In the dark and narrow passage in the basement, Wei Ran slowly sat down with his back against the wall painted with the Last Supper, shivering, lit a cigarette for himself and took a long puff, and as expected, he choked repeatedly.
cough.
After a while, Mei Xiang also walked out. This clean-loving girl slowly sat on the floor next to Wei Ran, also leaning against the wall. Like Wei Ran, she shakily lit a cigarette.
"Is there no other way?" Mei Xiang asked in a trembling tone amidst the swirling smoke.
"There is no way." Wei Ran shook his head slightly, he really had no way.
"Or ask Dr. Dagmar?" Mei Xiang suggested unwillingly, "Maybe he can do something about it?"
"Then give it a try..." Wei Ran said, struggling to stand up, "I'm going to Deutsche Matheson."
"Bring this"
Meixiang said, handing over a small purse embroidered with lotus flowers. In this unsealed purse, there were two heavy gold bars.
"You have a lot of troubles." Wei Ran pointed to the other end of the passage, "Let Canhua tell you the details."
"Okay", Mei Xiang nodded, watched Wei Ran walk to the end of the passage, climbed up the ladder with one hand, and climbed up with a little effort.
"how's it going?"
As soon as Wei Ran came out of the small door, Yang's mother, who was waiting outside, asked anxiously.
"Is there any candy at home?" Wei Ran asked, not answering the question.
"Yes, yes!" Yang's mother nodded quickly.
"Find a piece of gauze to wrap the candy and let him hold it in his mouth. Remember to hang it with a rope so as not to choke him."
Wei Ran hardened his heart and said as he walked out, "In order to avoid biting his tongue, I have dislocated his jaw. Before leaving, let him eat something sweet..."
After saying that, Wei Ran did not dare to look at the panic-stricken Mother Yang again, and quickly left the basement. He said hello to Tao Canhua and Cao Duba who were guarding the door of the small building and the door of the small courtyard. The Japanese newspaper driver was driving
The car rushed to Deutsche Matheson as fast as possible.
When Wei Ran and Volker, who went out to greet him, explained their intention in German, the latter immediately took him into the office, and soon after, Dr. Dagmar, who was still wearing a white coat and a mask, walked in.
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"Why is Dr. Dagmar still dressed like this?" Wei Ran asked in German while waiting for Walker to close the door. At the same time, he also used the name "Dagmar", implying that he already knew the relationship between the brothers and sisters.
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"I am now a temporarily employed doctor at Schweiger Bank, and I am responsible for the health of all the staff of the firm."
Dagmar took off his mask and sat on the sofa and explained casually, and then asked straight to the point, "Mr. Victor definitely didn't come here to chat with me. Tell me, what trouble did you encounter?"
"Tetanus," Wei Ran said straightly, while placing the two gold bars on the table between the three of them.
"you?"
Dagmar immediately stood up nervously, jumped in front of Wei Ran, reached out and pulled off his hat to check the wound.
Wei Ran did not avoid the other party's inspection, "It's not me"
"Andy?!" Dagmar became more and more nervous, and her voice vibrated.
"Not really." Wei Ran paused and said as calmly as possible, "It's a child."
After hearing this, Dr. Dagmar was silent for a moment and then asked, "What are the symptoms first?"
"Within 24 hours after the trauma, facial muscle tightness, limb spasm, and..."
"I can't save this child," Dagmar said feebly. "Victor, give up. Help him end his life as soon as possible. Preventing him from suffering more torture is the most humane treatment method at present."
"I...I know" Wei Ran nodded.
"How is Andy's situation?" Dagmar asked, changing the subject.
"I don't know," Wei Ran replied, "my cousin's driver sent her out of the city overnight that day."
"This is best." Dagma breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked, "Is Ms. Mei Xiang back?"
"No"
Wei Ran shook his head, "Doctor Dagmar, Mr. Walker, I came here just to inquire about my cousin's whereabouts. I never asked about tetanus."
"Although your cousin and I are good friends, I don't know where she went." Walker was the first to react and said with regret, "Victor, I'm afraid you have to go somewhere else to ask."
Already."
"It can only be the"
Wei Ran sighed, "My cousin is going to attend the dance in the Seventh Heaven on the 6th. I have to get her back as soon as possible before then, otherwise I will have no choice but to run away."
"If you are ready to run away, I can help you buy a ticket to Germany." Walker said, picking up the two gold bars on the table and stuffing them into Wei Ran.
"Victor, wait for me." Dagmar said, already putting on a mask, opened the door and walked out.
Not long after, Dagma walked in again, and in her hand was a small glass bottle only as big as her thumb.
"What is this?" Wei Ran asked as he took the small glass bottle handed to him.
"Cyanide"
Dagmar sighed, "I originally prepared it for myself and gave it to the poor child. This is the only help I can provide."
