Chapter 159 Butterfly Lovers (9) Chen Huihong's Maybach slowly drove into the underground garage without attracting anyone's attention. all the best. Qin Huai put on his hat, scarf and mask again before getting off the car, ensuring that even if Zhao Rong and Qin Congwen were standing in front of him, he would not be able to recognize him at the first time. After hearing six directions and looking in all directions, he dragged his suitcase and quickly slipped into the elevator. . It wasn't until he walked out of the elevator to the door of Luo Jun's house that Qin Huai took a breath. Zhang Shumei opened the door. "Master Xiao Qin, the room has been cleaned for you. Time is limited, and the bed is a temporary air mattress. You can see if it suits you. If not, I will find someone to change the bed in my room to the guest room." Zhang Shumei said. . There are no guest rooms in Luo Jun's house. The only rooms in his house are the master bedroom, the second bedroom, the studio, the audio-visual room and the showroom. Luo Jun uses the servant's room to pile up sundries. Zhang Shumei, the live-in nanny, lives in the second bedroom. Qin Huai took a look and found that Zhang Shumei had temporarily arranged the audio-visual room and turned it into a guest room. The room was quite large and livable, bigger than the master bedroom of his house. "It's good, no problem." Qin Huai said with a smile, opened the suitcase and took out the 20 kilograms of shortbread and fruit embryos in the suitcase.
Qin Huai brought a change of clothes except for shortcakes and fruits this time. There was nothing to sort out, so he went to the living room with his things. Chen Huihong is already eating the fruit plate. Luo Jun was still sitting on the sofa watching TV. When he saw Qin Huai coming out, he gave him a look, cleared his throat and said loudly: "Xiao Zhang, the same old rules, Chlorophytum." Five minutes later, Zhang Shumei happily went out with her big bag in hand. Qin Huai went to the kitchen to steam fruit for Luo Jun. When he entered the kitchen, he found several bowls of ingredients on the stove. Raw materials for tangerine peel tea. The intention is already clear. "Mr. Luo, do you want to make tangerine peel tea?" Qin Huai stuck his head out and asked. "Otherwise." Luo Jun said in a strange tone, "Master Xiao Qin is really busy with everything. He came all the way back just to complete the task quickly. He is not even willing to give the task target a bowl of tangerine peel tea." Qin Huai:… Which palace drama have you watched recently? Anyway, making tangerine peel tea is not troublesome, it is just a matter of course. Qin Huai first put the fruit into the steamer to steam, and then started to make tangerine peel tea. He searched in the cabinet again, found the ingredients prepared by Zhang Shumei, and started kneading the dough. It's rare to come back, so it's time to make some delicious snacks for Luo Jun and Chen Huihong, so that they can see the results of their studies at Huangji during this period. After learning about cooking for a week, my pastries have improved by leaps and bounds. Soon, after the dough is kneaded and placed on the chopping board to rest, the fruits in the steamer are ready to be cooked. The tangerine peel tea still needs some time, but don’t rush it, the fruit hasn’t colored yet. Qin Huai mixed the red cabbage juice and created randomly, keeping time very accurately. When the coloring of the four fruits was completed, the tangerine peel tea in the pot was also successfully cooked. Luo Jun was already sitting at the dining table. Qin Huai filled three bowls of tangerine peel tea, took them out on a tray, and sat down to eat some together. Chen Huihong, who couldn't wait for a long time, couldn't wait to pick up the fruit, took a bite, squinted her eyes with satisfaction, and ate happily.
