In the splendid hall, Mr. Gu put down his wine glass, his slender eyebrows shrouded in gold wire lenses, and he had to admit that he was noble and elegant. www.biquge.info His elegance lies in his polite temperament, and his nobility lies in his unsuperficial conversation. He walked gracefully and calmly, past the crowds of people on both sides, walked past the spotlights of newspaper reporters scrambling, and came to the podium that had already been arranged.

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen." Gu Rulin said, "First of all, I would like to thank everyone for taking time out of their busy schedules to attend the 43rd birthday banquet of Xinzhi, which is of great significance to me. ”

Everyone nodded, the spotlights flashed, some people applauded, some people clicked twice with their cameras, and a black and white photo with extraordinary bearing appeared in an instant.

Gu Shaoqing grabbed my arm and didn't let go, as if he was afraid that he would run away as soon as he let go of me. Actually, I can't leave, and I can't leave as soon as the only chance I have just been interrupted by Shike. Now that Mr. Gu is speaking, everyone in the audience bursts into applause from time to time, everyone is watching, how can I leave quietly?

"Senior brother, let it go, I can't escape."

"Put it? I don't dare, your heart is so firm, so ruthless, how can I let go? ”

Gu Shaoqing looked at me, the pain in his eyes was so obvious: "Ah Zhao, I just went out once, have you changed your mind again?"

I was stunned when I heard this, he really knew my pain, and he hit the nail on the head.

"Yes, I was wrong from the beginning, I shouldn't have let myself sink down, if I hadn't gone to Peking with you at the beginning, or later decisively cut off contact with you, we would all be okay now?" I smiled wryly and said something unspeakable, and I saw his expression change drastically.

"That's how you see our relationship? Overturning everything that came before with an assumption that could not exist? ”

I don't know how to answer, this question is too sharp, too sharp, he is like a wise man who sees through everything, watching me cowardly retreat, pressing step by step, but not helping, he wants me to face it up to myself, to free myself, but forget that I will only blindly retreat further.

"Answer me, Ah Zhao, what do you think? Well? ”

I was silent for a long time, looked at Gu Rulin, who was still full of witty words on the podium, and asked the question that had been hidden in my heart: "Senior brother, what do you think?" Who are you, have you ever thought to tell me? ”

Gu Shaoqing slowly relaxed his grip on my hand, his eyes were clear, he was puzzled, and his expression was calm and focused when he looked at me, obviously he didn't expect that I would expose his old bottom in such a situation.

"You didn't just come back from Europe last year, you had been in the Orient for at least two years before that, and you attended the military academy with Seke, didn't you?"

"When did you find out?" Gu Shaoqing asked rhetorically.

When? When you took me to see Min Ye, when you could easily climb over the walls of our house without being noticed, when your sister and Seke warned me over and over again to leave you when you frequently disappeared. "I can probably guess what Shike is doing now, you just left me on the front foot five days ago, and Shike on the back foot also went to the teahouse, you pretend not to know each other on weekdays, but you have calluses in the palms of your hands all year round, I don't know what it is, but I was taken to prison by the police five days ago, and the calluses on the guns on my captors are exactly the same as those of the two of you, so I understand everything. can make you appear in one place together, presumably your organization has a big task, and then you went to Shanghai, and the next day there was a newspaper that broke the news that the betrayer **** Cao Rulin was assassinated, but unfortunately you didn't succeed, right? I asked calmly and with restraint, as if I was saying something that none of us had to do with me.

No one in the crowd paid attention to us, they were all impressed by the conversation of the new Minister of Education in black suits on the stage, and the audience erupted in warm applause from time to time, and people were immersed in the joy that Mr. Gu brought them, and no one noticed that a pair of young men and women were confronting each other in the corner.

Gu Shaoqing was silent, he examined my judgment with silent confrontation, as if he was considering how to speak, after a long time, I heard him sigh, stroked my cold cheek with his hand, and said with a wry smile: "Ah Zhao, you are always smart, I have known your cleverness from the beginning, and I love your cleverness." But at this point I'd rather you weren't smart, because then you'd at least be safe. Sometimes, it's much happier not to know than to know, can't you pretend you don't know anything? ”

I shook my head, I'd rather I didn't know, so at least I had a reason...... But now, when I get a positive answer from him, I shouldn't even have a little fantasy.

