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Ye Rongqiu was shocked: "Are you going? Where are you going?"

The black dog flicked the soot on his fingers: "Find a job." Before Ye Rongqiu could speak, he raised his hand to stop what Ye Rongqiu was about to say: "I'm not interested in being a servant of the young master's family."

Ye Rongqiu was speechless for a moment.Thinking about it, the black dog also came from a wealthy family after all, if he was allowed to stay at home as a servant, he would definitely think of his old life from time to time.If it was another person, this would be a maddening thing, and the black dog wouldn't like it either.

Seeing that he didn't speak, the black dog teased him with a smile: "Will you sleep with me, Ah Bai?"

Ye Rongqiu glared at him with a puffy face: "Why do you keep saying such things, you are not Huang San, you don't like men, you don't want to sleep with me, why do you always make me angry with this. "

"Huh?" The black dog stared in surprise: "Who said that. If you are willing, I will definitely have to sleep and watch. Why are you like everyone else!"

Ye Rongqiu felt that he was crazy, but he could still talk to him about this issue: "How am I different from others?"

The black dog said with a smile: "The ass that the third master couldn't let go of until he died must be different from others."

Ye Rongqiu was really angry now, and kicked him over: "Don't mention Huang San to me!"

The black dog patted the shoe prints on his legs nonchalantly.

Ye Rongqiu was reluctant to leave the black dog, but he couldn't think of any legitimate reason for the black dog to stay. He held back for a while and said, "I'm going back to Chongqing in a few days."

The black dog nodded: "Oh."

Ye Rongqiu said: "You send me back."

The black dog asked him in surprise: "Won't the Zhou family send someone to take you back?"

Ye Rongqiu said: "Sent... But I don't trust them."

The black dog shook his head: "They are always more reliable than me. Remember to redeem your watch on your way back."

Ye Rongqiu sat down on the stone bench, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he asked angrily, "Do you have to go?"

The black dog asked him back, "Why don't I go?"

Ye Rongqiu said: "I don't want you to be a servant, you can go back with me, you are still a relative of my Ye family, you can help us do business together, I will give you a share, and I will definitely treat you well."

The black dog was silent and did not speak. After a while, he raised his hand and rubbed Ye Rongqiu's head, and said softly: "Your baby is really like a little flower. Give you something to eat, and you will forget that I am not a good person."

Ye Rongqiu didn't know why, but the black dog didn't say any more, pressed his head heavily, got up and went back to sleep.

Ye Rongqiu walked back to the room full of doubts, but met an unexpected person outside the room: Zhou Shujuan.

Zhou Shujuan frowned and walked back and forth outside Ye Rongqiu's room with her arms folded, apparently waiting for Ye Rongqiu to come back.When she saw Ye Rongqiu, she hurriedly lowered her arms, but she seemed to be afraid of the distance between Ye Rongqiu and did not get close. She smiled awkwardly and asked, "Brother Maoshi, are you free now? I want to chat with you."

Ye Rongqiu hurriedly stepped forward and opened the door: "Yes, come in and talk."

The two entered the room, Zhou Shujuan walked to the table and sat down, Ye Rongqiu closed the door and followed her in and sat beside her, asking, "What's the matter?"

Zhou Shujuan hesitated for a while, took a deep breath, and said straight to the point: "Brother Maoshi, my father told me to come over just now... Maybe you already know what he asked me. Let me ask you, do you want to marry me?" ?”

Ye Rongqiu was taken aback, hesitated and didn't speak.

Zhou Shujuan said: "Think about it if you want it, don't think about it if you don't want it, don't worry about my face, I want to hear the truth."

Ye Rongqiu still didn't say a word.Although he didn't want to marry, that was what his father and brother wanted, and it was related to the interests of his entire Ye family. After all, he didn't dare to mess things up so casually.But if he wants to say what he thinks against his will, he can't say it.

Zhou Shujuan gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, you mean that you don't want to marry. Give me a reason, do you have someone you like? Or... you don't want to get married so quickly and let the old-fashioned concept lock you Your whole life?"

Ye Rongqiu hesitated for a moment this time and then nodded slightly, but did not say whether it was the former or the latter.

Zhou Shujuan acquiesced to the latter.She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This will be easy! Brother Maoshi, I have always treated you like my brother. There are some things I have thought about for a long time and I still want to tell you, because you are from the new society just like me. You must be able to understand me and help me."

Ye Rongqiu looked at her in confusion.

Zhou Shujuan bit her lip for a while, as if she had made a very important decision, she raised her head and looked at Ye Rongqiu with burning eyes: "I'll tell you directly, Brother Maoshi, only you can help me with this matter! I My dad always thought I was going to graduate this year and urged me to get married, but that’s not the case, I still have two years to graduate because I chose a second major—in addition to history, I also studied medicine.”

Ye Rongqiu was surprised: "Have you studied medicine?"

