Calculation

After watching the competition between Ye Min and Ding Yang, people on the screen had similar thoughts as her:

[Wow! I didn't realize that Minmin has become so amazing! With her current skills, she won't be killed by a drunkard like in the original novel, right?]

[It's hard to say. It depends on whether the heroine's mother learned martial arts in the original novel. But then again, if she is so powerful in the original novel, how powerful a drunkard would it take to kill her?]

[I always think that the heroine's mother must have been reborn, or she has traveled through the book, otherwise she would not be able to successfully avoid every key point in the plot]

[Indeed, this plot simulation is said to be completely based on the original novel, but every step taken by the heroine's mother was beyond everyone's expectations. She must have opened her clairvoyance! ]

[If that’s the case… then the heroine’s father won’t die? ]

[This...maybe it's hard to say, the score situation]

[It's true that if Ye Min was reborn, she would probably be able to save Meng Cheng, but if she was a reincarnated person, the information she knew should be similar to ours. Does anyone know how the heroine's father died in the original novel? ]

[Don’t mention it. I never thought about this problem when I read the novel. It was not until I watched the plot simulation that this problem has troubled me for several months.]

[It also troubled me for several months]

[Trapped for several months +1]

[We are both troubled... Does this mean that the heroine's father will not survive this summer? ]

[Trapped... Wait! We are all trapped, how can you tell the exact season? 】

[Did the heroine's father die in the summer? Why don't I know? ]

[Don’t ask. Even those who watched the plot simulation and read the book twice don’t know either.]

【Don’t know +1】

[Huh? How come no one knows about this? This time is clearly written in the original novel, right? There is a chapter where the heroine and her brother go to sweep graves and it is mentioned]

[Is this mentioned in the chapter about sweeping graves? I'll go check it out! ]

[Wow, I found it! It’s just one sentence. I copied it and pasted it here for everyone to see.]

【“When he was five, he lost his father in a scorching summer. When he was fifteen, he lost his mother during the same cicada season. So during those years, he always hated summer.

But he didn't expect that one summer, he would find his sister who was taken away by mistake when he was a child.

It was also in this summer that their family was finally reunited in this way. ”】

…

Seeing this, Ye Min couldn't help but hold his breath, but his eyes were still on An An's head.

The little girl was confused by the look on her face. She touched her face and head and asked her brother sitting next to her: "What's wrong with my head?"

An An is very lazy. Ever since he learned the word "sha", he never asks questions like "what is it" or "is there anything" again. If a question can be answered with one word, he will never say two words.

Meng Zheng turned his head and stared at his sister for a long time, then shook his head and said, "Nothing."

"Oh." An An stood up, ran to An An and asked, "Mom, what are you looking at?"

"Nothing." Ye Min came back to his senses, touched An An's head and said, "I'm thinking about something."

"What are you thinking about?"

Ye Min didn't tell the truth: "When can you stop saying 'what' when you miss me?"

An An pursed her lips and stopped talking.

Ye Min did not continue the topic, but thought of the barrage that had been swiped past.

The word "summer" is easy to understand. It is the second season of the year and also the hottest season of the year. However, the time is not so easy to determine. Ancient people considered the fourth, fifth and sixth months of the lunar calendar as summer, while modern people consider the sixth, seventh and eighth months of the Gregorian calendar as summer. [1]

In daily life, people are more accustomed to regarding the Beginning of Summer as the beginning of summer. [2]

Ye Min stood up and looked at the calendar. This year, there was a leap month in April. The first day of April in the lunar calendar was April 22 and May 22 respectively, and the beginning of summer was May 6.

Ye Min didn't dare to be too optimistic, but thinking of the two descriptions of summer in the original text - scorching heat and cicadas chirping, Ye Min felt that this time could be postponed.

Just like what people on the barrage speculated, there was little pollution in those days, and the weather was not that extreme. The extreme heat usually occurred during the dog days of summer, from July to August, and would not be earlier than mid-June.

The time of Cicada's singing is about the same, from mid-to-late June to the end of August, but this refers to the time of her death in the original work.

