Chapter 7 seven

Zhao Kefen looked at her own shadow on the water, shook her two pigtails hanging beside her face playfully, and said, "Brother, why don't you continue talking?" no answer.A white cloud sailed slowly across the bright blue sky like a small white sail. Zhao Kejiu, who was lying on his back on the grass, watched the white cloud, and his heart followed the white cloud to the place he longed for day and night. Baiyun skimmed across the mirror-like water surface, first kissed the upside-down tree shadow, and then hugged the small stone bridge lying in the middle of the water like an ingot.Looking at the white clouds on the water surface, Zhao Kefen suddenly thought of the joy of swimming in the lake with her classmates in Hangzhou before the summer vacation, and felt a little bit disappointed; but, she just passed her first sixteenth year, and she would not let these sentimental emotions stay in her heart for a long time , she looked at her red cheeks on the surface of the water, made a grimace, and then laughed heartily.

This laughter shattered Zhao Kejiu's dream.He turned to look at his sister, who happened to also turn to look at him with a smile on her lips. "What are you laughing at? Little devil!" Zhao Kejiu said, deliberately pretending to be "you don't have to make trouble, I know everything". Zhao Kefen put the end of a small braid into her mouth and bit it, her black eyes were fixed on her brother's face, and suddenly spat out the end of her hair with a puff, and said in protest: "Brother, I don't approve of you just thinking about one thing and not doing it, always being so listless!"

"Ah, little devil, you've taught me a lesson!" Zhao Kejiu knew what his sister was protesting, and tried to divert it in a joking tone. "If it were me, I would go to Shanghai immediately if I wanted to; it's not like you write a letter to your friends every day, but you don't have the intention of really leaving every day." "Ah, just do what you say, it's really amazing!" Zhao Kejiu still avoided talking directly to Kefen, and he also knew that Kefen used the provocative method, so if he provoked him to act, he would not be afraid of losing her own share.However, Kefen is also talking about Kejiu's problems.In front of this "little ghost" girl who hasn't graduated from junior high school, Ke Jiu wants to maintain his college student spirit.

He smiled contemptuously, closed his eyes and remained silent.In less than a minute, he suddenly opened his eyes and shouted in astonishment: "Kefin! Listen! It's booming, it seems to be the sound of an airplane, isn't the enemy coming to lay eggs?" The sky is still so blue and transparent. The white cloud just sailed to the northeast corner and stopped over a cluster of houses, mixed with the curling smoke. The cluster of houses is about a mile long along the river from east to west. Kejiu's home is also there.Almost connected to the end of the house, a large mulberry forest spread out behind the small station. The "two leaves" have been cut off, and the gray and white branches have a little bit of the afterglow of the setting sun.In front of the station, the two railroad tracks are surprisingly bright.A wild dog was lying on the platform, not far from it, and a road policeman with a gun walked up and down.

Everything is peaceful and clear, but there is indeed a faint rumbling sound in the air.Zhao Kefen stood up from the big rock by the river, looked up and ran to the small stone bridge on the right, stared eastward for a while, and then shouted happily: "There's a train coming, and the flag has gone down!" "Yeah, Miss Fen, you're actually an expert," Zhao Kejiu teased his sister again, "She's a cow flag in the outer sheep flag." "Isn't it?" Zhao Kefen said proudly, but her eyes were on two children who were digging stone crabs not far upstream of the small river.

At this time, the empty voice became clearer and clearer.Zhao Kejiu jumped up, ran to the small stone bridge, quietly walked behind Kefen who was staring into the distance, and covered her eyes with his hands. Zhao Kefen was taken aback. "Brother!" She turned around and gave Ke Jiu a supercilious look, but then teased him: "This is the train to Shanghai. Just jump on this train and go? Are you going?" "You go and I go too." Zhao Kejiu replied with a smile. "Bah!" Zhao Kefen made a face at her brother, and jumped down the stone bridge. The sound of the whistle came through the air, dragging a long tail.Then the peaceful field was filled with noise.The head of the train popped up next to the green pines and cypresses in the large cemetery in the east, and it was in front of it in a blink of an eye, and rushed towards the station quickly. She let out a long and majestic cry, and stopped.

Immediately, several people got off the train, gesticulating on the platform and talking to the station master.Zhao Kejiu looked from a distance on the stone bridge and saw that these people seemed to be wearing military uniforms.After a while, a whistle was faintly heard, and then many people got out of the car one after another, crowding the not-too-small platform to the ground.Now Zhao Kejiu can see clearly that these are soldiers. "Brother, what are they doing down here?" Zhao Kefen jumped on the bridge again, very excited, eyes wide open. "How would I know!" "I think they came down to cook. Look, didn't they pick up a few loads and put them on the platform?"

"Maybe cooking." Zhao Kejiu answered casually, still looking at it without blinking.But the train barked and suddenly backed away.He didn't retreat much, and then stopped suddenly, just blocking Zhao Kejiu's sight. "There's nothing to see, let's go home." Zhao Kejiu said, and walked down from the other side of the bridge.Zhao Kefen kept silent and followed behind her brother, but still reluctantly looked back several times, hoping that the train would move its place again. Under the bridge is a small road, along the river beach, all the way into a large mulberry forest. Behind the mulberry forest is the west end of the town's market street.On the left side of the road is a paddy field, green as far as the eye can see, occasionally there are frogs in the field croaking once or twice.

