"I'm so sorry, Leo, I didn't know..." Wen Ruan felt very guilty, as she had inadvertently touched a nerve with the little boy. She thought that his parents were among the group of adults she had just seen.
So she reached into her pocket and rummaged around for a while, hoping to find another candy for him. But unfortunately, her backpack had been left in the tent when Wen Ruan left. The candy she had just received was handed to her by Oliver when he was eating it in the car, and Wen Ruan had casually put it in her pocket.
“It’s not your fault, Sister Wenruan. I have many children like me around me, and I also have a younger sister. I won’t feel lonely,” Leo comforted her, seemingly optimistically.
The two sat in the middle of the ruins and chatted. Since the arrival of their group of soldiers, there was hardly anyone on the street. In Leo's words, they were all very afraid because the group had guns.
The two quickly became acquainted through casual conversation. Leo told her about his past life, and Wen Ruan told him where she came from.
"So you're still studying? What's university? Is it a place that's more prestigious than the elementary school I attended before?" Leo asked somewhat innocently.
Wen Ruan felt a pang of sadness. Looking at Leo, who seemed to have no idea what studying or going to university meant, and seeing his somewhat innocent face, she asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
"It seems like the children here have a hard time growing up..."
Wen Ruan felt as if her heart had been struck hard, and she couldn't help but recall a passage she had once read in a history book.
That was in China in 1937. A foreign journalist looked at the soldiers wearing straw sandals and asked with some concern, "Wearing straw sandals will be especially cold in winter. What will you do then?"
The soldier, with a calm expression and a smile, said casually, "I don't plan to live to see winter."
At that very moment, Wen Ruan suddenly understood the meaning of "Yesterday was me, today is you"...
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