夏衍从沦陷的香港辗转来到重庆,便被中华剧艺社的老朋友应云卫缠上。应云卫说正闹剧本荒,见面便定货,要夏衍写个剧本。夏衍初到重庆,要了解、要做的事很多,只能始漫应之,应云卫却认了真,拍着夏衍的肩膀说:“好,够交情,一言为定。”一言九鼎。“债”注定要还。然而重庆的炎夏却使夏衍有些吃不消,剧本便一拖再拖。尽管应云卫急如星火地催债,夏衍因正忙于和炎夏作斗争,无力他顾。夏衍的不怕热是出了名的。重庆宛如蒸笼似的闷热却使他破了不睡凉席的旧例,买了一张蔑席铺在行军床上。睡了一夜,早上起来,席子上留下一片很深的人形的汗迹,令夏衍极为吃惊。 Xia Yan from the fall of Hong Kong was removed to Chongqing, it was an old friend of China Theater Arts Society should wrap up. Ying Yun Wei said that the farce is a farce, will meet to order, to Xia Yan to write a script. Xia Yan first arrived in Chongqing, to understand, to do many things, only the beginning should be diffused, should Yunwei recognized the real, patted Xia Yan’s shoulder and said: “Well, enough friendship, in a word.” Jiuding. “Debt” is doomed to return. However, the summer of Chongqing, but Xia Yan some too much, the script will be delayed. Although Yun Yuet should be anxious to urge the debt, Xia Yan was busy fighting the summer, unable to take care of him. Xia Yan is not afraid of heat is notorious. Chongqing, like a steamer-like stuffy but he broke the old example of not sleeping mat, bought a slander shop in the camp bed. Sleep for a night, get up in the morning, leaving a deep human form of sweat on the mat, so Xia Yan was very surprised.