We Live In Nanjing

  Chapter 39 A Smile Through Time and Space

  On the first day after the National Day holiday in 2019, Bai Yang returned to school to take the first monthly exam of the semester.

  The first test of Chinese as usual.

  Preparation bell rang, the invigilator walked into the classroom with the papers, and stood on the stage to open the papers.

  "Now I’m ready to start the exam. Please don’t whisper or look around. If you bring your mobile phone, please put your mobile phone on the podium."

  Bai Yang sat in his place, holding the black gel pen in his hand, he slowly pushed the cap up with his thumb, and let it fall down. Although he was in the examination room, he was absent-minded.

  He was thinking about the time capsule.

  Can the plan succeed?

  Will the time capsule be found by BG4MSR?

The invigilator handed out the papers along the aisle one by one. She put the Chinese test papers and answer sheets on Baiyang’s desk, and pressed her slender and strong fingers on the edges of the papers to prevent the papers from being blown off by the wind. Then she gave the next student the test papers. Bai Yang was in a daze. He saw the white chalk dust on the teacher's fingertips, and the test paper exuded a faint smell of ink.

  The candidates who got the papers all started to look at the questions, but Bai Yang was still in a trance.

  After sending out the papers, the teacher stepped onto the stage and cleared his throat when the class bell rang:

   "Classmates, you can write now!"

  As soon as the voice fell, there was a rustle of turning over the paper in the entire examination room for a while, and Bai Yang's free thoughts returned to the body, he subconsciously turned the gel pen upside down, and then began to look at the questions.

  The black squares on the paper were printed on the retina, and then flew out from the Tianling cover. He couldn't grasp it no matter how to grasp it. Bai Yang thought to himself that the test would be over in this state? He wanted to force himself to concentrate and read the headings of the Chinese test papers several times, but only remembered the phrases "Nanjing City", "Senior Grade 3" and "Study Investigation".

  Is there any other omissions in your plan?

  Will the time capsule still be disturbed?

  These questions popped up endlessly in my mind, Bai Yang couldn't hold it down, just like hitting a hamster, he pressed the gourd and raised the scoop.

Yesterday afternoon, he asked Yan Ge to help take the capsule to Yueya Lake and hide it-BG4MSR once said that the Yueya Lake Park is still intact and the landform has not been damaged on a large scale, so hide the stainless steel capsule in the lake for the next 20 years. The annual probability should be great.

  If this operation fails, then he is really out of luck.

  With the abilities of an ordinary high school student in the Baiyang district, no matter how comprehensive the plan is, this can only be achieved.

Bai Yang tilted his head and looked out the window. A row of pigeons stopped on the roof of the teaching building in the distance. The sky was blue and there was no cloud. At this moment, what is that girl doing?

  ——The girl is running.

Banxia has never ran so fast. The ground seemed to be hot, and her toes jumped up on the ground. After getting up, she ran all the way to Crescent Lake after breakfast. She didn’t have time to change her clothes. She was still in a white nightdress. Because Crescent Lake was too far away and it was too unsafe to leave the place of residence at night, Banxia couldn't come here last night. She could only leave early the next morning.

  The girl paused breathlessly in front of the ruins of the banquet hall of Ye Shanghai Hotel, bent down to wipe her sweat, and took off the grass leaves on her hair and clothes.

  Where is the capsule?

Banxia threw down her backpack and took off her shoes and went down to the lake. She did not expect that BG4MXH would hide the time capsule here, under the ruins of the banquet hall of Ye Shanghai Hotel. This was a bit unexpected, because she was familiar with this location. , She often digs lotus root and water chestnut here.

Pillar.

  The third pillar from the inside out!

  The girl bends her knees, her calves and knees are all immersed in the lake, and she slowly touched it.

In recent years, the water of Crescent Lake has gradually dried up. Today’s Crescent Lake must be shallower than the lake 20 years ago. Banxia estimated that when the time capsule was buried by BG4MXH, the depth of water under the building platform of the banquet hall of the Shanghai Hotel at night could be submerged to the thigh. , But now only below the knee.

  It is a good thing that the water is shallow.

  There are a lot of shallow water, there is no shortage of food...

  Bah.

  The water is shallow, so it’s easy to find capsules.

  Banxia's hands are sinking in the mud, digging forward little by little, but she also has some doubts.

She is no stranger to the waters of   The ruins of the banquet hall. There are many lotus and lotus plants. Pinellia is often foraging here, and there is even her royal watering point on the bank.

  But after coming so many times, why has she never discovered a time capsule?

