Chapter 79 third quarter

Professor Luo Huanzhang, the messenger who asked Luo Chongwen to withdraw the engagement, was shocked.He immediately sent several letters to Nanjing, hoping that his son would change his mind, but all the letters were returned because there were no recipients.At this point, he knew that Luo Chongwen was deliberately avoiding him.At the same time, what worried him even more was that his son's rebellion against the family was the beginning of his radical path. However, based on this, it cannot be considered that Luo Huanzhang, a history professor who taught at a certain university in Northwest China until his retirement and still served as the honorary president of the university after retirement, is an unpatriotic person.

After the "September 18th" incident, many mass anti-Japanese groups emerged in the Northwest. "Give me back my country" anti-Japanese propaganda, while raising donations for the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement.Professor Luo Huanzhang donated a lot of property in these fundraising activities, including part of his collection of calligraphy, paintings and antiques. He even secretly provided convenience for performing groups and students who printed leaflets, and took great risks for this.On the eve of the outbreak of the "Lanzhou Incident" which was part of the "Xi'an Incident", Professor Luo Huanzhang had close contact with Yu Xuezhong, commander of the 51st Army of the Northeast Army stationed in Gansu, to discuss anti-Japanese strategies.As for his hometown in Ping'an County, Luo Zhong, the old family member who took care of his home, had provided a lot of money and great convenience to the West Route Army of the Red Army of Workers and Peasants. After careful calculation, it should be the influence of Professor Luo Huanzhang.So later, Communist Party member Luo Yunpeng was appointed by the Central Committee to serve as deputy secretary of the working committee in Lanzhou. He took the initiative to contact Professor Luo Huanzhang, and the two had a special relationship.The contact with Luo Yunpeng had a profound impact on Luo Huanzhang, and some of his students went to Yan'an under his teaching.At that time, although Luo Huanzhang classified himself as an "old man", he once again experienced a period of dangerous times.

But for his only son, Luo Chongwen, Luo Huanzhang couldn't let him take that kind of risk.This is by no means out of the consideration of rich people's doting on their children or just passing on the family line.Luo Huanzhang has his own unavoidable secrets. In fact, Luo Chongwen is not Luo Huanzhang's biological son. Luo Huanzhang's biological son is Luo Chongjun, who is more than ten years older than Luo Chongwen, and has grown into an outstanding young man under Luo Huanzhang's training and teaching.All relatives, friends and old friends think that he is the most suitable heir of the Luo family.But in Luo Huanzhang's mind, it is not a big deal for a son of a rich family to inherit the family business. He lives in an era when the country is precarious and the nation is in crisis. Education and saving the country are his lifelong ideals.Luo Chongjun had just graduated from middle school. Luo Huanzhang, who had participated in the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty, arranged for him to study in France. He hoped that his beloved eldest son would do more than inherit the family business in the future.

In fact, Luo Huanzhang could have imagined that in the early twentieth century, the whole world was full of wind and rain. At the end of 1918, the First World War came to an end; in January 1919, Luo Chongjun's fourth year studying in France, the victorious countries held a "peace conference" in Paris to discuss the conclusion of a peace treaty and the settlement of the war. postwar problems.Britain, France and other countries compromised with Japan for their own interests. The news spread to China, and the "May 4th" patriotic movement erupted like a volcano.At the same time, more than 30,000 overseas Chinese, Chinese laborers and Chinese students living in France gathered outside the residence of the Chinese delegation. They held up the banner "Rejecting the signing of the peace treaty" to demonstrate and protest...

Luo Chongjun left Paris at that time, but instead of returning to China directly, he transferred to Italy to visit the city of Rome. Luo Chongjun's experience in Italy is unknown, but it is said that he fell in love with the daughter of an Italian diplomat when he was in Paris, and they went to Italy together.It is said that one day he and the Italian girl visited the city of Rome, and then went to the Aegean Sea together.They never came back.There has been speculation that their ship was wrecked in the Aegean Sea and the two drowned tragically.Some people also said that the love between him and the girl was opposed by Italian diplomats, who objected to him taking the girl back to China, so they were blocked from returning to China, so they diverted to Italy.

