Chapter Forty-Nine: Something Bad Happens
"Hold him down, press it tightly, what the hell are you guys who haven't eaten, hold it down." Hou San's shouts came from the courtyard early in the morning, and after a few shouts, Liu Shishi, who had a black eye, was pushed out of the courtyard, and then Zhang Xiaobao also followed in his footsteps. "Ah" screamed, and the four Gao Hai people who were running in circles with their backpacks outside the terrified courtyard turned their heads to look into the courtyard together, but unfortunately the courtyard door was closed, and they didn't see anything.
"Keep running, don't stop, the things in the yard have nothing to do with you." Liu Shishi and Zhang Xiaobao, who had black faces, sat on the threshold of the courtyard, and the four of Gao Hai almost didn't laugh after just one glance. "I don't think our company's injuries are healed, this is too black, you see my eyes hurt." Liu Shishi was just a child in the end, rubbing his dark circles with his hands and whispering to the fat man who came to watch.
"Ah, you bastards, when Lao Tzu is so good, I'll send you to sleep in the pigsty." Before the fat man's ass was firmly seated, he heard shouts from the yard again. The fat man was startled, and said that he still had something to do, so he hurriedly turned around and left, Liu Shishi and Zhang Xiaobao glanced at each other, and the two also trotted all the way to the backyard with the fat man. After a short time, the three of them hurried to the river with a donkey cart and a few large buckets, and looked like they were going to fetch water.
Curious as if a cat's paws were scratching, seeing that Liu Shishi and the others had already driven the donkey cart away, Gao Hai and the four of them lightly touched the outside of the courtyard gate and secretly looked inside through the crack in the door. The courtyard was already dilapidated, and although the courtyard door was closed, the crack in the door that could already reach through one hand did not prevent Gao Hai and the others from snooping. There was a group of people gathered around the courtyard, Gao Hai had good eyesight, and he recognized at a glance that Tang Cheng was surrounded by the innermost, but Tang Cheng was not lying in his recliner, but was pressed on a clean mat by Hou San and a few of them.
"What are they doing here? Isn't there infighting? One of Gao Hai's classmates muttered in his heart very uncertainly, and as soon as the words fell, he heard angry shouts from the courtyard, and then saw two staggered figures retreating from the crowd. Wu Laosan, where the hell are your hands stretched? Be careful that Lao Tzu chops it down for you. Gao Hai could hear Tang Cheng's shouting, and then looked at the two figures who withdrew from the pile, and they were Wu Laosan and Dice beside Tang Cheng.
Wu Laosan covered his cheeks, rubbed his thighs with dice, and took a breath outside the crowd for a while, and the two squeezed into the circle again. The shouts, laughter, and stumbling figures that flashed out of the circle of people from time to time all made Gao Hai and the four people very puzzled, they couldn't figure out what happened to these soldiers today, until the circle of people gathered in the courtyard completely dispersed, and Gao Hai and the four people vaguely knew something.
The people gathered together gradually dispersed, and Gao Hai and the others saw Tang Cheng again, who was just nestled in the recliner and basking in the sun every day, but at this time, the Tang Cheng they saw no longer had the usual lazy look. Tang Cheng, who was stripped almost naked, was paralyzed on the mat, his body was almost covered with bandages and gauze, and Mu Lianshan, a medical officer known to Gao Hai and others, was squatting beside Tang Cheng, and next to him was Wu Laosan and others with a smile on their faces.
"I think you are our living ancestor, why do you have to toss every time you change the dressing, the stone and Xiaobao have been beaten out by you, if it wasn't for my quick eyes just now, my head may have been opened by you, how much do you hate us? As for such a heavy black hand. Tang Cheng, who was paralyzed on the mat, had already lost his strength, so he could only look at Wu Laosan and the others fiercely with his eyes, everyone watched Mu Lianshan doing the final tidying, and only Tan Fei, who seized the opportunity, still made fun of Tang Cheng on the mat.
"Are you fucking changing my dressing? Wu Laosan, you said yourself, where did your hand go just now? And the dice, you fool, are you changing the gauze for Lao Tzu or tying up pigs? Tang Cheng's weak words were really not lethal, but it made Wu Laosan and the others laugh out loud, and even Mu Lianshan couldn't help laughing. Every time they changed the dressing for Tang Cheng, it was like a battle, Wu Laosan and the others were used to tossing Tang Cheng in this way, and this was also one of the few times they could toss Tang Cheng.
Only Mu Lianshan knew why Tang Cheng was so tossed when he changed the medicine, the medicine they prepared when they left Liuyang was used for those civilian wounded on the road, some for the locals in Longli, and almost all of the rest was used for these deserters of the Dian army in the courtyard. Because of the lack of medicine, Tang Cheng's injuries did not recover as quickly as expected, and Tang Cheng nestled in the sun in the recliner every day, just not wanting to cause the wound to worsen.