If she hadn't seen the bullet screen, she would definitely not have remembered to learn martial arts from Meng Cheng, so the bullet screen's guess that she also learned martial arts in the original novel would not have happened. So theoretically speaking, she would not die in the cicada season in this life.

So don’t consider the second half of the sentence.

As for the time of Meng Cheng's death, it should be between mid-June and the end of August.

Today is the first day of the first lunar month, half a year after the incident in Mengcheng in the original novel.

This period of time is not short, but it is not long either. If you want to transfer jobs, you should start preparing now. If you want to change jobs, you don't need to be so anxious. It is enough to apply two months in advance.

Ye Min no longer planned to consider the third option. After watching the barrage for almost two years, she was basically certain that the original novel did not mention the cause of Meng Cheng's death.

She also didn't have to expect that through her own efforts, she could change the events that led to Meng Cheng's death and thus change his fate of dying young.

Leaving became the best solution.

…

Ye Min spent the whole afternoon thinking about asking Meng Cheng to transfer or change his career, but she still felt it was difficult to bring it up.

Between job transfer and career change, the former is definitely better.

Meng Cheng is only 28 years old this year, but he is already a battalion-level officer, and his future is bright. Although he will be assigned a job after transferring to the local area, the army and the local area are different. People who are very successful in the army may become quiet in the local area, and conversely, people who are average in the army may thrive in the local area.

There were several soldiers who had transferred to civilian jobs or retired from the machine tool factory where Ye Min had lived since she was a child. Among them, only her father had done well. The others basically held the same positions they had held when they entered the factory before she joined the army.

The shortest one has not been moved is seven or eight years, and the longest one is more than ten years.

But compared to transferring and staying in the place where you are based, the latter is definitely better.

Although Meng Cheng did not have a prominent family background and did not have complicated connections in the army, he was assigned to Pingcheng after graduating from military school.

During these years, he went to foreign battlefields twice, risked his life several times for the mission, and while gaining military merits and promotions, he also made a name for himself among the local leaders.

Here, as long as he doesn't make any mistakes in the next ten years, it will not be a problem for him to be promoted to deputy division commander before he is 40 years old, and it is not impossible for him to be promoted to division commander or even higher positions.

Even if being transferred to another place is not equivalent to starting over, it is not easy to climb that fast. The greater possibility is that you will stop halfway, and even retiring in the army is a delusion.

And no matter which industry, the bigger the place, the more crowded it is.

Meng Cheng has no family background, so it is not easy for him to be transferred to the city. If the place he is transferred to is just desolate, it would be fine. But if it is more dangerous, he may escape the life-threatening danger this time, but he may not be able to escape the next one.

Seeing Ye Min's increasingly confused expression, Meng Cheng asked, "What happened to you today? You don't look right."

What if I was transferred to a more dangerous place? Even if there might be more danger to my life in Mengcheng in the future, it would be better to live one more day than to not be able to avoid this danger!

If it really doesn't work, she can also persuade Meng Cheng to change his career. Between future and life, the latter is more important.

Ye Min took a deep breath and said, "I have something to tell you."

As soon as the words fell, Ye Min's eyes suddenly froze as he scanned An An's head:

[To be honest, when I was reading the novel, I always felt that the heroine's parents were marginal characters, and I never wondered about the cause of their death. But maybe the plot simulation starts from the heroine's childhood, and the parents have a lot of roles, and I have become attached to them after watching them so many times, so now I especially want to know how the heroine's father died? ]

[I also want to know, does the author have a social account? I want to ask in a private message]

[It’s useful. The Weibo account is the pseudonym. You can find it by searching.]

[OK! I'll search now]

[What are you planning to send a private message to? I'll go too. Strength lies in numbers. Maybe if more people ask, the author will reply faster.]

【I want to go too! 】

【Let’s go +1】

[I have replied to the previous private message, please come back and tell me! ]

Ye Min didn't know what a social account was, or what a private message was, but based on the context, she roughly understood that it was probably a way to contact the author of the original work.

