Zhang Tao entered the gate of the military police headquarters, saw Qingchuan actually at the door, and stretched out his hand with a smile: "Zhang Jun was frightened last night, and I want to disturb you today, I'm really embarrassed!" ”

"Qingchuan Taijun said this, but he exalted me too much, listen to Captain Huang, there is something to find me?" Zhang Tao shook hands with Qingchuan and asked with a smile.

"Ah, there is no big thing, there is a small thing I want to ask Zhang Jun for help!" Harukawa said with a smile.

"If you have something, you squeak, how much can I help as an idler, as long as my brother can do it, don't be polite." Zhang Tao slapped his chest loudly.

Qingchuan slowly put on his white gloves: "Presumably Zhang Jun heard about the arrest of the shopkeeper Zhang of Xiangmanlou." ”

Zhang Tao was shocked, it was actually for Zhang Laicai, what kind of trick did this guy play? But he pretended to be surprised and said, "Yes! When I chatted with Captain Huang, I also said, this guy doesn't open a good restaurant, and he mixes with those poor sticks, I really don't know what he thinks, is he crazy? ”

Qingchuan pretended to sigh regretfully: "Xiangmanlou is my favorite place to go, and mine has always regarded Shopkeeper Zhang as a friend...... he paused and continued, "Mine and he said, as long as he cooperates with us, mine will not treat him badly, he doesn't listen, I have no choice but to invite Zhang Jun's." ”

Zhang Tao was stunned: "I don't understand what Qingchuan Taijun said, what can I do if he doesn't cooperate with you?" ”

Qingchuan smiled: "Alas, don't Zhang Jun's misunderstanding, I know, you are familiar with the shopkeeper Zhang, you have to help me persuade you." ”

"This Wang Ba calf, this is going to be confronted openly in court!" Zhang Tao secretly cursed in his heart, but said on his lips: "Okay, who hasn't made a mistake yet, if I can convince him to get lost and know his way back, I, Zhang Tao, can be regarded as doing a good deed, if not, Qingchuan Taijun don't blame me." ”

"Where did Zhang Jun go?" Harukawa smiled, "Your help, my big thanks!" Saying that, he stretched his hand forward and said, "Zhang Jun, please!" ”

Zhang Tao followed Qingchuan through the corridor of the gendarmerie captain and entered the infamous gendarmerie underground cell around an inconspicuous corner. The door of the corridor guarded by the Japanese soldiers slowly opened, and then a bloody breath came to his face, and Zhang Tao couldn't help but wrinkle his nose.

"Zhang Jun is not used to coming here!" Harukawa smiled, "The people imprisoned here are all felons of the empire, and there is no way to do it." According to Buddhism, the sea of suffering is boundless, and the shore is the back. Qingchuan turned his face and stared straight into Zhang Tao's eyes, "The person who opposes the imperial army is in the sea of suffering, Zhang Jun, are you right?" ”

Zhang Tao's heart tightened, and he immediately reacted: "Who said it wasn't, it's a good day, but I have to stay here by myself, I really don't know what to think." ”

"Taijun, I was wronged!"

"I really don't know anything, stop fighting, you guys kill me!"

"Little devils, you can't die well!"

"Let me out, I still have a 70-year-old mother at home!"

“……”

Seeing Harukawa and them coming, the prisoners in the cell ran to the iron bars and struggled forward, either scolding or wailing.

"Baga, hurry back, don't shout!" The ghost soldier who followed behind scolded.

"Zhang Tao, behind the little devil is the big traitor Zhang Tao!" A thin man covered in blood shouted as if he had discovered a new world, and another middle-aged man in the same cell rushed to the iron railing when he heard this, shaking the railing vigorously.

"Dog traitor, what kind of sin did your parents create to give birth to such a loser as you, phew!" A mouthful of thick phlegm with blood was accurately spit on Zhang Tao's face, and Zhang Tao's heart was as uncomfortable as being twisted by someone's hand. His parents fell under the butcher's knife of the little devil, and in order to avenge his parents, he had to live in fear and bear the infamy of a traitor. He moved his lips and finally said nothing. just took out a handkerchief to wipe the stains off his face, and took the opportunity to quickly wipe away the tears that were about to slip from the corners of his eyes.

