Chapter 1: Farewell

As the first rays of sunlight jumped out of the horizon, the city of Nanjing, which had been silent all night, began the hustle and bustle of a new day again, and an early bird spread its wings and quickly swept over the city wall, and after circling in the city, it landed in the garden of a Western-style house. The bungalow is a three-story white building, and in a room at the corner of the third floor of this building, Jiujin wrapped in a quilt is lying on the cushion on the floor and falling asleep.

That day, Liu Goat was unintentionally met in Chunhua Town, Liu Goat had already brought Tang Cheng and Jiujin back to the station of the Second Company, but the Second Company himself lived in the barracks of the Teaching Corps, except for the food and self-care, all the other supplies of the Second Company came from the Teaching Corps, so Liu Goat did not have any medicine to treat Tang Cheng in his hands. After thinking about it, Liu Shanyang drove to the inn in Chunhua Town again, found the note that he had discarded in the corner of the room, and sent Tang Cheng and Jiujin over according to the address on the note.

The daughter-in-law of the old man surnamed Wu knew that her family owed Tang Cheng a favor, so when Liu Goat came to the door to send people away, the family didn't say anything, and the daughter-in-law of the old man surnamed Wu was a Western doctor herself, and there was no shortage of medicine in the German consulate. "Nine pounds, it's time to get up." Tang Cheng planned to wake up Jiujin, but the latter slept too dead, and Tang Cheng couldn't wake up no matter how he screamed, so he had to give up this idea.

On the shelf in the corner of the room was a small brown suitcase and a coarse cloth bag, Tang Cheng recognized that the small suitcase belonged to the old man surnamed Wu, who used this box to carry several rare books that he had collected for many years when he fled Shanghai. After moving his arm for a while, Tang Cheng, who felt that he had some strength in his body, put the suitcase and the burden on the big bed where he slept, and opened the suitcase, which contained Tang Cheng's two pistols and a few empty spare magazines, as well as some fragments such as fiat currency and the ocean.

Still as usual, Tang Cheng sat cross-legged on the big bed, and began to wipe the gun on the spread coarse cloth, Tang Cheng, who was in troubled times, knew what could protect himself, especially Robert and Xie Bo said that the gun is the second life of a soldier. Skillfully disassembling the two pistols into parts, and wiping the parts one by one with a clean coarse cloth, Tang Cheng even wiped down the spare magazines in the box. It is not so much that Tang Cheng fled from Shanghai to Nanjing, but that he killed Japanese soldiers all the way to Nanjing, except for the four bullets left in the M1911 magazine, Tang Cheng only had those three grenades left.

Slowly assembling the pistol and smelling the smell of gun oil, Tang Cheng seemed to be back to the time when he was fighting to the death against the Japanese soldiers. After wiping his two pistols, seeing that Jiujin hadn't woken up yet, Tang Cheng reached out and opened the coarse cloth bag again. The contents of the baggage were what Tang Cheng found from the corpses after shooting those Japanese soldiers in disguise on the side of the road, and the bayonets were thrown away by Tang Cheng at that time, and the baggage contained two shell guns, two Japanese-style southern pistols and a few melon grenades, of course, bullets were indispensable.

Xie Bo talked to Tang Cheng about the weapons and equipment of the Japanese army, although the southern pistol commonly equipped by the Japanese army was very similar in appearance to the Luger pistol equipped by the German army, but the performance was not as good as the imitation barge gun produced by the Shanxi Arsenal. Xu had been with Liu Goat for a long time, or because Tang Cheng had been dealing with people of the three religions and nine streams since he was a child, and when these weapons were found on the corpses of Japanese soldiers, Tang Cheng's first reaction was actually to consider how much money these pistols could be exchanged for on the black market.

Exiting the magazine, pulling the rear bolt to check whether there were any pre-loaded bullets in the chamber, Tang Cheng, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, played with the southern pistol in his hand. All 6 magazines were filled with bullets, and Tang Cheng withdrew all the bullets and counted them, a total of 48 bullets. Fiddling with the bullets for a while, Tang Cheng gradually lost interest, reached out and took the two shell guns and began to withdraw the magazine, the magazine loaded with 10 rounds was a large end than Tang Cheng's 20-round magazine, fortunately, the bullet they used was a caliber, Tang Cheng planned to buy the gun and keep the bullets for his own use.

"Don Jr., are you awake? It's time for breakfast. There was a rhythmic knock on the door, followed by the angry voice of the old man surnamed Wu. When he came to Nanjing, the old man seemed to have returned to the leisurely life he had in Shanghai, walking around his home every morning, and then waking up the family one by one with a steaming morning to get up for breakfast. Tang Cheng agreed in a muffled voice, and then poured the remaining half cup of herbal tea he drank last night on Jiujin's face, which woke up Jiujin who couldn't wake up from a sound sleep.

