At around 8:40 in the evening, Xiao Su's mother walked out of Taihua Building with a few wealthy ladies who were about the same age as her, chatting and laughing, and chatted at the door while watching the rich ladies who were in their mid-teens.
They each got into the car, and then walked towards Wei Ran in a tangled manner, letting the latter help her open the door, protecting the door frame with her hands, and sat in the back seat like a proud old hen.
It wasn't until Wei Ran started the car that Xiao Su's mother lit a cigarette and asked slowly, "Is someone looking for you?"
"I found it," Wei Ran replied with a playful smile, "Thanks to my aunt's love, I stole three hundred oceans from that silly boy."
"How much?! Three hundred?!" Xiao Su's mother's tune was raised several octaves, and the newly lit cigarette in her hand almost fell on her cheongsam.
"three hundred"
Wei Ran replied with a smile, "One hundred belongs to your aunt, another hundred belongs to my cousin, and the last hundred belongs to me. What do you think of this distribution?"
Xiao Su's mother looked at Wei Ran in surprise and asked suspiciously, "You are willing to give up so much?"
"If Aunt Su doesn't help cover this matter, I won't even be able to get a piece of the ocean."
Wei Ran explained with a smile, "Besides, this is 'selling out' my cousin after all, and I haven't discussed it with her yet, so she must have a share. Otherwise, if my cousin is not happy to give me away,
I still can’t get a piece of the ocean, right?”
"Hey -! My wonderful nephew! You are much more sensible than that loser!" The smile on Xiao Su's mother's face appeared together with the praise on her lips.
"However, I cannot give you this hundred oceans right away."
After Wei Ran finished speaking, Little Su's mother, who had been smiling just now, immediately turned gloomy, but before she could speak, Wei Ran explained, "I got three hundred yuan with my front foot, and you can put more in your pocket with your back foot."
It’s a hundred oceans. It’s a hundred oceans. Even if you don’t look through the bag and check it, you can guess it by just weighing it.”
At this point, Wei Ran paused and said, "Just think about it, what if that big enemy finds out that you are also involved..."
Before Wei Ran finished speaking, Xiao Su's mother nodded in agreement.
"Aunt Su, please be patient"
Wei Ran patted the leather bag placed on the passenger side, "Wait until I send you back. After returning to the study apartment, ask Jasmine to send the three hundred yuan to my cousin's room upstairs. When my cousin comes back, let her split the bill between us.
, what do you think?"
"Okay! That's great! Let's do it!"
Xiao Su's mother smiled again, and then pretended to be casual and asked, "What problem did you get these three hundred oceans for?"
"That idiot asked me where my cousin was. Did she run away secretly because she thought there was going to be a war?"
Wei Ran distractedly lit a cigarette while driving, and replied with a smile, "I said that the lady and her friends went to Peking to watch a theater. She also said that our lady can speak Japanese. It is not someone else's business to do, so there is no need to run away."
"That's it...that's it?" Xiao Su's mother looked at Wei Ran in astonishment, "that's why you lost three hundred yuan?"
"I didn't expect that big bastard to give money so happily."
Wei Ran said with an innocent face, "He said he might have to ask me for questions in the future. I set the transaction location at the door of the small building where you live, so that you won't be surprised when he comes to see me one day.
Can’t see.”
"I have a pot of Xifu Begonia on the balcony on the second floor."
Xiao Su's mother said with a smile, "I don't know what I will ask you, but at least I know when I will ask you, and then I will move the pot of flowers to the sun..."
"Just open the window for ventilation. It's so tiring to move the potted plants around."
Wei Ran didn't wait for the other party to finish his words before suggesting, "The windows of the house facing the street face south. When ventilating, close the curtains so that the room won't get too hot."
"My nephew is still more careful." Xiao Su's mother nodded with satisfaction.
"Aunt Su loves her nephew. As a nephew, I must think about Aunt Su." Wei Ran responded with a smile.
"This is in the car. Don't expect me to be nice to you when you get out of the car." Xiao Su's mother reminded her in a puff of smoke.
"So you don't want to see Uncle Mute, Jasmine and the others the same way?"
"Them?! Humph!"