"Eight Tooth Road!" The Japanese soldier behind waved his ** and hit the man's face, the man couldn't dodge, screamed and fell on his back, and blood flowed all over his face. The prisoner in the same cell quickly helped him up, and the man opened his mouth and spit out four or five teeth.

The roots of Zhang Tao's teeth were about to be crushed by himself, and in the shouts and scolding of the prisoners, Zhang Tao felt as if the dark corridor of the cell would never end.

"Ahh

"It's a shopkeeper, right?"

"Isn't it, such a good man, alas!"

"It is said that the bones are old and hard, so don't say anything!"

"I don't know if I'll be able to get through it this time......"

The people in the cell next to him were muttering quietly.

Zhang Tao suddenly felt a little scared, afraid to enter the room at the end, afraid to meet Zhang Laicai in this situation, he even felt that he was the one who was tortured, and his pace couldn't help but slow down. At this moment, an impassioned song came from the cell at the end:

All the anti-Japanese people rise up,

Regain the lost land,

End the life of cattle and horses in exile.

Brave comrades, go forward,

Beat out the Japanese bandits and overthrow "Manchukuo"!

More and more prisoners stood up from their cells, and they had to stand with great difficulty after being tortured, but they all supported each other and sang the song to the sound of the cell at the end.

"Yaga!" There was a screaming and scolding from the cell at the end, followed by a scream from Zhang Laicai, and a smell of burning. The singing in the room at the end stopped, but the inmates in the other cells continued to sing loudly:

to carry out a just war of national revolution,

Complete that national liberation movement.

High in our sky,

The red light shining with the banner of the Victorious Army.

Charge, our First Route Army!

Charge, our First Route Army!

The singing and the scolding and scolding of the devil converged into an exciting symphony, and Zhang Tao's blood boiled all over his body, and he couldn't wait to sing this song with these strong men now. The feeling of uneasiness and fear in his heart seemed to disappear at once, and he walked resolutely to the room at the end.

Zhang Tao identified it for a long time, and then he believed that the fat man in the room with a bloodstained face and scars was Zhang Laicai, the shopkeeper of the Xiangmanlou who used to have oily hair and powdery noodles and exquisite faces. His head was down, his eyes were closed, and he had fainted. Zhang Laicai's clothes and pants have been whipped into one by one, and a large bag bulges up on his left calf, which is swaying below the big bag, and it seems that it has been broken.

Zhang Tao pretended not to be used to the bloody air here, took several deep breaths, and then stopped his urge to cry and sat down at Qingchuan's signal. Qingchuan also sat down and smiled at Zhang Tao: "In this kind of place, the air is very bad, Zhang Jun's, bear with me!" ”

Seeing that Zhang Tao shook his hand to indicate that it was okay, two Japanese soldiers in the room with big shoulders and round waists and bare shoulders signaled, and a Japanese soldier scooped out a basin of muddy water in the wooden barrel next to him and poured it on Zhang Laicai.

Zhang Tao obviously saw that Zhang Laicai's muscles were trembling, coughed twice as if choking, and slowly opened his eyes after spitting out a mouthful of blood. When Zhang Laicai saw Zhang Tao sitting opposite, his eyes widened suddenly, Qingchuan quickly stood up and walked to Zhang Laicai's side, pointed at Zhang Tao and asked, "Do you know this person?" ”

Zhang Tao's heart flickered: "This Wang Ba calf is really coming for me!" ”

Zhang Laicai looked at Qingchuan, then at Zhang Tao and said, "I know, how can I not know him?" ”

"Uh-oh?" Harukawa's expression was like a wolf that had seen its prey, "Tell me about it......"

"Hahaha!" Zhang Laicai's chest rose and fell violently, "Your dog, do you still need me to tell you?" ”

Qingchuan smiled awkwardly: "Zhang Taojun's, your friend, heard about you, came to visit you, yours, have a good chat." ”

"Get out, get out of here!" Zhang Laicai's eyes widened, "What do I have to chat with the dog?" Senator Zhang, I'm going to die! You live well! Everything will be rewarded! Get out of here! Zhang Laicai looked at Qingchuan, "After that, you hurry up and let him go!" I look at traitors disgusting! ”

"Shopkeeper Zhang's words are incorrect." Qingchuan Pi said with a smile, "Anyway, Senator Zhang came to visit you with good intentions. Hehe, your chat, my avoidance. After saying that, Qingchuan stood up and was about to leave.

