"You want to join the black market and become like the Qing Gang?”
Hua and Wang both had unhappy expressions. Clearly, they had thought of something on another level.
Xu Qingfeng quickly explained," You've misunderstood. I don't want to have anything to do with the Qing Gang. However, if the order I gave you is made into medicine, I'm afraid it will be like Tang Sanzang's meat. Both demons and ghosts will want to take a bite." However, I didn't make the medicine to earn money, but to give it to the patriotic soldiers.”
Only then did the two of them relax. Then, they saw Hua Hongtai's expression of approval and said,"If you specially made the medicine for the sake of your country and then gave it to the patriotic soldiers, I can guarantee that the sales will be absolutely safe, because until now, no one dares to easily provoke our Axe Gang.”
Xu Qingfeng said," That's good. Since that's the case, I'll leave all the raw materials and medicinal herbs needed for the medicine in the future, as well as the way to get the finished product, to you two brothers. At the same time, I'll have to trouble you two brothers to help me inform Ninth Brother." Lastly, I will have to trouble the brothers of the Axe Gang to secretly protect my family's hospital and pharmaceutical factory. At the same time, I will go to the mountainous areas of Taihang Mountain to see if I can build a pharmaceutical factory and an arsenal. However, this must be kept secret. I don't want to be able to produce things now. I want to build a strong house or a cave on the cliff first. I will slowly talk about the details when I have time.”
The two of them did not understand why he wanted to build these things. They asked him but he did not say anything. In the end, they were too lazy to ask. Anyway, they just agreed.
Now that the main matter was almost settled, Xu Qingfeng was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something and asked,"Brothers, I wasn't there when the ship exploded. I was injured and only woke up recently. Can you two tell me what happened after that?”
"I have a newspaper here. I'll bring it to you now. I'll tell you what happened after you left!”As he spoke, he turned around and lit a candle. He went to the room and started rummaging through it. When he came out, he had a newspaper in his hand. He handed it to Xu Qingfeng." Read the report first!"”
He took the newspaper and sat down at the table. Through the dim light, he read the headline on the newspaper: " An explosion occurred in the waters of Gaochang Temple in Shanghai last night. Army General Shirakawa Yoshinori survived!"
The content of the report: At around 11 o'clock in the middle of the night yesterday, a large explosion suddenly occurred in the waters in front of the Gaochang Temple in Shanghai. The amount of explosives was quite shocking, and the huge waves caused the Japanese Navy's flagship, the Izumo, to flip over in the waters. Cracks appeared on the hull and water seeped.
There was also a report from the Japanese news agency. At the time of the explosion, General Shirakawa was holding a meeting with the commanders of the various Japanese troops to plan a further attack on the 19th Army. The explosion was about 20 meters away from the ship. The sudden explosion happened just as Shirakawa was speaking. Suddenly, he was knocked down on the deck by a huge shock wave and suffered a head injury. The other Japanese officers who attended the meeting were shocked and panicked.
After reading the report, Xu Qingfeng put away the newspaper and asked what happened. The two of them spoke one after another, explaining in detail what had happened.
The three of them chatted here until dawn. Finally, he took out the jade token and asked,"Brothers, why did you give me this jade token?”
The two of them looked at each other and smiled. Wang Qingyu explained,""You are now Ninth Brother's younger brother. This jade token is a symbol, just like the identity of the company's manager and chairman. If you have an emergency, you can use this to mobilize the members of the gang, but the premise is that you can't do evil like the people in the Qing Gang!”
Xu Qingfeng smiled." Don't worry. My original intention is to uphold justice!"”
The two nodded in satisfaction.
The next morning, the three of them parted ways. Hua and Wang went to help him with his samurai swords, while Xu Qingfeng continued to look for moldy things in his car. In the end, he still spent money to buy them.
At noon, he brought a pile of moldy things and raw materials to the laboratory. After putting down the things, he realized that it was quite inconvenient to be alone, so he had to find someone loyal to him.
After putting the things away, he went out to get a small plastic bucket from the pharmaceutical factory. He cut them into two halves and made 20 dark vessels at once. Then, he really started the preliminary steps of penicillin. He used the juice ground from rice and the juice ground from sweet potatoes as the base solution for cultivation. Then, he scraped off the moldy substances on the moldy things and placed them into twenty dark vessels. Then, he covered them and placed them here to wait for them to ferment.
He was busy until it was dark. When he left, he called for two people to guard the place and told them to tell that person if anyone went in. He also told them not to touch the Dark Artifacts and things he had made.
Xu Qingfeng nodded and left. He drove to have a meal before returning to the old man's residence and staying there for the night.
The next morning, when he woke up, he wanted to go to the Boy Scout School to take a look, but he suddenly remembered that he needed to find a few helpers. The older ones were more scheming, and only the younger ones were suitable to be slowly trained. When they grew up, he hoped that they could be used by him.
After breakfast, he said a few words to Old Man Xu and drove out again.
This time, he drove the car out of the city. He suddenly looked up. There were no tall buildings or trees outside the city. There was only an endless stretch of uneven wasteland. Naturally, there were also paddy fields with curved corners, but there were very few. There were also sparse grass-roofed houses and families.
