Chapter 70

Walking out of the cold ward, Zhu Yanshu and Yang Yuyan came to the street. They didn’t call for a yellow cab and walked slowly.

Zhu Yanshu wrapped her arms around Yang Yuyan and didn’t say anything for a long time.

She has always known that there is a deep wound in Yang Yuyan’s heart that hurts into her bones.

This wound comes from Yang Xuhe, but also from her, but also from this distorted and indifferent society.

Yang Xuhe broke the father’s image of greatness.

An irresponsible choice she made back then equally hurt her loved ones. Her father and mother worried about her until her death. And her two daughters will never be able to escape the shadow of Yang Xuhe in their later lives.

While Yang Yuyan and Yang Yucan thought that their evil deeds would be condemned, society told them that no one cares who really made a mistake, and that society is always interested in the hotspots that can cause a sensation. The society is always interested in the hotspots that can cause a stir. Whoever holds the hotspots, holds the justice.

Yang Xuhe turns black and white upside down, and the newspapers, magazines and the general public are all over the place. Truth, good and evil are all turned into dishes of delicacies under their mouths.

Zhu Yanshu didn’t fall down not only because she still had two daughters, but because she had heard her father and mother say even more terrible things.

Compared to those things, what Yang Xuhe had done was nothing.

But he still did a lot of damage.

But it only made her hate him,not fear him.

She gave Yang Yuyan a big hug, shaking her handbag and said, “Let’s buy some cake, go to the park and take a walk.”

Yang Yuyan tilted her head and said yes. She knew this was her mom’s attempt to comfort her, and she couldn’t refuse the kindness.

They stood on the side of the road and waved and called for a yellow bus, and after sitting on it, they first went to a familiar bakery to buy bread and cookies, and also let the chef make some fresh sandwiches. The chubby, bearded cook thoughtfully gave them a basket with a flower in it.

They took the basket and once again got on the yellow bus and went to the park.

Yang Yuyan holding the picnic basket sitting in the car, with the yellow car to the park, her heart gradually look forward to. Seeing Ms. Jin, feeling her misery and pain, made her also immersed in the pain of the past. But now it was like this welcome spring breeze, softly blowing away everything from the past.

“This is the second time I’ve been to the park.” She said.

The last time was after she was discharged from the hospital, Zhu Yanshu and Yang Yucan brought her here to enjoy the flowers in the summer. But at that time, she was not in the mood to look at the scenery of this park at all, her entire mind was about to be stunned away by the suits of gentlemen and cheongsam ladies that filled the park.

Everything outside, the buildings and the people, told her what this place was and where she was.

The flowers in bloom were the same as they had been for millennia, compared to this very different world.

When she saw the flowers, she felt that she might as well turn into a flower and live, at least she didn’t have to care about the changes in the sea.

Zhu Yanshu said, “You came here many times when you were a child, we came here almost every summer to take pictures, and you even came here to sketch. What a memory!”

There were a few gendarmes at the main entrance of the park who seemed to be standing guard, they drove away the vendors picking burdens or people dressed in shabby clothes, not allowing them to enter, and even more so for those who looked to be students, they directly drove them away.

Yang Yuyan stretched her head to see a few young students, both male and female, nearly getting into a fight with the gendarmes in front of the park, but they were eventually chased away.

“What’s going on?” She muttered.

Zhu Yanshu also frowned as she wrapped her arms around Yang Yuyan and said, “It’s really bad luck, if we’re not allowed to enter we’ll have to go home.”

While talking, the yellow cart had also arrived at the door. The driver was a bit nervous, and nodded to the gendarmes from afar.

The car parked in front of the park, the gendarmes came over, they didn’t check Zhu Yanshu and Yang Yuyan when they saw how they were dressed, instead they were very polite.

Zhu Yanshu said in a peaceful manner, “It’s so early in the morning, you guys are working too hard. I brought my daughter over for a break, so if it’s inconvenient, we won’t go in.”

The soldiers of the Military Police knew very well what people could be bullied and what people were best not to be bullied.

One of the soldiers heard Zhu Yanshu’s accent as an authentic local and laughed, “Mrs. and Miss go in to play, we can’t help it, the adults have recently heard that the students are going to start a movement, so they let us come here to take a look around to avoid them making trouble.”

Zhu Yanshu let out an oh-ya sound, her face full of sympathy: “Alas, the adults are working hard, and you guys are working hard too. Then you guys are busy, we’ll go in.” She turned her head and signaled Yang Yuyan to open the basket, picking out a croissant from inside, wrapping it in a napkin and handing it to the soldier with both hands, “Eat it as a cooking cake.”

The soldier took a look at this as a Western snack, and immediately took it with both hands, with a pungent creamy aroma! He had never eaten this before! He quickly straightened his hat, “How can this be good?”

At this time, the other soldiers seem to be coming over to take advantage of the situation, this soldier immediately urged the driver to hurry up, and also sent a message: “When your wife comes out, go to the south door, it’s much cleaner over there, there aren’t so many people.”

