"Crack!"

In the strong white light, before Wei Ran had time to see his surroundings clearly, he heard a thunder and the sound of rain, and also smelled a faint smell of Chinese herbal medicine.

He blinked hard, but when his vision returned to normal, he frowned. At this time, he was wearing a pair of shorts and standing shirtless in the foyer of Xuqing Letter Apartment, under the awning of the gate less than two meters away.

, a dam that is one meter high and half a meter wide has been built with red bricks, cement and sandbags on both sides of the wall at the highest point of the entrance steps.

Across this small flood control embankment, the majestic heavy rain was hard at work watering the accumulated sewage in the yard amidst the thunder and lightning. The water that looked relatively clean was already less than one meter away from the wall of the small courtyard.

distance.

But look at the flood control embankment at the door. Almost a third of the outside is already soaked in water.

So this was late August of 1939? The Tianjin Flood?

While muttering to himself, Wei Ran looked up at the gloomy weather, then looked behind him, only to find that the hall on this floor was empty at this time.

He glanced at the iron gate again, almost soaking his whole body in the flood, and then turned around and walked into the hall on the first floor, checking every room on the first floor.

What was quite interesting was that he found that in the room where Tao Canhua originally lived, there were already several large water tanks that seemed to have been placed in the yard before. In addition, there was also a stove that was burning water in the room.

On the briquette stove, there were thirty or forty hot water bottles on the table against the wall, as well as several flowerpots with green onions or peppers.

Go to the back door of the kitchen on the first floor and take a look. There is also a waterproof dam set up on the steps outside the door.

However, the flower bed on the west side of the small building that hides the basement vent was not protected by the flower bed built in 1937 to block the basement and the rain shelter above the head that was wide enough to extend outside the courtyard wall.

In the water.

Even, in order to prevent the courtyard wall next to the flower bed from collapsing, several door bars as thick as a calf and pieces of thick wooden boards were used to support and protect it.

Not only that, behind the windows of each room on the first floor, flood defense embankments were built with sandbags in advance. At the door of the storage room, preparations were especially made.

Where have everyone gone...

Wei Ran muttered to himself while glancing at the stairs leading to the second floor, then stepped over the flood barrier prepared in advance at the door of the storage room, and followed the steps into the basement.

The news is mixed. Perhaps due to the protection of the flower bed built in 1937, there is no water in the basement. But even so, the surrounding walls are already covered with water as if it has caught up with the south sky.

Zhu. Some of the solid wood floors beneath my feet have been soaked and turned up, exposing gaps as wide as a finger.

In addition, all the items that were originally placed in the basement that could be moved have been moved, leaving only some tables, chairs and benches.

Glancing at the top of the stairs, Wei Ran moved the wide mirror with familiarity, only to find that the wooden door leading to the hidden basement had been locked with a padlock, and the door and the cracks were still covered with thick paint.

a layer of asphalt.

After pushing the frame back to its original position and fixing it, he quickly ran out of the basement and closed the door of the storage room as well.

However, before he could decide whether to go to the second floor to take a look, there was a series of strange noises coming from the direction of the yard that were not clear in the heavy rain but could not be ignored.

After a moment of hesitation, Wei Ran quickly ran to the foyer, hid behind the ajar door and carefully took a quick look, and then took a second look, and then confirmed that the iron gate of the study apartment was at this moment.

Outside, a small boat full of people was docked.

At this time, there was a man in a raincoat whose appearance was unclear on the boat, untying the iron chain on the door.

"who?"

While Wei Ran shouted loudly at the other party, he also took out the flashlight from the metal book and shined the beam at it.

"it's me!"

During the heavy rain, the person responsible for opening the door responded loudly, "It's me! Tao Canhua!"

"Come in quickly!" Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief and extinguished the flashlight beam.

Not long after, the iron chain on the iron fence door was untied, and the small boat, which was always being used to scoop water out, struggled to open the iron gate and floated into the yard.

After the people on board the boat scrambled and used iron chains and padlocks to lock the unblockable iron gate, the boat slowly docked at the edge of the flood control embankment on the steps.

Immediately afterwards, the people on the boat came down one after another under the leadership of Tao Canhua. They then helped Tao Canhua tie the wooden boat to the lamppost on the parapet of the steps.

After looking at these shirtless, soaked young men with dirty and embarrassed faces, Wei Ran turned his attention to Chen Xiuyu and Xu Keqin, who finally got off the boat, and to the people being supported by them.

, that little girl with a pale face and a thin figure, who looked to be seven or eight years old at most.

"Doctor Wei, she seems to have malaria." Xu Keqin wiped the rain from his face, "Please save her quickly, she has been shaking."

"Quick, come inside first." Wei Ran didn't dare to delay, calling the half-grown children to hurry inside.

After a while, the stairs leading to the second floor also heard the sound of hurried footsteps. When Wei Ran was the last one to enter and close the door, Mei Xiang, Qiu Shi, Jasmine, even carrying medicine boxes, wearing

Andy, who was wearing a white coat and a mask, wrapped himself tightly, ran down.

