In the night, Wei Ran and Tao Canhua took the boat back to Xuqing Letter Apartment. Meixiang and Andy, who had been waiting at the door, immediately took Mr. Feng and Cao Muba to the basement after they got off the boat.
As for what they said in the basement, Wei Ran didn't know. He was just woken up in the middle of the night. Together with Tao Canhua, they took the boat out of the love letter apartment and sent them to the apartment next to the three.
There was an alley filled with water.
"Will we meet again in the future?"
Wei Ran asked while waiting for Mr. Feng and Cao Duba to transfer to another boat waiting here. By the way, he also handed the two gold bars to Cao Duba, and repeated Mei Xiang's instructions against the other person's ear.
Ichiban.
Originally, these two gold bars were supposed to be given to Guan Bingwen, but when he went to pick them up, the window was closed too quickly, and he had no chance to send them out. But I thought about giving these gold bars to these two people.
It should be considered as making the best use of it.
"Yes, definitely."
Feng... No, Mr. Hong waited for Cao Mute to get on the boat with the gold bars, and made a promise in a firm tone. The boat was also pushed by the bamboo pole in the hand of the punter, and disappeared amidst the faint sound of water splash.
into the darkness.
"Let's go back too"
Wei Ran raised his head and glanced at the night sky where raindrops were falling again, and whispered to Tao Canhua.
Hearing this, Tao Canhua silently picked up the bamboo pole on the boat, pushed it hard, and skillfully steered the boat towards the study apartment.
When the two of them returned to the study apartment, they found Jasmine sitting on a chair in the foyer waiting for them.
"Go to the basement," Jasmine whispered, "Miss is waiting for you."
"good"
Wei Ran nodded, walked into the storage room with Tao Canhua, and followed the stairs to the basement.
Perhaps because of the power outage, there was only one kerosene lamp burning on the table in the damp basement at this time. Meixiang and Andy were sitting on both sides of the table. On the table between them, there was nothing else but the kerosene lamp.
Besides, there is also a white porcelain ashtray.
"Did it arrive?" Andy asked slowly.
“delivered”
Wei Ran casually pulled a chair over and sat down. He lit a cigarette and replied, "However, the gold bars were not delivered to Guan Bingwen."
Then, Wei Ran was also fuming and recounted his own handling method.
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't make any difference whether you give it to the mute uncle or Xiao Guan." Mei Xiang crushed the cigarette butt, put away the cigarette holder and stood up, "Take a few puffs, there is still business. Can Hua, move the mirror away."
"immediately"
After Wei Ran finished speaking, he took two puffs of his cigarette, pulled out the butt of the cigarette and crushed it in the ashtray. At the same time, Tao Canhua pushed open the large mirror in a familiar manner.
After looking at each other with Mei Xiang, Andy took out a key and opened the padlock on the small door, and then got in first. Following closely, Wei Ran, Tao Canhua and Mei Xiang also got in.
Contrary to his expectation, the hidden basement was still dry and did not seem to be affected by the flood outside.
And compared with two years ago, there are a lot more things here. The most eye-catching thing is the slender water tanks placed next to each other in the passage that takes up half the width of the passage.
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Some of these water tanks contain rice that has not yet been shelled, some contain wheat with full grains, and some are filled with things like sun-dried radish strips, cucumber strips, dried beans and eggplants.
.Even, there seemed to be strips of ham buried in two jars filled with coarse salt.
Continuing to walk inside, when they passed through the iron gate and entered the hidden underground space, Wei Ran discovered that the changes here were also not small.
Not to mention anything else, at least the original iron frame bed and steel wire bed are gone. Instead, they are on the innermost side against the wall. On the left hand side are an operating bed and two wooden cabinets containing various medicines. The operating bed is right in front of it.
Above, several incandescent lamps of different heights hang down.
On the right side, there were two more wooden bunk beds placed at a 90-degree angle. He could even tell that those bunk beds were made of the same wooden boards that were originally used to seal the doors and windows.
In addition, those printing machines seemed to have been carefully maintained, and each even had a coarse cloth cover.
