It took a long time for Mr. Huang to connect with her for the second time. During this interval, she worried almost every day that Mr. Huang would also be put into a sack and thrown into a dry well in the ancient city. This ancient city, which has created a prosperous and glorious history, now preserves a ring of dilapidated but basically intact walls, hundreds of small alleys and dry wells that have increased year by year, which has made it convenient for the people in power of the ancient city to kill all the opposition, saving bullets and leaving no traces of blood, and naturally does not give the inhabitants of the ancient city and the whole society the impression of cruelty of the authorities. Mr. Huang felt even more heavy this time: "The damage to the party organization this time is too heavy. Bai Ling couldn't help but burst into tears: "You haven't been here for a long time, I'm thinking about it...... You probably give it too...... Thrown into the dry well......" Mr. Huang smiled bitterly: "It's hard to avoid." I now have a red ribbon around my waist, and when I am victorious, you will be able to recognize me when you dig up the bones of your comrades. Bai Ling laughed: "I cut a white deer with silk and sew it on the shirt, so that you can identify my ...... in the future" Mr. Huang then assigned her to Zishui County to deliver a letter to the county magistrate Hao......

The sun like a big egg yolk sinks down to the original slope west of Bailuyuan, and the Shishui River Road presents a clear light without sunlight, and the water vapor and twilight quietly diffuse from the river. White Deer! A snow-white fawn leaped on the broken ravine beam of the original slope, and Bai Ling was immersed in imagination......

When she first heard an unfamiliar name, God, when she entered the church girls' school, she thought of Bailu at the same time. God is actually the white deer, grandma's white deer. Grandma sat on the kang, and a pinch of hazel hemp silk hung on the wooden building above her head. Grandma pulled down a piece of hemp silk and added it to the rope she was twisting in her hand, lifted the small dial with her left hand, and flicked it vigorously with her right hand, and the purple-red jujube wood dial snapped into a circle, and grandma talked about her white deer. It was a deer with white antlers, white as snow, jumping and fluttering, and the yellow wheat seedlings turned into green seedlings in the blink of an eye, the muddy water turned into clear water, the cripple stopped lame, the blind man's eyes lit up, the bald man grew black hair, and the ugly woman became as beautiful as peach blossom bones...... She asked her grandmother coldly: Is Bailu big-footed or small-footed? Does Bailu's mother wrap Bailu's feet? What should I do if the white deer's feet are entangled and I can't jump up and fly? Grandma's mouth was like a dried date, and she was forbidden to talk nonsense......

The gentleman of the church girls' school is like a mold, the same woman, the same dress, even the same behavior and tone of speech, only the difference in appearance, wide and narrow, fat and thin, black and white; The expression on his face is the same, there is no great sorrow and joy, no impassionedness, no weakness, no violent irritability, always a peaceful look of no annoyance, no joy, no sadness, no impatience, no love or hate, no worry. After years of training, senior girls have cultivated this habit and virtue. The people of the upper class such as administrative officials at all levels in the ancient city, military officials, merchants, tycoons, and so on, were happy to come to this girls' school to choose a wife or take a concubine, and the citizens of the ancient city vied with each other to send their daughters to this school to study, and they could become the old father-in-law of a certain military and political dignitary overnight.

The cobbler's uncle and second aunt also bet on the two cousins. The eldest cousin married a company commander, and was promoted to Hanzhong less than a month after marriage. Half a year later, the eldest cousin couldn't bear to be lonely, and rushed over the mountains and mountains to Hanzhong to find her husband. The eldest cousin made a fuss, scratched the company commander's face and the woman's lower body, and then there was no trace of the two of them. She didn't have the money to go home, and almost became a beggar in Hanzhong, and was later discovered by the shopkeeper of a tea shop, who heard her accent as a Guanzhong person, so he introduced her into the shop to ask about her life experience. The shopkeeper was originally a Guanzhong person who settled in Hanzhong to do small business, and the dead woman was unwilling to marry another Hanzhong woman, mainly because she did not listen to the dry pronunciation of the Hanzhong people. The eldest cousin settled down as the wife of the shopkeeper of the tea shop. He is a full twenty years older than her, just middle-aged, but he knows that he is considerate of her and loves her, but his economic strength is not much stronger than his uncle's leather shop.

