War Photographer's Notebook

When the courtyard door of Xuqingshu Apartment was opened again by Cao Dumb with a box cannon in his hand, Wei Ran also saw at a glance that the person standing at the entrance of the small courtyard at this time turned out to be someone who had met at the ball before. Devil reporter Yukio Someya and his wife Junko Someya.

"Excuse me, is Miss Mika at home?" Yukio Someya asked Chao Weiran in Chinese very politely.

"It's unfortunate that you're here. My cousin went to Peking to watch the theater with Miss Andy on the night of the last dance."

Wei Ran unobtrusively glanced at the Toyota AA sedan made by the devil behind the two of them, and continued apologetically, "There is a war going on right now, and my cousin is probably trapped in Beiping, I guess we have to wait until the situation outside stabilizes." Some will come back. But on the 6th, my cousin might go to the Seventh Heaven dance."

"Is that so?"

Someya Yukio and his wife looked at each other and asked in Japanese, "Sunko, what should I do?"

"Leave our car to Meixiang"

Shunzi responded in Japanese, "Let's ask if we can drive Meixiang's car away, there is a newspaper company's car parked outside, which can somewhat help her avoid some troubles.

In addition, ask this man, who organized the dance party at Seventh Heaven on the 6th, we also want to attend, maybe we can cover for Meixiang then. "

Hearing this, Someya Yukio nodded, switched back to Chinese and threw the question to Wei Ran. By the way, he mentioned that the car broke down when he passed by here, and he hoped that Meixiang's car could be driven away first, and their car was temporarily parked. Such a request at the door of the book apartment.

Wei Ran, who can understand Japanese, didn't discuss with Jasmine or Cao Yaba at all this time, so he said cheerfully, "I heard from Aunt Su that the reception at Seventh Heaven was organized by Mr. Ueda, and just now Aunt Su and Mr. Gu Chuan brought it fixed money.

If the two of you want to participate, I'm afraid you have to ask Xiao Su's mother or Mr. Ueda.Oh, by the way, that Mr. Ueda seems to live in Mr. Furukawa's house. "

"Who is Mr. Ueda?" Someya Junko asked her husband suspiciously in Japanese.

"Never heard of this guy"

Someya Yukio frowned and shook his head, and then responded to his wife in Japanese, "But it's okay, let's interview Mr. Furukawa's views on this war tomorrow, maybe we can meet that Mr. Ueda .”

"What if we don't meet?" Someya Junko asked.

"The Seventh Heaven can't escape, we can go directly then." Yukio Someya replied confidently.

While the couple were chatting in Japanese, Wei Ran, who pretended not to understand, asked Mute Cao for the car keys, handed them to Yukio Someya with both hands, and then led the two of them towards the garage and said, "My cousin's car, you two, feel free to drive away. She often tells me that you are her good friends, so I guess even if she is here, she will definitely be willing to lend the car to you two."

"If Meixiang comes back, please convey my thanks to my wife and me."

Someya Yukio bowed slightly towards Wei Ran politely, and then opened the car door for his wife, sent the woman with heavy Japanese makeup into the car, and then gently closed the car door, and then got into the driver's seat. The room said, "Mr. Wei Ran, if it is convenient, please help me move my car to the door. Just put it at the door instead of pushing it into the yard. I have something urgent now, and I will finish it in a few days. Arrange for someone to come and take my car."

"Don't worry, I will take care of your car for you."

Wei Ran respectfully took the car keys handed over by the other party, and then watched the other party drive away in the night in Mei Xiang's milky white car.

"The two of them came here at this time just to borrow a car?" Jasmine asked with a puzzled expression, frowning.

"I reckon it's a good thing"

Wei Ran pouted at the car parked outside the gate of the small courtyard, "Look at the Japanese characters written on the car, it seems to mean some newspaper? And there is a devil's hemorrhoid flag hanging on it."

"You mean the shield?" Jasmine's eyes lit up, obviously guessing what Wei Ran wanted to express.

"I'm afraid it won't stop"

As he spoke, Wei Ran took a few steps outside and tapped the two passes stuck in the passenger side glass with the fingernails of his left hand. Then he retreated to the entrance of the hospital, looked at Cao Yaba and Jasmine behind him, and lowered his head. He said in a loud voice, "Look, they are exactly the same as the two that Xiao Su's mother sent just now. One is from the Japanese concession, and the other seems to be able to leave Jinmen."

"So those two devils are here to help us?" Tao Canhua, who had been silent just now, also had a trace of contradiction in his blank tone.

"Hard to say"

Wei Ran shook his head, "It's also possible that he was fishing and wanted to trick our lady into coming out. It's impossible to use this car to escape. At that time, as long as you drive this car to pass the card, you will be sure to catch it." .”

"These little devils are really hateful like their grandma's legs!" Tao Canhua cursed through gritted teeth.

"Don't say that's useless"

Wei Ran exchanged glances with Jasmine and Dumb Cao again, and said in a low voice, "No matter what the other party's intentions are, as long as this car is parked here, even if a devil comes in, it can be used as a doorstop."

