Chapter 100

Lu Yuhun was shocked, and the hand holding Jiang Nian suddenly tightened. He pinched Jiang Nian's cheeks, forcing her to raise her head to face him, and his voice was a little trembling: "Where are you from?!"

He suddenly thought of the time last year in the military family compound, when Jiang Nian also drank too much. He asked her where she was from, and she pointed at the beam. At that time, he heard her say water, but it was actually books. Did she come from the world outside books?

"Jiang Nian, tell me."

Lu Yu used some force on his fingers. Jiang Nian felt a slight pain. He grabbed Lu Yu's wrist and pushed: "It hurts."

Lu Yu's fingers loosened some force, and Jiang Nian laughed: "Don't be surprised. I came from outside the book. This world is a book, a book created by an author. You are the hero of this book, and I am the hero's sister-in-law who died early." She paused, patted Lu Yu's face with her palm, and was a little unhappy: "You probably can't guess that Sun Ying is the heroine of this book. You two were originally a couple. I don't know if it's because of my appearance that the plot of this book has collapsed? Lu Yu, actually your real sister-in-law died four years ago. The person you came back to save four years ago was not your sister-in-law, but me."

Jiang Nian blurted out the words buried in her heart: "Do you remember that I brought you and Sun Ying together four years ago?"

Lu Yu let go of Jiang Nian's cheeks and held her hands: "Remember."

Jiang Nian's eyes were still drunk: "At that time, I thought that if you and Sun Ying could be together, maybe the plot would get back on track and I could return to the real world. Who knew that you didn't want to get to know her, so I could only find a way to bang my head against the wall to see if I could knock myself back."

Lu Yu:...

He held Jiang Nian's hand tightly, thinking of Jiang Nian's abnormality when she first came to the army, and combined with what she said now, everything made sense.

She read the book and knew the ending of Xu Yan and Liu Qiang, and what Zheng Hong did, so she targeted Zheng Hong from the beginning and changed the original ending of Xu Yan in the book. Maybe she also helped with the matter of Captain Song and Song Xiangdong.

Lu Yu thought that she might be a soul from any place in this world, but she never thought that she would be someone outside the book.

He thought of Jiang Nian's abnormal behavior in the past three years. She would fall into a dream every year, calling Xu Cheng's name, and her expression became numb. The situation became more serious after returning to her hometown. Lu Yu wanted to take advantage of tonight to find out the truth. He glanced at Jiang Nian's drunken appearance, stroked her lips, and coaxed her: "Can you tell me, do you often dream of Xu Cheng at night?"

Jiang Nian shook her head, and her tongue curled up when she spoke. She stretched out two fingers and gestured: "I dream about Xu Cheng. Three, no, I didn’t dream about him, I dreamed about your sister-in-law.——”

Lu Yu’s expression changed slightly, and he heard her continue: “Your sister-in-law and I exchanged souls. I possessed her body and became her, and she possessed my body and became me. Don’t you think it’s new or not?” She smiled and continued: “And I also dreamed that she met Xu Cheng.”

Lu Yu lowered his eyes to look at Jiang Nian, his dark eyes like a deep pool that could not be illuminated to the bottom, and said in a hoarse voice: “Xu Cheng is not dead?”

Jiang Jiang Nian trembled her fingers: "I didn't expect Xu Cheng and your sister-in-law to be in my world. Don't you think it's unexpected?"

After saying that, she frowned in distress: "It's just that your sister-in-law didn't talk to me in the dream, and I don't know why. She also locked the door and I couldn't get in."

Lu Yu pursed his thin lips suddenly, thinking of his experience before his death, and roughly understood why his sister-in-law didn't talk to Jiang Nian. He hugged Jiang Nian, rubbed her neck gently with his fingers, and whispered: " Nian Nian, if you dream about my sister-in-law again, remember not to talk to her. It’s better if we don’t have to meet each other. "

Jiang Nian looked up in confusion: "Why?"

Lu Yu said: "I'm afraid that the two of you will travel back and forth between each other because of the magnetic field."

He was very uneasy in his heart. Jiang Nian's dreams were uncontrollable, but if she could control herself and not talk to another 'Jiang Nian', perhaps these things would not have happened. He didn't want to lose her, and he didn't want to see another 'Jiang Nian' appear in this body.

Jiang Nian talked a lot again, talking about her relatives in the new century, her parents run a restaurant, she learned cooking from her father, embroidery from her grandmother, and her grandmother's generation learned embroidery from her ancestors, who were embroiderers in the palace. Jiang Nian vomited a lot of things like pouring beans, and finally lay in Lu Yu's arms and cried like a tearful person, saying that she missed her family, her father, mother, grandpa and grandmother.

Lu Yu hugged Jiang Nian, and his heart was more complicated than ever before.

Jiang Nian tormented until the late night before she finally calmed down. She slept soundly in Lu Yu's arms, but when the day began to dawn, her face looked a little uncomfortable and painful. She dreamed of Lu Yu again, still in that mud house. She pushed the door open anxiously and saw Lu Yu kneeling on one knee on the ground, with blood dripping from every joint of his body. She clearly saw a thin line between Lu Yu's shoulders and knees, which extended all the way to the roof, and could not be seen above it.

Lu Yu suddenly tore the string on his left shoulder, and blood suddenly gushed out from his shoulder. The blood dripped down his arm and onto the ground. He seemed to be unaware of the pain. He struggled to lift his injured right hand and tore off the string on his other shoulder.

