Chapter 853 - 0853: Slippery Hot Spring Water 1
In September, Feng Qingxue received a letter from Shu Land, sent by Lu Lin.
Upon opening it, she saw that the handwriting was Lin Yufen’s, and the letter was signed by Lu Lin and Lin Lu.
The old couple had settled down in a remote mountain village near Lin Yufen’s hometown, daring not to use their real names. Instead, they used the aliases Lu Lin and Lin Lu that they had during the war—their household registration papers from that time were authentic, though they hadn’t used them since the founding of the nation.
At the brink of life and death, they remembered their previous identities.
Since Lin Yufen spoke with a local accent, they claimed to have been displaced with their family during the war and had now returned to settle in their hometown, having accidentally lost their post-revolution identity documents en route. They quietly gave a Shanghai-brand watch to the head of the production brigade and slipped him some money to secure a place to live. They worked from dawn to dusk and lived in extreme hardship.
Life was difficult, but at least they had preserved their lives.
A semi-conductor radio they carried with them allowed them to tune into broadcasts. Listening to the content of the broadcasts, they both sweated profusely and were seized with retrospective fear.
Before they resigned and after they settled down, they had been in correspondence with their son, using a code indecipherable to others, one that only they could understand. Therefore, they were quickly informed of some events that had happened in the Capital.
Their old friend Zheng Peng was the first to be persecuted to death, dying under tragic circumstances in June, with his corpse nowhere to be found.