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

On that day, a Japanese soldier escorted her to the small river outside the compound of the stronghold and asked her to wash the clothes of the devil soldiers. Out of the stronghold compound, she felt that the world had changed, not only the world was open, the sun was kind, and even the air had become fresh and pleasant. She stood on the edge of the river and looked towards her hometown, but the river in front of her, the village in front of her, and the path in front of her felt so strange. Even she couldn't tell the way.

She went down to the river, and the cold wind from the river whirred and drilled into her through the sleeves and the seams of her clothes. She put her hand into the water, which was very cold. From the feeling of the river, she realized that it was November of the year. In this way, she has been caught here for a month. She put the devil's military uniform in the river and washed it slowly, so that she could spend more time by the river. However, the devil soldier who guarded her stood on the high place of the river bank with a gun on his back, and when he was a little impatient, he gestured and shouted at her. She stood up from the river without hurrying.

Another time, she went out to do the laundry and happened to bump into the girl named Yamei. The two of them were like sisters, squatting by the river while washing clothes and talking. Yamei told Wei Shaolan that her parents were poor, and the family only had two acres of paddy fields and one acre of mountainous land. She has an older brother and a younger brother. The elder brother is twenty years old, and the younger brother is fourteen years old. Because their families were poor, they didn't go to school. However, because she is beautiful and smart, her parents married her to a big family in Guandong Village. The family's surname is Zhou, and his son is twenty years old, white and pure, and he is in middle school in the county. Their family not only has dozens of acres of paddy fields in the village, but also has a store in the county seat. People in the village said that she had a good life, married to a rich family, and would be able to enjoy great fortune in the future. However, unexpectedly, she was caught here by the devil. At this, she began to cry. Wei Shaolan comforted her and said that although she did not marry a rich family, her husband's family was very good to her. But who knew that this would happen. As he spoke, the two hugged each other and cried. When the two devil soldiers who were guarding them saw them hugging each other and crying, they hurried over, separated the two of them, urged them to do their laundry quickly, and then escorted them back.

Wei Shaolan had to come out every two or three days to wash his clothes. However, she didn't meet Yamei again. Later, when they were escorted to the devil's stronghold at the elementary school together, Yamei told her in the car that the devil usually let her come out to wash clothes in the afternoon, deliberately to avoid letting the two of them meet, for fear that the two of them would discuss something together.

Once, when she was doing laundry, she found that the devil soldier who was guarding her didn't know what he was doing and wasn't there. She thought that if she ran away at this time, surely the devil would not know. So, when she came out to do the laundry again, she carried the child on her back and prepared to run away. However, it was as if the devil seemed to see that she was going to run away, and every time he watched her very closely, so that she could not escape. However, she did not give up and was always ready to run away whenever she had the opportunity.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and the wind on the river is getting louder. But she was still wearing the same clothes she wore two months ago, and the clothes on the child's body were too thin. However, she had no way to add clothes to the child, so she could only let the child suffer with her. This made her feel very conflicted, on the one hand, she wanted to find a chance to escape with the child, but on the other hand, she was worried that if she spent a long time by the river, the child would catch a cold and get sick. Therefore, as long as she saw that the devil was watching her closely, she hurriedly washed her clothes and took the child back to the house.

Because he was always thinking about escaping, Wei Shaolan often stood in front of the window and looked into the distance. Outside the window is the village, which has long been unoccupied, so there is a dead silence in the village, and some houses have been burned down, leaving a ruin. The afternoon sun was so bright that you could see far away from the village, and even the mountains not far from the village. Between the village and the side of the mountain, there is a forest, and on the other side of the forest is a large paddy field. However, the fields were overgrown with grass half a man high. She thought that if she wanted to escape, she would have to run in the direction of the mountain, which would be far away from the road, and once she reached the mountain, it would be difficult for the devil to find her again.

