In the dark and stuffy cell, Xie Tao paced back and forth anxiously on the ground. Police Chief Song Maogong just came here, and Gu Yanjiao's radical reaction was regarded as the leader of the students and was held alone. Even the name of Gu Zongtang was raised. Pass it off as a joke.
This Song Maogong is not an honest person. Over the years, he has been involved in reselling opium, reselling cultural relics, selling intelligence, and even selling labor. These activities are inseparable from the Japanese. Now, this patriotic parade is extremely serious. Affecting the interests of the Japanese, I am afraid that these students in the prison will be directly wronged as murderers.
"Student, don't worry, this matter has nothing to do with you, and we will let you go after we find out tomorrow." Lin Xianwei handed a bowl of water to Xie Tao.
"I'm just, I'm just worried about him. He has a big temper, bad mouth, and his words are not pleasant, and I don't know if he has suffered." Xie Tao still stood in front of the cell, watching Gu Yan frame being taken away through the gap between the bars direction.
A policeman ran to this side, holding a large bunch of keys to unlock the lock, Xie Tao looked at him with some vigilance, suddenly froze, and reacted in surprise: "Gu Yan frame! How did you run out?"
"Hush! I got the cell key, try which one is right now."
Lin Xianwei took the keys and shook his head after trying them one by one. Gu Yan still didn't give up and wanted to go back and continue looking for them. There was a sound of chaotic footsteps in the distance, and Xie Tao pulled his sleeve across the cell.
"You go, wait for you to go out and find a way to come back and save us." Looking at Gu Yan's worried eyes, Xie Tao said again: "Don't worry, I will take care of myself, I will wait for you here."
"it is good."
Needless to say, a good word is worth thousands of promises, Xie Zhen believed in him, there was no reason to believe it.
Gu Yan framed and left, and didn't come back until the evening.
The flickering light shone on Xie Tao's face, reflecting the worry that could not be concealed. The students beside him were extremely tired, and they all leaned on each other and fell asleep, breathing lightly.
Xie Tao felt a little uneasy in his heart. With Gu Yan's personality, he must bring someone to rescue him as soon as he returns, but he hasn't come back after so long, it should be blocked by something.
Since these students can be chased and killed by the Japanese, it means that they have enough bargaining chips in their hands to sway people's hearts. With Gu Zongtang's ability, it is not difficult to know that Gu Yan frame wants to save this group of patriotic students. Gu Zongtang himself has been involved in the negotiation team. Then he will definitely not let his only son get involved... If that's the case, that's fine, lest he wade into this muddy water.
Thinking of this, she pursed her mouth angrily, what's going on, she was worried about his safety.
"Student, you, are you on the train?"
A voice suddenly sounded, breaking the false tranquility in the cell.
Lin Xianwei woke up and saw that Xie Tao was the only one standing there waiting in a daze. He stared at her several times before he recognized her.
Xie Tao nodded slightly: "It's me."
"Here, why do you want to disguise yourself as a man?" Lin Xianwei was shocked when he saw her wearing a dress. It was really ridiculous for a woman to disguise herself as a man.
"I have my own reasons." Xie Tao stopped here and didn't want to say more, Lin Xianwei stopped asking her when he saw her like this, and comforted her: "Don't worry, I will let you go when I find out tomorrow. "
Xie Tao forced a smile and didn't intend to say anything more, but asked, "Why were you hunted down by the Japanese?"
"The current situation is difficult, the country is weak, and the great powers are determined not to die. They have proposed 21 treaties that are so humiliating and humiliating. Our young people must speak out for the country, so we gathered students in Japan who voluntarily petitioned for the country. It’s just that the price is too heavy to return to China. When we boarded the ship from Japan, we had more than 100 people. Now…”
Lin Xianwei's voice filled with righteous indignation was mingled with incomparable grief and indignation. He looked back at his sleeping classmates, and slowly spit out the heart-wrenching number: "There are only eleven left."
