Mrs. Wei had finished her confinement at St. John's Hospital, and Shuxian planned to transfer Mrs. Wei's mother and daughter out, so she returned to her apartment from the hospital and discussed with Yulin about Mrs. Wei's transfer.

"Yulin, tomorrow I plan to send Mrs. Wei and her daughter to the barge in Causeway Bay, and then to Kowloon by dinghy in the evening."

"Yes, Professor Wei is also very anxious and wants to see his wife and daughter as soon as possible. However, I heard the boat boss say that the flood season is coming, and the wind and waves are relatively strong these days, I don't know if Mrs. Wei can withstand it, after all, she has just finished her confinement. ”

"Mrs. Wei is recovering well, I think she should be able to hold up."

"Then take Mrs. Wei to the checkpoint early tomorrow morning, and then get on the barge. You have everything Mrs. Wei needs. ”

"Okay, I'll go back to the hospital in the afternoon to prepare."

Shuxian looked at Yu Lin, who had been emaciated by his busyness these days, and stroked his hair: "Yu Lin, your hair has grown and you have lost weight." ”

Yu Lin looked back at Shuxian and smiled: "You are not much better than me, look at you, your face is so pale, haven't you slept well these days?" ”

"Yulin, I, I'm pregnant." Shuxian touched her abdomen and looked at Yulin with affection.

When Yu Lin heard this, she was overjoyed, and hurriedly pulled Shuxian to her side and touched her abdomen: "Really? I'm going to be a dad again? ”

Shuxian nodded shyly.

"In this case, you will evacuate Hong Kong with Mrs. Wei and them tomorrow."

"You're going to let me go too? What about the work here? Shuxian was worried about her mission.

"You don't have to worry, your father and Xingzi are already familiar with each other these days, and in the month you have been in the hospital, we have transferred five or six hundred people, so you can leave here with confidence."

"I can at least give you a hand here, you see, these days, your legs are running thin."

"Shuxian, the child in your belly is the most important, Ming'er was born at the time of the bombing of Guangzhou, Ming'er is fate, can be born smoothly, I hope our second child can be born in a peaceful environment. I think this is the best consolation for my parents. Yu Lin remembered that his mother's greatest wish in life was that the children would be safe and the Lu family would be prosperous. Shuxian's pregnancy again is undoubtedly the best news that makes her parents smile.

"Well, Yulin, I'll listen to you."

In the afternoon, Shuxian returned to the hospital, went through the discharge procedures for Mrs. Wei, and then took Mrs. Wei back to her apartment.

In the early hours of the next morning, Mrs. Wei carried the baby and Shuxian took the package, passed through the checkpoint, and then got on a rickshaw and gathered on a barge in Causeway Bay. There are more than two dozen people to be transferred today.

When it was time for the Japanese patrol boat to change the guard, Mrs. Wei and Shuxian and other six people were arranged in a small boat, taking advantage of the night, and sailed out of the port.

The baby's cry attracted the attention of the Japanese patrol boat, and the commander on the boat ordered the patrol boat to chase after the dinghy.

"Oh no, the Japanese patrol boats are chasing us." The boat boss sped up the ship's speed.

"So what now?"

"It's not far from Kowloon when you turn a corner, the water is shallow, you get off the boat from there, and I'll guide the patrol boat." The boat boss hurriedly gave everyone ideas.

"Good. That's it. ”

The dinghy turned a corner and came to a shallow place, where all six people on board went into the water and hid behind several large rocks on the seashore. Mrs. Wei was held up by the men, protected from the irritation of the icy water. And Shuxian was completely half submerged in the sea.

The captain of the boat drove the dinghy to the deep sea, and the Japanese patrol boat followed closely behind.

Seeing that the patrol boat was far away, everyone hurriedly came out from behind the reef, and the men carried Mrs. Wei on their backs, held the little baby, and helped Shuxian to walk towards the shore.

Suddenly, Shuxian felt an unbearable pain in her abdomen, and then, the sea water around her turned red.

