The Twelve Years: Song of the Unsung Friends

A pen, like a silkworm cocoon, trapped her in his writing.

An English man in the first class likes to say "BeBritish", reminding him to live like an English gentleman.

She suddenly wondered whether Fu Dongwen was used to acting on occasions, and would always be alert to herself and live like a dude brother? Thinking of this, Shen Xi couldn't help laughing.

"Did you use a ball fan when you were a child?" He asked when he saw her smiling.

"No, it doesn't seem fashionable in my house."

"When you arrive in Beijing, I have to give it a try."

He couldn't breathe, so he asked himself to think of something else, with plain hands and a fan, it would be nice to make a picture for her.

Shen Xi didn't quite understand, so he nodded.

The lights are far away and others are close.

The two of them sat down for a while, both reluctant to feel this.

Shen Xi secretly persuaded himself to get out so that he could rest as soon as possible, so he gathered up the letter paper: "I'll put it away." She flees this square first, and Fu Dongwen sees her turning around, holding on with some difficulty. He raised his arm and went into the bathroom.

Shen Xi looked back, the door closed.

In this way, he is fine.

It was nine o'clock after the others fell asleep.

In the first half of the night, Fu Tongwen's breathing was depressed, as if he was restraining. In the second half of the night, when Shen Xi heard his breathing stabilized, his hanging heart was also let go. I fell asleep for a while and heard someone arguing outside. There is a 24-hour butler in the first-class cabin, who will be guarded, not letting people come close, and it is impossible to allow guests to wake up in the early morning.

Shen Xi got out of the bed and Fu Dongwen woke up too. He couldn't open his eyes, put his shoulder on the head of the bed, and said dumbly, "Ask who it is, don't rush to open the door."

"Yeah." Shen Xi came to the door and asked in English.

The butler is answering, and the captain.

She put on a coat in surprise and opened the door.

In the corridor, the person who was stopped was the captain. The butler had a dispute with him. Five steps away, the people who looked at her face anxiously were two doctors of Renji.

"Mrs. Fu, I am very sorry," the butler leaned to her, "I disturbed you and your husband to rest in the middle of the night."

"What are you?" Shen Xi was puzzled, "Is there any patient?"

The presence of two doctors is the simplest guess. But there is no reason to come to her inexperienced.

"Yes," the man named Qian Yuan said two steps forward, "It is the two people you handled. I heard that you and a war doctor were in charge. That person has already got off the ship and he didn't leave the operation. recording."

"In this way," she must go, but Fu Tongwen is inside again, "but I have to wait for my husband's personal doctor to come before I can leave. My husband is unwell today, and I can't leave him here alone."

"Thank you, Mrs. Fu," the captain took off his hat, "we will arrange as you said."

The captain hurried away and went to find Tan Qingxiang himself.

Shen Xi nodded to the other people, and closed the door.

Taking advantage of Tan Qingxiang's absence, she changed her clothes and tied her hair hastily. When the person came out, Fu Dongwen still maintained the posture of just now, leaning on the head of the bed, his expression extremely bad.

Seeing him like this, Shen Xi was taken aback for a moment, and immediately went to the drawer: "Wait, I'll find medicine for you."

Tan Qingxiang opened the door and broke in. Seeing this scene, he shouted angrily: "Why don't you know how to find medicine for him?"

"Just now I--"

"Do you know how serious it is to go on like this?" Tan Qingxiang had followed him for a long time after all, took medicine with him, poured out anxiously and stuffed him into his mouth, "When did you feel uncomfortable?"

"Last night," Shen Xi's voice was shaking, "it should be last night, he didn't tell me."

"You live with him these days, don't you understand his temper?" Tan Qingxiang couldn't hold back the fire, "I let you take care of him, not let you indulge him!"

Fu Tongwen buckled his wrist: "...qingxiang."

Tan Qingxiang's face turned blue, and he controlled himself: "Don't you want to go? Hurry up! You are not needed here!"