From more than a hundred people to eleven people, the blood of these young people was sprinkled on the land they sincerely love, and the twists and turns were not difficult to imagine.
Xie Tao felt that facing them, he seemed to become even smaller. She couldn't help being infected, "If you want to awaken the wisdom of the people, you have to pay some price. Your blood will not be shed in vain."
Patting him on the shoulder, Xie Tao looked solemn, trying to comfort him.
"The blood letter shows your ambition. If you don't achieve your goal, you will never turn back!" Lin Xianwei tightly held the painting tube in his hand, his eyes were bright and impassioned.
Xie Zhen looked at the eleven people in front of him. They were like seeds rooted in this devastated land of China. It may take some time to grow, but one day flowers of hope will bloom in this barren land. At that time, Haiyan and Heqing, China had already risen.
The two talked in a low voice for a few words, and suddenly heard footsteps, they quickly shut up and leaned against the wall, pretending to sleep.
"Get up! Everyone is up!" The police approached and hit the iron gate with batons. The sound of cold iron collision aroused the fear in Xie Tao's heart. At this time...
She was kicked out of the cell together with the students and put into a truck, while other police officers rode in another truck. The two trucks drove out of the prison one after another, and drove rapidly on the way to the suburbs.
There is a strong wind tonight, the blowing branches rustle, the moonlight pours down, and is disturbed into broken light all over the place.
The students had their hands tied and sat in the carriages. The road they were driving was getting more and more remote. Xie Tao remembered that this path was the road leading to the quarry in Yan'er Village outside the city. These policemen chose to send them out of the city at this time, not to let them go, but to kill them!
The Japanese moved fast enough. They didn't know what kind of benefits or threats Song Maogong received, but they dared to help foreigners harm their compatriots against their conscience. That being the case, he could no longer sit still, Xie Tao bit his collar, and there was a sound of cracking brocade, and a blade came out from it.
The students in the car all looked at her in shock.
"Why are you hiding this on your body?" Lin Xianwei leaned over, caught the blade with his hand and cut the rope for Xie Tao.
"The teacher taught it."
"Where is the teacher? Still teaching this?"
"Teacher of the Raging Fire Academy!"
Twelve ropes were quietly disconnected one after another.
The car stopped suddenly, and the shouts of soldiers came from outside.
"Sheriff, it was the heavy snow that broke the branch, clean it up and leave immediately."
The curtain of the truck was lifted, and the bright moonlight came in. Song Maogong actually came. He and the policemen stood under the car with their hands behind their backs. The moonlight cast their shadows on the ground. They were clearly dressed in police uniforms, but they were caught Irradiated into a beast with teeth and claws.
"Be honest, don't cause trouble for yourself." Song Maogong swept his gaze away, with the shadow that had been soaked in blood all year round, and the backs of the students felt chills when he saw it.
The truck started violently, and the body shook. Chen Rong subconsciously stretched out his hand to support him. Xie Zhen felt bad, and immediately jumped out of the truck, kicking the gun in Song Maogong's hand.
"Run!" Xie Tao picked up the gun and ran towards the truck, using the body of the truck as a cover to start shooting. Lin Xianwei followed her and rolled to the back of the truck.
Song Maogong snatched the gun from the guard next to him, and shot Chen Rong in the chest without hesitation: "Kill them!"
The students fled in all directions, and fell down one after another. Blood stained the entire snowy ground, glowing a palpitating red under the moonlight. Cold bullets mingled with screams and swayed back and forth in the air. , There was a smell of blood in the air, the cold wind blew, and the blood penetrated deep into the snow, blowing waves of blood mist.
Lin Xianwei hid behind Xie Tao and shivered. Xie Tao focused his eyes, his hands were steady, and his bullets were perfect. But even so, the bullets in the gun were still decreasing rapidly, until a soft trigger sound was heard, and Xie Tao opened the magazine. At first glance, there was nothing inside.
"She's out of bullets! Quick, kill her for me!"