"Shuxian, what's wrong with you?" Mrs. Wei saw Shuxian's painful expression, and then saw the sea water turn red, and became nervous: "Shuxian, are you hurt?" ”

Shuxian gritted her teeth and walked onto the beach, her body fell softly on the beach, several men hurriedly picked up Shuxian who had fainted, and the flashlight in front of her lit up three times, which was a pre-arranged signal, indicating that this was her own person.

The people who came were Mingfeng and Shuyan. Ming Feng saw Shuxian fainting, so he hurriedly picked her up on his back and ran towards the resettlement point.

The doctor at the resettlement site examined Shuxian.

"How's it going, Dr. Yang?" So-yeon asked anxiously.

Dr. Yang shook his head and sighed, "Alas, she had a miscarriage. “

"What did you say, Shuxian had a miscarriage?" Sook-yeon asked Dr. Yang.

"She has been pregnant for two months, but unfortunately, soaking in such cold sea water is definitely taboo for pregnant women. Moreover, it is very likely that you will never be able to conceive again in the future. ”

Shuyan looked at Shuxian, whose face was pale, and tears welled up in her eyes.

After an hour, Shuxian opened her eyes and looked around, and suddenly she stroked her abdomen with her hand: "What about my child?" Is my child still absent? ”

"Shuyan, the child is gone." So-yeon told Sook-han about the cruel result.

"No, no, he was fine a few hours ago. How can you say that if you don't have it, it's gone? Yu Lin, Yu Lin wants this child to be born in a peaceful environment, but I, the mother, actually gave him ...... before he was born, how can I explain to Yu Lin? ”

Shuxian and Shuyan sisters hugged their heads and cried.

Ming Feng came to Yu Lin's apartment, and Yu Lin saw Ming Feng's solemn expression, so he vaguely felt something.

"Mingfeng, did something happen?"

"Yulin." Ming Feng patted Yulin's shoulder: "Shuxian she ......"

"What's wrong with Shuxian?" Yu Lin felt a chill in his hands and feet.

"She had a miscarriage."

Yu Lin was stunned as if he had been knocked on a stick, and the blood all over his body seemed to be coagulated. After a long time, as if he had woken up, he picked up the coat on the back of his chair and rushed out to the door.

Ming Feng grabbed him: "Yulin, what are you going to do?" ”

"I have to go see her, and I am the person she needs most right now." Yu Lin shouted hysterically.

"Yulin, calm down." Ming Feng looked at Yu Lin, whose eyes were red and like a trapped beast, and tried his best to stop him.

"I can't calm down, my father is gone, my mother is gone, and the child in Shuxian's womb is gone, how can you let me calm down?" Yu Lin said, sitting on the chair, burying his head in the crook of his arm, crying like a child.

Ming Feng gently patted Yu Lin's back: "Yu Lin, I know you are bitter in your heart, so you can cry happily." ”

After Yulin cried for a while, he felt that his heart was not so depressed, so he took a deep breath and wiped his tears with his hand: "Mingfeng, then when can I go to see Shuxian?" ”

"Wait for tomorrow, I'll take you there."

That night, Yulin had been hugging his knees, sitting on a chair, looking at the starry sky outside the window.

Mingfeng handed Yulin a cigarette, Yulin took the cigarette, Mingfeng lit a cigarette for Yulin, Yulin took a puff and coughed.

Ming Feng hurriedly patted Yu Lin on the back.

"It's the first time I smoked, my dad smoked his own pipe, but he never let me touch cigarettes, when I was a child, I once stole a pack of cigarettes from my dad and took it to smoke with Brother Yuting, and it turned out to be spicy for us with a handful of snot and tears, and then my dad found out and locked us up in the Buddha hall and faced the wall for a day. My mother has always protected me, as long as my father punished me, she always secretly came to help me lift the ban, but that time, she did not come, nor did she plead with her father, maybe in her opinion, once he was addicted to smoking, the child would not be saved. “

"Your dad did the right thing." Mingfeng was going to take the cigarette from Yulin's hand.

