Chapter 43 January 19

There was a "letter that had nowhere to be delivered" that I managed to pick up.The handwriting is unfamiliar, but the recipient's name and address are more "familiar" to me than the postman.There is a little suspicion: I remember that the note I left for the second landlord's wife said "Wei Min", but here it was changed to "Wei Min"; did I remember it wrong, or was it the "sender" who made a mistake?Furthermore, the "handwriting" is wrong.And it wasn't Ping's handwriting either.Her, I know. But this is the "letter with nowhere to deliver" that I have been looking forward to for several days, and it makes sense.

The content is more "artistic" than the note left at the second landlord's place before, which is "magnificent". I was studying and deliberating when suddenly N barged in with a nervous face and sweat on the tip of his nose.She held my shoulders, panting, looked at the paper in my hand, muttered a few words, then laughed and said: "You are really leisurely and carefree; you don't care what's going on outside! ——Oh, I seem to have seen this passage in some book, where did you copy it from?" "What's going on outside?" I pretended to inadvertently push the piece of paper away. "Is it that the provincial accent is following you again, unwilling to lick the bowl?"

"Pfft! You're dishonest!" N lazily walked away. "...Hey, I'm afraid there will be chaos!" "What's the matter, you don't talk about it..." "Some people say that history will repeat itself; some people say it won't happen because the enemy is facing us. What do you think?" N still used the same tone. "Dangtang announced that there is nothing serious, but I don't believe it; there is a discrepancy between what is said and what is said in the past, and what is said is completely inversely proportional to what is done!"

"Oh, this!" I understood what N meant by "disorder". N went to the bed and sat down, threw the roll of green newspaper in his hand to my pillow, frowned, and turned his face to the air, as if he was thinking about how to choose the most important thing from the messy talk in his head. Say.However, just after the word "today" was said, someone knocked on the door, N looked around in surprise; I was about to get up, the door was already opened, and it was F who came in. "I was going to find you, but here you are." I greeted him with a smile and asked him to sit by the window.

F didn't seem to hear it, but smiled at N, as if to say, "So you're here too", then turned and glanced at me, and then replied suddenly: "Look for me? what's up? " "Of course!" I pursed my lips and said with a smile, but I caught a glimpse of N sitting there with an uneasy expression. "In a word, I want you to treat me. ——Oh, let me introduce you." "Thank you, but we knew each other before," N stood up lightly. "I still have something to do, I'm sorry." She said, glanced at me, and hurried away. F watched N go out, then looked down from the window.At this moment, I caught a glimpse of the roll of green newspaper that N brought and left it beside my pillow. I went to the bed, took a velvet jacket and covered it, turned around and called F with a smile: " Hey, you and her seem to be good friends, so you must treat me to dinner..."

F turned around, didn't answer my words, but asked: "When did you know each other?" "Not many days." I replied casually, but then pretended to retort: ​​"It seems that I have no reason to know her, but Is not it?" "Where, where." F was a little embarrassed, and laughed along with him. Then he straightened his face and said slowly in a low voice: "The current situation is very serious. I guess you know it? I received an order to step up my precautions. " Seeing his expression, I was about to retch, so I sneered at him coldly: "Oh, then, what should we do? Everything is under your instructions. Will there be a riot?"

Unexpectedly, he replied: "It's hard to say. But there is nothing to be afraid of here, the arrangements have already been made." "Oh, it's not! I believe the government's power is sufficient, as announced in the newspaper." I couldn't help smiling, and quickly put on a solemn face, adding: "Not to mention that there are princes —Loyal and brave cadres!" "However, the situation is still serious." F stared at the sky, stroking his chin with his hands, trying to imitate the postures of some important figures. "The traitorous newspaper dared not to publish the order of the Military Commission, and dared to defy the law and publish illegal words without authorization-four lines of poems!"

"Oh! Do you want to suspend publication?" I asked intentionally, glancing at the pillows on my bed. "Not at all. It's just that the comrades in the city are so busy that they go shopping all over the street all day long - grabbing, grabbing, and tearing! However, on the telephone pole at the head of a bus station in Qixinggang , Someone actually posted a piece of paper asking for ten yuan in legal currency..." "Haha!" I couldn't help laughing. "This business is not bad! It's a pity that I..." But I immediately felt that I shouldn't be so carried away, so I frowned and said, "I don't believe there are such people!"

"Who said no!" F still had a serious expression on his face. "A little ghost hid more than ten copies somehow, and sold it from one yuan to the highest price of eight yuan. Only the last one was left, and then our people discovered it. But, hum, this little ghost is really tenacious enough , when the street was dissatisfied, he yelled and said that he had robbed him of "a short shirt", which attracted a lot of people to watch the fun. The kid grabbed our guy and wouldn't let him go. He said, someone would give ten One yuan, isn’t it the price of a short shirt? Hundreds of people who watched the excitement helped him. There was nothing we could do, so we had to slip away quietly.”

