Only then was Chu Yaonan startled, wondering why he came to his father's study by accident.
He was worried about Xiaochun Bao'er's safety, every minute he was in danger, but he didn't know where to start when the words came to his lips.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and Qin Rong and his second uncle Qin Zhuangdong came in.
"Father, Ah Rong is bidding farewell to my father." Qin Rong said, "If you enter the base today, you will not be able to come out. Brother Pan will give you an extrajudicial favor these two days."
Qin Zhuangdong looked around, glanced at Chu Yaonan and said, "Nan'er, take good care of your father." His tone was still as if coaxing a child, and it sounded so kind.
Boss Qin suddenly said, "Rong'er, father will take you there personally."
Everyone was shocked, but Qin Zhuangdong said, "Brother, why bother?"
Boss Qin sneered, walked around the study with his hands behind his back, and said, "He Wenhou is really cruel and ruthless. With my son Qin Alang personally escorting him by his side, can the whole gang of the Blue Gang continue to do their best to protect his safety?"
"Brother!" Qin Zhuangdong stopped him, "At such a critical moment, I'm afraid that what Brother did would look a bit petty."
"Fart! If I had a dozen sons, I'd be great too! Didn't he, He Wenhou, pinpoint my lifeline?" Qin Alang scolded endlessly.
Qin Rong stood up and said, "Father, their scruples are justifiable. Now it's not a grievance. It's the Japanese bandits who broke into the northeast gate of our house and are about to rush in. Qin Rong is willing to go!"
"Good boy." Qin Zhuangdong patted Qin Rong's broad shoulder vigorously, his eyes filled with relief.
There was silence in the room, and there was a feeling of wind and water in the room.
Qin Alang took Qin Rong's hand, and took off a string of bodhi seed incense beads from his wrist, and put it on Qin Rong's wrist.
"Father, I don't believe in such superstition." Qin Rong said with a smile, he didn't believe it, but after half a year, he was already used to calling the bald gangster boss in front of him his father.
Boss Qin held Qin Rong's wrist tightly and refused to let go, sobbing from his throat for a long time, he said, "Rong'er, you should be more careful! When you come back, dad will open that altar of treasured champion red for you, my father The two of you will eat the brine chicken butt. You..."
Boss Qin swallowed his saliva and said, "As long as you come back safely..."
I could no longer say the following words, and turned around to hide my sadness and frustration.
Qin Rong smiled and said, "Your son is confident that he is the best marksman. As long as I draw the gun, no one will be faster than me. Don't worry."
It's just that the words were also choked up, and he turned to Chu Yaonan and squeezed his shoulders and said, "I'm leaving, I'll leave the family to Brother Nan."
Chu Yaonan looked at him indifferently, speechless, with mixed feelings in his heart, but he didn't dare to look into Qin Rong's eyes, his face was pale and hot from time to time, as if countless eyes were looking at him accusingly.
As soon as Qin Rong finished speaking, he turned around and rushed out the door, not daring to stay, as if he was afraid that there would be some obstacles in the room that would prevent him from going forward bravely.
When Chu Yaonan returned to the room, he was in a daze, and the "Dang Dang Dang" clock rang, which shocked him like a reminder. He swayed, his footing was unstable, and he held on to the corner of the table, but he heard his mother's third aunt muttering in the room He said: "This child is usually clean and tidy, but he is particular about it. Why is he so sloppy these days. Why is this box in the cabinet with a seal on it?"
"Don't move!" Chu Yaonan yelled madly to stop, rushed forward and snatched the box, scared the third aunt to look at him in astonishment, as if he was a frightened cat, he pushed his mother away and snatched the box , Seeing the mother who fell on the ground panicked to help her, but her eyes were full of horror.
"Nan'er, what's the matter with you recently? Did you get beaten up in public by your father? Be good, Bao'er, wake up!" The third aunt was so sad that she wept, and asked strangely. The corners of Nan's lips twitched slightly, and he said to his mother: "Mother, you go out, let me be quiet, be quiet."
Chu Yaonan hugged the precious box tightly, he was out of breath, and said in a trance: "Get out, get out, don't touch my things."
Until my mother was so panicked that she rubbed her teary eyes and said: "Today is Xiaohan, 'Three nines make up one winter, and there will be no illness in the coming year'. Mother will cook vegetables and rice for you. You like it most." The door, he cried bitterly. Tears are falling. In previous years, the twelfth lunar month is the most lively time. The atmosphere of the Chinese New Year gradually becomes stronger. On the day of Xiaohan, the mother will cook bacon and salted duck with short-legged vegetables, and cook delicious rice with glutinous rice. , he likes to eat most. Today, that taste is different.
I don't know how long he sat quietly on the ground, his tears fell on the old seal, and the handwriting written in ink was damp.
When he suddenly realized, he hurriedly wiped it, for fear of staining the only trace left by his eldest brother, and letting his tears take away his memories.
