Chapter 31 Part II.6.2

When they reached the mountain, Gu Qiushui led them to turn left and right, and finally entered a small crumbling building, which must be his residence.But Ye Lianzi didn't care, what kind of hard life did she not go through?She was just surprised that such a dangerous building still exists in the bustling Hong Kong.She hugged Wu Wei and followed Gu Qiushui upstairs until she reached the platform, where she could have a panoramic view of Hong Kong.There are densely packed small buildings, and each building has a shed-like house added on top of it, or suspended in the air, or stacked layer by layer, like building blocks that are getting higher and higher with children's hands. .

Gu Qiushui rented a "building block" room for them on this platform, saying that sheds are also available. I don't know if Ye Lianzi is really unaware or "ostrich policy", she just doesn't feel the subtle situation in front of her, and even asks: "Why is this place called Hong Kong?" Gu Qiushui said contemptuously: "It's called Hong Kong." Does it smell good?" "Uh?" Ye Lianzi frowned, and stared at Gu Qiushui's eyes, which Gu Qiushui thought were full of autumn water at first, but now feel that they are big and useless. Obviously, she still doesn't understand why Hong Kong is not fragrant.

"Your name is Ye Lianzi, can you eat it as a lotus seed?" "Yeah." She seemed to understand, looked around again, shook her head in puzzlement, and said, "Hong Kong!" Gu Qiushui felt that what he just said was in vain, so What can you put in your head?Thinking about the days I spent with her, I should have understood that she is a person who can only focus on what she thinks, regardless of right or wrong, and can't change anything?After leaving them behind, Gu Qiushui said: "You can live here, I still have to live in the commune, because it is too far away from the commune, and my work is often at night, it is more convenient to live in the commune." Lianzi thought, it's really too far away, it's been a long, long time.She nodded and said, "Yes, it's too far away."

Gu Qiushui said again: "You guys rest for a few days first, and talk about it later if you have something to say." Ye Lianzi said: "Hurry up and don't delay the affairs of the government." Seeing Gu Qiushui's heavy responsibility, he was really proud of him.Gu Qiushui didn't ask Ye Lianzi how he got here all these years, whether there were any difficulties, whether the journey was hard or safe, and whether he had any money...Leaving their mother and daughter behind, they turned around and left. Sloppy.Just like the day they left Peiping, the eldest son did not stay behind, and he didn't say a word about how the mother and daughter would survive in the future, and Ye Lianzi, like that day, didn't ask or say anything.She didn't understand that the nature of Gu Qiushui's indifference now is completely different from the indifference at that time.Just think: Yes, he is busy.And the month.Didn't he say "I'll talk about it later"?There is only one regret, Gu Qiushui should always look back at them...but he didn't.Gu Qiushui also felt strange when he thought about it, why is this woman who made him unable to part with him four years ago, why is she not attractive to him at all now?Even though the colleagues in the magazine said that they never expected him to have such a beautiful wife... Wu Wei, who was sitting on the ground, became uneasy.

Only then did Ye Lianzi remember that Gu Qiushui didn't kiss, hug or speak to Wu Wei... She felt aggrieved for Wu Wei, so she coaxed her and said, "Oh, yes, yes, we want It's time to eat, it's time to eat." Not caring about packing her luggage, she took Wu Wei downstairs first, and bought two bowls of rice bowls at the food stalls in the side street.The small matter of buying rice gave her a little confidence, she thought, even though she couldn't speak Cantonese, the rice was bought. After falling asleep at night, there was a sound of farting from the next door, one after another, maybe someone has a stomach problem, only to find that there is only half a wall between the next door, if you are taller, you can see their farts All the daily details are like living in the same house. Fortunately, Hong Kong men are not tall.

Yi Qiushui's "I will talk about it in a few days" has passed for more than ten days. Although Ye Lianzi couldn't find Fengyun Magazine in Hong Kong, where she was not familiar, she found a way to survive in the past ten days. She went to the store to give advice, and used the remaining travel expenses to buy rice noodles and vegetables, and lived again. Live frugally. One day Gu Qiushui finally came, instead of frowning like the first time we met, there was even a little smile on his face. Ye Lianzi was afraid of offending him, so she followed his eyes carefully. This annoyed Gu Qiushui again, wondering why she had become so cunning and petty.Look at Mrs. Zou, when did you treat Zou Keren like this?Even the wives of a few friends don't treat their husbands like this.

