Chapter 48 fourth quarter

The calendar turned to August 15, 1945, and Japan surrendered! However, Hu Lancheng was shocked by the joyful day of the national carnival.Knowing that his doom was near, he decided to put all his eggs in one basket.Because Chiang Kai-shek had no time to take over the occupied areas and was afraid of falling into the hands of the Communist army, he appointed Ye Peng as the commander-in-chief of the Seventh Route Army to temporarily control the order in Hubei, Jiangxi and Hunan.However, Hu Lancheng took advantage of Ye Peng's return to Wuhan from Nanjing to take up his post, and joined forces with Zou Pingfan, the commander of the 29th Army of the Wang Puppet Army, to disarm Ye Peng's spy battalion overnight, declared Wuhan independent, and established the Wuhan Security Command. As the commander, Pingfan also recruited Wang Puppet Li Taiping Division and Wang Buqing Division, and asked the Japanese army for 10,000 weapons and equipment. In the middle of the strategy, the decision is thousands of miles away, and it is a desperate fight.

Just at this time, he caught dengue fever so hard to die.Sleep for seven days and seven nights.After waking up, Zou Pingfan had changed his course, defected to Chiang Kai-shek, and invited Yuan Yong, a receptionist, from Chongqing. Hu Lancheng knew that the situation was over, and while arguing with Yuan Yongxu, he secretly deployed an escape plan.During this period, Yuan Yong ignored the letter of appointment sent by the Nationalist government; Li Xiannian, the leader of the Communist Party of China, sent someone to persuade him to vote, but he also did not see him. Sixty years later, we might as well make an assumption. Will leave China, although it is unavoidable to suffer some torture in the later "movement", but as long as I can survive, there may be a day of reunion with Zhang Ailing-however, this is just a hypothesis.

Before leaving, Hu Lancheng convened a gathering for the last time, "sit up and drink as usual", and then bid farewell to Xiao Zhou: "Your smile is very beautiful, you must keep it for me. When we see you in the future, you will still look like today's beautiful eyes Looking forward.” He left her the rest of his salary, ten taels of gold, a box of clothes, and even a sack and a half of rice leftovers—before he always wanted her to be educated, or even travel far to study like Zhang Ailing did. , Now it is naturally out of the question, but he still hopes to give her more - if he can live up to the money in making friends with women, he is always willing to pay.Divorced with Quan Huiwen and Ying Yingdi in the newspaper, and he did not treat the two of them badly.

In the end, he handed Xiao Zhou another letter, telling him to send it after he left.It was a letter to Yuan Yong, and it was another move he left for himself. The letter said: "The country's progress is difficult, and the destiny is not easy. I will take refuge temporarily to see if the government is as good as Chairman Jiang broadcast. I am not addicted to killing people, and whether I will come back will be seen in the next three to five months. Scholars are inherently ministers if they cannot be obtained, humiliated if they cannot be obtained, and killed if they cannot be obtained.” ——He also counted on Chiang Kai-shek to ask him to come back, However, what he waited for later was a wanted warrant.

That day, Hu Lancheng changed into Japanese clothes, left Wuhan quietly on a Japanese boat, and when crossing the Han River, he untied a pistol he carried with him and sank into the middle stream. With a sense of tragedy, I clearly realized that my escape career had begun. The first stop was Nanjing. After staying for two days, I took the train back to Shanghai secretly, hid in a Japanese home in Hongkou, and sent someone to Meiliyuan to inform Qingyun to meet her.Qing Yun went, saw Uncle Six, and asked, "Why are you back?" "The Japanese surrendered." Hu Lancheng said flatly, "You don't understand these things, so don't ask too much. I'll stay in Shanghai soon, so you can bring me a message to Edington."

Zhang Ailing went, with mixed feelings of sadness and joy.She knew that he was going to flee after all, and what she had predicted since she knew him was finally going to happen.In the troubled times, there is no definite number when we will get together again after we part. However, even though there are thousands of words, I don't know where to start. After a while, she said quietly, "I want to go with you." He was startled, and then said with a calm smile, "Didn't they both disarm?" "I have no way out now." "That's a temporary thing."

But what is the long-term?She felt helpless, like a sampan floating in the ocean, unable to even just drift with the current. On the way back, there was a parade, and the flow of people celebrating was just in the opposite direction of her. She was jostling and kicking in the crowd, walking as slowly as a glacier.Knowing that he is muddy and against the trend of the world. ——It was like a metaphor given to her by God.She is going against the sky. Another night later, Qingyun suddenly brought Hu Lancheng, who had her hair cut short and changed into a shirt, secretly to Eddington's apartment, and agreed to pick him up tomorrow morning.

Aileen knew that this might be the day of their farewell.Even Zhang Maoyuan came out to say hello, more cordial than usual.But there is nothing else to say.Even Hu Lancheng was uncharacteristically silent, standing by the window, opening the corner of the curtain and looking down. Fortunately, there were no suspicious signs on the road. The moon has risen for a while, but it is still hazy and unclear.The sound of the crocodile was a little timid, a little desolate, with a sense of probing. It sounded once, and then fell silent again, as if frightened by the depth of the night, afraid to sing, and unwilling to completely silence the sound.

