Code Name: Flame

Chapter 1 Return to Shanghai
The sun was scorching the earth, and the rising temperature made it impossible for the residents of the town to stay in the sweltering home, and they gathered in the shade outside the house.

People chatted and chatted, and people dozed off.When Zhang's mother came over with a bamboo chair, many people stood up and greeted her with smiles.

Before Zhang Jiamu's mother sat down, someone asked: "Zhang Jiamu's mother, is that person okay?"

Zhang Jiamu's fat buttocks sat on the chair, and the chair creaked stubbornly.

"It's okay, little red guy woke up last night."

Curious people sat around Zhang's mother, and a tall, thin-lipped woman spoke first, "Who is this? Where did you come from? Hey, I saw your old Zhang back yesterday. I thought it was dead."

Without waiting for Zhang Jiamu's mother to answer, the people next to him started talking in a hurry.

"Yeah, it's scary. His face was so pale, I thought he was dead too."

"Yes, yes, yes, I also said that it is a pity to be young and old."

"Old Zhang Lidao is also big, such a big man, Yi carried it back from the river in one breath."

"Old Zhang Li is so famous..."

Everyone chattered, and the topic got farther and farther away, and in the end they didn't know where the conversation went.

In Zhang Jiamu's mother's house, a young man in his early twenties was lying quietly on the bed, looking at the dark roof, listening to the chirping of cicadas outside, but his heart was full of waves.

His name is Chen Jia, an ordinary mechanical student at Shanghai University.His studies are so-so, his appearance is not very good, his body is thin and tall, and this thin height may be his only advantage.

He just kept lying down, lying down, because he couldn't believe everything in front of him, everything strange and familiar.

He is a native of Shanghai, so he is no stranger to the brick-and-tile structure in front of him, isn't it just a one-story house in an ancient town?

Familiar language, familiar house, strange is indeed a person.

What they dress, what they say, and...

This strange and familiar feeling made him very tangled and uncomfortable, and he didn't know what happened.I just went fishing, and then was dragged into the water by the fish, and then...then I didn't know.

When he woke up, everything changed, and the weather became hot, but he clearly remembered that it was autumn.

The dried autumn clothes beside the bed also proved to him that it should be autumn, and he would never wear such thick clothes in the dog days like a madman.

The door was pushed open with a creaking sound, and a man of medium height walked in.

The visitor saw Chen Jia who was looking at him on the bed, and grinned, "Are you sleepy? Are you hungry? Cut some porridge to pad your belly."

The person who came was the father of the Zhang family who rescued Chen Shijie. He was nearly forty years old, and his skin was black and shiny, perhaps because he had been fishing in the river all year round.

Chen Jia hurriedly sat up, put on her shoes and greeted her.

The father of the Zhang family put a bowl of porridge and a plate of pickles on the table, looked them up and down, and then happily said: "It seems that something should be done. Young people are in good health, and they will recover overnight." Come on, come on, cut the porridge quickly, it's already cold."

The porridge is green in color, full of chopped green plants, rice grains... very few.

After Chen Jia said thank you, he sat down and picked up the bowl and poured it into his mouth.

Father Zhang's family sat aside, smiling and watching Chen Jia wolf down his porridge, feeling very satisfied in his heart.

He didn't bother Chen Jia to eat, he got up and took a cattail fan from the cabinet to fan Chen Jia.

A bowl of porridge is only a few mouthfuls for a young man. After drinking the porridge, Chen Jia habitually wanted to wipe his mouth with a piece of paper. When he looked around, he suddenly realized that he raised his hand embarrassingly and wiped it a few times indiscriminately.

"Uncle, where is this place?" Chen Jia asked in Shanghai dialect. Although it is different from the local dialect, there is no problem in communicating with each other.

"Oh, this is Zhuanqiao Town, Shanghai County. Young man, are you from the city?"

After listening to Zhang's father's answer, Chen Jia's hairs stood on end.Just kidding, when Chen Jia was born, Shanghai County had long since disappeared, and Minhang District had replaced it.

A feeling of seeing a ghost made him tremble all over, and he had a premonition that something unbelievable must have happened to him.

"Shanghai County?"

He looked around again, the old furniture, the yellowed mosquito net, the strange gown on Zhang's father, all of them proved his premonition.