"Thanks..."
Holding the small lead-sealed bottle tightly, Wei Ran finally drove the car back even though he did not want to face the cruel decision in the basement.
When he returned empty-handed to the basement that was still filled with sadness, everyone already knew that the last glimmer of hope had been shattered.
"Wei...Doctor Wei"
Xu Keqin, the elder brother of the Xu family, looked at Wei Ran and held his brother's hand at the same time, "We...we have discussed it."
After saying that, he turned his head and looked at his brother who was holding candy wrapped in white cloth. He wiped his tears and said firmly, "Send...send my brother away...don't...don't let him suffer."
Already."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Turning his head and looking at each other with red-eyed Mei Xiang and Miss Guan, Wei Ran looked at Andy who clenched his fists, and Uncle Meng and Mr. Feng who were sighing.
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Finally, he silently walked towards the wooden box containing various medicines, reached out and took out a morphine ampoule.
"Let me help you," Andy said calmly.
"I will do it myself"
Wei Ran stubbornly refused the other party's help. He pinched the ampoule with his broken right hand and flicked it open with the fingers of his left hand. Then he chose a glass syringe, replaced it with the thinnest needle, and sucked out the liquid inside.
came out.
Finally, he glanced at the child with a dislocated jaw on the bed. Wei Ran avoided his big, warm eyes. He carefully wiped his thin arm with an alcohol cotton ball. After finding the blood vessel, he slowly inserted the needle.
Go in, and finally push the needle gently to push all the medicine in.
In the quiet basement, Xu Keqin whispered something into his brother's ear, but the whisper was interrupted several times by his own sobs. As a listener, although Xu Kejian could not respond, he nodded with difficulty.
, his little face, which was not very clean, gradually showed an extremely difficult, but also extremely bright and bright smile that people dared not look at directly.
I don't know how long it took, but as the medicine took effect, the expression on Xu Kejian's face gradually relaxed. Wei Ran also helped him fix his chin, and then took his own double-lens reflex camera and took a picture of the poor child.
photos, and a photo with his tearful brother.
"Let's have a good time..."
Wei Ran sighed. Under Xu Keqin's desperate cry, under the sad gaze of Chen Xiuyu who clenched his fists and tried not to cry. With the help of Mei Xiang and Guan Lingling, he carried Xu Kejian and left the room.
He walked to the other end of the passage and let Cao Mute, who was waiting here, help him carry Xu Kejian up.
Obviously, Cao Dumb already knew something, so he helped untie the wooden board behind Xu Kejian, carried him out of the basement, and put him into the Japanese car.
"This will make it easier for him to walk."
As Wei Ran spoke, he took out the bottle of cyanide poison and the syringe he had just used from his pocket. With the help of Cao Mute, he filled the syringe with the liquid.
The two looked at each other, and Wei Ran waited until the other party nodded tiredly, then inserted the sharp needle into the blood vessel in Xu Kejian's neck, and slowly pushed the highly toxic cyanide into his blood vessel.
When he pulled out the needle, Cao Yuba signaled Wei Ran to leave the car, closed the door, and drove out of the courtyard alone.
Watching the other party go away, Wei Ran looked at the syringe in his hand and sighed secretly. After searching around, he found a dirty rag, carefully wrapped the syringe and threw it into the trash can.
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He didn't know where Cao Mute would send Xu Kejian, but he knew that taking care of the living was more important than the dead.
With heavy steps, he turned around and returned to the solemn atmosphere of the basement. Wei Ran guided Qiu Shi to change medicines for all the wounded, including himself, and then fled out of the small door as if in despair.
"It's not your fault"
Meixiang, who came out with Wei Ran, comforted her as calmly as possible, "You have done your best."
Wei Ran nodded feebly, looked at the baggage and the small bag containing silver coins on the table, rubbed his face vigorously, changed the subject and said, "I just got another 300 yuan from Ueda's men. I'm pretending to be fake by the way."
I told you that I bought you a train ticket back on the 6th."
Hearing this, Mei Xiang, who looked slightly pale, nodded, opened the bag, took out the kimono stacked inside, shook it out, looked at it, and asked to herself, "Does it look good?"
"He's quite good-looking, just forget about his clothes." Wei Ran said tiredly.
Meixiang smiled, and when Qiushi came up, she said calmly, "You came up just in time, help me put on my kimono."
"Still not going out?" Qiushi rolled her eyes at Wei Ran, who was looking at herself in the mirror in a daze.
"Need not"
Mei Xiang greeted Wei Ran nonchalantly, who was about to go out, and had already put the kimono on her body as she spoke.
Under Qiushi's service, Meixiang quickly put on the kimono and clogs that Wei Ran and Tao Canhua had just brought.
