Chapter 306
Futako became even more depressed after this happened. And Sakai and the others were no better off.
The boys left one by one the next day, and it was likely that they would never come back alive, so when they left, Mr. Sakai and the other students went to see them off.
No one knew about Futako.
Because of the lack of medication and the lack of doctors, Futako was confined to bed.
Fortunately, Sakai-sensei, who used to live in the Flower Street neighborhood and knew a lot of prostitutes and pimps, took care of Futako during this time.
Sakai-sensei: “I’ve been worried that she might get pregnant, but there’s nothing else I can do.”
Zhu Yuyan’s mind went blank from just now, “How could this happen? How did this happen?”
The Japanese building wasn’t a very big place,it was actually very small, only two floors high and it was a wooden building.
Japanese students have to use the classroom as a dormitory, they have classes in the classroom during the day and sleep in the classroom at night.
Only the teachers had their own rooms.
The stove room was small and there was only one stove. There was no place to take a bath, only a row of three faucets outside.
Even the toilet had only one squat, which was shared by both men and women.
Zhu Yuyan couldn’t figure out how the boys managed to avoid everyone’s gaze in such a small place. And how did no one notice?
Sakai sensei: “Because …… Erzi’s child was adopted by the presiding officer of a large temple, and that presiding officer gave Erzi a lot of money and sent her many gifts, among them beautiful fabrics, the other female classmates were so jealous that they all ignored Erzi. Futako was always alone.”
It was only after she gave birth and mooned for a while that Futako moved out of that hut.
She moved back in among the schoolgirls, but the schoolgirls ignored her.
For one thing, it was because Er Zi’s child had been adopted by a rich family and would have a better life than the others.
The second reason was that Erzi suddenly had a lot more money and goods.
All the schoolgirls came from poor families, otherwise their parents would not have given their daughters to the country and let them come to China.
All of them came to China with the belief that they could never go back to Japan. Even their families didn’t think they would make it back alive. Their families don’t care what happens to them in China.
It was the same for all of them, they had to wear school uniforms, only one pair of shoes and one pair of socks, and all of them were poor, but all of a sudden, Futako became rich!
Sakai-sensei: “None of them had any luggage or their own suitcases, and their clothes were all taken off and put in front of their pillows before going to bed. Everyone’s clothes were thin and tattered, except for Futako who had a beautiful rattan box containing money and cloth given to her by the presiding officer who had adopted her child.” She had only been to the schoolgirls once to see them and understood why Erzi was isolated and ostracized, and, even after what happened now, those schoolgirls still hadn’t accepted Erzi, they were laughing at her.
Zhu Yuyan: “…… Can I pick up Futako?”
The words rushed out of her mouth, barely passing through her thoughts.
But even now that she had come back to her senses, she wasn’t about to change her words.
It was too cruel for Futako to remain here.
“I can pick her up and let her recuperate at my place.” She said.
Sakai-sensei looked at her and shook his head, “Yanji, I know you mean well, but …… no. I can’t leave Futako with you. If she leaves here, she can never come back.”
Zhu Yuyan sneered.
Is there anything to miss here?
Sakai-sensei said seriously, “No way. She’s Japanese, ah, only this place can give her comfort, she can only stay here.”
It seemed that Sakai-sensei was well aware of that. Futako must really hate these students of hers by now, and once she was allowed to leave, there was a good chance that she would never want to be a Japanese again.
All the students here didn’t really want to be executioners of Japanese militarism, none of them were that crazy. That’s why these Japanese teachers they keep the students in check and don’t tell them to run around, especially the male students, because the students will run away.
Ms. Sakai: “You go and check on Futako.”
She personally sent Zhu Yuyan to Futako.
Futako had moved back into the small warehouse where she had given birth.
There were no windows in the warehouse, only a vent above. A little bit of sky came through there.
A little bit of white.
“Futako, look who’s here.” Sakai-sensei knocked on the door, pushed it open, and walked in with Zhu Yuyan.
Futako was sitting in the corner, she looked much older and thinner, her hair was thinning and even gray hair could be seen already.
“Yan Ji!” When she saw Zhu Yuyan, her eyes glowed a little and she revealed an exaggerated smile.
Zhu Yuyan couldn’t smile, but she guessed that Er Zi didn’t want people to know what had happened to her. If she wanted to talk about it, she would listen; falsely if she didn’t talk about it, she would pretend not to know and just provide the help she wanted.
Erzi held out her hand, “Yanji, you’re here.”
Zhu Yuyan sat down, “Erzi, are you okay?”
Er Zi smiled, nodded vigorously, pulled the rattan box from one side, opened it, pulled a letter out of it and handed it to her, “Look, they sent me a letter!”
Zhu Yu Yan took it and saw that it was the host who adopted Er Zi’s child had written another letter to Er Zi, on it was the child’s matter, saying that they named the child Jing Xiang, saying that this child was very cute and well-behaved, and that all people loved her, and that they had held a grand naming ceremony for the child, and had invited a lot of guests.
Er Zi smiled gently and said, “Jing Xiang is so happy, her mom and dad love her so much.”
Zhu Yuyan: “Yes, that’s so delightful.”
Mr. Sakai stayed by the side the whole time.
Zhu Yuyan had no way to avoid Mr. Sakai talking to Futako, so she had to say, “By the way, I’m going to have a wedding soon, and I’ll be inviting a lot of my friends over then. Futako, you’re my friend too, so I’d like to invite you to join me, okay?”
