Chapter 57 Chapter Fifty-six Wind and Rain Zijin Mountain

Ye Yuhan went straight to Zijin Mountain after getting off the train. In a mountain depression under Tianbao City, surrounded by green forests and surrounded by bamboo fences, there is a small courtyard shaded by bungalows with white walls and gray tiles.She was originally not tall, with a thin body, and after finally finding this place, she looked even more dusty, exhausted, sallow and emaciated.The servant A Ding didn't know this "village woman", but after hearing her self-introduction, she quickly let her into the living room; she sat down on a bamboo chair, threw a homemade bundle on the floor beside her, and drank A large glass of cold boiled water sent by A Ding...

Supported by a servant, Su Fengqi came out of the back room tremblingly, leaning on a cane. "Father." Ye Yuhan stood up. "Hmm..." There was a sound in the old man's throat. "Dad, I heard that you are sick?" "Can you not be sick!" The professor's voice was low, but he could finally hear what he said. After the war, Su Fengqi moved back to Nanjing with the Institute of Astronomy.But only the "research institute" was moved back, not the observatory; because the observation conditions in Kunming are better than those in Nanjing, all the equipment has been left in Phoenix Mountain.After returning to Nanjing, we had to start a new stove, but there was no funding.Over the years, Su Fengqi has suffered enough from fleeing.Let’s take the bronze armillary sphere cast 500 years ago at the “Qin Tianjian” in Beijing. It was snatched by the Eight-Power Allied Forces in 1900 and was listed as a “trophy” of Germany; after World War I, the Paris Peace Conference decided to return it. In China, it was finally transported back to Beijing in 1920; but in the 22nd year of the Republic of China, North China was in short supply, and the armillary sphere, together with treasures such as Jianyi, Guibiao, and clepsydra, were transported from the south of Beiping to Zijin Mountain. .The Japanese approached Nanjing in the 26th year, and the situation was tense. However, these ancient relics and many modern astronomical instruments could not be moved, and they were destroyed by the Japanese after the fall of Nanjing.After the war, the Zijinshan Observatory was devastated and barren everywhere. It could only be repaired slightly in appearance, and only a few researchers remained in Taiwan.The observatory's most important observation instrument, the 60cm reflecting telescope that Su Fengqi personally purchased and the largest in the Far East, has not been able to be repaired. The observation tasks of the whole station are supported by a 20cm refracting telescope...

During this period, the Academia Sinica selected academicians for the first time in 37 years, and Su Fengqi became an academician.But he was already a member or academician of 19 most authoritative associations, colleges, academies or research institutes in Europe and the United States, such as the Royal Society, St. John's College, the British Academy, and the European Institute, so he was not interested in it.He was interested in observatories and astronomy, in which he saw no hope.Now he is old, with sunken cheeks, thin temple hair, wrinkled skin, and thin and pale face.Probably because I have no time or energy to apply beard wax, even the upturned beard has been pulled down, a bit like a Chinese.He looked at Ye Yuhan a few times, glanced at the earthen cloth bag, and slowly sat down on a wicker chair.A Ding moved an electric fan, but the old man waved his hand.

"Father." Ye Yuhan called again. "Sit down, sit down." Su Fengqi made a slight gesture, "You don't need to say anything, you don't need to say anything." The old man's face was sickly and haggard, only his eyes remained deep. "I know it all." What does the old man "know" about the scene in the garden that night?How and how much did he know?Ah, that thrilling night! "Old Mu, Lao Mu!" The female doctor shouted sharply. The flames are raging.The fire roasted Ye Yuhan as if his whole body was on fire.But she stared intently at the F building in the sea of ​​flames, imagining that a miracle would happen, imagining that Lao Mu could rush out.In fact, she had already seen with her own eyes that Lao Mu was clinging to Simon Czerny's body, and the two of them were burning together, twitching, twisting, and quickly charring, turning into black coals!A tongue of fire floated up, almost burning the face of Little Xingxing; the little girl yelled in terror, and Ye Yuhan woke up violently, dragged the child to roll and climb, ran farther away from Building F, and finally ran to Jin Garden main entrance.Only then did she realize that the gate was open, and there were people inside and out, military police watching over the scene, military police cordoning off the scene, firefighters in a hurry, and foreigners, and there were shrill sirens and frantic calls everywhere.The female doctor was stopped by several gendarmes as soon as she came out of the gate. They briefly questioned her, then held her hostage from both sides, grabbed Xiao Xingxing, and walked through the crowd to a certain place...