Luo Jun was unmoved. He didn't even look at the fruits on the plate. He calmly picked up the spoon and drank the tangerine peel tea slowly. Spoon after spoon, this movement and expression were very familiar to Qin Huai. The only difference was a piece of newspaper, which was how Luo Jun drank tangerine peel tea after getting up every morning in his memory. After five or six minutes, the bowl of tangerine peel tea was finished. Chen Huihong was almost nibbling on the second fruit. She looked a little full. She held the last half in her hand without moving her mouth for a long time. Luo Jun put down the bowl without taking the fruit, looking a little hesitant. "Oh, don't hesitate. It's a knife to extend your head, and it's a knife to shrink your head. It won't be a loss if Xiao Qin reads the memory. If Xiao Qin reads the memory and makes a new snack to help you successfully escape the disaster, won't you still make money? Well, you can live for many more years!" Chen Huihong advised as an experienced person. Luo Jun rolled his eyes at her angrily: "You think I am you and don't remember anything. Do I care about living for many more years? It's not the same life to die and be reincarnated now." Having said that, Luo Jun took action, picked up a fruit, put it to his mouth, hesitated for a moment, and took a small bite. Almost at the moment Luo Jun started chewing, the game prompt sounded in Qin Huai's mind. "Ding, congratulations on completing the side mission [The Taste of Memory] and receiving the mission reward [a memory of Luo Jun]." Luo Jun's last memory was obtained. Qin Huai looked at Luo Jun and asked cautiously: "Do you... have anything else to tell you?" Qin Huai knew very well that Luo Jun must know what the memory content he was about to see was. Luo Jun was silent for a long time, and Qin Huai also sat at the dining table and waited for him for a long time without clicking on the game panel. Finally, Luo Jun spoke, his voice a little hoarse: "Remember her appearance, don't forget it." Qin Huai nodded, opened the game panel, and selected [Luo Jun's memory]. Select Yes. [Memory loading—]. "boom!" Fire, loud noise, disaster. When Qin Huai entered his memory, all he saw was devastation. It was obviously dark night, but the burning fire illuminated the surrounding area very brightly. There are bombed ruins everywhere, and charred and collapsed houses make creaking and shattering sounds from time to time. There are no cries or calls for help. It feels like all living things have been reduced to nothing in the ruins. Qin Huai looked up and saw the planes hovering in the sky and continuing to drop bombs. "boom." In the distance, another bomb was dropped. This is not the real and fake bombing seen in movies, this is really happening in front of our eyes, and the roar is so loud that it can deafen people's ears. This is not a disaster movie, this is a real disaster. Luo Jun was in the ruins, leaning against the half-collapsed dangerous wall, using the firelight, standing there calmly reading the newspaper, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him, and his expression was leisurely and calm, as if he was waiting for Liu at the door of the cinema. Tao finished watching the movie.
Soon, the plane hovering in the sky flew away. Before Luo Jun finished reading the newspaper, he turned a page and looked up at the sky. "It goes on day by day, it's really annoying." After speaking, Luo Jun patted the ashes on his body and found a bright place to continue reading the newspaper. After reading one, there is another, and when the fire in one place burns out, it is replaced by a bright one. For a moment, Qin Huai found it difficult to evaluate this behavior, which seemed to be similar in nature to digging into walls to steal light, and he didn't know what to see. After all, there was nothing around, not even a living person, so he might as well join Luo Jun and read the newspaper with him. The two of them just read the newspaper together, reading the newspaper until dawn. Qin Huai even counted in boredom. Luo Jun took out a total of 22 newspapers folded into small tofu cubes from his pocket. It was obvious that he came prepared and came out to read the newspapers on the night of the bombing. In the past, Luo Jun usually only took three or four cards with him when he went out. Luo Jun unhurriedly refolded the finished newspaper into tofu cubes, put it in his pocket, and walked towards the east. That's the direction of the sun. It was just dawn, and the light was not strong, but it was enough for Qin Huai to see the scene in the distance clearly. Basically, wherever the bombs fell, there was only debris after the explosion. The houses did not completely collapse. In some low-rise houses, only broken bricks and burned wood could be seen. In some cases, part of the wall collapsed but the main body was still intact. If you were very lucky, it was even intact and was only smoked by the spreading fire. Black exterior wall. Luo Jun walked slowly, Qin Huai followed him, and after walking a few streets, Qin Huai heard faint cries from the distance. People who had been hiding in the air-raid shelters all night finally came out of the air-raid shelters one after another after confirming that the plane had left and it was dawn. Some people looked at their homes that had become ruins, collapsed and threw themselves on the wreckage, crying, frantically rummaging through the ruins for belongings, and roaring at everyone who tried to get close to the ruins like wild dogs guarding their food. Some people wanted to take advantage of the situation and saw lone women and thin young men holding wooden sticks to threaten each other to hand over their belongings. Even though their pockets were already full of items that did not belong to them, they still greedily wanted more. But more often than not, people are calling the names of their loved ones everywhere. When they see a familiar person, they pounce on you and ask you if you saw so and so, and if he is with you. Chaos. Luo Jun obviously didn't like such a crowded and chaotic crowd. He kept avoiding people along the way. After walking through slums one after another, Qin Huai saw the small western-style building in the distance. Qin Huai had never seen these foreign-style buildings. It was obvious that Luo Jun had left Shu and came to a new place. The area of the western-style building was obviously not directly bombed, but was only slightly affected. The buildings are well preserved, maybe because of the terrain. Qin Huai took a look and felt that this area was indeed not easily bombed. There was a reason why it became a wealthy area during such a dangerous period. Luo Jun walked towards the innermost three-story western-style building. Before he could reach the door, Liu Tao rushed towards him with an anxious face. He first looked at Luo Jun's face, regardless of whether his hands were dirty or black. , as if afraid that she had seen wrongly, she touched his cheeks, ears, and chin, and then looked at his neck and arms after confirming that there was no injury. Liu Tao's hands were trembling, and his whole body was shaking with fear. He looked very embarrassed. Her hair was disheveled, her clothes were wrinkled, her hands were dirty, and one of her shoes was missing. There were large beads of sweat on the forehead, residual tear stains on the corners of the eyes and cheeks, and many small cuts on the beautiful silk dress. If you look closely, you can see that there are many small wounds on her hands oozing blood, with sand and small stones stuck in the wounds. Luo Jun saw Liu Tao's hand. "What's wrong with your hand?" Luo Jun grabbed his hand and asked. Liu Tao didn't answer, big tears fell directly from her eyes, her lips trembled and she choked, "I thought you were dead." "The Liu's shop you went to last night said they were almost blown to the ground by the Japanese. Many people were killed. Even the air-raid shelters were trampled and crowded to death. I wanted to go find you before dawn. , Uncle Zhang didn’t let me go out. He and Li Ping went to look for you after dawn and I never came back. I thought you..." Liu Tao couldn't speak anymore at the end and hugged Luo Jun and burst into tears.
