Chapter 11: Pretending

When night fell again, the U-38, which had been diving all day, finally surfaced. www.biquge.info Since the morning, the dozen or so passengers rescued in the cabin have been quite uneasy, and these are all women and children -- the women first suffered a shipwreck and fell into the sea, and then they were in a closed warship full of men, and their apprehension was spontaneous, and although there were not many children, as soon as they cried, they cried endlessly and shouted for their father and mother, which made the already distraught officers and men in the boat even more annoying.

It is the consensus of the crew that the commander was injured in order to save these people, and now these people are not only not quiet but also noisy and abnormal, Xue Kuiguang and a few people are eager to throw them all off the boat, but Lin Xiangguang and Liu Yongren are against this, the people have been saved, and it is not right to throw them into the sea again.

"Don't cry! Whoever cries again will be thrown down. Xue Kuiguang rushed to the sergeant's living area where these people gathered and shouted, it was okay if he didn't drink, and the child cried even more when he drank. In anger, he picked up the one who cried the most and was about to throw it out, and the whole cabin was terrified. The sinking of the Mukden Pill was a matter of a few minutes, and the fourth- and third-class passengers had no chance to jump into the sea at all, and now the rescued passengers are either first-class passengers or second-class passengers. These people have seen the world and read books, and they are not good at criticizing the navy, but if they want to throw their children off the ship, some people can't bear to stand up.

"You're still not human? A child will naturally cry without his father, how can you throw him into the sea? The woman in the student costume stopped Xue Kuiguang, and her words with a northeastern accent seemed righteous and awe-inspiring.

"We're not human?!" Xue Kuiguang pointed to his nose and laughed angrily, "If it's not to save you, our chief will be injured?" I just said that I want to be quiet, and whoever wants to make trouble will be invited out. A lot of you women can't coax a child, so it's best to just throw it out. ”

Xue Kuiguang said quickly and urgently, and his so-called throwing into the sea was at most a bridge to intimidate and intimidate. The woman in the student costume couldn't understand the southern dialect and didn't know what he was talking about, and the child was taken away in the blink of an eye.

"How can you throw a child into the sea?!" The woman was in a hurry, and another lady in a cheongsam said, "I know your Standing Chairman, although that child is very noisy, you can't throw it into the sea." ”

"We are a Chinese volunteer navy, not under the jurisdiction of Chongqing, and do not accept Chang Kaishen's orders. It's useless for you to know. Xue Kuiguang looked at the rescued people again. Because they were all fished out of the sea, Liu Yongren kindly threw them a bunch of training uniforms and asked them to go to the stern to change, but no one went. Vaguely, these people seemed to regard the officers and soldiers on the boat as enemies who killed their husbands and brothers.

"You ......" Mrs. cheongsam thought this was the country. Army, I didn't expect it to be really not, country. The army did not dare to call Chang Kaishen directly.

"Take me to see your sir, I am a doctor at the First Hospital of Xinjing in Manchuria." Another woman stood up, she was only in her early twenties, and what made Xue Kuiguang strange was that she was actually speaking authentic Hokkien dialect.

"You're from Fujian?" Xue Kuiguang asked while looking, and he felt that her Min language was not particularly fluent.

"I, I'm Taiwanese." Xie Jiuzi didn't know how she stood up, she just couldn't bear to be thrown into the sea with her good child.

"Taiwanese?" Xue Kuiguang felt that she did look like a Fujianese, "Then how do you go to the Northeast?" ”

"I, my home is in Xinjing." Xie Jiuzi is Taiwanese, but her family arrived in the Northeast very early, and she is not a doctor at Xinjing No. 1 Hospital, she is just a student, a five-year student at the seven-year Manchuria Medical University.

"Really a doctor?" Xue Kuiguang was a little skeptical, but in Li Kongrong's teaching, those who spoke Min were his own people, and vice versa were outsiders.

"Of course, it's the doctor." Xie Jiuzi had to grit his teeth and admit that he was a doctor, "That boy ......"

"That boy cried so much, I just asked him to go to the bridge to blow the wind." Xue Kuiguang wanted to laugh but couldn't, "Come with me, we're just going to have a doctor." He turned away.

Li Kongrong, who was carried off the bridge after being injured, was lying on the bed in the captain's room, he had woken up once at noon, but when he woke up, his whole body was in a heart-rending pain, and the military doctor Chen Shunqi had to give him morphine so that he could fall asleep. He really couldn't do anything about the steel on his cheek other than the morphine injection, which he suspected could get into his skull.

"Why don't you take out these pieces of iron?" Xie Jiuzi's doctor's identity made Chen Shunqi agree to open the gauze, and the wound had already been cleaned and repaired, but the two pieces of steel inserted in the cheekbones did not move. In order to prevent the taut gauze from squeezing the steel sheet, he also padded a thick cotton wool on the side of the steel sheet, so that the wrapped gauze would not press against the steel sheet.

