Chapter 44 "Jinan" air crash

At night, the Concord Auditorium is brightly lit.Many foreign envoys to China and their wives came to listen to Lin Huiyin's speech.The topic of her speech today is: "Chinese Palace Architecture Art". Huiyin listed the Forbidden City in his speech, and talked about Beihai and the Temple of Heaven. These places are places that these foreigners have been to but lack of understanding.What attracted them more was Huiyin's fluent English with a London accent and her vivid and vivid narration.They believed that this highly professional speech was fascinating because of Lin Huiyin's outstanding expression.When Huiyin finished his speech, they all came forward to pay tribute and thanks to Huiyin.

Huiyin said goodbye to them in a hurry, and hurried back home.Zhimo failed to come as promised, and she felt a little uneasy. As soon as she entered the house, she asked, "Sicheng, is there any news from Zhimo?" Sicheng said: "There is no news. I have already called Shizhi, and Shizhi is also very anxious. He is worried that something will happen to Zhimo on the way." That night, Huiyin slept restlessly.Waking up in the middle of the night, she could no longer sleep.In Zhimo's message before his departure, the words "life and death are uncertain" swayed in front of his eyes like a prophecy.She also thought of an article by Zhimo——"Want to Fly", where some sentences seemed to be an ominous omen: "...the dark spot in the sky has approached my head, forming a bird-shaped machine Suddenly, along the side of the machine, a ball of light went straight to bet, and there was a loud bang——my fantasy of flying was shattered, and a few piles of broken clouds were added to the blue sky."

Huiyin tried his best to drive away these thoughts, praying silently in his heart.She prayed that the night would pass quickly, and she expected that with the arrival of a new day, Zhimo would appear in front of people smiling and lively as usual. On the morning of November 20th, Beijing's "Morning News" published the "Jinan 19th Special Telegram" in a very prominent position: Jingping goes north and causes trouble crashed in Jinan yesterday The fuselage was completely burned, and the passengers and drivers were burned to death Heavy rain and fog accidentally touch Kaishan

... Putting down the Morning Post, Sicheng immediately drove Huiyin to Hu Shi's home. Hu Shi also saw the "Morning Post". He hurried to the airline company and asked them to send a telegram to Nanjing Airlines to learn about the situation, and then sent a telegram to He Siyuan, the director of the Education Department of Shandong Province, asking him to help with inquiries. When Hu Shi was running outside to inquire, Zhang Xiruo, Jin Yuelin, Sun Dayu, Qian Duansheng, Zhang Weici, Rao Mengkan and others came to Hu Shi's home one by one. For a while, everyone lost their minds and sat around silently, looking at each other without saying a word. The atmosphere in the room was oppressive and dull.Huiyin, who was usually lively and cheerful, was in a daze today. She stared at the phone nervously, and the phone rang repeatedly, all of which were calls from friends asking for news.

Hu Shi is back. He said to everyone with a gloomy expression and a hoarse voice: "Nanjing has confirmed that the accident occurred on the plane 'Jinan' that Zhimo was on..." Huiyin didn't know how he left Hu Shi's house.She only felt her heart convulsed and hurt like a pinprick, her throat was so tight that she couldn't utter a word, and her eyes were as black as ink.She still can't believe it's true. All she knew was that Sicheng was holding her tightly as she walked, and she also heard the voice of selling "extras" on the street: "Poet Xu Zhimo's tragedy..."