The ear-piercing roar made my eardrums ache.Looking at the planes soaring into the sky at the Capital Airport, I felt a sense of loss in my heart.That flight was from Beijing to Urumqi. Ouyang Ziyue said that her grandfather had three wishes in his later years: the first was to get Pan Jun’s forgiveness before he died, and the second was to return his soul after his death. hometown, and the third wish... Thinking of this, my wrist started to ache. I quickly rolled up my sleeves, and the scar on my left wrist was slightly red.This scar seems to be alive, and it will remind me whenever I want to touch that memory.

The taxi stopped at the entrance of the affiliated hospital of a certain military hospital in Beijing. It was almost evening at this time, but there was still an endless stream of people at the entrance of the hospital.I got out of the car and walked along the corridor to the inpatient department at the back of the hospital. Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered the door, I saw my father and several uncles standing anxiously at the entrance of the inpatient department. Thinking of this, I hastily walked forward in two steps and said, "Dad, what's the matter? Is something wrong?"

Several people frowned immediately when they saw me, as if they wanted to say something but hesitated to speak. After a while, my father pulled me aside and said to me in a low voice: "Remember that I told you a few days ago , will your grandpa leave the ward every midnight while we are asleep?" I didn't care about this, I nodded in doubt, and was surprised to find that his face became extremely mysterious, and then said to me: "Do you know what your grandpa went to do?" My father's tone was very low, as if he didn't want to hear my answer, but he took out a photo from his arms and handed it to me carefully, saying, "Look!"

I took the photo in confusion. It was a black and white photo that had already faded to yellow. There were three or four young people in their twenties in the photo. I could easily find Grandpa from this photo.Although he is now more than seventy years old, his unique temperament has never changed, and the other people in the photo... When I was thinking about it, I suddenly stared at another girl standing next to my grandfather and couldn't help but gasp Take a breath. "Dad, this girl..." I pointed to the yellowed photo and opened my mouth in disbelief, but couldn't speak.My father looked at the girl I was pointing at and nodded slightly, "You recognize it too!"

I nodded hastily, and I was in a daze for a moment. Could it be that I have watched too many "time-travel" TV series recently?Or maybe they had hallucinations, the girl in the photo and the nurse named Ning Ning who took care of grandpa seemed to come out of the same mold.After a few minutes, though, I understood right away and asked, "Dad, who's the girl in the picture?" "Shi Miaomiao..." Father said word by word, and I was almost suffocated.After quite a while, I breathed out and said, "Then...could this girl and Shi Miaomiao..." "Yeah!" My father pulled me to the door, nodded slightly while lighting a cigarette, "Your uncles and I think the same way."

"But...but how did you find out?" I looked at my father in surprise. "Oh!" Father sighed, "I always thought your grandpa just woke up every night, but these days I suddenly discovered that your grandpa always disappears when this nurse is on duty. Then I happened to be in I found this photo under your grandfather's bed! After confirming with your uncles, I found out that this woman is Shi Miaomiao!" "Oh, so that's the case, the grandfather disappeared at night, probably because he wanted to confirm whether there is a relationship between this girl and Shi Miaomiao!" I said suddenly.

"Well, I think so!" As he said, my father stubbed out the cigarette butt in his hand, turned his head and looked at me with piercing eyes, "At first your uncle wanted to ask that girl directly, but since you are here, I miss you It will be much better than us old men to confirm it!" "Old man, isn't it!" I looked at my father with an embarrassed face, and seeing that he didn't mean to be joking at all, I had no choice but to sigh and say, "Okay then!" In fact, even if he didn't let me go, I would I want to confirm as soon as possible whether this girl has anything to do with Shi Miaomiao.

It was already late at night when my father and several uncles left the hospital respectively.Grandpa half-lyed on the bed with his eyes closed, and there was Ouyang Yanying's memoir "A History of Bugs in a Hundred Years" beside the bed, as well as some fresh fruits.I sat on the sofa opposite the bed and turned on the computer, looking at the document, but feeling very disturbed.I just looked at the nurse's roster and it's the turn of that nurse named Ning Ning to be on duty tonight. If you go to her directly and ask: Do you have a relative named Shi Miaomiao?I'm afraid it's a bit abrupt.When I was thinking about how to get close to this girl, the door of the ward was suddenly pushed open. A girl in a white nurse uniform opened the door with a smile on her face. I glanced in the direction of my father, as if asking my grandpa if he was asleep!