After feeling around under the designated pillar, the girl dug deep and found no time capsule, so she moved to other pillars, fumbled all the way, went under the platform, and touched it one by one until halfway through. Xia was tired from finding her back, so she got out from the other side of the platform, straightened up, and moved her joints with her hips akimbo.

  The girl raised her hand to lift the hair from her ear, wiped the sweat from her cheek, and looked at the lake in front of her.

why is that?

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   "The falling clouds and the lonely bird fly together, and the autumn water is the same color."

   "The fishing boat sings late, the sound is poor on the shore of Pengli, the geese are frightened, and the sound is off the Pu of Hengyang."

  Ancient prose is another test of "Preface to the Pavilion of the King of Teng".

  Poplar forgets the words without thinking.

  It's over.

  How to write the word "眄" in Zhongtian?

There was silence in the examination room, with occasional coughing and the sound of flipping test papers. The Chinese test has been conducted for 90 minutes, and a total of two and a half hours of test time. By this point, most people have finished answering the basic questions and need to start. Deal with composition.

  The essay question of this language test is "the time when I accidentally fell asleep".

   Bai Yang frowned.

  He is a hard-working essayist, frowning every time he encounters this kind of composition.

"In the process of growing up, you may occasionally take a nap and miss a lot of beautiful things. What is even more disappointing is that you didn’t want to sleep, but you just pretended to sleep, or just wanted to squint for a while, but it’s true. Fell asleep……"

   Bai Yang read the composition materials silently, the rustle of writing in the back seat and the front seat made him a little nervous, and he was not afraid of time going fast during the exam, just afraid of others writing fast.

   But the thing about composition, the more anxious the more you can’t hold back, it’s like constipation.

  When will he be able to be like the front and rear seats, and it is like a sudden collapse.

   Bai Yang took a deep breath to calm down. He unconsciously drew an oval on the draft paper, and the tip of the pen kept spinning along the existing handwriting, staring at it, the more it looked like a time capsule.

  The time capsule is round.

  ——Yes, the time capsule is round.

  Banxia stood in the water.

  It is a capsule, it should be a round cylinder.

The girl fished in the lake for two hours and searched under every pillar on the foundation of the restaurant. The silt dug up can pile up the Tower of Babel, and the rest can build a Hoover Dam. Gained nothing.

She picked up a lot of garbage, empty cans, broken glass wine bottles, big pebbles, everything, but there is no time capsule, sometimes Pinellia thinks that she has touched it, round, hard, smooth surface, can be picked up. I don't know who threw the skull at the bottom of the lake.

  Whose skull is also littered?

  After so many years, the owner has not come to claim it.

  The heart is so big.

  She was wearing a dash of water and silt, and a white skirt standing in the knee-deep lake, like a black-backed egret falling here, looking around.

  Could it be that the plan also failed this time?

  The sun is getting more and more venomous, Pinellia comes out in a hurry, without a parasol, and sunburn will cause heatstroke and dehydration.

  She decided to go ashore and rest to replenish water.

  Find it slowly, you will definitely find it, anyway, time is too late.

  Banxia comforts herself.

   "It rained all night, and getting up early is good weather."

  The girl hummed a song in a low voice, wading to the shore step by step.

  Walking and thinking-the time capsule was hidden under the base of the restaurant 20 years ago. It was here 20 years ago. If it hadn't been taken away by others, how could I not find it?

  I often come here to pick lotus roots and water chestnuts. If there is a time capsule, then I should have discovered it long ago...

   Pinellia stripped the weeds along the coast, pulled one foot out of the underwater silt, and stepped on the shore.

  Have you seen that thing?

  She stepped on one foot on the shore, and then pulled the other foot out.

  A round, rolling, black capsule?

   "I dreamed of you again last night, we played happily..."

  The girl was stunned suddenly.

  "Play happily..."

"game……"

  A round, rolling, black capsule!

  That is the time capsule!

  She found it.

  It seemed as if lightning flashed through the girl's head, and then her whole body began to tremble.

  She has seen it long ago, she has seen it long ago! Just when the lotus root was picked last time, Pinellia dug out a silt-filled cylinder from the silt at the bottom of the lake, but she didn’t know what it was at the time, so she went to the shallows along the coast—no, no, she was sure That was definitely not the first time I met Time Capsule. In the past many years, Pinellia had passed by Crescent Lake hundreds of times, went into the water to collect lotus roots hundreds of times, and had hundreds of hands groping in the mud. Thousands of touch capsules.

  As early as Banxia did not know BG4MXH, the time capsule was waiting for her.

   Passed by hundreds of times, just for the last encounter.

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   "There are still ten minutes before the end of the exam." The invigilator looked up at the clock hung on the wall, and reminded him, "Students who haven't finished the test, hurry up."

