Chapter 29 Part II.5.2

Dong Gui said: "That's not far away... How about going to stay at Mr. Gu Lianchang's house first? You are his daughter-in-law, and their family can't ignore you. At the same time, write a letter to Mr. Gu Lianchang and see what he says in reply." Ye Lianzi immediately wrote a letter to Gu Qiushui and Gu Qiushui's hometown. In the summer of 1940, Gu Qiushui's second brother came to Tianjin to pick up their mother and son.Ye Lianzi took the twenty-four yuan left by the second wife, and fled to Erdaohezi's mother-in-law's house without thinking.Seeing her mother-in-law, Ye Lianzi seemed to have finally met her relatives, and even felt that she was getting closer to Gu Qiushui who was far away. When she entered the door, she knelt down and kowtowed, and called out: "Mom!" The mother-in-law said lightly: "Oh, come here. Now." It seems that they are not meeting for the first time, but have lived together for many years in a very disharmonious way.Then the mother-in-law looked at Wu Wei and asked, "How old are you?" Ye Lianzi said, "Tell grandma, how old are you?"

Wu Wei said: "Three and a half years old." The mother-in-law said, "I'm not small", and then I was speechless.The mother-in-law sits on the kang with her legs crossed all day long, puffing and puffing. The little old lady is thin, with a square head, and she doesn't like to talk but loves to scold.There are pigs and chickens on the kang, coming and going.She sputtered and scolded the pigs and then the chickens, the chickens and the weather, the weather and the crops, and the crops and then her son who was far away: "You have no conscience, you only care about your own life outside. On a good day, you don't care about your family, your parents, your wife and children..."

After scolding the son in the distance, he scolded his daughter-in-law again: "I hate the chickens on the kang? Where can the chickens not go on the kang? Since there are chickens, the chickens will go on the kang. Who is to blame for the little girl's lice? Blame the chicken? Blame the pig? Pigs don't come in the house." Where? In such a cold day, you think pigs don’t know cold because you know cold? I’ve slept with them all my life and I haven’t gotten lice. See if you are so delicate, if you have the ability to find your man.” After scolding the daughter-in-law, scolding the granddaughter: "Stop it, what are you doing plucking the chicken feathers? Ah? Look at the plucking of the chicken. Where are the eggs? Where did the eggs get on, huh? I'll kill you, let's see if you still can't get rid of it?"

With her thin lips tight, she twisted Wu Wei's ears hard. Chickens will not retaliate, pigs will not retaliate, the weather will not retaliate, crops will not retaliate, sons far away will not retaliate, and daughter-in-law will not retaliate—only Wu Wei yelled and jumped, thumping chickens and pigs, and then said: "You little bitch... The mother-in-law said: "You beat her up, beat her to death!" The mother-in-law said: "Is there someone who protects the child like you? This child will not go to the house when he grows up, causing harm to others!" Wu Wei also said: "... harming people."

"Look, look, before you can say something, you will talk back." I don't know where the mother-in-law got so angry.The pig didn't get mad at her, neither did the chicken; The mother-in-law said: "This child is really like her father, and he will be a troublemaker in the future. He ran away at the age of sixteen and never looked back. He didn't even type a letter, and he didn't ask his mother if his father was dead or alive. You can talk about whether you are dead or alive! I still think he is dead, and I forgot that I gave birth to such a son... If you don't want to, give me a wife and granddaughter..."

Speaking of which, the mother-in-law pierced Ye Lianzi's eyes, her eyes must be very sharp, otherwise she would not be able to see through the pile of googly eyes stuck on her eyes. Then she tapped the three-foot-long cigarette bag on the edge of the Kang, like a barracks blowing the signal to go to bed after knocking on the cigarette bag. After knocking on the cigarette bag, she closed two sharp eyes in her eyelids and fell asleep immediately. . As soon as she fell asleep, she couldn't swear, and the yard became quiet, even a little lonely.Even the pigs and chickens stopped crowing, as if they wanted to take a breather while she was not cursing.Ye Lianzi is now familiar with boiling pig food and chopping chicken food. She has been familiar with this set of skills since she was a child.

