"Tang Cheng, you'd better go home with me, right? I have a servant and a cook in my house, and Robert is no longer there, what are you going to do back to church? Hou Xiaotian tried his best to persuade Tang Cheng to follow him home. After the war began in Shanghai, Hou Xiaotian's father had not allowed him to go out again, and if Tang Cheng lived in his own house, wouldn't he have one more person who could play with him. "You better go home with me, Xiao Yalan and the others are still waiting to see you at my house, don't you want to see Xiao Yalan and them?"

Hou Xiaotian knew that Tang Cheng liked Xiao Yalan, Xiao Yalan's name was definitely a panacea, but what he and Tang Gaocheng didn't expect was that even if he moved out of Xiao Yalan, Tang Cheng, who had a resolute face, still asked to go back to the church. Hou Xiaotian and Tang Gaocheng didn't know that Tang Cheng was no longer the Tang Cheng who followed them all day long in the past, and Tang Cheng, who was silent at the moment, had already experienced life and death, and they would never have imagined that Tang Cheng, who seemed to be calm, did not dare to go to Hou Xiaotian's house because he was afraid.

Yes, Tang Cheng was very scared now, he thought that he would become much more mature after experiencing the life and death of the battlefield, but there were too many deaths and disabilities on the way out of the hospital, which made Tang Cheng's 19-year-old heart extremely shocked. The tragedy of the Miscellaneous Company and the total annihilation of the army had made Tang Cheng unable to sleep peacefully in the first few days in the hospital, and the appearance of the wounded soldiers made Tang Cheng's frightened heart feel a little better, but what he saw after leaving the hospital evoked the fear that Tang Cheng suppressed in his heart.

But now, Tang Cheng was very confused, looking at Hou Xiaotian who was chattering in the car, Tang Cheng suddenly found that he and Hou Xiaotian were already a little incompatible. When they frolicked with Hou Xiaotian in the past, it was a friendship between friends, but now I see Hou Xiaotian and they are very naïve, the Japanese have already hit the door, and they are still talking about the trivial matter of calling their classmates to have a drinking party at home.

"I'm tired, I'll go to your house another day to play with you." Blocking the support of Hou Xiaotian and Tang Gaocheng, Tang Cheng entered the church on crutches by himself. The new priest was not bad, he kept the room between Robert and Tang Cheng, briefly talked to the priest, and Tang Cheng, who pretended to be very good, returned to his room. The suit on his body was brought by Emma, Tang Cheng carefully put the suit into the closet, found his usual pajamas to change into, and then got into the quilt and fell asleep.

Tang Cheng has changed, he has become a deep and simple person who does not like to talk, and after several door-to-door invitations to no avail, Hou Xiaotian and they finally stopped coming to the church to find Tang Cheng. "Child, you're not good like this, young people should move around more, you can't always hide in your room like an old man." Lao Huang, the handyman of the church, almost grew up watching Tang Cheng, and seeing Tang Cheng, who likes to play around like an old man, was full of twilight like an old man, Lao Huang couldn't help but sigh secretly, maybe Robert's death stimulated this child too much.

"Uncle Huang, go get busy, I want to stay alone." Tang Cheng slowly closed the door of his room, and after listening to Lao Huang's kick and tap away, Tang Cheng locked the door and lifted the sheets. Underneath the sheets was a pile of pistol parts, the same shell gun that Tang Cheng had brought back from the hospital, and the technique of disassembling the gun had been taught to Tang Cheng by a veteran in the hospital ward. Every part had already been wiped very clean by Tang Cheng, and after the injuries on his body were healed, Tang Cheng, who was nesting in the church, in addition to eating and sleeping, hid in the room and pondered this shell gun.

Tang Cheng still has three bullets, which were kept as a spare bullet when he rescued Emma and them that day, and the careful Emma not only picked up Tang Cheng's barge gun after Tang Cheng fainted, but also saved the contents of the bloody clothes pocket. In addition to the shell gun and three rounds of ammunition, Emma returned to Tang Cheng a lighter, half a pack of cigarettes, and a bloody bayonet, the lighter was taken from the pocket of the Japanese officer who commanded the battle, the cigarette came from the pocket of a corpse of a national soldier, and the bayonet came from Tang Cheng's thigh, which was a souvenir left by the Japanese soldier after he stabbed Tang Cheng.

Skillfully assembling all the parts together, Tang Cheng, who pulled the trigger with an empty gun, looked calm, and his own rotten marksmanship could not do anything with only three bullets. Sitting on the bed for a while, Tang Cheng suddenly remembered something, and leaned down under the bed with the bayonet. One of the wooden floors under Tang Cheng's bed was movable, and with a bayonet, he pried the floor open, and Tang Cheng took out a rectangular flat iron box from the groove.

The money Robert left for himself was all hidden by Tang Cheng in this iron box under the bed, and the money that Tang Cheng snatched from the sushi restaurant that night was also among them, and the sum of all kinds of money could add up to more than 300 US dollars and more than 400 fiat currency, which was enough for Tang Cheng to spend a long time doing nothing. "It's good that I didn't lose you" Tang Cheng held tightly in his hand was a watch, which was Robert's 18th birthday gift to Tang Cheng, and a testimony to Tang Cheng's good memory.

