Chapter 12: Into the City
"Where did you get all that medicine?" Seeing that the honest Jiujin is actually a person who understands everything, he is not a guy who is easy to coax like Liu Shishi, after leaving the city, he and Jiujin joined together, Jiujin, who had already been examined by the doctor, pulled Tang Cheng aside and asked about the batch of medicines that Heizi brought back.
Jiujin is his own person, Tang Cheng can't hide it from him like a black man, so he replied with a smile, "Do you remember the man and woman we rescued from the Japanese army, the man's name is Song Bo, he said that he is a member of the CCP, and our captured Japanese-style weapons were sold to him." Song Bo talked to me casually, he said that his code name was Lady, and the place where he contacted him was the word Jimin. When I entered the city just now, I saw a Jimin drugstore, but I didn't expect that this Jimin drugstore really had something to do with Song Bo, and I fraudulently got those medicines back in the name of Song Bo. ”
When he mentioned that he had bought medicine in the pharmacy just now, Tang Cheng had a smile on his face, but his eyes widened in disbelief when he heard this explanation. Just based on the words of others, Tang Cheng dared to buy drugs in the name of the other party, which is inevitably too bold. "What are you afraid of, I'm wearing a military uniform and carrying a pistol and a sunspot for the two of them, even if I find the wrong place, the account office in the pharmacy won't dare to say anything at all." Tang Cheng was very unimpressed with Jiujin's worries and reactions, and after being with Liu Goat for a long time, Tang Cheng, who originally abided by the rules, also began to be unruly.
"Keep a closer eye on those medicines, these things will be worth a lot of money to Wuhan, and the money in exchange will be the cost of our settlement in Sichuan." After the doctor invited by Kurozi examined Zizi's wound, Tang Cheng sat next to Jiujin and muttered quietly. When Tang Cheng was in Mengcheng, he inquired with Tian Kui about the prices of some commonly used medicines, and if he brought them to Wuhan, the money he would get back would be at least twice as much as he paid to the accountant.
"There is also the ocean that the stone carries, find a time to exchange it for gold bars, and use up those fiat currencies first after entering the city, paper money is becoming less and less valuable." Tang Cheng, who was holding a cigarette in his mouth, chatted with Jiujin without a word, completely forgetting that Niu Laogui was still waiting to take them into the city. Tang Cheng suddenly remembered Lao Xu, if Lao Xu was still alive and here, he didn't have to worry about these things at all, Lao Xu, who was like a miser, would be all arranged.
"Let's go, let's go into the city, I've already told the commander of the garrison regiment here Huang, let's stay here for the time being to recuperate, and by the way, help them train the soldiers, and when everyone's injuries are almost healed, let's go on the road again." Tang Cheng threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, got up and walked to the truck under the shade of the tree, and learned that Jiujin, who was going to stay in the county seat temporarily, hurriedly chased after him to ask for an explanation. He wanted to ask Tang Cheng what kind of wind was smoking, and why he suddenly had to stay in this small county town to recuperate.
"Why do you suddenly want to stay here to recuperate?" Opened the door of the cab and sat in, and looked at Tang Cheng who started the truck inquiringly. Since Liu Goat died in Mengcheng, Tang Cheng has spoken a little more, but the number of times he has decided to suddenly change his plan has also begun to increase, Jiu Jin doesn't know if this situation is good or bad, he wants to hear the answer from Tang Cheng himself.
"Why did you go into town?" Tang Cheng, who started the truck, asked rhetorically, "There is not much oil left in our car, and there is not much oil left in the oil drum in the carriage, which is not enough for us to rush to Wuhan, so I want to go into the city and use this broken car to change a few horses for us to come back, the horses only eat grass and do not need to burn oil, and it is more than enough for us to ride horses to Sichuan." "Tang Cheng and they all learned to ride horses when they were in Mengcheng, and the guys who were born in bandits are naturally no strangers to horseback riding, compared to stopping on the road without oil, it is indeed a good choice to change horses.
