Chapter 17 Chapter Sixteen "Poor parents in the world"

Back then, after Su Fengqi, a little beggar, was taken in by the Gospel Church, his situation changed radically, and he went to heaven in one step.But Ye Chubo was always in his heart, but he didn't dare to mention it.After a while, until he became Zha Zhishan's adopted son, he didn't talk about that little friend and attracted the pastor's attention.After several months of inquiring, I learned that Ye Chubo also got rid of his life as a beggar and was taken in by a poor school teacher near Fenyang County, and later became the school teacher's son-in-law.After many years, he also became a poor tutor.His adoptive father and wife passed away successively, leaving him to live with his only daughter Yuhan.Yuhan was born in the second year of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty. Because she lived in poverty since she was a child, she is not tall, has a thin body, and has a pale complexion. In addition, she has an introverted personality and a taciturn personality.This girl is precocious, sensible, and takes care of housework inside and out. She is diligent and capable, and takes good care of her father who has been ill for a long time. She is also smart, studious, and good at writing.

Su Fengqi is very emotional, and traveled hundreds of miles to visit Ye Chubo several times from the Gospel Church.Before going to England with Zha Zhishan in 1892, he made a special trip to Fenyang to bid farewell to Ye Chubo and his adoptive father's family;Every time Su Fengqi went back to China and went to Shanxi, he always went to see Ye Chubo and gave some money and other things.In 1910, Su Fengqi rushed back to China because his wife was about to give birth. When he went to visit Ye Chubo, it happened that Ye’s wife died after giving birth to a daughter. Panting, running a fever, and crying.Ye Chubo was poor and sick, desperate and didn't know what to do.Su Fengqi hurriedly paid for it, comforted her with warm words, and ran to Keats Hospital with the child in her arms—it was a small missionary hospital nearby.

"Boy or girl?" The doctor, a Chinese in his mid-fifties, hastily stuffed a stethoscope into his ear. "Girl, girl," Su Fengqi was sweating profusely. "How big is it?" "Two days, oh no, three days..." The doctor couldn't say for sure how many days. "What's the name?" The doctor looked at the baby. "Ye, Ye Yuhan!" The doctor suddenly thought of such a name. "Who are you to the child?" The doctor looked at Su Fengqi from above the presbyopic lenses. "I'm... yes, I'm her father!" "What's your name?"

"Miangui, my surname is Su." "Surname Su? You are her father, why is her surname Ye?" "Could you be less verbose!" The doctor stood up and slapped the table. "Oh, don't be angry, don't be angry!" The doctor hurriedly said, "May I ask, are you Mr. Su Fengqisu?" "you know me?" "I guessed it from your style—there are hundreds of miles around, who doesn't know you?" The doctor clasped his fists and said repeatedly, "You, you, your reputation is well-deserved, and your momentum is like a rainbow!"

"Okay, okay, see a doctor for the child." The doctor actually knew Ye Chubo's family and had treated them.He sighed that the child was only weak and not seriously ill; he was present when the child's mother died, but could not recover, and so on. Su Fengqi was also very sad when she heard it. Ye Chubo was still sick.Two days later, Su Fengqi left a sum of money for him to extend the doctor to buy medicine, and then returned to Taigu with the baby girl; two months later, his own son Su Guanlan was born, and the two cradles were placed side by side.It was another two months before he left for England.He instructed: When Ye Chubo recovers or basically recovers, and is able to take care of the baby, then consider sending Yuhan back.

However, Ye Chubo has been ill since then, but the illness is mild and sometimes severe; every year, his daughter is sent back to live with him for a short time, or three to five days, or ten days and a half months, and then returns to Su Zhai in Taigu.Su Fengqi's wife, An Shi, is kind by nature and regards Yuhan as her own daughter; the little girl calls her "Mom" and Su Fengqi "Papa". When Su Fengqi returned to China to visit relatives in 1917, when he was passing through Taiyuan, he heard that Ye Chubo was critically ill, so he had an ominous premonition, so he sent people to Taigu to pick up Guanlan and Yuhan, while he went directly to Fenyang.Ye Chubo on the sickbed stared at his old friend intently, and held Su Fengqi's hand tightly; his lips were trembling and tears were streaming, but he was speechless.Su Fengqi stroked his old friend's forehead and cheek with the other hand, with tears in his eyes, he said repeatedly: "I know what you are going to say. Don't worry, don't worry, I will definitely treat Hanzi as my daughter! You too It is very clear that after so many years, our husband and wife really regard Hanzi as our own daughter."

