Chapter 22: Life and Death
After getting Mrs. Shangfang's sword, the fat sister-in-law began to make arrangements.
"Yurong, go and boil the water, Ah Cheng, go remove the tablet on the table, and I'll go and bring the mattress." Uncle Yao, you go to the gate and keep guard, don't let people in. Tiger boy, you close this door in a moment, stand at the door, and listen to the command. The fat sister-in-law immediately began to command.
"Fat sister-in-law, what am I doing then?" Mrs. Lu was a little anxious when she saw that everyone was doing their job, and she was not assigned a task.
"Madam, burn incense and pray."
"Yes, yes, yes. There are Bodhisattvas here, and there are tablets of ancestors and ancestors, which will definitely bless Shuxian's mother and son safely. β
Mrs. Lu hurriedly ran to the Buddha shrine and knelt down, clasped her hands together, and chanted words in her mouth.
"Fat sister-in-law, the boiling water is ready."
"Yurong, come with me to help the young grandmother to the offering table."
In this way, Shuxian lay on the offering table, Yurong held her hand while wiping her sweat beside her, and Mrs. Lu prayed on the side. The fat sister-in-law became a midwife.
"Young grandma, work hard." Shuxian screamed in pain.
"Hold on a little longer, I see my head." The fat sister-in-law's hands were bloody, and while delivering the baby, she cheered: "Hard, hard." β
With a "wow", the child fell to the ground.
The fat sister-in-law hurriedly cut the umbilical cord with scissors. Wipe the blood off the child's body and hold the child to Mrs. Lu.
"Congratulations, ma'am, it's a boy."
"Bodhisattva bless, ancestors bless, thank God."
Outside the house, the cannon roared, and in this way, Shuxian gave birth to the blood of the Lu family in the bombing of Guangzhou.
When Lu Yixiang and Lu Yulin returned home, they knew that they had been upgraded to become grandpa and father.
"Our Lu family has a queen." Lu Yixiang's eyes were shining, and he knelt in front of the tablets of his ancestors and ancestors.
Lu Yulin hugged his beloved wife: "Shuxian, let you suffer!" β
"As long as my son is safe, no matter how hard it is, it's worth it." Shuxian snuggled in Yulin's arms.
"Master, haven't you named your child yet?"
"Yes, yes, take a name, take a name, this generation should be a Xuanzi generation, just call Lu Xuanming, a roaring Ming, let him remember that he was born in the midst of artillery fire."
"Lu Xuanming, Lu Xuanming. We have a name. Mrs. Lu hugged her grandson and was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth.
"Shuxian, I really wronged you, giving birth to a child in the Buddhist hall and confinement." Lu Yulin was full of apologies to Xu Shuxian.
"Yulin, don't feel sorry for it, now everyone is living in dire straits, as long as we are all safe, I will be satisfied."
"The Japanese want us to destroy the country and extinct the species, and we want to live and flourish. Naruto, isn't it? Lu Yixiang teased his grandson as he spoke.
"Now that the upstairs is no longer inhabitable, you all move down. Stayed in the room. Yurong, I'll help the young master and young grandmother clean up later. Mrs. Lu instructed Yurong.
"Hey, I'll go."
"Fat sister-in-law, thanks to you this time, Shuxian's mother and son are safe. You are the number one contributor to our family. β
"Madam, I can't afford this, it's also a coincidence, I'm also a big girl on a sedan chair - the first time."
"Fat aunt, you are the lifesaver of our mother and son." Shuxian struggled to her feet.
"Young grandma, you say so, but it hurts me, if it is a peaceful and prosperous world, why do you need to suffer this sin!"
Suddenly, Ah Xia from Lu Yiao's mansion ran in crying.
"Axia, what's wrong?" Seeing this, Mrs. Lu hurriedly asked.
"Madam, my lord was killed."
"Huh? When was this? When Mrs. Lu heard this, her face turned pale and her hands trembled.
"Just this morning, the master was burying something in the yard, and a bomb happened to fall in the yard, and the master was blown up. A large piece of the house was also blown off, and the young grandmother was hit by the beam of the house, and she shed a lot of blood, and I still don't know if she is dead or alive. β
When Lu Yixiang heard this, he almost lost his breath, and ran out in a hurry, and Yulin hurriedly followed.
