&;srn&;Old Shadow of the Republic of China 42

Lin Yutong is a little embarrassed today, it’s really not so embarrassed for a long time.

Looking at the old lady with little feet sitting next door, Lin Yutong was speechless when she said something to others.

"My son is having a meal in the police station, but the news is definitely fine." The old lady held Lin Yutong's hand, "I said this for our family, for our area, but also for your own good. Now I say that I want to divide Baojia, and this is what I want to hold. For daughters like you, you are elopement."

No! We have a marriage certificate! Thank you.

"I have seen people like you who say feudalism and want to come out to make a revolution in a disagreement? If you are determined to make a revolution, then leave as soon as possible. Don't stay here. When this joint starts, it will be broken. There are bandits and family members. When you leave, we will be hiding our sins. My daughter, please listen to me, don't stay in the city, find a village and a small shop, and this place doesn't work. If this place doesn't work, it will still be the same in another place."

She even thought about the solution. I have to say that they are right. The people around here are familiar neighbors. Suddenly, such a couple came, and they didn't date anyone. When they heard that they were not local people, this must be suspicious. It would be better to let you know something about it in advance than to report you quietly at that time.

The old lady continued to talk again: "This elopement is not good at reputation. You still have to find a reliable and honest man who looks good but doesn't go out to make money. After all, it's good-looking but not easy to use."

The fourth man who looks good and seems to be suspected of being difficult to use for soft food: ""

Old lady, you are too honest, it is hard to say this in front of others.

The old lady is very kind, "If I misunderstand you, don't be surprised by me. If you really plan to stay here, that's fine. We are looking for a yarn mill in this city, and I know acquaintances, and then I can ask the young man to go there. At least I can support my family. Don't be too honest in your daughter, men should do it well, and always spoil him as if he is serving him like a master, no."

The man who was spoiled by Lin Yutong shook the newspaper and said, ""

Finally, Lin Yutong put two tickets in the air. She bought them to listen to Qin Opera with the Fourth Master, but now she should give them to the old lady. "You hold them, I heard that they are a corner, and I don't understand it very much."

"Ouch! This is hard to get a ticket." The old lady slapped her thigh, talked a few more words, and left happily.

But what people said is indeed true. If it is really Baojia, even if it is targeted again.

Lin Yutong looked at the small courtyard and felt very sorry: "We have walked all the way and purchased industries all the way. How many real estate we have in our hands alone."

The Fourth Master looked at it and said, "Save it. The two-room yard doesn't cost much."

But where to go next?

"Caotan, where we go ashore." The Fourth Master asked Lin Yutong to collect all the things we could collect. "I'll go and take a look tomorrow. The transportation there is convenient. Even if it is not as prosperous as before, it is the place with the most people from other places."

It is easy to see from the death of Caotan. It is a mudflat covered with weeds. The initial formation was that outsiders fled to make a living here. They could only choose an uninhabited place like Caotan, which was developed. And because there are many businessmen who come and go to the south and north by water, there are many people.

It would be fine to rent a place like this for the time being.

The next day, Lin Yutong packed up her things at home, and the Fourth Master went to rent a house. She didn't come back until it was dark. "The conditions there are not as good as the small yard, so I still have to let you down."

When I arrived at the place, Lin Yutong felt it was quite good. This was a small house close to the dock, which was used by the updater who was looking after the dock at night. It was only a dozen square meters in total. There was a small kang in it, so it was barely enough to sleep with two people. Yesterday, the Fourth Master asked someone to build a stove on the side of the kang, but it was not done when I passed by today. There was an old table and an old chair on the other side of the kang, and a kang table could be used as a dining table. Then there was nothing left.

The Wei River is next to it. The winter wind blows from the river. The smell is

Lin Yutong thought to herself, my master, what did you think, how did you find such a villa?

It was cold at this time, the river water was frozen, and there was no one on the pier. The row of houses closest to them were also one or two hundred meters away.

Lin Yutong was standing around the door with a scarf and looking around, when she heard someone shouting in the distance: "Golden Painter, is it okay here?"

How did you become a painter?

She looked up and saw a man in a police uniform. The Fourth Master replied, "It's great! This place is exactly what I'm looking for."

"You artists are different." This man held a cigarette in his mouth. "If you live, live, live. I have the final say in this place. What is Baojia not Baojia? You two are one family, one is one and one is one. If something happens, I will come to me. If anyone talks randomly, ask him to get out of here."

