Chapter 2 Xiaolian

Ten days later, Siye's army began to attack the city.The national army guarding the city had a slight contact with the troops in the four fields outside the city, and they were swept away.When the four fields besieged the city, the defenders were ready to retreat.With no generals inside and no reinforcements outside, the national army could only retreat.When the defenders withdrew from Lucheng like a tidal wave, Yu Shouye stood at the gate of the school, feeling empty in his heart.This is the national army he used to serve and follow, but in front of his eyes, it was completely defeated and scattered like birds and beasts.His heart was beating "don't stop", I don't know if it was for himself or for this army.

Later, he saw his elder brother and his sister-in-law, who were sitting in a jeep, surrounded by the retreating army, honking their horns, and walking slowly through the ranks.It may be that brother Yu Shouda specially arranged this farewell.The elder brother was pale, looked towards him, raised his hand imperceptibly, and shook him through the car window.Sitting in the back row of the car was my sister-in-law, who was holding Lu Sheng in her arms. After all, my sister-in-law was a woman with a soft heart, and she had been crying badly for a long time. The car drifted away.This was the last time he really saw his loved ones.He remembered the scene when he escaped from Nanjing City, his nose was sore, he turned his face away, trying to wipe away the tears from his eyes.When I turned around, I saw the principal, who was standing there with his arms folded, looking at the departing team with a dazed expression on his face.The tears in his eyes dried up suddenly.His eyes were dry, he shivered, and then said in a hoarse voice: This wind is really strong.

The headmaster didn't look at him, looked over his head, looked far away and said: It's all over. It was all over, and then the People's Liberation Army team rode into the city on tall horses.Everything was different. Lucheng was liberated. This was a certain day in the spring of 1949. A few days later, the school that had been silent for a long time became lively.A group of red, green and green women were sent to the school. Anyone with a little common sense could tell what kind of women they were at a glance.These are a group of women liberated from Yixiang Pavilion and Xiaohonglou. They are very young and can be regarded as beautiful. They are dressed in gold and silver, and the fragrance of makeup and powder permeates the whole school.

He easily saw Xiao Lian among the women.No matter where Xiao Lian stands, she looks outstanding, her hair has been permed, curled up softly, her complexion is a little pale, and she looks sickly.His expression was melancholy, but there was a kind of disdain, that kind of well-informed arrogance.Xiao Lian also saw him, wearing a long gown, dressed like a teacher, her eyes were a little surprised, and soon returned to the previous indifferent expression. At the beginning, when he met Xiaolian, he was attracted by her energy.Xiaolian is a girl from Yixiang Pavilion. It was a year ago that he met Xiaolian for the first time.He has a friend in the business community in Lucheng, surnamed Li, known as Boss Li, who does some business related to arms, such as "red medicine", "smoke soil" and ammunition.Boss Li took him to Yixiang Pavilion once.Before that, he knew that there were large and small "Red Mansions" and Yixiang Pavilion in Lucheng, but he had never been there.

It was that time that he met this girl Xiaolian.It may also be that Xiaolian's melancholy made him very curious. After approaching Xiaolian, he discovered that Xiaolian is a girl with taste, who can play and sing, play, play, play, play, play, play, play, play, play, play, play, chess, calligraphy, calligraphy and painting.There are two types of girls in Yixiang Pavilion, one is for laughing but also for prostitution; the other is for only laughing but not for prostitution.Xiao Lian belongs to the latter.Every time she receives guests, she leads them into a room where there are books and paintings, and the fragrance of ink wafts faintly.The newly brewed tea is sipped by the guests with gusto. If the guests have no other requirements, Xiao Lian will play the piano and play the strings, and sing a song for the guests at a leisurely pace.If the guest wanted to talk, Xiao Lian would fetch the chess pieces and chat with them while playing chess.The voice is warm and soft, like gossamer, and its natural melancholy temperament is even more charming.Only that time, Yu Shouye was deeply attracted by Xiao Lian.From now on, without the company of his friends, he went to Yixiang Pavilion by himself, and asked for Xiaolian at the roll call.Whenever Xiaolian has guests, he waits aside; if he can't wait in time, he will come again next time.

