Great Doctor Without Borders

Chapter 1503 Wake Me Up When We Arrive
Bai Lan smiled and said, "You finally have a conscience."

Xu Chunliang said: "More than a little."

Bai Lan said: "Anyway, that's all I felt."

Xu Chunliang yawned and said, "I didn't sleep well last night. I'll take a nap first. Call me when we get to the station."

Bai Lan asked, "Why don't you ask me where I'm getting off?"

Xu Chunliang didn't ask. He closed his eyes and seemed to have fallen asleep. Bai Lan looked at his face, gave up the idea of ​​waking him up, and silently dealt with the fruit in her hand.

When the car arrived at Dongzhou, before Bai Lan called him, Xu Chunliang had already opened his eyes and said, "It's time to get off the car."

Bai Lan held up a half-finished fruit plate and looked at him coldly: "Didn't you ask me to call you?"

Xu Chunliang said: "It's inconvenient for you to shout in public."

Bai Lan couldn't help laughing and scolded, "You really have no shame at all."

Xu Chunliang wanted to get up and get out of the car, but Bai Lan grabbed his arm. Xu Chunliang was a little surprised and asked, "You're not getting out of the car?"

Bai Lan shook her head.

Xu Chunliang said: "I should get off the bus now."

Bai Lan still didn't say anything, but held on tighter, her attitude was very clear: If I don't give up, you can't either.

Xu Chunliang couldn't really pry her hands apart, so he sighed and said, "How about I treat you to a meal?"

Bai Lan just looked at him with a smile, stretched out her long legs and hooked them around his legs, so Xu Chunliang had no choice but to sit down again: "What, where do you want to get off?"

Bai Lan said softly, "I want to sit with you until the end."

Xu Chunliang's eyes widened: "You are sick, the destination is Harbin."

Bai Lan said: "I'm used to being alone all my life. No one has ever walked this far with me since I was a child."

Xu Chunliang looked at Bai Lan, thought of her fate, and then remembered the lonely little girl in "Jindalai". He suddenly felt extremely sympathetic. Bai Lan did not lie, maybe she really had not experienced it, so he sat down again.

Bai Lan said softly, "You don't have to feel sorry for me. It's not too late to leave now."

Xu Chunliang said: "I'm not leaving."

Bai Lan nodded, hugged his arm, rested her head on his shoulder, closed her eyes, and seemed to fall asleep.

Xu Chunliang said nothing, intending to accompany her through the journey with peace of mind. Not long after the train started, he noticed two crystal tears flowing down Bai Lan's pretty face.

She had no intention of wiping away her tears. She opened her eyes and looked at Xu Chunliang with tearful eyes: "Do you pity me?"

Xu Chunliang shook his head: "Actually, I am more pitiful than you."

Bai Lan hit his chest and said, "I'll take a nap. Wake me up when we get to the station."

Xu Chunliang didn't know where her ticket went, but he knew that he had to accompany her to the end of the trip. He didn't plan to wake up Bai Lan. He could imagine that Bai Lan had been hiding from her during this period. They had known each other for so long, and this was the first time Bai Lan had made such a request. How could he bear to refuse? At this point, he could only quietly send a message to Su Qing, telling her that his plans had changed and that he would stay in Nanjiang for one more night.

Bai Lan was woken up by a pair of passengers who had just boarded the bus. Xu Chunliang and Bai Lan's seats belonged to them. The two passengers looked angrily at the two well-dressed and good-looking men and women who occupied the seats.

"You took our seats!"

Xu Chunliang and Bai Lan were very cooperative. They stood up immediately. However, the conductor appeared at this moment and they had to buy new tickets.

Xu Chunliang originally wanted to take a business class bus and go straight to the end, but Bai Lan changed her mind and suggested taking a bus to the next stop.

Next stop: Mount Tai.

The two got off the high-speed train, stood on the platform, looked at each other, and suddenly laughed at the same time. There was nothing particularly funny, but both of them laughed so hard that they couldn't straighten their backs. Bai Lan even laughed to the point of tears.

Since we are here, we might as well make the best of it. Bai Lan took the initiative to suggest climbing Mount Tai. Xu Chunliang had already made up his mind to accompany her to the end, let alone climbing a mountain.

Because it was not a holiday, there were not many tourists on the mountain. It started raining when the two climbed to Zhongtianmen. Climbing the mountain was not part of their plan, and they were not fully prepared, so they went into the Black Tiger Temple to take shelter from the rain.

Bai Lan took out a face towel and wiped the rain off her face, then helped Xu Chunliang wipe it off. She looked at Xu Chunliang and said, "I'm beginning to believe that you still have some conscience towards me."

Xu Chunliang said: "I have remitted all your copyright fees to the designated account without missing a cent."

Bai Lan chuckled and said, "You're trying to change the subject. I didn't ask you for money."

Xu Chunliang said: "A leader in the assassin world like you must not be short of money."

Bai Lan gave him a sidelong glance.

Xu Chunliang added: "I forgot that you are also a great writer. By the way, who makes more money writing books or being a killer?"

