Xu Xuzhi

Chapter 93
Ning Zheng's judgment on the situation remained unchanged: he still expected the League of Nations to intervene.

However, the anti-Japanese struggle of the Northeast people has never stopped, and an anti-Japanese armed force collectively known as the "Northeast Volunteer Army" has gradually formed.

The leadership of the anti-Japanese armed forces in various places is extremely diverse: there are the Communist Party, the Kuomintang, the Zhigong Party... patriots without party affiliation, the "Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Salvation Congress" and so on.

And until [-] when they completely broke with the Japanese invaders, the most supportive forces against the Japanese were Ning Zheng and the Northeast Army.

As early as the 18th year of the Republic of China, Ning Zheng realized that the war against Japan should not only be fought openly by the regular army, but also by the establishment of non-governmental organizations, which complement each other with the regular army. "Regulations on the Organization of the National Volunteer Army": All citizens or groups of the Republic of China, whose purpose is to wipe out powerful enemies who invade our territory and oppress our nation, and who have volunteers who sacrifice their lives for the country and serve the battlefield, are awarded "Volunteer Army".

It can be said that Ning Zheng has always been the initiator, supporter and commander of the Northeast Volunteer Army. As of February 21, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Forces had a total of 50 people, of which 30 were directly or indirectly led by Ning Zheng.

To this day, the national anthem that brings tears to every Chinese's eyes comes from the "Liaoning Volunteer Army Song" at that time: In the 22nd year of the Republic of China, when the musician Nie Er visited the cavalry of the Liaoning Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army stationed in Jianping, Witnessing the bloody battle scenes of the Volunteers breaking through the siege, and the brave and fearless battle scenes, I was so emotional that I adapted this soul-stirring battle song after I came back, and it was designated as the national anthem on the eve of the founding of New China.

Ning Zheng wrote an unsigned handbook on white silk, and the "Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Salvation Association" he formed sent it out to provide material and military support and guidance to the Volunteer Army's anti-Japanese actions.

The National Salvation Association is well-organized, and the staff will receive their salaries from Ning Zheng every month and perform their duties.In Wang Huayi's notebook, the Minister of Military Affairs, there are densely recorded every time Ning Zheng met with the soldiers of the Volunteer Army who came to Beiping from the anti-Japanese front line to report and receive awards, provided the amount of activity funds, the types and quantities of guns, ammunition, and medicines, and arranged for the reorganization of the troops. Specific matters such as the appointment and removal of commanders.

Ning Zheng supports the Volunteer Army so cautiously. Those who resist the Japanese are more cautious than those who are traitors. It seems ridiculous today, but in that complicated and special era, he was full of difficulties and had to do it: he was afraid that the Japanese invaders would catch him. When he got the handle, he was afraid that the Nanjing government would say that he did not obey the central government and disobeyed the order of the committee.

Ning Zheng secretly launched the anti-Japanese struggle. Unexpectedly, the all-pervasive Japanese did another thing at this time: the 21st year of the Republic of China was the Olympic year, and they kept making small moves, all of which pointed to the "pseudo-Manchukuo" freak. International recognition, so the idea of ​​the Olympic Games was made, and athletes from the "pseudo-Manchukuo" should appear on the international arena.

This time, what they were eyeing was Ning Zheng's favorite graduate from Fengda University—currently the top athlete in China, Liu Changchun.

This poor boy from Dalian, who grew up fighting with Japanese kids since he was a child, showed extraordinary athletic talent very early, so he was recruited by Fengtian University as soon as he graduated from middle school, and won several national sports competitions. It can be said to be the No.1 sprint in the Republic of China.

The Japanese feel that based on Liu Changchun's current sprint results, he has a high probability of winning an Olympic medal and attracting the attention of the world. Doesn't this further confirm the legitimacy of the Puppet Manchukuo?

Immediately, the Japanese disregarded Liu Changchun’s clear objections several times, and directly announced the news that Liu Changchun and another athlete would represent the puppet Manchukuo to participate in the Olympic Games in the newspapers of the puppet Manchuria.

