Chapter 130
Zhang Ma bought back a large pile of carrots, and a lot of corn cobs and potatoes, and several bags of rice, wheat, soybeans, etc., and several bags of salt and sugar, as well as sauce, pickles and salted vegetables.
Zhu Yanshu calculated correctly, Zhang Ma did not bring enough money, she put the money in the bag of food as a deposit payment, to Zhu family building called Yang Yuyan down to pay the final payment.
All the food she bought was put in a room that served as a storehouse on the floor where the Zhu family lived, and Zhang Ma put several safes on it with a big lock.
“I’m late.” Zhang Ma said as she cooked, “Someone has already gone to the street to grab something.”
Yang Yuyan looked down from the balcony, at noon there were already many more gendarmes on the street, they seemed to be here to maintain order, the way to maintain it was to drive all the people off the street, even the newsboys were driven away. After three o’clock in the afternoon, there were surprisingly few people left on the street.
You know, this street is one of the busiest streets in the city, usually not until the evening when the street is quiet, the street is never less people.
There were no more yellow-bag pullers, only bicyclists and automobile drivers.
The general public walks, but those who ride bicycles and drive cars are rich, or at least middle class.
Yang Yuchan and Shi Wuwei sneaked back after dark.
Zhu Yanshu and the others waited until eight o’clock in the evening to see them come back, and were relieved to see them enter the door.
Zhu Yanshu hugged Yang Yucan and shouted straight out, “Scared me to death, I thought you had been captured.”
Yang Yuyan still didn’t understand, “Why did you arrest my sister?”
Zhu Yanshu glared at Yang Yucan and said, “Ask your sister, ask her if she’s planning to go on a parade again?”
Yang Yuyan: “Ah? A parade?”
Why would the emperor die in a parade?
Yang Yuchan didn’t talk a lot in school this day, now her voice is muffled, she broke away from Zhu Yanshu’s arm and said, “Mom, we’ve found out, it’s the Japanese who poisoned the emperor to death!”
Yang Yuyan from this morning when she saw the newspaper has maintained the fine quality of being open-minded and full of shock, she found that this world can also be described by the world is changing too fast for her to understand.
The Japanese poisoned Puyi?
Wish Yan Shu a mouth top back: “Where did you go to find out? This one day’s work, you guys can still fly to the northeast?”
Yang Yuchan said: “It’s the newspaper! Our side of the news is lagging behind, someone brought a newspaper from the Northeast, it says that the Japanese forced the emperor to give an imperial decree to dedicate the country, the emperor refused to do so, so they poisoned the emperor to death.”
Yang Yuyan barred into a habit, mainly because she clearly remembered, “Didn’t the emperor already believe in Yeshua?”
She remembers that year’s history books have written ah, the eight allied forces to seize the country’s door, the emperor in order to seek asylum, and the empress together to convert to Jesus, is to want to become a family with the foreign emperors. According to this, the emperor has offered the country to Jesus, China almost became the Kingdom of God, the Chinese people almost have to pay tithes.
He had already offered his country once, so we should not be surprised that he offered it again. How to believe that he suddenly became steadfast and refused to offer it?
Yang Yucchan was so angry that she wanted to explode, “Don’t mess up, okay?”
Unexpectedly, Zhu Yanshu stood up to Yang Yuyan this time, “Your sister has a point. The emperor was in the Forbidden City back then, with loyal generals protecting him didn’t even stop him from escaping, he’s now holding on to his life in the hands of the Japanese, it’s the Japanese who are holding him up to be the emperor, so how could he rebel against the Japanese?”
Even Zhang Ma didn’t believe that the emperor had become hardened, she advised Yang Yu Cicada: “Big sister, don’t listen to the wind so much, the news outside may not be true. In this case, let’s wait for Mr. Su to come back, he has news from the government, listen to him.”
Yang Yucan was furious, but she was too stupid to talk to her family, so she could only pull Shi Wuwei: “You say!”
Shi Wuwei shook his head, not taking her side, and said, “Ms. Yang, I can understand your feelings, in school today, everyone was just as excited and sad as you. But we have to stay calm, the news is still unclear now, we can’t jump to conclusions easily.”
Yang Yu Cicada sat on her chair with her butt and didn’t say anything.
Zhang Ma looked around and pulled Yang Yucan, “Big sister, what the newspapers say isn’t all true, they used to say your mom wasn’t virtuous.”
Yang Yucan: “It’s not the same thing! It’s such a big deal ……”
Zhang Ma: “How big of a deal is someone lying. When the emperor ran away back then, I didn’t believe it either, and there were people who said that the emperor died in battle, and there were people who said that the emperor had gone on a personal expedition, and there was even more news back then. Finally realized that the emperor was running away, he ascended the throne in the northeast for several years before I believe. It’s not too late for you to wait three years to see this.”
