strictlysupreme Chapter 137: Confessions
Chapter 137: Confessions
After the secret joy, we still have to return to the problems that both of them need to face at the moment.
Tong Jia didn't give Tao Junle much time to get excited.
She picked up the paper and pen on the table, stuffed them into Tao Junle's hand, and said, "Write down all the things you can remember after Grandma Zai Rong waved goodbye to me, and all the things related to you and me that you read in the book in your previous life, in the order of chronological order.
I also wrote down my experiences in this life and the memories of my previous life separately in chronological order.
To prevent us from disturbing each other, you go upstairs to write and I will write here.
Whoever has finished writing should shout out, and when both of them have finished, we will compare them one by one.
Okay, hurry up and grab some paper and pen."
Tao Junle, who originally wanted to chat with Tong Jia about reminiscing, had no choice but to go to the second floor of the RV with paper and pen.
When he started writing while recalling, he finally understood why Tong Jia asked him to write separately.
If he was concentrating on recalling things alone, he would end up writing something and then go back to add a few more things. If two people were chatting while writing, they would definitely overlook more things.
After figuring it out, he stopped being indecisive and began to concentrate on recalling.
The experiences of the past fifteen years of this life were easy to write about and did not require much recollection. His focus was entirely on recalling the book he had read in his previous life.
If he had known this day would come, he should not have taken the book away. In the end, in order not to expose Tong Jia's uniqueness, he even burned all the books he had copied.
If the book was still in the RV, it would be much easier and the two of them could just look through it and analyze it together.
But perhaps it was because the book was no longer in the RV that they entered the book.
If the book were still there, they might not be where they are now.
Everything is determined.
After carefully recalling the writing and preparing to review it from beginning to end, Tong Jia's voice, as clear and sweet as a yellow oriole singing out of a valley, came: "Tao Junle, I'm done. If you're done, come down."
Upon hearing this, Tao Junle went downstairs with the paper he had written.
He sat opposite Tong Jia.
Tong Jia said, "Let's first talk about what happened after we waved goodbye to Grandma Rong. I was only five years old, so not much happened, so I'll talk first."
Tao Junle nodded and gestured to Tong Jia to continue.
Tong Jia picked up a piece of paper seriously, looked at it and said, "After we separated at Grandma Rong's place, she said that she had promised me that after I helped her fulfill her wish, she would send me back to my original world, but it didn't work out because of some problems.
To compensate me, in addition to the RV, they also gave me space in the bun shop from our previous life.
It's right next to the RV. If you look out the window, can you see the bun shop?"
Tao Junle looked at the car windows on both sides of his body, shook his head at Tong Jia, and said, "I can't see it. The RV looks the same as in my previous life. I can't see anything else outside the window."
Tong Jia nodded and analyzed, “Grandma Rong told me that there is no time limit for either the RV or the bun shop in this life, but she still has a use for the awl, so she took it back.
She also said that unless someone had entered the RV in their previous life, anyone else, whether human or livestock, would die immediately if they entered my space.
You can enter the RV freely, but you can't see the bun shop. I guess it's because after you died in your previous life, I stored your body in the RV, making the RV think that you two were one. And you came in here often in your previous life, so that's why."
Tao Junle nodded and said, "That's a reasonable analysis. I guess so."
Tong Jia rolled her eyes at Tao Junle, and then told him how she collected gold from the United States and various material reserves, and all the major experiences and turning points after entering the book.
When she talked about the item she had collected, Tao Junle kept staring at her with admiration.
It was not until she talked about how she had experienced two life-threatening crises in just five years that her brows unconsciously frowned.
Tong Jia finished speaking, and seeing Tao Junle frowning and not responding, she pushed him and asked, "Why are you still distracted while listening?"
Tao Junle waved his hands and explained, "I wasn't distracted. I was writing in my memoir about when your mother died.
When did your grandma and your uncle come here to cause trouble?
Although your uncle is no longer with us, in the novel, many of the bad things that happened to your family and to you were done by your grandmother.
