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

One day in October 1944, the Japanese army suddenly attacked, and the sound of gunfire rang out for most of the day, after which news came that the Japanese occupied Lipu County and continued to assemble towards Guilin and Liuzhou, so as to capture Guilin and Liuzhou, and open up the southwest communication line to Burma and Vietnam. Originally, the southwestern provinces were the rear of the War of Resistance against Japan, but they were suddenly occupied by the Japanese and became the front line of the War of Resistance against Japan. Hearing the news, the people of the entire Xiaogugaotun village immediately panicked, because their village was on the side of the road, less than ten kilometers away from the county seat of Lipu. The people of the village heard the news, and although the people were terrified, they went about their lives as usual.

However, within a few days, they saw military vehicles passing by the road at the edge of their village. The car was full of heavily armed Japanese soldiers, armed with guns and ammunition, waving the sun flag, looking fierce and vicious. But fortunately, the dozens of military vehicles kicked up dust on the road and sped away towards the west.

Then, I heard that the Nationalist army was besieged and defeated by the Japanese, and many cities around Guilin and Liuzhou were all occupied by the Japanese army, and Guilin and Liuzhou were also in danger. Moreover, they also heard that the Japanese had also built a blockhouse and established a stronghold in De'an Village, Maling Town, 20 kilometers away from Xiaogu Gaotun. The Japanese soldiers in the stronghold drove everywhere all day long, burning, killing and looting, and many villages along the highway were cleared and swept away. Villages were cleared and swept away, houses were burned, property was looted, men were killed, and women were raped. So, almost all the villagers along the highway ran away and hid in caves.

Wei Shaolan is the daughter-in-law of the village, who has just turned 22 years old, not low, handsome, carrying her daughter, who has just turned one year old, and followed the man and her family to hide in a hole in the Oxwei Chong Mountain, about a kilometer away from the village. The cave is on the side of a mountain peak, and you have to climb to get to the entrance of the cave. The cave is not big, it may have been a habitat for bears or wolves in the past, only more than 50 square meters of space, but it is crowded with more than 70 or 80 people from more than 30 families in the village. The ground in the cave was uneven, and it was crowded with so many people. But there's no way around it. Moreover, people have no way to cook, so they can only eat the food they bring from home. Therefore, if you stay in the cave for a day and a half, you can't stand it. However, in order to save their lives, they had been in the cave for six or seven days, and many of them began to fall ill because they could not stand it and were not used to it. There were also many brave people who had already gone down the mountain to go home.

That afternoon, a young man named Baoyuan brought food to his family from the village, and told everyone that the devil was far away from our village, and it would take him half a day just by car, and he had lived at home for two or three days, and he had not seen a single Japanese come to sweep it. As soon as he said this, more than half of them immediately wanted to return to the village. Wei Shaolan was timid, and he still had a child who had just turned his anniversary, so he didn't want to take this risk and wanted to stay in the cave to hide from the Japanese. However, her husband Luo Xianxian couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to leave here and go back to the village to live, but because Wei Shaolan insisted on refusing, he didn't leave. Now when I heard Baoyuan say this, I saw that so many people wanted to go back to the village, so I insisted on pulling my daughter-in-law to go down the mountain and go back to the village to live. However, the husband did not let his parents follow him down the mountain, because he was afraid that the old man would be old, his legs and feet would be weak, and his movements would be slow, and he would not even be able to run if he met a Japanese devil.

Although Wei Shaolan is timid, she is a woman, and women have to listen to men. Moreover, living in the cave for a few days, I couldn't eat well, I couldn't sleep well, and I couldn't do the work at home, which was really difficult. So, seeing the man pulling her back to the village, she had no choice but to follow the man out of the cave.

Out of the cave, Wei Shaolan immediately felt a sense of relief, she carried the child on her back, followed the man and the others, and slowly descended down the mountain. At the bottom of the mountain is a path between the valleys, and on the side of the path are rice paddy fields. At this time, the late rice is almost ripe, and under the blowing of the autumn wind, it exudes bursts of intoxicating aroma. However, she was thinking that if she kept hiding like this, what would she do in the future?