"I'm afraid they'll get in my head." Chen Shunqi said worriedly, he didn't know how long these steel pieces that only showed their heads were, but he knew that the thickest skull was only one centimeter. "It's best to take it to the hospital for a photo before picking it up."

"Is it time to go to Shanghai?" Although the lights were not dim, Xie Jiuzi still turned on the flashlight to take a closer look at the injury.

"Shanghai is an enemy area, so we can only return to ......" Chen Shunqi was just about to say that he would return to Manila, when Liu Yongren coughed behind him. …… Go back to the base hospital to take a picture and then determine whether to take it off. After changing his words, he turned around and glanced at Liu Yongren and nodded.

"How many days?" Xie Jiuzi didn't dare to ask the destination of the submarine again, so he had to time.

"One, a week or so." Chen Shunqi glanced at Liu Yongren again, and only replied when he nodded.

"It's been too long." Hearing that it would take a week for treatment, Xie Jiuzi thought that even if he was just a student, he would definitely die if the injury dragged on. "The temperature inside the boat was very high and it was still very wet, and if the shrapnel was not removed immediately, there was a high risk that the wound would be infected, which would be difficult to heal considering that the wound was in the head......

Although the human skull is hard, the weight of a stationary object that can withstand without causing fractures is only about 280 kilograms. Exceeding this weight can cause a fracture. Judging from the location of the wound and the depth of the shrapnel, even if the shrapnel did not penetrate the skull, the cheekbone has been depressed and fractured, and the fracture may cause increased intracranial pressure and congestion. If there is congestion in the skull...... It's hard to delay a week like this......"

What Xie Jiuzi said was not unreasonable, and Liu Yongren behind her raised his throat in his heart. Everyone decided not to take the broken steel piece immediately because they had penicillin in their hands, but if the cheekbone was really broken, it was useless to have penicillin. "So what to do?" He asked weakly.

"It is necessary to debride first to remove the compression of bone fragments on brain tissue, so as to change local blood circulation and avoid congestion of broken blood vessels. If shrapnel does penetrate the skull, the dura mater will have to be repaired. Xie Jiuzi replied.

"Will you do it?" Liu Yongren looked at her, with doubt and expectation in his eyes.

"I can't do it, I'm not a surgeon." Xie Jiuzi's answer disappointed Liu Yongren. "Better ......," she said.

"What's the best?" Liu Yongren asked.

"It's best to send it to Shanghai Hospital immediately, which is the safest way." Xie Jiuzi was uneasy about his suggestion, and she knew that it would be difficult for them to take it - now only the southern district of the Shanghai concession remained, and although there were large hospitals and skilled surgeons, it was not close to the sea, and it was difficult for submarines to dive into the Huangpu River.

"You really can't be cured?" Liu Yongren shook his head when he thought of Huangpu River, this is not something that his people can do.

"I can't do it." Xie Jiuzi shook his head again, "If you really want me to do it, it will hurt people." ”

"You go back first." Xie Jiuzi said that he couldn't do it, and Chen Shunqi next to him also shook his head, this girl is too young.

"What should I do?" After Xie Jiuzi left, Liu Yongren called Lin Xiangguang off the bridge to discuss, and Xue Kuiguang was also there.

"Send it to the concession." Xue Kuiguang was the first to say after hearing the condition, "You send me to Wusongkou, and I will take the chief to row in." ”

"What are you rowing? Kayaks? Lin Xiangguang looked at him and felt that his method was too Meng Lang.

"Then you can find a fishing boat and invite people to the submarine, and I'll row it." Xue Kuiguang said again, "Yongren has already said that it is too late, and it will be more dangerous if it drags on for a day." ”

"This must be reported to the New York Command." Lin Xiangguang sighed, he also knew that dragging it out was not a solution.

"No way!" Liu Yongren and Xue Kuiguang said in unison, Liu Yongren said: "The Japanese are staring, and once they send a report, they will be positioned, and doing so will only alert them." I think it's better for me to take the chief ashore, and you should keep an eye on the boatman. ”

"Just you? You can't, how many rings did you hit? When Xue Kuiguang heard that Liu Yongren was going to land, he immediately denied it.

"It's not just me. The female doctor also went, and she took morphine with her, pretending to be the chief's wife. Kuiguang also went, dressed as a boatman, but was not allowed to bring a gun. "Liu Yongren put together his own plan." The submarine will now go to the mouth of the Yangtze River to look for fishing boats, and we will not go to Wusongkou to Chongming, and we will be able to sail from here to the concession by tomorrow afternoon at the latest. ”

"No guns......" Xue Kuiguang had an opinion when he heard that he couldn't bring a gun, but Lin Xiangguang interrupted him, "That female doctor is Taiwanese and still works in the First Hospital of Changchun in Northeast China, is this person really credible?" ”

"I don't feel like a doctor." Liu Yongren said, after he finished speaking, the military doctor Chen Shunqi also said: "It's not like a doctor, but like a student." Everyone is a Min person, and we saved her, she can't ......."