After the others left, the Fourth Master said, "It's good here, few people come to disturb me. When the dock is busy, Bai Kun should arrive."

Now even if you want to go north, it is not enough. The north is blocked tightly, and it is hard to get over without anyone to support it. And there is no recommendation, and it has just settled down and it is not even hot. The two of you suddenly come. Who knows your background? Who can prove our identity?

After all, I still have to wait for Bai Kun.

The Fourth Master looked at the dead grass all over the beach and was still very interested. He also found someone to build a toilet at the lower vent, saying that it was used as a public toilet. He also built a straw shed at the door, "When the weather is warm, sit under the shed and watch the river flow." Thinking of the interest, he really took paper and pen to write and splashed ink, and started painting. "A painter, he just wants to be so romantic."

You are romantic, I have to see how to dry the stove first, and we still have to cook.

As soon as the fire rose, the room became warmer and the kang became warmer. The Fourth Master asked a businessman who had to go to the city every day to bring him newspapers, so he was not ignorant of what was happening outside.

For example, on December 9, we opposed Huabei Autonomous Administration and demanded a resolute resistance to the Japanese. Thousands of students from the capital took to the streets. Following this, students from all over the country responded positively. The men who delivered newspapers said: "The city is in chaos, and there are students everywhere. They said that they wanted to rally in the Revolutionary Park to support the Japanese. Anyway, it is to fight against the Japanese."

Lin Yutong thanked him and stuffed a few meat buns, "Take them back and eat them while they are hot."

From this day on, the young man came almost every day to deliver newspapers and leaflets distributed on the street.

"Oppose Huabei's establishment of the Defense Communist Autonomous Committee and its similar organizations to oppose all secret negotiations between China and Japan, and immediately announce the foreign policy to cope with the current crisis to ensure the people's speech, gatherings, and publishing freedom to stop the civil war, and immediately prepare for the war of self-defense against the outside world, and do not arbitrarily arrest the people and release the arrested students immediately."

"The puppet organization that vows to the death to divide our country's territorial sovereignty opposes surrender diplomacy demands that the whole country mobilize the nation to fight against Japan and fight for freedom of national salvation call on all sectors of the country to respond immediately, and act in concert to require the authorities to immediately release the arrested students and withdraw the military and police officers who blocked the schools."

The capital took the lead, but the localities followed closely, and the sound waves were rising and falling. First, the students took a strike, but before this wave passed, the workers began to respond to the students. A new wave arose, and the people's anger was unstoppable.

"The Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions has sent telegrams to support Beijing students, calling on compatriots across the country to rise unanimously, gather the entire nation's power, oppose the existence of any pseudo-organization, and protect the country in order to safeguard sovereignty."

"Guangzhou railway workers are in Shanghai postal service, railway workers hold gatherings, and power to demand a declaration of war on Japan."

"Mr. Lu, Song and other patriotic celebrities praised the heroic struggle of patriotic students and donated money to support students' anti-Japanese and national salvation movement."

“Overseas Chinese support patriotic students in various ways”

Three or six years have passed by such a voice. On the first day of the New Year, students from the Beijing-Tianjin City organized a southward anti-Japanese propaganda team.

The wind was blowing outside, the snow was blowing, and I didn’t know if I could withstand the straw shed at the door. The corn and sweet potato porridge cooked in the pot was rumbling, and Lin Yutong kept stirring the pot with a spoon, and the small steamed house warmed up. Lin Yutong followed the customs and wore cotton jackets and trousers, looking like a country wife.

The news in the newspaper is like the warmth in the room, making people feel warm and excited.

The porridge was cooked, and Lin Yutong had just served the rice and placed it on the kang table when someone knocked on the door.

The Fourth Master waved his hand and did not ask Lin Yutong to open the door. He came down by himself and opened the door. The wind suddenly poured in.

There was a man wearing a cotton robe and a cotton hat standing at the door, "Is it Mr. Jin?"

The Fourth Master nodded: "Come in and speak."

"It's me, Zhou Ping, the principal of Ximing Primary School." The man came in, took off his hat, and smiled kindly.

The Fourth Master closed the door, "Principal Zhou, I'm disrespectful."

Lin Yutong invited someone to the table: "Don't dislike it if you are simple."

The man was not polite and sat down directly: "Then I'll bother you." Then he said his purpose, "I heard that you are a painter, so I want to hire you as an art teacher in the school."

