Chronicle of the Republic of China

In 1943, after Fang Wuyu traveled nearly half of China, he arrived at the border of southern Anhui with the army.

He took a day off and wanted to visit Yuncheng.

Fang Wuyu returned to this place where he had been separated for almost ten years.He was born here, grew up here, and wasted his time here young and frivolous.

Fang Wuyu heard people say that Yuncheng has been devastated over the years, warlords have come and gone, fought with the Northern Expedition Army several times, and was later occupied by the Japanese Army. Recovered, the national army was busy looking for red elements, arresting people, arresting people, and then this team of national troops received orders from Shangfeng, and left Yuncheng in a hurry, where it went, so Yuncheng became a city again. In the area where no one is in charge, many wounded from the front line were sent here to recuperate.

Fang Wuyu went to the south of the city to see his home.

The deep house and compound that occupied most of the street, with its magnificent cornices and towering walls, did not collapse in the vicissitudes of the world and the raging flames of war.

The half of the roof tiles that had been burnt to black had also been repaired by Commander Gu and restored to its former appearance. Unfortunately, Commander Gu couldn't enjoy it for a moment longer and was kicked off the stage.Later, the Fang family was vacant, and the local officials proposed to demolish the Fang family and build a hospital. During the war, the most needed medical facilities were medical facilities.The proposal was rejected. A building like Fang's house with green tiles and vermilion tiles has taken so much painstaking effort. How can it be demolished as soon as it is said to be demolished?Ke Nuo is a big place, and it would be a pity to be vacant, so the local government decided to turn Fang's house into a shelter, which is the Red Cross Society in disguise.

Fang Wuyu saw that the Fang family plaque made of a lot of money in front of the gate was no longer there, and there was a banner on each side, "Dedicate Humanitarian Aid" and "Hope for Peace to Come", and the plaque in the middle read "Yuncheng Red Cross Shelter Station" .

Fang Wuyu felt a little emotional, and thought very seriously that he should manage the government to ask for some rental fees. After all, this house is also his.

He didn't go in, turned around and left the south of the city.

Fang Wuyu wandered around Yuncheng all day, going to the place where he used to drink tea, the street where he used to drive a car rampage, and the house where Jin Taipan used to live, where he played a game where he could chase Meng Xisheng. How long have you been chasing the gambling house... Many shop buildings have changed hands, changed their appearance, and do not overlap with the memory.

Fang Wuyu ate a meal in Yuncheng, and when he returned, he asked Battalion Commander Helian, no, he is now the regiment commander, and he has applied for a change of job. He wants to leave the army and settle in Yuncheng.

Captain Helian asked him to stay again and again, Fang Wuyu was determined.He is the one who never turns back, Meng Xisheng is probably the only one in this world who can pull him back.

Before Fang Wuyu left, Captain Helian personally sent him off and left him a letter. If he wanted to come back at any time, he could bring this letter to him.He seemed to have figured out Fang Wuyu's character, just like he figured out Meng Xisheng back then.He knows that Fang Wuyu is a person who does not keep his own place. He enjoys the hard work of others. He is born with a heart that is too free and easy. He can't restrain his hands and feet from all over the world. He lives by himself, even a little selfish. Helian knew that the rooted thoughts that came up at this moment were nothing more than emotional feelings. He seemed to conclude that Fang Wuyu would not live in a safe place for a long time, and that one day, Fang Wuyu would still come to him.

Fang Wuyu accepted the letter, leaving himself a way out.

He found a job in the hospital in Yuncheng, and rented a house of about [-] square meters in the west of the city, and lived an ordinary life.

Yuncheng, after experiencing countless hardships, seems to have become a paradise that was once invisible and unseen. The battle outside is still in full swing, and the territory of the counter-offensive war is expanding endlessly. Italy surrendered and the Axis Powers disintegrated. Japan was isolated and helpless, and China entered a strategic counteroffensive.