But the most important thing is that there are several things on the small table combined with a painting vat and a glass plate in the center of the room.
The first thing was a wooden box that looked very familiar to Wei Ran!
Beside the wooden box, there were two slightly tattered English books. Judging from the titles, they seemed to be a maintenance manual for a printing press and a book on radio technology.
In addition, there is a red-covered copy of "The Scream" on the table, and beside the book, there is also a photo.
"Mr. Feng is going to do something with the Guan family when he returns to Tianjin this time."
While Meixiang was talking, she sat on a small stool next to the painting vat, lit a cigarette and said slowly, "They plan to use the printing press here for anti-Japanese propaganda, and I agree."
Seeing that Wei Ran and Tao Canhua didn't seem to express their opinions, Mei Xiang continued, "After the flood passes this time, I plan to set up a theater troupe in this study apartment and just use the children upstairs. Don't worry.
How good you can be at playing and singing, as long as you are active enough and loyal enough. Canhua, I leave it to you and Qiushi to set up the troupe. From now on, you will be the leader of this troupe."
"Okay!" Tao Canhua agreed immediately, and then asked, "Auntie, what is the name of our theater troupe?"
"What name do you think is appropriate?" Mei Xiang looked at Andy with a smile.
"Whatever you want to call it," Andy replied nonchalantly, obviously not caring about this kind of thing.
"Then just call it whatever you like."
Mei Xiang casually handed over the decision to Tao Canhua, then reached out and turned over the photo on the table and pushed it in front of Wei Ran and the other two, "Compared to the troupe, the next step is business."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Hearing this, Wei Ran and Tao Canhua immediately focused their attention on the photo.
The people in this photo are a shirtless fat man holding a woman in a cheongsam in his arms, and someone Wei Ran is particularly familiar with - the fake reporter Ding Rongfu who bought Shuyu information from him!
"This fat man is Wang Xian, the traitor who is responsible for guarding the barbed wire fence in the French Concession. I'm sure you know the thin man next to me, cousin, right?" Mei Xiang asked with a smile.
"know"
A smile also appeared on Wei Ran's face, "This thief calls himself Ding Rongfu. Two years ago, when I sent Canhua to play the piano for Ueda Ghost, I stole a lot of money from him."
"This Ding Rongfu lives in the concession to collect intelligence for the Japanese. He has recently targeted a classmate of Xiaoguan."
After finishing speaking, Mei Xiang raised her head and glanced at Wei Ran, "Uncle Mute followed Feng... and Mr. Hong here this time to deal with Ding Rongfu and Wang Xian.
Once Ding Rongfu is eliminated, Xiaoguan will be much safer. After Wang Xian is eliminated, the Guan family siblings can encourage their traitorous father to take over the job, and by then we will have a passage to the outside of the concession."
"So Uncle Mute and the others just went to the vicinity of Sangui to deal with Wang Xian?" Wei Ran looked at the other party and asked.
"right"
Andy, who had already lit up a cigarette, took over the conversation, "They will do it during the next thunderstorm night. Meixiang has arranged to kill Ding Rongfu for you. I thought it would be safer if we do it at the same time."
"you?"
Wei Ran turned his head suspiciously and glanced at Tao Canhua, whose eyes were shining beside him, "Am I going with Canhua?"
"Jasmine said that he is no longer young anymore and it's time for him to see blood."
Andy tapped the letter on the table with his fingernail and continued, "This Ding Rongfu lives in the house where you killed Ueda's female companion.
According to the news from Xiaoguan, there must be at least four or five people living there, all of whom are Ding Rongfu's men. If conditions permit, kill them all together."
"If it's difficult, you can wait until the mute uncle is finished and ask him to come over and help." Mei Xiang said.
"I have a few questions"
While Wei Ran was talking, he also lit a cigarette for himself, which also gave Mei Xiang and Andy some time to prepare.
"What's the problem?" Andy asked first.
"I want to know the identities of the Guan siblings and Mr. Hong." Wei Ran took a puff of cigarette and looked at the two beautiful girls seriously, "and our identities."
