1938, Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu, time in April. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the blink of an eye, summer came, and many inconveniences were over, and Fukamei Qiuhe resigned from his position as the head of the military police of the Sixth Division of the Army before returning to China. No matter how many times her military mentor Mr. Gu Shou retained her, she also submitted her resignation.

After returning to China, she was greeted by a family reprimand for her military experience, and her family confined her for three months before releasing her. She did not achieve the same feats on the battlefields of China as her father had hoped. In a blink of an eye, it was July, and the followers around her had also changed, but she still remembered what she experienced in China a year ago.

It was because of that agreement that she took the time to come to Saga Prefecture from her hometown in Fukuoka under the pretext of visiting a junior high school teacher who had died of illness. Of course, the bodyguards sent by the family are indispensable around him, but Shenming Qiuhe has already controlled these subordinates. As soon as she got off the train, she fled without a trace, leaving behind only a sticky note and a bank check for their vacation.

Saga ...... Five ways and ten clear passes. Looking up and seeing the strange street name sign in front of him, Shenming Qiuhe carried a portable case and walked on this stone road.

Compared with the poor locals around her, Fukamei Qiuzuru's beautiful Western-style dress is particularly eye-catching, and she didn't expect Kanda Shaoza's home to be in a slum-like place before she came. I didn't see a few shops along the way, only a lot of women and children with yellow faces and thin muscles. The stench emanates from the gutters, and the July flies are celebrating on the garbage heaps that no one cleans up, and even the sunlight is blocked by rudimentary canopies. Shen Ming Qiuhe stood on the side of the road, and then raised his feet, only to feel an indescribable feeling of nausea under the soles of his shoes.

In the blink of an eye, a filthy rat slipped past her skirt, disgusting.

On weekdays, she and Ben would not have come to such a sloppy and dangerous remote area, who knows if a few dirty homeless people will suddenly pop up here.

"Miss, what are you doing here?"

An old woman who looked like a stone pier was sitting under the canopy, and she seemed to be the owner of the land.

"What do I do to you? Dead old woman, get out of here! At first glance, he is a begging for food, disgusting people! "Shenming Qiuhe happens to be angry, there is an old woman who doesn't have long eyes, and she just vents with the other party.

The old woman opened her eyes and looked at the deep autumn crane, and the few teeth that were so yellow and black that they moved and moved, which made people very worried about whether they would fall off. "You have a bad temper, do you want to eat bread? Seeing that you were looking for a restaurant just now, unfortunately, there was no store here half a year ago, but there are a few families doing bento business, but you will definitely be sent to the hospital after eating. ”

The old woman showed the bag she was carrying to Shenming Qiuhe, and there were indeed a lot of muffins, wrapped in gray cloth. But when she saw the old woman's appearance, she had no appetite left. "No, since you want to help me, I will not treat you badly. It's 100 yen, and I'll ask you about it. ”

Shenming Qiuhe took out a banknote from his satchel and stuffed it into the old woman's hand. The latter's originally smiling face froze all of a sudden.

"I can't afford this benefit, you will only hurt me if you give it to me. But I'm willing to help you, who are you looking for here? ”

Fukamei Qiuhe didn't get back 100 yen, which was not money in her eyes, and the check she wrote to several bodyguards was 800 yen. "I'm looking for a family called Kanda."

"Murata?"

"Kanda! That family has an army major, you know? Shenming Qiuhe said loudly.

The old woman thought for a moment, and finally remembered something. "Oh, you're looking for that. It's also miserable, Kanda, this kid is also a promising person, and if he says he is dead, he will die. Their home is not far away, he often came to my house to steal chaff rice when he was a child, but he didn't expect to go to Kyushu City to do business, and he became a big official in the army. The last time I saw him was 5 years ago......."

The old woman babbled on and on, and there was no end to it. Fukamei Qiuhe has no interest in what kind of person Kanda Shaozuo is and what tragic childhood experience he has. She hurriedly shook her hand and shouted, "Old woman, don't be verbose, take me to Kanda's house." I'm in a hurry! ”

"Okay, it's not far, it's over there." The old woman pointed to the wall that had no way. "Just go around and you're there."

Following this old woman she didn't know, Shenming Qiuhe finally found Kanda's house, which can be seen compared to the surrounding houses, the window is the window, and the door is the door. This is the first normal civilian house that Shen Ming Qiuhe has seen on this street.

"Here it is." The old woman left in a hurry after speaking, and she didn't stop even if Shen Ming Qiuhe called her.

The deep autumn crane put away the parasol and inserted it under the carrying case. And the box was stained with the 100 yen she had given the old woman before.

"Anyone?" Fukamei Qiuhe stepped forward and knocked on the door, and after waiting for a long time, no one opened the door, but the door number outside was indeed hung with the name "Kanda".

Just as Shenming Qiuhe was about to give up and leave, the neighbor next door opened the door and poked out. "You're looking for Yoshiko Kanda?"