"Kojo, are you there? Someone out there is looking for you? Are you going to come out and meet them? Tang Cheng's door was knocked, it was Lao Huang's voice, Tang Cheng put the bits and pieces on the bed into the iron box, and hid the shell gun and bayonet under the pillow, and then went over and opened his door. The two people standing behind Lao Huang outside the door made Tang Cheng stunned, it was Xiao Yalan and her history teacher, Tang Cheng still clearly remembered that his name was Wang Lantian.

"Classmate Tang, aren't you welcome us to come and see you?" Seeing Tang Cheng standing stunned at the door without saying a word, Xiao Yalan pretended to be displeased and pouted, and Wang Lantian, who was standing beside her, looked at Tang Cheng quietly with flickering eyes. Tang Cheng, who suddenly came to his senses, flashed and invited Xiao Yalan and her teacher into his room, and after beckoning the two to sit down, Tang Cheng also poured the coffee brought by Lao Huang for them.

Tang Cheng's room was cleaned up, but the faint smell of blood in the air still didn't escape Wang Lantian's nose, it seems that he came to the right place today, this Tang Cheng may be the person he is looking for. Receiving a hint from Wang Lantian's eyes, Xiao Yalan directly opened the conversation, "Tang Cheng, Hou Xiaotian went to the hospital to pick you up that day, why didn't you go to his house?" Caused us to wait all morning, don't you want to treat us as friends? ”

"It's not, it's just that I just left the hospital, my body is dirty, and my spirit is very poor, I am afraid that I will frighten the people in his family when I go to Hou Xiaotian like that, so I will go back to the church to recuperate for a while before going to his house." Tang Chao lowered his eyes and didn't dare to raise his head to meet Xiao Yalan's gaze. Regarding Xiao Yalan's visit, Tang Chao had already thought of an excuse in his heart to deal with it, what he just said was carefully scrutinized, and Xiao Yalan would not be suspicious if he thought of it.

"I heard Hou Xiaotian say that the hospital where you live is full of wounded soldiers who have been withdrawn from the front line, you must have been with those soldiers for a long time, I heard Hou Xiaotian come back and say, you saluted those soldiers when you left, is it true?" At this time, Xiao Yalan changed her previous tranquility and was completely a curious baby, and kept asking Tang Cheng questions.

"Well, the hospital received a lot of wounded soldiers, and after I was wounded by a Japanese shell that day, I was sent to that hospital by the Red Cross, and the wounded soldiers in the ward took good care of me, and I learned from them." Tang Cheng was afraid that Xiao Yalan would ask about his injury, so he simply answered the two questions together, and said with a frustrated face at the end, "That's why they still think I'm stupid, saying that I have been learning salute for several days, and I'm about to catch up with the stupid pig in the butcher shop." ”

"The stupid pig in the butcher?" Xiao Yalan and Wang Lantian didn't know what they meant, and they both stared at Tang Cheng with their eyes.

"It's so stupid that you can't do anything, you can only kill and eat meat." Tang Cheng self-deprecatingly revealed the mystery, which caused Xiao Yalan and Wang Lantian to laugh. Xiao Yalan and her teacher wanted to join their organization last time, but Tang Cheng was not interested in these, Robert said that he should be wary of people, and the young Tang Cheng instinctively classified Xiao Yalan and her teacher as people in secret organizations, such as the military commander of the Nationalist Government or the underground party of the Communist Party of China.

When Xiao Yalan and the others were handing out leaflets on the street, Tang Cheng also came into contact with some so-called progressive students, and from their mouths, Tang Cheng knew about the military unification and the underground party of the CCP. Although these are anti-Japanese organizations, Tang Cheng, who is lazy by nature, definitely does not want to join them, and Robert also said that the end of being an agent will not be good, and Tang Cheng's temperament is not suitable for this.

Xiao Yalan and her teacher chatted for a long time in Tang Cheng's room before leaving, and Tang Cheng, who sent them away, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, he was clever and didn't give them a chance to speak out to recruit him, otherwise he really didn't know what to do. "Teacher, are you sure that Tang Cheng is the person we are looking for?" Xiao Yalan, who was sitting in the car, turned around and looked at Tang Cheng standing at the door of the church, with a trace of impatience in his eyes.

"Be patient, Tang Cheng is just a 19-year-old young man, and he can kill 5 Japanese soldiers alone in such a situation, which is not something that ordinary people can do. And he was using a Red9 Mauser pistol at that time, this kind of Mauser pistol that uses a bullet bridge to load from the upper part of the pistol is rare in Shanghai, if Tang Cheng is not a so-called traitor, then where did he come from this pistol? Wang Lantian did not give the answer directly, but induced Xiao Yalan to find the answer by himself.

"Teacher, I know the truth, I will keep an eye on him until I find out." Wang Lantian's puzzle made Xiao Yalan's mouth open, thinking of Tang Cheng's miserable face just now and the flickering eyes when he spoke, Xiao Yalan's heart rose with a sense of war. She planned to fight with this Tang Cheng, so she couldn't believe that she couldn't find the answer she wanted, and see who was more powerful after the worst.