Lost and Spy

Chapter 251 The Dark Corner
It was the first time for Kong Lingyi to come to such a place.

If it wasn't for Meng Shaoyuan, she would never have imagined that there is such a poor place in Nanjing.

And it's just at Xinjiekou, the busiest area in Nanjing.

Isn't this also a kind of irony?
"Miss."

Gao Fanyi said kindly: "It's really dirty here, and there are many diseases, I think it's still..."

"It's nothing." Kong Lingyi didn't care: "Meng Section Chief, how did you know this place, how did you know Da Bingzi?"

"Da Bingzi's father is Yang Youcai. He is a very ordinary man. His name is Youcai, but he has no money. The only thing that is different from ordinary people is that he is a spy."

When Meng Shaoyuan said this, both Kong Lingyi and Gao Fanyi were stunned.

Meng Shaoyuan pretended not to see their expressions, and continued: "At that time, there was no Lixing Society, and that was just a nice way of saying it. In fact, he was a low-level spy. What kind of dissatisfaction with the government.

He lives here, and although the conditions are a bit poor, it can at least provide for his family's food and clothing.Yang Youcai has no other pursuits, he just hopes that he and his family can be safe and sound. In the 22nd year of the Republic of China, his son was born, that is, a soldier.Miss, do you know the American missionary Pei Yili? "

Pei Yili?
Of course Kong Lingyi knew.

In 1911, the Huai River flooded again, and thousands of refugees flooded into Nanjing.

Pei Yili, an American missionary who taught at Jinling University, was troubled by the misfortune of the refugees.

He not only donated generously, but also took Chinese students to visit slums.

Most of the students come from wealthy families, and I have never seen such a scene.

One of the county magistrate's children followed Pei Yili from one hut to another, very shocked.

Afterwards, the student thanked: "I have lived in this city since I was a child, but I have never noticed the miserable world around me. It was not until you, a foreigner, brought me here that I saw all this."

Kong Lingyi just didn't know why Meng Shaoyuan suddenly mentioned Pei Yili.

"Actually, there was another foreigner who did the same thing as Pei Yili later, but the ending was quite different." Meng Shaoyuan said eloquently.

In the 22nd year of the Republic of China, Xia Muren, a foreign professor who also taught at Jinling University, did something similar.

But the consequences were very different.

In the class, he first showed the students a film of landscapes in various parts of China made by the American Kodak Company, and then played a film he made himself recording the city of Nanjing.

Because most of the American films reflect the "backward" Chinese landscape, and the subtitles have the sentence "Foreign influence has not yet penetrated into the mainland (China)", the students began to be dissatisfied.

Professor Yang's self-produced films were all shot in dilapidated corners of Nanjing. Halfway through watching them, the students finally lost patience and angrily demanded to stop the screening.

The incident caused a sensation in the city of Nanjing, and the film played by Xia Muren was also called a "humiliating film" by the media.

The students of Jinling University demanded that the party and government parties in NJ immediately dismiss the professor, but failed.

Later, the students found out that this person was still filming a variety of "social vulgar videos" in Nanjing. They believed that he "intentionally insulted China", and the crowd became angry and demanded that he should be fired.

Considering that public anger is hard to offend, it may cause an unexpected wave.

In the end, the school sent him to a Chinese school in Beiping on the grounds that the foreign professor was ignorant of the situation in China, so that he could learn Chinese and understand Chinese folk customs, and the turmoil finally subsided.

"A large part of Xia Muren's films are based on the rag camp."

Meng Shaoyuan walked forward with Kong Lingyi and Gao Fanyi and said:
"Nanjing has developed rapidly in these years, but places like Ragcloth Camp still exist. Xia Muren has no other idea, but wants everyone to pay attention to these ordinary people who are still struggling in extreme poverty.

We are used to reporting the good news but not the bad ones, and it’s fine if we don’t see the bad things, and we don’t want to think about how to solve them, and we don’t want others to uncover the scars on our bodies.

Finally someone uncovered it, and it hurt, so in the name of patriotism, they attacked it.But has anyone ever thought about those struggling in the rag camp, who are more desperate for help than anyone else.

You can say that I am a traitor, you can say that I am licking the ass of foreigners..."

Gao Fanyi quickly coughed a few times, reminding Meng Shaoyuan that he must never say such vulgar words in front of the eldest lady.

Meng Shaoyuan also found out, and after apologizing, he continued: "But I thought what Xia Muren did was right. No one exposed us, and no one told us about our vulgar customs. We will always anesthetize ourselves, live in the kingdom of heaven, and worship all over the world. in the phantom.

Let's talk about Yang Youcai, he lived in the rag camp.In fact, like many people in the rag camp, he was grateful that someone finally spoke for them, and finally someone knew that even in the capital, there were still a group of people living a precarious life.

On the day Xia Muren left Nanjing, Yang Youcai silently undertook the task of escorting him out of Nanjing out of gratitude and fearing that something might happen to him.

No one asked him to do it, it was his own initiative.Sure enough, what he was worried about finally happened. Before leaving Nanjing, Xia Muren was surrounded by a group of students.

The officials who accompanied Xia Muren thought it had nothing to do with them and hid aside. Yang Youcai stepped forward to protect Xia Muren, but during the pushing and pushing, Yang Youcai fell.

It was also his bad luck that his head happened to hit a protruding sharp corner, and he bled profusely on the spot.When the students saw that someone was killed, they rushed away.

The students dispersed, Xia Muren left, and the officials went home.Yang Youcai died. "

When Meng Shaoyuan said this, his tone was full of sarcasm: "Yang Youcai deserved it, and it's not his job to escort Xia Muren, he's going there by himself, he didn't die on duty, so don't even think about the pension.

He has a wife and a young child, but who the hell cares about it...Miss, I'm sorry, I'm swearing again.

His wife goes around to avenge the man, nothing else, just want some funeral expenses, but no one cares, no one cares, what kind of thing are you, Yang Youcai, a lowly spy living in a slum.

In such a big city of Nanjing, if you die as a spy, you are nothing! "

Meng Shaoyuan didn't care if he was swearing or not: "You are a fucking ball, so his wife can only wrap the man's body in a broken mat and bury it.

die on the battlefield?That's for the military.Those of us who are spies are dead, it’s not bad to have a broken mat. If no one spits on your corpse, and finally scolds you as a "dog spy", then your ancestors burned high incense.

The people in the rag camp also want to help, but they really have no money.Think about it, if Yang Youcai is still alive and his son is sick, even if it takes his life, he will try to find a way to get the medicine.

I only found out about this when I joined the Lixing Society. I went to see Da Bingzi and his mother, and left some money, but I couldn’t help more people.I'm incompetent, I'm useless. "

Kong Lingyi's eye sockets were a little red:

"Tell me, Meng Shaoyuan, what do you want me to do?"

(End of this chapter)