The Twelve Years: Song of the Unsung Friends

Wan An speculated that the two of them had a dispute over Fu Dongwen's private drinking.

She couldn't explain: "No, he didn't get angry with me. You shouldn't say that about the third master."

From the cruise ship, he personally promised that he would not attack her again, and he was always practicing his words.

Fu Dongwen is a man with a thousand faces. Every time there was something wrong between the two of them, Tan Qingxiang said the same, and Wan An also said the same. It was Fu Dongwen's always to arrange the arrangement. He criticized his young master for his temper, but he never treated her unreasonably.

Sometimes it is too reasonable.

Fu Dongwen slept from dawn to almost noon without moving.

Shen Xi didn't sleep all night, and his eyelids couldn't hold up after daybreak. He sank and then stared at him at first. Later, fearing that he would fall asleep, he called Wan An to come in and take care of him. She had a nap on the poker table.

Fu Shou Gao burned the whole night and smoked the wing room like a smokehouse. She slept uncomfortably. At first, her face was buried in her arms, and then she turned her face to face the window. At noon, she was bewildered to hear Wan An say: "Master."

She woke up, her eyelids clinging, and after a long period of sleepiness, she managed to open it.

In sight, Fu Tongwen got out of bed, Wan An wanted to help him, but he pushed him away.

He walked to the coffee table by himself, poured some water, his shirt on his upper body was covered with pleats, his eyes were all red, and he was not sleeping well. He saw Shen Xi look at himself. Before Shen Xi came last night, he was going to put on makeup, but he prevented him from doing more work on his face without applying powder. In the dark shadow of the light, the skin showed uneven redness, or it was red.

"Go and call a car." He ordered.

Wan An hesitated for a moment, bowed in response, and left in a hurry.

That's it? Stop talking?

What might be talked about, she has already said everything in that passage. Have pre-conditions, understanding, and determination.

Shen Xi had been with him for so long, and he still knew Fu Dongwen's temperament. He is a true gentleman in the relationship between men and women. From the beginning of the two, he has to consult her and tell her the truth about Gu Youwei. The control is in her hands from beginning to end. She is determined to leave, and he will not force to stay, this is him.

Shen Xi put the mahjong pieces into the box, and the sound of ivory touching was very monotonous.

Fu Tongwen took another cup of tea that no one had used before, brought her a cup of tea, and put it on the table: "I understand what you mean." The others sat down and focused on Shen Xi. Did not say the following words.

The two looked at each other.

He shook the back of her hand and said: "The third brother respects your decision. You and I are weak. Here is a good start and a good end. I'm sorry for what you didn't do in the past."

Shen Xi nodded lightly, tears almost welling up.

This is the first time she broke up with someone.

When in New York, she met fierce people who wanted to take a steel knife in the kitchen to smash the furnishings in the other party's room and scold hysterically that this was a foreigner. Chinese students all pay attention to subtlety and beauty. When they broke up, they had to go back to China to get married. They had a good talk and said goodbye to this life with tears. She has seen such a breakup a dozen times in front of and in the apartment in New York. Once in the middle of the night, in the summer, she and Chen Linguan walked out side by side and saw a pair of young men and women who had a breakup meal in the apartment last night. They were kissing like glue at the door. The girls’ faces were full of tears and their clothes were scattered. It opened, doing things that couldn't be said...Later Chen Linguan said that the man was going back to teach in China, and the two were breaking up.

Private appointment is first for life, and then the relationship is blocked by family relations. Such a breakup is the most fashionable among international students. That's why Shen Xi said that "all people who have stayed abroad, love and break up are common things".

But seeing is one thing, experiencing is another.

Just like in medical school, they can calmly study and talk about the patient's condition, but never perceive the real pain. Knowing where to amputate can save my life. I really have been a person with amputated legs, and the experience is quite different.

Her eyes were sore and swollen, she held her cheeks, lowered her head, and then went to stack the deck of cards.

"A meeting, talking about these sadness, today's words stop here, the rest will be kept in my heart. Let's have a good year, and then send you away..." He was also dumb, and pushed the tea cup to her. , "Leave something for the third brother."

Shen Xi nodded, his throat was hot, caused by pressing his mood too hard.

She took a cup of tea and poured cold water into her throat. The cold liquid flowed from her throat to her stomach, and she felt distinct.

When the car arrived, she was sent downstairs by Wan An.

Guanghe Building's new one-day business is about to start. The guys are busy cleaning up the things in the pool and on the table. Seeing Shen Xi coming downstairs, the right is transparent. The stage is empty, and the characters on the pillars on both sides are where the dragon and the phoenix dance.

