War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1823 Can Save More People

"crunch"

In the pouring rain, the car driven by Zhang Taichuan stopped in front of the clinic that belonged to Hirano Aoi.

"You go and report the news"

Zhang Taichuan said to Wei Ran, "Tell Qiao An to send someone to drive the car to the coffin shop immediately and leave the city immediately. If Captain Yan blocks the way, kill him and put him in the coffin for burial."

"it is good"

Wei Ran glanced at Hirano Aoi who was sitting behind him, raised his hand and pushed open the passenger door, then calmly opened the umbrella and took the opportunity to observe the surroundings.

Fortunately, thanks to the cover of the heavy rain, he couldn't even see the four words "Lihua Opera House" on the lintel of the theater opposite. Even if there were people watching nearby, they would not be able to see anything.

He first let Hirano Aoi carry the medicine box and hide under his umbrella into the clinic. Wei Ran immediately went around to the other side, helped Zhang Zhengqi down and sent him into the clinic. Then he walked towards the theater across the road alone with the umbrella.

At this time, there were still musical instruments, singing and applause in the theater, but the main door was closed, leaving only a side door with a bamboo curtain hanging on it.

Before entering the room, Wei Ran checked carefully until he was sure that there was no blood on his body. Then he lifted the edge of the bamboo curtain and went in. He walked along the wall to the backstage and saw Lin Qiaoan who was drinking tea.

"Over there, the big horse"

Lin Qiaoan had just said half of his words when Wei Ran winked at him and quickly walked into the backstage compartment that served as the finance office.

“Long story short, Zhengqi was shot and is now being treated by Hirano Aoi at the clinic across the street. He stepped into a trap when he went to pick up a customer.

My second uncle and I will find a way to deal with Hirano Aoi and Zhengqi. Now we need to send someone to drive the car at the door and take the guests hiding inside to the coffin shop and leave the city. If Captain Yan sees them, just kill them and put them in the coffins."

Wei Ran picked up the important information and whispered in Japanese, "Also, there is blood in the back seat of the car. Go to the kitchen to shovel out the ash first. After absorbing the blood with the ash, use boiling strong tea water to wipe it clean twice. Remember to use a new towel every time."

"Correctly discriminate against others"

"I'll go check on him. I also need to keep an eye on the door. Maybe the beast will come after the rain stops. We need to find a way to hold him back. If necessary, negotiate with him and exchange his sister's life for his."

As Wei Ran spoke, he stood up and left the room.

Lin Qiaoan opened her mouth, forced herself to calm down, then stood up and walked out of the backstage cubicle.

At the same time, Wei Ran, who walked out first, picked up several towels from the backstage and a teapot full of strong tea as he walked.

Leaving the theater and walking across, Wei Ran entered the clinic and immediately locked the door. He wiped the blood dripping from the floor with a towel, and then used a new towel dipped in strong tea to carefully wipe the floor from the door on the first floor all the way to the second floor.

At this time, the wooden windows and doors on the second floor had been closed, and a lit kerosene lamp was placed on the table.

Within the range of the gas lamp, the unconscious Zhang Zhengqi was lying on the table and receiving treatment from Hirano Aoi, while Zhang Taichuan was holding a flower-mouthed masturbator and looking at Hirano Aoi, who was soaked all over but focused, with a complicated expression.

"Do you have experience with abdominal surgery?"

While asking in Japanese, Wei Ran took off his wet coat and threw it aside. Then he rolled up his sleeves, walked into the bathroom, washed his hands carefully, and then took out a pair of gloves and put them on.

But until he picked up a tube of morphine, Hirano Aoi didn't respond.

"Hirano Aoi, do you have experience in abdominal surgery?" Wei Ran asked again.

“There is no fault in man”

Hirano Aoi, who was trying to sew up the ruptured blood vessels in her thigh, finally clamped the blood vessels that were still not sutured with hemostats, looked up at Wei Ran and replied, "But I have performed castration surgery on goats, and assisted Ms. Liangzi in removing tumors from the stomachs of cows."

