Chapter 31: Comfort Women 5
In the period when he first entered the school, Yingman was studying almost every day, not only to learn traditional Chinese characters, but also to practice calligraphy, although it is a fountain pen, but it is also calligraphy, unlike later, as long as the words written can be recognized, it doesn't matter how crooked you are.
Although it took some time to study, but Yingman did not forget her task, most of the students in the school are upper-middle-class, Yingman quickly entered the student group with some advanced knowledge, these students are from good backgrounds, they can get in touch with the Japanese people, and occasionally inadvertently inquire about something, and it will not be noticed.
Among them, Yingman met a girl Zhang Ruo, this Zhang Ruo, her father is a big businessman, I heard other classmates say that he is a big traitor, but from several contacts with Zhang Ruo, Yingman found that this girl is a little angry young man, and she looks down on her father very much.
Yingman can't say anything about this, in this era, many people have different choices, some people go to the soup for the country, some people choose to live secretly, and some choose to grovel, who is right and who is wrong, or standing on the righteousness can also judge one or two, but if you stand in the perspective of people, you can only say that you have a choice.
Some people think that death is heavier than Taishan and it is also a worthy death, and some people feel that life is more important than anything else, Yingman is just a passerby, even if she integrates into this world, but after death, as long as the world is not destroyed, she can go back to this world, she does not know what the real choice will be.
Therefore, although he wanted to get some information related to the Japanese army from Zhang Ruo, Yingman was also a little sincere, "Xiaoman, let's go eat." After class, Zhang Ruo beckoned Yingman to go out to eat together.
"Okay. Yingman nodded, packed the book into a cloth bag and hugged it in his arms, and ran over.
"There's a new coffee shop on Source Street, let's check it out. Zhang Ruo said to Yingman.
"Ah, coffee, Xiaoruo, you know, I'm not in a good financial situation, so I still don't go. Hearing that it was a coffee shop, Yingman shook her head again and again, she never concealed that her economic conditions were not good, and she usually went to work in the store.
But she worked in a foreigner-owned clothing store, and with the design and tailoring skills she had learned in her previous life, she got a job that paid well.
The salary looks like a lot, but it is enough to eat some traditional snacks and delicacies that have not changed at this time, and she can't consume them in high-end places such as coffee shops or Western restaurants.
"Well, I forgot. Zhang Ruo remembered that although Yingman often ate and drank with her, but every time Yingman took her to that kind of delicious and fair-priced place to eat, she never let her pay for it, this time she rarely found a good place and wanted to take Yingman to see it, but forgot about this.
"Why don't I invite you?" Zhang Ruo said after hesitating for a moment.
"No, no. Yingman shook his head, "Otherwise, let's go to the tea guest, it's not bad to drink tea, and the price is not high." Ying Man thought for a while and said, the tea guest is a time-honored teahouse in Haicheng.
"Okay, I've been there, and the dim sum is delicious. Zhang Ruo nodded.
"I just wanted to try it when I heard people say that the tea is good, the snacks are good, and the price is not expensive. Yingman said with a smile, when she came to Haicheng, Yingman was most satisfied with a variety of traditional foods that had been lost, of course, even if she didn't lose it, she couldn't afford to eat it, since she came here, she naturally had to eat enough.
It's a good idea to write down all those recipes and find a way to make them when you go back, and then give them to your grandparents.
Speaking of which, what would happen if she took out these lost secret recipes, would she need more causal power?
When they arrived at the tea guests, they found a corner by the window upstairs and sat down, ordered tea and snacks, and listened to the storytellings in the teahouse, which were all about today's popular martial arts novels, and the protagonists they wrote were all chivalrous and loyal to the country, which was very in line with the mainstream aesthetics.
"Alas. Zhang Ruo sighed suddenly.
"What's wrong?" Yingman looked at her.
"You say, what will happen to my dad in the future?" Zhang Ruo looked at Yingman.
"Why did you ask me this all of a sudden. Yingman felt that Zhang Ruo was very strange.
"I always felt that he was not on the right path now, but I couldn't stop him, I was just a daughter, he still had a son, and it was not my turn. Zhang Ruo is a smart girl, she knows that although the devil looks powerful now, she feels that the devil will be driven out sooner or later, just like the former Mengren and the later Jurchen.
How many years did the Mongols rule their Dahua, and although the Jurchens ruled for a long time, they were finally assimilated by their Dahua nation, and what about these sparsely populated overseas countries that have crossed the ocean but are just a projectile land.
So she has always disagreed with her father's contempt, but she is soft-spoken and can say anything.
"It's not our turn to take care of that. Yingman didn't expect this girl who was only 16 to see it so clearly, but she still said against her will.
"Why can't it be your turn, how can there be eggs under the nest. Zhang Ruo felt that his friends couldn't see the form clearly, and it was most difficult to survive in troubled times, especially women.
"Then what do you want to do? Join the national army? You also know the way the national army is doing, and the great enemy still wants to take control of the power first. Yingman didn't understand the guidance of the voice, and whispered.
Zhang Ruo looked around for a moment, sat next to Yingman and leaned close to her ear: "I want to join the People's Army, but I'm worried that they won't accept me." ”
"How dare you, I heard that the people's army is very difficult. "Yingman didn't expect this girl to have this awareness, and she is definitely not the heroine or the No. 1 supporting actress in the Anti-Japanese War drama.
"I know, but, judging by their actions, they really want to drive the invaders out. Zhang Ruo nodded, occasionally she could still get some information related to the People's Army from her father's mouth.
"Then you can try to get in touch, if your father is doing business with the Japanese army, maybe there will be nothing in the future. Yingman said.
"In the past, it was just some raw material business, but now, it's just to help get some medicinal materials. Zhang Ruo is not very defensive about Yingman, after all, after more than half a month of getting along, Yingman has always been a good listener, never talking nonsense, unlike others, her few complaints are well known.
"Oh. When Yingman heard the medicinal herbs, he suddenly remembered something somehow, speaking of which, it seemed that the Japanese army was planning to get biological and chemical weapons during the war, as if it was the plague or something, so was the abnormal behavior of the Japanese country secretly doing this? But she remembered that the location should not be here.