Ye Lianzi looked around in a hurry, seeing that there was nothing to eat in the cabinet, she said, "I'm going to buy something." Gu Qiushui said, "No, just cook some rice and vegetables." Ye Lianzi still couldn't make a decision, whether to cook some rice and vegetables or go out and buy something. Gu Qiushui looked at Ye Lianzi's impeccable face. This face should have been matched with a good educated mind, but now, it can only be so beautiful that it makes him bored. Ye Lianzi said timidly while Chelei: "I saw someone selling food on the street, and the business is pretty good...Anyway, I'm fine at home, why not go out and sell food, it's also an income." The kitchen knife followed her His timidity lost his composure, and he landed on the chopping board with a heavy and soft sound, which made Gu Qiushui even more annoyed, and said, "You still plan to live here for a long time?"

Ye Lianzi didn't understand what he meant, so she responded naturally: "Yeah." Seeing her desperate appearance of setting up a camp, Gu Qiushui thought, why not tell her clearly, otherwise it will take longer: the longer the camp, the stronger the camp will be. The day you just arrived, look at you It's hard to talk to you all the way.You also know why I left Feng Ping and went to Yan'an. Of course, I didn't get what I wanted in Yan'an, and I also suffered a lot after arriving in Hong Kong... Don't talk about it, it's useless.Now our affairs have developed compared to when we left Peking. Before you came; that is, on the day of September 18th, I had just promised Zou Keren that I would wholeheartedly fight against Japan and Chiang Kai-shek, and I had nothing else to ask for.And then you came, embarrassing me... I mean, you might as well go back to your father, you go back with the kids. "A high-sounding.

Ye Lianzi has been waiting since the day she arrived in Hong Kong, waiting for Gu Qiushui to be free to talk to her, but the two of them haven't had a serious conversation yet.She thought that Gu Qiushui would say thousands of words and affection to her, but she didn't expect that "you take the child back home" was waiting for her.As soon as Ye Lianzi took the wok out of the fire hole, she put her hand over the fire hole again, and immediately smelled the smell of burnt skin.Her face was flushed, and she quickly poured some soy sauce, with her back turned to Gu Qiushui, she just lowered her head and rubbed it on her fingers, which were swelling in a blink of an eye.Since her mother passed away, besides turning her back on this ruthless world, what else can she do to protect herself?

Compared with the money under the mattress, it is less and less day by day; there is no one to rely on, and you will be begging before you see it. Compared with Tianjin flooding and seeing the flood rising, the mother and daughter had no food, set up money, and had nowhere to escape. Compared to suffering the humiliation of being dependent on others in the Bao family. Compared with Tianjin to Xuzhou, Xuzhou to Huai'an, the danger of crossing the Japanese and puppet blockades; more than two years later, in 1943, Gu Qiushui walked the same route in order to perform a mission, and talked to Wu Wei about His whole life, he sighed: "It is very dangerous to pass through that blockade line, if you say it, you will lose your head!" I don't know if he had a little understanding of the hardships of Ye Lianzi's search for her husband at that time?I don't know if I felt sorry for Ye Lianzi at that time.

