Chapter 10 Chapter 9 "Red Student"

The train goes north along the Jinpu Line.The closer she was to Jinan, the more painful Su Guanlan was. In May 1928, the Japanese army invaded and occupied Jinan, creating the "May 3rd Tragedy"; it was not until June 1929 that the situation in Jinan was considered "calm".After a while, Su Guanlan was able to leave and return to Qilu University.What has become of Jinan, which has gone through a catastrophe?He suddenly became timid, not daring to see the dilapidated city of Jinan, so he decided to get off at Baimashan Station in advance.This is a small station in the southern suburbs of Jinan. Su Guanlan is familiar with the mountains and villages in this area; he wants to walk back to school from here, and there is a process of getting used to it gradually.Qilu University is located outside the gate of an ancient city in the south of the city, so walking back to Qilu University from Baima Mountain is considered a "drop in".The train arrives at noon.The young man got out of the car carrying the rattan box, sometimes took a donkey cart and carriage that he came across by chance, and sometimes walked towards Ma'anshan.

There are many springs in Jinan, known as "Spring City", and there is a saying that "every family has spring water, and every household has weeping poplars".Only from these names can also see the beauty of the ancient city.The northern part of Jinan is a plain, while the southern part is mountainous with jagged rocks, dense vegetation, more springs and better scenery.Su Guanlan used to like hiking and hiking, and often inspected the geology of southern Jinan nearby and collected specimens; therefore, he had seen the scenery along the way no less than a hundred times.However, the east and north of Ma'anshan were the frontier positions of the Japanese attack. Many original farmhouses were left with only black ruins, trenches, bunkers, barbed wire fences, bomb craters and new graves abound.

The young man's heart is heavy, and his steps are even heavier.He finally sat down to rest.Looking around, there are mostly undulating hills and mountains within a radius of seven or eight miles; looking north, you can see the dark green trees and the steeple of the bell tower on the campus of Qida University—in order to express their closeness and recognition to Chinese culture, all foreign churches The school buildings are all made into the "Xieshan style" imitating ancient Chinese palaces.Qilu University is no exception.This kind of building is generally not high, and it is easy to be blocked by hills, trees or other houses; only the church maintains the medieval western style, and the bell tower points straight to the blue sky like a sharp sword...

boom! There was a shot.Far apart, the voice is crisp. It was a shot from a rifle, and it came from the general direction of Qi.What happened?Su Guanlan stood up and watched. Bang, bang, bang!The chaotic gunshots sounded continuously, and the distance was getting closer and closer.Some bullets whizzed past Su Guanlan's head.Vague shouts were heard.Su Guanlan climbed up to the high ground and saw military police haunting the hillside jungle from afar... Su Guanlan walked down the hill and continued towards the school.There is a winding dirt road leading to Qilu University under his feet.After a lapse of one year, the dirt road has been obliterated by weeds, trees and trench shelters.Fortunately, Su Guanlan is very familiar with the terrain in this area.After passing through a forest and crossing a small bridge made of two stones, at the turn of the dirt road, a big man rushed over and bumped into Su Guanlan, both of them were thrown off their feet.The rattan box Su Guanlan was carrying fell far away.He hurriedly got up, stood up and looked at it intently, and couldn't help shouting: "Ah, Lu Ning!"

"Oh, it's you, Su Guanlan!" The big man jumped up, holding a pistol tightly in his right hand.He saw clearly that it was Su Guanlan, relieved himself, wiped his sweat with his cuff, panting, and looked back.He is slightly shorter than Su Guanlan, with a solid body, dark skin, thick eyebrows and deep eyes, and a broad face; in front of him, he is wearing a light blue bamboo cloth coat, the lower part of which is pulled up and tied deep in the waist... "Old Lu, what's going on?" "They found me!" "What did you find?" Before Lu Ning could answer, Su Guanlan saw blood oozing from Lu Ning's forehead, "Oh, you were injured!"

"It's okay, it's just a scratch." Lu Ning patted Su Guanlan on the shoulder and pushed him away, "There's no delay, I have to leave right away." "No, Lao Lu," Su Guanlan looked around, listening to the gunshots getting closer and closer, "You can't escape like this!" "Can't run out, let them catch them alive?" "That's not what it means!" Su Guanlan hurriedly took off her shirt, "Take it off quickly, we'll change clothes." Lu Ning blocked Su Guanlan: "Isn't this hurting you?"

"I have my own way, hurry up!" Su Guanlan stuffed the light gray student jacket into Lu Ning's arms, "Hurry up and put it on, there is money in your pocket." As he spoke, he grabbed Lu Ning's coat and peeled it off. While talking, the two exchanged clothes; fortunately, they barely fit.Su Guanlan gave Lu Ning a push, and pointed to the distance: "Quick, go east after crossing the small stone bridge, there is a stream half a mile away, run upstream along the stream!" Bang, bang, bang!The gunshots came closer.Bullets continued to pass by their sides and above their heads, making a hissing scream.The fine branches and leaves fell one after another.The footsteps and shouts of the pursuers could already be heard.