That afternoon, when she went to the toilet, she found that the devil had not followed her. It made her feel like she had a chance. However, she couldn't get out of the compound. Because the door of the compound is locked, and there are devils' sentinels in front of the gate of the compound. So, she just watched carefully by the toilet. She soon discovered that there was an abandoned aisle at the back of the toilet, with the wall of the building on one side and a fence about two meters high on the other. The aisle is very deep, and it is overgrown with wild trees and grasses, and there is no end in sight.

Because it was daytime, she didn't dare to go into the aisle, for fear that she would be discovered by the devils in the yard. So she went back to the house, and while she sat on the edge of the bed and picked up the grains of sand in the rice, she wondered if she could get out of the aisle when it was dark.

She picked up grains of sand from the dustpan of rice, and carried the dustpan downstairs to the kitchen. Because there was a ghost soldier in the kitchen who was in charge of the chef, Wei Shaolan didn't dare to talk to the chef. The devil soldier checked the rice brought by Wei Shaolan and let Wei Shaolan leave. Wei Shaolan went back to the upstairs room, just waiting for dark.

Because it was winter, it got dark very quickly, and after dinner, it got dark. As soon as it got dark, the mustachioed soldier Cao came over and asked Wei Shaolan to sleep with him. When the military cao fell asleep and died, Wei Shaolan got dressed and pretended to go to the toilet, so he quietly got out of bed and went out. The winter night is very dark and cold, and the north wind is blowing. Wei Shaolan came down from the upper floor in the dark and entered the compound.

The moon was dark and the stars were sparse, it was pitch black, and the compound was empty. Wei Shaolan looked around for a while, and saw that there was no movement in the entire compound, so he quietly walked to the aisle. Because it was dark and dense, the aisle was pitch black, and I couldn't see anything clearly. Wei Shaolan entered the aisle overgrown with wild branches, and groped forward with his hands as he picked up the branches and wild grass that blocked him. But she didn't dare to make a sound, because there was a window on this side of the building, and the slightest movement would be discovered by the devil soldiers in the building. She slowly and gently came to the end of the aisle. The end is still surrounded by a wall, but there are some trees that are not very tall on the side of the wall. So she climbed the tree up the wall to the wall. And on the other side of the wall is the river. As long as she picks up from the wall, she can go down to that side.

It can be said that as soon as she jumps off the wall, she can fly away like a bird and leave this magic cave from now on. However, the child was still in the house, and she could not do without it. So, she came down from the tree and returned the same way in the aisle. When she reached the entrance of the aisle, she looked towards the compound for a while, and found that there was no movement, so she went into the toilet, relieved herself, and went back to the upstairs room.

At this time, the devil soldier who was sleeping on the bed was awakened by the sound of her entering the house and asked her a question. She pointed to her stomach and said she had diarrhea. The soldier turned around and continued to fall asleep.

It can be said that the preparations for escape have been made, and she really wants to tell Yamei the news and let Yamei escape with her, but she still hasn't seen Yamei for two days. Wei Shaolan thought that Yamei was in the devil's turret, and she was very closely guarded by the devil, so I was afraid it would not be easy to come out at night. As a result, Wei Shaolan could only escape with the child by herself.

That afternoon, Wei Shaolan was going to wash the clothes of the ghost soldiers, but she pretended to be very sick and kept lying on the bed and knocking over. Seeing that she was so sick, the devil army Cao didn't let her wash her clothes. Moreover, she didn't eat dinner, she kept holding her stomach and moaning weakly. Therefore, at night, the military cao did not send the devil soldiers to let her sleep with her. She lay on the bed in her clothes until the dead of night and there was silence, then she carried the child on her back, and then quietly went downstairs, through the compound, into the aisle.

Her heart was beating sharply, but she was able to calm down, unhurriedly through the more than 20-meter corridor, climbed the wall from the tree at the end of the corridor, and then climbed over the wall, grabbed the top of the wall with both hands, slowly lowered her body from the wall, and when her feet were still two feet high from the ground, she jumped lightly, and the whole person landed on the other side of the wall.