The misty rain in Suzhou had just stopped and the red candles were still cold. He gave her a branch of broken plum: "When it blooms again, we will say goodbye forever." Su Mingyu, an officer who was newly married for three months, went to the front line of the Anti-Japanese War and was never heard from again.
Gu Jinxian kept this promise and turned into a pliable lone bamboo in the stormy waves of half a century. She sold her dowry to support the front line, but found doubts in the bad news that "her husband died for the country"; she aloofly rejected the twisted "repayment" of the former beggar Xu Zhenbang, burying the root of the trouble of having her nails pulled out and iron plates hung during the revolution; she watched her son grow up in humiliation, just waiting for a vague return date
