Chapter 101

Seeing Jiang Nian’s nervous expression, Lu Yu coughed lightly: “I’ve said everything I need to say.”

Jiang Nian: ???

She pursed her lips, feeling a little embarrassed. She always felt that Lu Yu’s words had a wide range. She was afraid that she would tell the truth after drinking and reveal her origins and that this world was a setting in a book. So she hesitated for a while before asking: “What did I say?”

Lu Yu said: “You are not Jiang Nian. The real Jiang Nian has exchanged bodies with you.”

Jiang Nian: !!!

She curled her fingers tightly, her eyes almost widened: “What else?”

She even stuttered when she spoke.

Lu Yu said, "The world we live in is the setting of a book."

Jiang Nian: ...

She stared at Lu Yu in a daze, and said with a stiff face, "I also told you about you... and Sun Ying?"

Sure enough, there was no doubt in Lu Yu's eyes. He nodded and continued, "I told you that you hit your head against the wall and wanted to go back."

Jiang Nian: ...

Seeing Lu Yu's calm appearance, Jiang Nian could hardly imagine how Lu Yu felt when he heard her say this last night. She was silent for a while, and seeing that Lu Yu didn't react, she couldn't help but be curious: "Don't you want to ask me about other things? For example, how the ending of this book goes? The development of you and Sun Ying, and you--"

Jiang Nian's lips were blocked tightly, and she was almost out of breath from the kiss, Her brain was short-circuited. After Lu Yu let her go, before she could come to her senses, she was pressed down by Lu Yu again. The man grabbed her waist and kissed her collarbone. He said in a hoarse voice: "I care about our future. As for what you said, it doesn't exist for me." Jiang Nian

: ???

Her small vest was pushed up. Jiang Nian was surprised and said: "Wait a minute!"

Lu Yu responded with a hot kiss.

Jiang Nian: ...

This development is wrong?

Under normal circumstances, shouldn't the male protagonist in the book be curious if he knows that he lives in a book? Curious about his future development and the structure of this book, why is Lu Yu indifferent to these things?

"Nian Nian"

"There is one more thing I want to say again."

Jiang Nian was held by Lu Yu and turned over to sit on him. Her hands were a little limp and supported on his shoulders. She was a little dazed: "What's the matter?"

Lu Yu said: "If you dream of another 'Jiang Nian' again, don't talk to her."

Jiang Nian's slow brain suddenly became clear. Under Lu Yu's continuous operation, she didn't have time to ask what he meant. She was almost fainted.

Jiang Nian: ...

She didn't ask that sentence before she fell asleep, but Lu Yu's words kept lingering in her mind.

- If you dream of another 'Jiang Nian' again, don't talk to her.

How many secrets did she tell Lu Yu?

How come he even blurted out everything he had dreamed about?

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Lu Yu got up first and made breakfast before waking Jiang Nian up. After eating, they cleaned the house, folded the bedding and put it away, and then left with their bags. When leaving, Lu Yu told Song Bailing to send all the bedding and basins in the house to Yuanshi when he was free. Those were all used by Jiang Nian, and he didn't want to keep them.

He got up early in the morning and went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a lot of things and put them on the table. He left a note on the table, thanking Song Bailing and Tang Ze for taking care of him these days.

Song Baiyin had bought all the train tickets, and the train she bought was for noon. Jiang Nian got on the train and saw Song Baiyin and Tang Ze standing outside through the window. Song Baiyin's eyes were always on her, and it was difficult for Jiang Nian to ignore him. She gritted her teeth and met Song Baiyin's dark eyes, waved her hand, and said through a layer of glass, "Goodbye."

Song Baiyin showed a smile in his eyes, and waved at her as well.

Lu Yu put away his luggage and sat next to Jiang Nian, completely blocking Song Bailing's view. He also waved to Song Bailing and Tang Ze with one hand, and squeezed Jiang Nian's hand with the other. After the train started, Lu Yu took the military kettle to get hot water. Jiang Nian looked out the window, the wind was howling in the vast Gobi Desert, and sand could be seen falling in the air.

Jiang Nian was afraid to sleep alone, so Lu Yu would hold her in his arms at night.

The berth was very narrow, and both of them had to lie sideways. Jiang Nian raised his head and looked at Lu Yu's facial features hidden in the dim light, and whispered, "Are you nervous?"

After all, he was going to see his biological mother again. Even if he hated her, he should be nervous to see her again after more than ten years of separation.

Lu Yu said calmly, "Not nervous."

In his previous life, he had always stayed in the army. Except for missions, he would not go out normally. There was no episode with Du Jiang in this life. It was because of Jiang Nian that he met Du Jiang in this life and learned the whereabouts of his mother. In his previous life, he often thought that if he met his mother one day, he would definitely ask her why she abandoned him.

This trip was a carrier of his obsession in two lives.

Because of Lu Yu's company, Jiang Nian slept relatively soundly this time. The train arrived at eight o'clock in the morning, and it was still dark. Jiang Nian put on a thick cotton coat and a cotton hat and was led off the train by Lu Yu. It was lonely and desolate outside the train, and some of the dirt roads were potholed. Jiang Nian walked out of the train station with one foot deep and one foot shallow. She felt Lu Yu, who was leading her, pause for a moment, and then she heard a familiar voice.

"Is it Lu Yu?"

Jiang Nian looked up and saw a figure walking in the night. The man was wearing a thick cotton coat and a cotton hat to protect his ears. Although his clothes were old, they were very clean, and some parts were a little white and faded.