If the viewers of the bullet screen could contact the author of the original novel and ask him about the cause of Meng Cheng's death in the original novel, perhaps she could wait a little longer and not make a choice in a hurry.

I just don’t know how long it will take to contact the author privately. One or two months is fine, but she can’t wait any longer.

Seeing that Ye Min was silent, Meng Cheng asked, "What do you want to tell me?"

"Hmm?" Ye Min came back to her senses, looked at Meng Cheng's face, hesitated and said, "I was thinking... should we invite Master and Xiaoyun to our house to celebrate the New Year together?"

Meng Cheng didn't expect Ye Min was entangled because of this matter, but when he thought about the fact that they had just spent New Year's Day together today, he understood her behavior and started to think seriously about it.

“It’s okay to invite them to celebrate the New Year together, but we have to tell them in advance. It’s okay for the master to be alone, but Ding Yang’s wife will give birth around the New Year, and I don’t know if his parents will come.” Ever since Master Dong officially accepted Ye Min as his apprentice, Meng Cheng also started to call him master.

Ye Min hummed, "You have a point. If we ask Master now, he may not agree. Let's talk about it later. I will ask Xiaoyun tomorrow."

"Um."

…

After meeting Qian Xiaoyun after get off work the next day at noon, Ye Min directly brought up the idea of ​​celebrating the New Year together.

Qian Xiaoyun said after hearing this: "I am not sure now. I heard from Ding Yang's parents that they wanted to do it, but the older generation has never left home during the Chinese New Year, so they are a little hesitant."

Ye Min quickly thought of a flexible idea: "It's okay, just tell me and Meng Cheng when you're sure. If you can't make up your mind, we can just prepare the New Year's goods separately and cook and eat together on New Year's Eve."

"Okay." Qian Xiaoyun agreed immediately.

Listening to their conversation, Feng Aiyun interrupted and asked Qian Xiaoyun: "When will you start your maternity leave?"

"I plan to go directly to the engine room," Qian Xiaoyun explained with a smile when she saw Feng Aiyun's eyes widen. "Ding Yang and I have discussed it. Anyway, my job is easy and I can do it even when I am pregnant. My workplace is in the hospital. I can go to the engine room during work. It takes less than two minutes to walk from the office to the obstetrics and gynecology department. It is more convenient to go to work and start the engine room than to take leave and stay at home."

Feng Aiyun thought for a moment and said, "What you said makes sense. What if you start the engine at home?"

"When I go to work, Ding Yang goes to work. When I get off work, Ding Yang also gets off work. As long as the birth is not at noon, there should be no problem." Qian Xiaoyun half-jokingly said, "Or maybe I won't come back at noon in the future and just take a nap in the hospital."

Ye Min smiled: "That's a solution."

The three of them were chatting and before they knew it, they arrived at the cafeteria in the compound.

After entering, the three of them followed the custom and looked at the supply of the day on the blackboard before lining up at the counter. On weekdays, few people cooked at home, and there were long queues at each counter in the cafeteria. They had no choice but to find a random queue and join the back.

The queue moved forward quite quickly. After waiting in line for seven or eight minutes, it was their turn to get their meal.

The lady at the window who was serving food was also a military wife. She had seen the three of them come to the cafeteria together recently and had a very deep impression of them. She even remembered what dishes each of them liked. When she saw Ye Min, she asked, "You want braised chicken nuggets for the vegetable, right?"

"How do you know? I haven't even opened my mouth!" Ye Min said, giving people a thumbs up.

The lady serving the food had a proud look on her face: "You don't even know what I do. I'm not exaggerating. I know what more than half of the people in our compound like to eat and what they don't like to eat."

As the elder sister spoke, she quickly prepared the meal for Ye Min as she requested, and then collected the money and gave her the change.

First it was Ye Min, then Qian Xiaoyun, and finally it was Feng Aiyun's turn. When serving her food, the lady at the window seemed to be hesitant to speak, which made Feng Aiyun feel confused and asked, "What can I do for you?"

"No." The lady at the window waved her hand and handed the lunch box to Qian Xiaoyun.