The Japanese have always done things in this way: create public opinion first, seize the opportunity, and thus firmly control the right to speak and the initiative.

But Liu Changchun immediately published articles in "Sports Weekly" and "Ta Kung Pao", expressing the attitude of "Gou Yu's conscience is still there, but he is playing horses and cows for the puppet and puppet country". After several negotiations, the Japanese had to give up.

At the graduation ceremony of Xinfeng University in Beiping in June, Ning Zheng personally announced Liu Changchun as an athlete of the Olympic delegation of the Republic of China to represent the country in the [-]th Los Angeles Olympics.

Although Liu Changchun went directly to the 23-meter and 100-meter preliminaries due to 200 days of floating in the sea, without time to adjust the time difference, and did not do any pre-competition training, it was a pity that he failed to achieve good results—after all His best result last year was only one-tenth of a second away from the 100-meter final champion American Steinbsen-but he finally became China's No.1 in the modern Olympic Games under various unfavorable conditions. This feat is enough in itself It has left a name in history and greatly inspired the Chinese sports world. Without Ning Zheng's great help, this would have been unthinkable.

The sports section is fighting against Japan, and the struggle of [-] to [-] Northeast young students who have been exiled to Beijing has never stopped.In November, [-] student representatives from Northeast China planned to take the train going south to Nanjing to appeal. The passengers, who were so moved by their tearful anti-Japanese propaganda, voluntarily got off the train and gave up their seats.

Thinking about it, I know that this petition is unlikely to come true, but even so, this event has caused great repercussions in Jiangsu, Shanghai and Zhejiang, and has added enormous public opinion pressure to the Nanjing government.

At the same time, Fengjiu successfully completed her postgraduate study at Yanda University and graduated smoothly while raising her children and managing Fengda University and Northeast Middle School.Her supervisor, Professor Xie Dike, tried her best to persuade her to go to Harvard to study for a Ph.D. No matter if it is comparative literature, aesthetics and cultural studies, literary history, or literary criticism, she is suitable for any direction; but Feng Jiu just smiled and thanked, and did not make any decision .

In the blink of an eye, it was the Gregorian New Year in the 22nd year of the Republic of China, and more than a year had passed since the September [-]th Incident. Ning Zheng finally had to face such a reality—the investigation team of the League of Nations finally made a request that Japan must immediately withdraw from Northeast China, which was occupied by force. Territory resolution, but the cunning and rogue Japan immediately stated that it would withdraw from the League of Nations-the preparations are ready and the wings are full, so what do you need this troublesome stumbling block?
On the first day of the new year, the Japanese army launched a general attack on the long-coveted Shanhaiguan.

On the 460th day after the "September [-]th", Ning Zheng, the leader of the Northeast Army, finally issued an order to start the war, and the "Great Wall Defense War" began.

Although Shanhaiguan was lost after a bitter battle, the heroic performance of the Northeast Army guarding the pass was completely different from that of the same army that abandoned the city in the three eastern provinces. Scratch your head.

But what was unexpected was the subsequent big retreat in the "Battle of Rehe Defense": Ning Zheng ordered Tang Gechen who was guarding Rehe not to move -- last year he sent his confidant Ji Songling to supervise the army, but the older and shameless Tang Gechen did not To buy his account, Ji Songling used both soft and hard tactics and finally returned without success.

Now he doesn't care about anything except his own wealth; because the military pay has been deducted all the year round, and the money and food have been collected in advance, the soldiers have long been alienated and the people have cast aside them.He is more anxious to transport the antiques, calligraphy, paintings, gold, silver and jewels into the house in the French Concession in Tianjin and settle them properly, rather than deploying troops and generals to complete the deployment. It can be said that Tang Gechen, an old generation of Northeast Army with low military literacy and bad morals Generals are the bane left by the old commander to Ning Zheng.

Although Ning Zheng claims to be the ruler of the northern region, Sun Kuiyuan on the North Road is watching to preserve his strength, and the Jin army Yan Baichuan on the side is even more unmoved. He even refused to cooperate with Ning Zheng's request to dispatch two cavalry brigades. Yan Baichuan, who had confronted the Ning army several times, felt that it would be the best of humanity not to make trouble at this moment, let alone support him...