Xiao Su's mother snorted and said with a look of disgust, "Don't mention those elm bumps. Thinking about it makes me angry. Tell me about your cousin who lost money. All the ones she picked up in the past few years are missing arms and legs.
The goods?
That mute Cao can't speak as well as the parrot your cousin keeps.
And Jasmine, oh my God! What kind of girl have I not seen in all these years? Not even the two-cent bacon shop is that ugly.
Can you tell me what she looks like? Her big face looks like a mahjong tile, and she’s square. Fortunately, she also has a tacky hemp braid, otherwise she’d be even more of a man than a man.”
Perhaps because she knew Wei Ran's origins, Xiao Su's mother stopped talking this time after scolding Cao Duba and Jasmine, and did not bring along Wei Ran's nominal real aunt, Aunt Yang.
Even so, when the scolding was over, the sharp-tongued little Su's mother did not forget to add a harsh word, "If it weren't for the fact that those two bastards were still loyal and would not deceive my daughter who was losing money, I would have found someone to deal with them."
They sank in the sea and rivers."
"Aunt Su, can I ask you about someone?" Wei Ran asked with a smile, changing the subject.
"Who are you asking about?" Little Su's mother, who was still cursing just now, asked slightly warily.
"Where did Miss Andy come from?" Wei Ran asked.
"Hi! She!"
Xiao Su's mother breathed a sigh of relief and said nonchalantly, "She is a nurse in a German clinic. She and your cousin were classmates in the church school before.
During the war in the 15th year of the Republic of China, her family was in dire straits, so Miss Tang survived by staying with a German comprador."
"I thought she..."
"What do you think happened to her?"
Xiao Su's mother snorted, "Good nephew, don't blame me as an aunt for not warning you. If you don't want to die, stay away from her, let alone you. Even the red-haired devils in the German concession are not willing to provoke her.
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"There are rumors that the German she fell in love with is the nephew of Mr. Dickson, the German ambassador to the Japanese. It seems that he gave birth to a little bastard with a white face and blue eyes."
Xiao Su's mother paused and continued, "Someone also said that the German guy she was with was some kind of Fa...F...Faxhausen? It seemed to be that name. Anyway, he was a high-ranking official sent by Germany.
My son’s secretary, do you know who that Falkhausen is?”
"I know, his name is Falkenhausen, not Falkhausen."
Wei Ran corrected him with a smile. He was a history major, so he knew who Falkenhausen was.
"Don't worry about what he does."
Xiao Su's mother waved her hand, "No one dares to verify the authenticity anyway. Although her sweetheart seems to have returned to Germany, he entrusted Andy, the little girl, to his German friend who runs a hospital.
take care of."
Speaking of this, Xiao Su's mother also had a hint of ridicule in her tone. She put out the cigarette butt and threw it out of the window. She smacked a pack of roasted seeds and nuts handed over by Wei Ran while gossiping, "You are worth millions.
Don't look at that little girl who looks like a flirtatious fox but can't control her belt.
In fact, hum! She doesn't have the guts to sleep with any man, and no man has the guts to go to her bed."
“So that’s how it is”
Wei Ran smacked his lips. Although he didn't believe that Andy could be related to Falkenhausen or the German ambassador to Japan, since the rumors were so well-established, and under such rumors, no one had
Having caused trouble for Miss Andy seems to be enough to explain something.
After the topic reached this point, Wei Ran drove the car slowly to the entrance of the opium den on the edge of the Japanese Concession.
“I carry a gun with me when I go out these days.”
After Xiao Su's mother finished speaking, like a crazy woman, she threw the roasted seeds and nuts in her hand into the car. Without waiting for Wei Ran's response, she opened the car door and got out with a bang.
After slamming into the car door, he yelled loudly and cursed, "How dare you talk back to me, you stinky freeloader?! I'm going to tell you this today! I bought this car for that loser."
!When has it been your turn to make irresponsible remarks like this? What happens if it gets dirty? You have to clean it up even if it gets dirty!"
Amid Xiao Su's mother's scolding like a shrew, Wei Ran stepped on the accelerator and drove away with a look of unhappiness. It wasn't until he turned a corner at the intersection that a slightly helpless look appeared on his face.
smile.