Yang Yu Cicada’s boiling head at school with her classmates was cooled by several pots of cold water in succession when she came home.
The main thing was that she didn’t trust her judgment as much as she used to, especially since Yang Yuyan was pouring cold water right from the start, she couldn’t help but start to wonder if she was wrong again.
Yang Yuyan seemed to have never believed the news ah.
Shi Wuwei had purposely sent Yang Yucan home, he promised Zhu Yanshu that he would protect Yang Yucan.
Zhu Yanshu of course thanked him very much and said, “It’s too late, so don’t go back to school, stay here for the night.”
Shi Wuwei didn’t refuse, when he came, Prof. Dai had said that he would let him stay at Zhu’s house for a night, fearing that there would be a riot on the street and the Zhu’s house of women would be afraid of danger.
He said, “Good. Prof. Dai said it’s best to close the gate early tonight, I’ll go down now and close the gate, and open it again when the people come back.”
Zhu Yanshu said, “Okay, go downstairs and tell the Ma family on the first floor to close the door now, and there’s no need to leave the lights on, turn them off.”
Shi Wuwei went downstairs to close the door with the Ma family, and the electric light above the door was extinguished.
He came upstairs again, and Zhang Ma had cooked him noodles and spread carrot and cornmeal cakes.
Today, he and Yang Yucan had been having an assembly with their classmates at school, the group was so excited that they hadn’t eaten anything, and hadn’t even taken a sip of water, and now that the meal was served, the two of them ate out of the air of a thousand armies.
Yang Yuyan asked from the side: “Is the school preparing to go on parade?”
Shi Wuwei said, “Everyone is planning to march in front of the government and also to protest at the Japanese Concession. The teachers are organizing it.”
She turned her head and asked Yang Yucan, “Sister, are you going too?”
Yang Yuchan asked her back, “Aren’t you going?”
Yang Yuyan actually shook her head, “Don’t really want to go.”
Not to mention Yang Yuchan’s surprise, Shi Wuwei was shocked, every student they’ve seen today was excited and sad, angry and upset, if there wasn’t the school as a place to vent, if there weren’t the teachers stopping and organizing, they would have run out into the street.
Even so, everyone decided to march early tomorrow morning.
This was the first one he had ever seen who said they didn’t want to go.
Yang Yu Cicada was a bit scared and stuttered: “Why for what?”
Yang Yuyan tilted his head and thought, saying, “Probably because I was not educated in loyalty to the emperor? I don’t understand what the emperor has to do with me?”
Yang Yuchan put down her chopsticks, wanting to scold but unable to find the words, wanting to educate but not knowing where to start.
Shi Wuwei said, “He’s not just an emperor, he’s a symbol of our country. Although we all know that he is also an ordinary man, or an ordinary man full of flaws, since he is the last emperor of our country, he represents our country. If the Japanese harm him, they are harming our country. So we must show something.”
Yang Yu Cicada: “Right!”
She could finally find someone who could speak for her when she was forced into silence by Yang Yucan, and she was surprisingly a bit chipper for a moment.
Yang Yuyan: “I understand what you mean. But I’m still not in favor of students as a group expressing their opinions to the outside world.”
Shi Wuwei shook his head, “Besides us, there is no one left to come out and speak.”
Yang Yuyan: “Yes, we have the government.”
Shi Wuwei smiled bitterly, “You mean the Nanjing government? It’s useless. They only want to save their own lives and power, they don’t care about this country at all.”
Yang Yuyan: “This is true. But in the end, it’s because the government is too weak that he doesn’t dare to speak out. If the government was strong, even if the people sitting inside were cowards, he would dare to speak out.”
Shi Wuwei nodded, he also thought that the government was weak.
Yang Yuyan: “But the students are also weak. The government still has an army and weapons, the students don’t even have an army or weapons.”
Shi Wuwei: “But we are not afraid to sacrifice our lives!”
Yang Yuyan: “Sacrifice for nothing? It’s a waste of life.”
Shi Wuwei thought for a moment and said, “Yan Yan, I understand, you are pragmatic in your thinking. Thinking that things that are meaningless don’t have to be done, right?”
Yang Yuyan nodded, “Yes.”
Shi Wuwei: “Actually, I know that you have a point, and I also know that there is no point in going on a parade. I’m not the only one who knows that, Professor Dai and many teachers in the school know that, but they still favor the students going out to march and bravely expressing themselves. Because what we are capable of doing is a symbol, even if we are taken to jail and people lose their lives, we still have to express our words with our fierce behavior. We are there to be seen and heard by as many people as possible.”
Shi Wuwei: “Because we have no other way.”
If someone can point out the right path, we are willing to step on it, even if our feet are covered with thorns.
But when we don’t know which path is the right one, we have no choice but to follow the wrong path, because stopping means failure.