The second cousin married a newspaper literati, her power was unspeakable, her salary was not high, and her life was quite peaceful. The literati could neither expand and open up the old father-in-law's leather business, nor was he capable of filial piety to the precious gifts, but he compiled the suffering of the tanner's father-in-law into a song and published it in his newspaper: The leatherman suffers from the bitterness of the leatherman, and the year is not until the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month. The wrist was broken with hemp rope, and the awl pierced the hand. His hands were cracked and exploded, and his body was full of fishy ...... This is the real experience and feeling of his first visit to his father-in-law in the leather goods store. He was dizzy and nauseous from the fishy smell of various animal skins, especially when he saw his father-in-law's hand catching chopsticks at the dinner table, which exacerbated this feeling. The back of the hand was strangled into a series of black and hard calluses on the wrist by hemp rope, and the fingers were bursting with large and small cracks, some were pasted with black gum and other plasters, and some of the newly exploded small openings were oozing blood, and the palms and backs of the hands were almost invisible to the large complete and clean skin of the nails. The second son-in-law couldn't swallow a mouthful of rice and a spoonful of soup, so after he returned, he wrote this song for the old father-in-law, and asked the second cousin to read the newspaper to his father. When the cobbler heard this, he pulled the newspaper over and trampled and spat on it, blushing and roaring thickly: "Dog, me!" Dogs don't have the ability to be officials, but they have the ability to abuse people! Now the whole city looks down on the cobbler's deeds, and you still think about it...... The cobbler's uncle was so sad that he vowed not to allow his second son-in-law to enter his fur shop again.

Bai Ling understood that the root crux of his uncle's disappointment was not this, it was that the two daughters had not kept up with a son-in-law who could shine in the court, but he didn't know that this was almost wishful thinking. The church girls' school is a woman's world, and women of all shapes and sizes in the whole city are gathered together, and those essences have long been picked up by high-ranking officials one by one, and the two cousins who belong to all living beings in this women's world can only be taken away by the small company platoon commander of the army or the poor sour literati. Uncle Leathersmith later bluntly said to Bai Ling: You are better than those two, Ling Ling'er, all the staff below the head of the regiment know him, and you can do it with a powerful master! At that time, see which turtle, five thieves, six dead skinchus, and eight dare to wear leather shoes and not give money? The real possibility of Uncle Cobbler's long-cherished wish is there. Regardless of knowledge or temperament, especially the elegant eyebrows and eyes, Bai Ling is also outstanding in the church girls' school full of beautiful women. Bai Ling had already rejected several suitors, and the shield was the young man from the Wang family who had never met before. She said to her suitor, "My father was engaged when I was twelve. Before she left the school, the school office informed her that a government official wanted to see her. If it was a suitor, she wouldn't go. The staff of the school office worriedly persuaded her that she should go, and that she had to go if she wanted or not, and the school could not afford to offend this person. Bai Ling went. She saw a shrewd and capable middle-aged man sitting upright at the desk in the school office, with an angular face, bright and persistent eyes, and black and shiny hair that parted from the middle of his head to the sides of his head. As soon as Bai Ling entered the door, the man stood up and smiled. The gentleman from the school office introduced the middle-aged man's identity as the secretary of a certain important person in the provincial government, and then withdrew from the door. The secretary asked very frankly, "Miss, what is your first impression?" The first impression of a person is important. Bai Ling said innocently: "You are like Wang Jingwei." It's true. When I saw you as soon as I entered the door, I wondered, why did Wang Jingwei deign to sit here?" The secretary smiled implicitly: "Miss has won the award." Wang is the first beautiful man in China, how can I ......" Bai Ling said with a smile: "You are the second in China." The secretary changed the subject absently: "What do you plan to do after Miss Bai graduates?" Bai Ling asked, "What are you looking for me to ask?" The secretary said, "If you are willing to continue your studies, I can sponsor you, and if you are willing to work, I can help arrange it." Bai Ling asked, "Why are you so good to me?" The secretary said, "Do you need to ask?" Bai Ling said, "I'm already married." The secretary said, "Is he more handsome than Wang?" Bai Ling said: "He is the number one in the world. The secretary said playfully: "I'm afraid that Pan An is in the eyes of my lover, right?" Where is he?" Bai Ling said: "Seventeen divisions." The secretary breathed a sigh of relief: "Miscellaneous brands." Bai Ling said: "There are no rules for the miscellaneous army. That's a cold terror. He said that if anyone made up his mind about me, he would fight with him for a blood jar. The secretary said, "I'm not afraid." Bai Ling said, "I'm afraid." "People who belong to government departments are afraid of the miscellaneous 17th Division, and the secretary said that he is not afraid of trying to save face. Bai Ling repeated again: "He will kill me." I'm afraid. That's a cold dread!"