Zhu Yan Shu smiled and thanked him, the driver hurriedly pulled the car in.

In the park in early spring, there are fewer people and fewer cars, but the view is not bad.

Zhu Yanshu asked the driver to drop them off in front of the Plum Garden and paid the fare, but the driver didn’t want to go out just like that, he said, “If Mrs. and Ms. still need to use the car in a while, why don’t I wait for a while and then send you guys out.”

Zhu Yanshu: “Oh, are you afraid of being questioned if you go out with an empty car?”

The driver said with a bitter face, “If it wasn’t for the two of you, Mrs. and Miss, they wouldn’t let me go if I didn’t empty my pockets just now.”

Zhu Yanshu looked at the sky and said, “Alright then, you find a place to rest, we are going back after an hour of shopping.”

The cart driver thanked him repeatedly and pulled the empty cart away, not knowing where to go to pass the time.

Zhu Yan Shu pulled Yang Yu Yan to walk slowly, saying, “This side is the Plum Garden, planted with hundreds of waxed plums, white, yellow and green.”

They passed through the plum garden, and in the empty and silent plum garden, the only thing that floated was the plum fragrance. On the jagged plum branches, clusters of plum blossoms bloomed. While some of the plum trees were empty, only producing leaves.

Going out from the plum garden, what came into the eyes was a white statue, not a great man, but surprisingly a female statue, not yet a Goddess of Mercy or Goddess of Mercy, but rather like a Western goddess statue.

She exposed two arms, long hair was wreath pulled up, closed eyes side neck, the form is very realistic, voluptuous and moving.

In this world where you can’t show your knees in a skirt, a statue of a woman that is not a Buddha or a god is simply “treasonous”.

Yang Yuyan involuntarily stood in front of the statue, marveling at the gaze repeatedly over the statue’s rounded shoulders and curved arms, as well as that and the perfect neck line, revealing a little bit of scenery on the chest, the fullness of the curvature.

Master Sky.

The vicinity of the statue was also the most crowded place since entering the park. There were not only young people in the crowd, but also several old gentlemen, some of them wearing long shirts, some wearing bowler hats, in all shapes and sizes.

Zhu Yanshu: “Shocked, aren’t you?” She smiled and said, “It was a two-year fight over this statue placed in the park.”

Yang Yuyan, of course, did not remember that Zhu Yanshu said that those mouth-breathers had been arguing in the newspaper for two long years. In the beginning, the government made the statue for the sake of enlightenment and justice, but after the unveiling ceremony the newspapers called the statue pornographic, and some people said that the statue had to be smashed before it could be done, so the government didn’t dare to erect it, and could only keep the statue covered with a cloth.

The second time, the government suggested that the statue should be erected in order to learn from the progress of the West and to improve the social atmosphere. Newspapers said this is the Westerners on the corrosion of the people of the country! So again, nothing was done.

On the third occasion, a vigorous student movement arose. The students thought that society should be given a strong dose of medicine to awaken the sleeping masses! So the students stormed the park and removed the cloth covering the statue. This time it became the government opposing the statue.

Yang Yuyan laughed at this and asked, “Why did it stand again later?”

Zhu Yan Shu laughed, “Because the French said the statue was beautiful.”

Yang Yuyan sighed.

After leaving the statue, they arrived at the lake. However, there were surprisingly gendarmes patrolling by the lake, and when they saw someone in the shape of a student, they went up to drive them away, even the young men and women were not spared. Only young people like Yang Yuyan who were accompanied by adults were spared.

Zhu Yanshu then pulled Yang Yuyan to turn to another road, not far away there was also a garden, but it was winter now, there were no flowers in the garden. They then sat down on a bench by the roadside.

After sitting down, Yang Yuyan opened the picnic basket and took out sandwiches to eat.

Zhu Yanshu took a small round bread, removed her gloves, took a big bite and said, “I didn’t even eat breakfast in the morning in order to visit the sick.”

Yang Yuyan nodded, so did she. From last night, she had been thinking about Miss Jin’s matter, and she was not in the mood to eat at all in the morning. Fortunately, after going to see Miss Jin just now and realizing that she didn’t have any thoughts of taking death, on the contrary, she felt that Miss Jin had been trying to fight back all along, which reassured her quite a bit, and now her stomach was starting to rumble.

After the mother and daughter had eaten a few small breads, they were both seven to eight minutes full, the scenery in front of them was pleasant, there were no idle people, it was suitable to talk about things that were not suitable to talk about at home, in front of people.

Yang Yuyan first asked Zhu Yanshu if she knew what the Jin family wanted to do to Ms. Jin, why did they make Ms. Jin suffer so much?

Zhu Yanshu took out a handkerchief and wiped her hands, saying, “You usually read so many books, throughout the ages, young ladies have been seeking death for what, can you not know?”

Yang Yuyan said, “I guessed it was because of the marriage. But just how bad is it?”

Zhu Yanshu stuffed her handkerchief back into her handbag, sighed and said, “As bad as you want it to be.”

