Forty-Four: A Veteran's Home

Boss Li understands Wang Mingming's worries very well, and he doesn't know what will happen tomorrow when the war is in chaos. In order to make her feel at ease to see her mother, he thought that he should help her solve it. He said, "Don't worry, we'll be back on time." You don't worry about Aunt Yang's family, this matter is easy to do, you leave tomorrow morning, the day after tomorrow I will send someone to turn the ground, they will go back in the afternoon, and the day after tomorrow I will send someone to collect the vegetables. In other words, there have been a lot of people here for the past two days, okay. ”

Wang Mingming smiled happily, she thought for a while and said, "I'll go to see your mother, what should I bring to honor her?" It's a small place with nothing to buy. I can only talk about it when I go into the city. ”

Boss Li said, "Don't bring anything." If only you could go. That's a lot of face. My mother knew that this was the country, and she said that she could eat fresh vegetables every day, and she wanted to thank you very much. ”

Boss Li and his entourage finished their work in the field and left. Before leaving, Boss Li said, "Tomorrow's matter is decided." I'll pick you up tomorrow morning. You get ready, I'll leave as soon as I come. Wang Mingming nodded and said, "There will be no change." You come early tomorrow. We go early and come back early. ”

Wang Mingming said to Aunt Yang: "Boss Li's mother invited me to stay for two days, and you heard it just now, I don't worry about you." I'm not here for two nights, are you afraid? What if a devil or a thug comes? If you find it inconvenient, I won't go.

Aunt Yang said with a mouthful of words: "Boss Li's mother invited you to go, okay, okay." That's a good thing. Owner, she invited you to go, what a face. You must go. You can go as long as you can, you can rest assured that we are here.

"We've been living here not for a day or two, it's been more than a year, don't worry about us. There are really bad guys coming, and we can deal with them. Besides, Boss Li's people have come to the mountain for the past two days, and we have nothing to fear. ”

The next day, Boss Li really drove a car to pick up Wang Mingming. He got out of the car and said, "Boss, are you ready?" Wang Mingming said excitedly: "Boss Li, do you want to leave now?" Boss Li said: "You are in a hurry, there is something to deal with in time this morning, I am late." Let's go and head home for lunch. ”

Wang Mingming said, "You wait for me, I'll go and change my clothes." Boss Li said, "No hurry. ”

Wang Mingming went back to the house and changed into the clothes she wore when she came to her aunt's house in three or seven years, which were buried in the ground along with the grain before the devil came. Wang Mingming took out his clothes and dried them several times, but he never wore them. She wore it when she waited to return to Nanjing. Last night she had taken the clothes out of the shack under the ground. She put it on and tried it on, and it fits perfectly. Now these clothes are still brand new, and they are very comfortable and stylish to wear. Especially when wearing those high heels, the waist is naturally straight, which is really spirited. She suddenly returned to the feeling before the fall of Nanjing.

She changed her clothes, wrapped her head, and came out of the house, and everyone was taken aback. Sister-in-law Yang said: "My God, you turned out to be a beautiful young lady from a big family, really like a fairy." The child said, "Auntie, you are so beautiful." Aunt Yang said: "I have long said that the owner is not an ordinary person, she is the one who manages people." Boss Li said: "It's really yours, from top to bottom and from the inside to the outside, it is full of famous brands." You were a terrible person before the war. I don't know Mount Tai with my eyes, there is your golden phoenix hidden in this mountain, I underestimate you. ”

Boss Li's car crossed the railway in the small market street and did not go distracted, his car drove to the central gate, at the city gate Boss Li stopped the car for the devil to check, the devil looked at him and waved his hand and immediately let go. Wang Mingming asked him, "Why don't you check your car?" He said: "I go in and out at least twice a day, and I am familiar with it." ”

They entered the city, and the car drove all the way south. Wang Mingming carefully observed the houses on both sides along the way, and she wanted to see how Nanjing had been doing in recent years.

