Shuxian returned to the apartment, saw Yulin fainting on the ground, and saw the newspapers scattered in the room, picked it up and looked at it, and suddenly burst into tears, unable to help herself.

"Yulin, wake up, wake up." Shuxian hurriedly took Yulin in her arms and patted him on the cheek.

Yu Lin opened his eyes and saw that it was Shuxian, the couple hugged their heads and cried, and suddenly, a mouthful of blood gushed out of Yu Lin's mouth.

"Yulin." Shuxian saw Yulin spitting blood from her mouth, and panicked.

"Shuxian, my dad is gone, I want to go back, I want to go back to see my dad for the last time." Yu Lin lay on Shuxian's shoulder, sobbing sideways.

"Yulin, calm down, we are now fugitives pursued by the Japanese, and if we go back, we will be caught in the net."

"I don't care, I want to go back, I must go back, even if I die in front of my father's grave, I will go back."

Yu Lin didn't care about it, crying like a child, Shuxian hugged Yu Lin, and cried like a tearful person.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and Shuxian ran to the door alertly.

"Who?"

"It's me, Sook-yeon."

Shuxian opened the door, and Shuyan came in with Mingfeng and Xu Hengliang. They saw the newspapers all over the ground and knew that Yulin had learned the bad news of his father's death.

"Yulin, I just learned about your father, these Japanese devils with thousands of cuts. Your father is proud and upright, which is awe-inspiring. Xu Hengliang hugged Lu Yulin, tears coming out of his eyes.

"Yulin, we understand your mood at the moment, we are here to assist you to go back to Guangzhou, you and Shuxian go back from the secret passage of the Pearl River, and I have already arranged the boat. After paying tribute to your father, we will escort you back to Hong Kong. Xu Mingfeng patted Yulin on the shoulder, wanting to give him a little strength and cheer him up.

Yu Lin held Ming Feng's hand tightly, nodded, and agreed to Ming Feng's arrangement.

"I'm also going to pay tribute to Brother Lu." Xu Hengliang wiped away his tears.

"Dad, after you return to Guangzhou, stay in Lufu, and we will send someone to pick you up and go to our anti-Japanese guerrillas." Sook-yeon proposed.

"No, Mingfeng, Shuyan, I'm familiar with the group of cultural people in Hong Kong, so let me go back to Hong Kong and help Yulin Shuxian them."

"It's okay, just do what Dad says. Yulin, Shuxian, we are waiting for you in Hong Kong. ”

That night, Yu Lin and Shuxian, Xu Hengliang took a small boat along the Shenzhen River and went up to the exit of the Pearl River secret road.

Yurong heard a sound in the Buddhist hall, hurriedly came over to check, and found that the sound came from the secret passage, and hurriedly asked Ah Cheng and Uncle Yao to move the offering table, lift the cover, and Yulin, Shuxian and Shuxian's father walked out together.

"Young master, young grandmother, you can be regarded as back, master, wife are gone." After Yurong saw Yulin, she couldn't cry and hugged him and cried.

"What? My mother also ......" Yulin's whole person seemed to be struck by lightning, and he was stunned.

"My wife died of illness last night, she is so sad these days, she didn't eat a grain of rice, and she died after drinking a small bowl of porridge yesterday." Yu Rong wiped her tears and narrated. But the tears were like pearls that had fallen off their threads, and they never stopped.

"Mom......"

Yu Lin shouted hoarsely and hurried into the mourning hall, where two coffins were placed. Yu Lin felt that the world was spinning, and he fell to the ground.

Everyone hurriedly helped Yulin up.

"Yulin, wake up, wake up."

Yu Lin opened his eyes and looked at Yu Ting.

"Big brother." The brothers hugged their heads and cried, unable to help themselves.

Shuxian knelt in front of her parents-in-law's coffin, crying like a tearful person, Yurong hugged Shuxian, grief-stricken.