Zhang Tao's face was full of doubts: "Taijun, this ......"

"It's okay, Zhang Jun's rest assured, there are guards outside the door, you can talk about it, help me persuade him, let's go out." After speaking, he generously walked out with a few devils, and told the devils to let go of Zhang Laicai, but left a handcuff on his hand, and moved a chair and placed it opposite Zhang Tao, and the two devil soldiers pulled Zhang Laicai and pressed him on the chair.

Harukawa walked out, but did not go far, just sat down in the guard duty room, and after making a phone call, a dozen Japanese soldiers walked lightly to the corridor of the prison, and held up the 38 cover that had opened the bolt of the gun against the closed iron door of the interrogation room.

After everything was arranged, Second Lieutenant Watanabe walked into the duty room, saw Harukawa sitting on a chair with a command knife and closed his eyes to recuperate, and said in a low voice: "Harukawa-kun, everything is arranged." ”

"Hmm!" Qingchuan opened his eyes, "If Zhang Tao tries to rescue Zhang Laicai and goes out, arrest him immediately." Resistant, dead, dead! Yours go for it. He closed his eyes again

"Hey!" Second Lieutenant Watanabe saluted and walked out without looking back.

Arriving at the door of the interrogation room, Watanabe lightly opened the box, and something that looked a bit like a stethoscope lay quietly inside the box, Watanabe tucked the earhook into his ear and gently placed what looked like a microphone in front of him on the door.

"Zhang Tao, you lackey of Japanese imperialism will not end well!" Zhang Laicai's voice appeared clearly in Watanabe's ears.

At this moment, in the interrogation room, Zhang Tao bit his lip tightly to prevent himself from crying, tears slipped down his eyes, and Zhang Laicai also had tears swirling in his eyes.

Seeing Zhang Laicai winking at him, Zhang Tao hurriedly shouted: "Boss Zhang, I am a person who misses the old love, and he agreed to let me come over to persuade you after begging Taijun for a long time, why do you say you are suffering?" ”

Zhang Tao saw the teacup on the table, his heart moved, he walked towards Zhang Laicai with the teacup, looked at the closed door, and whispered in Zhang Laicai's ear: "I'll help you out!" Then he raised his voice, "You don't hold on any longer, as long as you surrender, with your previous friendship, Harukawa Taijun can't treat you badly." ”

Zhang Laicai took advantage of this time and said softly: "Kill me!" ”

Zhang Tao was stunned when he heard this.

Zhang Laicai whispered word by word: "Kill me, don't let me suffer again, I won't be able to live anyway!" As he spoke, he raised the shackles in his hand and hit Zhang Tao's head.

Zhang Tao was caught off guard and fell to the ground on his back, blood flowing down his forehead. Zhang Laicai flew up, strangled Zhang Tao's neck, and whispered in Zhang Tao's ear: "Kill me quickly, it'll be too late for a while, this is a temptation for you, if you don't kill me, you won't be able to get out, none of us will survive." ”

Zhang Laicai shouted loudly as he spoke: "Dog traitor, Lao Tzu asked you to give me a funeral, hahaha!" ”

The iron door of the interrogation room opened, and Watanabe rushed in with three Japanese soldiers with guns, and just as one Japanese soldier took aim, Watanabe hurriedly shouted, "Don't shoot!" ”

"Smack!" The gun went off.

It is the silver **** in Zhang Tao's hand.

Zhang Tao's brain was already blank, and the wound on his back that had just healed was also painful, and he didn't know how he fired the gun.

"Bang dang!" Zhang Laicai's body fell heavily from Zhang Tao's body, but Zhang Tao was still lying on the ground stupidly looking at the pistol in his hand and was stunned.

Watanabe hurriedly ran over and tried Zhang Laicai's snort, but he was already out of breath.

Zhang Tao lay motionless on the ground as if he had no soul, looking at the ceiling with his eyes wide open, but there was no anger in his eyes, his chest rose and fell, and he was panting for breath with his mouth open.

Watanabe shook his head in frustration at Harukawa, who hurriedly walked in: "Zhang Laicai is dead!" ”

"Nani?" Qingchuan's eyes were as big as a bull's eye, and his heart hurt so much, this is a big fish, and he died like this?

"Who fired the shot?" Harukawa asked sternly.