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Bai Ling remembered the copper yuan game with Lu Zhaohai again, it was like playing with friends to marry a bride. However, it is this game that brings them a different fate. After Chiang Kai-shek's betrayal of the revolution, she could hear and read the news of the Kuomintang massacre in the newspapers every day, and the ancient city was shrouded in gloom and terror. Later that day, while classes were in progress, two or three policemen walked through the door and tied up a girl sitting in the third row. A policeman walked out of the classroom door before turning his head and explaining to the student as well: "This is **." The girls were shocked. The female gentleman said, "** not the Lamb of God, let her go to hell." Bai Ling's whole body seemed to be strangled by an invisible hemp rope, and he first thought of Lu Zhaohai. Lu Zhaohai went to study at Baoding Military Academy, can he break free from the hemp rope tied to the flowers? She couldn't wait to see Lu Zhaopeng at that time and asked about Lu Zhaohai's news, but she couldn't find him. Five or six days later, an even more surprising thing happened, the kidnapped classmate led three policemen to the school, and she directed the kidnapping of three classmates from the outside class. At that time, the whole school was out of order, and the girls crowded on both sides of the long aisle leading to the gate of the campus, watching three classmates who were tied together with fine hemp rope being led to the school gate and stuffed into a black prison car.

Bai Ling had no intention of attending class, so he asked for leave intermittently to look for Lu Zhaopeng. She went back to an old relative's house in Bailuyuan to inquire about the rumors, saying that Lu Zhaopeng had already disappeared, but she heard a lot of rumors about the leaders of the agricultural cooperatives. Bai Ling left Bailuyuan overnight and returned to the city to the cobbler's uncle's house. When she returned to school again, she heard the girls whispering that all the three ** elements arrested had filled in the dry well, and the girl in the class who led the police to arrest the same party was also filled into the well. The white spirit said viciously, "God cannot tolerate the atoning lamb. ”

However, when she found Lu Zhaopeng, it completely changed her fate. When he came back from school at noon that day, Bai Ling saw Lu Zhaopeng at the counter of his uncle who was a cobbler, and he was so surprised that he almost screamed. Lu Zhaopeng immediately stopped her with a stern and deep look. Lu Zhaopeng wore a half-new suit and a brown top hat, like a poor teacher, pondering all kinds of leather shoes on the counter in front of the counter. Lu Zhaopeng said: "What are you doing in a daze? I'm Lu Zhaohai's Chinese language teacher, Zhaohai took you to listen to my class, but you forgot?" Bai Ling immediately acted according to the words handed over by Lu Zhaopeng: "Oh! Teacher, sit in the room. He turned his face and shouted to the second uncle: "Uncle, this teacher wants to ask you to order a pair of leather shoes." Uncle Leather Maker greeted him warmly and said, "Bring in the teacher quickly!" Lu Zhaopeng whispered: "You have to let me grind here until dark." ”

The cobbler's uncle measured the length and width of Lu Zhaopeng's feet as carefully as any customer, and consulted about the color and style of his shoes, and then went on with his work. Bai Ling led Lu Zhaopeng into his small bedroom, turned around and asked, "Are you afraid of being stuffed into the well?" Lu Zhaopeng was stunned for a moment by the sudden question, staring closely at Bai Ling's eyes, trying to judge her intention to ask from those eyes. But he saw that the surroundings of the two slightly bulging eyes gradually moistened, and then two crystalline tears flowed. Lu Zhaopeng nodded. Bai Ling blinked, tears overflowed, and he said in a trembling voice, "I want to join." Lu Zhaopeng pressed Bai Ling's shoulder with his hand to make her sit down, and said, "Now the whole country is killing **." Bai Ling said, "I saw them kill before I entered." Lu Zhaopeng said: "We have been killed by countless people. Bai Ling said, "There are fewer of you, so I'll fill a vacancy." Lu Zhaopeng grabbed Bai Ling's hands violently, and tears flowed down: "I don't even have a place to cry comrades now...... Bai Ling said: "I hate the way men cry and cry." ”

Lu Zhaopeng waited until it was dark and left regularly. When leaving, she instructed Bai Ling two points, and then she was not allowed to go to anyone to express her willingness to join **, and the second was to continue to study in the church girls' school, which was undoubtedly the safest place. About a month later, Lu Zhaopeng came to the leather shop in the evening to pick up the custom-made fuchsia leather shoes, and praised the craftsmanship of the tanner. The cobbler himself put the shoes on his feet, told him to walk around the workshop, and told him that he could repair them at any time if he had a clamp on his foot or a broken rope. Lu Zhaopeng was sure that this was the most satisfying leather shoe he had ever bought, and swore that it was much better than the Shanghai goods. The cobbler is proud of his masterpiece. Lu Zhaopeng then handed over a Bible to the cobbler, saying that Bai Ling asked him to buy it. Bai Ling returned to the leather shop in the dark and was given a contact address in the Bible: 15 Long-winded Lane.