Chapter Fifty-Eight: Shun Donkey
"Company commander, Niu Wazi, they're back." None of the three people in the room spoke, but there was a sudden knock on the door from outside, and the mill whispered a few words outside the door. With Xie Bo's signal, Tang Cheng went over and opened the door, and an anxious Nian Zi was standing outside the door with Niu Wazi, who was covered in blood and drooped his head, and at a glance, he knew that he was injured and his mind was already confused.
"What's the matter? What about the others? "Liu Goat rushed out of the house, and there were 8 veterans of the second company who followed Niu Wazi out of Lu, and there were three lying in the yard, so where did the remaining four go?" What about them? Does it matter? What the hell are you giving me a word? Liu Goat grabbed the placket of the ambulance soldier in the company and asked vigorously, and the poor small ambulance was about to be shaken apart by Liu Goat.
"They eat black, and we have four people who have been detained by them, and they want us to take guns and bullets to change people, and if they can't see anything before dawn, they will kill people." A fairly sober veteran muttered a few words and fainted, and the person next to him in a panic went up to work for a while. Tang Cheng, who had playful eyes, looked at Xie Bo and Liu Goat, in the end they still went to sell guns, no wonder they didn't see Niu Wazi and a few of them after they came back and woke up, it turned out that they went to find the next family, which was to make people put a way to detain people.
"Send someone to find the doctor in the town, carry the brothers back to the house, grind them, bring money and 10 catties of beef to the mayor's house, his family is a land-sitting household, there should be a way to get medicine." The person sent to trade had an accident, but Xie Bo calmed down more and more, preventing Liu Goat from taking people to save people, Xie Bo sent all the people who could still move in the second company to find doctors and medicines. Niu Wazi and they were not shot wounds, at first glance, they were wounds beaten with instruments, and ordinary doctors could treat them, although the wounds looked quite scary, but they were not fatal injuries.
"Don't be in a hurry, wait until one of them wakes up, you are in a rush if you go like this, and none of our detained brothers will survive." Xie Bo reached out and grabbed Liu Goat's wrist and said word by word. "No one dares to hurt my brother Xie Bo can still be comfortable, Niu Wazi they are injured, and I am also uncomfortable, but what we need to consider now is the four brothers who were detained. We're all out of Shanghai, we can't let the brothers die at the hands of a few little thieves, right? ”
If you want to say who Liu Goat can be afraid of in the second company, it is probably the company commander Xie Bo, although Xie Bo's age is much younger than Liu Goat, but Liu Goat is willing to listen to Xie Bo, even if Xie Bo is now missing an arm and an eye, Liu Goat is still convinced by Xie Bo. "So what do you say? You didn't hear what the old stone said just now, those turtle grandsons said that they would kill people if they couldn't see anything tomorrow morning, and the fish and dogs were still in their hands, and I promised his brother to greet the good fish and dogs. Xie Bo grabbed Liu Goat's wrist and didn't let go, the latter had no choice but to dispel the idea of killing him immediately to take revenge.
"Let's go, let's go back." The speed of grinding them was very fast, and it didn't take much effort to bring back the doctor and the medicine to treat the wounds, looking at the chaotic courtyard, Xie Bo beckoned Liu Goat to go back to the house with him, and signaled that Tang Cheng, who wanted to go to see the bustle, also followed. "Remember that skinny guy you caught yesterday morning? It's the guy who found out that he had a short gun on him. Tang Cheng nodded subconsciously, and as soon as Xie Bo said the strange-looking pistol, Tang Cheng remembered who Xie Bo was talking about.
"That person is not a Japanese spy or traitor, they also have a group of people nearby, they are Jianghu people who do arms trading, and they came to Qiandeng Town to defeat the weapons and ammunition in the hands of the soldiers." As soon as Xie Bo said this, Tang Cheng remembered the situation when Liu Goat sent the thin man away yesterday, and after a long time, Xie Bo and Liu Goat had already made up their minds to sell guns yesterday.
"The price they gave is good, our second company will leave Qiandeng Town sooner or later, those regiments are locals, they may not be willing to follow us, and besides, we just take the old guns that have been replaced and sell them, and the new guns you find in the basement of the broken building can't be sold." Xie Bo, who had the heart to explain the matter to Tang Cheng clearly, slowed down his speech. The army's reselling of weapons and ammunition has long been a secret matter, and many troops, including the Central Tax Police Corps, are also reselling weapons and ammunition in private, and Xie Boben did not feel that there was anything wrong with what he had done.
Xie Bo and Liu Goat are both officers, Tang Cheng is just a senior soldier who was left behind, in front of these two people, Tang Cheng has no opportunity and ability to interject, so he can only say to Xie Bo and Liu Goat, he listens. Xie Bo chattered for a while, Tang Cheng understood the whole thing, and after the last time, Xie Bo and Liu Goat discussed and discussed, and finally decided that Liu Goat took the mill and a few of them to drive the cart brought back by Tang Cheng to ask for someone, if the other party didn't know how to lift, then they had to fight.
