In those years of the Mid-Levels Villa, Wen Jianning was sarcastically ridiculed by Jianwan and them since he was a child, and most of the time he could only be silent, and only when he was bullied by them too much would he sneer at him. But even when it wasn't too much, she didn't care as much as she pretended to be. But what's the use of caring, no one will speak for her, and no one really cares about her feelings.

For a long time, she was like a clogged extinct crater, no matter how violently the emotions in her heart rolled, she was calm on the surface. It wasn't until she broke away from the Wen family later, without the entanglements of people and things that made her linger, and with the influence of Zhong Hui and other teachers and classmates in the school, Wen Jianning finally stopped being so tense.

But it doesn't mean how tolerant her heart is and how gentle her temper is. On the contrary, although she is known among her classmates for being easy to talk to, even the most naughty male classmates dare not joke with her casually. Even Zhong Hui didn't dare to take the initiative to touch her head when she saw that she was in a bad mood, and only dared to talk to her frankly when she calmed down afterwards. Feng Yi was the first person who was willing to take the initiative to care for her when she was irritable, but she was fine......

She felt even more remorse in her heart, but Feng Yi's sighing voice came from her ears.

He seemed a little helpless, but he was still seriously explaining to her slowly: "Jianning, I'm not angry, and I don't think you're as you say......"

Wen Jianning slowly relaxed.

The two of them returned to their original state, and sat quietly together on the edge of the pavilion.

Wen Jianning thought for a long time this time, and thought about Feng Yi's question for a long time before he said in a muffled voice: "...... I want to influence more classmates and more people. ”

When she escaped from the Wen family, she got rid of the nightmare she had been in for many years, but at the same time she also lost her direction. In order to find the answer, she went north to study, but was overwhelmed by a wave of the times. She didn't like her state of being at a loss, she tried to change something, and she came to school again to study with her peers. It wasn't until the influence of "Yongding Bridge" that she realized that the pen in her hand was no longer just a toy to scribble on paper, it was heavy and had an incalculable weight.

The path she had been trying to find was finally showing its outline in front of her.

In fact, it's an obvious path for others.

As early as more than 10 years ago, her teachers and teachers used the pen as a dagger to cut through the veil of hypocrisy in the old era and became the spiritual leaders in the minds of countless young people. Many of her classmates are also actively engaged in their creative work, as well as speeches, debates and posters, all of which are ways of doing their work.

Wen Jianning didn't know these things before, and it wasn't that she hadn't tried, she just wasn't sure if she also had the ability to change more people, and even change this stormy country. Until one day, she suddenly realized that she was in the best school in the country today, and she had the best classmates. One day when the war ends, they will take over the responsibility from the division commander and become the leaders of this era.

And as one of them, even if she can't change the world like her teachers in the end, at least from now on, she can try to influence the classmates around her. Since confirming this, Wen Jianning has been holding back his strength in his heart.

Both she and Zhong Hui need to have their voices heard in this debate, to gain more prestige for themselves and for Wildfire. But as Feng Yi asked, it doesn't matter if you fail, there will always be another chance. The road is long, they have just begun, and they have suffered from gains and losses for the sake of trivial things, and their mentality is too impetuous.

Wen Jianning stumbled and poured out all the words hidden in his heart. She said so seriously and so engaged that she didn't notice Feng Yi's expression next to her, only knowing that he was listening quietly.

After finishing speaking, she solemnly thanked him: "After telling you, I feel much better." ”

Feng Yi finally smiled: "You don't have to thank me, you thought of it yourself." ”

Having said this, Wen Jianning's heart knot had been untied, and the two chatted for a while. It wasn't until the sun went down and the lake shimmered like broken gold that Wen Jianning said goodbye to him and left alone with the book.

After walking a long way, she looked back and saw that the gray figure was still on the vermilion railing in the pavilion.

......

In the blink of an eye, the day of the public debate has arrived.

The debate took place on a stage in the school's playground, and many students rushed to hear the news, and even many professors came to see the excitement. Wen Jianning took a deep breath and stepped onto the stage, Zhong Hui followed closely behind her.

Despite repeated psychological construction in advance, when he really stood on the stage and looked at the heads of the people pressed below, Wen Jianning's mind was still blank for an instant, and he instinctively looked for familiar faces in the crowd.

