When Zhou Jinshan heard her ask him why again, his memory went back to more than ten years ago.
That year, after graduating from Bincheng Maritime College, he was transferred to a coastal city for garrison duty. Not long after, his parents urged him to get married, and his superiors were also concerned about his marital status, so they arranged a blind date for him with a nurse.
He thought that he was getting on in years and that getting married and having children was a part of life, so he agreed to meet his boss on a blind date with a female colleague the next day.
That night, he had a dream. The first thing he saw in the dream was an auditorium, and he saw a girl, but he couldn't see her face clearly.
Soon, the dream shifted to an island where he and she were decorating their new home, a two-story house with a courtyard.
After waking up from the dream, Zhou Jinshan was unable to calm down for a long time. Although the dream was blurry, he could clearly feel that he was happy in the dream, happy to have met that girl and to have married her.
The following day, Zhou Jinshan went to see the nurse and expressed his apologies.
The other party seemed somewhat resentful, and not long after, rumors began to circulate that he was infertile. He ignored them, and not many people believed them anyway.
However, as he repeatedly refused blind dates arranged by his superiors, rumors gradually spread, and more and more people believed them.
His old classmate Zhai Qingping jokingly said that he would introduce him to a well-known urologist in Beijing.
Zhou Jinshan's response was to knock his old classmate to the ground and rub him for a while.
As a result, no one brought up the issue of having children in front of him anymore, and fewer people introduced him to potential partners.
He was happy to have some peace and quiet and focused all his energy on his work. Two years later, he was promoted and transferred to a garrison on an island.
This is also the island that appeared in his dream.
He stayed on the island for many years. The girl in his dream never appeared, but three children appeared in the dream, fleetingly, yet they gave him a sense of blood connection.
His hometown seemed to believe the rumors that he was infertile and suggested that he adopt a nephew, which he refused again. However, he used most of his salary to support some orphans of martyrs.
Ten years passed in the blink of an eye. He was transferred back to Bincheng, and the military arranged for him to live in a small villa that originally belonged to a capitalist.
He was originally going to cancel the trip, but when he saw the small Western-style house, a sudden surge of emotion welled up in his heart, and he pushed open the courtyard gate and went inside.
The dream, which he had almost forgotten over the past decade, resurfaced in his mind, and the blurry images seemed to become clearer.
He went up to the second floor and pushed open the door to a room.
The furniture inside the room seemed to have been damaged and then put back together, but it was still clear that this had once been a girl's room.
He walked to the window, pulled back the curtain, and a notebook peeked out from the corner of the windowsill.
He picked up the notebook and flipped through it casually, and a photo immediately fell out.
The photo shows a young woman's half-body portrait, or more accurately, a student, wearing a red flower as a sign of recognition on her chest.
When Zhou Jinshan saw the female student's face in the photo, his breath caught in his throat.
In an instant, the face that I could never see clearly in my dream suddenly became clear.
Nearly forty years old, Chief Zhou could not suppress his suddenly racing heartbeat. He put the photo into his notebook, turned to his guard and said, "I need to know the situation of this building, its original owners, and their current circumstances."
The guards immediately took orders to investigate.
The next day, all the documents were placed on Zhou Jinshan's desk.
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