"Senior brother, I know that I can't stop your decision, your beliefs, but such a dangerous activity, gambling with your own life on other people's lives, really makes me unable to agree. Isn't that what no value takes precedence over life, and that's not what we've been talking about in the classroom? When Xiaoqing was killed, you were filled with indignation, and threatened to help me find the murderer and bring him to justice, but why did you ...... after that, I couldn't say anything, he beat the bad guys, the bad guys who betrayed our country, but ......

Gu Shaoqing no longer looked at me, his handsome face was covered with a layer of complicated emotions,

Like a distant mountain shrouded in clouds. It's just that in his eyes, a pain similar to helplessness is clearly written:

"Ah Zhao, I have not changed, insisting on the dignity of life and protecting the freedom of life, this has always been the equal society I pursued. But is that really the case in the times we live in? I don't say that you should also know that last year's May Fourth, this year's Mr. Sun protector ...... Since ancient times, weak countries have no diplomacy, counting on justice to triumph over power is just a beautiful fairy tale after all, our times are like this, students are arrested, warlords are constantly fighting, there are wars everywhere, people are living in poverty, from the Opium War to the present, our land is divided, sent away, and even at this moment, this piece of Ningyuan at our feet was also sold to us by the British Concession, isn't it a great irony? When did our own land have to be purchased from foreigners? Speaking of the dead Xiaoqing, why the police still can't find the murderer but don't react to the incident, if the person who is killed now is a government dignitary or a business tycoon, do you think they still have this attitude? If we can build a new society that truly serves the country and the people, freedom can be realized, and all people are born equal, and there will be no more vain killing of a human life, and power occupies justice, such freedom is not the real liberty we pursue? ”

"I met at Tokyo Imperial University three years ago, when I was an exchange student from Cambridge, England to the Orient, and the teacher said that Japanese education has developed rapidly in recent years, and that I should study the ideas of the Oriental people during my study abroad, and I did this at the beginning. But once, a Chinese medical student accidentally poured dissected rabbit liquid on a Japanese student's kimono, and he apologized so much that he even asked to wash the kimono for him or buy another one, but do you know what the Japanese student said? ”

"What did he say?" I asked.

"He said that we Chinese are all pigs and are not even worthy of shining his shoes, and he asked the classmate to kneel down and kowtow to him to confess his mistakes, and then take the kimono and clean it in front of the whole school."

He ...... Did he wash? I asked in a whisper.

"Of course not, I happened to be in the medical laboratory at the time to deliver materials to my mentor, and Shike was also a medical student, and he and I couldn't see it at the same time, but this fight made the situation even more serious. It turned out that the Japanese student had long been unaccustomed to Chinese students, and it was precisely by taking advantage of this incident that he was making trouble, and Shike and I were young and vigorous, so we made such a rash move, which was in his arms. Soon, we and the classmate were locked up at the Toyo police station, and after five days and five nights, when we all thought we were going to be deported like this, Seke's mentor and I found us and released us on bail. But the classmate ......"

I held my breath all of a sudden, my body trembled uncontrollably, my chest suffocated, and my voice asked sharply, "What's wrong with him?"

"He died, the first night he was put in the police station and died inexplicably. The cause is unknown, the time of death is unknown, and even the identity has become ambiguous and confused. It seems that Japanese officials have never been able to come to such an international student, and let alone our country, they have not even been informed of their right to know. Shike and I changed our names and surnames because of this, and then we decided to be admitted to the military academy, and it was because we rebelled against him that that classmate was killed, and we were expelled from school. Human life, who should be counted for such human life? Just because of a careless encounter, he was inexplicably killed by foreigners who discriminated against him, and we can't tell anyone because of self-preservation. Even if they did, who would believe two students who had no basis for their words? Who would say that if we were the United States or the United Kingdom, would the Orientals so blatantly harm a life? And the reason they give you is very simple, you don't care, you don't like it, you can't get used to it, so it doesn't matter. Ah Zhao, the freedom you want, is this kind of freedom? ”

I shook my head slowly, and those overwhelmed past seemed to be gone before my eyes, "Don't say it again, please don't say it again......"

"Ah Zhao doesn't want to hear it, so don't force her. What's so good about seeing the facts too early as you and I do, it's just a matter of futility. Didn't we agree not to talk to her about that? Shi Ke walked up to us at some point, he looked at me with pity, turned to Gu Shaoqing and continued, "Why are you persistent? After all, we will not be able to get mercy, so why let Ah Zhao suffer as well. Forget about her, just let me beg you. ”