Also, you said you only have one cousin, but the book mentioned that one of the main reasons your aunt didn't let your cousin go to the countryside was that she wanted your cousin to marry the son of a leader in the machine tool factory and then pave the way for your cousin.
Now that your uncle is gone, I don’t know…”
"Have you thought of anything?" Tong Jia asked with concern.
She was also eager to know whether Qin Hanyi's fatal crisis in the book had passed.
Tao Junle took the stack of papers he had written on and flipped through them, finally stopping at one of the pages.
After a long while, he finally spoke: "According to the little girl in the book, she suddenly became seriously ill at her grandmother's house, and her mother borrowed a car to pick her up.
As a result, due to poor driving skills, both the driver and the car fell off the cliff.
When the little girl was sick and crying to the second female lead, she seemed to say that if she hadn't been in poor health, she wouldn't have lost her mother.
If Mom were still alive, she wouldn't have to use her pension to pay for the car, which allowed Grandma to seize the opportunity to ask the factory for a job for her uncle and also for her parents' house.
Tong Jia nodded and said, "That means my mother's crisis is over.
From now on, I just need to think about how to deal with my kind-looking but heartbroken grandmother."
Tao Junle added: "And your aunt and cousin..."
Tong Jia waved her hand and said, "If Tong Simin were still here, of course we would consider them.
Now Tong Simin is dead, and they are the same as us. No one needs to bear the responsibility of others' lives. No matter what, no matter how we treat them, no one can say anything wrong about us.
But my grandmother is different.
Unless my mother remarries, even if she can ignore it, I can't.
Let's write this down first, and after we have sorted out the timeline, we can discuss a solution together."
After saying that, Tong Jia wrote down on a brand new A4 paper: Grandma, Aunt, Cousin, and Cousin.
A triangle is placed under the word "grandmother", indicating that special attention needs to be paid. A question mark is placed behind the word "cousin", expressing doubt as to whether this cousin still exists.
Then, Tong Jia raised her head and said, "Since we separated at Grandma Rong's place, I've finished talking about my story. Now, you can tell me about your story."
Tao Junle flipped the paper to the first page and said seriously, "After waving goodbye to you, I died on November 1944, Thanksgiving Day, 11, which is the eighth day of the tenth month in the lunar calendar. Oh? By the way, Jiajia, you didn't tell me your birthday just now."
Tong Jia said, "November 1954, 11, the 10th day of the tenth lunar month. Go on with your story."
Tao Junle nodded and said, "We both celebrated our birthdays this year, so let's celebrate properly next year.
I continued.
My father works in the financial industry and is very successful on Wall Street in the United States. I was influenced by him and started to be exposed to many financial securities and banking businesses from a very young age.
Although I was not yet an adult, my father opened an account for me using a fake identity in order to train me so that I could learn financial management.
I started making money independently when I was eleven years old. When I returned to the United States, I exchanged all the money I earned into gold and jewelry and hid them in the RV, which is here.
By the way, there are a lot of clothes, skin care products, cosmetics and jewelry that I bought for you.
Now... keep it for now. Isn't it said that things in the RV won't go bad?
Take it out and use it when you can.
Oh, and I discovered I could get into an RV when I was five.
But at that time, I thought the RV had a time limit, and I was worried that if I came in frequently, it would affect your use.
I just left a note in there, but I haven't received any reply from you.
Later on, I slowly started to use the space, and the first time I realized there were no time limits on RVs was when I installed this cabinet.
The space in the front was a bit small and I couldn't move around. After installing the cabinet, my back and waist ached severely, so I wanted to have a massage before going out. As a result, I fell asleep during the massage.
When I woke up and went out, it was already daybreak.
From the time I brought the materials in to install the cabinet to the time I came out, it took about ten hours.
I tried again the next day, and the RV still didn't kick me out, so I knew that the time limit in this RV had been lifted.
In order to see you earlier, I come in almost every night and have been waiting until now."
Tong Jia couldn't stand Tao Junle's intense gaze. After coughing twice, she urged him, "Time is limited. Get to the point and don't talk about irrelevant things. Don't forget our gentleman's agreement."