  Poplar immersed himself in writing.

  What the **** is this essay question?

  The time when I accidentally fell asleep?

Every time a Chinese exam, he has to rack his brains to write eight hundred characters together, which is as painful to Bai Yang as constipation. He almost counts how many blanks are left on the answer sheet. An ellipsis is used as six characters.

   "To sum up, time is precious to each of us. As the saying goes, why sleep for a long time before death, and sleep forever after death. We must cherish every second of our lives..."

  Gosh, I’m writing something.

   Bai Yangxin said.

  One of Bai's writing skills! Even if I write a mess of mud, I must raise my essay's intentions.

  Bai Yang reviewed the article he wrote.

   is not high enough.

  This is not high enough, but even higher!

   "Counting romantic figures, we still look at the present. In today's world, hard work is the main theme. As contemporary young people, we must not sleep in, and we must make unremitting efforts to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!"

  Bai’s composition skill 2! Regardless of what you write, it must end with "Unremitting efforts to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!" At the end, for the sake of this sentence, the teacher will give you two more points. .

  The bell rings after class.

  The exam is over.

  Bai Yang took a sigh of relief, closed the pen cover, and waited for the teacher to take away the test paper and answer sheet.

  He stared at the handwriting on the scroll, and his heart suddenly moved slightly. For so many years, he had never had a language test like today. After finishing the composition, he still wanted to write something.

  What does he want to write?

  He wants to write about how powerful time is, and what can resist the passage of time and the erosion of years? It's like hiding a capsule at the bottom of the lake, letting this fragile little paper boat drift with the waves in the torrential river of time, after hardships, and finally dock accurately in someone's hand——

  On the dry mud flat, the girl found the cylinder she had discarded.

The thing was still lying quietly in its place, wrapped in layers of plastic cloth soaked in silt, Pinellia held it in his arms, and removed the dried plastic cloth layer by layer with fingers, daggers, and teeth. Finally, A rusty metal capsule was exposed.

  The girl's hands began to tremble, so that she could not grasp the hilt of the knife.

  Banxia forced herself to calm down, using a knife to remove the rust on the bolt little by little.

After being soaked in water for more than 20 years, this capsule has long since rusted to death. The stainless steel used to make the time capsule could not withstand such a long time and harsh environment. It took a lot of effort to remove Pinellia for the first time. Bolts.

  There are a total of eight bolts on the capsule lid. Unscrew them all and Pinellia can open the lid.

  The time slow delivery that has been sealed for 21 years will be seen again.

The bolts are rotten. Fortunately, the rubber sealing ring is still working. There is no water in the capsule. The original white rubber has long turned brown and shattered when pinched. Banxia poured out all the contents of the capsule, and there was a bag. Medicine, there is a small wooden picture frame, and a letter paper.

  Slightly yellowed letter paper.

  Banxia spreads the letter paper on the grass, and the handwriting on the paper is still very clear.

  "Dear Miss BG4MSR:

  When you read this letter, I am already dead. "

  He is really dead.

  Banxia knew that he was really dead.

"This is a letter from the dead. It has passed through twenty years of long time and reached your hand. When I wrote this letter, you might not have been born yet, and when you received this letter, I am no longer alive.

  What does a person’s world look like? An unoccupied Confucius Temple, Xinjiekou, China Southern Airlines High School and Crescent Lake Park, and an unoccupied Nanjing, there must be no college entrance examination, no math test papers, and no "small questions."

  In addition, I really want to know how I died. If you receive this letter, I hope you can tell me the cause of my death and the cause of death of other people, if you know it. "

  I don’t know how you died.

  Even if I know, I don’t necessarily tell you——

  Never tell you how you died.

  Never tell you how you died!

  Absolutely...

  Don’t tell you...

  Why are you dead?

  Big drops of tears fell on the letter paper, and Banxia subconsciously touched her cheeks, only to find that her face was full of tears. When did she start crying.

  Why are you dead?

"Of course, if the cause of my death is too miserable, I hope you will consider it and don’t tell me too bluntly, so as not to cause too much mental pressure on me. In twenty years, I will not be forty years old, and the thought of the world will be lost. I deeply deplore such a young and promising person."

  Bah!

  The girl was crying and crying and laughing.

  Bah baah baah baah baah bah!

   "I wish you good health, never forget to bring an umbrella when you go out in the rain, and never get **** caught in the yellow braised chicken, 73."

  Final signature:

   "The BG4MXH that is in communication with you at this moment, 20 years ago."

   On the back of the slightly yellowed letter paper, there is a big smile.

  (End of this chapter)