Yang Yuyan’s eyes widened, many possibilities and imaginations floated in her mind, but all of them could not take shape for a while.

Zhu Yan Shu said, “I once had a cousin who sold his daughter to a brothel. She was born, not raised by a maid, but a proper Zhu family lady.”

Yang Yuyan drew a breath of cold air.

Zhu Yanshu arranged Yang Yuyan’s sleeves and collar that had been soiled by the food she had just eaten, and calmly said, “I wasn’t even born yet, it was my father, that is, your grandpa, who told me about it.”

At that time, the Zhu family has not been divided, said that the money is also rich, but also not the children of the family can want to spend how to spend, on the contrary, just because there is no separation of the family, each family has no private property, daily expenses, weddings and funerals, all are the public money.

Therefore, the cousin uncle smoked cigarettes, but also got addicted to gambling, the parents of the money are spent after clean, his wife’s dowry has been all his woe, he also owed loan sharks, but also want to turn the money, and there is no doorway, the eyes turned to their own family.

And, compared to the family’s valuable artifacts, furnishings, paintings, his first choice was only eight-year-old daughter.

I don’t know where he got the genius brain to come up with a plan that was full of flaws.

He spoke with the brothel, took his daughter out, handed her over to the brothel, took the money to the casino, and went to the smokehouse to smoke, and then came home and lied that his daughter had been abducted.

Unfortunately, the Zhu family is not a poor family. Ordinary people who lost their children could not be found because they had no manpower and no money. The Zhu family was known as the Zhu Half City at that time, would they have no money and no manpower?

As soon as he said that his daughter had been abducted, the Zhu family immediately called the police to catch the abductors all over the city. In order to prevent the abductors from leaving the city after abducting someone, they even sent a telegram to the train station to search for them on the train.

The result is not half a day to find people have been into the brothel, because of the age of small, good-looking, the brothel did not move, just first shut up to starve to kill the sex.

Waiting to find the deed of sale, only to find out that it is actually the father of the sale of children.

The city was in uproar, Zhu family lost a big face.

After that, how the Zhu family dispose of their unworthy children and grandchildren is another matter.

Zhu Yanshu stroked Yang Yuyan’s hair and said, “If a person is evil, it is not even comparable to a ghost.”

Yang Yuyan fell silent.

Zhu Yanshu: “Miss Jin is very pitiful, but there is very little we can do for her. Because the Jin family is so powerful, it’s not her parents that she can’t resist, but the behemoth that is the Jin family.”

Yang Yuyan instantly understood.

It wasn’t that Jin Juli’s parents were vicious, but that they simply didn’t see her as a daughter. There was no difference between how they treated Jin Juli and how they treated the Ma family.

Zhu Yan Shu sighed and said, “We can help the Ma family now because the Jin family will no longer care about them. When the Jin family gives up on Ms. Jin, if we can still help her by then, we can help again.”

Yang Yuyan returned home in silence.

Zhu Yanshu said she could write to Miss Jin or visit her again. Master Jin and Mrs. Jin were certainly cold-blooded and heartless, but after all, they still had reason in them; they were trying to make Miss Jin submit, not just use violence to solve things like they did with the Ma family.

Her letter must have comforted Miss King a little more.

When she got home she went to her room and wrote a letter to Ms. Kim, a million words in her chest, but what came out was just a few sentences. She finally copied a poem to her.

As it happened, it was a Russian poem.

This was given to her by Zhu Yanshu, a collection of poems she had copied when she used to study Russian, and given to Yang Yuyan for extended reading.

Gorky’s Haiyan.

She hoped that Ms. Jin would gain the courage of a sea petrel.

After writing the letter, she took it out and wanted to go mail it off.

Zhu Yanshu and Zhang Ma happened to be talking and when she saw her, Zhang Ma stood up and said, “I happen to be going out, so give me the letter and I’ll mail it for you.”

Yang Yuyan then hands the letter to Zhang Ma and asks, “Zhang Ma, are you going to the market to buy food?”

Zhang Ma glanced at Zhu Yanshu and got a nod from her before she told Yang Yuyan, “I’m going to deliver some rice and money to the Ma family’s father and son.”

Yang Yuyan remembered the current situation of the Ma family and son and said, “Their family is also having a hard time.”

Zhu Yanshu said, “Their family is fine, it’s just a matter of money. But our family can’t give money directly, that’s easy to make enemies.”

Zhang Ma said, “I’ll go send them some food and some clothes, and see if I can introduce Ma Tianbao to a better job.”

Zhang Ma collects the letter and goes out, Yang Yuyan realizes with hindsight that Yang Yucan is not even there.

Zhu Yanshu: “Oh, I told her to go grocery shopping to help out Zhang Ma.”

Yang Yuyan was surprised, “Mom, how dare you let your sister go grocery shopping? That pumpkin hasn’t been eaten yet.”

Zhu Yanshu flipped through the pictorial and said, “She definitely won’t buy another pumpkin back today.”