Several times in dreams

Chapter 86

Li Datou slipped away before sailing, when he was with Meng Xianlun.

"Xianlun, if we two want to go back to the holy city, now is the best chance. I'm optimistic about it. There is a back window in the toilet. When we gather, we pretend to go to the toilet. We jumped out of the window while the crowd was chaotic. !"

"But the officer said that whoever flees will be shot!" Meng Xianlun was always timid.

"Don't listen to them scaring you! It's too late for them to escape by themselves, who has time to care about you!"

Li Datou has always been fearless.

The assembly whistle sounded, and Li Datou dragged Meng Xianlun to the toilet.

"What are you doing? You two!"

"Report sir! Urgent urination!" Li Datou replied solemnly.

"We're all assembled, what did you do early? Hurry up!"

"Yes!"

Li Datou turned around and went into the toilet, but Meng Xianlun hesitated on the spot.

After ten seconds, he made up his mind to go to the toilet.

"Xianlun! What are you doing? Come here!"

It was He Xizhi who spoke, and Meng Xianlun's mind buzzed. He knew that he had missed the best time.

When the whistle of the departing ship sounded, Li Datou had already crossed the streets and alleys, hiding in a homestay.

Meng Xianlun stood on the deck, holding on to the winding ladder, and the beach was getting farther and farther away. In front of him was the endless sea.

Meng Xianlun kept blaming himself for his cowardice and incompetence. It seemed that he would have to live a hard life for a few more years. I don't know how the late autumn will survive these few years?
Meng Xianlun has not realized that this difference is a lifetime.

Li Datou hid in a small hotel for three days, but he didn't wait for Meng Xianlun. He had agreed to meet up at this hotel, so he was sure that Meng Xianlun must be dragged on board and went to Taiwan together.

The first thing Li Datou did when he returned to the holy city was to tell Xu Wanqiu the whereabouts of Meng Xianlun.

This was also what the two had agreed at the beginning. No matter who can return to the Holy City, they must bring the news to the other's home.

Xu Wanqiu sat on the stone bench in the backyard of the bank, the breeze in May warmed his face, but Xu Wanqiu's whole body was as cold as if he had just been fished out of an ice cave.

She didn't know how to tell Li Mengxian about this, and she didn't know how to live this day. It was just a thought, and she and Meng Xianlun were separated by sea water.

Wanying took Yuhui back to her husband's house a long time ago, Wanlan has been unknowingly in the past few months, she looks like a walking corpse, she doesn't even have a smile on her face, Xu Wanqiu doesn't know who else she can confide her feelings to.

After much deliberation, she decided to hide the matter first, not to tell her mother-in-law Li Mengxian first, and then tell her when she really couldn't hide it.

Back in the office, Jiang told Xu Wanqiu at the desk that Section Chief Zhuge had come to look for her just now.

In December last year, the bank had officially changed its name to the People's Bank of China. Xu Wanqiu's accounting department was headed by Zhuge Xiangrui.

Xu Wanqiu knocked on the door of the section chief's office, "Come in!" Zhuge Xiangrui's voice came from inside.

"Section Chief Zhuge, are you looking for me?"

"Come, come, Xiao Xu, sit down quickly and tell you good news. Your application for joining the party has been approved after research by the party group meeting."

When Xu Wanqiu suddenly heard the good news, he was very excited, "Section Chief Zhuge, no, Secretary Zhuge, I will definitely continue to work hard and live up to the trust of the party in me."

"Little Xu, although your husband Meng Xianlun is an employee of the old government police station, since before liberation, you have been cooperating with the work of the party organization and actively demanding progress. I have always noticed this."

Zhuge Xiangrui also served as the party branch secretary of the Holy City Bank, and was also an old party member who broke into the enemy during the old government.

"I hope you will work hard and strive for greater progress during your probationary period until you become a real Communist Party member!"

"Secretary, I have one thing to report to you truthfully."