The policemen gradually surrounded them from the front, and their footsteps made a creaking sound on the snow, like the cracking sound of a beast stepping on a bone.
In such a cold weather, Xie Tao’s forehead is covered with cold sweat. What should I do? Run out now. There is no cover on the open ground. The dense bullet fire will smash the two into a sieve, but if you don’t escape, Xie Tao saw Look at the enemy in front of you, are you waiting to die here
"Be careful!"
Lin Xianwei threw himself behind Xie Tao, a bullet pierced through his back, blood splashed on Xie Tao's skirt, like a delicate flower, Xie Tao turned pale with fright, turned around and hugged Lin Xianwei, but that A bullet hit his heart impartially, and the eyes of the person in his arms were wide open, lifeless.
None of these eleven people survived.
She was stunned for a moment, and instantly understood how humiliating, unwilling and painful it was when Lin Xianwei talked about one hundred people becoming eleven.
Looking at his eyes that he couldn't even close when he was about to die, she felt a pain in her heart, her mind was dizzy, she seemed to be extremely resentful, and she seemed to be at a loss and had nothing.
Song Maogong walked up to Xie Tao, raised his hand and aimed at her forehead: "Go to hell!"
Xie Tao closed his eyes. Before death came, unexpectedly, he didn’t have any fear, only reluctance and nostalgia. He recalled the figure of his parents, brother, Xiaojun Huangsong, and... There is that person.
Gu Yan frame.
The gunshot rang out, and a big blood hole was opened between the eyebrows. Song Maogong fell to the ground dead with his eyes wide open.
"Come up!"
The pain of death did not come, and the imaginary figure in his mind became real. Gu Yan framed a motorcycle and swept away a group of policemen.
"Come up!" he shouted again, his voice full of anxiety.
Xie Tao stretched out his hand, and was pulled into the car by Gu Yan frame, and the two rode away on the motorcycle.
The small road in the suburbs is very bumpy. Gu Yanzhu didn't notice it for a while, and the car rolled over on the road. Gu Yanzhu panicked, stretched out his arm to cushion her, and they rolled and fell into the snowdrift beside them, covered in snowflakes .
Xie Tao got up and struggled to go back, but was held back by Gu Yan, his tone was rarely flustered, and his eyes staring at her were also filled with anxiety.
"Where are you going?"
where to
She was at a loss, her heart was so sad that she couldn't express it, and she seemed to be stunned for a moment.
"I'm going back to save them, I'm going, to save them."
Seeing that the formerly radiant eyes had now turned gray, lifeless, and full of despair, Gu Yan framed her heart in pain, and couldn't care about anything else, and hurriedly hugged her in her arms.
"They're all dead, they're all dead! You did your best!"
The whole body of the person in her arms froze, Gu Yan frame lightly patted her on the back, and comforted her carefully: "It's okay, Xie Tao, I'm still here, and I'm still here."
In the silence, crying gradually sounded, at first it was a low sob, then it turned into a painful wail, and finally there was no sound, Xie Tao's body went limp, and he passed out.
The past is heavy, like a big dream.
When Xie Tao woke up, he was lying on the comfortable little bed at home, with his mother's worried eyes in front of him.
"Mom." Xie Tao's voice was hoarse, and he slowly raised his hand to cover his mother's hand: "I'm fine, don't worry, where's Gu Yan frame?"
"Little Gu? I've never seen him!" Mother was taken aback.
"Who sent me back then?"
"Yesterday you were covered in blood and were sent back by a middle-aged man in a long gown. What happened to you these two days?" Mother began to sob again.
Xie Tao remained silent, frowned, and struggled to get out of bed.
She ran out with fast steps, leaving her mother's shouts far behind her.
It snowed heavily this morning, and the white snow covered Beiping. When Xie Tao walked into the woods in the outskirts, his eyes were covered in white snow, and he couldn't tell that there was a fight here last night.