Zhou Shujuan nodded: "Yes, the situation in China is so chaotic now, and many wounded people come down from the front line every day. Once when I went out with my friends, I met a soldier who had fought on the road. He broke an arm. I thought he must have been through a very brutal war."

Speaking of this, she paused for a while, as if recalling the past, and then slowly spoke again: "I chatted with him, and then I realized how bad the situation on the front line is. There are thousands of wounded in a battle, However, there were only a few medical staff, and how many wounded were killed because of the lack of timely treatment. The small injuries that could have been cured originally took their lives. The man I met had his arm hit by a rebounding stray bullet He was hit, and a piece of flesh was cut off. It was just a stray bullet, a not very serious wound...but he had an arm amputated because of this. Just because no one treated him, and he didn't have antiseptic medicine , the wound was infected, and he would even die if he didn’t amputate...so he lost his entire right arm.” She opened her eyes wide and looked up, holding back the tears that were swirling in her eyes: “Maybe you will think that I can’t control you. There are too many, but I cried when I heard him finish these words in a helpless and self-deprecating tone. My classmate has already joined the army. I am a woman and I can't go to the battlefield. But from that day on, I felt that I had to do something... At this time, in this environment... instead of thinking about what I should bring today Jewelry... Whenever I think of myself living a life that I don't know what to do with ease every day, I am almost driven crazy by my guilt..."

Ye Rongqiu's face was a little pale, because he was the one who lived a comfortable life without knowing the so-called.He asked Zhou Shujuan: "You study medicine... want to treat those wounded?"

Zhou Shujuan nodded: "I want to be a doctor in the field. I want to go to the battlefield. Instead of taking the initiative to retreat three feet when the Japanese devils come closer. I don't want more people to lose their arms, legs, and lives. I want to save them. "

Ye Rongqiu was dumbfounded.Zhou Shujuan is not the first such person he meets, the first is Feng Zhen, and now it's his childhood sweetheart's fiancée.Now Ye Rongqiu no longer had the feeling of disbelief when he heard Feng Zhen joined the army. He was more panicked and puzzled: Why do these well-born and well-educated people want to go to the battlefield to die?That's a battlefield, and it's really deadly, with millions of ignorant people dying, a life is worth only one bullet.why?Wars are always fought by someone, right?Why do you have to participate by yourself and take your own life as a joke?

Ye Rongqiu was not without anger or passion for this cruel war.He is also a Chinese. He saw that his hometown was bombed by the Japanese. He saw many of his compatriots were killed and injured. At that time, he would wish with grief and indignation that he was the chairman of the headquarters of the Nanjing Military Region, and he would give orders to spare no effort. Attack unreservedly, and must drive the Japanese out of his motherland!He will defend the dignity of the motherland at the cost of millions of troops-but he is not one of the millions.

Zhou Shujuan went on to say: "I dare not tell my father. If he finds out, he will force me to drop out of school. At the beginning, he disapproved of my going to college, and during that time he made a fuss about asking me to drop out of school and get married first. I can only study secretly. But I can't hide it anymore. I was going to graduate this year. So I hope you can marry me. As long as I marry into your Ye family, he can't stop me. Of course, I know it's not fair to you. I know Brother Maoshi, you also regard me as your younger sister. You don’t want me to be your wife. If you meet someone you like, I can divorce you immediately and explain this to the person you like. What happened. In addition, I guess your father wants us to get married as soon as possible, and also hopes that our business can complement our Zhou family. I promise that I will do my best to let my father assist you! I will try my best to prepare a generous dowry! Mao Brother Shi, I beg you to help me."

Ye Rongqiu was surprised, then fell silent, and finally said after a long time: "You let me think about it."

Zhou Shujuan nodded: "Okay. But I only told you about this, not even my brother. Although he may not obstruct me, he is a person who can't control his mouth. If he knows, he will definitely tell Father's. So please keep it a secret from me."

Ye Rongqiu solemnly promised: "Don't worry, I will!"

That night, Ye Rongqiu suffered from insomnia.Zhou Shujuan's words made him think a lot. In fact, he didn't just start thinking about it now. It's just that the people around him put pressure on him and made him speed up the process of thinking.He thought what he could and should do.In fact, Ye Rongqiu just graduated from university last year. Originally, after graduating from university, he should have started to help manage the family business, but he was pestered by Mr. Huang right after graduation. In order to avoid Mr. Huang, he hid at home and did not go out. To take care of those chores in the business, it has been delayed until now, and a year has passed, and nothing has been done.Ye Huachun appointed him to come to Wuhan this time, and he has already begun to train him, because the Ye family only has two sons, and he is bound to help provoke the leader, it is impossible to hide at home and read books all his life.