Walking to the mirror and looking around in circles, Mei Xiang turned to look at Wei Ran, "On the 6th, you went to the dance party with me. Do you still remember what I told you on the first day you came to this book apartment?"
"Remember," Wei Ran nodded, "If someone insults your innocence, kill them. If they can't kill you, I'll kill you."
"Go back and rest." Meixiang waved her hand, and then began to take off the kimono she was wearing.
Seeing this, Wei Ran nodded, turned around and walked back to the first floor along the stairs.
In the next few days, apart from sending Tao Canhua to play piano and sing for Zhitian every day and taking care of the flowers and plants upstairs and downstairs as well as the parrot that was about to be fed, Wei Ran focused all his energy on taking care of the wounded.
on the body.
Fortunately, whether it is Xu Keqin or Uncle Meng, or Chen Xiuyu, Feng Maoyun, Mr. Feng and Guan Bingwen, or even Wei Ran himself, their respective wounds are slowly scabbing and healing.
Compared with the good news coming from the underground, what comes into view above the surface is more and more anti-Japanese slogans and propaganda, as well as anti-Japanese martyrs who were openly shot.
Even elementary and middle school students in some schools were dragged to the streets by the Japanese and forced to sing songs that whitewashed the peace in halting Japanese. They were incorporated into the photos taken by the Japanese and reporters bribed by the Japanese.
The photo was published in the newspaper.
In addition, in the past few days, during the busy work of Cao Yuba, Jasmine and Tao Canhua, the previously sealed windows of the small building and the iron fence gate of the small courtyard have also been restored to their original state.
The old hens sent by Guan Bingwen were also turned into chicken soup and braised chicken nuggets and sacrificed to the five internal organs temple of several sick patients.
On the other hand, Yukio Sometani had no intention of sending Meixiang's car back from beginning to end. Correspondingly, the few passes in Wei Ran's hands were not sold at all, and even the fake journalist who claimed to be Ding Rongfu was not sold at all.
, never appeared again.
Time flies to August 5th. In the hidden basement, Mr. Feng, Guan Bingwen and even Guan Lingling, Andy and others are as usual, changing dressings for their wounds while angrily discussing Wei Ran.
The contents of the newspapers he brought back every day, as well as the street scenes shown in the developed photos that Wei Ran took with his camera every now and then.
And in the small courtyard above the ground, "Young Master Wei Ran" who "accidentally broke his arm" by removing the window board yesterday, also blatantly hung his fractured right hand wrapped around his pocket watch in front of his chest, lying on the ground.
Sitting on the lounge chair in the small courtyard, I looked at the night sky above my head casually.
When the hour hand of the pocket watch was about to point to "11" on the dial, a black car also drove to the entrance of the small courtyard.
Seeing this, Wei Ran immediately sat up, ran over quickly, opened the courtyard door, let the car drive into the courtyard, and then drove straight into the garage that had been given away in advance.
However, no one got out of the car. Instead, the wanted Guan siblings got in in the dark.
After a while, the car left the small courtyard in reverse. While Wei Ran locked the courtyard door, it increased its speed and drove away in the night.
When Wei Ran ran back to the lobby on the first floor, the study apartment, which had been silent for a long time, also turned on all the lights according to the afternoon plan - to welcome the hostess Mei Xiang home.
“Xiaoguan’s father still loves his child after all.”
In the living room on the second floor, Mei Xiang took a sip of the bowl of tea handed over by Yang's mother, "Thanks to his identity as a traitor, he spent some money to guaranty the two siblings. The only ones who are wanted right now are
I'm leaving Mr. Feng. He will have to hide with us for a while, and everyone will take good care of him."
After everyone agreed, Mei Xiang continued, "Xiao Su's mother will definitely come over during the day tomorrow."
"Of the six hundred oceans, two hundred are hers, and she will definitely come." Wei Ran said with a smile.
"Qiushi, prepare two hundred oceans for Xiao Su's mother in advance."
Mei Xiang put down her tea cup, "I saw in the newspaper you delivered this afternoon that the Japanese are preparing to abolish legal tender?"
"At least that's what the newspapers said," Wei Ran replied, "but the British Concession doesn't seem to be prepared to abide by the rules set by the Japanese. French currency can still be used."
"Qiushi, prepare legal currency for Xiao Su's mother." Mei Xiang turned around and said.
"I'll pick out the latest paper tickets for Xiao Su's mother!" Qiushi made a promise while holding back her breath.
"Mother Yang, make something delicious during the day tomorrow."
Mei Xiang smiled and continued to give instructions, "Cousin, you will follow me to the dance tomorrow. Uncle Mute, you will be responsible for driving then. Jasmine, you will also follow."
"Hey!" Jasmine responded, and Wei Ran nodded.
"That's it," Mei Xiang said, standing up and walking to the third floor, "Let's sing the play together tomorrow."