Xu Wanqiu truthfully reported the news that Meng Xianlun might have gone to Taiwan to Zhuge Xiangrui, Zhuge Xiangrui frowned after hearing the truth.

"Are you sure he has gone to Taiwan?"

"Li Datou, the former chief of the police station, did not see it with his own eyes. At that time, the two agreed to slip away together and escape from the control of the Kuomintang. For some reason, Meng Xianlun did not make it. Li Datou hid in a small hotel in Shanghai and waited for him. After three days, I didn’t wait, so I came back by myself.”

"Oh, in this case, it's also possible that he hasn't escaped for a while and is still looking for an opportunity. Let's wait and see!"

Zhuge Xiangrui pondered for a while, and said again: "However, Comrade Xiao Xu, you have to be mentally prepared for some things. Once he really goes to Taiwan, as a probationary party member, you must reconsider your relationship with him."

"But Meng Xianlun is just an ordinary employee. He just has no idea, no idea. His uncle He Xizhi coerced him to go to Shanghai..."

Xu Wanqiu anxiously wanted to defend Meng Xianlun.

"Xiao Xu, I can understand your feelings, but this is only an objective reason, and the subjective reason is still his own. He didn't know enough about our party's policies, and he was afraid. At that time, many employees of the old government stayed in the holy city. .”

Xu Wanqiu nodded silently, she felt that what Zhuge Xiangrui said made sense.

"Secretary, you are right. I also blamed me for caring about my own progress and not giving him ideological work early. At that time, we were trying to prevent the national government from transferring assets. I was also afraid of leaking the news, so I avoided too much publicity to him. "

"You did the right thing. Some things are the inevitable choice of history. Don't have too much ideological burden. Work hard first and let everything take its course."

Coming out of Zhuge Xiangrui's office, Xu Wanqiu's melancholy heart was relieved a lot.

He was right, some things are predestined, but more things are man-made.

Xu Wanqiu made up her mind, since some things are out of control, put them aside, she must work hard, take good care of her mother-in-law, and live a good life.

But there is no impenetrable wall in this world, within half a month, news of Meng Xianlun's escape to Taiwan spread throughout half of the Holy City.

Li Mengxian naturally also heard the news, she naturally felt as if the sky had fallen, when Xu Wanqiu and Meng Wanlan came back from get off work, Li Mengxian had passed out on the ground and was unconscious.

The aunt and sister-in-law hurriedly sent the old lady to the hospital. The doctor said that she had suffered severe mental stimulation, which led to a sudden increase in blood pressure, and she must not be stimulated again.

Only then did Meng Wanlan know about Meng Xianlun's escape to Taiwan.

"My brother is really confused. He is not even a member of the Kuomintang, and he was charged with defection in the end."

Xu Wanqiu smiled wryly, "Who is to blame? Don't blame him. At that time, I told him not to go to Shanghai, and Mother also advised him not to go, but did he listen?"

"Forget it, don't mention him! He's self-inflicted and can't live, the most urgent thing is to take care of mother's health." Meng Wanlan's teeth itch with hatred.

After taking the blood pressure lowering medicine from the doctor, the two helped Li Mengxian home and persuaded her slowly, but Li Mengxian just sighed and secretly wiped her tears.

A few days later, Xu Wanqiu was unexpectedly stopped by his brother Xu Zhichun on his way home from get off work.

"Brother, why are you?"

Xu Wanqiu was a little surprised.

"Lanqiu, dad is sick, you should go back and have a look."

"Sick? What's the matter? Is it serious?" Xu Wanqiu became anxious when he heard that, "Let's go, I'll go back and have a look!"

It was already June weather, Xu Wanqiu left in a hurry, and was already sweating when he got home.

"Father!" Xu Wanqiu shouted anxiously as soon as he entered the house.

Xu Yuanshan was trimming a bonsai in the yard with scissors.

Xu Wanqiu looked at his radiant father and froze in place.

(End of this chapter)