But she couldn't keep it secret in her heart. She tried to hold it back, but finally she couldn't help it. While giving the change, she bent down and leaned close to Feng Aiyun's ear and asked in a low voice.

The cafeteria was noisy, and the lady at the window spoke in a low voice. Ye Min and Qian Xiaoyun did not hear clearly what she said, but they clearly saw Feng Aiyun's face turn pale after she finished speaking, and they also heard her answer: "No! I have nothing to do with him!"

After saying that, Feng Aiyun didn't even take the money. He just turned around and left with the lunch box.

Seeing this, Ye Min quickly took the money from the window lady, handed the lunch box to Qian Xiaoyun and said, "Please help me pick up An An. I'll go see how she is."

After saying that, he hurried out of the cafeteria and caught up with Feng Aiyun in front of the basketball court. He reached out to pull her and shouted, "Aiyun, Aiyun, slow down. What did the lady serving the food say to you? Don't just keep walking forward without saying anything!"

Feng Aiyun did not stop, and even turned into the basketball court, walked over the basket to the stands, sat down, and began to sob with his head covered.

Ye Min sat down next to her, put the change aside, and took out a handkerchief from her pocket, but she did not say a word to comfort her. Instead, she watched silently as her crying gradually became softer and then disappeared.

When she had cried enough, Ye Min reached out and patted her shoulder, handed her a handkerchief and said, "Here, wipe your tears."

"Thank you." Feng Aiyun took the handkerchief and said in a hoarse voice.

Seeing that she had calmed down, Ye Min asked again, "What did the lady at the window who served you food just now say to you?"

"She asked me, asked me..." Feng Aiyun opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything.

Ye Min pondered her answer and guessed, "Ask about your relationship with Dr. Zhai?" After asking, he felt something was not right. Ever since she said she wanted to give up Zhai Mingqiu, Feng Aiyun had no contact with him again.

A few months passed, and Feng Aiyun's pursuit of Zhai Mingqiu was long over, and the window clerk would not ask her this question even if she was tactless.

"It's not him," Feng Aiyun shook her head, unable to hold back her tears, and covered her face with her hands, "It was Captain He. She asked me if Captain He and I were dating!"

Ye Min was shocked: "Captain He? How are you related?"

"I don't know! I haven't had much contact with him... No!" Feng Aiyun suddenly raised her head as if she remembered something, but shook her head again after saying it, "No, no, it shouldn't be those two times."

While muttering, she lowered her head, inserted her fingers into the hair crevices, and scratched them hard several times.

Ye Min quickly grabbed her hand and soothed her, "Don't worry, the window lady is the only one asking you about this matter, so it shouldn't have spread. Let's sort out the situation and figure out what's going on. If someone spreads rumors later, we can explain it clearly and suppress the matter before it gets out of hand, right?"

If it were the Feng Aiyun of the past, when she heard the lady at the window ask her that question, she would definitely refute it loudly and distance herself from Captain He. She would not be afraid even if a small matter became a big deal and became known to everyone.

But the quarrel with Nurse Liu made her lose her courage and she could no longer ignore other people's strange looks as she did before.

What changed her was not the harsh words Nurse Liu said, but the comments of the people who watched them quarreling. Rumors hurt people. She didn't understand this before, but she realized their power only after she was hurt.

So even though she loudly refuted the other party just now, she didn't dare to mention the name of Captain He. She could only hide here and cry in anger.

But losing her past courage didn't mean she had become a coward, nor did it mean she had become a fool. She could vaguely guess that she had been tricked.

She also understood that Ye Min's analysis was correct. The most urgent thing was not to cry, but to figure out the cause and effect, so that when the situation got worse, she would not have the chance to fight back.

Feng Aiyun wiped away her tears, took a deep breath and said, "Let's go back to your house first and talk about it after dinner."

Hearing her say this, Ye Min breathed a sigh of relief.

The fact that she knew she had to fill her stomach first showed that she was not defeated by the rumors.

