War Photographer's Notebook

"Crack!"

Accompanied by a thunder that sounded almost overhead, the dim hall on the second floor was also lit up instantly, and the four traitors who stood at the stairs and went to the first floor to pee on the first floor couldn't help but shivered in fright.

Before the rolling thunder subsided, the kerosene lamp that had just been hung on the wall was extinguished by a hand reaching out from behind. At the same time, a slender and sharp Mauser bayonet also appeared from the skinny monkey. A knife was applied to the neck of the traitor.

Accompanied by a soft sound that was almost completely eliminated by the thunder, the man next to the thin monkey ducked away as if he had been stung by a scorpion, and cursed in greeting, "Monkey Si'er, you're such a mess. I got it! Why did the light go out again?"

It's a pity that the man named Hou Si'er's eyesight has gone dark at this time, and he can only cover the opened blood vessels and trachea in his neck. How can he still have the energy to answer?
Before he could fall while holding on to the wall, Wei Ran had already thrust the bayonet in his hand diagonally into the lower back of the man who he thought had been peed on his hand. After piercing his lung, he stabbed him accurately. heart.

Without drawing the knife at all, Wei Ran directly hugged the third man's drunken head and pulled his chin hard while pushing the top of his head hard with his other hand.

In such a blink of an eye, from the first person's gasping to the second person's groan, to the crisp sound of the third person's spine being broken, the last person realized that something was wrong. .

Speaking of which, this man was quite clever, he didn't even have time to turn off the faucet on his lower body, he ran downstairs with his pants in his hands, and at the same time he panicked and wanted to yell for warning.

"fast"

Just as a word came out of the man's mouth, he heard a splashing sound in the darkness, and then he felt something cold being stabbed into his stomach.

"fast"

The traitor, who was deflated after being stabbed, felt his throat was sweet and his stomach was burning. However, Tao Canhua, who had already held down his shoulder, did not stop and pulled out the eviscerating knife that almost penetrated the opponent. The sharp knife, with a "pop!" sound, plunged into his chest with a fierce expression.

"Pfft!"

At this moment, the first person whose neck was wiped by Wei Ran also completely lost his strength, and rolled down the stairs with a grunt.

As for Wei Ran, who was standing at the top of the stairs, he was holding the collar of the man whose neck was broken with one hand, and the belt of the man who was stabbed in the back with the other hand, and carefully let them lie down on the floor. .

"Is he dead?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice.

"Death seems to be death." Tao Canhua responded tremblingly, as if he was afraid of being unsafe, and once again pulled out the boning knife he brought with him and stabbed the other person's chest again.

"Make up for the one who fell just now." Wei Ran said, he had already pulled out the bayonet from the corpse, and walked towards the restaurant in the dark.

"Crack!"

Just at this moment, another flash of lightning accompanied by thunder flashed across the night sky, and Wei Ran took advantage of the flash of light to quickly glance at the situation in the restaurant.

Immediately afterwards, he took out the flashlight from the metal book, turned it on, and inspected the restaurant carefully.

Speaking of which, it was irritating. In one corner of the restaurant, there were five or six sacks with Japanese printed on them piled up against the wall. He didn't even have to open them to know that they should contain rice.

Sure enough, when he poked a hole in the sack with a bayonet, he immediately saw white rice.

Looking around again, there was a steelyard and two large baskets of jutting white radishes on a table not far away.

Looking at the mahjong table again, Wei Ran wanted to beat the four people to death all over again. In addition to the unfinished card games on the table, there were also several lotus white wine bottles placed under the table, especially each one. In front of the seat, there was a plate of unfinished roast chicken!

He took out his pocket watch and checked the time. After thinking for a while, Wei Ran used a flashlight to guide Tao Canhua, who was covered in blood. After whispering a few instructions into his ear, he turned off the flashlight and led him to stand next to him. on both sides of the room door.

Hiding his body behind the wall, Wei Ran stretched out a hand and carefully turned the door handle.

When the door was easily pushed open, Wei Ran realized that there was probably no one in the room.

Sure enough, as the door opened a little bit, and with the help of lightning that pierced the night sky from time to time, he could clearly see that there was not even a bed in the room where he killed the Japanese girl, let alone anyone.

Not only that, there is even a cage of pigeons and four hens in this room. The food bowl is filled with full corn kernels and unhusked millet.

