War Photographer's Notebook

"Victor, we meet again."

On the first floor of the Xuqingshu apartment, Volker, wearing a pilot's fur cap, spoke to Wei Ran in German, as if he was not in a hurry to borrow a car.

In contrast, the young man named Guan Bingwen walked back and forth like an ant on a hot pot, wishing he could drive back immediately.

"Yeah, we meet again."

Wei Ran responded calmly in German, but he was secretly thinking about the relationship between Volker and Guan Bingwen.

As if seeing Wei Ran's doubts, Volker took the initiative to explain in German, "Guan's brother used to work in my foreign firm for a long time, and now he has gone to study in Germany. Of course, his brother's German is very good. Not as good as you say."

"So that's the case." Wei Ran nodded.

Just as Volker was about to say something, Jasmine also ran down from upstairs, and without waiting to meet the people downstairs, she said loudly, "Mr. Volker, I just asked Mommy Su, She said to let you go back first, let Wei Ran pick her up in a car later, and then send the car to you."

"In this case, I'll go back to the foreign company and wait."

Walker stood up after speaking, smiled at Wei Ran, and then left the small building.

However, before he got on the motorcycle, the unique roar of propeller planes flying in formation suddenly came from the sky!
"Hide away!"

Walker was taken aback for a moment, then he threw away the motorcycle he was just about to ride on, and ran into the room desperately.

"The basement! Go to the basement!" Jasmine also called out loudly.

However, before Cao Dumb, who was guarding the gate, came in, the planes in the night sky had already started shooting!

Almost at the same time, from several other directions, the characteristic hiss of the bomb falling, and the explosion that followed!

It is the direction of the university!
Wei Ran and Jasmine glanced at each other, and they realized where the explosion happened from almost at the same time.Guan Bingwen, who was also aware of this, felt his legs go limp, and sat down in the hall with a plop.

“Looks like it's not here”

Volker muttered happily, and then ran to his motorcycle, helped it up and said, "I have to go back to the foreign company quickly, only there is safety, I don't trust the British. Also, I will wait there for you to send the car back."

After finishing speaking, the German, who had nothing to do with rigor, seriousness, and rigidity, blinked at everyone, then got on the motorcycle, started the engine, and left the small courtyard in the dark.

"Take Xiao Guan to the basement and wait"

Jasmine held down Guan Bingwen who was struggling to stand up, and gave Wei Ran an instruction.

"Leave it to me." Wei Ran said, supporting Guan Bingwen who couldn't stand up at all, and walked towards the storage room.

When he helped the flustered and pale Guan Bingwen into the basement with the help of Tao Canhua, the young man did not know where the brute force came from, and he tried hard to break free from Wei Ran, saying incoherently, "Let go of me, I have to Go back, I have to go back, let me go! Let me go!"

"Mother Yang, you come up first."

At the entrance of the stairs, Jasmine greeted with the candle lamp, "Xiaoguan, you go down first, I will let you go back later, and I will lend you the car."

After a short pause, Jasmine added, "It's what Miss Andy meant."

Hearing this, Guan Bingwen was stunned, and he gradually relaxed, allowing Wei Ran and Tao Canhua to drag him into the basement.

"Wei Ran, are you willing to help?" Jasmine asked as she walked down, "Maybe you will lose your life."

"What I eat is the rice that licks blood with the blade of a knife," Wei Ran said.

"Wait in the basement." After Jasmine finished speaking, Mama Yang had already stepped up, and shortly after, Mute Cao came down.

Almost when Cao Dumb finished the last step, Wei Ran vaguely heard the sound of the door closing and locking above his head.

Immediately afterwards, the fluorescent tubes in the basement lit up one after another in a burst of flickering.

"Bang!"

With a crisp sound, the corner of the stair railing turned 180 degrees by itself!

Immediately afterwards, the huge mirror that went straight to the ceiling slid slowly by itself, blocking the corner at the bottom step of the stairs, but also at the other end, revealing a small door that was not too big.

Under the watchful eyes of Wei Ran and Tao Canhua, and the seemingly unsurprised eyes of Guan Bingwen, Cao Dumb and Jasmine, the small door was pushed open from the inside.Immediately afterwards, three girls, Andy, Meixiang and Qiushi, got out of it one after another.

"Nankai was bombed over there?"

