Because of the repentance of the marriage, Jing's parents felt guilty about Jing Mingchen, and they were more accommodating, and even no longer expressed their opinions on her involvement with the Red Cross and the Conservation Association.

At the end of the month, Officer Xiaoliang returned to the battlefield, and before leaving, Mingchen saw him off, and he never forgot his son in his hometown in Henan: "I really hope to see him, I heard that he has been beaten to Henan, and I don't know how my hard-working child is now......

After Officer Xiaoliang left, Jing Mingchen went to a ball, not alone, but with the children in the nursery, in short, she took the children to ask for money with the celebrities.

The war was fighting, the government did not allocate much money to the nursery, and the lower classes themselves were still starving, so the nursery could only ask for help from businessmen and celebrities.

The host of this dance party is Jing Mingchen's handkerchief old friend, the daughter of the Song family who has just returned from studying abroad, after Jing Mingchen made this request, she agreed to it.

On the day of the ball, Jing Mingchen and the children all wore holy white clothes, in order to arouse the compassion of the guests, and Jing Mingchen rehearsed a small chorus "The Ballad of the Great Wall" for them. At the high-class dance party where the clothes and temples were drunk and the gold fans were drunk, a group of children ranging from five to twelve or thirteen years old suddenly appeared, dressed in white, singing the hatred of the country and the family under the accompaniment of the piano, how immature and clear the children's voices were, Mrs. Kuo and Miss Jiao present were moved, took off their jewelry and stuffed it into the donation box on the piano.

Jing Mingchen played the piano and said thank you to everyone who came to donate.

Suddenly, a tall shadow enveloped her, she raised her head, it was Jiang Gubei, he was actually there at this dance, he put a wad of money into the donation box, saw Jing Mingchen raise his eyes to look at her, smiled slightly, and said, "Good play." ”

Jing Mingchen suddenly thought of his theory of the uselessness of music that day, and couldn't help but raise the bar with him: "Look, music is not completely useless. ”

She glanced at the donation box, her face was full of smugness, Jiang Gubei was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Yes, yes, music is useful, at least it will make me pay for it obediently." ”

When he said this, Jing Mingchen was a little embarrassed, his face flushed, and there was no need to argue, and after a while, she whispered: "Thank you for regretting the marriage." ”

Jiang Gubei raised his eyebrows: "No thanks." ”

Jing Mingchen thought for a while and said, "I've wronged you." ”

Jiang Gubei also smiled, smiling like a spring breeze, Jing Mingchen found that he was actually quite good-looking when he smiled, he said: "I'm not wronged, it's just that I'm curious, I'm really so bad, can you risk losing your reputation for the rest of your life to refuse?" “

Jing Mingchen shook his head and comforted him: "You are very good, very good, but I don't want to be someone's young grandmother now." “

Jiang Gubei was thoughtful, and for a long time, he smiled meaningfully at Jing Mingchen, turned around and walked away.

The fundraising was a success, and everyone at the nursery was very happy.

However, not long after the joy, bad news came from the north, Xuzhou fell, and the Japanese army went west along the Longhai line, so that Zhengzhou was in an emergency, and even Wuhan would be threatened, and Officer Xiaoliang finally followed in the footsteps of his comrades and died on the battlefield.

The wounded soldier who came down from the battlefield told Jing Mingchen the news, and he said that Officer Xiaoliang's last words before he died were: "My son, who is still in his hometown in Henan, ......"

Thinking of Officer Xiao Liang's smiling handsome face, Jing Mingchen's heart was like a knife.

She tossed and turned, and in her dreams it was the stunned face of Officer Xiao Liang, and in the blink of an eye it was a scene of flesh and blood, which made her turn over and sit up, sweating profusely, and she decided to go to Zhengzhou and bring Officer Xiao Liang's son to Hankou.

The mother scolded and persuaded again, crying a handful of snot and tears: "I gave birth to you at the age of thirty, and I died for a lifetime, not to let you run to die for other people's children, you haven't seen the people of Sakura, I don't know how bad they are......"

How could she not know, she also felt guilty about her parents, but she was born in this special era, and there was a breath in her chest urging her to do something that was destined to be incompatible.