After thinking for a moment, Wei Ran did not enter the room. Instead, he gently closed the door and led Tao Canhua, who was holding a small PPK pistol in his hand, to another room next to him.

Unlike the first room, this room was not only locked, but also locked from the outside. Even the lock tongue was not original, but was added later.

Seeing this, Wei Ran suppressed the doubts in his heart and called Tao Canhua to move to the third room.

However, this time, before Wei Ran, who had hidden himself, stretched out his hand to open the door, the door opened with a "click"!
Seeing this, Wei Ran immediately retracted his hand, and at the same time raised the bayonet with his other hand.

With a very clear "squeak" sound, the door was completely opened, and a stocky, shirtless man wearing large pants, black cloth shoes, carrying a kerosene lamp, yawning and walked out of the room in confusion. came out, but there was no intention of closing the door.

Seeing that the opponent was about to turn around and see Tao Canhua hiding on the other side, Wei Ran didn't dare to think too much. When he stood up, he already put the bayonet in his hand on the opponent's neck and covered it with his other hand. He opened his mouth before the other party could close it.

Such a sudden encounter inevitably made the man tremble, and at the same time subconsciously let go of the kerosene lamp in his hand.

"broken!"

Wei Ran's heart sank, and then he discovered that the kerosene lamp that was about to fall to the ground had been held firmly from the lamp holder by a blood-stained boning knife.Immediately afterwards, Tao Canhua, who had saved the kerosene lamp, seemed to be showing off his skills. He squatted in a squatting position, held the oil lamp with the narrow blade of the knife, and quietly but extremely nimbly walked backwards into the distance. Take a few steps!

This is not over yet. When the light no longer enveloped Wei Ran and the traitor who was controlled by him, Tao Canhua not only stood up again with the knife holding the kerosene lamp, but also used the knife in his hand to gently lift it up. He placed the kerosene lamp, which was still emitting light, firmly in his other hand.

This flow was so smooth that not only Wei Ran was stunned, but even the man who was restrained by him had his eyes widened.Even Wei Ran suspected that if he hadn't covered his mouth, this guy would have clapped his hands and screamed!
Obviously, now was not the time to cheer. Wei Ran pushed with the bayonet in his hand, pressed the man who suddenly opened the door for them and took a few steps towards Tao Canhua. It wasn't until the two of them came to the living room that he asked , "Which room is Ding Rongfu in?"

"That..." The traitor with a sudden figure immediately raised his finger in a direction.

"What did you come out for?" Wei Ran continued to ask, but then he smelled the smell of urine.

"Grandpa, I'm just going to stay up all night. Please let me go back. I didn't see anything." The traitor begged in a low voice.

"Is there anyone else in the room you came out of?" Wei Ran continued to ask.

"Yes, yes"

The traitor who betrayed his friend simply said, "There are three more inside. The four of us are watching for the rest of the night."

"Who else lives in this room?" After Wei Ran asked, he glanced at Tao Canhua, who was staring at the room just now with a gun in both hands.

"There is also Ding San's cousin, Ding San'er. He lives in the room opposite Ding San." The traitor replied in a low voice like pouring beans, "There are also a few, a few little girls. "

"Where is the little girl from?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice.

"Buy it"

The traitor's voice became much softer, "They are all other people's young girls, used in exchange for food. When we saved up a batch, we gave them to the mother-in-law and sold them to the brothels in the Japanese Concession."

"What's your name?" Wei Ran asked irrelevantly.

"My name is. Poof!"

This traitor who exploited his compatriots didn't even have time to say his name. The Mauser bayonet in Wei Ran's hand had already pierced his heart. At the same time, Wei Ran covered his mouth again.

After waiting quietly for a moment until the man stopped struggling, Wei Ran slowly pulled out his bayonet, walked to Tao Canhua, pointed to the two rooms where the Ding brothers lived, then extinguished the kerosene lamp and said, "You Hide and keep an eye on those two rooms while I go deal with the others."

"What if they come out?" Tao Canhua asked in a low voice.

"Don't you have a gun in your hand?" Wei Ran asked back, stepping towards the room that had not yet had time to close the door.

With the help of the lightning that lit up from time to time outside the window, he was able to see clearly that there were four beds placed against the wall in this room, and in the middle were two desks together. On this desk, there were also a lot of food and drinks, and even There was a big smoking gun.