Ye Rongqiu felt that he had been reborn in the short hundred miles from Chongqing to Wuhan.He began to understand how important money is and how important ability is. In this troubled world, without money or ability is a dead end.Ye Rongqiu finally made up his mind to rise up. He is not as noble as Feng Zhen and Zhou Shujuan, and he wants to dedicate his life, but he must also become strong enough to survive in this chaotic society.Zhou Bohai said that he wanted to do comprador business, which moved him a little.He may not be good at traditional business, but as a comprador, he can really play a role that others can't play - to be a comprador is to deal with foreigners, among the descendants of the Zhou family and the Ye family, he has the most education , he speaks the best English. In the past, foreigners came to their school, and the school also sent him as a student representative to receive and communicate.This may also be the reason why Zhou Bohai specifically talked about this matter with him today.

But the comprador business is not easy to do. Ye Rongqiu intends to rise up, but he doesn't have a single helper around him. The Ye family is definitely very short of people.Thinking of a helper, Ye Rongqiu immediately thought of the black dog.He now trusts the black dog even more than he trusted A Fei who had been with him for four or five years.

As soon as he had this idea, he immediately became happy, and decided to tell Heigou tomorrow morning, and finally had a fair reason to keep Heigou by his side, which made Ye Rongqiu very relieved, and even full of confidence in his future .

In the first half of the night, Ye Rongqiu was so excited that he couldn't fall asleep. In the second half of the night, he finally fell asleep, but had a nightmare.

It was a very scary dream. Ye Rongqiu dreamed that he was on the battlefield, and a group of Japanese devils were chasing after him with guns and bayonets. He ran away in panic and kept running forward, but he didn't know where he was going. Going somewhere, the scene in front of him keeps changing. He ran over the mountains, over the hills, over the plains, over the towns, and even saw the Ye Mansion. He ran into it, but went straight across without stopping. , can only run... The terrible Japanese chased after him all the time, and he ran pitifully like this all night until there was no more road ahead and a cliff appeared.He poked his head out to look under the cliff in fear, but to his surprise, the black dog stood at the bottom of the cliff, opened his arms to him from a distance, and shouted for him to jump off, and he would definitely catch him.The Japanese behind had already caught up, Ye Rongqiu had no time to think, he jumped off the cliff resolutely, and threw himself into the arms of the black dog.He was getting closer and closer to the black dog, but just when he was about to touch the black dog, the black dog suddenly withdrew its arms and watched him fall indifferently.Then he woke up with a start.

After Ye Rongqiu woke up, he put it on and immediately ran out to find the black dog.At this time, the sky was not yet bright, and he was not yet fully awake, and he was still immersed in a terrible dream and could not escape.He was going to question why the black dog suddenly withdrew his outstretched hand.However, when he opened the door of the black dog's room, he saw that the quilt on the bed was still messy, but the black dog man had disappeared.

Ye Rongqiu was dumbfounded in the empty room for a while, and finally woke up from the nightmare completely, realizing that something more terrifying than the scene in the nightmare had happened: the black dog disappeared!

Ye Rongqiu rushed out in a panic, and was about to go out to look for the black dog, but bumped into Zhou Hongyu in the yard.

Zhou Hongyu grabbed Ye Rongqiu, and asked him strangely: "Brother-in-law, where are you going in such a hurry early in the morning? Why did you come out without changing your pajamas?"

Ye Rongqiu looked down, only to realize that he came back to look for the black dog as soon as he got out of the bed. He didn't change his clothes or wash his face.He seldom behaved like this in front of people, he pressed his messy hair a little anxiously, and was about to go back to his room to change clothes, when Zhou Hongyu stopped him and asked: "By the way, what did your friend Ah Hei go out early in the morning?" In the morning, the cashier came to report to me, saying that he wanted to pay ten oceans and charge it to your account. I thought you wanted to buy something, so I asked him to pay for it.”

Ye Rongqiu took a deep breath: "What?!" He was stunned for a while before he realized that what Heigou said last night was true, not only true, but also swift and resolute, so he left as soon as he said it, and told him to make up his mind I didn't even have a chance to speak my mind.He rubbed his temples, suppressed his impatience and begged Zhou Hongyu: "Brother Hongyu, please send some people out to help me find his whereabouts?"

Zhou Hongyu was taken aback: "What's going on? Isn't he your friend?"

Ye Rongqiu said: "Yes. But he wants to leave, and I still need his help, so please help me send someone to look for him. If you find him, ask him to come back and say that I have something to discuss with him."

Zhou Hongyu hurriedly said, "Okay, I'll send someone out to look for it right away."

Ye Rongqiu went out for a walk by himself, but couldn't find the black dog, so he had to come back and sat anxiously in the room waiting for news.He didn't know what the black dog was thinking, but he just didn't want to let the black dog go like this.He relies on the black dog and wants to keep the black dog by his side to do things.

At night, the people sent by Zhou Hongyu came back and brought back news to Ye Rongqiu. They found Heigou in a flour shop and told him that Master Ye invited him back, but Heigou refused to come back and told them never to go again. up.