Dream Guide

Long before Qingmu left Wuzhong, Yao Jingjing already had the ability to enter other people's dreams.

Aoki realized her potential when he taught her lucid dreaming. She is not like Wu Xing who can learn it instantly, nor is she a natural awakener like Meimei. Aoki taught her purely to facilitate the observation of Yao's mother's mental power. But when Yao Jingjing learned lucid dreaming, her ability suddenly exploded. Out.

Qingmu said that Yao Jingjing was a sleeping well, so much so that he did not discover her potential in this area when he was in southern Yunnan. He only had to dig a few meters down, and the groundwater would continue to flow up, never drying up.

Yao Jingjing's mental strength was not strong enough at that time, and she would not dare to dream without Qingmu's help. After Aoki left, she slowly tried to enter other people's dreams, mainly her mother's dreams. From Aoki's words, she already knew that her mother had been invaded by a parasite. She was so frightened at the time. This was probably the motivation for her to work hard on her physical and mental strength. She didn't want her mother to be hurt again while she could only stand by helplessly. Watch.

Yao Jingjing sometimes competes with Hou Biao to practice mental strength and enter each other's dreams. Their abilities are between equals. Hou Biao's mental strength is strong and fierce, while hers seems to be more delicate and long-lasting.

Qingmu has been gone for a year, and both Yao Jingjing and Hou Biao have become proficient in dreaming. Although they are not as superb as Qingmu, they can be regarded as miracles in front of ordinary people.

Yao Jingjing felt very strange when she saw the desert in her mother's dream. Of course, it was impossible for my mother's mental strength to support such a large desert scene, but it made sense to have something like a screen in front of her, because it was just a two-dimensional picture she saw.

The old lady on the screen must be her grandmother. She heard her mother calling: "Grandma! Grandma!"

The old lady asked again: "Where is Xue'er? Didn't Xue'er follow you? Where did she go?"

Yao's mother was thinking blankly: "Where did Xue'er go...where did she go..."

The old lady turned around and walked away. After a while, she disappeared, leaving only a line of footprints in the sea of ​​sand, leading to the boundless sky.

Mother Yao started crying: "Grandma! Grandma! Don't leave me! Grandma!..."

She ran towards the desert. Seeing her hand touch the golden piece, it was like touching a soft LCD screen, causing a circle of ripples, and then her body was bounced back by an invisible force, but the screen It shattered all over the ground.

The yellow sand disappeared, leaving only a small, gray space, and the power of fragmentation continued, and the space began to crack, and then with a bang, everything disappeared.

Mother Yao sat on the bedside, holding the square wooden box in her arms, and called out "grandma, grandma" twice, with two tears overflowing from her eyes.

Yao Jingjing went over and held her mother's shoulders: "Mom, what's wrong with you? Are you dreaming?"

Yao's mother whispered "Ah": "Oh, why did I fall asleep!"

Yao Jingjing knew that Xueer was the cat her mother had raised when she was a child. Through Qingmu, she already knew about Ruxue and the Dream Corridor. Aoki originally wanted to hand over the Dream Corridor to her because it belonged to her great-grandmother, but her ability at that time was not enough to control such a zero-dimensional passage connecting a huge desert space.

What makes Yao Jingjing strange and uneasy is that her mother does not know that Ruxue once guarded the dream corridor in her mind, nor does she know that there is a desert at the other end of the corridor. Besides that time, she drove away the shadow in the nightmare and later Aoki Apart from treating her illness in her dreams, she had not dreamed about her cat in decades.

Now why does she often dream about her grandma asking her where the cat has gone? Is it the potential influence Ruxue left on her subconscious, or is it another reason? And is there any connection between the desert in her dream and the desert at the other end of the dream corridor, or is it just a coincidence?

Yao Jingjing asked tentatively: "Mom, what did you dream about just now?"

Yao's mother said: "Oh, it's nothing, I just dreamed of my grandma again."

Of course, Yao Jingjing couldn't say that I was in your dream. She was afraid of scaring her mother, so she said, "You are just seeing things and missing people. You must have dreamed that you were scolded by your great-grandmother for being naughty when you were a child, right?"

Yao's mother said: "That's not true, I just dreamed of the desert."

"Mom, have you never been to the desert?"

"I haven't been there. I probably watched too many TV series about the desert some time ago."

Mother Yao stood up and wiped the box in her hand with her hands.

"Mom, what did you get?" Yao Jingjing asked.

When Yao's mother woke up just now, she vaguely felt that there was an unusual mental fluctuation coming from this box, but she was not very sure whether it was caused by her mother holding her in her arms. When she went to sense it again, she could not sense it at all. Not here.

"This is what your great-grandmother brought back from the north when she was young. It was filled with her letters, manuscripts and photos. Later, she probably felt that her end was approaching, so she burned all the letters inside. At that time, I I was still young and didn’t know why she did that, so I begged her to leave the box to me, and she gave it to me and left a few photos in it,” said Yao’s mother.

Yao Jingjing pointed to the glass on the dressing table and said, "Why aren't the photos there together?"

Yao’s mother said: “My grandma put them there when she was alive, so they haven’t been moved.”

Yao Jingjing said: "It is not easy to preserve old photos. We could have taken them to a photo company for restoration, but those photos and the glass were all glued together. What a pity!"

"Can it still be repaired?" Yao's mother's eyes lit up, "Then look at the photos here and see if it can be repaired?"

She carefully opened the box, took out a very old photo album from it, handed it to Yao Jingjing and said, "It's all here. At that time, your grandma treated her like a treasure. No one was allowed to see it except me." Woolen cloth!"

When Yao Jingjing heard what she said, she felt so sacred, and the hand holding the photo album couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

She opened the photo album and found that the photos inside were all faded and mildewed, but they were only slightly better than those on the glass table. She saw one of the group photos, in which female soldiers in military uniforms lined up neatly in the open space in front of an ancient building, with three or four rows in front and back. The handwriting at the bottom of the photo was still legible and read:

Photography of the entire Political Girls Brigade of the WH Branch of the Central Military and Political School, 19.27.35.

Yao Jingjing tried to find out which one was her grandma, but the photo was very blurry and the portrait was small, so she couldn't see clearly, so she had to give up.

There are also some old photos in the album, most of which are unclear. It is impossible to tell who is the person or what building. It is not until the last photo that it becomes clearer. However, this photo aroused great interest in Yao Jingjing——

In the photo, my grandma looks very young, wearing a fashionable scarf, and there is a young man standing next to her. Even if you only look at this blurry photo, you feel that she stands out from the crowd.

In that era, it was rare for young men and women to be photographed alone and so close to each other. From their demeanor and movements, they looked a bit like a couple.

Yao Jingjing had never heard about her great-grandfather. She asked her mother, but her mother said she didn’t know, saying that it was grandma’s taboo and not allowed to be mentioned.

For some reason, Yao Jingjing always felt that she had seen the man in the photo somewhere. And the background of the photo also felt inexplicably familiar to her.

Behind the great-grandmother and the young man is a very thick old mulberry tree with luxuriant leaves and strong curls. In the top corner of the photo, there is a black wing, like a pair of big bird wings. When it is flying, it happens to be It was captured by the photographer, leaving half of my body in the photo.

Yao Jingjing carefully took out the photo from the album and saw vague writing on the back of the photo:

Watson and Cuan Yifang, photographed in the mulberry garden, 1931