Uncle Yao brought filial piety clothes and asked Yulin and Shuxian to wear them. Give Xu Hengliang a filial piety belt and tie it around his waist.

"Yulin, you have to mourn, uncle and aunt hope that you can live well. You can't let it break. ”

"Yes, Yulin, Shuxian, you must hold on, the Lu family can't stand it anymore." Qiu Lian hugged Yu Lin and comforted him with pity.

"Auntie." Yulin hugged her aunt and cried hoarsely.

"Yulin, Shuxian, come, put incense on your father and your mother."

Yu Ting handed over the two pillars of incense to Yu Lin and Shu Xian respectively.

Yulin and Shuxian knelt down in front of their parents' bodies with a thud, kowtowed three times, and then inserted incense into the incense burner.

"Father, mother, son and daughter-in-law are not filial, we are late." Yulin and Shuxian knelt there, crying silently and wailing in grief.

Everyone helped Yulin and Shuxian up.

Xu Hengliang also lit a stick of incense and saluted the bodies of Lu Yixiang and Xiao Ruqin.

"My father-in-law, my mother-in-law, I didn't expect you to be so tough, but you walked in front of me, Brother Lu, your statement in the Aiqun Hotel is deafening, and it has resonated with the citizens of Guangzhou, everyone is mourning you, your death has awakened the people again, and everyone is united and hateful. You should be relieved that you know underground. ”

"Yulin, Shuxian, since the death of Uncle Da, Watanabe has posted your wanted notices at various stations and docks in Guangzhou, you still have to leave Guangzhou as soon as possible." Yu Ting reminded Yu Lin and Shuxian with concern.

"Yes, Yulin, Shuxian, you can't stay here for a long time, in case the Japanese know, then your father and your mother Jiuquan will be difficult to look at." Qiu Lian was also worried about this.

"Let me take another look." Yu Lin looked at his parents who were lying in the coffin and wearing a shroud, and cried out again: "Dad, Mom, the child is not filial, and he can't provide for your old age, and I can only repay your nurturing grace in the next life." ”

"Dad, mother, you can leave in peace, we will definitely avenge you." Shuxian wiped her tears with a firm expression.

Shuxian wiped away her tears and looked at Yurong.

"Yurong, where's Ming'er?"

"I've slept."

"I'll go see him."

Shuxian walked into Yurong's room, walked to the side of the small bed, and Ming'er was sleeping soundly.

Shuxian touched Ming'er's head, and tears fell on her son's face.

"Yurong, Dad, my mother is gone, and Ming'er will be handed over to you."

"Sister Shuxian, before her death, my wife had entrusted Ming'er to me and Young Master Yuting, so that I could marry Young Master Yuting, in the future, Ming'er will be with us, and I will raise the little master as my own child."

"That's the best, thank you, Yurong."

"You and the young master should be more careful outside."

"Well, we know."

After Yu Lin and Shu Xian saw their parents for the last time, they left through the secret passage and took a small boat to Hong Kong.

Lu Yixiang's public memorial was held on the lawn of Yuexiu Park in Guangzhou, and various groups, institutions, associations, organizations, representatives from all walks of life, celebrities, businessmen, squires and citizens in Guangzhou spontaneously gathered here to mourn Lu Yixiang.

After the public sacrifice, Lu Yuting took Mr. Zhuang and other cadres to bury the coffins of Lu Yixiang and his wife in the ancestral tomb of the Lu family.

On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War broke out, the Japanese army occupied Hong Kong, and Hong Kong fell. A large number of mainland cultural figures and well-known democratic figures who carried out anti-Japanese rescue work in Hong Kong were in very danger. Zhou Enlai, then secretary of the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, repeatedly sent urgent telegrams to the leaders of the Hong Kong Office of the Eighth Route Army and the Guangdong People's Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force, demanding that they resolutely carry out the instructions of the Central Committee, actively rescue the cultural figures, patriotic democrats, and international friends trapped in Hong Kong at any cost and without fear of sacrifice, evacuate Hong Kong and Kowloon, and transfer them to the Dongjiang Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Zone and other places.

