What a beautiful white lotus

Ye Rongqiu looked at Zhou Shujuan in surprise and sadness.

there is none left.Zhou Shujuan's three words said everything.In fact, seeing Zhou Shujuan here, he already guessed something.Although Zhou Shujuan had thought of joining the army as a military doctor at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War to treat soldiers injured during the Anti-Japanese War, but if Zhou Bohai was still alive, he would never allow his daughter to do so.As for Zhou Hongyu, Anqing was attacked by Japanese devils that day, and he and the black dog were kidnapped by Gu Xiuge and joined the army. It is not known whether Zhou Hongyu escaped the devil's gunfire, maybe he was already captured that day...

Ye Rongqiu hesitated for a moment.He didn't know whether he should continue asking.

However, without waiting for him to ask, Zhou Shujuan said it herself: "Anqing fell, my brother separated from you, he couldn't find you, so he had to go back to Wuhan alone. My father had already guessed that Wuhan would fall, and he took My brother and I fled. But the Japanese came too fast. We fled from Chongqing to Wuhan, and from Wuhan to Shaanxi, but we still didn’t escape the Japanese devils. On the day the Japanese devils captured the city, my father hid me in Under the bed, I saw the devil rushing in, kicking my father to the ground, and stabbing him with a knife. My brother rushed to protect my father, but was stabbed through the chest by the Japanese devil. My father also..."

Having said that, she choked up again.

Ye Rongqiu empathized with her, hugged her into his arms, and clenched her fists.Zhou Bohai, Zhou Hongyu...they are all his relatives.Just listening to Zhou Shujuan's words, he seemed to be able to see the heinous scene that day.He hates, he hates so much that he grits his teeth!And what kind of mood did Zhou Shujuan, who witnessed this scene with her own eyes...

Zhou Shujuan wiped away her tears, took a few deep breaths, and calmed down.In fact, it has been a few years since this incident, and she has not cried in the past few years, but seeing Ye Rongqiu today reminded her of the past, her relatives, and her suppressed feelings could no longer be restrained .

Zhou Shujuan said: "After they died, I took their ashes back to Chongqing. Shaanxi is not my home, Chongqing is my hometown. I buried them under the pagoda tree in my hometown, and then I joined the Communist Party. , returned to Wuhan, and never left again.”

Ye Rongqiu nodded.He can fully understand Zhou Shujuan's mood.Both Chongqing and Wuhan are her home, and she wants to drive the enemy out of her home.

Zhou Shujuan said: "After Anqing was attacked, my brother and you got separated. My brother was worried about you, and then he secretly went to the vicinity of Anqing and Chongqing to inquire about you, but he couldn't find you. My father said, you are very It is possible to be attacked by the Japanese..." She was silent, and then said, "It's really good to see you, really, it makes me feel that this world is not so hopeless."

Ye Rongqiu said: "I was captured by a defeated national army team and joined the army."

Zhou Shujuan nodded: "I've heard about it. You are really powerful. I thought you were a young master before. No one thought that you would be like this today."

"Have you heard of it?" Ye Rongqiu was a little surprised.He paused, and laughed at himself, "So I'm so famous?"

Zhou Shujuan said: "Yes, you are really amazing."

At the beginning, when Ye Rongqiu intended to expand the machine repair factory into an arsenal capable of manufacturing weapons, Huang Mu anticipated what might happen in the future.He suggested that Ye Rongqiu use a fake name and identity, and it is best to change his native place and accent too, so as not to mention it to others.Although the organization will protect him, and the affairs of the arsenal will be kept secret, there are no real secrets in this war-torn era. All kinds of mixed people are wandering among various forces, and news is very easy to leak.Once the arsenal grows bigger, Ye Rongqiu's reputation will spread, and he will definitely become the target of the enemy's assassination.But Ye Rongqiu rejected Huang Mu's proposal, insisted on using his real name, and never deliberately concealed his identity.He hoped that his fame would be bigger, so that his lost relatives, friends and lovers could find him more easily.Otherwise, China, which is vast and rich in resources, is full of people, and he really doesn't know where to look for the lost people.

