Chapter 23: Cao Yu'an, who has no news

Father and mother entered their room as they spoke, and the rest of the conversation was no longer audible.

My eldest brother and I exchanged a look, and then we went to the stove room to talk very tacitly. This is the tacit understanding that our three siblings have cultivated since childhood, and the stove and drape room has become our secret garden. My eldest brother and I spent more than an hour investigating and analyzing, but in the end we couldn't come up with a unified opinion, whether this matter was a good thing or a bad thing. However, the eldest brother's impression of the Communist Party has changed somewhat ambiguously.

On the second day, even the school was enveloped in a depressing atmosphere. During recess, the students gathered in groups of three or five, all discussing something with heavy faces. After the changes in the last period of time, Wei February's wild and untamable personality has been reined in a lot, and when encountering such a major event, it is no longer babbling and fussing, but it is rare to calm down and think seriously: "The chairman of the committee is the face of the country, and General Zhang will not really do anything to him." In this way, we can fight with the Japanese with open swords and guns, and we don't have to blindly tolerate and sit back and watch the Japanese unscrupulous on Chinese soil. ”

If it weren't for the fact that I had a really close relationship with her, I would have almost applauded her clever remarks. Mr. Cao passed by us, and also stopped intentionally or unintentionally and looked at us meaningfully.

I gently nudged Wei Eryue a few times: "It's okay now, Mr. is going to be impressed with you." ”

However, the "Xi'an Incident" is a model of the legendary peaceful ending, although the situation was extremely tense at the beginning, but later it was a rare handshake and peace. If Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng's behavior this time was tantamount to a major crime of bullying the monarch and treating them as complicit and rebellious in ancient times, it would not be an exaggeration to even the nine clans, and the current end is really not tragic.

Of course, no one expected the outcome a few years later, and one still did not escape the threat of death; The other is imprisoned for most of his life, until the hero has white hair and the beauty is twilight, and he can enjoy a period of peace and happiness. But maybe that's the beauty of life itself, and you never know what will happen until this day.

Wei February, who has always been the most cheerful person in my mind, seems to be born without loss. However, the New Year's greeting letter from her during the Chinese New Year made me have to re-examine this dear friend whom I thought I knew very well.

Wei said in the letter that every year she is most afraid of the Chinese New Year, and the most feared thing is to return to her hometown for the New Year. At that time, her grandfather and grandmother gave out red envelopes, and the one that fell into her hands must be the least. This kind of intimacy is not because of any great reason, one is naturally because she is a girl, not as expensive as a boy, and she will marry into someone else's family in the future. The other was because of her birthday, because she was born on the leap day of the leap month of the leap year, so she was regarded as an ominous child, and she had to be kept in the temple when she was a child, so that she would not run into the family. She said that you can never imagine how painful it is for a child not to be cared for by her family, and the reason why she likes to be lively is because she has been lonely and afraid since she was a child. A few years later, I watched Xiao Hong's "The Legend of the Hulan River" and realized how many children have lost their supposed carefree childhood due to such superstitions.

At the end of this letter, Wei February, who has always liked to use ridicule to express intimacy, unexpectedly expressed full affection, saying that being able to meet me and Mislin was the happiest thing she had ever done in years. Probably the distance produces beauty, or maybe it is the difference that makes people sentimental, Wei February's words reveal the feelings of loneliness and sadness, which forms a strong contrast with this festive New Year's Festival.

As a person, when I am in a difficult situation, I often have more perseverance and more fearless courage than ordinary people. But when encountering such a warm scene, I have never been able to deal with it calmly. I held the letter and sent it out for a while, until the bean-sized tears in my eyes hit the letterhead, blurring the beautiful pen handwriting.

Along with Wei's February's letter, Mislin's New Year's card arrived. In addition to her blessings, she also told me worriedly that she and her family had not been able to contact Cao Yu'an for three months. Now that China and Japan are at odds, he has no news at all, and even the classmates who finally got in touch with him said that they had lost his contact, and it is difficult not to doubt his current life and death.

I felt empty for no reason, and it felt like I had taken an empty step downstairs, and my heart was floating in the endless void. I attribute this sentiment to my revolutionary friendship with Mislin, so Aiwu and Udi cared about her cousin. But I don't want to think about it, why my love and Wu-style care are only used on Cao Yu'an, but I am so stingy with others.

Originally, I was still expecting to write Ah Q-style, thinking that maybe Mislin could know Cao Yu'an's whereabouts. It wasn't until he received Mislin's card that the anxiety in his heart was no longer controllable. If many of my speculations about the period when I just lost contact with Cao Yu'an were groundless, then any kind of tragic ending is not groundless. I thought of the bloody fragments when I dreamed back at midnight, maybe they had become a reality at this moment, and my heart throbbed even more.

By this time, however, all the worries were nothing more than worries, and I had nowhere to talk to him and could not find any clues. However, I was too worried about it, but I did an unexpected stupid thing, and I actually wrote a letter overnight and sent it to Cao Yu'an's address in Japan. In fact, I already knew in my heart that it was pointless to do this, and Cao Yu'an would never receive this letter. I don't know if I still have a faint expectation in my heart, or if I want my conscience to be stable.

The reunion dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve was slightly heavy because of the absence of the second brother. Grandfather not only counted him down with great emotion, but also lost a lot of face with his father and mother. The uncles and aunts seem to be speaking for their parents on the surface, but in fact, every word refers to Sang scolding Huai, and they are doing their best to sow discord. Originally, in this kind of festive year, my grandfather was more reasonable than usual, and he could die down with a few words. Now this nameless fire is burning more and more, and finally even the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is not delicious, and everyone is unhappy.

I looked at my mother's increasingly pale face, and thought that the saddest person in the second brother's departure was actually my mother, and I couldn't help but feel a little sad. However, his father had always been careful, and he naturally noticed his mother's abnormality, so he went back to the room together after congratulating his grandfather.