Suddenly the three-way intersection was congested.An almost new "Austin" was trapped in a group of rickshaws and collapsed vehicles. The driver honked his horn desperately, his head with a peaked cap tilted out of the window, a pair of rounded eyes looking at the back, mouth "Hey, hello, you Chi Lao... Are you blind?" "Austin" originally came from south to north, but now it wants to "overturn the car" and turn west.Next to "Austin"'s buttocks were two rickshaws, Su Zipei was sitting on the left one, and Luo Qiuzhi was on his right.A collapsed car was piled high with clothes bags, boxes, unsuitable furniture, pots, buckets, earthen pots, and even old-fashioned blue flower porcelain pots—the pile was so high that it was obviously all the property of a well-to-do family, like A hill; the pinnacle of this "hill" is a basket, crumbling, threatening the noble "Austin."Mr. Driver's tantrum was partly because of his "Austin" who had to be squeezed like a rickshaw, and partly because of the basket.However, his shouting and cursing could not exert the expected power in this chaotic and noisy occasion.The two taxi drivers with greasy and sweaty faces wiped their sweat calmly. They stood almost right in front of the driver's nose, but they didn't even look him straight.

The collapsed car blocked the view, and Su Zipei could not see his friend Professor Chen Keming.He looked at Luo Qiuzhi next to him, and asked casually, "Did you see Mr. Chen?" The handsome young man was sitting in the car, staring at the white clouds in the sky, in a trance, when he suddenly heard Su Zipei's voice, he went Very politely twisted his lovely red lips slightly.Of course Su Zipei couldn't hear what his answer was. In fact, not only did Luo Qiuzhi fail to hear his uncle's question clearly, he didn't answer at all. What captured Luo Qiuzhi's whole mind was the "unpleasant incident" that his aunt encountered since yesterday afternoon.This sentence is quite "proper" on the surface, but it really makes the recipient laugh and cry. After it came out from the mouth of Section Chief Wang of a certain headquarters in such and such a certain place an hour ago, it gave Luo Qiuzhi a very unusual impression. .The experience he gained from the student patriotic movement last year: the nicer the official words, the more vicious the actions.He agreed with Professor Chen Keming's opinion: these five big characters, "unpleasant incidents", imply that Ms. Su Xinjia's case is complicated and may be more dangerous than good.

Miss Su didn't come home last night.This morning, when Su Zipei came back from the wounded soldier's hospital, he got panicked when he received a call from Yan Jiexiu, Miss Su's classmate, looking for her.After the war in Shanghai broke out, the International Settlement was under martial law at eleven o'clock every night; Miss Su couldn't come back in time for the theory put forward by the pragmatist Lewis.After accepting Kant's transcendentalism, he spent more than one night in Yan's mansion.She was not in Yan's mansion last night, where did she go?What Mrs. Su was worried about was that her daughter had repeatedly mentioned that she wanted to go to the front line with some relief team. Maybe she did it secretly last night, and she was in danger.But Su Zipei thought of some other terrible things.He comforted his wife a few words, and then found a way for Chen Keming to study and deal with it.The two of them, together with Luo Qiuzhi later, traveled around for a long time, asked more than a dozen agencies, and finally the "privileged room" of a certain headquarters admitted that there was this person.

During the more than 30 minutes of non-essential conversations, they heard Section Chief Wang call it "unpleasant incidents" at least seven or eight times. Luo Qiuzhi has been studying the possible best and worst meanings since he heard these five characters for the first time.Now, he is sitting in the car, turning a blind eye, hearing but not hearing, and still chanting the five words "wei". Su Zipei did not regard these five words as mysterious and important.The resentment aroused by the 30-odd minutes of being pointless has gradually calmed down now.Even his request to see his daughter was "politely" refused, and now he has no time to care about it.At this time, his only wish is to get home immediately, and immediately send Miss Su's clothes, quilt, toothbrush, toothpaste, face towel, etc. to the "privileged room" to give a political report at the National Congress.Compiled into the third volume of "Selected Works of Mao Zedong". ,——