First, he went to the empty bed and took a pillow towel and wrapped it around his hand. Wei Ran randomly selected the one who snored the least, covered his mouth with the pillow towel with one hand, and stabbed the bayonet in with the other hand in no particular order. into his chest.

Then, as he did "two years ago", he pulled it out twice and stabbed it in, piercing his lung. Then he wiped the blade clean with the pillowcase in his hand that smelled of scalp oil, and then picked another person in the room. He continued to work as a specialist in treating snoring.

After easily disposing of the other three people in the room, Wei Ran didn't dare to waste time, and joined Tao Canhua who was on guard again.

After listening attentively in the last two rooms, Wei Ran took out two hairpins from his pocket that he had borrowed from Qiushi during the day, and easily opened the locked door.

Pushing open the door, under the beam of the flashlight, he and Tao Canhua who followed him immediately saw a man lying on the bed with his hair parted in the middle and bright red trousers, with a tabby cat in his arms.

Maybe it was the heavy rain and thunder outside the window, or maybe it was the unfinished bottle of foreign wine on the bedside. The flashlight's light shone on his face, but the man didn't wake up at all.

In this case, what else is there to say? Wei Ran knocked him unconscious directly, then asked Tao Canhua to help cover his mouth, and neatly dismantled the joints of his hands and one foot, and finally removed the jaw bone, and again He knocked it out and threw it on the bed.

Looking at Tao Canhua, who was subconsciously grinning, Wei Ran pried open Ding Rongfu's door and turned on the flashlight again.

Under the beam of the flashlight, he immediately noticed Ding Rongfu lying on the bed, and the big smoking gun and smoking lamp on the bedside cabinet.

"Who?!"

Ding Rongfu was relatively more vigilant, but he only had time to ask such a question before Wei Ran knocked him out behind the ear.

Repeating the same trick to destroy the opponent's mobility, Wei Ran and Tao Canhua quickly searched the remaining rooms on the second floor that were not locked from the outside.

"You go back and bring in the reinforcements."

After Wei Ran brought Tao Canhua back to the restaurant, he whispered into his ear, "There is so much food here, we have to find a way to transport it all back."

"I'll go back right away!" Tao Canhua nodded immediately with bright eyes.

"Don't go back empty-handed, it doesn't look good." Wei Ran pointed to the curtained window of the restaurant, "By the way, bring two bags of rice back."

"Yes! That's right!"

Tao Canhua nodded excitedly and subconsciously was about to run to the stairs, but was then grabbed by Wei Ran.

"go this way"

As he spoke, Wei Ran opened the curtains, then opened the wooden window shutters that reinforced the windows. Finally, he pushed open the window, pointed at the boat floating outside and said, "Just use it, you can clear the water inside." Qing, I’ll find a tarp.”

Upon hearing this, Tao Canhua immediately jumped on the boat, picked up an enamel basin inside and began to scoop out water.

At the same time, Wei Ran also found a few ponchos, wrapped two bags of rice tightly, and carried them to the boat. He also threw a few large white radishes on top.

After sending away Tao Canhua who was rowing back, Wei Ran didn't close the window at all and even kicked the sandbag on the balcony.

Finally, he walked to the mahjong table and picked up the unfinished roast chicken and put it together into a big plate. After searching around for a while, Wei Ran first put on the raincoat he had just found, and then used a white towel that looked quite clean. Covering his face, he pried open the door that was locked with a padlock from the outside.

However, when he walked into this small room with a flashlight, he was stunned. There was a quilt spread on the wooden floor of the room, and five people were lying in a row on it. Judging from their stature, they were probably around fourteen or fifteen years old. A little girl, maybe even younger.

These little girls in rags all wore black cloth covers on their faces, and there was an iron chain firmly locked with a lock at their ankles. These iron chains were eventually fixed to the heating pipes in this room. superior.

Perhaps it was because of the movement when Wei Ran opened the door, or perhaps because they felt a little light when the beam of the flashlight swept across the black cloth covers on their faces. At this time, these thin girls all shrank and clung to each other. Hiding in the corner.

"Don't be afraid"

Wei Ran said in a hoarse voice on purpose, "I'm here to save you, and you will be able to leave soon."

After a pause, he continued, "Next, I'm going to unchain you, and you have to promise not to take off your hoods, otherwise I'll have to kill you. Do you understand?"

"Listen, I understand." A girl closest to Wei Ran replied, suppressing her fear.

