She was still smiling, and she bent over with laughter.

He calmed down and said, "How do you know our code back then?"

She said: When you were a child, you didn't take me to play, wouldn't I watch it?

A few years later, he returned to the long-lost tunnel, and he had an impulse to pull Ma Feila to the tunnel, and the scenes of his childhood were displayed in front of his eyes again and again. So, he told Ma Fela: Back then, we were playing here to catch spies, and your brother was always playing tricks, and when he was caught, he ran away.

The two of them laughed as they spoke.

The two of them were walking and talking, both a little excited. Suddenly, Qiao Nianchao stopped, and the open space in front of him was the place where he and Fang Wei had their first kiss before he became a soldier. That day, they had completed their first kiss in this tunnel, and it was so thrilling, and out of breath, and the sound of their teeth clattering together still rings in his ears today.

Ma Feira also froze, her eyes seemed to burn a little spark, and in an instant it was damp again, the horse lamp was placed on the ground, and the black shadows of the two people shone on the cave wall.

She said a little breathlessly: Qiao Nianchao, you and Sister Fang Wei were here two years ago, do you know, how long you stayed, I cried for as long as I could, I still remember that the two handkerchiefs to wipe tears were still thrown here.

After saying that, she picked up two handkerchiefs not far away, one pink and one white. They landed in a corner and were still in perfect condition.

It was only at this time that he seriously looked at Ma Feila in front of him, but he didn't expect that Ma Feila began to have a crush on him two years ago, and when she and Fang Wei went into the tunnel to complete their first kiss, she became a witness. He was naturally moved, but also a little at a loss, and just looked at Marfila blankly. He didn't expect that the little girl in front of him would have such great perseverance, and now she chased him to the army again.

Ma Feila threw herself into his arms all of a sudden, hugged him and said: Qiao Nian kissed me towards you, just like when you kissed Sister Fang Wei.

She turned her face back at him, and he saw the tears streaming down her face.

His heart trembled, and for some reason, his hand tightened his grip on her. She buried her face in his arms and suddenly burst into tears.

Qiao Nianchao didn't realize that at this time, he had quietly fallen in love with Mafila. Afterwards, he still felt a little unbelievable, Mafila had always been a child in his eyes who had not grown up, and before that, he had never even paid attention to her.

In the tunnel, he listened to Ma Feila's crying, and he knew that Ma Feila had been loving him for so many years, that kind of silent and silent love. He actually had a hallucination at that time, as if he was not facing Ma Feila but Fang Wei, still in this place, he completed his first love, and Ma Feila also completed his first love. She asked him to kiss herself, and he didn't kiss her, just held her tightly in his arms. Qiao Nianchao's heart was very complicated, whether he was grateful or forgetful, he couldn't tell clearly.

When the two people came out of the tunnel and stood in the sun again, although they were still the two people before, the mentality of the two people changed. Neither of them seemed to have the courage to look at each other, they were both avoiding each other's gaze, and their expressions were much more solemn.

When the two broke up that day, there was no goodbye, Qiao Nianchao silently turned around and walked back, Ma Feila stood there and said word by word: Qiao Nianchao, I will remember today.

Qiao Nianchao's footsteps stopped, but he didn't look back.

Ma Phera said again, "Today, you have finally ignored me."

When Mephila said this, he said it with a crying voice, and it was an emotion of excitement and happiness.

Qiao Nianxiang walked forward step by step, his steps were not as easy as when he came, sometimes love needs weight.

For three days, the two did not see each other. The past three days have not been calm for Qiao Nianchao, as long as she is free, there is the figure of Ma Feila in front of her, and she is laughing at him. He himself didn't know what was going on.

In the past, Fang Wei was constantly presented in front of his eyes like this. He had a longing, a desire to see Mafila. In the past three days, he wanted to go to see Mafila, he walked to the door, and then he came back hesitantly, he also wanted to make a phone call to Mafila, the phone was in his hand, he put it down again, he hadn't thought about what to say to Mafila.

