[Chapter 5: The Abyss of Deep Fate and Shallow Edge]

At the Beiping Railway Station, travelers come and go, hurrying in a hurry, flowing inside and outside the station, and the only trace of moisture left in late summer is mixed with the smell of sour and rancid. Shu Ming Fish

Cheng Jingyi hugged her schoolbag and sat in a backlit corner. She had already changed out of her clean student robe and put on a long cloth cheongsam of an ambiguous mustard yellow. The white socks on the feet are old, so they are even more unobtrusive when paired with black velveteen buckle shoes. She also wore a floppy hat in a special way. The gray linen cap, which had been washed many times, hung down softly and touched her cheeks. If you take off your hat, you will see a face as white as jade with a pair of large glasses...... She pulled her soft-brimmed hat even lower, and peeked at the dusty wall clock on the station wall—half an hour before the train to Tianjin.

Her body was slammed into her body.

Turning his head, he saw an old man with gray hair. Because she was sleepy, she was dozing off, and her body was staggering, and she leaned over and touched her again.

Jing Yi moved to the side, and only half of her body sat on the bench.

Her foot touched the wicker box resting under the bench. The small wicker suitcase, which looks inconspicuous, contains a smaller suitcase, clothes, books, and a little western medicine. This is what she had prepared for in advance. Before coming to the train station, she took a pawn ticket to redeem the box and went straight to the station.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way! Even"

Hearing the shouting, she quickly glanced in the direction from which the voice had come — a policeman with a black-and-white baton was pushing a few men with large bags of luggage to go in the direction he had designated — and she snapped up, and then calmed down.

The round black-rimmed glasses she wore were a make-up tool, and the prescription was not suitable, but it made her vision blurred, which made her ears sharper than ever.

"Brother, martial law is under fire in the city, do you know?" Someone lowered his voice and said.

"When? I just came from Tongxian and didn't go into the city. ”

Jing Yi tilted her head slightly and glanced at them from above the frame. They were all middle-aged men in long shirts, and one of them also had round lenses on the bridge of his nose.

“…… Today, Commander Duan is out of the funeral, of course, the whole city is under martial law...... I heard that the eldest son of the Duan family ...... "The voice is so low that it is inaudible."

Jing Yi occupied a corner of the bench and listened with her ears pricked up.

Although this news didn't sound special to her, the current acting commander of the city defense army was Tao Si, what if......

The eldest son of the Duan family...... Martial law throughout the city...... She remembered Tao Si's smiling face and said that she was the "acting commander". She was reluctant to associate words like Tao Si with Smiling Tiger. But in fact, Tao Si, who helped the Duan family stabilize the situation, the purpose of martial law in the whole city was not for the stability of Beiping City, but to help Duan Fengxiao get rid of his brother Duan Fengxian...... She looked at the buttons on her bag.

Brothers, a tragedy in the world.

Fengxian's eldest brother, Fengxiao's second brother...... What a handsome and noble boy he used to be.

“…… I didn't mourn before, and I was waiting for the eldest son...... In the end, it is a father and son, and they have to come back to send ...... no matter what" sighed.

"This is a send, but before the old father can send it away, his own life will be put into it...... If you move the power and touch the profit, the father and son and the brother are all right......" is also a sigh.

Jingyi lowered her head.

In a quarter of an hour, she could leave Beiping.

All the riches, flamboyances, grievances, and hatreds in this city will be temporarily separated from her, and they will no longer have to be bothered.

She clutched the small pocket watch her mother had given her.

The most sorry thing is that she loves her mother, trusts her mother-in-law, and the ninth brother...... In the future, listening to the ticking sound on the watch, it should be a regular thing to miss them, right?

There was a sudden silence in the station, and you could hear the sound of uniform footsteps outside.

Movement and restlessness spread through the crowd, and someone from outside came in, saying that it was not good, that it was not good, and that the GIs were coming...... The police shouted with their batons and shouted louder.

Jingyi looked nervously at the entrance, and people kept pouring in outside, carrying luggage and looking panicked. She stood up and saw the soldiers lined up through the gray window of the station.

She turned back to look inside the station, where the dark train was parked on the tracks, and the crowd was moving slowly inside.

She decisively picked up the wicker box and walked to the end of the line, and the person standing in front looked back at her and asked her, this girl, are you also going to Tianjin?

She nodded, silent. didn't look back, only heard the soldiers enter the station, in groups of three or two, and began to check...... They focused on young and middle-aged men.

