Chapter 22: Freedom and Love (Supplemental Edition)
A few months later, because of an accident, but not a political accident, Feng Tao decided to break up with Xiao Meiyu. When the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info broke up, Feng Tao was also seriously ill. During the period of physical recuperation, Feng Tao went to Hong Kong to deal with the aftermath of his brother's death.
After returning from Hong Kong, Xiao Meiyu found Feng Tao again, hoping to restore the relationship between lovers. Feng Tao was soft-hearted, and he couldn't withstand Xiao Meiyu's soft entanglement, so he agreed. However, since then, new frictions have arisen between the two. During this period, Feng Tao came into contact with the Communists, and after several heart-to-heart conversations with them, Feng Tao decided to do something for the Communists.
After doing things for the Communist Party, Feng Tao found that Xiao Meiyu had become an obstacle for him, although Xiao Meiyu had retired from the military, she was still a party member and supported it politically. Moreover, every time there is a reception, a celebration and other ceremonial activities today, Xiao Meiyu will be invited to participate. Xiao Meiyu always wears the colonel's uniform and arrives on time.
Feng Tao tried several times to win her support or sympathy for the Communist Party, but without success. This made Feng Tao very worried, once the secret of his work for the Communist Party was discovered by Xiao Meiyu, it would undoubtedly do more harm than good. Xiao Meiyu once said that if she found him a "gangster", she would break up with him and maybe shoot him. Considering that the Tao is not the same, Feng Tao after repeated consideration, weighed the pros and cons, and finally made up his mind to officially break up with Xiao Meiyu.
In order not to make Xiao Meiyu suspicious, Feng Tao cleverly found a reason for Xiao Meiyu to accept and proposed to break up.
In March 1942, Feng Tao went to Xiao Meiyu's house for the last time to spend the night. When parting the next day, Xiao Meiyu hugged him and shed a lot of tears, "I have had sex with a total of four men. The first one, I really like him, but he deceived me and lost all my money! The second and third don't cheat me out of my money, but I don't like both of them. It's just you, Ah Tao, who likes me, but never cheats me out of my money. But why can't we be long-term couples? ”
Xiao Meiyu's words made Feng Tao very sad. Speaking from the heart, he likes Xiao Meiyu very much. Although he has many beautiful honeys who fanatically pursue her, there was only one Xiao Meiyu who really attracted him at that time. Therefore, when he fell in love with Xiao Meiyu, he gave a man's first time to Xiao Meiyu, a mature woman who had three wayward partners. It is precisely because he really likes Xiao Meiyu that he doesn't care that Xiao Meiyu is thirteen years older than him.
However, Xiao Meiyu's stubborn political orientation made Feng Tao, who had already chosen a new political orientation, deeply worried. When he can't have both, he has no choice but to make a painful choice. He had read the Hungarian poet Petofi's poem "Freedom and Love" before, and now, as the poem says,
Freedom and love! I'm all in love with it. For the sake of love, I would rather sacrifice my life; For the sake of freedom, I would rather sacrifice love. (Citation: Some people translate this poem as: Life is precious, love is more valuable; If it is free, both can be thrown. Such a translation is too different from the meaning expressed in the original text to be considered undesirable by the quote. )
Indeed, for Feng Tao, he is ready to make sacrifices for the sake of his love with Xiao Meiyu, including the possibility of being strongly opposed by his parents, the extreme actions that may retaliate against him after being disappointed by many honeys, the huge pressure of public opinion cynicism, and the brutal obstruction of his so-called seduction of the widow of a fallen general by *** government authorities, and so on. However, for the sake of the freedom of his soul, he resolutely decided to sacrifice this love!