This is the current situation of the warlords in northern China in March [-], when the enemy is strong.

Before the Rehe Anti-Japanese War, Mr. Jiang, who was sitting on the front line of Nanchang's "communist suppression", only sent the acting dean of administration and minister of finance, his wife and brother Song Wencheng, and Australian consultant Duan Na to Peiping to deliver a message to Ning Zheng: " ...but please be clear in your heart...just have peace of mind." It doesn't sound like the words of the highest official who encourages his subordinates to fight bloody battles.

Although Song Wencheng's "Shou Tu Ci" made people excited, but since he was the Minister of Finance at the same time, he only allocated 20 military pay to the Ning Army, and the Central Army that originally promised to support the six divisions was even gone, which angered the Ning Army. I can't help but wonder how much sincerity this special envoy really has besides earning political capital for himself and putting on a facade for Mr. Jiang.

Rehe fell across the board, and public opinion across the country was outraged again, but this time, the anger was directed at the source: Mr. Jiang, who was so focused on carrying out the fourth "suppression of communism" in Nanchang that he didn't care about the battle of Rehe.

The wily and calculating Mr. Jiang is calm and unafraid. It can even be said that the trend of the political situation is completely in line with his expectations.

Only the young Ning Zheng didn't realize it. When he heard that Mr. Jiang sent He Jingzhi, Huang Jikuan and other famous pro-Japanese factions, he thought it was a plan for reinforcements. Together, he devoted himself to the next step of more intense resistance. It wasn't until Song Wencheng euphemistically mentioned Mr. Ming Jiang's plan that he suddenly realized that the previous order to resist was just a smoke bomb, and the real intention had been revealed. Want to compromise with Japan.

There is little suspense about the direction of the matter now, it depends on how Mr. Jiang and Ning Zheng talk.

Mr. Jiang is suspicious by nature, he is always wary of Ning Zheng, who holds a heavy soldier in his hand, for fear that they will not be able to reach an agreement, and the discussion will not make sense.

He didn't want to go to Ning Zheng's territory. After all, the supreme commander of the Northeast Army still had more than 20 troops in his hands, so he changed the meeting place several times; every time he changed, Zhi Changsheng would naturally report the truth.Ning Zheng listened to the slightly contemptuous report of the most capable subordinate, but just smiled lightly, asking Mr. Jiang to do whatever he wanted.

Finally, at the last agreed Baoding Station, two men with the same calm face due to the sudden turn of events in the country met. Mr. Jiang looked sad and said slowly: "Ruiqing, there is no room for two people in a canoe." , too heavy, the boat will sink.”

Ning Zheng raised his head slowly, and responded softly: "Understood."

As a result, the northern leader who was once "under one man, above ten thousand people" was released from military power, and changed from a powerful minister in charge of half of China to a commoner in an instant.No wonder the "Ta Kung Pao" editorial on the third day also lamented Ning Zheng's rare qualities of not being in love with others and not being greedy for power, and by the way attacked the culprit who was more responsible.

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Feng Jiu waited for quite a while before Ning Zheng got off the special train from Nanjing and boarded the Ning family special train.

"Qingqing, shall we go for a drive?" He sat opposite Feng Jiu, looking out the window at the just a little bit of spring, and casually said——In the past few days, Feng Jiu has not even cared about Ya Ya, even Long Sheng was handed over to the unreliable Melanie, and she put all her energy on Ning Zheng——she watched his emotional ups and downs during this period: from the decisiveness at the beginning of the battle, to the Everything goes wrong in dispatching troops, to the extreme pain of failure, and then to anger, aggrieved, helpless, until now the cloud is calm.

Feng Jiu had already had a premonition of what he and Mr. Jiang were talking about, and he could guess that at this moment his heart was raging with turmoil and raging waves—if Ning Zheng said that he wanted the moon in the sky, she would probably turn into a monkey grandson and try to find a way Take it off for him.