"Get out, I've been tossed by you too, why should I go, don't dangle in front of my eyes, look annoying." Putting on his military uniform again and lying back in the recliner, Tang Cheng returned to his former laziness. The people gathered around Tang Cheng had dispersed, and the closed courtyard gate had been opened, and Gao Hai and the four of them had already consciously run in circles in the open space outside the courtyard, but they did not let Wu Laosan and the others who came out of the courtyard find out about the abnormality.
"Is our medicine still enough?" When there was no one around anymore, Tang Cheng called Mu Lianshan over, and the two of them gathered together and whispered. Tang Cheng is not short of food, carts, mules and horses, weapons and ammunition, and the only thing Tang Cheng is worried about is medicine. Although the wounded soldiers of the Dian Army in the courtyard have gradually improved, there are still some seriously injured ones who need medicine, and if the medicine is not enough, these seriously injured guys may become a big trouble on the road.
"Ordinary injuries are no longer a big problem, my herbs are enough, but there is too much shortage of trauma medicine, some of them have ulceration in their wounds, if there is no anti-inflammatory medicine, it is difficult to cure the wound, and my herbs are not very effective." There weren't many medicines left, and Mu Lianshan could casually tell how many medicines were missing, but he also knew that Tang Cheng had done his best, and if he was in other troops, he might have a shortage of gauze bandages at hand.
"It's late today, you take Wu Laosan and glasses into Guiyang City tomorrow, Wu Laosan is a Jianghu person, he is a good hand at dealing with people, he has read books with glasses, he is a reasonable person, you take them to Guiyang City to get some medicine back, by the way, inquire about the war ahead, we can't blindly nest in this poor countryside and don't know anything." Let Mu Lianshan enter Guiyang City, this is a decision made by Tang Cheng after thinking about it for several days, and Mu Lianshan is also the only person around him who understands medicine, and the matter of buying medicine can only be reassured by handing it over to Mu Lianshan.
Although Tang Cheng no longer got involved in war, fighting had already become an instinct in Tang Cheng's body, and Tang Cheng didn't even know what he could do besides fighting. has always said that he would go to Kunming to live a good life, but Tang Cheng knew that he didn't want to live that kind of landlord and old wealth in his heart, just like Xie Bo and Liu Shanyang said, his fate is to fight, and it is his fate to be born on the battlefield and die on the battlefield.
Early the next morning, Mu Lianshan took Wu Laosan and Tan Fei to drive a carriage to Guiyang City, and in order to facilitate communication with the locals, Tang Cheng also asked Mu Lianshan to bring a person from the Dian army. Gujiao Town is not very far from Guiyang City, before lunch, the four of them have rushed to Guiyang City, the lively scene of people coming and going makes the four of them very uncomfortable, don't the people here in Guiyang know that there is a war ahead?
The first priority of the four of them was naturally to buy medicine, probably because of the war, there was a shortage of drugs for treating trauma in the market, and Mu Lianshan and the others went to several places to buy very few medicines at a high price. Tan Fei, who was arranged by Tang Cheng to go to Guiyang City to buy newspapers, gained a lot of money, whether it was recent or before, Tan Fei spent money to buy it, and packed a big bag. The reason why Tang Cheng and others left Liuyang was precisely because Huang Chengzhong reported that the Japanese army was preparing to attack Changsha, and it had been more than two months since they left Liuyang, and Tang Cheng was very worried about the war ahead. The newspaper became his only way of knowing about the war.
The war made the prices in Guiyang inflated, Mu Lianshan and others did not dare to stay in Guiyang longer, but after buying medicine and newspapers, they hurriedly returned to Gujiao Town, although they were also harassed by the Guiyang city defense troops, fortunately, there was Wu Laosan, and it was considered to be safe to return without danger. "Tell the fat man to prepare dry food for the road, you all go to help, everyone starts to tidy up their things, let's leave here tomorrow." Tang Cheng locked himself in the tent all night, only to read the newspaper that Tan Fei brought back, and ordered to prepare to leave early the next morning.
"Changsha has already started fighting, and the momentum of the Japanese army is very strong, but I don't know if the national army can stop it." Tang Cheng handed a few newspapers to Tan Fei and Mu Lianshan, and among the people around him, only they were literate. Wu Laosan and others were shocked when they heard this, when the national army was guarding Wuhan, they said that it was foolproof, but later Wuhan was still lost, even Wuchang City was the same, they now think the same as Tang Cheng, Changsha is the same as Wuhan and finally lost to the little devils.
"Although we are far away from Changsha City now, the speed of the Japanese army is very fast, and you are all following me all the way south, so you should not know the cunning of the Japanese army, so we are leaving. Fortunately, now that there are no civilians who are dragging their feet, I plan that after crossing Guiyang City, we must speed up our march and strive to get to Kunming as soon as possible. ”