Feng Xin, Ruan Wenyun and others from the same dormitory came, many female students from the Faculty of Arts came, Shen and Fan also came, and several professors who taught her were also in the audience.

Then, she also saw Feng Yi in the crowd.

He, like many of his classmates, was waving at her not far away.

......

With so much attention, Wen Jianning couldn't remember how the debate began and ended.

She only remembered that when she finally stepped down from the stage, countless classmates rushed to her and Zhong Hui at once, and she couldn't react to the countless enthusiastic smiling faces and deafening cheers. When she got back to the dormitory, she asked in a daze, "Did we win?"

Feng Xin and the others smiled: "I didn't win, but I didn't lose either." ”

This debate was really exciting, although the other party was really difficult, but they played very well, and in the end, the two sides argued, or Mr. Wen from their academy came to the stage to make a referee, announcing that the two sides were tied.

Although Professor Tang was regarded by them as difficult, he finally made concessions with great graciude, saying that he only made preliminary conclusions based on research and research, and some of the points they put forward were also very valuable.

The debate was well controlled within the normal scope of academic discussion, and the results were naturally gratifying.

Wen Jianning and Zhong Hui became famous through this battle, and Professor Tang maintained the demeanor of a scholar, temporarily quelled the controversy, and held a successful free debate within the university, once again promoting the consistent free and independent academic style.

After calming down from the initial excitement, Wen Jianning remembered to go to the Department of Physics to find Feng Yi, and was going to return the books he had borrowed, and thank him by the way. The books he sent that day contained a lot of useful data and research results that provided them with strong arguments. It can be said that if there are a few books missing, their performance this time will be greatly reduced.

However, when she looked for her, she was told by a student in the physics department: "Assistant Professor Feng went out with someone today, and this will not be there." ”

She had no choice but to ask someone to put the books on Feng Yi's desk, and went back by herself.

......

Wen Jianning didn't find Feng Yi in the school, just because he was sitting in the cubicle of a tea room in Kunming, and there was a young lady with a good temperament and fashionable dress sitting opposite, and the eyebrows and eyes of the two were still somewhat similar.

Feng Yi asked the other party in his usual calm tone: "Sister, the family is okay lately." ”

Feng Ling, who was sitting directly opposite him, said lukewarmly: "It's very good, with a filial son like you, my father thinks of you at home, and he can eat half a bowl more." ”

Feng Yi didn't seem to hear the sarcasm in her words, and said in a gentle tone: "People are too old to digest, they eat too much, and they are only afraid of accumulating food, so you ask Erniang and them to help persuade more." ”

As soon as Feng Ling saw him like this, she knew that he was pretending to be confused, and she was even more angry.

At the beginning, he told his family early, saying that he was going to return to China after graduation, but she just thought that he was confused for a while, and went to the United States on behalf of his family, and it took a long time to talk, thinking that he had finally persuaded him to change his mind.

I didn't expect this stinky boy to dare to disobey the yang and the yin, and finally didn't mention the matter of returning to China on the surface, but in the end he ran away. He has worked hard to study abroad for so many years, and after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, he actually ran back to China without saying a word from his family, if it weren't for his mentor to send a telegram to Feng's father to ask about the situation, I am afraid they would have been kept in the dark.

Fortunately, this bastard boy also knew to leave a letter informing them of his whereabouts. But Rao was like this, and the people of the Feng family inquired again and again with friends in the university, and finally found his whereabouts in Changsha.

At that time, the Japanese army had captured Shanghai, and Feng Ling was busy helping to transfer the family business and resettle the old and young in the family. However, the persuaders went wave after wave, but the Hong Kong Island side never waited for him to come back, and even during the Chinese New Year, he only sent a telegram, and there was no follow-up.

Feng Ling didn't send anyone to persuade her after that, firstly, she was really not available at the time, and secondly, she was also cold to him, so that this young master, who usually only knew how to bury his head in the small study to do learning, took a good look at the people's suffering, and when he suffered hardship, he would know that he would go home. never thought that when she received the news again, Feng Yi had already followed the UNGA walking group from Changsha to Yunnan Province.

Feng Ling couldn't imagine how this younger brother, who had never suffered much since he was a child, came down this way. But even so, he still refused to go home.

Seeing that another year had passed, Feng Ling finally couldn't hold her breath and came to Kunming to bring people back in person.

