Chapter 69 68

It happened that John Ding was at home.Otherwise, Guan Xiaohe and Gaodi would have to spend the night under the big locust tree. Xiaohe, covered with a mattress and Gaudi's overcoat, was sleeping soundly when the Japanese returned. "Wake up, Dad! They're coming again!" Gaudí called in a low voice. "Who?" Xiaohe asked with sleepy eyes. "Japanese!" Xiaohe jumped out of bed and quickly put on her coat. "Good! Very good!" He wasn't sleepy at all.The Japanese came and he saw the light.He busily brushed his hair together with his fingers, and picked the corners of his eyes; then, with a half-smile, which was prettier than either, he walked towards the Japanese.He thought that with this bit of decency and politeness, he could persuade the Japanese to get back everything he had with just a few words.He firmly believes that only the Japanese are the most reasonable people in the world, and they are the ones who like him the most.Seeing them, (three: one plainclothes, two gendarmes) Xiaohe conveyed the smile on her face all the way to her toes, and bowed softly to them like a freshly green spring willow.

The plainclothes pointed to the door.Xiaohe smiled and thought about it.Unable to figure it out, he went to look at the door, thinking that there must be something missing in the door, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the Japanese.He couldn't see anything wrong with the door, he stood there blinking his eyes constantly; every time his eyelids moved, he smiled a little more, like a good baby who just woke up and laughed. Seeing him not moving, the plainclothes pouted at the gendarmes.One on each side, two gendarmes grabbed him and dragged him out.He was still very obedient, and fluttered out with them without touching the ground.At the street gate they threw him out; his smiling face hit the ground.Gaodi had already run out, and was standing with his back leaning against the shadow wall.

Slowly getting up, he saw his daughter: "What's the matter? What's the matter? Gaodi!" "The house was stolen! I can't even get out a bed!" Gaodi wanted to cry, but he held back his tears. "Find a way! Think of a way! Where are we going!" Xiaohe stopped laughing, but she wasn't particularly anxious: "No! No! The Orientals can't be so cruel to us!" "What are you Japanese? Will you be cruel!" Gao Di rubbed his hands and asked.If it wasn't for thousands of years of etiquette controlling her, she really wanted to slap him a few times! "Wait, wait and see! Let's go in when they come out! I haven't offended the Orientals, and they won't treat me unreasonably!"

Gaudí avoided him and went to stand under the locust tree. Xiaohe stood respectfully towards the door of the house.After waiting for more than half an hour, the Japanese came out from inside.The plainclothes man held a flashlight, and the gendarme used the light to seal the street gate. Xiaohe's heart seemed to stop beating.However, like the most experienced actor, he could hold his sick tricks to the end, and he bowed deeply to the backs of the three people.After bowing, he seemed to be exhausted, and sat down on the steps all of a sudden, holding his face in his hands and crying.His history, culture, property, enjoyment, philosophy, hypocrisy, and methods all seem to come to an end suddenly.

Gao Di came over gently: "Think of a way! What's the use of crying?"After straining his mind, he found his voice again: "I'll report, report!" He stood up abruptly. "Those three are definitely not real Orientals, pretending! Pretending! Real Orientals would never do such a thing! I'll report it!" "You bastard!" Gaudy had never insulted her father before, and now she couldn't control herself. "The Japanese stole your house, why are you still talking about them? Could this seal be fake? If it's fake, you tear it off!" She choked in her throat, unable to speak.After coughing hard a few times, she said again: "Where are you going? You can't freeze here overnight!"

Xiaohe couldn't think of an idea.People who make things happen because of people can't stand the storm.Gao Di went to call the door of the Qi family. Because of the cold weather and lack of coal, the Qi family has already fallen asleep.When Yunmei heard the knock on the door, she couldn't help shivering.Ruixuan heard it too, and was about to get up immediately. "Aren't you taking someone again?" Yunmei stopped him, and got off the bed by herself.She walked out gently; when she reached the street door, she wanted to look out through the crack of the door first.However, it was dark and she couldn't see anything; boldly, she asked in a low voice: "Who?" "I, Gaudí, open the door!" Gaudí's voice was not loud, but he was very eager.

Yunmei opened the door.Gao Di squeezed in without waiting for the door to open, and grabbed Yunmei's hand suddenly: "Sister Qi, we have been reported! Our house has been ransacked!" Yunmei and Gao Di trembled together. Ruixuan was worried, and hurried out with his coat on. "What's going on? What's going on?" He wanted to calm down, but he couldn't help feeling a little flustered. "Brother! The house was stolen! Find a way for us!" Gaudy's tears fell for a long time. Ruixuan asked a few more questions to clarify the matter roughly.He is willing to help Gaudi, he knows she is a good person.However, in order to help her, he also had to help Guan Xiaohe; he hesitated.No matter how great his kindness is, he is not happy to help the shameless Guan Xiaohe who betrayed Qian Moyin.