After a long time, he got to know Xiao Lian.Xiao Lian is from a village in the south of the Yangtze River. Her father was an official and later went into business. After the Japanese came, a batch of goods were intercepted by the Japanese during the chaos.From then on, the family fortune fell, and a fire broke out in his heart, and he died in a foreign land.Her mother went to look for her father, but there was no more news. The helpless Xiao Lian came to Lucheng to visit her relatives, but she couldn't find her relatives, so she went to Yixiang Pavilion to pick up customers. Every time Yu Shouye came, he changed into casual clothes.The national army is also disciplined, and they are not allowed to enter and leave the Fengyue place casually. He is also a member of the secret service department, and his superiors usually have strict requirements on these staff officers.Discipline is discipline, but Xiaolian can't stop her temptation.He came again and again, meeting Xiaolian secretly, even if he only had a cup of tea, took a few glances at Xiaolian, and then left in a hurry, he was satisfied.

Xiao Lian is a considerate girl, she only calls him "Boss Yu" every time she comes here, and she doesn't ask more when he doesn't say anything in detail, but their similar accents still keep the slightest nostalgia between them.After a long time, the two of them had a tacit feeling. After a pot of tea and a song, they began to chat in their hometown dialect, talking about childhood memories. After talking a lot, they discovered that each other There are many similarities in my childhood.One side of water and soil, one side of people, even the childhood games are similar, a happy man and woman, as if they have returned to their innocent childhood.Looking at Xiao Lian who was smiling like a peach blossom in front of her, a flame ignited instantly.A year ago, his elder brother and sister-in-law were planning a marriage for him. At the age of 26, he was full of vigor, and he only thought about the life and death of soldiers, and the constant deployment of troops also made him less likely to talk about marriage. thought.And Xiaolian in front of him, like a grain of charcoal, ignited the dry wood in his heart.

In those days, whenever he was free, he would come to see Xiaolian. No matter day or night, Xiaolian would always smile knowingly when she saw him.Then, he got up to make tea and play the piano, all the cloudy, sunny, rainy and snowy things in his heart disappeared, clean and refreshing.He looked at her quietly. Occasionally, the eyes of the two of them would meet, and she blushed, and hurriedly lowered her head and said, "Boss Yu, drink tea." Once, he couldn't help but grabbed her hand.She tried to pull it back coyly at first, but he held it firmly, so she stopped struggling and let him hold it.After a long time, and another long time, they started talking, but they still held hands.That time, when she sent him out, she suddenly said behind him: Mr. Yu, among these guests, you are the best.

He turned his head once, and saw something bright in her eyes, which disappeared in a flash.This sentence made him ponder in his heart for a long time.When we met again, he smiled and asked her: What's wrong with me?She blushed, but did not answer his words. At that moment, he had the idea of ​​marrying Xiaolian.Once, he told his elder brother and sister-in-law that when his elder brother and sister-in-law knew that Xiao Lian was a girl from Yixiang Pavilion, the sister-in-law didn't say anything, and the elder brother kept a cold face and said in a drawn-out voice: Such a girl... The elder brother didn't say the second half of the sentence, but he understood the meaning of the second half of the elder brother's sentence, and his heart was half cold.In this world, his parents are gone, only his brother and sister-in-law are his relatives, and he doesn't want to let them down.

Later, he went to look for Xiaolian, but he didn't have the courage to talk to her about marriage. Later, when the People's Liberation Army approached the city, they could not be stopped by relying on the defenders, and the defenders had no intention of stopping them. As soon as the People's Liberation Army arrived, they were ready to flee.At that time, he hadn't accepted this special appointment, and when he thought of leaving, he thought of Xiao Lian, and his heart felt empty for a moment.In those few days, he walked around Yixiang Pavilion like a headless chicken, and he couldn't let go of his secret love.

When the colonel of the Central Bureau of Statistics entrusted him with an important task, he immediately thought of Xiaolian, and he didn't even think about the following things later.It should be said that he was glad that he had accepted this mission, so that he could stay in Lucheng in a legitimate way and see Xiaolian.He accepted this mission with a happy heart. At that time, he didn't realize what the future destiny meant, and what did the code name 037 mean to him?