11 Xiao Hong's rented courtyard house at night inside and outside late autumn 1930

Xiao Hong's small room.

Lu Zheshun, Li Jiewu, and several male and female classmates gathered in a small room and sat around the stove.

The room was cloudy, and no one spoke. They are all older than Xiao Hong, both of them are twenty-three or fourteen years old.

In the courtyard, a thin layer of snow fell, and the moonlit night shone brightly.

Xiao Hong stood on the roof and used a bamboo pole to knock on the remaining winter dates from a jujube tree in the yard.

Xiao Hong came into the hut with a bowl of dates.

Xiao Hong: Come, let's eat dates!

No one moved.

Lu Zheshun: What the hell is going on?

Li Jiewu: I heard from a classmate at Peking University that someone was arrested last night, and the news leaked!

Lu Zheshun: Then our plan to march and demonstrate on the "Double Tenth" Festival has been cancelled?

Li Jiewu: I don't know......

Xiao Hong: I don't think you can do the revolution, how can you do the revolution like this!

Lu Zheshun reached out and grabbed a handful of dates from the bowl in Xiao Hong's hand, threw them into his mouth and chewed them angrily.

Everyone in the house watched him eat dates alone.

12 Hutong in the night outside the late autumn of 1930

Li Jiewu and the classmates in the room just now walked in the alley.

Li Jiewu is tall and like an athlete.

Lu Zheshun chased after him.

Lu Zheshun : Jiewu!

Li Jiewu and the others stopped and turned their heads to look.

Lu Zheshun stopped and didn't go any further.

Lu Zheshun : Come over here and take a look!

Li Jiewu turned around and came to Lu.

Lu Zheshun (lowers his voice): Lend me some money! Nai Ying and I don't have pants.

Li Jiewu (also whispered): I'll figure it out tomorrow!

Lu Zheshun : My family has cut off all relations with me!

Li Jiewu: Did you talk about the divorce?

Lu Zheshun nodded.

Li Jiewu (sincerely): Hold on! Don't compromise! Let's figure out a way to solve economic problems!

The classmates waiting in front seemed to have a clear heart, and during the conversation between Li Lu and the two, several people each scraped together some change.

One of the girls came over and stuffed the money that everyone had temporarily put into Lu Zheshun's hands, and turned around and went back without saying a word. Suddenly, a classmate shouted, "There's a patrol!"

A group of people turned around and ran away like frightened horses.

13 Hutong Inside and Outside Winter 1930

Xue Xiaohong was holding a few books, shrunken and walked in the dense snowflakes, she coughed nonstop.

Lu Zheshun hugged a quilt and collided with Xiao Hong head-on.

Xiao Hong: What are you doing?!

Lu Zheshun hurriedly dropped a sentence: "When it is, there is no coal left!"

Lu Zheshun went away.

14 Xiao Hong's rented courtyard house in the morning outside the winter of 1930

Xiao Hong's small room.

Xiao Hong wore clothes and pants covering a thin mattress, curled up on the bare wooden bed.

Suddenly, there was a hurried knock on the door, and a woman shouted: "Girl, girl, get up quickly, Mr. Lu has an accident!"

Xiao Hong jumped up in shock.

In the yard.

The landlord, Geng Ma, who was in her forties, dragged Lu Zheshun on the snow.

Xiao Hong rushed out of the house.

Geng's mother: Go to the doctor, Mr. Lu is out of gas!

Xiao Hong stumbled out.

15 Xiao Hong's rented courtyard house at noon in the winter of 1930

Lu Zheshun's small room.

Lu Zheshun was wearing clothes and pants, and he was also covered with a mattress and slept on a bare wooden bed.

He was lying on his side facing the wall, and a bowl of Chinese medicine was placed on the chair at the head of his bed.

The midday sun silently hit his back, and he remained motionless.

Lu Zheshun closed his eyes and tears flowed down his face, like a sick child.

