[The Wandering Earth] Short Story Collection: The Age of Roses

The movie "The Wandering Earth" Wang Lei x Liu Qi

To the original book, Han Duoduo No.1 said

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The long-term love lies in Ye Yuxiang.

I have never seen rain, except in the Chinese class and science class of basic education. The latter is a special invention of Beijing No. [-] Dungeon. The necessary physics, chemistry, biology and geography are combined, and today we will talk about it and tomorrow we will talk about it, giving you a channel to pry into the mysteries of nature and vent your excess energy through strange experiments.

I think what he said is quite right, so I never listen to it.

Life hasn't changed much since coming back from the ground.I still sit bored in the false classroom every day and scribble on the Chinese textbooks. Liu Qi still soaks in different machines every day, tinkering and knocking. The only change is that there are more scars on his face. And Li Yiyi joined the two of us for dinner.I always thought that Li Changtiao was just a technical nerd, but his cooking is actually delicious.Liu Qi's cooking is also delicious, but I'm the only one who can't.

In one class, the teacher talked about changes in natural conditions.When the monitor changed seats, she moved to my left. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw her comb her hair into a ponytail, and her back was straight.The teacher was reading the textbook on the podium, and I randomly took out a Chinese book from the table, took a pen and began to draw a skirt for Du Fu on it.

The teacher said: "Next, let's learn the formation of rain..."

I heard the class monitor sighed softly, she turned a page of the book and said softly: "I have never seen rain before."

It has long since stopped raining.Not on the ground, let alone in the dungeon.I turned my head away when I heard the sound, she didn't seem to expect that I would hear it, and smiled at me embarrassedly.I couldn't explain her expression at that moment. I thought she looked a little like Sister Zhou Qian, so I subconsciously grinned back at her.

There was a little surprise in her eyes, and she moved the chair towards me.

"Hey, Duoduo, Han Duoduo."

"what's wrong?"

I imitated her appearance and got down on the desk, using the back of the person in front to block myself who deserted.

"Have you ever been there?" She raised a hand under the desk and pointed to the sky, "Have you ever seen rain?"

I shook my head quickly and corrected her in a low voice: "It has stopped raining for a long time, and it's the extreme night now!"

"Then have you ever seen snow?"

On the podium, the teacher's lecture content extended from rain to snow.

I thought of the word "Fu" that was blown by the wind and snow in the elevator that day, and Liu Qi and I who didn't know how to bend over. I nodded: "Yes."

Her eyes lit up: "What does it feel like?"

I thought hard, and for the second time in my life, I felt that poor Chinese could also become an obstacle in life.

"It feels like snow..."

In the end, that's all I can say dryly.

Then I was busy and then disappointed, and then my hometown was my hometown.

Poems written on the clouds when you are full and full of two meals, it will be as usual after early spring.

The watch beeped to the police, and the frequency of the red light flashing on the side of the dial could be called anxious, and the vibration caused my wrist, which was pressed on the side, to throb and hurt.I struggled to squint my eyes and touched the terminal on the bedside table. I was so dazzled by the light from the screen that I wanted to cry.I fumbled to turn off the alarm, but swiped my finger twice before reaching the slider.

The singing in the room suddenly stopped, and the night was surprisingly quiet.Outside the narrow window everything was silent, as if the city was falling asleep or dying.I turned around and knelt on the bed, staring at the selfie photo of me, Li Yiyi and Liu Qi on the screen saver of my mobile phone, and the sticky darkness hit me, February 2077, 2[15], 1:3 in the morning.

On the head of the bed is the solar system DIY they gave me for my birthday last year. The blue earth is sprinkled with gold powder and drags out a long tail in orbit.It is far away from Jupiter, but in the dream Jupiter's huge eyes follow me all the time.Buildings and ice roared down from above, splashing blood and dust on the ground around me.The suit kept tripping over the wreckage of the building, sometimes concrete, sometimes shards of steel, and I was so tired I wanted to cry.

The short hair was sticking to my face, and something wet was dripping down my neck. Jupiter’s eyes were still looking at me, and my throat was burning like hell. With a sharper breath, it melted in my stumbling run. For crying and whimpering.

them.Who will save them.

Come to the end.

Who—who will save me, help—

Suddenly, someone grabbed his arm.Black protective clothing.Strong, grown-up hands.

He said, "Dodo, don't be afraid, follow me."

I threw off the quilt violently, and was shivered by the temperature after the central air conditioner was turned off in the middle of the night.There was an ominous sound from the sliding door of the balcony, and one of the slippers flew out as it hit the sliding door.I hopped over to pull on my shoes, and squinted my eyes to check the very old rice cooker.