Before Lu Yixiang stepped into the door of his second brother's house, he heard the wail of crying and grabbing the ground from inside, Lu Yixiang took a closer look, Lu Yiao's body was lying on the door panel, and a broken arm was spliced on the corpse.
Lu Yixiang suddenly screamed sadly: "Second brother, you died too miserably." Why did you just get ahead of me! β
"Big brother!" Lu Yiao's wife, Qiu Lian, couldn't cry: "Big brother, Yiao's death is too unjust, you have to make decisions for us." He fainted while crying.
"Brother and sister, brother and sister" Lu Yixiang hurriedly beckoned Ah Xia to support Qiu Lian.
"Where's Yu Ting? Where's Yu Ting? β
"I've already gone to the firm to inform the young master."
After a while, Lu Yuting rushed in, and as soon as he saw his father's body, he knelt down with a thud.
"Daddy, Daddy, what's wrong with you?" Yu Ting knelt there and wept silently.
"Young master, young grandma is still lying in the room."
Lu Yuting hurriedly stood up, ran into the room, and saw his wife Xiulin lying on the bed dying. The bandage around his head was already soaked with blood.
"Xiulin, Xiulin, I'm Yuting, open your eyes and look at me."
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Before Xiulin finished speaking, she swallowed her breath.
"Xiulin, Xiulin, don't leave me behind." Yu Ting hugged Xiulin and cried.
The subordinates wanted to change Xiulin's longevity clothes, and Yu Ting held Xiulin's body to death.
"Brother, don't be like this, let your sister-in-law go quietly." Yu Lin persuaded Yu Ting with tears.
Yu Ting put down Xiulin and wanted to stand up, but his whole body was soft and swaying, and Yu Lin hurriedly supported him.
Suddenly, a mouthful of blood gushed out of Yu Ting's mouth.
"Brother, brother, what's wrong with you?"
Yu Ting hugged Yu Lin tightly, and the brothers hugged their heads and cried.
It stands to reason that a big family like the Lu family will definitely have a big funeral, but the current situation is so chaotic that everything can only be simplified. Moreover, the whole city of Guangzhou is full of corpses, and the coffins in the coffin shop have long been sold out, and most of the corpses of the civilians are wrapped in straw mats, and they can be buried casually in a mass grave. In these years, it is not easy to die well.
Fortunately, a business tycoon like Lu Yiao has already prepared a golden silk nanmu coffin at home, but Xiulin's coffin was assembled after disassembling some cabinets at home. After the bodies of Lu Yiao and Xiulin were buried, they were buried in the ancestral grave of the Lu family.
In October 1938, the defenders of Guangzhou abandoned Guangzhou in the name of "strategic transfer" and "strategic retreat", resulting in the defense of Guangzhou being captured by the Japanese army after only ten days. The policies of "scorched earth", "blockade" and "destruction" implemented before the retreat brought disaster to the lives of the people. A large number of citizens starved to death, froze to death, and died of disease, and in order to keep warm, the citizens went crazy to the suburbs to cut down trees, even dig graves, steal coffins for firewood, and some dismantled the beams of the houses and sold them for food. The law and order in Guangzhou was even more chaotic, the lawbreakers robbed rice shops, medicine shops, gold shops, salt shops and other shops, the rich people fled Guangzhou one after another to find a way to survive, the civilians fled to the mountains for refuge, and most of the citizens who had nowhere to escape could only wait for the arrival of bad luck.
At this time, the Guangzhou Public Security Maintenance Association, and the Guangzhou Municipal Office, were the Japanese puppet agencies at that time, aiming to enslave the people for the Japanese invaders to establish the so-called Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
In order to appease the citizens and maintain law and order, the Society naturally had to find some influential business figures in Guangzhou to act as a faΓ§ade and boost its prestige. Lu Yixiang's name is prominently listed.