Ye Min stood up, patted her butt and held out her hand to Feng Aiyun: "Let's go." As she pulled her up, she saw the change beside her, bent down, picked it up and put it in her hand, "By the way, here's your change."

"Thank you." Feng Aiyun thanked him again. When he put the change into his pocket, he suddenly asked, "Where's Xiaoyun? Should we go pick up An'an first?"

"I asked Xiaoyun to help pick up An'an."

"oh."

The two walked out of the basketball court and went straight to Ye Min's house.

When they got home, Qian Xiaoyun had already brought An An back, but because they didn't have the door key, they couldn't enter the house. Qian Xiaoyun moved two stools out of the kitchen and sat on one of them to serve rice to An An.

Because the lunch box was placed on the other stool, An An had no place to sit, so he squatted on the ground, tilted his head back, and stared intently.

When Qian Xiaoyun distributed the meat, An An quickly said, "Mom, I want more meat!"

When An An was little, she couldn't call her godmother, so Ye Min taught her to call her auntie. Although she can call her auntie now, she still calls her auntie most of the time because it has become a habit. She only calls her godmother in a flattering way when she asks for help.

For example, now, in order to eat meat, her mouth has become extra sweet.

Qian Xiaoyun was so confused that he gave almost all the meat in the bowl to An An.

After entering the house and sitting around the dining table, Ye Min saw that the bowl of her daughter was piled high with meat, while the bowl of her best friend was almost entirely vegetarian. She guessed what was going on without asking. After opening her own meal, she gave a lot of the meat and vegetable rice to Qian Xiaoyun, and did not stop until she repeatedly said "enough, enough".

After the rice was distributed, Qian Xiaoyun did not start eating immediately. Instead, he asked with concern, "Aiyun, are you okay?"

Feng Aiyun forced a smile: "Not bad."

Ye Min was afraid of affecting her appetite, so she said, "Eat first, and then we can talk."

Qian Xiaoyun knew that the matter was not small and had not been resolved yet, so he was a little worried. But seeing that Feng Aiyun did not want to say more, he did not ask more questions and buried his head in eating.

After dinner, Ye Min asked Qian Xiaoyun to help coax An An to sleep, and she went to Meng Zheng's room with Feng Aiyun to discuss the matter in detail.

The time spent eating was enough for Feng Aiyun to calm down completely and sort out what had happened in the past few months. After sitting down in Meng Zheng's room, without Ye Min asking, she started talking from the first time she met Captain He.

"The second time I met him was at the pharmacy last month. His son was sick and he came to the pharmacy to get medicine. We chatted for a few minutes."

"What did you talk about?"

"Let's just chat casually. I don't remember the details." Feng Aiyun frowned and thought for a long time. "Oh! He asked me if I had been to the county again. I said no and told him that I would find someone to accompany me in the future."

This may sound a bit overly concerned, but when he thought about the first time Captain He met Feng Aiyun, she was stopped by a few vagrants when she went to the county alone, it was understandable for him to ask one more question when they met.

Ye Min took note of this and continued to ask, "What about the third meeting?"

"He was still at the pharmacy. He was going to get his son discharged from the hospital. He passed by the pharmacy and talked to me for a few more words."

Ye Min stopped recording and said, "His son was placed in the pediatric ward that night. He probably wouldn't have passed by the pharmacy when going from the ward to the emergency room."

Feng Aiyun was slightly stunned: "I... never thought about this." After he finished speaking, he felt a little creepy, "You mean he had set his sights on me at that time?"

She also didn't want to think badly of Captain He.

Although she felt that Captain He was not a competent father and husband after hearing what Ye Min and Qian Xiaoyun said about the He family, he had saved her after all. So when they met a few times later, she thought the coincidence was a bit too much, but she never thought too much about it. She also didn't narcissistically think that Captain He was interested in her.

Until today, when she heard the question asked by the lady at the window and recalled all these things, she really couldn't continue to think of the other person as a good person.

Ye Min did not jump to conclusions, but lowered her head and said, "Go on, what did he talk to you about that day?"