Andy, who was wearing a student uniform and cut his hair short, was the first to ask.While asking, she also took a floral bag from Qiushi and threw it on her shoulder.

"I saw it with my own eyes just now," Guan Bingwen said with red eyes, "the explosion must have come from there!"

"I'll go back with you to save people," Andy said, looking at Mei Xiang.

Mei Xiang, who hadn't seen her for a few days, sighed, looked up at Dumb Cao, nodded to him, then looked at Wei Ran, "I've been hiding below these two days."

"Oh" Wei Ran responded indifferently.

"You follow Uncle Dumb and do whatever you can to help, okay?" Mei Xiang asked seriously.

"No." Wei Ran shook his head, then looked at Andy, "Are you going to mutter?"

"How do you say?" Andy looked at Wei Ran and asked, but there was no dust on that rather delicate face.

"I will go with you"

Wei Ran glanced at Mei Xiang, then turned his gaze back and continued, "I need a nurse who can help."

"Are you a medical student?" Andy's eyes lit up immediately.

"Now is not the time to waste time." After Wei Ran finished speaking, he looked at Mei Xiang again, and asked very seriously, "Would my cousin believe me?"

"It's okay to trust you once. When you are in trouble, come here and hide."

Mei Xiang pointed to the small door that just came out behind her, and said in a particularly free and easy manner, "Uncle Dumb, you drive Xiao Guan, Wei Ran and Andy to Walker's foreign firm first, and leave my car there Afterwards, change to another car and go to where Andy lives to pick up things. Then send them to Nankai University, and discuss with Xiaoguan what to do afterward."

Hearing this, Cao Duan nodded vigorously, then pulled out the cannon from his waist and handed it to Mei Xiang.

"Keep it for yourself, I have something for self-defense." Mei Xiang waved her hand and refused.

"And me?"

Tao Canhua asked rather anxiously, "What can I help? Let me do something too."

"It's enough for you to stay and protect your aunt," Wei Ran said in a joking tone.

"Let him follow," Jasmine said, "It's even good to help move things."

"Yes, I have strength, I have plenty of strength." Tao Canhua said immediately.

"Then follow." Meixiang bowed to everyone in a very formal manner, "Come back alive, as long as you can run back, I can hide you."

"Don't waste time." Seeing that Qiu Shi had pushed away the mirror, Andy was the first one to run upstairs with his luggage.

Seeing this, Wei Ran and Guan Bingwen followed in no particular order. The difference was that Guan Bingwen took a serious look at Qiu Shi before stepping up the steps.Immediately afterwards, Dumb and Tao Canhua also followed.

When a group of people came to the ground, Wei Ran ran into his room first, closed the door, and took out the medical box from the metal book.

It's a pity that there is neither the helmet of the American medical soldier on this box, nor the plasma powder that was obtained on the side.

Sighing secretly it was a pity, Wei Ran opened the door with the box in his hand, and chased everyone into the garage.But he happened to see Cao Dumb getting into the cab and starting the car, and also saw Guan Bingwen gesturing for Andy to sit in the relatively spacious co-pilot.

"You and Andy are sitting in the back row, Canhua, you are sitting on the far left in the back row."

Wei Ran carried the suitcase and sat in the co-pilot first, and at the same time instructed, "Remember to close the curtain so that no one can see Andy."

After being reminded by him, the three of them immediately sat in the back row as ordered, and after drawing the white gauze curtains, Mute Cao immediately drove to Volker's foreign firm in the dark amidst gunfire and explosions.

"My cousin originally studied medicine?"

In the back compartment, Andy said through the veil, "I remember at the dance that day, you said you studied theology?"

"Cousin Andy got it wrong." Wei Ran responded flatly, "I heard you are a nurse?"

As if knowing what Wei Ran wanted to ask, Andy said proactively, "Yes, I have been in the operating room and assisted in amputation operations."

"what a coincidence"

"What?" Andy looked at the back of Wei Ran's head on the other side of the gauze curtain.

"I'm good at amputation"

When Wei Ran said this, he couldn't help touching the medical box on his lap, and couldn't help but think of the dental clinic next to the Moltke Bridge in his mind.

"You'd better tell the truth," Andy reminded seriously.

"You too." Wei Ran responded flatly, and the carriage fell into silence.

Without waiting for a long time, Cao Dumb drove the car into Volker's foreign firm, and under the command of the other party, he drove directly into a garage.

