Chapter 107: Death by Injury
"No, no one can touch this money, wait for Tang Cheng to wake up, if anyone wants to stir up trouble, first ask if this gun agrees." When Tang Cheng, who was unconscious, regained consciousness, he happened to hear Jiujin's angry shouts. Slightly opened his eyes and looked in the direction where the voice came from, the pale Jiujin was confronting Liu Shishi with several soldiers of the garrison regiment who were also wrapped in gauze, both sides were holding guns in their hands, the difference was that the soldiers of the garrison regiment were holding rifles in their hands, while Jiujin and Liu Shishi were carrying shell guns with a large nose in their hands.
"The county seat has been occupied by little devils, just those of you who want to enter the city, it's impossible at all, I advise you to stay here first, Tang Cheng has woken up, listen to what he means first." Tang Cheng twisted his head to his left side, only to find that the bandit-born Kuroko was squatting beside him, not holding a gun in his hand, but carrying Tang Cheng's crossbow that he was playing with.
"You're awake, great, I'm afraid you'll never wake up again, like the head of the regiment." Hearing the voice of the sunspot, Jiujin, who was confronted by the soldiers of the garrison regiment, turned to look at Tang Cheng, and saw that Tang Cheng was blinking at him, and the ecstatic Jiujin lowered the shell gun in his hand and stepped over to Tang Cheng in two steps. Tang Cheng, who had just regained his senses, didn't fully hear what Jiu Jin said just now, he just smiled and motioned to Jiu Jin to help him sit up, and when he saw Jiu Jin and Heizi, Tang Cheng already knew that he was in Beishan now, and he was now anxious to know what Liu Goat's situation was.
"The head of the regiment is gone" Facing Tang Cheng's inquiry, Jiujin's eyes turned red and cried. Tang Cheng knew that Jiujin was a guy who never lied, but he couldn't accept Jiujin's answer, so he turned his gaze to Liu Shishi, this guy who had been following Liu Goat should know the truth. "The regiment commander's injuries are too serious, after we rush back to Beishan, the regiment commander is gone, and the bullets have broken his chest." Liu Shishi, who was crying loudly, was like a child at this time, but his answer was also not accepted by Tang Cheng, and Tang Cheng, who shook his head again and again, turned his gaze to the sunspot beside him.
All the people in the garrison group who appeared in Tang Cheng's sight confirmed that Jiujin was not lying, but Tang Cheng still refused to believe that Liu Goat was dead. "How could he die? How can you die? You're lying to me, you're all lying to me. Tang Cheng ignored the wound on his chest, grabbed the nine-pound front liner and shouted. Uncle Liu has fought Shanghai twice, and when he fought Nanjing, he was surrounded by so many little devils, how could he die in a small place like Mengcheng. He himself said that the Japanese who could kill him have not yet been born, you are lying to me, right? Right? ”
No matter how Tang Cheng shook the nine catties, the latter just lowered his head and didn't speak, Liu Shishi, who was kneeling on the ground, was even crying and couldn't even breathe, and even Heizi, who was once said to be a bandit cub by Tang Cheng, quietly turned his head. "I knew that you were all lying to me, Uncle Liu must be very seriously injured, you guys don't want to treat him, right? If you don't treat it, I'll treat it, I have a first-aid kit made by Dr. Tian, and I'll go to treat Uncle Liu's injuries. Tang Cheng, who was bleeding from his chest, lifted the military blanket covering his legs and stood up, and before he could get up and move forward, he fell headlong and fainted again.
When Tang Cheng woke up again, he was the only one in the empty cave, Jiujin and the others were gone, and by the light of the torches on the earth wall of the cave, Tang Cheng looked left and right, and his steel helmet and weapons were still by his side. Reaching out and touching his chest, Tang Cheng found that the gauze that had been infiltrated with blood had been replaced, and he took a deep breath according to the method taught by Tian Kui, and Tang Cheng, who did not notice anything unusual in his body, breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the injury on his chest is not very serious.
A soldier can't do without a weapon in his hand, this is what Robert and Xie Bo both told Tang Cheng, so the first thing Tang Cheng did when he could sit up by himself was to grab a shell gun from his side and hold it in his hand. The grip of the pistol gave Tang Cheng inexplicable courage, and the energy that had disappeared before seemed to suddenly return to Tang Cheng's body, and after removing the magazine with difficulty to confirm that there were bullets inside, Tang Cheng, who had re-pushed the magazine, carried the shell gun out of the hole.
This is Beishan, Tang Cheng, who came out of the cave, looked at the familiar terrain around him, and immediately knew that he was in Beishan at the moment. The hole in the north mountain was dug on the site of the bandits' old nest that was destroyed by fire, and it was Tang Cheng who commanded the excavation at that time, and Tang Cheng was the most familiar with the terrain here in the garrison regiment. Garrison regiment? Uncle Liu? The figure of Liu Goat suddenly flashed in his mind, and the next thing that came to mind was the injured Liu Goat in Tang Cheng, who remembered the garrison regiment, I don't know how Uncle Liu is now?
