No one questioned Pei Ying's decision.
Pei Songbai has grown up. All he remembers about his mother is how tired she is. Pei Ying wants to live for herself, and he has no reason not to support her.
Needless to say, Yin Hua was even more so.
He changed his name to avoid his enemies back then, but now that he has a special status, he will never be able to change his surname back to his original one.
He wholeheartedly supports his sister's willingness to change her surname.
On New Year's Eve in 1968, Pei Ying announced at the New Year's Eve dinner that she would change her name to her original name, Ning Yinghua, thus taking the first step towards becoming a strong woman.
The Pei family's New Year's Eve dinner was very harmonious. Everyone put aside their recent worries, just as Ning Yinghua had said, and the bad luck of the past few days was gone.
The Yin family and Xia Wenhua's family stayed together until late at night before finally going home.
After they left, Ning Yinghua and the child went into the room.
Pei Songbai was tidying up the two plates of fruit on the table. Xia Wenhua leaned against the door watching him, her mind replaying the events of the day.
She felt that something was off, but after racking her brains for a long time, she couldn't figure out what it was that gave her a flash of inspiration.
"Cough cough..."
Ning Yinghua coughed inside the room, and Xia Wenhua suddenly froze.
Oh, right, change the name!
The current household registration system is far less sophisticated than it was in the future when the internet was interconnected. Under normal circumstances, as long as you don't travel far, you don't need a household registration at all.
Unless it's a special job, you just need to let the local street office know when you need to use your household registration after changing your name.
People like Ning Yinghua can modify things themselves and use them without needing to report them at all.
Lin Aiguo's situation was a bit complicated due to the special nature of his workplace, but it didn't take much effort; changing one's name is actually a very common thing.
Xia Wenhua had previously tried to investigate Grandpa Yun's dirty secrets using her spatial ability but found nothing, which she found very strange.
After what happened tonight, she had a bold idea.
The empty city is a product of the future, and the fact that it can provide her with information is also the result of her negotiations with that unknown entity.
The data currently displayed is just a rigid query result. Could it be that she was on the wrong track from the beginning?
Xia Wenhua had a guess and immediately took action.
This time, instead of directly using Yun Lao's current name to investigate his past misdeeds, she entered Yun Lao's name and then searched for his biography.
The electronic screen displayed a dense array of all of Elder Yun's experiences from childhood to adulthood. Xia Wenhua quickly found what she was looking for by skimming through the text.
Out of curiosity, she didn't stop after finding the first name change information. Instead, she continued to look at several more, and when she collected the history of Yun Lao's name changes, she couldn't help but click her tongue in amazement.
In a simple biography, he changed his name five times.
The empty city search function is quite outdated; it only displays the searched portion. Therefore, there won't be any scandals in Yun Lao's biography; it simply lists some of the major events in his life.
Based solely on the records on the electronic screen, Mr. Yun's life can be described as full of ups and downs.
Despite his prestigious family background in Anshi, Old Master Yun was nothing more than a farmhand for a landlord in the beginning.
During the turbulent years of the Republic of China, when warlords were fighting each other, he became famous through deception and fraud.
During the special period after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he transformed himself into a "red capitalist".
Based on Yun Lao's simple biography, Xia Wenhua really couldn't have imagined that he had so much potential.
After reflecting on Mr. Yun's eventful life, Xia Wenhua took notes of the names he had changed and began to investigate his past misdeeds.
Having risen from the bottom to the top, and changing his name in each era, it's impossible for Mr. Yun to be clean.
Not to mention that Yun Wenxia and her daughter Yun Meng are audacious and reckless, daring to kidnap people in broad daylight; their character must not have been formed overnight.
As Xia Wenhua entered the names that Yun Lao had changed one by one, she was utterly shocked by the crimes listed.
She had considered that Elder Yun's past was not honorable at all, but the things mentioned above were beyond her imagination.
It's not just a bunch of scandals, it's an endless list of misdeeds!
She had already brought in paper and pen from outside. She didn't have time to come up with any report, so she first wrote down all the important things about Elder Yun that were mentioned in the report.
Xia Wenhua stared at what she had written on the paper, unable to come back to her senses for a long time.
How can there be such a bad person?
It took her almost an hour to finish writing what she considered important.
She slipped out of the empty city and looked at Pei Songbai standing in the room, then slapped her head in frustration.
How could she forget something so important!
Pei Songbai is still at home!
Meeting Pei Songbai's meaningful gaze, Xia Wenhua's brain raced, but she couldn't come up with a reasonable explanation for a long time.
After all, no normal person would suddenly disappear from a room and then suddenly reappear.
After much deliberation, she decided to skip the matter and play dumb.
"Pine and Cypress, what a coincidence, you..."
As soon as she said it, Xia Wenhua wished she could bite her lip off.
Foolish as it may be, there's no way you can be this foolish!
As expected, Pei Songbai couldn't help but facepalm.
"Comrade Xia Wenhua, do I need to remind you? We just took the night watch together. I was packing my things, and you said you'd go back to your room and wait for me. Now... um?"
His eyes were full of pressure, and Xia Wenhua subconsciously lowered her head.
But after a moment, she suddenly sensed something was amiss.
If a normal person finds that a family member has disappeared from the room and then suddenly reappears, shouldn't their first reaction be panic?
Even if Pei Songbai is a veteran of countless battles, surely he has never had this kind of experience?
Why was Pei Songbai not surprised at all after she appeared? All his actions seemed to be just to tell her that what she was doing was wrong.
Xia Wenhua's mind went blank, and her gaze toward Pei Songbai became suspicious.
"What's going on now?"
She stared at Pei Songbai, trying to glean some clue from his face.
Xia Wenhua was clearly the one who did wrong, but she suddenly turned the tables and insisted on questioning Pei Songbai, leaving Pei Songbai completely bewildered.
He pointed to himself, then glanced at Xia Wenhua.
Are you asking me?
Once, when Pei Songbai was in a coma, Xia Wenhua heard him tell her to complete the map.
At that time, Xia Wenhua was convinced that Pei Songbai had returned like her, so she took out the items from her space without hesitation, completed the map, and handed it over.
When Pei Songbai woke up, he was completely unaware of this. Xia Wenhua tried to probe him many times, but received no response, so she had to give up.
This time, she suddenly remembered that Elder Yun might have changed his name, so she lowered her guard and entered the empty city in front of Pei Songbai, but unexpectedly gained something.
Xia Wenhua, who had taken the initiative, showed no discomfort whatsoever; on the contrary, she pressed on relentlessly.
"Pine and Cypress, I disappear and reappear before you, aren't you afraid?"
(over)
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