You are my wife, don't doubt it!

Then she suggested going back to another house to get her marriage certificate.

"Can you drive in this condition?" Xiao Yao was worried about her safety and pulled her back.

"Little brother," Shen Jie put on her sunglasses again and smiled confidently, "You underestimate my ability to control my emotions, don't you?"

Well... it was okay when I was a kid, but now...

It’s not that I don’t trust you, it’s just that I didn’t notice it during the few hours we met.

Just as Shen Jie was about to go out, Shen Tianyun came back with cigarettes. Xiao Yao ran to the soap room to bake pancakes for his daughter. At this moment, Yu Luying called.

"Little Apple~" Xiao Yao said, "What's wrong?"

"What's the matter?" Yu Luying said, "I came back from the western suburbs, and I couldn't get through to you on the phone!"

"How is it?" Xiao Yao tilted his neck to the left and clamped the phone on his left shoulder.

"Come out and talk. I don't want to talk on the phone." Yu Luying said, "How is the situation over there?"

"It's hard to explain, the situation is getting more and more complicated," Xiao Yao turned the pancake over again, "Let's talk about it when we meet."

"Well," Yu Luying said, "Come over here."

Xiao Yao was startled: "Now?"

"What else?" Yu Luying said.

"No, now, I..." Xiao Yao put a pancake on the plate and tried hard to make up reasons why it was inconvenient to go out.

He now wanted to spend some more time with his daughter, and Shen Jie was going to get the marriage certificate. She said it would only take thirty to forty minutes to drive there and back, so she really didn't want to leave at this moment.

"Is there anything I can help you with?" Yu Luying asked Xiao Yao.

"No, why don't we just talk on the phone first?" Xiao Yao said.

"What's wrong with you?" Yu Luying was unhappy. "Well, I ran around for your sake, but now I'm the only one who's being proactive?"

After saying this, Yu Luying hung up the phone.

This girl... really, Xiao Yao thought angrily and amusedly: She had previously kept saying "it's not for you", "I'm doing this for Shen Jie", "this is a matter between the three of us", and now it has become "I'm doing this for your sake"?

Xiao Yao wiped his hands on the rag on the stove, called Yu Luying back directly, and prepared to tell her that he would be there immediately.

The call was rejected.

Call again, and get rejected again.

Too noisy! Good sleep!!!

Xiao Yao decided to deliver the two hot pancakes to Shen Tianyun, and then asked her to tell Shen Jie, and then he went straight out and rushed to Yu Luying's house.

Just as he picked up the plate and was about to bring it to Shen Tianyun, there was a knock on the door of the soap room.

To be precise, it was kicked.

Oh my god...

Xiao Yao opened the door and Yu Luying came up and punched him.

Although they were face to face, the punch was aimed at the back.

Then, he raised his foot and kicked lightly on the calf.

"Alright, alright..." Xiao Yao tried hard to keep his balance and prevent the pancake from falling to the ground: "What's wrong with you today, kid? The world is so beautiful, but you are so irritable. This is not good, not good."

Yu Luying reached out and took a pancake without hesitation, took a bite, and then opened her mouth wide, "Hmm! Delicious!"

"Really?" Xiao Yao said happily, "Is the heat just right?"

“Yes!” Yu Luying said, “It feels a bit like it’s just out of the oven—a little bit!”

"That's great," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "Do you know why Dongru pancakes are so delicious? Because they are filled with love."

"Anyway, it's not love for me," Yu Luying said as she walked into the room: "I know you are baking sesame cakes. I can smell it at home."

"No, no, no, no, no, no..." Xiao Yao pulled her back: "Don't go in yet."

"What are you doing?" Yu Luying deliberately asked, "Is there a woman inside?"

"It's a false accusation," Xiao Yao said with a bitter face, "What if Tian Yun suddenly shows up? You also ate her cake - and Shen Jie."

"What's wrong with my sister?" Yu Luying said indifferently: "I just want to see my sister."

"Tsk, are you stupid?" Xiao Yao stretched out his index finger and pushed Yu Luying's forehead. "It was Little Shen Jie who approved my cheating on you, but the Shen Jie inside doesn't know about this. What would she think?"

"Then just meet her as an ordinary friend, what's the big deal?" Yu Luying said disapprovingly: "What's cheating? It's so ugly!"

Having said that, Yu Luying still stopped and continued to eat her sesame cake while standing between the soap slices, with no intention of sharing a piece with Shen Tianyun.

"Whether it sounds bad or not, the fact is that it is cheating," Xiao Yao said, "I tell you, she has already remembered a little bit."

"You remembered something?" Yu Luying asked inexplicably, "You remembered something?"

Xiao Yao took Yu Luying's hand and went out. The two of them strolled around and came to a small river.