The two were silent for a while, and Zhou Shujuan said hesitantly, "Have you...have found your family all these years?"

Ye Rongqiu shook his head sadly.

He also wanted to go back to Chongqing to have a look, but unfortunately he couldn't leave.Although he has never been back to Chongqing, he must have tried his best to find out about Ye Huachun and Ye Xiangmin.Whenever he met people from Chongqing, or people who had been to Chongqing, he would ask them if they had seen their relatives.However, in this chaotic world of ups and downs, it is too difficult to find someone.

Zhou Shujuan looked at Ye Rongqiu, opened her mouth to say something, but swallowed it again.

Ye Rongqiu looked at Zhou Shujuan's expression and had a bad guess in his heart.Zhou Shujuan said that she had returned to Chongqing, could it be that she...

Ye Rongqiu immediately grabbed Zhou Shujuan's shoulder: "What do you know?"

Zhou Shujuan bit her lip.She didn't know whether she should say it or not, if she didn't, maybe Ye Rongqiu still had hope and it wouldn't be too painful.But even if she doesn't say it, the dead will not come back to life again. Ye Rongqiu's heart will not be able to settle down for a day without knowing it.

Although Zhou Shujuan didn't speak, her expression confirmed Ye Rongqiu's guess.The blood on his face faded instantly, he let go of Zhou Shujuan's shoulders, shook his head and staggered back two steps: "My father and my brother..."

Zhou Shujuan hurriedly said, "Your brother is still alive!" She paused, and then said, "Four years ago... when I returned to Chongqing, he was still there. When the Japanese army attacked Chongqing, your sister-in-law had just given birth. ...The child died. Your sister-in-law was shocked during confinement, but she was in grief, and her health was getting worse and worse. Your brother took care of the two and a half children, and his sick wife, and wanted to wait for you to come back, so he kept going Did not leave Chongqing. I told him the news that my brother and you were separated in Anqing... Later I left Chongqing. Before I left, he said that if I met you, he would tell you that he would always wait in Chongqing. you come back."

When Ye Rongqiu heard the news, he didn't know whether it was joy or sorrow.Of course it is a good thing that the elder brother who loved him and took care of him is still alive, but that was four years ago. Four years have passed, is he still okay?Fleeing to the south... South China has long been a battlefield for the Japanese army. Where is the safety in such a huge China?

And Zhou Shujuan never mentioned his father...

Ye Rongqiu closed his eyes and tried to calm himself down: "My father..."

Zhou Shujuan said sadly, "...sorry."

condolences...

Ye Rongqiu closed his eyes.He thought he was going to cry, but he didn't.When he actually heard the news, his emotions turned out to be numb.The war was like this, and almost every day he saw someone die in front of his own eyes.Those deaths were real and unreal.Death seems to be just a light word. When he woke up, he was still in Chongqing, the young master of the Ye family. He walked out of the room to say good morning to his father and brother, and went to the shop to do business after breakfast... …

But in the past few years, he woke up countless times, but never returned to the past.

There was no expression on Ye Rongqiu's face, as if he didn't know what the grief of losing a loved one should be like.But Zhou Shujuan understood him very well.At that time, she hid under the bed and watched her brother and father die under the bayonet of the Japanese army, but she didn't cry. The sudden change made her unable to find the emotions she should have.Knowing that she buried the ashes of her relatives under the tree in her hometown, she cried for the first time.It was also at that time that she finally understood that the dead would never come back.

Zhou Shujuan said softly: "Your brother also said that the war will end soon, and your father will be buried where the ancestral hall of your former residence is. Your ancestors will protect you and the whole of China."

Ye Rongqiu nodded numbly.

Zhou Shujuan didn't say anything, and left silently.At this time, Ye Rongqiu didn't need to be comforted, grief would always erupt, and it might not be a good thing to suppress it for too long.Let him adjust his mood silently by himself.

Under Zhou Shujuan's signal, no one bothered Ye Rongqiu.Ye Rongqiu sat silently in the yard all afternoon.