I was about to nod my head when my grandfather said softly, "It's Xiao Ning!" "Well, it's me!" The nurse named Ning Ning pushed open the door with her left hand, walked to grandpa's bed with her right hand behind her back and said with a smile, "Did I disturb your rest?" "No!" The little nurse happily sat in front of grandpa's bed and said, "Grandpa Pan, guess what I brought you?" "Huh!" I didn't realize until now that the little nurse was holding a small pink box in the hand behind her back. Grandpa smiled secretively, the meaning of that smile was obvious, the two of them had become so familiar with each other for some time.I saw the girl mysteriously put the box in her hand in front of Grandpa, then turned her head and said to me: "Help turn off the light!"

I got up and turned off the light like a girl in a daze, the room was suddenly pitch black, only the flickering light from a distance came in from the window, casting some dim light on the old and the young.I saw the little nurse carefully opening the box in her hand, and instantly two small light spots flew out of the box, and they flew towards the direction of the light. Grandpa sat on the bed and waved his hand lightly, and then there was a slight vibration between his teeth, which sounded like mosquitoes. The two fireflies seemed to have found their way suddenly, and flew towards Grandpa. The dark parts of the roof circled each other and flew from top to bottom.

Although I know that grandpa is an insect repellent, this is the second time I have seen grandpa use the technique of repelling insects, and I can't help being dumbfounded.After a while, grandpa smiled and said to me: "Mu Yang, open the window and let them go!" Only then did I recover, and hurriedly stood up and pushed open the window. The two fireflies circled each other and flew out of the window, and then flew away separately.I stood in front of the window and stared at the two fireflies, suddenly a question flashed in my mind, does this little nurse also know that grandpa is an exterminator? At this moment, the light in the ward was turned on by the little nurse, and she said with a smile: "Grandpa Pan's move just now is really powerful!" "Hehe!" Grandpa smiled faintly. "Grandpa Pan, I'll go to another ward to see you first, and I'll see you later!" After finishing speaking, the little nurse opened the door with a satisfied smile and walked out. I quickly opened the door and followed. "Miss Nurse..." I shouted softly, the corridor was empty at this time, only the two of us were left, my voice was echoed wonderfully by the spacious corridor, as if there was another person hiding in the dark .She stopped, and the faint light shone on her delicate face, which actually overlapped with the face in the photo. I was at a loss for words for a moment. Could it be that she is really Shi Miaomiao's descendant? "What's wrong? Is Grandpa Pan looking for me?" The little nurse looked at me vigilantly and said. "No... no... I want to..." I rubbed my hands together, my face was flushed but I was still speechless.It was she who broke the embarrassment first, "Are you trying to ask me my name?" The little nurse seemed to take it easy and said, "My name is Yu Guanning!" After she finished speaking, she turned her head and walked to another ward as if nothing had happened. past.She entered the ward next door, and I lowered my head and opened the door with relief and walked back. As soon as I closed the door, I found grandpa sitting on the bed and staring at me coldly. I lowered my head, avoiding Grandpa's eyes and moving towards the sofa.Unexpectedly, Grandpa straightened his body lightly, said quietly: "She is not Shi Miaomiao's descendant!" Then he closed his eyes and lay down.But I stood there blankly as if struck by lightning. Grandpa's words obviously already understood the suspicion of my father and uncles. I sat slumped on the sofa, opened the notebook and tapped lightly on the flickering documents, still puzzled in my mind, when did this little nurse become so familiar with grandpa?Why would grandpa show his insect repellent skills in front of an outsider.All the mysteries almost engulfed me like a black hole. I kept writing until midnight, and I couldn't open my mind. I took out a cigarette from my pocket and was about to light it before I realized it was a hospital.In desperation, I had no choice but to stand up and glance in the direction of Grandpa. At this moment, the old man had already fallen asleep, and there was a burst of rhythmic snoring from time to time. I walked out of the ward with a cigarette in my pocket, walked to the window at the end of the corridor, and stood at the window.It was already late at night, and the patients in the hospital fell asleep early. I lit a cigarette and leaned against the window. A gust of night wind blew, and I wrapped my clothes.At this time, I felt keenly that there seemed to be a pair of eyes staring at me from behind, and I turned my head quickly, only to see a figure standing in the corridor looking towards me. After she realized that I had noticed her, she walked towards me slowly. "It's so late, why haven't you slept yet?" Yu Guanning said softly. I shrugged helplessly, pointed to the cigarette in my mouth and said, "I can't sleep, I'm addicted to cigarettes!" "Hehe!" Yu Guanning said with a smile, "I didn't expect you to be so addicted