You are my wife, don't doubt it!

This world cannot be a parallel one.

After Song Haijian's death, the news about him on Shen Tianyun's mobile phone - the old news - also changed accordingly.

And the marriage certificate, yes, the marriage certificate!

Xiao Yao stood up suddenly: "Shen Jie, wait for me, I'll get something to show you."

"Okay." Shen Jie nodded.

Xiao Yao returned to his room, opened the drawer and took out the marriage certificate.

Instead of returning to 2034 immediately, he paced aimlessly back and forth in the room for several laps.

I just want to clear my mind or sort out my thoughts.

Ah...that's right!

……

Xiao Yao returned to the soap room, found his grandmother's frying pan, poured a little salad oil on it, and turned on the gas stove.

The boy placed the frying pan on the gas stove and tilted the pan to make the salad oil as evenly distributed as possible.

As the gas stove was turned on, he heard the slight sound of gas and a faint smell filled the air.

A circle of small blue flame appeared with a "swoosh".

He turned the gas lightly, lowering the flame to medium, and allowed the pan to heat up.

While the pot was heating up quietly, Xiao Yao walked to the refrigerator and opened the door. The cool air that blew in made his cheeks feel comfortable in this summer.

Xiao Yao put his face in, took two deep breaths, then reached in and fumbled for a large plastic bag. He carefully took out a cold pancake from the plastic bag, carefully put it back into the large plastic bag, then thought for a moment and took out another pancake.

As everyone knows, these sesame cakes were bought by Yu's mother and daughter from Dongru. Because their refrigerator was not big, they gave Xiao Yao dozens of them.

Back to the pan, the boy shook the bottom of the pan slightly and watched the salad oil slide on the bottom of the pan. He carefully put a pancake into the pan. Instantly, a faint "sizzling" sound reached his ears.

Xiao Yao used a stainless steel clip to gently turn the pancake over so that it could be heated evenly. The faint aroma of the pancake began to spread, but the smell was not particularly strong. He gently pressed the pancake and felt the warmth inside.

"Is it almost done?" Xiao Yao said to himself.

To be on the safe side, Xiao Yao decided to bake it a little longer.

……

It seems a little burnt.

Xiao Yao quickly took out the sesame cake with tongs, put it on a plate beside him, and then put the second sesame cake in.

The microwave at home was broken and Xiao Yao was too lazy to fix it. Even if it wasn't broken, he couldn't imagine what the food would taste like.

Okay, don’t burn it this time.

Xiao Yao carefully turned the sesame cake over, and when he felt it was almost done, he took it out with tongs and placed it on top of the previous cake.

This is really not that easy.

Xiao Yao turned off the fire, carefully confirmed that the gas was turned off, happily carried the plate in his hand, returned to the bedroom, and opened the door of the closet.

"Mama Meow, the cake is here!" Xiao Yao said excitedly, and then saw Shen Jie walking around the room and making a phone call.

She spoke English very quickly. Xiao Yao walked to the dining table, put the plate on it, sat on a chair and waited.

"It won't taste good if it's cold." Xiao Yao placed one hand vertically on his right cheek and spoke to Shen Jie with his mouth and a slight voice.

Shen Jie pointed at the phone in her hand and pressed her hand down towards him.

Her face showed a strong and decisive temperament.

The woman stood straight in the center of the room, her posture upright, a determined look between her brows.

She held the phone in her right hand, her eyes focused and sharp, communicating with the other party without compromise.

That look reminded Xiao Yao of his English teacher, but no, it was still a little different.

Then, the other party's voice came from the phone.

Shen Jie frowned slightly. Her response was crisp and clear, and her voice revealed a firm confidence, which made Xiao Yao feel her confidence and authority as a strong woman.

As mentioned earlier, Shen Jie spoke quickly and fluently. Her tone was a little cold and decisive, and her unquestionable tone showed her control over affairs and her decision-making ability.

About three minutes later, Shen Jie hung up the phone.

At the moment when she hung up the phone, Shen Jie turned to Xiao Yao and put on a...how to describe it? A friendly, gentle, and heartfelt smile.

The change was so fast, it was as if the way she made the phone call just now was just a mask.

Just... this whole person's temperament changes from the inside out, this ability to switch freely...

Xiao Yao thought of the face-changing in Sichuan Opera, and then of a rather scary 3D animation he had watched when he was a child - a traumatic experience in his childhood.

I have forgotten the name of the animation, Xiao Yao. The story is about a male protagonist who came to a country and found that everyone here has two faces, one in front and one on the back of the head. Their necks can rotate 360 ​​degrees, which scared him a lot. Later, the male protagonist lived in this country for a long time, and he found that he also had two faces and the ability to rotate his neck...

