War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1196 There Will Be That Day
Amidst the smog, Chen Pike, who was tired from crying, re-entered the not-so-good dreamland under the comfort of Meixiang and Qiushi.

Wei Ran, who finally smoked the last cigarette of the day, also lay down on the iron frame bed next to Andy under Mei Xiang's insistence.

It took Wei Ran less than 20 seconds from closing his eyes to the sound of light snoring, less than a minute before and after, and Andy on the bed next to him also fell into a deep sleep.

Meixiang and Qiushi looked at each other, and said in a low voice, "Go to sleep for a while, I'll watch over them."

Hearing this, Qiu Shi also nodded, yawned, walked to the edge of the wire bed, lay down and closed his eyes.

"this world"

Mei Xiang shook her head secretly, sat on the small stool next to the painting vat, picked up a book and turned to the page with the bookmark, and read it quietly by the light of the desk lamp, but she couldn't calm down her mood no matter what. .

After an unknown amount of time, when Wei Ran was awakened by the sound of silence, he found the disheveled Tao Canhua sitting on the stool next to the painting vat.

And on the steel wire bed next to Chen Pike, there was a person whose back was scorched black and covered with burns.

At this time, Mei Xiang was holding a tin box, applying burn ointment to the person lying on the wire bed.Looking at the other side, Qiu Shi is serving Andy drinking pungent Chinese medicine.

"Wake you up?"

Qiu Shi glanced at Wei Ran, got up and brought a bowl of Chinese medicine directly to his mouth, "The medicine for fractures has been warmed up, drink it in one gulp, and I'll give you some candy later."

"I will do it myself"

Wei Ran took the porcelain bowl by his mouth with his left hand, drank it down in one gulp, and then let Qiushi stuff a piece of rock sugar into his mouth.

It wasn't until he chewed the rock sugar that Wei Ran asked Tao Canhua, "Canhua, how is the situation outside?"

"Oh! Don't mention it!"

Tao Canhua sighed heavily, "Our people were about to take down the Japanese Concession, but the devils are both planes and cannons, and our people have suffered heavy losses. I have been following Uncle Dumb all afternoon to deal with Big Brother Guan Lifting the wounded."

"This is Guan Bingwen?"

Wei Ran belatedly looked at the person who was facing the other side of the bed with a burnt back.

"He was hit on the back by a burning door panel in order to save a child from a private house. He and Uncle Dumb also beat and killed a few devils."

Tao Canhua shivered with lingering fear, gritted his teeth and said, "Later, reinforcements from the devils came, and our people had no choice but to retreat outside the city.

When Uncle Mute and I ran back with Brother Guan, Nankai University had already been bombed several times, and the devil's planes and cannons kept firing there.I also saw. See alas! "

Tao Canhua sighed heavily, slapped his thigh vigorously, and then clenched the hem of the tattered gown tightly, and his whole body burst into tears.

"Canhua, you go up first."

Mei Xiang calmly ordered, "After you go up, you and the dumb uncle each take a good bath, and give the dirty clothes to Yang Ma for burning. Take a good rest these two days, maybe at some point, you will have to play the piano and sing for Mr. Ueda Son."

"Sing to it?!"

Tao Canhua, with red eyes, gritted his teeth and said, "Now that I see the devils, I wish I could eat them alive and peel them alive!"

Shaking her head helplessly, Meixiang gave medicine to Guan Bingwen who was in a coma and said seriously, "It is a hero who has the courage to fight devils with real knives and guns, but it is even more difficult to be brave and make friends with the enemy under the pressure of hatred." .

Canhua, look at the people in our book apartment, except for the dumb uncle, no one has actually been on the battlefield, and those are not things we are good at.

If we want to do something, if we want to help, we should have a good relationship with the devils on the surface, so as not to let them suspect this, and even let them regard us as friends.

Only then can we provide a safe enough refuge for those who risk their lives fighting.

If you do this, you won't get a good reputation, and maybe you will be called a traitor, but the more this is the case, the less the devils will suspect us, and the talents hidden here will be safer, right? "

Hearing this, the tearful Tao Canhua opened his mouth, finally wiped away the tears with all his strength, nodded, got up and left the basement.

"Ms. Huang is dead"

Falling back into the quiet basement, Andy said abruptly, "Really? Wei Ran?"

"Yes"

Wei Ran sighed, endured the bitterness of the increasingly strong Chinese medicine in his mouth, and said, "Mrs. Huang died, and she died on the operating table that I was in charge of."

Hearing this, Mei Xiang shivered as if struck by lightning, looked at Wei Ran with red eyes, then looked at Andy, and asked with grief, "Where is Mr. Feng Feng?"

"I don't know. I didn't see him last night, and I didn't see him during the day."

