Chapter 274

The sea is endless.

In the distance was a line,toy-sized boats floating on the sea.

The sky was overcast, the wet wind and the smell of sea water blew over, the wind was so strong that it could almost blow people away.

Zhu Yuyan pressed his hat, sitting in a car with a Japanese flag and a KMT certificate.

Driving the car was Su Chunjun, who brought her to the pier to look for a British ship.

“There, the British ship Princess Mary.” He said, pointing to a big guy in the distance.

Zhu Yuyan looked over and saw it.

It was very large and looked like a steamer crossing the ocean, with four huge chimneys that shot straight up into the sky.

Compared with it, the small boats, people and luggage carts on the pier below were as small as ants.

Su Chunjun said, “It came from the British Far East Company.”

The Far East Company is very famous in China. It shipped tea, silver, gold, jewelry and people out of China, and then shipped opium in.

The company was said to have been raided by the British government – this was the headline of the tabloid, and many social commentators wrote articles analyzing the incident to argue that the emperors of either country were similar and acted in the same way, so the foreign moon was not fuller than the Chinese one.

Zhu Yuyan in the school also listened to Prof. Dai spoke, Prof. Dai spoke with the tabloid almost, but he said the Far Eastern Company problem is not in China, but in India, it is too good to do in India, the money earned too much, people eye gas, so the British masters to copy it.

Su Chunjun: “For the next month, this is the only British passenger ship left.”

If Dai Yuchan and the others were to leave this month, then they would have to leave on this ship.

Zhu Yuyan looked at the ship and didn’t say anything for a long time.

Su Chunjun accompanied her.

On the way back, Zhu Yuyan said, “I know I should send them away, but I can’t let go before I leave.”

She regretted that she didn’t know if she should send them away. What if something happens to them outside? By then, separated by an ocean, by the time she knew the news, several years might have passed.

…… She might not even be able to collect their bodies for them.

Su Chunjun was driving the car by himself today, and as he gripped the steering wheel, he said, “I regretted leaving home at the time.”

This was the first time he told her about himself.

Zhu Yuyan turns around and holds his hand.

Su Chunjun smiled at her.

He had thought that he would never mention these things to anyone, burying them forever in the bottom of his heart. Sometimes even he thought he had forgotten.

Now that he thought about it, it was surprisingly so clear.

“I was running away with nothing and only a little money. I had no money left when I bought the ticket, and I can’t believe I forgot to set aside money for myself to eat.” The first time he learned that people could get by on water was when he was running away.

“Guess what was the first thing I sold?” He asked her with a smile.

Zhu Yuyan shook her head, clothes?

Su Chunjun: “It was belts.”

He was so hungry that he couldn’t stand it, and he also knew that he had made a mistake in his plan, forgetting that people need to eat, he was looking at other people taking a strip of cloth as a belt, so he unclipped his own belt, and replaced it with a strip of cloth he picked up on the street, and pawned it to have money to eat.

The first time when something, inexperienced, looking for a seemingly quite shiny face into, out of that British brand-name belt when eighty dollars.

Zhu Yuyan asked: “How much did you spend on that belt when you bought it?”

Su Chunjun: “I don’t know, it was customized by a tailor in England.”

Many clothes added together to pay the total price, really do not remember how much a single belt is.

But it must have been a big loss.

But that eighty pieces of ocean kind of saved his life, and in his day, ocean was still worth quite a bit. He relied on those eighty dollars to survive until college.

Su Chunjun: “I was regretting every day and every night whether I shouldn’t have run away.” When he was hungry during the day and didn’t know where to go; when he couldn’t find a place to sleep at night, he was thinking about going home.

But the leg wouldn’t go back no matter what.

“It’s not pride or anything else, but I know that if I go back, there’s no hope for me in this life. I would live a life that I could not even look down on myself.” Living was better than dying.

Su Chunjun glanced at her and said, “You will still send them away.”