"Ms. Andy, we meet again." Volker greeted cordially in German, "Your car is in the garage on the other side, and I have prepared the other two rented cars by Mr. Feng. "

"Trouble for you"

Andy nodded reservedly, then took out a bunch of car keys from his pocket and handed them to Wei Ran, "Let's split up, Xiaoguan, you and the mute drive to transport the wounded, and Wei Ran and I go to school."

"I"

"You come with us too"

Andy didn't wait for Tao Canhua to say a second word, he greeted Wei Ran into the garage, and drove out a black Chevrolet four-door sedan.

Not daring to waste time, after the three of them got into the car, Wei Ran immediately started the car and drove out of the foreign company, while Andy, who was sitting in the back row, also opened the bag he had been carrying all the time, took out a thick mask from inside and handed it to Tao Canhua , "Put it on and don't let anyone see your face. You are Meixiang's nephew now. If someone recognizes you, not only Meixiang and Jasmine will be implicated, but the basement they have painstakingly hidden will also be exposed."

"I see." Tao Canhua said, he had already taken the mask, and tied it firmly to his face under Andy's guidance.

After helping him put on the mask, Andy also took out a white coat that looked like an apron from the bag and put it on, and then covered her own face with a thick mask.

"You don't need to give it to me, I have it." Wei Ran pulled over while speaking, "You drive, I change clothes?"

"Row"

As Andy said, he opened the door and sat in the driver's cab, and Wei Ran went around to the co-pilot's seat and got in.

Glancing at the box Wei Ran opened, Andy asked curiously, "Where did this box come from?"

“Bring it back from Germany”

While Wei Ran was speaking, he had already taken out the white coat that was given to him by the nurse Chen when he was in Teng County, and put it on.

"Are you really a doctor?" Andy, who was driving, raised his eyebrows.

Wei Ran didn't answer this completely redundant question, and reached out to take out a mask from the pocket of his white coat and put it on his face.

Without waiting for long, Andy parked the car at the door of an apartment, "Wait for me."

After speaking, she opened the car door and ran up, and in just five or six minutes, she carried a hard leather medical kit and ran with a brown-haired woman who was also wearing a white coat and a mask. out.

Seeing that Wei Ran had already sat in the driver's cab, she immediately beckoned to the woman and got into the rear compartment together, and said while closing the door, "Go to school!"

"Sit tight!"

Before Wei Ran could finish his sentence, he stepped on the gas pedal and started to run wildly on the street in this car.

Compared with the top speed of [-] kilometers per hour that any car in the later generations can run, this car that can only run [-] to [-] kilometers is a bit slow in Wei Ran's opinion even if the speed is raised to the highest speed, but For Tao Canhua, Andy and the unknown woman sitting in the back compartment, it was undoubtedly a little exciting.

Rushing to Nankai University so quickly, what the four people saw through the car window was a ruined building that was on fire everywhere!

"Drive to the left!" Andy reminded loudly, and his tone seemed extraordinarily anxious.

Under her guidance, Wei Ran drove the car to the playground, and without waiting for him to stop the car, Andy opened the door and got out of the car. After some inquiries, he greeted Wei Ran, Tao Canhua and the unknown woman, Follow her to a classroom where the outline is still complete, but all the windows are broken.

Without any introduction at all, and without any discussion at all, Wei Ran and Andy each commanded anyone who could see around them, sealed the window with things such as quilts and wooden boards, and then used a table to spell out two An operating table.

Soon, two small light bulbs that were taken over temporarily became the only lighting tools for the two operating tables. A young man with a stomach full of blood and a female student with a slit on his shoulder and a bleeding hole were also there. was lifted up.

"I need more lighting tools!" Wei Ran yelled, "There is no kerosene lamp, or flashlight, just kerosene lamps and candles! Speed ​​up! The lightly wounded stand aside and wait, Ann"

"Hawk!"

Andy gave a masculine English name, and then edited temporarily while busy, "The other doctor is Youjin! Yes, her surname is Shi, Shi Youjin, Doctor Shi."

"Hawk, line up the wounded. Don't bring up the unconscious seriously wounded. It will delay the time. Save the ones first." Wei Ran opened the medical box and put on rubber gloves, and gave the first one in almost cold blood. arrange.

