"I don't want to give up Chinese studies, but it's a good idea to study finance and economics at the same time."

"Okay, I'll take care of everything for you."

"No, I don't need your help, I can apply on my own."

She sighed lightly, looked at him deeply, and said, "Why are you so repulsive to me?" If Cheng Jiaqi reaches out to you now, I believe you will gladly accept it. ”

"Because I don't know you, you're too mysterious."

The corners of her mouth were another unshaven smile, and she said, "I heard that you were kicked out of the family." ”

"I ran away from home, to be exact."

"Is there enough money to spend?"

He frowned at her, instinctively disgusted by her question, and said, "Enough." Thank you for your concern. ”

"Okay!" She doesn't force it, either.

The waiter served a beautiful presence, a variety of fancy snacks, and made a variety of cute styles. The two of them each ate some.

Xu Manlin seemed to have a hesitant look on her face, frowning lightly between her eyebrows, as if she was thinking about what to say, and after a long time, she raised her head and took a sip of water, and said, "Ruikang, I didn't finish what I said to you in the cafeteria at noon." ”

"What are you going to say? Let me not participate in the parade and not make anti-Japanese statements? This is impossible, tomorrow we will have a demonstration, which will definitely make the Nationalist Government stop the civil war and unite against Japan! When it came to patriotic actions, two fires burned in Zhou Ruikang's eyes.

"Ruikang!" She suddenly straightened up, leaned forward, grabbed his hand a little nervously, and said with concern in her eyes, "Don't go!" ”

"Why?"

"I ...... I...... No...... They...... They are prepared. She had no choice but to say, "Since you doubt my background, you should know that I won't lie to you, cancel tomorrow's parade, or you don't participate." ”

"Who are they? Military police? It's not the first time we've confronted the military and police, and I'm not afraid. ”

She frowned, bit her lower lip, hesitated for a moment, and said, "They received an order that they could shoot tomorrow and arrest the troublesome students on a large scale." ”

"What?!" He straightened up, clenched his fists angrily and slammed them on the table, making a clattering sound as the plates and cups on the table slammed. "When will China return to the era when you will cut off your head when you speak? We just want to express our concern for the future of our country and speak our hearts, so that we will also be killed and arrested? However, I am still not afraid, the revolution is meant to shed blood. Let them shoot me. ”

"Ruikang! You! She looked around hurriedly, stood up sharply, across the table, reached out to cover his mouth, and said, "Don't shout. ”

Ruikang looked at the guests who were dining around him, and also felt that he was a little out of shape, frowned, and nodded to Xu Manlin.

Xu Manlin sat back in her seat, her face was a little pale, she regretted choosing to talk to him about this in the restaurant, because she knew that there were spies watching inside and outside the restaurant, of course, these people were not here to spy on Zhou Ruikang, but to protect her, but Ruikang openly expressed his dissatisfaction with the government, which made her very uneasy.

"I'm sorry, I lost my temper." He said apologetically.

"You're like a one-point cannonball." She frowned and shook her head: "This is an extraordinary time, very sensitive, you are so naïve, and you are so impulsive, you will die a miserable death." ”

"Hehe, wouldn't it be tragic and romantic to die for the sake of national righteousness?" He laughs.

"I don't want you dead." She frowned, whispered in annoyance, and bit her lip.

His heart shook slightly, and he took a good look at her for the first time, but she didn't look at him, just held her chin sadly, and looked at the roses on the table, "Besides, death is not romantic, a bullet life is over." She said faintly, her eyes full of helplessness and sadness, and she reached for cigarettes and lighters in her handbag.

"You're a woman." He said.

She took a puff of smoke rings, shook her head, propped her head, looked out the window and said, "I'll try to figure it out." She stopped talking, and could see that her mood had gone bad.

After the two finished dinner, Xu Manlin sent Zhou Ruikang back to school and drove away.

//

Back in the dormitory, Zhou Ruikang sat at his desk and wrote an application for a minor major in finance and economics.

"Huh? Zhou Ruikang, why do you suddenly want to study finance and economics? The "elephant" asked curiously.

Ruikang smiled slightly, and was just about to speak, Xu Ziyan on the side suddenly glanced at him with slanted eyes, and said in a bit of a weird way: "I had a meal with the daughter of the capitalist, and I got the hang of it, do you start to feel that the life of a drunken gold fan is very intoxicating?" ”

"Miss capitalist? Who is it? The thin man asked.

Xu Ziyan snorted lightly in his nose, lay on the bed, turned inward, turned his back to them, and stopped talking.

"Elephant" said: "Xu Manlin from the Department of Foreign Languages." ”

"Yo, that iceberg beauty. No wonder he is so arrogant, he usually goes alone, and he always has a straight face when he sees people. Dinner with Ruikang? Tut-tut, Ruikang, your peach blossom luck is really enviable. The thin man said. Envy, envy! ”

Zhou Ruikang couldn't cry or laugh, but he couldn't explain anything to them, so he could only be silent.

