On the way, Yun Yun was still worried about what the Englishman did just now, and she asked Xiao Jinyu: "The Englishman just now spoke so fiercely, and his eyes were also fierce, what did he want to do?" ”

"Your brother didn't tell you that?"

"No, I don't know anything." Yun Yun shook her head ignorantly.

"Then don't ask, it's better not to know anything, otherwise it will be even more uncomfortable if you know that you can't do anything."

"I didn't care about it before, but recently there have been so many things in the factory, and now the British are here, as if they are threatening us, I don't want my brother to bear it alone, if I can't do anything, but if I know the reason, at least I can comfort them when they are worried, I don't want to be an outsider now, you tell me."

Xiao Jinyu smiled in his heart, thought carefully, then stopped, looked at Yun Yun and said, "It's not impossible to tell you, but you have to fulfill my wish." ”

"What?"

"Lunch with me."

"Eat at your house?"

"No, we're eating alone."

Yun Yun was stunned for a moment, suddenly realized, and smiled at a loss: "You, are you bad again?" ”

"What bad heart? Just invite you to dinner, I know that I have two wives, how can I wronged you to marry me to be a three-room? ”

"Y-shut up!"

"Shut up, how can I tell you? Okay, I really don't have any other thoughts, I'm hungry, I'll tell you while I'm eating? ”

"Really?" Yun Yun said, "Okay, then you swear in your heart, but you are not allowed to do this, otherwise I will tell my brother to go and see how you get along in the future!" ”

"No, no, let's go." Xiao Jinyu said with a smile, "There is a small restaurant not far ahead, please eat well." ”

"Let's go, I'm hungry anyway."

As she was walking, a female classmate suddenly stopped Yun Yun and said excitedly: "Yun Yun, Mr. Li Dazhao will go to the church to give a lecture in the afternoon, and the students are all going, so you can go too." ”

"Go, of course, I'll come to you in the afternoon." Yun Yun responded with a smile.

"Okay."

"Li Dazhao? Who is it? Xiao Jinyu asked.

"If you don't study, you don't understand," Yun Yun said, "Mr. Li is the most famous and knowledgeable scholar today, a professor at Peking University, and a role model for many of our young students." ”

"Scholars, professors, do you make a lot of money?"

Yun Yun glanced at him, and said angrily: "Vulgar!" ”

"Haha, it's definitely not as much money as I am."

"It's not as much as you, but even if you spend all your money, you can't buy other people's knowledge, other people's knowledge." Yun Yun said impatiently, "Okay, I won't tell you, you won't understand what I said." ”

"I don't want to hear it yet, hey, it's here." Xiao Jinyu looked up at the lintel of the restaurant and said, "Go in." ”

Yun Yun stepped in and found a place to sit next to the window, Xiao Jinyu also sit, and the people from the restaurant came to entertain her.

After a while, the food was ready, Yun Yun ate gently, and Xiao Jinyu only watched.

"You can eat too, don't stare at me."

"Oh."

"Tell me about it." Yun Yun glanced up at him.

Xiao Jinyu became serious, and asked while eating: "You are a student, you should also know that China is weak and backward in technology, right?" ”

"Yes."

"Our country is an agricultural country, there are many farmers and small handicraftsmen, and now, foreigners are pouring in, with their advanced technology and advanced machines to open factories, squeezing the traditional productive forces of our country, we can't compete with their efficiency, you see now, whether it is papermaking, or the production of matches, spinning and weaving do not need to be manual, all rely on big machines, that machine does one day, even people work for ten days, a hundred days." Xiao Jinyu said, "This is big industry, it has swallowed up our small industry, but we have no choice but to give in, because we have no technology, if you don't give in and people don't teach you technology, you can't compete with others, you can't make money, so our factory owners, our landlords and capitalists have to give in and work for foreigners; In order to earn money, they did not care about the life and death of the workers, let the workers work hard, and then distribute a little money, but the workers had no other ability, so they could only enter the factory to work for foreigners and landlords and factory owners, otherwise they could only starve to death. ”

Yun Yun didn't feel hungry either, so she put down her chopsticks at some point and listened quietly.

"I also heard the declarations of some people in society, and they said that this is called exploitation and oppression."

"I know a little bit about this." Yun Yun said, staring at Xiao Jinyu again and asking, "Then ...... you?"

"That's right, I'm one of the countless factory owners, but you can't look down on me, just like I opened a tobacco shop a few years ago, I don't earn this money, someone will earn it, but I also have to live, right?"

Yun Yun understands this truth, but she is a little in a trance at the moment.

"But your brother is an anomaly, he used some means to buy machines, learned technology, opened up channels for purchasing and shipping, he rejected the manipulation of the Japanese and the British, shortened the working hours of the workers, increased the salary, he is not a person like me." The corners of Xiao Jinyu's mouth were slightly yang, he admired it, but he also felt bad luck for Zhuang Yuncheng.

Hearing this, Yun Yun's eyes widened, and her eyes twinkled like stars beating.

