53. Chapter 53 Volume I Impressions of the Rhine
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Chapter 3: Sisterhood and Childly Infatuation [Act 1] Repaired (1)
The morning light shines through the clouds, making the rows of lights in front of Munich train station even fainter. But the dim light still struggled to gather, trying to dispel the slightest chill that had not yet dissipated. Not long after, there was a faint whistle from a very far distance, and more than a dozen sleepy-eyed young people on both sides of the entrance suddenly cheered in unison, picked up their luggage and rushed to the platform.
"Please don't worry! Wait for the train to stop and then get on the train with your ticket, pay attention to safety! Seeing the excited expressions of the students, several professors who accompanied them hurriedly stretched out their hands to stop them, so as not to cause danger due to crowding.
After a short time, the whistle sounded from far and near, and an army-green car slowly drove into the station with a cloud of steam, and stopped steadily in front of the platform, and the teachers and students of the Medical School of Munich University lined up to board the train under the guidance of the conductor.
Looking at the striking red lights and the constant white smoke from the roof, Yuwei finally realized that the trains of this era were very different from the maglev trains she took in the 21st century: compared to the arrow-like speed of the latter, the former was slow and cumbersome, and the smoke that filled the area blocked all scenes within a few meters, reflecting only the shadowy silhouette of a human, and the vision was greatly restricted.
She sighed softly, thinking that she had not yet fully adapted to life at the University of Munich, and that she was now going to another strange city.
So what would Berlin be like today, the heart of Nazi Germany?
Yu Wei clenched the ticket in her hand, remembering the Berlin street scenes shown in various film and television works she had watched, and her heart was faintly full of expectations, after all, for modern people, Berlin during Nazi Germany can only be seen in TV movies, but she is in the middle of it, if she returns to modern times one day, I wonder if anyone will believe her bizarre experience?
She smiled, glanced back at the city that had only been there for three days, and turned to follow her classmates and stepped onto the train.
Farewell, Munich!
At eight o'clock in the morning, the sun was shining outside the clear window, and in one of the cars of the train, there was a constant snoring, and the teachers and students were staggering back and forth in their chairs, so that the conductor had to tiptoe past the place, so as not to disturb the good dreams of the teachers and students who had not gotten enough sleep because of the early risers.
Perhaps the snoring was too noisy, but Yuwei couldn't sleep, so she took out a coat, covered Christina, who was already asleep next to her, and took out the black bread she bought yesterday from the paper bag. Not as fluffy and delicious as Christina's hazelnut jam bread, and the cheap brown bread was so coarse and hard that she had to swallow it with water, and she was glad that Berlin still had free food and accommodation during her internship, otherwise I really don't know how to spend this month? Lin Jingru's money, unless it is a last resort, she really doesn't want to use it again.
There was a sound of paper flipping in her ears, and Yu Wei followed the voice, only to see Xu Pingjun, who was sitting diagonally opposite, carefully folded the "Munich Daily" in his hand, glanced at her, picked up the kun bag, left the seat, and walked out of the carriage.
Seeing the back of his classmates, many previous doubts resurfaced-
She secretly thought to herself in her heart: Right now, how to ask Xu Pingjun about the mysterious connection between her and Ruotong?
***
In the aisle of the carriage, two well-dressed women covered their noses with handkerchiefs, and after hurrying out of the old lavatory, Xu Pingjun unscrewed the doorknob and walked straight in. Looking through the two-inch vanity mirror in the palm of her hand, the eyes of the men and women behind her had moved away, and it was obvious that the spies and informants who were in this train had temporarily given up monitoring her. She locked the tin door and hung the kun bag on a makeshift hook, seemingly unintentionally covering the cat's eye on it, and then looked around the small space.
Xu is the train to the capital after all, compared with the various types of trains that have been taken, this seemingly old washroom not only seems more spacious, but also has comprehensive public facilities: for the convenience of passengers, not only is there a vanity mirror, the toilet pool is also arranged in the corner, like the future toilet with a door panel block, not only to isolate the filth, but also to protect the passengers' **, just-
"One, two, three, four-" With Liu Geqing's teaching in China, Xu Pingjun lightly discovered that there were seven miniature bugs in this small space, not including the crystal decoration on the indicator light outside the door! She flashed an imperceptible sneer, secretly thinking that Nazi Germany was really as recorded in future textbooks, with all kinds of surveillance and surveillance everywhere. If you are not careful, your words and deeds will be recorded and reported, and you will be arrested and tortured by the Gestapo!
However, how is this not the case in the current domestic situation?
When she woke up in this strange era and unexpectedly regained her life, she realized that the metropolis she was in had been reduced to an 'isolated island' under the iron heel of the Japanese army[53], and how many special high school agents, gendarmes and puppet troops formed an invisible intelligence network, brutally attacking the people in the city, in a vain attempt to destroy the spirit of the people and divide the cohesion of China. (hua.) Many anti-Japanese soldiers such as Liu Geqing and Yu Lexing [54] resolutely turned into sharp arrows in the dark, sniping the enemy and spying on the military situation, so that the spy war between the enemy and us became increasingly intense.
"A year later, the fragrance of plum blossoms came from the bitter cold." Xu Pingjun glanced at the eavesdroppers, raised his eyebrows slightly, a shallow smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, casually said a poem in Chinese, calmly took off the kun bag, put away the hook and makeup mirror, and returned to the carriage.
No one knows that this seemingly ordinary verse actually hides a shocking secret. However, only those who are familiar with the history of the future and the Chinese verses at the same time can fully understand it. As for how the Gestapo could decipher the specific meaning of the poem, he had to be proficient in Chinese before speaking.