Lu Yu said, "Uncle Du."

Jiang Nian also shouted, "Uncle Du."

Du Jiang smiled and said, "You must be tired from the journey. Come and sit in the car. I have spread a thick mattress. You can cover yourself with it so you won't be cold."

He held a whip in his hand, as if he was using it to drive the horse. He reached out to take off Lu Yu's backpack. Lu Yu turned aside and said coldly, "No need. I can carry it myself."

Du Jiang smiled and said, "Come on, let's get in the car."

Jiang Nian walked over and realized that the car Du Jiang was talking about was a horse-drawn carriage. There was a cart behind the carriage and a thick mattress on the carriage. The bedding looked clean, but there was a lot of sand and dirt on it due to the rush. Du Jiang patted the bedding, let Jiang Nian lie down in it and cover himself with it, and then let Lu Yu sit on it.

Lu Yu said, "I'm not cold."

He helped Jiang Nian sit on the carriage, let Jiang Nian lie in the quilt, tucked her in before sitting in the front. Du Jiang sat on the other side, pulled the reins and waved the whip. When the horse moved, Jiang Nian was startled. She held the quilt tightly with both hands and looked at the dark night sky. She looked up in front of her. Lu Yu and Uncle Du were sitting in the front, one on the left and one on the right. The two were silent and no one spoke.

She closed her eyes and pretended to sleep. In this situation, it was better for her to speak less.

Du Jiang took out an old-fashioned cigarette from his pocket, took out a cigarette and handed it to Lu Yu. Lu Yu waved his hand: "I don't smoke."

Du Jiang smiled and said: "It's good not to smoke."

He bit the cigarette in his mouth, took a match and lit it against the wind, took a puff, and said: "It's a day's journey back from the train station. If you feel cold, get in the quilt to warm up, don't freeze."

Lu Yu said: "Okay."

Even though Jiang Nian was well prepared, she couldn't help complaining when she learned that she had to sit in a carriage for a day.

She was very cold even when she was lying in the quilt, and she didn't know how Lu Yu and Uncle Du resisted?

After daybreak, Du Jiang stopped the carriage and took some dry food and hot water from the side for Lu Yu and Jiang Nian to eat first. The dry food here is sacs, which are cold and hard to bite. Du Jiang looked at Jiang Nian who was biting with some effort and said with a smile: "Uncle will stew meat for you when we go back."

Jiang Nian smiled and said: "Thank you, Uncle Du."

As soon as the conversation started, Jiang Nian started chatting. She was sitting in the carriage, wearing a thick quilt and a scarf on her face, revealing only a pair of eyes. She sat behind Lu Yu, and the man's tall body just blocked the cold wind for her.

Jiang Nian asked: "Uncle Du, are you born and raised here?"

After asking, she remembered that Du Jiang had said it before.

Du Jiang smiled and said, "Yes, a native Xinjiang person. My grandmother's generation has lived here." He glanced at Lu Yu, waved his whip, and said to Lu Yu after a moment of silence, "Your mother is also a native Xinjiang person."

Jiang Nian was startled and a little surprised.

Lu Yu was also startled, and turned to look at Du Jiang. As long as he could remember, he knew that his mother came to Honggou Village in the second commune of Feng County with someone. His father fell in love with her at first sight, and then they got married. After his father passed away a few years later, she also left him.

He knew nothing about her life experience.

Even if he knew that he was a character in a book and knew all the plots of the book, he would still not know his mother's life experience after being reborn.

Lu Yu turned his head and looked at the vast Gobi Desert, and asked: "If she is from Xinjiang, how could she appear in Fengxian, thousands of miles away?"

Du Jiang took a deep puff of cigarette and exhaled a puff of smoke, feeling relieved that the depression that had been pent up in his heart for decades had been released. He said: "Your grandmother came to Xinjiang with her second mother and settled down there. She happened to be a neighbor of my family. After being introduced by a matchmaker, she met your grandfather and got married. A year after the marriage, she gave birth to your mother. Your grandmother was injured when giving birth to your mother, so she had no choice but to go to the hospital. When Fa Zai was born again, your grandfather wanted a son, so he rushed your mother and your grandmother back home to find a new wife. Your grandmother and your mother were the only two women in the family. Our family has been helping them. Your mother and I grew up together. I am four years older than her. Later, your grandmother wanted to go back to her hometown to see her relatives, so she took your mother with her and left. This journey lasted eleven years. "

At this point, Du Jiang stopped, and they refilled a cigarette, as if thinking of Lu Yu and his grandfather, their expressions became a little colder.

Jiang Nian sat behind them, listening to Du Jiang talking about the brief decades of Lu Yu's mother, he couldn't help but feel shocked.

She didn't expect that Lu Yu's mother and his grandmother were so rough. In that older era, she knew how difficult it was for a widow to live with her daughter. Both mother and daughter were often wronged and abused. Fortunately, they had the help of the Du Jiang family in those years, otherwise it would be hard to imagine how they, mother and daughter, could persevere.

Jiang Nian was sitting in the back, and could only see Lu Yu's tall and straight back, but not his expression. But at this moment, she seemed to see a bit of stoop in Lu Yu's tall and straight back. After a while, she heard Lu Yu ask: "How did she get to know my father later?"

His voice was hoarse, somewhat similar to the desolate Gobi Desert now.