Zhu Yuyan said softly, “Yes ……”

Back to the small red building, Zhu Yanshu and Zhang Ma were waiting for them, Dai Yucan and Shi Wuwei were expended to pick up mushrooms, now there is a mushroom room in the physical building, the mushrooms that grow don’t say that they can feed everyone in the whole school, but those who go early always pick up a plate of food to add color to the table.

Zhang Ma came over and took Zhu Yuyan’s hat while pulling her to the sofa, “Sit down, tell us quickly, the British ship really came?”

Zhu Yanshu also listened attentively.

Zhu Yuyan sat right across from Ms. Zhu and said, “I saw it, the British ship has really arrived and is parked at the pier. Workers are transporting coal to the ship by carloads, there are also British soldiers guarding the ship, and there are guns on board, and there seem to be two warships parked in the distance, probably to protect this ship. There were some cars that had driven past, and I also saw some foreigners boarding the ship, but they were quite strict in their inventory, and I saw that the crew was let through one by one.”

Su Chunjun also said, “I see not only foreigners boarding the ship, there are also those wearing long robes and cheongsams, so there should be Chinese boarding the ship as well.”

Zhu Yan Shu sighed in relief, “That’s good.” She then asked, “You guys went all the way over there, how many roadblocks and inspections were there?”

Zhu Yuyan: “I passed three posts. Two Japanese guard posts and one military police post. All quite good, the Japanese soldiers are not too bullying, see we are Chinese, did not have to ask people to get off the car to check, just they do check back and forth the car, even the engine is checked.”

Su Chunjun said, “The Japanese are worried about someone bringing a bomb in. There have been a couple of attacks on the docks recently, and they were all bomb attacks.”

He said, “If you want to leave, you have to do it before it’s too late.”

The Japanese are charting a course that looks as if they have gotten a total victory, but in reality there have always been a lot of people against them, and now it seems to be coming out all at once. Bombs and assassinations were popping up all over the place, and Japanese officials had been bombed several times, and I had heard that there were quite a few casualties as well.

And it’s not like the Japanese don’t have enemies in the city anymore, it seems like the UK, the US and France are all getting upset with the Japanese, I wonder if the Japanese are just looking like they’re eating too much.

Su Chunjun: “Last week, there was an attack on the Japanese base, I heard that the gunmen were ambushed outside, and after the bomb attack, the Japanese thought it was fine, but then the assassination happened right afterward, killing three or four Japanese officers and a dozen Japanese soldiers. Then the Japanese made an emergency search of the American and British church hospitals, pissing off the Americans and British who were still doing business locally.”

Even now, there are still American and British businessmen who have stayed behind to do business. The Japanese also needed the help of the Americans and the British, and they always got along well.

But this time, they almost fell out.

This time, it has nothing to do with the Chinese government. Mayor Feng sent Su Chunjun to mediate, telling these foreigners not to fight and fire on Chinese soil, and he himself hid far away.

Su Chunjun went there with a group of gendarmes with guns and surrounded himself with three layers to watch the show, not saying a word from beginning to end.

He saw it with his own eyes and felt that it was still the Japanese who were tougher. That Japanese lead moustache is small, hard to let the Japanese soldiers surrounded the hospital, all the inpatients to check before bowing and apologizing to leave.

Angry Americans and Brits wowed.

But he felt that the Americans and the British were not really innocent either. Because it wasn’t good for these two countries for the Japanese to have too much power in the city, and they weren’t happy to see the Japanese expanding too quickly.

These foreign governments could stand together when they bullied China, but it would be interesting to see them fight on their own.

To sum up, Su Chunjun thought that the sooner the better, because of Mayor Feng’s weakness, the Chinese government in fact no longer had enough deterrence, these foreigners would not care about anything, if they really want to clash on Chinese soil, no one can stop them.

Su Chunjun: “There can be no more hesitation, I suspect that the British ship is also unlikely to stop here long enough, they are likely to add enough coal and leave.”

The people on the ship were not stupid, and realizing that this place was now unsafe, they definitely would not stay for long.

