Huang Ke is going to the city for a walk, which makes Fourteen Tsai very nervous. You must know that now the urban area of Nanjing has entered a wartime state, not to mention any assassin assassinations and the like, the aerial bombardment of the Japanese alone is scary enough.

Huang Ke waved his hand and said, "What's so terrible in our own place? You go and make a simple arrangement, and we'll go everywhere, wherever we go. ”

With that, Huang Ke and Xiao Shanling went out in a jeep. Originally, he was going to take an open-top jeep, so convenient. But he couldn't help Fourteen Tsai, he said it wasn't safe. Huang Ke couldn't argue with him anymore, so he had to obey him and change into a Yellow River Jeep of the Ministry of National Defense.

Jeeps are heading towards the city center, and the streets are full of sandbag fortifications, and the once bustling commercial streets are closed down.

Seeing this, Huang Ke asked Xiao Shanling: "How long has the business of Nanjing City been stagnant?" ”

Xiao Shanling shook his head and said, "I can't tell the specific date, but since the Japanese began to attack, most of the merchants have begun to close down." ”

"Oh, what about rice, grain, oil, vegetables and so on?" Huang Ke is still more concerned about the basic life of the people. The closure of ordinary shops may cause inconvenience to life, but when firewood, rice, oil and salt are closed, it will be a mess.

"It's almost all closed at the same time. The few who did not close their doors were also officials and businessmen with backgrounds, and they began to raise prices and hoard rice in the later period, but fortunately, the government introduced a timely bailout policy. After Xiao Shanling said this, Huang Ke frowned.

"Talk about specifics." Huang Ke said.

Xiao Shan ordered: "We have set up rice collection points in different parts of the city, and distribute a certain amount of rice, vegetables and the like to people every day according to household registration statistics. At the same time, there are also temporary relief points in many places in the urban area, and if people can't eat, they can get a bowl of porridge to eat. At present, on the whole, the basic livelihood of officials, soldiers, and ordinary people who remain in Nanjing can still be guaranteed. ”

Along the way, Huang Ke noticed several stalls selling rice, as well as several aid stations. On the way, from time to time, people carry bags to buy rice, and many people at the aid station are queuing up to receive free porridge noodles.

Seeing this, Huang Ke said to the driver in front: "Stop in front, let's go down and have a look." ”

The driver responds and starts pulling over. Seeing that the convoy stopped, Fourteen Tsai, who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat, immediately got out of the car, and the other guards also got out of the car.

"You! You! You! Hurry up, all in place according to their respective positions. Fourteen Tsai shouted loudly, and the guards of the Security Bureau immediately began to run in the original direction, and a wave of guards in civilian clothes hurriedly gathered around Huang Ke with Fourteen Tsai, and followed him towards the crowd of people receiving porridge.

The crowd in line obviously saw Huang Ke and their arrival, and everyone pointed and pointed, but most of them were still queuing. After all, for everyone, the most important thing is their belly.

Huang Ke greeted everyone with a smile, and most of the people also gathered around him to greet him and shake hands.

"Mr. Huang is good!" "Hello Minister Huang!" ……

"Hello everyone! Hello everyone! Huang Ke raised his right hand and beckoned to everyone.

"Is the porridge and rice still appetizing?" Huang Ke asked.

"Appetite!" "It's just that the queue is too long!" "It would be nice if you could put some preserved eggs and lean meat in it!" Everyone talked nonsense.

Huang Ke responded with a smile and did not speak.

He walked forward, surrounded by everyone, to the front desk where porridge and rice were distributed. The staff at the front desk were also a little excited and nervous, and they didn't know what to say.

"You've worked hard!" Huang Ke smiled at the staff and said, "Come, I'll cut in line and give me a bowl of porridge to taste." ”

The staff looked at some black porridge in the pot and was a little at a loss, and Xiao Shanling, who was still on the side, said in an order-like tone: "Hurry up, the chief has to wait for a hurry." ”

The staff made a bowl and handed it to Huang Ke.

"Okay, thanks." After Huang Ke brought the porridge, he picked up the chopsticks and ate it. He didn't drink porridge like an ordinary official, but really sucked it, and made a sound from time to time, which shortened the distance between him and the crowd at the scene.

After a while, Huang Ke finished drinking, to be honest, these rice are indeed very bad, they are all boiled from the broken rice of those japonica rice, and it is estimated that they have not been cleaned much, because they have eaten sand several times in it.

However, in front of the crowd, Huang Ke naturally couldn't show it, and besides, he didn't mean to blame these staff, after all, the workload is so large, it is enough to ensure sufficient quantity and food safety.

At this time, Huang Ke noticed a seven or eight-year-old girl standing in front of him, the little girl was holding a crude bowl in her hand, and her eyes were looking directly at Huang Ke.