Shen Xi was at a loss, and shook Fu Dongwen's hand in a panic, his mouth opened slightly, making no sound. She burst into tears, and mixed her tears to kiss the back of his hand: "I'm sorry..."

Seeing this scene, Tan Qingxiang's eyes trembled slightly and his face darkened.

Shen Xi looked helplessly at Tan Qingxiang: "Is he really in no danger?"

"Yeah." Tan Qingxiang didn't want to say more.

Outside, Qian Yuan whispered her name.

Shen Xi was awakened and couldn't move his feet. There was her patient. But here is him.

Tan Qingxiang no longer cares about Shen Xi, and is observing Fu Dongwen. It may be that he feels serious, and put Fu Dongwen on the medicine. This is the first time Shen Xi has seen him take medicine continuously in a short time. It was even more chaotic, standing stupidly, standing for a full five minutes.

The medicine is effective.

Fu Dongwen gradually gained strength and straightened his body.

Seeing her like this, he smiled weakly and nodded lightly. Is to let her go.

"Mrs. Fu?" Qian Yuan waited outside the door for a long time, really anxious, stepped in and said, "Please as soon as possible, there is very critical."

"It's useless if you keep it," Tan Qingxiang said, "you can go."

Shen Xi's palms were all sweaty, and he pinched his fingers sorely.

She must go.

"I'm going to see it as soon as possible, and come back as soon as possible." She was afraid that she would not let her heart go, and when she said something, people turned around and ran out.

When she left the door, her face was still pale with tears in her eyes, and she couldn't speak, but she didn't stop under her feet and ran out of the corridor under everyone's stunned eyes. Qian Yuan suddenly woke up and took his British colleagues, and the three of them ran away.

Qian Yuan caught up with Shen Xi, and she began to recall and repeat the operation records that day in as much detail as possible. Qian Yuan listened carefully. The light of the sky made him see her profile clearly. He looked at this medical student whose eyes were full of tears and his voice was choked, but his voice was sober. A girl who is extremely fragile and delicate, but also has a calm and trustworthy.

This is the person he most wants to find.

Tan Qingxiang heard that the outside was quiet, and said in a low voice: "This medicine can't be overdose. You should insist on it first, and then you can't do it."

Fu Tong closed his eyes, and he agreed.

Tan Qingxiang sat with him for a while, and left there annoyed. People were in the living room and wanted to smoke. The horror caused Fu Dongwen's discomfort. So he opened the door of the room with the chair against the door, leaving a gap. Others were outside the door, putting the ash tray on the ground, smoking one by one, and every time they extinguished a cigarette, they came to look at Fu Dongwen once.

From three o'clock to six o'clock, Fu Dongwen can be considered to have slept peacefully for a few hours.

Fu Dongwen has his own set of time, no matter how tired at night, people will wake up regularly in those five minutes.

Tan Qingxiang twisted the hot towel and handed it to him: "Are you thinking about Shandong?"

Fu Tongwen took it and wiped his hands clean. "The more idle you are, the more you can't stand the frustration. In the past, hundreds of things have been accumulated together, and nothing like this." The towel was taken away by Tan Qingxiang, and he unbuttoned the button with a false finger. , "When it’s not enough, you remember to tie me up and die with the Japanese in Shandong."

Tan Qingxiang laughed and threw the towel into the washbasin. When the man came back, he stood and looked at him: "You Fu Lao San, you are not for human flesh". If you really can only use this, I can only use it. I'm too lazy to be your personal doctor."

The two talked and laughed, just as usual.

But within two minutes, Tan Qingxiang narrowed his smile abnormally, putting his hands in the pockets of his suit and pants. This is his standard negotiating action: "I will say a few words to you calmly, don't get excited."

Fu Tongwen smiled and asked, "Why are you excited?"

Tan Qingxiang was silent unexpectedly for a long time, before starting his head: "I told you a long time ago that Ms. Shen is in the U.S. The merits and virtues are fulfilled in the United States. In Dong Wen, it would be wrong for you to bring her back. Now--" He tried hard to restrain, "You support so many girls, even if it is Dou Wanfeng, it is completely fine. But Shen Xi——" He stopped again.

