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Chapter 15 Father and Son Night Talk (2)

The parents sat at the table, watching the three children bury their heads in their meals, and the sound of "呵向", the mother Chen Yueying was very satisfied when she heard the sound. The whole family sat neatly at the table, and that was enough.The eldest son wandered outside for two years.In those days, Chen Yueying sent people to the town's telegraph office every half a month to see if there was a telegram from her eldest son.

If not, the next half month will be spent in fear.Every time she received it, Chen Yueying would stick the telegram to her chest to keep warm.

"Are you full?" Mother Chen Yueying watched Li Chong eat a large bowl very quickly, her eyes were full of distress.Such a good young master, how could he gobble up his meals after going out for two years? What kind of suffering did he suffer outside?

"Isn't it enough to be hungry again? This big bowl is so comfortable to eat." Li Chong patted his stomach, "It's delicious. I ate the local wonton noodles in Hong Kong, and what I was thinking about was the one at home. .”

The mother smiled and stood up, "I'll go and pour tea for you two, let's have a good talk as a family."

After taking the towel from the servant and wiping his mouth, Li Chong took out a stack of newspapers from his purse and handed it to his father, "Father, these are the newspapers I bought outside, take a look."

During the two days on the boat, Li Chong was not idle, and kept following the current situation of the Wanping war through "Oriental Express" and other newspapers.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Japanese army invaded Wanping to strangle the throat of the Ping-Han Railway. If this throat is stuck, Beiping will collapse without attack, and Tianjin will become an isolated island, and then the entire North China region will be captured by the Japanese army. .

Many young students are filled with righteous indignation, because this is a naked aggression just like the three northeastern provinces.

But Li Chong has a deeper sense of crisis. Will taking North China satisfy the appetite of the Japanese army?
If you regard Beiping as the representative of the national cultural center of China, and from the standpoint of the Japanese army, since you have already made an act of invading a country, in the face of an extremely vast China, if you want to "swallow an elephant", the next step is definitely to Destroy the economic and political center of this country.

The two centers of economy and politics are both in the Yangtze River Delta. Although my hometown protrudes to the north on the map, there is a distance from the two cities, but for Japanese soldiers equipped with motorcycle armor and aircraft, the flames of war It's not far from this land!

So Li Chong had to make his family realize the seriousness of the matter. He carried the newspaper all the way to let his father understand that the world was undergoing great changes. His father was a scholar, and he must understand the truth of the history books in the study.Back then, when the three eastern provinces were forcibly occupied by the Japanese, even Grandpa Xiucai, who still believed in the last emperor, had a sullen face and let out a day of anger.

The troubled times have come, how many people can survive after this catastrophe?Li Chong didn't know, but he had to do his best to find a way out for his closest relatives first. As for this homeland, Li Chong already had a vague decision in his heart.Before making this decision, first of all, you can't let your family become your weakness.

"Chong'er, is the situation outside already like this? You really don't know what's going on in the world if you don't go out!" After a long time, Li Derun put down the newspaper, his eyes filled with incredible shock.

"It's more serious than I imagined. If the Japanese hit Shanghai and Nanjing, we will definitely not be able to escape here. Although we are far away from the two cities and separated by the Yangtze River, the area around Taihu Lake in Xinghua has been the grain production of all dynasties in history. The same is true today. Whether the Japanese hit Shanghai or the capital, Nanjing, they will never ignore the granaries here."

Li Chong took a sip of tea, and then said, "At that time, guns will not have eyes, and staying here can only be slaughtered. Father, you also know the massacre by Japanese soldiers in Lushun in 1894. The 4 days and 4 nights In the massacre, there were only 2 people left in a big city with more than 36 people. History has warned us that the Japanese soldiers are ambitious, brutal and inhumane, and we can't sit still. The old saying goes: A gentleman can't stand under a dangerous wall."

Li Chong never doubted the cruelty of the Japanese army, "So I hope my father can make a plan early and prepare a way out for the family."

At the same time, Li Chong did not propose to let his family go to Hong Kong with him, because he did not plan to return to Hong Kong in the future.When the country is in crisis, what are you doing in a corner?What's more, Li Chong didn't think at all that once the war was fully launched, the little British army in Hong Kong would be able to block the Japanese army's advance.

The mother, Chen Yueying, who was sitting by the side, was stunned by what the father and father were discussing. It was not the family talking about each other as she expected. She still wanted to know what the eldest son had done in the past two years?How come they were kidnapped by Japanese soldiers, and more than 2 people were killed. Is this too scary?Still have to prepare for the way back, what is going on?
"Brother, what are Japanese soldiers?" The third sister Yuanxiu, who was sitting on the stool and staring at the adults speaking with round eyes, asked in bewilderment.The second younger brother Zhixin lost his mind after eating the noodles, staring blankly at the syringe on the elder brother's purse.

"Japanese soldiers, they are not things, they are Japanese ghosts. They are more hateful than the water ghosts who eat children in the reed marshes!"

There is a large reed marsh behind Li Zhuang, which is vast and vast. In order to scare the children from playing hide-and-seek in the reed marsh, adults usually scare the children that there are water ghosts that eat people in the water under the reed marsh. At night, the water ghost casts an indelible shadow on the child's heart.

Although Li Derun was a little roundabout in his usual actions, he also knew that his elder son was away from home and saw and heard more than himself, so he would not joke about such a terrible thing as soon as he came back.And there are all black and white photos in the newspapers. Just like what the eldest son said, it will be too late when the Japanese hit the door and try to escape.

However, this family is not only the five people.The Li family and Li Zhuang have been linked together, and [-]% of the tenants in this Zhuangzi rely on their own families for food. At the same time, the land cannot be taken away. If the Li family leaves Li Zhuang, there will be nothing but the foreign money in the box!
Moreover, from the bottom of his heart, Li Derun resisted dragging his family away from his homeland.This is my root, where I have lived most of my life.After several generations of hard work, we have the property of a hundred acres of fertile land, and we are reluctant to let it go.

"Chong'er, according to the newspaper, the Japanese haven't even taken down Beiping. It's still thousands of miles away from us. From North China to Nanjing and Shanghai, it's a thousand miles deep. There are so many soldiers guarding the country in the national army. Don't we? Xiaomin wants to leave his hometown first, and become a rootless duckweed?"

Li Derun was unwilling to leave his hometown, and he gradually recovered from the initial shock, thinking that his eldest son was a little alarmist.Although I have never been to Nanjing and Shanghai, I know that one is the capital, the other has a concession, and the two cities are heavily guarded.Especially in the city of Nanjing, where there are so many high-ranking officials, there are so many tall men supporting them when the sky falls.

Li Chong stroked the teacup, his father's reaction was expected.To be honest, even if he wanted to move, Li Chong didn't have an ideal place in his mind, so it required a family to sit together and make a long-term plan.

(End of this chapter)