"This, was made specially for me... and bought?" Shen Jie picked up the pancake on top. Although the surprise and joy on her face were a little exaggerated, she said from the bottom of her heart: "That's not right."

"Not really on purpose..." Xiao Yao smiled awkwardly, "We... I bought it when I went back to Dongru a while ago. I bought a lot. I just suddenly remembered it and baked it in the gas stove for you to eat. I don't know if you can get used to it, but it tastes pretty good."

"I like to eat it!" After Shen Jie said this, she immediately started to take big bites.

The way she ate was not very pretty, as if she was extremely hungry. Xiao Yao watched her eat and kept nagging her to eat slowly, worried that she would choke.

After a while, he stood up to pour her some water. Shen Jie choked while drinking the water and started coughing violently. Xiao Yao then quickly stood behind her and patted the petite woman's back hard.

"You like it so much? Don't be anxious, eat slowly, no one will snatch it from you, I still have dozens." Xiao Yao's face showed a helpless and doting expression again: "You are so old, why are you still like a child - I will bake two more for you. Do they taste good?"

“Delicious, delicious—” Shen Jie nodded repeatedly: “No, no need to bake it again, two are enough.”

It’s strange that it tastes good.

Although this method of heating in a frying pan causes less loss of flavor than using a microwave oven, it can only restore 70% to 80% of the flavor. And then, one of the two pancakes was burnt, and the other was hot on the outside and cold on the inside. How could they be delicious?

However, for Shen Jie, she really tasted incomparable deliciousness.

"This is our Dongru's local specialty, called Dongru Shrimp Roe Pancake. It's a specialty of our place, a special delicacy," Xiao Yao chattered to Shen Jie, "You can't eat it in Modu, Nantong, or Cangtu. You can't eat it anywhere else. It's only available in Dongru. In my mind, it's the best pancake in the universe."

"Do you know why your Dongru sesame cakes are so delicious?" Shen Jie had already finished eating the two cakes and sucked the remaining sesame seeds on her fingers with relish.

"Because it contains shredded radish, lard, shrimp roe..." Xiao Yao said.

"Do you know how this kind of cake is made?" Shen Jie asked Xiao Yao.

"How did you make it?" Xiao Yao was stunned: "I'm not a pancake maker."

Shen Jie elegantly picked up a few pieces of tissue paper with two fingers and wiped the oil and sesame seeds off her fingers.

Then, he covered his face with both hands, sat at the dinner table, and stopped talking.

"What's wrong with you?" Xiao Yao asked in confusion.

"It's okay." Shen Jie took a deep breath through her nose, put her hands down, and then quickly wiped the corner of her left eye with a finger.

Then the right eye.

"You're crying?" Xiao Yao was shocked: "What's wrong?"

Shen Jie shook her head and did not directly answer Xiao Yao's question: "Dongri shrimp roe sesame seed cakes use your Dongru's specialty red shrimp, red shrimp roe, pastry, oil residue, shredded radish with green onions, and pork lard. First, the pastry is put on the dough, and the soul is lard. Sprinkle a layer of red shrimp roe on it, and then wrap the shredded radish together, wrapping them together like a small bun - the double addition of pastry and lard, the soul of the baked cake will be lard from the back without sesame seeds. It is fragrant, moist and fresh. The oil can moisten it, the shrimp roe and crab roe reflect the freshness to the fullest, and the oil makes the whole sesame seed cake very oily. A little bit of shredded radish and green onions actually has the effect of relieving greasiness - greasiness is the only drawback, so it is usually sold with salty tofu brain..."

"Wait a minute, wait a minute! What are you doing? Are you making a food show?" Xiao Yao felt a little dizzy after listening to this.

"Dongru Shaobing was on the show 'A Bite of China'," Shen Jie said with a smile, "Oh, maybe it wasn't on the show in 04, so you didn't know."

"And what's the matter with the crab roe in it? I've never heard of putting crab roe in sesame cakes. No, how come you know more about Dongru sesame cakes than I do? Is Miwei Group expanding its new business?"

Shen Jie smiled, looked at Xiao Yao and said, "Little brother, have you forgotten? I am your wife. Do you think it is possible that I have never been to Dongru?"

"That does make sense," Xiao Yao said, "but even if you've been to Dongru, you can't understand it so well."

Shen Jie fell into reminiscence: "That was the first time I went to Dongru with you. Before we even went to your house to drop off our luggage, you asked the driver to drive to the sesame seed cake shop and took me to eat your Dongru sesame seed cakes. The way you introduced Dongru sesame seed cakes at that time was very similar to the way you just did, and even the words you said seemed to be almost the same."

"Uh..." Xiao Yao said.