Ever since Gu Qiushui left, all the difficulties and tribulations added up, and Ye Lianzi didn't find it difficult to overcome at this moment, "Take the child back home".At that time, no matter how difficult it was, she felt that there was still hope ahead.Now Gu Qiushui's one word has ruined her hope that all hardships will be rewarded. Their kindness, all her sufferings, made Gu Qiushui turn into droplets with a single word. In this regard, Gu Qiushui and Wu Wei had many confrontations decades later—— Gu Qiushui said: "If the situation was good after I arrived in Hong Kong, I would have brought you and your mother here, and there would be nothing later. Once you came, I would have to find someone to increase my salary. I just don't want to Talk to people..." It is true that "I am ashamed to speak to others" is a fatal tradition of many Northeast men, but if you think about it carefully, you will know that it is not the case.Didn't Gu Qiushui say that you can have a full meal for 50 cents, dumplings or a bowl of noodles for 30 cents?Ye Lianzi would not even expect thirty dumplings, she would have a bowl of rice plus a piece of pickle, maybe she didn't even need pickle; what's more, Gu Qiushui's monthly salary was as much as two hundred at that time. Even Bao Tianxin, who ran away with his second wife and later went to study in Hong Kong, only spent eight yuan a month including board and lodging. "The important thing is that your mother never told me what she suffered after I left. If she told me about the suffering she suffered, I would have a little conscience and reflect on myself. Her self-esteem is too strong, and she never 'Bu rush'. But life's opportunities are fleeting, and if you don't want to seize them, the opportunities will pass... If I know what happened to you in the Bao family, I will have to settle accounts with them. Alas, now I just want to settle accounts, If you want revenge, you can't find anyone!" Wu Wei said: "Did you give my mother a chance to speak? Even if she didn't say it, can't you imagine it? You are a big one: you don't keep the baby, and you leave, a woman with a child, no relatives, no reason, and no skills. , How difficult should her life be? Who do you want to settle accounts with and seek revenge? Shouldn't you seek revenge against yourself first? " "If the Bao family treated you better, your mother wouldn't come to Hong Kong to look for me, she would stay in Tianjin all the time, and I would always go to you in the end." He added. "Why do you complain about the Bao family? As a husband, you don't care about your wife and children, and you want to leave them in the Bao family for eight years of resistance. What obligation does he have to take responsibility for you? You will come back to us?! You Forgot, how many years after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the first thing you did, regardless of our life or death, was to write to my mother, saying that you could not support us, let my mother divorce you, and quickly find a way to live..." At this moment, Ye Lianzi's stubborn quality was discovered, or it could be said that she knew everything. She suffered a lot, alchemy generally took her for more than 1,500 days, and there was no fruit sooner or later.How difficult is it for her to be unarmed and unarmed?At this time, the idea is released and the achievements come out.go back? ! How can I explain to my father when I go back?Is it easy for a junior officer like my father to pay for her travel expenses to Hong Kong? Go back and rely on who?What is the father's obligation to support Gu Qiushui and Wu Wei for the water thrown by the married girl? Not to mention how to face the stepmother after returning home. When she first came, she lived at her father's house for a few days, and the stepmother was always worried that she would stay here forever.She hates it wherever she goes, and she doesn't want it anywhere!What's wrong with her?Everyone is annoying.Living to this point, what is the way out? How could Gu Qiushui say such unreasonable words? Moreover, her courage, strength, and spirit were exhausted, and she no longer had the ability to deal with such a predicament. Ye Lianzi lowered her head and didn't look at Qiushui. She said in a low voice, "I don't." It sounded like a fortress, and there was no possibility of accommodation.The simpler things sometimes outnumber ten and become the most difficult magic weapon, which may be what it means to respond to all changes with the same.And an opponent who responds to all changes with the same will become a difficult opponent to deal with. It's no wonder that Gu Qiushui had such an urge - he really wanted to take a hammer and smash Ye Lianzi's head open, so that her unresponsive head would be enlightened.What's more, Ye Lianzi burned her hand, which made Gu Qiushui even more furious, thinking that she deliberately burned her hand to show him, and used a bitter trick to coerce his sympathy.Wu Wei looked at Ye Lianzi and then at Gu Qiushui. She was more than four years old and she still couldn't judge what happened before her, but she knew for sure that the person who suddenly appeared in her life and asked her to call her father was what she was hungry for. The one whose mother didn't dare to buy her food at that time was the one who would be more frightened when he said something about his mother than when he was hit by a flood in Tianjin... Unexpectedly, Ye Lianzi, who has been submissive, has such abilities.Gu Qiushui said: "Okay, then you have to pay for this 'I don't'." After speaking, he turned his head and left. Ye Lianzi didn't plead. According to her life experience, no one will be merciful to her just because of her pleading.Hugging Wu Wei in his