I wish you two lifetimes

Waking up like a dream, she touched it with her hand, and her face was already wet.

Obviously, so long has passed, as if it appeared yesterday, every word and every word is unforgettable in her mind. Since she was 15 years old, this memory has been popping up in her mind from time to time. She doesn't know whether it is a gift or a torture.

Good things are good only because they are easy to destroy.

In other words, it's been too long, so long that I almost forgot what you look like. I'm afraid that one day, I won't even be qualified to live with memories.

Are you still blaming me?

She stared at the river in a daze, the cold wind eroded her tear-stained cheeks, and she felt stinging pain in the corners of her eyes.

Yan Ran stood up, her feet were sore after a long time, she rubbed her legs, and after a while, she lifted the lantern by her feet, the light inside was faintly visible, she looked in, the candle inside was only half burnt, It turned out that she had been here for so long, she smiled bitterly.

She carried the lantern and walked on the road. There were more people on the road than before. She avoided the crowd, walked around the alley, and left the town in a short while.

She waited for a long time at the intersection, barely saw an empty car, and then returned to the hotel.

She was the only one in the room, Fang Nuo did not come back, remembering that she said that there was an event at night, and it would not be over in a while, so he lowered his head and sent her a message to remind her to be safe, and then threw the phone on the bed.

She washed up, and before she could sit down on the bed, the screen of her phone lit up, accompanied by a vibrating sound.

She picked it up.

"Little Gu." An old voice came from inside.

Gu Yanran was taken aback when he heard the voice, "Professor Jin?"

"It's me." The person on the other end laughed, a little surprised and also a little happy that she recognized him so quickly.

Professor Jin is a professor in the Department of Literature and History of Dongdae University. He is highly respected. Although he has passed his sixtieth birthday, he has been devoting himself to historical research. He is a rare good teacher who has both talents and virtues, and is willing to teach students patiently. Gu Yanran naturally respects him very much. of.

But this call still caught Gu Yanran a little off guard, except during school, Professor Jin had never contacted her in private.

His phone call was beyond her expectations.

"Calling so late, I didn't disturb your rest." There was an apology in the voice on the other side.

"No, I just came back too, so don't bother me."

"I heard from Director Liu that you are in Nanjing now?" Although this question was a question, his tone was very certain.

"Well, yes, but I'll be back in two days, and I can make it back before school starts." Yan Ran knew that something must be wrong when Professor Jin called so late, "Is there something wrong, Professor?"

"Well, there is something I want to ask you for help. Someone sent me a few stone tablets earlier, all of which are inscribed in bronze. You Professor Zhou has an urgent matter at home recently, and the teacher wants to ask you to come over and take a look."

Professor Zhou is another professor in the Department of Literature and History in the school. He mainly studies bronze inscriptions and oracle bone inscriptions. Now that he has work, he can't get away.And Professor Jin knew that Gu Yanran was an outstanding child, and when he heard that she was involved in Jin Wen, he wanted to ask her for a favor.

"Okay." Gu Yanran agreed straight away. Bronze inscriptions are really difficult, but it won't take long for her, "Then please ask the professor to send me the picture, and I will send you the translation later."

"Little Gu, the teacher called you just to hope that you could come back early, so come and have a look."

"Then—then I need to tell Director Liu that I will go back tomorrow morning." Gu Yanran actually hesitated. Although her part was already finishing work, Liu Chuyu's tomb had caused her a lot of doubts, and she was a little uneasy. .

But she also knew that she couldn't find any clues for a while, so she just went back to school after thinking about it.

"No, I've already said hello to him, and I called you after he agreed."

This... The professor's trick of cutting first and then playing is really well practiced. In the end, her opinion is not important at all, she smiled helplessly.It's not that there was no such situation before, and she was no stranger to it.

"Okay, professor, I'll be back tomorrow morning, so you can rest earlier." She said goodbye, hung up the phone, called Liu Wei'an to say something, and then started to organize things.

She didn't have many things, she only brought a few changes of clothes, and put half of the suitcase shallowly.

She glanced at the lamp on the table, ran downstairs and asked the front desk for a suitable small cardboard box, and put the lamp in it.

Take it back, she——a little reluctant.

Once the small cardboard box was put away, the suitcase seemed a bit crowded.

She booked the earliest bus for the next day, so she would inevitably have to get up early. She set the alarm clock and sent another text message to Fang Nuo, telling her that she would go back first tomorrow, so she put the phone upside down on the bedside table.

In the evening, she didn't have time to eat anything, so she went downstairs to find a small restaurant and ordered two small dishes.

The phone was left in the room, so naturally she didn't receive a few calls from Wen Yanzhi.

After dinner, I walked downstairs for a while before returning to the hotel.

Picking up the phone, she found that there were several missed calls without notes, so she dialed them suspiciously.

That end was quickly picked up.

"Hello, who is this?"

"It's me." Came a low and magnetic voice.