Jiujin knew that Tang Cheng was telling the truth, so he couldn't object to Tang Cheng's decision to spend money to buy horses and use trucks to exchange horses, Jiujin of course agreed to use this truck to exchange horses for horses, because then he could save money. Jiujin, who was sitting in the cab, looked at the low city wall that was getting closer and closer, and couldn't help but turn his head and ask Tang Cheng, "It's not as good as Mengcheng here, do you think this truck can be sold?" Or is someone willing to exchange horses with us? ”
Tang Cheng, who slowed down the car, glanced at Jiujin, and then grinned, "It's not to sell the car, but to exchange it for a horse and come back, it's an exchange, and I've already found someone who is willing to exchange horses with us." The truck slowly stopped at the city gate, and Niu Laogui, who was sitting in the carriage, hurriedly jumped down to greet the soldiers of the garrison regiment outside the city gate and moved away from the horse. Did you see that? Those guys who stood on the top of the city and smoked, at first glance, were the guys who had taken guns but had not really fought, this is the veteran that their regiment commander said, I am afraid that they can't even do a stone. ”
Jiujin in the cab looked at the city head along Tang Cheng's line of sight, and indeed saw a few guys who were laughing together and smoking, Jiujin didn't know how Tang Cheng made those judgments just now, but in his opinion, these guys who gathered together to smoke with their feet on the battlements were indeed not good. "Papapapapapa" Tang Cheng gestured with his hand and gestured to the guys at the head of the city, "Give me a gun, and I can kill them all by myself." ”
Jiu Jin, who was sitting next to him, looked up at the few guys smoking in the city, then turned his head to look at Tang Cheng, who had a serious expression, shook his head helplessly, and then relaxed his body and nestled in his seat and stopped talking. "Let's find a place to eat first when I enter the city, my stomach hurts with hunger and I want to eat meat." I didn't want to take care of Tang Cheng's nine catties anymore and was amused by his words, the food that Heizi brought back just now was some steamed bread or something, Tang Cheng talked about eating meat, and Jiujin was also a little greedy.
"Won't you ask me who I'm going to take this car and change horses with?" The truck slowly drove into the city gate, and Tang Cheng began to tease the nine catties who were unwilling to take care of himself. He knew that Jiujin would definitely come to ask him, looking at Jiujin, it seemed that he was not interested in anything other than killing the Japanese army to avenge the villagers in his village, in fact, his curiosity was heavier than Liu Shishi, Tang Cheng didn't believe that Jiujin could bear to ignore himself.
Sure enough, it was less than ten seconds before Tang Cheng said this, and the nine catties in my son's seat had already turned his head to look at it, although he didn't ask directly, Tang Cheng knew that the nine catties were waiting for his answer. "The person I'm looking for is the head of the garrison here, you don't know, this head looks like an official he bought with money. This old boy is a rich man in the countryside at all, and he doesn't look like a man who can lead troops to fight, such a person should be very afraid of death, so let's give him a truck, which can carry more things than a horse-drawn cart and is faster. ”
Jiujin's eyes now looking at Tang Cheng have become like he is looking at a madman, who used coaxing to get some medicines at a low price in the name of others, and then fooled the head of the local garrison regiment to stay here temporarily to recuperate, and these are all about it. Now he actually said that he wanted to use this truck that was about to run out of gas to exchange horses from the hands of the head of the garrison regiment, Jiujin really didn't know how bold Tang Cheng was, or how big Tang Cheng's ability to fool people was.
"I said don't look at me like that, okay, I said I can do it, you just wait for the time to ride out of here, and I'll do the rest." Tang Cheng laughed and suddenly stepped on the brakes, and the truck with black smoke from the tail stopped steadily at the door of a small restaurant. "Get out of the car, eat, I'm hungry." Tang Chengdi pushed open the door of the cab and jumped out of the truck, then stretched out his hand and slapped the compartment board, beckoning Liu Shishi and Heizi, who were sitting in the carriage, to get out of the car and eat.
"You eat first, I'll look at the things in the car, and I'll just bring some out later." Knowing that those medicines were not easy to come by, Jiujin carried his own barge gun ancestor in the carriage to take care of those boxes, and Tang Cheng, who had no choice but to take Heizi and Liu Shishi into the house to eat hot meals, and by the way, he also brought Niu Laogui. The restaurant Tang Cheng was looking for was not too big, and the business in the store didn't look too good, only a few guests were sitting sparsely eating, and only a female shopkeeper and two young men were busy back and forth.
According to his own habits, Kuroko, who was the first to enter the restaurant, chose a table diagonally facing the door of the restaurant, so that it was not too conspicuous, and the people who walked in from the outside could see it at a glance, and there was a window behind him, and he could jump on the table and pass through the window. "Divide into two tables, sit casually, and remember to eat your stomach." Tang Cheng didn't have the exquisiteness and prudence of Kuroko, he just sat down at the table next to Kuroko, Heizi and his three bandits sat at a table, and Tang Cheng took Liu Shishi and Niu Laogui to sit at a table.
When the people eating in the restaurant saw a group of soldiers coming in, they immediately put down their chopsticks and got up to leave, and even the face of the female shopkeeper of the restaurant began to look bad. "Sit down and continue eating, I'll see which of you dares to leave." Tang Cheng, who has always been unassuming, took out a shell gun and slapped it on the table, facing the muzzle of the black hole and Tang Cheng's cold eyes, the diners who got up and were about to leave had to sit down again.
"That's right, you're here to eat, we're here to eat, you're going to leave when we think about it, and those who don't know think you're being bullied by us." Tang Cheng didn't take back the shell gun on the table, but took a few pieces of ocean from Liu Shishi's hand and threw them on the table, "Shopkeeper, we are really here to eat, pick up meat, I don't have enough money here." When the female shopkeeper who was still looking at her face saw the ocean that Tang Cheng threw on the table, she immediately came to her senses, and hurriedly urged the young man to inform the master who was cooking behind her to hurry up and serve the food.