A little girl named Lu Leyao was born in 1998. She has a twin brother, Lu Chengkai. Her brother has been a troublemaker since he was young, and he dares to do anything.
According to her grandmother, her brother looks like her grandfather when he was a child.
Her grandfather, Gu Sheng, is a big shot. Of course, there are many big shots in her family, many famous and unknown. Take her grandmother, Zhan Aiping, for example, who is a well-known old Chinese medicine practitioner. Don’t imagine her as a very rustic and conservative old lady just because she is a Chinese medicine practitioner. That is absolutely a misunderstanding. Her grandmother wrote an article a long time ago, "My Day in 2015", which was actually put on the big screen when Lu Leyao was in elementary school.
All the children in their class went to see this science fiction movie.
Lu Leyao was very proud: "This was written by my grandma!"
Her grandmother, that is, her grandmother, was not only a talented woman with medical skills and a great writer, she was also a great beauty. Even as she grew old, she still had the shadow of a beauty.
The last time Lu Leyao went to her grandmother's Chinese medicine pharmacy, she actually heard a newly graduated intern calling her grandmother Zhan Aiping "Sister."
Her grandmother does look very young, but not to this extent.
My grandmother is old, but she has a very young mentality. She likes to hear people praise her for her youth and beauty. Her hair is always jet black, and like those old ladies from ethnic minorities, she pays great attention to hair care.
For this reason, Grandpa Gu Sheng secretly suggested: "Don't waste your time. You are now an old Chinese medicine practitioner. An old Chinese medicine practitioner has a youthful face, white hair, and moist skin. Hurry up and dye your hair white."
Grandma Zhan Aiping refused to agree.
The older she got, the more she loved dressing up. She wore high heels and fitted skirts that showed off her slender waist... Every time this happened, my grandfather would get very anxious, for he was afraid that some other old man would take a fancy to his old woman.
This made her grandfather also like to dress up, and whenever he went out, her classmates would praise him as a handsome old man.
For this reason, Lu Leyao was particularly envious and jealous. Why did her brother look like her grandfather, but she couldn't look like her grandmother
Her grandparents were childhood sweethearts, as were her parents. However, Lu Leyao never envied this kind of childhood sweetheart love. She thought her aunt Gu Mian's love was the most interesting.
My aunt and her mother Gu Yuan were always quarreling, and the two sisters were always competing with each other. It was said that my aunt, in order to find love, did something that only appeared in novels.
My aunt wanted to find a love that was not mixed with other material desires. One day, she fell in love with a handsome traffic policeman on the roadside, who was her future uncle-in-law. This uncle-in-law was just an ordinary traffic policeman, younger than my aunt, with a great figure, a handsome face and very long legs.
My aunt wanted to fall in love with him, so the beautiful aunt grew big bangs, put on black-framed glasses, pretended to be a down-and-out writer, and went to meet this young, handsome traffic policeman who worked diligently at his job.
Soon, they fell in love, lived in a rented house, and worried about the daily necessities of life. But my aunt was very happy in this kind of life, and she used a small calculator to keep accounts every day.
As a down-and-out writer, she wrote about sentimental love stories, but no one appreciated her novels. Only her boyfriend always supported her and encouraged her to pursue her dreams.
One day, an entertainment company even came to me and said they wanted to invest in the book my aunt wrote and make it into a TV series.
My aunt felt something was wrong at that time.
How could this crap she wrote be made into a TV series
At this point, her future uncle-in-law came clean. He was not an ordinary traffic policeman. He used to be in the Criminal Investigation Brigade. He had a dream of becoming a policeman since he was a child. Of course, this was not the point. The point was that he was the son of a coal boss. His family was really involved in the entertainment industry, and his mother was a well-known big shot.
Because he didn't want to go home and inherit the family business, he was forced out of the Criminal Investigation Brigade by his mother. However, he was unwilling to admit defeat and became a traffic policeman with a rebellious mind.
But when he saw how hard his girlfriend worked for her dream of writing, he was moved and felt that at least one of their dreams must come true, so he wanted to go home and inherit the family business, and he wanted to invest in his girlfriend's script to film a movie.
Her aunt Gu Mian felt very unwell at that time.
“???!!!!!!”
After many twists and turns, they got married. It is said that the uncle-in-law proposed to her seventy-two times, and recorded the whole process and sent it to her mother Gu Yuan.
It's really sad.
All of her relatives are so powerful, but she, Lu Leyao, seems much more ordinary. Her uncle was admitted to Tsinghua University, and she was admitted to Shanghai Normal University to study history.
When graduation season comes, everyone sighs.