Last night, the card game aimed at saving the country and the people responded to the four words "playing on the spot" and agreed with Fu Tongwen to "separate joys and sorrows". Shen Xi was in a trance, repeating his own words and his words in his heart again and again, to People are still dumbfounded in the car.

Back in the yard, Tan Qingxiang had changed his suit, holding a hat in his hand, and was walking out.

He saw Shen Xi's face with joy: "Miss Shen, you can be regarded as coming back. Where is the third master?"

"Still in Guanghe Building." Shen Xi's voice was low and dumb.

"Still there?" Tan Qingxiang was astonished. "Are you going to get something when you come back? Medicine? Or money? Come on, I know where both are, you just wait here, I'll get it for you."

Shen Xi shook his head and staggered inside.

Tan Qingxiang stood there in confusion.

"The two have a dispute," Wan An whispered, "San Ye told me to clean up the East Wing and let Ms. Shen live."

"Can a quarrel be like this?" Tan Qingxiang was surprised, "What are you doing with you? Leave Sanye alone in Guanghe Building?"

Wan An Yuyu: "San Ye is worried, Miss Shen, I must send it back."

"Confused!" Tan Qingxiang turned around and left.

When we arrived at Guanghe Building, someone put up a guise outside the building and began to arrange today's play.

As soon as Tan Qingxiang appeared, the old man recognized him: "Is it looking for San Ye?" The man said and led Tan Qingxiang to the first official, "San Ye loves to listen to dramas, but I didn't hear him for two days. Lou, go and see, sir, we are so relieved."

"Have you just come out?" he asked.

"I came out and asked for a pot of tea."

That's fine.

Tan Qingxiang stood outside the first official curtain, calmed his mind, and made himself as calm as possible, and then he opened the curtain and entered.

Fu Dongwen was sitting on a chair with a teapot beside him, alone at the card table, shuffling the cards. He heard someone come in and said without raising his eyes: "Get out."

Tan Qingxiang ignored him and put down the medicine box.

He took out his stethoscope and said, "Listen to me." The stethoscope pressed against Fu Dongwen's chest. "A quarrel will hurt you for half a month. It hurts your heart and body."

Fu Dongwen didn't say a word, took a cigarette case from the pocket of Tan Qingxiang's suit jacket, and went to touch the matchbox.

Tan Qingxiang was reluctant to give it to him at first. Seeing that he was indeed in a bad mood, he compromised. In Fu Dongwen's early days in Shanghai, he spent the first half playing cards all day, and spent the second half stuck in the house. Like most young aspirants who wanted to save the country, he was groping for the way forward in the mist. Too much thinking, smoking and drinking to alleviate, the root of the disease now fell back then.

Later, after he made up his mind to quit smoking and drinking, he acted vigorously and it was effective.

Later, whenever I got into a difficult situation, I took at most a cigarette in my hand, rubbed and fiddled, and got the taste of one hand. Today he couldn't resist the desire to fall again, lit his cigarette, slowly put it on his lips, and took a deep breath.

The smell of tobacco made him dizzy, like reincarnation for half a lifetime, and returned to those years: "Qingxiang, we are all old."

Seventy years ago, assuming he is healthy, he is lucky enough to live to seventy years old, and he will be halfway there today. He knew that he was not a long-lived person, and when he reached this age, he was already considered an old man.

"How many years do you think I can live?" he asked again.

Tan Qingxiang is impatient: "You have to do this every day, and you can enter the soil next year. I will also be happy and happy."

"Tell me the truth," Fu Tongwen asked, "five years? Or three years?"

Tan Qingxiang was unwilling to discuss this topic with him and responded with silence.

Fu Tongwen was silent for a while, and said, "Miss Shen asked me to break up."

"You promised?"

He defaulted.

"Why? Because of the marriage contract with Gu Youwei?"

"I reached an agreement with Miss Gu that she will postpone the wedding and find a better home."

"Does Shen Xi know?"

Fu Dongwen shook his head.

"You and Shen Xi have to talk about the whole story. You don't have to be separated." Tan Qingxiang pulled the chair and sat down in front of him. "Don't learn from me. I am a wandering person, and all the girls you meet It's you who love me. You are different to Shen Xi."

Fu Dongwen was silent and smoked in silence.

"I'm talking to you seriously, the conversation must be in contact with each other, with questions and answers." Tan Qingxiang urged him.

He smiled and said: "You and I are all people who have stayed abroad. You should understand me best. We are a group of people, when we walk, we must let girls go ahead, and we must put clothes on girls when we go out. It’s your duty to take care and to be courteous...When you are in a relationship, you must first ask people if you’re willing, and of course you have to listen to other people’s ideas when you break up.