While stirring the pig food in the big iron pot with a firewood stick, she wondered in a daze, had she really been to such a far place? Been in the city, seen cars, trains, bungalows, running water? Had children, married? Only lice can bite her out of her stupor.It turned out that she had walked so many ways, but she just made a big circle and returned to the original place.Grandma woke up.The mother-in-law sleeps just like the cock-in-law. The cock-in-law falls asleep when she squats down, and sleeps when she squats.The mother-in-law also blinked for a while, and then she woke up and yelled: "Where are people, where are they going?" "I saw you fell asleep, so I went to cook pig food." "Who said I Asleep? Who said I fell asleep?" Wu Wei said, "Grandma is asleep." She pursed her mouth and snored like grandma.

"Nonsense, don't think I'm asleep, I'm just pretending what you're doing!" Wu Wei thought, Grandma's eyelids must be very big, big enough to hold a lot of things, and then the yard became lively, the pigs started running around again, and the chickens started fighting or laying eggs again. The father-in-law said: "Don't take it to heart, what would she do if she didn't scold others? This is also her living juice." How can you not take it to heart?The sons all scattered out, and the family had no land, so they all depended on their father-in-law to make wooden utensils for them to live on.Who in the country is always playing wood?It is not worthwhile for people in the city to make woodwork to visit this rural carpenter in a remote area.

They are also poor, even if they have the heart to take her in, they don't have the strength. At night, whenever Ye Lianzi sleeps next to the cocks, listening to the cocks cooing in their dreams and smelling their foul smell, she will think that she and Wu Wei are not even as good as the cocks... What can the cocks give? The mother-in-law lays eggs, not only can they not lay eggs, but they have to eat the rations of the mother-in-law's family. But when she took Wu Wei and decided to leave her husband's house, the old lady's face twitched, and her little bun was trembling on her head, "You son of a bitch, just sow the seeds and don't care about raising them... the six relatives don't recognize you! "

When Wu Wei said "goodbye, grandma", the mother-in-law turned her face into the kang and did not turn her face to look at them. They left Erdaohezi in this way.The father-in-law sent them to the train station.When passing through the sorghum field, my father-in-law said: "Your uncle was buried alive by the Japanese in this sorghum field... the second child works for the Japanese, and the whole family is of different lengths." The sorghum is still the same sorghum , I can’t see that I have buried a living person, I didn’t grow too many spikes, and I didn’t grow a few spikes, “What about your man, you said you were doing something against the Japanese…” The expression on his face was as light as talking about someone else’s. matter, not his own son's matter.Ye Lianzi said, "Father, you can go back."

"The road is not quiet, I have to send you to the railway station. Come, let grandpa carry it for a while." He picked up Wu Wei on his back and turned it upside down. Wu Wei's thick hands were warmly strangling his neck, and he felt a feeling of being close to his own blood.But they are going to the train station now, and the train will take them away in a while. The place where the son is is the same as the horizon, and the granddaughter is also the same as going to the horizon.An old man in a mountain village felt that all the places outside the village were the same as the sky. He thought again, whether it is a son or a granddaughter, once they are outside, it has nothing to do with him, as if he had never had such a son and such a granddaughter. Life is alive, it is false and real, how many people and how many things go by in a blink of an eye. But he didn't tell Ye Lianzi that if he couldn't get along outside, he could come back. He didn't return home until the train drove away, braving a string of white smoke and going farther and farther.Walking through the sorghum field again, he remembered that he was carrying his granddaughter on his back just now, and it was a thing of the past in a blink of an eye.After Ye Lianzi returned to Tianjin, Dong Gui said that it would be more serious to go to Hong Kong to find Gu Qiushui. That's right, the Bao family can't go back, even if they can go back, they can't go back. How can a woman not rely on her husband to live on others?It would be fine if she didn't know her husband's whereabouts. I have no money, so I don't want to go to Gu Qiushui anymore, I can only go to the street to beg for food. Dong Gui was so worried, how could the weak Ye Lianzi go on the road?How would he explain to Gu Qiushui when something happened? But Ye Lianzi was determined and said: "I