When the elephant and the thin man went out to bathe, Ruikang had the opportunity to talk to Xu Ziyan alone: "Ziyan, do you know Xu Manlin's background?" ”

Xu Ziyan turned his head and looked at him strangely, and said, "You and her are in and out of pairs, have dinner together, don't you know who she is?" ”

Ruikang shook his head and said, "She's mysterious and secretive. I don't want to keep asking her. ”

Xu Ziyan sat up from the bed, frowned and said, "Ruikang, your vigilance is really too poor, or you are too easily tempted." ”

"No, I think there's something wrong with her, so I've kept my distance from her."

The corners of Xu Ziyan's mouth raised, shook his head, and said to him seriously: "His father's name is Xu Ruhai, he studied in the United States in the early years, and later went to live in Europe, is a multinational businessman, Xu Manlin was born in Shanghai, and later went to Europe with his father to live, knowing Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, five Chinese, returned to China three years ago. ”

"You may not have heard of his father, but her uncle's name, I believe you are like thunder." The corners of Xu Ziyan's mouth showed a mysterious and serious smile.

"Who?" Ruikang asked.

"Xu Enhai!"

"What!" Ruikang stood up suddenly, was taken aback and said, "Xu Enhai? She is a member of the Central Investigation Department of the Kuomintang? ”

"I think so." Xu Ziyan said: "You also know that these spies have been developing personnel in various agencies and schools. I guess she's trying to develop you to be one of them. ”

Everything is reasonable and smooth, why Xu Manlin is so mysterious, why Xu Manlin has so many black-clad bodyguards to protect her, why Xu Manlin knows that tomorrow's parade military police will shoot and arrest students. He frowned and recalled all the details of the conversation between himself and Xu Manlin, yes, Xu Ziyan's analysis was not wrong at all, Xu Manlin's purpose was to develop himself into a part of them.

After being stunned for a while, Xu Ziyan stood up, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Ruikang, you have to be more careful." The current situation is chaotic and mixed, and we can't afford to choose the wrong side politically. ”

Ruikang shook his head and said: "I don't want to be elected at all, I would rather be a non-party person and only serve the country and the people." ”

Xu Ziyan looked at him with a smile, Ruikang looked at him, suddenly became puzzled, and asked, "Hey?" How do you know so much about Xu Manlin's background? She is always cold as ice on weekdays, and both men and women shy away from her. Last time I heard from several students in the Department of Foreign Languages were curious about her background, how do you know so clearly? ”

"This ......" Xu Ziyan was a little embarrassed, his eyes flickered behind the lenses, and a shallow smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he didn't continue.

Zhou Ruikang looked at his expression and said with a smile: "Hey, you won't have a crush on her, right?" ”

"Haha, you think I'm you? Great love saint, I am wholeheartedly devoted to Yafen. Xu Ziyan smiled.

Zhou Ruikang didn't think about it, and laughed back: "I'm ...... Ruojun" He originally wanted to say: "I'm also single-minded to Ruojun." But when the words came to his lips, his smile had condensed on his face, replaced by endless sorrow and depression, and he turned to look at the crooked crescent moon outside the window, and sighed.

Of course, Xu Ziyan knew what he was going to say, and he also sighed and said, "Ruikang, escaping is not the way to solve the problem. ”

"What else can I do if I don't run away?"

"You've been living at the school for more than a month, do you know what's going on at home?"

He shook his head, he didn't dare to imagine what happened to the Zhou family after the separation of the broken temple that night, what did Mei Ruojun have to face and endure? He never understood why she would give up on herself when she woke up, and insisted on going back to Zhou's house and returning to Ryan. As soon as he thought of her confused and frightened, rejecting his eyes, he felt a pain in his heart, and he hurriedly shook his head, he really couldn't touch the three words Mei Ruojun anymore.

"Do you want to write a letter back to report your safety?"

Ruikang shook his head, "They should know I'm in school." If they don't come to me, it means they don't want me to go back, and they're doing well. ”

Xu Ziyan looked at him with a sad face, and felt emotion for him in his heart, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, I've seen enough of your bitter gourd face, hey, I'll tell you a happy event." ”

"Oh? What's up? His face was slightly lighter.

Xu Ziyan laughed, pushed his eyes, raised his head, and said, "Yafen and I are going to get married." ”

"Really? That's great! Zhou Ruikang was really happy for Xu Ziyan and laughed heartily: "When?" ”

"Hehe, we plan to get engaged in Peking first, and I will take her home to meet my grandmother and father during the summer vacation, and then hold a wedding." Xu Ziyan said.

"Yours is yours! Congratulations, hey, I can't miss the engagement party, or I won't be invited! I'm sure I'm going to drink this cup of wine. Ruikang said with a smile.

"This is natural." Xu Ziyan smiled and stretched out his palm, Zhou Ruikang also stretched out his palm, and the friendship between the two was firmly held together.