"What are you trying to do?" Ye Yuhan yelled, "Let go of me, bastard!" She kicked, beat, bit, but it didn't work, like a rabbit that fell into the claws of a tiger.Little Xingxing desperately struggled to find her mother, but her resistance was not as good as that of a rabbit.Just at this time, I suddenly heard a shout in front of me: "Stop!" Sure enough, several gendarmes stopped, but they still held the female doctor and the little girl hostage.Ye Yuhan looked up, ah, isn't this Lu Ning!Lu Ning put on a straight American military uniform, with a medal on his chest, and the golden general star emblem on his shoulder straps shining in the night.With a straight face, thick eyebrows frowned, his hands folded behind his back, his feet about half a foot apart, he stood in front of his eyes like a god, staring majestically at the several gendarmes.Behind him was the military jeep with a red "general star" on the front.

Several gendarmes were stunned, quickly stood at attention, saluted, and let go of Ye Yuhan and Xiao Xingxing at the same time. "Give me the man!" Lu Ning raised his right thumb and poked back from above the shoulder. "This, this..." The gendarmes looked at each other and faltered. "Damn it!" The sergeant jumped down from the driver's seat and patted the holster on his waist vigorously, "What this and that, quick!" The sergeant was agile and took advantage of the hesitation of the military police to pull Ye Yuhan and the little girl into the back seat of the jeep.The car never turned off. As soon as "Sanzuo" got into the car, the car started and quickly left Dongchang Hutong.

Ye Yuhan took a deep breath and hugged Little Xingxing in her arms. Lu Ning in the front seat also breathed a deep sigh of relief: "Didn't I reassure you? But you are still worried, rash..." "How can I rest assured?" Ye Yuhan argued, "You didn't tell me anything." "I told you everything, is it still called politics?" "I don't understand politics, and I don't want to." "See now? Almost ruined everything, including yourself." "I've never been afraid of sacrifice." "But don't make unnecessary sacrifices," Lu Ning turned around, looked at the little girl, and stroked her head, "Especially, there are children!"

When it comes to children, Ye Yuhan's heart softens.She hugged the little girl tightly, kissed the child's face, looked at Lu Ning, and muttered a few words in English instead. "Forget it, let's speak Chinese." Lu Ning smiled slightly and glanced at the sergeant, "This young man can speak English better than me! He can understand our conversation clearly." "What?" The female doctor was taken aback, but still spoke English, "You said, he is a KMT spy!" "Yes, he is a Kuomintang agent," Lu Ning paused, and replied in Chinese, "but he is a human being first."

"It's Chinese." The sergeant said, expressionless, just firmly grasping the steering wheel, "Where are you going, sir?" "Go back to the military dispatch department!" Lu Ning smiled at Ye Yuhan, "This is called 'dark under the lamp', and the military dispatch department has become the safest place. Do you know who my neighbor is? Ha, Zheng Jiemin." After World War II, the CCP learned that the Americans were going to build a "special weapons laboratory" in Beiping, and if successful, they would build several more such laboratories in China and other parts of Asia.The appearance of Ye Yuhan and the surface of "SB-1" made this information clear; the fact that a "ward" was opened in the Panthera Garden and a little girl had been "admitted" made the situation more urgent .So at the meeting of the military dispatch department, the representatives of the Communist Party of China seriously raised the issue of Jinyuan and demanded a thorough investigation.General Marshall and the Kuomintang representatives were afraid that things would get out of hand.As a precaution, the Beiping authorities were ordered to assign plainclothes personnel to monitor Jinyuan, and the United States also strictly ordered SLR not to "act rashly" in Jinyuan through some channels...