to cigarettes, and you can be hooked by it even in your sleep! But it's quite rare, there are very few people who are as filial as you now!" "Where is it!" I took a deep breath, sucked out the remaining cigarettes in one go, lightly snuffed out the cigarette butt and threw it in the trash can beside me. To be honest, ever since my grandfather said that this girl had no contact with Shi Miaomiao, My curiosity about her has been reduced by more than half. "What do you do?" Yu Guanning asked curiously. "Moving bricks!" I said jokingly.Yu Guanning immediately looked me up and down again, and then said with a smile: "Is there such a clean brick mover?" "Well, it's just that what we move is words!" It's really hard for me to give myself an accurate position. "Oh, is it the one who wrote it?" Yu Guanning said thoughtfully, "No wonder you haven't slept so late, you must be thinking about it?" "Yeah!" I nodded noncommittally. "What have you written?" Yu Guanning became interested and became very interested in me. "I have written a few books before, and now I am preparing to write a book about insect repellents!" I said lightly, and lit another cigarette casually.Unexpectedly, Yu Guanning's body trembled slightly after hearing this and said: "I once heard from my mother that she also knows some insect repellent skills!" I felt like I was electrocuted: "What did you say?" "The deworming technique seems to be different from what Grandpa Pan said. My mother said that there is a kind of deworming technique circulating in the family, which can change people's appearance. It is said that there are two kinds, one is like the kind of person on TV. Leather mask, another kind that seems to be able to completely change a person's appearance, I think it should be similar to plastic surgery!" Yu Guanning said casually, but I was very excited when I heard it. "Did your mother say that the person who can repel insects is who you are?" I asked Yu Guanning's arm excitedly. Yu Guanning frowned slightly, her beating eyes looked at me innocently, the corners of her mouth curled slightly, and she looked down at me grabbing her hand.Only now did I realize that it was because I was too excited that the hand holding her arm was neither light nor heavy, and it must have hurt the girl in front of me.I quickly withdrew my hand and smiled apologetically. "My grandma..." When I let go of my hand, Yu Guanning said softly while rubbing his arm. "Is your grandmother still alive?" I asked hastily.If I guessed right, that person should be Shi Miaomiao, but Yu Guanning smiled secretly, then turned and walked towards the duty room. In the next few days, I have been waiting for news from Yu Guanning. Occasionally, I will receive a call from Ouyang Ziyue. She has found the old address of Ouyang’s family in Xinjiang that Ouyang Yanying said, and I believe that Ouyang Yanying will be able to complete it soon. last wish.The phone calls from Tong Liang always bring me exciting news. The topic selection has been successfully passed, but I still don’t know how to start, because I really can’t figure out too many people and details in it. . Three days later, it was supposed to be Yu Guanning's turn to be on duty, but she didn't show up.I anxiously asked another nurse.It turned out that Yu Guanning was their courtyard flower. Not long after she graduated, the family members of the patients often pestered her.I think Yu Guanning must have regarded me as a suitor when I was chasing after her, so she said her name so casually. Obviously, she often encounters this kind of thing. Not only that, including Yu Guanning's family, she has worked in this hospital for three generations, and her mother is also in this hospital, and she is the director of surgery.As for why Yu Guanning didn't come today, she didn't know the reason. Before I left, I turned my head and asked the nurse inside: "She...doesn't have a boyfriend yet?" The nurse looked at me with a black line on her face, and I walked away tactfully. From the duty room to the ward, I have been thinking about a question, that is, since Yu Guanning is willing to tell me about the exterminator, then grandpa must also know about it.But why did grandpa say that this girl has nothing to do with Shi Miaomiao?I was puzzled and walked towards the door. At this moment, there was a sound of sonorous footsteps in the corridor facing me, and then three people came from the opposite side. The one in the middle looked about the same age as Grandpa. Behind him were two men in military uniforms. It's not surprising that some people from the army came to the hospital, but it's interesting to see the aura of those people. The military ranks of the two attendants should be at the captain level, and the middle one must have a high military rank even though he was dressed in plain clothes.When I was thinking about it, I found that they stopped in a ward in front of me. One of them knocked lightly on the door. After a short pause, no one responded. Both officers turned their heads and looked at the old man in the middle. Only then did I realize that the ward where the three people were standing was exactly the room where Grandpa lived.I hurried up and asked timidly, "You... who are you looking for?" "Do you know anyone in the ward?" one of the officers asked, looking at me. "Well, my grandfather!" I stammered, thinking that