War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 217 The Small World in the Reeds
"Brother Wei, I went wrong," Han Shoutian reminded before Wei Ran stopped the car.

"Get the business done first"

Wei Ran got off the motorcycle and pointed to the reeds on the side of the road, "Boss Qiu, do what you say, get out of the car, I'll count to ten, you just have to run into the reeds so I can't see you, today I let you go."

Mr. Qiu is not an idiot, he hurriedly said, "Sir, I am anti-Japanese! I am anti-Japanese! Don't kill me, keep me for use! I have eaten the anti-Japanese!"

"1" Wei Ran stretched out a finger and shook it, and then stretched out a second finger, "2!"

Now, Boss Qiu didn't dare to waste any more time, jumped out of the sidecar without hesitation, jumped into the pond and burrowed into the reeds without hesitation.

However, almost when the dense reeds completely blocked his short figure, Wei Ran who was standing beside the motorcycle suddenly pulled the trigger.

After two shots that weren't too loud, blood sprayed out from the back of Boss Qiu's head and the back of his heart, and then he fell straight into the depths of the reeds.Han Shoutian looked at Wei Ran hesitantly, but finally held back and didn't say a word.

Wei Ran looked at his young great-grandfather, sighed and explained, "Keeping him in this way is a disaster, if you let him live, you may not know how many people will die under the gun of the little devil because of him."

"We...we can educate them," insisted Han Shoutian.

"Let those compatriots killed by devils and traitors educate him." Wei Ran didn't want to argue too much with the other party, so he changed the subject and asked, "How far is this from the Lotus Pavilion?"

Han Shoutian also didn't want to quarrel with the person who saved his life because of a traitor, so he pointed to the road just now and said, "Follow that road and walk another two miles and you will be there."

"Get in the car!" Wei Ran waited for the other party to sit in the sidecar, and immediately turned the front of the car, and drove back to the road to continue running forward.

Han Shoutian said that it was Erli, but Wei Ran ran for more than ten minutes, turning left and right under the direction of the other party, until he could hardly find where he came from. When the road was over, Han Shoutian signaled him to stop under a big willow tree by the side of the road.

Under Wei Ran's gaze, Han Shoutian walked to the side of the road, put his hand into his mouth, and whistled loudly at the endless reeds, and then imitated a few ugly crow calls .

After waiting for more than ten seconds, a cuckoo call could be heard faintly from the dense reeds beside the road. Han Shoutian immediately imitated a few wild duck calls to respond, and then fell into silence.

After waiting for less than five minutes, a row boat that was not too big squeezed out from the reeds. On this row boat stood a tall and thin man who was about the same height as Wei Ran.

When the boat was on the side of the road, the punter took off the straw hat on his head, revealing a wheat-colored Chinese character face.

"Shoutian, you're back. Where's my father?" After the tall, thin man asked, he looked at Wei Ran who was standing next to the motorcycle, "This is."

"Brother Hopu, this is Wei Ran, the guy from the tea shed at Dongguan Wharf. Thanks to his help this time, otherwise I would have been arrested by Qiu Sancun."

Han Shoutian was not in a hurry to get on the boat, and hurriedly told what happened last night, and then said, "Master asked us to come here, he."

"He's in the back, he probably won't arrive until a while."

Wei Ran hurriedly continued, while secretly looking at the people on board, if this person is Zhou Houpu, that means he is Suisui's great-grandfather?And what I have to do is to assist him in completing the ambush mission?

"Where did this iron donkey come from?" Zhou Houpu asked curiously.

Seeing that Han Shoutian was also looking at him, Wei Ran hurriedly said, "I snatched it from Qiu Ermazi."

"Qiu Ermazi?! You ask?" Zhou Hopu's face showed surprise at first, but then he stopped abruptly in the middle of the conversation.

"Ask out"

Wei Ran didn't seem to see the other party's distrust, and said proactively, "The devil plans to use the boats at the Dongguan Wharf to organize a joint water and land raid. The exact time is not clear to Qiu Ermazi. It seems that the devil commander named Kamemoto still Not planned.

In addition, four of the more than one hundred ships were likely to be loaded with ammunition, but this news is not certain, and it was leaked by He Translator's slip of the tongue after drinking. "

"What did you say?!" Zhou Houpu and Han Shoutian immediately widened their eyes, "Really?"

Wei Ran spread his hands, "How dare I lie to you about this?"

"It's broken, it's broken, it must be done as soon as possible," Zhou Hopu said halfway and stopped abruptly again, and after a moment of hesitation, he said, "Both of you, get on the boat!"

Of course, Wei Ran and Han Shoutian had no objection. After boarding the row boat one after another, Zhou Houpu immediately propped the small wooden boat into the dense reed marshes.

Until the big willow tree was no longer visible behind him, Zhou Hopu said to the dense reeds around him, "Uncle Hammer, Shou Tian brought back a devil's iron donkey, which is under the big willow tree."

"understood!"

Hearing the response from the dense reeds, Zhou Hopu called Han Shoutian to continue to support the small wooden boat, and took Wei Ran who was sitting behind to drill into the depths of the reeds.

How many people are hidden in this reed marsh?