The other party was an elderly middle-aged aunt, followed by several children, who looked yellow and malnourished. "She enlisted for the women's team the other day. It should still be at the conscription checkpoint in the north of the county. ”

"Women's Stand-Up Team? When did you add this class? Shen Ming Qiuhe obviously hadn't heard enough of the "women's standing team" in the mouths of middle-aged women, but it always made her feel bored. Because female soldiers are rare, even if there are mostly field doctors and nurses, military clerks, or special operations spies and other special services. Really let women fight on the battlefield, she has never heard of it.

Shaking off the hundred-yuan bill on the box, Shen Ming Qiuhe immediately rushed to the health recruitment checkpoint that the middle-aged woman said. Although she had conflicts with Kanda Shaozuo, she was always a comrade-in-arms who was born and died, and that failed breakthrough battle is still a stain on her military career.

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"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

Outside the checkpoint, there were quite a few young men who had come to enlist as soldiers, and because of the expansion of the fighting on the Chinese battlefield, it was imperative to expand the army. Although it was recruited by the C Division as cannon fodder, it was very useful to these enthusiastic young people, and the team was long.

Driving away a few young people who didn't talk to each other for a long time, Shen Ming Qiuhe walked directly to the guards guarding the gate. "Take me to your steward here, this is my ID."

The first time the guards saw Shen Ming Qiuhe and only regarded her as a rich lady who came to see her, how did they know that Shen Ming Qiuhe took out his military ID card and the rank of Shaozuo. The officers serving here are not as high as her rank, especially the daimyo of the Sixth Division, who was born in a dignified A Division.

After several twists and turns, under the mandatory order of Shenming Qiuhe, she finally found a little girl named "Kanda Yoshiko", who was not very old, only 17 years old.

"Yoshiko Kanda is out of the ranks!" The female instructor roared, and the ordinary-looking Yoshiko Kanda walked out of the queue at a loss. She didn't know why she suddenly gathered today, she had passed the last medical examination yesterday, and she should have waited a few days to be sent to the barracks.

When Shen Ming Qiuhe met the director here, he asked some questions about the "women's standing team", but the other party was always hesitant, saying that it was a military team that mainly cooked for the expeditionary army. It's also a pity that Shen Ming Qiuhe didn't understand the meaning at that time, otherwise he would probably take out a machine gun and put a shuttle bullet on this director.

"You're Yoshiko Kanda? Heigo Kanda's daughter? ”

"It's me."

The local girl Kanda Yoshiko, with braided hair and wearing an earthy yellow military uniform issued by the army, looks even more rustic, and in a group of young female soldiers, there is no difference at all.

"You come with me." After speaking, Shenming Qiuhe took her hand and left the playground. "It's about your father."

Kanda Yoshiko didn't understand where the other party was from, but seeing that the temporary instructor and the director didn't speak, they followed.

"Who the hell are you? Do you know my father? ”

The two walked to the back of the lodging building, and there was no one else around.

"It doesn't matter who I am, and you don't have to know. Just call me Autumn Crane. The two stood together, and Shen Ming Qiuhe only went to each other's chins, if it weren't for the mature voice, everyone would treat her as a child. Seeing that there was no one around, she opened the carrying case and pulled out a cloth bag.

"Your father died in battle in China last year, and I asked him to bring you relics."

The cloth bag was handed to Yoshiko Kanda, who saw the photo of herself and her father inside, and her sunny and lively face finally showed sadness, even if she tried to forget, the pain of losing her father had been deeply rooted in her heart. There was also a pocket watch, which his father had kept with him all year round.

Flipping over the lid of the watch, the wind-up recording box that comes with it can still make a slight sound, although it is no longer clear what the song is, but Kanda Yoshiko's memory suddenly returns to the childhood reunion with her father, and the music that her father opened the pocket watch to play to her every night.

"Daddy...... I miss you so much......"

Kanda Yoshiko suddenly knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, she had no mother since she was a child, only a relative of her father, and she was still an army major, when she was a child, she was with the neighbor's children, and she was very proud to talk about her father.

All that's left now are worn-out pocket watches and old photographs. Yoshiko Kanda just wants to cry here to release the grief condensed in her heart, and people really only realize how beautiful they have in the past when they lose. Even today, she can proudly say that she has a father who is a young minister.

"Alright, my mission is done. Farewell, Miss Yoshiko Kanda. Shenming Qiuhe is also a matter of concern today, and now she thinks back that Kanda Heigo, the old treacherous and cunning comrade-in-arms, has no resentment, only awe. Without him, I wouldn't have seen many things in China that I didn't know about in the past.

When the deep autumn crane was about to turn around, she asked one more question. "You're going to join the Women's Push Team?"

"I want to serve the empire like my father." The words are very resolute and decisive, but in the eyes of Shenming Qiuhe, it is just a reflection of himself in the past. She also made this bold statement before going to China, and it was only when she actually picked up the gun that she realized the difference.

"Interested in becoming my subordinate? In the near future, I will rush to Yokosuka Military Port to take up my post. Would you like to go there? ”

Although I don't know what position Shenming Qiuhe will give her, she obviously won't treat herself badly. Yoshiko Kanda quickly agreed, not realizing that the Yokosuka Naval Port was a naval possession.