"Veterinarian?" Wei Ran smiled.

Even through the mask, Hirano Aoi could clearly see the smile on Wei Ran's face, and could even see him pushing the morphine into Zhang Zhengqi's body.

“I’m not a veterinarian!”

Hirano Aoi frowned, "I'm a nurse. I just helped Ms. Yoshiko, the veterinarian."

“I’m not a veterinarian either.”

As Wei Ran spoke, he had already picked up a scalpel and cut the wound that Hirano Aoi had just opened a little bigger. Then he began to suture it so quickly that she could not keep up, but at the same time, it was so rough that she didn't even care about it.

"you"

“You sew it up.”

As Wei Ran spoke, he had already loosened the hemostatic forceps, took a step forward and began to clean the wound on Zhang Zhengqi's abdomen.

"Are you going to kill me later?" Hirano Aoi seemed to remember her fear only when she was almost done stitching up the wound on Zhang Zhengqi's leg.

“Someone in this room is already thinking about the issues you’re worried about.”

Wei Ran said very seriously, "So if you are a qualified medical worker, you should treat the wounded first."

Subconsciously turning her head to look at Zhang Taichuan who was holding a gun in his hand, Hirano Aoi nodded and turned her attention back to Zhang Zhengqi.

Compared to the wound on his leg, the wound on Zhang Zhengqi's waist was a little more troublesome. For this reason, when Wei Ran finally sutured the wound with the assistance of Hirano Aoi, not only had the rain outside the window stopped, but the sky had also darkened.

"Next"

"Bang bang bang" Before Hirano Aoi could finish her words, there was a knock on the door on the first floor.

Immediately afterwards, Wei Ran and others heard Lin Qiaoan enthusiastically greeting and chatting with Hirano Daxiang in Japanese to buy time.

Taking a deep breath, Hirano Aoi stood up and walked towards the bathroom while saying, "If you are willing to trust me, let me send my brother away later. If you don't want to trust me, then just shoot me."

As she spoke, Hirano Aoi had already walked into the bathroom and closed the door. Immediately afterwards, Wei Ran and Zhang Taichuan heard the sound of water flowing when the faucet was turned to the maximum, and in between, the rustling sound of clothes being taken off.

"Second Uncle." Wei Ran looked at Zhang Taichuan while packing up medical equipment.

"This time, I don't know what to do."

Zhang Taichuan sighed tiredly, turned his head and looked at Zhang Zhengqi who was still lying on the table, "He"

"He has lost a lot of blood, almost the same as Liuzi did back then." Wei Ran said as he turned off the bright kerosene lamp.

"He also needs to be sent out as soon as possible," Zhang Taichuan whispered worriedly, "if things go wrong, a city-wide manhunt may begin soon."

Before Wei Ran could say anything, Hirano Aoi had already walked out of the bathroom wrapped in a bath towel. Her hair was already wet, and the parts not covered by the bath towel were also wet.

"Will you believe me?"

As Hirano Aoi spoke, she walked to the closet, took out a set of pajamas, and then picked up a towel and wrapped her wet, still dripping hair.

Because he was close enough, Wei Ran could clearly see the large goose bumps on her body, but he could not smell any shampoo or soap.

Obviously, Hirano Aoi just rinsed her whole body with cold water to create the illusion that she was taking a shower, and this seems to be the only excuse that can be used to get rid of Hirano Daisho.

"Why do you want to help us?" Zhang Taichuan finally asked in a low voice and raised his pistol again.

"I don't know. I haven't thought of the reason or the reason for saving you."

Hirano Aoi said as she wrapped her wet hair, then picked up a second towel and wiped her face and neck while returning to the bathroom to change into her pajamas.

When she came out again, she had walked straight to the first floor, and responded lukewarmly in Japanese to Hirano Daisho who was still knocking on the door.

