Bai Liu repeated softly: "Fifty years after the end of the war?"
Jelena lowered her head and drooped her wrinkled eyelids to look at Bai Liu: "Perhaps longer, I'm too old to remember these dates."
"I just remember that a long, long time ago, when Alex was alive, he and the guy named Guy wrote a lot of letters to me." Ilena pulled out a pile of old from the dirty bib sarong. "Whenever I come to visit the tomb, I will read the letter they sent to me in front of their tomb, lest I forget it."
Irina sighed wearily: "You must know these things are now only remembered by my old woman. If I forget too, they will really have no traces."
Bai Liu looked at the pile of letters and asked politely: "Can I see it?"
Irina looked at Bai Liu in surprise: "Are you interested? No young people want to hear these old things anymore."
Bai Liu smiled: "I am Alex and Guy's comrades in arms, and I have an obligation to help remember them."
Irina stared at Bai Liu quietly for a long time, and she suddenly laughed: "Young man, even if you are a liar full of lies, you did use your lies to make me happy."
She handed the pile of letters to Bai Liu graciously, with faint tears in her eyes: "Welcome to remember these two people with me."
Bai Liu held up the letter: "Perhaps you don't recommend that I take it apart and read it in person?"
Elena laughed, and she waved her hands tremblingly: "Of course not, I can slosh everything on it."
Bai Liu bowed her head and arranged the letters in chronological order, and then opened them one by one. Irina said in a whisper:
"...Do you know, young people, when they are very old, if they have a bad life and are alone, they will recall their past over and over again, thinking about what they have done wrong to end up like this..."
Jelena's old voice paused: "Do you know what is the most terrifying thing in this process?"
Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked at her: "What is it?"
Irina squeezed out a smile, but tears flowed from the corner of her eyes: "You did a lot of wrong things."
Bai Liu lowered his eyes and looked at the first letter in his hand. It was sent to Alex by Jelena.
[Salute to my dear fiance:
Your dirty, shameless, mean male lover wrote to me two days ago, asking me to forgive him for his despicable behavior with you, and shamelessly ask me to bless your love and marriage.
What a disgusting thought!
Is there any god in this world that allows two males to unite in front of him
I even suspect that enemy cannonballs will be dropped at the place where your wedding is held as a punishment for your violation of ethics!
Alex, you, as a doctor who studies the mechanisms of human life, the greatest profession on the planet, why would you allow yourself to mix up with such a ridiculous neuropathy and waste the time to save people
When you are with him, don't you feel that your future and ideals are tainted by shit
At least when I got the letter he sent, I felt my dignity was tainted by shit. 】
Bai Liu opened the next letter, and the sender wrote Alex.
[To Elena:
First, allow me to vehemently refute what you call me. I have never seen you and never agreed to allow you to claim to be my fiancée. Your previous letter to me at the beginning of the letter was completely wrong.
Second, my love, my wife, and my lifelong company will only have one person, and that is Guy, not you who suddenly appeared after I fell in love with Guy.
I don’t know where your inexplicable love for me comes from, whether it comes from my parents’ unrealistic expectations and descriptions of me, from that narrow town’s pursuit of the only young man with an advanced degree, or from I am self-satisfied and self-satisfied with my beauty. I think that the most beautiful girl in the town can win the best young people.
Allow me to solemnly explain to you, Jelena, I am not an object that you can use to win and advertise, I am a person with affection.
After I gave my love to Guy, it is absolutely impossible for me to fall in love with anyone else before I don't love him.
Elena, you are also an independent person. Your value does not need to be advertised by me. You can do more valuable things to prove it.
Guy and I have two qualifications to go to higher education. Mine should be used by myself. Guy said that you are still a naive little girl. He has more qualifications than if you don’t know if you can come back alive. Enjoy the beauty and knowledge of the world.
If you have any ideas about going to a higher university, Guy said he can give you his qualifications.
Although you said all kinds of things that made me feel shit when I said it, Guy forgave you and said noblely that he could give you this opportunity to study.
Although I strongly disagree with this, Guy is very persistent.
Guy said that he could see that you were a young girl with aspirations.
He said that you like me because I am a doctor. You think that I am healing and saving people. It is great, so you have delivered a girlish yearning to me.
Guy asked me to pass it to you. If you like to save people, why not try it yourself
I am sorry for the blind promises my parents made to you, but if you make any improper words to Guy, I will still severely reprimand you. 】
Bai Liu continued, and the next one was from Elena, but this time it was not addressed to Alex, but to Guy.