Hearing this, Mei Xiang and Andy looked at each other. After hesitating for a moment, the former also lit a cigarette, while Andy stood up and left the room and walked into the dim passage, apparently to go on guard duty.
"Mr. Hong is a member of the Democracy First Organization, even before the July 7th Incident."
Meixiang lowered her voice very low, as if she was talking to herself, and explained, "Xiaoguan and her sister joined the anti-Japanese murder group this spring. One of them is responsible for communications and publicity, and the other is responsible for
Purchase supplies.”
"What about us?" Tao Canhua, who was quite excited, asked with a longing look on his face, "Are we also considered members of the anti-Japanese killing gang?"
"Us?" Mei Xiang smiled, then shook her head, "It doesn't count."
"What about the people first?" Tao Canhua continued to ask, "Are we considered people first?"
"Of course it doesn't count." Mei Xiang shook her head again, "Last year, Minxian was disbanded."
"It doesn't even count..." Tao Canhua couldn't hide his disappointment and muttered, "We don't have names or anything?"
"This is not a fight between the big family and the second family for property. It's about status but not status."
Wei Ran muttered angrily, then asked without giving up, "Cousin, who do we think we are?"
"Shuyu" Meixiang said with a smile, "Of course it is Shuyu".
"No...no more?" Tao Canhua, who originally thought Mei Xiang could say something, asked.
"Gone"
Mei Xiang smiled and said, "We cannot have any subordinate relationship with Mr. Feng, nor can we have any subordinate relationship with the Guan family siblings.
This is the book house. In the future, these printing presses left by the British will be used to print anti-Japanese posters, so that the anti-Japanese people can plaster them all over the streets and alleys.
The operating room that Andy and his cousin built little by little in the past two years will also be used to provide medical aid to those injured in the battle. Apart from themselves, only the Guan family, brother and sister, and Mr. Hong know about this place.
exist."
At this point, Mei Xiang blew out a perfect smoke ring, "What? Are you two complaining?"
"No"
Tao Canhua immediately shook his head, "As long as I can kill the Japanese, I can do whatever I want, even if I don't have a reputation!"
"Okay, these are the things I want to talk to you about."
Mei Xiang waved her hand and said, "Cousin, take Canhua up and discuss how to do it in advance."
"Let's go"
Wei Ran patted Tao Canhua on the shoulder, and the two simply turned around and left the room, passed through the soundproof cotton curtains along the dim passage, and climbed up under Andy's smiling gaze.
The two of them returned to the storage room on the first floor one after another. After Tao Canhua said hello to Jasmine who was on guard, he followed Wei Ran into the kitchen.
After opening the back door of the kitchen and letting the sound of rain pouring in, Wei Ran lit a candle and placed it on the small kitchen table.
"How do we do it?" Tao Canhua asked in a low voice with an excited look on his face.
"How old are you this year?" Wei Ran asked an irrelevant question.
"Ten...nineteen, what's going on?" Tao Canhua asked subconsciously.
"I'm an adult...that's fine"
Wei Ran muttered something vaguely under the cover of the pattering rain, and then asked, "Have you been to that area recently?"
"Been there." Tao Canhua nodded immediately.
"Is the water there big?"
"Why isn't it big?" Tao Canhua said immediately, "In many places the water is as high as the top of the wall!"
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Wei Ran subconsciously touched his once-fractured right arm. Now his hands and feet were nimble. Even the only wall that could block them had been leveled by the flood. So even with a rookie, it really wasn't that troublesome.
Looking at the rain outside the window, Wei Ran secretly sighed that the rain was not heavy enough. He stood up and patted Tao Canhua on the shoulder and said, "Go back and rest first. I'll figure out how to start."
"Okay." Tao Canhua also stood up and helped close the back door of the kitchen.
"Aren't you going to sleep in the darkroom on the second floor today?" Tao Canhua couldn't help but asked curiously when he saw Wei Ran walking towards his house on the first floor.
"It turned out that I moved there..."
