Chapter 5 Anecdotes of Old Shanghai Part I

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Last time, it was said that Xiaowei and the five of them came to the underground, and when they arrived at the wooden door, they opened the door. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

What catches your eye is a room where people live, the style of old Shanghai in the thirties. The wall is covered with wallpaper, probably because of the long time, some damage and peeling, the room is about forty square meters, the floor is paved, there is a European-style double bed in the thirties on the right hand, there is a cabinet on the left and right of the bed, and there is an old-fashioned living lamp on the right cabinet. On the left-hand side is a hanger and a slender cabinet with a gramophone on it. There is a photo on the wall directly opposite the bed, which should be a wedding photo, but unfortunately the photo is missing, and the faces of the two newlyweds have been blurred. Xiaowei walked in alone, looked around the room, and didn't find anything unusual, so he called the four people behind him to follow. As soon as everyone came over, Xiao Wei only looked ahead and couldn't help but be surprised, "Coffin... Coffin! Everyone looked for prestige, only to see a black wooden coffin on the other side of the bed, engraved with various patterns. The two young ladies immediately screamed, and Xiao Chuanmin hurriedly covered it: "This is not the place to shout. Xiaowei whispered and put his hand down. The two young ladies came back to their senses, Xiao Wei asked Xiao Xi to stay behind to protect the two young ladies, and he and Xiao Jin walked slowly towards the coffin. When they went, they were also very nervous, and their heads were sweaty. But when they came to the front and looked down, they found nothing but ceramic bottles and jars. Xiaowei said, "Boss, how's it going?" Xiao Xi asked on the side, "Bring them over, there are only some bottles and cans in it." A few people followed, Xiao Wei looked inside again, and found a black thing, which aroused their interest, Xiao Wei leaned down, reached in and flipped through it, and found a long and flat box, "Xiao Wei, this... It's not an urn. As soon as Xiao Mo said this, Xiao Weile said: "Little fool." How can ashes be used like this? Everyone was happy when they heard it. The locket is also wooden and has no decoration at all. Xiao Wei gently opened the box, there were a few yellowed pieces of paper stacked inside, there were words on the left side of the CD of several old gramophones and a gramophone, Xiao Wei let Xiao Jin take it, and then took out a stack of papers and opened it, "Whether you are here alone, or a group of people, you can dodge the arrows placed in front of you, which can prove your alertness, but I don't want the Japanese to come in, I hate you, it is you who have harmed the people of the whole city, and it is you who have ruined my family." But it doesn't matter, there is always a reward for the sin. Xiao Wei asked, "Xiao Wei, what does this mean?" Xiaowei said, "Let's read the rest." "Once you come in, it's all sealed, and you can only get out if you do what I say." "Big brother, we..." Before Xiao Jin finished speaking, Xiao Wei interrupted and said, "Let's use a dead horse as a live horse doctor, let's look down." "On the left side of the box are some words that I prepared earlier, so you can put them on the gramophone and listen to them slowly." The paper was out of words at this point, and Xiaowei decided to give it a try, so he took the top record to the gramophone and pulled the contact. At first it was a gibberish voice, but then it became the voice of a deep male middle voice.

