Chapter 22 Chapter Twenty-One

Susanna came to Jinan from Nanjing.The little girl had just turned ten years old. After Su Fengqi returned to China, she had no time to take care of her daughter, so she was fostered by relatives in Taiyuan.In recent years, Su Fengqi's various plans in Beiping and North China have not made any progress, but he is still a "professor hired by the Ministry" and has positions in the National Observatory, Academia Sinica, and Purple Mountain Observatory. He is also a professor at Central University and several other universities. , then "take it at ease" and live in Nanjing.At this time, he also had the need for family affection, and brought his daughter Shanshan to Nanjing.Su Fengqi's mansion at the foot of Zijin Mountain is a small two-story building surrounded by bamboo fences and gardens. It has many rooms and employs servants, cooks and drivers. It is quite elegant.Shanshan is studying at a nearby Church of England primary school.As summer is approaching, the doctor will preside over the annual recruitment and dispatch of international students as usual. The committee and office are located in the Academia Sinica on Albert Road in the French Concession in Shanghai. It is inconvenient to bring her youngest daughter with her; Tanggu inspected the newly built Bohai Sea Tide Observation Station, and had to go to the south of the economy. The doctor asked Li Zhuoyu to take Shanshan to her brother at Qilu University.Children should walk around from an early age to broaden their horizons and increase their knowledge.

Li Zhuoyu took Shanshan to Jinan by train.In Qida, there were few people, and the gate of Xinghua Village was closed.After inquiring, I found out that at the turn of spring and summer, students had a few days off, and the students either went home or went to Qingdao and Mount Tai with groups organized by the school. Even Su Guanlan, who hadn't left the school for many years, also went to Mount Tai.Found the medical school, unfortunately, Ye Yuhan was engaged in a continuous experiment and could not go out of the house.I went to the office building again. Fortunately, I met Dr. Miller, the vice provost.He said that someone from the New York Christian Educational Foundation has come - the foundation is the "ancestor" and "God of Wealth" of Qida University, and controls the annual grants to Qida University in the form of US dollars. Don't neglect it!Principal Chalude took the school's accountant director and dean to pay a visit, and returned to school after lunch.Li Zhuoyu explained that she would take the afternoon train to Tianjin, and Dr. Tomiller handed Shanshan to Principal Chalud.

Miller put Shanshan in kindergarten, where she played, ate, and took naps with the children.At three o'clock in the afternoon, he led the little girl to Xinghua Village.The garden gate was open, but the garden and the living room downstairs were empty; it seemed that the headmaster was tired and was resting upstairs. "What should I do?" Miller hesitated, "I'll go and wake up the principal." "Don't, sir," said the little girl, "the teacher told us that it is very rude to disturb other people's sleep." "Good boy, you are really sensible." Miller smiled, "But what should I do, there are still many things in the Academic Affairs Office..."

"You go, sir," said the little girl, "I'll play here by myself and read the illustrated magazines. Uncle Cha will not fall asleep." "That's good!" Dr. Miller exhorted a few words and left in a hurry.Suzanne looked at the illustrated magazine for a while, and heard footsteps in the garden.Looking up, a yellow-haired and green-eyed monk hurriedly walked into the hall with his head covered in sweat. While looking around, he took out something like a white paper from his pocket... "Who are you?" Shanshan looked up at the other party, "Who are you looking for?"

"Oh, little girl, your English is really good, really good!" The monk was startled, and then he noticed a child in front of him, and smiled.He doesn't speak English, but speaks an authentic "Mandarin", "What's your name, little girl?" "What about you?" Suzanne blinked and switched to Chinese, "What's your name?" "I'm from the chapel. Brother Keith." "Are you looking for Uncle Cha?" "Uncle Chuck?" "It's President Chalude, Pastor Chalude, Dr. Chalude, Professor Chalude. I call him Uncle Chalude."

"This, this..." Keith couldn't recover for a while. "Come back later! Uncle Cha is very tired and still resting." The little girl was a little impatient, "You should know that it is very impolite to prevent others from sleeping." As she spoke, she sat down again and grabbed the exquisite English pictorial. The picture showed the arid African grasslands, as well as hippos, rhinos, baboons, antelopes, elephants and giraffes... "Well, good boy," the visitor pondered for a moment, smiling all over his face, "after a while the headmaster wakes up, and you can say that Brother Keith from the chapel has been here..."

