One day at the end of March, the student government association announced that a joint performance would be held in the school's small hall in May, in which the drama clubs could participate together, and all teachers and students would come together to watch the performance.

After the relocation of the United Nations General Assembly to the west, teachers and students who liked drama spontaneously organized many drama clubs. At first, there was only one youth drama club, and later, due to the disagreement between the internal concepts of the student managers, several drama clubs such as the Nanping Club, the Contemporary Drama Club, and the Shen Zhong Club were established one after another. After transferring from Mengzi to Kunming, the drama club there was naturally disbanded, and Zhong Hui finally joined the Nanping Club after several choices.

In this upcoming joint performance in May, the Nanping Club where she is shrunk is one of the participating clubs.

This performance is unprecedentedly grand, in addition to the joint performance of some classic plays by the drama clubs, each club must also produce at least one independent play. Because when he was in Mengzi, Wen Jianning's "Wanping Bells" was adapted into a script by the Drama Club, which was deeply loved by the students, and was not only a great success when it was performed locally, but also was put on the stage many times after coming to Kunming. Although the success of the script itself was due to several other classmates, her fame gradually spread among some of her classmates.

The person in charge of the Nanping Club specially asked Zhong Hui to pass on the message, wanting Wen Jianning to help their club write a new script.

Zhong Hui spoke, and Wen Jianning readily agreed.

Compared to the meditative thinking she had when she first wrote the script, this time she started writing much faster.

A few days later, when Zhong Hui came to see it, most of the script had been written.

She took the manuscript and looked at it, only to see that the name of the script newly written by Wen Jianning was "Lili Cao", and she immediately thought of the poster run by the two, and immediately proposed to Wen Jianning to change the script to be published directly in their "Wildfire". This is just a trivial matter for Wen Jianning, not to mention that it is still on their poster, so naturally it will not be too troublesome.

At the mention of the poster, the two chatted for a long time, and Zhong Hui continued to read it.

"Leaving the Grass" mainly tells the story of a class of classmates in a middle school in Beiping before and after the outbreak of the 77 Incident. Before the Japanese invasion, these young students were full of energy and fought for the future of their country.

But after the fall of Beiping, their patriotic movement suffered a cold wave. The classmates around him were arrested and sacrificed one after another, and the strong smiles and laughter of the family members in the face of the invaders made this group of simple and reckless young people gradually hesitate. However, the confusion is short-lived after all, and they soon realize that only by persevering for a long time can they see the day when they can see hope.

At the end of the story, this class of classmates also reached the moment of graduation and separation, a group of classmates and friends sang "by the ancient road outside the long pavilion", and each embarked on a different path in life, some chose to go south to study in the southwest, some chose to study abroad and struggled to pursue the road of saving the country and the people, and some remained in the fallen city of Beiping and became an ordinary primary school teacher......

They are like grass seeds blown down by the wind to the ends of the world, but no matter where they are, they are silently accumulating strength for the future of their home and country.

Because she knew that Zhong Hui would also participate in this performance, Wen Jianning deliberately wrote a character for Zhong Hui out of selfishness that is very similar to her own personality, which is somewhat similar to Gorky's warrior Danke, and is also one of the central characters of this play.

In the Russian writer's writing, Danko is a warrior of the tribe, leading his people to trek through the gloomy forest, and when the people are tired, he grabs his fiery heart and holds it high above his head, and the red heart is like a torch to drive away the darkness, and the character she writes about, although not as great as Danko, is also full of fiery feelings.

She was witty, brave, and insightful, and was a leader in the hearts of her classmates, but after the Japanese occupied Beiping, she was accidentally captured by the Japanese army when she secretly distributed patriotic leaflets.

When Zhong Hui read the script, Wen Jianning happened to write the most critical part of the play, and it was also the part she was most entangled with. According to the normal development of the plot, when this character is arrested and imprisoned, and the classmates try to rescue but run into walls everywhere, this character is almost time to leave. Through her sacrifice, she aroused the hatred of the invaders in the hearts of other characters, and also used the spirit of sacrifice in this character as a force to inspire the audience.

But Wen Jianning was a little hesitant when he wrote this.

After all, this character was written by her based on Zhong Hui, and when she thought of having this character arrested and imprisoned and sacrificed in the end, she always felt that it was not a good taste, so she was planning to rewrite this paragraph.

After Zhong Hui heard this, she laughed at her and said: "In the past, my mother always didn't let me say bad things during the Chinese New Year, for fear of affecting my luck for a year. If you really don't want to go in your heart, write it for me, so that this character can be sacrificed more heroically and more valuable. ”

When she said this, Wen Jianning was also a little embarrassed.