Yunmei is not happy to do anything to the Guan family, not out of cruelty, but because she is afraid of getting hurt.In these years, she knows that being careful is the most important thing.Gao Di saw the hesitation of the Ruixuan couple, and added more elements of pleading in his words: "Brother! Sister-in-law! Do me a favor and don't worry about others! It's cold in winter, do you really want me to freeze under the locust tree all night?" Ruixuan's heart softened, and he began to forget about Xiaohe, thinking about how to teach Gaodi a place to go. "Miss, isn't Xiaowen's house still available? Ask John Ding!" Yunmei also forgot to be careful. "You go there yourself, he thinks highly of you, so you won't run into trouble! Okay, if you really want to squat under a tree all night, it's not bad!"

John happened to be at home.The entire yard was chartered by him, and he gave Ruixuan some face. "But there's nothing in the house!" "Let's deal with it overnight first!" Ruixuan said. Yunmei finds Gaodi a broken quilt. Everyone ignored Xiaohe, except John Ding who said to him: "The Japanese are different from the British, you always don't understand. The Japanese turn their faces and deny people, but the British are always persistent. If you don't believe me, just ask." Mr. Qi!" Xiaohe didn't dare to speak back.However, he didn't appreciate Ruixuan and John, because he only knew how to use each other, but didn't know what is heart and friendship.He thought their help was a kind of investment: although he lost everything today, he would be able to regain his strength (as long as the Orientals never leave Peiping!) and get up and running again. That's why they were willing to curry favor with him.Besides, Da Chibao will be released soon, he thought, and she will be released from prison; as soon as she is released, she will be able to claim everything back from the Orientals.

Sitting on the small bench brought by John, with Qi's ragged quilt covering her legs, Xiaohe felt cold and painful, but she was not completely disappointed yet.Every time he thought of the big red bag, he became less pessimistic, and couldn't help but say: "Gaudi, don't worry! As soon as your mother comes out, everything will be easy to handle!" "How do you know she can come out?" Gaudi asked angrily. "Can you still curse her never to come out?" "I can't curse her, but I also know what she has done!" "What? Is it wrong for her to earn us money, influence, dinner, and excitement?"

