Looking back on 2009

Chapter 147 What about the ballroom?
Chen Zhihe was devastated, and his heart felt stuffy for a while.

What do you mean no?

Can I do it, you know?

Seeing that Chen Zhihe didn't speak, Wang Nan laughed loudly, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to eat delicious food."

Wang Nan didn't lie, she came after she had done her homework.

Taking Chen Zhihe to a remote restaurant, the two ordered a few dishes and began to have lunch.

Although the place is hard to find, you can only find it along the alleys, but the dishes are well done.

The hungry Chen Zhihe didn't care about it, and concentrated on eating.

Wang Nan, on the other hand, ate slowly, and spent most of the time looking at Chen Zhihe.

"Junior brother, why did you come to see the aurora alone?" Wang Nan asked casually.

In fact, she was full of curiosity in her heart. Who would come all the way to see the aurora? If they didn't see it, it would be in vain.

Chen Zhihe was eating, and replied vaguely: "Don't talk when you eat, don't talk when you sleep."

Wang Nan chuckled and asked, "You're not right, didn't you just say it in the morning?"

After taking the last bite of rice, Chen Zhihe put down his chopsticks and said solemnly, "How can I do without eating?"

Wang Nan remembered what he said just now that he couldn't do it, and laughed so hard that his flowers trembled.

Pointing at Chen Zhihe, Wang Nan said provocatively, "I hope you'll be okay this afternoon."

Chen Zhihe, who had eaten his fill, leaned back on his chair, cast a glance at Wang Nan and said, "I'm not going anywhere this afternoon."

Wang Nanchi smiled and said, "It's hard for you to find a girlfriend like this."

Chen Zhihe said hehe: "Unfortunately, I already have a girlfriend."

Wang Nan stared at Chen Zhihe for a while, and asked curiously: "So, you didn't bring your girlfriend and came to see the aurora by yourself?"

Chen Zhihe didn't want to talk about this topic, so he said, "Why are you so curious, go or not, or I'll go back."

Seeing that he didn't want to talk, Wang Nan pressed curiosity, got up and said with a smile, "Let's go, let's go, I'll take you to a good place."

After speaking, they led Chen Zhihe to a square.

There are a lot of people in the square, and it can be seen that many of them are tourists and some are locals.

Young men and women sat chatting on the steps, children played in the square, and old people played chess in a pile.

The most eye-catching thing on the square is a sculpture.

The sculpture is located above 153 steps, with a swan spreading its wings on the left, a singing golden rooster on the right, and a star at the top.

Pointing to the sculpture, Wang Nan asked Chen Zhihe, do you know what that star is?

Chen Zhihe chuckled: "North Star?"

Wang Nan laughed and said, "Smart."

Chen Zhihe rolled his eyes, pointed to the stone sign beside him and said, "It says Polaris Square, and I'm not blind."

Wang Nan felt bored, so he climbed up the steps by himself and came to the side of the sculpture.

Opening his hands, Wang Nan faced the wind and closed his eyes.

"Aren't you afraid of falling?"

Chen Zhihe followed.

"Death without regret." Wang Nan said with his eyes still closed.

Chen Zhihe sighed: "Death is nothing, it's just a little ugly."

Wang Nan was standing quite well, but hearing what Chen Zhihe said, his heart trembled, he couldn't stand firmly, his body leaned back, and he was about to fall.

Chen Zhihe had quick eyes and quick hands, and he supported Wang Nan.

"Senior Sister, if you really want to jump off, don't pull me in."

After standing still, Wang Nan simply sat down.

Squinting her eyes, she looked at Chen Zhihe and said, "It's so romantic for a couple to die for love and die under the North Star."

After a while, Chen Zhihe looked at the indifferent Wang Nan in fear, and cursed "crazy" in a low voice.

Wang Nan seemed to enjoy the feeling of sitting on a high place and blowing the wind. After sitting down, he closed his eyes again.

"Do you know what it feels like?" Wang Nan asked.

"What do you feel?"

"Freedom, the feeling of freedom."

Wang Nan closed her eyes, smiled, and opened her arms, as if she was about to fly.

Chen Zhihe was silent for a while, then said, "I'm afraid of heights, and I'm afraid of death."

Wang Nan opened his eyes, looked at Chen Zhihe and laughed, and walked down the steps without paying attention to Chen Zhihe.

Chen Zhihe looked at Wang Nan who walked down the steps easily, feeling a little bit pained.

It's easy to go up, but what to do if you go down.

Bite the bullet, Chen Zhihe walked down the steps carefully step by step.

When Chen Zhihe came down, Wang Nan was standing below looking at him with a smirk.

Seeing Chen Zhihe's shocked look, Wang Nan asked with a smile, "Are you alright?"

Chen Zhihe didn't want to talk to him, so he sat down on the steps.

"If it's okay, let's go to the next place."

Chen Zhihe said, "I don't climb high."

Wang Nan said: "Don't climb high, go into the small woods."

Chen Zhihe breathed a sigh of relief, and followed Wang Nan to continue walking.

After walking for a while, the two came to the edge of a forest.

Chen Zhihe looked at the forest curiously, and said, "This is interesting, there is such a forest in the city."

Wang Nan said: "This forest is called Pine Garden. Do you know why it was preserved?"

Chen Zhihe shook his head.

Wang Nan said: "This primeval forest park survived the 1987 fire in 5.6, and it can be said to have witnessed the life and death of this city."

Hearing Wang Nan's words, Chen Zhihe suddenly thought of the song "Mohe Ballroom" that became popular later.

Chen Zhihe said, "I've heard a story about that fire."

Wang Nan asked, "What story?"

Chen Zhihe coughed lightly and said: "It is said that more than 200 people were killed in the fire, including the wife of a man named Zhang Dequan. Before the tragedy, the two had no children. For the rest of the year, Zhang Dequan never remarried."

"Because his wife loved dancing during his lifetime, when they fell in love, they often slipped into the barn full of sundries, lit a lamp, and practiced dancing in a small open space. After the fire, he often danced alone in the ballroom."

After chewing for a while, Wang Nan said slowly: "Sometimes people are really not as good as a forest. As long as there is water and sunshine, they will still be full of vitality. Those who stay may never come out again."

Chen Zhihe nodded. When he heard this story back then, he was also very emotional.

"Where is that ballroom?" Wang Nan asked suddenly.

Chen Zhihe shook his head, how could he know.

But Wang Nan became interested again and insisted on going to the dance hall.

Chen Zhihe had no choice but to follow her to find it.

At around 4:[-] p.m., at the entrance of the hotel, Wang Nan looked at Chen Zhihe with an unkind expression.

"As for the dance hall, who did you listen to?"

Chen Zhihe was also very helpless, and followed Wang Nan around the county for a long time, asking many people along the way, but no one knew that Mohe actually had a dance hall.

Finally, when I took a taxi back, I asked the taxi driver, and the driver insisted that he had stayed in Mohe for 40 to [-] years, but he had never heard of a dance hall in Mohe.

Facing Wang Nan's questioning, Chen Zhihe could only bite the bullet and say, "Maybe I remembered it wrong."

Wang Nan looked straight at Chen Zhihe, and it took a while before he said, "It's over if you misremembered one sentence? Then your time tonight is up, and it's mine."

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　Second update, a bit late, sorry~
　　
　
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