Chapter 1128: Transformation

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At Rabe's house at No. 1 Xiaofenqiao, Rabe and Han Xianglin are distributing straw mats to the refugees in the courtyard. The refugees set up small sheds in the yards out of straw mats, old door panels and metal sheets, which were very cold in the courtyard. The straw mats were very happy to keep the refugees warm, and they couldn't stop thanking Rabe.

At this moment, three Dongying soldiers climbed over the fence and jumped into the courtyard. Rabe helped up his steel helmet and walked towards the Dongying soldiers. He pointed to the ** sign on his arm and shouted: "Don't you see the signs around the courtyard? Get out! Get out!" So, the three Dongying soldiers had no choice but to climb back the same way.

As soon as the three Dongying soldiers left, someone came over and knocked on the door, and at the same time shouted for help: "Mr. Rabe, come and save my wife!"

Rabe immediately opened the courtyard gate and followed the man into the alley behind the courtyard wall. By the time Rabe arrived, the man's wife had been raped and stabbed in the neck. Rabe tried to find an ambulance, but couldn't find it, so he asked the driver to drive his car out and run to the hospital with the woman who had been stabbed.

After taking the injured woman to Drum Tower Hospital, Dr. Wilson immediately proceeded to treat her. However, Dr. Wilson quickly shook his head at Rabe, indicating that the man had not been saved and was dead.

Rabe sighed slightly, but didn't say anything. He's seen so much death these days that he's a little numb.

Dr. Wilson told Rabe to look at the rest of the wounded and told him to write them down in his report. A fisherman was hit by a bullet in the lower forehead and suffered burns all over his body. The Toying people poured gasoline on him and ignited the gasoline. Two-thirds of his skin was burned, and he could still say a few words, but he probably wouldn't have survived today. The body of a young boy, approximately 7 years old, had four bayonet wounds, one of which was in the stomach, and the wound was the length of a finger...... As Dr. Wilson briefed Rabe, John Magee held a 16mm home camera to film the dead and wounded.

These shots are real images shot by John Magee at the beginning, and they are not particularly clear. Even so, many viewers in front of the screen turned their heads and even covered their eyes, unable to bear to look at it.

Wilson pointed to a girl on the hospital bed with a swollen face and multiple knife wounds, and introduced: "This girl's name is Li Xiuying, and she is six and a half months pregnant. When a soldier tried to rape her, she resisted and was stabbed 19 times in the face with a bayonet, eight in the leg, and a two-inch-deep wound in the abdomen. After being taken to the hospital, the child was miscarried. She's in good condition and should have survived. ”

"After being hit by so many knives, she can survive, what a strong girl!" Rabe turned to see John Magee holding a camera to shoot at Lee so-young, and reminded, "Magee, be careful, if you are seen by the Dongying people, they will kill you." ”

John Magee was adamant: "I know, but I have to shoot it." The people of Dongying forbade filming, and they also forbade foreign journalists to come to Nanjing, and they also set fire to the city, and in order to cover up their crimes, someone had to record all this. ”

At this moment, Xu Chuanyin, vice president of the Nanjing branch of the Red Cross, ran in: "Mr. Magee, two families of 11 at No. 5 Xinlu Junction were killed, and only two children escaped, please go and take a picture and leave evidence!" John Magee immediately said: "Let's go, let's take a look!" Rabe heard that the survivor was still a child, and immediately said: "I'll go and see it too!"

The car soon came to No. 5 Xinlukou, and in front of the ruins of the broken wall, stood an elderly woman, whose hands were helplessly wrenched in front of her chest. The two little girls hid behind the old man's legs and looked at Rabe in horror. There were some corpses on the ground, a woman was lying on the reed mat on the right side of the old man, and the same reed mat on the left wrapped the body of a baby.

Xu Chuanyin walked up to the two little girls and said softly: "Don't be afraid, we are not bad people, we are here to help you." As he spoke, he took off his coat and draped it over the little girl, who was about 4 years old, and wrapped her tightly. Rabe also took off his clothes, and was about to put them on the little girl who was about 8 years old, when he suddenly found that the little girl had blood stains on her body, and the clothes on her body seemed to have been stabbed by a knife, and immediately shouted: "Xu, Xu! Come and see! This child seems to have been stabbed with a bayonet! Come here!"

Xu Chuanyin hurriedly came over, looked at the little girl, and then lifted her shirt. On the little girl's waist, there are three knife wounds that have begun to scar. Xu Chuanyin couldn't help but say: "These beasts, even children don't let go!" John Magee looked at the dead baby by the reed mat and said, "They even kill babies, let alone children!"

Xu Chuanyin asked the little girl: "Does the wound hurt?" The little girl shook her head and said, "It doesn't hurt anymore!" Xu Chuanyin's eyes turned a little red: "What a brave child!" He looked at the little girl and said gently: "Can you tell us what happened? How did Dad and Mom die?"

The little girl cried sadly when she heard this, and while crying, she told her story: "At noon that day, the Dongying soldiers smashed the door so loudly, and my father went to open the door. As soon as I opened the door and saw the Dongying people, I was very scared, so I turned around and ran, but before I ran away, I was killed. My mom hugged her 1-year-old little sister and was so scared that she hid under the table......"

The picture switched, the eight-year-old girl became an old man in her sixties Xia Shuqin, she cried while telling her story: "When I heard my sister screaming, I was so scared that I cried in fright, and when the devil heard it, he came over and stabbed me three times......"

