Chapter IV: Containment Stations
After a dreamless night, Tang Cheng slept well, and woke up after being pushed, Tang Cheng sat up violently like a zombie, and screamed out in fright from Zhang Xiaobao, who pushed him to get up. In the laughter of the others, Zhang Xiaobao, who was a little annoyed and angry, glared at Tang Cheng angrily, and the latter pretended not to know anything and looked stupidly at Zhang Xiaobao, who was with his big eyes and small eyes, and Liu Shishi, who caused them to laugh for a while.
Tang Cheng's left hand was pinched by Zhang Xiaobao, but Hou San, Liu Shishi and the dice just laughed and didn't want to stop it. Zhang Xiaobao didn't let go even when he shook and pinched, Tang Cheng had to pretend that the injury had recurred and fell backwards, Zhang Xiaobao was startled, and let go of himself. When Tang Cheng couldn't help but smile and reached out to touch Zhang Xiaobao's head, Zhou He realized that he had been deceived by Tang Cheng again. "If I knew you were like this, I shouldn't have told you to get up to eat, and you would have starved to death." Zhang Xiaobao got up and walked away angrily, Tang Cheng touched his nose and got up with the help of Liu Shishi.
"Don't sue me, this is the military uniform you bought with money, how can I look at it as good as the military uniforms of those regiments in Longgang Town." When gathering together to drink porridge, Tang Cheng finally noticed the half-used military uniforms worn by Liu Shishi and the others, and they looked like they had picked up the goods, especially the one on Zhang Xiaobao's body, which made Zhang Xiaobao, who was already small, look even smaller.
"That's not bad, look at the wounded soldiers in the station, who is dressed like us." Liu Shishi was very dissatisfied with Tang Cheng's demeanor and expression when he spoke, and secretly rolled his eyes to Tang Cheng. "I would like to find a few tailors to make a few pieces like we did in Longgang Town, but there is no suitable fabric here, the 58th Army is the Dian Army, not an authentic national army, it is good to be able to get this kind of goods, when we leave Sandu Town, the military uniforms on everyone's bodies have long been unable to see people."
Seeing that Tang Cheng just nodded and didn't dwell on the matter of military uniforms, Liu Shishi held the bowl with one hand, and reached into his pocket with the other hand and took out a handful of small scissors and a few pieces of tinplate canned scalp that had been cut in pieces. Successfully attracting Tang Cheng's attention, Liu Shishi explained with some smugness, "When I snatched you back from the river, the Wen Jiàn bag on your body was gone, and your original national army rank was also missing in that bag." The rank of the 58th Army is different from ours, and I am going to cut a few of the titles of our 88th Division for you to wear. ”
Liu Shishi's actions made Tang Cheng laugh, almost choked on the rice porridge in his mouth, and was pinched by the angry Liu Shishi's neck, Tang Cheng promised that he would not laugh at Liu Shishi's childish behavior. It's just a very ordinary rice porridge, but they in Tang Cheng are very lively, and when everyone puts down their jobs and goes to do their own things, it is already half an hour later.
Tang Cheng, who was rubbing his eyes, walked out of the warehouse with Zhang Xiaobao's support, and the other wounded soldiers in the military station who could move on their own like Tang Cheng had also gotten up to wash themselves outside. As Liu Shishi said, the rest of the people in this military station were all in rags, and some of the wounded soldiers were even shirtless in military trousers. Tang Cheng looked down at the brand-new military shoes on his feet, he had just seen two barefoot guys, compared to them, he was so happy.
Subconsciously turned around and looked into the warehouse where he had slept all night, the warehouse was almost empty, and Tang Cheng's own things were placed on the beds made of broken bricks and wooden planks. Each of them had two clean military uniforms, a new pair of leggings, a backpack like the Japanese army, a water bottle and bayonets, and most importantly, each of them had their own weapons and ammunition. The sunlight poured in through the open warehouse door, and the things on the humble bed looked warm, but that warmth made Tang Cheng feel sad.
Liu Shishi and the others were already familiar faces in the military station, but Tang Cheng, who was standing at the door of the warehouse at this time, was a fresh face that they had never seen before, and the wounded soldiers who gathered in the courtyard to wash looked at Tang Cheng who was supported by Zhang Xiaobao strangely. I've always heard that Zhang Xiaobao and they have a seriously injured chief, could it be that this little white face with a pale face and a weak body can't help it? The wounded soldiers looked at Tang Cheng, but they didn't know that Tang Cheng was also looking at them, and seeing these wounded soldiers who were washing, Tang Cheng seemed to have returned to the big courtyard in Qiandeng Town.
The water level here in the south is very high, and water can be dug out by digging a few meters down, and there is a well in the courtyard of the shelter station, and the wounded soldiers Tang Cheng saw were washing around the well platform. A short guy filled his head with soap but couldn't find the scoop, he fumbled with his eyes closed, but several people around him kept moving the scoop and put it out of his reach. What's more, he grabbed a guy with a smile on his face, tied his trouser leg and poured water into it, and then watched him leave with difficulty in a pair of bloomers.