Andy's body trembled involuntarily, nodded silently, put on gloves as well, then picked up a pair of scissors, quickly cut the clothes around the wound, and at the same time said to Tao Canhua, "What's your name?" What? Don’t stand still, go find lighting tools, carry the wounded, rescue people, and put out the fire!”

"Oh!" Tao Canhua, who had been helping to seal the doors and windows just now, realized that he also shivered.

"come over"

Wei Ran yelled at the other party, took out the flashlight under the cover of the medical box, and handed it to the other party, then moved the small lamp on top of Dr. Shi's head and asked, "Help me take care of the wound, dare you?" ?"

"Dare!" Tao Canhua gritted his teeth and responded, reached out to take the flashlight and turned it on, aiming the beam at the abdominal wound of the wounded man Wei Ran was in charge of.

"What's your name?" Wei Ran asked while anesthesia had been applied to the wounded, and at the same time he checked the medical box again without giving up.

Unfortunately, it was the same as what he saw when he opened the medical box for the first time after entering this period of history. This time, not only was there no plasma powder enough to save one person, but there was also no important penicillin. The only anti-inflammatory drugs that can be found are just some sulfa powder.

"My name is." Tao Canhua paused, and then said, "My name is Ye Shan, the leaf of the leaf, the fir of the spruce!"

"Good name"

Wei Ran responded, and at the same time picked up the scalpel to open the abdominal cavity of the wounded. With the help of Andy and Tao Canhua, he started the rescue work as quickly as possible.

"What about you? What's your name?!" Andy asked loudly.

"Ji Ma!" Wei Ran responded loudly, "Ji of discipline, a horse of cattle and horses!"

"What an ugly name!" Andy shouted at the top of his voice amid the sound of gunfire.

"It's fine to remember." While Wei Ran was coping, he had already started drastic stitching work.

As the cooperation became more and more tacit, Wei Ran also discovered that Andy, a woman, had far more clinical experience than he had imagined. She could not only help bandage wounds, but even some simple suturing work.

The most important thing is that this woman seems to have a great talent for directing on the spot. Often Wei Ran or Dr. Shi has just finished treating the wounded in hand, and she has already greeted the two students who were left behind by her, and carried the wounded to the third one. Waiting for sutures on the operating table made out of tables.

At the same time, she also asked two other students to send another wounded person she selected in advance to the operating table in charge of Wei Ran or Dr. Shi almost seamlessly.Directing Tao Canhua to cut the clothes around the wound according to the way she taught, she was also responsible for applying anesthesia, and then immediately went back to another operating table and began to sew up a wounded wound by herself.

Almost at the same time as she finished the stitches, the wounded who had been carried up before also lost the pain due to the effect of the anesthetic, so she also turned around and rushed over to help Wei Ran or Dr. Shi treat him as appropriate.

As the operation progressed, Tao Canhua, whose face was pale with fear from all kinds of hideous wounds, was able to free his hands because someone found two bright kerosene lamps.

But there was no time for him to rest, so he was called by Andy immediately after a short training to be responsible for disinfecting the used equipment with the alcohol stove and cooking tray, and another female student who was intercepted by Andy , then undertook the final dressing work.

Wei Ran had to admit that on the two and a half operating tables, Andy, an experienced nurse, was almost as busy as him and Dr. Shi, or even busier!
Treating the patient at hand as quickly as possible, Wei Ran used the hemostat to pick up the kerosene lamp and rotate it to another vacant operating table to treat the next wounded, and took advantage of the short interval when the anesthesia took effect, took off the The rubber gloves that were accidentally torn just now reached out and took out a cigarette case from his pocket.

"No smoking here," Andy stopped immediately.

"Know"

Wei Ran responded with a muffled voice, took out a few slices of red ginseng from inside, first pulled off a corner of the mask and stuffed one piece into his mouth, then motioned for Andy to come over, helped her lift up the corner of the mask, and gave it to her A piece was also stuffed in his mouth.

In the end, he stuffed a slice of red ginseng for Dr. Shi and Tao Canhua who were also busy, and Wei Ran distributed the remaining slices to the students who were helping, put on new rubber gloves, and started busy again.

That night, the sound of firefighting never stopped, and even the school was hit by air strikes more than once.The wounded who were carried in had never been broken.

In the same busy late night, Wei Ran saw many familiar people on the operating table he was in charge of.

