War Photographer's Notebook

When Cao Yaba drove the car to the Hai River in the dark, Mei Xiang, who had already wiped off her white face, didn't get out of the car, but lit another cigarette, quietly looked at the river in the distance, and still Poor people working by the river.

"Miss, what should we do?" Jasmine finally couldn't bear the worry and asked in a lowered voice.

"What should I do?" Mei Xiang, who was drunk, asked casually.

"That ghost Ueda."

"It's a good thing"

Mei Xiang's attitude was still absent-minded, as if all her attention was on the window.

"What do you mean?" Jasmine asked blankly.

"Ueda took me to build a bridge, so why can't I use Ueda to enjoy the shade?"

Meixiang said with a sneer at the corner of her mouth, "Things are actually simple. As long as we can hide it from Ueda, no matter what we do, the Japanese will not suspect us."

At this point, Mei Xiang blew out a cloud of smoke out the window, pointed at the poor people outside, and said in an increasingly careless tone, "It's just a matter of getting some notoriety and being a bitch who doesn't hate the country's subjugation in their eyes."

"Miss."

Just as Mei Xiang was about to say something, a milk-white car also passed the car they were riding in and slowly stopped on the roadside directly in front.

"Okay, let's get our things and get off."

As Mei Xiang said, she was the first to push open the car door, and Wei Ran and Cao Yaba pushed the car door in equal order.

When Jasmine got off with the devil kimono in the car, Cao Duba also took out the contents of the trunk, and followed Mei Xiang and Wei Ran to the milky white car that belonged to them.

"Mr. Sometani, Mrs. Junko, I have caused you trouble." Meixiang thanked each other in Japanese and bowed at the same time.

"You're welcome, Miss Meixiang"

Shunzi supported Mei Xiang, "You are the one who is willing to lend us the car, so we should thank you. Of course, we should also thank your cousin Wei Ran."

"You don't have to say it if you're polite."

Mei Xiang changed the subject with a smile, "Come play bridge at the bookstore when you have time."

"When there is time, we will go."

Someya Junko accepted Meixiang's invitation, and her husband Someya Yukio got into their black devil car and disappeared into the night.

"Come back home"

Meixiang, who smelled of alcohol, greeted Wei Ran and the others, and was the first to get into the milk-white car that belonged to her.

After rushing back to the study apartment in silence, Mei Xiang, who was drunk, waited for Wei Ran to lock the courtyard door, then invited him, Cao Muba and Jasmine to go up to the second floor.

'Things have changed'

Mei Xiang, who obviously vomited on the side of the road after the dance, was drunk at the beach, even before getting off the car, but her eyes were extraordinarily clear at this moment, "I got an important news at the dance today, the devils may focus on hunting Nankai University's remaining anti-Japanese forces.

Although we are in the British Concession, the British are not as reliable as roadside dogs, so we must send Mr. Feng out of Jinmen as soon as possible. "

Taking the sobering soup from Yang’s mother, Meixiang took a big sip and continued, “I made an appointment with Someya and his wife and Walker to come to my house to play cards tomorrow afternoon, and Xiaoguan will also come to my house to borrow a car a little later. Cousin, when the time comes, you have a few more drinks with them, especially with Mr. and Mrs. Someya."

"Drunk?" Wei Ran immediately understood what the other party meant.

"At least put the couple under the table." Mei Xiang gave Wei Ran a task with a smile.

"No problem." Wei Ran paused, and then continued, "But aren't they your friends?"

"You have to make a fake show but also make it real"

Meixiang gave an ambiguous answer with a smile, and then added, "It's not easy for them to know about this, so I just let them help in a daze. This is also for their own good."

"Will Miss Andy also send her away together?" Jasmine asked a question she was concerned about.

"she doesn't have to"

Mei Xiang shook her head, "She is still needed in the basement, not to mention that she is not wanted, her legs are inconvenient, and she has no one around to take care of her, so let her be raised in the basement."

After saying this, Mei Xiang slightly turned her gaze to Cao Mute, stood up and said in a very formal manner, "Uncle Mute, I have a favor that I need you to help me with."

Hearing this, Cao Dumb immediately showed his attitude by lightly hitting his chest with his fist.

Looking at the direction of the stairs, Mei Xiang lowered her voice and said, "Mr. Feng hasn't gotten over the pain of losing his wife yet. He will definitely have a lot of hardships while escaping. Uncle Mute, can you protect Mr. Feng and leave?" ? It can be as short as three months or as long as half a year. During this period, you just need to take good care of Mr. Feng and protect him."

Hearing this, Cao Dumb immediately became anxious, babbling and gesticulating.

"I know I know."

Mei Xiang comforted Dumb Cao, "Look, Wei Ran is in the book apartment now, and Canhua is still there."

Hearing this, Cao Dumb immediately compared his height with his hands on his chest, then pointed to Wei Ran and his right arm, and then waved his hands again and again.

"Canhua is not small"

Mei Xiang said in a joking tone, "Besides, my cousin is only fractured and not amputated, there will always be a day when he will recover.

