After burying her father, Xia Ju's life suddenly fell into disorderly chaos, and she didn't think it was difficult to see her father doing some trivial things at home. Now that all these things have fallen on herself, she realized that what her father had to do every day was so chaotic and troublesome.

Not to mention anything else, just the daily meal, which has become a big problem for Xia Ju, and the kerosene stove is lit after several times of trembling. The first time she cooked, Xia Ju didn't know what to do, so she bought a fresh fish in the vegetable market and made a bowl of fresh fish soup according to her father's usual practice.

I felt that the condiments were all placed, and the time was up, so I picked up the soup spoon and tried to drink a sip of fish soup.

The fish pot clattered on the ground, and the prepared fish soup was spilled all over the floor. Xia Ju looked at the mess in front of her, and muttered to herself: "It's better to sprinkle it, otherwise you won't be able to eat it." After he finished speaking, he thought of his father again, and couldn't help but squat on the ground and cry loudly.

Anyway, life has to go on, and after cleaning up the fishy house, Xia Ju began to sit on the bed and think about her future out. Suddenly, she remembered her father's words when he was dying, telling her mother that she was in Shanghai, and it seemed that she should go to her, otherwise it would be too inconvenient for a girl to live in this troubled world.

Xia Ju never thought that her mother was still alive in the world, because in her memory, she never saw her mother again when she was just five or six years old. When she grew up, her father only said that her mother was dead, and as for why she died and where she was buried, her father was silent.

"Magnolia...... No. 60 Xiafei Road...... "Xia Ju muttered these words in her heart, Xiafei Road is an area where the rich gather in Shanghai, how could her mother live there? Why are you so close and don't come to see yourself for more than ten years? What is the inextricable estrangement between father and mother, and there has been no contact for so many years? One mystery after another was incomprehensible in Xia Ju's heart.

But no matter what, Xia Ju still decided to meet her mother, who had not met for many years, if nothing else, she wanted to solve her confusion, a title that had disappeared for more than ten years went from vague to clear, which also made Xia Ju's heart more eager to see her mother.

Early the next morning, Xia Ju simply cleaned up and hurried downstairs. At the food stall at the mouth of the alley, I asked for a fried oyster cake, because I didn't eat for a day and a night, Xia Ju was awakened twice by hunger in her sleep last night, and the hunger made the sadness become weak.

After eating a full stomach, people are also much more energetic, looking at the few rickshaws parked at the corner of the street, Xia Ju hesitated whether to take the car. Because her father reminded her when he was alive that almost 100% of these rickshaw drivers are members of the Green Gang, if there is no need, it is better to provoke them as little as possible.

In the past 20 years, Xia Ju has basically been at home and school, and the means of transportation she has taken is either by her father's bicycle or by tram, and when the weather is good, she simply walks, and she really rarely takes rickshaws.

The rickshaw driver saw Xia Ju's hesitation, and a strong man with a northern accent asked loudly, "Miss, are you in the car?" Take my car to ensure that you are fast and steady, and race past the car of foreign devils! ”

The coachman's joke made Xia Ju relax, and she really didn't know the road, Xia Fei Road was so big, how did she know where the 60th was.

"No. 60 Xiafei Road." Xia Ju said.

"Yo, that's where the rich live, and I have to run several times a day." The driver warmly and thoughtfully dusted the saddle with a towel.

His car was really fast and stable, and he could even gossip with Xia Ju in the trot: "Miss lives in Xiafei Road, look at you is rich and noble, but you are not as poor as us, and the down-and-out are all hung up." ”

Xia Ju: "I'm looking for someone, where can I afford to live in that place." ”

The coachman took a sip and immediately changed his words and said, "That is, how can there be any good people living in that place!" In addition to traitors, they are Eastern devils and Western devils...... Who are you looking for? ”

Although the coachman was a little talkative, but remembering his father's advice, Xia Ju still patiently replied to him: "I'm looking for me...... Mother. ”

The coachman exclaimed and said, "Look at my cheap mouth, go around and around and around and get yourself in!" I can't speak, don't pick on me. ”

Xia Ju said: "It's not strange if you don't know, besides, I don't know ......."

