Chapter 912 911【It Will Happen when Conditions Are Ripe】
evening.
It's common sense in Chongqing that people in the Zhou Mansion start eating before it gets dark. Lights are not allowed to be lit at night, and even cars are not allowed to turn on night lights. If caught by the patrol police, they will be fined or imprisoned.
Everything was to prepare for the bombing that could come at any time. Even if Zhou Hexuan stayed up late at night writing articles, he would have to draw three layers of curtains to block out the light in the study.
Ruan Lingyu and Zhou Xuan also moved into Zhou's mansion, including Ruan Lingyu's mother and sister. The apartment they lived in was bombed into rubble some time ago. Zhang Leyi couldn't bear it and took the initiative to take Ruan Lingyu's family over.
"Mom, I want 20 yuan!" Zhou Yangqian suddenly said to Liao Yaquan, holding his rice bowl.
Before Liao Yaquan spoke, Zhou Shuoming also said to Wanrong: "Mom, I also want money."
Zhou Hexuan asked: "What do you use the money for?"
"The teacher said that we need to donate money to rebuild the Guanyue Temple!" Zhou Shuoming and Zhou Yangquan answered at the same time.
Zhou Hexuan took out two 10-yuan legal notes and said to his sons: "This money should be donated, but you can't donate too much, otherwise other students will be embarrassed and it will easily lead to a comparison mentality. Each of you donate 10 yuan, Dad will donate the remaining money, do you understand?"
"Yeah." The two sons nodded in understanding.
Guanyue Temple is more than just a temple. Like a "spiritual fortress", it had great significance during the Anti-Japanese War. Millions of soldiers who went out to Sichuan to fight the war, as long as they took the Kuimen route, they must swear an oath at Guanyue Temple to fight. This has become the spiritual imprint of the Sichuan Army.
Now that the Guanyue Temple was bombed into ruins, it was a great blow to the soldiers of Dechuan, and repair work must be organized as soon as possible.
Meng Xiaodong, who had just returned from a charity performance in Chengdu, said: "Chongqing has been relatively clean during this period, but Chengdu has been bombed badly and is bombed by Japanese invaders almost every day."
Zhang Leyi said worriedly: "Then you'd better not go to Chengdu, it's very dangerous."
Meng Xiaodong smiled and said: "It's okay, the bombs are all airports and factories. The urban areas of Chengdu are rarely bombed."
Zhou Hexuan said: "The little devil is taking revenge. He is so anxious that he will jump over the wall."
Since the "King of Bombing" Okuda Kikuji was shot down, although the Japanese Air Force in Wuhan has lost its commander, the pilots are as angry as if their own fathers were dead. Under the leadership of the squadron leader and squad leader, they carried out retaliatory bombing of Chengdu Airport on their own initiative without any orders from their superiors.
Within a week, Chengdu Airport was bombed five times, but Chongqing was not bombed once.
Liao Yaquan was afraid that his son would have an accident, so he suggested: "This side of the main city is too dangerous. Children often have to run to the alarm when they are studying. There are so many people in the air-raid shelters that they may not have time to escape sometimes. I heard that Tao Xingzhi was working in Hechuan We have a Yucai school with a great reputation, so why not send our children to a Yucai school?"
"Hechuan is too far and it's inconvenient." Zhou Hexuan immediately rejected the idea.
The reason is very simple. Zhou Hexuan had already made up his mind to run away after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. And more than half of the teachers and students in Hechuan Yucai School have joined the Communist Party. If you send your children to study there, it will probably be unclear in the future.
Ma Jue suddenly said: "It is better to send the children to No. 14 Middle School. When sister Wanrong and I go to teach every day, we can send them to school by the way."
Zhou Hexuan thought for a while and said, "This is a good idea. I will transfer to another school after the Spring Festival."
National Middle School No. 14 is located in Qingmuguan, Shapingba, not far from the Central University. In a year and a half, it will become an affiliated school of the Central University. The former Experimental School Affiliated to Central University was moved to Guizhou during the relocation. Because it was too far from the school headquarters, it later simply exchanged its school name with the National No. 14 Middle School in Chongqing.
The exchange of school names aroused great indignation among the teachers and students of the Experimental School Affiliated to Central University. They have always been proud of the Central University. Many outstanding graduates can go directly to the main school. After changing schools, they stopped immediately. Many teachers resigned directly in protest.
However, protesting was of no use, and we had to change schools when we should.
If Zhou Hexuan's children go to the National No. 14 Middle School now, they will not only be safe, but after changing schools, the teaching staff of the No. 14 Middle School will be rapidly improved, and they will even have the opportunity to receive personal lessons from professors from the Central University.
The matter of transferring schools was decided by Zhou Hexuan. Liao Yaquan didn't say anything else, but he just didn't like Ma Jue and felt that this woman was a bit troublesome.
"Woooooooo..."
At this moment, the air raid siren suddenly sounded.
Zhou Hexuan said depressedly: "Hey, the little devils are here again. It seems they didn't receive their lesson in Chengdu!"
The whole family quickly hid in the basement, and soon the alarm was lifted. Those Japanese planes were probably just passing through, and their destinations might be Yibin or Zigong, or they might fly to Chengdu.
Especially Zigong, during the entire Anti-Japanese War, was probably the Sichuan city besides Chongqing that was bombed the most by Japanese planes.