Whether it's Little Su's mother who is unknown in Cao Ying, or cousin Mei Xiang who is missing, or Andy who is like a fairy, these promiscuous women are unlikely to leave a word in the history books.
, it is really too difficult to survive in this dark age of cannibalism.
However, he didn't know that just as he was driving back the car that had been dumped with a bag of roasted seeds and nuts, in the basement of Xu Qing's apartment where all the windows were blocked and the door was locked, there was
Another scene.
On the wooden stage in the center of the basement, Meixiang and Andy, who were dressed in silk pajamas and with towels wrapped on their heads. They had obviously taken a shower and washed their hair not long ago, and the little girl Qiushi who had "went to Peking to watch the theater" with them, were sitting there.
Watching a radio, listening to the radio and eating cold watermelon.
From time to time, one of the three girls would throw a few cards to the small table where they sat around.
"It seems that this battle will start soon."
Andy, who had two blank notes taped on her face, said worriedly. At this time, not only did she not have any aura about her body, but there was a faint hint of chivalrous spirit like a woman and a man.
"Don't be stupid."
Meixiang threw out two cards and complained softly, "We helped Teacher Feng and Xiaoguan prepare medicines and buy weapons. We have done everything we can.
And didn’t you just listen to what Jasmine said? That Mr. Ueda has already bribed my eldest nephew. A piece of ocean means a problem.
Damn it, if you look at it this way, my eldest nephew earns more than me. I spent an hour chatting with those stinky men, making coffee and playing the piano for only sixty dollars.
It's a good thing for him, one question costs a fortune, so that wicked devil could just come and ask me directly, how can my cheap nephew know my affairs as well as I do?"
“It’s really not too low”
After Andy waited for Qiushi to play his cards, he threw out two cards and mocked with a smile, "Your nephew is an honest man who can be seen through at a glance. The question is, where is your cousin from? I heard from Jasmine.
You mean, it seems like he came up with this bad move?"
"It's as if you didn't give Jasmine any advice."
Meixiang rolled her eyes at the former and replied casually, "I don't know his origins, but at present, whether he can be trusted or not, let's put it aside. Mr. Wei Ran must be a man who has been around women eight hundred times.
A veteran in love.
Tang Luoying, don’t blame me for not reminding you that a man like Wei Ran is less loyal than a random wild dog picked up on the roadside, so don’t take advantage of my cousin who is like a man."
"When did this happen?"
Andy rolled his eyes, took a deep breath and said, "Let's get down to business. No matter what happens, if a fight really breaks out, I can't hide here with you. I have to go to Teacher Feng and Xiaoguan.
Go help."
"I already knew I couldn't stop you."
Mei Xiang sighed, and when she was about to say something, an inconspicuous dim yellow light began to flicker among the fluorescent tubes above her head.
After just one glance, Meixiang dropped the playing cards, turned off the radio, and took it in her hand. Then she picked up the food box with watermelon, and walked towards the big mirror and said, "Let's go, my cheap cousin."
We’re back, let’s go on hiding.”
"You really can't trust him."
Andy muttered, collected the cards on the table and in Qiushi's hand, shuffled them in a very fancy way and put them into his pajamas pocket. Then he jumped off the stage with the small kang table in one hand and placed it next to the wall.
Then he quickly followed Mei Xiang.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! By the time the two of them walked to the big mirror, Qiushi had already run to the corner of the stair railing and reached into the small window behind the big mirror.
He pulled a latch in the gap, then stood up and hugged the corner of the stair handrail blocking the mirror and pulled it hard, turning it 180 degrees.
Almost before and after, Meixiang also put her hand into the gap at the other end of the large mirror, grabbed a rope and pulled hard, pulling out a wooden wedge nailed with rubber, and then pushed it with one hand so that it was no longer blocked by the stair railing.
The mirror slowly slid to the other side, revealing a small wooden door.
A familiar person opened the door and climbed down the ladder. Meixiang put down the radio in her hand, then raised her head and took the food box handed over by Andy.
