Yu Jie ate and regained some strength. Mr. Ledger sent a pair of home-made cloth shoes and asked her for a piece of Yuan Datou. Then he smiled and persuaded her to take a break. It is said that it is only a dozen miles away from the station, and the road is dry when you wake up, and you can arrive in half an hour.

Yu Jie lay on the kang in a daze, unable to sleep well because she was worried about what happened to Xiao Gao. Now that she is still around enough, how ridiculous it is to make trouble for her childish behavior before! There has been a Mulan in history, and people have acted, sang, and tossed for many lifetimes; But our little Mulan, even she herself and the people around her, no one felt that she was a hero! And she's such a hero, you hear how fierce she quarrels with the bandits! How calm he looks when he is escorted away! You can't do it yourself! Will she be able to get out safely?

Yu Jie hesitated. Two hours into this town had awakened her hatred of the old world. She wanted to dismiss the plan to make a detour through the city and zigzag its way.

Yu Jie's father was a powerful capitalist in the Guangdong Gang in Shanghai. The mother is the original wife, and she has given birth to two children, both of whom are girls who have no inheritance rights. But both aunts and wives gave birth to sons. The mother could not stand the neglect in front of her, but also feared the unimaginable old age after her husband's death, and suffered from mental illness. The eldest sister was forced to marry out in her teens, became a daughter-in-law to a larger capitalist, and after giving birth to two daughters early, she completely repeated her mother's path and became a redundant person in that family.

Yu Jie's childhood was spent in the lower room of the nurse and the maids. When she reached the age of secondary school, her father sent her to boarding school. When she was in the third grade, the film studio made a juvenile film and chose her as an extra. Not only was she encouraged for the first time in her artistic activities, but for the first time, she was paid a sum of money for her own labor. Ah, how proud an independent person, a self-reliant person, a person who has achieved a position in life by his own struggle! She begged the director to intercede and entered the academy of an art group. She was very satisfied with the food and a small pocket money. Wrote a letter to his father stating that he would no longer accept his living expenses and tuition fees. His father wrote back that he respected her opinion and that he had saved a sum of money for her that would belong to her for the rest of her life. But it is not commendable to ask her to change her name and imply that the daughter of a wealthy tycoon is a good girl.

She went through three years in that art group, from a student to an actor, from an ordinary actor to a three-year hanger. As her art progressed, her optimism, self-confidence, and hope for life declined greatly. The art world, a circle that is regarded as pure and detached from the world, is so filthy and ugly, and it is like a black-eyed chicken among its peers. If you smash a play, people will point fingers at you, despise you, and gloat; acted in a popular scene, people were jealous and slandered, saying that you had an ambiguous relationship with this director and gave a bribe to that celebrity. You obviously heard someone talking backstage on stage: "Look at that line! Look at those steps! This is also called acting? After you got off the stage, you asked: "Mr. Zhang, I can't read my lines well, you can help me more!" "Miss Li, I just can't take a step in ancient costume, you guide me!" But everyone said with a compliment: "Great, great." Don't be kidding, okay? What can I point? ”

There is a new play in the troupe, called "Tao Li Mei", she plays "Mei", and she is a small protagonist. This drama became a sensation in Shanghai. Sell photos of the three women of "Tao Li Mei" everywhere, and everyone hums the interlude in the play. One day after the end, her half-brother unexpectedly came backstage, in addition to saying hello to his sister, he also said that he would invite the whole group to dinner to congratulate him. This brother is already a budding small boss, and he doesn't interact with her on weekdays, and she is not enthusiastic about this move. But the head of the class and the director were very willing to accept the invitation, and wanted to take advantage of this small Kaila relationship with the backing of a big fortune.

Since then, her brother has become a patron of this art group, and often borrows money in advances when he is in a tight situation. Yu Jie suddenly moved the tablet on the poster and took another step forward. Somehow, there are more articles about her in the tabloids.

"Born with excellent seeds, excellent artistic materials!"

"Yigao is not afraid of being young, and the new star shines brighter than the old star!"

"Yu Jie just acted well! No gossip! ”

Yu Jie's photos are all over the masthead and the end of the newspaper, and even the fans sold in the summer have her adult head painted on them.