This was the only result of more than thirty minutes of conversation. However, it was really unfortunate that they were jammed at this three-way intersection. The tide of chaos and yelling was slightly lower at this time.Anyway, everyone can't move, and it's useless to make noise. The Mr. driver in "Austin" also stopped blaring his horn.In an instant, this crowded three-way intersection can almost be said to be extremely quiet.The sound of cannons from afar was also faintly audible.White clouds float leisurely.On the tall building at the corner of the road, there is a "Star-Spangled Banner" huddled in a heap.There are many people standing on the sidewalk of Sancha Road, all looking to the north of the road, doing evil while looking.Love should be moderate.Income "Mr. Changli Collection". , while whispering.A patrol came, and he assisted the original patrol to stop a group of refugees from the west. They were all country folks carrying burdens, carrying parcels, and supporting the old and the young. They came from the villages near Shanghai. Last night the enemy The artillery fire destroyed their home.Another patrolman waved his stick, urging the vehicles coming from the north to hurry up.This is a mixed group of trucks, rickshaws, and even bullock carts.When this group came over, there was suddenly another loud exclamation from the crowd. "Blood!" These two words were like a sharp needle, piercing Su Zipei's nerves.At this time, a rickshaw was slowly passing by the "Austin", and covered the car like a bunch of withered flowers, it was a young woman in a crimson cheongsam whose face was invisible, and there was a large pool of blood on the cheongsam, which had not yet dried .Su Zipei was terrified when he saw that what was following the rickshaw was a truck. There were about a dozen men, women, old and young, people in long robes and short coats, and barefoot straw sandals on the vehicle; With just one glance, the experienced doctor knew that the whole car was dead.

At this time, "Austin" moved, and the car that collapsed like a hill next to "Austin" also moved, and the rickshaw Su Zipei was riding on naturally also moved; but Su Zipei didn't feel it.His eyes were fixed on the various cars carrying the wounded who continued to file in; he counted the number of the wounded silently, but what horrified him was not the number of the wounded but the women and children among them. There were especially many children, and nine out of ten of them were apparently trampled upon, or run over by wheels. Su Zipei looked at it blankly, feeling more and more sad in his heart; the scene in front of him gradually blurred, and finally turned into a black mass.He subconsciously raised his hand to press on his eyes, and a few tears fell down in a hurry.

"Zi Pei, what's going on?" Su Zipei took a look and saw that Professor Chen Keming's car was already beside him, and Luo Qiuzhi was behind him.It turned out that they were quite far away from the chaotic and terrifying three-way intersection. Su Zipei shook his head, answered casually "who knows", and frowned.He suddenly had an ominous premonition. After a while, the enamel signboard of "Su Zipei Medical Apartment" hanging at the entrance of Chunming was already visible.Su Zipei turned around, and said to Luo Qiuzhi who was in the car behind, "Aqiu, when my aunt asks about Xin Jia's situation, we should lie to her by choosing what she likes."

"Well, but we are going to send clothes to Xinmei. When my aunt saw it and asked what it was for, how would I answer?" "Don't let her see it. I told Ah Jin to clean it up quietly so that she won't see it." Su Zipei glanced at Chen Keming again as he spoke.Chen Keming nodded and smiled.He knew that Mrs. Su loved her daughter very much, and Mrs. Su couldn't bear to be stimulated, her heart was not healthy. They got off the car in front of a pair of black-painted iron gates. Luo Qiuzhi took a step forward and went to ring the electric bell.It was the maid Ajin who opened the door, but Genbao, the old servant, shrank behind.

A Jin was full of panic, and shouted face to face: "Oh, master, hasn't the eldest lady come back? The wife has been beaten again, injured..." She felt that Lao Genbao was pulling her skirt from behind, so she shrank her words. Stop, and lean sideways to let Su Zipei and the others go in. Su Zipei and the three of them were stunned. Lao Genbao said hesitantly: "Yan Zhongping called from Master Yan. His wife left for lunch. Master Yan said that he has sent his wife to the hospital..." "Hey!" Su Zipei just yelled, and ran into the gate. Entering the gate is a small courtyard with two front rooms, one is Su Zipei’s consulting room and the other is the living room (also used as a patient’s waiting room). The doors facing the courtyard are usually closed. The first one leads to the side door of the living room.Today, for some reason, the glass door of the living room facing the courtyard was opened straight, but Su Zipei didn't seem to notice it, so he still took a detour to the side door; he even tripped on the steps in front of the side door.