In order to preserve the bloodline of the Lu family, Lu Yixiang decided to let Yulin take his female dependents and Ming'er in swaddling clothes, as well as Yurong, Fat Sister-in-law, and Tiger Boy to Hong Kong to take refuge, leaving only Uncle Yao and Ah Cheng and a few miscellaneous servants at home.
After sending off his family, Lu Yixiang's hanging heart calmed down a little.
Lu Yixiang was about to renovate the Lu Mansion and Lu Mansion after the bombing was badly damaged, and that day, when he was discussing the design drawings with the construction engineer, several rather unfamiliar faces appeared at the door.
"Brother Lu, don't come unharmed." Feng Lianfa shook his hands as soon as he entered the door.
"Brother Feng, why do you have time to come to the Humble House today?" Lu Yixiang also clenched his fists.
When Lu Yixiang was the president of the Guangzhou Chamber of Commerce, Feng Lianfa was a member of its executive committee, and the two did not have much business contacts, Feng Lianfa was a wall grass, so Lu Yixiang did not treat him much, but because of the face of his peers, for so many years, the well water did not interfere with the river water, and the two basically did not intersect, and they were safe.
"I'm going to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, let me introduce you first, this is Mr. Kazuo Yamada, the president of Yamada Co., Ltd., and the president of the Japan-China Friendship Association, Mr. Yamada is a China expert who has lived in Manchuria for five or six years."
Lu Yixiang looked at the Japanese man with a small flat head and no smile.
"Hay, please take care of me." Kazuo Yamada handed the business card to Lu Yixiang.
When Lu Yixiang saw a Japanese man walk into his door, his disgust arose, he took the business card, glanced at it, and pinched it in his hand.
"This is Li Youtang, the vice president of the Guangzhou Maintenance Association."
"It turned out to be Brother Li, disrespectful and disrespectful." Lu Yulin clenched his fists: "I heard that Brother Li sold his wood processing factory to the Japanese for the sake of this vice president. β
"Japan and China are friendly, do your part."
"If Brother Li wants the title of mayor of Guangzhou, does he want to sell all his ancestral property to the Japanese?"
Li Youtang was robbed by Lu Yixiang and turned pale.
"Brother Lu, you can't say that, it's the world of the Japanese now, and Brother Li is also the vice president of the maintenance committee to protect the territory and the people. Brother Lu, you are also γγγγγγ Feng Lianfa hurriedly came over to play the round.
"Let's not talk nonsense, we just want to ask Mr. Lu to be the president of the maintenance association today." Kazuo Yamada rudely interrupted Feng Lianfa's words.
"You're here to make me the president of the Society?" Lu Yixiang smiled coldly: "I don't have any property that I can sell to the Japanese at a low price." As you can see, the house I live in has been blown to shreds, and I am not qualified to be the president. β
"Brother Lu, you misunderstood, this president didn't let you buy it with money." Feng Lianfa hurriedly explained.
"It doesn't cost money, and I'm not uncommon with this president, so please be smart."
"Brother Lu, don't have an attitude of rejecting people thousands of miles away, this president is not someone who wants to be able to be, he must first be famous, and he must be approved by the Japanese before he is eligible to be elected." Feng Lianfa flattered and stepped forward to explain to Lu Yixiang.
"So, let me be the president or promote me."
"Yes, Mr. Lu, this is an honor." Kazuo Yamada has a tough tone.
"I'm sorry, I don't know this lift." Lu Yixiang threw Kazuo Yamada's business card on the ground: "Send off guests." β
Uncle Yao walked over and made a gesture to see off the guest.
Kazuo Yamada's face suddenly turned purple, Feng Lianfa hurriedly pulled Kazuo Yamada away, and Li Youtang also went out.
"Brother Lu, you think about it again, think about it again, and I'll listen to your letter in a few days." Feng Lianfa said as he walked.
"Lu Yixiang, you'd better get to know each other and don't ask for trouble." Li Youtang turned around and warned Lu Yixiang.
"What's the matter, it's starting to bare its teeth without bones, a bunch of traitors and lackeys who eat inside and out." Lu Yixiang muttered hatefully: "Ah Cheng, bring a basin of water and wash the place where these three people are standing." β