This river should not be a tributary of the Suzhou River because it is very clear and has no odor at all. During the first semester of high school, Xiao Yao and Yu Luying often came here to play together.

It was just sunset at this time, and the soft sunlight sprinkled on the river, reflecting a charming scenery.

The stream flows slowly and is crystal clear, like a mirror-like ribbon. A breeze blows, gently stirring the water surface and creating ripples, the tiny ripples sparkling with golden light in the sunset.

There is a big slope from the river bank to the road. Standing by the river and looking back, there is a small earthen slope. There is no third person in the field of vision, just like a private outdoor space.

Xiao Yao has always felt that it is a blessing to be able to find such an "isolated" "paradise" in the city center. All that is missing is a beautiful woman.

Of course, there is no shortage of it now.

This side of the riverbank is covered with a variety of green plants, from weeping willows to beautiful flowers, adding vitality and color to the entire scenery. The willow branches hang low over the water, swaying gently, as if playing a piece of light music for the river.

The high-rise buildings in the distance were gradually dyed with a layer of orange-red halo under the reflection of the setting sun. The sky gradually turned into a soft pink and light blue intertwined together, like a gorgeous watercolor painting.

Xiao Yao and Yu Luying sat quietly on the rocks by the river, the breeze caressing their cheeks. Yu Luying was wearing a pair of big, thick slippers and was barefoot without socks. At this moment, she was putting the slippers aside and gently paddling the water with her little feet.

Xiao Yao picked up a few small stones nearby, aimed at the center of the river, and started skipping stones.

The stone whizzed away from his fingertips and flew quickly towards the river surface.

It drew a graceful arc in the air, and time seemed to slow down. Xiao Yao could clearly see its trajectory - as if it was dancing in slow motion.

Finally, the pebble meets the water. At this moment, water splashes everywhere, water droplets jump in the air, emitting fine water vapor. The water splash spreads out, forming a circular ripple that spreads outward like a ripple.

The stone did not stop, but continued to leap at high speed, leaving a thin line of water behind it. With each leap, it created a new circle of ripples, which spread in all directions, and the new and old ripples collided with each other, scattering into more fragmented and complex shapes.

"Time is a long river, and we are these pebbles." Xiao Yao said, pointing to the water.

"I knew you would say that." Yu Luying hugged her knees and leaned back.

"That Shen Jie's memory... I accompanied her to sort it out for about half an hour, maybe an hour. My feeling is that her memory is now like these ripples colliding with each other." Xiao Yao explained to Yu Luying.

"It's very chaotic? Really?" Yu Luying asked Xiao Yao.

"Well, to exaggerate a little, it's a bit like fragmented memories are being reassembled, yes, fragments, or like an amnesiac is recovering his memory..." Xiao Yao frowned, "It's hard to describe it in words. I even feel that new memories are 'overwriting' old memories - of course, this is just my feeling."

"Is it like a CD that can be rewritten and burned repeatedly?" Yu Luying also frowned.

"A bit similar, but not exactly the same," Xiao Yao thought for a moment and said, "The old memories won't be truly overwritten, at least not yet, but will be slowly... 'negated'?"

"'Negative'?" Yu Luying moved her nose in confusion: "Can you give me an example?"

"The example right now is," Xiao Yao said as he thought, "Well, Shen Jie and I didn't get married until we were 30, right?"

"How do I know you? About the same." Yu Luying curled her lips.

"But when I showed her the marriage certificate from when I was 22, she was immediately confused."

"Marriage certificate for getting married at the age of 22?" Yu Luying said.

Xiao Yao was suddenly startled and felt a sweetness in his throat.

He suddenly realized that he had not told anyone other than himself and Shen Tianyun about the marriage certificate.

Chunchun accidentally let the cat out of the bag.

It’s like when I was a kid, I put my feet in the foot basin filled with hot water, and when I saw my mother’s angry face, I realized that I forgot to take off my socks.

Now that the secret has been let slip, the best thing to do is to downplay the matter and move on quickly.

"In her memory, she actually remembers that we got married when we were 30 years old, and she can remember the circumstances at that time - which road, which Civil Affairs Bureau, it was a snowy day, what kind of clothes she carefully selected, what clothes I was wearing, that is the situation at that time, she can remember it clearly." Xiao Yao said.

"Yeah." Yu Luying just said "yeah" lightly and didn't ask him about the marriage certificate.

"But when she saw the marriage certificate from an earlier time," Xiao Yao continued, "another scene of getting the certificate appeared in her mind. It was on another road, in another civil affairs bureau, and it was summer. She and I were younger... A completely different memory entered her mind."

"That is to say, she remembers that you got the certificate twice." Yu Luying said faintly.