Gaudi didn't want to talk to him any more. The next day, everyone in the alley saw the seal on the gate of Guan's house, and they were all happy.Everyone understands the viciousness of the Japanese - they allowed the traitors to do evil, and then pretended to be good people to clean up the traitors; not only took away the land they had scraped, but also confiscated their original property.Even so, everyone, seeing the seal, is still happy; as long as they don't see the Guan family anymore, they are willing to burn a stick of incense! They didn't expect that Xiaohe would move to the No. 6 yard.However, this disappointment did not develop into hatred and revenge; they are all Chinese, and no one is ashamed to beat the dog in the water.They all stopped greeting Xiaohe at the same time - this cold indifference, in their opinion, was enough for Guan Xiaohe to bear! But Ruifeng is an exception.In his view, this is a good opportunity to restore friendship with the Guan family.He had to chat nonsense with Xiaohe.Moreover, if Cheng Guan's family is in bad luck to show their courtesy, maybe they can get Gao Di.Although Gaodi is not as beautiful as Zhaodi, having a wife is better than being single.This is his chance, a chance not to be missed. "What are you going to do? Second child!" Ruixuan asked after seeing Ruifeng walking out in a hurry after breakfast. "Look at Mr. Guan." The second child replied happily. "What are you doing?" "What? Tch! Brother, didn't you help find him a place to live?" Last night, Ruixuan hesitated whether he should help with this.He is most afraid of causing misunderstandings out of kindness—like the misunderstandings of the second child.Such a misunderstanding would at least lead him to the charge of not knowing right from wrong, not knowing good from evil.Hearing what the second child said, his face immediately changed color.Almost angrily, he told the second child: "I won't let you go!" "What?" the second child asked in a bad mood. "No way! I won't let you go!" Ruixuan didn't want to explain anything, but just shouted angrily. Mrs. Tianyou understands the boss's intentions—his kindness is measured. Although he has helped the Guan family a little, he still doesn't want to be friends with Xiaohe.She said: "Listen to your brother, second child!" Ruifeng was very unhappy.With a dry face raised, he said, "Okay, okay, why don't I go? Huh! There is no freedom here, I know!" After finishing speaking, he walked into the room angrily. Ruixuan really wanted to have a big fight, so as to vent the anger in his heart, but looking at his mother, he kept his words in his heart.Putting his hat on hastily, he went out. As soon as he went out, he ran into Guan Xiaohe! Xiaohe never got up so early; today, because the room was freezing cold, he had to come out early to move his half-stiff legs.Most of the people in the Little Sheepfold got up very early, and he met several neighbors.He didn't know what to do: be kind to them, it would be a loss of dignity; although his current luck is not very good, but Guan Xiaohe is Guan Xiaohe after all, a dead camel is bigger than a donkey!If you don’t greet them, it seems a bit awkward; he feels that he is now a "son in distress" and should be cared for and comforted by everyone; everyone must love to hear about his experience, and he has the responsibility to tell them . But no one greeted him.They only looked at him, then moved their eyes to the seal, and then walked over indifferently, as if he and the seal belonged to the same category.This made him very embarrassed, and he felt that a person must have real estate, money, power, a Japanese backer, and a wife like a big red bag!Without these, you are a lost dog. Not only will everyone not greet you, but they will kick you twice when they are happy!Thinking of this, he became angry.He really wanted to go to the Japanese military police camp, report that everyone in the alley was "reactionary", and send them all to prison at once! Seeing Ruixuan at a glance, he thought he had a chance to complain.Normally, he always thinks that Ruixuan is arrogant, cold, and unfriendly; now, he thinks that Ruixuan is smarter than all the men, women and children in the alley, because Ruixuan can see that a dead camel is bigger than a donkey. "Ruixuan!" Xiaohe called out kindly and desolately: "Ruixuan!" There was a three-point smile on his face and seven-point sadness on his face, cleverly showing that he was neither completely pessimistic, but rather pitiful. Rui Xuan didn't even nod, and walked away proudly.As he walked, he hated himself: Why would he apply the principle of not hitting a dog in the water to Guan Xiaohe?Xiaohe is not just a dog, but a mad dog; when a mad dog falls into the water, everyone has the responsibility to give it a few bricks, beat it down, beat it down! Xiaohe was not very sad, he forgave Ruixuan: "It's not that Ruixuan dared to put on airs to me, but the relationship with the British government!" While talking to himself, Gao Di half-closed the door and called him: " You come in, Dad!" Entering the room, Xiaohe looked at the empty room, and then at his daughter who hadn't dressed or washed. He swallowed a few mouthfuls dryly. "Dad! Do you have an idea?" Gaudi asked simply. "Ah—" he thought for a while: "we still have money in the bank! Look," he took out the check book from his pocket, "I always keep this precious book in my pocket! When I use the money, where It's convenient to write from time to time! I don't know where I put your mother's copy!" "The Japanese stole our house and left us money? It was a wishful thinking!" "What? What? They took the money too?" Xiaohe was anxious. "No! No!" "You don't remember what happened to Li Kongshan?" "Hmm—" He couldn't answer, and sweat suddenly broke out on his head. "Stop dreaming!" "I'm going to go to the bank to have a look!" "Dad, listen! I still have a little money in my hand. I'll ask Fourth Master Li to buy us two broken beds and some odds and ends. As for me, hurry up and find something. If I find something, I will support you But there is one thing, you are not allowed to mention the Japanese, and try to help the Japanese; if so, I will go out to find trouble; if not, I will go!" "Where are you going?" "Where can't I go?" "Do you think your mother can't come out?" "have no idea!" "What are you looking for?" "Do what you can!" "I'll go to the bank first, let's discuss it later, okay?" "Also!" Xiaohe didn't hire a car, but actually walked to the bank.The bank refused to cash his check.For the first time in his life, he walked so fast, almost trotting, and ran home. "How?" Gaudy asked. He was speechless.He seemed to be more than half dead.He didn't have any money—and he was robbed by the Japanese! After a long time, he opened his mouth: "Gaodi, let's go and save your mother quickly, there is no second sentence! We have another way if she comes out; otherwise..." "What if she really can't come out?" "Trust people, exercise, nothing is unsuccessful!" "Take care of Lan Dongyang again, Fat Juzi?" Xiao He's eyes widened. "Leave me alone! I have my way!" Gaudi said nothing more.She found Fourth Master Li and asked him to buy some worn-out things.Then, she went to the street and bought a small earthen pot, a sand pot, made a pot of boiling water, and bought some sesame cakes. After eating sesame seed cakes and drinking some boiled water, Xiaohe looked for his friends everywhere. Some of these friends refused to see him at all, and some only talked to him a few words. For more than ten days, he didn't even find out the whereabouts of the big red bag.But he is not giving up.He thought that although he couldn't do it, there must be some way to recruit his younger brother.where is sheHe began to inquire about Zhaodi's whereabouts.Zhaodi seemed to sink into the sea like a stone. Xiaohe had no choice but to agree to Gao Di: "You can find something to do!" A few days later, there was still no news about Da Chibao and Zhaodi. He deliberately wanted to please Gaodi: "If this continues, I think I have to go to Chongqing!" "Okay! I'll go with you! " Xiaohe was taken aback, and quickly changed her mouth: "Don't go around talking like that! Good guy, if you can't go, you'll lose your head first! I see, I'd better go to practice Taoism! Baiyun Guan, Bi Yun Temple, I live here, eat a little Luohanzhai every day, burn incense, recite scriptures, it’s all good!" Gaudi decided not to waste any more time with him.She could see clearly that he was hopeless; even to the point of death, he would still be so boring!She really wanted to make a fool of herself and escape to Peiping alone.But she couldn't bear it.Without her, she thought, he would be so troubled that one day not even a dog would wag his tail at him.When he was desperate, he would go to the Japanese; if the Japanese gave him a sesame seed, he would be a traitor with peace of mind!No, she can't go!She has to raise him, look at him, and raise him as a trash who can only eat; trash is better than a traitor!