After a while, Lu Zheshun subconsciously opened his eyes and saw the camera.

There was a knock on the door.

A man in his thirties wearing glasses walked into the house, leaning directly against the door frame and examining Lu Zheshun on the bed.

His name was Wang Enjia, and he was pale-complexioned, tall and thin, introverted and neurotic.

Wang Enjia (expressionless): My name is Wang Enjia, and I came to find Xiao Hong.

Lu Zheshun got up and looked at Wang Enjia vigilantly.

Lu Zheshun : She lives next door, and she went out.

Wang Enjia lowered his head, took out a stack of silver dollars from his pocket, and fiddled with it nonchalantly.

Wang Enjia: When she comes back, tell her I've been here.

After Wang Enjia finished speaking, he picked up the silver dollar and turned around and went out.

16 Xiao Hong's rented courtyard house at noon outside the winter of 1930

The snow in the yard had melted away, and only the corners were still remnant of snow.

There were sporadic firecrackers and kicks in the air.

After a while, Xiao Hong pushed the door and came in.

She carried a hen in one hand and a firecracker in the other.

Xiao Hong shouted: Lu Zheshun!

Geng's mother came out of Lu Zheshun's room with a confused expression.

Xiao Hong (sensitively): What's wrong?

Geng's mother (ashamed): Girl, Mr. Lu has returned to Harbin! In the morning, a man surnamed Wang came, and then a woman came, saying that it was Mr. Lu's wife. She settled the money you and Mr. Lu owed me, and she said that Mr. Lu told you that they had gone back to Harbin...... Xiao Hong pursed her lips and smiled, let go of the hen in her hand, and the chicken rattled and jumped around the yard.

17 Yukino Midnight Outside Winter 1931

Two horse-drawn carriages full of belongings galloped across the snowy fields. Xiao Hong's family all sat in the car with their heads shrunken.

Xiao Hong stared blankly at the night sky.

Xiao Hong (voiceover): My elopement incident became a sensational evil deed in Hulan County, and our family became infamous. In the middle of the night when I returned from Beiping, my father ordered the family to leave the Hulan River and quietly move to his hometown of Achengxiang......

18 Shu Qun's narration

Subtitle : Shu Qun

He's the kind of guy who doesn't talk much. Twenty-four or five years old, dressed modestly. He speaks with a serious demeanor, and because he is not good at words, sometimes he simply does not look at the camera, and talks to himself with his head down.

Shu Qun : After being imprisoned in the countryside for ten months, Xiao Hong fled to Harbin. Later, Xiao Jun asked her several times how she escaped, but she was tight-lipped. There is a theory that Xiao Hong sympathized with the peasants and persuaded her father not to increase the land rent and deduct the wages of long-term workers, and her father beat her badly.

Her aunt couldn't bear it, hid her in a peasant's house, and then fled the next day in a wagon carrying cabbage to the city......

19 Erxiao Residence, North Sichuan Road, Shanghai, Days, Xia, 1936

Twenty-five-year-old Xiao Hong sat at the desk in her room writing articles.

She stopped her pen, lit a cigarette, and thought about something, with a very sad expression.

Shu Qun (voiceover): After Xiao Hong fled to Harbin, it is difficult to explain because of the lack of data. It can only be seen from the description of her later essays that she lived a life of indefinite residence and betrayal of her relatives......

20 Streets of Harbin Morning Outside Winter 1931

Xiao Hong walked on the street with a sad expression, because her clothes were undressed, like a lost dog.

Xiao Hong (voiceover): In early winter, I was walking down a cool street and met my younger brother.

"Sister—" someone shouted from behind.

Zhang Xiuke appeared behind Xiao Hong with a basketball in his arms and a schoolbag. He looked at Xiao Hong timidly.

Xiao Hong smiled indifferently.

Zhang Xiuke: Where are you going?

Xiao Hong: Take a walk......

Zhang Xiuke: Let's go have a cup of coffee, shall we?