Yu Lin and Shu Xian, Ming Feng and Shu Yan, as well as his father Xu Hengliang and several members of the guerrilla team, worked out a safe evacuation plan in the apartment.

"I just heard that the traffic between Hong Kong and Kowloon has been blocked, and that a curfew will be imposed, and the Japanese army has wantonly searched for patriots and anti-Japanese fighters on the streets, and has posted notices restricting well-known cultural figures in Hong Kong to report to the 'Great Japanese Army Headquarters,' otherwise they will be 'killed.'" Shuxian informs everyone of what she observed during the day.

"We have now notified more than 150 patriots, including He Xiangning, Liu Yazi, Mao Dun, Zou Taofen, Liang Shuming and other heavyweight cultural celebrities. I think it's still a small amount, and the transfer will be carried out in phases and batches, and there will be too many people at once, which will cause the Japanese army to be alert. Xu Hengliang put forward his idea.

"Dad, you're right, the number of people shouldn't be too much." Mingfeng also agreed with Xu Hengliang's approach: "And these people have to change their names and surnames, I have made a batch of fake ID cards, but the number is far from enough, and some people can only escape among the refugees." Moreover, some people need to be separated from their families. In this way, suspicion is not raised. ”

"Yes, the target is smaller, not easy to detect. Let's look at the retreat route again. So-yeon spread out the map.

"Okay, I'll tell you." Yu Lin picked up a pencil and circled it on the map: "Early tomorrow morning, we will gather the first batch of twenty people in a bungalow on Lockhart Road, change into civilian clothes, dress up as 'refugees', avoid the Japanese checkpoint, and arrive at the haven of Causeway Bay, where there is a large barge of ours, and these people are waiting in the barge." Then, we'll pick up the second batch. In the afternoon at dusk, you can go and pick up another batch. After these men arrived, they took advantage of the changing of the guard of the Japanese patrolling in Causeway Bay, and let them change to three small boats covered with straw mats, gallop across the sea, and arrived in the city of Kowloon, where the Ming Feng team arranged for them to enter the secret reception point. After that, from Kowloon to the territory of Guangdong through the Shenzhen River, and then from Shenzhen to the Jiulong Gorge area, the vicinity of Ma Shoushan is the most familiar, so that these cultural figures can stay there and finally send them to Yan'an. ”

"Well, this plan is very thorough, but has the time of the changing of the guard and the inspection time of the checkpoint been confirmed?" Ming Feng nodded, affirming Yu Lin's plan.

"I have been observing for the past few days, the time of inspection at the checkpoint is from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m., the patrol changing time in Causeway Bay is generally from 5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., and the time for the Japanese soldiers to change the guard and eat is about half an hour, which is relatively lax during this period." Shuxian told Yulin what she had observed.

"During the curfew, there were fewer Japanese troops at the checkpoints, and most of them patrolled the streets. Then we must concentrate at about six o'clock in the first batch and leave before the Japanese army has yet to take up their posts in large numbers. The second batch should be placed at twelve o'clock and left while they were eating. These two points in time must be accurately controlled, otherwise they may attract the attention of the Japanese army. ”

"Okay, then we'll tell these people separately." Xu Hengliang picked up his hat and wanted to go out.

"Dad, it's cold outside, don't go out, just let a few of us and these team members go to inform you, it's winter, your lung disease hasn't healed yet, you better stay at home." Yu Lin was worried about the old man's body.

"It's not in the way, I'm familiar with the road, and besides, they all know me, I'll take these little comrades there."

Yulin still wanted to persuade, but Shuxian stopped him: "You just let the old man go, if he doesn't do anything, he will be in a panic." ”

The cold wind was blowing outside, and Yu Lin and the others went separately to inform those cultural celebrities and anti-log fighters.