Ma Feila seemed to be much calmer than before, she was no longer in a hurry to find Qiao Nianchao, she knew that she had approached him, and the rest was waiting and harvesting. In those days, the mood of Mafila was unprecedentedly good. At home, she hummed a song and waited. She would stop in front of the mirror for a long time, scrutinizing herself, which had never been done before. She smiled at herself in the mirror for a while, squeezed her eyebrows for a while, and then asked herself in the mirror: Are you beautiful in Mayfila? Of course, he couldn't get an answer, and then stuck his tongue out in the mirror, and went on to do something else. After a while, she stood in front of the mirror again, and said with some sorrow: Ma Feila, are you as beautiful as Fang Wei? Then she stared blankly at herself.

On the third night, she saw Qiao Nianchao by the flower bed, Qiao Nianchao was running around the flower bed, he seemed to have been running for a while, and the sweat on his head was flowing out. She walked over and walked to Qiao Nianchao's inevitable path, Qiao Nianchao had no choice but to see her, he stopped there and looked at her.

She looked at him too. After a while, she finally said: Qiao Nianchao, where have you been these days?

He said, "I'm not going anywhere."

She said plaintively: Then why don't you go to me? I'm at home every day.

Qiao Nianchao picked up the clothes that were placed on the ground from the side of the flower bed, put them on his shoulders, and walked forward. He did not go home, but walked out of the compound. Marfila reacted and quickly chased after him.

The two of them walked to the row of chairs in the middle of the street garden before stopping. He turned, and she was panting for him. Without saying a word, he took her into his arms at once, bowed his head, found her lips, and kissed her with some urgency. She shuddered, then trembled, and her tears flowed silently again.

Later, they sat in row chairs, her body leaning against him, the stars were already flourishing in the sky, the street lamps around them were dimly lit, there were few cars on the streets, and there were few pedestrians.

She said faintly: Nian Chao, you finally like me.

He didn't speak, just put his arm around her and used some force.

She said again: Nian Chao, do you know how hard and tiring it is to wait for someone?

He lowered his head and looked at her.

He kissed her again, so dark that she seemed to turn into a glass of water in his arms. Two people separate and join together, and together and separate.

She said: Nian Chao, it's good, I want to be by your side all the time.

Qiao Nianchao said: Ma Feila, you don't regret being with me, right?

She said, "How so?" I will always love you, I am not Fang Wei. She's left you, and I won't, never.

At this time, none of them realized that the danger was already quietly happening. The garden in the middle of the street where they are located is just a one-way street in front of them, and there are not many vehicles, but the center of the street is hidden by a dense layer of trees.

Three men came from behind the tree, and when they appeared next to Qiao Nianchao and Ma Feila, the two of them had not yet noticed.

The two men first grabbed Qiao Nianchao, and then his eyes were blindfolded and his mouth was blocked.

Another man grabbed Mafira, who just shouted, "What are you doing?" Then the mouth was gagged.

Qiao Nianchao's belt was untied and tied to his hands, his body was tied to a tree, he struggled, tried, but to no avail, the three people pulled Ma Feila into the woods, first there was a fight and whimpering, and then there was silence.

In this process, Qiao Nianchao hit the tree with his head, and he could only move his head. His head was bleeding, first on his face and then on his body.

I don't know how long it took, Ma Feila walked over without covering her body, she untied Qiao Nianchao's hand, and then the rope wrapped around her body.

Qiao Nianchao removed the black cloth from his eyes, and he saw Ma Feila, who hugged his shoulders and cried hoarsely. It was as if he had a dream, as if he didn't know what had happened in this short period of time.

Ma Feila suddenly threw herself into his arms again, and shouted hoarsely: Qiao Nianchao, do you still love me?

Qiao Nianchao trembled all over, and subconsciously held Ma Feila in his arms. Until then, he still didn't believe that what was happening in front of him could be true.

He didn't know when his tears flowed.