Yu Jie was full of pride at the beginning, but the more she went on, the more she felt that something was wrong, and in this dream-like day of red and purple, a café called "Tao Li Mei" opened on the bustling streets of Shanghai, and the neon advertisements were the heads of three actresses. Her brother hired the three heroines as nominee shareholders and invited them to cut the ribbon in person on the opening day of the market. The ribbon was cut in the flashing lights, and it was another banquet. In addition to several celebrities at the banquet, celebrities from all walks of life in Shanghai were invited. Since then, "Taoli Mei Coffee Shop" has been in the limelight in Shanghai and its business is booming. Several nominee shareholders each received half a dozen stockings and a 50% discount meal voucher.

Half a year later, suddenly a notice appeared in the newspaper, and Yu Jie's father declared that he had disowned his son. Yu Jie listened to others and didn't believe it, so she found the newspaper and looked at it, and it was written in black and white, and it was really true. Before she could figure out what was going on, many creditors, journalists, and lawyers approached the troupe, claiming that the "Tao Li Mei Cafe" had used a blank check and that her brother had absconded in fear of the crime. The father announced that he had disowned his son and refused to bear the debt of "Tao Li Mei". As a result, "Tao Li Mei" was declared bankrupt and auctioned, and the creditor came to find the "shareholder". Of course, these nominee shareholders should not have contributed money, and they could not come up with money. But hiring a lawyer and going to court became the front-page news of the tabloids for a while. Yu Jie, a star and shareholder who is also a "daughter of a famous family", has become the protagonist again, and for no reason she has become the object of ridicule of thousands of people.

After the lawsuit, she fell ill, leaving the root of her stomach pain, and her little savings were spent. She wanted to change the environment, took a mobile troupe for the purpose of panning for gold, and left Shanghai.

This was before and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. The mobile troupe has only a few permanent members, and each place has to find extras. The composition of people who come in and out is complicated, including exiled students, professional artists from the rear, and unemployed young people. They came from different regions and all corners of society, and some of them also brought rumors about the Communist People's Liberation Army and pamphlets from the liberated areas. Yu Jie did not care about politics, let alone class struggle, but she became interested in the liberated areas described in people's mouths and books, where the way of life and the relationship between people made her yearn, especially a book without a cover called "Revolutionary Outlook on Life", which for the first time led her to think about why people should live, and only then did she know that it was meaningful to live and work for the people and for the suffering people. It happened that at this time they were acting in a small city in northern Jiangsu, and overnight, the New Fourth Army liberated the city. When the New Fourth Army found out about their small troupe from Shanghai, they solemnly sent people to express their condolences to them, sent them daily necessities, and offered to hold a meeting with them. At the party, the program performed by the New Fourth Army Art Troupe made her refreshed. It was obviously not to advertise the new rehearsal to them, and although it was artistically simple, it was full of heroism in the life of the people, fresh, solemn, and healthy, and full of heroism of dedication to the people and the nation. After the party, she visited this revolutionary family several times to inquire about the various situations in the liberated areas and the ideas of the Communist Party, and the people kindly and patiently told her everything she wanted to know. Finally, she finally asked: "If the Communist Party fights to eliminate exploitation and establish communism, do bourgeois elements like me want it too?" People told her: "Like you, you can only be called a bourgeois family, and you cannot really be a bourgeois element." Haven't you been fending for yourself? Moreover, at the present stage, the national capitalists are also the object of our solidarity, that is, the exploiters themselves, who are willing to betray their own class and join the revolution, and the revolutionary ranks are sincerely welcome. We also have an insurrectionary officer as a commander in our unit! ”

The New Fourth Army issued travel expenses to send the mobile troupe back to Shanghai, and Yu Jie stayed behind automatically. She had a new lease on life.

Due to the arduous march and illness in the past few days, and also because of the kindness of relieving the burden of Yiyan Xiaogao and the others, she was anxious to get out of the predicament and thought of a roundabout plan. When she came to this shop, Mr. Ledger remembered the face of the world she had forgotten with a few faces and words.

Can't go back there for a day! She decided to follow the route that Yiyan said, and even if she died, she would die in a clean combat life.

She got up, got dressed, and prepared to go. Suddenly, there was a noise outside, and the ping-pong was busy under the guise of the door panel. She walked to the door and met the panicked bookkeeper.

"The team of the national army has entered the village, you can stay!" The bookkeeper said uncertainly, "I must meet with the gentry to discuss the delivery of consolation money, so that the procession does not enter the shopkeeper's house." You have been wronged here all night, lest something happen, I see that the old rich man is not good at speaking. ”

He decided that Yu Jie was the young grandmother of a certain landlord.