"How about we stop looking? I'm not looking for my parents anymore. Let's go back to Shanghai. We really can't go further south. It's too dangerous here." "Secretary Liu's Chuntao didn't have time to run when she went out to buy groceries the morning before yesterday. One of her legs was blown off and she had to be dragged home and lay there waiting to die. Last night when I was in the air-raid shelter, I heard that Minister Cao's wife They said that the bombings would only increase in the future, and the Japanese were forcing us to get supplies and stuff. I couldn’t understand what they were saying. I only knew that Mrs. Cao wanted to leave here and go back to her hometown.” "She wants to leave. It will definitely be unsafe in the future. Boyan, I know you still have business to discuss here, but now the air raid sirens sound every three to five days. Basically, you don't At home. I heard Mrs. Liu say in the air-raid shelter last night that several government employees were killed in the bombing. Isn’t it safe there? Otherwise, we should still..." Luo Jun didn't speak, just held Liu Tao's hand to comfort her, and after Liu Tao's voice stopped shaking when she spoke, and her body stopped shaking uncontrollably, he helped her straighten her hair. "Go home first and put on your shoes. There are a lot of gravel on the ground. Stepping on the ground with bare feet will scratch your feet." Liu Tao followed Luo Jun home. Compared with the small foreign-style house where Liu Tao and Luo Jun lived in Shudi last time, the one where Liu Tao and Luo Jun lived now was obviously larger and more luxurious, with more furniture and ornaments in the room. There were no newspapers in the living room, so they must have been collected and put upstairs. Luo Jun let Liu Tao sit on the sofa, got up and got him a pair of shoes, helped Liu Tao put them on, found a clean towel, wetted it with water, wiped Liu Tao's face, and then wiped his hands. Liu Tao sat dumbly throughout the whole process, like a doll, as sluggish as after a shock. "You don't have to worry too much about me." Luo Jun sat next to Liu Tao, "I'll be fine." The switch on the doll was turned on, and Liu Tao was called out of fear by Luo Jun's voice. She trembled and looked at Luo Jun with wide eyes, as if to determine whether what just happened was her hallucination or real. Liu Tao looked at Luo Jun like this, and her tears fell uncontrollably. "You're crying again. You've never cried before. I remember you told me that when you were a child, you were practicing in a theater troupe, and the troupe leader beat you with a wooden stick. Even if the stick interrupted you, you wouldn't cry." Luo Jun Helplessly. "That's different." Liu Tao whispered, blinked her eyes, and shed two more tears, "I don't want to either, but I can't control myself." "How about we go back? Sister Ahong sent me a letter last year, saying that the concession is now very safe. Although prices are high and food prices vary every day, you find a house for her and you don't have to pay rent. She and her man earn It’s enough money to support a family.” "Where's Team Leader Liu?" Luo Jun asked. Liu Tao stopped talking. "The troupe leader... I haven't heard from him for a long time." Liu Tao lowered his head and said, "I haven't received a letter from the troupe leader since he wrote to me three years ago that the troupe was moving south." "There are many bandits along the way, and some bandits have guns. The class leader will definitely not take the train to save money. They may..." Luo Jun didn't give Liu Tao a chance to escape: "She should be dead." "Now I still have business to discuss, and I also said I would help you find your parents." “It’s not safe here, is it safe outside?” "The concessions in Shanghai are not safe, and outside the concessions are often bombed. There is a war in the north, a war in the Central Plains, and bandits are rampant in the south. The city is unsafe, and the countryside is unsafe. These are troubled times, where can I How about finding a safe place?" Liu Tao looked at Luo Jun blankly. "This is the capital after all. The air-raid shelters in this area are specially dug and built. As long as you stay at home like Mrs. Cao and the others every day, no place will be safer than here. Don't listen to what Mrs. Cao says, watch what she does, as long as She hasn’t left here for a day, it’s safe here.” "Don't worry about me. Whether I'm going to discuss business with Minister Cao or looking for someone, I'll be fine." Liu Tao obviously didn't understand the meaning of this sentence, and it was impossible for her to understand it. She could only look at Luo Jun blankly. "When we got married, I promised you that I would help you find your parents."
"I never break a promise." (End of chapter)