When the whole village had almost arrived, Kawasaki stood on a reef and spoke a few words of Japanese to the dozens of villagers below, and everyone looked at him inexplicably, not knowing what to do.

A Japanese translator shouted loudly on the side: "The Imperial Army said just now, a few anti-Japanese elements with a baby are running away frantically, and they may have fled here, if you see a stranger with a baby, you must report it to the Imperial Army, if you don't report it, you will die, and if you find clues, you will be rewarded for reporting." Did you all hear me clearly? I repeat, if you find a stranger with a baby here, you will be rewarded for reporting it, and you will be rewarded for concealing it. ”

When Ngawang heard this, his heart moved, it turned out that the Japanese were looking for a stranger with a baby, so the wife who came to his wife to breastfeed in the past two days was not the person the Japanese were looking for?

The people below were silent, and Kawasaki saw that everyone was silent, and there was a hint of fierceness in his eyes, he swept the crowd below, pointed to an elderly man, and the soldier pulled the old man out of the crowd.

Kawasaki walked up to the old man and asked in Japanese, "Old man, have you ever seen a stranger with a baby come to your village?" ”

The translator hurriedly translated Kawasaki's words into Chinese.

The old man shook his head and waved his hand: "I haven't seen it, I haven't seen it." I've been sick lately and have been in bed and I don't know what's going on outside. ”

The translator translated the old man's words into Japanese.

"What about you?" Kawasaki turned his gaze to a young man again and asked in stiff Chinese.

The young man also shook his head: "I haven't seen it either." ”

"Hmph, are you sick too? Lying in bed and not knowing what's going on outside? Kawasaki snorted from his nose.

The translator immediately translated Kawasaki's words into Chinese.

"I was busy at home taking care of my old bean, who was slumped in bed, so I didn't notice if there were strangers coming from the village."

After listening to the interpreter's translation of Japanese, Kawasaki couldn't help but be a little discouraged, he came to the interpreter, whispered a few words to him, and the interpreter stood on the reef and shouted to the villagers: "The imperial army said that if you don't report it, you will send all the male laborers in the village to repair the fortifications." ”

When the people below heard this, they all became in an uproar and shouted: "You are trying to force us to death!" ”

"You don't let us go out to sea to fish anymore, and you still want to catch strong men, are you still reasonable?"

"If you don't see it, you don't see it, you make us a big life?"

……

Kawasaki saw that the crowd below was angry, and he was afraid that once the villagers rebelled, it would be difficult to clean up for a while, so he stood on the reef, pulled out a pistol from his waist, and fired a shot into the sky, and the following was suddenly silent.

"I'm just saying if, I don't want something unpleasant to happen. I hope you'll seriously think about whether any strangers with babies have been here lately. Kurata said with a sigh of relief.

The translator told everyone what Kurata meant in Chinese.

There was silence again.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Kawasaki thought: Either those Chongqing elements have never been here, and these people have never seen them at all, or these people want to shield those Chongqing elements and don't say anything if they know about it, or some people are afraid that reporting in public will provoke public anger and dare not speak out, but I hope it is the third case.

So, he spoke a few more words in Japanese, and the Japanese translator hurriedly translated: "The imperial army said, you go back and think about it first, remember it well, if there is anyone in the know, you can come to us at any time, we are stationed here twenty-four hours a day." Alright, let's go! ”

Everyone left the clearing and went home.

As soon as he got home, Ngawang hurriedly asked Ngawang's sister-in-law: "Hey, the rich man who is looking for you to breastfeed should be the person the Japanese are looking for, right?" ”

Awang's sister-in-law glared at Awang: "Awang, don't do anything to lose your conscience, you yourself said, the Japanese are devils who eat people and don't spit out bones, if they know about this, they will definitely go and arrest that family of three, does that family still have a way to live?" They're all good people. ”

"How do you know that the family is a good person, they don't have the words 'I am a good person' engraved on their faces, they are harming us, in case someone sees that lady coming to our house with a small boy, go to the Japanese to report, our family is finished, she is killed, it is better for me to go and tell the Japanese myself, maybe the Japanese will spare us and give us a bonus for the sake of my confession and self-surrender and meritorious report!"

"Ngawang, are you still the man I know? How did you become like this, you must not have the intention of harming others, and if you do this, you will harm others and will be punished. If it weren't for the fear that their loud quarrel would attract the attention of the Japanese, Ngawang's sister-in-law would have been eager to slap Ngawang in the mouth, and this kind of unconscionable words would have been spoken.

"You can't have the heart to hurt people, but you can't have the heart to prevent people, if someone else preempts it and reports it to the Japanese, our family will suffer." Ngawang still did not give up, and he was still worried about what the Japanese said about rewarding the report, and concealing the eight words of suffering.

"Why did you believe the Japanese nonsense, our house is so remote, and no one comes to the door, who will know that I feed other people's small children." Ngawang's sister-in-law refuted Ngawang while coaxing the child to sleep.

"But did you hear that, the Japanese said that if they didn't report it, they would send the male laborers in the village to repair the fortifications, and I didn't want to go to those ghost places."

"That's what the Japanese are trying to scare everyone, don't you see, when everyone shouted below, the Japanese immediately changed their words?" At that time, Ngawang's sister-in-law sensed that as soon as the Japanese saw the anger of the crowd below, she immediately coaxed and quickly dispersed everyone.

"But this thing...... I think...... I'm afraid I can't hide it......" Ah Wang scratched his head, frowned, and said hesitantly: "I'm afraid Ji Tsai knows about this." ”

"What do you say? How would he know? You told him? When Sister-in-law Ngawang heard this, she broke out in a cold sweat.

"Didn't I take ten pounds and spend money on drinking and gambling? As soon as Kee saw the ten-pound bill, his eyes were green, and he asked me how I had so much money. ”

"And what did you do to him?" Sister-in-law Ngawang asked anxiously.

"I said I picked it up."

"Isn't that the end of it, you didn't poke this thing out, what are you afraid of?" Ngawang's sister-in-law glanced at Ngawang with disdain.

"But I'm not sure if he believes it or not? When the Japanese said this in front of the whole village, do you think, will he suspect that my money is coming from the wrong way? ”

"You're sure you picked it up, what else can they do with you? Don't be suspicious. "Sister-in-law Ngawang thinks that this is not a big problem, as long as Ngawang bites the ten pounds to death and picks it up by himself, even if he doubts the origin of the money, it is empty.

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about it, sleep." Ngawang felt that he couldn't make sense with Ngawang's sister-in-law, so he lay down on the bed in a huff.

Ngawang's sister-in-law also wanted to persuade Ngawang to say a few words, but when she saw that Ngawang had already fallen asleep, she sighed helplessly, and after putting the child to sleep, she blew out the oil lamp and lay down.

Although the Ngawang people were lying in bed, they couldn't sleep, and their minds were always thinking about how to get the reward for reporting.