can do it." Now that things are up to now, if it can't be done, it has to be done. Dong Gui's wife said, "Oh, I wouldn't dare to go with another person, not even a man." And they never received a reply from Gu Qiushui. Dong Gui thought about it: "It's better to take it step by step. First, go to Huai'an, Jiangsu Province. That's where the 112th Division is stationed. Your father is still there. After seeing the situation, you plan to go to Hong Kong. That's to go to your father." The road there is also very dangerous, a young woman alone with a three-year-old child, without a companion, has to pass through the Japanese enemy-occupied area and Wang Jingwei's enemy-puppet area..." Ye Lianzi didn't raise her head, and said the same thing: "I can do it." Dong Gui first went to inquire about the route to the south, and then explained to Ye Lianzi several times, where to get off, where to change cars, what car to change, where to find someone to contact, and finally the contact person will take her to one by one. The residence of the second division...Ye Lianzi memorized it over and over again. He also helped Ye Lianzi sell the only remaining bracelet.Ye Lianyu hadn't worn this gold bracelet since Gu Qiushui left. She took it out and put it on her wrist for a closer look at it after Wu Wei fell asleep at night. It was like meeting Gu Qiushui Some... for the sake of finding a husband from a thousand miles away, I have to sell it now.After selling the bracelets, Dong Gui took her to the bank to exchange the currency in various occupied areas, bought train tickets, and sent them on the train to Xuzhou. Dong Gui is one thousand, ten thousand worthy of Gu Qiushui's entrustment. Ye Lianzi never forgot Dong Gui's care for her, and often talked about the friendship of Dong Gui's family to Wu Wei, but they never saw each other again, although twenty years later, in the 1970s, they both lived in Near Xizhimen, Beijing. They thought it would be the world of the poor after liberation, but they had other troubles. After decades of ups and downs, they had to lose the warmth between people and go about their lives. Wu Wei did not find them until Ye Lianzi passed away. Both Dong Gui and his wife are still alive. As soon as Wu Wei came in, they said tearfully, "Your mother is too difficult, too difficult, and it is too difficult, too difficult for you to grow up..." They were relatively speechless, and could only shed tears that condensed the bitterness of their lives.After returning home, Wu Wei excitedly told Hu Bingchen about the meeting with Dong Gui, and Hu Bingchen just ignored him and nodded. After arriving in Xuzhou, there was no car to Huai'an immediately, so Ye Lian's mother and daughter had to spend the night in Xuzhou. Although Beiping and Tianjin are also dominated by the Japanese, they are not like here, telling people the tragedy of subjugation so nakedly.Every scorched house looks like a dead head, and the black windows are like gaping mouths, freezing the cries for help and persistent accusations before death.The half wall left by luck is like a book that has been flipped through by bullets. Every bullet hole and every burned place is the character of disaster.The most frightening thing is the women who were raped and killed by the Japanese, with wooden sticks or iron tools stuck in their vulva. The Japanese are indeed a creative nation. All the cruel juggling of life that human beings can't imagine have been fully discovered by the Japanese. Perhaps even Hitler is not as good as the Japanese, who can turn murder into a meticulously crafted task. craftsmanship.Ye Lianzi seemed to have waited for the gate of hell, hugging Wu Wei, carrying a small box, and moved forward step by step in the exit line. Seeing a lone young man being pulled out of the team-at that time, any man or woman who entered the enemy-occupied area alone would be suspected by the Japanese as spies.With the sound of a gunshot, the bright red blood splashed like a poem, and fell on the surrounding crowd who were waiting to die. Ye Lianzi pushed Wu Wei's head into her arms, and closed her eyes again.Wu Wei didn't cry, but his small body shook violently. The Japanese soldier said to her in a stern voice: "Hurry up, hurry up!" She tried hard to take her extremely heavy feet, but before she could take her own feet, the Japanese soldier's rifle butt hit her hard on the back , the box in her hand fell to the ground, and the contents inside were scattered all over the floor. She put down Wu Wei, and using both hands and feet, hurriedly pulled the scattered things to the outside of the station entrance, and then picked them up in the box. The necessary clothing, they are really hungry and cold. Wu Wei also squatted down, and while timidly looking at the Japanese soldiers with his small eyes, he helped Ye Lianzi pick up things from the box. Thanks to Wu Wei, the Japanese didn't suspect