Chapter 107: Nothing to Gain
Old Mrs. Li shook her head blankly: "I don't understand, I don't understand this." If only I were your mother, I would understand......" In her thinking, there is only one line between the two questions, and this analysis is really in vain.
Li Fengzhu's emotions inevitably recurred, and he threw his handkerchief to the ground, and his chest rose and fell in anger: "How many times do you want me to say it before you understand?! My dead husband and father, as well as your pretended mother, whether directly or indirectly, they all participated in the anti-Japanese resistance. My husband is still a key offender, he has been involved in the conservation of cultural relics, and he knows the whereabouts of many of the collections. Although I didn't see him until he died, the Orientals would never believe him. They never gave up looking, so our crisis was not resolved by fleeing. It's been useless for many years, as long as the spies detect something, we have only a dead end after all!"
This topic used to be ordered by Li Fengzhu not to mention to anyone. Forgetting, of course, has safety considerations, but it also has another meaning. If she had clearly left the tragic situation of the destruction in her memory, she might not have been able to hold on for a long time.
And Mrs. Li only thought about her own comfort, and didn't care about Li Fengzhu's feelings at all. Of course, maybe it's not that it's not ignored, but it's unexpected. After all, her thoughts and actions are completely in line with the judgment of some Orientals, who are unaware of the state and think that the managers of the state are equivalent to the owners of property. The treasures in power in the Qing Dynasty should belong to the emperor Lao'er, and the warlords should belong to the warlords when they are in power.
"Besides, what I've done in the past few years ......" Li Fengzhu lowered his voice very low, it should be just talking to himself. As the golden time passed little by little, she became more and more shaken about her career choice, and she couldn't help but hold her head and whimper for a while.
When Mrs. Li saw her like this, she couldn't help but shout and ask, "Then why do you still do it?"
This is also a sentence that Li Fengzhu often asks himself in the middle of the night recently. Why do you still do it, and do you regret it? During the day, she looked at the front-line news in the newspaper and listened to the important military news on the radio, and she could clearly answer that she had never regretted it. But at night, when she was curled up alone, she had to admit that there was actually another opposite answer in her heart.
The endless torture made Li Fengzhu's headache, angina, and abdominal pain attack together. "Okay, good! admit your mistakes, everything today is my sin, and I am all to blame. She lifted her slap and slapped herself in the face like crazy, crying and pleading, "But it's useless to talk about it now. Can you help me?"
Mrs. Li was frightened by such madness, and her heart was broken for her helpless crying. Swallowed his saliva and didn't dare to continue talking. Just silently thinking that he is a rough person, and he can't make up any money, and he is done sulking in his heart, don't you have to listen to her daughter when she is about to come? Li Fengzhu is an adult who knows everything, and although he does not hesitate to call out about the fake family relationship, he always inadvertently reveals a sense of alienation. Children are different, when they are out of the house, the child is only so big, and slowly he doesn't remember the appearance of his grandmother, Xiao Rufu takes his grandmother as real in his heart. In addition, Mrs. Li went to the city to join relatives and friends in order to supplement the family, and single-handedly brought him up, and the days of watching him were longer than the days of watching her own grandson, and there was such a man-made disaster, this child has long become her heart. The child's mother likes to be strong, and it is true that something happens, but it is true that the child's mother has the ability to raise money to redeem people.
Thinking about it like this, Mrs. Li exhaled her turbidity deeply, and decided to do what Li Fengzhu said. She pinched her fingers and rubbed them back and forth, thought for a moment, and slowly came up with an answer: "For the first two days, the people in the cabin were not familiar with each other, and there was no match for talking. One day ......"
Judging from the opening narrative, this is probably another very long paragraph. But there was only one witness, and Li Fengzhu had to endure his temperament and soften his tone: "Which day?"
Old Mrs. Li broke off two fingers, and when she reached the third one, she put it down and raised it, showing a hesitant expression, and muttered in her mouth: "It's when the big ship docks on the first day." ”
Li Fengzhu stared at her hand and silently remembered that it was about three days after the ship sailed, and then cooperated with the information of the ship in those days, and you could find out the exact time and place.
"On that day, there were people who got off the boat and people who got on board. Anyway, she said that her ancestors had been outside the gate for generations, showing the emperor's ancestral grave, and later married a family that showed the emperor the hunting grounds. She is an old man, so others call her the second wife. She couldn't spit out a decent word in her mouth, and the left and right sentences were all about the broken rules of the old sesame seeds and rotten grains in her house every day. You say, we all met in Pingshui, why should we do what she wants. ”
When the old lady speaks, the focus is always crooked, and it is up to the listener to analyze it himself.