//

"Stop the civil war! Unanimously resist Japan! "Chinese don't fight Chinese!" "Against the Civil War! Resist aggression! "United! Bloody battle! ”

The procession was huge, and the mood was extremely high, not only from major universities and middle schools, but also many teams and people from all walks of life joined in, their shouts resounded in the sky, deafening, they held high slogans, or waved fists, or waved flags, or handed out leaflets.

The procession went all the way to the city hall, and the military and police had already set up a position, rejecting horses, barbed wire, and railings, layer after layer, and the procession was blocked out of half a street, and the military police leader blew a whistle, and immediately hundreds of policemen surrounded the procession in a U-shape.

After a while, some of the male classmates began to ram the railing, climb and resist the horse, the police took out batons to stop their further actions, some were broken heads, some were pushed down, the crowd began to boil, more and more people were infected with the atmosphere of anger, became angry, more and more people began to have physical clashes with the military and police, and the scene began to be chaotic.

Zhou Ruikang held the bullhorn to try to calm the crowd, he didn't want to cause casualties, but the scene was out of control, and the sound of slogans, screams, cries for help, and tearing had already overshadowed his voice.

The marchers had long been disappointed by the government's cowardice in the northeast, but now that the Japanese invaders are approaching the Pingjin area, the government's guns are still aimed at their own people. The long-suppressed discontent and anger of all the people were like a lit bucket, the horses were thrown aside, the barbed wire was torn off with all their might, and the procession rushed in, and there was a head-on clash with the military police.

Zhou Ruikang also rushed in, using the horn in his hand as a weapon to fight against the baton smashed by the split.

Several hurried whistles blew, and suddenly from the police car behind rushed down more than two dozen military police officers with long guns, and the muzzles of their guns were unanimously aimed at the marching crowd. The sheriff fired a few shots into the sky, and some people in the crowd continued to rush forward, and some people began to flee in all directions, which was really a mess.

Zhou Ruikang shouted angrily: "You traitors, you are sinners of the country and sinners of history!" He bravely fought with the two military policemen, and suddenly someone knocked on the back of the head, and his eyes suddenly went black and he fainted.

When he woke up again, the first thing Zhou Ruikang saw was Cheng Jiawei's face, the surroundings were very dim, he sat up forcefully, touched the back of his head, and it hurt a lot.

"Hey, the Great Love Saint has woken up." Cheng Jiawei said mockingly, and sat aside.

"Jiawei? Where are we? "His head was still dizzy.

"Good place, prison!" Jiawei's eyes rolled around, and he spread his hand and said.

Ruikang closed his eyes and leaned against the wall, took a breath, slowly opened his eyes again, and finally saw the scene in front of him, dim, small, damp, cold room, in front of it was a row of iron railings, yes, they were arrested, they were locked up in a cell, less than eight square meters, locked up a dozen people.

"Jiawei, you also participated in the parade?"

"Yes, are you the only one who is patriotic?"

Jiawei's tone was still full of sarcasm, which made Ruikang sad and ashamed, this was a friend he used to regard as a brother, they used to be together in everything they did, laughing together, making trouble together, what a happy time they had.

"Ahem......" he sighed, "Jiawei, no matter how much you hate me, I owe you and Jiaqi a 'sorry'." I'm sorry Jiawei. ”

Cheng Jiawei was stunned for a moment, he himself was a happy and carefree person, seeing him apologize so lowly, the evil anger in his heart instantly dissipated, shook his head, waved his hand and said: "Oh, forget it!" I can't put it anymore. The two looked at each other and smiled.

"When did Jiaqi and I not participate in the sport you organized!" Jiawei said.

Ruikang looked up at him and patted him on the shoulder with emotion, Jiawei's face changed, his eyebrows and eyes were furrowed, and he shouted with a painful face: "Ouch, where are you not good at shooting, you have to shoot where I was injured." ”

Ruikang saw that one of Jiawei's eyes was dark and blue, and there were bruises on his face, and he looked sad and said, "I'm really sorry." ”

"Hey, it's not your fault, it's those bullying things, I'm fine, didn't we also hang up the lottery when we marched before, little meaning." As he spoke, Jia Wei blinked and smiled.

Ruikang laughed twice, and sure enough, it was a like-minded brother with him, and asked again, "What about Jiaqi?" You say she also took part in the parade? ”

"Yes, she was always by my side, but then the crowd was chaotic and she dispersed. Hopefully she wasn't caught. ”

"I really owe it to Jiaqi. Is she okay? ”

Cheng Jiawei squinted at him and said, "How can it be good?" You don't know what she thinks about you. Seriously, you really hurt her, at first she kept crying and crying, crying my father and mother were in a hurry, but, then one day, she suddenly got better again, and began to talk and laugh, hey, I don't understand, I think women are really strange. Cheng Jiawei frowned and shook his head, looking confused, and muttered, "Fortunately, I'm not in love." Otherwise, you will be annoyed to death by a woman. ”

"Ahem......" Ruikang didn't know what else to say except sighing.

Cheng Jiawei looked at the overcrowded and stinking cell, shook his head and said, "I don't know if we can get out?" I don't want to die here. ”