Shu Tongwen was stunned and said, "I don't know, how can I not know?" ”

"I ...... I don't really know. Ergua smiled bitterly, he really hadn't thought about this question before, so he couldn't answer it suddenly.

"And what do you want to eat?"

"Didn't you just eat pork stewed vermicelli yesterday?" The idea of two melons is very simple, in his cognition, pork stewed vermicelli is already the rarest delicacy in the world, to be able to eat a meal of pork stewed vermicelli before participating in the defense of Nanjing, at least in this aspect he has nothing to ask for, no regrets.

"Do you want to listen to the play?"

"Listening to a play? I don't like it. ”

"And what do you most want to do right now?"

"I ......" Ergua scratched his head anxiously and said, "I didn't think about it." ”

An old woman in the audience was anxious and said, "Child, haven't you ever thought about going home to see your parents?" ”

Ergua's face fell, and he said gloomily: "I don't have parents, or I have, but I don't know where they are." ”

Dare to love this is still an orphan, the old grandmother who asked suddenly burst into tears, in the crowd, Hong Xing, who was standing next to Yao Nianci, suddenly felt that her heart was touched fiercely, other national soldiers have parents and relatives, so there is still a sustenance, but this simple-looking, stupid little soldier doesn't even have the only sustenance, how pitiful should he be?

Seeing that the emotions of the Nanjing citizens in the audience had been completely mobilized, Shu Tongwen withdrew the loudspeaker, and his tone became high-pitched again: "Fathers and fellow villagers, we can't replace them to be soldiers, we can't replace them to die, but we can still help them do what we can."

We can help them dig trenches and repair fortifications, we can help carry the wounded and deliver supplies to the front line, we can also donate money to buy good food for the soldiers of the national army, and find a few theater troupes to go to the barracks to give condolence performances, we can't do much, but we can meet their small wishes, so that they will no longer leave this world with regrets.

Folks, the soldiers of the national army have given everything for us, including their lives, we must not let him shed blood and tears, please lend your hand, before they set foot on the battlefield, give them some help within their ability, they are all heroes, we can't let our heroes die with regrets. ”

Speaking of emotion, Shu Tongwen had already burst into tears, and it was difficult to choke up.

The crowd gathered in the audience couldn't hold back their emotions anymore and walked towards the donation box one after another.

There was an old grandmother who was already hungry, but she did not hesitate to put the two silver dollars in her hand into the donation box, these two silver dollars were probably made by her with Zuihou's hand ornaments, and it was likely to be the life-saving money of her family Zuihou, but she did not hesitate to donate it, she wanted to give the national army a meal haode.

A little girl who sells cigarettes timidly put half of Jiaoyang into the donation box, which is probably the pocket money she saved after selling cigarettes for a few days, although she is young, she also knows that it is not easy for these soldiers to be soldiers, although her liliang is very small, but she also wants to help them do what she can.

"Let's go, let's go back." Hongxing dragged Yao Nianci and walked back.

"Hey, don't drag it, I'll donate some money." Yao Nianci was dragged back involuntarily by the red apricot, turning her head and looking at Gao Shenxing not far away reluctantly.

"What else to donate?" As she walked, Hongxing said anxiously, "Go back and gather all the sisters, not only our Cuixi Building, but also the sisters of the entire Diaoyu Alley, let's go to the military camp outside the city to give a condolence performance, and all eighteen musical instruments will be on the stage, and sing a big drama for those who are soldiers!" ”

Qinhuai River is the gold powder of the six dynasties gathered, since ancient times the wind and moon are boundless, Jinling prostitutes are divided into three, six and nine, etc., especially the socialite courtesans who live in the fishing alley are the most superior, all of them can pull and sing, proficient in all kinds of musical instruments, and are good at Kunqu Opera, Yue Opera, Beijing Opera, Huangmei Opera and other repertoire, its color art, singing voice is especially superior to the general Ling.

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When Shu Tongwen returned to Chunhua Town with the team, more than 10,000 officers and soldiers of the 74th Army were not calm, they poured out of the barracks one after another, crowded on the side of the road to watch the excitement, especially when they saw the hundreds of courtesans wearing costumes walking at the front of the crowd, they all burst into a roar.

However, what pleased the officers and men of the 74th was the long cart in the ranks, which was full of whole pork, whole mouthfuls of beef and mutton, strings of slaughtered haode chickens and ducks, bags of flour, and even a whole car of towels, soap, and various brands of cigarettes, all of which were all good things.

Yu Jishi, Wang Yaowu and others who came out of the command headquarters were all moved.

At the beginning of the Battle of Songhu, the citizens of Shanghai also burst out with great enthusiasm, and Feng Shengfa still clearly remembers the touching scene when the military train full of officers and soldiers of the 88th Division slowly drove into the Zhenru Railway Station, and the citizens of Shanghai threw cigarettes, towels, biscuits, canned beef, and other condolences into the carriages.

However, by the time the 74th Army entered the Songhu battlefield, the situation in Songhu had already deteriorated, and after more than half a month of war, the financial and material resources of the citizens of Shanghai had been greatly depleted, and they could no longer provide much support to the officers and men of the national army on the battlefield, so Yu Jishi and Wang Yaowu felt the enthusiasm of the people for the first time.