Wei Ran muttered to himself, then waved his hand, "No, it's starting to rain again. I'd better keep an eye on the first floor to prevent water from flooding in."
"You don't need to stare"
Tao Canhua pointed to the location in the foyer, "There are Pike and Keqin. They've been keeping an eye on them these days. You can go back and rest."
Hearing this, Wei Ran, who had gone to the wrong room, nodded and stopped insisting, and followed Tao Canhua to the second floor.
At this time, children of all sizes were already sleeping next to each other on the floor of the banquet hall on the second floor. There were even a few snoring and grinding their teeth and talking in their sleep.
"You are blessed to have a house of your own."
Tao Canhua raised his finger and pointed to the room that once belonged to Qiushi on the second floor and whispered, "Uncle Meng and I live in the same room, and his snoring can make the roof of the house jump three times."
"How about we switch?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.
"Need not"
Tao Canhua waved his hand and handed the candle lantern in his hand to Wei Ran. He also walked into the room in the dark while holding on to the wall.
Waiting until the other party closed the door, Wei Ran walked into the darkroom. After closing the door, he took off his soaked clothes, lay down on the wire bed, and stuffed the last Qianmen cigarette into his mouth.
There was nothing to say all night, and in the blink of an eye the next day, Wei Ran was woken up by the clanging sound outside the door.
When he put on the trendy clothes and opened the door, he happened to see Yang Ma and Uncle Meng, each holding a big spoon, serving rice porridge to the half-grown children who were queuing up with bowls.
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Beside these two people, Tao Canhua also held a pair of serving chopsticks and placed three pieces of pickle dumplings in each person's bowl.
The boys who had received the porridge, with joy on their faces, lined up and walked into the small restaurant on the second floor. After finding a place to sit down, they quietly drank the thick rice porridge with a spoon.
After this observation, he found that there were 11 young men on the second floor alone, not counting the girls on the third floor.
"Hurry up and wash your face, and then come over for dinner." Yang Ma couldn't help but urge him when she saw Wei Ran standing at the door, dumbfounded.
"Hey! Right now!"
Wei Ran responded and went into the bathroom to wash his face. When he came out, Tao Canhua had already filled him with a bowl of porridge and a small plate of pickles and placed them on the coffee table in the restaurant.
"How many people are there now?" Wei Ran picked up his rice bowl and asked casually while slurping the thick stubble rice porridge, "I was so busy yesterday that I forgot to count."
"Not counting Dogfish and Keqin, there are 15 little boys and 7 girls."
Uncle Meng answered Wei Ran's question without thinking. At the same time, he raised his chin towards a room on the second floor and said with a distressed expression, "Among these dolls, there are four injured boys. The ones upstairs are injured."
There are two movies about girls.”
"I'll go take a look later," Wei Ran responded, following the topic, and then changed the subject and asked, "Do we still have enough food?"
"Enough, enough."
Yang's mother lowered her voice slightly and said with great pride, "It's not my fault, no one on this street has as much food as we have! Don't look at this bunch of girls and boys. They can eat like this for another month.
No problem!”
"That's what I said"
Uncle Meng sighed, "But Miss has been saying in the past two days that she would use half of the food to open a porridge factory for disaster relief."
"I think it's a good thing," Tao Canhua agreed. "When we go out these two days, we can see people begging for food everywhere. Many of them are so hungry that they can hardly stand up."
"I don't think this water will recede for a while."
Uncle Meng looked out the window worriedly, "I'm worried that these children will also go hungry."
"We can't go out to provide disaster relief," Wei Ran said without raising his head.
"Why?" Yang Ma was the first to be unhappy, and at the same time she frowned subconsciously.
Hearing this, Wei Ran did not speak, but just looked at the children eating in the restaurant. Seeing this, the other three also realized something and wisely ended the topic.
After finishing this simple breakfast, Yang's mother also opened the lid of the large pottery pot in which Chinese medicine was boiled, and gave everyone, including Wei Ran, a bowl of Chinese herbal medicine soup to prevent the plague.