When the train arrived in Tianjin, they got off and boarded the Buick Century that was driven to the platform of the railway station by the guard brigade. Ning Zheng opened the door on the right and watched Feng Jiu sit down, then turned to get on the car and drove to Tanggukou. The two got out of the car together and stood silently side by side by the seaside, looking into the distance where there were slight waves and the sky and water were the same color.

At this time, it was still cold and cold, and there were still large pieces of ice floating on the sea near the shore.The sky is slightly cold, clear as glass, and the mallard duck with malachite fluorescence and the red shelduck with ochre-red feathers that spend the winter here are undulating with the waves, and their small heads are cleverly drilled from time to time. Entering the sea, pecking out hapless little fish and shrimps, struggling to find food to survive.

It took Ning Zheng a long time to speak: "Jiu'er, tell me, does this Bohai Sea also have river water from our Juliu River?"

"...Yes, of course. I remember that the water of our Juliu River flows into the Bohai Sea from Panshan County."

"Even the water of the Juliu River can flow here. How about me, why can't I go back?... I really can't go back to Fengtian?" Ning Zheng's tone was calm, but Feng Jiu turned around and hugged him He hugged his waist, buried his face in his chest, suppressed his emotions, and reproached briskly, "What nonsense, you have to have confidence, we will definitely go back, we must fight back!"

"...You are right, Qingqing, I have to have confidence...By the way, when we got married, we only went to Beidaihe for a few days, but we didn't enjoy ourselves. This time we have time, do you want to visit Europe? ?”

Feng Jiu's heart ached, but at the same time he let go, "Okay, I really want to go, will you accompany me?"

"nature."

Ning Zheng lowered his head, stretched out his hand to lift her face, and kissed her softly. This kiss was shallow and careful, and there was a confusion of relief and unwillingness.

Taking care of the Nine Traitors, she stood on tiptoe, put her arms around the back of his neck, pressed closer to him, and kissed him more deeply.After a long time, Ning Zheng reluctantly let go of the red lips held by him, rubbed Feng Jiu's cold nose, hugged her again wordlessly, and whispered in her ear for advice,

"Jiu'er, Lincoln had a saying about deceiving everyone for a while. You have a good memory. How did you say that?"

Feng Jiu whispered: "It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time."

"You can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but not all of the people all of the time."

Ning Zheng let go of Feng Jiu's body, and then put her cold right hand into his pocket, "Let's go back."

They went to the mansion in the French Concession in Tianjin, and solemnly bid farewell to Mrs. Ning, other Ning family members, and relatives in the Tang family. Please take care of your relatives.Ning Zheng and Feng Jiu knelt down together and kowtowed to Mrs. Ning.

The old lady stared sadly at her grandson who had been driven forward by fate and couldn't help herself. After a while, she closed her eyes and said, "Chen Zhong'er, Feng Jiu, take care of yourselves...and my Yaya... ...don't hang on to us."

They returned to Peiping that night.

That night, Ning Zheng sent a resignation telegram, clarifying the original intention of "taking the blame and resigning... the heart is only for the country, and the rest is no longer self-contained". It was handed over to Ji Songling, the most trusted iron buddy, in charge, and hoped that the Northeast Army could take good care of the large number of Northeast folks in exile.

He also told his subordinates: "I went abroad to seek a way to save the country, and I will return soon; everyone must perform their duties, and don't feel sad and angry. Unity is the most important thing, so as to avoid the intention of Japanese pirates to sow discord."

The last order he issued during his tenure was to arrange for Ke Weili to go to the Kansas State Staff University in the United States to continue his studies, focusing on the large-scale coordinated combat technology of infantry artillery and armored forces.Wen Xiuwei can also follow her husband to temporarily leave the current suffocating domestic political environment and enjoy a life with less worry and less worry. This is also the meaning of Mr. Ke Dong who called Ning Zheng a few days ago-the son does not listen to him Yes, there is no way, only to give orders through his chief.