arms, standing on the platform in a foreign land, looking at Gu Qiushui's figure walking away in dismay." Only then did he realize that this situation is so different from Gu Qiushui's Beiping more than four years ago. , so different. Gu Qiushui did what he said, no food? No clothes? No money? He ignored them all. It's not that Gu Qiushui is cruel, nor is he stingy, he just wants to use this method to force Ye Lianzi away.Once asked about these things, Ye Lianzi would have an illusion again, thinking that he had changed his mind and was willing to keep their mother and daughter. There is not much travel expenses left, and Ye Lianzi can't go to Gu Qiushui, so he will take even more extreme measures to drive away their mother and daughter. She went to a small shop to buy some rough porcelain bowls and a bag of rice.With a height of 1.55 meters and a weight of less than 100 pounds, she boldly carried the bag of rice onto the platform. There is no running water in the community where I live, so I carry a bucket to a place with running water in the distance, dragging Wu Wei with one hand, and carrying the bucket with the other.Can't walk quickly, Wu Wei couldn't keep up, so he had to take a step and wait, and the weight of the water doubled on his hands. Following the example of the locals, Ye Lianzi boiled rice, put it in a bowl, and poured some green vegetables on top.She can't speak Cantonese, so she writes the price on a piece of cardboard, and when someone asks the price, she just points to the cardboard, and people think she is dumb, so she doesn't ask any more, and just eats and pays. Fortunately, this is a slum area, and there are many coolies. This bowl of solid, filling rice bowl is very popular.What's more, she is kind-hearted, and she pretends to be more full than others, so she sells well. This made her feel that she still has some ability, just like a candle that cannot show its light during the day, but it will show up at night. Winter is coming in a blink of an eye. If there is no money, the winter in Hong Kong will be very cold.Unlike my hometown in Northeast China, where I can go up the mountain to pick up some fallen leaves and firewood to make a kang; nor is it like Bao’s house in Tianjin, where there is heating in the house.Of course, he couldn't take Wu Wei out to sell food, the street was even colder.The wind blows from the sea, pierces deeply and comprehensively into the bones, and it also has a bit of salty smell, which is salty and cold like being wet in a pickle jar. Ye Lianzi had no choice but to lock Wu Wei in the room, let her sit on the bed, then threw a quilt to surround her, and put a bedpan on the ground.Repeatedly told her: "Nannan don't cry, don't be afraid, mom will be back soon, when mom comes back, I will buy you Tangtang and Guoguo, ah!" The sugar that Ye Lianzi mentioned is the earthy brown sugar that is abundant in Guangdong. It is cheap and it is said that it can nourish blood. Wu Wei raised his small face, and answered all over the world: "I won't cry—I won't cry—I won't cry—" He never made noise like other children who never left his mother, and never stopped Ye Lianzi from going out to sell food.Wu Wei is indeed not afraid.Until I grew up, I didn't know how to be afraid of very insidious things.Silly, bold and reckless, on the contrary, he helped her overcome difficulties one by one. Ye Lianzi looked back step by step. Wu Wei, who was folding his handkerchief on the bed, had difficulty stepping out of the narrow door every time.But what if she doesn't leave?Seeing that the mother and son are going to have nothing to eat again.Wu Wei is not attached to Ye Lianzi, and is very interested in folding a small handkerchief of his mother.She loves her mother's little handkerchief, a handkerchief can be folded into various patterns, and everything is made by herself.Folding a small handkerchief, she repeated like a nursery rhyme: "I won't cry, I'm not afraid. I won't cry, I'm not afraid..." If this isn't her nursery rhyme, what is it? When you get tired of playing, go to the ground, go to the small cabinet to get the cup, and drink some brown sugar water that mother soaked in the cup, how delicious it is!Brown sugar water is my aunt's favorite besides my mother.So she urinates a lot, and she climbs out of bed to urinate after a while, and carefully aligns the bedpan so that the urine does not spill on the floor, otherwise, mother will lie on the ground and wipe the floor like at the second wife's house.Wu Wei has almost forgotten the days of the Bao family, but he will never forget the scene of Ye Lianzi lying on the stairs wiping the floor. Every time Ye Lianzi came back from selling food on the street, she saw a lot of urine in the bedpan but did not spill it on the ground, and then looked at Wu Wei who was still surrounded by a quilt, except that she was not as tightly surrounded by herself, it seemed that nothing had changed. No.As usual, she asked Wu Wei, "Is it cold?" "Not cold." "Are you hungry?" "Not hungry." Ye Lianzi's answer was reassuring.But when Ye Lianzi was ready to cook, Wu Wei was not afraid of being scalded, so he tried his best to lick it into his mouth.While grilling, he stared at the plate of fried spinach with tofu in front of him.Eating, eating; she would raise her head, smile at her mother, and say, "Mom, it's delicious," a little embarrassed, as if she just forgot about her mother.The money earned from selling food not only paid for the two of them’s rent, food and drink, but also bought some bananas for Wu Wei—choose those that are not fresh and have black spots on the skin, the price is much cheaper. So even after Wu Wei has money, he also chooses the one with dark spots when buying bananas.Until