Lu Ning told Ye Yuhan: The "high-pressure atomization device" buried around Building F atomized not "disinfectant" but fuel oil, and the nipples on the steel pipes were nozzles.Once the glass on the box on the inner wall of the building was smashed and the hand brake was pulled down, the controller immediately entered the countdown, and after five seconds, it began to spray fire from all directions to the building!It is necessary to ensure that everything from the basement to the top floor of Building F is burned down, especially those who are isolated from the world with iron fences—in case they are discovered by the outside world, they are no longer "patients" but witnesses.Therefore, absolutely destroy the corpses and wipe out the traces!The Americans originally planned to install this kind of "self-destruct facility" in all other buildings, but at this moment they found suspicious signs and were forced to suspend their actions...

"Why don't the Americans continue to increase the number of 'patients' in Building F? Why don't they dare to touch the little star? They found out about the loss of the ampoule almost immediately, and they also noticed various other doubts. Why didn't they dare to speak up? Also, just now, I sent you Why didn’t they dare to forcibly stop them from Dongchang Hutong with their children?” Lu Ning talked eloquently, “Because I’m a ‘Major General Councilor’, I have the right to legally and even live in Beiping and do many things here. ; because the whole world is staring at the Americans and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are holding talks here on an equal footing and with full grace—didn’t you say ‘politics’? This is politics.” Having said that, the phone rang.Ye Yuhan looked at his watch: it was exactly four o'clock in the morning.Lu Ning picked up the phone and nodded again and again: "Okay, I'll be right over." He hurriedly left the office.Ten minutes later, he came back again.He looked at Little Xingxing who had already fallen asleep on the sofa, and turned his face to Ye Yuhan: "It is reported that they are hunting you for 'arson'." "I'm not afraid!" "I'll say it again: it's not about being afraid, it's about not making unnecessary sacrifices." "Then, what do you mean..." "Leave Peiping first to avoid the wind." The female doctor thought for a while: "Okay." "Is there somewhere to go?" "I can go to Nanjing." "Go to Mr. Su?" "yes." "That's a good idea." "There's only one thing I'm worried about..." "For the little star?" Lu Ning cast his eyes on the sofa.The little girl was fast asleep there. "yes." "Don't worry, Yuhan." Lu Ning smiled, "Comrade Ye Jianying called me to talk about this just now." "It was General Ye who called just now?" "Yes! Yuhan, leave the daughter to us first." "Daughter!" Ye Yuhan repeated the word, her eyes moistened. "I heard the child calling your mother." "Lu Ning..." The female doctor hesitated to speak. "Speak, Yuhan." "I will live alone for the rest of my life." Ye Yuhan choked up, "But I want to have a child. So, for Little Xingxing, please be sure..." Lu Ning looked at the female doctor in surprise, and said with a firm voice, "Look at you, what are you talking about! Why do you want to live alone for the rest of your life? How do you know that you will live the rest of your life alone?" Ye Yuhan said nothing. Lu Ning also fell silent, turned his face and looked away, and didn't speak for two or three minutes.After a long time, he took out a cigarette, lit it, took two deep breaths, and finally sighed softly: "There are some things, I will talk about them later... Cough, no matter what, you can rest assured about Little Xingxing. Oh, don't choke the child. He opened the door, walked out with Ye Yuhan, and said as he walked, "It's not too late, let's go early, leave Peiping as soon as possible, and leave immediately." "How to go?" "Now, only 'secret agents' can do this kind of thing well." Both Lu Ning and Ye Yuhan are very familiar with Xiehe Compound.The two of them walked along the dark, winding paths and gaps between the buildings until they arrived at Xiaowei Alley.A jeep with two red "general stars" on its front was parked in a dark corner, and a sergeant was silently sitting on the driver's seat.The car first drove to a village in the southern suburbs.There Ye Yuhan changed into a village woman's clothes and carried a homemade bundle; then drove to Baoding, where the sergeant put the female doctor on a train bound for Nanjing. The train stops and goes.Three days later, Ye Yuhan finally arrived in Nanjing... Professor Su Fengqi's major invention in the field of navigation