Tao Junle immediately said, "I haven't forgotten. Didn't you ask me to tell you everything I've experienced and thought about over the years?
Everything I said is true.
My mother studied vocal music, soprano, but after returning to Star City, she always had problems with her voice and could not continue performing.
Because many people in Xingcheng knew that my mother was a singer, the more compliments she received, the more lost she would feel when she could no longer sing.
That's why my father took the initiative to request to be transferred to Java.
Since we were not sure when we would return to Star City, my father took the initiative to dispose of some of their fixed assets in Star City.
My mother always carried her more valuable jewelry with her and placed it in those suitcases.
She exchanged her other assets for gold and jewelry and stored them in a bank safe.
The day before arriving in Star City, I secretly took her keys, went to the bank to open the safe, and moved all the things into the RV.
When the accident happened on the ship, I took advantage of no one noticing and moved all our luggage to the RV.
Now, neither the United States nor Star City has any of our family’s assets.
In fact, I have always suspected that the person who drugged my mother was my nominal grandmother. Otherwise, why was everything fine when she was in the United States, but she couldn't sing after returning to Star City?
Also, after my parents got into trouble, my identity needed to be verified by relatives in Xingcheng, but no matter how many times I called, I couldn't contact my grandfather.
Once I got through on the phone and heard my grandfather talking to someone else, but the call was still hung up. It must have been done by my so-called grandmother.
She doesn't want me to go back.
If I could go back, I would actually like to go back to Star City first to find evidence of that woman's crime of murdering others.
But according to the situation described in the book, I would have stayed in Java and waited for the evacuation ship to pick me up, and then returned to China with it.
Oh, I still have 10,000 Singapore dollars on me to deal with my parents’ funeral arrangements.
After my parents' cremation ceremony, my father's company can fully cover his funeral expenses, and my mother's will be borne by us.
Then I discussed the pension issue with my father's company.
This is what I have experienced in the past fifteen years.”
After listening to this, Tong Jia wrote another two under the first one she had just recorded.
The content is: Find evidence of "Grandma"'s crime of murdering others and seek justice.
After finishing writing, Tong Jia talked about the relevant historical knowledge he had learned in modern times, with only approximate years but no specific dates.
Combined with the information Tao Junle got from the book.
In the end, in addition to the two problems that needed to be solved previously, the two people had many more things that needed to be verified and changed.
There are not many things related to Tong Jia, it’s mainly about Tao Junle.
Tong Jia said: "Although you were born in the United States, your father is very patriotic and still allowed you to have Chinese nationality.
The overseas Chinese named Tao in the book was ostracized by the people on the farm because he had a spoiled temper, didn't want to stay on the farm, and kept asking to return to Star City.
Then when you really come here, you must change this situation."
Tao Junle nodded and said, "I've also thought about this issue, and this is what I think.
Since your uncle can just disappear, I don’t necessarily have to follow the settings in the book.
Not all of those who were brought back to China went to the farms in Guangxi Province. There were farms for settling overseas Chinese in many places such as Guangdong Province, Yunnan Province, and Fujian Province.
Because there were so many people, each batch was resettled in a different location.
The overseas Chinese named Tao in the book was always trying to find a way back to Xingcheng and was particularly resistant to coming back, so he missed out on the first few groups. This time, I will definitely strive to be among the first to board the ship, so that I won't be assigned to Guangxi Province."
Tong Jia asked: "Where will we be assigned to initially?
This part is not in our history books. I haven't studied it, so I can't give you any advice.
But I can still give you some advice on where you will be assigned."
Tao Junle shook his head and said, "I don't know where I'll go, but as long as it's not Guangxi Province and I don't meet the hero in the book, I think anywhere is fine.
Besides, I won’t stay there forever. I still have to find a way to go to the capital to find you.”
Tong Jia thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll pay more attention to the news in the newspaper during this period. If I see relevant information, come in and write it down and put it on this table."
Tao Junle nodded and said, "Actually... I really want to go back to Star City again. But I don't know if I will have the chance again."