that Ye Lianzi was a spy, so they just looked at the box lying on the ground and let him go. Ye Lianzi walked out of the station in shock, knowing that she should escape from this tiger's mouth as soon as possible, but she didn't know where to go, as there seemed to be a magic cave everywhere.Walked a few steps to the east and backed up, walked a few steps to the west and backed back... Except for the people who came out of the station one after another and the hungry dogs wandering the street from time to time, there was no living thing on the street. Looking at the passengers coming out of the station, they all looked like greyhounds escaping from death, with their tails between their legs, whizzing and gliding along the wall, and it was difficult to open their mouths to ask someone.After finally seeing a passenger who didn't stick his head into his chest, he hurried forward to inquire about the hotel.The man took her to a small shop nearby and helped her carry the suitcase, but said nothing all the way.She thanked her thousands of times, but the man still grimaced silently and left. The officers of the puppet army, always with cigarettes in their mouths, walked around in the small shop, puffing out smoke and yelling at their horses or waiters, as if this was not a small shop but a barracks.There was wet firewood in the stove behind the shop, and the smoke in the shop was even more turbid, and people's faces could not be seen clearly in broad daylight, adding such a ferocious look to people's faces. Ye Lianzi carefully searched the smoke, hoping to see a woman.But apart from her and Wu Wei, even if there was a woman who was dating, she was still a prostitute. When renting a room from the shop owner, a fake police officer next to him said, "Listen, you have a northeast accent." She didn't dare to say yes or no, she just tilted her head and looked at the shopkeeper for help.The pseudo-police officer was very humane, and said: "We are fellow villagers, and when fellow villagers see fellow villagers, our eyes are full of tears." But when he turned his head again, his face became cool, "You can run all the way here by yourself, It's really not easy..." It was useless to be afraid when he was already standing under the tiger's mouth, Ye Lianzi could only resign himself to his fate and stand with his head bowed. Fortunately, he walked back to his room without making things difficult.It happened to be next door to Ye Lianzi! At night, the small shop is more lively than quieter. The puppet military officers live in front, back, left, and right sides of her small room, and there is only a thin wall between the rooms. The sound fell into my ears.Among them, there are many northeast accents. Someone was coughing strangely at the wallboard, and Ye Lianzi even saw an eye flickering and flickering in the wide gap between the wallboards. Looking at the narrow house, and then looking down at the palm of my hand, I was struggling to figure it out; I couldn't find a way to block the outside world, so I could only use a chair to push the door meaninglessly.This is the way she can think of to protect herself in the face of a dangerous world.This method has since become her regular weapon, used to deal with countless terrible nights. Fearing that someone would come in and cause trouble, Ye Lianzi didn't dare close her eyes all night, even Wu Wei held his breath, opened his frightened eyes, and listened to the movement around him.Maybe it was just a little nostalgia that those soldiers didn't come to make things difficult. The next day, when I got on the bus to Huai'an, I was seated in the same seat as the fake police officer who claimed to be a fellow villager.He said, "You are going to Huai'an, right?" Ye Lianzi could only nod in recognition. "Why are you going?" "Looking for my father." "What is your father doing there?" "Business." "What kind of business are people from the Northeast doing in Huai'an at this time!" At this point, he seemed to have no intention of pressing the question any further, but leaned back on the chair and began to close his eyes and rest.Ye Lianzi's heart beat fast and fast.Xiang, she was really worried that the fake police officer on the side would hear it, but she had nowhere to escape, so she could only pretend to be calm and sit upright. The pseudo-police officer quickly got out of the car, and whispered to Ye Lianzi before getting out of the car: "I know who you are looking for in Huai'an. You said your father was doing business there, no, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Army is stationed north of Huai'an. You have to be more careful, there is still a long way ahead!" Facing the back of the faraway figure, she silently said thank you.After getting off the car, you will arrive at Huai'an, the territory of the Northeast Army.But it was still more than ten miles away from the contact point that Dong Gui told