The mask-like smile on Futako’s face seems to have suddenly been torn open at the seams, as if she suddenly doesn’t know how to put on an expression.
Futako: “Invite me to ……?” She shivered.
Sakai-sensei rushed to say, “As nice as that would be, Futako, you don’t have the clothes to go to a wedding.”
Zhu Yuyan snaps, “Of course, the bridesmaids’ dresses are prepared by the bride. Erzi will be my bridesmaid, and the dress and shoes will be prepared by me.”
Er Zi trembled even more violently, “Bridesmaid?”
It was as if Zhu Yuyan was not asking her to be a bridesmaid, but to send her to the guillotine.
Zhu Yuyan held her hand and said, “Yes, I will have a western style wedding. In a western style wedding, the pure bride will be accompanied by pure bridesmaids to get married. Erzi, will you be my maid of honor?”
Erzi did not answer her.
As Sakai-sensei left with Zhu Yuyan, she said, “I’ll persuade Erzi to say yes.”
Zhu Yuyan: “Teacher ……”
Sakai-sensei: “I don’t want to see Futako commit suicide either.”
Sure enough, Sakai-sensei found out too.
No one knows what a suicidal person will be like before they commit suicide. But Zhu Yuyan knew. It could be a subtle feeling.
Suicidal people pretend everything’s fine before they kill themselves.
She was a good girl for two days right before she killed herself. And gave all her things to her friends so that all those bags and watches and necklaces would continue to be loved by their owners.
She felt it just now.
Futako was trying to kill herself.
Probably was still angry and sad when she sent her the letter, wanting justice.
But now all the anger of that time was gone, and whatever justice she had wanted, she wasn’t getting it now.
And then there was the letter.
I don’t know if it was actually sent, or if Sakai-sensei wrote it to comfort Futako, or if the timing was really too opportune.
While it was indeed a wonderful letter, and Futako, who saw it, was indeed comforted, she was also let down by it.
Her daughter was happy, and she had nothing more to worry about.
So instead of crying to her, her friend, after meeting Zhu Yuyan, she pretended that everything was fine.
She probably thought that Mr. Sakai would not tell Zhu Yuyan what happened. And the other Japanese students and teachers would be even less likely to say anything.
Because these people would have been pretending that nothing had happened.
But Zhu Yuyan wanted to save her, and Sakai-sensei, the woman, wanted the same.
Zhu Yuyan said goodbye to Ms. Sakai and took the car back to Zhu Jia Lou.
She didn’t waste any time, I should say she also needed something to stuff her brain and her schedule, it was better not to have a moment to spare.
As soon as she got back to Zhujialou, she hugged the phone and called Su Chunjun to say that she wanted to book a banquet for her wedding, so that she could get a note from him, otherwise she was afraid that the hotel wouldn’t take care of her.
Su Chunjun didn’t know what he was busy with, there were many people around him, he said: “Okay. I’ll open a note here, and you can ask Xiao Chen to come and get it.”
Driver Chen was listening right next to her, seeing her hang up the phone before he smiled and said, “Second Miss, just order me for this kind of thing, I can do it just as well if I go to the hotel.”
Zhu Yuyan’s face couldn’t hold a smile, and could only barely pull the corners of her mouth, “Yes, then next time I won’t have to call Mr. Su ah. Then I’ll thank you for your hard work and go get a note from him.”
Driver Chen: “Where where, no hard work.”
Driver Chen drove off and drove back, picked up the note, and just as he entered the door, he saw Second Miss Zhu still on the phone.
Zhu Er Miss holding the phone was saying, “…… I forgot, the Xue Ji tailor store that used to be commonly used in the family has long since closed, then where do I go to make dresses ah, have to make several of them.”
Over there, I guess it’s still Mr. Su, only to hear Mr. Su not knowing what to say, Zhu Er Miss said, “So ah? Then I’ll go there now? No need?”
Zhu Er Miss saw Driver Chen.
Driver Chen hurriedly held the note written by Mr. Su’s hand in both hands and put it on the table for Miss Zhu Er to see.
Zhu Er Miss took it in her hands and looked at it, nodded and spoke into the microphone, “Uh, uh, okay.” Then hung up and said to him shyly, “Mr. Chen, I have to trouble you again, I have to make clothes, there are quite a lot of clothes to be made for the wedding, but the tailor store I used to know has closed down, Mr. Su said that there is one that is very good, and you know it as well.”
Driver Chen already knew what he was going to do next, he didn’t even need to ask Second Miss Zhu again, “Yes, I know. Mr. Su has ordered two dresses there. It’s a foreign brand, I’m going to fetch the tailor here, Second Miss, please wait a moment.”
Driver Chen then labored to pull the tailor – I think he was called the designer – from that French store.
It was very easy to go with a gun.
When he led the designer and his assistant back, he saw that Miss Zhu Er was still holding the phone.
Driver Chen: “……”
Zhu Er Miss: “…… What’s a good gemstone to use on the wedding ring? Me? I don’t know, although they all say diamonds are good, but I don’t think diamonds are particularly good anywhere. What? Tell the gemstone dealer to send gems over to pick ……”
She saw Driver Chen and the people behind him.
Driver Chen smiled and came over, and when Miss Zhu Er hung up the phone, he immediately said, “Miss Er wants to see a gemstone dealer? I know one, and so does Mr. Su, he has the best gems in town. I’ll invite him over, you wait a moment.”