War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1191 The Last Play
On the morning of July 7, when the news of the devils attacking Beiping and the "self-defense and defending the soil" anti-war telegram were broadcast to Xuqing Shuyu through the radio station, it also cast a shadow on everyone's hearts that the war was coming.

Although there is not much that can be done, under the command of Cao Yaba, who had been on the battlefield, everyone closed all the curtains upstairs and downstairs, and then used the ones that were bought when building the flower beds a few days ago Those boards sealed the curtained windows, and an extra layer of quilt was nailed inside.

In this way, although the lighting ability of this exceptionally beautiful small building is greatly weakened and it looks extremely oppressive and stuffy, it at least looks a little safer.

After a lot of busy work, it was noon, and everyone had a quick lunch. Wei Ran and Tao Canhua took a shower and changed their clothes, took Jasmine to check the statement again, and then drove out to Xiaosu The small building where my mother lived.

Along the way, what the two saw along the way was quite different from yesterday. Many of the small merchants and hawkers had disappeared, and many of the shops along the street had also closed their doors.On the contrary, the newsboys who sell newspapers have a particularly prosperous business.

"We're going to war," Tao Canhua muttered worriedly. ,

"yes"

Wei Ran, who was driving, muttered something absent-mindedly, but he had no intention of stopping to buy a newspaper. The short but torturous battle that followed was clearly recorded in later historical records. The function of buying a newspaper at this time was nothing more than It just adds to the indignation.

"Aren't you afraid?" Tao Canhua asked, looking away.

"Afraid." Wei Ran replied frankly, "What about you? Are you not afraid?"

"I'm afraid," Tao Canhua sighed, "It's useless to be afraid. If the country is weak, the people will be lowly. I'm still playing music for the ghosts for two oceans, alas."

"cheer"

Wei Ran stopped the car, glanced at the blue curtains floating from the window on the second floor of the small building, turned his head and said, "Maybe the devil will ask you something later. It can also become a weapon to serve the country."

"Really?" Tao Canhua looked down at the piano bag in his arms.

"Don't keep Ueda-san waiting"

Wei Ran urged with a smile, and watched the young man in gray cloth gown open the car door, holding the piano bag, and walking towards the small building step by step with the erhu in his arms.

Waiting for the other party to enter the door and watching the door close, Wei Ran lit a cigarette, silently looked at the pedestrians outside the window, and looked at the Japanese Concession area not far away where entry and exit were still prohibited.

I don't know if it was caused by the tense atmosphere before the battle, but the overalls that bought Wei Ran yesterday did not appear. Even Tao Canhua walked out of the small building on time after an hour, and ran quickly Come over and get into the rear compartment.

"Plant Today"

"Don't talk, don't look out the window."

Wei Ran gave an indistinct wink at the same time as he ordered, and Tao Canhua's expression also flustered.

At the same time, a man in silk clothes and trousers just came out of a opium den across the road. The man stood at the entrance of the opium den and lit a cigarette slowly. Under the big tree, I pushed a bicycle and wiped the seat with my sleeve.

Deliberately starting the car, the man immediately stepped on the pedal with one foot and prepared to "start".

However, he slipped forward along the road for more than ten meters, but Wei Ran deliberately released the accelerator to make the engine quiet again.

Seeing that the other party turned his head subconsciously, Wei Ran deliberately failed to start the car twice in a row, and waited until the other party was riding a bicycle four or fifty meters past him, and then started the engine with the cooperation of the accelerator.

Slowly re-igniting a cigarette, Wei Ran stepped on the accelerator and drove the car out, and at the same time as he was about to overtake the bicycle, he asked loudly in a domineering tone, "My cousin and nephew, today How many dollars did you earn from that little devil?"

"Four, four dollars!"

Although Tao Canhua was introverted, he was by no means stupid. He immediately realized something from Wei Ran's tone and address, not to mention that the former had hinted at him just now.

"How about lending me two yuan to spend later?" Wei Ran continued to say arrogantly while the car overtook the bicycle.

"No, no," Tao Canhua responded, shrank behind the co-pilot, and at the same time pressed his hand on the pocket of his gown.

He didn't even look at the man on the bicycle who was overtaken by him. Wei Ran, who was in charge of the car, threatened Tao Canhua wantonly with a domineering tone, and at the same time secretly looked at the people and vehicles he met along the way.

When he passed a crossroad, because of the poor road conditions, there were many pedestrians and rickshaws on the street, and the car slowed down.

Looking out of the car window with the action of dusting off the cigarette, Wei Ran didn't continue to say anything, but just gave Tao Canhua a hard look, and then pressed the car horn impatiently, and passed the difficult time with a little difficulty. Know why such a crowded intersection.

However, he did not take the same path as yesterday. Instead, he changed to a path that he had not walked before, and then randomly stepped on the brakes at the door of a Chinese medicine shop and opened the car door.

"I'm offended, bear with it."

When Wei Ran got into the back compartment, he whispered, then reached out and pressed Tao Canhua's face, pressing it against the back of the seat, and said with a threatening face, "I borrowed money from you to reward you." , take out the ocean in your pocket, and I will break your leg if you lose a penny!"

"It hurts, it hurts! Let go! I'll give it to you!" Tao Canhua begged and shouted—Wei Ran really used his strength.

"It's too early to be so happy"

With a frenzied face, Wei Ran smacked the back of the opponent's head indistinctly, and then took the four yuan that the opponent reluctantly handed over.

