Chapter 15 Chapter fifteen

That night Mr. Tan was too scared to light up the lights.They also spoke very softly, but Boss Tan always coughed loudly when walking around the house, for fear of bumping into his wife and making a joke. "Did I say it? Did I say it? There will be a catastrophe one day!" He murmured. "I only see them booing all day long, and they booing well!" Aunt Tan scolded her daughter-in-law in a low voice, "I chatter and whisper to Jin Gen's wife all day long, and I don't know what you are up to, and then I ran over there again without seeing her. This is good! Maybe even you They were arrested too. Say 'counter-revolutionary'. Are you still alive? Is 'counter-revolutionary' just a joke?"

Jin Yousao was so frightened that she cried. "Since we have searched the house, they are always alive, where are they hiding?" Boss Tan deduced practically. "Perhaps fled to town, and took a boat from town." "How can you get on the boat without a road? Don't you remember what she said when she came back? How tight was the interrogation on the pier!" The militia came again that night.The old couple were lying in the dark room and peeping out of the window, and saw them come in with a lantern and go to the gold root.Then he came out again, picked up Gu Gang's luggage on the pole and carried it away.Gu Gang must not come back for the night, and probably lived with Comrade Wang, for the sake of safety.

The militiaman had left King Root's room unsecured when they came out, and it had been opening and closing in the wind all night, banging.Aunt Tan couldn't sleep because of the noise, and wanted to ask her daughter-in-law to get up and lock the door. "Oh, don't move it—don't move it," said Mr. Tan in a panic. "Let people know, maybe they will think that we went in and took something. They will be copied later, and we will be responsible for anything missing." The door banged even more brutally. Aunt Tan lay on the bed for a long time without falling asleep, listening to the voice.Then she whispered to her husband, "It's not like the wind. It's like they're both back."

"Stop talking nonsense!" Tan Boss said.In fact, he thought so too. Then Aunt Tan was taken aback, and found that when she mentioned these two people just now, she had already regarded them as ghosts.Maybe they are still alive, and saying such a thing is simply cursing them.She felt remorse in her heart, and then thought of the benefits of their usual lives, and at such a young age, she could not have imagined that they would end up like this.Her tears rolled one by one onto her flat and hard old blue cloth-covered reed pillow, and the sound could be heard.