Even Han Duoduo, who doesn't cook well, sometimes wants to make breakfast for his brother, especially when the junior driver Liu Qi rarely has a vacation.The recipe of multigrain porridge was recommended to me by the monitor. She said that the porridge tastes best when it is boiled for four hours.

I checked the timer one last time and quietly exited the kitchen.

"Dodo?"

The door of Liu Qi's room was open, and he was standing at the door with the light behind him, so I couldn't see his expression clearly.

"What's the matter?" I asked.

Strange, when I came out just now, I don't remember that there was a light in the crack of his door.

"Why haven't you slept yet?" He tilted his head.

"Ah I……"

I was speechless for a moment, standing still and scratching my hair.I don't want to expose the fact that I got up in the middle of the night to cook porridge, but I'm afraid he already knows.

Liu Qi didn't look like he had just woken up from his sleep. He threw a piece of clothing on the sofa and sat next to it.

"Go to sleep." He pursed his lips and said.

I ran over and sat next to him, tucking my legs into the couch and hugging my knees.The lights in the living room were not turned on, only the light from the emergency lighting on the outer wall of the building in the distance leaked from a distance, casting a few sporadic spots of light on the ground.

"Not sleepy?" he asked.

I shook my head and felt the ends of my hair sweeping over his shoulders, so I pressed closer towards him again.Liu Qi sighed.He turned sideways, picked up the clothes he had thrown on the arm of the sofa, and spread them around my back.

"elder brother."

After sitting for a while, I called him sullenly.

"what happened?"

"I... had a nightmare."

I stared at the coffee table full of drawings and small parts, without daring to blink, but before I could finish a sentence, I saw something slipping from the inside of my eye socket.That tear hit the ground with a 'slap', bursting into a bright spot of light.

Liu Qi put his hand on top of my head, "Duo Duo", he said.

I buried my head in my arms and knees, trying desperately to suppress the urge to cry. "I dreamed of that day," I clenched my left wrist, which trembled from the cold fingers of my right hand, "We are under Jupiter, the engine collapsed, I, I ran desperately, but I couldn't get out ..."

It was my deepest nightmare, the cage called Sulawesi.

Tears flowed down the bridge of my nose onto my curled knees, and I told Liu Qi about my dream incoherently.He turned sideways and gently stroked my head with his right hand.

"We ran out, Dodo," he said, looking down into my eyes.

I never knew he had grown so tall.

"But...he didn't."

The tears that had just stopped bursting again, I remembered the hand in my dream, the black protective clothing that would make me feel at ease as long as I saw it on the road to Sulawesi, what he said when he gave me the little doll, I said that his daughter also has a gentle expression as big as mine.

"She is studying well. She told me that she wants to be a scientist in the future."

Fathers all over the world are alike.

"He didn't run out, Liu Qi! He didn't! He didn't—"

A burst of pain spread from my chest to my whole body like lightning, and I tightly grasped the left hand that Liu Qi was holding with me, like the last rope before falling.

Wang Lei also touched my head, the warmth they gave me was so similar.

"He can't come back... Liu Qi, he can't come back..."

I felt Liu Qi sigh softly, he turned completely sideways, took me into his arms with his right hand, and let me lean on his shoulder.

"Don't cry, Dodo."

With the dim light outside, I saw my tears fall drop by drop on the gray sweater of my unrelated brother. The cotton material quickly absorbed the moisture and turned into a dark stain.

For no reason, I remembered the look of Wang Lei when he handed me the bear.He took off his protective suit in the transport vehicle, and he was wearing a cotton sweater with tiny threads like this on the neckline.

Once, again, Liu Qi patted my back lightly.

He said, "Duoduo, don't cry."

It took a while, until my tears soaked his entire right shoulder, and my sobs gradually stopped.

"I'm sorry." I pressed my forehead against his shoulder, "Liu Qi, I'm sorry."

He froze slightly: "What's wrong?"

"sorry."

I closed my eyes and shook my head slowly.

When I was in Sulawesi, the rescue team asked me to evacuate with them.

It was I who insisted on staying on the ground and waiting for Liu Qi and Li Yiyi.

So Sister Qian and the others left, but Wang Lei did not evacuate with the rescue team. He chose to stay on the ground, protect me, and wait for Liu Qi.

Then the backup elevator collapsed.

Then Wang Lei never came back.

"I'm sorry, if it wasn't for me...if it wasn't for me..." Then he wouldn't have died.

