At 9 o'clock on September 9, the auditorium of the Central Army Military Academy in Nanjing held a ceremony for the surrender of the Chinese theater, and Japan announced its unconditional surrender. He Yingqin bent down to take the photo of the surrender letter, causing a lot of scolding.

Later, Wang Shouqing wrote a letter and told Shen Mengxi that he was also seated in the auditorium at that time, although the Japanese army surrendered and was required to shave their heads, but their arrogance was still arrogant, and it was not Okamura Ninji who handed in the surrender, but Kobayashi Asaburo, chief of the Japanese army's general staff, and He Yingqin, who graduated from the Japanese Army Army University, was already habitually flattering to Japan, and the Chinese representative's excessively wide table would bend down when accepting the surrender document, which made the Chinese side's momentum suddenly disappear.

For this reason, he was so angry that he scolded He Yingqin in the letter and the arrangements of the allies.

At the end of the letter, Shen Mengxi was asked to move back to Shanghai as soon as possible, and he was currently stationed in Nanjing, and soon the Nationalist Government would return to Nanjing. He also instructed Shen Mengxi to dispose of the property as soon as possible, and soon sent someone to pick her up.

Shen Mengxi sold his houses in Chongqing and Chengdu according to his words. But the orphanage is a problem, these years with the children dependent, already have a deep feeling, she reported to the civil affairs department, soon sent down a new director, took over the orphanage, the day of leaving, all the children according to the size, standing in the yard in unison singing outside the long pavilion, the ancient road, the grass and the sky The young children simply looked up to the sky and cried, and a few held her legs and refused to let go, so that Shen Mengxi gave birth to the feeling that he had abandoned them.

At the beginning of 1946, Lin Huiya and his wife returned to Beiping with their three children, Shen Mengxi also returned to Shanghai with his two elder brothers, and Sun Shengyi took his family with them, but the destination was Nanjing.

Shanghai seems to be more prosperous, it seems that it has never experienced war, women are still dressed fashionably, men are still dashing, rickshaws are still running fast, and the Huangpu River is still flowing quietly, never rushing waves.

Standing in front of the villa, Shen Mengxi was in a vague trance,—— he hadn't come back for more than eight years.

There was a sound of rustling in the yard, a yellow dog with prickly hair slowly walked out, saw Shen Mengxi, there seemed to be an anthropomorphic expression on his face, suddenly excited so much that he couldn't help himself, his nose sounded, he turned around in place, and had to give up using continued to turn in circles to express his excitement due to old age and decrepitude, Shen Mengxi pushed the door in, Rhubarb put his head on Shen Mengxi's knees, and made a whining sound, as if accusing her of leaving for too long, Shen Mengxi hugged Rhubarb's head, reached out to stroke its back, and then shed tears.

When Sister-in-law Lin heard the voice, she sighed excitedly and ran over, she was also a lot older, and she was still so clean and neat, she took the luggage in Shen Mengxi's hand, and said in her mouth, "It's back, it's back!" ”

The house has been restored to its original appearance, like the brothers of the Zhang family have never come to live, Shen Mengxi walked to the living room, Rhubarb whimpered and followed behind, Shen Mengxi beckoned Rhubarb into the living room, Sister-in-law Lin suddenly protested dissatisfied, Shen Mengxi hurriedly smiled and said, "Sister-in-law Lin, Rhubarb is very sensible." Then he turned to the rhubarb and said, "Is it rhubarb?" ”

Rhubarb wagged his tail.

"Sister-in-law Lin, you've worked so hard all these years!" Shen Mengxi held Sister-in-law Lin's hand and said.

Sister-in-law Lin was very uncomfortable, and wanted to withdraw her hand crampedly, but Shen Mengxi smiled and didn't let go, and shook it.

After eating, Shen Mengxi planned to go upstairs and sleep for a while, but Rhubarb still followed her, as if she was afraid that she would not be able to look at it at a glance, and the hostess would disappear for a long time.

Shen Mengxi beckoned it to go upstairs, but Rhubarb only went up two steps, and he couldn't climb anymore, Shen Mengxi mourned in his heart, how long can a dog live, its eight years, about fifty years equivalent to a person's fifty years, has it been waiting?

She pointed to the door and said, "Good dog, you watch the door, I'll go upstairs to rest, don't go out." ”

Rhubarb listened, lay down at the bottom of the stairs, Shen Mengxi wanted to laugh and cry, patted Rhubarb's forehead, and went upstairs.

