Chapter 467

Shi Wuwei held Dai Yucan on his arm, attending the Sunday ritual.

He was limping with a cane, and Dai Yucan was holding his hand, wearing a veil and hanging her head.

They followed the crowd slowly across the fields and into the church.

This is a very ordinary village in the countryside. There was only one bakery, one church, no tailor’s store, and all the women were good at sewing, and the young girls liked to go to town to buy ribbons and hats.

The war that swept across the globe turned the village into a place where there were no young men, only old men with gray hair.

So when Shi Wuwei and Dai Yucan moved here, the whole village was curious and asked where they came from.

Shi Wuwei was carried off the carriage.

When they heard that he had broken his foot because he had fallen off the bar when he was training in the barracks and was frightened by the sound of the cannon, and that he had fainted from fear when he saw the soldier in the hospital who had half of his face chipped off by the training gun, and that he wouldn’t be able to walk when he woke up, the doctors concluded that he was an extremely timid and traumatized person, and that he wasn’t suitable for service in the army.

For this shameful reason, he was discharged from the army and had to bring his fiancée to live in a small town in the countryside.

The whole village treats “Mr. Tehran” as a joke.

But after a long time, they realized that the fiancé and his wife were very nice people. They never gossiped, were gentle and warm-hearted, willing to help others, and were devoted to the Lord.

It was only then that people changed their minds about the couple.

After attending the service, Shi Wuwei and Dai Yucan helped the officiating priest clean the altar and the church, and also promised to make sixty tea towels to be used for Holy Communion on the following Sunday.

When they got home, Dai Yuchan went to find out if there was enough cloth in the family’s stock of old clothes to make tea towels.

“You can’t walk with a broken leg,” Shi Wuwei said as he went ahead of her to rummage through the old clothes, “I’ll make the tea towels, you go translate.”

The two of them now earned most of their income by translating books and letters and submitting them to publishers. It was the only long-distance work they could find being in the countryside.

In such a small countryside of less than twenty households, there was no work to be done other than farming.

Even where there was only one bakery, nothing much could be done commercially.

The translation work was found by Shi Wuwei, his student status was still very useful, with his student ID it was easy to find a publisher willing to give him work.

Translation of the matter on behalf of the Yu Cicada can also do, so he is a take orders two people work, do fast and good, the publishing house very much like him as a translation of the author.

His leg injury was, of course, fake.

But in the beginning, he really fell off the bar, because the training in the barracks was too strong, and he really had little interest in fighting for Britain, and from the time he was tied up in the barracks, he had always wanted to leave, and the beatings, scoldings, and punishments could not cheer him up, and as soon as he was injured, he immediately ducked into the hospital.

There were a lot of people like him who had been injured during training in the barracks in the hospital, and the young man who had half of his face chipped off by a dud during shooting training was even more unlucky; one of his eyes had been chipped off and blinded, and his eyeballs had been removed.

He was discharged from the army even earlier than Shi Wuwei, and on his discharge certificate the doctor wrote that he was “unfit to join the army”, not even the reason for his disability, and of course a pension was impossible.

That is still a serious British, lads are this end, more firmly Shi Wuwei to be discharged from the army determination.

Shi Wuwei’s first large number of bribes, it was at this point that he opened the trick – he sent money to the doctor who wrote a certificate for the young man to let him be discharged from the army! Two hundred pounds!

The doctor, for the sake of the two hundred pounds, also wrote a certificate for him to get him out of the barracks.

His enlistment was a child’s play, and so was his discharge.

At that time he was called with all the boys of the school for a conscription physical examination, and after the physical examination but all those who passed were directly enlisted in the army.

This caught Shi Wuwei off guard! He thought that at least there would be a written document asking for consent and other procedures, but the results of this side of the physical examination, take the form out, the form submitted a look at the qualified, then pulled the car, and then pulled directly to the barracks, the gate is closed, no one is allowed to go.

At that time, he thought, Britain with this way of recruitment should be very short of soldiers.

It was also true that the newspapers and the radio had been calling for people to fight for England and for the king, making the whole atmosphere in England look as if they were going to war at once.

Apart from the schools, there was also a great deal of propaganda in the private sector, which sparked off many, many peculiarities.

For example, it was said that women wore stockings made of nylon, which could now be used to make parachutes for pilots. Originally, there was a call for all British women to stop wearing stockings, but surprisingly, there was a campaign for women to donate their stockings and bras.

Shi Wuwei saw the newspaper all think this is also too …… unlike it.

And because many factories in England were shut down because the male workers were all enlisted in the army, so the call for women to enter the factories, the report became a large number of women took the initiative to walk into the factory to work, and as soon as the work was over, the factories came out full of curly-haired women.

He rushed home as soon as he saw the news, and he was worried that Dai Yuchan would be lured into running off to work in the factories, but it turned out that someone had actually gone to lobby Dai Yuchan to let her go along.