"Timely rain, this is really timely rain." When Wang Yaowu turned his head to look at Yu Ji, he sighed a little and said, "Junzao, I'm worried about how to restore the morale of the brothers, but now it's okay, with these many condolences and the condolence performances of these troupe courtesans, at least the morale is no longer a problem." ”

Yu Jishi turned his head sideways, looked at Feng Shengfa and asked, "Brother Senfa, there is really you." ”

Feng Shengfa hurriedly said: "Junzao, don't dare to be greedy for merit in this humble position, this is all done by Xu Shijiu." ”

"Xu Nineteen?" Yu Jishi frowned slightly when he heard this, about this Xu Shijiu, Feng Shengfa had already met him many times, and he had also comprehensively checked Xu Shijiu's military experience, but in addition to the brilliant and incredible achievements, there were also some outrageous sayings that were difficult to tolerate.

Conclusion, Xu Shijiu has the ability, but he can't reuse it!

Seeing that Yu Jishi was silent, Feng Shengfa sighed in his heart, he mentioned Xu 19 in front of Yu Jishi several times, intentionally or unintentionally, with only one purpose, that is, to transfer Xu 19 to his side as the chief of staff or even the chief of staff of the 58th Division, but Yu Jishi obviously felt that it was not appropriate, so he did not express his position several times.

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The 74 th Army had no sleep tonight, and except for the guard troops, almost all the officers and men went to watch the play under a few temporarily erected theaters outside the town, and more than a dozen opera troupes from the city of Nanjing and more than 100 famous prostitutes from Qin and Huai performed all night, hoping that the more than 10,000 officers and men of the 74 th Army would be able to relax and bravely kill the enemy in the coming day.

Yao Nianci, Hong Xing and other more than a dozen Cuixi Lou girls played and sang even more intoxicated the officers and soldiers of the 74th Army, the hole Xiao blowing, the erhu playing, the pipa playing, and the Wu Nong song singing, even Xu Shijiu couldn't help but sigh, after experiencing this Qin Huai Fengyue, he really has no regrets in this life.

However, Xu Shijiu did not see Gao Shenxing in the queue sitting on the ground.

Back at the station, Gao Shenxing was really there, he was standing at the gate of the division headquarters looking at the sky in a daze, and when he saw Xu Shijiu coming, he quickly took out his Zhongzheng sword and wiped it carefully, Xu Shijiu had always been a little curious, Gao Shenxing did not graduate from Lu University, how did he get this Zhongzheng sword?

"Shen Xing, why don't you go to the play?"

"If you don't listen to it, the soft Kunqu opera will only make people depressed."

"Not necessarily, I think the brothers' interest is very high, I'm afraid there is another reason, right?"

Gao Shenxing was silent, Xu Shijiu took out a pack of three forts from his trouser pocket, bent his fingers and flicked the bottom of the cigarette case, a cigarette bounced out of the cigarette case, Xu Shijiu handed the cigarette case to Gao Shenxing again, and said, "Come one?" ”

Gao Shenxing shook his head, the officers and cadets who came out of the Whampoa Military Academy were greatly influenced by President Jiang, and basically did not smoke, and after the army officers moved from Beijing to Nanjing, they were soon branded by President Jiang.

Xu Shijiu took back his cigarette, lit it to himself, and smoked it beautifully.

Neither of them spoke, one was carefully wiping the Zhongzheng Sword, and the other was smoking beautifully, until a slight sound of footsteps came from behind the two, Gao Shenxing was wiping the Zhongzheng Sword The action suddenly paused, and when Xu Shijiu looked back, a slender figure had already stepped on the light footsteps and walked over.

Xu Shijiu patted Gao Shenxing's shoulder, turned around and walked away.

Naturally, it is a woman, and this woman is naturally Yao Nianci.

When he staggered past Xu Shijiu, Yao Nianci glanced at him, but when he turned to Gao Shenxing again, Yao Nianciqiao's face was already full of resentment, and she said faintly: "Ah Chu, can we talk?" ”

Gao Shenxing took a breath of hot air on Leng Sensen's sword blade, and then wiped it carefully again.

Seeing that Gao Shenxing didn't pay attention to his meaning at all, Yao Nianci's eyes became more and more sad, tears welled up in her beautiful eyes, and she whispered: "Ah Chu, things are not what you imagined, Wang Wenxing and I are completely hypocritical, I have a hard time doing this, please believe me, okay?" Really, I always have you in my heart.

Gao Shenxing still didn't say anything, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a hint of mockery.

Looking at the mocking look at the corner of Gao Shenxing's mouth, Yao Nianci felt like she had been pricked by a needle, and she was almost desperate to reveal all her hidden feelings to the other party, but when the words came to her mouth, she swallowed them back raw, not that she didn't want to say it, but that she really, really couldn't say it.

After a moment of stasis, Gao Shenxing turned around and walked away, he didn't say a word to Yao Nianci from beginning to end, and he didn't even look at her.