I couldn't go on, I just leaned on his shoulder and repeated over and over again, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's all my fault.

If I obey, all will survive.

Between you and him, there will not be only a medal and 5 minutes of love [2].

Liu Qi encircled me in his arms with two arms, and he patted my back lightly.

There was a slight touch on the top of my head, and I felt his warm breath.Liu Qi lowered his head and kissed my hair.

"I love you." He said, his voice was very deep and quiet, no emotion could be heard, but his body was warm.

"Sorry……"

He hugged me and shook me: "Duoduo, don't be afraid."

Don't be afraid, follow me, my brother is here.

"Brother, what time is it?"

We huddled together for warmth just like when we were very young.I don't know how long it took, I turned my head and asked him in a low voice.

"It's almost four o'clock."

I yawned, "Isn't it dawn at four o'clock?"

His chest trembled slightly, as if he was laughing.

"……what's wrong?"

"It doesn't light up until four o'clock, it's the darkest time." Liu Qi said.

"what……"

I felt him touch my head again.

"Sleep," he said, "wake up, and it will be dawn."

Before I fell asleep in a daze, I heard Liu Qi squatting down beside me, and he said something softly.

I opened my eyes a slit and looked at him with difficulty.

He said: "Duoduo, for him, live a good life."

Live his future as he once expected [3].

How many indifferent world conditions can be turbulent, and there is still loneliness to resist;

How many regrets are conceited, only time is unstoppable.

【End】

The author has something to say:

The lyrics in boldface in the full text are all from Chen Hongyu's "Just Like a Youth", which is the BGM that the author has something to say.

Note:

1. Wang Lei died on February 2075, 2.

2. Adapted from the work "5 Minutes of Love" by @长发兔养养兔兔teacher

3. This echoes my first article "The Future I Have Expected" by Leiqi

4. The author has something to say: some interpretations of "The Age of Roses"

About Dodo: After every catastrophe, some survivors will always ask themselves 'why I survived'. Dodo in "The Age of Roses" is such a mentality.It seems that life is going on as usual, but in fact, she is carrying a heavy burden in her heart. She feels that Wang Lei's failure to survive is the fault of her not obeying the order and going to the dungeon with the rescue team. Repeatedly having the same nightmare, finally broke out in the middle of the night when he was sitting with Liu Qi.She felt it was her fault, although we all know that we will always stay on the ground waiting for our relatives and partners, just to return safely together.

About Liu Qi: Although "The Age of Roses" is from Duoduo's perspective, Liu Qi is the one who abuses it from the beginning to the end.

I personally think that Liu Qi is the kind of person who might be able to get into a dead end, so when Han Duoduo cried and said sorry, he had already thought about it when he just returned to Beijing Dungeon.In the movie, Han Ziang's death and Liu Qi's outburst against Wang Lei is an example.It's not that Liu Qi is ignorant of reason, but he will still anger Wang Lei because of his relatives, and complain why he didn't save grandpa.

But after Wang Lei left, Liu Qi has become the backbone of a group of people—the boy is about to grow up.When he was young in Sulawesi, Wang Lei was the backbone and support of a group of them. He could collapse and explode against Wang Lei; but after Sulawesi, Liu Qi took over his role, and he was just like Wang Lei , become a lighthouse in the storm, shining forever and steadily.

"Rose" is set two years later in Sulawesi.For two years, Han Duoduo was suffering, and Liu Qi was also suffering.It was not Wang Lei's fault that he failed to save Han Ziang back then, but Liu Qi was able to vent his anger on him; it was also not Dodo's fault that Wang Lei in Sulawesi did something to save Dodo. .This is his growth.

He grew up and was taller than Wang Lei, and he lived himself as Wang Lei expected him to live.But that doesn't mean he doesn't suffer.We couldn't deny the possibility that "If Han Duoduo followed the rescue team obediently and went to the dungeon with the rescue team, Wang Lei would not have died." Han Duoduo knew it, and Liu Qi knew it too.But as Dodo's elder brother and the person Dodo depends on, he can't show it; but as Wang Lei's lover, I can't even imagine his pain as cruel.The kiss he put on the top of Duoduo's hair was sincere and brainwashed: Wang Lei loves her, and I love her too, and we want to live together like Wang Lei expected.

What "The Age of Roses" wants to express is Liu Qi's pain: when you were there, I used to rely on you; when you are gone, I can support others as well as myself.I still love you like the day I first fell in love with you, so I live as you and as myself.

Wang Lei never left, he will live with Liu Qi forever.