The Ninety-Second Night: A Story from a Hundred Years Ago [1914]
This matter starts a hundred years ago.
This sentence means that Zhou Lu is a ghost a hundred years ago. Since he is a ghost a hundred years ago, he has been wandering until now, it is a mystery. Perhaps even he himself has discovered that ordinary ghosts will disappear when they reach the seventh day of the first seventh period, but he still exists in this world until now, which is really strange.
A hundred years ago, it was 1914.
In 1914, the world was still Yuan Shikai's world. In order to consolidate the regime, Yuan Shikai suppressed revolutionaries and stifled progressive ideas, he ordered universities in Beijing not to teach "opposing the president's revolution."
Among the students in Beijing, Zhou Lu is one of them.
Zhou Lu's father was originally a businessman from Shandong. The situation was turbulent, which forced him to move his family to Beijing. However, Zhou Lu's playmates when he was a child were still in Shandong, Pingdu County, Shandong.
Zhou Lu's playmate when he was a child had a girl who had no name, only a surname, and only a surname. He was Zhou Lu's best friend when he was a child, and he was also the lover who was later determined just because of correspondence. Han had no name, but after Zhou Lu went to school, he always told many fun stories to girls with the surname Han. The girl's favorite story was Zhuang Zhou Mengdie, so she named herself Han Mengdie.
Zhou Lu was a radical student who supported the revolution, but under the pressure of the government, even the freedom of speech in newspapers was restricted, let alone ordinary students. He was very sad and heartbroken. He dropped out of Beijing and was about to return to Shandong, and simply ignored state affairs.
Of course, Han Mengdie was waiting for Zhou Lu to go back at home. Han Mengdie was already living in Shandong at this time, especially in constant natural disasters. Her family members died and fled, just waiting for Zhou Lu to go back to pick her up. The two agreed to go to Fengtian together.
Zhou Lu originally planned to return to Shandong in August, but at that time, the European War began. In Beijing (it should have been called Shuntian Prefecture at that time, and it was renamed Jingzhao Place in October). Zhou Lu was preparing to delay going back for a month. Judging from China's statement, China indeed expressed neutrality.
Since Zhou Lu himself has a little job among students, Beijing affairs have been entangled with Zhou Lu, and Zhou Lu cannot leave until October, when the Japanese issued a "5 decree laws" in Pingdu County, Shandong, stipulating that "if one person in the village hinders the Japanese army's action, the entire village will be executed.
At this time, Zhou Lu began to be anxious. He was afraid that Han Mengdie would be in danger, so he put down all the affairs around him, left Beijing at that time, and prepared to return to Shandong.
But how can things go smoothly? When Zhou Lu rushed to Dalian to take a boat to Qingdao and then go back by land, an accident occurred at sea, and ships arrested the Chinese. The purpose of these ships was to capture the Chinese to go to the battlefield of the European war as laborers. At that time, Zhou Lu did not run away and was arrested to Europe.
Zhou Lu died on the European battlefield. He never saw Han Mengdie who had been thinking about him day and night. He just carried a photo of Han Mengdie with him. The photo was taken by Han Mengdie when he was seventeen years old.
After Zhou Lu's death, he knew it was a ghost, so he went to search for it. His soul had been floating back from Europe and returned to China. When he went to Shandong, he could not find it again. It is said that Han Mengdie had not waited for Zhou Lu to arrive and had already passed through Guandong with his relatives.
Zhou Lu searched in the northeast for a hundred years, but still couldn't find Han Mengdie. Finally, he met a woman who looked very much like Han Mengdie, which was Zheng Yao. Zheng Yao looked very much like Han Mengdie.
Chapter completed!