Ten days passed, and not a single craftsman came to sell any of Cheng Yuejin's recipes to Tanaka. Tanaka's patience has finally run out. He didn't know where to find out that Cheng Yuejin's dyeing workshop was in Gujiazhuang, and led a team of people to Gujiazhuang to find the craftsmen who worked in the dyeing workshop back then.

Steward Zheng's daughter-in-law thumped Steward Zheng: "This time our family has made a fortune." Aren't you the steward of the dyeing house? You can exchange twenty taels of silver in one step, and make a fortune. ”

Steward Zheng didn't feel good in his heart, he said in a sullen voice: "I heard that Young Master Shi Nan was killed by the Japanese, and no one is willing to say a step from Fang Zi, you let me out, I won't become a sinner for the ages?" ”

Zheng's daughter-in-law scolded: "You are a dead eye, you can't make a fortune in your life, and people also say that they tell them who is from the dyeing workshop in the village, and they also have silver --------" The two were arguing, and suddenly stopped talking. Xiao Yu stood at the door, his hair was scattered, as if he had just gotten up from the bed, and asked Steward Zheng in disbelief: "Zhao Shinan, dead?"

Steward Zheng nodded cautiously: "Well, I heard that he was killed by the Japanese." Many people in Yangzhou City saw it, and the corpse was placed in front of the Japanese post house. ”

Zheng Xiaoyu didn't speak, just a pair of shining eyes, and suddenly, all the light dimmed. She turned around silently, and only repeated a sentence in her mouth: "He's dead, he's really dead-" She felt that she should be happy, he ignored her for eight years, imprisoned her for five years, if it weren't for him, she wouldn't be so miserable. But why can't she be happy, but her heart is empty and painful as if it has been plucked?

Steward Zheng's daughter-in-law watched Xiaoyu walk away, and continued to urge Steward Zheng to go to Chengcheng quickly. Steward Zheng was so uproared by her that he simply hid out of the door. Steward Zheng's daughter-in-law waited at home for a long time, but she didn't see Steward Zheng come back, so she couldn't help but stomp her feet angrily, and twisted her waist to the Japanese in the dyeing workshop.

The dye shop was deserted, and the Japanese had already said that as long as the craftsman handed over any step of dyeing, he would have a silver tattoo, but from morning to midday, he did not see a single person coming. While thinking about it, the daughter-in-law of Steward Zheng came over and asked timidly: "Do you mean to tell you whose family is the craftsman of the dyeing workshop, and there is also a reward?"

Tanaka was overjoyed for a while, and took twenty taels of silver and put it in the hands of Zheng's daughter-in-law: "This sister-in-law, as long as you are willing to say, this silver is yours." ”

The white flowers, Zheng's daughter-in-law's heart beat straight when she saw it, and she was busy clutching the silver tightly, and her mouth began to chatter: "The old Li family in the east of the village, it turns out that the two sons are workers in the dyeing workshop, and the Gu family in the west of the village is also --------."

Tanaka ordered people to write them down one by one, and when Zheng's steward's daughter-in-law finished speaking, he immediately led people to search and arrest the people on the list one by one. People were arrested, but no one would say anything. It's all a question, shaking your head, and not knowing. Ren Tanaka wore out his mouth, coerced and lured for a long time, until the sun ran west, and no one was willing to speak.

Tanaka was forced to be anxious and captured Lao Li Tou and used it to threaten the two sons of the Li family. The son of the Li family hesitated and was about to say, but the old Li Tou actually took advantage of the Japanese unpreparedness and threw himself into the well. At this time, the son of the Li family was also beaten to death and refused to say anything.

The moon is on the east mountain, and Tanaka's patience is worn out at all. Looking at the group of Chinese in front of him who did not eat oil and salt, he felt the indignation of the seven tricks for the first time. I don't know what to do! Toast and don't eat and drink, is it because the people of the Great Japanese Empire are good-tempered and dare not kill them?

When Tanaka came out this time, Okamoto had already given him the privilege to kill him if necessary! How many people had been killed in Nanjing, and were you still afraid of killing the people here? As soon as Tanaka gave the order, the bayonets of the Japanese soldiers rushed out. The blood in the courtyard was shed into an ocean.

The fire in the field has not been extinguished, and the entire Gujiazhuang has not been spared. The Japanese soldiers killed people when they saw them, bayonets came out when they were close, guns were out from afar, the wails of the adults in the village, the cries of the children, and suddenly Gujiazhuang became a sea of blood.

Some of the clansmen of the Zhao family who had previously stayed in Gujiazhuang were spared because they took refuge in the mountains. Some of the clever and sturdy people in the village with light legs also ran into the mountains and survived. Steward Zheng and his daughter-in-law both fell in a pool of blood. When Zheng's daughter-in-law was dying, the twenty taels of silver were still lying quietly in her sleeves. And Zheng Xiaoyu was holding the child and disappeared.

Tanaka returned to Yangzhou with people, and he was completely dead to Cheng Yuejin's recipe. Yangzhou City is the largest storage place for Cheng Yuejin, but Zhao Shinan burned his own inventory, and others also burned Cheng Yuejin in their hands. In Yangzhou City, let alone Cheng Yuejin now, the ordinary brocade of the Zhao family is also rare to find. Tanaka was almost mad with frustration, cunning Shina! He wanted to kill all these stubborn people!