"Okay. You can go." Shanshan nodded, "I'll tell Uncle Cha later that Brother Keith from the chapel has been here." "No, you can't just say that I have been here..." "What else?" "I sent this to the principal on a special trip. It is very important, very important, very very important!" Keith shook the white paper-like thing in his hand, chose a conspicuous place on the tea table, and pressed it on a glass Next, he said with an emphatic tone, "Be sure to tell Uncle Cha, don't forget, never, never!" "Okay." The little girl cast a glance, "I'll tell Uncle Cha, that Brother Keith sent a very, very important letter."

"Yes! Little girl, you are so smart." "This man is really annoying..." Shanshan looked at the back of Brother Keith, and poked her mouth.After a while, she was no longer interested in hippos, rhinos, baboons, antelopes, elephants, and giraffes. She put aside the album and looked around the living room.The "very, very important letter" under the glass on the coffee table entered her field of vision again.The little girl took a closer look, ho, the white envelope is very thick and bulging.Suzanne became curious: what "very, very important letter" made Brother Keith so mysterious!After a closer look, the white envelope was written in beautiful handwriting in purple ink: Jinan, Shandong Provincial First Normal School, Mr. Zhu Yutong, please pass it on to Mr. Su Guanlan.The words below are: Nanjing, Jinling University, Ding Jian.

"Isn't Su Guanlan my brother? Why did the letter to my brother have to be sent to Mr. Zhu in the First Normal School first, and then forwarded to him?" A series of question marks popped up in Suzanna's mind: "Why is this letter sent to me again?" Came to Xinghua Village? Why did Brother Keith do this?" Of course, the little girl's little brain can't solve these problems.She simply pulled the letter out from under the glass.The letter was still sealed and had not been opened.Shanshan carefully opened the envelope and pulled out a pile of bright letter paper; the paper was of good quality and slightly pink.As the letter paper was spread out, a scent of fragrance wafted out; and then, lines of smooth and beautiful characters came into her wide-open eyes, and those words were still written in purple ink——

"Guan Lan, my dear brother..." The little girl began to read, even aloud.After all, the handwriting was a bit scribbled, and it was very difficult for Shanshan to read.Although she stuttered, she read carefully, as if reading a text, and she didn't even hear the footsteps in the garden again. "Tuk-tuk" knocked on the door several times, and she casually answered "Come in".The living room door was pushed open.As the west slanting sun poured in, a young woman appeared at the door.She is not tall, pale and thin, wearing plain dresses, with a white coat on her elbows, and looks tired.She saw the little girl at a glance, and immediately smiled and shouted: "Shanshan!"

