Chapter 172: New Year's Reunion and Fate (2)
"In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu; Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one. "During the Spring Festival, the whole Fujian village has the sound of firecrackers one after another, and every house sticks a couplet symbolizing the New Year, hangs bright red lanterns, sings and laughs everywhere, and is filled with the joy of the New Year. Lin Junxiong went to each house with gifts to pay New Year's greetings, and talked with several clan elders for a while, and when he returned home, the family had already prepared a sumptuous lunch.
The reunion with his family in the New Year made Lin Junxiong's heart warm, Tang Jijun was unwilling to be lonely, and played coquettishly to Cai Yuexiu, without the slightest boldness on weekdays, and finally met an eighteen-year-old clan sister under the guidance of Cai Yuexiu, and quickly got the approval of which clan sister and her parents. Lin Junxiong is also speechless, these two guys followed themselves to Hong Kong for the Spring Festival, and now this Spring Festival has become a journey for these two people to find fate, depending on the situation, there is also the hope of both harvesting fate, but thinking that these two people have lived without a home for a long time, this time they came to Hong Kong and felt the strong warmth of Lin Junxiong's family, which may have aroused the deepest expectations in his heart, longing for a home, thinking about this, Lin Junxiong was also relieved.
In order to promote the sublimation of the relationship between the two couples, Cai Yuexiu arranged for Lin Junxiong to go to Hong Kong with Xue Nai, Du Sheng and Wang Yucui to take them to Hong Kong for a visit on the pretext of checking the family property.
Lin Junxiong looked at the huge industry established by the family in Hong Kong, and admired his uncle and father even more sincerely, he knew in his heart that these were the guarantees that his father had prepared for his future career, and he was not around all the year round, but his father was silently supporting him behind his back, working hard and dedicating to him, Lin Junxiong felt a deep love.
After checking the family property, the group wandered aimlessly on the street, and suddenly found a man in his forties with round-framed glasses, a suit, and a briefcase in his hand being pushed by several people, and some of the papers in the briefcase were scattered all over the ground. ”
Lin Junxiong looked up and found that this scene happened at the door of a newspaper called "Ta Kung Pao", and the few people who prevented the man wearing glasses from entering the newspaper office should be Kuomintang spies, several spies were guarding the door of the newspaper office, and the man with glasses tried to rush in several times, but they were pushed out, and the people in the newspaper office shouted and scolded to express their anger, and the man with glasses looked up to the sky and sighed: "Oh my God! Where is the righteousness? Where is the axiom? ”
When he began to scold Chiang Kai-shek, several spies finally couldn't bear to step forward and beat him, Lin Junxiong gave him a look, Tang Jijun left with his female dependents first, he and Dusheng and Xie Qin stepped forward and stopped in front of the man with glasses, and a spy said viciously: "Get out, don't be nosy, so as not to get into trouble!" ”
Several spies rushed up, but they were far from being the opponents of Lin Junxiong and the three, and they hatefully dropped a sentence and fled in panic: "You wait, this matter is not over!" ”
After the man wearing glasses handed over a few manuscripts to the people in the Ta Kung Pao newspaper office, he walked to Lin Junxiong and the others: "Thank you for the help of several righteous people, Zou Taofen is here to thank you." ”
"Zou Taofen?" Lin Junxiong seems to have some impression of this name, and after searching for memory, he finally remembered the spirit of Tao Fen that later generations said, and people in the publishing and reading circles said that Tao Fen ran publications, newspapers, and bookstores all his life, and the main purpose of his advocacy and practice was "serving readers wholeheartedly", and that newspaper spirit was the spirit of Tao Fen. People in the media circles believe that Tao Fen's articles have never been afraid of power and have the courage to consistently tell the truth, and he is not afraid of offending people when he criticizes the evils of the times, and the spirit of advocating freedom of speech is the spirit of Tao Fen. Political commentators believe that the reason why Tao Fen is unique in the world of public opinion is that during the period when the Kuomintang compromised with Japan before the War of Resistance Against Japan, he did not avoid personal safety and vigorously advocated resistance against Japan; after the War of Resistance Against Japan, the publications and bookstores he ran always held high the banner of resistance against Japan, and his patriotic thinking was precisely the spirit of Tao Fen.
However, Lin Junxiong has read some of Zou Taofen's works and learned about his life, and he feels that these statements summarize the career that Tao Fen has engaged in in his life, and they are naturally correct, but the career he is engaged in has suffered countless setbacks, he is still indomitable, and has always adhered to his beliefs. This unyielding spirit of fighting for the truth is the spirit of perseverance that we must always learn and remember.
I remember that after his unfortunate death, Jiefang Ribao published a message of condolence from the CPC Central Committee to Zou Taofen's family, posthumously recognizing him as a member of the Communist Party of China, and giving him high praise and evaluation for his life and the great cause he was engaged in. The telegram reads: "For more than 20 years, Mr. Tao Fen has struggled ceaselessly for the national salvation movement, for democratic politics, and for cultural causes. Mr.'s will, asking for posthumous recognition of the party, ashes to be buried in Yan'an, we would like to accept Mr. deathbed request with a serious and heavy heart, and cite this as the glory of our party. Mr. Tao Fen has passed away for a long time, and I hope that the Chinese people will finally call for the common struggle to the end for adhering to unity in the War of Resistance, practicing true democracy, and building an independent, free, prosperous, and peaceful New China. Mao Zedong's inscription reads: "Love the people, sincerely serve the people, do your best, and die, this is the spirit of Mr. Zou Taofen, and this is the reason why he moved people." Zhu De eagerly called him "a patriot and a pioneer of democracy" in the couplet.