Lu Ning took two steps, then turned around and hugged Su Guanlan fiercely.This hug may only last a fraction of a second, but it is so warm and powerful!With this brief movement, Lu Ning quickly glanced backwards with the two black eyes embedded under his thick eyebrows... Su Guanlan was too familiar with this area.When Lu Ning disappeared at the other side of the small stone bridge, he hid the rattan box in the tall grass under the bridge pier, lifted the lower lapel of his coat, and ran; Break branches, trample down grass.Sure enough, the pursuer came after him, followed closely by gunshots, shouts and footsteps, getting closer and closer.Su Guanlan climbed up a hillside, turned her head and saw 20 to 30 pursuers were pulled away five or six hundred feet away.

Su Guanlan finally climbed to the top of the hill.There are overgrown trees, towering rocks and steep terrain.He chose a relatively flat ground to lie down, and peeked in the grass.A large group of pursuers outflanked them, firing guns non-stop to embolden them.The bullets flew up the hillside, and the crushed stones and vegetation splashed in all directions, hitting the young man's cheeks and body... "That kid has nowhere to escape!" "Go up, go up!" "Catch the living ones and reward the ocean!" The soldiers and police were yelling and yelling, but one by one shrank their heads and tiptoed.Su Guanlan knew that the key was to "catch him alive", and they dared not kill him; besides, they still mistook him for Lu Ning, and they were afraid of that pistol!The encirclement has finally been formed and has become a "network of heaven and earth".But judging from the time that Lu Ning was out of danger, Su Guanlan was relieved.

Lu Ning is a student of Qilu University School of Medicine. He has rough lines, dark skin, steady and kind, but also gives people a sense of mystery.Some people said that he was a "red student" or even "suspected of the Communist Party", but they were just talking, and no one looked into it.As a church school, Qilu University has always advocated "staying away from politics", and Lu Ning does not seem to have any obviously deviant words and deeds in politics.Many students are willing to associate with him and call him "Old Lu".Su Guanlan is one of his good friends.