"Sister Hanzi, sister Hanzi!" Su Shanshan yelled repeatedly, threw away the letter paper, and jumped towards her.Ye Yuhan hung the white coat on the railing outside the door, turned around and hugged the little girl.Her heart was beating fast, her breasts were heaving and her cheeks were a little flushed from joy and from running all the way. The two sisters made out for a long time before they let go, and sat side by side on a couch. "Where's the principal?" Ye Yuhan looked around. "Uncle Cha is asleep and hasn't woken up yet." "Oh," Ye Yuhan raised his wrist to look at his watch, "Who brought you here from Nanjing?" "Mr. Li! I heard that Uncle Cha had gone into the city. He handed me over to Mr. Miller and hurried to catch the train, saying he was going to Tanggu." "Yes," Ye Yuhan nodded, "Mr. Li has business there." "Mr. Miller let me stay in the kindergarten for a while and brought me here in the afternoon. He left earlier." "He told me. I'm so happy to hear that you're here! After leaving the laboratory, I ran to Xinghua Village." "Sister Hanzi, you have started to be a doctor and have you treated people?" "This is not a doctor's white coat, but a lab coat." "You also stay in the laboratory at noon?" "Some experiments cannot be interrupted, and have to be done for several days and nights." "Sister Hanzi, your complexion is pale and yellow, as if you are sick." "It's okay, Shanshan." Ye Yuhan suppressed her smile and seemed to be talking to herself, "Actually, all day long, all year round, there's nowhere else to go other than staying in the laboratory..." "Didn't my brother go to Mount Tai? Why didn't you go?" Ye Yuhan glanced at Shanshan, but said nothing. The little girl suddenly remembered that the relationship between her brother and sister Hanzi had not been good, so she said "oh" and kept silent.Her young heart really couldn't figure out why such a good brother, such a good sister, and the two best people couldn't get better?For her, this is a very complicated issue.She asked Dad about it many times.In the little girl's mind, Dad knows everything.He often holds his young daughter in his arms and puts it on his knees. Facing pictorials and cartoon pictures, he tells about piranhas, giant pythons, fire ants and jaguars in the Amazon River Basin, and the ancient temples and pyramids on the banks of the Nile. And the Sphinx, white bears, arctic foxes, walruses and seals in the Bering Strait, krill, penguins and sperm whales in the Antarctic sea, and so on.Dad also took her to Qingdao Observatory, Sheshan Observatory and Xujiahui Observatory, and saw the large observatory under construction in Zijin Mountain surrounded by green forests.Dad has stepped on the telescope operating seat countless times, asked his daughter to put his eyes on the eyepiece, and told her the mysteries of the universe. Dad knows everything, knows everything, understands everything, and can answer any questions.But, strangely, as soon as Shanshan asked her brother why she didn't talk to sister Hanzi, her father's kindness and smile immediately disappeared, and she looked worried.He would frown, his expression would become serious and rigid, and he would sometimes stroke his upper lip or chin beard; he would be silent for a long time, and after a long time he would sigh softly, and then mutter: "Shanshan, you are still young and ignorant, don't ask..." Dad must not understand either!Otherwise, he should be able to answer this question of his daughter, just like answering the countless questions of children from underground to heaven.Shanshan remembers that twice, her father touched her head and said with great emotion, "Son, don't be like your brother in the future, but listen to what your father says, huh?" Shanshan is a good boy.Therefore, she always nodded repeatedly, blinked her eyes, and replied seriously: "Yes, I will definitely listen to my father's words!" At such moments, the father always looked at his daughter with half-belief.Once, he looked away and smiled wryly, muttering to himself: "Hmph, be obedient, be obedient, and become disobedient when you get older. What's wrong with you now!" "My brother doesn't like sister Hanzi, but I do!" The little girl was puzzled, "I'm a good boy, I'm obedient now, and I'll be obedient when I grow up, but why doesn't dad always believe me?" Suzanne couldn't think of a reason, so she stopped thinking about it.However, at this moment, she suddenly remembered something and asked, "Sister Hanzi, does my brother still have brothers and sisters?" "No." "Then why did a sister write to my brother and call him 'dear dear brother'?" "yes?" "Look," Suzanne looked back, and soon found the letter envelope that had been torn apart. Ye Yuhan took it and glanced at it briefly, then shivered all over as if getting an electric shock.She hurriedly asked, "Shanshan, where did this letter come from? Who opened it?" After listening to Shanshan's explanation, Ye Yuhan nodded and began to read the letter—— "Ah—" Ye Yuhan cried out.Her complexion changed abruptly, from pale to pale, her forehead and cheeks were suddenly covered with cold sweat, and the things she held in her hands trembled due to convulsions.She moaned, propping her temples with one hand, and closed her eyes. "Sister Hanzi, what's the matter with you?" Suzanne's eyes widened and she was at a loss. Ye Yuhan didn't respond.After a while, she opened her eyes again, stood up with difficulty, poured a glass of cold water from the glass bottle, took a sip or two, returned to the sofa, and continued to look down. "Ah, there are still photos!" Shanshan exclaimed. Yes, a photo fell from the thick letter paper.On the screen is a slim, tall girl, student-like, wearing a dark dress, leaning on an ancient tree; the tree is so rough and