Ye Chubo was so angry that he gradually let go of his clenched hands, but he still couldn't take his eyes off... Su Fengqi looked at her old friend: "Hanzi is smart and sensible, I will let her read as many books as possible, middle school, university, study abroad, as much as she can read!" Ye Chubo showed a gratified attitude. "There is one more thing, I'll tell you now." Su Fengqi paused slightly, "Hanzi and Guanlan are about the same age, they have been together since they were born, and they get along very well, like brothers and sisters—this makes us The couple are very happy! I want to make a lifelong contract for them, what do you mean?"

Ye Chubo actually revealed a bleak smile, and nodded his head—this expression and movement finally exhausted his remaining life, but seeing him slowly close his eyes... After Ye Yuhan and Su Guanlan, who were both seven years old, came from Taigu, they saw the calm and calm face of the deceased. Since then, Ye Yuhan's lifestyle has not changed in any way.She and her "brother" Guanlan entered the same church primary school at the same time; after the family moved to Taiyuan, she and Guan Lan also went to Taiyuan, and soon entered the same church middle school.From elementary school to middle school, she and her "brother" both showed very good talents, and they were always among the best in performance evaluation.

Su Fengqi is rarely in the country, and rarely has the opportunity to directly care for and take care of Guanlan and Yuhan.After 1924, although Su Fengqi returned to China to settle and work, she mostly stayed in Beijing, Nanjing and Shanghai. She often went abroad and rarely went to Taiyuan, so she still rarely had the opportunity to directly care for Guanlan, Yuhan and her daughter Shanshan. .This dragged on until 1927, when Guanlan and Yuhan were about to graduate from high school, and the doctor realized that things were troublesome. The young Su Guanlan and Ye Yuhan were siblings, they were childhood sweethearts, and they were very close. After entering middle school, the two grew older and became estranged from each other.When the two knew that they were originally "unmarried couples", they also understood the meaning of "unmarried couples".Ye Yuhan was delighted about this, but Su Guanlan was completely different.He doesn't love Yuhan.He is willing and only willing that Yuhan is his sister, and he is unwilling and unable to accept her as his wife.He admitted that Ye Yuhan was gentle, kind, pure, good-looking, and she was outstanding in her studies - but all of these together could not form... love.

Ye Yuhan has been deeply in love with Su Guanlan since she first learned about human affairs.In the last two years of middle school, she had already noticed that Su Guanlan was becoming increasingly indifferent and alienated towards her, and even ignored her altogether when her graduation was approaching.She was in great pain, and felt as if her heart was being squeezed into the deep pool by an invisible giant claw!The pressure got deeper and deeper, and the water pressure was getting bigger and bigger, which was almost unbearable; the surrounding was freezing cold, and it was pitch black, which made her unable to breathe...