Gu Yanran was taken aback, she never expected it to be Wen Yanzhi.

"What's up?"

"You went back?"

"Well, I'm going back." She has already returned to the hotel, but she will go back to school tomorrow.

"Okay." His tone was light.

"Smoking less." She blurted out as if she could see Wen Yanzhi sitting in the car smoking a cigarette.

"How do you know I'm smoking?" The other end of the phone chuckled and extinguished the cigarette in his hand.

Gu Yanran was taken aback, she just felt it, "I just think you're a little unhappy."

Wen Yanzhi didn't reply to her words, but just said to go to bed early, and hung up the phone.

Early in the morning, she woke up in front of the alarm clock. She got up and turned off the alarm clock. She saw Nuo curled up in the quilt on the other bed, sleeping soundly. She thought, she should have come back very late last night. She slept so deeply that she didn't notice.

She went to wash her hands lightly, so as not to wake her up, she knocked the door lightly when she left.

These two days were the students' back-to-school days of each school. She came early and there were not many people. When she got off the train in Dongcheng two hours later, there were more people in the station.

She got into the taxi, went home first, and quickly packed the suitcase.

She opened the cardboard box inside, and took a closer look at the lamp inside. Fortunately, it was intact, so she placed the lamp in front of the bay window in the bedroom, and took another look when she closed the bedroom door.

After leaving home, he went directly to Dongda University. Many students in the school came back early. Walking on the road, a few girls who passed by saw Gu Yanran, frowned, and narrowly avoided it.

She got used to it, and walked to the school's literature and history hall by herself, but the door was not closed, she pushed the door open, and now, there was a half-white-haired figure standing in the hall.

"Professor Jin." Yan Ran walked up to him.

"Little Gu is here." He raised his head and saw Gu Yanran with a kind face, "Come and see." He took off his reading glasses, put them aside, and rubbed his eyes. The eyes couldn't bear it.

"Okay." Gu Yanran looked towards his hand, and only then did she understand why Professor Jin insisted on calling her back. The stele in front of her was broken into dozens of pieces, with many missing corners and wear and tear, scattered on the table above, have not been sorted out yet.

Gu Yanran approached and took a look. The inscription on the inscription was very shallow, and under the wear and tear, many words could not be read clearly.

"How?" He also had a headache writing the fragments, which were obviously broken and then damaged again, and the cracks alone could not be spliced ​​together.

"Let me try." Gu Yanran put on glasses and gloves. Her eyes are slightly short-sighted, which does not affect her daily life, but when she does text research, it will still affect her after a long time.

"Professor, you are busy with your work, leave it to me." Gu Yanran gave Professor Jin a reassuring look.

"I'm very relieved of you. I'll sort out other materials first. If you have any questions, come to me." Professor Jin put on his glasses, picked up a thick stack of papers, and walked into the room.

Only then did Gu Yanran lower his head and concentrate on splicing the stone tablet in his hand, because it was too broken, he could only identify the inscription first, and then splice it together.

The golden inscription on the inscription is not difficult to identify, but because the stone tablet has missing pieces, a rough look shows that a lot of content is missing, and the inscription is not coherent.

She took the pencil and paper on the side, wrote down the inscriptions on the stone respectively, and drew circles on the paper several times. It took some effort to connect the inscriptions.

The inscriptions record all the life stories of the owner.

After the basic work is done, the subsequent splicing is much faster.

She picked out a few pieces with inscriptions and spliced ​​them together, leaving the rest of the gravel aside.

Those are not her forte, just like Wen Yanzhi's splicing of porcelain fragments, she can't get in at all, it's good if it doesn't help.

Besides, now that Professor Jin just asked him to translate the inscription, she couldn't spend her time elsewhere, it was really a waste of time.

An hour later, the inscription first took shape, and as expected, five stones with the inscription on it were missing, so Gu Yanran could only leave the missing part there.

She took off her glasses, took off her gloves, and rubbed her sore eyes.

There were pens, inks, papers and inkstones in the glass cabinet on the side. She took them out one by one, spread the rice paper on the table beside her, took a pen, dipped it in ink, and copied the inscription on the rice paper.

Originally all the inscriptions on the inscription should be rubbed, but this inscription is seriously damaged and has not been polished. It takes time to rub it down, and it is not as fast as she wrote it.

She copied stroke by stroke, not letting go of the position, size, and movement of all the characters, trying to restore them completely.

This should be a stone tablet from the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Although the content of the inscription shows that the owner is just an ordinary clan, it is worth studying because of its age.

Copying focuses on similarity in shape and spirit, so Gu Yanran's speed is a bit slower than usual. It took nearly an hour to write these dozens of characters.

She put down her pen, put the paper on the table aside, took another piece of rice paper and spread it on the table.

She started to write the translation in running script, not that she likes running script so much, but after so many years, she has become accustomed to writing running script, which is smooth and smooth, and can be used with ease.