An unexpected invitation from the Kuomintang did not change Lin's original plan, and after the visit was over, the two left for China.

There are two routes for the ship to return to China, one is to return to Shanghai via Hong Kong, and the other is to return to Shanghai via Osaka, Japan. Hayashi chose the latter, on the one hand, he wanted to go to Tokyo to see if he could let Shang Tianen see his family who he had not seen for many years, and on the other hand, it is said that many people from the Ryukyu Kingdom were exiled to Osaka.

Osaka, the largest city in Kansai, Japan, is the economic, trade, and cultural center of Japan. It is located on the northeast coast of Osaka Bay in the southwest of Honshu Island, and is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Kintam Strait and Kii Suido to the south, and to the Seto Inland Sea by the Akashi Strait to the west. At the same time, as a famous historical and cultural city in Japan, Osaka has been the gateway to the ancient capital of Nara and Kyoto since ancient times, and it is also the earliest area in Japan where commerce and trade developed, and where several generations of Japanese emperors established their capital.

Osaka is no less prosperous than Shanghai, with high-rise buildings and bright lights. On the second day of his stay in Osaka, Buchuan Shengxiang came quietly, and when he saw Shang Tianen and saw that he was not the weak young man he was at the beginning, he cried excitedly, and constantly thanked Lin Junxiong for taking care of him all these years. After hearing that Shang Tianen had joined the Communist Party of China, he was shocked for a long time, but he did not stop it. There was also the Japanese Communist Party in Japan, but it was smaller in number and brutally suppressed, and there was almost no trace of it.

When asked about the exchange people from Ryukyu to Osaka, Tomichwa Morisho sighed deeply and said that he would take them to see it the next day.

The next night, they came to the western slum not far from Osaka, where a dozen dilapidated houses, a few women in patched clothes were preparing dinner, and when it was dark, many people dragged their tired bodies on the way home.

Tomokwa Morisho took them to one of them, a wooden house of more than 20 square meters was divided into three spaces by a curtain for living, and a blind eighty-year-old man was praying in an unknown language, until Tomokwa Morisho greeted him in Ryukyuan dialect, he was shocked, raised his head, looked at it with a long time lost its brilliance, and listened carefully from time to time. When Bucheon Morissho said again in Ryukyu that we are from the Ryukyus, the old man stood up and trembled and groped his way forward with his hands, and when he grabbed Tomikawa Morishio's hand to make sure that everything was true, tears could not stop flowing from the hollow.

The old man's name is Ryoichi Oto, who was forcibly immigrated to Osaka by Japan in 1880, and he is even more sad when he talks about what happened to the Ryukyuan people who have been forcibly emigrated over the years.

When they first immigrated, they were treated as inferior people, and not only were they guarded by special people, but the local Japanese people also bullied them for fun. They were housed in nearby factories doing heavy work, sometimes for nearly 20 hours a day, but only a small amount of food was given to them; They were forced to speak Japanese and were not allowed to speak Ryukyuan; There are local Japanese who take a fancy to someone's girl, so they forcibly snatch it, live a slave-like life, serve that family, are called by the family, as long as they are disobedient, they will be beaten, and many are even beaten to death.

As for those who escaped, the fate was even worse, the Japanese would hang their entire families and starve to death. They must curry favor with the caretaker, or they will be beaten or killed by the whole family, and whoever caretaketh has a crush on the girl or daughter-in-law must also send it, otherwise they will not give food until they give in.

Decades have passed, and many of the older people who were emigrated have died, and the rest have been treated like Japanese criminals for a long time, no one can speak Japanese, and no one remembers that they were once Ryukyuan, and the long-term control of the Japanese has made them only know that they are an inferior nation in Japan in order to survive, an inferior nation that must obey the noble Japanese Yamato nation.

Now there are no Japanese to watch over them, because no one wants to leave or run away, they have been exposed to this kind of life, they are used to it, they don't know what they can do without it, or even whether they can live. They can only choose such a life, all just to be able to live, even a humiliating one.

Shang Tianen and Bucheon Morisho wept bitterly, and Lin Junxiong also silently wept, lamenting the misfortune of the Ryukyu people, and thinking that the Ryukyuan people here have been deeply planted with servility, and that he and his descendants should live like this, a kind of servility that never knows how to resist in order to live humblely, and the memories of the glory of those ancestors have long been erased, replaced by a servile nature that he will always be an inferior nation in Japan and cannot resist.

The sons, daughters-in-law, grandchildren, and granddaughters-in-law of the old man's family gathered around and didn't know what was going on, knowing that these people were from the Ryukyus, and they were even more nervous to drive them away. They used to be Ryukyuan, but now in their eyes, the Ryukyuan people are a plague, and if the Japanese know that they have come into contact with the Ryukyuan, they will be arrested and put in prison and will suffer.

The old man shook his head in pain, but he was powerless to stop anything, just looked at the spirit tablet engraved with the name of his ancestor with his invisible eyes. The spirit tablet that was secretly written in Ryukyu script at home may be the only memory he still has for the Ryukyuan people.