There was a bulge in the snowdrift in the distance, Xie Tao ran over hurriedly, that bulge was a familiar painting tube, Xie Tao’s hand shook a little, he pulled the painting tube out of the snowdrift, and there was still a bulge on the delicate parchment. With dried blood, this is something more important to Lin Xianwei than his life.
The parchment was peeled off layer by layer, revealing the original dark brown. Inside was a neat roll of white cloth with three large characters written on it: Petition, and below it were the signatures of more than a hundred Japanese students studying abroad, with bright red handprints beside the signatures.
I imagined the voices and smiles of those students in my mind. At that time, they must have been high-spirited, competing to print their handprints on the white cloth. Xie Tao hugged the white cloth tightly in his arms and looked forward firmly. At this moment, He seems to have understood what his brother said. Some things must be done by someone. Water drips through stones, and ropes saw wood. One day, this land will return to its original state. China belongs to thousands of Chinese people. of.
In just one day, everything seemed to be turned upside down.
She couldn't stand it any longer. The leisurely time at home in the past had turned into irony. The leisure and warmth she was greedy for seemed so out of place now.
On the long street, the students marched all the way holding banners against 21, and the severe cold could not freeze the enthusiasm of the students.
"Against Twenty-One, refuse to sign unequal treaties! Oppose the Japanese occupation of Qingdao! Oppose..."
The mighty procession went all the way from Dongjiaomin Lane to Tanjialou. The police rushed out from the streets and alleys and dispersed the student parade. The students were pushed to the ground. The police waved their batons, and there were screams. .
Xie Tao walked out of the street, walked through the chaos, climbed up to the open-air booth, and then raised the blood book in his hand high.
"Oppose 21, refuse to sign unequal treaties! Oppose the Japanese occupation of Qingdao!"
The anger in my heart made my eyes red, and my voice was choked but firm, as if a marching horn pierced straight into the students' ears.
At first, only Xie Tao's weak voice was shouting, and then thousands of students on the street joined in one after another. The shouts carry thousands of hopes, and thousands of blood will bloom flowers in this land of China. The wood will be broken, and the water will be pierced by the stone!
The gun butt smashed hard on the back of the head, Xie Tao's figure fell on the high platform, the blood book in his hand was raised high and then fell on his body.
Being caught in prison again, Xie Tao has become accustomed to it. The students around him are still discussing the location of the next parade fiercely, but this time there is no one Xie Tao wants to wait for. The person who sent her home that day should be It was someone sent by the Gu family, presumably it was Gu Zongtang who took him away, but with Gu Zongtang around, nothing would happen to Gu Yan.
That night, Xie Zhipei spent a lot of money to get through the relationship to rescue Xie Tao from prison, and gave her a hard training, and locked her at home and didn't allow her to move around at will.
Lying at home for two days, Xie Tao thought a lot. It is true that she entered the Agni Military Academy to fulfill her brother's last wish, but now, she wants to live well for herself.
Since she was a child, her elder brother has been with her all the way, teaching her knowledge and teaching her the principles of life. Xie Liangchen is an elder brother and also a good teacher and helpful friend. So when he died, Xie Tao was at a loss and even lost his goal , as if a traveler drowning in the sea lost his driftwood, she didn't know where she should go, nor what she should do.
Her father asked her to learn dancing, so she went, and told her to learn Chinese, and she agreed, but she never knew what she was learning for. Even going to Agni Military Academy is for her brother, but now, she wants to study hard, for herself, for those compatriots who died, and for the country.
There was no sound in the house, everyone was asleep, but she was still awake. Xie Tao got up from the bed, packed his luggage, and sneaked out.
It was just dawn, the streets were empty, and the dawn penetrated through layers of darkness and reflected on the ground. Walking out of the shadow of the building, Xie Tao stepped on the light and shadow and looked up at the rising sun.
The sun is shining brightly, like a newborn.
She took a deep breath, and the cold air entered her lungs along the nasal cavity, as if washing away all the filth from her body, so she also changed into a new Xie Tao.
Her footprints were left on the snow, Xie Tao raised his head and walked firmly towards the rising sun.