Ke Weili has a stubborn personality, and has always been at odds with certain loose-knit generals of the Northeast Army.He was not in the country for the next few days, and Ning Zheng was really afraid that there would be some irreconcilable conflict between them——On the night of "September [-]", Ke Weili happened to be in the Peking University Camp, and was ordered not to shoot, which made him cry Crying, excruciating pain—he came to the Northeast only after thinking about serving the country.

Two days later, they packed up and prepared to take the train to Shanghai.The couple sat side by side in the back seat of the car, and Ning Zheng was sitting on his lap, wearing a powder-blue coat and revealing a milky white collar. Acting cute on his father's lap, but a pair of small hands scratched and scratched restlessly on the car window.

Zhi Changsheng was driving the car, Feng Jiu suddenly remembered something, to see if there was still time, so he asked him to stop by Liulichang.Ning Zheng stretched out his arms to wrap around her body in a cinnamon-colored waistcoat. what?I can't bear it either, so let's take a good detour in Beiping and bid farewell to this city where you have lived for two years. Feng Jiu didn't say anything, but just slapped him even more.

When he arrived at Liulichang, Feng Jiu got out of the car and picked up the Song edition "Wang Youcheng's Nian Ji" ordered at "Wu Liuju" a few days ago, which was tightly wrapped in paper.This is her favorite place in Beiping City - how many times, two happy children, accompanied by an even more excited self, lingered in many old bookstores and old antique shops.

People in Peiping have a great advantage: doing business is friendly and open-minded, they can think freely, and they have the same face whether they buy or not.She also proudly told Long Sheng that his godfather used to find a lot of treasures of calligraphy and painting here, relying on his hard-earned eyesight.

Their whole family also once went out of the city together to go outside Chaoyang Gate during the Double Ninth Festival, where there is a wild teahouse open from early spring to early autumn: a reed foil shed is built, the tea sets made of yellow sand and rough pottery are not exquisite, and tables and chairs built of earth bricks It is even more rough; however, there are white clouds in the sky, and there are large reeds swaying in the rustling autumn wind, and the light and warm fluffy white reeds are trembling, against the setting sun, it looks like autumn snow in the sky, and people walk by slowly carrying fishing rods Fishing old men and tourists who have gained a lot...isn't this abundant wild interest enough?
Feng Jiu also took Longsheng and Yaya to Tianqiao's "Fuhaixuan" to listen to storytelling: "Journey to the West" by Li Youyuan, who is known as a "live monkey", is really wonderful, and he interprets the Sun Walker vividly.After listening to it for a few days, Feng Jiu was shocked to find that Ya Ya had imitated Li Youyuan's sharp claws, blind eyes, scratching ears and cheeks, which made Ning Zheng dumbfounded in fright, and Wu Ma was so angry that she blamed Feng Jiu.Feng Jiu, a mother, realized how inappropriate this matter was.

In the spring, go to the Forbidden City, which is open to the public. The old lord has left and the palace is empty. Visitors can carefully ponder the algae well with the Xuanyuan mirror at the entrance of the Hall of Supreme Harmony. There is a single horn growing in front of the Tianyi Gate, and the mane is like a flame. The flying Xiezhi represents justice, and the "Diyong Golden Lotus" with four large lotus flowers can emerge from Changyin Pavilion of Ningshou Palace.

As for the Fragrant Hills that we have climbed, the Ten Thousand Livestock Garden full of rare birds and animals, and the Great Wall at Badaling...there are so many people lingering and forgetting to return.

When the car drove to Tiananmen, Feng Jiu watched the majestic and beautiful city gate silently. She knew that under the city wall were the afterbirths of newborn babies—the old Peking people used to bury the afterbirths of newborn babies Under the city root, it is as if the southerners want to choose a mountain as the ancestral mountain, and put the child's afterbirth in a small basket hanging on the tree.

The ancestral mountain protects the younger generations, continues the incense, is endless, and stretches endlessly; isn't the gate of Tian'an City the ancestral mountain common to all people in Peiping?

Fengjiu only hopes that this ancestral mountain can always stand tall and protect the people of Peiping from the Japanese invaders.