the books she wrote were published in many European countries, and she was invited by the publishing house to promote her books in those European countries. The people in the publishing house saw that she would not eat the fresh bananas that were good, and would always put them on when black spots appeared on the skin. It's very strange to eat.At last she knew how sweet fresh bananas were, and she shouldn't wait to eat them until they had dark spots. Some good people in the magazine said to Gu Qiushui: "The child just arrived, why don't you buy her some snacks?" Gu Qiushui frowned as an answer. A Tang, who sells books in the service department of the magazine, loves children very much, so he bought some Cantonese-style dim sum and asked Gu Qiushui to bring them to Wu Wei. I don't know that Gu Qiushui rarely went up the mountain to see their mother and daughter.Although Wu Wei didn't eat the snacks that A Tang bought her, the sweetness she got in Hong Kong was given by A Tang, whom she didn't know. Someone came from the mountain and said that Ye Lianzi was selling food at a street stall.Not only did Gu Qiushui show no pity, but he felt hatred in his heart, thinking that Ye Lianzi intended to embarrass him, thinking to himself, who sent you here?It deserves it, let's take it!Secretly hoping that at least no one will buy her food, so that she will have no means of living and can't make it through, so she can go home as soon as possible. This was how the mother and daughter lived until Pearl Harbor in late 1941.On a good day, the Japanese plane flew overhead, and Ye Lianzi was still selling food on the street. She raised her head and looked at the plane in the sky stupidly, not knowing what it meant.Don't say she didn't think about it. Not long ago, even the Americans didn't think about it, and even the Pacific Fleet didn't think about it. They came to bomb the British and American troops in Wake Island, Guam, Manila, Singapore, Hong Kong and other places. It wasn't until the bombs fell, blood spurted, flesh and blood flew everywhere, the bustling streets instantly turned into ruins, and singing and dancing turned into howling ghosts and wolves, Ye Lianzi left the restaurant and ran home braving the bombs.How many times she was stopped by the air defense personnel and asked her to hide in the air-raid shelter, she just shouted: "Nannan, my Nannan!" Fortunately, their small building was among the rubble. Still standing precariously like before! Just when she was rejoicing that the small building was still alive, loud noises that had never been heard before burst into her eardrums again, and the invisible air waves that crowded the space suddenly threw her to the ground. land.She saw that a bomb was falling right at the intersection next to their small building.Her eyes were burning and burning, as if the bomb had fallen not on the ground but into her eyes. She thought desperately, it's over!That Nan Nan who had to be locked at home for his livelihood, this time is over! She can no longer see this girl who has never eaten a piece of candy, a good meal, or a toy since she was born. She always wears dresses and shoes remade from her old clothes, except for her mother's smiling face. I have never seen a good face, never complain, never ask, only in the world.After working hard for more than four years, I didn't know that I was suffering, so I thought the world was such a heartless little girl. Nannan's small face appeared in front of her eyes, not the one at the moment, but the two-year-old one, who smiled flatteringly at the second wife and passed by. She couldn't believe that their crumbling small building , actually still fluttering in the surrounding fire. Ye Lianzi ran up to the platform and kicked in the door. All the bottles and cans in the room were knocked off the ground, and everything was moved into a mess.Wu Wei was also thrown from the bed to the ground by the air wave. Seeing that Ye Lianzi didn't cry or make trouble, he just opened a pair of unclear eyes, turned around and showed Ye Lianzi's buttocks, saying: "Mom, my butt hurts." "Ye Lianzi rushed forward, hugged Wu Wei, but suddenly sat down on the ground, crying... This was the only time Wu Wei had ever heard Ye Lianzi's wail. She stretched out her small hand, wiped the surging tears on Ye Lianzi's face and said, "Mom doesn't cry, mom doesn't cry." Ye Lianzi pressed her cheek closer to Wu Wei's thick and warm little palm, but this could not stop her pain. Every pain is like a sickness, and there is a special prescription for it, and apart from that prescription, the best medicine is useless. When it got dark, the artillery fire extinguished the city, and Hong Kong, which was feasting and feasting, was blinded.Only when the bomb explodes again, Hong Kong will make a momentary jump in the flickering flames, like a struggle before dying. Every whistling bomb seems to be aimed at their small building, and the small building seems to be calmer than the whole of Hong Kong, waiting for an ending amidst the constant explosion of bombs. Ye Lianzi finally admitted that she was helpless.In fact, after Gu Qiushui bid farewell to Beiping, she faced this situation.She didn't understand at all that it was actually herself who repeatedly rescued them from the predicament.It is a pity that until she passed away, she thought she was a weak person.This bomb that almost separated their mother and daughter made Ye Lianzi dare not leave Wu Wei to sell rice, and within a day, all the rice shops were closed, saying that they would wait until people were hungrier. Will throw rice. Hong Kong is starving, and everyone is worrying about not being able to buy food.Only at this time, the poor and the rich have common worries.