On the morning of July 28, when the news of the Japanese's large-scale attack on Peiping and the call for "self-defense and defense" of the war of resistance came to the Xu Qing Letters Apartment through the radio station, it also cast a shadow of the impending war on everyone's hearts.
Although there wasn't much they could do, everyone still closed all the curtains upstairs and downstairs under the command of Cao Mute, who had been on the battlefield, and then used the money they bought when building flower beds a few days ago.
Those wooden boards sealed the windows with curtains drawn, and an extra layer of quilts was nailed inside.
As a result, although the lighting capacity of this originally beautiful small building was greatly reduced and it seemed extremely oppressive and stuffy, it at least seemed safer.
After all the busy work, it was noon. Everyone ate lunch in a hurry. Wei Ran and Tao Canhua took a shower and changed their clothes. They took Jasmine to check her confession again, and then they drove out and rushed to Xiaosu.
The small building where mom lives.
Along the way, the scenes they saw along the way were very different from yesterday. Many of the small merchants and hawkers had disappeared, and many of the shops along the street had closed down. However, the newsboys selling newspapers were doing a particularly prosperous business.
"There's going to be a war," Tao Canhua muttered worriedly.
"yes"
Wei Ran, who was driving, muttered absentmindedly, but had no idea of stopping to buy a newspaper. The short but torturous battle that followed was clearly recorded in later historical records. The role of buying a newspaper at this time was nothing more than
It just adds to the anger.
"Aren't you scared?" Tao Canhua looked away and asked.
"Afraid," Wei Ran replied frankly, "What about you? Aren't you afraid?"
"Afraid" Tao Canhua sighed, "There's no point in being afraid. If the country is weak, the people will be humble. I'm still playing music for the devil for two oceans. Alas..."
"cheer"
Wei Ran stopped the car, glanced at the blue curtains floating out of the window on the second floor of the small building, turned his head and said, "The devil might ask you something else later. If you can play the music well, maybe in the future
It can also become a weapon to serve the country."
"Really?" Tao Canhua lowered his head and glanced at the piano bag in his arms.
"Don't keep Mr. Ueda waiting."
Wei Ran urged with a smile, watching as the young man in a gray cloth opened the car door, held the piano bag, and walked towards the small building step by step with his erhu in hand.
After waiting for the other party to come in and watching the door close, Wei Ran lit a cigarette and silently looked at the passers-by outside the window and at the Japanese Concession not far away, which was still closed.
I don't know if it was due to the tense atmosphere before the war. The overalls that had bribed Wei Ran yesterday did not appear. Even Tao Canhua walked out of the small building on time an hour later and ran quickly.
He came over and got into the rear compartment.
"Today..."
"Don't talk, don't look out the window."
Wei Ran gave instructions with a subtle wink, and Tao Canhua's expression also became panicked.
At the same time, a man wearing silk clothes and trousers happened to come out of a opium den across the road. The man stood at the door of the opium den and slowly lit a cigarette. Then he walked from the side of the door.
Under the big tree, a bicycle was pushed over, and the seat was wiped with his sleeves.
After deliberately starting the car, the man immediately stepped on the pedal with one foot and prepared to "start".
However, as he slipped more than ten meters forward along the road, Weiran deliberately let go of the accelerator to let the engine quiet down again.
Seeing that the other party turned around subconsciously, Wei Ran deliberately failed to start the car twice in a row. It was not until the other party was forty or fifty meters ahead of him on the bicycle that he started the engine with the cooperation of the accelerator.
Wei Ran slowly lit a cigarette again, stepped on the accelerator and drove the car out. When he was about to pass the bicycle, he changed his tone and asked loudly, "My eldest nephew, today
How many dollars did you make from that little devil?"
"Four, four dollars!"
Although Tao Canhua is introverted, he is by no means stupid. He immediately realized something from Wei Ran's tone and title, not to mention that the former had just hinted at him.
"How about you lend me two yuan to spend some money later?" Wei Ran continued to say arrogantly as the car passed the bicycle.
"No... no way," Tao Canhua responded, while shrinking behind the co-pilot and pressing his hands on the pockets of his gown.
He didn't even look at the man on a bicycle who was overtaken by him. Wei Ran, who was in charge of driving, threatened Tao Canhua in a arrogant tone while also secretly sizing up the people and vehicles he encountered along the way.
When he passed an intersection, because the road conditions deteriorated, there were many pedestrians and rickshaws on the street, and the car slowed down.
He glanced out the car window while dusting off cigarette ashes, but Wei Ran didn't say anything more. He just glared at Tao Canhua fiercely, then pressed the car horn impatiently, and passed the unforgettable passage with difficulty.
Know why the intersection is so crowded.
However, he did not take the same road as yesterday. Instead, he changed to a road that he had not walked before. Then he randomly stepped on the brakes and opened the car door at the door of a Chinese medicine shop.
"I'm offended, please bear with me."
Wei Ran whispered instructions as he got into the rear compartment, and then reached out to hold Tao Canhua's face, pressing him against the back of the seat, and said with a arrogant threat, "I borrowed money from you to reward your face.
, take out the ocean in your pocket, if you lose a penny, I will break your legs!"
"It hurts, it hurts! Let go! I'll give it to you!" Tao Canhua begged and shouted - Wei Ran really used his strength.
"Isn't it time to be so happy?"
With a arrogant look on his face, Wei Ran touched the back of the other person's head vaguely but not heavily, and then took the four pieces of ocean that the other party reluctantly handed over.