Fu Dongwen looked at him.

In the end, Tan Qingxiang finally blurted out: "Shen family kills the door, your elder brother is the mastermind, and your father can't get rid of it! Dong Wen, you are really confused! It is wrong for you to take her back to China, how can you devote yourself to feelings?"

The voice echoed in the room.

Tan Qingxiang was still breathing quickly, and he had finished speaking all the things he had pressed in his heart all night, not at all relaxed.

The silence came so suddenly.

He stared at Fu Dongwen, and Fu Dongwen looked back at him.

"Come here, change my clothes for me, it's soaking wet." Fu Dongwen whispered, saying something irrelevant.

Tan Qingxiang wanted to persuade him again, but he was horribly ill, and he was not courageous enough. He took out the shirt with a strong heart, and helped Fu Dongwen put it on.

"I think you are faint, Dong Wen, you think carefully about what I said." Tan Qingxiang said at last.

There are only two things that the world can't afford or let go of. One is national hatred and the other is family hatred.

Love is weightless on this scale.

Fu Dongwen didn't respond. He left the bed and went to the bathroom. When he closed the door, he saw the soft and dark hair in the bathtub.

...

Thirty years of Guangxu.

The Shen family ransacked during the first month of the first month. It was only in June that Shen Wanyang, the youngest daughter of the Shen family, was sent to Beijing. The train station in Menlouzi was still in bad shape that year. There was a PEKING sign on the side of the track, and the people who got on and off the train ended up in mud. Wooden fences are used as station gates.

Outside the station, there are either horse-drawn carts or mule carts, with very few rickshaws.

The car he was riding in that day was parked fifty meters away. He had a hangover and headache. He heard someone say by the window: "Master, they...have never dared to tell you that something went wrong and only saved a young lady. It’s a hassle to hide in Bada Hutong."

Save a young master, no matter how easy it is to hide, but a girl, the servants are all in trouble.

Half drunk and half awake, he asked the former lady and today's imprison to be sent to the Flower and Smoke Museum. In the city of Beijing, brothels are divided into three, six and nine classes, Qingyin small class is the first class, and Huayankan is the lowest class. Poor smokers, old men, and relatives of the boss are the easiest. "Call her a rickshaw and get some good food." This was Fu Dongwen's last statement that day.

There were only two rickshaws above the station that day, and one of them carried her.

Later, the uncle Fu family heard about this, and wondered that the third child was a prostitute who was not addicted to it. He liked to raise a young girl. Sometimes he made jokes during chatting. Fu Dongwen was "afraid of being jealous of his friends" and he dared not send him to big places. It can only be kept in a lower-class place to prevaricate.

This raises for many years. Never seen before.

If there is no murder that night, how to sing this drama, only God knows.

...

There is no window in this toilet, so it can't get out of moisture.

The full tank of water was so cold.

Fu Tongwen pulled the shirt sleeve to his elbow, went to unplug the plug under the bathtub, and drained the water out. The vortex curled her hair in the middle of the water, flowed into the black hole-like water vortex, and disappeared.

***

The situation of the two seriously injured people is very bad.

One of them injured his thigh, the British surgeon told him directly that he was going to be amputated. But this is on a cruise ship. Without this condition, everyone can only choose a conservative treatment plan and send people off when they are ready to dock. The other...Shen Xi, they had to operate immediately and did their best. But the result is not good, I am afraid that people can't make it through.

Both Shen Xi and the British were splashed with blood in the middle of the operation, and their faces were wiped clean, but they couldn't help them. Shen Xi was afraid that going back like this would make Fu Dongwen feel uncomfortable. After hesitating, he asked Qian Yuan, "Are there any girls with you?"

"Yes, my colleague brought his wife." Qian Yuan handed her the hot towel, pointing to the corner of her eye.

"Could you lend me a piece of clothing to wear, I'm afraid that going back like this will scare people." She wiped it and returned the towel to him.