Not long after, Hirano Aoi returned upstairs, sat on the bed, forced herself to calm down and said, "My brother is in the theater across the street. He asked me to go down there to have dinner with him. Will you let me go? I haven't agreed yet. I said I need to think about it."

"You haven't answered yet, why do you want to help us?" Zhang Taichuan looked at the other party and asked.

"I still don't know"

Hirano Aoi looked at Zhang Zhengqi, who was still lying on the table and had not woken up, and said, "From the first time I went backstage at the theater, the first time I put on those beautiful costumes, and the first time I asked him to help me put on makeup, I had a crush on him. I mustered up all my courage to confess to him, but I was rejected many times. I...

I didn't expect that we would have a hostile relationship. Or rather, I should have expected it a long time ago.

Even so, when I saw how injured he was just now, I subconsciously wanted to save him.

I can ask my brother to find a solution. If he wants, he can be with me."

"Give up, it's impossible, he won't be willing to do that." Zhang Taichuan spoke up and stopped the other party from making assumptions.

"Why?" Hirano Aoi asked subconsciously.

"Why? Ms. Hirano asked me why? You might as well go to the theater and ask your brother Mr. Hirano Daisho why."

Zhang Taichuan showed a miserable smile, "Ask him why he killed my father in Fengtian, killed his father, killed 19 people from the Mingxiang Opera Troupe, and killed 32 people from the Zhao family!"

"What did you say?"

Hirano Aoi's eyes widened. "No, it's impossible. My brother said he... No, no no no, you are lying to me, this is impossible! It is obviously you Chinese who have been attacking the Japanese!"

"If you were staying on your own land, why would we attack you?" Wei Ran taunted, "How dare you ask such a question?"

“We are helping you”

"What can you help us with?"

Wei Ran ignored Zhang Taichuan who stood up and walked into the bathroom. He stared at him and said sarcastically, "Helped us Chinese to massacre at least 300,000 innocent people in Jinling? Then I really want to thank you."

"At least my brother didn't do these things. He is a very gentle person. He would never do those things!" Hirano Aoi continued to defend herself.

"impossible?"

Zhang Taichuan, who had returned, threw a stack of photos onto Hirano Aoi's bed.

After a slight hesitation, Hirano Aoi picked up the stack of photos that were copied and developed by Wei Ran himself at the end of the previous scene.

After just looking at one photo, her face turned pale. When she saw the second photo, she subconsciously covered her mouth, put down the photo, ran to the bathroom in a panic and started vomiting uncontrollably.

She was shocked. She recognized the man holding the samurai sword in the reproduced photo. She even recognized the samurai sword, the samurai sword that once was placed in the shrine in her home!

After a long time, Aoi Hirano stumbled back with something dirty still hanging from the corner of her mouth.

When she saw the photos scattered on the bed, she covered her mouth again, then fell to the ground and began to retch.

"What your brother did in the photo is not an isolated case. Your army and your soldiers do similar things every day in China, one place after another, day after day, together after together.

What happened in Jinling was not an accident. Such things happen every day in every corner of China. Every time, your soldiers hold butcher knives, rape, plunder, and kill wantonly, and they are proud of it. "

Zhang Taichuan handed the handkerchief to Hirano Aoi again, "I was surprised to meet your brother Hirano Daxiang in Shencheng. Manager Qi who was lying on the table and I should have killed him immediately.

In fact, someone did that, but he was unlucky and failed to kill your brother, he just injured his ear. "

"Please kill me"

Hirano Aoi closed her eyes, but couldn't stop the tears from rolling down her cheeks. She couldn't stop the tears she was shedding even though she didn't know who she was crying for.

"Before I kill you, I have a letter here that Mr. Musashi asked me to pass on to you before he boarded the ship."

Wei Ran spoke suddenly, picked up his wet coat, took out the damp letter and handed it to the other party.