The newspapers were full of hustle and bustle, and Yuncheng was full of tranquility.

Fang Wuyu lived in Yuncheng for half a year. After half a year, Meng Xisheng applied for hospital transfer and came to the hospital where he worked for follow-up recuperation.

There are four buildings in the hospital. Fang Wuyu's office is on the third floor to the east, and Meng Xisheng's ward is on the first floor to the south.A strange corner, the distance is infinitely close, but three months after Meng Xisheng moved in, the two never saw each other.

Helian did have a good sense of people, he was right about Meng Xisheng, and he was right about Fang Wuyu.Fang Wuyu lived in Yuncheng for half a year, and then he began to feel a little bored, intending to return to the army, or take a walk outside to see if he could find Meng Xisheng.He has always made quick decisions and acted on them immediately.On the same day, he typed out a resignation report and handed it over to the director. He will leave after this month. As for where he will go, he is still considering.

The director kept him and asked him to leave after at least one year.

It was the beginning of November in 1943 on the lunar calendar, and there were only two months left before the Chinese New Year.Fang Wuyu recalled that in Yuncheng, he and Meng Xisheng spent New Year's Eve together. At 11 o'clock, Meng Xisheng even cooked him a bowl of longevity noodles.

Fang Wuyu agreed and would not leave until next year.

Word spread quickly on the third floor in the east that the strange doctor surnamed Fang will leave next year.The country is easy to change, and the nature is hard to change. Some people can't change their temper no matter where they go. Fang Wuyu is such a person.Everyone was a little bit happy and a little bit regretful. It is not clear, after all, there are many people who have been "tortured" by him, and his good-looking skin and flamboyant personality have won him "admiration".

Nurses and patients were always talking about Dr. Fang, and soon Fang Wuyu's notoriety or reputation became a topic of discussion among everyone.Once a nurse passed by the corridor outside the ward where Meng Xisheng lived, and said with a smile that Dr. Fang compared eggplant to poisoned excrement when eating yesterday. How could anyone want to eat this kind of thing? Instead of arguing, Dr. Fang said to the eggplant on his plate, it's a long one, it's purple and black, and soft, don't you think it's just excreted from the body, and it's poisoned when it touches the air Shit, Dr. Fang just kept shitting and shitting for a long time, and managed to whet his appetite, making him almost want to pinch Dr. Fang's neck.

Meng Xisheng only heard half of the voice, and the other party's voice had already passed the corridor, so he couldn't help laughing.

Meng Xisheng is a soldier who has been withdrawn from the battlefield and a hero who has done his best for the country. His food and clothing expenses are all reimbursed by the army, and the hospital has even provided him with a person who will take care of him.Not long after he arrived at the hospital, he was supported to walk around Yuncheng. He couldn't see it, so he could only ask the people around him to explain the scene in front of him in detail, and slowly linked up with his memory, knowing what changed and what didn't. Change.

As the days passed slowly, he recuperated in a calm manner, and chatted with the patients in the ward in a calm manner. The weather was getting colder and colder, and he knew that another year would pass.

On New Year's Eve, Fang Wuyu was on duty, and a nurse ran over and said that a patient in the sanatorium had a problem, and the doctor on duty couldn't find the problem, so he wanted to ask Doctor Fang to take a look.Fang Wuyu couldn't help swearing at New Year's Eve, and I didn't have a pair of hands and feet, and I wanted to help you run to other wards, and while swearing, I walked across the flat ground between the two buildings, and finally lived in Meng Xisheng. After coming in for more than five months, I set foot in the sanatorium.

In the end, even Fang Wuyu was helpless, so he invited the director again, and continued to toss until after 11 o'clock in the evening.Fang Wuyu was so tired that he hid in the corridor and smoked a cigarette.He looked down at his watch, 11:57.He switched arms again, staring at the gold chain until the smoke burned his hand.