After resting for an hour, she planned to go to see Mrs. Lin, who came back from Hong Kong last year, and over the years, he established "loyalty and righteousness", hoeed and killed thieves, raised funds and made great contributions to the anti-Japanese resistance. But the current deputy mayor of Shanghai was his protégé, and the two had a holiday, and recently they have had a lot of trouble.

Shen Mengxi took Rhubarb to visit, Rhubarb arrived at Mrs. Lin's villa, and automatically lay at the gate, Ah Yuan came out, and saw Shen Mengxi with tears in his eyes, which made Shen Mengxi's eyes damp, "What about Ah Bian?" You're all right. ”

Ah Yuan was even more sad and cried, "Ah Bian died in Hong Kong, and not long after he arrived in Hong Kong, he contracted the disease and died. Ah Fang also got married early, and I was the only one who stayed with the old lady. ”

Shen Mengxi sighed, "It's been eight years, and it's really a matter of things and people." ”

"Go and see the old lady, as soon as she came back from Hong Kong, she seemed to be greatly relieved, who knew that within a few days, she fell ill."

Shen Mengxi heard this and hurriedly walked upstairs. Mrs. Lin was lying on the bed, her shape was erect, her eye sockets were deep, Shen Mengxi was sad for a while, grabbed Mrs. Lin's hand, and put it on her face, "Mother-in-law, I'm back, I'm back." ”

Old Madam Lin opened her eyes, and a cloudy tear flowed down her ravine-crisscrossed face and onto the pillow.

"Okay." The old lady made a hoarse voice in her throat.

"I'm married, married to Wang Shouqing. I've always been good in Chongqing, and my fourth brother has always taken care of me," Shen Mengxi sat by the window, telling the old lady about his experiences in Nanjing and Chongqing. - Those past, the long ones seem to have passed a hundred years, and now when I mention them, it seems that they are not really what I have experienced.

Old Madam Lin's lips trembled, but it was difficult to make a sound anymore, Shen Mengxi choked with sadness, and Old Madam Lin had obviously reached the moment when the oil ran out.

This war is the largest war that has broken out so far in mankind, with 61 countries and regions and more than 2 billion people involved in the war, causing economic losses of up to 5 trillion US dollars, and more than 90 million people died in the war, of which 35 million were Chinese citizens alone. Mrs. Lin was fortunate to have a good son who was able to see the dawn of victory, and more old people couldn't even survive the early days of the war, just like the old couple in Xuzhou City, who couldn't run and couldn't escape, and the day the city gate was lost, it was when they died.

Yunshang clothing store has not been closed, it is Zhang Jiarui who is running it, Shen Mengxi smiled, there was a very absurd feeling.

Aunt Huang and Zhang Jiarui came to the door soon, Aunt Huang didn't change much, but Zhang Jiarui matured a lot, she took the initiative to show the accounts to Shen Mengxi, Shen Mengxi looked at it carefully and said, "Thanks to you taking care of my father and taking care of Yunshang all these years, I will settle the accounts later, I only need 20% of Yunshang's income over the years, and the rest will be given to Jiarui." ”

Aunt Huang was overjoyed.

Zhang Jiarui didn't have any expression, "Seventh sister, are you married?" ”

Shen Mengxi smiled when he heard this, "Yes." ”

Zhang Jiarui opened her mouth and said nothing.

"The income over the years is also not a small amount, Jia Rui, you can take the money, set up your own business, and also do a business and be a boss." Shen Mengxi closed the account book and looked at Zhang Jiarui with a smile.

The mother and daughter's faces changed, Zhang Jiarui thought about it and nodded, "I will." My father's small apartment, where my mother and I lived all the time, and my brothers took care of us."

"I'm not going to fight." Shen Mengxi said.

Aunt Huang nodded yes again and again.

There is no need to ask, the inheritance of the Zhang family is divided among the sons, and the married daughters have no share. The apartment was probably discussed by the Zhang brothers for Aunt Huang's pension.

Baoshan's garment factory, plant and machinery were all destroyed, and Shen Mengxi had no intention of continuing to do it, so he simply gave up.

Even Yunshang didn't plan to do it again, she knew that a civil war was about to start, which was even more maddening than resisting Japan.

Zhang Jiaxuan said that day that he wanted his fourth sister-in-law to return to Shanghai, but Shen Mengxi said, "I plan to go to the United States." ”

Zhang Jiaxuan's mouth opened wide and he didn't say anything for a long time.

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