[Tribute to Guy:
I apologize for those inappropriate and personally emotional insults.
I put in this envelope all the money I saved from work in the three years from the age of eleven to the present, as compensation for my improper export.
I don’t want the qualifications you gave me. I still think you are wasting Alex’s time. He can have more. He invented a potion that can delay the death of human beings. How many wars can this save? Soldiers/persons who died
Everyone in the town said that Alex could become the next war hero!
But after he met you, his mind is all about love now!
I still hope you stay away from him, maybe you can find other true love male lovers, but that person shouldn't be Alex. 】
The next one is from Guy to Elena.
[To the lovely girl Jelena:
Hey girl, guess what? I think what you said is correct.
Alex indeed has a very bright future. He is a very talented guy. The experimentation process of the medicine is advancing very quickly. The superior has approved him to experiment on the wounded soldiers, and the effect is remarkable.
I don't deserve him, Alex is very good, so I still want to selfishly occupy him for a period of time and have the best memories with him.
Irina, I have seen pictures of you. You are very beautiful, but you are too young, only fourteen years old. You still can't tell the difference between love and yearning.
I have to admit that Alex is a good boy, but when you can talk about love with him, it will be at least four years later-believe me, with your beauty, determination and perseverance, you probably have already met another one by then. A good boy who makes you more heart-warming.
Of course, it is also possible to be a good girl, I don't stick to this.
After the war is over, enjoying a romantic slow-paced love in peace times is what you and Alex should get, instead of hurriedly sacrificing yourself under the enthusiasm of the warfare of the residents of the town and the hostage of Alex’s parents. Of youth, marrying a war hero they imagined.
It's not fair to you or Alex.
I hope you are happy, because you deserve happiness, and I also hope I can be happy.
But unfortunately, the happiness I want is not blessed by God.
Hey, Alex told me that you are a good hand at making wedding dresses. Can you make one for me? I just want to dress to marry Alex? 】
The last letter Irina wrote to Guy was very messy, and there were many signs of tears fainting on it, just like the fourteen-year-old Irina was writing a letter while crying.
But her tone in the letter was completely different and cold:
[To Guy:
I don't know where you heard the rumors that I was forced to marry Alex. There is no such thing, I am willing.
I don’t know how to make wedding dresses. I don’t allow anyone to marry Alex before me. Give up! 】
Bai Liu looked at the wedding dress that Irina put on Guy’s tombstone, raised her eyebrows and asked, "May I know why you made the wedding dress for Guy again in the end?"
Irina smiled nostalgicly, but there seemed to be a lot of unspeakable sadness hidden in the smile, and the corners of her mouth couldn't stop downward:
"... At that time, I was too young to understand anything. The town said that it would choose a beautiful girl to marry the war hero in the town. The winner can get a sum of money from Alex’s parents. My parents let me go."
"I am the most beautiful of all girls." Jelena's eyes grew farther and farther away, "I was chosen very easily. At that time I was very young and the law did not allow me to marry, so Alex's parents Say let me guard Alex's return, and not allow contact or love with anyone until Alex returns."
"At that time, all my life was to marry the hero Alex. Someone took him away. I was totally panicked. I hated Guy to death." Irina's eyes were red and her tone was bitter, "Guy. Yi is a very glib guy, and he likes to write letters to tease me. I just don’t understand how a warrior can be so leisurely and smile every day."
"Guy is different from all the men I have met. He respects me and encourages me, saying that sooner or later I will make a grade that is not inferior to Alex. He even helped me enroll in school so that I can Go straight to read."
Elena’s tears overflowed from her wrinkles: “On the night I was crying and writing this letter to Guy, I secretly rushed to make a wedding dress overnight and rushed to the post office to send it to him.”
As she said, she turned her head in a daze to look at Bai Liu: "But when I arrived at the post office, the post office informed me that a new letter had arrived. Let me pick it up. I opened it. It was Guy’s letter."
Jelena burst into tears: "—Guy's obituary and a suicide note."
"Guy was shot dead on the spot after rebelling in a sneak attack in the early morning. He already knew that this would happen. He left me a suicide note in advance so that I can take good care of myself and help him take care of Alex."
"I want to give his wedding dress, apologize, and thank..." Elena choked, her mouth trembling, "I didn't have time to hear it all."