Comfort Women's Japanese Aberdeen (novella) Zhang Baotong 2017.12.22

Luo Shanxue is very self-aware, he doesn't look for those who are young and beautiful, with a high level of education, nor do he look for those with good family conditions and smart and beautiful. He just wants to find an ordinary rural girl who does his duty. However, such a girl is beyond his reach.

Originally, things like finding a partner for a child are generally parents who help introduce and match them by contacting some relatives and relationships. However, because he is not his father's biological son, his father almost does not care about his affairs. So, he had to figure it out on his own. He has nothing to ask for, only to take the initiative and be attentive to do something for others, to help others, so that others will bother to introduce and talk to him for him out of gratitude. He had great hopes whenever someone helped him match, but that hope often quickly turned to disappointment. And every disappointment hurts his soul once. But he can't help but look for it again, because he is a man and hopes to get married and start a family.

One evening, when it was dark, he smoked a cigarette and walked home from the side of the road in the outer village. Suddenly, he heard someone shouting, "Help, help!" He hurried to look over the pond not far from the side of the road, and saw a young woman falling into the pond with a child on her back. He hurried over, jumped into the water, swam towards the woman, grabbed the woman's hand, and pulled her little by little to the shore. Then, he helped the woman to get the bucket out of the pond and carried the water to the woman's house.

Originally, carrying water should be done by a man in the countryside, but this woman is a widow, and the man was electrocuted to death last year. The woman was still very young, only twenty-four or five years old, with a boy who was more than a year old. Just now, when she was carrying water, she accidentally slipped from the bluestone slab that reached into the pond and fell into the pond.

Back in the house, the woman hurriedly led Luo Shanxue to the kitchen, poured the water in the bucket into the water tank, and then asked him to stay in the hall and wait first, and went into the next room by himself. After a while, the woman changed into a dry suit and took out a suit that her husband had worn in the past and asked him to change into it immediately.

Luo Shanxue went into the next room, took off his soaked clothes, and changed into dry clothes. In order to repay the saving grace, the woman wanted to keep him for dinner. Luo Shanxue really wanted to stay and eat with the woman, but he didn't know that the woman was a widow, seeing that it was already dark, he was afraid that the man of the family would come back and see it badly, so he took his clothes and left in a hurry.

In the afternoon of the next day, Luo Shanxue came over to return the clothes to the people, and watched the woman carry the child on her back to water the vegetables in the vegetable field in front of the door, so she put the clothes on the clean grass, grabbed the long dung spoon, and helped the woman water the fertilizer. When you're done watering the vegetable patch, go back to the house. The woman brought him a basin of water for him to wash his face and hands. When the woman also washed her face and hands, went into the back room to change her clothes and came out, Luo Shanxue found that this little daughter-in-law was really handsome, with a good figure, high breasts and big buttocks, and she was a very capable woman at first glance.

The woman made a cup of sugar boiling water for Luo Shanxue, which was a very respectful courtesy to the guests. Luo Shanxue drank sugar water while talking to the woman. He asked the woman, "Carrying water and watering fertilizer are all the work of men, so how can you be allowed to do this work? What about you men?"

The woman sighed when she heard this, and then led him to her bedroom. On the table in the bedroom is a portrait of a young man framed in black. Seeing this, Luo Shanxue knew that the woman's man was dead. The two returned to the hall and continued to talk. Luo Shanxue said to the woman, "You didn't look for it again?" The woman said, "I'm a widow with a child, and it's not so easy to find it again." ”

Hearing this, Luo Shanxue wanted to say to her, "If you don't dislike it, I'm willing to live with you." However, he did not know what the woman meant, and could not say such a thing. So, he said, "You're still young and pretty, and it's not hard to find it." The two chatted until dark, and Luo Shanxue had dinner in the women's room before reluctantly leaving.

In the evening of the next day, Luo Shanxue came over again, helped the woman carry water, cut pig food, and talked with the woman for a while. Luo Shanxue knew that women also had a good impression of him, otherwise, women would not let him help carry water and work.

Luo Shanxue has to work in the team during the day, and he can only come out after dinner in the evening. Fortunately, the woman was in Lincun, only three or four miles away from their village, but it would take ten minutes to get there. This young and handsome widow made Luo Shanxue full of joy, he worked during the day, he was always thinking about that woman, thinking about how to live and love with her, give birth to children together, live together, and be with Meimei, intimacy, how happy and beautiful it should be. As soon as he finished work, he hurriedly ate dinner and hurried towards Lincun. Then, he can drink tea and talk with the woman he loves. It was a very warm and comforting feeling.

However, one evening half a month later, when he came to the woman's house again, the woman said to him very sadly, "Shanxue, don't come again in the future." Someone told my in-laws about our together. My mother-in-law won't let me have any more dealings with you. Luo Shanxue was taken aback, so he asked, "Why?" The woman said for a long time, "They said you are a Japanese boy." ”

Luo Shanxue heard this and lowered his head. He let out a long sigh and left the woman's house in tears. He went back to the house, lay down on the bed, sighed, and did not sleep all night. The next morning, his eyes were red and swollen, and he was sleepy and tired, but he still managed to go down to the field.

He mourned for more than 20 days in a row, but he still missed her very much. One afternoon, he remembered her again, and was eager to see her again, so he crept to a far place from the woman's door, and wanted to see her again from a distance. However, he only saw two old men in front of the woman's house, but he did not see the woman he wanted to see. So he asked a passer-by about it. The man told him that the woman had married into Peach Blossom Village, which was ten miles away from here. When he heard this, there was a deep sadness in his heart.

This incident was another blow to his heart, making him feel that there was a black expanse in front of him, and he could not see even the slightest hope. The name Japanese boy was nailed to him like a great shame, so that he could never erase it and break free. The Japanese boy made him a monster, making men disgusted, women avoiding, and even the group of children looking at him with contempt. So, even he thinks he might be a monster, or why wouldn't people accept him?

This shadow of his heart almost made him lose the courage to go to a woman again. Because he knew that any woman would leave him as soon as she heard that he was a Japanese boy, so in order not to get hurt again, he shrunk his head in his shell like a snail.