"Company commander, why don't we drive there, I see that there are still hundreds of national troops in the town, by the way, pull some people to go, those people can't bear it, why let our people take risks?" Although the people brought by Liu Goat were all veterans of the Second Company, there were only six or seven people, and there were more than a dozen on the other side, Tang Cheng was naturally afraid that Liu Goat would suffer a loss.
"It's fast, but it's going to be night, the trucks are too moving, and the lights are exposed. Those guys in the town are not from the same army, and it is a secret thing for us to sell guns, and it is not good for us to have more people who know the Tao, if we are stabbed to the top, we will not even be able to run away from any of these people. After listening to Xie Bo's explanation, Tang Cheng realized what the embarrassed expressions on Xie Bo and Liu Goat's faces just now were for.
Now that Tang Cheng has returned, Xie Bo does not plan to let him be idle, Liu Goat will lead people away, Niu Wazi and their injured people also need to be taken care of, and the task of guarding Watanabe and Ma Fatzi will be carried out by Tang Cheng. Ignoring the pleas of the fat man, Tang Cheng changed the rope that tied them again, and specially fixed Watanabe and the five horses of the fat man in a corner of the verandah in the courtyard, if these two people want to escape, I am afraid that they will not be able to escape without help.
"You two stay here well, dare to play tricks, the gun in the master's hand is not an ornament." They were each given some water to drink, and Tang Cheng gagged them with rags. I don't know if Lu Dao is his own delusion, Tang Cheng feels that Qiandeng Town is not very safe, although there are a lot of soldiers in the town, but Tang Cheng knows which guys in Lu Dao are unreliable. After cleaning up his own affairs, the idle cook carried half a bottle of rice wine and shook it over, there was a moon tonight, and the courtyard was also illuminated very clearly.
"Why did you come back after a run around the kid? I thought you kid should have gone to Suzhou early. Cocking his neck and pouring a sip of wine, the cook took the cigarette handed by Tang Cheng and said vaguely in his mouth. You kid is a cultural person, different from us old men, why do you want to come back since you have already left? I thought that the cook was also here to persuade him to stay in the second company, but he didn't expect that the cook was in favor of leaving him, Tang Cheng couldn't help but be surprised.
"Look at what Lao Tzu does, as if you don't know Lao Tzu." Tang Cheng's curious eyes made the cook tilt his head as if he couldn't stand it, the cook was not a troublesome person like the mill, if it weren't for Xie Bo forcing him to persuade Tang Cheng, the cook who had eaten and drunk would have gone to bed. Persuading people is not a cook's master, the words he just said were taught to him by Xie Bo early on, Tang Cheng is a soft-faced and hard-hearted guy, he is an orphan, he has been mixed with people of three religions and nine streams since he was a child, it is useless to talk to Tang Cheng about the big reason, and to deal with a smart little guy like Tang Cheng, he can only treat a donkey like that.
Tang Cheng is only 19 years old this year, and he has received a half-middle-Chinese education since he was a child with an American priest, and a child of this age is the age when he doesn't know much about the world's troubles. It is precisely because Tang Cheng has received a Western-style education that Tang Cheng's vision is wider than that of ordinary peers, and his way of looking at problems and attitudes are also different, which is what Xie Bo values Tang Cheng. Xie Bo himself came from the age of 19, and he was fooled into taking the Huangpu exam, but he was treated the same as Tang Cheng now, and the officer who led him to apply for the Huangpu exam also did the opposite and aroused his competitive spirit, otherwise he would have married a wife and had children and stayed in Shanghai to be a mediocre ordinary person.
Xie Bo felt that Tang Cheng's personality was very similar to his own back then, and he was a person who refused to admit defeat in his bones, so he sent the most unlikely cook to approach Tang Cheng, and resigned according to his own set of arguments to try to persuade Tang Cheng to stay. "Tang Cheng, don't blame me, I'm not for myself, it's for the country, if there is one more anti-Japanese person, the Japanese will be driven out of our country earlier, if you want to blame this era." Looking at Tang Cheng chatting with the cook through the window, Xie Bo's heart was full of bitterness, war is cruel and will kill people, Xie Bo didn't know whether it was right or wrong for him to lead Tang Cheng on this road.
Tang Cheng, who had already been aroused by the cook's interest, didn't know these things, just like Xie Bo thought, Tang Cheng was a donkey, but you were driving it forward, he wanted to retreat, and when you asked it to retreat, it wanted to rush forward. Tang Cheng was like this at this time, the cook persuaded him to leave at night, and Tang Cheng, who was no longer afraid of war, had the intention of staying. Not only to repay Xie Bo's teachings, but the important thing is that Tang Cheng is alone, and he really doesn't know where he can go.