"Old man, my wound is almost healed, and it has bothered you for a few days, Jiujin and I are going to leave Nanjing for Sichuan today, I will tell you in advance, and we will go to pack up our things in a while." Swallowing the fritters in his mouth, Tang Cheng said the idea of wanting to leave on the dining table, but he didn't care where he followed Tang Cheng to the nine catties he was chewing, as long as Tang Cheng still helped him kill the Japanese soldiers to avenge him.

"Your injuries are not healed yet, let's stay a few more days, what if I get sick again on the way?" Of course, the old man didn't want Tang Cheng and Jiujin to leave, and besides, the national army officer who sent Tang Cheng that day said that he was going to pick up Tang Cheng, and Tang Cheng just left, what if the national army officer came to ask for someone. The old man was unwilling, and the old woman naturally tried her best to keep Tang Cheng and Jiujin for a few more days, and the little girl who was chewing fritters in her mouth was about to cry immediately.

Tang Cheng hadn't spoken yet, the little girl's mother agreed with Tang Cheng's plan, "Xiao Tang, although the road is not easy to walk now, but Chongqing should be safer than the north, the Germans in our embassy have said that we staff will also move to the embassy with their families in the near future, and the outside has been saying that Shanghai is defeated, and the Japanese will chase the retreating troops of the national army to fight Nanjing, do you have any inside information?" ”

"Sister Mei, I'm just a little child, where did I get any inside information, when my adoptive father died in Shanghai, he told me to go to Chongqing and give something to his friend." Tang Cheng smiled and answered the little girl's mother's question. After waking up in the bungalow, Tang Cheng thought about taking his passport to the U.S. Embassy for help, but unfortunately he has now been separated from Mike, the owner of the Rose Bar, and Tang Cheng, who has two gold bars left, doesn't know what he can do when he goes to the United States.

It was not easy to coax the little girl to stop crying, and the old woman began to wipe her tears again, although she knew that Tang Cheng had killed Japanese soldiers, and later she also knew that the guys dressed as passers-by were Japanese soldiers, but it was another thing to see Tang Cheng kill people with her own eyes. Especially Tang Cheng looked like he was only a teenager, such an older child dared to kill several people with a gun, in the eyes of the old woman, it was unbelievable, Tang Cheng's murderous appearance at that time really scared the old woman.

But later, the incident of refugees snatching food and property made the old woman understand the sinister hearts of the people, and also understood the hardships of Tang Cheng escorting them all the way. The old woman's two sons were not around, after Tang Cheng was sent by Liu Goat, out of guilt and love for Tang Cheng, the old woman was taking care of Tang Cheng like her own children, which suddenly said that she was leaving, and the old man couldn't accept it for a while.

"Okay, don't cry and wipe your tears, Xiao Tang and Jiujin are just going to Sichuan, not out of China, sooner or later there will still be a chance to meet, I don't believe that the Japanese were killed, and Xiao Tang will not come back to see us." The old man surnamed Wu can see it, and in the past few days of contact with Tang Cheng, he has already known that the young Tang Cheng is actually an assertive person, so the old man surnamed Wu no longer prevents Tang Cheng from leaving, but he still told his daughter-in-law to prepare some medicine for Tang Cheng to treat trauma and bring it with him.

"Let's give you these two pistols as a souvenir, although I found them from those Japanese soldiers, but the recoil of this Japanese pistol is not very large, and it is not bad for self-defense." Let Jiujin take the little girl to the garden, Tang Cheng took out the two southern pistols and four spare magazines that were ready for Lu and handed them to the old man surnamed Wu, "Just like you just said, now that the army is in chaos, it's good to have a self-defense thing by your side, so be prepared." ”

Tang Cheng asked Jiujin to choose his own weapons, and Jiujin didn't like the weird-looking things like the southern pistol, but he just took away the two shell guns that Tang Cheng was going to discard, so Tang Cheng planned to leave these two pistols for the old man's family surnamed Wu for self-defense. "Thank you for taking care of us these days, then we'll go, take care." Tang Cheng, who was dressed in a suit, said goodbye with nine catties wearing a short shirt, and the family of the old man surnamed Wu kept sending Tang Cheng and them out of the street before stopping in tears.

"You kid is trying to slip away, but fortunately Lao Tzu came in time." Tang Cheng and Jiujin had just walked out a short distance when they were stopped by the sudden appearance of Liu Goat and Grinder. Ignoring Tang Cheng's consternation, he hugged Tang Cheng's shoulders hard, Liu Goat smiled like a fox who had just stolen a chicken to eat, "Lao Tzu can pinch and calculate, so I know that your kid will sneak away, but okay you intercepted it." ”

Jiujin had already recognized that Liu Goat was the officer who picked them up from Chunhua Town that day, and later it was this officer who sent himself and the unconscious Tang Cheng to the house of the old man surnamed Wu. "You kid is not righteous, you already know that the second company of Lu Dao came to Nanjing, and you don't want to meet the brothers of the second company for what you do, and you have to thank Company Commander Xie for thinking about you again and again." Liu Goat is like a mother-in-law with a broken mouth, she talks all the way she goes, so that Tang Cheng doesn't even have a chance to speak.