Seeing this, Jing Yi calmly followed the team and moved slowly.

Officers in gray uniforms led the soldiers to the front of the procession, standing behind the train station ticket inspectors, who slowed down again. The officer looked inside the station from time to time, and his subordinates were seriously searching for their targets. He nodded in satisfaction, and as soon as he turned around, the stationmaster came over, bowed his head, and handed over a cigarette...... Jingyi pinched the ticket and handed it to the ticket inspector.

There were two fingerprints on the ticket that she pinched, and the handwriting on the mimeographs was blurred.

The ticket inspector took it over and looked at her carefully.

Jing Yi lifted the brim of her hat upwards, revealing her forehead. Thick glass glasses that almost cover half of his face.

The ticket inspector gave her the ticket, and the two soldiers standing behind the ticket inspector glanced at her and waved her in. Jingyi straightened up and left as usual.

"You, wait." Jingyi heard the officer speak.

She stiffened.

It's the adjutant who followed Tao Si that day, what's it called, Zuo Zhicheng's right...... Did he recognize her?

She was about to turn around, when she heard Zuo Zhicheng ask, "Where are you going?" ”

"Go to Shijiazhuang." The young woman was talking.

"What did you take, come over here and search it." Zuo Zhicheng said.

Hearing this, Jingyi glanced up at the direction of the locomotive, and quickly walked towards that side.

She strode along, occasionally brushing shoulders with heavily armed soldiers and policemen.

I finally found the carriage, and it was like trekking through thousands of mountains and rivers.

She bought the lowest seat. Walking into the carriage with a wicker suitcase, it was not yet time to drive, and there were many passengers in the carriage, noisy and chaotic.

When she found her seat, she found that there was already a woman with a baby in her arms, and when she saw her, she looked up, her eyes were a little dull, the baby was wrapped in a small quilt, and her face was the size of a pear, and she looked very weak. Jingyi stood for a moment, looked back, and found no other empty seats, and then turned back to see that this young woman of about her age who was holding the baby was still looking at her like that.

She carried the wicker box to the end of the carriage and stood down. Across the door, on the other side is a high-class carriage.

Jingyi looked over there, and the quiet walkway was empty, only the wind passing through the window, blowing the white screen.

She would have to spend a few hours here before she could reach Tianjin in the evening. When I arrived in Tianjin, there was a ship to Shanghai. It is much safer to walk by water than by land...... She didn't leave a word for her family, and even Qiu Wei didn't say a word. The family, except for Zhi Shen, no one noticed that she was a little abnormal this morning. She looked at the time, and Zhishen was still in class...... She felt a little uncomfortable. What does Shen believe in her...... Even if it's a father, a mother-in-law, a mother...... They all believed her.

Jingyi took a deep breath.

When she arrived in Shanghai, she didn't know what the situation was. If she can board the ship smoothly, she will write a letter to her family on the day of departure. Or, do you want to write again when you get to New York?

She looked out the window of the car as a group of soldiers stepped over the railroad tracks and headed for a nearby train.

The train was going to Shijiazhuang - she thought, from Shijiazhuang to the customs, it would not be the Duan family's sphere of influence. If Duan Fengxian escaped, it should be either to the north or to the south, and it would be easier to go north, after all, now, the Duan family and the south are in an alliance...... Somehow, she always thought of Duan Fengxian.

In fact, I haven't seen her for many years, the eldest brother of the Duan family is much older than her, and he should be a person of the same age as her eldest cousin Zhao Zongqing, and he always plays in one place.

When I came back from the flyover with my eldest cousin, I would buy a lot of things, bamboo whistles, kites...... The garden was running and flying kites, and a few of them watched the kites fight in the sky. Since it was a fight, he simply went down with scissors and broke the line, and the kite drifted away.

The train rattled.

Jingyi's body shook, thinking that the train was about to start, but it wasn't.

The conductor hadn't come up yet, and the door of the carriage was wide open.

Jingyi looked at the group of soldiers who crossed the railroad tracks and got on the train to Shijiazhuang.

Do you want to search...... Before this thought had passed, Jing Yi saw a group of soldiers coming up from the other end of the carriage with the conductor, following behind the conductor in uniform, and began to check the train tickets one by one. She peeked in, and this time, in addition to young men, they also focused on interrogating young single women. When I see a woman who looks like a student, I always have to ask a few more questions. The soldier at the head swept around the carriage with a picture in his hand and his eyes like a torch.