After finishing the bowl of herbal soup that was so bitter that it made people cry, Uncle Meng limped downstairs and didn't know what he was doing. Chen Pike and Xu Keqin, who were guarding the water level last night, also had a heavy sigh.
Sleepily, he entered the room where Tao Canhua and Uncle Meng stayed last night.
The young men who had taken the medicine were already holding a toothbrush each, and started brushing their teeth in small groups guarding the big copper basin.
Seeing this, Wei Ran took out his pocket watch and adjusted the time with the clock that was moved to the second floor. Then, at Tao Canhua's reminder, he put on a mask and walked into the room where Yang's mother originally lived.
There was no bed in this room. On the wooden floor, four little boys, who looked to be about fourteen or fifteen years old, were lying.
These four little guys did not include the one with an injured hind foot that Wei Ran found last night. They didn't seem to have any external injuries, but these four were listless and weak.
After some inspections, Wei Ran could only determine that one of them had malaria, but the other three had wet towels on their foreheads, but he couldn't tell what the illness was for a while.
This is really not his fault. After all, he is not from a major. He is still able to deal with traumatic injuries such as amputation, but this kind of illness is really not his strong point unless he has encountered it before.
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He took out four thermometer needles and put them in the armpits of these four little guys.
"How are they doing?" Wei Ran asked.
“This is easy to say if you have malaria.”
Andy pointed at the little guy who was suspected of having malaria by Wei Ran, and said in German, "His symptoms are much milder than when he was brought back. I think he will be fine after taking medicine for another three or four days."
"Where are the other three?" Wei Ran also asked in German.
"The three of them have typhoid fever"
While Andy was explaining, he had already opened the medicine box and took out the glass tube syringe and medicine bottle. "Although Dagmar asked Mr. Walker to arrange for someone to deliver the medicine, when will the three of them be able to heal me?"
I don’t know either.”
"Where are the two girls upstairs?" Wei Ran opened the curtains and asked.
"The one I brought back last night was malaria. It's not a big problem. It's gone since I took the medicine."
Andy replied while busy, "The other one also has typhoid fever. The condition is milder than these ones, and he can almost go to the ground."
Hearing this, Wei Ran secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, this time he didn't have to be helpless in front of a sick child like last time.
"When I was preparing to come down, I heard you said that half of the food could not be distributed for disaster relief?" Andy asked in a casual tone while giving one of the children with typhoid a spanking injection.
"My cousin has been keeping a low profile these past two years."
Wei Ran leaned against the door and explained, "Allocating half of the food can indeed save some people, but who dares to bet that it won't attract the attention of someone with a caring heart? If someone with a caring eye catches it, won't the efforts of the past two years be in vain?"
"So you just look at it like this?" Andy asked with a frown.
"This is not a natural disaster, it is a man-made disaster."
Wei Ran reminded her hard-heartedly, "The water outside will not recede so easily. The food we have saved may not be enough to feed the people here."
"So you just look at it like this?"
Andy's tone became more and more severe. Although the little unfortunate guy who was being spanked by her did not understand German, he wisely gritted his teeth and endured the pain, but did not dare to make a sound.
"I didn't say that"
Wei Ran glanced at the rain outside the window, "Wait, wait for a thunderstorm night, I will find a hero for my cousin who is willing to come out to provide disaster relief."
"You mean..." Andy's eyes lit up immediately.
"I did not say anything"
Wei Ran spread his hands and said, "Besides, I think even if we take out all the food we have, we won't be able to save many people. Instead of doing this, we might as well find a way to build a passage out first.
At that time, whether it is letting the refugees leave the concession or letting food in, it will be more useful than setting up some porridge factory ourselves."
"When are you going to do it?" Andy asked as he pulled out the needle while the little unfortunate guy groaned.
"Didn't I say it was a thunderstorm night?"
Wei Ran replied with a smile, then opened the door and walked out, saying, "I can't help these injured children, so I'll just trouble my beautiful cousin."
"Pretty cousin? Humph!" Andy snorted coldly and picked up the second syringe with a smile on his face.