Ye Yuhan knows that this is what people often call "broken love".Around her life, among her female companions, there are many such things; she has seen with her own eyes that some people are in deep pain because of it, some people are sick because of it, and some people even commit suicide because of it.She used these warnings to herself and insisted on being calm and self-possessed.She did not change her original intention, tried her best to hide the pain in her heart, and did not take the initiative to approach Su Guanlan.She became more reticent, more diligent in her studies, and always maintained the best grades—even when Su Guanlan ignored her completely.She had a premonition: she and Su Guanlan were a destined couple.No matter how many ups and downs in fate, they will come together and live together in the end.She belongs to Guanlan, and Guanlan also belongs to her, no one can do without anyone!She wants to be an outstanding woman forever, so that she can be worthy of her husband in the future, and even be able to help her husband... yes, "husband". Since entering middle school, Ye Yuhan has never mentioned to anyone that she and Su Guanlan are "fiancée couples"; after their relationship has reached a "deadlock", Ye Yuhan has remained normal as always.In short, nothing seemed to have happened in front of outsiders, so it didn't attract anyone's attention... At the beginning of 1927, when the two children were about to graduate, Su Fengqi made a special trip to visit the British principal of the church middle school in Taiyuan.During the conversation, the principal was stunned: "What, Su Guanlan and Ye Yuhan are fiancée? We don't know at all, and we didn't see it at all!" "So, what do you see?" Su Fengqi frowned. "It's almost as if they don't know each other!" Su Fengqi lit a cigar, got up silently, and paced back and forth.He finally thought that Chalude's "gratitude" might be needed now. Qilu University has many missionaries and many professors; the church here is very active, especially the coursework is heavy, and the school rules are extremely strict... and the biggest advantage is undoubtedly that Chalude is the principal there! Su Guanlan, who had already been admitted to Tsinghua University, was forcibly changed into the Chemistry Department of Qilu University in this way; similarly, Ye Yuhan, who had been admitted to Peking Union Medical College, was also forced into Qilu University School of Medicine in the same way. "Xiehe" comes from "The Book of Books·Yao Dian" "The people are bright, and the nations are in harmony", which means harmony and harmony-the church forces in Britain and the United States especially like this word because it not only expresses the teachings and wishes of Christianity, but also permeates the Christianity. Chinese traditional scent.In 1906, the thirty-second year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, five Protestant churches in the United Kingdom and the United States and the London Medical Association jointly established the "Union Medical School" in Beijing.In 1915, it was handed over to the Rockefeller Foundation of the United States and changed to the eight-year "Concord Medical University" to train senior medical talents; the first three years were preparatory courses, and the Department of Biology of Yenching University was set up.And Yanda President Leighton Stuart is Su Fengqi's old friend, which is enough to make people feel at ease.Later, I thought about it, wouldn’t it be more reassuring to put it with Chalude, not to mention that Qilu University has both the Department of Chemistry and the School of Medicine, so Guanlan and Yuhan can be placed there! This happened in 1927, the autumn of the sixteenth year of the Republic of China.For China, it was an "eventful autumn", and there was no peace for a long time afterwards.During the Jinan Incident in 1928, apart from the driver, the passengers in the Ford sedan flying the British and American flags across the "line of fire" to venture to Beijing were Chalude, Su Guanlan and Ye Yuhan.Su Guanlan "borrowed" at St. John's University in Shanghai, and Ye Yuhan "borrowed" at the Biology Department of Yenching University in Peking.After the war, Ye Yuhan returned to Qilu University at the same time that Peking Union Medical College was renamed "Union Medical College" in August 1929, the eighteenth year of the Republic of China. As early as 1916, the three classes of Peking Union Medical College were merged into Jinan and became the predecessor of Qi University’s medical school; after that, in 1923, Peking Union Medical College for Women’s Medical College was also merged into Qi University’s preparatory department—in short , Ye Yuhan has a kind of fate with "Xiehe". It was during the "borrowing" period at Yenching University that Ye Yuhan, who was once hopeless, wrote a letter to the "Bug Monastery".Before getting a reply, she ended her "borrowing" career and set off to return to Jinan.Soon, Dr. Su Fengqi also went deep into the hinterland of Xiangshan Mountain by accident, discovered and visited the mysterious nunnery by accident. The doctor suddenly lost interest in the future Xiangshan Observatory!And since then, the interest has never been revived.Accompanied by Li Zhuoyu, he hurried back to Beiping and then to Jinan; as usual, he lived in the "Xinghua Village" of Qi University.He asked Chalud and Bromi about all his son's experiences and performance since he entered Qilu University, and he was shocked.So, Su Guanlan was called to "Xinghua Village" just after returning to Qishi... From ancient Babylon to ancient Greece, people imagined the twinkling stars in the sky as patterns, and named them "constellations" after characters and animals in