There are no new buildings on either side of Nanjing's wide central road, and the broken bricks and tiles around the broken walls have been cleaned up. The burned house was not repaired and was not demolished. The pedestrians on the street were dressed simply, and many wore coarse linen, and men in suits and leather shoes and fashionable women were rarely seen. People's faces are yellow, and some people are black and yellow, and their faces are gray like old smoking guns. Some people are white and yellow, and they don't look good in complexion and spirit.

Boss Li said: "You can see it, Nanjing people are busy eating their stomachs. It is said that in Nanjing, the common people are struggling with hunger and cold. What is more terrible than hunger and cold is that he does not dare to speak casually, and one is caught by the devil without paying attention, and is tortured and finally thrown into the street, and his family does not dare to collect the body. Hi, the people of Nanjing are frightened and frightened, and people are in trouble on the street and fall from the sky. I don't know when disaster will befall you. ”

When the car was about to reach the Xuanwu Gate, Wang Mingming remembered the massacre, and she passed by here as she fled. I saw the devils shooting the people by the city wall. She saw the devil drag out two young men from the house, and the young adults were shot dead by the devil during the struggle with the devil. The beheaded old man spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm before he died, and the naked woman crashed to death on the wall. The devil raised his gun at the lit house and cheered. The tragic situation at that time is vividly vivid.

Now only the charred walls of the burned house are still erected there. Wang Mingming's ears seemed to sound gunshots, as if he smelled the pungent smell of blood again. Everything was like something that just happened a few years ago. She looked at the burned house until it was completely out of sight before turning her head. She sighed,

The car went up the slope of the Drum Tower, and Wang Mingming remembered that she and Xizi participated in the student parade here on the day the army attacked Shanghai. They marched all the way to Shanxi Road. How is Kiko doing now. Mother-in-law, how are they. Since the retreat from Nanjing, she and her relatives have been separated, and a few years have passed in a blink of an eye, and Wang Mingming can't help but think of his family. My heart is sour.

As soon as the car slid downhill and crossed the Pearl River intersection, Boss Li said: "This is already Huaqiao Road." When the devils attacked Nanjing, they occupied Yuhuatai, and they shelled the urban area from Yuhuatai, and the shells fell on the intersection of Xinjiekou and Huaqiao, and the Fuchang building at the intersection of Huaqiao Road was almost blown up by the devils. It is a famous high-rise building in Nanjing. The Westerners upstairs panicked and ran downstairs one after another. There are several members of the International Security Committee. After a while, the devil's muzzle moved slightly, and the shells fell on the Guofu intersection opposite the Fuchang Building, where the houses fell one by one. The house that was blown up by the devils is still unattended. ”

Wang Mingming suddenly exclaimed: "Oops! The name of the Xindu Grand Theater was changed. Boss Li said: "It was snatched by the devil and renamed 'Donghe Theater', which is dedicated to showing this movie." ”

Wang Mingming said: "In the summer of three or seven years, my mother-in-law took me here to watch a movie, and my mother-in-law said that the air conditioning here is very good, and the equipment and stereo are all beautiful. At that time it was the pride of the people of the capital, and now, it is hard to imagine. It was snatched by himself. A robber is a robber, and even the cinema is robbed. Boss Li said: "Those who play with fire must **, Xiao Yue will be finished sooner or later!" ”

While talking, I arrived at Xinjiekou, there were few pedestrians on the street, the street was very deserted, and many shops were closed. The devil's gendarme patrols with great force. Pedestrians avoided them. The person who couldn't hide bowed to the devil in a panic. The man with the hat immediately took off the hat and bent down.

The car drove south from Xinjiekou and entered an alley, where the car turned around and stopped in front of a gate. Boss Li honked the horn a few times. Wang Mingming got out of the car and looked around, thinking that he had been here. It was familiar, and she asked herself, "Where is this?" Why can't I remember for a while.

She looked closely at the door, and her eyes lit up and she recognized it. This is the home of Aunt Li, a veteran of the Xinhai Revolution. A native of Zhejiang, she was wounded in the battle to recover Nanjing and stayed in Nanjing.