"My name is Wang Jinglian, and I am the shopkeeper of Shanghai Yongkang Pharmacy, and our family is a doctor, treating the people in the city. Later, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, although there was chaos here, whether it was civilians, officials, businessmen, or bandits, they all supported our family business, and we treated everyone. Therefore, the street where we live has become the most popular and longed-for place in the concession. When people have conflicts, we will mediate, so by the time I became the leader, we got along very well with all walks of life in Shanghai, including Baidao, bandits, gangsters and foreigners. When the September 18 Incident broke out in 1931, the Nationalist government pursued and killed the Communists without resistance, and there were many Kuomintang and Japanese agents in Shanghai. Due to the Japanese invasion, the Shanghai Tang parade continued, the Nationalist Government sent people to hunt down, the Japanese agents also came to make trouble, bandits and gangsters fought back, in Dongcheng they started a fierce battle, for the safety of people from all walks of life in Nanjie, I also used my own strength to treat the wounded, there is a boss Wang Rui in Shanghai, is the second leader of the "fifty righteous soldiers" who guarded Dongcheng, was seriously injured by Japanese spies on the way to save me, we fought hard to save his life. On my way to help save lives, I met Mingyun in Pingshui, a kind, caring, shy and introverted girl, due to the lack of manpower in the family, I asked her to help care for the sick, and at first she was very opposed. But when I said that it was to contribute to the salvation of the country, she agreed without hesitation. She was very smart, I taught her the simple work of Western nursing and Chinese medicine therapy, and she was a very fast learner, ah, I forgot to mention that I went to England a few years ago to study Western medicine. Three months later, Shanghai Tang has regained some calm. Our neighborhood has long been unsightly, Wang Rui called on everyone to cheer up and attack the Japanese concession to weaken their momentum of wanting to invade China, and the "Fifty Righteous Soldiers" immediately agreed to attack the Japanese. It turned out that she was the daughter of Hong Erye, who was a big capitalist in Shanghai and a pioneer of our national capital. After Mingyun and I got acquainted, they often came to me to inquire about learning about Western medicine, and I asked her why her family was so rich that she didn't go abroad to study. She said that her father said that now the national crisis is at hand, it is not safe outside, and there are their forces in Shanghai, and he is relieved. There is also his hatred for the atrocities committed by foreigners against China. I told her that these are two different things, that is, revenge, and that you have to learn their skills, 'master the art of mastering to control the enemy'. She said that it was really messy out there now, so it was safer to study with me here...... Over time, we fell in love, I brought a dowry to Hong's second master's house to propose marriage, and the second master was very optimistic about me and agreed with me, but he said that only Mingyun agreed. Mingyun came out and said that she wanted to think about it, I was a little skeptical about it, she saw that her father agreed so much, and she should agree more intimately, why did she become shy? Later, I learned from the mouth of others that Jiro Imoto of the Japanese Concession threatened Mingyun to marry him, and if she did not agree, she would launch a large-scale invasion of Shanghai again, and I was very scared and wanted to go to Hong Erye's house to report to Hong Erye. On the way, I met Wang Rui and the members of the 'Fifty Righteous Warriors', and Wang Rui saw that I was very worried and asked me what had happened. I knew that he was brave and loyal to the motherland, so I told him about it, he was very surprised when he knew, and told me that recently I always found that there were Japanese businessmen looking for medical advice in South Street, thinking that I was doing business with them, and now I wanted to take the opportunity to attack me, I was very surprised, Wang Rui told me not to be afraid, and asked the two brothers to go to the house of the second master Hong to inform me of the matter, and he took more than ten brothers to escort me back to the house. Sure enough, the Japanese enemy agents set their sights on us and prepared to attack, but Wang Rui was sophisticated and saw through it at a glance, and led his brothers to engage in a fierce battle with you, and finally killed him. I had just been sent home, and the two brothers who sent the letter came back, saying that at this time, Second Master Hong was in a hurry, and it turned out that Mingyun was missing! It must have been Jiro Imoto who did it. This is self-evident, Wang Rui told me that this is not easy, I burst into tears at that time, begging Wang Rui to help me. Wang Rui immediately expressed his stance to save Mingyun, and asked his brother to give me a gun, saying that he would not be able to protect me if he brought someone to save Mingyun, so let me protect myself, so he gathered the brothers and rushed to the Japanese concession. I was also relieved to be relieved and prepared to march to the Japanese Concession from another way. On the way, there was a beggar in the street, who saw that he was pitiful, and gave him some money, and at that moment, a few people not far away began to shoot at me, and I was almost shot. At this time, the beggar angrily threw off his clothes and covered me, and said "Good Samaritan, you go into the house to take refuge", and he immediately took out a pistol from his right waist and eliminated several of the shooters. I entered the inner room, this is a broken hut, there are only two rooms, I was stunned when I saw it -- Mingyun was here, we were very excited to each other, after crying for a while, I asked her why she was here, she said that she was targeted by a Japanese businessman, who was actually a special service officer, Imoto Erxiao, and wanted to be forced to be a concubine, otherwise I would destroy the Hong family and flatten the beach, I was very angry, this Imoto Jiro simply did not put China in his eyes, did not put the Chinese in his eyes, and treated him as a human being. Mingyun said that I went to propose the night when I went out to be caught by Imoto Jiro's people and put it in a sack, on the way I heard her captor and others after the firefight, there was no movement, after the bag was untied, a beggar rescued her, settled in this thatched hut, let her avoid the night before making plans, the beggar went out of the door and guarded, just speaking of this, the beggar came back, he threw off his bad clothes and suddenly became a personable old man, his face was full of wrinkles but very kind, he said that he was an old Northern Expedition soldier, Later, all his comrades-in-arms died in the war, and he stayed in Shanghai to help Mr. Sun's Kuomintang relay underground information. Unexpectedly, Mr. Sun died of illness not long after, he hated the counter-revolution of Jiang Zhongzheng and Wang Jingwei, and engaged in some arms trading in the local area, and pretended to be a beggar outside. Mingyun and I were very grateful, he said that the "Fifty Righteous Warriors" went to the concession, it was very dangerous, and decided to help them and fight the Japanese, we did not keep him, he said that he was lucky this time, told us his surname was An, and left. I took Mingyun back to Er Ye Hong's house, and Second Master Hong was very excited, hugging his daughter and crying bitterly. Mingyun told him that it didn't matter, everyone was helping, and told the second master about her arrest and rescue, and the second master was very angry and swore that he would not stand with Japan! In the evening, Wang Rui and other fifty righteous people and Mr. An came back, they arrived at Hong Erye's house, saw me and Mingyun, very happy, said that it was not in vain, we are very grateful to them, Hong Erye also specially thanked Mr. An, Wang Rui also thanked him, saying that he was spared thanks to him in the concession. It turned out that when the fifty righteous soldiers entered the concession, they were ambushed and the two brothers were wounded, they started a shootout with the Japanese guards at the entrance of the alley, but due to the Japanese army's flanking attack, the righteous soldiers had no way to retreat, and when they wanted to die together, Mr. An put a bomb in the back, blowing up a gap in the southeast corner of the fifty righteous soldiers, in fact, it blew up the garage of the Japanese empty building field (the Japanese enemy special assembly area), the fifty righteous soldiers were able to get out, and under the leadership of Mr. An, they broke away from the Japanese concession, Hong Erye was happy at night, so he left everyone to eat in the house, Mingyun took advantage of this time to express his agreement to marry me, Wang Rui took the lead in shouting for us, and Mingyun and I hugged each other and shed tears. When I got here, the tape stopped, except for Xiaowei who moved his head, the others didn't react, and they all listened too attentively. Xiao Jin reacted at this time and said, "Big brother, I haven't mentioned how to get out until now." Xiaowei said while changing the record: "Let's listen to it." ”

The gramophone turned again.

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