The little tailor protected the embroiderer and returned to the attic on the second floor. As soon as he opened the attic window, the Japanese soldier who had passed behind him pulled the trigger at the window.
Bang, bang.
When the two gunshots were fired, the little tailor quickly retreated and closed the window to block his sight. When he turned back to look at the embroiderer, the woman was holding on to the handrail of the stairs and gasping for air.
"You can't leave anymore, stop working."
The embroiderer slowly straightened her body, held her waist with her hands and stood there looking at the little tailor with a smile: "I'm sorry for dragging you down."
The little tailor quickly shook his head and replied: "It's not a burden, I'm happy to be with you."
The embroiderer turned around and smiled, her gentle look as warm as before.
Xiu Niang always knew that he liked her.
Before joining the revolution, Xiu Niang was a child bride. When she got married, she was sixteen and her husband was only six. She said it was to bring happiness to an elderly person in the family who was seriously ill.
After getting married, the embroiderer became like an animal in her husband's family, farming, cooking, taking care of her husband, sewing and mending diligently, and faced the dissatisfaction of her husband's family. Regarding this, the neighbor's eldest son was only ten years old.
Qin Nan couldn't stand it.
The Qin family is in good condition, with poems and books passed down from generation to generation. The old man was once a scholar in the Qing Dynasty. The land in his family is nearly 100 acres. One yard is used to embroider four children of his natal family. During the busy farming season, all the embroiderers, including the whole family, come to the Qin family to help.
After going back and forth, the two became familiar with each other. The sixteen-year-old embroiderer often took her six-year-old husband and ten-year-old Qin Nan with her while working. As time went by, Qin Nan naturally saw what happened to the embroiderer.
Later, when Qin Nan grew up and went to school, he began to understand what the world was like and gradually came into contact with some progressive ideas. At that time, Qin Nan, who was only seventeen years old, thought that in order to change the world, he must first save it.
The fate of the embroidered mother began, so she bravely went to her father's study and even proposed to buy the embroidered mother back.
Qin Nan's father almost got beaten to death by his mouth!
After the beating, he scolded Qin Nan's mother: "A loving mother often loses her son. Look at what this boy has become now. He is so shameless that he wants to buy a married woman."
Because of this incident, Mr. Qin and his servants blocked the door of Xiu Niang's house and scolded her. The scolding made the whole family lose face, but Xiu Niang just stood in the yard and cried. She had no idea what she did wrong and why she was scolded.
Qin Nan didn't know what these feelings were. He thought that he just wanted to save the world and save China. He felt that by pulling Xiu Niang out of dire straits, he had done some good deeds.
Later, he realized how foolish he was for trying to bring order to the chaos in a decadent era. When a person stands in the middle of a group of people, even if you are right, as long as you don't match everyone else's voice, you are wrong.
The devastated Qin Nan left a letter home and left. He wanted to go out and see if everyone was the same as the Qin family. He wanted to see why in this country, the younger generation could easily understand the truth, but when it came to the older generation,
It's so hard to explain why.
Did the embroiderer make a mistake?
Why could their family spend money to buy this woman as a child bride for their six-year-old son just to celebrate?
Why is it that the old lady in their family can scold her every day, but the embroiderer has to endure it all the time, and is considered to be the only filial piety.
Qin Nan couldn't understand. He felt that it was different from what the teacher taught... In fact, there were many things in life that he couldn't understand. For example, what was taught in school was obviously science, but his father said that they were all foreign devils.
This is a tactic used to harm the Chinese people. For example, when the two of them were chatting about many famous people, their father would sneer and insist on talking about the corrupt Zeng Wenzhenggong and Zeng Guofan. After the conversation was over, he wanted to cancel his enrollment in the school and ask for
Take him home to read the Bible and Histories.
What era is this?
Is it still useful to read those things?
Both Britain and the United States have come up with more advanced weapons through physics and chemistry. What is in the classics and history collection?
This is how Qin Nan left. He wanted to see this era and see the development of the times in a more advanced city, so he went to Shanghai.
He thought he went there for his ideals, and thought he would be completely free after leaving here. What he didn't expect was that leaving was the beginning of him knowing clearly that he belonged in his heart.
Shanghai was the most advanced and developed city in the country during the Republic of China. This city had trams that you could never see in your hometown. This city allowed all kinds of ideas to exist. Even the gangsters in this city wore long robes and mandarin jackets.
Collecting protection fees is nothing more than peeling a pear with the peel intact in front of a fruit stand.
Qin Nan seemed to have entered a dreamlike world. In this world, he could go to the cinema to watch Zhou Xuan's movies, and meet big stars who were remembered by all Chinese men without having to meet him. However, after he saw so many,
But he wanted to tell all these things to Xiu Niang, so that the silly woman who was still staying in her hometown would be surprised.
As time went by, Qin Nan also met many people, and he began to understand that he was not the only one in China who hated the pedantic feudal dynasty... Hated?
Qin Nan seemed to have no reason to hate him. Apart from his lack of freedom of thought, he still had a peaceful life in his hometown. However, he did hate it from the bottom of his heart and longed for something new in his heart.
Here, he knew that a nun returned to secular life, married a businessman who was 22 years older than him, and gave birth to a child, who is now standing at the pinnacle of power; here, he knew that a group of people were promoting communist ideas,
I hope that this idea can change the entire country; here, many people are indulgent in sex, just looking forward to making a fortune every day, and living in luxury. Of course, more people still live at the bottom, rushing around for food and drink.
He also met Xiu Niang.
At that time, the embroiderer's appearance had changed. She appeared in Shanghai just to carry out a task. At this time, Qin Nan was still working odd jobs in a tailor shop to support himself.
He originally wanted to describe the Shanghai he saw to Xiu Niang, but in the end, he was pulled into another world, a world where everyone hopes to be equal.
Qin Nan looked at the brand new door opening to him, and looked at the woman he missed day and night beside him. At this time, they no longer needed to worry about anyone or anything, and could do everything with ease...
However, the embroiderer accidentally revealed that she was married during a casual chat.
This time, she was no longer bought as a child bride, but married to a man who saved her from misery. Now this man is working hard for the cause of communism.
Qin Nan buried all his thoughts in his heart and cursed the feudal dynasty with anger in his eyes.
Only he knows who he wants to scold, and Qin Nan also knows who his fate has tortured, but the people whose timelines are going to be staggered will never be able to be together.
It wasn't until one night after the Japanese occupied Northeast China that Qin Nan saw the embroiderer crying. She was no longer beautiful and looked fat and heartbroken. When Qin Nan wanted to ask why, the woman handed over a letter.
It is a list of those killed by our party in enemy-occupied areas, and his husband's name is among them.
Only then did he know that Xiu Niang’s man was an intelligence agent of our party who had been lurking in the Northeast. Due to the needs of the situation, our party had to train a large number of intelligence personnel and send them to the enemy-occupied areas to continue the struggle with the enemy.
She submitted her application with the belief of avenging her husband.
This is an opportunity, and once missed, it is impossible to come back.
Qin Nan also signed up and went to the rear for training. At that time, they both had their own jobs during the day. When they received patriotic education and skills training together at night, it was the happiest moment in his life...
"Do you regret it?"
The embroiderer looked at the little tailor.
Qin Nan wanted to say everything in his heart, but in the end he said with an implicit smile: "I don't regret it."