Lu Leyao also planned to study for a master's degree in ancient history at this school. It was already 2020, and she was in her first year of graduate school. She shared a dormitory with two people and the conditions were very good.
Her roommate's surname is Zhang, and her name is Zhang Lingling. Although she studies ancient history, she has a lively personality. When I saw her, she was playing mobile games.
In this day and age, everyone has a smartphone in their hands. They no longer play computer games, but mobile games on their square-sized phones.
Zhang Lingling: "Do you play games, too? It's so rare for me to find someone who also plays mobile games. Let's play together. My rank is pretty high. If we can't rank, let's go to the casino. Wow, your rank is so high!"
Zhang Lingling was shocked by her gaming rank.
Lu Leyao felt very guilty: "Actually, I am just a slacker, and I rely on the big guys to bring me up."
Whether it was the chicken game or the King of Glory, she was brought to the highest level and won without any effort. She had no choice but to win.
Zhang Lingling envied: "Where did you get that big leg?"
"Emmmm..."
Zhang Lingling said: "You must be a big shot, don't be so modest, let's play the chicken mobile game, I don't even dare to play this, I'm confused, why don't you play a few games for me to see."
"I'll play a game for you, and then you'll know how much of a rubbish I am." She is really a little rubbish with the highest rank, but she can only pick up trash in the chicken game.
Zhang Lingling: "Don't be so modest."
Lu Leyao logged into the game. Her game ID was [Xiaoyaoyao]. As soon as she came online, she was pulled into a room to make up the numbers, just like playing mahjong, with four people playing.
Zhang Lingling: “Wow!”
It has already started. After entering the Quality Square, Zhang Lingling saw several of Lu Leyao's teammates clearly. Their game IDs were [Strongest Commander], [Strongest Medical], [God of Survival], plus one [Xiao Yaoyao].
At this time, the small microphone in front of the [Strongest Commander] lit up: "Yaoyao, follow me obediently."
The voice was deep, pleasant and had a hint of smile.
Zhang Lingling was excited when she heard the voice. Taking advantage of the fact that Lu Leyao didn't turn on the voice chat, she said excitedly: "This voice is really nice. I can tell it's a handsome guy."
Lu Leyao was in a mixed mood: "It sounds nice, but it does sound nice—"
But he may not necessarily be a handsome guy. He could also be a handsome old man, a real old man. Her grandfather is already over seventy years old.
[Strongest Medical]: Yaoyao, follow me, I will protect you.
[Strongest Commander]: Don't harm my wife.
Zhang Lingling: "The handsome guy already has a girlfriend. So they are a couple."
Although she felt regretful, she was immediately shocked by the screen full of kills. They were all ID [Goushen] who killed someone. He didn't even search for the house. He was very murderous and shot wherever he went.
"Yaoyao, this is the boss, boss. He is called God Gou, but he is not Gou at all. I thought he was Voldemort."
Lu Leyao thought to herself that this god who was gunning for a long time was my father, a former special forces soldier.
[Goushen]'s game character walked up to her and immediately started taking things out, throwing all kinds of good guns, eight-fold scopes, medical kits, level 3 helmets, and level 3 armor to her.
Lu Leyao said excitedly: "He is indeed my biological father!"
Zhang Lingling watched from the side with envy: "If any big boss takes care of me like this, I will call him daddy too."
Zhang Lingling: “?!!!”
[God of Gou]: Mom, come and pick up the airdrop.
[The Strongest Medical] Happy: Here I come! I like ghillie suits.
Zhang Lingling: "Isn't your relationship too messy?"
He recognizes his father and calls his mother at the same time.
Zhang Lingling pointed and said, "He is your biological father. Who is this?"
Lu Leyao paused and said, "Do you believe it if they say it's my grandparents?"
Zhang Lingling: "…Is recognizing relatives popular in your place?"
*
Zhan Aiping quit the game, and by 2020, she and Gu Sheng were both in their seventies and lived a leisurely life in retirement, occasionally playing games and tending flowers and plants.
As an old Chinese medicine practitioner, she still has to go out to see patients from time to time.
Gu Sheng helped her plant a yard of roses in all kinds of colors. There were always flowers blooming outside the house. Flowers bloom and fall, fall and bloom. Roses bloom every month. They bloom well, as if they have the most tenacious vitality, but they are also very delicate and need careful care.
"Wife." Gu Sheng handed her a bunch of roses with the thorns removed.
Zhan Aiping took it and took a deep breath. "Next year, on our 50th wedding anniversary, let's go to the southernmost part to spend the winter."
In January 2021, the family spent a not-so-cold winter on the southernmost island.