her, so she had to hire a rickshaw and go to a small town near Huai'an according to the route Dong Gui said. The cart was pulled by a strong, sullen young man, shirtless, with a muscular back that gleamed with vitality in the sun. The autumn crops that are about to be harvested pass by the waist and walk around the crops.On the dirt road in Ping, it is like being buried in a crop field.Ye Lianzi looked left and right, hoping to meet a passerby, but there was none, not a single one, there were only three of them under the sun, and the surroundings were so quiet that one could hear the sound of crops ripening.Wu Wei also fell asleep in her arms. After tossing all the way, even if there was thunder in her ears, she couldn't wake up. The road also seemed to go back and forth more and more, and the more she walked, the more she seemed to go back instead of forward, and she didn't dare to ask, what's the use of asking?The sky is so high and the earth is so far away, where can we find and grasp a ray of safety? Walking to a secluded place, the cart driver stopped the cart quietly and looked back at her. Ye Lianzi's heart was in her throat. She lowered her eyes to look at the suitcase under her feet, hoping that the leather suitcase would The box can act as a starting point at a critical moment. The cart driver said, "rest your feet. There is a well in the field over there. I'll go drink some water." After that, he left them and left. She shrinks her head and sits in the car.The buzzing of insects one after another in the crop field seems to hide murderous intentions, lamenting the turmoil on the eve of the fierce battle.Ye Lianzi became even more anxious after not seeing the cart puller come back for a long time, it seemed that the longer the time passed, the bigger the conspiracy was brewing. Finally hearing the approaching footsteps behind her, she thought desperately, here I come, here I come, but she didn't dare to look back.Her eyes were dazzled under the sun, and waves of black mist rose and rolled in front of her eyes. The cart puller turned to her, saw her fear, sneered and handed her a melon in his hand, and said, "I guess you haven't even eaten or drank any water? You take this melon." Ye Lianzi didn't dare to pick it up or not to pick it up, she tried her best to lean back on the backrest. The cart puller didn't force it, so he put the melon on the pedal under Ye Lianzi's feet, pulled up the cart and walked on. When more and more trees and houses appeared, Ye Lianzi realized that she was worrying too much. When paying, the cart puller accepted the money coldly, left without saying anything, and left Ye Lianzi there in embarrassment. They finally found the home of the liaison. When Ye Lianzi got married, she thought that she would never return to this family again, but after only five or six years, she came back, and she was in such a miserable state. The splendor at the time of marriage has become a thing of the past, and the "talented man and beautiful woman" praised by everyone in the teacher, will soon be ruined and withered, and the world will be separated.Ye Lianzi recognized at a glance that her stepmother was wearing a cheongsam that she had made for her wedding, and not only had her own demeanor faded away, but her wedding dress had also been pawned long ago. "Come back," said the stepmother.There is really no way to be polite to such a down-and-out person, and then look at Wu Wei, "Is this Nan Nan?" "Call me grandma." Wu Wei hurried back in fright. "Accepting life." Ye Lianzi said hastily.The stepmother didn't care, Ye Lianzi was not her daughter at all. "Is the journey easy?" Her father was much more polite than before she was married. "Okay - let's go." In his father's eyes, Ye Lianzi was no longer that thin country girl but a grown woman.But not only did the fear cast on her when she was a child not disappear, but a rather clear, self-conscious, and vicissitudes of fear was added to her ignorance, which made Ye Zhiqing feel sad for a while——no matter what, Father is still father. "Old Gu's family is really good at it, but my daughter-in-law is pushing 625." The stepmother took the hairpin from her bun and commented while digging her ears and eyes. "I'm going on my own." "I guess I can't stay any longer." The stepmother said sharply. Ye Lianzi looked at her father for help.Father said: "Put down the luggage, go wash your face first, and then cook something to eat." Wu Wei went out next to Ye Lianzi's leg. No sooner had their heels brushed the threshold than the stepmother said to the father, "What are you going to do?" Father said, "Write a letter to her man." "Didn't Lianzi write letters to her in-laws before she came to her husband's house? Why didn't she reply? You expect the white party to come and pick them up? I-I knew that he was not a thing. wall, playing cards and flirting with Li Battalion Commander's wife." Father looked out frequently, he was afraid that Ye Lianzi would hear that she was at the end of her rope right now. "Why didn't you tell me?" "Your daughter Lianzi is getting impatient." Ye Zhiqing was a little displeased, "Lianzi is not that kind of person." "Did you forget the note she stuffed in your pocket?" Father said nothing, imperceptibly complaining to Ye Lianzi, if he had listened to his arrangement, he would not have ended up in this situation.He didn't know what the situation was, and Ye Lianzi didn't tell him, but couldn't she see it? The stepmother said: "To be fair, isn't she asking for something? But, since it's her own daughter, she can't ignore it. Let's find a way. Alas!