Zigong was only officially established as a city in September 1939, but before it was established, it had been bombarded by Japanese planes. Because this city is so important, it produces a necessary strategic material-salt!
As several major salt fields near the sea were occupied by the Japanese army, Zigong's salt industry developed rapidly and was responsible for supplying the salt needs of several surrounding provinces. By the time of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, China's annual salt output was 660,000 tons, and Zigong's output alone was 230,000 tons, accounting for 35% of the national total.
Not long ago, just one month after the establishment of the city of Zigong, the Japanese invaders sent a celebratory gift - bombing. The Japanese military even formulated a bombing plan specifically for Zigong, code-named "Salt Interruption", thinking that the bombing would collapse the hearts of the Zigong people, but instead it aroused the Zigong people's hatred of the same enemy.
Throughout the Anti-Japanese War, Zigong was the city with the most donations among cities and counties in the country. This small place with a population of only 220,000 donated 120 million yuan to the anti-Japanese war. Wang Deqian, the richest man in Zigong, also broke the wartime personal single donation record.
Therefore, when someone mentions Zigong in the future, your first reaction should not be Guo Xiaosi or Huang Xudong. You should think of the contribution made by the Zigong people in the Anti-Japanese War. No matter how bad it is, one should think of Li Zongwu and his "Houhei Xue", or Liu Guangdi, one of the Six Gentlemen of 1898.
I have said so much nonsense, mainly because the author is from Zigong, and the first draft of Li Zongwu's "Houhei Xue" was completed in the principal's office of the author's high school alma mater.
After coming out of the basement, everyone continued to eat, but the food was already cold. This is one of the troubles of living in Chongqing.
It's not bad now, but in two years' time, Japan will begin the so-called "fatigue bombing" of Chongqing. They just send planes several times a day, and regardless of whether they drop bombs or not, they have to scare the people into the air-raid shelters anyway. As a result, people cannot live and work normally, and even basic sleep hours cannot be guaranteed.
During the "fatigue bombing", Chang Kaishen once had a meeting with Stilwell. During the conversation, the alarm sounded, and he ran to the air-raid shelter four times before finishing the conversation.
Zhou Hexuan was not in the mood to eat anymore, so he returned to the study, closed the three-layer curtains, and began editing the novel "Black Soil".
"Black Soil" has been serialized for several years and is millions of words long. It will be completed and published soon. This is Zhou Hexuan's original work after "The Goddess" and "The Dog Officer", and he is quite concerned about it. I feel unsatisfied with many details now and will need to make additions, revisions, and deletions when it is assembled and published.
Written from the late Qing Dynasty to the Anti-Japanese War, "Black Soil" tells the story of the social changes in the Northeast for more than half a century, and is recognized by later researchers as "an epic depicting the modern society of the Northeast." Especially local customs and customs. Zhou Hexuan interviewed many Northeastern exiles, and even the dialogues between the characters were in local dialects.
Researchers can even infer the approximate origins of the supporting characters through the dialogue in the novel, so that some later linguists also studied Zhou Hexuan's book.
I have to say that this is the most painful and laborious work that Zhou Hexuan wrote, otherwise he would not have written it for so many years.
At about 11:30, Zhou Hexuan came to Wanrong's room - he had a number assigned to where to sleep.
Afraid of waking up Wanrong from her sleep, Zhou Hexuan did not turn on the light and got into the bed in the dark. He immediately felt a hot body pressing against him.
Zhou Hexuan immediately felt something was wrong because the fragrance on his body was different from Wanrong's. He said: "You are..."
"Stop talking." Cui Huifu's voice came from the darkness.
Cui Huifu is already a 43-year-old girl. She has sworn not to marry for the rest of her life and has not mentioned relationship issues in these years. Zhou Hexuan even helped her introduce blind date partners, but they were all rejected by Cui Huifu. As a result, it has been delayed until now.
Maybe it was out of sisterly affection, or maybe it was out of cliques, but Wanrong always encouraged Cui Huifu to become her concubine. Now that Ruan Lingyu has moved into the Zhou family, and Ma Jue, a highly educated and good-looking person, has also arrived, Wanrong and Cui Huifu may have been stimulated, and the two sisters conspired to create a self-recommended pillow mat.
Cui Huifu's movements were very unfamiliar and clumsy, but her enthusiasm was so intense that Zhou Hexuan just went with the flow and refused. After all, although this old girl is old, she has taken good care of her, and she has gotten along well over the years, so she has a foundation of affection.
Like an old house on fire, Cui Huifu quickly became wild and reluctantly pulled Zhou Hexuan for the second shot.
The next morning, Zhang Leyi quickly discovered something unusual, but didn't say anything. Compared to Ruan Lingyu and Ma Jue, Cui Huifu is actually more acceptable to her. After all, they have lived together for ten years.
In the early morning, while his wife and children were working and going to school, Zhou Hexuan continued to revise "Black Soil" in his study.
Suddenly Cui Huifu came to the study. She looked awkward when walking. She said a little shyly: "Mr.
(PS: I have to fill the hole I dug in the past with tears in my eyes. Putting it off forever is not the answer. After Ma Jue and Cui Huifu finish writing, Lao Zhou will no longer accept girls...well, it seems there is still Zhou Xuan.)