When Chen Keming and Luo Qiuzhi entered the living room, they heard Su Zipei on the phone at the back of the stairs, "Hello, hello," trembling.This unfortunate attack was so sudden that Chen Keming also felt in a mess.Luo Qiuzhi walked out of the living room for a while to listen to Su Zipei's phone call, and then walked back again, standing in front of the window and looking up into the distance. When the tea was served, Ah Jin became the object of interrogation. Ah Jin was not as flustered as before, but she didn't know the cause and effect of this unfortunate incident.She only said: "Master Yan almost got a bomb himself.

My wife is lucky, I just met Master Yan. " Luo Qiuzhi breathed a sigh of relief, as if relieved, he said to Chen Keming confidently: "Mrs. Su, it's probably all right." After a pause, he suddenly changed the subject, and his eyes were burning with a sense of testing , "But, Xin Jia, it's a little troublesome." "Oh." Chen Keming responded casually, noncommittal.For a long time, he had already grown impatient with this young man's over-enthusiasm about Miss Susinga; the handsome young man had a dozen ideas in two hours, which made people sick. However, Luo Qiuzhi did not lose his courage because of Chen Keming's indifference. He solemnly approached Chen Keming and said in a low voice: "However, it may be resolved soon. The key lies in Xin Jia's attitude. The section chief Wang told me in private. ..." "Oh!" Chen Keming suddenly raised his voice and interrupted Luo Qiuzhi's words.Chen Keming stood up impatiently, and went to the window on his own, but he remembered that Luo Qiuzhi's behavior was a bit despicable when they were negotiating with Section Chief Wang there just now. Luo Qiuzhi also felt bored and wanted to defend himself, but at this moment, Su Zipei came in.He sat on the sofa dejectedly, without saying a word, the only sound in the living room was Su Zipei's panting. "How?" Chen Keming broke the silence, turned around and looked at Su Zipei's expression. "Zhongping is not at home. I asked several hospitals, but they all said no." Su Zipei answered weakly with a bitter face.After taking a breath, he suddenly became excited. "Two bombs fell on the road in front of the gate of the Great World, and there were many casualties. It was my own plane that went wrong and caused this catastrophe. Absolutely ridiculous!" "Ah, something went wrong!" Luo Qiuzhi hurriedly said, "What's wrong? It's a joke to blow up our own place. But what is wrong? People have something wrong or the plane?" Su Zipei didn't want to talk about this "joke", he turned his eyes to Chen Keming, sighed and said: "Now we have to wait for Zhongping to call again. Xin'er's clothes are covered, so I have to send them earlier." Hearing this, Luo Qiuzhi immediately volunteered. He stood up and called "Ajin" repeatedly, but then said to himself: "No, she doesn't know what she needs, and I have to clean it up." Just left the living room. Su Zipei said to Chen Keming: "Yan Boqian came from Nanjing this morning. I called Zhongping just now, and he answered the phone. I want to entrust him to take care of Xin Jia's matter." Chen Keming pondered for a while, then shook his head. "Is there nothing he can do?" "It's not that I can't do anything, what I'm afraid of is that he won't!" "Why wouldn't he, it's not a big deal." "But Boqian takes these things more seriously than anything else! His third brother Ji Zhen had that incident in Beiping last year, and everyone came out to rescue him, but he didn't groan." "Isn't it different now than last year?" "Ah, it's different?" Chen Keming smiled lightly, and patted Su Zipei's shoulder affectionately, "What do you think is different? If it's really different, why does Xin Jia live in the special treatment room, and you won't be allowed to see each other?" "But I thought Bo Qian himself might be a little different." "Not necessarily." Chen Keming pondered for a long while before saying these two words, but perhaps in order not to disappoint Su Zipei too much, he changed his mouth and said: "You might as well entrust him and see how he behaves." Su Zipei sighed again, and anxiously