Qian Yuan heard Tan Qingxiang's words at night and understood the relationship between their fake husband and wife. But looking at Shen Xi's expression, he was quite concerned about the Fu Sanye, so he didn't break it and agreed.

He took Shen Xi to the second-class cabin to change clothes, and Shen Xi looked in the mirror to clean the blood from his hair, and left immediately.

There are no stairs to get to the first class cabin. Qian Yuan pointed her a direction. It was an open-air staircase that could go up to the public deck.

She supported Langan and ran up.

The wind blew on her face, blowing up the long skirt that did not belong to her.

Sunlight and sea breeze, here should be let Fu Dongwen look at it, only the dirty clothes stained with blood in his arms are horrible. When he returns to the room later, he must quickly throw it into the bathroom so that he can smell the blood. As soon as he returned home, he stopped in a hurry when he reached the corridor of the first-class cabin. The two ladies smiled and brushed shoulders with Shen Xi.

She forced her running heart down and hurried to the door of the room. The first thing she saw was a dozen cigarette butts in the ashtray.

Mr. Tan left behind?

What can make him smoke so much?

The joy of meeting turned to worry, she hurriedly knocked on the door, and no one answered. I found the key in my pocket and opened the door. There was no one. It was empty inside and out, and the bed had been made by the housekeeper. I went to the private deck again, and I was not there. I asked the butler, and the butler speculated that he was still having breakfast. Fu Dongwen should be back at this time, but not today.

Shen Xi was even more disturbed, and people found the restaurant.

In the empty place, only Fu Tongwen was present. When the waiter saw Shen Xi coming in, he hurriedly said hello and told the chef not to rest.

"I thought you were in the room," the waiter opened the chair for her, and Shen Xi nodded in thanks. After taking a seat, he said with a small smile, "You should have finished eating at this time."

"I want to sit down," he said.

No wonder there is only a glass of water in front of me.

Shen Xi leaned forward, like a late child, explaining the reason: "I always want to come back, but I can't get out of my body. My patients are not in good condition. One has to be sent off the boat, and the other is critical. Today , Or tomorrow, I will be there to guard, do you want Mr. Tan to accompany you?" There are doctors better than her, but that is her first batch of patients, she doesn’t want to give up halfway, the medical skills are not enough, but At least the heart is here.

Fu Tongwen nodded: "It's nothing, I told Qingxiang."

Shen Xi asked in a very low voice: "Did Mr. Tan say anything? Are you okay? Do you want to take any medicine?"

He laughed: "Do you think I look good?"

Shen Xi also smiled, the corners of his mouth curled into a line, and he shook his head lightly.

Look at him now, compared to last night, one sky and one underground.

He asked the waiter for the menu: "Change the dishes, try it."

Shen Xi was in a good mood, took it, and wanted to ask him to recommend one or two.

But when he raised his eyes, Fu Dongwen was already reading the newspaper. I didn't notice it just now, did this happen out of thin air?

Unexpectedly, she said, "This is new?"

"Old," he didn't raise his eyes, "never saw it either."

The two were surrounded in a situation, quiet, and did not communicate.

Shen Xi wanted to take his pulse and feel at ease, but he hadn't touched it yet, but he blocked it with a newspaper: "Okay."

It was a little harder to resist.

Shen Xi was startled. Fu Tongwen was very sorry: "If you missed it for a while, don't care about it with your third brother," he laughed, folded the newspaper, put it on the white tablecloth, and said with a smile after a moment of silence, "If you sit down, I won't accompany you much. Up."

Without saying where to go, the man picked up his suit and walked into the turnstile.

After the frosted glass, the figure disappeared soon.

Shen Xi remained in place.

She tried her best to cover herself, resting her cheek in her hand and looking down at the tablecloth. With the other hand, I kept picking his fingernails, and it hurt. Last night he did too much. He was in a critical condition, but he threw him to Mr. Tan to save the patient. This walk until dawn, but she really can't separate...