A cat walked along the base of the wall for a while, then turned back, but didn't go away, just looked around, as if someone was calling it.However, on the empty street, the shops were closed, and even the lights were dimmed. There was only a mangy dog ​​tossing and turning in the garbage bin at the end of the street, its shadow stretched long and thinner. Hu Lancheng turned around, slowly talked about his situation in Wuhan and his future plans, and said that Ikeda and Shimizu wanted to send him to Japan, but they had not decided whether to take a boat or an airplane, but he was worried that the Japanese's goals were too big and he would not be able to protect himself , if he went with them, he might bring trouble back, so he was still hesitating.

Aileen was noncommittal, but suddenly brought up an old story about her grandfather Li Hongzhang: Although Li Hongzhang had signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan on behalf of the Qing court, he felt humiliated in his heart and vowed to "never serve the day again".In 1896, the Qing court sent him to Russia to celebrate the coronation of the Russian emperor and sign the Sino-Russian treaty, during which time he had to change ships in Japan.The Japanese had already prepared hospitality on the shore, but he refused to go ashore, preferring to stay overnight in the boat.The next day when the transfer boat arrived, he had to connect with a small boat first. He heard that the boat was a Japanese boat, so he refused to board the boat. The reception staff had to set up a flying beam between the two boats before he boarded the beam and changed the boat. Russia.

Aileen spoke very casually, with an understatement, and at the end she smiled lightly and said, "He was already seventy-two years old at that time, and he was so stubborn." Hu Lancheng listened and remained silent for a while.He has always admired her aristocratic background, and on weekdays he likes to hear her tell the old anecdotes of these important officials of the Qing court, but there has never been a moment when it was so harsh as today, and he almost became angry with embarrassment, muttering: "There will be more tomorrow." I'm busy." She fell asleep alone. The dog at the end of the street rummaged through the trash can, but in the end it picked up a bone and carried it away contentedly.The cat sighed and left too.The moon rose to the middle of the sky, and the sound of gnats gradually became one, with a sense of righteousness and confidence. When disaster strikes, the mouth becomes dry.It's too late to say anything. The moonlight shone into the living room through the window lattice, carrying some cloud shadows and wind traces, and fell on the ground, like a nightmare that couldn't see clearly or read clearly. Aileen couldn't sleep, curled up on the sofa, sat with her knees hugged, didn't look at the moon, only looked at the shadow on the ground, as if she wanted to judge good or bad from the whirling and swaying.She knew that he would escape, and she believed that he had the ability.However, how to escape and in what direction to escape?She had no idea. The victory of the Anti-Japanese War brought joy to the whole country, and she was also very happy, walking arm in arm with Yanying on the street, smiling happily with the flow of people.Once upon a time in Hong Kong, when the war ended, when they narrowly escaped death, the first thing they thought about was going to the street to buy ice cream; they still feel the same way now, and they are particularly keen on shopping, which seems to be the best way to celebrate.Those railings along the street used to be pictures of big stars, such as Zhou Xuan, Li Lihua, and Zhou Manhua, smiling tirelessly at the passers-by on the street, and people called them "poster girls"; but now they all changed to Chiang Kai-shek's standards According to the photo, neat, high-spirited, unsmiling, Yan Ying bit Ai Ling's ear and said: "Look, the poster man!" Ai Ling immediately laughed loudly, admiring Yan Ying's wit and boldness. However, at this time, she couldn't laugh anymore. She finally knew that the victory of the Anti-Japanese War was different for her, and it was not all something to celebrate. I used to be with him, although I liked it, but I also felt a faint fear in the vastness, every moment was like parting, I just felt that it was not long.After all, they always get together less and leave more, and every breakup seems like the last time-this time is the most similar, and this is probably the last time.Of course she didn't want him to go to Japan, and if he did, they probably would never see each other again.But where did she want him to go? She finally decided to test the word.She is a prophet who sits in a crystal ball and sees the future, but because of Hu Lancheng, her care is chaotic and she has no self-confidence. The measurement is "facing east". The next day Qingyun and her husband Shen Fenglin came to meet Sixth Uncle, and when they heard the result of the word test, they were all silent for a while.In the past, when people sat in the dusk, they would feel sad for no reason, but now the tragedy really came, but it was just a matter of indifference. It was still Qingyun's husband who said: Then go hide at my sister's house, her house is in Dongguan.Hu Lancheng had nothing to do, and said, "That's fine."So it was decided.In fact, he didn't have much trust in strangers, but he wanted to leave anyway, so it didn't matter where he went.Since Aileen specially tested the word for him, and reported that the result of the test was "East", then he followed her wish and headed east. Later, he and Fenglin went to stay at his sister's house in Gaobu, Shaoxing for a few days. After all, they couldn't get used to living there, so they transferred to Zhuji and joined their middle school classmate Si Songde.The Si family took him to hide in Tibet, but still felt unsafe. At this time, the national government promulgated the "Bill of Dealing with Traitors", and he was also on the list.He also heard that Zhou Fohai was under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek and that Chen Gongbo attempted suicide by shooting himself in Japan.The members of the Si family were probably also afraid of being involved, so they asked the young lady Fan Xiumei to send him to Xiumei's natal family in Wenzhou to hide. Fan Xiumei is two years older than Hu Lancheng. She used to be the girl of the old lady of the Si family and was good at serving people. Later, she took over the house and had a daughter with the master of the Si family.A few years later, the master died, and she became a widow and worked in a silkworm farm.At this time, they were walking thousands of miles with Hu Lan, one was Jiu Kuang, a resentful woman, and the other was a passionate prodigal son. He didn't forget to write, he was in the remote mountains and wild places of Wenzhou, and slowly wrote "Wuhan Ji" and later "Mountain and River Years" one section a day.