I couldn't help laughing again.What can I say at that time? Smiling is not good, but it is also difficult not to laugh. Apparently my laugh confuses F.He glanced at me several times, and suddenly asked: "But, how did you and her get to know each other?" "Who is it?" I couldn't figure it out, but then thought of it. "Oh, you mean N?" F smiled and nodded strangely. I don't understand why he pays attention to the relationship between me and N, so he refuses to tell the truth: "We are in the same place, so we will inevitably get to know each other. How did you get to know her in the first place - besides, we are all women. I was also planning to ask you: What do you think of this man?"

"Nothing." He pondered for a moment. "My impression is not bad. She just joined the regiment, probably less than four months ago, and I 'convinced' her. These young girls are often stubborn for no reason, and even have unnecessary doubts and fears. Because of impurity. But recently, some people have criticized her for not performing very well, and the situation is quite complicated..." "How to criticize her? Who criticizes her?" I asked anxiously, revealing my concern inadvertently. F seemed to feel it too, and he glanced at me attentively.I also felt sorry for Meng Lang, so I quickly changed my subject and said, "So I just asked you how this person is, and I can see that she is a bit like that." "It's just a matter of the last few days. I didn't hear it personally, but according to the old man, N made incorrect remarks among his classmates about the accident that happened in the past few days, which brought about the issue of unity, and Everything else wasn't very good...” "Hey, this is serious!" I said deliberately and resolutely, worried for N in my heart. "But, that—well, who are you talking about, and who are you talking about? It seems reliable?" "This old man is also a student, but—" F raised his thumb and made a face at me. "It's amazing, you're climbing fast, and the limelight is on the rise right now." After pondering for a while, he expressed his concern for N again: "I understand that I am a human being, and I don't really believe what he said, so of course I explained a few words for her. But She's still in the dark, and she doesn't always come to talk to me." "Hmm, do you want me to talk to her?" I asked tentatively. F smiled, stood up, and replied vaguely: "That's fine. But it's for her own sake, right?" He took a few steps, smiled again and said, "Actually, I often cover for her. .” After F left, I ran to the bed, took out the newspaper that N had left there, and read it. No, as I expected, it was the one that people would pay ten yuan for!Two large zinc-plated characters first caught my eyes. On one side was "Sorrow for the martyrs who died in the south of the Yangtze River", and on the other side were the four sentences: "A strange injustice through the ages, a leaf in the south of the Yangtze River; if you fight in the same room, why do you have to fight each other?" !" I hid the newspaper and sat on the bed, lost in thought.I thought of my hometown, but I don't know what's going on there now... I was so immersed in my thoughts that I didn't even feel anyone coming in. When I looked up and saw N again, she was walking up to me, looking at the pillow.She said to herself: "No, it's weird, did it get lost outside?" She turned around and was about to go out again, I grabbed her and asked, "What are you looking for?" "A newspaper, green," she answered, her eyes still wandering about the room. "Did it cost eight yuan?" I took out the newspaper from under the quilt and gave it to her, and said with a smile, "I have one. Sell it to you, it's also eight yuan." She grabbed it in her hand and asked in surprise, "Why? Even you know this story?" "Naturally. But I ask you, where did you get that?" "A friend—" She folded two fingers and compared, "he has such a stack." "Well, then he must be a rich man; a few dollars a share, a stack of..." "What a rich man! He didn't spend any money, it was all confiscated from the ferry." She unfolded the newspaper, folded it small again, put it solemnly in her pocket, and asked again: "Are you also familiar with the nine-headed bird?" "Which nine-headed bird?" "It's the one who just came." "Ha, I didn't know F had such a nickname!" I understood it all at once: No wonder just now when F came, N looked uneasy and hurriedly avoided; and F asked me again and again how I met N, —The relationship is now clear.I took N's hand, sat down by the window together, and told her everything F had just said. N was a little panicked, but he could still sneer.I asked again: "The old man he was talking about is probably the ghost with the provincial accent we heard in the restaurant that day?" N nodded, bit his lip, and said nothing.After a while, she said, "Why did he say those things to you? What's his intention?" "It's nothing more than meeting friends, but there may be other tricks. In short, your matter is not simple." Seeing that N was always frowning and biting her lips, as if she had no idea, I asked her again: "What are you planning? There is a net to catch you, that's obvious. F's nonsense, whether it is true or not, You go and talk to him, it's better than not going at all. You have to do something and get over the circumstances." N is still silent.But she obviously didn't misunderstand my advice, she leaned on me tightly and took my hand.At the end, she said excitedly: "If I don't go, I won't care about anyone! I don't know how to do that! Could it be that they eat me up? I can't compromise step by step until I lose my popularity!" I sighed, nodded, and said softly: "You ignore them, but they still want to talk to you——that's the difficulty." N looked at me innocently, with two deep tooth marks on his lips. "My experience is not as good as yours," she held my shoulder. "However, I didn't break the law, and I didn't ask them for it. Could it be that I have nothing to do..." She suddenly stopped talking.I felt her hand on my shoulder tremble slightly, I looked back at her, she forced a smile and said: "I can also go to F and find out his tone." She left.