—" This long sigh is really miserable, as painful as Ye Lianzi still couldn't make such a sigh. There were many friends of Gu Qiushui in the 112th division. As soon as Ye Lianzi arrived, Gu Qiushui's best brother, Yu Gaoxiang, the seventh eldest, picked up Wu Wei and asked everyone: "Who do you think this child looks like? Gu Qiushui! Needless to say, it is his daughter at first glance." Gu Qiushui had never written a letter to Ye Lianzi, but he wrote letters to Yu Gaoxiang continuously, so when he arrived at the 112th Division, Ye Lianzi immediately got Gu Qiushui's exact address. Wu Wei ate a lot, and Ye Lianzi watched her sadly as she ate a bowl of rice and then an egg, thinking what would happen if she ate like this every day in the future.Wu Wei hadn't seen eggs and rice for a long time, so he ate very slowly, as if he was prolonging the enjoyment of a dream that would disappear in a blink of an eye and never again. Ye Lianzi repeatedly looked up to the room, afraid that Wu Wei hadn't eaten enough when her stepmother came into the kitchen at this moment. Children are really ignorant, they can just eat half full, but she insists on eating a full belly.But Ye Lianzi wanted Wu Wei to eat more. For the poor, eating was the most thought-provoking thing in the world. Wu Wei finished eating an egg and said, "Mom, I want more." Ye Lianzi patted her bulging belly and said, "You're full." "Mom, I want more." "I can't eat any more." "Eat another one," she stretched out her little finger, pleading and promising, "Mom, one more!" "No." Ye Lianzi said firmly, "You're full." Wu Wei burst into tears , and crying loudly, Ye Lianzi immediately covered her mouth.Although the mother-in-law loves to swear, it's just swearing, which has no practical significance.Old Bao's house is deep in the courtyard, and the upper room cannot hear the movement of the lower room.Although no one scolds Wu Wei or her here, I always feel that there is an invisible pincer holding her. The pincers are actually not heavy, neither painful nor itchy, but they are always nestling her, preventing her from straightening. Wu Wei cried until his forehead was sweating, his veins were bulging, his voice was hoarse...why?But for a small egg, it is not the stars and the moon in the sky, nor the pearls in the sea, nor the gold in the stones. Thinking of it this way, Ye Lianzi seemed to have the courage, and took another egg from the cupboard to Wu Wei. Wu Wei stopped crying, and quietly waited for Ye Lianzi to peel off the eggshell for her.She took the egg that Ye Lianzi had peeled, biting it quietly one by one, her eyes with teardrops on their eyelashes stared at the egg in her hand without blinking. Seeing Ye Lianzi felt sore, but she couldn't shed tears. When Wu Wei cried, she was there. Who was there when she cried?A piece of egg yolk fell off, and Wu Wei stretched out his little finger to pinch it, but it shattered.The egg yolk turned into smaller, smaller crumbs, so small that the taste of eggs was gone, but Wu Wei still squeezed it into his mouth bit by bit.Immediately afterwards, the stepmother said all day long that she had lost this or that.However, when people said that they had lost some leaf lotus seeds, they couldn't help blushing, even the back of the neck was so red that they couldn't be seen, as if she had stolen those things. She felt her own incompetence and uselessness, and she could neither stomp her feet to leave, nor could she blush. More than a month later, Gu Qiushui still did not reply.The stepmother guessed that he might have another woman outside.Men are like this, if you keep an eye on him, something will happen to him, don't say let go of him for more than three years.The two women must be sent away as soon as possible. If Gu Qiushui really has other women outside, if he leaves his wife and children with them, he will lose his head.But she didn't tell her guess, she just said to Ye Zhiqing: "It's better to send the lotus seeds to her husband, so that they can reunite. Now the army is in turmoil, she is still young, we can't tell my son-in-law what happened. Confession." Father said: "This will cost a lot of travel expenses." The stepmother said: "She said she still has some