The capital is still prosperous and bustling, with famous restaurants full of seats, and the eight major alleys are singing every night, but these are just cover-ups for the undercurrent.

In mid-April, a massive student march broke out in Beijing, with the theme of patriotic and anti-Japanese protests against the Twenty-One Jueshu. The march was led by Peking University Hall, and Xie Huaichang's office heard the noise outside, glanced through the window, and happened to see a girl in the crowd raising her arms and shouting, describing her as quite like Xie Wanxian.

He couldn't see his face clearly, and he wasn't sure, but the demonstration at this pass was not trivial, and the slightest mistake would have caused trouble, so he hurried down the stairs, and the hall of the office building was already in chaos, and the security guards sealed the door at the gate, yelling at the students, trying to scare them away.

Xie Huaichang grabbed a person casually: "Which school is this?"

"Every school has it, Peking University takes the lead. The man was also in a hurry, holding a stack of documents in his arms, "Head Xie, please be careful." ”

Xie Huaichang said thank you indiscriminately, ran out of the side door, and squeezed into the group of demonstrative students with all his strength, and rampage for a long time before he found the figure that resembled Xie Wanxian in the crowd.

He went to pat the figure on the shoulder, and when he stretched out his hand, he suddenly remembered that when he came to the capital with his eldest sister many years ago to prepare for Liuyang, he also participated in the student parade, and was angrily dragged back to the house by Xie Daoyong.

At that time, he didn't understand anything, didn't understand the difficulties of people's livelihood, didn't understand the importance of social welfare, and thought that he could revitalize China with just one heart.

His hand slapped the man's shoulder, and the young schoolgirl turned her head sharply to a strange face.

Xie Huaichang actually breathed a sigh of relief, and then apologized to the girl. The girl huddled in the crowd, smiled at him gently and tolerantly, and shook her head to indicate that it was okay for him.

He suddenly became interested in this female student, and gestured to take her out of the crowd: "You are from Peking University?"

The female student nodded: "I'm from the law department, what about you?"

Xie Huaichang said: "I ...... I'm not from Peking University, I'm here to find someone, do you know where Xie Wanxian is? She is my sister. ”

The female student showed a confused expression on her face, put the three words "Xie Wanxian" in her mouth and read it again, thought for a moment, and shook her head at him regretfully: "I haven't heard of this name, is she also from Peking University?"

Xie Huaichang sighed heavily: "She's not, she's just going to take the entrance exam of Peking University." ”

The female student comforted him: "Don't worry, I'll look for it with you, our students from Peking University are all together, if she also participates in the parade, then she will definitely be able to find it." ”

The female student took Xie Huaichang and squeezed into the crowd again, like two drops of water flowing into the ocean, with excited and indignant faces on all sides, and soon their facial features blurred, and everyone seemed to be exactly the same.

They squeezed out of the crowd again and shook their heads relative to each other: "Did you find it?"

"Nope. ”

Xie Huaichang returned in vain, but his heart was quite relaxed, the girl saw her expression stretched, and couldn't help asking: "Your sister didn't come, you seem to be very happy." ”

Xie Huaichang smiled slightly: "I won't tell you, I'm a little happy." ”

The girl frowned: "You think we didn't do it right?"

Xie Huaichang shook his head: "No, you did the right thing. ”

The girl spread her hands: "I don't understand this." ”

Xie Huaichang explained: "I don't want my sister to participate in the march because I am worried about her safety, and it has nothing to do with the right or wrong of the march. ”

The girl pointed to the gun-wielding security guards in the door: "Do you think they will hurt us? Do they think we did something wrong?"

"Soldiers regard obedience to orders as their duty, and it has nothing to do with right or wrong," Xie Huaichang said, "If their superiors order them to arrest you, then no matter what they think in their hearts, they must obey the order and arrest you." ”

He was ready to be refuted when he said this, and he could even guess what she would refute, but the girl sighed and nodded, "You're right, they should carry out the order." ”

Xie Huaichang was a little surprised: "You ......"

The girl looked at him and suddenly laughed: "Do you think I shouldn't say such things?"

Xie Huaichang nodded honestly: "It's that surprised me." ”

"Actually, there is nothing surprising," the girl explained, looking at her, "we are doing what we are supposed to do, and they are doing what they are supposed to do, and if everyone in a group has their own ideas, how disheartened the collective is." They are soldiers, and they want to protect their families and defend the country, if they are a disheartened army, how can we safely hand over the safety of our family and country to them?"

These words made Xie Huaichang feel amazing, and he couldn't help but take a closer look at the girl in front of him. Like most college girls, she had long hair in a bun at the back of her head, dressed in civilized new clothes, with clean eyebrows and eyes, and red lips like freshly ripened cherries.

"I haven't asked your name yet," Xie Huaichang smiled at her, "My name is Xie Huaichang, the word is Ningyin, what about you?"