"As my cousin, I can't bully you."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Wei Ran said, throwing one of the dirtiest pieces of ocean to Tao Canhua, "One of these three oceans is oil money, and the other one is oil money.
I borrowed the two yuan from you, and I will pay you back after my cousin has paid her salary."
After saying that, Wei Ran turned around and walked to the Chinese medicine shop with the three oceans he had snatched in his hand, and roughly closed the car door. Only Tao Canhua, an honest boy, was left holding the silver dollar in one hand and covering the back of his head with the other.
Lying on the seat, crying and beating the back of the driver's seat.
At the same time, Wei Ran also walked into the Chinese medicine shop, took out another stack of cigarettes from his pocket in a particularly arrogant manner, threw it on the counter with a clatter, then held the cigarette holder and took a long puff of cigarette, like a gangster.
He yelled, "Bring me a ginseng. With so much money, I can buy as good a ginseng as I can."
"This master, this master."
The clerk at the drug store might have been used to such arrogant and unreasonable bastards as Wei Ran. He took the silver coins on the counter calmly and counted them, and then asked with a smile on his face, "Do you want white ginseng or red ginseng? Do you want Korean ginseng?"
Ginseng or American ginseng? This ginseng is good, but don’t eat it randomly. Just in case..."
"What if?"
Wei Ran said impatiently, "I've been staying up late every day playing cards recently, so I just wanted to get some ginseng to cheer me up. Just take it. You only have so much money, so you can buy as much good stuff as you want. It works. I say no."
I'll definitely come back one day, but it won't work, huh! I'll shoot you the next time I see you."
"If you say that, I'll understand."
The waiter weighed the silver dollar in his hand and said with a smile, "Master, look at this, what do you think if I weigh some red ginseng slices for you?"
When you feel sleepy and tired, just take a piece of it in your mouth. No matter what kind of ginseng it is, it is not a big radish after all, right? If you win a lot of money and take a big bite out of joy, it will hurt your body."
"That's okay, you guy can do something good."
Wei Ran reached out and patted the other person's shoulder, took out another piece of ocean from his pocket and stuffed it into the other person's collar, "This piece is a gift from me. Go and prepare the slices."
"Okay!"
The clerk responded, handed the silver dollar in his hand to the accountant, and quickly picked up the copper plate and began to prepare.
Without letting Wei Ran wait long, the waiter poured the weighed red ginseng slices onto a square of straw paper, and then took two four-ear covered pastel ceramics from under the counter that were about the same size as a peeled coconut.
jar, put a few pieces of straw paper inside, and put the red ginseng slices inside.
Finally, the four handles and the lid of the ceramic jar were carefully tied tightly with red cloth strips. The clerk told him, "Sir, you can take up to three tablets a day. Don't eat too much. You should rest when you need to."
You can’t burn out your body.”
"Why do you talk so much? This jar of yours is quite pretty. What's painted on it?" Wei Ran asked in a playful manner.
"Eight Peach Bat"
The waiter still replied in a friendly manner, "Blessings and longevity. In our Xuanhu business, don't we just hope that the people who come through the door will have blessings and longevity?"
"You kid can talk"
Wei Ran, who was pretending to be arrogant, secretly said something offended, and at the same time, he patted the other party's shoulder again pretending to be arrogant, and then he left the drug store and got into the car with the two porcelain jars tied with red cloth strips.
Deliberately ignoring Tao Canhua, who was huddled in a corner with his piano bag behind him, Wei Ran drove around to Quanyechang again, only to find that not even the young men selling cigarettes came out today.
Seeing this, he could only find a random cigarette dealer, buy a pack of Camel cigarettes and put it in his pocket, ignoring the black car following him looming behind him, and rushed back.
It wasn't until they returned to Xuqing Letter Apartment and drove into the garage that Wei Ran and Tao Canhua let out a collective sigh.
"I didn't hurt you just now, did I?" Wei Ran asked apologetically towards Tao Canhua behind him.
"It's okay"
Tao Canhua quickly waved his hand. This was discussed last night, so he was naturally prepared for it.
"Thankfully we discussed it yesterday," Wei Ran muttered.
"Is there really someone watching us?" Tao Canhua immediately became nervous.
"How would I know"
Wei Ran spread his hands and denied, "We have to act more realistically, right? Okay, let's get out of the car."
With that said, Wei Ran took out three pieces of ocean money from his pocket and gave them back to Tao Canhua.
After the young man left the carriage with his diners, Wei Ran picked up the two porcelain jars, pushed the door and got out of the car, and followed him into the small building.
Jasmine actually asked him to buy these red ginseng slices this morning. As for their use, at least the other party said they were going to be used to stew the hens outside that could still lay eggs.
No matter what excuse Jasmine came up with, Wei Ran didn't bother to get to the bottom of it. He just doubled the purchase amount out of his own pocket just to make himself look like he had "just made three hundred yuan and was rich".
After giving one of the porcelain jars to Jasmine, Wei Ran returned to the room with the other porcelain jar, untied the red string that tied the lid, then took out the food box and poured half of the red ginseng slices into it. By the way,
He also stuffed a few slices into an empty cigarette box.
After taking a shower and changing his clothes, Wei Ran fell asleep and fell asleep not long after.
This is already the 28th. According to the historical records he collected before entering this time and space, the battle will start at two o'clock in the morning on the 29th. In other words, this is the last rest time before the war begins.
In any case, Wei Ran is now a veteran of hundreds of battles. He already knows clearly that he has no ability to influence the situation of the war and change history, but he is also confident that he can protect himself in the next battle.
However, the only problem now is-where is cousin Meixiang who needs his protection?