Xia Ju wanted to say, "I don't know if she's a good person or a bad person", but when the words came to her mouth, she swallowed it vividly, why mention it in front of strangers if she wasn't sure.

Instead, Xia Ju finally couldn't hold back her curiosity, and asked cautiously, "I heard that you rickshaws are all gang members, is it true?" ”

The coachman smiled and said: "If you don't join the gang, you won't be able to do this business in Shanghai, there is no way, you will be bullied wherever you go." ”

After talking about the time, the coachman stopped the car far away in front of a white western-style building and said: "Miss, you have arrived at the place, and it is not far in front of you to No. 60 Xiafei Road, but our car does not dare to go forward, you have to walk over by yourself." ”

Xia Ju asked strangely, "Why?" ”

The coachman took the reserve coupon given by Xia Ju, put it together with the money in his pocket, patted it on his hand and said: "I have to buy grain quickly with this money, I can buy a bowl of rice at this time, and I can only buy half a bowl of rice in the afternoon...... Why, because there are soldiers standing guard in front, it is strictly forbidden for foreign vehicles to approach. ”

Xia Ju sighed and said, "Thank you." ”

Xia Ju walked along the smooth bluestone road, walking towards the direction of the white western-style building, this place is really different from the civilian area, the surrounding trees and flowers are artificially trimmed, and there are beautiful street lamps every short distance. If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, Xia Ju wouldn't have believed that Shanghai, which had been bombed indiscriminately, still had such an elegant and clean place.

The two soldiers in military uniforms watched Xia Ju approach timidly, and shouted: "Stop, little girl, don't go forward, it's not the residents here who are strictly forbidden to enter!" ”

Xia Ju: "I'm here to find someone." ”

"Looking for someone? Who are you looking for? ”

"I, I'm here to find Magnolia."

"What a white magnolia, a purple magnolia, there are not even moon flowers here, let's go, let's go, I'm in the wrong place."

"Are you mistaken? My dad told me she was here, and my dad wouldn't lie to me. ”

"Who is your father? Dad is all a liar, my dad also told me to be a soldier and eat food in all directions, but now Lao Tzu is standing here as a watchdog! ”

Xia Ju was kicked out, the coachman was still there and didn't leave, seeing Xia Ju walking out dejectedly, he pulled up the car and followed: "Didn't find anyone?" I guess it is! These rich people don't recognize people when they turn their faces, and if a poor relative comes to the door, maybe she just deliberately denies you! ”

Xia Ju glared at him angrily, and quickened her pace to move forward.

Coachman: "Bah, look at my lack of moral memory, and I forgot that you came to find your mother...... Did you remember the wrong address? Could it be No. 6 and No. 16 Xiafei Road, and there is still a Xiaguang Road after two roads......"

Xia Ju recalled it carefully, she was panicked at the time, and she was really not sure if she had heard the wrong address, so she said: "Okay, then trouble you, take me to ask in these places." ”

The coachman was overjoyed, put down the handlebars neatly, and said: "I met you today as a nobleman, saving me a day of running around, and I can't do any work." ”

"Miss, you are a student, my name is Han San, from Beiping. If you use the car in the future, just shout Han San at the street corner, as long as I am nearby, I can't delay you! ”

"People from Beiping, why did you come to Shanghai again?"

"Beiping was occupied by the Japanese, I thought to myself that we can't be slaves, so I ran all the way south, but I didn't expect that this way, the national army ran faster than me, and I didn't stop for a few days when I arrived in Shanghai, so I still became a slave of the country!"

Xia Ju began to think that this Han San was talking very interestingly, and unconsciously followed his words and asked, "Then why don't you continue to run?" ”

Han San said indignantly: "I don't believe that Ya's little devil can really destroy China!" I'm not running away, I'm just waiting for the day of recovery in Shanghai! ”