While talking, Wei Ran got up and walked to Guan Bingwen's side, checked with the light, changed the subject and said, "Fortunately, the burns are all on the back, and they have been treated, all we can do now is to take the medicine on time gone."

"Canhua has delivered the medicine just now." Mei Xiang then changed the subject and pointed to an extra wooden box not far away, "Mr. Volker helped to get it."

"how do you feel?"

Wei Ran approached Guan Bingwen's face and asked, he had already noticed that the young man had already woken up, the tears dripping from the corners of his eyes not only made clear traces on that ashes-covered face, but also wet his face. The pillow he stained.

"It's fine, I'm fine."

Guan Bingwen, whose hair was scalded by the high temperature, responded hoarsely, and then burst into more tears, gesticulating tremblingly with those two hands that were also slightly burned, "I can't save you." Live him, that child is only so young."

At that moment, Wei Ran felt his hairs stand on end.

Trying to get rid of all kinds of bad memories in his mind, Wei Ran opened the cigarette case tremblingly, seeing that it was empty, he fumbled to find the expensive Camel cigarette he bought before going to bed, tore it open, stuffed one for himself, and gave it to him. Guan Bingwen stuffed one, ignited it in a hurry, and then slowly sat on the cold terrazzo floor leaning on the wire bed.

"We have to do something," Andy said as if talking to himself.

"I really want to do something." Mei Xiang nodded, and the two women looked at each other, as if they could see something in their eyes.

After Wei Ran finished smoking a cigarette with Guan Bingwen, Tao Canhua, who had changed into clean clothes, also entered the basement again, followed by Dumb Cao.

"little aunt"

Tao Canhua changed his words in time and said, "Jasmine said, it's late at night, and the devil doesn't seem to have any plans to enter the British Concession, so you can go up and take a shower or something."

"I'll be down later." Mei Xiang comforted Andy, then greeted Qiu Shi and walked out.

Before the two girls climbed up, Mute Cao called Tao Canhua for help, scrubbed Guan Bingwen's body carefully, and helped him put on a pair of pajama pants that were loose and easy to move.

This is not over yet, the two people also moved all the wooden refrigerator at the end of the passage outside the door and the ice cubes stored in it into the house, and then hung a curtain on the place where the refrigerator was originally placed, and put two Enamel spittoon with lid and bucket of soot.

Although the condition of this toilet is a bit rough, it is still sufficient-although when he defecates and urinates, he will inevitably be stared at by the suffering Jesus on the wall.

The two helped clean up the inside and outside, and when they pulled out an extra wire bed to support it, Mei Xiang and Qiu Shi, who had taken a bath, rushed back with two food boxes each.

After all, the war was still going on outside. Although Meixiang and Qiushi brought extra rich food from the food box, and even Jasmine who came later brought in a pot of chicken soup made by an old hen, no one had much appetite.

After all, he was full of his stomach. Wei Ran lay on his side on the bed that belonged to him. He glanced at the curtain that blocked Andy. After thinking about it, he felt that it was not suitable. Chen pike.And Guan Bingwen lying on his stomach on the wire bed between the two beds.

"Three or four days ago, a traitor pretended to be a reporter and went to our school to kidnap members of the student union in the name of interviewing."

Guan Bingwen, who was lying on the bed, looked at the picture of ghost valley descending the mountain drawn on the blue and white porcelain painting cylinder directly in front of the bed, and continued talking to himself, "Later, a senior in the third grade disappeared. I don’t know if it’s dead or alive. On the 27th, a devil in a car ran to the gate of our school again, destroyed all the anti-Japanese slogans we hung, and later forced the police to drive us all out of the school.”

Sniffing vigorously, Guan Bingwen hammered the metal bedside hard, and asked with humiliation and resentment, "Isn't this our country? How can we allow them to be arrogant on our land!"

"will drive them away"

Wei Ran said affirmatively, pressed his hand on the burn on his arm, felt the burning pain seriously, closed his eyes and said in a raving voice, "I will drive them away, I will definitely drive them away, in the future Huaxia There will no longer be concessions on the land, no need to rely on foreigners for support, and no one will dare to bombard our schools."

"Will there be a day?" Guan Bingwen, whose face was full of humiliation, looked at Wei Ran with tears and asked.

"meeting!"

While clenching the burn on his arm, Wei Ran replied more and more affirmatively in the increasingly severe and clear pain, "There will be that day, there will be that day!"

"If only there was a day, how wonderful it would be!" Mei Xiang, who was sitting by the painting vat, muttered to herself, her big eyes filled with humiliation were already full of longing.

"Yes, there will be that day." Andy, who was separated from Wei Ran by a curtain, muttered in a low voice as well, that delicate face that was once full of wind and dust was already full of determination.

(End of this chapter)