This qiē is too familiar to Tang Cheng, after they left Shanghai with Liu Shanyang, in the big courtyard of Qiandeng Town, he and the veterans of the Second Company have been fighting like this now, but the unlucky guy in bloomers at that time was himself. Two guys with cloth towels around their necks wiped Tang Cheng and Zhang Xiaobao and walked by, but Tang Cheng grabbed Zhang Xiaobao who was about to move forward, and then pouted at Zhang Xiaobao, who didn't know it, and at the feet of the two, two very small pieces of soap appeared in Zhang Xiaobao's sight.
Zhang Xiaobao glared fiercely at the wounded soldiers who were peeking at this side, and kicked the two small pieces of soap out of the distance, seeing that Tang Cheng could not slip and slip as expected, the wounded soldiers were very sorry. Zhang Xiaobao wanted to have a seizure, but was stopped by Tang Cheng, it has always been like this in the military camp, and the newcomers will suffer some losses, not to mention that these people are not from the Yunnan army. Ignoring the cries of the wounded soldiers, Tang Cheng walked around the shelter all morning, accompanied by Zhang Xiaobao, and taking a look was not only good for Tang Cheng's injuries, but also allowed Tang Cheng to better understand the shelter.
"It must be Zhang Bald's goods, I'll go to them to settle accounts in a while, the master's cigarettes are not smoked for nothing, dare to trouble us, he Zhang Bald has grown fat." At lunchtime, Zhang Xiaobao, who had always been angry, still told Liu Shishi about the morning, and Liu Shishi immediately wanted to go to find trouble with those wounded soldiers, but was persuaded by Tan Fei to go after lunch.
"I'm going down to go out, and any of you will go with me." Mu Lianshan, the only one who ate slowly, put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand, and Liu Shishi and Tan Fei, who were still arguing just now to find those wounded soldiers, immediately raised their arms and said that they were going to go out with Mu Lianshan. Mu Lianshan not only treated the wounded soldiers in the shelter, but also gave medical treatment to the local rich people in Liuyang, and the rich people generally gave a lot of medical fees, and the rich people had delicious food at home.
"Forget it, I'm still not going, stone, don't go either. I'm going down to find Zhou Mazi, I heard that this guy still has some Western medicine in his hand, I'll try to see if I can use that Japanese pistol to exchange some medicine from Zhou Mazi's hand, you will bargain, you go to Zhao Zhou Mazi with me. "As long as there is a place where the defeated soldiers gather, there will definitely be a black market, and it is the same here in Liuyang, where the defeated soldiers will use their weapons and ammunition to go to the black market to exchange food for medicine. Although Tang Cheng said that they had not yet fallen to that step, they could exchange things that they could not use for something useful to come back, but Tang Cheng was happy to do so.
After getting along for a long time, everyone has a certain tacit understanding with each other, and a few people decided what to do in the afternoon in a few words. Hou San, Lin Ying, and Ma Fatzi followed Mu Lianshan to the clinic in the afternoon, Tan Fei, Wu Laosan, and Liu Shishi went to the black market to get medicine, and the rest of the people stayed in the shelter, and only the dice were allowed to go out alone. "The dice have made a new slingshot, and there is a place outside the shelter where there are a lot of birds, let him go and fight for a while, maybe we will have meat to eat tonight." The reason why the dice were allowed to go out alone was actually the slingshot, if it had been placed in the past, Tang Cheng would have rewarded Liu Shi with a burst of chestnuts.
I don't know what Liu Shishi and Tan Fei said to those wounded soldiers before leaving, when Tang Cheng saw those wounded soldiers again in the afternoon, the most vicious person among the wounded soldiers would pretend to be very busy and hide far away when he saw Tang Cheng. "If I knew it would be like this, I wouldn't have to prepare this little stick, so I found such a straight stick in vain." It was not only Tang Cheng himself who was disappointed, but also Zhang Xiaobao, who had been with Tang Cheng, and I didn't know what Liu Shishi and the others had taught Zhang Xiaobao, such a young child learned to fight with sticks.
After walking around the containment station, Tang Cheng became familiar with the place where he had been staying for a month. Saying that this is the office of the 58th Army can be regarded as lifting here, Liu Shishi is right, this is just a shelter for wounded soldiers, not only because there is a sign with the word "shelter" at the gate of the courtyard, but also because it is very bad, it is really bad.
Just in time for the two soccer field-sized containment stations, there were only two rows of dilapidated houses and the large warehouse where they lived in Tang City, with a 2-meter-high courtyard wall separating the people in the courtyard from the outside world. A large part of the courtyard was open with weeds, and the wounded that Tang Cheng had seen in the morning were lying in the open like trash fish on the beach, basking in the sun, and they would rather lie down and bask in the sun and talk than wash their stained military uniforms. Compared with these wounded soldiers, Tang Cheng, who was cleanly dressed and fired alone, was obviously an outlier, and it was no wonder that there were wounded soldiers who came to Tang Cheng in the morning.