Li Fengzhu tugged at his eyebrows and interjected: "So, you compare yourself with her, right?"
"I'm not a comparison. In the cabin where we lived, there were more than a dozen people, just me and Shun...... Rufu and I were the most aggrieved. She always said that everyone is from outside the Guan, and if you pull up a few generations, they must all be the descendants of the flag people. It has always been that only the henchmen of the emperor are qualified to take care of the family. Catching up with the old man, we are going to greet her. ”
"The second wife got on the boat for the first two days, and you put up with her. Li Fengzhu bit his lip and thought for a moment, "That means, when you talked to strangers about my identity, the ship was walking on the sea, right?"
"Hmm...... Right. Old Mrs. Li was a little hesitant at first, but after thinking for a while, she dared to reply with certainty.
"After that day, did anyone come out of the way to talk to you about me, especially if you were pulled aside to whisper in front of everyone?"
"Yes...... Coincidentally, that person was full of Jinmen dialect. ”
After a conversation, Li Fengzhu had a specific outline of the identity of the kidnapper. It should be a native of Jinmen, at least he has been in Jinmen for a while. It was a merchant engaged in the trading of Japanese goods, and his shop was probably in the Japanese concession, and finally it was smashed by some radical patriots and forced to close.
This clue is difficult to find from others, but Li Fengzhu quickly thought that Tang Shubai must have a way to get it.
She suddenly disliked him so much, and it wasn't good to know him, but it wasn't useless either.
Seeing her clasping her hands excitedly, Mrs. Li rubbed her hands, and her eyes lit up: "You have a way, don't you?"
"Think about it again, tell me a little bit more about the situation, for example-" Li Fengzhu shook his fingers and leaned over to his mother's side, "What day did you start getting seasick?"
"I've been dizzy. Mrs. Li scratched her scalp and thought of something again, "However, the night when I couldn't hold back and started vomiting and diarrhea, Rufu comforted me, and we will be there in four days." ”
Li Fengzhu kept bowing his head, indicating that these words were very useful. Then he asked, "According to your estimate, how many people on that ship knew that I was a journalist?"
Old Mrs. Li's face turned red all of a sudden, her two hands rubbed together, and the cocoon grinded against the cocoon and made a stinging sound.
It seemed a little difficult to speak, Li Fengzhu had already been mentally prepared, and guessed and asked, "Ten or twenty?"
I saw the old lady Li shaking her head with a sad face, and squeezed out of her throat word by word: "Probably...... The whole ship's crew knew ......"
"What?" Li Fengzhu was so anxious that he jumped up on the spot.
This answer is too chilling, there is no scope for investigation at all, so I can only look for it blindly.
Mrs. Li shouted grievances in her heart, and she couldn't predict that there were crutches on the ship. At that time, she was so swaggering, naturally because she had a breath in her heart that she couldn't swallow: "I just want to scare the second grandmother with words, and teach her what it means to be a good man and not mention the courage of the year." And then there's ...... It's the people in our cabin, I heard that I have a ...... who can read and write," the old lady bit her lip and swallowed back the word "daughter" in this situation, "they are quite happy for me." ”
A cabin full of poor people, with a small space and poor drafts, and the raging waters shook them unsteadily, unable to sit still, and unable to stand. They are no better than first-class guests, they have tickets in their hands, they can play cards, they can dance, and laughing and laughing can always divert some physical pain. A group of strangers, staring at each other, sat with wide eyes, and there was no entertainment to spend other than talking. There was a half-sentence news in one room, and everyone heard about it, and that kind of scene was almost like squeezing the hatch open.
Li Fengzhu's heart was filled with the word "sorrow". The life of the poor is really full of holes, and if someone wants her to have a flaw, it is simply within reach. You can prevent it for a while, but you can't prevent it for a lifetime!
With a long sigh, he glanced at the ceiling, then stared down at his feet, and walked a few steps back and forth. After repeating this for a long time, Li Fengzhu asked in a trembling voice, "And the whole ship also knows your destination?"
Old Lady Li didn't dare to speak, and nodded her forehead slightly.
When Li Fengzhu saw it, his braincase swelled again. She felt that she should go out and calm down, or there would be another big quarrel. Because he said, "It's not too early, I'll go downstairs and buy something to eat." Your old man moves his chopsticks a little bit, and then sleeps to his heart's content. To get through this difficulty, I can't rely on me alone, and there will be more times when I want you to help me in the future. ”
These words with great hope are nonsense. Li Fengzhu is really not very sure, let things get better day by day. But only by writing empty checks can we stabilize Mrs. Li and not continue to add to the chaos.