It had been a while since the incident, and Feng Aiyun could not quite remember the specific content of the conversation. She could only imagine it. She bent down and grabbed her hair for a long time before looking up and saying, "He seemed to say that he did not meet me in the cafeteria. I told him that I had lunch with you guys at noon, so... that's all."

Ye Min nodded and asked directly: "What about the third meeting?"

"The third time we met was on the 23rd of last month. I went to the county to call my parents and met him while having dinner at a state-owned hotel."

"You went to the county alone?"

"No, I'm with Qin Fang."

Qin Fang, like Ye Min and Feng Aiyun, all moved to the new hospital from the health center. In fact, she and Feng Aiyun had an average relationship at first, but because of her good relationship with Ye Min, the relationship between Ye Min and Feng Aiyun eased, and the two of them gradually became familiar with each other.

Later, Ye Min changed his job to become a doctor and was very busy every day. After arriving at the new hospital, he and Qin Fang were not in the same department, and their relationship gradually faded.

However, Feng Aiyun, because she had an average relationship with the new colleagues who came to support her, preferred to interact with old colleagues and became gradually close to Qin Fang.

Among her colleagues in the hospital, except Ye Min and Qian Xiaoyun, she now has the best relationship with Qin Fang.

Qian Xiaoyun was pregnant and it was inconvenient for her to go out, and Ye Min basically stayed with her family during holidays, so after that incident, when she decided to go to the county again, Feng Aiyun thought of Qin Fang first.

Ye Min continued to ask: "Did you make a private appointment with Qin Fang?"

Feng Aiyun shook her head as she recalled: "It was when I was changing clothes in the locker room."

"Was there anyone else there?"

"Yes." Feng Aiyun mentioned a few names, but was not sure if he missed any.

Ye Min had no choice but to put question marks behind the names of Qin Fang and the others, and then continued to ask: "What did Captain He say to you after you met him in the state-owned restaurant?"

"We didn't say much, just some small talk. But it was dinner time and there were a lot of people in the restaurant, so we shared a table." Feng Aiyun asked, "Is it possible that we were seen having dinner this time? There were more than just the two of us, Qin Fang was there too."

"We can only get the answer after we find out what the rumor is about." Ye Min asked, "What about the fourth encounter?"

"The fourth time was yesterday."

"Didn't you go to the market yesterday? Where did you meet?"

"We met him in the city," Feng Aiyun sighed, "Qin Fang and I were shopping in a department store when we ran into him and his daughter buying clothes."

"Or Qin Fang?"

"Do you think she harmed me?"

"It's hard to say. Why did you and Qin Fang go to the city yesterday?"

"Isn't the Chinese New Year coming soon? She said she wanted to buy two sets of clothes for her parents and bring them back for the New Year, and asked me if I wanted to go to the city with her. I thought I wouldn't go back this year, so I had to prepare in advance to buy things for my parents. Besides, I just asked her to accompany me to the county a while ago, and she came to see me, so I couldn't refuse."

Although Qin Fang is suspicious, her reason for looking for Feng Aiyun is reasonable, and Ye Min does not think that she is the mastermind behind the plot against Feng Aiyun. Firstly, it is unclear what benefits she can gain from Feng Aiyun being caught in a whirlpool of public opinion; secondly, how does she know that Feng Aiyun knows Captain He?

Besides, although she could persuade Feng Aiyun, she had no way of controlling Captain He's movements, unless... they had already established contact behind the scenes.

If this is true, Captain He is still the key. Ye Min connected the two names, put a question mark in the middle, and asked a similar question again: "Did you talk to Captain He?"

"He said he didn't know how to choose clothes for a little girl and asked us to help him."

"You promised?"

"Qin Fang agreed." Feng Aiyun frowned, "But not long after she agreed, she said she had a stomachache and went to the toilet. In the end, I helped choose the clothes for Captain He's daughter."

At this point, the matter was clear and there was no need for Ye Min to summarize. Feng Aiyun had come to the conclusion on her own. She widened her eyes and asked with reddened eyes: "It was Qin Fang. Did she and Captain He plot against me together?"