Just when I was stuck on the word "Seventeen" that "Xin Wei is the seventeenth day of the lunar month, my heart suddenly moved. I rubbed my eyes carefully and suspected that I was dizzy. The seventeenth day of the lunar calendar is the day before the death of my elder brother. At night, he knelt in the snow and thought about the days when he came to Peiping. He remembered it clearly, and kept engraving this day in his heart in the prison. It was clear that the elder brother sealed his box when he first came to Peiping to visit relatives. , It should be Dingmao Day of Haiyue, which is the 29th day of the lunar calendar, which is a Sunday, and he remembers it clearly. He checked the seal carefully in a panic, and the handwriting was clearly written by his elder brother. When was the seal changed?
That kind of astonishment made him dare not touch the seal with his hands, but the suspicion in his heart made him slowly peel off the damp seal of tears and open the heavy box. Why the box is so heavy, he actually ignored it at first. In the past, I brought this big box to my eldest brother's house because it contained the wolf and fox fur mattress that my father had when he was alive.
Sure enough, the box was covered with the long-lost wolf and fox fur quilt. No wonder the quilt was never found at the scene of the murder, but it was in the box.
In a panic, he dug out all his things to check, and removed the few simple clothes and money he brought. There was a collection of poems in it, and the four characters "Qingfeng Yinxiao" were impressive. After a cursory look, it was the poems of his elder brother. , he had seen. A letter fell out of it, it was written by the elder brother himself, he threw down everything, opened the letter with trepidation as if holding an imperial decree, and it was written in neat small letters, "Little brother Yaonan, if you meet me, brother leave this book, you should share it with me." My brother, people and ghosts have different paths. Confucius said to be benevolent, Mencius said to be righteous, and the evil is worse than the dead, so the suffering is not resolved...Nowadays, Japanese pirates are invading the north, trampling rivers and mountains with iron hoofs, wanting to set up puppets in the northeast..."
Chu Yaonan felt chilled and terrified, read the letter carefully, glanced over it hastily, and suddenly realized.
The eldest brother has already discovered that the Shen family is trapped in the cage of the Japanese invaders. The Japanese manipulate and force him to go to the Northeast to set up a puppet government to serve. However, the southern government has repeatedly suspected him. Now that several forces are pressing him, he has nowhere to escape. After a few days, it can be seen that there are gunshots inside and outside the house, and they will die at any time. When he couldn't delay, he still wanted to do his best to preserve his wife, children and mother, so he tried to let Chu Yaonan take his family away. He only said that the time was short, and asked Chu Yaonan to tell his second brother, so that the two brothers would not forget the humiliation of their family and the country, and live up to being the descendants of the Shen family.
When the mystery was solved, the answer was so unsatisfactory.
Maybe he will never understand his brother's death, why didn't he say anything, if he said that the Japanese were already in danger, maybe he would risk his life to save his brother from the tiger's den, why didn't his brother give him the last chance, why did his brother use such a stupid How to drive his uncle and nephew Xue Ye away to preserve the scattered roots of the Shen family?
Doesn't the eldest brother know his background, he is still the young master of the blue gang after all. Thinking of this, he was annoyed, he was worried about buying a piece of coal just to eat a sesame seed cake, how to convince his elder brother of his power and prestige, it was his stubbornness and willfulness that harmed his elder brother.
He unfolded a newspaper under the suitcase. The headlines on the front pages of those newspapers were all photos of his elder brother in military uniform. The eldest son of General Zhuo has served in the preparation of the new government of Manchuria. Shameless! Shameless especially! The trap of the Japanese is hard to argue with.
Perhaps the eldest brother still wants to make a final struggle, but if the eldest brother does not go to the Northeast for a day, sooner or later something will be revealed and the Japanese will slap their mouths. A few pages from the collection of poems were a statement written by the elder brother to the newspaper, bluntly saying that he was Chinese and would not succumb to the Japanese pirates. Chu Yaonan shed tears for those passionate words.
Chu Yaonan was so anxious that he slapped himself fiercely, why, why didn't he open the box earlier, the seal was obviously replaced, and the date was clearly written, why was he so careless, if he had seen it earlier, if he had noticed it then, No matter what, he would not leave his eldest brother, nor would he allow that tragedy to happen.
All mysteries have been answered, the Japanese are a Japanese trap. Keiko's nonsense is enough to prove that the Blue Gang is not an accomplice. His father hated the Japanese. Even if he worked for the Xijing government to kill people for money, he would not be a killer for Japanese money. He believed in this, and he believed in his adoptive father's firm attitude towards the Japanese.
With cold palms, he wiped away his tears and repacked the box, and rushed out of the house, when his mother came in and saw his red and swollen cheeks, tears in his eyes, and seeing his embarrassment in a panic, she hurriedly asked: "Bao'er, what's wrong with you? "
Looking behind him, he asked softly, "Did your father beat you?"
Chu Yaonan shook his head with a wry smile, pushed her away and wanted to flee, but his mother's third aunt stopped him and said, "Where are you going? Bao'er, your father is at home today, what are you making a fuss about, doesn't your butt hurt?"
Chu Yaonan didn't break free anymore, he said to his mother earnestly and anxiously: "I'm going to find my second uncle, I have something important to do!"