mythology, and derived "astrology" from this.There are twelve constellations distributed along the zodiac.The sun moves along the zodiac once a year and passes through these constellations in turn, just like the sun has twelve "movements", which are called "zodiac signs".Astrology believes that: which "house" the sun was in when a person was born, the person belongs to this constellation, and his fate is closely related to this constellation.And Su Fengqi's "birthday horoscope" is in Leo.All constellations have "ruling planets", but the "ruling" of Leo is not the planet but the sun!The image of Leo is a male foot. Leo people are majestic, generous, passionate, talented, full of vitality, kind and arrogant, dignified and generous, and because of these advantages, they rise to high positions - Su Fengqi believes that it is a symbol of his personality. character and conduct.He is a male lion, he has never liked others to violate his will, he is not even willing for the evolution of celestial phenomena to go against his calculations and prophecies... However, today, he was unable to subdue his nineteen-year-old son, which shocked him and made him cry. anger! That "sword-tattling" conversation lasted late into the night.It was a long time after Su Guanlan left exhaustedly that Su Fengqi's face relaxed a little, and the pale blue complexion gradually became normal.He was silent, thinking, sipping coffee and smoking a cigar, filling the room with smoke.Chalude had to pull back all the purple curtains to let the outside air flow in; but the pastor never said a word, only getting up or sitting down occasionally, and kept tidying up the things on the desk and in the bookcase. "Chalude," Su Fengqi looked at the dark corner of the room and said softly, "According to you, what should I do?" "In my opinion, these things about young people, such as sex, love, marriage, family life, etc., unless they take the initiative to talk about it, the older generation doesn't need to ask, nor should they ask." Any one of them has a "other half" arranged by God, and they must have different spiritual concepts and lifestyles from ours..." "You're an American point of view." "I'm an American!" Chaud smiled. "Then what are you doing in China?" The doctor glanced at the pastor. "Come and preach, I am a pastor." "Then you should be a good pastor, good at preaching, preaching, doing mass, marking the sacrament and crossing-why be a university president?" "This is a church school..." "Do you have to be the principal of a missionary school?" Su Fengqi narrowed her eyes slightly. Chalude fell silent, avoiding the other party's gaze. "You are a 'China hand', you should have heard the Chinese saying: Poor parents all over the world." Su Fengqi sighed, "I sent two children to Qi University and entrusted them to you..." "I like Guanlan and Yuhan very much." Chalude shook his head, his expression was melancholy, and his tone was sincere, "However, the school and teachers really don't care about this kind of thing. The Chinese say it well, 'You can't make a husband and wife if you tie them together' Well, it's up to them to develop a relationship. You say you don't know what a relationship is, and you haven't even seen the bride's face before you get married—that's you, you can't expect that from others, not even from me. Look, I'm not Have you never been married? What I need is true love..." Su Fengqi stared at the pastor with a strange expression. "As for Guanlan and Yuhan, I will do my best." The pastor continued, "However, many things depend on time..." "How long, ten years?" "This... is during your stay in Qi University, how about it?" "I'll stay two days at most." "I think that's enough." The wall clock rang.The two listened: one time, two times, three times, four times—strange, why didn't the two of them hear the bell before? "It's almost dawn, I have to go to sleep for a while." Su Fengqi got up and said, "Oh, I'll say it again: for the school board, I'll go find Kong Xiangxi; Get out, you don’t want to be the dean anymore, the full-time principal is fine—but the most difficult thing to deal with is the principal! I can only say that I will do my best, just like you do your best for my affairs. " Chalud could understand the other party's words.One of the purposes of Su Fengqi's visit to Jinan this time was to tell him these words.The Nanjing government is "making every effort to govern", "recovering sovereignty", and "rectifying education".According to the new regulations, more than two-thirds of the members of the university board of directors must be Chinese; a comprehensive university must be composed of more than three colleges, but no seminary: the university's teachers, equipment, collections, subjects, buildings and campus divisions Etc. must go through a comprehensive assessment, and those who pass the examination can be allowed to register, etc. - all of these are easy to deal with, but the only thing that frustrates Chalude is that the president of the university cannot be held by a foreigner! "Oh, one more thing." Su Fengqi walked to the door of the study and turned around, "You are ten years younger than me, so you should be forty-one." "what do you mean……" "I mean, it's time for you to get married." "I haven't thought about that yet." "Why?" The doctor looked at the pastor. "As you said just now, the reason for not getting married is because of the need for 'true love'—is it?" "Yes." "Chalude," Su Fengqi glanced at the other party, "Do you know what nickname you have?" "This, this..." "Many people call you 'Flower Monk' behind your back." "Where, where!" Even under the candlelight, the pastor could be seen blushing, "How could such a thing..." "No? It's fine if you don't!"