Among these people were Mrs. Huang, who he failed to save, and several beautiful ladies and beauties who had appeared at the ball.There was also a boy who was only fifteen or sixteen years old, a cigarette seller who was shot across the thigh and arm by bullets. The person who sent him here said that he was wounded by a bullet while transporting ammunition to the front line. of.

In addition to these two people who are relatively familiar, there are also gangsters he has seen in the unintentional area, blocking the streets and not allowing everyone to enter. He once apologized to the pedestrians after the end of the fight. He must have gone to the last Dangerous front.Otherwise, why would there be such a large piece of shrapnel on his hip bone, and why would his arm be missing?
During the whole night's busy work, when the sky was getting brighter, he had seen a young man who resembled Lao Meng when he went to Sanwu Lao Meng's food stall to buy sesame seed cakes. On this crude operating table.

He was wearing a tattered uniform of the security regiment, and around his waist was a white apron that was stained with a large amount of blood. biscuits.

It is a pity that these people he is familiar with, and many more people he does not know at all, failed to survive the operating table. They were either too seriously injured, or they were not sent in time enough to lose blood excessive.

Amidst the accumulated regrets, after an unknown amount of time, when the medicine in the medical box next to Wei Ran was about to run out, Guan Bingwen, covered in blood, and Dumb Cao, who was wearing a mask and top hat, joined forces to lift the Two boxes of blood-stained medicines came.

Nodding to each other with the same bloodshot eyes, Wei Ran reached out and took out the cigarette case and handed it to the other party.

Reaching out to take the cigarette case, Cao Dumb and the two turned around and left. Wei Ran also swallowed the chewed ginseng slices, and continued to work amidst the long-lasting smell of blood.

Gradually, the sunlight that penetrated through the gaps in the windows and the cracks in the wall above the head sprinkled spots of light in this blood-smelling classroom. The male students who knew their names used a basket dripping with blood to pick up the residual limbs discarded by Wei Ran and Dr. Shi and carry them out.

For Wei Ran, the slowly moving sun spots on the blood-stained ground have become a natural timer.

But the pointer of this timer is moving too slowly, and every second of slowness makes him feel like suffering.At the same time, it made him feel that he was walking too fast, so fast that he felt that every second was not enough.

Gritting his teeth, he finished the treatment for the soldier lying on the operating table. Seeing that the wounded hadn't been brought in for a while, Wei Ran took off his gloves while stepping aside, and reached out his hand to touch the wounded man from the pocket of his white coat. Out of a newspaper package.

This newspaper bag was cut off from the unrescued food stand guy.

Walking staggeringly to the corner, Wei Ran sat on a blood-stained chair, took off his mask, smeared blood on his face with the gloves he took off, and then tremblingly opened the newspaper Bao, took a hard bite of the long-cooled biscuits, together with the pickles in it, and a part of the blood-stained newspaper, they all went into his mouth and chewed together, and finally swallowed it into his stomach with difficulty.

"Any more?"

After a while, Andy, who had finished stitching, also staggered over and sat beside Wei Ran. While taking off his mask, he reached out and wiped the blackboard, and then wiped the dirt mixed with chalk powder and blood stains. On her slightly pale face.

Nodding weakly, Wei Ran took out another biscuit from his pocket and handed it to the other party. The latter took off his gloves, couldn't wait to take it, and started to gobble it up.

"You are a good doctor." Andy said vaguely after swallowing a mouthful of sesame seed cakes with pickles.

"You are also an excellent nurse"

Wei Ran paused, and while beating his choked chest, he added, "Better than any nurse I've ever met."

"Have you met many nurses?" Andy took another bite of the biscuits after finishing speaking.

"yes."

Wei Ran sighed, waved away the strong figures in his mind, and then took a hard bite of the biscuits in his hand.

"What's Dr. Shi's background?" Wei Ran said, then took out another newspaper bag and handed it to Dr. Shi who was leaning against the wall, and even changed his inquiry into German.

"I'll let you know when we survive." Andy could understand German without any surprise, and responded in German.

Hearing this, Wei Ran and Dr. Shi nodded and did not continue to ask. That Dr. Shi also imitated Andy's appearance and smeared his face, eating the food Wei Ran gave her with a posture almost facing the wall.

Before they could fill their stomachs, another wounded person was brought in. Wei Ran and Andy also put the food in their hands into their pockets in unison, and put on the masks and gloves as quickly as possible.

Soon, this classroom with only two doctors and one nurse began to run at high speed again.