The two siblings are now walking side by side.On the upper reaches of the small river, the two children who were digging stone crabs came up from behind, and as they walked, they cursed that today's harvest was not much. In a blink of an eye, the two children were squatting on the river beach again searching for their target. "These two are refugees," Zhao Kefen said softly in her brother's ear. "It's the group that came to the town five or six days ago, and they all live in the Earth Temple." Zhao Kejiu remained silent, just walked with his head down.Suddenly he stopped, gave Kefen a hand, and said, "Sister, it's still early, I'll go back after playing for a while." Go back, it's you too!"

But Zhao Kejiu was already sitting on the grass on the river beach, with his back to the river, just grinning, but didn't speak.Kefen had no choice but to sit down beside Kejiu, but she faced the river. Neither made a sound, as if they were waiting for the other to speak first.At last Coffin couldn't bear it anymore, and she said in a slightly complaining tone, "How funny! Every day we have nothing to do." Zhao Kejiu held his head in both hands, but still did not speak. "Oh, I remembered. Brother, please continue to talk about your sport." "Where do you start?" Zhao Kejiu said sullenly, still holding his head in his hands.

"Just now you said that you drove the train by yourself. You didn't go far, and you saw that the track ahead was broken." "Oh, the road ahead is broken. What can we do? The government ordered the road bureau to tear it down. We are not allowed to go. What should we do? Fortunately, we have a lot of people and we have a solution. The car stopped, and a temporary emergency meeting was held immediately..." "A meeting?" Zhao Kefen laughed loudly. "I don't believe that the railroad tracks will come out after a meeting!" "Fool! The meeting is to show determination. With determination, there will be a solution." "Is there no resolution without a meeting?" "Hey, you're joking, I won't talk about it!" "Tell me, tell me, I'll keep my mouth shut!" Kefen hurriedly begged for mercy, but held his hand over his mouth and held back his laugh. "After an emergency meeting, two teams of pickets were immediately dispatched to search separately. ..." "Why don't you look for it!" Kefen couldn't help laughing. But Kejiu ignored her and continued: "One is facing south and the other is facing north. They all went to find the road worker. After searching for a long time, but couldn't find it, a road worker ran to the car and reported to us: the railroad track is He was willing to help find them if he threw them in the small river beside the road. We asked a volunteer team to go into the water to fish for the rails, and there were more than a dozen of them all at once, all of whom were good swimmers! Two or three! They ran straight to the small river. The students in the car organized a cheerleading team to cheer. When they reached the river, a group of four rolled up their trousers and went into the water first. Everyone was shocked!" "Ah yo!" Kefen also yelled, twisted his waist to look at Kejiu, and rushed to ask: "Is the river very deep?" "Not deep! Two feet of water! But there is a thin layer of ice. Those four daredevils, with their trousers rolled up high, stepped on it. The ice broke, and their calves were also damaged!" " "Hey!" Kefen breathed a sigh of relief, looking down at the mirror-like river.After waiting for a while, she didn't hear Ke Jiu's voice, so she touched Ke Jiu's shoulder with her own, and said softly, "Brother, go on! What happened next?" A stone crab-digging child walked farther and farther away, and replied casually, "Later, the railroad track was picked up and connected, and the car started again." Then he seemed to wake up suddenly, raised his voice and said, "But after walking for a few miles, check ahead. The lineman issued a warning, and the road was broken again! This time, the roadworker couldn’t find it, and the railroad track didn’t know where they hid! What should we do? There is a way! Empty space. Walk like this for a while, dismantle a section, repair a section, walk another section, dismantle and repair again, and go until Kunshan Station. It’s almost dawn! At Kunshan Station, there are a large number of party, government, and military personnel there Wait. They are trying to get us back to Shanghai, but we don't care. We sing 'Arise, people who don't want to be slaves', and drive again! It's strange! It went well, we arrived in Suzhou and came down We will arrive at the student representatives sent by Suzhou, representatives from the National Salvation Association, and representatives from all walks of life. The common people in the country will come to see. Oh, what a great scene! However, there are already two trains of military police at Suzhou Station. They were sent by Nanjing, and they are going to use strong methods to deal with us!" When Zhao Kejiu said this, he smiled wryly, and turned to look at Kefen.Kefen stared at the sky, his face was extremely serious, and his breathing was a little short. "Later we arrived in Suzhou, but the two regiments of military police from Nanjing escorted us back to Shanghai. There was a vigorous movement, and we were suppressed by guns!" A few seconds of silence.There was a whistling whistle from the station.Kefen twisted her waist and turned her face to Kejiu's shoulder. She felt that her brother had been bullied and needed her comfort.But Kejiu suddenly smiled coldly, and said loudly: "At that time, none of us could believe that the Kuomintang government would use military police to kill and deal with patriotic students! Many female students were so angry that they cried, and many male students gritted their teeth and fought. We cried, scolded, and sang ' Get up, people who don't want to be slaves', shouted slogans, returned to Shanghai with tragic and passionate enthusiasm!" It was getting dark.The small river gradually turned into a strip of whiteness.The clamor of the frogs around them became more and more vigorous.Mosquito riders coming out of the grass by the river had spotted the two siblings and gradually surrounded them.After the two of them sitting on the river beach were silent for a while, Kefen finally jumped up and said: "Brother, go back!" Zhao Kejiu remained silent, but he also stood up, patted his clothes, straightened his chest and left.They walked along the river beach for about ten minutes before turning into the forest.The stars of the autumn night came out in twos and threes.I can see the lights of the town from a distance, like a huge cluster of incense sticks planted on the ground on the night of the Ksitigarbha Festival. "Without that large-scale student movement across the country, the Kuomintang government still refuses to fight today!" After walking through the mulberry forest, Zhao Kejiu suddenly said this again.Coffin didn't speak, but clung closer to her brother.