We lived in a villa. The three children and their families all came. It was very noisy and lively.
The noisiest ones are the second children that Gu Mian accidentally gave birth to in 2016. They are a brother and sister who are now six years old and very noisy.
"Grandma, grandma, grandma, my younger brother is bullying me!"
"Grandma, where is the thing you just put here?"
Zhan Aiping: "Grandma doesn't remember."
The child is really a debt collector.
At this time, film cameras were no longer needed. The photos taken with the SLR were not retouched, but Zhan Aiping still developed them one by one, laminated them, and put them in photo albums.
Zhan Aiping sometimes sits on the beach with the old man next to her, looking through old photos. There are so many photos that even they themselves can't remember clearly.
Gu Sheng pointed to one photo and asked, "You brought your child to the hospital to see my photo?"
"It wasn't taken at that time, was it? This was obviously taken when I performed surgery on you? Old man, your memory has declined. Ever since you had that head injury, I feel like your memory has not been very good."
Gu Sheng's mouth twitched: "Old woman, you are forgetful, and you are still making excuses."
The two of them argued for a while, and the more they looked at the photos, the more they argued. There really was no golden wedding atmosphere at all.
“Why is there still this photo?”
Zhan Aiping: "You look pretty handsome in this photo of yourself in military uniform at the age of fifty."
Gu Sheng: "I was 43 at that time."
"Same, same, just round it up."
Gu Sheng pointed at a photo and said indifferently: "This photo of you at the age of 60 is also good, beautiful. My wife looks really young."
Zhan Aiping wanted to curse: "You are making a veiled accusation, aren't you? This is a photo of me when I was 40."
"Is she forty? At least fifty, right? My wife is not that old at forty."
Zhan Aiping kicked him and said, "Let's get a divorce, you old man. I don't want to live with you anymore."
Gu Sheng: "You get excited every time this happens."
Gu Yuan, who was standing behind, watched her parents quarrel and said to her sister Gu Mian, "If our parents continue to look at this photo, their golden wedding anniversary will turn into a divorce."
Gu Mian: "It's totally different from the warm and tearful scene I imagined."
As Zhan Aiping and Gu Sheng were arguing, a few old photos fell down. Zhan Aiping picked them up and discovered that they were photos she had only remembered to put in her bag when she was going out, but she had forgotten about them when she arrived on the island.
Still the three black and white group photos, she put them together,
In those three photos, Zhan Aiping and Gu Sheng were both wearing military uniforms. In the first one, she rolled up her sleeves and arm wrestled with Gu Sheng. Her face was distorted with effort. Gu Sheng was only photographed in profile, and his expression could not be seen clearly. Although only his profile was photographed, his profile was photographed to be extremely handsome, with flying eyebrows and a heroic demeanor. He also rolled up his sleeves, revealing his strong and full arm muscles, and his whole body was full of hormones.
When the other female soldiers saw the photo, they all screamed, but Zhan Aiping felt that his face showed that he deserved a beating.
When Zhan Aiping saw this photo, she cursed in her heart, wondering who the idiot was who took the photo. She almost wanted to fight with the person who took the photo.
There is a caption on the photo: The Chinese people have great ambitions, they don’t like red dresses but love weapons.
Zhan Aiping originally wanted to tear up the photos when she got home, but then she forgot about it and didn't do it.
In the second photo, she and Gu Sheng looked very miserable. They were wearing military uniforms, lying on the grass. Their clothes were covered with mud and water, caked and hard. Their faces were also covered with mud. Even though it was a black and white photo, their outlines were very clear. Their eyes were very bright, like stars in the dark night.
Gu Sheng in the photo was looking at her.
In the third photo, she and Gu Sheng were wearing hats with red stars shining brightly, and both of them were holding medals in their hands. Zhan Aiping in the photo was very polite, she was smiling at the camera, while Gu Sheng's expression was nonchalant and a little bit smelly, his nose was straight, and his lips were tightly pursed.
Because when taking the photo, she pretended to accidentally step on Gu Sheng's foot.
It’s so refreshing!
Countless images flashed through her mind, as if she had returned to that year and heard the heartbeat at that time. Gu Sheng was on her back with a high fever. She didn't know whether the heartbeat she heard in her ear was her own or his.
From that moment on, she knew she liked him.
Even though the years have passed, even though half a century has passed, even though the body is aging, even though the memory is confused, I can still clearly remember the throbbing at that time.
"Forget it, I won't argue with you anymore."
Zhan Aiping said this softly, feeling the gentle sea breeze. She looked at the profile of the person next to her and wrote a line of words:
People tend to forget things when they get old, but they never forget their love for each other.
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