When Andy also stepped down the ladder, Qiushi immediately ran over, hid in the small wooden door, pushed the large mirror with the pulley hidden at the bottom to slowly return to its original position, and then used the wooden wedge nailed with rubber to secure it
It got stuck in the hole in the pulley track.
Before closing the wooden door, Qiu used force to pull a metal pressure rod fixed on the wall. Driven by the connecting rod hidden inside the handrail, the corner of the stair handrail also clicked back into place, blocking the side again.
Large mirror frame.
Almost at the same time that Qiushi closed the wooden door from the inside and started to climb down, Jasmine also walked into the basement. She took out a not-so-clean rag from her pocket as usual and wiped the stair handrail that could be twisted.
position, and then wiped the small kang table used for playing cards, then took a cold watermelon from a wooden refrigerator, turned around and left the basement, and turned off the dim lamp and the dazzling light tube.
Finally, the door of the storage room was locked with a "click".
Almost as soon as she walked into the kitchen on the first floor with a cold watermelon in her arms, Wei Ran also backed the car into the garage, and then took the initiative to pick up the hanging watermelon while smiling with a babbling and dissatisfied Cao Mute.
The small broom on the wall began to clean up the roasted seeds and nuts scattered everywhere in the carriage.
After he finally finished cleaning up, and Cao Duba, who was in charge of the inspection and acceptance, was barely satisfied, Wei Ran was allowed to leave the garage with the heavy leather bag.
Glancing at Cao Muba, who was holding a flashlight to carefully check the car, Wei Ran reached out and pushed open the small door leading to the first floor. After entering, he winked at the other party before Jasmine asked him to eat watermelon, and then got in.
s room.
After a while, Jasmine came in with a watermelon in one hand and asked rather gloatingly, "What's the matter? Is Mommy Su giving you a hard time?"
“It’s really difficult for me”
Wei Ran took a bite of the iced watermelon handed to him and handed the bag to him while chewing.
"So much? Where did it come from?! Xiao Su's mother gave it to her? It shouldn't be?"
When Jasmine opened her purse and saw the silver coins inside, she immediately asked a series of questions.
Wei Ran opened his mouth and took another bite of the watermelon. Wei Ran spit out the watermelon seeds in his mouth and then motioned for the other party to come over and tell him everything that happened in front of the theater, including the way the three hundred oceans were handled.
He told the other party in a low voice without any concealment.
"You are really good at tricking people!" Jasmine couldn't help but exclaimed after hearing this.
"Why are you talking so hard?"
Wei Ran said angrily in a low voice, "Anyway, this is the situation. Starting tonight, we both have to give confessions to Canhua every day, and there can be no mistakes. Also, if the young lady comes back one day, you can
You have to put in a good word for me. I’m going to cut it off first and then tell you the story later, but it’s really impossible not to do this, and it’s three hundred oceans anyway.”
"Don't worry, the lady will definitely not blame you."
Jasmine grabbed a handful of silver coins, looked at them, and let them fall into her purse. Then she said, "Go out to eat watermelon. I'll put the money in the lady's room upstairs first."
When Canhua comes back, he will give a confession to a couple."
"he is not at home?"
"I went out with Yang Ma"
Jasmine explained as she walked out, "Mother Yang is going to buy some things. She can't ride a bicycle, and the mute uncle doesn't want to move, so I asked Canhua to take her."
"That's just right"
As he spoke, Wei Ran finished the watermelon in his hand in a few mouthfuls, then pulled out the small PPK pistol from his waist and threw it casually on the bedside table, "I'll take a bath to cool off first, and we'll give a confession when he comes back."
.”
"Not urgent"
Jasmine nodded happily, picked up her purse and left Wei Ran's room.
Watching the other party go upstairs, Wei Ran took a set of loose clothes and walked into the bathroom on the first floor with a washbasin. After taking a random shower, he sat directly on the edge of the bathtub and took advantage of the water in the faucet.
As soon as the cold water filled the bathtub, I took out the cigarette case and lighter and lit a cigarette. While looking at the small vegetable patch growing peppers and other things outside the window, I quietly listened to the sounds outside the bathroom.
Unfortunately, until the water in the bathtub was enough for him to take a cold bath, he did not hear the sound of the door of the storage room not far away being opened outside the bathroom.