Lin Junxiong did not expect to meet this outstanding journalist and great patriotic democratic fighter unexpectedly, he excitedly stepped forward to hold Zou Taofen's hand and said: "Hello, Mr. Zou, my name is Lin Junxiong, I am very happy to meet you!" ”
"Are you the Communist Party member who Chiang Kai-shek praised as the brightest star of the future?"
"No, can Mr. Zou find a place to sit down and talk?"
"I can't talk to a Communist elite like you, Zou can't ask for it."
After a few people sat down in a teahouse, Zou Taofen asked suspiciously, "How could Junxiong know me?" ”
The "Life" weekly, which you editor-in-chief, has the courage to struggle against evil and dark forces and strives to "seek benefits for ordinary people in society." It is really gratifying that you will inevitably face up to corruption and other phenomena in society and ruthlessly expose and criticize them. While in prison, you have always been a staunch patriotic fighter for democracy, confronting the reactionaries-for-tat, "fighting without yielding," and displaying a fearless revolutionary demeanor and heroic fighting spirit, which has made Junxiong admire you even more. In 1937, after the outbreak of the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was released and founded the daily magazine "Anti-Japanese War" in Shanghai. After the fall of Shanghai, he moved to Wuhan and continued to edit the Anti-Japanese War. After the fall of Wuhan, he went to Chongqing to found and edited the "National War of Resistance". In opposing and exposing all kinds of perverse and authoritarian atrocities of the reactionary Kuomintang authorities in passively resisting Japan, a pen in your hand has aroused profound introspection among the Chinese people, and your criticism of the Kuomintang and Japan has been even sharper. ”
"It made you, the anti-Japanese hero, laugh, haha, how about now that you are back in the arms of the organization? I haven't heard any of your voices recently, is there any other arrangement made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party? ”
"What kind of hero is not a hero, compared with Mr. Zou, it seems to be a big deal."
Seeing that Lin Junxiong avoided talking about what happened next, Zou Taofen also felt that he was abrupt, but changed the topic to Ta Kung Pao.
"I came to Hong Kong this time with the intention of publishing a manuscript of an anti-Japanese manifesto in Ta Kung Pao. The Hong Kong edition of Ta Kung Pao was launched on August 13, 1938, to commemorate the first anniversary of the Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai. As soon as the newspaper was launched, it reported on the activities of the Hong Kong people to commemorate the first anniversary of the 'August 6111' War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. After Wang Ching-wei openly surrendered to Japan in December last year, Ta Kung Pao ruthlessly exposed it and published many articles denouncing it, such as 'the government has issued a strict order to arrest Wang Zhaoming,' 'a scandalous drama,' and 'Wang's rebellious regime in the midst of the Japanese government's hassle,' which had a great impact, and Ta Kung Pao soon became the mouthpiece of anti-Japanese propaganda for people from all walks of life in Hong Kong. ”
Lin Junxiong didn't want to reveal that his troops were surrounded and annihilated by the Kuomintang conspiracy to be surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese, but he thought that the party organization would find a way to reveal it at an appropriate time after it had been said, so he suppressed some surging hearts. However, when he heard that Wang Jingwei openly surrendered to Japan, he was shocked, and he remembered that Wang Jingwei established Wang's puppet regime in 1940, but he did not expect that this traitor would defect to the Japanese earlier than he remembered.
"Has Wang Jingwei already gone to Japan?"
"Wang Jingwei absconded to Vietnam in December last year, where he published a 'glamorous telegram' and publicly surrendered to Japan, and the current trend is unknown, but it should soon be used by the Japanese, this dog traitor!"
The conversation between the two did not last long, because Zou Taofen was going to rush back to Shanghai, the two cherished each other, and agreed that when they had the opportunity to meet again, they would have a good conversation.
Lin Junxiong was very happy to get acquainted with a revolutionary like Zou Taofen, Xie Qin and Dusheng didn't ask much, and the three hurried to the meeting place and returned to the Minren Village with Tang Jijun and a group of female dependents.
On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, faster than Lin Junxiong imagined, Lin Liyi and his wife decided to confirm the marriage of Xie Qin and Lin Junbi, and held an engagement ceremony, drawing a successful end to the unexpected fate of this reunited Spring Festival. Xie Qin even took the initiative to join the Lin family, and he wanted to serve Lin Liyi and his wife with all his heart and filial piety until they were old, but Lin Liyi and his wife were choked and speechless.
On the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, the relationship between Tang Jijun and Lin Junxiong's sister Lin Hanshuang was also determined.
Let Lin Junxiong can't help but feel the strangeness of fate, the impermanence of the world, this warm Spring Festival reunion trip, actually wrote two wonderful fates.
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