Besides, anyone in Jinmen who knows me, Tao Meixiang, doesn't know that there is a sincere dumb uncle by my side?

When you are by my side, others will definitely think that this love letter apartment is monolithic. Only when you leave temporarily will others relax their vigilance about our place. "

Although this praise barely dispelled Cao Dumb's doubts, but he pressed the gourd to float the scoop, so Wei Ran followed the topic and asked, "Cousin, what are you going to do?" ?”

As soon as this question was asked, not only Dumb Cao and Jasmine, but also Qiushi and Mama Yang who were listening at the side all looked over.

Looking at the people around, Meixiang drank the hangover soup in the bowl in one gulp, got up and walked to the French window, lit a cigarette and said slowly, "During the few days hiding in the basement, Mr. Feng taught me and Andy has some truth.

Although I, Tao Meixiang, am a singing and dancing girl who is not even considered an actor, Andy and I also want to fight for the country with righteousness like the brothers and sisters of the Guan family.

I have only studied in English church schools for a few years, and Andy has studied in a few years more than I have.But these years we have been trapped in the romantic field, and we are probably not qualified to join Linglu and their female classmates.

So we don't want to join the Girls' Alumni Association, we just want to do our best to help those children who are not a few years older than Qiushi, even if it's just to leave them a basement where they can hide.

Look at them, they dared to take to the streets to demonstrate at a young age, and dared to fight against the devils. How old are we, how old are we, how can we have the right to enjoy ourselves in this book apartment with peace of mind?

Instead of living in such a muddle-headed way, like a homeless bitch in the eyes of others.I would rather do something useful to this country in the face of infamy than wait a hundred years later to be poked in the back like Qin Huier! "

"Miss, I will help you." Jasmine was the first to stand up and said, "No matter what you do, I will help you."

"Girl, I'll help you too."

Yang's mother clenched her apron tightly, and then she did not forget to kick her nephew Wei Ran, "If you are cowardly, pack up your things and buy a boat ticket for me to go back to your Deutschland tonight."

"My home is not in Germany"

After Wei Ran finished speaking, he looked at Mei Xiang, and expressed his attitude very solemnly, "Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of a country."

"Bang, bang," Cao Duba hit his chest in an extremely solemn manner.

Seeing this, Meixiang smiled, "Let's get back to business, when the game is over tomorrow, dumb uncle, you will drive the Someya couple's car to take them home. At that time, Mama Yang will see my hint and find an opportunity to let Mr. Feng hide in advance." In the trunk of the Someya couple's car."

After a short pause, Meixiang continued, "Besides, Xiao Guan will drive away our car tomorrow night and take Qiu Shi, and then you and Canhua can sit in our car and let Xiao Guan take you to the Italian Concession Take a good turn.

Dumb Uncle, when the time comes, take the drunk Someya couple to the French Concession for a walk. Miss Linglu has already arranged someone to meet you in advance. Xiaoguan will tell you the exact location tomorrow.

After you meet in the French Concession, you just take Mr. Feng out of Jinmen through the channel arranged by Miss Linglu, and the Someya couple will naturally be driven home by someone. "

After finishing speaking, Mei Xiang waited for Dumb Cao to nod, and immediately looked at Qiu Shi, "Go and get five small yellow croakers."

Hearing this, Qiu Shi immediately ran up to the third floor, and Mei Xiang also continued, "For the outside world, I would say that Uncle Mute was arranged to visit Andy in Zaitong Port.

Jasmine, Mama Yang, you are going to spread rumors to the outside world, saying that my cousin Wei Ran is arrogant and domineering, pushing away the dumb uncle who didn't deal with him. "

"Hey!" Jasmine and Yang's mother responded in unison.

"Qiu Shi"

Meixiang waited for Qiushi to come over with five small gold bars weighing one or two, and while motioning for her to hand them over to Uncle Mute, she said, "You also have to release the news that Uncle Mute stole some small yellow croakers from home and ran away." ”

"what?"

Qiushi glanced at Cao Mute in embarrassment, but the latter nodded with an honest smile, and at the same time, he did not forget to shake the few small gold bars between his fingers.

"Okay, okay." Qiushi nodded, "I'll do it when the time comes."

"jasmine"

Meixiang didn't wait for Qiushi to finish, then continued to talk about the arrangement, "When the time comes, you ask Canhua to release the news to Ueda, saying that it is likely that my cousin Wei Ran used the gold bars hidden in my room to squeeze away Mute Cao. The one who framed him, Uncle Dumb couldn't bear the humiliation and chose to leave without saying goodbye."

"I will teach him to understand when the time comes." Jasmine nodded immediately.

"So be it"

Mei Xiang yawned after finishing speaking, kicked off her shoes and walked upstairs barefoot, saying, "Everyone, go to bed early."

"Why did you get such a big head, miss?" Jasmine couldn't help but mutter.

"Do you really think the lady came up with it on her own?"

Qiushi lowered his voice, wrinkled his nose and said, "Don't forget, there is a big and clever fox living in our house's mouse hole!"