Suddenly, an old newspaper on the cabinet caught his attention. He reached out to take it, and at a glance, his whole body seemed to have fallen into an ice cellar.

On May 1930, 5, Liangyou Pictorial.

The characters are in traditional characters, in vertical format, with rough printing quality, and the content is unheard of by him.The illustrations show a lot of beauties who are posing, wearing revealing clothes, with their thighs stretched out...

Chen Jia sat there for a long time, not even knowing that the father of the Zhang family had left.He didn't wake up until it was dark, and felt stiff all over, so he got up in the dark and moved his body a little.

There was a faint voice coming from the next door, and the conversation between the two parties could be heard without exerting much effort.

"Is this brat stupid or stupid? Why does he look so dumb?"

"Don't talk nonsense, he has been reading the newspaper just now, he is literate, how could he be a boy?"

"Then why don't you say anything?"

"Why didn't you talk? You talked to me during dinner. He's from the city. He probably went to the countryside to meet someone else and fell into the river."

"Oh, it's not bad. Looking at Yi's clothes, you can tell that they are not from ordinary people. The clothes are very good. I took a closer look yesterday after I cleaned them up. Tsk tsk tsk, they should be very expensive."

"It should be a foreign student. Look at the watch in his hand. It should be very expensive. By the way, the mayor came this morning and said he came to see him. I told him that he would come to see him soon. "

"When Yi recovers, send him home. The Yi family members are in a hurry. Hurry up and tell me, I'm sleepy."

After a rustling sound, the next door returned to silence, and not long after, there was a burst of snoring.

In the darkness, a line of clear tears slowly fell down the corners of the eyes and slipped into the cochlea, wet.

Whether Chen Jia is willing or not, whether he accepts it or not, he knows in his heart that he has come to a Shanghai called the Republic of China.

His mind was filled with the words and pictures in the pictorial, and he also fell into a deep sleep in a dizzy state.

I don't know whose chicken started to crow, and the sleeping town gradually woke up.

Chen Jia was imitating what others did, and took cold water from the well to wash.I brushed my teeth with the tooth powder given by Zhang Jiamu's mother, so I brushed them randomly with a pig hair brush.A hair was accidentally embedded in the tooth, and it took a lot of time to pull it out.

There are many people watching the excitement around, all of them are neighbors.The children hid behind the grown-up, and all laughed and peeked at him.

This feeling of being watched is very uncomfortable, as if he is an animal in a zoo.He hurriedly wiped his face clean, ignoring the stickiness on his body, and fled back to Zhang's house in embarrassment amidst people's laughter.

At this time, Zhang's mother was making breakfast, and when she saw Chen Jia coming back with her face flushed and fleeing, she knew what had happened, so she also laughed.

"Oh, I'm so sorry to come."

The father of the Zhang family poked his head out from another room, looked at the back of the person who fled into the room, and coughed hard, "Aosao cooked and cut the rice. The mayor is coming."

The mayor was an old man in his fifties, with a gray and white goatee three inches long and neatly trimmed.The whole body is covered in silk and satin, which shows that this person's family is rich, and two big gemstone rings are worn on his hands, one red and one green, which are very eye-catching.

"Ning in the city? How did it fall into the river?"

Chen Jia sat on the chair with his hands on his knees obediently, and when he saw the old man asking questions, he quickly replied: "I came here to play, but I accidentally fell into the river."

"Oh oh, fortunately, Lao Zhang saved Nong, it's Nong's life."

After the old man looked up and down, although he felt that the young man was very uncoordinated, he couldn't see anything unusual.

Where is the inconsistency?Ultra-short hair, a thick leather jacket, and blue trousers, as if they were old trousers, but if you look closely, you can't see how old they are.A pair of brown half-height boots on the feet look very beautiful.

In particular, the watch on Chen Jia's hand attracted his attention. It was a beautiful watch with a white dial, gold embellishments, and a red leather strap, which was very elegant and generous.

The bag at his feet also looked strange, a style he had never seen before.

The old man was also a person who had stayed abroad for many years. Although the style of the brown boots was very beautiful, it was not uncommon to see similar ones.

The bags and watches were the ones he had seen in his life, and he was amazed again and again.

(End of this chapter)