We Live In Nanjing - Chapter 85

  Chapter 85 Meteors are like summer fireworks

   “Zhao…Uncle Zhao?”

   Bai Yang was taken aback.

   “You are still alive… are you back?”

  Zhao Bowen grinned at him, “Of course I am still alive.”

Lao Zhao left home in late October. After going there for more than ten days, there was no news and the world evaporated. Just when everyone thought he was taken to the hospital as a neurotic, he suddenly came back and didn’t even say hello. So suddenly he appeared in the living room of Bai Yang’s house, and brought a group of people back.

Bai Yang enters the door to change shoes and looks around in the living room. Good fellow, this Baolongtu is sitting in Kaifeng Mansion, Zhao Bowen is sitting in the center, Zhang Long and Zhaohu Dynasty Mahan are separated on both sides, except for the dog’s head and a handful of blue. The colorful stapler is pressed on the coffee table, zooming in and zooming in can also be used as a guillotine. Before Zhao Bowen left home, he had to bring a thousand troops and horses. Bai Yang counted. In the living room, except for his father, mother, Wang Shu and Zhao Shu, he There are two people who don’t know.

Two middle-aged men with Da Ma Jindao, sitting side by side on the sofa, wearing black sweaters, are at least Zhan Zhaoyu cat level roles. One cat is enough to be frightening. Here are two royal cats at once. One person was drinking tea with a disposable paper cup in his hand, and the other was holding a thick material in his hand. When Bai Yang was looking at them, they were also looking at Bai Yang. The two approached Zhao Bowen and didn’t know what to whisper. Old Zhao looked up. Bai Yang glanced at them and nodded at them.

  Bai Yang changed his shoes and walked into the room with his schoolbag on his back. Zhao Bowen also got up and followed. When Zhao Bowen moved, everyone moved, and they all gathered.

  It seems that they are waiting for themselves.

  ”Where is your army?” Bai Yang threw his schoolbag on the bed and turned to ask Zhao Bowen, “Uncle Zhao, what about the army? How come these few people?”

“You can’t bring them all into your living room, Yang Yang.” Zhao Bowen squeezed his shoulders hard, “You won’t believe how many people I have managed and what a huge project I have completed. In Archimedes’ words, give me a fulcrum, I can pry the earth… I really pry the earth.”

  Bai Yang looked at him earnestly for a short while, Zhao Bowen smiled on his face, but he was a lot thinner and emaciated, and his dark circles darkened.

  ”Where have you been these days? Uncle Zhao, have you seen all the messages sent to you?” Bai Yang asked.

“The first question cannot be answered for the time being. This question has to be kept secret for two hours, and I can not tell you until twelve o’clock.” Zhao Bowen said, “I have seen all the messages you sent to me. To be honest, you provided it. The information has helped us a lot. Well done, Yang Yang, people all over the world must thank you.”

  Speaking, he patted the boy on the shoulder.

  ”Where did you come back from?”

  ”This must be kept secret.” Zhao Bowen waved his hand, “I can tell you only after twelve o’clock.”

  ”The riddler got out of my room.” Bai Yang pouted, and Zhao Bowen was so mysterious. Keep it secret. If you don’t say it, don’t talk about it. What’s the truth about keeping it secret for only two hours?

  Why wait until after twelve o’clock?

   “We are talking about business, how is the radio situation?”

   “Everything is normal.” Bai Yang replied.

   “Where is BG4MSR?”

   “Everything is normal.” Bai Yang said, “During this period, we have spent time building a data transmission system, and it is close to success.”

   “I heard your dad and Lao Wang say about this. You did a good job.” Zhao Bowen pointed to the Icom725 amateur radio station on the bookshelf, “Now contact BG4MSR. We are all waiting for you to come back to do this.”

  White Yang crossed Zhao Bowen’s shoulders and glanced at the door of the room. Father Wang and Uncle Wang were all pestering at the door, and the two of them stared directly at themselves with bright eyes.

  He nodded, sat down in the chair, put on the headphones, switched on the power, turned on the radio, and started calling BG4MSR as usual.

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   “Huh? The weather?”

   Banxia is taken aback.

  She glanced out with the probe, “The weather is fine.”

  ”Okay, BG4MSR, now go to a place where you can see the night sky, OVER.”

   “Night sky?”