He couldn't even see the person he wanted. If he continued to drive, he would have to go to the wilderness. He could only turn around on the road. In the end, he dropped halfway and suddenly, a small figure appeared under the road. He braked in time but still knocked over the person. In an instant, the figure disappeared.
There was no time to turn around now. He stopped the car and quickly went over to take a look. There were three or four children of seven or eight years old under the road. They were dressed in rags and were shaking the beggar who had just been knocked down. They were shouting,"Sister Xiang 'er, you can't die. What are we going to do if you die?”
One child cried, and the others cried with him. They were all calling for the unconscious beggar.
"It's you, it's all your fault. You're the bad guy who killed our sister Xiang 'er. Brothers, let's fight it out with him.”A young beggar saw Xu Qingfeng coming from the car and thought of his sister Xiang 'er who wanted to look at the car just now. In the end, she became like this. So this person was the murderer.
The other three no longer cried. Instead, they diverted their anger and wanted to fight Xu Qingfeng to the death.
"You guys can settle the score with me later. I'll go and see your sister now. Maybe I can save her!”He was not in the mood to explain to the children. After they made way for him, he went over to check his breathing and pulse. After confirming that he was still breathing, he picked him up and said,"Come with me now. I'll take her to the hospital.”
The children agreed and followed him into the car to hold her steady. Then, the car started and drove to the nearest hospital in the city.
On the way, he asked for the nearest hospital when he saw someone. Someone pointed in a direction and said,"There's a 'Land Mercy Flight' hospital there!”
Xu Qingfeng thanked him and drove quickly. However, he saw something he had never seen before on the road. There was a kind of person who pulled a large cart with several wooden coffins on it. He picked up the bodies of dead children by the roadside and stuffed them into the coffins. There were already several dead children inside.
"Corpse collection team…sigh, I wonder when we will become like them!”The child in the car looked at the coffin and spoke in a depressed tone.
"I'm so hungry. Are we going to die soon?”One of them said with a fearful expression.
"If you want more delicious food, you won't be hungry. This is what Sister Xiang 'er said!”Another suggestion.
The others responded with " hmm " and then seemed to be thinking about delicious food. After drooling, they looked sad again. After all, thinking about it was not as good as being really hungry.
"What's with the corpse collection team you're talking about?”Xu Qingfeng suddenly asked.
"The person who collected the bodies of the dead children you saw and put them into the small coffins. When the coffins in the carriage are filled, they will be dragged to the burning place and burned. After the burning is done, they will add soil there and make it a graveyard! However, there were also orphans who did not die. They would be sent to a place to settle down. As for what would happen in the future, no one knew!”It was the first answer.
"Does this happen every day? Are they all children?"
"There are also people who died of illness and lost their homes!”He replied as if it was his last words, so he did not ask why the other party asked such a question.
"Is the government not going to do anything about it and let many people die on the streets?”Xu Qingfeng frowned and asked again.
The other replied,"The country is at war every day. Who cares about the poor?" In the past, when a person died on the roadside, the corpse collector would rush the carriage to load the corpse, burn it, or just find a random place to bury it. Now that there were patrol officers, they had to issue a death certificate to collect the corpse. No one cared why the person died on the roadside.”
This was the Republic of China. Xu Qingfeng let out a long breath and changed the topic."What are your names?"
"Sister Xiang 'er will call our boss, second brother, third brother, fourth brother!”
"Uh, after I save your sister Xiang 'er, are you willing to follow me?”Xu Qingfeng asked.
"We will all follow Sister Xiang 'er."
"I didn't ask you to separate from Sister Xiang 'er. I asked your Sister Xiang' er to come to my house first. Are you willing to follow me?”
"We'll go wherever Sister Xiang 'er goes!”The boss replied, and the others echoed. In fact, they all wanted someone to control them, but many people avoided them after seeing them from afar. Now that someone was willing to take them, they were naturally willing in their hearts. "Can you make us full?"
Fourth Brother suddenly asked. The others looked on expectantly.
Xu Qingfeng was stunned for a moment before he smiled." Since I'm asking you to follow me, of course I'll let you eat your fill. However, I have to save your Sister Xiang 'er first."”
The children were very excited. In the past, begging for food was a problem. Now that someone was taking care of their meals, they were naturally happy.
In fact, the National Government had already tried to solve the problem of vagrant child beggars. For the sake of the city's image, they arranged for the child beggars who were capable of working to have sufficient food and clothing. They arranged a job for them. Although they could not make a fortune, it was not a big problem to solve the problem of food and clothing. Of course, this was in an important city. There were still many beggars in other places due to natural disasters and man-made disasters.
However, there were many orphans in important cities and people who starved to death on the streets. Because the Republic of China was a dark period, and because there were wars and bandits everywhere, many people died. Once a person died on the road, there would be a professional who would collect the corpse. This profession was called 'corpse picker', which was to put the corpse into a coffin made of wood for cremation or burial.
Corpse pickers in the Republic of China were real corpse pickers, but in modern times, there were many drunkards. They drank too much and fell unconscious as soon as they left the bar. No one cared about the men, and the women were mostly picked up and lost their chastity.
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