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At this time, in the carriage, Yu Wei took advantage of the sleep of the people around her, and carefully checked the items in Kun's bag that were out of place in this era - digital cameras, mobile phones, and diaries left by her grandmother. In view of the fact that the Gestapo of Nazi Germany was very likely to take advantage of the students' internship and instruct the secret agents embedded in the school to search the dormitories and discover them, so as to reveal their true identities, she had to bring them with them, and she had to be vigilant at all times and keep them safe.
A crisp sound of heels from far and near, interrupting her thoughts, Yu Wei glanced at the sound, only to see Xu Pingjun smiling lightly at her, carrying a kun bag.
Yu Wei stared at her and smiled back, but she repeatedly thought about how to find out the other party's true identity. Suddenly, her hand paused in Kun's bag, apparently touching something. She hurriedly took it out of her bag, put it in the palm of her hand, stared down with her eyes, and her thoughts were churning.
It was just an ordinary pendant, sewn from a piece of white cross cloth wrapped in thick cotton wool. On the grid, the intertwined embroidery threads of warp and weft carefully outline the jubilant and frolicking posture of a sky blue dolphin jumping into the waves.
Yu Wei couldn't help but smile a little, and instantly remembered that when she was a sophomore, this kind of handicraft called 'cross-stitch' was once popular on campus, and she and Ruotong were naturally not exempt from vulgarity like other classmates.
"Hah! Are you sure it's a yellow carnation? I think it's clearly a 'little grass that no one knows'! Ruotong just glanced at Yu Wei's work and couldn't help laughing. Ignoring Yu Wei's face was unconvinced, and she rushed forward and tried to grab it: "Give it to me!" I want to give her friends a good appreciation, the 'earth-shattering work' of Comrade Lan Yuwei, the president of our student union! ”
Seeing Ruotong so hurtful, Yuwei didn't have the good time to point to the work in her hand, and unceremoniously sneered: "Laugh at me? Your blue dolphin is worse than I am - look at this embroidery thread and don't learn how to split a few strands from it, and make this cute animal 'scary'. Hey, you'd better not change careers to become an embroiderer, otherwise the great embroidery career will be ruined in the hands of your Miss Hu! ”
"Nonsense! My blue dolphin is clearly much more delicate than your carnation, how cute is it?! You're still studying medicine, I'm really worried that such a rough craft won't sew up the patient's wound - wow, I can only k me, I'm going to the student union to join you! Ruotong saw that Yuwei was about to hit her, so she pretended to be frightened and fled with her head in her hands.
Afterwards, under the peach trees on campus, the two excitedly held each other's works and sighed to each other, 'Vote for me with a peach, and repay it with Qiong Yao.' Bandit retribution, always think it is good'[55], and carefully hide it.
'Bandit retribution, always think it is good. The meaning of the blue dolphin and the yellow carnation both represents the enduring firmness of friendship. It is precisely because of the great cherishing of the friendship of more than ten years that in the face of the betrayal of his friends, the resentment in his heart erupted unbearably. Yu Wei looked at it and sighed secretly that she thought she couldn't withstand this blow, so she had already discarded it angrily. I don't want to but always take it with me, and I always cherish the friendship with Ruotong.
So, can this broken friendship be bridged? Yu Wei raised her eyes to look at Xu Pingjun, and she had an idea in her heart.
If Xu Pingjun was really Ruotong, she must know this-but-how to let the other party see it without moving!
As if in response to her thoughts, the train suddenly jolted, and several newspapers on the table fell with it. Yu Wei hurriedly left her seat, leaned over to clean up, she walked to Xu Pingjun's side, and when she squatted down to pick up a page drawing a cartoon on current affairs, the sound of a metal ring of an item hitting the ground immediately started.
"I'm sorry, Miss Xu Pingjun, please borrow a light." When Yuwei was about to pick up the cross-stitch pendant that she had deliberately dropped on the ground, one hand picked it up faster than her. She slowly raised her head and saw that Xu Pingjun, who had always behaved reservedly, had wide eyes and was full of shock!
Exegesis:
[53] Isolated island: that is, the "isolated island period", refers to the fact that after the fall of Shanghai on November 12, 1937, because the center of the city was the central and western districts of the public concession (at that time, because the Ministry of Industry and Bureau of the northern and eastern districts of the public concession was no longer able to govern, but it was not counted as the occupied area) and the French concession, the Japanese army had not yet been able to enter, so it was surrounded by the occupied area, so it looked like an "isolated island". This situation remained in place until December 8, 1941, when the Japanese army launched the Pacific War. During this period, a period of what historians call "deformed prosperity" was formed due to the large amount of capital and population entering the central and western districts of the public concession and the French concession. Historical information from Wikipedia. )。
[54] Yu Lexing, a native of Liling, Hunan, was an early member of the Communist Party of China, and went to France to study chemistry and mechanical engineering in his early years. After returning to China, he served as an instructor at the military academy, and in 1927, he was sent by the Communist Party of China to study at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, the Soviet Union, specializing in intelligence business and secret security work. He once led an assassination team to Hanoi to assassinate Wang Jingwei in an attempt to prevent Wang from defecting to the enemy. )
[55] "Vote for me with a peach, and repay it with Qiong Yao." Bandit retribution, always think it is good": from "The Book of Songs, Weifeng, Papaya". The full text is "Vote for me with papaya, and repay it with Qiongju." Bandit retribution, always think it is good! Vote for me with a peach, and repay it with Qiong Yao. Bandit retribution, always think it is good! Vote for me with Mu Li, and repay it with Qiongjiu. Bandit retribution, always think it is good! ”