Wei Ran, who was originally sitting at the end of the small wooden boat, stood up curiously and tried to look around. However, the dense reeds around him were taller than a person. What the hell is out there.

Zhou Houpu, who was at the front rowing the boat, glanced at Wei Ran, and then deliberately shook the boat under his feet, making the former sit down quickly and obediently.

After walking for at least ten minutes in the reeds where Wei Ran couldn't tell the direction, a channel with a width of only half a meter suddenly appeared in front of him. Suddenly, a small platform slightly above the water surface was built with broken wooden boards and wooden stakes.

This small platform is no larger than two meters square, and a black incense stick as thick as a finger is lit in the broken bowl with a gap in the middle. Although the lingering smoke is a bit choking, it smokes all the big mosquitoes around. It's spotless.Four thigh-thick wooden pillars on the side support a top covered with weeds, and the lush reeds around the top are pulled by ropes to completely cover the small platform.

Zhou Houpu and Han Shoutian leaned the boat to the edge of the small platform and tied it with ropes, and then called Wei Ran to get on the wet platform.

"Wait here!" Han Shoutian handed Wei Ran a small bench while speaking.

"Is this the lotus pavilion?" Wei Ran sat on a small bench and asked, not to mention the lotus, he didn't even see the lotus leaves along the way.

Han Shoutian smiled, but didn't say anything. He just took the coarse porcelain kettle from Zhou Houpu and poured Wei Ran a bowl of cool tea.

Having nothing to do left and right, Wei Ran simply opened the hard cowhide satchel he brought back, took out the guns seized in the bathhouse and placed them at his feet, and said under the gaze of those two pairs of eyes that were getting rounder and rounder, " Brother Zhou Zhou, pick one and keep it for self-defense!"

"Where did you get all this?" Zhou Hopu picked up a box cannon and looked it over and over again.

"It was borrowed from Qiu Er Mazi," Wei Ran joked, "He said he would return it to him after he beat the little devil away."

"Qiu Ermazi can be so easy to talk?" Zhou Hopu obviously didn't understand the meaning of Wei Ran's words, but the expression on Han Shoutian's face suggested that he seemed to have guessed something, but he didn't say anything.

Wei Ran also didn't want to explain in detail, so Tanshou took out a newspaper wrapped in chocolate from the hard leather bag and opened it, took out two pieces from it and handed them to the two brothers, and picked up a bag and stuffed it into his mouth, " Try this, it's sweet, and I borrowed it from Ermazi."

"This is brown sugar?" Han Shoutian followed Wei Ran's example and tore off the tin foil wrapped in chocolate, and stuffed the thumb-sized piece of chocolate into his mouth.

"It's a bit bitter, bittersweet, and it's all in the throat."

Hearing Han Shoutian's description, Zhou Hopu curiously stuffed the chocolate given to him into his mouth, and then exclaimed with surprise, "It's like eating purple mud from the bottom of the water, but it's so sweet!"

"I like to eat, you can take all of these, but this kind of sugar is afraid of high temperature, and it will melt when it is a little hot." Wei Ran said, rewrapped the full paper bag of chocolates and stuffed it into Han Shoutian's pocket arms.

"This is so embarrassing"

"Keep it." Wei Ran made an excuse indifferently, "I have a toothache from eating sweets."

Zhou Hopu stretched Han Shoutian's trouser legs, "Or keep it for them to eat."

Hearing this, Han Shoutian was stunned for a moment, and then he stopped refusing, bent down and pulled two small benches together, and put the bag of chocolates on it.

"Do you want this thing?" Wei Ran took out two pocket watches and a wrist watch and handed them over, "I also borrowed these from Qiu Ermazi."

"No, no, it's too expensive, we don't dare to take it." Zhou Hopu realized something belatedly when he said this, "Brother Wei, you shouldn't put Qiu Ermazi on him."

Seeing the other party making a gesture of chopping vegetables, Wei Ranhun nodded indifferently, while Han Shoutian next to him said, "Qiu Sancun was also killed by Brother Wei, right next to the reed field of Shuiyang's house. superior."

"That's not bad!" Zhou Houpu said with a smile on his face, "Now that Qiu Ermazi is gone, the common people will be saved."

"It's more than that. Ermazi is dead. It's not as easy as before for the little devil to come down to grab food. Taking advantage of the time when those traitors are fighting for Ermazi's family property in the den, the surrounding villages and households just rushed to get the wheat. Put it away."

"What Morita said makes sense." The three people on the small platform searched for their voices, but it was Uncle Zhou who squeezed over from another direction in a small wooden boat.

"Father, you're back." Zhou Hopu waved the cannon he hadn't let go of since he just picked it up, "Brother Wei gave it to me!"

Uncle Zhou didn't answer his son's words, but turned his head to look at Wei Ran, and asked very seriously, "Boy Wei, where are you from?"

"Where do you think I came from?" Wei Ran asked back with a smile.

"Forget it, don't say it if you don't want to say it."

Uncle Zhou didn't have any extra curiosity, "It's a great feat for you to kill Qiu Ermazi, but did you ask about the boats at Dongguan Wharf?"

"asked"

Seeing that the other party didn't pursue his identity too much, Wei Ran secretly heaved a sigh of relief, and quickly explained the information from the torture.

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