He was still calm and calm when he spoke, but those clear eyes seemed to be able to see through me.

I was stunned for a moment, and said in a completely unconvincing tone: "You misunderstood, I never wanted to be involved with them, they themselves were always staring at me." ”

Uncle Shen sighed, the expression between his eyebrows was like meeting a stubborn student, full of hatred: "You don't have to be in a hurry to deny it, of course, you are now an adult, you have to learn to judge and decide." And you have to bear the consequences of this. ”

I was struck by his words, but I had the courage to break through: "I understand that I will not blame others wherever I go on my own path." ”

Uncle Shen looked at me deeply a few times, and when he saw that I was firm, he didn't say anything more. I watched as the back of him carrying the box left my sight little by little, and his slender and slender figure was a little clumsy. He was in the prime of life, but he didn't know when he began to have signs of aging.

November of this year was a little colder than usual. Before the people had recovered from the shadow of the loss of their land and repeated defeats, an incident occurred that shocked and heart-wrenching the people. On the night of November 13, the city of Changsha, which was still asleep, fell into a sea of fire, and became a ruin from a prosperous place in an instant. Because the code of the telegram sent on the 12th was "Wen", and the fire occurred at night (i.e., "Xi"), people conventionally called the Changsha fire "Wenxi Fire".

The next morning, when my mother heard the news on the radio, she collapsed into her chair as if she had been drained of all her strength at once. Her eyes were hollow, and her mouth was babbling, "It's over, it's over." Thousands of years of creation, just like that, it was ruined. Chinese civilization, how long can it last! ”

I remembered that she once said that in the first few years of marriage, her family treated her badly. She once took her eldest brother who was still in infancy to Changsha for more than a year, so her feelings for this city are naturally different from ordinary people. She was silent for a while, and then stood up a little uncontrollably: "No, instead of sitting back and waiting for death, it is better to take the initiative yourself." I'm going to call Zaixun, and I don't know if Uncle Seven's family has escaped. ”

When I see her like this, I'm really afraid that I won't be able to support my spirit. But when I tried to persuade her, I was speechless. I had no choice but to silently follow her, secretly observing her situation. The telephone lines and the war situation in this year can be described as the same thing. When the war is calm, the telephone lines are naturally unimpeded; If the war situation takes a turn for the worse, the telephone line will be busy, and sometimes it may not be possible to get through after waiting for half a day.

I watched my mother's expression become more and more anxious while waiting, so I persuaded her: "Mom, the radio said that this incident alarmed Chairman Jiang, and he personally took a plane to Changsha, saying that he would make every effort to thoroughly investigate and severely punish the perpetrators. In this way, those corrupt officials and corrupt officials in Changsha will inevitably fall to the ground. In addition to those people in Chongqing, it is inevitable that some relatives and friends are in Hunan, and they must also be in a hurry. At this time, everyone was busy asking for news and pleading, and it was estimated that the phone would not be able to be connected for a while. ”

The mother leaned back in the chair gloomily, and although she tried her best to straighten her back, she was already much weaker in momentum. I squatted at her feet and rested my head on her knees: "Mom, you see that my second brother and I also know some friends, let's go and ask people to inquire, maybe we can also inquire about Seventh Grandpa." ”

My mother didn't reject me directly, she promised me. I saw her shrug her shoulders slightly, her whole face buried in the palm of her hand, and I estimated that her emotions were released, and her mood naturally improved. I took my coat off the hanger and prepared to go find my second brother before making plans.

I guess that at this time, if the second brother is not in the bank, he is in the restaurant café. It's easy to do in a bank, but if it's in a restaurant or café, then it's very likely that you'll meet Cao Yu'an. I once swore that Gu Zuoyan would not destroy his overall layout because of personal emotions, so I was comforting myself psychologically, I was now hiding from Cao Yu'an and wanted to indulge, and the final result was to force him to come to me obediently!

Along the way, I found that the news of the "Wenxi fire" had infiltrated every corner of the city overnight. Young students holding small flags in protest, ordinary passengers in dangdang cars, young women in cheongsams or half-grown old men playing chess on street corners, everyone is scolding the perpetrators, talking about the ridiculousness of the "scorched earth war of resistance" and satirizing the incompetence of the authorities.

Unexpectedly, I met my second brother in the bank. In the past two days, he has been saying that he is busy with work and is not home all day. Now when I see it, the whole person is a lot haggard. The hair is not as well-groomed as usual, and the green stubble is also coming out. The most terrifying thing is a pair of huge dark circles, which look like they have been beaten hard by someone. I stood on tiptoe and stretched out my arm to brush the tiny shredded hair on the side of his sideburns: "Oh my God, how did you make yourself miserable?" ”

The second brother looked around nervously, and then let go of my hand as if embarrassed: "Say whatever you want, don't move your hands and feet." You see, these tough battles have been fought one after another recently, and many big cities have fallen one after another, and no one knows how long Shanghai can hold out. So in the past two days, the threshold here has been almost flattened by customers who have withdrawn money. In addition, the manager was worried that those previous lenders would donate money and abscond, so he kept an eye on us to collect the money for the past few days. In this way, of course, it became like this. ”

I was noisy with him all day long, and I didn't have a good word, but I was so distressed that something really happened to him: "No matter how busy you are, you can't not let you rest, and the machine will break down if it rotates continuously, let alone people!" ”

The second brother put his hands on my shoulders and looked at me for a while, and finally said, "Why don't I believe that you care about me so much, so you came to me." Tell me, what the hell are you looking for me, or I'll have to go back and get busy later. ”

I sighed, "Okay, you're smart enough, you guessed it before I said anything." , I did come to you to discuss something with you. I saw that his eyes were staring at me with blazing eyes, so I said succinctly: "Do you remember that my mother has been to Changsha, and she has always said that Grandpa Seven's family is really good to her." Yesterday's Changsha fire, it is said that more than 100,000 people died, and countless burned and homeless people were killed, and the scene must have been as tragic as hell on earth. Mom heard the news in the morning, and she was not good, and kept saying that she was going to call Dad. But you also know that since the beginning of this war, this phone has become a guy who watches the sky and eats, and can only be answered when he is lucky. ”