Banxia doesn’t know what the other party is going to do. It stands to reason that the image transmission test will be carried out tonight, but BG4MXH said that the test has been postponed until tomorrow. There are more important things to do tonight—the more important thing is to arrive. Go outside? Banxia didn’t understand, but she did so. The girl took the walkie-talkie, left the room, climbed to the attic, and sat on the roof.

The night breeze in late November was very cold. The girl leaned out, shrank, wrapped her clothes tightly, and then carefully found a place on the roof to sit down, and raised her head to see the velvety vastness. Sky dome.

  ”Okay, BG4MXH, I can see the sky now, then what?”

   asked Pinellia.

   “Then… look at the stars?”

  The girl’s eyes widened.

  She didn’t understand what this was going to do, so she called herself out solemnly, just to sit on the roof and watch the stars?

Bai Yang didn’t know what to do. This was Zhao Bowen’s instructions. Old Zhao ordered her to go out, let her find a place where she could see the night sky, and let her look up at the stars, but he didn’t. Explain what this is going to do, the gods are mysterious, the old gods are there, and they are confident and unpredictable.

  ”How long do I have to watch?”

   “Keep watching until the stars in the sky fall, OVER.”

  Bai Yang repeated Zhao Bowen’s words as they were.

   “The stars in the sky fell? Are they meteors?” Banxia was curious.

   “Maybe, I don’t know what it means, Uncle Zhao said so, OVER.”

  ”Uncle Zhao knows that there will be a meteor tonight? He can predict the future? But now is not the season of meteor shower…Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

  Banxia hugged her knees and sat on the roof. The night wind was so strong that her hair fluttered. She raised her neck and looked at the sky. The starry sky above her head was like salt sprinkled on a large black screen. The girl began to look for her familiar constellations on this big screen. She first found the autumn quadrilateral, which is composed of Andromeda. Formed with Pegasus, the four stars in these two constellations together form a huge square, which is the symbol of the late autumn starry sky.

  ”BG4MXH, do you know Pegasus Square?”

   “Pegasus Plaza?” Bai Yang asked, “What is that? OVER.”

“It’s the autumn quadrilateral. The four stars of Pegasus and Andromeda form a quadrilateral, like a square, called Pegasus Square.” Banxia moved her position and lay down diagonally on her back, “These four The stars have names, the teacher said, but I can’t remember… Find the autumn quadrangle, you can find Andromeda, and then along the extension of Andromeda, you can find Perseus. There will be Perseus every August. The meteor shower, my teacher and I saw it many years ago, BG4MXH, it’s a shame that you haven’t seen it.”

   “Yes, the lights in Nanjing are too strong.” Bai Yang said, “With such strong lights, where can I see the meteor shower? OVER.”

   Banxia was startled, “The lights are good too, so many lights, like stars on the earth.”

   “BG4MXH, why do you think there is a meteor shower?”

   “Because of the comet, OVER.”

   “Comet?”

“A kind of celestial body has a very small core and a very long tail. It periodically visits the solar system and throws matter in its orbit. These matter enter the earth’s atmosphere and become a meteor shower. OVER.” Bai Yang explained.

   “Then where does it come from?”

  ”Outside the solar system, far, far away, OVER.”

“how far?”

   “It’s very far, far away, so far that we can’t touch it in our lifetime.” Bai Yang said, “OVER.”

   “BG4MXH.”

   “I’m here, OVER.”

  ”Why do you say that the world is so big?” Banxia asked, “There are some places that we can’t even reach in our poor life.”

  ”It’s not that the world is too big, but people are too small.” Bai Yang said, “OVER.”

  Banxia thought for a while, what NG4MXH said is right, she is very small, compared with the magnificent land under her feet, and the vast starry sky above her head, she is small.

  The tiny person owns this infinite world alone.

Pinellia wrapped her clothes tightly and shrank on the roof, drew her hands into her sleeves, and the bricks under her **** were hard, she regretted not bringing a pillow to cushion her–she thought that if she could bring a pillow, she might as well put her bed in a bedding. Bring them together and retreat into a warm bed. That’s the most comfortable. At night, the wind on the roof was strong, and the wind could quickly take away the body temperature. The girl’s nose and cheeks quickly became numb with cold.

   “It’s cold.”

   “It’s cold…Can I go back and put on more clothes?”

   “Hold on, BG4MSR, it’s almost time, OVER.”

  ”How long do I have to wait?” Banxia asked.

   “How long will she have to wait?” Bai Yang took off the earphones and turned to ask Zhao Bowen behind him, “She is cold and wants to go back to get dressed.”