When Tang Cheng was unconscious before, the sound of Jiujin always appeared in his head, Tang Cheng thought that the monkey was a dream, in this dream, Jiujin told Tang Cheng, and the seriously injured Liu Goat was sent to Beishan and died. Tang Cheng woke up in the cave and didn't see nine catties, so he took it for granted that it was just a dream, and everything that appeared in the dream was fake, Tang Cheng, who was raised by Robert since he was a child, didn't believe in ghosts and gods, he only believed in what he saw with his own eyes.
After staggering around, Tang Cheng found a pile of new soil under a big tree not far from the cave in the ground, looking at the shape of the new soil, Tang Cheng's heart suddenly had a bad feeling, how did the pile of soil look like a grave. Tang Cheng took a few steps towards the pile of new soil, and heard a whimper intermittently in his ears, Tang Cheng paused for a moment, there should not be birds and beasts here, how could there be such a sound. Tang Cheng, who had settled his mind, listened carefully for a while, and finally confirmed that the whimpering sound should be a human cry, but the crying person must have covered his mouth and didn't want his cry to be heard by others, so the cry would be intermittent.
"Liu Shishi?" After Tang Cheng bypassed the pile of new soil, the small figure kneeling in front of the mound made Tang Cheng scream. "Uncle Liu is injured, you don't take care of him, what are you doing kneeling here?" Tang Cheng's appearance made Liu Shishi, who was out of breath crying, find some comfort, but Tang Cheng's next words made Liu Shishi horrified. He and Brother Jiujin had obviously told Tang Cheng the news of Liu Goat's death, but Tang Cheng looked like he didn't know the news that the head of the regiment had died, so Tang Cheng was not stupid because he was stimulated by the news of the death of the head of the regiment.
"Company Commander Tang, our regiment commander is dead, we have already sued you, don't you remember? You still grabbed the nine-pound big brother and asked for a long time, why did you forget it. Liu Shishi looked at Tang Cheng with crying red eyes, he wasn't sure if Company Commander Tang was stupid, but he wanted to tell Tang Cheng what was going on. Isn't that a dream? After listening to Liu Shishi's words, Tang Cheng, who was standing in front of the mound, had straight eyes, could it be that Uncle Liu was really dead? Are all the words that Jiujin said to himself in his dream true?
Seeing that Tang Cheng suddenly stood still and didn't speak, Liu Shishi, who got up and stood up, pulled Tang Cheng to the front of the mound, pointed to the extremely simple wooden board in front of the mound and said, "Commander Liu is buried under this, we watched the burial, the tombstone was cut out by Uncle Da Zhuang with a bayonet, but we are illiterate, and the nine-pound brother said that when you wake up, write on the wooden board." Tang Cheng, who stiffened his body like a puppet, looked at the wooden board with Liu Shishi's gaze, and the tears accumulated in his eyes finally flowed out and dripped down his face.
In Tang Cheng's mind, Liu Goat and Robert are both good teachers who guide him on the road of life, every time Tang Cheng argues with Liu Goat, he will always say that Liu Goat has turned him into a ruffian, but when Tang Cheng said these words, he was actually very grateful to Liu Goat in his heart for teaching him the skills of fighting and surviving on the battlefield. If it weren't for this gratitude, maybe after the garrison withdrew to the Mengcheng military camp, Tang Cheng would not have followed Liu Shanyang to withdraw from the county seat through the tunnel, and would never have followed Liu Shanyang to become a deserter again.
If Robert is Tang Cheng's relative and the enlightenment teacher who taught Tang Cheng to behave and behave well, then in Tang Cheng's heart, Liu Goat is another relative of Tang Cheng. Looking at the mound and plank in front of him, Tang Cheng, who couldn't cry, could only kneel in front of the grave and cry silently, Robert, who was regarded as his father, died in Shanghai, and now, another relative died in Mengcheng, does God really want to be alone? Tang Cheng's head began to think crankily, why did the people he regarded as relatives leave him one after another, why is this?
"If you don't have incense or candles, you can light a few cigarettes for the regiment commander, he likes to smoke." I don't know when, Jiujin has been standing behind Tang Cheng for a while, putting half a pack of crumpled cigarettes and a box of matches in front of Tang Cheng, Jiujin pulled Liu Shishi, who was unwilling to leave, and left this place to Tang Cheng. This is the second time Tang Cheng has lost his relatives, and unlike the last time he saw Robert leave, Tang Cheng didn't see Liu Goat for the last time this time, but the pain in his heart was the same.
"Uncle Liu, I never called you uncle in front of you, do you blame me?" Tang Cheng lit three cigarettes with a trembling hand and placed them in front of Liu Goat's grave, and then lit one for himself to smoke. "I haven't called you uncle, in fact, in my heart, you are already my relatives and family. But you're too irresponsible as an uncle, you left me alone in this world, but I promise you that I will live well, don't worry. ”
"Uncle, you go first and occupy a good place, and I will go down to accompany you soon." Tang Cheng, who was kneeling in front of the grave, bit his lip and kowtowed to Liu Goat, but the tears in his eyes couldn't stop flowing, and the tears flowing through his jaw and the blood flowing from the corners of his mouth were mixed together, making Tang Cheng, who was crying silently, look a little hideous.