Chapter 261
Tang Jiuling ready to persuade the wooden head of this room how critical the situation is, how serious the situation is, to stay in the green mountain is not afraid of no wood to burn the reasoning.
But he finished, this group of wooden heads in the room expression are not with change, ask a variety of questions, is not one is against.
“When will we leave?”
“How to bring things? We can’t leave all the instruments in the lab behind, can we? Will we take the train?”
“Will the students take it with them? There are still over a thousand students in the school, right? Should we bring them all?”
“Can I bring my family? My mom and my brother and sister have three families.”
A group of people were talking, already discussing the months and dates of departure.
Tang Jiuling throat dry, heart worried, knocking on the table to call back the attention of the crowd, from his original plan to say.
“I think, the Japanese did not occupy all of China, we first avoided this time, first hide to the Japanese did not occupy the city to go. Experimental equipment which can not be lost, but with or without take away also depends on the situation, the first to send people away. Family members can be taken, it is best to take all the family members that can be taken. I’m afraid it’s not possible to take all the students, but only those who have no family and no job, and we have to see if they are happy to go with us. To go is certainly to take the train.”
Tang Jiuling said one by one.
Dai Yushu asked, “Then where are we going?”
A long and thin professor said, “The Central Plains? The Central Plains is good, there’s land to grow and no shortage of food.”
Another said, “Henan? Wouldn’t that be far enough? Are there Japanese in Henan?”
A third said, “There are no mountains in Henan, and no one can hide from the airplanes when they come to bomb, so it’s not good.”
“If you want to go into the mountains, then go to Sichuan?”
“The farther away the better, then why not go to Yunnan? Over there right now Japan couldn’t care less, their power is coming up from the northeast.”
Principal Tang’s hand pressed in the void and everyone quieted down.
“We’ll discuss where to go. Now everyone is in agreement, right? Let’s go?”
“Go.”
“Go! Wherever the school is, I’ll be there!”
“Let the Japanese have their fun. What’s with the Good Citizenship Certificate?
A professor with a rough character spat on the ground, and Principal Tang had to pretend he didn’t see it.
President Tang: “Then we go back to make preparations, we are limited after all, we go back to try to discourage a few students, pack up and pack up the books and all kinds of information, can not take away on the destruction, can be taken away on the pack up, also let the family members to prepare for the preparation to follow the departure of all prepared in advance, but do not leak the news.”
A professor can’t forget: “Then my instrument ……”
That is also real money from the United States to buy back, President Tang also do not want to lose, said: “will certainly bring. You bring the horses and donkeys in our school, we may have to rely on them to pull the car.”
The professors walked out of the principal’s office with excitement and anxiety.
Zhu Yan Shu and Prof. Dai walked slowly back to the small red building holding hands.
In the quiet night, there were only the sounds made by the animals kept in the school. You can’t see the lights in the distance here, and the school is in the middle of this dark night, like an island.
Professor Dai said softly, “I’ll go to the shipping company tomorrow, I’ve issued all the identity certificates for Wuwei and Little Cicada, and I’ve bought the tickets, so I’ll go and set the ship’s schedule, and then I’ll send them on the ship first.”
This is a chaotic and uneasy era, it is certainly reassuring for a family to stay together, but for the sake of that tiny hope, they are also willing to send their beloved ones to a safer place.
Zhu Yanshu didn’t speak, as if she hadn’t heard and was lost in thought.
Prof. Dai’s voice was soft like a whisper, “I’ve also prepared identity certificates for Yan Yan and Jun Jun, so if they are willing to go at that time, they can go together. I’ve also prepared it for you, I’m more comfortable if you go with them.”
He only did not prepare it for himself. Because he wouldn’t go.
He had been half a slave and half a professor, and he would have liked to be a respectable professor while he lived and while he died. He had tasted the fine wines of foreign countries, but loved the sweet springs of his native land more.
The moon and stars were sparse, a shallow river of stars slanted across the night sky, and many stars spilled into the deep blue sky winking at people.
Dai Yushu stood still, in this beautiful moonlight, he spoke to Zhu Yanshu: “Xiao Shu, to meet you and marry you is the greatest happiness of my life, I am forever grateful to God for letting me meet you.”
A lover who respects him, loves him, doesn’t despise him or sympathize with him, she’s also smart, soulful and beautiful, she’s never proud of her family’s heritage, she only deceives people with her intelligence.
It had not occurred to him so in the boldest dreams of beauty he had ever dreamed.
He met love.
Zhu Yan Shu quietly listened to him and did not answer him, her face was somber and she seemed to be harboring a huge heartache.
They slowly walked back to the Little Red Mansion.
In the living room of the little red building, a lamp was left on.
On the sofa under the lamp, there was a figure sitting.
The two of them walked through the door and saw that it was Zhu Yuyan, who was wrapped in a woolen blanket and reading a Japanese book.
Zhu Yuyan yawned, saw them come back, put down the book and said: “You’re back? Zhang Ma has gone to bed, there is hot water in the kitchen for drinking, or you can make egg flowers, are you guys hungry?”
Raw eggs are washed with hot water and beaten into flowers, then some sugar is put in, and it’s sweet egg flowers. When there were few supplies, this was Zhang Ma’s last stubbornness – a night snack for her family members who returned late.
If Shi Wuwei were to prepare a different kind: chili peppers, then baklava.