walked around the small round table in the room.As he walked, he said, "At that moment just now, Keming, I really felt that my family was ruined. Of course, these days, many families have been ruined. What is it if you add me, Su Zipei? But, if something happens to your wife, why? If Xin'er can't come out, then what is it for?" He stood still and smiled coldly, "Keming, we have to go to the rescue today, and the more we think about it, the more unconvinced we are! Keming, I really want to ignore it and see what they dare to do to Xin'er? See how bad they are!" Chen Keming listened intently, knowing that Su Zipei was too much and too much stimulated today, he should be quieted; instead of talking to Su Zipei, he just nodded and said, "Yes, ignore it." He smiled and added : "If you ignore it, I'll take care of it. I'll give you back Xin Jia." Before he finished speaking, Su Zipei suddenly remembered how well Luo Qiuzhi and A Jin had packed Miss Su's clothes, so he turned around and walked to the living room door, but by chance Luo Qiuzhi opened the door and came in, and A Jin followed behind, holding With a small bag. Su Zipei took the bag from Ah Jin, opened it, and asked angrily: "Why only one blanket? There's only one sweater! You should take her camel's hair robe too!" "Master Luo said that the weather is still warm, that's enough." Ah Jin replied. "Not enough!" Su Zipei flipped through the clothes again, "With the northwest wind, how can this be enough?" "Uncle is thinking pessimistically," Luo Qiuzhi hurriedly explained with a smile, "It won't take that long." Su Zipei shook his head and pushed the clothes on Ah Jin. Luo Qiuzhi hesitated for a moment, then approached Su Zipei, and whispered, "Originally, Mei Xin could come out today, but she refuses to write..." "What to write?" Su Zipei's eyes widened in surprise. "Over there just now, Section Chief Wang told me in private," Luo Qiuzhi lowered his voice, and secretly glanced at Chen Keming who was sitting by the window over there, "As long as Xinmei writes a letter of repentance ..." "What!" Su Zipei shouted suddenly, his face turning blue. "What regrets? What sins does Xin Jia have to regret? Last year, patriotism was a crime, and now Pingjin has been lost. Enemy planes have bombed every major city in the country, and Shanghai has been fighting for a few days. There is no distinction between the north and the south, and there is no distinction between people, young or old. Why did Xin Jia commit a crime when she did some anti-Japanese work? Then, I also committed a crime when I went to the hospital for wounded soldiers!" Su Zipei had never been so angry.Both Ah Jin and Luo Qiuzhi looked at him in a daze.Chen Keming was also surprised, he came over and took Su Zipei's hand, and pulled him to sit on the sofa.Su Zipei was still angry, and his lips trembled a little. "Repent?" He scolded loudly, "It's them, not Xin Jia, who should regret their mistakes! They violated personal freedom and wanted to insult people's souls, and wild beasts are not so vicious!" "There are so many things that they should regret!" Su Zipei continued, "The disasters that have brought disaster to the country and the people, the past should not be for the time being, let's just talk about the present, and what I have witnessed with my own eyes: what kind of hospital for wounded soldiers they run..." Su Zipei suddenly stopped and stood up at the same time.He heard someone in the yard calling "Uncle Su, Uncle Su," the voice was familiar to his ears.Then came in a girl with tanned skin, with a medium figure, a pair of big eyes, alert and innocent, making people feel amiable and inviolable. As soon as she entered the door, she sensed the tense atmosphere in the living room, and the smile on her face disappeared immediately, but she smiled again and said, "I'm here to report the good news to Uncle Su, Aunt Su is fine, but there is a little rubbing on her calf. hurt." This girl is Yan Zhongping's eldest daughter Jiexiu, Miss Su's classmate; Miss Su shared the bed with Jiexiu when she stayed in Yan's mansion recently. Yan Jiexiu was immediately surrounded.Everyone rushed to ask