The person who came to call her was from the Women’s Mutual Aid Association, all women. Originally it was a seemingly friendly and ordinary women’s group, but because of the mores of the time, they were doing increasingly strange things.

In the past, English women had long hair, but now, because of the lack of soap, they were calling for women to cut their hair short instead of long. They came and dragged Dai Yuchan with them to cut their hair in order to save soap.

In the past, there were also girls in the school to cut hair together, when Dai Yucan had seen how Zhu Yuyan refuted them, now of course, it is impossible to follow the British women to cut their own hair, and then again, her hair was not long.

At first, Dai Yuchan thought that these British girls were no different from her, but later she gradually realized that the fundamental difference was that their countries were different, even if the British people were also having a bad time, they were also different from the Chinese people. The Chinese people were the victims, the British were the perpetrators.

It was as if there were black feelings welling up in her chest. When she saw the British people suffering, she both sympathized with them and felt sorry for them, but at the same time, she also said secretly in her heart: they deserved it!

Yes, it was deserved!

Your country started the war and invaded China, and now you are also suffering, because your king is expanding the war and your parliament is supporting it.

Serves you right!

Dai Yuchan realized she couldn’t empathize with the British.

She’s changed.

Shi Wuwei worried that she was still as gullible as before, easily wrapped up in other people’s ideas, but she wasn’t the Dai Yuchan of that time.

Shi Wuwei was relieved when he realized that Dai Yucan did not go. He also wanted to take her away from the city from this point onward, to the countryside away from the city.

Eventually, they moved here.

It had a simple population, and the local consul cared almost nothing for the village; he didn’t live here at all, and would only have his secretary visit once a year.

The main affairs of this place are now managed under the auspices of the priest.

The priest of this church was also very good at talking, and after receiving Shi Wuwei’s donation, he gave the green light for the two of them to live here, and with the priest’s acceptance, the other villagers didn’t have any problem with it either. And they settled down in this village.

They were not short of money. Not to mention the Zhu family’s jewelry that Dai Yuchan took with him before he left home, when Shi Wuwei left, Professor Dai, fearing that he would starve or impoverish both himself and Dai Yuchan, brought all the money with him.

Shi Wuwei, who left his home, kept Professor Dai’s words in his heart. He was afraid that he would kill Dai Yuchan because he was too incompetent, so he always followed what Professor Dai taught him.

He was low key and calm in school, never competing to be first, and when he encountered things that were difficult to solve, he used money to open up the way in a steady and ruthless manner.

One move, eat all the days.

Although he came from a low background, his vision wasn’t that bad, and he was very good at finding out who was the dominant person in a power like this role.

Due to the timely spreading of money, he was always able to lift the crisis before it came.

On the other hand, Dai Yuchan had learned Zhu Yanshu’s survival wisdom on her. Since arriving in England, she had never forgotten to look for a stable source of income, not only to portray an image, but also to avoid being found out about their true family background.

Now that the two had stabilized their lives, the only thing they worried about was their loved ones back home.

The two translated manuscripts by one person and did needlework by the other until dusk.

Seeing the sky turning dark, Shi Wuwei rushed to cook.

This village did not have electricity yet, and the only lighting tools were candles, and because of the war, candles were very expensive, and each family would only light a little during dinner, and then hurriedly blow it out after eating.

Dinner for the two men was also simple, a stew of potatoes and bread.

The supplies were too little. Shi Wuwei raised a few chickens for eggs, and then when he realized that eggs could be mentioned to the bakery for bread, the family stopped eating eggs and saved them for bread every time.

Because not only their family needed bread, there was another person who needed bread too.

She refused to live with them and lived by herself in another part of the village. Daiyu Cicada and Shi Wuwei went to visit her every day and brought her a little bread.

There was only a very little salt in the stewed potatoes, but it was delicious food, and there weren’t many people in the village who could eat bread every day like their family could; most families could only afford potatoes now.

The next day the postman came to deliver Shi Wuwei’s mail.

He took out a big bag of letters and handed it to Shi Wuwei, then rode away on his bicycle.

The only people in this village who would receive letters were usually the priest and Shi Wuwei, the villagers rarely received letters, and now once a letter came to their house, most likely it would be a notice of death in battle, so the villagers preferred to go without letters.

Thinking it was another reply from the publisher and a new manuscript, Shi Wuwei took it to the living room and opened the package with a small letter opener, only to find that most of them were telegrams.

He stood there reading them, his eyes jawing wider and wider.

He busily put down the letters and turned his head to call out to Dai Yuchan so that she could look at them with him.

The telegrams were placed on the table and it was written:

–Brother-in-law, I have come for my sister, the house is no longer angry, where are you?

–Brother-in-law, please write me back, the house is no longer angry, how are you and your sister?

–Brother-in-law, I am in Hawaii, I want to go to England to look for you, write me back soon.