Just like what she had dreamed of last time, both shoulders were covered in blood, and there was a pool of blood on the ground.

"Lu Yu"

Jiang Nian ran over and tried to hug him, but she passed through his body again. She staggered and turned around, and saw Lu Yu's hands forcefully tore off the two strings on his knees. Blood spurted out from the invisible wounds instantly, and Lu Yu's cold features also showed a look of pain.

"Lu Yu!"

Jiang Nian screamed. Just as she was about to try to rush over, she was suddenly lifted up by a force. The next moment her body sank. She was stunned for a moment, then slowly opened her eyes and saw Lu Yu standing close to her. The man was wearing a sweater she had knitted, with some water droplets on his short hair. His handsome face was the same as usual, completely different from the pale and painful look in her dream.

She opened her mouth, a little dazed: "Lu Yu?"

Lu Yu said: "Another nightmare?"

Jiang Nian pursed her lips and nodded, reaching out to hug Lu Yu's neck tightly. He should have gone out for a while, and the coolness on his body made Jiang Nian's hazy consciousness clearer: "I dreamed that there were strings on your joints, and you didn't feel pain. I tried hard to tear the strings apart. I wanted to catch you, but I couldn't."

She choked up as she spoke. The Lu Yu in the dream was painful and helpless, a side she had never seen before.

For the first time, Jiang Nian felt that her heart ached and even breathing was painful.

Lu Yu was silent for a while, then smiled and said, "Dreams are all fake. I'm fine now, aren't I?" Then he picked up Jiang Nian and said, "Don't be lazy on New Year's Day. Song Bai and the others are in the yard, waiting for you to get up. Let's have dinner."

Jiang Nian nodded: "Okay."

Although it was a dream, Jiang Nian still felt a little scared. She relaxed in bed for a while, and vaguely felt that she seemed to have forgotten something. Fragmentary fragments flashed through her mind, all of which were her and Lu Yu lying in bed, and she had no memory of what they did.

Jiang Nian hesitated for a while before getting up and getting dressed. There were still a lot of dumplings left from yesterday, all frozen outside. Lu Yu made dumplings in the morning and fried a few dishes. Tang Ze said: "Lu Yu, the taste of your cooking is really not as good as your sister-in-law's."

Song Bai agreed: "Tang Ze is right."

Lu Yu: ...

He glanced at the two of them: "Then don't eat."

Song Bai and Tang Ze shook their heads quickly and ate faster than before.

Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year, and the wind outside is still very strong. Song Bai said that there is an endless desert and Gobi beach behind the base to the left, with few trees, so the wind is particularly strong, and the wind carries a lot of sand. People here are used to eating sand when encountering strong winds.

Jiang Nian wore a thick cotton coat, a cotton hat and a scarf, with only a pair of eyes exposed.

Lu Yu led her out of the base. There was nothing to see outside. At a glance, there was only the Gobi Desert covered with yellow sand. Finally, Song Bai took them to the Bazaar in the county town. Today was not the day to go to the Bazaar, so the streets were empty and there were not many people. They walked around for a while and went back. On the way, they met Song Bai and Tang Ze's comrades, and they greeted each other.

They also met some military wives. When everyone asked Song Bai who Lu Yu and Jiang Nian were, Song Bai smiled and said, "My brother and my sister-in-law."

Jiang Nian went back to the house, took off his coat, took off his hat, and sat in front of the fire. In the afternoon, Lu Yu went out and sent a telegram to Du Jiang, saying that they would arrive on the fourth day of the New Year. Song Bai was about 800 miles away from Du Jiang's home. Song Bai knew the location of Du Jiang's home and told Lu Yu that Du Jiang's home was more than 100 miles away from the train station. The transportation there was mainly camels and horse carriages, so they were asked to wear thicker clothes to avoid freezing again.

On the night of the second day of the New Year, Jiang Nian cooked all the leftover vegetables and meat at home and made a table of dishes.

Tang Ze brought a bottle of white wine, and the few of them drank a few sips to warm themselves up. After parting this year, they didn't know when they would see each other again.

During the meal, Song Bai kept restraining himself from looking at Jiang Nian, and kept chatting with Lu Yu and Tang Ze about the past few years.

Jiang Nian ate a few bites of food, and looked at the wine glass in Lu Yu's hand from time to time. Lu Yu looked at her, with a smile on his lips: "Do you want to drink more?"

Tang Ze: ...

Song Bai: ...

Jiang Nian shook her head quickly: "I don't want to drink."

She just looked at the wine glass in Lu Yu's hand, and her mind flashed through the fragments of last night's drunkenness, and what she said to Lu Yu. She didn't know what she said specifically, but anyway, it shouldn't be anything good. Looking at the smile on Lu Yu's face, Jiang Nian felt a little guilty.

After eating and drinking, Song Bai and the others sat for a while before leaving.

Lu Yu cleaned up the dishes and boiled some hot water for Jiang Nian to take a bath. During this time, Jiang Nian did not dare to raise her head. She felt guilty and looked at Lu Yu's face from time to time to see if there was anything different in his expression. Lu Yu smiled at her calmly: "Is the water hot?"

Jiang Nian shook her head.

It was already twelve o'clock when she finished cleaning up. She waited until Lu Yu lay on the bed. Jiang Nian turned over and lay in his arms, observing Lu Yu's expression and whispered: "Did I say anything nonsense after I got drunk last night?"