technology and the role played by this invention in the war gave him more halos on his head.In order to reward this old scientist for his patriotism and outstanding contributions during the war, the National Government awarded him a medal and gave him a lot of honor.He has titles in the Executive Yuan, the Legislative Yuan, and the Supervisory Yuan. He is an advisor to the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Academia Sinica, and the National Observatory. He is also a professor at Central University and several other universities—all these things are mostly empty positions. Not a real job.But Su Fengqi thinks this is very good, saying that this is called "the capable man is in office, and the sage is in office", and he is such a highly respected "sage".Looking back on his life, the old man thinks that although he is not the pinnacle, he can still be called successful; even if he is very successful in the world, there are very few people who can reach his current state.In addition, he is sixty-eight years old after all, and due to aging, energy decline and war, he can't do much and doesn't want to do many practical things;The only thing he can't let go of is his own children. Shanshan graduated from Yunnan University School of Medicine, got married in the late period of the Anti-Japanese War, and stayed in Kunming after the war.Hanzi hurried back to Peiping shortly after the end of the war. What she never forgot was returning to Xiehe to continue her research on viruses.As for Su Guanlan, she was summoned to Chongqing by the Ministry of Education at the end of the war to take part in organizing some schools and scientific institutions to move back to Nanjing; she stayed in Nanjing to work, but she seldom visited her father, and she seldom had a word to say when she came.The old professor has only one servant, A Ding, by his side.This A Ding was in his sixtieth year, and he was from Baoshan, Yunnan. He followed Su Fengqi when he was in Fenghuang Mountain, and followed him to Nanjing after the war.A Ding was a farmer who had been a soldier and couldn't read a few words, but he was strong and capable. He also worked as a cook, gardener and handyman, and got along very well with the old professor.But no matter how good a servant is, he is just a servant; Su Fengqi lacks relatives and affection in her life, and she is deeply lonely and depressed.He was obviously old and his health was not as good as before, but he was still able to go for a walk in the nearby forest by himself. Two days ago, a black car quietly came to Tianbao City and parked outside this small courtyard with white walls and gray tiles. Two uninvited guests wearing sunglasses suddenly visited Mr. Su.The three of them closed the door and chattered for a while, A Ding didn't know what they said.Anyway, as soon as the guests left, Su Fengqi fell ill... "Father, I'm a doctor," Ye Yuhan got up and said, "Let me examine you." "There's no need to check." Su Fengqi shook her head, "You're here, and if you appear in front of me alive and sound, most of my illness will be cured." Ye Yuhan's eyes were hot and she bowed her head in silence. "Since it's here, let it be at ease, don't do anything wrong, cultivate your body and cultivate your character—" the old man continued, "If you can live like this for a while, all my illnesses will be cured." "Don't worry, Dad." Ye Yuhan still lowered her head and said softly. "That's good!" Su Fengqi's expression and tone finally showed a hint of relief, "When the news passes, I don't think you need to go back to Beiping, but stay in Nanjing." "Stay in Nanjing, what are you doing?" "Let's go to Nanjing Pharmaceutical College." "Nanjing Pharmaceutical College—isn't Guan Lan the principal there?" "Acting principal." Su Fengqi corrected, "He acting as an acting principal and you serving as a pharmacy college are two different things." "It's not the same thing, Dad!" Ye Yuhan's face turned pale. "why?" "You should still remember the name 'Ding Jieqiong'—" "Go on, Hanzi." Su Fengqi's eyes were stern. "She, Ding Jieqiong, is coming back..." "Does it matter?" Ye Yuhan looked at Su Fengqi in surprise, calmed down, and said, "She and Guanlan really love each other. I don't want to hinder them anymore. I am determined to spend this life alone, serving and taking care of you as a daughter..." "What did you say just now?" Su Fengqi swept away the malaise, and suddenly became bright-eyed, "You said, Ding Jieqiong is coming back?" "Yes." "No," the old professor leaned back, making the rattan chair creak.He stared at Ye Yuhan, and said word by word, "She will never come back!"