Okamoto was not opposed to this, he had always advocated killing all of them, Okamoto wiped his bayonet, and said leisurely, "I would have thought so earlier." China is a lowly person in the world, and if you don't give them some color to look at, you won't take our Great Japanese Empire in your eyes. They were willing to hand over the family's treasures, silk, porcelain, and tea to us. ”

Tanaka held his forehead and was hesitating, when suddenly Ichiro Nakamura, a staff officer of Okamoto next to him, opened his mouth. Nakamura, who had also been to China a few years ago and spoke fluent Chinese, said quietly, "Captain, Mr. Tanaka, may I say a word." ”

"In the past few days of patrolling the city, I went to a place called Meihualing. There is a burial of an official named Shi Kefa, when the Ming Dynasty fell to the country, the official led the troops to defend Yangzhou, and finally died in battle. In Meihualing, I heard the locals tell a story about the past of Yangzhou, the Ming Dynasty fell to the country, after the Qing people invaded Yangzhou, they implemented the head shaving order, ordering the Yangzhou Han people to learn from them to shave their heads and keep braids, some people resisted, they kept their hair without their heads, and chose one in the hair and head. ”

"The people of Yangzhou refused, so they were killed by the Qing people. The city was slaughtered for ten days, and it is said that in that year, 800,000 people were collected from the corpses alone. This section is called the Ten Days of Yangzhou. Nakamura looked at Tanaka and Okamoto, "Are we going to do the same too?"

Okamoto and Tanaka were silent. For the first time, they felt unprecedented pressure. Yangzhou people are so stingy that they can't even bear their hair, no wonder it is the precious Cheng Yuejin. It's easy to kill someone, but why do you kill someone? If you don't get what you want after killing someone, is it still not so necessary to kill someone?

Maybe they don't understand, it's not the hair that matters, it's not the brocade that matters, it's just a little bit of grandeur in the chest, and the body is not tamed.

Tanaka hesitated for a few days, but finally gave up the idea of killing. Several Japanese soldiers were ordered to throw Zhao Shinan's body to a mass grave outside the city. Du Zhong secretly went to the mass grave, and a few distant relatives of the Zhao family who did not flee for their lives, scraped together some silver money to buy a good coffin, and buried Zhao Shinan in the ancestral grave of the Zhao family. In the troubled times, there was no paving, no ceremony, just digging up the tomb, a pinch of loess, and burying a proud man.

It was the lunar month, and although the city of Yangzhou was covered in terror by the Japanese, every household was also preparing for the New Year. The city is still a bit lively. In the cemetery of the ancestral tomb of the Zhao family in the southern suburbs of Yangzhou City, a new tomb has been added. On the loess, the withered grass swayed in the wind. Zhao Shinan's life is forever fixed at the age of twenty-nine.

Du Heng took Du Juan Siheng and followed Secretary Guo to the official residence of Minister Zhou in Chongqing, where he was imprisoned in the backyard. The food and clothing are good, and there are subordinates to serve, but there is no freedom. Du Heng was idle, so he taught Du Juan and Siheng to learn some poetry and arithmetic.

On the day of Zhao Shinan's burial, Du Heng was teaching Du Juan and Siheng to read poems in the house: "After the sycamore was half dead and the frost cleared, the white mandarin duck lost its companion and flew. The grass on the plain, the dew is at the beginning of the day. The old habitat and the new hill are snuggly—"

Du Juan asked Du Heng: "Auntie, what does it mean that the white mandarin duck loses its companion and flies?" Du Juan is precocious and often likes to ponder what Du Heng taught her. Si Heng is young, a boy, and he doesn't like to talk, but after a few days of getting along, Si Heng is also a lot closer to Du Heng. Children are sensitive and don't hate someone who likes them.

Du Heng's heart tingled, and the white mandarin duck lost its companion to fly? She suddenly had a sense of foreboding in her heart, and she almost couldn't breathe in pain, so she hurriedly said to Du Juan: "This poem is not good, don't read it." Change one. Said that he hurriedly went to turn over the scriptures of poetry, "Bi Mei is alone, graceful and clear" to teach the children.

Suddenly, a few people outside the door were chatting, and vaguely heard Zhao Shinan's name, Du Heng threw down the book in his hand, rushed to the door and asked, "What are you talking about? Zhao Shinan?" Minister Zhou encircled her here, and refused to show a copy of the newspaper.

The subordinates looked at each other for a moment, and one of them replied: "I heard that there was a silk merchant in Yangzhou City who let the Japanese kill him, and he put his body for many days, which is quite miserable, and they said that it was published in the newspaper——"

Du Heng's head almost exploded with a bang, and he asked tremblingly, "That person's name is Zhao Shinan?"

The man nodded, and the one next to him pinched her hard, lowered his head and whispered to her: "I haven't finished talking to you yet, that Zhao Shinan is her husband, but it seems that she has been divorced-" What the two were saying, Du Heng couldn't hear it at all. Her eyes were dark, she fainted to the ground, she only had one obsession in her mind, Zhao Shinan is dead, what is she still alive for?!

When Du Heng woke up, it was already night, and the doctor that Minister Zhou had asked her had already left. Only the cuckoo with red and swollen eyes who was crying was left by her, and Siheng who shouted "Aunt Heng" with a pout. Du Heng touched Siheng's head, pinched Du Juan's face again, and wanted to cry, but the tears couldn't come out, his heart was empty and numb.

After coaxing Si Heng and Du Juan to sleep, Du Heng changed into the rose brocade clothes, which Zhao Shinan customized for her. Du Heng, dressed in rose, like a soulless shell, walked towards the backyard.