At this moment, he patted Xiao Meiyu on the shoulder, "Thank you, sister, for looking up to my brother, in the future, if my sister can use my brother, within the scope of morality, my brother should try his best to help." ”
When Feng Tao walked out of the gate of Xiao Meiyu's compound, he heard Xiao Meiyu say emotionally behind him: "Ah Tao, if you miss your sister in the future, your sister's home will still welcome you at any time." ”
Feng Tao trembled, turned his head, and looked at Xiao Meiyu with tears on his face, he couldn't help crying, he was really reluctant to leave Xiao Meiyu. However, if he and Xiao Meiyu continue to maintain like this, it will be a different dream in the same bed after all, and this strange dream will become a dangerous nightmare. Although leaving Xiao Meiyu is also a big emotional hurt for him. However, in the face of a dilemma, he can only choose the lesser of two evils. So, he waved his hand at Xiao Meiyu, "Thank you sister for your kindness, it's a great honor for me to know my sister." ”
Then, Feng Tao turned around, held his head high, faced the gorgeous morning sun, the warm morning breeze, and the fog that began to dissipate, and took a big stride and walked forward firmly.
On the eve of the breakup, Xiao Meiyu specially bought some valuable personal items for Feng Tao, saying that it was a parting souvenir. Of course, Feng Tao would not ask for nothing in vain, and after a few days, he would repay Xiao Meiyu with two gold bars in the name of helping her receive Jinan Yang's relatives in the future. Xiao Meiyu's article mentions another return from Feng Tao, which occurred before they broke up for the first time. Because Xiao Meiyu did not indicate a specific time in the article, readers would think that Feng Tao's donation of gold bars for education occurred after mediating Xiao Meiyu's family conflict.
After breaking up with Xiao Meiyu, Feng Tao began acting on the art stage while acting on another special stage. On July 1, 1942, on the birthday of the Communist Party of China, Feng Tao officially joined the Communist Party after being introduced by two underground party members.
On the front line of the Lin River four years later, recalling the past, Feng Tao is now embarrassed. In just a few years, Feng Tao has transformed from a big star who makes money from commercial performances to a Communist Party member who struggles for his ideals, and then a Communist Party member with a gun, and then he is honored to become the head of the old first battalion of the People's Liberation Army's ace powerhouse. And Xiao Meiyu has been sitting on the *** boat, and now she is still a representative of the National Congress. The Kuomintang and the Communist Party have also evolved from the superficial cooperation to resist Japan in those years to today's real life-and-death decisive battle. It's really a battle of stars, and the vicissitudes of life.
Suddenly, a peculiar thought popped into Feng Tao's mind, will this Xiao Meiyu also become an underground party in the future, or do things secretly for the party?
The two broke up, Xiao Meiyu sometimes asked Feng Tao to eat in a restaurant outside, and Feng Tao only ate and never went to Xiao Meiyu's house for the night.
On the night when the spies were about to arrest him, Xiao Meiyu suddenly called him to ask him to have dinner at night, and Feng Tao was preparing how to escape smoothly, so he politely said that he didn't want to go out. Unexpectedly, Xiao Meiyu actually said whether there was a fox spirit who asked him out, and asked him if it was one or two. When Broom Eyebrow deliberately made him ugly, Xiao Meiyu then said something like that.
Now, Feng Tao thought about it carefully, if the jealous wording in Xiao Meiyu's words was just a disguise, then Xiao Meiyu was actually giving him a message, and finally said that if there was nowhere to go, he would go to her house, which was clearly a hint to Feng Tao that he could hide in her house first if necessary.
Could it be that after Xiao Meiyu broke up with him, for some reason, she also became a Communist Party, or did she secretly do things for the party? If this is the case, then Xiao Meiyu may not belong to the same system as him, so when she found that Feng Tao was in danger, she called the police urgently. When he left ZQ, the so-called eldest wife who rescued him told him that it was an underground party member of another system who discovered the danger and gave them an emergency call. However, according to the discipline of underground work, the eldest wife did not know and was not allowed to inquire about the situation of the underground party member.
Feng Tao is now confused, who is the underground party member who called the police urgently mentioned by his wife? Could it be that this is Xiao Meiyu? Xiao Meiyu, Xiao Meiyu, now, you are really a mystery.
The room was quiet at this time, and the sonorous and cheerful voice of the female announcer from the outer room could be clearly heard -- "Comrade Commander-in-Chief, our Jianghuai troops have recently won a major victory in the battle to defend Linhe, the capital of the JF district of Jianghuai......"