This is for no reason, why does it sound so unreliable?

The Fourth Master did not rush to agree, but said instead: "I may not be here for a long time, so"

"It's okay! It's okay." The other party didn't mind, "It's a substitute, it's OK to take as long as you can."

After seeing the person off, Lin Yutong wondered, "What does this mean?"

The Fourth Master looked at a stack of newspapers on the table, "We are too concerned about current affairs, which is very eye-catching. In addition, you may never pay attention to details when reading historical books. Caotan is a shortcut to the west button in Weibei. You may not know anything else. Do you know the West button in the West button in Zhou Congyan'an, where did you enter the West button in?"

"Here?" Lin Yutong pointed outside.

"Yeah!" The Fourth Master nodded affirmatively, "Walking from the Wei River, the place where you get ashore is Caotan. Then you take a bus into the city from Caotan. What does this mean? It means that underground party activities in this area are frequent. When Xizhang was liberated, this was the first place to be liberated. Can't it explain the problem?"

No wonder?

I'll tell you why you chose this place. In that case, it's relatively safe.

The Fourth Master should do this job, but it will be after the Chinese New Year. I can’t take art classes a few times a week, just thinking that I’ll go out for ventilation. The Fourth Master is still good at Chinese painting.

This year is the most incredible Spring Festival in Lin Yutong’s years of experience. In a narrow space, there are no relatives or friends. The two sit opposite each other, clink a glass, and take a sip of old wine.

"You follow me, all kinds of days have passed." The Fourth Master looked around, "I will commemorate the days of escape."

Lin Yutong laughed: "It's so boring for a single day, it's great. Wherever you are, it's good."

They are so old that they are still pretentious.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the two of them watched a community fire in the town. No matter how difficult life is, they still have to go on a prosperous journey.

After school started, the Fourth Master went out for two hours every day to go to school to attend classes. Occasionally, he also brought Zhou Ping back for free. Zhou Ping also said some news from time to time, as if he was unintentionally. For example, the Qinbei Industrial Army headed for Shanxi and wanted an Eastern Expedition.

The Fourth Master and Lin Yutong always listen carefully and rarely speak.

When the weather was warmer, the ice and snow melted, and there were more ferries on the river, the pier suddenly became lively. After the straw shed was carried over the winter snow, the Fourth Master made an old square table under the shed. Occasionally, colleagues from school like Zhou Ping would come to sit. The house was closed, and facing the river view here was quite interesting.

The table was empty today, and Lin Yutong burned the newly built stove under the shed, because she was afraid that the stove people in the house could not stand it when it was hot. Who knew that someone came ashore on the dock and sat directly at the square table, "Boss, come and make a pot of tea!"

Lin Yutong: "Do you think of yourself as a tea seller?

Well, it’s not easy for everyone to go out. Isn’t it just asking for a bowl of water? She had a very good temper and built a pot of rough tea to deliver it to her, so she continued to go there. As a result, when she went over to see, after they finished drinking the tea, there were three copper plates on the table.

Lin Yutong threw it into the clay pot on the table and stopped caring about it. But there were ones and two, and his business was inexplicably good. There was still no place to sit and stood in the open space with a bowl of tea. Then when the Fourth Master came back, he looked at the copper in the half jar on the table, and finally said: "I don't have to worry about changing the copper in the future."

I guess the Fourth Master really didn't expect to build a straw shed here, not to be elegant or return to nature, but to become a tea seller.

Lin Yutong was business, and when the fire opened, there were customers. The business was forced to continue. It was not until half a month later, a small boat docked from the dock.

The young boy pointed to the teahouse beside him: "I've been reluctant all the way, drink some water first, and then find a car to go to the city."

Immediately afterwards, a thick voice shouted: "Boss, give me a bowl of tea."

Lin Yutong was sitting in front of the stove and boiling water. The sound made her stunned. She was so familiar! She turned around in shock and was facing the sight of Tongmao.

The two were stunned for a while. Lin Yutong didn't expect them to arrive so soon. Tong Chuan thought he saw a person who looked similar to Lin Yutong. He was dressed in a rustic manner and this place. Who would have thought that this was Mr. Lin, who had once been invited by many people in the capital.

Bai Yuan cried out in a crying voice: "Mr. Lin"

Lin Yutong smiled: "Come in the house. But I've been waiting for you."

As soon as the three of them entered, they felt crowded.
To be continued...