"No, she remembered that we only got the marriage certificate once, but these two times were the first times we got the marriage certificate," Xiao Yao explained.

"Generally speaking, we call this situation 'Alzheimer's disease'," said Yu Luying.

"That's right," Xiao Yao nodded, "but you know Shen Jie doesn't have Alzheimer's. We made her like this."

“……”Yu Luying remained silent.

"At first, when that memory entered her mind, she instinctively resisted it," Xiao Yao continued to explain, "If I understand correctly, she felt as if she was watching a film reel in the dark, as if she was a bystander, watching a fragment of someone else's memory that did not belong to her... That's what she told me."

"Isn't it a bit like... that kind of hallucination?" Yu Luying said: "The day I went to Dongru with you, I inexplicably felt that Dongru was very familiar, even though I knew it was my first time there; when I went to your junior high school with you, it also felt very familiar. I even remembered where there was a big chess set, but it was obviously my first time there..."

"Hmm..." Xiao Yao pondered for a moment, "It should be a little different."

"What do you mean?" Yu Luying asked him.

"Look, even though you have that inexplicable sense of déjà vu," Xiao Yao said to Yu Luying, "you are still very determined and remember very clearly that this is your first time going to Dongru, your first time going to my school, isn't it?"

"Yes," Yu Luying replied as a matter of course, "What else?"

"But Shen Jie," Xiao Yao said, "quickly couldn't tell which memories were real and which were fake."

"Oh……"

"At the beginning," Xiao Yao said, "she insisted that she got married at the age of 30, thinking that she couldn't have remembered it wrong, but she soon wavered and felt that the credibility of the two memories was about the same. In the end, she began to believe that she seemed to have married me earlier and felt that the memory of getting married at the age of 30 might be wrong."

"This is horrible..." Yu Luying murmured.

"This memory replacement process lasted about ten minutes, and during this process, I could see her pain with my own eyes - the kind of splitting headache, the kind where she desperately grabbed her hair..."

“It’s so pitiful,” Yu Luying said. “It’s as if someone has forcibly tampered with or implanted my memory.”

"In fact, it's not that the memory is forcibly tampered with. It should be said that the changed world line is forcibly tampered with into the 'correct' memory." Xiao Yao said: "In order to adapt to the new reality - this is my guess."

"How pitiful," Yu Luying sighed, "If a person's memories are replaced, is she still herself? Is she still the same person? Is she still alive? Xiao Yao, please stop erasing her memories!"

"No, I didn't. Don't talk nonsense." Xiao Yao denied three times: "After I discovered this principle - or not discovered it, anyway, I never told her about me and little Shen Jie, and I never showed her related items that would stimulate her memory - this is also Shen Jie's own intention."

"That's good." Yu Luying agreed: "That's how it should be."

"However, the good thing is that, from what we can see now, the old memories will not disappear, but will gradually become unfamiliar and vague, and lose their sense of identity." Xiao Yao said: "Of course, the time sample is still too small, so it is too early to draw this conclusion."

"Just in case, you should ask her to write it down in a diary," Yu Luying pointed out, "What if she forgets it completely after ten days or half a month?"

"I thought so too," Xiao Yao told Yu Luying. "I have asked Shen Jie to write down all the parts about the double memory. She said she would write it down."

"How could things turn out like this?" Yu Luying murmured to herself, "How can a person remember getting married at 30 and 22 at the same time? If the difference was one or half a year, it could be a memory error, but eight years..."

You remember the number 22 very well, Xiao Yao thought to himself.

"Do you know Mandela?" Xiao Yao asked Yu Luying suddenly.

"I know," Yu Luying said, "Is he the leader of the Republic of South Africa?"

"No," Xiao Yao said, "Do you remember when he died?"

"Ah?" Yu Luying said, "Last century? The 80s? The 90s?"

“Is it the 80s or the 90s?”

“I can’t remember, maybe in the 80s,” Yu Luying said, “I think he died in prison, and then…”

Xiao Yao did not keep the secret any longer, because he was in a hurry to go back and have dinner with his wife and children: "Congratulations, you remembered it wrong, Mandela is still alive now."

"Huh?" Yu Luying was shocked: "You must be kidding, right? How is that possible?"

Xiao Yao waved his arm and said, "If you don't believe me, go to Canhua Internet Cafe and search it. Why would I lie to you?"

"That's not right..." Yu Luying rubbed her chin with her palm: "How is this possible? I clearly remember..."

"Mandela died on December 2013, 12. Shen Jie told me," Xiao Yao told Yu Luying. "You don't have to worry or be distressed, because you are not the only one who has misremembered. When Mandela died in 5, many people's first reaction was, he's still fucking alive?"

Yu Luying: "..."