Huang Ke squatted down and leaned down and asked, "Little girl, who are you here with today?" ”

The little girl looked around and pointed to an old woman in the back. The old grandmother hurriedly picked her up and said, "Chief, this child is here with my wife." ”

Huang Ke looked at the old woman, she was about seventy or eighty years old, she was wearing a coarse cloth gown full of patches, and a pair of wrapped feet looked particularly obvious in front of the fat clothes.

"Old man! Is this your granddaughter? Huang Ke asked with a smile.

The old grandmother shook her head, then nodded and said, "Chief, this is my granddaughter, and I am her grandmother." ”

Huang Ke sighed and said, "I heard that your accent is from the north, right?" ”

"Yes, I'm from Shandong. A few years ago, I came to Nanjing with my children's parents. The old lady said.

"What about the child's parents?" Huang Ke asked and regretted it at the same time, obviously the child's parents were likely to have died in this war.

Sure enough, speaking of this, the old grandmother sighed and said: "The child's father is on the front line, and the child's mother injured the Japanese devil's plane a few days ago, and he is still in the hospital." ”

Speaking of this, the little girl raised her head and asked, "Uncle, are you a big official?" ”

Huang Ke leaned down and nodded, "Hey, how did you see that?" ”

The little girl pointed to the lapel national uniform on his body and said, "My grandmother said that those who wear such good clothes are all high officials." ”

Huang Ke smiled: "Then you will wear such clothes in the future." ”

The little girl pouted and said, "No, I don't want to wear such clothes." ”

"Why?" Huang Ke said with a smile.

Everyone was amused by the child, but the child's next words made many people's hearts rise to the throat.

The child pouted, "They say that people in such clothes run away as soon as there is a fight." ”

Huang Ke couldn't help but be shocked by these words, and he said that the words that came out of such a child's mouth were often the most true.

Without waiting for Huang Ke to answer, the little girl tilted her head again and asked, "Uncle, will you run too?" ”

Huang Ke picked up the child, shook his head and said, "Don't worry, uncle won't run." Nanjing will not fall into the hands of the Japanese either. ”

The child's grandmother was frightened, quickly picked up the child and hurriedly said: "The child is talking nonsense, the child is talking nonsense." ”

Huang Ke smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, the child is telling the truth." It is true that some of our government officials tried to run away as soon as the war began. But I'm here to assure you that I'm here to be with you no matter what time the fight takes. Nanjing will not fall! ”

After speaking, several accompanying officials took the lead in applauding, first with some sparse applause, and then everyone also reacted, and they all applauded, and the applause began to roar like thunder.

Knowing that Huang Ke came to inspect, the people around him gathered, and the more people gathered, the applause became more and more roaring.

Huang Ke pressed it with his hand, and when the applause was scarce, he said: "You can rest assured that Nanjing will not fall!" We will be able to defeat the Japanese invaders! “

"Defeat the Japanese invaders!"

"China will not forget!"

The crowd shouted excitedly, and the voices overshadowed one wave after another.

Later, Huang Ke asked the old man and the little girl to ask for their addresses alone, and he said to Fourteen Tsai: "Send someone to send some food and play, and then see if there are any practical difficulties to help." ”

Huang Ke said this to Fourteen Tsai when he was about to get into the car. He didn't say it in front of everyone, because he knew that there must be someone who was more difficult than this family, and once he did, he might have opened the hole. Of course, he chose to say it before getting into the car, and he also said it to the officials present, and he did not rule out that some officials would put on small shoes for the family afterwards, so he expressed his concern and let those people dispel this thought.

After the inspection here, Huang Ke's face turned pale. He sighed and said to Xiao Shan: "Tie Nong, you can see it, this is the attitude of the common people towards us. How industrious and tolerant the Chinese people are, if this were in some countries in Europe and the United States, I am afraid that the common people would have rebelled a long time ago. But our people are still suffering silently here, if we don't make up our minds to fight in Nanjing, are we worthy of these people? ”

Speaking of emotion, Huang Ke took a deep breath and said: "If they are willing to go, their great cause is a great cause, and the great cause of these ordinary people is not a great cause?" As soon as we leave, the Japanese will enter Nanjing, burn, kill, loot, and do all kinds of evil, will they be at ease? ”

After speaking, Huang Ke said again: "What about Chen Liewen? All the arrangements for this afternoon have been cancelled, I am going to go around Nanjing, and I want the people to know that I, Huang Ke, have not been scared away by the Japanese. ”

After a day's inspection, Huang Ke was ready to return. On the way, he received information from the front that the Japanese army had captured the Jiangyin fortress, and the 18th Division had begun to attack the front line of the Purple Mountain, and the situation was precarious.

At present, Nanjing's outer positions have basically been occupied by the Japanese army, and Huang Ke knows that the time has come to use the last new force to fight the Japanese!