huge that it looks like three people can barely hug each other. The background is a dense jungle.In contrast, the girl has a fair complexion and a slender figure. If you take a closer look, you can see that her oval face has regular features and a melancholy expression. She has a pair of particularly beautiful eyes and an elegant mouth... "This big sister is so beautiful!" Shanshan shrieked. Ye Yuhan felt a strong dizziness.Her eyes were dark, and she couldn't see anything clearly. Everything in the living room was shaking, spinning, and staggering. The brain and heart felt pain and colic. Thousands of gold stars dangled and danced in the air.She subconsciously clenched the letter into a ball, pressed it on her left chest, buried her head in the bend of the other elbow, her thin back and shoulder blades twitched and trembled violently... "Sister Hanzi, Sister Hanzi!" Suzanne was startled suddenly, she put her arms around Ye Yuhan's waist and shook vigorously, shaking, and shouted, "What's the matter with you, why are you crying?" Ye Yuhan didn't answer, didn't look up, just Sobbing and swallowing bitterly. There was movement upstairs.Someone is coughing, walking and washing.Then, there was a questioning voice, a slightly hoarse voice: "Well, who is here, who is in the hall?" "Uncle Cha, Uncle Cha!" Susannah jumped up and ran towards the stairs. "Oh, it's Shanshan, you're finally here, welcome!" Pastor Chalude, wearing a thin silk pajamas and a pair of straw slippers, walked down the red-carpeted stairs, far away Arms outstretched, "When will it be here, kid?" Ye Yuhan grabbed the letters, envelopes and photos and stuffed them all into her pocket, and hurriedly wiped her cheeks, rubbed her eyes, and stood up. "Hey, Hanzi is here too!" While talking, the priest had already taken the little girl's hand to the living room, grinning, and even clapped his hands, "Welcome, welcome! Hanzi is a rare visitor, so it's rare to come here once. Yes; I even came to Xinghua Village today because of Shanshan." "Uncle Cha, sister Hanzi was crying just now!" the little girl said loudly. "Shanshan, don't talk nonsense!" Ye Yuhan glared at the little girl. "Really?" The pastor looked at Ye Yuhan. "I'm not talking nonsense, I'm not talking nonsense! Sister Hanzi just read a letter written by a big sister to my brother, and she cried!" "Oh?" Chalude had a strange look on his face. "Yes, yes, that's it!" cried the little girl, "that big sister is very beautiful..." "Shanshan!" Ye Yuhan was really angry. The little girl stuck out her tongue in fright, and hid in the priest's arms. "What's going on, Hanzi?" The pastor stared at Ye Yuhan's bluish-white face and red, swollen eyes. "No, it's nothing," Ye Yuhan avoided Chalude's deep and sharp gaze, and covered her forehead, "I, I feel a little uncomfortable today..." The principal thought about it, and reached out to touch Ye Yuhan's forehead with a concerned tone: "Yes, you have a fever and your complexion is very bad. Hanzi, you are such an old man, and you are a medical student and a girl. Children, you should be more careful, but why don’t you learn how to care and take care of yourself? Your father is not around, and you don’t come to me often. As adults, we can’t take care of you all the time, so we have to rely on you!” Ye Yuhan buried her head and looked at the ground. "Also, Shanshan said just now," Chalude mused, "There is a letter, and there are photos..." Susanna hurriedly said, "It's from Brother Keith!" "Really, Brother Keith?" The headmaster looked at the little girl. "Shanshan, don't talk nonsense!" Ye Yuhan glared at the little sister again, and turned to the principal, "Principal, she is still a child, she is not sensible, she must have made a mistake..." "Well, this, this..." The pastor stared at Ye Yuhan intently; after a long time, he nodded thoughtfully, with a concerned tone: "Oh, Hanzi, you, oh, aren't you feeling well? Go see a doctor, go Small hospital." The Affiliated Hospital of Qi University Medical College is generally called "Qilu Hospital". The "small hospital" is a part of Qilu Hospital. It has a separate small courtyard and building, and it is a place where clergy, deans, department heads, professors and other senior staff are treated. "Yes, the small hospital." The headmaster repeated, "Just say I sent you here. Go quickly." Ye Yuhan turned around, before taking a step, she seemed to remember something, and turned to wave to the little girl: "Shanshan, go with my sister." Shanshan looked at Hanzi, then at Principal Zha. "Shanshan just came, let's play with Uncle Cha!" The pastor laughed, "I knew Shanshan was coming, so I bought a lot of candies, snacks and fruits." "Yes, I'm going to play with Uncle Chuck!" Suzanne yelled. Ye Yuhan was helpless, hesitated for a moment, and finally left. Chalude sent him to the steps outside the small building until Ye Yuhan walked out of the gate and disappeared among the green pines and cypresses in the distance; then, he took the child's hand and returned to the living room.Sure enough, he put a lot of fruit snacks on, and then he smiled and asked calmly, "Shanshan, what grade are you in?" "Fourth, fourth grade." The little girl's mouth was full of candy, and she was slurring her words. "At school, did the teacher say that you must not be a bad child, you must be a good child, you must listen to the adults, and you must be honest?" "Yes, yes, old, the teacher said, good children don't lie, be honest, tell the truth, don't tell lies, also, say..." The pastor is very patient.He didn't speak softly until the child finished speaking: "I know, Shanshan is the best child, isn't she?" "Yes, yes, yes." "Then, answer a few questions from Uncle Cha. Remember, you must be honest, don't lie, and say what you see..."