Chapter 223

The 28th year of the Republic of China (1939) came very quickly.

On New Year's day, there was continuous rain and warm sunshine. For a long time, Chongqing, the wartime capital, had not been visited. People living there seemed to be getting moldy.

Standing on the teaching building of Central University, where fog and gloom interweave, you can see the image of a dark mountain city in the distance. Qiao ruochu's heart is full of haze.

Lin An's Europe is not peaceful either. Germany is becoming more and more enthusiastic about war, and French people are in a panic.

Feng Yan'er sent a telegram saying that they are very good at present, but once the situation changes, their family may return to China.

Lin Junmai wrote back immediately after receiving the winter clothes sent by Qiao ruochu. In the letter, he said that at present, the Chinese and Japanese armies have not started a large-scale war in northern Jiangxi, and are basically in a stalemate. He told his wife not to worry too much.

He said that some time ago, his father Shen Runan secretly did something. He sent Shen Yue and his wife to take a few confidants to France quietly to meet with Feng Yan'er's family. On the one hand, they protected their personal safety; on the other hand, Lin'an was a descendant of Shen's family after all. How could they feel at ease when they were in China without their own people around.

When Qiao ruochu received the letter, he could not help but shed tears. He was happy.

Her Lin'an will soon be protected by her relatives.

Knowing Shen Runan's love for Lin'an, Qiao ruochu felt sorry.

She has been in Chongqing for nearly half a year and has never met Shen Runan.

It's not polite to say that. One reason is that Lin Junmai has a bad heart because of abbess Miaoyi. Last time he returned to Chongqing, his father and son had a quarrel on the phone, and they couldn't face each other. After seeing Gu Qi, Qiao ruochu seldom goes out alone and spends most of his time with Xi Nuo. Obviously, it's very inconvenient to go to the South mansion of Shen Ru.

Qiao ruochu thought that anyway, he should find a time to visit Shen Runan.

As soon as we have the winter vacation, we are going to have the lunar new year.

I don't know if Lin Junmai will come back to visit his relatives.

During the extraordinary period, she knew that she could not expect too much.

After the students left school one after another, Xi Nuo wanted to go to Shanghai to visit his relatives. He bought the ticket and was dissuaded by Qiao ruochu before he left. "Your legs are not convenient, and you are a celebrity. It's not easy to disguise. In case you fall into Japanese hands

What to do with it. "

"Alas." Xi Nuo stamped one foot and said, "you say, if early, when can they beat the Japanese away?"

Qiao ruochu raised her head and gazed at the sky. The haze did not disperse, which seemed to indicate that the national fortune was difficult. Her heart sank down, sighing and whispering, "I don't know."

In the blink of an eye, on the 29th of the lunar new year, the streets of Chongqing, the capital of Chongqing, are decorated with lanterns. Looking from the streets, the red lanterns and couplets of every family scatter a light red halo in the haze of cold weather, which adds a little warmth to people's hearts.

Qiao ruochu moved back to Lin's residence from the dormitory of Central University a few days ago. He invited two servants to clean and decorate the residence, and hung red lanterns at the door, adding a little joy to the desolate residence.

At noon, Xi Nuo came by rickshaw and said that it was too sad for him to stay alone. He didn't have breakfast yet. If he didn't come here to eat, he would have no strength to speak.

It happened that some of Lin Junmai's adjutants' family members were playing here. When they heard Xi Nuo's words, they all laughed.

Wei Tongsheng's son Huhu is already sensible. When he heard that Xi Nuo was hungry, he handed his biscuit to him. "Uncle, you eat it." Children's cute, childlike adults are a burst of laughter.

"Brother Yao, sister Han Mei, I've prepared some new year's gifts. I want to see Junmai's father." After lunch, Qiao ruochu wanted to take advantage of everyone's presence to greet Shen Ru's Nanfu.

"Go, go."

Qiao ruochu echoed, chirping all said to go.

Before going out, I heard the sound of a car at the door. The noise in the room was suddenly cut off, and the women all stretched their necks to look out.

The door opened and a pair of army boots landed first.

Joe rushes out.

The people at the back reacted instantly and ran out.

"Junmai

"Yucheng!"

"Tongsheng!"

“…..”