The family arrived in Shanghai by train, settled in the mansion on Corneille Road in the French Concession, and went to visit the elders at the second aunt's house in Fengjiu that night.Fengjiu's great-grandmother is over a hundred years old, but she is still very energetic. Her eyes are as innocent as a child's, and the whites of her eyes are as clear as the sun after a rain. Her little feet wrapped in rice dumplings can still keep kicking the legs of chairs.

Ya Ya fell in love with the wrinkled Mrs. and Grandma at first sight, and insisted on chatting with her about the family affairs.In fact, Ya Ya had been to Shanghai just after the full moon, but how could she remember it.The wife and grandma speak Wu Nong's soft language with discussion, while Yaya speaks the perfect Fengtian dialect mixed with a slippery Peking accent. The old and the young can chat vividly even with guesswork. Coaxed very much.

The next day, Ning Zheng received a death threat letter with a brass bullet in it. The letter demanded that Ning Zheng either fight back to his hometown in Northeast China, or commit suicide to thank the people of his country. , Ning Zheng was silent after watching it.

Feng Jiuru was seriously injured, and for the first time in his life, he felt that her husband's life was in such a critical moment, and a thin layer of sweat broke out on his forehead; Looking at his wife's face, he was afraid that she would be in a hurry to do something good or bad, so he had to call Mr. Du Yong, the leader of Shanghai's No. [-] gang.

Mr. Du was not as extreme as that killer, he knew that Ning Zheng alone could not have caused the current complicated situation, so he directly settled the matter.

Probably because he was a little unaccustomed to the environment, within a few days, Ya Ya suffered from lung-heat cough, and for the first time in his life, he coughed with a bitter face.Fengjiu imitated the Shanghainese and gave her the orange cheese with rock sugar that had been burned over a clear fire, and within two days she had seen better.

Mrs. Jiang secretly came to see Ning Zheng and his wife from Nanjing—she was Ning Zheng’s good friend and Feng Jiu’s nominal sworn sister—with her unique habit of speaking in both Chinese and English, she expressed her resolute attitude toward Ning Zheng. The admiration and admiration of decentralization, and he also told Feng Jiu to take good care of Ning Zheng when he arrived in Europe-who can't say flattery, take advantage of all the advantages and then make a gesture, this is probably the easiest thing in the world to do.

Mrs. Jiang met Ning Zheng in the year when he came back from abroad. Since then, she has always admired Ning Zheng's magnanimous demeanor that is rarely seen in Shanghai Bund, and always calls him "" Knights of the Rhine".

Fengjiu was perfunctory, and from time to time she smiled at Mrs. Jiang, who went to study in the United States at the age of six, but never wore a top-quality cheongsam since she married Mr. Jiang; Changing places, I'm afraid that I really don't have the self-cultivation of this god-sister, and I can sit down and talk to the wife of the instigator calmly.

Feng Jiu was naturally not so naive, thinking that Ning Zheng really wanted to make up for her honeymoon: she knew that she would still meet many politicians and celebrities when she went to Europe this time, so she had to go to the department store on Nanjing Road to buy some Chinese-style Take the gift of the past to give to others.

Xianshi, Yongan, Xinxin, and Daxin, four well-known Chinese-funded department stores run by overseas Chinese, have already surpassed foreign-funded stores in sales after years of painstaking efforts, accounting for more than half of Shanghai's retail industry.

Although the "January [-]th Incident" had just passed a year ago, Shanghai Bund, known as the "largest metropolis in the Far East", was once again in a state of peace with singing and dancing.

Feng Jiu noticed that the gramophones in many shopping malls and coffee shops were playing the same song: "Drizzle", which was specially composed by musician Li Jinhui for his daughter, singer and movie star Li Minghui. It should be said that it was the first real song in modern China. popular song -

"It's raining non-stop
The breeze blows non-stop

Liu Qingqing in the breeze and drizzle

ouch yo liu qingqing

I don't want your gold baby
Little dear don't want your silver
Nunu, as long as you have your heart

Ouch your heart"

The melody is melodious, the female voice is charming, and the meaning of the song is magnanimous... Feng Jiu doesn't like it at all.