Zhu Yuyan had just had a cup of sweet egg flower. You can’t buy white sugar outside nowadays, and this is still what Teacher Su brought from Mayor Feng’s house.
Zhu Yanshu lifted the book on her lap and looked at the cover, threw it back into her arms: “What are you working on now? It’s so late, go back to bed.”
Zhu Yuyan sensed that something was wrong, she didn’t dare to say that she was waiting for Mr. Su’s door, and immediately agreed: “Okay, then I’ll go to bed now, good night mom, good night dad.”
She ran up the stairs like a little swallow, forgetting her books.
Prof. Dai asked her, “Do you want to wait for Pure Jun?”
Zhu Yanshu: “Why wait for him? Tell him later.”
The two of them also went upstairs to sleep.
Zhu Yanshu tossed and turned all night, at first, she was keeping her ears open to hear if Zhu Er Miss had yangbang and ran down again, then she heard the commotion of Su Chunjun’s return, then Shi Wuwei went downstairs to chop firewood, Dai Yucan went downstairs to help, the two of them cooked in the kitchen downstairs, and Zhang Ma went to boil the water, and then Professor Dai got up to read as well.
Zhu Yanshu took off her eye mask and sighed as she lay on the big bed.
She hadn’t slept all night.
Professor Dai wore his robe and went downstairs to bring up two cups of coffee – coffee that also came from Su Chunjun. The stuff turned out to be American munitions, which were rationed like canned corn, as well as chocolates and cigarettes, but unfortunately the chocolates were so awful that they were returned by Miss Zhu Er.
He placed the coffee tray on the bed and bent down to look at her with a smile, “Want to get up now?”
Zhu Yanshu looks at this man who is not ugly but sexy even with a long beard and sighs from the bottom of her heart, “Why didn’t I meet you twenty years earlier?”
After the two got married, Professor Dai heard Ms. Zhu say this more than once between beds, as if it was a matter of great regret that she didn’t sleep with him twenty years earlier.
Dai Yushu to the lady’s compliments as it is, and then modestly two sentences “twenty years ago only young □□, twenty years later there are rich souls”.
Ms. Zhu said that she had lost twenty years of happiness in her life.
This time and time again fiery confession, so that the inferiority complex in the heart of Dai Yushu even do not know gradually disappeared, he was incredibly sure that he was loved by this beautiful woman, just as he loved her.
Zhu Yanshu straightened up, took a sip of his coffee, and said, “Call Little Cicada in for me, I have something to say to her.”
Zhu Yuyan waited downstairs for a long time, all sitting on a sofa with Mr. Su and talking for a carload of time, and didn’t see Zhu Yanshu and Dai Yucan come down for breakfast.
Although the breakfast wasn’t much to eat.
Today’s breakfast is cornmeal cake sandwiched with pickled peppers, and such a lavish enjoyment as egg flower is only enjoyed once a day, not because there is not enough white sugar, but the chickens in the school do not lay enough eggs.
Zhang Ma has been too lazy to care whether Ms. Zhu and Mr. Su sit on one sofa or two, she immediately went to hug the radio after eating, now the radio plays opera singers every day, as well as commentaries, drums, comedies, all fun, she can hug and listen to the whole day without moving.
Of course Shi Wuwei was the one who cleaned up the dishes.
Without Dai Yuchan, the whole table couldn’t think of helping him, even Professor Dai went into his study as soon as he put down his bowl.
Zhu Yuyan found the Japanese book she took yesterday and showed it to Mr. Su, saying, “Sure enough it’s been too long since I’ve used it and it’s already a bit raw.”
Now that the Japanese are so powerful, she felt that she should still brush up on her Japanese.
Su Chunjun also supported her in practicing more, “You can practice with big sister today, and it’s best if everyone in the family learns a few words.”
Zhu Yuyan hurriedly pulled him outside before asking him in a low voice, “The Japanese are coming into the city?”
Su Chunjun sighed softly and nodded, “Uh-huh. Mayor Feng is withdrawing.”
This moment was long expected.
No one thought that Mayor Feng could hold out under the Japanese guns, they all knew that he was going to leave, and now that the Japanese were just about to hold out, then he would definitely have to run.
Zhu Yuyan asked, “Then are you going to leave too?”
Su Chunjun shook his head, “The mayor is going to retreat in batches, I will probably be left behind to cover for a while before I finally leave.”
Zhu Yuyan fell silent for a long time before asking, “Then if they all go …… the Japanese will occupy the city, right?”
Su Chunjun did not nod, just looked at her, those black eyes like a deep pool, and like a vortex, there is everything and nothing in it.
It was not a question of who would leave or not, but that the Japanese would definitely occupy.
Whether Mayor Feng goes or not, the Japanese will not let go of the city that is already in their hands.
Even if the mayor doesn’t go, he has only two choices: obedience or refutation.
That is, life, or death.
Zhu Yuyan eyed Mr. Su’s back, he didn’t look as tall and imposing as she thought he was, in the autumn wind his hem was blown up wildly, he pressed his hat with one hand, his footsteps were hurried. He was only in his twenties, still a young man.
Every young man has to face the world.
Her lover was just an ordinary man.
And she loved such an ordinary man.
She didn’t need him to be brilliant and good at everything.
The one she loved was not originally a man who could do everything.
The person she loved was called Su Chunjun.