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

In the afternoon of the next day, Yamei's father suddenly came to Wei Shaolan's house. Before the man could sit down, he began to cry. Wei Shaolan gave him a towel to wipe his face, and his mother-in-law was also beside him to persuade him. Seeing Yamei's father crying so sadly, everyone knew that Yamei had encountered misfortune.

After crying for a while, Yamei's father said, "I went to Shaziling in Maling Town early this morning. I entered the compound, and the house in the compound was already inhabited. Two turrets were built between the houses. The houses between the turrets that were used as fences had been used as cattle pens. The two turrets stood there, and the doors were open. I treked inside. It was a mess, with straw mats and discarded rags on the floor. There were also some tattered wooden beds and tables. I found a red sock in the turret in the southeast corner, picked it up and looked closely, and then I recognized that it was worn by Yamei. As he spoke, he took out the red sock and showed it to Wei Shaolan.

Wei Shaolan took the red socks and looked at them, and immediately recognized that they were Yamei's, because she had seen Yamei wearing black and white cloth shoes and red socks. She said to Yamei's father, "This is Yamei's socks." But what happened to her, you didn't ask?"

Yamei's father wiped his tears and said, "When I got off the turret, I went to the house where I lived next to the turret to inquire." I saw a middle-aged man tying grass for a cow, so I told him that my daughter was caught by the devils in the turret last year, and now the devils have surrendered, but my daughter has not seen anyone yet. The middle-aged man told me that his house had been burned down by devils and there was no place to live, so he lived here temporarily. He didn't know much about what was going on in the turret. So, he took me to the village next to the turret and asked someone to help me inquire. When the people in the village heard that my daughter had been caught in the turret by the devils, they all came to give me clues. A young man told me that he had seen a young girl being escorted by Japanese soldiers to wash clothes by the river. Another old man told me that there was a chef in Lincun who cooked in the Devil's Turret, and I could ask him. He might know about his daughter. So, the old man took me to Lincun and found the middle-aged man who was a chef. But the man said that he also escaped before the devil was ready to evacuate, and he didn't know what happened later, I'm afraid that the girl named Yamei was taken away when the devil retreated. ”

The mother-in-law said, "Just let the devil take it away, and now that the devil has surrendered, Yamei should come back." Obviously, Yamei will definitely never come back. Hearing this, Yamei's father began to cry again. His mother-in-law was on the side to persuade him. After a while, Wei Shaolan finished the meal and served it in front of him. But he said he didn't want to eat it, and then he stood up, took the cloth bag, and wept and left. Wei Shaolan and his mother-in-law sent him all the way to the intersection in front of the village.

Seeing off Yamei's father, Wei Shaolan and her mother-in-law returned to the house silently. Although Yamei's father left, there was still a deep sadness and sorrow in the house. Therefore, when he entered the house, Wei Shaolan felt very heavy. She thought that if she hadn't escaped from the devil's turret, her fate would definitely be as miserable as Yamei's, and she would have let the devil take her away when the devil had withdrawn, and take her somewhere to continue to be destroyed and ravaged by the beasts, until their end came, and then kill them. Yamei is afraid that this is the ending.

She sat on the edge of the bed in the back room and sewed a small winter quilt for the child, while thinking about what happened to her in the devil's turret. She clearly remembered the last time she saw Yamei. That day, she was raped by more than a dozen devil soldiers in a row, and when she was escorted back to the truck, she saw that Yamei was already lying on the truck. She lay flat on the truck, her eyes closed, motionless, as if she had died.

At this time, the child cried on the bed, but she didn't see it at all, and it was the mother-in-law who came in from the outhouse and picked the child up from the bed. At first glance, the child pooped and pulled a large piece of yellow cancan on the diaper. She quickly put down the work she was doing and changed the child's diaper with her mother-in-law.

At dinner in the evening, the mother-in-law told her father-in-law and son about what Yamei's father told when she came to the house today, and then said to her son, "Shaolan was able to escape from the devil's turret, this is her luck, and it is also the luck of our family, you have to treat her well." Let her slowly wake up from that nightmare. The son nodded silently. Seeing her husband's statement, Wei Shaolan was grateful to her mother-in-law and husband. felt that she had been devastated and tortured in the devil's turret, but her family was so kind to her, which made her feel that she was a blessing in misfortune.

In autumn and winter, it gets dark early. As soon as it got dark, the village fell silent. Wei Shaolan fed the child and changed the diaper, then blew out the oil lamp and fell asleep. By this time, the husband was already snoring loudly in the room outside. Since Wei Shaolan escaped from the turret, he has fallen into a problem, as long as he thinks about something at night, he will not be able to sleep for a long time. However, after almost a year of taking medicine and conditioning, I am much better now, and I rarely have trouble sleeping at night. However, today, she lay on the bed without a little sleepiness, and her mind was full of thinking about Yamei. She had only met Yamei a few times in total, once by the river, twice in the toilet, and four or five times in the truck. She recalled every time she met Yamei. That scene is clear and profound, and I still remember it vividly. If she hadn't escaped from the turret, then what happened to Yamei would have been her end.

She lay like this until midnight before falling asleep. In the dream, she saw that she had become a girl with a little girl, and she was ravaged by the devil soldiers in the turret in the dark night, and was pulled by a truck to the turret on the side of the elementary school during the day to be ravaged by the devils over there. She saw more than 30 ghost soldiers in the turret over there, lined up naked, wanting to vent their animal desires on her. She was so frightened that she ran out of the turret naked, crying and shouting, "Help, help!"

At this time, she was woken up by her husband, "What's wrong with you, you have nightmares again?" She opened her eyes and saw her husband standing by the bed in his coat and comforting her, but her heart was still beating suddenly. She said, "Chan Xian, I dreamed about the past again, and it scared me to death. Without saying a word, the husband went into her quilt, hugged her, and said, "Now, you don't have to be afraid." ”

Since she gave birth, her husband has never slept with her. In addition to the reason why it was convenient for the mother to come and take care of the mother and son, the more important reason was that he was choking his breath and did not want to see the child. He hated this child in his heart and regarded this child as his enemy. If his wife hadn't woken him up from her frightened cry in her dream, he wouldn't have come to her bedside at night, nor would he have gone under her quilt to be with her. He knew that when his wife had nightmares at night, she would be awakened and unable to sleep for a long time. Therefore, every time he came to accompany her, he was brave for her, so that she could slowly fall asleep peacefully.

Wei Shaolan was very grateful to her husband, like a frightened kitten, snuggled up to her husband's side, and then let her frightened heart slowly calm down.