"Yes...... It was Zhang Jun who fired the gun in self-defense......" Watanabe replied hesitantly.

This time, Qingchuan noticed Zhang Tao lying on the ground like a dead fish, and the pistol he was still holding tightly in his hand.

"What are you doing in a daze? Send Zhang Jun to the hospital! Qingchuan shouted at the Japanese soldiers, walked up to Zhang Tao, and carefully helped Zhang Tao up, "Zhang Jun, Zhang Jun, how is yours?" ”

Zhang Tao's three souls and seven spirits came back to his senses, and he looked at Qingchuan in a daze, and it took him a long time to react, and he asked in a daze: "Did I kill him?" ”

"Things, I understand, Zhang Jun works in self-defense." Seeing that Zhang Tao didn't react, Qingchuan hurriedly shouted, "Stretcher!" Stretcher! ”

Zhang Tao felt that his eyes were dark and he fainted.

When he woke up, he saw the fourth uncle and asked, "Fourth uncle, where is this?" ”

"This is the Japanese Gendarmerie Hospital!" The fourth uncle saw Zhang Tao wake up and poured a glass of water, "The young master has slept for a day and a night, come, drink some water." ”

"I killed the shopkeeper Zhang......" Zhang Tao muttered, "I killed the shopkeeper Zhang......"

"Young Master! Master! The fourth uncle hurriedly helped Zhang Tao, who wanted to struggle to get up, "Qingchuan told us about this, what is going on?" Are you okay? ”

"I killed the shopkeeper Zhang, and he asked me to kill him......" Zhang Tao looked at the fourth uncle, tears flowed out.

"Don't cry, this is a Japanese hospital, you can't cry!" The fourth uncle hurriedly helped Zhang Tao wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and just put down the towel, a Japanese military doctor wearing a Japanese lieutenant uniform and a white coat outside walked over: "Is the patient awake?" ”

After seeing Zhang Tao, the military doctor motioned to the nurse behind him to bring a stethoscope, carefully examined it, and measured his body temperature and blood pressure.

"I recovered well, there was no big thing, my head was fine, and I continued to be hospitalized for observation." The devil doctor wrote in Japanese in the record book while brushing and saying to Zhang Tao and the fourth uncle.

"I'm going to be discharged!" Zhang Tao sat up vigorously, and then his head was dizzy.

"Discharge from the hospital is not good!" The Japanese military doctor immediately rejected Zhang Tao's request, "Captain Qingchuan's order, you must recover." ”

"What about Harukawa? I'll talk to him myself! Zhang Tao shouted angrily.

"What does Zhang Jun want to tell me?" As soon as the door opened, Qingchuan, who was in a straight military uniform, walked in, followed by Huang Gongzi in civilian clothes.

Zhang Tao was already awake at this time, but he still felt very tired: "Qingchuan Taijun, you came just in time, help me say a favor, I'd better go home." ”

"If you are not in good health, you can't be discharged from the hospital!" Harukawa pretended to be angry and said, "Your peace of mind hospitalization, there is something to inform Director Huang." ”

"Director?" Zhang Tao was stunned for a moment, and then reacted, "It turns out that Captain Huang has been promoted." Congratulations! ”

Huang Gongzi hurriedly said: "Hehe, this is Taijun promoting his brother and making him the deputy director of the police station, and the eldest brother has to recuperate." Then he laughed self-deprecatingly, "My brother is relieved to see that you're okay." I've come to see you several times, but the fourth uncle didn't give me a good face. ”

Qingchuan took over the conversation: "Zhang Jun's injury is due to my poor consideration. I hope that Zhang Jun's body will recover as soon as possible and make great progress. ”

Zhang Taole watched these two guys sing and act, sneered in his heart, and summed it up slightly: "Alas, Zhang Laicai is also my friend no matter what he says, I think Qingchuan Taijun will give me a face and hand over his body to me for burial?" ”

"Huh? This ......" Huang Gongzi looked at Zhang Tao in surprise, wondering if this guy was crazy, Qingchuan finally dispelled a little suspicion about him, why did he still try to move forward by himself?