The camera slowly pans back, Zhang Chunru and Yang Xiaming appear on the screen, and the time returns to Nanjing in 1995. Zhang Chunru and the others were under a big tree in the Meiling Palace of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, interviewing Xia Shuqin.

Xia Shuqin lifted the placket of her clothes and showed Zhang Chunru the scar on her waist: "This knife, this knife, there is another knife in the back." I was stabbed three times in a row, and I fainted and fell unconscious. I don't know how long later, I was awakened by my sister's crying, and saw that there were all the corpses of relatives around, and we both cried and cried for my mother to ......"

Watching Xia Shuqin cry while telling about her experience, none of the audience in front of the screen could control their emotions, even Jia Zhangke and Scorsese couldn't stop crying, and several of them were crying breathlessly.

The camera cuts to the house of survivor Lee so-young. Li Xiuying is old, but the scar left by Dong Yingbing on her face is still clearly visible. Zhang Chunru was very excited to see Li Xiuying, John Magee's film has Li Xiuying's footage and introduction, and the real person and historical record are completely matched.

However, Zhang Chunru was not happy for long, when she came to the survivor Liu Yongxin's house, the camera slowly swept over the room, a small house of five or six square meters, very dilapidated, except for the bed and table, there was almost nothing, it can be said that the house was surrounded by four walls. Not only Liu Yongxin's family, but most of the other survivors are also poor and have a difficult life. The living conditions of the survivor's family shocked Zhang Chunru and Yang Xiaming, a native of Nanjing.

In the evening, Zhang Chunru, who had finished the interview, walked quietly with a sad face. After a while, she spoke: Before I came, I heard Tang Meiru say that many survivors have a difficult life, but now the situation is even worse than imagined. ”

Duan Yueping sighed and said, "They are okay, at least through self-repair, they have come out of the psychological shadow." A significant number of survivors not only have a difficult life, but also have severe mental trauma, and the problem is becoming more and more serious due to their age, their physique is getting weaker, they often wake up with nightmares, and the signs of mental illness are becoming more and more obvious. I am reluctant to take you to interview this part of the survivors, because it is a terrible torture to make them remember the Holocaust. ”

Zhang Chunru couldn't help but say: "Isn't there anyone to do psychological counseling for them?"

Duan Yueping smiled bitterly: "You see that their lives are so difficult, how can someone do psychological counseling." ”

Zhang Chunru's mouth opened, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing.

The camera cuts to the office, it's already night, and it's pitch black outside the window. Yang Xiaming was translating the survivors' interviews into English when Zhang Chunru quickly tapped on the keyboard and typed the interviews into his laptop.

Yang Xiaming translated for Zhang Chunru: "About 14 years old, both of them died. ”

Zhang Chunru heard that two underage girls were raped and killed by Dongying soldiers, and couldn't control her emotions, so she walked quickly to the window and gasped for air, as if she was having trouble breathing.

Yang Xiaming sighed softly, any girl would not feel good when she heard such a thing.

After staying by the window for a while, Zhang Chunru returned to his seat until his breathing completely stabilized. She looked at Yang Xiaming and said solemnly: "After this book is finished and published, I will no longer be a writer, I will go to study law, and in the future, I will represent the survivors in a lawsuit with the Dongying government, so that the Japanese side can compensate." ”

Yang Xiaming was very surprised and said, "Why do you think so?"

Zhang Chunru's eyes were both sad and angry: "It's so unfair, while the Dongying soldiers who participated in the Nanjing Massacre received all their pensions and other allowances from the Dongying government, thousands of victims silently endured poverty, shame, and long physical and mental suffering. The Dongying government is so rich, as long as it pays a little loss, the lives of the victims can be greatly improved. Someone should step up and do this. ”

Yang Xiaming was very moved when he heard this, and at the same time a little ashamed, he had never thought of this problem, but Zhang Chunru thought of it, he reminded: "The Dongying government has not officially apologized for the Nanjing Massacre so far, and it is very difficult to ask them to compensate!"

Zhang Chunru's attitude is very firm, but he has not lost his rationality: "It is obviously inappropriate to ask Dongying people to be lawyers in a lawsuit demanding compensation, because the Chinese government has long publicized the waiver of compensation, and the door of mainland lawyers in this regard has also been closed, and it is difficult to make a difference, and Westerners will not wholeheartedly fight for these survivors, because the West and Dongying have an inexplicable relationship entanglement, so it is necessary for Chinese descendants like me in the West to stand up and run and shout for these survivors." ”

Zhang Chunru's close-up, her tone is very calm, but there is an undoubted power, her eyes are as firm as ever, but at this time there is more determination to move forward and never turn back.

It was as if time had stopped in the screening room, and even the sound froze. In front of the screen, whether it is Chinese, Americans, Koreans, or Dongying people, they all feel that Zhang Chunru has changed, and his temperament is a little different from before, revealing a fierce aura, like an unsheathed sword. Everyone knows that Zhang Chunru has completed a transformation, from an ordinary writer to a fearless warrior, from now on, she will fight for the survivors of the Nanjing Massacre, for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre.

Jia Zhangke looked at Zhang Chunru's firm eyes, and a sentence came to his mind, "Although tens of millions of people are going to me." Even in the face of the obstacles of tens of millions of people, he will continue to move forward, Zhang Chunru is such a person with great courage.

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