It is entirely conceivable that a foreign student from a poor and weak country whose diplomacy has completely failed will be favored by imperial diplomats?Perhaps Luo Chongjun's death in a foreign country cannot simply be attributed to an accident.Of course, all this is just speculation made by his classmates.When a classmate returned home, he brought home some of his luggage left in Paris. Luo Huanzhang found a diary in the luggage, which recorded Luo Chongjun's experience of studying abroad for nearly four years and his reflections on the "Paris Peace Conference".Although the diary is written intermittently, even with some broken sentences and fragments, it is full of the inner worries and indignation of a passionate young man.

... The ocean of the Chinese roars like a tide. We stand in that clearing.The French palace is covered with colorful mosaics, revealing a gorgeous light.It is difficult to find the filth hidden in the cracks of the ground, and the maggots that breed under the filth.Under the luxurious packaging, there are filth and evil, under the guise of peace. We suffer from hunger and cold, with stiff bodies and burning hearts.In this way, from night, to dawn, and then to night.We don't see the light of day. ... The tide of shouting ebbed in hopelessness and helplessness.A burning heart never goes out.Explode in silence, or retreat?A long night.

Look at that ocean, as deep and unfathomable as the night.What can awaken sleep?In the east, a land of sleeping nights.Is it still far from being able to shake the waves that we have rolled up with our young blood and burning hearts? Let the storm be bigger!Straighten your spine, go to the unfathomable sea or night, just to be able to wake up. I am willing to give everything for this, including love and life! ... An outstanding young man was buried in the Aegean Sea accompanied by his unbearable humiliation or a poignant love story. This was not expected by Professor Luo Huanzhang who wanted his son to study abroad.Luo Chongjun was supposed to return to China, but turned to Italy to visit the city of Rome. Perhaps it was God's will in the dark—he should have such an ideal destination that suits his heart, right?But he left too young and too rash!

Luo Huanzhang, who was over half a century old, was crying in front of his son's diary... In addition to Luo Chongjun, Luo Huanzhang originally had a daughter, nicknamed Zhen'er, who indeed died in love. According to the customs of Ping'an County, Zhen'er was engaged since childhood.When she was seventeen years old and was about to get married, she received a letter from the man asking for an end to the engagement.It turned out that the young man went to join the army, and he didn't want to delay Zhen'er's youth by himself.Zhen'er sent several letters to the young man, telling him her true feelings for him and her determination to wait for his return.Later, the young man participated in the Northern Expedition, but unfortunately died in battle.Also killed was a close friend of Luo Huanzhang, also surnamed Luo, who brought Zhen'er's unmarried son-in-law into the army.After his best friend died, he left behind a son who was less than three years old, and there was no one in the family anymore.In this way, Luo Huanzhang and his wife took the orphan of their best friend back home and adopted him as their adopted son, and renamed him Luo Chongwen after the eldest son's name.

One day, the anniversary of the death of the unmarried uncle, Zhen'er accidentally fell into the well.A young lady who neither fetches water nor does her own laundry, who would believe that she accidentally fell into the well? Luo Huanzhang and his wife have experienced the pain of bereavement after half a century. It can also be said that their two sons and daughters died because they grew up in such a poor and turbulent country and for "state affairs". He still faces the flames of war in front of him. He was a little disheartened about his "state affairs", and he cherished his adopted son Luo Chongwen even more.They were worried that Luo Chongwen would make a mistake outside, and they were sorry for their best friend who died early, so they used such a major life event as marriage to try to bring him back to their side.Especially when he received a letter from his son requesting to withdraw from the marriage, and Ms. Zhang showed incomparable loyalty to the marriage, he really didn't want to see another tragedy like Zhen'er happened between his son and Ms. Zhang.

Forced by all kinds of secrets, Luo Huanzhang could only urge Luo Chongwen to go home, while at the same time bustlingly arranged the marriage at home.Regardless of rich or poor, high or low, and regardless of the current situation, ordinary people still have to continue to live (it is okay to say that they can survive), but anyone who has a way will continue to marry a wife and have children. This "great career in life" is more important than anything else It is more common and more natural, and it does not contradict the bosom of "patriotism".This made Luo Huanzhang more determined to restrain his son Luo Chongwen. However, Luo Chongwen, who lives alone in Nanjing City, is like a runaway horse. He doesn't care about his father's feelings at all, and suddenly hides with his family, and has not heard from him for several years.As a last resort, Luo Huanzhang had no choice but to send Ms. Zhang back to the home of Mayor Ma of Ping'an County.He knew that when his son came back sooner or later, the Luo family would always give an explanation to the Zhang family and the Ma family.He could only helplessly wait for this day to come.