"Zhang Jun is really angry!" Qingchuan didn't have as many thoughts as Huang Gongzi, "This request is not excessive, I agree, you call someone to the gendarmerie to identify the body!" Then he turned around, waved his hand, and two Japanese soldiers came in, putting a big bag of fruits and snacks on the head of Zhang Tao's bed, "Mine, I can't buy things, and I don't know if these things are suitable for Zhang Jun's appetite, Zhang Jun is relieved to recuperate, and mine is not disturbed." ”

Zhang Tao and the two of them hypocritically politely said a few words, and then asked the fourth uncle to send them out, and when the fourth uncle returned to the ward, he casually took the door of the single room where Zhang Tao lived: "Young master, what should I do now?" ”

"What else can I do?" Zhang Tao frowned and sighed, "Fourth uncle, let the 'human sperm' come over, I killed Zhang Laicai, I have to give an explanation over there!" As he spoke, he closed his eyes again, and two lines of hot tears finally flowed uncontrollably.

Three days later, at the request of Zhang Tao's dead face, the little devil's hospital finally released him. Because the underground party said that they must kill the big traitor Zhang Tao to avenge their comrades, in order to ensure Zhang Tao's safety, Huang Gongzi personally brought two police cars and four gendarmerie motorcycles to pick Zhang Tao out of the hospital.

After Zhang Tao's Buick was launched, the "human sperm" who was sitting in the back row with Zhang Tao said to Zhang Tao and the fourth uncle: "Listen to my reminder later, we will play a scene for the little devil halfway." ”

"Acting?" Zhang Tao said suspiciously.

"You must let the little devil try to dispel his suspicions about you, otherwise Comrade Zhang Laicai's sacrifice will be too meaningless." Human sperm," said heavily.

Zhang Laicai was mentioned, and the atmosphere inside the car became depressed. When the convoy passed by a small roadside market, the "human sperm" suddenly pressed Zhang Tao's head and hurriedly shouted: "Get down!" ”

"Bang Bang!" Three bullets hit the rear glass of the Buick accurately, and by the time the escorting devil police reacted, a figure had already disappeared into the panicked crowd running around.

The convoy immediately stopped, and Huang Gongzi came out of the police car with a pistol in a hurry: "Leave half of the people to follow the director to arrest the bandits, and the rest escort Senator Zhang will leave quickly." ”

Zhang Tao's car started again, and the small market was already a burst of chickens and dogs.

"Look what else the little devil can do this time!" "Human sperm," said contemptuously.

Although several days have passed, Zhang Tao's mood is still very bad, quietly looking at the chaotic crowd and the rampaging police outside the car window, he did not squeak, and after a while he gently asked: "Is the shopkeeper Zhang buried?" ”

"Alas......" "Human Sperm" sighed, "You have asked the owner four or five times, and they are all buried, the best shrouds and the best coffins are also buried in Nanshan, and they are buried together with 'Singing the Sky', and they are also burned for you." We understand your distress very well, and we also believe that Zhang Laicai took the initiative to ask you to shoot. I've said it again, you should be relieved, right? ”

"Oh!" Zhang Tao tilted his head back, and his eyes closed again.

After Zhang Tao returned home, his life was very simple, he didn't go out of the house every day, he didn't talk, he just slept and drank. That night, the fourth uncle, "Mountain Rabbit", Zhang Gui and "Human Sperm" got together, and "Human Sperm" was going to return to Liu's shop the next day to continue to be in charge of the Four Seas Hotel, and these three people saw him off.

"I said that it can't go on like this, and the owner will be scrapped if it goes on like this." Zhang Gui said worriedly.

"Who's to say it isn't?" "Human sperm" took a sip of wine, "That's what I'm not worried about." ”

"It's not easy to say that the young master is not easy, this 'ground mouse' has just broken in Xinjing, and then it was the 'Singing the Sky' thing, and then he was forced to kill the shopkeeper, so many things are put together, and no one can stand it." The fourth uncle's mood is not very high.

"We have to find something for him to do...... Zhang Gui took a sip of food, "There is something to do, so he won't have to think about it all day." ”

"There have just been so many things, the devils are patrolling the streets and closing the mountains, the old wolf camp is honest, what can you do now?" "Mountain Rabbit" said depressedly.

Zhang Gui smiled slyly: "I, let him see the two of them tomorrow morning to ensure that he can get up." ”

"Who, so powerful?" "Human sperm" asked hurriedly.

"Then you don't have to worry about it, you don't have to worry about it, it's up to me." Zhang Gui picked up the wine jug and filled it for everyone, "Today, let's drink wine and see off the 'human sperm'." ”