Chapter 105 Operation

On December 24, 1947, Lin Huiyin underwent a nephrectomy.Before the operation, many people came to visit her, such as Jin Yuelin, Zhang Xiruo, Shen Congwen, Mo Zongjiang, Chen Mingda... They learned that a smile and a movement can understand each other.They comforted Huiyin and told Huiyin, but they were all worried: Huiyin's constitution is so weak, can she bear such a major operation? Huiyin seemed very calm, joking with her friends as usual, and asking about various things with concern. She bid farewell to her good friend Fei Weimei who is far away in the United States in a relaxed tone: "...goodbye, dearest Weimei. If you can suddenly break into my room and bring a pot of flowers and a lot of nonsense and laughter. How nice."

Huiyin's operation was successful.It's just that her physical condition was really poor, and the wound could not heal for a long time after the operation, which made the doctor very troubled. The time has entered 1948, and the early spring in Beijing is cold and withered.Commodities are scarce and prices are skyrocketing.Students posted slogans on the wall at the school gate: "Starving to death is a big deal, but studying is a small deal!" . Sicheng was thinking about the work of the Department of Architecture, concerned about the turbulent current situation, and even more worried about Huiyin's health.

Hui, who had just undergone surgery, lacked therapeutic drugs and nourishing food, so Sicheng often drove out of Beijing to purchase in suburban counties hundreds of miles away.When you are lucky, you can buy a chicken at a high price. When you are not lucky, you have to return empty-handed.As a last resort, Sicheng asked Fei Zhengqing and Fei Weimei for help, asking them to send some streptomycin from the United States.At the same time, I hope they can send a box of 500 sheets of typing paper, because buying a piece of typing paper in Beijing costs 10,000 French currency, and a box of typing paper costs half a month's salary.

People's discontent is growing.Huiyin expressed his views on reality in a letter to Fei Weimei: …The stupid mind control of the right and the deliberate manipulation of the mind of the left are enough to make people contemplate and silence for a long time.We are far from the kind of liberalism that your country enjoys, and our economic life means, for those lucky enough to have enough to eat, that a person who is rich one day will be poor the next.My days on the sickbed are even more meaningless when life is all messed up... During Huiyin's hospitalization, Sicheng ran very hard from Tsinghua University to the hospital every day.After the low fever after the operation subsided, Huiyin asked to be discharged from the hospital and returned to her home in Tsinghua Park.

The rooms in the Tsinghua residential area are tall and spacious, but they have no heating.Huiyin is weak and afraid of the cold.The level of indoor temperature is related to Huiyin's health and postoperative recovery.Sicheng built three large stoves about half the height of a person at home. These stoves are difficult to maintain, and they tend to turn off if they are not cleaned up properly.Adding coal and removing cinders are cumbersome and meticulous tasks. Sicheng is afraid that the servants will not take good care of them, so he always does it himself.According to the doctor's advice, he prepared nutritious meals for Huiyin every day, gave Huiyin intramuscular and intravenous injections, and read English newspapers for Huiyin.Every time before going to the department, he always put all kinds of soft cushions around and behind Huiyin, so that Huiyin could lie on the bed more comfortably.

The Spring Festival of 1948 has passed.Huiyin's body recovered slowly, improving day by day.She was able to move around in the room, and began to sort out some poems during the Anti-Japanese War.Lao Jin supported and encouraged her to send these poems out for publication. Lao Jin knew Huiyin too well. When he talked about Huiyin to other friends, he said: "She doesn't need to be pleased, but she must always be busy." Lin Huiyin's poems were published in Jingshi Daily Literary Weekly edited by Yang Zhensheng and Literary Magazine edited by Zhu Guangqian in 1948.