As soon as the second brother's words fell, he saw that the third sister who was still in the middle of the period had already suppressed her tears, and looked at him with a cautious and curious look, and her face showed a softer and more emotional expression, although this cousin usually did not communicate much with him.

He said softly: "Huifen, if you want to hear it, I will definitely talk to you more about the rights and interests of women today when I find an opportunity in the future." Now the world is different, both men and women are equal, we are all free people, we can do anything, not just to live for the sake of living, but also to live a wonderful life. If you are not satisfied with your marriage, we will go and tell my grandfather that it is really not worth it for a girl like you to marry the son of the Xie family. Also, what is the point of getting out of marriage, look at foreign countries and then look at those celebrities, that is, you can marry the person you like after divorce. ”

The eldest brother spoke impassionedly, and inevitably his voice involuntarily raised a few degrees. The adults who had been gathered around the table suddenly fell silent and looked curiously in this direction. It was cold for a while, and the eldest brother's expression was a little sneering. But the third sister seemed to wake up at this time, and her face was full of fear. She glanced at her mother, and when she saw that her aunt's face was a little uneasy, she buried her head as if she had done something very wrong.

Grandfather cleared his throat, and several indistinct syllables came out of his throat. The eldest aunt stood up suddenly, poured him a glass of warm water to drink, and pounded his back diligently, looking really filial and virtuous.

Grandfather really liked this, and his face showed a look of satisfaction. He paused for a few seconds, then asked in a condescending tone, "Qiming, what did you say there just now that you were so happy about?" ”

The eldest brother was stunned for a moment, obviously considering whether to tell the truth or tell a white lie. Then, in a low voice, "Huifen is very interested in what is going on at school, so let me tell her about it." When he said these words, he lost the vigor of his high-minded speech, and there was obviously an element of dim sum emptiness.

However, my grandfather was obviously happy today, and he didn't notice anything wrong with my eldest brother. However, he still expressed his opinion on his eldest brother's words: "How many of you foreign students can study well? In the past, we paid attention to 'not hearing things outside the window, and only reading sages and sages', and the education we usually received was also to learn from Wang Xizhi's three points into the wood, and Fan Zhongyan cut off the porridge. It's good that you only know how to participate in clubs, to participate in tours~ travel, and you always want to work against your family. Tell me if you don't rely on the support of your family, whether you can still study quietly, and you don't have to live like the children of those poor families. He shook his head, and his gestures showed the sigh of "the world is declining, and the people's hearts are not ancient".

Faced with such a big fright, the third sister obviously lost even the little courage she had left. In the time that followed, no matter how funny our jokes were, no matter how wonderful our topics were, she always left us with a silent silhouette.

When I was a child, every child would have a huge yearning for the New Year, but when I grew up a little bit, the once colorful dreams became gray, and the yearning for the New Year gradually disappeared. Maybe because we have seen how big the outside world is, we have lost interest in the new clothes and New Year's money that we cared about most when we were children. In this endless New Year's greeting between relatives, I was tormented by loneliness, and I always hoped that the holidays could be extended indefinitely, but now I longed for school to start immediately. Probably sensing my boring mood, a few days later, a major event impatiently happened in this traumatized land, so that the Chinese, who have long been accustomed to accepting their fate, once again experienced the huge power of the hand of fate to turn over the clouds and rain!

Man is a strange creature, and there is an old saying called "only when you lose do you know how to cherish" to refer to this inferior nature of human beings. We have long been accustomed to peaceful days, so we will never really have the consciousness of "being prepared for danger in times of peace". And most Chinese are accustomed to patience and concession, and under the pressure of life, they gradually become "frogs in warm water", and finally slowly sink in a state of drunken life and death.

Therefore, when the clouds of war loom over the land of China, even if the Japanese have already put the regime of the three northeastern provinces to extinction in name, not many people can realize that we are about to fall into the quagmire of war that has never been seen before, and it can be called the most difficult in history.

The Japanese army acted recklessly on Chinese soil, but the newspapers and radio stations still whitewashed the peace in line with the principle of "too much"; Shanghai, the largest metropolis in the Far East, far away at the mouth of the Yangtze River, is still immersed in the gentle countryside of drunken gold and red willows. This year, some people live without clothes and food, but there are also people who enjoy the biggest carnival of the year, just like in previous years.

In the past, I had no way of knowing the lives of the poor, and I never cared about what this kind of living in the water meant. But after so many close partings, now I am concerned about these people, and I am aware of the great danger hidden behind this abyssal difference.

Early this morning, I finally found an opportunity to catch my father, who was hurrying out of the house: "Dad, is the Sino-Japanese war really inevitable?" ”

My father looked at me with a solemn look as if I was no longer the most precious little daughter under his knees, but an adult who could communicate on an equal footing, which made me feel inexplicably moved: "Huh? If this is not good, no one wants to be the first to provoke trouble, and whoever does it first means that he is already on the side of sinners. ”

I wasn't satisfied with his ambiguous answer: "But somebody always does it first, right?" It's like the First Sino-Japanese War, if we don't do it, the Japanese will always find an excuse to start this war. ”

My father finally put the matter of rushing out of the house in his mind, turned to me seriously, and said, "Ran, this is not your business. Have you forgotten about your second brother, don't put yourself in danger at this time. ”

I remember that this was the first time my father had expressed his views on the war, and it was one of the few times he said anything serious to me. I was stunned for a long time before I remembered the reason I was looking for him: "Today is the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, and it is usually the day of national vacation, but the ministry wants you to be on call at any time, so I think something big must have happened." ”