Fifty-one: The living dead

Boss Li said: "It was said that the third aunt was called Wang Mingming, but there was no mention of where she lived. Later, I also heard that the third aunt killed devils heroically on the battlefield. Killed several devils. Repelled the devil's attack. She also loaded the shells with all the gunners killed, and opened fire, destroying the devil's armored car. I thought, this woman is really not simple.

"I didn't think that you were the third aunt, I have called you the owner all day long for a few years, you told me that your surname is Wang, I didn't ask what your name was, I didn't ask your name when I remembered when I applied for the certificate of good citizenship for you. I'll give you a name at random. I didn't expect your name to be Wang Mingming.

"The devils and the puppet regime are arresting volunteers, people's husbands, and stretcher bearers everywhere. Even the people who supply boiling water to [***] are caught. Those who were taken by them saw only those who went in but did not come out. The city of Nanjing was in white terror. Wang Mingming was on the list they arrested, but they couldn't find Wang Mingming. They suspected she was dead. ”

Wang Mingming said to Boss Li: "I don't have anything, but ordinary Nanjing people, those [***] soldiers, and those young volunteers are amazing heroes." They fought to the death in the defense of Nanjing, and regarded death as home! The artillery squad leader Qiangzi and his daughter-in-law who did not enter the door died on the battlefield, and the commander of the platoon was the hero of the resistance. I'll never forget them.

"Aunt Yang, who helped me grow vegetables, is the mother of the platoon commander of the artillery company, Sister-in-law Yang is his wife, and the child is his son. The commander of the platoon was killed, and they went to Nanjing to find the bones of the commander of the platoon and met me. I asked them to come to the mountains and help me grow vegetables. Everyone depends on each other. ”

Boss Li said with great admiration, "The platoon commander's family is on the mountain, and you are taking care of it, you are not an ordinary person." I used to see you as a peasant woman in the mountains, an ordinary disabled person who escaped death in the Holocaust. I didn't expect you to be so amazing. He was a well-known anti-Japanese hero of the year.

"All of a sudden, I had a lot of ideas. The anti-Japanese guerrillas in this area are very active, and there is another person fighting here, and it may be that a group of Jinling daughters are fighting. I heard that Jinling's daughter is also disabled, wearing night clothes, black veils and masks, and walking like flying. Kill devils. made the devil say that he couldn't be at peace in the end. You won't be unclear. I believe you are still holding high the banner of resistance. ”

Wang Mingming looked ahead expressionlessly and said, "Boss Li, we have arrived." You see, it's that building. Park on the side of the road. "She didn't get out of the car. Because the building had been blown down. It was the home of the Boy Scouts, and his grandmother was sick in that building. Now there is nothing but the four walls. The house's grey brick walls are still erected, and broken windows hang upside down from the walls. The roof was destroyed by fire. The floor slabs are gone.

Boss Li's attention was attracted by this house, he looked at it for a while and said, "This house was blown up by a bomb in the house. Wang Mingming remembered the grenade. His grandmother must have ended up with the devil who rushed upstairs. What about the Crusaders, is he still alive?

Boss Li looked at Wang Mingming and said, "Let's go, where are you going." Wang Mingming said: "Go to Tongjimen, I will go to see Liu's mother's grave." ”

She came to the grove and saw that there were many graves in the woods, she looked for them one by one, and Boss Li also helped her find them. They did not find a grave with dry branches. She was very disappointed, she said to Boss Li: "Mother Liu's grave can't be found, and Old Man Li can't find it if he comes." It's a mass grave. Let's go. Go to the intersection of Guangzhou Road and Shanghai Road. ”

Boss Li drove the car and said: "There is the foot of Wutai Mountain, there are devil soldiers under the mountain, they escort the workers to work, and there is a garrison of devils on the mountain. There was a comfort station there. It's a place of right and wrong, we go if you have something special, and it's better not to go if you don't have something special. so as not to provoke right and wrong. ”

Wang Mingming thought about it and felt that there was nothing to hide from Boss Li. She said: "That's right, I used to bury a pistol in the cemetery at the foot of Mount Wutai, and I want to get it back." ”

Boss Li stopped the car and said, "I can't look good for this matter, and if I don't do it well, there will be trouble." Besides, it's been so long, even if you find it, I'm afraid it won't be able to open. You need a gun, I'll send you. Let's go back. ”

Wang Mingming said: "That gun was given to me by a squad leader of [***]. He died on the battlefield. I've killed a few devils with that gun," Boss Li said, "I understand. Let's go back. Wang Mingming said, "Then go to a place." I can't remember where it was, but I know how to get around. Boss Li said: "No problem, you just lead the way." ”

Wang Mingming drove south with the car, and they entered an alley, and after a while she saw the house that had been blown down, and Wang Mingming remembered that their military uniforms and guns were left there. Now the bricks and rubble are still there, and the clothes and guns are gone.

The car arrived at the clerk's house. The courtyard wall of his house had collapsed, and the yard was covered with bricks and rubble, apparently not cleaned for a long time. The paint on the door had peeled off and the door was ajar. Grass grows on the road of the green brick shop inside. There's not a lot of people walking around anymore.

Wang Mingming got out of the car and came to the door and shouted a few times: "Is there anyone?" "There was no response. She dared to go in and see what was going on. She entered the door and saw two mounds in the courtyard under the ginkgo trees. She wondered how people would be buried here, and it was not a good omen.

She looked into the room, and it was dimly lit, gloomy and lifeless, and the table and the window were covered with thick dust. An unpleasant musty smell wafted out of the door. An old lady with a yellow face and thin eyes and half blind sat on a small bamboo chair in the center of the room. She didn't move, as if she were a withered corpse.

Wang Mingming had the courage to shout: "May I ask the old mother, is anyone in this family here?" The old mother's eyes were closed, motionless, and there was no reaction. There was no expression on her dusty face. Wang Mingming suspected that she didn't hear it and shouted again: "Old mother." The old mother's mouth moved, and she heard a cold voice: "Who, who are you looking for?" ”

Wang Mingming had seen all kinds of horrors and bloodshed in the days of the massacre, and she had heard those terrifying screams and terrible voices that made people's souls fly. She was still frightened and trembled by the cold voice.

She tried to calm herself and was about to answer her, when she heard the old lady say slowly, "Listen to your voice, it's not someone from the neighborhood, it's a living person from afar." Tell me who you're looking for. Whatever I know, I'll tell you. Her cold voice made Wang Mingming have goosebumps all over his body. She's not a dry corpse, she's a living dead person.

Wang Mingming was scared, she took a step back slightly and looked back at Boss Li who was sitting in the car, Boss Li was looking at her. Her heart settled down and slowly eased up, and she plucked up her courage again and said, "I don't know what the family's surname is. I know that he and his wife live here with a godson. ”

The old mother opened her half-blind eyes vigorously, she looked at Wang Mingming carefully, Wang Mingming doubted whether she could see herself clearly. She looked at it for a while and asked suspiciously, "Ah, are you talking about my family?" There must be something going on when you come to my house. I was the child's godmother. Who are you? I don't seem to know you! Why do you wrap your face so tightly, I don't know it. ”

Clerical godmother? Wang Ming had a premonition, and she became uneasy. She remembered very well that the clerk's godmother was a typical Nanjingite, slender and slim, white and rich. Under two long, thin curved eyebrows, a pair of bright big eyes were smiling. She was always so kind and amiable. She curls her hair in a shawl. He wears a purple silk cotton jacket and black pants made of fine wool. When he speaks, his tongue is fragrant, his voice is gentle, and he walks very energetically.

In front of her? Wang Mingming didn't believe that this was the clerk's godmother.