The women began to sob. The men came back holding the children in one hand and holding the wife's hand in the other. They didn't know what to say but just looked at each other.

"Time is running out. Let's all go home." Lin Junmai said in a deep voice, not sticking to the etiquette of the host and guest, but holding Qiao ruochu in his arms.

When he saw Xi Nuo, he was a little surprised.

"Commander Lin, it's a coincidence that you came back. I won't disturb your reunion. Goodbye. " Xi Nuo laughs. Now, he has no place to go.

"Brother Yao, come on, you're alone. Come in and have a chat before you leave."

"No, it's just finished. Come another day. Come another day." Xi Nuo waved his hand and left quickly with an inconvenient leg.

Lin Junmai stood at the door and watched him walk away. He regretted to himself, "if only I didn't agree with him to join the army."

"Is there a cure for his foot?"

Qiao ruochu clenched her husband's hand and asked heavily.

"There's not much hope." Lin Junmai thought for a moment and replied, "it's been a long time

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"You happen to be back. Let's go and see my father later." Qiao ruochu pointed to the ready annual gift, and his daughter-in-law was full of it.

Lin Junmai's sword eyebrows were picked, and his star eyes suddenly became cold, "don't go."

"Go ahead." Qiao ruochu looked at her husband gently, "for his love of Lin'an."

"Let me see."

Lin Junmai's tone was obviously perfunctory.

As soon as abbess Miaoyi didn't get any news, he couldn't forgive Shen Runan. It's impossible to offset this because he arranged Shen Yue to go to France to take care of Lin an.

If Joe saw that her husband was black again, the edges and corners on her face became too obvious. Her heart was stinging. She had no idea to lose her temper with him, so she had to let him go. He won't go if he doesn't want to.

"Junmai." Qiao ruochu poured a cup of tea for her husband, eyes flushed, "finally wait until you come back."

In ignorance, I burst into tears.

I haven't seen each other for several months, and I miss each other in silence.

Lin Junmai put down his tea and held her hand. He felt that her hand was a little cold. He made some effort and said in a calm voice, "ruochu.".

He looked at her, looking very focused, her face shrouded in the warm winter afternoon sun, as clear as jade carving, compared with before, intellectual temperament suddenly born, Lin Junmai was happy, "madam, after the war, I will be a student for you."

It's said that her lecture is wonderful. As a husband, he can't see her on the platform. It's a pity.

"Poor mouth."

When Qiao ruochu heard his words, she broke into tears and laughed. One day, after the war, she stopped teaching and went back to Xiangcheng to spend a long life with him.

"Junmai, I saw Gu Qi at the end of last year."

"Gu Qi?"

Lin Junmai's forehead wrinkled with a shallow grain.

"Well. He came to Chongqing specially to find me... "Qiao ruochu told Lin Junmai all about the meeting and Yu hanchan's coming and going

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"Why did Gu Qi give it to you quietly?" Lin Junmai seemed to be talking to himself, his fingers covered with a thin cocoon beating on his wife's hands.

"I don't know." Qiao ruochu shook his head, confused to respond to her husband, "after a chance to meet, ask him."

She and Xi Nuo think so long, also can't get a reason.

"Gu family, Gu Qi." Lin Junmai pondered for a moment, picked up his wife, "things are abnormal, it must not be so simple."

Qiao ruochu listened to him and nodded.

"Forget it. Now that the things have been donated, I don't think about it any more. My people will protect you." Lin Junmai worried that the people behind Gu Qi would do harm to Qiao ruochu.

"No, Junmai, you take all your people. I'll be on my guard." Qiao ruochu quickly refused, but she didn't dare to leave his aides.

Lin Junmai raised a thick eyebrow, but didn't answer his wife's words.

Shen's confidants, who developed when he was a separatist, did not enter the establishment of the national government. For so many years, it was their father and son who kept them. Before they moved to Chongqing, Shen Runan dismissed a group of them and left them

Dozens of loyal and secret people came to Chongqing, and a small number of them were in Lin Junmai's hands.

It's useless for him to fight outside. Qiao ruochu is in Chongqing. He thinks it's much safer than Xiangcheng, so he doesn't use anyone to protect her.

This time I came back and heard about Gu Qi. He was a little afraid.