"After I ate it, I was amazed and loved it," Shen Jie's eyes passed over Xiao Yao's shoulder and fell on the door of the dressing closet. "At that time, I proposed to invite the pancake chef to Shanghai, offer him a high salary, and let him make pancakes for our family privately."

"...You are really willful." Xiao Yao said.

"The master refused, saying that he didn't want to leave his hometown," Shen Jie continued to recall, "Later, we went back to the Magic City together. Although I liked it very much, it was just food after all, so I forgot about it after a while."

"Yeah." Xiao Yao said.

"After a while, you said you had to go to Dongru to do some personal business. When I asked you what you were going to do, you didn't tell me. I was busy at that time, so I didn't pay much attention to you," Shen Jie said. "But after more than half a month, you came back with a big round charcoal stove, a rolling pin, and all kinds of equipment. I realized that you went to learn from a master."

“Ah…? Ah…?” Xiao Yao was so shocked that he was speechless.

"You were a guy who couldn't even cook at that time," Shen Jie said, "Just because I accidentally said 'I want to eat your Dongru's sesame cakes again', you secretly ran to the countryside to learn skills, just to give me this surprise."

Xiao Yao: "...This."

"Later, you put the charcoal stove in our backyard and made sesame cakes for me and my family... Although your skills were not as good as those of the old master..." Shen Jie choked up as she spoke. Two lines of tears burst out of her eyes and flowed down her cheeks, leaving two faint traces on her foundation.

Xiao Yao pulled over two tissues and handed them over, then stood up, walked to Shen Jie, hesitantly opened his arms, and gently hugged her.

Shen Jie leaned her head hard on Xiao Yao's shoulder: "You know, I haven't eaten the sesame cakes you made for many years."

"I... am sorry?" Xiao Yao said.

"I just asked you why your Dongru sesame cakes are so delicious," Shen Jie said, "It's not the lard, the shrimp roe, or the shredded radish. For me..."

It is love, Xiao Yao told himself silently, because the cake contains Xiao Yao's love for Shen Jie.

……

"I'm sorry," Shen Jie sat up straight, wiped her face with a tissue, subconsciously took out a small round mirror from her bag, and checked her makeup: "Why am I always emotional with you today... I'm not like this usually."

"Well," Xiao Yao said, "Don't be too hard on yourself. There are only two of us here. I completely understand - I want to show you something. I hope you can calm down a little."

"I'm very calm now." Shen Jie told Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao handed over the marriage certificate he had just obtained in 2004.

"This is evidence that the time and space where you, Yunyun and I are are not parallel worlds, but the same world." Xiao Yao explained to Shen Jie.

"What does that mean?" Shen Jie opened the marriage certificate in confusion.

……

Xiao Yao observed the changing expressions on the woman's face.

Her hand trembled imperceptibly.

Shen Jie raised her head.

"Where did you get this thing from?" Shen Jie asked hurriedly.

"Your daughter gave it to me," Xiao Yao told Shen Jie, "I found it in the drawer of this room."

Xiao Yao thought that Shen Jie would question whether this was a fake certificate, but she had no such intention at all. She just stretched out her right hand and scratched the hair near her temple, her brows furrowed, with an expression of painful thought on her face.

"What's wrong with you?" Xiao Yao asked with concern, "Are you feeling unwell?"

"I...I, this photo...this photo...?" Shen Jie continued to grab her hair: "Yes...yes...yes...it was taken by you and I, in Qingpu District? And, and another girl, three of us went there...right?" Shen Jie tried desperately to recall.

Chapter 241 Ripples on the Dirac Ocean

2023-06-21

"I...I, this photo...this photo...?" Shen Jie continued to grab her hair: "Yes...yes...yes...it was taken by you and I, in Qingpu District? And, and another girl, three of us went there...right?" Shen Jie tried desperately to recall.

"Yes." Xiao Yao was surprised: "You, how did you know?"

"Yu Luying, is that the Yu Luying you mentioned?" Shen Jie said, "The two of us went to Qingpu with Yu Luying. We had no car or room at night, so the three of us stayed together. In the end, we were caught by the teacher..."

"Can you remember it?!" Xiao Yao shouted excitedly.

"Teacher? Is that your teacher? But that's not Teacher Yao..." Shen Jie said: "I clearly remember you told me that you only had one homeroom teacher for three years of high school, and his last name was Yao..."

"Well, this matter is a little complicated to explain." Xiao Yao said.

"You, you went to Dongru some time ago with Yu Luying, right?" Shen Jie closed her eyes and said depressedly, "I, I was locked up at home at that time? I saw it, but I couldn't see it clearly."

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About half an hour - maybe an hour later, Shen Jie's mental state finally stabilized a little.