"But we sank the Bonten Pill." Lin Xiangguang said. "Maybe her family is dead."

"Then I'll go." Chen Shunqi said. "Although it is not far from Chongming to the concession, the chief must be taken care of."

"It's all men, and it's sure to arouse the suspicion of the Japanese." This time, it was Liu Yongren who objected. "I mean, after finding the fishing boat, the fisherman stays on the submarine, Kuiguang goes up, the chief and the female doctor are husband and wife, and the boat they hire, I can be regarded as a subordinate or a friend, so it is much more reasonable. A boat is full of men, what do you say about everyone's relationship? ”

Liu Yongren was the most meticulous of the U-38 officers, and he and Lin Xiangguang also had emergency contact information at various ports along the coast, so that they could find support after going ashore. The main reason for this arrangement is that the Japanese and Wang's puppet spies will find flaws. What is rare is that the female doctor also speaks Hokkien and works in a Manchurian hospital, as long as she can really help, the possibility of the plan is greatly improved.

"No, I'm going to talk to her." Liu Yongren stood up and said, he took two steps and turned back: "Xiangguang, you are responsible for finding a boat in Chongming, and I am responsible for persuading the female doctor." And Lao Chen, you immediately change the commander's clothes, anything with the navy mark must be replaced, and the left side of his face must be bandaged, so that they can avoid comparing the photos left by the commander before. ”

"So what am I doing?" Xue Kuiguang saw that Lin Xiangguang and Chen Shunqi had work to do, but he didn't have anything to do.

"You eat first, then you sleep. Xiangguang finds the boat, you are responsible for rowing, the sooner you get to the concession, the better. Liu Yongren said.

Liu Yongren arranged everything, he walked Lin Xiangguang patted Xue Kuiguang, and said with a smile: "Go eat, after eating and sleeping, we will have the strength to row tomorrow, we are all busy." ”

"Where is Miss from Taiwan?" The aft torpedo compartment was emptied, and Liu Yongren invited Xie Jiuzi to come here to talk.

"I'm from Tanzi, Taichung." Xie Jiuzi was a little uneasy, she didn't know what the officer in front of her was talking to her for.

"Taichung Tanzi?" Liu Yongren is not familiar with Taiwan. "Is Miss alone this time?"

"Well, I'm alone." Xie Jiuzi said, "I was in Shanghai Hospital a few months ago...... Help, this time just went back to Xinjing. ”

"Okay." Hearing that she was just a person, Liu Yongren's hanging heart was half relieved. "Does Miss know who we are?"

"You, you're not... Volunteer... Navy? Xie Jiuzi heard some things from Xue Kuiguang just now, and she still remembered that these people did not listen to the orders of Chang Kaishen of the Chongqing government.

"Yes, we are volunteer navy." Liu Yongren nodded, "Do you know who this navy is?" ”

"I don't know." Xie Jiuzi said.

"The vast majority of us are Fujianese, and some are overseas Chinese." Liu Yongren explained. "We are not subordinate to the Chongqing government, we are only fighting to defend our homeland, protect the Min people and all overseas Fujian people. If the Japanese bully them, we will fight the Japanese, and if the Kuomintang bullies them, we will fight the Kuomintang.

Our chief said that the Min people do not fight the Min people, and the Min people must be united. Miss just said that her ancestral home is Fujian, so you are a relative of the navy. You also saw the chief's injury just now, Miss is right, it can't be delayed, we just ask Miss to accompany the chief to the concession hospital, and take care of him along the way. Then I'm worried about the spy, so I asked the lady to pretend to be the wife of the officer. ”

Min Xie Jiuzi listened to it cordially, but thinking that these people sank the cruise ship and hundreds of people died, Xie Jiuzi was not cordial. "How can I be your chief's wife?" At only twenty-one years old, she was a little flustered. "I'm ......"

"I don't want you to be the wife of our commander, but the wife of our commander, especially when you encounter the Japanese army or the puppet army. This way we are less likely to be exposed. Liu Yongren said with a smile. It's just pretending, not real. ”

"And when will you let me go?" Xie Jiuzi breathed a sigh of relief.

"What do you mean to let you go?" Liu Yongren was a little unhappy, "You are from Fujian, your sister, and the sister's sister of the chief, will we lock you up?" If it weren't for the sake of saving people, the commander wouldn't have been injured at all, but he was worried that the Japanese would come late, so he ordered to save people. ”

"But you ......" Xie Jiuzi wanted to speak and stopped, she wanted to say that you sank the Fengtian Pill.

"The sinking of the Fengtian Pill is a military order, why did you sink it because Wang Jingwei was on the ship." Liu Yongren said, "We are also forced to do so. ”