"But the Japanese and the British will not miss any opportunity to make money, they both want to turn your brother's factory into a factory that makes money for them, and turn the workers inside into labor machines." Xiao Jinyu was stunned when he saw Yun Yun, knowing that she was touched, and said, "But your brother didn't agree, this is the scene you saw just now." ”

"Will the British retaliate, I saw his eyes, it was terrible." Yun Yun thought back to Wells's eyes, and the light that came out of them was like a sword.

Xiao Jinyu didn't answer her and ate by himself.

In the afternoon, Yun Yun had no master, she thought of the previous arson and poisoning incident, and she was even more panicked, and followed her classmates to listen to Professor Li Dazhao's lecture in a trance.

A gentleman dressed in plain clothes, full of energy, solemn in expression, embarrassed in his eyes, and with two beards, stood on a makeshift platform in front of the church, raised his arms and shouted:

"Students, teachers, all the people who pursue the republic, look, in 1911, we overthrew an emperor, and in 1915, an emperor surnamed Yuan came to power again! Just a few months ago, we defeated this emperor surnamed Yuan again, but we don't know when another emperor will emerge! ”

"It seems that they have long forgotten their original intentions and forgotten the 'republic' on their lips! What is Republic? The common is the common of the world; Peace, the harmony of the people, autocracy is not a republic! Calling the imperial dictatorship is not a republic! ”

……

Mr. Li raised his arms and shouted, and his calls responded, and the slogans of the students came and went, and Yun Yun was in a complicated mood.

Today, she can't stay at school anymore, so she drags her tired body home, and when she arrives, Zhuang Yuncheng and Fluttershy are having dinner.

"You ......" Zhuang Yuncheng took a bite of food, he didn't expect her to come back when it was almost dark, so he asked, "Have you eaten?" ”

Yun Yun shook her head.

"Then sit down and eat." Fluttershy helps her get the dishes and chopsticks and serve her rice.

Yun Yun sat dumbfounded, some words were difficult to speak, she didn't know how to say, these days in the university, she felt that everything was changing, saw the terrible facts, heard the piercing voice, what Xiao Jinyu and Mr. Li Dazhao said today made her open the door to another world, this world itself has never set foot in, everything in the door is very high and complicated.

"I ...... Today I saw a few children who had nothing to eat, and they ...... It's pathetic. Yun Yun cast a sympathetic look.

"I see it every day." Zhuang Yuncheng chewed his rice, and his mood also changed.

"But what I saw today was different, I seemed to see why they didn't have anything to eat."

"What's wrong with you?" Zhuang Yuncheng sensed something wrong and asked suspiciously.

"I ...... I know many things, things that are blocking my heart, but I don't understand. ”

"Then eat first, think about it and tell us, the older you are, you should know more, and there will be more entanglements and doubts in your heart, sort it out."

"Hmm." Yun Yun picked up chopsticks to eat, and this time, she finished eating the last grain of rice in the bowl.

After the meal, Yun Yun went upstairs, she was suddenly startled, remembered the gun in the drawer, "I see," she understood, her brother's decision would bring danger to the whole family, so he gave himself this gun to protect himself.

"Killing that Japanese that day was a contest between the big brother and sister and the Japanese." Yun Yun thought about it and panicked, "It turns out that the danger is really so close to them, they protect themselves so tightly that they almost think that they are in a zone where there will never be danger, it turns out that I was wrong......"

Yun Yun lay on the bed weakly, staring at the roof, but many black and white images appeared in front of her, all of which were sad scenes and were heartbreaking.

Zhuang Yuncheng looked at Yunyun's room and said, "It's okay to come to the factory this morning, why is it like this in the afternoon?" ”

"People who have no long-term worries must have near-term worries, and at her age, there will be more and more worries, until she learns how to deal with these worries, and then she will grow up." Fluttershy sighed, "We're all the same, we don't have to worry about this and that all day, no, we've completely that Wells this morning." ”

"Sooner or later, their ambitions are the same as those of the Nantian regime, and I didn't even ask him about his conditions."

"This factory has a bad fate, I don't know how long it can last." Fluttershy mutters.

"What do you think the end result will be?"

"Either it goes out of business or it falls into the hands of foreigners."

"Is it so miserable, I'm already a little reluctant," Zhuang Yuncheng smiled bitterly, "Have you ever thought about what we should do if any of these situations happen?" Where do we go from here? ”

"I didn't think about it, I just wanted it now." Fluttershy says.

Zhuang Yuncheng smiled: "This is the biggest difference between you and me. ”

"Isn't it, isn't this just right, complementing each other, so that you don't have a vision because you don't think about the near and not the far, and you don't think about the near and too nothing, isn't it?"

"Yes."

The two siblings looked at each other and smiled, and they were a little sleepy as they spoke, so they went upstairs to see Yunyun.

Zhuang Yuncheng pushed the door open, and saw that she didn't turn off the light, so she lay down and fell asleep, and Fluttershy went to pull her right, covered her with the quilt and went back to sleep. Yun Yun did fall asleep, maybe because she was too tired, but she had a lot of thoughts, and she didn't sleep well all night, and her dreams were full of broken fragments.