Chapter 7 East River West

Yu Shouye did not expect that his good mood would not last long. The Chinese Volunteers and the Korean People's Army fought side by side in North Korea and brought the Americans to the negotiating table.The Korean War is over, his expectations have come to nothing, the arrogant Americans did not make much movement, the sacred Yalu River is still flowing, the Americans not only did not take a step across the Yalu River, but were driven beyond the 38th parallel in North Korea South. When his son Yu Dingshan was three years old, the volunteer army returned triumphantly.With the victory of the Korean War coming to an end, the entire Chinese people devoted themselves to the movement of building a new China.

Xiao Lian was mobilized to work at that time.Xiao Lian worked as an ordinary female worker in a knitting factory.With her ingenuity and skill in painting, she soon became a technician in the design room.Many patterns of cotton and wool fabrics come from Xiao Lian's hands - the blooming peonies are noble and graceful, and the blooming wintersweet is pure and clean. Xiao Lian has found her own happiness in her work. Throughout the day, Xiao Lian was always smiling, and she found a second life in her new life.In the Yixiang Pavilion before, there was always a slight sadness between her brows, but at this moment, all the clouds of sadness disappeared.Every morning, she sends her three-year-old son to the nursery, and then happily rushes to work in the knitting factory.After get off work, she picked up her son and went straight home. She had to cook a table of meals and wait for Yu Shouye who also came back from get off work.

Yu Shouye is still a teacher. He not only teaches mathematics and Chinese, but also serves as a class teacher.He seems to have adapted to the transition from a lieutenant in the secret service department to a teacher.Now, he often comes home with chalk on his face, Xiao Lian blames him for his carelessness, and twists a towel to wipe his face.Xiao Lian smiled and said, "Look at you, you look like a teacher, and the chalk foam has been brought home." He didn't say anything, but still felt the warmth and beauty of life.He bent down, hugged his son in his arms, and teased the child, and through the child's small face, he felt the child's innocence and happiness.Sometimes, he looked over the top of his son's head and looked at the busy Xiao Lian. Xiao Lian was still so young and beautiful, and after giving birth, she revealed a kind of mature charm.Looking at everything in front of him, he was a little distracted, and then thought: What would life be like if he was still a member of the national army?Suddenly, he "suddenly" came to his senses, startled by his thoughts.He thought of the commission buried in the yard again, and he carried the child to the tree in the yard.At this time, the letter of appointment was buried under the tree, like a buried concern.He is grateful for the peaceful and warm life now, he is very content to have Xiaolian and his son.

He still reads the news in the newspaper, and every once in a while, he will see news about the Kuomintang agents, saying how the Kuomintang agents who sabotaged the construction of New China were captured by the public security department again, and so on.When he saw such news, he would always be terrified for several days. At that time, the Kuomintang entrenched in Taiwan was determined to perish to the mainland. It not only dispatched spies to sneak into the mainland in batches, but also launched hidden spies to carry out sabotage activities.As a result, wave after wave of spies came out to operate, and then were arrested.Some were sentenced by the government, and some were executed.

One night, when Yu Shouye was listening to the radio, he dialed a station. A woman with a low voice called on the station. The content was to call the codes of those secret agents and tell them to act immediately, so as not to disappoint the expectations of the national army and so on.He heard it clearly, and immediately changed the channel, his heart beating wildly.He was really afraid of hearing 037, and even more afraid of this kind of remote command.On the one hand, he is satisfied with the peaceful life he has now. At the same time, he still has expectations, hoping that one day, the world will be turned upside down, and he will be the commissioner of the major general at that time.However, deep down, he didn't want to risk himself.He understands that jumping out at this time is equivalent to hitting a stone with a pebble, and he will be crushed to pieces.At this time, even if he jumped out and turned Lucheng upside down, it would not solve the practical problem. China is so big and there are so many cities like Lucheng, how can he change the reality.The hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops fled to Taiwan in the end.Yu Shouye wisely realized that with some hidden spies, it was impossible to make a noise with bare hands, and even the Americans were helpless.He acknowledged this reality.

During that time, his heart was not easy, he was afraid that someone would contact him suddenly, just like those two mysterious letters back then.He was in the open, but the people who contacted him were in the dark. If people wanted to find him, he couldn't stop them at all.Every morning, he was the first to get up, looked inside and outside the house, and found that there was nothing unusual, so he let out a long breath.At school, he worked hard to complete his work and rarely interacted with others. After finishing his work, he returned to his office to prepare lessons and correct students' homework.He tried to bury himself, the deeper the better.He is afraid that others will pay attention to him or pay attention to him. He usually tries his best to speak softly when talking to his colleagues, and when he walks, he bends over, bows his head, and walks around the wall, like a mouse that is afraid of seeing the light.

On Sunday, Xiao Lian hurriedly took the child to the park, and he accompanied her, but his walking posture aroused Xiao Lian's dissatisfaction. Xiao Lian said: You are only in your early thirties, why do you look like a little old man. Realizing how he was bending over, he quickly straightened his back and smiled helplessly.He smiled a little falsely, and also a little pale. Another night, he dialed to that station again, and it was still the deep female voice.As soon as he heard this voice, the pores all over his body exploded, as if the voice came from hell. He was about to change the channel when he heard the woman calling himself: 037 from Lucheng, are you okay? ?Your brother wants to talk to you.Next, it really was my brother's voice, and my brother said: "Brother, I wonder how you are doing?"I'm fine with your sister-in-law, don't worry.You have to take care of yourself and serve the great cause of the party and the country in the future.

The elder brother's voice faded away, and the deep female voice said again: 037, you have heard the greeting from elder brother, you must not disappoint the trust of the party and the state in you, hurry up and act. He sat blankly in the dark.Unexpectedly, he found out about his brother's whereabouts by accident. In the past few years, he has had several guesses about his brother's ending countless times. Before withdrawing in time, they were captured by the People's Liberation Army and suppressed.He also thought that his brother would go to Taiwan, but he didn't expect that his brother's voice was transmitted through the radio waves, everything was so unreal.In this boundless dark night, it is like a dream of nothingness.For a moment, he felt a touch of emotion. Taiwan has not forgotten him, and is still calling him through radio waves.At the same time, he had an unreasonable fear that the radio waves would let many people know that there was a secret agent code-named 037 lurking in Lucheng.After thinking this way, he shivered as if afraid of the cold, fumbled to turn off the radio, and then sat in the dark for a long time, thinking about the past and the present.

The next day, when he opened his eyes and looked at the world in front of him clearly, he had no more thoughts and just wanted to live in peace. In the year when his son Yu Dingshan was in elementary school, the shelling of Kinmen began.The coast of Fujian has become the front line. This is what he knew from the news. It seems that the Communist Party has kicked off the liberation of Taiwan. He began to worry about his brother's family——Taiwan is liberated, what will happen to his brother after he is captured?He didn't know if his brother was still working in the military or if he had become a civilian.In those days, he paid close attention to news from Fujian and Kinmen.

After a while of bombardment, it became a two-day fight, and a single day did not fight.After playing for a while, it stopped.The two sides of the strait were still confronting each other, and his gripped heart finally relaxed. The peaceful days always pass quickly, one batch of students graduated, and another batch came. Xiao Lian still works in the knitting factory, and still draws various patterns. What she draws most now is the golden sunflower, which is so beautiful that people can't open their eyes.At this time, Sunflower was closely integrated with the society. That year was the "Great Leap Forward", and the Chinese people were happily preparing to welcome the arrival of communism.Those sunflowers in full bloom are the perfect expression of the mood of the current Chinese people.