Several times, I was about to go out when I ran into my father, who had just rushed home. There was a deep tiredness on his face, and he looked as if he was a few years older. When I met my father today, he didn't tell me to be careful on the road as usual, but grabbed me: "Ranran, can you go out later, I have something to announce to everyone." ”

At the behest of their father, Shui Qing and Wang's mother pulled up the heavy curtains, which looked incompatible with Shanghai in late spring. As everyone sat around the long table in the living room, the light tones in the room were a little darker. Everyone hadn't fully woken up yet, but because they were intimidated by their father's serious expression, they couldn't help but be a little frightened.

I leaned on the table and looked at my father, and from this angle, he looked a little skinny, and his clothes were as empty as hanging on a hanger, but he was still strong and powerful when he came to my entrance ceremony last year.

The father's voice was low with an undoubted convincing: "The current situation is very bad, in the past two days, Japan has sent planes to bomb Nanjing, and our troops have not even had a chance to fire, so they have become fish on their boards. I'm afraid that if it goes on like this, I'm afraid that Nanjing won't be able to hold on. If they are allowed to fight according to this momentum, the fall of Shanghai will be a matter of imminence. For the sake of insurance, everyone collected their luggage and valuable belongings first, and I asked people to find a house in the French Concession and move in in a few days. ”

Grandfather couldn't help but be shocked: "Move!" Shouldn't such an important matter be discussed by the whole family, and you make the decision alone? And if you look at such a big family business, can more than 20 people say that they will move? ”

I think I understand my grandfather's mood right now, and not only me, but also the rest of the family should be able to relate to it. In such troubled times, everyone lives in fear. And compared to most people, this family and its family members are already a few lucky people. The fact that we were able to live in a large comfortable house, with delicious meals every day, new clothes to wear, and a little spare money in the bank account was a good thing that many people could not ask for. Now we are asked to give up everything we have and flee like the homeless, and the difficulties in our hearts can be imagined.

My father painstakingly explained: "Many of the details of the war were not mentioned in the newspapers and on the radio for reasons of the overall situation, but I knew about them. Wherever the Japanese went, they would never abide by any war treaty, burning, killing and looting everywhere, and they had the posture of '10 days in Yangzhou, three massacres in Jiading', and the number of dead soldiers could still be counted, but the casualties of the common people could not even be counted. Now, all the ships are requisitioned for war, and tickets are even more difficult to find, and it is difficult to get out of Shanghai. However, fortunately, the Japanese did not declare war on Europe, so it was relatively safe in the concession. Many of the houses in the concession are now vacant, and the owners have fled abroad early in the morning. So I asked someone to find a two-story Spanish-style building with a rent of 100 yuan a month, and the whole family could barely live in it. It's just that it's hard to find a house in the concession now, and if you don't make a decision earlier, someone else should take the lead. ”

Grandfather's expression loosened slightly. But the face with vertical and horizontal lines is serious and quiet, which makes people inevitably feel taken by his momentum. However, the second uncle seemed to be very kind to mediate in the middle: "What the third brother said is not wrong, Dad, there is so much chaos outside, only the concession has the support of foreigners, and it can still maintain the pre-war level." You said that this house, the family property, whether you live or die or not, it is most important to save your life first. What do you say? "I don't know who he is, I must think that with his words, things can quickly turn around. And we really know his methods best, and he is the best at sowing discord and so on.

Sure enough, if my grandfather's expression was cloudy just now, it was already a precursor to a violent storm. He slapped the mahogany table with a "bang": "What does it mean to not bring life and not to bring death, these are the foundation of the ancestors of the Zhu family." If I hadn't guarded here all these years, the family business that my ancestors had accumulated for generations would have been ruined by you! ”

This kind of scene is always repeated in the family, and even a person with thick lines like me can already see from a very young age that my grandfather's attitude towards my father has always been bad. However, my father did not deserve to be treated like this by my grandfather, he had a decent job in the government, and my mother had always been reserved and diligent, and my eldest brother and I had never caused any trouble to the family since we were children, so this obvious difference in attitude on the table became incomprehensible.

Father was not at ease, or perhaps he had expected his grandfather's reaction, and if he had become too kind one day, he would have mistaken him for the calm before the storm. The father made a low voice and said, "What my father said is that I was in too much of a hurry. However, it is different from normal times, and if you don't prepare early, you won't even have room to change around at that time. Father, consider my proposal, if the war situation continues to deteriorate, I am afraid that it will be difficult to rent a house. He raised his left hand and looked at the time, his face showing that anxious state again: "I have an important meeting to go, and I must leave now." ”

When my grandfather saw that he was in a hurry, he rushed upstairs like a gust of wind, and then he said in a loud voice: "What is the meeting so important that there is no time to eat?" The body is your own, and the government will not be responsible for you. No matter how good the body is, it won't be able to hold up if it rotates so continuously, and when the time comes, they will spread their hands, and who do you talk to? But he apparently underestimated his father's ability to act, and by the time he said this, he had already disappeared into the depths of the hallway. In order to maintain his dignity, he smacked his lips and added: "Now no one in this family takes my old man's words to heart." ”

I don't need to repeat the story later, as usual, filial sons and grandchildren, you sing and I don't have a lot of excitement, and my grandfather also felt his authority and glory as the head of the family again in this kind of excitement, and became fluttering.

After changing his clothes, his father hurried out the door like another gust of wind, which blew so hard that a piece of paper flew out the moment he closed his briefcase. The family also surrounded his grandfather like a moon, and no one noticed the lonely paper in the corner.