In April 1928, the Northern Expeditionary Army approached Shandong and outflanked Jinan, preparing to eliminate the forces of Zhang Zongchang's warlord.For the first time in the history of Qilu University, a student movement occurred, with slogans, leaflets, speeches and rallies; The teaching staff and clergy headed by the principal are also uncharacteristically, and no longer discipline the students as strictly as in the past... The student dormitory of Qida University is generally shared by two persons.Su Guanlan has been living in a single room.Someone knocked on his door that night.When he opened the door, it turned out to be Lu Ning in a strange dress: shaved head, wearing a coarse cloth coat, wearing black cloth shoes, covered in dust, bloodshot eyes, sallow and emaciated, like a tired coachman.It was only then that Su Guanlan realized that Lu Ning had indeed become more and more "mysterious": he was nowhere to be seen in the school, but some people said that he was haunting the city in disguise, some said that he was found in the suburbs meeting with the Northern Expeditionary Army, and some people simply said He's an underground communist party, etc. Lu Ning asked Su Guanlan to get him something to eat and sleep here—Su Guanlan arranged everything without saying a word, and at the same time understood what the legends about Lu Ning were all about.He thought, yes, Lu Ning is indeed a bit like the Communist Party. In the middle of the night, Lu Ning woke up from a sound sleep.Su Guanlan set out tea, wine and dishes, and the two chatted while eating.Soon, "get back to business", talking about China, Japan, politics, this war and the situation in Jinan.Lu Ning said that the Japanese regarded Shandong as their sphere of influence, and therefore regarded the entry of the Northern Expeditionary Army into Shandong as an infringement of its interests in China, which was absolutely intolerable, and decided to send two Japanese troops from Qingdao and Tianjin to Jinan.After the Northern Expeditionary Army occupied Jinan, the two sides confronted each other, and the situation was grim.On the morning of May 1, a battalion commander, a major lieutenant, and four company commanders of the Northern Expedition Army were arrested by more than fifty Japanese soldiers and ronin while they were looking for a house at an intersection with several soldiers. Stabbed to death.On the morning of the 2nd, the Japanese army set up defenses in the downtown area of ​​Jinan, prohibiting Chinese soldiers and civilians from going out and killing them frequently... "May 2nd, isn't it today?" Su Guanlan was surprised. "No, it was yesterday. It's three o'clock in the morning on May 3rd." Lu Ning took out his pocket watch and got up and said, "Thank you, Su Guanlan! But, I have to go." Su Guanlan asked, "Where are you going?" Lu Ning looked at Su Guanlan without saying a word. "I'll go too!" Su Guanlan stood up. "where did you go?" "Follow you!" "No!" Lu Ning said decisively, turned around and stepped out of the door, and quickly disappeared into the night.The sound of gunshots from far and near was dense, the sound of guns rumbled, the earth shook, and the raging flames reflected the night sky red... Throughout the day on May 3, the situation deteriorated extremely.There have been British diplomats stationed in Jiji who died of "stray bullets".The United States and the United Kingdom took measures to strengthen the protection of consulates and nationals, while stepping up "mediation" between China and Japan.Dr. Chalude, the president of Qilu University, stood at the gate of the school and strongly protested against the Japanese soldiers who tried to force their way into the campus. He led the staff to post large notices written in Chinese, English, and Japanese, pointing out that the campus of Qilu University belongs to the American and British industries. , the Japanese army was not allowed to trespass or threaten with artillery fire; on the other hand, students were strictly prohibited from going out in the name of the principal's office-all these made Qida a relatively safe "island" amidst the raging wars.Even so, Mr. Su Fengqi, who was far away in Beiping, was still suffering, and asked Chalude to do everything possible to rescue his only son Su Guanlan.Chalude had to step up contact with the US and British consulates and successfully completed the matter.The Japanese army finally allowed the president of Qilu University to drive to Peiping on the morning of May 16th in a special car with four people including the driver and the flags of the United States and Britain. Just before Su Guanlan left, in the middle of the night on May 15th, Lu Ning came again.He was even thinner, extremely emaciated, ragged, with scratches and blood on his arms and face... It can be seen what kind of days and nights he has spent. "Old Lu," Su Guanlan said, "I'm leaving Qi University and Jinan soon..." "I've heard that, I came to see you, and I'm seeing you off." Su Guanlan felt strange, because there were only three or four people who knew that he was about to leave Jinan.Where did Lu Ning "hear" about it?But Su Guanlan didn't ask.Lu Ning didn't explain, he just took out a crumpled cigarette, took two puffs on the candle, and the twinkling red light illuminated his cast-iron face. "Old Lu, when did you start smoking?" "The last time I came to your place on the night of May 2nd?" Lu Ning breathed out the smoke and answered irrelevant questions. "yes." Lu Ning told Su Guanlan that on that day, on the morning of May 2, two Japanese soldiers raped an elementary school teacher named Huang Yonglan.Teacher Huang was in so much pain that he snatched a Japanese soldier's knife and wanted to commit suicide.The Japanese soldiers thought that Teacher Huang wanted to kill them, so they rushed forward like mad dogs. They used bayonets to first goug out two of Teacher Huang's eyes, and then cut off her two breasts... Su Guanlan was dumbfounded as she listened. "It happened in the backyard of a tea stove shop. In order to vent their anger, two beasts chopped off the hands of the female shopkeeper of the tea stove shop!" Lu Ning said, smoking hard, his face livid.He also told Su Guanlan that Cai Gongshi, the special negotiator of the Northern Expedition Army in Shandong, had studied in Japan in his early years and led his troops into Jinan on May 1; on May 3, the Japanese army tied up Cai Gongshi and seventeen of his subordinates and tortured them severely.When Cai Gongshi made a strong protest in Japanese, the Japanese army actually cut off his ears and nose, and then gouged out his tongue and eyes, and then set up machine guns to shoot at them... Throughout the day on May 3, the Japanese burned, killed and looted Jinan, and thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.On the evening of the 9th, a street in Xichenggen was burned to the ground, and all the residents died, and no one survived.On the 8th, the Japanese army blew up the Xinzhuang ammunition depot in the southern suburbs, occupied Zhangzhuang, Xinzhuang and Baimashan stations, attacked the defenders at Dangjiazhuang station, and massacred residents.After the fall of Jinan on the 11th, the Japanese army became even more jealous, throwing a large number of sacks containing Chinese corpses into the Yellow River or transporting them to Qingdao and throwing them into the sea... "At least six or seven thousand people died. Not only did they die a lot, but they also died terribly!" Lu Ning kept smoking, his expression gloomy. Jinan!" "Old Lu, the situation is so dangerous, how did you get here?" Su Guanlan asked with concern. Lu Ning did not answer, but took out his pocket watch to look at it, got up and stretched out his hand to Su Guanlan: "I should go, and you should go too - we will meet later!" The next morning, a Ford car with the flags of the United States and the United Kingdom drove out from Qilu University, passing through billowing gunpowder smoke and ruins, and bumped towards the north.Su Guanlan was in this car.He first went to Beijing, and then transferred to Shanghai St. John's University to "borrow".For more than a year, he has been thinking about Lu Ning, and has been pondering the legends of "red student" and "suspected Communist Party".What he never expected was that the first acquaintance he met when he returned to Jinan would be Lu Ning, and at this time, in this way...