Taking the letter in confusion, Aoi Hirano tore open the envelope and pulled out the letter, and as expected, saw the disgusting embellishment.

Hirano Aoi frowned as she unfolded the damp envelope and read just a few lines before frowning.

However, just as she crumpled up the piece of letter paper, there was another knock on the door downstairs.

After looking at Zhang Taichuan who subconsciously raised the pistol, Hirano Aoi put the handkerchief given to her by the other party on the side of the bed, got up, went into the bathroom, rinsed her mouth and washed her face, and went back to the first floor.

"Do you want to kill him?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice.

"If you want to kill me, you can't do it here. Don't worry, there are people watching nearby. You can't run away."

As Zhang Taichuan spoke, he had already put away the photos on the bed, and he and Wei Ran went to the stairs to listen attentively.

To their and Hirano Aoi's surprise, the person knocking on the door this time was not Hirano Daisho, but Mr. Aoi, who runs an izakaya.

"Mr. Aoi, I, I'm not very convenient right now." Hirano Aoi said as she opened the door on the first floor a crack.

"Ms. Hirano, did you cry just now? Did something sad happen to you?" Aoi asked with concern, and at the same time, she casually put her hand in the crack of the door.

"Mr. Aoi! Please take your hands away!" Hirano Aoi shouted, "You are so shameless!"

Hirano Aoi exclaimed before she could finish her words, and Mr. Aoi pushed open the door and walked in.

"Ms. Hirano, I have admired you for a long time, I just want to invite you"

Mr. Aoi walked in step by step, but inevitably, while he was looking at Hirano Aoi who seemed to have just taken a bath, he was greedily stealing glances at some antique-looking ornaments on the first floor.

"Get out! Get out!"

Hirano Aoi screamed loudly and retreated step by step towards the stairs leading to the second floor in panic.

Fortunately, just when one of her feet stepped on the stairs, Hirano Daisho had already run out from the theater opposite, rushed into the clinic while shouting Aoi's name, and then slapped Aoi hard in the face.

"Xiao Aoi, are you okay?" Hirano Daisho nervously supported Hirano Aoi who was almost falling on the stairs.

"Get out! All of you get out!"

Hirano Aoi screamed and shouted like crazy, and at the same time pushed away her brother Hirano Daisho, the executioner who slaughtered innocent people at will.

"You! Come with me to the other side!"

Hirano Daisho turned around and said to Aoi with a cold face, then he grabbed the back of his neck and left the clinic. He also kindly helped his sister Hirano Aoi close the door of the clinic.

After staring at the door blankly, Hirano Aoi turned her head to look at Zhang Taichuan, who was looking down at her from the second floor with a pistol in his hand. Finally, she sat on the stairs, hugged her knees, and cried helplessly.

Behind her, Zhang Taichuan, who was standing on the second floor, raised his pistol and aimed at Hirano Aoi on the first floor. But in the end, he put the pistol away and cursed once again with a tired "Fuck him!"

"What should we do?" Wei Ran asked again.

"Send Zhengqi to the other side first."

Zhang Taichuan finally glanced at Hirano Aoi and said, "Let's go drink with Mr. Hirano Daisho."

Hearing this, Wei Ran was stunned for a moment, then silently picked up Zhang Zhengqi, walked into the bathroom, and sent him to the other side through the bathroom window.

After the two of them jumped over, Wei Ran asked worriedly, "Will she call?"

"We're listening to her phone call," Zhang Taichuan said, "let's go have a drink."

"Why let her go?" Wei Ran asked a new question.

"We need the weapons, medicines, fuel and ammunition in her brother's hands, and she saved Zhengqi."

Zhang Taichuan suppressed his pain and said, "Old Ghost is not here, we can't cut off this line. Let's take a risk. If...if she is willing to help us, maybe...we can save more people."

"if she"

"Then we can only send her away with that beast." Zhang Taichuan's sudden smile was full of anticipation. "There are plenty of coffins in the coffin shop."