Fang Wuyu pushed open the door of the aisle to go out, and Meng Xisheng happened to be in the ward and opened his voice.The patients stayed up at night, chatting and keeping watch until 12 o'clock, and invited Meng Xisheng to sing a tune.No one knew that Meng Xisheng used to sing operas, and Meng Xisheng never sang operas. His voice was not hanging all year round, which was not as good as before, not to mention that after inhaling poisonous gas, his vocal cords were damaged. Don't talk about singing, his throat will hurt if he talks too much.

Meng Xi laughed and said, "What are you singing?"

Everyone reported funny song titles one after another, laughing together, and finally let Meng Xisheng decide, he can sing whatever he wants.

Meng Xisheng pondered for a while, thought of what to sing, and took a breath——

"Fortune comes from the sky with joy, and blessings are like the long flow of the East Sea. Look at the three immortals coming from the sky, Zengfu Immortal, Zengshou Immortal. Liu Haier is originally the immortal from overseas. Immortals do not fall into the mortal world, they send people to come Good luck."

"Taiping lyrics!" someone interrupted.

Meng Xi kept singing and continued to sing, and everyone beat him.He remembered that Fang Wuyu sang the famous "Fu Lu Shou Xi" in Taiping's lyrics on New Year's Eve, and he followed the example. He even remembered the jokes that Fang Wuyu made up in the lyrics back then, word for word. Sing out loudly, laughing at everyone in front of you.

"Golden flowers are placed in the cornucopia, and the family is rich and prosperous. Get rich, everyone! Be safe, everyone!"

It happened to be 12 o'clock, everyone congratulated each other, happy new year, safe and prosperous.Meng Xisheng was still smiling, lowered his head, and said softly, like a habit developed over the years, "Happy birthday."

As soon as the voice fell, the laughter in the ward stopped abruptly.Everyone swarmed to scatter, and Meng Xisheng heard them say "ward round!" "I told you to laugh so loudly!".He also quickly stood up and touched the edge of the bed with his hands, and the group of heartless people jumped onto the bed, covered them under the covers, and left him where he was.

Meng Xisheng couldn't see, moved slowly, bumped a little in the middle, bumped into someone who didn't know, and heard someone took a deep breath, he knew something was wrong, and said repeatedly: "I'll go to bed right away, sleep right away!"

He was groping desperately in a dark world when someone grabbed his wrist suddenly.He shivered, and the other party touched the watch on his wrist.The palm is wide, not very thick, but unexpectedly firm.Meng Xisheng struggled twice, but heard the other party's breathing disordered.

"The watches have all stopped. Why don't you change the batteries." The voice was unbearably low, but every word was clear.

Meng Xisheng was stunned.

The world was suddenly quiet, and there were still loud crackling firecrackers outside the window, but this ward turned out to be a country of its own.

Fang Wuyu's body smelled of disinfectant water, the blood of the life he just saved, and a little bit of smoke, and now he was rushing into Meng Xisheng's nose.He stopped still in Fang Wuyu's arms, tightly clutching the skirt of Fang Wuyu's white coat.

"12:09." It took a long time before Meng Xisheng opened his mouth, and his deep eyes seemed to regain their vitality in a little bit of light that diffused up, "It was the time I saw when I woke up on the boat that day." He seemed to stand Can't stop, with Fang Wuyu's support, "I didn't see you when I woke up. So I don't want it to go on."

He was hugged firmly by Fang Wuyu, after so many days and nights.

It's strange that he and Fang Wuyu have done the most intimate things in this life, but what Meng Xisheng can't resist the most is a simple hug and kiss from Fang Wuyu, which seems to simplify the complexity, or return to the basics, making him He trembled physically and mentally, unable to refuse.

Meng Xisheng poured tears on Fang Wuyu's shoulder, and slowly cried louder and louder, surprising all bystanders.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year in 1944, Meng Xisheng met Fang Wuyu again.He hugged the man whose shoulders were firmer than before, and wept uncontrollably.