money to sell the bracelets in her hand. Shouldn't you add the rest to your father?" It pays to stay. "I didn't get a reply to my letter. I moved? Is someone dead? Lianzi went so presumptuously, what if I can't find anyone? She doesn't even have the travel expenses to come back... She still has a child with her, so what can she do?" "Can Yu Gaoxiang's address be wrong?" The stepmother said to Ye Lianzi again: "He hasn't replied yet... I think you'd better take the child to find him. I mean, you stay at It's better to be together." The stepmother was right, she couldn't wait for Gu Qiushui's reply, she went to find him right now.Ye Lianzi, who hadn't been clear since she was born, suddenly became clear. She didn't care whether Gu Qiushui replied or not, whether he moved, whether he was dead or alive, even if he died, she still wanted to take a look at his grave, not to mention that if he couldn't find it, she wouldn't even have the travel expenses to come back.It is the end of October, which is full of bleak eyes. Not only the leaves are starting to turn yellow, but the river water is starting to turn yellow, and even the autumn wind is turning yellow day by day. When Ye Lianzi hurriedly hugged Wu Wei and boarded the small ship, his father suddenly shed old tears—there were too many risks along the way, Ye Lianzi was his own flesh and blood after all! "When you arrive in Zhenjiang, don't miss the train to Shanghai. After arriving in Shanghai, go to the address I gave you to find the brother of Battalion Commander Zhao. He works in the Japanese military camp, but he is from here. He will give you If you buy a ferry ticket to Hong Kong, it will also go through the procedures for you to go to Hong Kong." The relationship between their father and daughter was only slightly revealed at this time.But they had to be far away from each other, even if she didn't go to see Gu Qiushui, she would be married, and even if she didn't marry, they wouldn't be able to stay together. Looking at her father who was getting old, Ye Lianzi thought, after this time, I don't know when we will see each other again. Eighteen or nineteen years later, Ye Zhiqing's family moved to another country, passing by the small town where Ye Lianzi worked, and got off the car to visit their long-lost daughter. It was during the three-year famine period that Ye Lianzi got a small bowl of meat somehow and placed it respectfully in front of her father.Ye Zhiqing was still the same as before, blowing his beard and staring for some trivial matter. Wu Wei couldn't help but said, "Grandpa, my mother has been scolded a lot since she was a child, and now she's fifty years old, so it's time for her to take a rest, right?" Take care of her only daughter. In fact, various units in Beijing needed a lot of places for college graduates, but she couldn't convince herself to make an exchange with the Party branch secretary in her class. The university was relocated from the Liberated Areas, and each class was guaranteed a Communist Party branch and party branch secretary system. The secretary was served by a classmate who led the class in their study, life, and thinking, and held the "power of life and death" over their graduation assignments. If Wu Wei agrees to this kind of exchange, she can stay in Beijing, but she plausibly said: "Going to bed for love is romantic, and going to bed for exchange is dirty." Then, in order to transfer back to Beijing, she married Han Mulin, whom she didn't love at all. Wasn't it an exchange? What is it if it is not palming your own mouth? What is it if it is not obscene? It's just that it was a legally guaranteed exchange, which sounded more grand.If she had agreed to this exchange at the beginning, there would not have been an illegitimate daughter Fontaine; then Fontaine, Zenyue and Ye Lianzi would not have suffered from it because of her greater selfishness.Go to bed and sleep, after all, it is much easier than having an illegitimate child. Ye Zhiqing looked at Wu Wei with his big eyeballs, and said nothing, ending his history of blowing his beard and staring; he also looked at Ye Lianzi, who "should take a break", and wondered why he hadn't seen him for more than ten years. , Why is my daughter almost the same as myself. Ye Lianzi gently reprimanded Wu Wei: "How can you talk to grandpa!" But Wu Wei's words clearly reminded Ye Lianzi of everything in the past. She was glad that she had walked out of it and regretted that they had passed away. Instead, she felt more youthful towards her father. The attachment that I didn't have at that time. -It is only now that they feel like father and daughter to each other.It's a pity that the one-sided meeting between Ye Lianzi and his father turned out to be an eternal farewell. They have been father and daughter for nothing all their lives, and when they start to cherish this family relationship, they have no time to