Behind these girls were Ma Yang and Uncle Meng who was limping!

"Is anyone hurt?"

While Andy was speaking, he had already placed the medicine box on the table and opened it. At the same time, Jasmine also placed the kerosene gas lamp she was carrying on the fireplace.

"There's someone here with malaria"

Wei Ran said, placing the little girl he was holding on his side on the table.

Hearing this, Andy immediately took out a medicine bottle, shook out a pill from it and fed it into the little girl's mouth.

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After the girl swallowed the pills in her mouth, Andy immediately pointed to the room that originally belonged to Cao Mute and urged, "Don't just look at it, take these children to check if there are any external injuries. Leave the ones with injuries behind.

If you are injured, please ask Uncle Meng to shave your hair first, then take a shower and then go upstairs."

"Come with me"

Wei Ran said hello, and took the young men except Tao Canhua, Chen Xiuyu and Xu Keqin into the room that originally belonged to Cao Mute. He asked them to take off all their clothes and checked them with a flashlight.

Ichiban.

Fortunately, except for one of these children who had a minor scratch on his heel, the others were all fine.

At the same time, Chen Xiuyu also walked in with a wicker box in his arms. There was nothing else in the box, only brand-new white towels and a wooden handle toothbrush rolled up in the towel.

"Listen to me"

Xu Keqin cleared his throat and said in a loud voice, "Miss loves to be clean, especially she can't stand the smell of sweat on her body, let alone bad breath. After you shave your head, Brother Pike will take you to the bathroom to take a shower.

Now everyone comes to me and gets a towel and a toothbrush. There is soap and tooth powder in the bathroom. Learn how to brush your teeth carefully with Brother Pike. From now on, you will brush your teeth once every day after breakfast and again after dinner. Who doesn’t do it well?

Brushing teeth, but no food!

Finally, after cleaning myself, I can go to Brother Canhua to get my big pants, sweatshirt and cloth shoes when I come out.

Now come to me to get a towel. After you get it, go to the hall and let Uncle Meng shave your heads, and then go take a shower."

"But...but there are women outside," a young man who looked to be about thirteen or fourteen years old said with a shy look on his crotch.

"No one is looking at you"

Xu Keqin said and handed a towel wrapped with a toothbrush to the other party, "Miss, they have already gone upstairs. You can go upstairs after they are cleaned up."

Hearing this, these half-grown men breathed a sigh of relief, carefully opened the door, and after some inspection, they went out one by one with their buttocks naked, and asked Uncle Meng, who was already waiting at the door of the bathroom, to

With the razor in his hand, he shaved off his long or short hair with a few strokes. Then he went into the bathroom in twos and twos under the command of Tao Canhua and Chen Xiuyu - just like Wei Ran and Chen Xiuyu.

Tao Canhua was exactly the same when he entered the job and wrote love letters to the apartment.

Not long after, the clean little bald boys came out again with bare feet. After their bodies were dried, they put on the large pants, coarse cloth undershirts, and round-mouthed cloth shoes prepared for them.

While the children were taking a bath, Wei Ran also returned to his room, closed the door and took out the medical kit.

Fortunately, the medical box is not completely empty after all. Although the American medic's helmet, plasma powder and penicillin are still not there, the white coat is as new as ever, and there are also many drugs for treating malaria.

And 5 extremely precious equine tetanus antitoxin.

Without daring to delay, Wei Ran returned to Mute Cao's room with the medicine box. After carefully debriding the little guy with the injured foot, he performed a skin test and injected a precious injection of tetanus.

By the time he finished his work, the little guys outside had not finished taking a shower or shaving their heads.

"I'll take him to shave his head and take a bath later," said Xu Keqin, who had been accompanying him in the room.

"Then I'll trouble you."

Wei Ran had already put away the medicine box as he spoke, "By the way, what's the date today?"

"August 21st," Xu Qin replied immediately.

"No wonder..."

Wei Ran muttered to himself and continued to ask in a casual tone, "What's going on outside now?"

"Hey! Don't mention it!"

However, Xu Keqin, who was sixteen or seventeen years old, said angrily, "This is a big deal. The bastards are blocking the British and French Concessions. Now those bastards are not allowed in or out. And only refugees are allowed."

Come in, no food, drink or medicine is allowed. Seeing how they look, I wish all the refugees would flow into the British and French concessions."

"What about the disaster?" Wei Ran continued to ask, even though he had seen these situations in the historical archives of later generations.

"We heard from people who ran in that the water at the entrance of Quanyechang could be three to four meters deep, and the first floor of Zhongyuan Company over there was also flooded."

"I heard that it was the Japanese who blew up the dikes that caused the flood. Now there are corpses floating on the Haihe River."

The young man with an injured heel echoed, "Not only the Haihe River, but also Sanguier, there were many drowned people, and even the Qinghong Gang joined together to rescue people and provide disaster relief.
To be continued...