these people must have gone wrong. My grandfather has been in Beimeng all his life, and I have never heard that he has any contact with the army! As soon as I finished speaking, I saw the old man in the middle staring at the wrist of my left hand, and I quickly put my left hand behind my back.At this time, the old man smiled slightly and said with certainty: "We are looking for your grandfather!" Although the old man's tone was calm, there was an irresistible majesty. I stepped back at a loss, pushed open the door, and found that my grandfather was sitting on the head of the bed wearing a pair of reading glasses, holding the "History of Centennial Bugs" in his hand and reading it intently, with some crystal lights shining in the corners of his eyes. I didn't even notice when I opened the door. "Grandpa, someone...someone said they want to find you!" I carefully turned my head and looked behind me, and said with some uncertainty.Unexpectedly, just after I finished speaking, the old man came in and stood at the door, staring at the grandpa on the bed with piercing eyes, and shouted in disbelief: "Mr. Pan..." The voice seemed to come from the chest, although Light but has an indescribable power. When Grandpa heard the sound, he felt as if someone had hit an acupuncture point, his body froze immediately, and the book in his hand slipped quietly.It took a long time before he adjusted his glasses on his nose and walked towards the old man at the door. At this time, grandpa was already in tears, and the old man in front of him was also frowning, controlling his tears. "Brother Guan Xiu!" Grandpa shouted heavily. I couldn't help being startled, the person in front of me turned out to be Guan Xiu.I saw Guan Xiu strode up to his grandfather, and the two seventy-year-olds held hands tightly, and they looked at each other without saying a word.After a long time, Grandpa finally said, "Brother Guan Xiu, I never expected to see you again in my lifetime!" "Ah!" Guan Xiuchang sighed and sat on the bedside of his grandfather, "It's been more than fifty years, and for fifty years I always thought you were dead!" "Fifty years, you and I have changed from young people in their twenties to old men!" Grandpa smiled wittily after speaking. "Master Pan, do you know that after you disappeared, we searched all over the country to find your whereabouts. We never stopped after the founding of New China!" Guan Xiu said, "Where are you all these years?" Yeah? Why didn't you come to me? If it wasn't because of that girl Ningning this time, I'm afraid I would never see you in my life!" "Yu Guanning?" I whispered in surprise. When Guan Xiu heard my voice, he couldn't help turning his head slightly to look at me and asked, "Master Pan, this child belongs to you..." "It was adopted to me, called Pan Muyang!" Grandpa said quietly, and Guan Xiu nodded as if he had already guessed it, and said: "She is right, everything she said so far has come true!" "She..." Grandpa stammered, "Is she okay?" "Well, we all thought you were dead at the beginning, but she didn't believe it. It seems that she really guessed right." Guan Xiu stood up from the bed and waved his hands. The two officers retreated tactfully. go out.I would also turn around and walk out contentedly, but I was stopped by Guan Xiu: "Mu Yang, I heard that Ning Ning said that you are writing a book on insect repellents. It will not hurt you to hear it!" After speaking, he turned his head Looking at grandpa, grandpa nodded. "Grandpa Pan, I really don't understand why you left suddenly?" Guan Xiu saw me sitting on the sofa and walked to the bedside of grandpa and said, "Could it really be because of Yan Yun?" Guan Xiu turned his head and looked look at my arm. "That's what I owe her!" Grandpa said, looking out the window stupidly. "That's why you chose Mu Yang?" Guan Xiu said angrily.In fact, as I said in the previous books, even my elders may not know why my grandfather accepted me as a foreign surname to follow his surname, and even gave me a name like Pan Muyang.Hearing this, I naturally became energetic, staring at Grandpa curiously, wondering if there is any reason for it. Grandpa nodded slightly, it seems that the reason why grandpa chose me was really because of Ouyang Yanyun as Guan Xiu said. Thinking of this, I was shocked. Could it be that the woman in the room before was... Ouyang Yanyun.But why did you choose me? Hearing this, Guan Xiu sat silently by the bed, subconsciously took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, and said to himself: "Master Pan, she has been waiting for you for fifty years, you don't want to see her ?" Grandpa let out a long sigh, turned his face away, looked at the sunset and stopped talking.But Guan Xiu seemed to want to say something, but he still didn't say it in the end. "What happened to you after you were in Xinjiang?" I wanted to break the awkward atmosphere in the room, but as soon as I said that, the two old men immediately turned their attention to me. I really regret that I shouldn't ask at this time this problem. Unexpectedly, after a while, the two old men looked at each other. Grandpa waved to me, let me sit beside him and said softly, "It's time to tell you what happened next!" So in that evening, with the bloody sunset, the three people sitting in the room were completely immersed in the history of fifty years ago.