"I don't want to listen to such scenes," Tan Qingxiang retorted, "You tell her the truth, I don't believe she will leave. If you two quarrel, no one can bow their heads, I will be the peacemaker."

"The truth?" Fu Dongwen seemed to be smiling, but he was smiling

"You and Miss Gu have reached a consensus, the truth is not to get married."

He shook his head: "This is just the truth that is good for me. What about the truth that is not good for me? It is my father and eldest brother who let the Shen family kill? Don't talk about this? Do you only pick the side that is good for me and forget about it. The downside? What kind of truth is that?"

This questioned Tan Qingxiang. Whenever he saw that two people were better, he would be afraid that Shen Xi would know this: "...If you tell her the truth? She is a reasonable person, even if you can't think of it for a while, give her more Some time, you will always understand."

Fu Dongwen laughed self-deprecatingly, biting half of the cigarette, took out a hand|gun from behind his waist, and put it on the card table.

What is this going to do? Tan Qingxiang was taken aback for a moment.

He pinched the cigarette with **** and removed it from his lips: "If Shen Xi knew the truth, do you think she would only be in pain and sleepless? She is the one who wants revenge. I'm not afraid that she will anger me, but that she wants to. I'm avenging my family, but I'm in it."

He was breathing hard.

My chest was stuffy and stinging, but I still smoked.

"I slept with her for several months. I didn't dare to really marry her because I wanted to leave her a way out and because I was afraid that she would have children, so that I had to get married in Beijing at this time. I had a relationship with her father. Quite deeply, how can he make his daughter kneel and salute in front of the enemy, call a father, call an uncle? But if I delay getting married, what will she think of her loving me? She will think that I am false to her Fake love, day by day suspicion, can't escape the end of hateful separation; but if the truth is revealed, should I let her kill my father, or let my father kill her? Or, should I help her kill my father? Is there a father-son relationship? There is fairness. My father can kill me, but I can't attack him."

Tan Qingxiang was right from the beginning. It was the best decision to send her to California, but he didn’t. On the ship, he could listen to Tan Qingxiang’s persuasion at the beginning of his affection. Without that letter of admonishment, things would be fine. Good ending, neither did he.

Before disembarking, he envisioned taking Shen Xi to Tianjin to get married so that she and the Fu family would be separated. He had a business, and it was established in the early Republic of China. At that time, he was very energetic, thinking that the Republic of China was established in the early days and the future will be smooth. He has capital in his hand. Nothing can hinder him. He thinks that his examination in the UK has a good result and his condition is not too serious. , Keep secret capital. So he said to her: Follow the third brother in the future.

After getting off the boat, the situation took a turn for the worse, and he was locked in the yard. He hoped that Shen Xi would stay in Shanghai. Like several times in the past, he chose to abandon him, but Shen Xi has overcome all difficulties to find him.

She was crying in front of him with frost and snow on her eyebrows that day, nervously taking off her clammy clothes, until she stepped on her dress barefoot and looked at him. Fu Dongwen knew that he must marry her, and he is always mediating for this...

Fu Tongwen put the cigarette out of the ashtray: "In the past two months, my health is not as good as before. If I really die, she, my father and eldest brother are still alive, and the Shen family's affairs are revealed again, she wants How to survive?"

After he died, Shen Xi left the wife of the third master. When the family property is divided in the future, the eldest brother will dig out the roots of Shen Xi in order to grab the property, and look for the flaws to drive away her. At that time, there was no Fu Dongwen, who could stop or suppress it? Once the secret is revealed, it is unthinkable.

It was Shen Xi's words that gave him a head start and broke his fascination.

Fu Dongwen was very fortunate that she could abandon herself. As she said: It's the best result to get here.

It was not too late before he got sick, before the revolution failed, and before he could hide things from the Shen family. Shen Xi was leaving at this time. She was a girl with no background. She couldn't threaten anyone, and no one would care about her. This was the best time.

Fu Dongwen didn't want to talk any more, he asked his buddy to go to Tianruiju to order food, and had a meal with Tan Qingxiang in the box.

When it was time to palm the lantern, several guests came.

Tan Qingxiang was on the sidelines, uneasy about Fu Dongwen's state. He is like a person wearing makeup and singing, unable to see the true feelings of real people, as if day conversations do not exist.

After he left, he leaned by the window to listen to Shiro's visit to his mother on the stage. The fundus is all red.

When the curtain was closed, he said something that had nothing to do with the drama, his voice was dumb, and people were tired: "Most good things are not strong, and the colored clouds are easy to disperse and the glaze is brittle. Qingxiang, people will only understand this sentence after a long life."