   “Let her hold on again, she may miss it when she goes back to wear clothes, then all our efforts will be lost.” Zhao Bowen was also a little anxious, he turned his head and shouted at the person at the door: “Specific time! Tell me the specific time!”

  A Zhan Zhao at the door opened the document in his hand, “It is estimated that it will pass through Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province from 23:55 pm on November 14th to 00:10 pm on the 15th, with a transit altitude of 88 degrees!”

  Bai Yang and Zhao Bowen focused their sights on the alarm clock at the same time. The time now is 11:49 PM.

   “Let her look up to the sky, it’s on top of her head!”

  Zhao Bowen leaned over to lower his body and voice, and Bai Yang could see that the former’s forehead was obviously sweating.

   “BG4MSR! BG4MSR!”

“I’m here.”

   “Look up! Look up to the sky! It’s on top of your head!”

  On top of your head?

  Banxia kept looking up, still with a silent starry sky above her head.

  She saw nothing.

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“Nothing at all?”

   “Nothing.” Bai Yang nodded, “She didn’t see anything.”

  ”Wait…wait…”

As time passed by, Zhao Bowen became more and more anxious. The minute hand of the alarm clock pointed to 55 minutes. It was the scheduled time, but there was no abnormality on the BG4MSR side. The minute hand pointed to 0 o’clock, and there was still no abnormality on the BG4MSR side. Zhao Bowen started spinning around in the room.

“Where is the problem?” Zhao Bowen paced back and forth, muttering to himself, “No one can tell this, after all, after such a long time, if there is an error, it is normal. It may be a few hours early or late. A few hours…”

  Everyone is watching Zhao Bowen. Old Zhao is as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, but other people don’t know why he is so anxious.

  ”Ask what the situation is, Yang Yang, ask again.” Zhao Bowen said.

   “Ask, everything is normal.”

  White Yang would ask every minute, it was already 12:20.

   “BG4MSR, what’s the matter? OVER.”

   “There is no situation.”

   “BG4MSR?”

   “There is no situation.”

   “BG4MSR?”

   “Nothing…Can I go back? It’s really cold here, I want to go back and get dressed.”

   “Wait! Wait! Let her wait again!” Zhao Bowen shouted, spreading his five fingers, “I will count five! It will definitely come! Five–! Four–!”

“three–!”

   “Two point nine–! Two point eight–!”

   Bai Yang shook his head, “Uncle Zhao, you can count this way, and you can count to next year.”

   “Two! One!” Zhao Bowen’s face blushed, “It’s here, you can ask if you don’t believe me.”

  ”BG4MSR, BG4MSR, what’s the matter on your side?” Bai Yang put on the headset again and made a call.

   “Nothing, I just want to go back to my warm little bed, back to my warm little bed, where is the sky… God!”

  Suddenly the girl’s exclamation and screams broke out in the earphones, and Bai Yang suddenly sat up.

  Zhao Bowen stopped abruptly.

   “Gosh, my goodness!”

  ”BG4MXH! BG4MXH! Meteor! Look, it’s a meteor!”

Pinellia opened her small mouth and looked up at the sky. Above her head, a long meteor drew across the sky. It was so bright and dazzling that the moment it appeared, it covered the shining stars in the sky. It came so suddenly that it was caught off guard, as if someone had cut a long, narrow and straight hole with a sharp knife on the velvety background of night, bursting out white sky light.

It took a full five seconds for the first meteor to appear and disappear, and its remnants remained in the atmosphere for a long time. Then a scene that shocked the girl to the point of silence appeared. In the direction where the meteor came, the second and the first The three, fourth and even more meteors cut through the darkness. The girl has never seen such a dense, bright and majestic meteor shower. When they cross the sky, the earth will be illuminated. The meteors are blue and purple. They are like sharp swords and spears. They are like a rainbow across the airspace under Pegasus and Andromeda. They are like gods stained with paint on the celestial sphere in the autumn night. One stroke.

  Meteor flicked above Pinellia’s head and exploded in the sky, turning into colorful and enchanting flowers.

  The girl stood dazedly on the top of the building, watching the bright flowers explode in clusters over the deserted city, and she suddenly shed tears.

  On a late autumn night, Banxia saw the most spectacular fireworks in human history.

  It does not rise from the ground, but descends from the nine heavens like lightning piercing the sky!

  At midnight this night, a wanderer who had been away from home for 20 years returned from a distance of 400 million kilometers, and reentered the atmosphere at a high speed of 11.2 kilometers per second.

  (End of this chapter)