She forced herself to calm down, and asked another important thing first: "Let's not talk about this for a while, I heard from the students in the physics department that you have been in a relationship with a female classmate a lot recently, are you in love, what kind of person is the other person, and what is your family background?"

Feng Yi's brows finally furrowed a little: "There is no such thing." ”

Feng Ling was beside him to observe the words, where else did he not understand, and persuaded bitterly: "If the other party's family background is the same, and you like it, the Feng family is not the kind of person who is not enlightened at all." But if the other party's background is not good, our family will not let go, and it will be difficult for you to be in a dilemma at that time, so why should you delay other girls. ”

When she said this, Feng Yi's complexion had returned to normal, and she was even in the mood to joke with Feng Ling: "If I had known that I would marry my brother-in-law, I wouldn't have run away from home if I thought about it." ”

Feng Ling glared at him angrily before she said, "I am a woman, as long as the Feng family is behind me, whether I marry your brother-in-law or not, my life will not be too bad." But you are different, although your father has married several aunts, but you are the only son under his knees for so many years. You have to study all these years, and your family depends on you, and you have to go abroad, and your family will send you to study, but there is only one thing, you can't risk yourself. Kunming is far from the front line, but it is not as peaceful as Hong Kong Island, and there is no guarantee when the war will burn here, and there are not a few Japanese planes here to bomb it. ”

Originally, she was just persuading, but as she spoke, her anger unconsciously surged up.

Feng Yi is familiar with her temper and knows that it is best to shut up at this time and let her say it.

Feng Ling really chattered for a while, and when he looked at him with his head down and listening honestly, his anger slowly dissipated, and his tone softened: "Okay, you go back and pack up your things, and say goodbye to the friends you know here, and go back with me." ”

The young man, who was still bowing his head to listen to the lecture, paused for a moment, knowing that it was time not to be sloppy.

Feng Yi raised his eyes and looked at his sister: "Sister, I can find my place here in Kunming." ”

So he wasn't going to go back with her.

The two siblings were relatively silent for a long time.

Feng Ling couldn't stand the almost stagnant atmosphere at first, and suddenly said in an unusually harsh tone: "Don't make so many excuses for me. Okay, even if you resent that after your mother died, your father only took me abroad alone and threw you in the old house, but what about the second uncle, when you came back for so many days, did you think about his old man? Later, you had a big idea, refused to take his old mantle, and went abroad to study physics, and the second uncle didn't let us stop you. You have always respected him the most, but now that your second uncle is old, what about your filial piety as a junior?"

Although her anger still did not subside, she still remembered restraint, and sighed again: "You still remember the library building in Shanghai, the day the Japanese army captured Shanghai, it was razed to the ground by artillery fire. If it weren't for the people in the family to stop him, his old man would have almost perished in the fire with those books. The book burned down, and the second uncle also fell seriously ill and is still recuperating in bed. The second uncle is very old, and he has no children under his knees, only you were brought up by him since childhood. Ah Yi, it's time for you to go back. ”

Feng Yi, who was sitting across from her, was still silent.

I have to say that Feng Ling is worthy of being his own sister, and she grabbed his weakness at once.

But he was not unprepared for these, and said in a hoarse voice: "After I came to Kunming, I passed a letter with my second uncle, and his old man said in the letter, let me do whatever I want to do with confidence and boldly, and I don't have to worry about my family." ”

Feng Ling had the confidence to come to Kunming to arrest people this time, and the biggest certainty was this, but she didn't expect that this road had already been blocked by this old and young. She finally said angrily: "You are really a good boy taught by the second uncle! You are exactly the same stubborn and don't know how to be flexible!"

Feng Yi didn't speak, letting her vent her anger.

Feng Ling was angry for a while, and finally sneered: "Since you are not rare to the Feng family and don't want to go back, then don't go back in the future." Before I came, my father told me that if you insist on going your own way and disobey the will of your elders, he will expel you from the house. Don't you think that you are the only man in our room, I might as well tell you that my father is planning to succeed a boy from the side. The last thing the Feng family lacks is people, without you, the incense in the family will still not be broken!"

Feng Yi frowned: "Sister, do we really want to make trouble like this?"

Feng Ling said coldly before getting up and leaving: "Of course, it's not that there is no room for turnaround, you can choose by yourself." I will stay in Kunming for a while, and you can think about it these days and give me an answer as soon as possible. ”

(End of chapter)