her, even Ah Jin was no exception.Chen Keming patted Jiexiu on the shoulder and said, "You came just in time." Luo Qiuzhi was usually a little afraid of her and hated her, but now he called her affectionately.What made Luo Qiuzhi happy was not so much the good news that Jiexiu brought, but rather because Jiexiu came to rescue him. Su Zipei grabbed Jie Xiu's hand, his voice trembling with excitement, as if Jie Xiu was Xin Jia.Su Zipei asked a series of questions, and the last question was: Which hospital did Mrs. Su go to? "Then I don't know," Yan Jiexiu replied with a smile, but his eyes slipped away from the bag of clothes that Ah Jin was holding. "Anyway, Aunt Su is coming home. My father called me and told me that Aunt Su didn't want to stay in the hospital because she was homesick. But no, home is a hospital, and even the best doctor can't keep up with Uncle Su. Your phone number here may be It’s broken, and my father failed to pick it up after calling twice.” As she said, she pinned something in Ah Jin’s hand to look at it, and finally couldn’t help but walked over to open the bundle, and found that it was Miss Su’s clothes. He asked anxiously, "What is this for?" Su Zipei was about to answer, but Ms. Yan looked at Chen Keming again and said, "Sister Xin Jia hasn't come out yet? Mr. Chen, do you think this is a 'misunderstanding'? Uncle Ji Zhen called the party headquarters in the afternoon to question, okay, they Laid out! Isn’t that another set of ‘disappearing by oneself’!” "Now there is a place to admit it," Su Zipei said with a sigh. "It is also allowed to send things in." Luo Qiuzhi continued. "Okay! Is this the bag? I'll send it to you!" Yan Jiexiu said while reaching for the things in Ah Jin's arms. "Uncle Su, let me deliver it, I'll take care of it for you! Tell me the location." Su Zipei was still hesitating, but Chen Keming had already told Yan Jiexiu the address.Luo Qiuzhi disagreed, but it was hard to say anything.Yan Jiexiu snatched the small bundle, said "goodbye", and left in a hurry. All of this happened so fast, Su Zipei couldn't stop it even if he wanted to.He blamed Chen Keming and said: "Although Jiexiu is capable, she is a girl after all; it is better not to go to those places." Chen Keming didn't answer, just smiled. Suddenly, a series of car horns blared and stopped abruptly outside the gate. Chen Keming patted Su Zipei on the shoulder and said, "Zipei, Madam is back. This is Zhongping's car! I can hear the sound of its horn." Then I heard Yan Jiexiu's loud laughter. Just as Su Zipei and Chen Keming walked down the steps of the living room, they saw Yan Jiexiu jumping into the yard, calling loudly as if they were in their own home: "Ajin! Ajin! Come help my wife.Just the two of us! " However, Mrs. Su, who had reached the age of giving out "blessings", had an injured foot, and two people supported her. Zipei and Luo Qiuzhi were added to carry her into the living room. Mrs. Su's face was pale, but she was not in bad spirits.Leaning on the couch, she smiled sadly and said, "I almost won't be able to meet you!" Turning to look at Yan Zhongping who was sitting with his back to the window, "This time, it's all thanks to Mr. Yan!" Then she seemed to remember What, he looked around and raised his voice, "Where's Xin'er?" Su Zipei was startled, but before he could speak, Miss Yan, who was standing beside her, patted the bag in her hand and said, "I'm going to see her." Mrs. Su's eyes opened strangely, and as soon as she stretched out her hand, she grabbed Jiexiu.Chen Keming hurriedly said, "Xin Jia is still in Yan's mansion." But Mrs. Su had already guessed something. She struggled to stand up, her voice trembling, and shouted angrily, "Don't lie to me!" He was on the sofa, his face was even paler, and his eyes were closed.This time, everyone panicked.Miss Yan regretted that she had said the wrong thing, and was so anxious that she wanted to cry.Su Zipei was very calm. He grabbed his wife's hand, pressed his pulse for a while, then slowly raised his head and said to everyone: "It doesn't matter, it will be fine in a while." Miss Yan saw that there was no trouble, so she left quietly.