Could it be that that beautiful cousin really hid away?
Wei Ran muttered secretly, threw the cigarette butt into the toilet, then put away the cigarette holder, relaxed and lay down in the bathtub, immersing his whole body in the calming cold water.
He didn't know that while he was hiding in the bathtub in the bathroom to exercise his lung capacity, Jasmine was in the living room on the second floor, deftly removing the telephone line from the magnet telephone, and then removing it from the carved baffle of the heater on the wall.
He dug out a telephone cord and connected it to the phone.
After shaking the phone handle vigorously, Jasmine put the phone close to her face and waited for a short time before she heard Mei Xiang ask in a low voice through the receiver, "What's wrong?"
"My cousin made three hundred yuan today!"
Jasmine paused and relayed what Wei Ran told her in detail to Mei Xiang on the other end of the phone. At the same time, she also vaguely heard the sound of Miss Andy whistling in the receiver, and Qiu Qiu.
Really surprised sigh.
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Mei Xiang muttered something vaguely, and then said seriously, "It's not a bad thing, let's see how my cousin behaves next.
In addition, a fight is about to start in the past two days, so you tell them to be careful when going out every day, and if something goes wrong, come back and hide in the basement."
"I know, then I'll hang up first."
Jasmine said, simply hung up the phone, then pulled off the phone cord and hid it behind the radiator, then reinstalled the carved baffle and restored the phone to its original state.
That night, Wei Ran and Jasmine accompanied Tao Canhua and hid in the grand banquet hall on the second floor. They simulated all the inquiries they might encounter tomorrow until they unified all the confessions and all the accidents they could think of in advance.
After familiarizing themselves with the situation over and over again, everyone went back to their respective rooms, waiting for the arrival of a new day and the beginning and end of the war.
Under the surface, in the hidden basement, three girls, Mei Xiang, Andy and Qiushi, were surrounding the slowly rotating electric fan and a table lamp at the vent, each holding a book and watching quietly.
.
Their young and beautiful faces, with their focused and hard-working looks, if they were photographed by Wei Ran and passed down to future generations, they would probably only be regarded as female students trained by some progressive families during the Republic of China era, rather than some popular celebrities.
Prostitute, socialite.
It was also the night before the war, and the gang members in the Sanguer area who had fought on the streets and bullied the market were also hiding in the darkness and plotting something under the leadership of their gang members.
The cloth shop called "Fuzhuang" was also extremely busy, with people coming in and out from time to time.
In a dilapidated house on the edge of Sanguer, Uncle Meng, who makes a living by running a food stall during the day, and his son used their modest savings to buy a small cart of white noodles and more than a dozen kilograms of sesame seeds, and ordered them
The hanging stove in the yard cooks one after another crispy hanging stove pancakes all night long.
These biscuits are definitely not for sale the next day. In Jinmen, even beggars would prefer to eat freshly baked biscuits if given the choice.
Uncle Meng has been making sesame cakes all his life, so he naturally knows how tricky people in Jinmen can be. But even so, that night, he took his son, who was a cook in the local security group, to stay up all night making sesame cakes, and then put the sesame cakes he had made overnight.
After it cooled down, they were wrapped tightly in white cloth quilts, and baskets were sent into the cellar where all the mice had been caught during the day. These bamboo baskets containing all the sesame cakes were placed on the ones bought before dark.
On top of the solid ice, which was larger and thicker than the bricks of the city wall, it was then covered with several additional layers of torn quilts.
Even in an abandoned temple on the outskirts of the city, the young cigarette sellers who spent the night together guarding two wooden boxes containing all their belongings were discussing something in a low voice.
With a firm tone, they made a decision that they shouldn't have made at their age.
When this destined to be a busy night finally returned to calm amidst the white fish belly that appeared on the horizon, it was already July 28, 1937 AD.
This cool and quiet dawn came just three weeks after the July 7th Incident at the beginning of the month.
But no matter whether it was Jin or Ping, whether it was high-ranking officials or pawns, those who had just fallen asleep or had been awake all night, they all very clearly predicted the same obvious thing.