After finishing speaking, Wei Ran looked at Dumb Cao, "Uncle Dumb, you have to carry a bucket of water to wipe the devil's car every day when there are most people outside. After a while, push it to the main entrance of the courtyard Son."

After Cao Yaba nodded and went to push the cart, Wei Ran looked at Jasmine again, and whispered into her ear, "Take a moment to tell her what happened just now."

Jasmine also nodded when she heard the words, and walked towards the small building.At the same time, Cao Yaba also pushed the car that didn't even close the door to the door, while Wei Ran bent down and got into the car while the other side stopped.

He searched every nook and cranny of the car very carefully, except for a piece of yesterday's newspaper, Wei Ran didn't find any personal items at all.Undoubtedly, this proved more and more that the other party did come here with a purpose to break down the car.

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Wei Ran locked the car door and walked into the courtyard last.After such a short time, Jasmine also came down from upstairs.

"How do you say it?" Wei Ran who had just sat down asked immediately.

"Miss just said I got it," Jasmine conveyed.

"Didn't you say anything else?" Wei Ran asked suspiciously.

"No." Jasmine shook her head, "What should we do?"

Hearing this, Wei Ran didn't ask any more questions, but changed the subject and asked, "In this case, tell me how to find Mr. Feng, and how to go to Xiaoguan's house, especially where to find his sister."

"What do you have in mind?" Jasmine asked, and Mute Cao also looked over.

"It's best for women not to go out at this time, the devils outside are crazy, and the devil reporter's car may not be able to stop them."

After Wei Ran finished speaking, Mama Yang who brought the teapot also added, "It's best to keep a man in the family."

Hearing this, before Wei Ran could speak, Dumb Cao patted his chest, and then patted Tao Canhua's shoulder.

Jasmine looked at Tao Canhua, then at Wei Ran, nodded in agreement and said, "It's more suitable for only the two of you to go. In our family, only the dumb uncle and the young lady know that Xiaoguan's sister is there. Nowhere, the only one who can find Mr. Feng is the dumb uncle."

After finishing speaking, she looked at Wei Ran again, "The family really has to keep a man, no matter what, at least on the surface you are the young cousin of our book house now, how can you let the young cousin who is greedy for life and afraid of death go to the young lady in person of?"

Hearing this, Wei Ran couldn't help but nodded, he had no reason to refute the two things Jasmine said.Thinking of this, he simply pulled out the small PPK pistol from his back waist, together with the two spare magazines pinned to his belt, and pushed them to Tao Canhua, "Take it, for self-defense."

"But me." Tao Canhua glanced at the small pistol on the table with some greed, and then asked with a mournful face, "But I don't know how to use it, how can I use it?"

Looking at the helpless Jasmine, Wei Ran stood up with a smile, and picked up the two packs of cigarettes that Tao Canhua helped him to buy from Chen Pike in the basement before the meal, "Jasmine, you can teach him, I'll go." Water the flowers and digest food by the way."

After finishing speaking, he left the small building, found the watering can and filled it with water familiarly, first watered all the flowers and plants on the first floor, and waited until the setting sun was about to be blocked by the distant buildings before he climbed up. I went to the terrace on the third floor, and carefully watered all the flowers and plants planted here.

Ignoring Jasmine who was guarding herself in the small living room on the third floor, Wei Ran stepped on the ladder to climb up to the roof, chose a comfortable place to lie down, held up the binoculars to look at Jinmen in the night, and listened attentively. Gunshots sounded from time to time.He even had the heart to take a peek at the neighbors around him.

In contrast, the rich neighbors around had different reactions to this battle to seize the city. Some were brightly lit as if they were having a banquet, and some, like them, blocked the doors and windows without leaking a single light. .He also saw the gate of a small courtyard in the distance, and there were people from the patrol room patrolling back and forth.But in the direction of Nankai University, there is still particularly eye-catching thick smoke steaming.

Secretly clenched the binoculars in his hand, Wei Ran looked around, then put away the binoculars, lying on the slope of the roof, leaning against the dormer window to light a cigarette at the front door, secretly thinking about Someya who just came in Yukio's true intentions.

Through the Japanese communication between the husband and wife, Wei Ran can be more or less sure that the two people probably come here for the same purpose as Xiao Su's mother. Sending money and changing cars is fake, and sending the two passes is probably the real thing.

It's just that it's not clear at the moment whether the ghost couple hoped that they would escape with Mei Xiang, or that they hoped to find Mei Xiang.

On the other hand, when Jasmine notified Mei Xiang who was hiding about this matter, the feedback given by the latter through Jasmine also made Wei Ran feel a little strange, so that he even suspected for a while that Mei Xiang, who could speak Japanese, would No, in fact, he has already turned to the devil.

Of course, he knows better that once a seed of doubt is planted in his heart, the price he needs to pay is too great to destroy the seed and regain trust.

In his racing thoughts, there was another faint explosion from the direction of the Japanese Concession in the distance, and he also vaguely saw the steaming black smoke under the dark sky.

He knew that although the city fell, the people in the city still did not give up their resistance.