"As a cousin, I can't bully you"

Wei Ran said, and threw one of the dirtiest oceans to Tao Canhua, "Of the three oceans, one is gas money, and I borrowed the other two from you. I will pay it back when my cousin pays her wages." you."

After finishing speaking, Wei Ran was thinking about the three oceans he had snatched, turned around and walked towards the Chinese medicine shop, and closed the car door roughly, leaving only Tao Canhua, an honest boy, holding silver dollars in one hand and the back of his head with the other, Lying on the seat and crying while beating the back of the driver's seat.

At the same time, Wei Ran also walked into the Chinese medicine shop, took out another stack of oceans from his pocket in a particularly arrogant manner, threw it on the counter with a clatter, and then took a sip of the cigarette with the cigarette holder, like a local hooligan He yelled, "Bring me a piece of ginseng, it's only so much money, as good as you can buy."

"This lord, this lord."

The clerk at the pharmacy may be used to seeing such an arrogant and unreasonable bastard like Wei Ran, so he collected the silver dollars on the counter calmly and counted them, and then asked with a smile, "Do you want white ginseng or red ginseng? Korean ginseng?" Ginseng or American ginseng? This ginseng is good, but don’t eat it indiscriminately. In case”

"What if what?"

Wei Ran said impatiently, "I've been staying up late every day playing cards recently, and I just want to get some ginseng to refresh myself. You only have so much money, you can buy as much as you can. It works, I say no." Come back someday, it doesn’t work, hum! The next time I see you, I’ll shoot you and kill you.”

"I understand when you say that."

The guy weighed the silver dollar in his hand, and said with a smile, "My lord, what do you think, I'll weigh some red ginseng slices for you, what do you think?
When you are sleepy and tired, you can take a piece of it. No matter what the ginseng is, it is not a big radish after all, is it?If you win a lot of money and take a big bite when you are happy, it will hurt your health. "

"Alright, you guys will come to trouble."

Wei Ran reached out and patted the other party's shoulder, took out another piece of ocean from his pocket and stuffed it into the other party's neckline, "This piece is a reward from the Lord, hurry up and get the ginseng slices ready."

"Got it!"

The guy responded, and after handing over the silver dollar in his hand to the accountant, he quickly picked up the small copper plate and began preparations.

Before Wei Ran had to wait long, the guy poured the red ginseng slices he had weighed on a piece of straw paper, and then took two four-eared famille rose ceramics with covers that were about the size of peeled coconuts from under the counter. The jar, after padding a few pieces of straw paper inside, put the red ginseng slices in it.

Finally, tie the four handles and the lid of the ceramic pot carefully with red cloth strips, and the guy instructed, "My lord, up to three pieces a day, don't eat too much, you should rest, but You can't break your body."

"Why are you talking so much, this jar of yours looks pretty, what's the painting on it?" Wei Ran asked intentionally as a joke.

"Eight Peach Bat"

The guy still replied in a friendly manner, "Longevity and good fortune, don't we make a living in hanging pots, don't we just hope that the people who enter the door will have a long life?"

"Your boy can talk"

Wei Ran, who was pretending to be arrogant, murmured inwardly that he was offended, and at the same time, pretending to be arrogant, he patted the other person on the shoulder again, then left the pharmacy and got into the car with the two porcelain pots tied with red cloth strips.

Deliberately ignoring Tao Canhua who was huddled in a corner with his piano bag behind him, Wei Ran drove to Quanyechang again, only to find that not even the young men who sold cigarettes came out today.

Seeing this, he had no choice but to find a cigarette dealer at random, bought a pack of Camel cigarettes and put them in his pocket, ignoring a black car that followed behind him, and drove back.

Wei Ran and Tao Canhua let out a sigh of relief until they returned to Xuqingshu Apartment and drove the car into the garage.

"Didn't you hurt you just now?" Wei Ran asked Tao Canhua who was behind him apologetically.

"It's all right"

Tao Canhua hurriedly waved his hands. This was discussed last night, so he was naturally prepared for it.

"Fortunately, we discussed it yesterday," Wei Ran muttered.

"Is someone really watching us?" Tao Canhua immediately became nervous.

"How would I know"

Wei Ran threw up his hands and denied it, "We have to act real, don't we? Alright, get out of the car."

With that said, Wei Ran took out three oceans from his pocket and returned them to Tao Canhua.

After the young man left the carriage with his dinner companion, Wei Ran picked up the two porcelain pots and opened the door to get off the carriage, and then walked into the small building.

In fact, Jasmine asked him to buy these red ginseng slices this morning. As for the purpose, at least the other party said that they were going to stew the few hens outside that could lay eggs someday.

No matter what excuse Jasmine made, Wei Ran didn't bother to get to the bottom of it. He just doubled his purchases out of his own pocket to make himself look like he "just made three hundred oceans and has plenty of money".

After giving one of the porcelain jars to Jasmine, Wei Ran returned to the room with the other porcelain jar, untied the red string that tied the lid, then took out the food box, and poured half of the red ginseng slices into it. By the way, And stuffed a few pills into an empty cigarette case.

After taking a shower and changing clothes, Wei Ran fell asleep and fell asleep not long after.

This is already the 28th. According to the historical records he collected before entering this time and space, the battle will start at two o'clock in the morning on the 29th.In other words, this is the final rest period before the war begins.

In any case, Wei Ran has already been called a veteran of hundreds of battles. He has already clearly known that he has no ability to change the situation of the battle and change history, but he is also confident that he can protect himself in the next battle.

However, the only question now is—where did Cousin Meixiang, who needs his protection, go.

(End of this chapter)