"My name is Wei Yunru. The girl grinned at him, "I don't have small print, you can just call me by my name." ”

"Okay, Yunru," Xie Huaichang said the name with a smile, and then pointed to the crowd in front of him, "Do you want to go back and continue to participate in the demonstration?"

Wei Yunru nodded: "Well, I'm going to continue to participate, are you with me?"

Xie Huaichang shook his head: "I also have my own things to do, but if you agree, I want to have dinner with you in the evening, and we can discuss today's parade." ”

Wei Yunru laughed again, her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, she didn't say yes, she didn't say yes, she just said: "If we can meet at night, then let's eat together." ”

Xie Huaichang returned to the office from the side door, he first called Xie Daoyong's mansion and asked if Xie Wanxian was in the mansion, it was Mrs. Feng who answered her, and said that she was unusually today, and she came back not long after she went.

Xie Huaichang was relieved, but for some reason, he felt a little uncomfortable, feeling that his sister should have been in the parade.

The negotiations have reached an impasse, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs alone can no longer achieve anything, and only domestic and foreign pressure, especially led by the United States, can force the Japanese side to retreat. It was on this day that Yuan Shikai leaked Japan's "Twenty-One Enlightenment Letters" and some of its treaties to Western journalists, and the US ambassador to China made a public speech, claiming that the whole of the United States represented by him would always support the integrity of China's political sovereignty and sovereignty, and refused to recognize the so-called open-door doctrine in the diplomatic relations between any country and China.

The attitude of the US side has curbed Japan's ambition and arrogance in trying to monopolize China, but this is essentially tantamount to putting out a fire with a salary, so that a tiger will come and drive out a wolf. Yuan Shao during the Three Kingdoms period once did something similar, and he introduced Dong Zhuo to the imperial city of Chang'an.

The lessons of the past were bloody, but they had no second choice.

The students who were demonstrating gradually dispersed around 11 a.m., and it was said that they would march to the Japanese embassy in Dongjiaomin Lane in the afternoon, and the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the president's office to ask if they needed to notify the army to send troops to protect the students, but they came back with a message: no.

If the Japanese embassy opened fire on the students marching, whether they were injured or killed, it would have benefited them in the negotiations.

Xie Huaichang didn't get the news until he got off work, and his heart was immediately pinched, he didn't dare to leave his post without permission and ran to Dongjiaomin Lane to find Wei Yunru, so he could only keep calling familiar reporters to ask if there were any student casualties in Dongjiaomin Lane.

Lu Zhengxiang watched the whole march in his office, and copied all the slogans they shouted on a piece of paper. When Xie Huaichang came to call him home after work, he was fascinated by the slogans on the paper.

Xie Huaichang was on the other side of the table, took away the paper, folded it and threw it into the trash: "Chief Chief, I'm off work." ”

Lu Zhengxiang nodded tiredly, put away the documents on the table one by one, hesitated when passing by the trash can, bent down to pick up the paper, and put it in the pocket of his suit: "Keep it." ”

Xie Huaichang couldn't bear it in his heart: "Chief ......"

Lu Zhengxiang waved his hand: "Don't comfort me, I know what I'm doing and what I should do." ”

The students staged a demonstration to get them to reject the "Twenty-One Letters," but all those involved in the negotiations understood that the letter had to be signed, and all they did was to go back and forth with the Japanese side on the detailed terms of the document in order to turn things in a more favorable direction for China. But these students don't know it, and they don't have the shame to say that it is a success—just like a person who was supposed to be slashed fifty times, but after the efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the other party raised his noble hand and only slashed forty times—this is really not a feat.

Xie Huaichang was still thinking about his beautiful appointment in the evening, so he didn't stay at Lu Mansion for dinner, and after sending Lu Zhengxiang home, he hurriedly drove out and went straight to Dongjiaomin Lane, but the students had already dispersed.

He went to Peking University again, rushed to the law department, and asked people one by one about Wei Yunru's whereabouts, but they didn't know anything.

Xie Huaichang's car stopped at the door of the law dormitory for a long time, and it was not until late at night that she and a few girls came back holding hands and looking tired. He sat in the cab and turned on the headlights for Wei Yunru.

The girls behaved like frightened birds, and it wasn't until Xie Huaichang got out of the car and shouted Wei Yunru's name that they calmed down.

Wei Yunru stood still in front of Xie Huaichang, his face covered with dust: "Why are you here?"

"I want to see if I can meet you by chance. Xie Huaichang looked at her, took out a white handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the sweat beads on her forehead, "What's wrong?"

Wei Yunru smiled at him and took the handkerchief: "The Japanese embassy has done something to us, and a few boys have entered the hospital, and we have just come back from the hospital. ”

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Kakushu: Japanese word, i.e., "covenant book", "memorandum".

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