She invited the third cousin of the second aunt's family who had the most experience in shopping to accompany her. The two got off the car at the intersection of Nanjing Road, followed by several guards quietly.

When the neon lights first came on, there are many department stores on Nanjing West Road, which is the street of Jing’an Temple. The window layout of each shopping mall is unique and innovative. Come on, I'm afraid customers will not be impressed.

The slender figures of modern girls with permed "hand-rolled egg roll" hairstyles are held in the arms of elegant gentlemen, walking along the long street; well-dressed dignitaries from all over the world, Westerners with various hair and eyes, ordinary The local people wander comfortably in this luxurious and luxurious place.

In major shopping malls, there are handsome male salesmen politely asking female customers to try the latest Parisian perfumes, some teaching customers how to make handmade soap, some salesgirls who speak fluent English, and upstairs there are ice skating shops. Sports venues, radio stations, cinemas, storytelling venues, and beautiful-faced female staff in shopping malls meandering down the stairs, displaying the latest European fashion...

It didn't take much time. With the help of her tasteful cousin, Fengjiu had already picked out the gifts, and at the same time left the address of the mansion on the Rue Corneille, so that the shopping mall could send someone to deliver the large quantities of silk scarves, silk fabrics, Gifts such as round fans, escutcheons, handkerchiefs, and Fuzhou lacquer boxes were sent.She and her cousin then left the shopping mall, chatting along the way.

Fengjiu lived in Beiping for more than a year in an extremely depressing and closed life, and felt a little uncomfortable with the hustle and bustle and the feasting and feasting here; looking around, the faces of the bustling people on the street were full of peace, but in her heart she thought of Another completely different scene: when she was a child, she followed Wu Ma to the vegetable market to buy chicken because of good deeds.

When Wu Ma chose a fat old hen through the big bamboo cage, negotiated the price with the chicken farmer, and the chicken farmer opened the chicken cage and reached out to catch it, the scene left a deep impression on her, and she will never forget it for many years——

The seven or eight chickens inside were crowded and busy grabbing food, suddenly stretched their necks together and screamed "Oh, oh high!", the little round black eyes were full of despair and panic, Qiqi Shrink your body to a corner of the chicken coop desperately, even if you step on each other and squeeze each other, you will not hesitate; but once the unlucky old hen is caught by the chicken farmer with quick eyes and quick hands, the door of the cage is closed, just now it looks like a catastrophe is imminent The flock of chickens instantly became quiet, with a leisurely attitude, strolling around, grooming and pecking insects, doing what they should do, as if they were not the ones who were so miserable a few seconds ago.

And the human beings who are the spirit of all things, the Chinese at this time, are different from the chickens in the chicken cages I saw when I was a child, and how much better?No, not at all.

At present, China is not prepared for the full-scale invasion of the powerful Japanese invaders at all. All places are muddling along, just like the fable that hid in the crevice of the cliff "Duo La La, Duo La La, the cold wind froze to death." I will make a nest tomorrow" like a cold bird, not crying when I see the coffin.

The dusk was over the city, and the sky was getting late. Suddenly, the melodious Westminster bells sounded from the customs building on the Bund. Feng Jiu suddenly looked back, but his heart was full of gloom.

The two sisters happened to be passing Laofengxiang Silver House at this time, and the second cousin suddenly came and wanted to pick up some gold jewelry. Feng Jiu accompanied her in, and browsed all kinds of exquisite and fashionable jewelry by the way.

As soon as she entered, she remembered that in Zhuozhou, Ning Zheng had given her a phoenix ring, which she wore until she had buds. She was afraid that the slightly long ring would scratch her, so she took it off. Put it away—as long as she is with Yaya, her clothes will be extremely simple, and she will not be given the opportunity to grab anything and stuff it in her mouth.

However, didn't he say that he would give himself a "Queen's Bracelet"? After all these years, she actually forgot...

It seems that he also forgot.

(End of this chapter)