"Don't move next," Wei Ran said, walking over and starting to work on picking the lock.

Objectively speaking, the padlocks of this era are far easier to pry than those of later generations, but they are not as convenient as wire cutters. So by the time he pried open the last little girl's chain, Tao Canhua had already taken Chen Pike with him. Together with Xu Keqin and Jasmine, they rowed two boats to the window of the restaurant.

“It came just fine”

Wei Ran, who heard the noise, hid his left hand behind his back and put away his bayonet, "You three, hurry up and move your things. Remember to wrap them in raincoats. Don't take them if the rice is stained with dirty water. Remember not to light the lamp. Then who, you Come on."

Hearing this, Jasmine was stunned, and walked towards Wei Ran.

He briefly explained the situation of the five little girls in the room and the possible subsequent troubles.

"Take it back"

Jasmine made a decision simply. As she spoke, she had already pulled off the black cloth on the faces of the little girls. After some soft words of comfort, she took them out of the room and rowed one of the boats to leave first.

"Come here too." Wei Ran greeted Xu Keqin, the youngest, and led him into the room where the pigeons were kept. He whispered into his ear, "Take all these pigeons and chickens back and tell Mother Yang , I will kill them all tonight, burn all the chicken and pigeon feathers, and eat all the meat that I can eat tonight, and finally throw the bones far away."

"Why?"

Xu Keqin glanced at the hens and pigeons in the room with distress, "Maybe they can still lay eggs."

"Lay whatever eggs you lay."

Tao Canhua, who was following, gave Xu Keqin a gentle tap on the back of his head, "These pigeons are probably homing pigeons. Look at the mailboxes on their legs. And the chickens, they have to croak for a long time to lay an egg. It doesn't matter. If anyone finds us, we'll all be screwed."

"Also"

After thinking about it, Xu Keqin grinned, and Tao Canhua each picked up the chicken and pigeon cages and walked out.

Watching Tao Canhua and the others go back in another boat with two bags of rice and pigeons and hens, Wei Ran was still not in a hurry to interrogate the tied up Ding Rongfu. Instead, he searched the corpses all over the ground one by one.

It should be said that these traitors seem to be living a happy life, but in fact, all of them have nothing on their bodies.

In contrast, Ding Rongfu's cousin still had a lot of money. Wei Ran took out three and forty silver coins and two small yellow croakers with residual tooth marks from his room without any effort at all.

"I'll go to Ding Rongfu to ask something first, and I'll come over to ask you later."

Wei Ran gently patted the other party's cheek and said, "Think carefully about what I came for. If your answers are inconsistent later, you will both die."

After finishing speaking, Wei Ran ignored the terrified look of the middle part and the big tabby cat lying at the foot of the bed, and walked into Ding Rongfu's room with the silver dollars and gold bars he picked up in his hand.

After closing the door, Wei Ran took out a lighter and lit the cigarette lamp beside the bed, and then lit two kerosene lamps on the table.

It wasn't until the room became brighter that he held up a flashlight and inspected the room carefully, ignoring Ding Rongfu's struggling and twisting.

"Yo! So it's hidden here!"

After Wei Ran opened the cabinet door on the side of the desk by the window, he pointed the beam of the flashlight at the safe and let out an exaggerated exclamation. Ding Rongfu asked, "Reporter Ding Da, do you still know me?"

Hearing this, Ding Rongfu on the bed immediately nodded.

"Just knowing each other"

Wei Ran snapped his fingers, "Wait a minute, I'll put your chin back on, and I'll ask you questions and answer them honestly. I'm in a good mood and I might be able to save your life. If you dare to yell, then we have to have a good time tonight." It’s so lively and lively.”

Hearing this, Ding Rongfu quickly nodded again.

"Hold your tongue back"

Wei Ran deliberately frightened the other person, held the other person's chin and pushed it up, completing the joint reset with a click.Immediately afterwards, Ding Rongfu also screamed "Ouch!"

But soon, Ding Rongfu hurriedly said, "Uncle Wei, you are my biological father! Considering our previous friendship, please let me, Ding Saner, go! Just this once! I will definitely remember your great kindness. Great Virtue, I”

"Less nonsense"

Wei Ran slowly lit a cigarette, stared at the other person's eyes that had been avoiding him and asked, "If you want to honor me, tell me the password to the safe first."