Back in Osaka Castle, none of them spoke. After a long time, a long time, Shang Tianen stood up angrily and said: "I can't let such a tragedy happen again, big brother, you must help me rebuild Ryukyu, so that the people who remember that it is the Ryukyuan people can live peacefully on the land of Ryukyu and no longer suffer from this inhuman torture." In the long run, Ryukyu will not only lose the country, but also the species. ”

Lin Junxiong said very seriously: "Little five, the eldest brother has always regarded the Ryukyu people as the sons and daughters of China, and the reconstruction of the Ryukyus and the return of the Ryukyu people to a clear sky will always be my goal." As long as the eldest brother lives for one day, he will not forget this goal, and I swear, if I violate it, I will be killed on the same day! ”

Shang Tianen seemed to have matured a lot all of a sudden, he grabbed Lin Junxiong's hand and said: "Thank you, big brother, Xiao Wu will definitely help big brother, complete the goal, and die without regrets, otherwise the heavens and the earth will be destroyed!" ”

Bucheon Shengxiang seemed to see hope in them, and he couldn't stop nodding. In the end, after agreeing with Lin Junxiong and them to meet in Tokyo, they left to prepare.

Walking down the street, you can occasionally hear a few Japanese people in a tavern telling about the exploits of the Japanese government that occupied the Korean Peninsula and Northeast China, and more people talk about their militarism, their invincible bushido, and the wisdom of their great emperor.

The place of meeting was a hotel in Japan, and thinking that he was about to meet his relatives, Shang Tianen stood cramped and restless. The door of the room opened, and the first person who walked in was a middle-aged woman of about forty years old, wearing a Japanese kimono and holding her hair in a high bun, followed by a boy of fifteen or sixteen and two young girls, one fifteen or sixteen years old and the other twelve or thirteen.

Shang Tianen saw from the woman's appearance that it was his mother, and couldn't help crying and rushed over, shouting, "Mother! Mother! ”

The woman hugged Shang Tian'en, wept, kept touching, and shouted, "Child, my poor child". It took a long time to call the three young boys and girls behind him over and say, "Shangyu, Wenzi, Qingzi, this is your brother Shangen." ”

The woman is Ogasawara Moyakoko, the second daughter of Ogasawara Tadashi, the former Japanese earl of Ogasawara Domain, and later married Shang Chang and gave birth to these four children, but it is a pity that Shang Chang left them at the age of 35.

The two girls timidly called out to their brother, and lowered their heads from time to time to look at this brother who was almost impressed, Shang Yu was very generous, and Shang Tianen had a cordial hug in the past.

Shang Tianen introduced his experience to his family over the years, Baizi had been sobbing softly, and when he heard Lin Junxiong's eldest brother who had been taking care of him, he got up and saluted and thanked him. When the two girls heard about their brother's tortuous experience, they also had a good impression of this brother, so they didn't come together to ask a few words.

After talking about his experience, Shang Tianen asked, "Mother, have they been good to you all these years?" Are they good for their younger siblings? ”

"It's not like that, it's confined, it restricts freedom, what books you read, what you do, and everyone you see are in control, and your life is not as wonderful as that of your brother", Shang Yu is very dissatisfied with his life.

Baizi said, "No matter what, as long as you are all well, I will be satisfied." ”

Although Baizi is Japanese, Lin Junxiong still has a good impression, she is a great mother, and she doesn't know how much she has been wronged for her children, especially Shang Tianen has been outside, she must have infinite thoughts. Lin Junxiong hated the Japanese, and even ordered to kill innocent Japanese nationals, but watching Baizi caress Shang Tianen and the strong maternal love in his eyes, Lin Junxiong felt in his heart that maternal love knows no borders, no matter what country it is, whether it is a person or an animal, the great mother does her best to protect her children and worry about her children.

Shang Tianen enjoyed this rare maternal love, and said softly: "Mother, the child still has to work hard for some things, and he can't be by your side anymore, taking care of you and his younger brothers and sisters, and his mother will have to work hard for some years." ”

"As long as you are all well, your mother will be satisfied, you have grown up, as for what you want to do, you decide for yourself, your mother just hopes that you will protect yourself well outside, and don't let your mother send a white-haired person to a black-haired person."

"Mother, I will take good care of myself, and my younger brothers and sisters should also take good care of my mother."

A few hours passed, and Bucheon Shengxiang reluctantly interrupted this warm scene, signaling that it was time to go back, otherwise he would be discovered. Baizi stood up very reluctantly, hugged Shang Tianen and cried for a while, then turned to the other three children and said, "Today's matter, you three are not allowed to talk about it to anyone, you know?" ”

Shang Yu and his two younger sisters both nodded affirmatively in agreement.

Looking at his relatives far away, Shang Tianen can only wish them all happiness and peace in his heart, and he still has to fight for the happiness of the Ryukyu people, hoping that the day when they will meet again will not be too far away.

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