Bai Lan looked up at the statue in the temple, which was dedicated to Zhao Gongming: "I remember that Zhao Gongming is the god of wealth worshipped in your country, right?" Xu Chunliang said: "You are a writer after all, you even know this."

Bai Lan said, "In the legend of your country, Zhao Gongming is the God of Wealth. The fifth day of the first lunar month is the birthday of the God of Wealth. On this day, the common people follow the custom to buy some fish, meat, three kinds of animals, fruits, and firecrackers, and set up incense tables to welcome the God of Wealth. His two messengers, one is to attract wealth, and the other is to bring in treasure."

Xu Chunliang looked surprised.

Bai Lan said: "What's so surprising about it? It's just a legend."

Xu Chunliang said: "What surprised me is not that you knew this legend, but that you didn't say that Zhao Gongming was from your country."

Bai Lan reached out and hit him: "Prejudice, our country..."

She wanted to say that not everyone in our country was confused about the truth, but when she said the word "country", she suddenly stopped and her eyes became confused. She thought about her past again. Which country did she belong to? When she was young, she yearned for freedom and ran towards the so-called happiness under the leadership of her sister. But when they really set foot on the so-called dream land, they found that the cruelty of the world did not change because of the change of north and south. The two sisters experienced too many joys and sorrows.

Xu Chunliang said: "In fact, you can let go of the past, stay, and start a new life with a different identity."

A hint of tenderness flashed across Bai Lan's eyes, but her gaze immediately returned to rationality and sharpness: "I still have things to do."

Xu Chunliang asked: "Because of Lexing Group?"

Bai Lan neither denied nor admitted it.

Xu Chunliang said: "You have little chance of winning against the entire Lexing Group alone." After he said that, he realized that he might have said the wrong thing, and quickly added: "You still have relatives." The relatives he mentioned are Bai Lan's sister Jin Xinhui. Ever since Bai Lan recognized her sister, she has been taking care of her silently.

Bai Lan smiled and said, "Before I met her, my biggest wish was to find her. Even if it took me a lifetime, I would find my sister, recognize her, accompany her all day, and live happily together. But when I really found her, I found that everything could not go back."

Xu Chunliang frowned, he understood Bai Lan's feelings.

Bai Lan said: "She hasn't changed. She is still the sister who loves me, but I have changed. I am no longer the innocent and naive girl I used to be. I am used to being alone and living a solitary life. Only when I am alone do I feel safe and not afraid. Do you understand?"

Xu Chunliang nodded. He understood. Although he usually acted cynical and played with the world, he was also lonely deep down in his heart. He knew very well that he was not a person of this era and there was always a deep gap between him and this era.

Bai Lan said: "When I am with you, I feel very at ease."

Xu Chunliang pursed his lips.

Bai Lan said: "Don't be afraid, I won't rely on you. I know very well that you can't accompany me to the end, but I am very touched that you are willing to accompany me for a while."

Xu Chunliang said: "In fact, it was you who forced me to get off the car just now."

Bai Lan laughed: "I'll just pull you, what can you do?"

The rain outside was getting heavier. Xu Chunliang said, "If it rains, my mother wants to get married. Let her get married."

Bai Lan said: "Xu Chunliang, this is unfair! Why do you know all my secrets, but I don't know any of yours?"

Xu Chunliang said: "I don't have any secrets."

Bai Lan shook her head: "There are so many women around you, which one do you love the most?"

Xu Chunliang said: "I haven't thought about it, because I can't make promises to anyone."

Bai Lan said: "When I first met you, I thought you were a scumbag. Later, I felt that you really had the capital to be a scumbag. But now I feel that you are full of uncertainty."

Xu Chunliang smiled and said, "You analyzed me because you are planning to write a novel with me as the male protagonist?"

Bai Lan nodded seriously: "It's possible. I've never seen someone as mysterious as you."

Xu Chunliang said: "I also feel that I am full of uncertainty."

Bai Lan's eyes were full of questions.

Xu Chunliang said: "What if, I mean what if, I get married and have children, but suddenly one day I disappear from this world, what will happen to my wife and children?"

Bai Lan thought for a while and said, "Your assumption is based on the fact that you can give birth to a child." She couldn't help laughing after she said that.

But Xu Chunliang didn't look like he was joking at all: "You actually had a similar plot in your comics."

Bai Lan looked at Xu Chunliang, and the smile on her face disappeared little by little. She reached out and pinched Xu Chunliang's face, first gently, then with more force, to make sure that the man in front of her was flesh and blood like herself. At the same time, she was recalling every moment she had spent with Xu Chunliang since she met him.

"Did you..."

Xu Chunliang nodded. As a novelist and cartoonist, Bai Lan found it easy to figure out the mystery.

"Are you a cyborg?"

Xu Chunliang discovered that Bai Lan's imagination had evolved to another level. He reached out and pinched Bai Lan's cheek in revenge: "You are getting smarter and smarter."

Bai Lan said: "I have studied the topic of time travel. I think that time travelers are more like a projection of someone in a certain era. This projection is often unstable. There is a balance in nature, and the same is true for time and space. Simply put, most time travelers have a short life!"

(End of this chapter)