"Dad, I, I only have those three melons and two dates!" Ding Rongfu begged with a bitter face, "The old lady at home eats it every day."

"You won't tell me, right?" Wei Ran smiled at the other party, and there was a bayonet in his hand.

"Say! I'll say!" Ding Rongfu immediately confessed, and simply told Wei Ran the password.

After carefully checking the other party's dislocated hands, Wei Ran opened the safe according to the password.

This safe is not big. In addition to four small yellow croakers stacked in a tic-tac-shape, there are also two envelopes of silver coins.In addition, there are a pair of jade bracelets and a tin tea cylinder in the safe.However, there is no tea in this tea tube. Instead, it is filled with cigarette paste.

"You are dishonest"

Wei Ran took out these things and said, "You'd better think again if there is anything valuable. If you can't think of anything valuable, I will help you find a way."

"Sir, you are not being honest when you come to rob someone."

Ding Rongfu, who had given up just now, said with a look of disdain, "You can't be short-minded when you are poor. That money is enough for you to spend, and you will be able to do great things, so why not!"

Before Ding Rongfu could finish his words, Wei Ran gave him a slap in the face, "Don't tell me, it's easier to handle."

Before he finished speaking, Wei Ran picked off his chin again, then picked up a pillow towel and stuffed it in. Then, amid Ding Rongfu's constant twisting and struggling and suppressed screams, he slowly opened one of his hands. Then he reinstalled all the joints one by one. Finally, the things in his mouth were restored to their original shape and his jaw was put back on.

"I said, I said!"

Ding Rongfu, who was crying from pain, replied tremblingly, "The living room, under the big sofa in the living room!"

"Are you investigating the Guan siblings and their classmates?" Wei Ran asked abruptly.

"right"

Ding Rongfu only said half of the word before he realized something was wrong, but at the same time, Wei Ran had already picked up his other hand that had not been tortured.

"Yep!"

Ding Rongfu replied decisively, "The person in charge of this matter is my cousin. He, he is in the house opposite."

"I'll ask him later. Next thing I ask, if your voice is loud enough for your cousin to hear, I will peel off the skin from your fingers one by one."

Wei Ran touched Ding Rongfu's hand like a complete pervert and continued to ask, "What did you find out through your investigation?"

"I don't. Ouch!"

Just as Ding Rongfu was about to ask a question, Wei Ran gently pushed his little finger backwards.Although he didn't break his finger this time, it still hurt so much that he lay down on the bed, just to make his body feel better.

"We found out that the Guan siblings and their classmates seem to have contacts with those people!" Ding Rongfu lowered his voice and said.

"Who are they?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.

"It's those people who put up big-character posters on the street every day." Ding Rongfu lowered his voice.

"How did you find out?" Wei Ran continued to ask.

"Before we started the flood, we met someone who secretly posted big-character posters."

Ding Rongfu whispered, "We didn't catch him. We followed him secretly for a few days. We saw that he interacted with the eldest lady of the Guan family every now and then, and he would definitely go to put up posters the next day."

"Then why didn't you do anything?" Wei Ran asked slowly, holding one of the other's fingers. The red butt of the cigarette he held in his other hand seemed to be pressed into Ding Rongfu's palm at any time. .

"We have no evidence, and we don't know where they printed the newspapers."

Ding Rongfu said with a grimace, "If we don't have any real evidence, wouldn't we offend Mr. Guan? He is a popular figure among the little devils."

"In that case, you will survive."

Wei Ran muttered with a smile, then asked, "Who knows about this?"

"They are all in this house," Ding Rongfu replied honestly, "Sir, you took a puff of cigarette and burned me."

"What's going on with those little girl movies that are locked up over there?" Wei Ran took a puff on his cigarette and asked with a smile, "How about you let me pick a few and take them back?"

"What you said is the filial piety I have prepared for you!"

Ding Rongfu replied flatteringly, "Isn't this a joke? Those poor people who fled into the concession have no way of living and entrust us to take care of their daughters. That's it! If you like anyone, no, you take them all with you." Let’s go! It just saved me three meals of white rice a day!”

"Okay, then I won't be polite." Wei Ran sprayed a puff of smoke on the other party's face, "Where did you get their parents?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Ding Rongfu's expression changed, but soon he suppressed his faint uneasiness and said with a smile, "Then I must give them half a bag of rice, millet or something, and send them away." .”