The fate of the characters in literary and artistic works has nothing to do with the archetype, as a writer, she naturally knows this, but because the role this time was written by her specifically for Zhong Hui, she had to think about it more. But since Zhong Hui, the archetypal character, didn't mind, she naturally had no scruples, and continued to write boldly with confidence.

A week later, the first draft of "Leaving the Grass" was completed.

After the manuscript was handed over to the people of the Nanping Society for circulation, everyone unanimously approved and decided to use "Lili Cao" as the original repertoire of the Nanping Society for this joint performance. However, after the script is preliminarily written, it does not mean that Wen Jianning can stay out of the matter.

As the only author, she had to watch the rehearsal scene of the students of the Nanping Club to repeatedly revise the lines and further polish the script. In addition, Zhong Hui also pulled her to Nanping Club to help,

During a rehearsal at the end of March, Wen Jianning happened to meet Shen Jingzhi and Fan Huimin.

In the past two years at the United Nations General Assembly, they have also become acquainted. In a few months, the seniors are about to graduate this year, and they have been busy with the handover of the student government association recently, so they still temporarily took time out to help guide the performance.

Wen Jianning, as one of the few insiders, has heard some inside information.

It is rumored that after the last class of students stepped down from their positions, it was a male classmate from the law school who would take over as the chairman of the student government association, and Zhong Hui would take over as the chairman of the executive committee from Fan Xuejie, and Feng Xin was her deputy.

Zhong Hui is more familiar with the two seniors because of his relationship as an officer of the Student Government Association. As soon as she finished talking to a classmate, she was called out by Senior Sister Shen, and the two didn't know what to whisper.

After a while, Zhong Hui came back and called Wen Jianning out, saying that Senior Sister Shen had something to say to her alone.

Wen saw that Ning had never been afraid of people in his life, but he was a little frightened by this Senior Sister Shen.

But she could only put down the script for the time being and went hard.

Shen Jingzhi was standing outside under a big tree with a thick hug waiting for her, and when she saw her coming, she didn't speak, just stared at Wen Jianning, seeing that she was a little uncomfortable, and she didn't know where she provoked this senior sister.

She didn't know that Shen Jingzhi's mood was really complicated.

As early as two years ago, when they first met in Mengzi, she had paid attention to Wen Jianning and the two of them.

At that time, a female student in the Faculty of Arts had a conflict with a local mother and daughter, one of whom was directly working with her in public, while the other could notice the movement of the locals next to her.

Later, when she was active in the drama club, she also had contact with the two of them, but she felt that these two people also had merits, and she also had the intention to let them exercise more. It's a pity that in the two years after she was transferred to Kunming, Wen Jianning refused to participate in other club activities, she didn't know what she was busy with, and she was entangled in everything, so she left her original mind behind.

However, what no one expected was that the debate between them and Professor Tang of the Department of Social Sciences last year directly gave the two of them a very high reputation among female classmates, and the poster "Wildfire" run by these two people was widely circulated, which invisibly influenced more students. On top of that, the student club has been fighting in the dark for the past two years, and it is rare for them to always maintain an impartial position.

It's a pity that Shen Jingzhi's most optimistic one refuses to participate in the affairs of the club from beginning to end, while the other has a somewhat impatient temperament, and it is easy for people to grasp the handle. In contrast, she is more optimistic about Feng Xin, who is in the same dormitory as her.

Shen Jingzhi thought of this and asked, "You are a smart person, I don't go around in circles, I just ask you one word." I, along with a few other senior classmates, are about to leave from "The Cold", and now I need you to go over there to help, do you go or not?"

"Sui Han" is a school magazine jointly organized by the school and the student self-government association, and all the work such as compilation and solicitation is mainly for students, and it can be said that it is one of the most influential literary and artistic publications within the school. Shen Jingzhi also served as the editor-in-chief of the students, and this re-election will also hand over the position and replace it with someone else.

However, in the past two years or so, the Three Youth Leagues and the Mass Society, the largest student clubs, have repeatedly clashed, and this-for-tat confrontation can be seen from the original Zhengfeng League alone. Some posters and student publications have been reduced to a front for dissidents to attack each other. No matter which side "The Cold Years" falls into, it may become a tool for abuse.

It is precisely because of this concern that she wants to put "The Cold Years" in the hands of a reassuring person.

The character of the student editor-in-chief who is about to take over "Sui Han" is too gentle, and she is afraid that she will not be able to resist it after a long time, and she is too radical, and she is afraid of being caught, so she thought of Wen Jianning.

Wen Jianning's answer was a little unexpected for Shen Jingzhi.

She asked with some concern, "Senior Sister Shen, has it really reached this point?" ”

Shen Jingzhi was stunned for a moment, and her attitude gradually softened: "Of course, it's not like this, it's just a matter of taking precautions." ”

(End of chapter)