say anything, nothing: if they have time to express, they will say goodbye forever.The road is still full of devastation and depression, let alone no trees, no houses, no people, not even chickens, ducks, cats and dogs, it is like the end of the world... On the bank, not far from the small steamer, a Japanese soldier was pushing a person who couldn't swim into the river time and time again.But the man didn't cry out, just struggled silently in the water, finally climbed to the bank, and was pushed into the river by the Japanese soldiers... Finally the Japanese soldiers got tired of playing, cut the man's head into the water with a knife, and Push the corpse into the river to end the game. Fortunately, the young Wu Wei was not as disgusting as he was later. Although he was not beautiful, he made people smile happily when he saw it.They were able to reach Shanghai smoothly, which may be related to this. When I arrived in Shanghai, my eyes were still full of Japanese.It is said that Japan is a small country, but where do so many Japanese come from?From Tianjin to Xuzhou to Shanghai, all the way, it seems that all the Japanese have moved to China. After leaving Shanghai North Railway Station, Ye Lianzi bought a sesame seed cake for Wu Wei and was paying with her head bowed when she heard Wu Wei scream. Looking back, someone snatched the sesame seed cake from Wu Wei's hand. When Ye Lianzi was heartbroken over the robbed sesame seed cake, Hu Bingchen and his cousin Lvyun came out from Si Daddy's house and strolled on Xiafei Road.If Hu Bingchen and Wu Wei have not been in love for several generations, why do they always pass each other in many places? Ye Lianzi had neither hatred nor revenge, but just stared at the man who snatched sesame seed cakes intently—who was splayed-footed, wearing a blue cloth jacket, and with short hair standing upright as if he had been more frightened than Ye Lianzi and Wu Wei. On the head, he ran and gnawed on the biscuits.She thought: You don't pick anyone even if you rob. If I have money, can I just buy a sesame seed cake? Then he thought again, if he doesn't rob her, who will he rob?No one is easier to grab than her.At first glance, he was a person who should be robbed, at first glance, he was an unaccompanied outsider, at first glance, he was a person who would not fight back... She swallowed her hunger, and complained in her heart: You just robbed sesame seed cakes You should also enjoy its deliciousness. You can't gobble up that hard-won biscuit like this. She had no choice but to buy another sesame seed cake for Wu Wei, put the money in her arms again and again, and then hugged Wu Wei tightly in her arms to prevent the sesame seed cake from being snatched away again. Ye Lianzi came all the way, inquiring all the way.The eyes are full of poor people with no livelihood and ragged clothes, wandering in the streets and alleys, as if there is a chance to rescue them hidden in the streets and alleys. It was not difficult, and he found Commander Zhao's brother.Mr. Zhao didn't ask too much. After reading Ye Zhiqing's letter, he skillfully completed the procedures for Ye Lianzi and Wu Wei to go to Hong Kong. The day they left Shanghai was a sunny day, which filled Ye Lianzi's heart with longing; they took a rickshaw and passed Broadway Road, which was built along the Huangpu River.The other side of the road is mostly Western-style buildings, among which there are many stores, banks, restaurants and hotels... No matter the hot dogs, beauty salons, coffee shops on the street, photos of civilized weddings, hand-cranked telephone booths on the ground in the concession, Indian police officers, Western men in rickshaws, Xianshi and Wing On Department Stores with both Chinese and English, or the posters with the words "Xiang'an". Toothpaste" double-deck and single-deck trams...Ye Lianzi never left a trace of envy for these, her goal is right ahead. It was the sound of the waves on the Huangpu River, the creaking and twisting oars on the sand boats, the whistle of the ship, the copper bells of the rickshaw and the bells on the Bund, which seemed to move Wu Wei's heart. Cross the Waibaidu Bridge and go north, you will arrive at the Gonghexiang Wharf in Yangshupu. Ye Lianzi didn't understand, why not take the cheaper tram?But it's inconvenient to ask more questions, so I can only follow Mr. Zhao. Mr. Zhao knows what car to take.Of course he couldn't take them on the tram - who knows if the Japanese military camp will send someone to follow them?To save a few car dollars and make them suspect that he is from a civilian? When we parted, Ye Lianzi said clumsily, "I really don't know how to thank you..." 赵先生皱着眉头眯着眼睛，瞟着舱里舱外往来人等，好像太阳晃得睁不开眼睛。他又看不出嘴唇嚅动地低声叮咛道：“没开船之前一定要谨慎小心，就坐在船舱里不要出去。罗斯福号虽然是美国轮船，可……谁知道会不会有意外？有人问什么不必多说……”他说这些话的时候，并不对着叶莲子，只一味不舍似的抚摩着吴为的小脸．好像对这个从见面起看也不曾看过一眼的孩子，突然地有了感情。 然后他就头也不回地下船走了。舷梯上和他擦身而过的人，一看他那身日式军装，无不像是遭了瘟疫，惟恐躲之不及。