Zhu Yanshu was a person who could make up her mind the most, she could decide to marry Yang Xuhe, she could also decide to divorce him and never look back, she was never a procrastinating character.

She said, “Good. I’ll tell them when they come back in a while, and I’ll send them away the day after tomorrow at the latest.”

The matter of Dai Yucan and Shi Wuwei going to study abroad had been buried in the school, and no one knew they were leaving. Only Principal Tang knew.

On this matter, Dai Yucan and Shi Wuwei didn’t have much say.

In the evening, Zhu Yanshu personally helped Dai Yucan pack her bags, Zhu Yuyan had been accompanying her sister, the two sisters were now about the same size, but she still threw herself into her sister’s arms.

The words that should be said, have been said before. The things that need to be explained have been explained before.

Zhu Yuyan didn’t dare to open her mouth for fear that if she opened it, she would say something that wouldn’t let them go.

If she could do it, she would be willing to put her whole family on a ship to England. But she couldn’t stop Zhu Yanshu from pursuing her ideals and career, she couldn’t separate her from Professor Dai and his wife, she couldn’t leave Zhang Ma alone, and she couldn’t give up Teacher Su.

In the end, only the two most well-behaved and obedient children in the family were left to be cheated away by them.

It may not be a straight path there, and it’s just as full of danger.

However, it was better than being here, and more suitable for the two of them. These two people are more suitable to engage in academia, shut in the ivory tower to study well, do not ask the world, so as to live the longest.

Dai Yucan still remembered to go to England to settle down, and then pick up Zhu Yuyan in the past.

She asked, “Have you spoken to Mr. Su yet? Is he willing to go with you?”

Zhu Yuyan: “I’m leaving, how can he not go with me?”

Dai Yu Cicada easily believed it, “That’s right, Mr. Su’s feelings for you are very deep, he will definitely be willing to go with you when the time comes.”

She then asked, “You are following me closely, right?”

Zhu Yuyan was able to tell lies as if they were true, she had never been so sincere in her life when she lied as she was today.

She said, “If we can get tickets, we’ll go together. If we can’t get enough tickets, then let mom and Professor Dai go first, and I’ll go last with Mr. Su.”

Dai Yuchan let go of Zhu Yuyan and went back to comfort Zhang Ma who was wiping her tears while packing her bags. She put her arm around Zhang Ma’s shoulder and said, “Zhang Ma, don’t cry, you also come over quickly, I’ll be waiting for you in England. Don’t you worry to England all speak English, there is China Street over there, all Chinese.”

Zhang Ma wiped away her tears, forced out a smile, wrapped her arms around Dai Yucan’s waist and said, “Good, Zhang Ma will listen to our big sister. Big sister, you have to be stronger, do you know? Don’t always think about being able to stand up to others, you have to be able to stand up to yourself first. I’m not worried about your mom and your sister, but I’m most worried about you. You child …… is too easy to suffer.”

Dai Yu Cicada said, “Zhang Ma, I know, I know all, don’t worry.”

Zhang Ma wiped her tears, “How can I not worry? Everyone in this family is smart, that’s the one surnamed Yang also has a lot of heart, who are you really like?”

Zhu Yanshu said, “Who else? Like my mom. My mom has the same temperament as my elder sister, she is most afraid of apologizing to others, and she will always give herself up beforehand, and take the losses as blessings.”

Zhang mom was aroused memories, staring at Dai Yu Cicada to look closely, said: “To say like the old lady, that is more or less like …….”

The group of people talked without forgetting to do anything until Professor Dai came and knocked on the door, saying that Shi Wuwei had already cleaned up, and that he had also made dinner, calling out for everyone to go down for dinner.

At the mention of dinner, everyone had no appetite.

Zhu Yuyan remembered that her sister had even gone to collect mushrooms today and asked, “What kind of dishes are there?”

Prof. Dai: “A chili pepper soup and a chili pepper fried mushroom.”

Zhu Yuyan desperately imagined the mushrooms and forgot about the chili peppers, and reluctantly said, “That’s okay.”