"Okay"

Wei Ran picked up the pillow towel that had just stuffed the other person's mouth and said, "I'll ask your cousin later. If the answers are different, you two can go live in the basement tonight."

"Don't, don't!" Ding Rongfu immediately panicked, "I, I remembered."

"What did you remember?" Wei Ran continued to ask.

"I introduced their parents to jobs near the dock in the Japanese Concession, and they all went there to work for the Japanese." Ding Rongfu explained in panic with a smiling face.

Hearing this, Wei Ran suppressed the killing intent in his heart, blocked his mouth again with the ball of towel, and fixed it with a belt.

Despite the lightness of Ding Rongfu's bullshit, Wei Ran, a passer-by from later generations, clearly knew that the parents of those little girls had no idea whether they could leave the British-French concession where entry was allowed but no exit was allowed.

Even if they could go out, even if they really went to work for the Japanese in exchange for food and drink, they would probably be put on a boat by the Japanese in the name of rescuing refugees soon, and sent all the way to the recruitment homeland to work. Coolie, a coolie who can never go home!
Returning to cousin Ding Rongfu's room with a gloomy face, Wei Ran asked the question just now and got a relatively more truthful answer.Those girls are basically orphans with nowhere to go that they have lured with food and drink these days, and picked up and deceived from the streets!

In addition, regarding the matter of the Guan family siblings, the answers given by these two people are very consistent.

At this moment, Tao Canhua and Chen Pike also rushed back with their own boats.

After wrapping the last two bags of grain in raincoats and putting them on the boat, Wei Ran groped under the sofa and successfully found four large yellow croakers wrapped tightly in cloth.

After sending the looted yellow and white things back to the pike together with the grain and big white radish, Wei Ran took Tao Canhua, who was left behind, to knock down all the waterproofing facilities on the second floor of the house that were reinforced with sandbags and wooden boards. , and then opened all the doors and windows, inviting all the wind and rain outside.

This was not over yet. Before leaving, Wei Ran called for Tao Canhua's help. He used the chains that had imprisoned the little girls to hang all the corpses on the door frame with one foot upwards, and cut additional cuts with a knife. Opened the wrist.

Finally, Wei Ran pushed the two Ding cousins ​​who were already frightened into the boat, called out to Tao Canhua, who was also frightened, put on his raincoat and left the small courtyard in the increasingly manic thunderstorm.

"Why did you do this?" Tao Canhua couldn't help it after all, and asked Wei Ran's ear.

"look away"

Wei Ran also explained to the other person's ear, "This small building had a murder case two years ago, and it is said to be haunted. Now not only has someone been hanged up and bled, but the Ding brothers have also disappeared. Who do you think Could it be the murderer?"

"That must be the Ding brothers."

Tao Canhua immediately thought of the obvious answer, but then he asked, "But what about the brothers of the Ding family?"

"Don't worry about it," Wei Ran asked firmly, "Did you send those grains to the mute uncle?"

"I sent it, I sent it all, and my aunt even packed an extra bag of rice."

"Send these two over together." Wei Ran pointed behind him, "Let Uncle Mute take these two goods to the suburbs and deal with them."

"Understood!"

Tao Canhua nodded and began to shake the oar vigorously.At the same time, Wei Ran also covered the Ding brothers who were also whispering in the cabin with a dusty sheet.

After covering the two living creatures, Wei Ran asked curiously, "Canhua, how did you take those two steps when you took the kerosene lamp?"

"You can practice it"

Tao Canhua leaned over and explained, "I used to learn Wu Chou in the theater troupe. I have practiced martial arts for several years. In the past two years, I have learned some swords and horses from my aunt. The few steps you saw are Wu Chou's skills." Footwork, using a knife to pick up an oil lamp, can be regarded as something that Daomadan understands by analogy."

"Isn't this your first time killing someone?" Wei Ran asked suddenly.

Hearing this, Tao Canhua trembled, then nodded, "When my father and I were playing piano and singing in Peking, we killed three heavy smokers who beat my father, and then we ran to Jinmen."

"How old were you then?" Wei Ran asked with interest.

"Sixteen" Tao Canhua shook the oar harder and harder, "Shortly after my father entrusted me to the theater troupe, he died."

Hearing this, Wei Ran sighed secretly, but for a moment he didn't know how to comfort this dull, but smart and brave young man.