Yu Lin dodged his hand to the side: "But I want to smoke one today, I used to hear some veteran ruffians of the Nineteenth Route Army say that smoking can make people forget all their troubles between swallowing clouds and spitting fog." “

"Yulin, you can smoke it if you want." Ming Feng knew that Yu Lin was really depressed in his heart, maybe swallowing clouds and spitting fog could really help him forget the sorrow in his heart for a while.

Yu Lin took another puff, this time feeling better, he took another puff, and seemed to have gotten used to the taste of tobacco. He smoked a cigarette and stared out the window.

"Yulin, what are you thinking?"

"I want Shuxian, I want Ming'er, I want Yurong, I want Brother Yuting, and my parents. It has been ten years since I picked up a gun and joined the 19th Route Army to fight Little Japan. The past ten years can be described as a matter of things. The spark of the cigarette butt touched Yu Lin's finger, and he was burned, so he hurriedly threw the cigarette butt away.

"yes, it's been ten years, and we've known each other for ten years."

"Hey, Brother Xu, I've never heard you talk about your family, are they okay?" Yu Lin turned his head and looked at Ming Feng.

"When I was five or six years old, my mother died of illness, and when I was eight years old, my father starved to death, and it was my uncle who brought me up, and he used to be a regimental trainer, so I followed him to practice martial arts since I was a child, and later, through his friends, he sent me to the Frunze Military Academy in the Soviet Union, where I received military knowledge and skills. It was there that I joined the Communist Party, and then I was sent to fight in the armed struggle in the country. ”

"What about your uncle?"

"He died in the crusade against Chen Jiongming." Ming Feng sighed.

"Then how did you meet Sook-yeon?"

"The two sisters, Shuyan and Shuxian, were left-wing progressive youths at Peiwen Girls' School at that time, and their father, Professor Xu, was even more radical and often criticized the current situation in class. That's when Sook-yeon and I got married. Later, Chiang Kai-shek's encirclement and suppression caused heavy losses to our troops, so we moved to the cities and went underground to struggle. ”

"Do you and So-yeon have a baby?"

"There was one, it was a girl, I named her Shengnan, Xu Shengnan, I hope she will not let her shave her eyebrows in the future and become a heroine."

"What about the kid?"

"At that time, the war was tight, and our troops had to be transferred, so we left Katsuo to the local villagers. Later, the Japanese army swept away, and the people in the village fled, and Katsuo disappeared. If she were still alive, she would be almost ten years old. Xu Mingfeng's voice was a little choked.

Yu Lin looked at Ming Feng's deep gaze and felt the pain he was hiding deep in his heart.

"Then you and Shuyan didn't think about having another child after that?"

"Later, Shuyan was pregnant twice, both of which were miscarriages due to overwork and malnutrition, and then Shuyan was injured and the bullet hit her uterus, although the person was rescued, but Shuyan could never get pregnant again in the future."

Ming Feng said, throwing away the cigarette butt in his hand and taking a deep breath. Yu Lin hurriedly patted him.

"There will be sacrifices in war, and in war years, these costs are inevitable, and our sacrifices today are in exchange for the peace and happiness of our children and grandchildren tomorrow." Ming Feng's tone was firm and his expression was resolute.

"Mingfeng, I understand."

Early the next morning, Ming Feng and Yu Lin took more than a dozen patriots, avoided the checkpoint, came to the barge in Causeway Bay, and when the night was dark, they sailed to Kowloon in a small boat.

After getting off the boat, Yulin rushed to the resettlement site in a hurry to visit his wife.

When Shuxian saw Yulin enter the house, her heart was sour, and tears were dripping down.

"Shuxian, don't cry, don't be too sad." Yu Lin gently wiped away the tears on Shuxian's face.

"Yulin, I'm sorry for you, I got rid of our child." Shuxian cried even more sadly.

"It's not your fault, you don't have to blame yourself too much, we still have Ming'er, and Xiao'er, Yin'er, they are all our children."

Shuxian looked at Yulin and nodded with tears in her eyes.

Yulin hugged his wife tightly in his arms and kissed her tears.