They cautiously returned to the village, and found that the village was still the same as when they left, without any traces of being cleared or swept away. So, everyone entered the village with peace of mind and boldly returned to their homes. Wei Shaolan's home, which she and her husband built before they got married, is a three-room adobe house with a hall in the middle, bedrooms on either side and a kitchen next to it. The toilet is right next to the kitchen. Above the hall there is a low attic where grain, farming implements and sundries can be stacked. The in-laws live next door to their house.

When he got home, he began to open the doors and windows to let in the air, and then began to take the hidden grain out of a large vat. In order to prevent the Japanese from discovering where the grain was hidden, they hid the grain under the vat, and then put some coarse chaff for feeding the pigs on top of the grain. After cooking the rice, she went to the vegetable field in front of the door to pick some greens and took them to the pond in front of the village to wash them.

Standing on the edge of the pond, you can see far beyond the village. However, as far as the eye could see, there was calm and tranquility, and there was not even a single figure in sight. She wondered if people were frightened by the rumors, but in fact, the Japanese soldiers lived in Shazilingtun, Maling Town, which was more than 20 kilometers away from them, and it took them almost half a day to walk. She thought, why do Japanese devils run so far away?

It gets dark very quickly in autumn, and by the time they have eaten dinner, it is already dark. She washed the dishes and brushed the pots, put the child to sleep, and wanted to go to Caiying's house to talk and inquire about the current situation. Caiying's family lives in Maling Town, only three or four miles away from De'an Village, where the devil built the artillery tower. However, the door of Chaeyoung's house was closed, and it was pitch black when viewed from the window. She knocked on the door, and Chaeyoung's question came from inside, "What's the matter?" Wei Shaolan thought it was funny, so he said, "You have already fallen asleep?" said Caiying, "I have been tired these days." Is there anything wrong?" said Wei Shaolan, "It's okay, you can sleep." ”

When Wei Shaolan returned to her house, she saw that the man had already fallen asleep, and when she walked to the bed, her husband pulled her to the bed and said, "Come up, you want to kill me." She said, "I haven't showered yet." The husband said, "It's late, don't wash it." As he spoke, he couldn't wait to undress her. She hesitated for a moment and said, "Don't take it off, if the Japanese come, you won't be able to wear it." The husband said, "What time is it, the Japanese don't sleep?" and with that, he took off her clothes and put her in his arms and stuffed her into the bed.

The couple slept together until dawn before they got up and started cooking. After breakfast, my husband went to a relative's house in the neighboring village to help them with the roof beams. Wei Shaolan carried the child behind him and went to Caiying's house. Chaeyoung is busy at home to bring some food and clothes to the cave. Seeing that Caiying was busy, Wei Shaolan didn't sit down, so he asked about the Japanese devils' sweep. Caiying made a very frightened look and said to Wei Shaolan, "The Japanese devils occupied more than ten rooms in the upper and lower five empty houses of the rich Chen Kezhu's house in Shazilingtun, and also built two turrets on both sides of the house. There are more than 30 ghost soldiers living inside. They drove to the nearby villages all day long, and when they saw the man, without saying a word, they went up and killed the man with a knife. When they saw the chickens, dogs, pigs and cows in the village, they robbed them and killed them to eat, and when they saw young and beautiful girls and women, they either collapsed or were arrested and taken to be wives. The Japanese devils are vicious, don't let them see it. Otherwise, you see, from the villages dozens of miles around Maling Town, they have all run out, how can you still see people. ”

Hearing this, Wei Shaolan asked, "Then why do the people in our village still say it's okay, the devil won't come to us so far." Caiying said, "Don't say that our village is far away, didn't Panyao Village, which is much farther away than our village, be burned by the devil two days ago? The devil drives a car, and you can reach it no matter how far away, don't be stupid, get out of here, a young and beautiful daughter-in-law like you, if you let the devil see it, you have to let them arrest it." ”

Hearing this, Wei Shaolan couldn't help but shudder, she didn't say a word, she hurried back home, and began to hurriedly bring some food and goods to the cave, and planned to stay in the cave for a while longer. She put the rice from the jar in a cloth bag, then put a layer of oilcloth on top of the rice and poured the bran on it. Then, start wrapping the clothes you want to wear in a cloth.