"Is it Miss Andy?" Jasmine immediately guessed who the fox was.

"No, who else could it be?" Qiu Shi whispered, "They have planned various situations in advance a few days ago."

"How is Miss Andy's situation?" Wei Ran asked in a timely manner.

"Same as the past few days, I haven't been in a good mood."

Qiushi couldn't help sighing when he mentioned this, "Since Xu left, Miss Andy has always blamed herself very much. She always felt that it was because she didn't treat the wound well.
In short, she couldn't sleep every day these days. Sometimes she would smoke a whole pack of cigarettes in one night, and her throat would become hoarse. "

"I'll go see her." Wei Ran sighed in his heart, turned around and went downstairs, and got into the basement.

Pushing away the large mirror more and more proficiently, Wei Ran entered the narrow passage, passed through the layer after layer of cotton curtains hung in the passage these days, and finally stood at the entrance of the underground space.

Through the last cotton curtain, he could vaguely hear news reports about the current situation coming from the radio station. He could also clearly hear the sighs of Feng Maoyun and Uncle Meng, as well as the even breathing of Chen Xiuyu and Xu Keqin.

Slowly opening the curtain, Wei Ran saw at a glance that Uncle Meng was lying on the bed closest to one of the air vents, and Feng Maoyun was sitting on the wire bed, guarding a radio on the stool between them. They each held a cigarette in their hands.

A little further away, Chen Pike and Xu Keqin were also sleeping soundly on canopy beds and wire beds.On the other side of the cotton curtain at the far end of the room, a man smoking was clearly reflected in the dim light.

"Here comes Doctor Wei."

Uncle Meng, who was lucky enough to survive, was the first to spot Wei Ran, followed by Feng Maoyun, who had his back to the door, turned his head to say hello.

"Shh-"

Wei Ran made a silent gesture, then smiled at the two of them, and raised his finger to Zhengxiang's two children who were sleeping.

Seeing this, Uncle Meng and Feng Maoyun nodded and smiled at Wei Ran, and Wei Ran also quietly walked to the edge of the cotton curtain, and tapped on the curtain with his knuckles.

After a while, the thick curtain was pulled open a gap, and Andy, with red eyes, also hid inside and looked at Wei Ran. At the same time, there was a faint smell of alcohol along the gap of the cotton curtain, together with the smoke. floated out.

"Where did you get the wine?" Wei Ran frowned and asked.

Hearing this, Andy picked up the glass bottle containing alcohol in the bedside medicine box and shook it. Then he picked up the pastel teapot, poured a cup of herbal tea with a strong alcohol smell and handed it to Wei Ran.

Sighing secretly, Wei Ran went through the curtain to take the teacup, drank the alcohol-mixed tea in one gulp, then put down the cup, picked it up horizontally under Andy's slightly surprised gaze, turned around and walked out .

"What are you going to do?" Andy, who was drunk on his face, stretched out his hand to hook Wei Ran's neck, and asked in a hoarse voice.

"Take you to sober up"

While Wei Ran was talking, Feng Maoyun also took the initiative to stand up and help open the curtain of the door.

"Thank you"

Wei Ran thanked him softly, passed through the curtains, and finally stopped at the position of the last two curtains away from the hole at the end of the passage, and put Andy, who had broken legs, on the wooden table next to the wall. Let sit on the fridge.

"How are you going to sober me up?" Andy raised his head and looked at Wei Ran with a seductive expression, but there was a trace of vigilance hidden in his big drunken eyes.

Quan pretending that he didn't see the scalpel hidden in the cuff of the other party, Wei Ran reached out and turned off the light above his head, sat down slowly against the wall in the dark, and said to himself, "In the past, there were also Several children died in front of me."

"On the operating table?" Andy asked after a long silence.

Wei Ran shook his head, and after realizing that the other party couldn't see, he suppressed his emotions and replied, "No."

"Tetanus too?" Andy asked painfully.

"Neither"

Wei Ran denied again, "There is a girl, I don't even know her name, she is younger than Xu Kejian, thinner, and can't speak. When I met her, she had been hungry for a long time, probably It's been a long time."

"How did she die?" Andy asked cautiously.

"Grenade"

Wei Ran pressed the scar on the back of his head firmly against the wall behind him, "She borrowed two grenades from me to help me block the enemies chasing after me, I... I forgot to ask her name, and I didn't even give She took a photo and I had the camera in my hand."

"Stop talking, stop talking. Stop talking!" Andy yelled at the top of his voice, grabbing his hair hard and hitting the wall behind him.

"We can't save those innocent lives in war"

Wei Ran tried his best to calm himself and said, "It doesn't matter if the innocent person is a man, a woman, an old man or a child, if he can't be saved, he won't be saved."

"Stop it!" Andy yelled.

"But we can find a way to end the war." After Wei Ran finished speaking, Andy shuddered, and the whole person fell silent, and then wept heart-piercingly.

"Cry out"

Wei Ran staggered to his feet in the darkness, "When we have cried enough, we will work together to end this war!"