Eight: It's too late

Wang Mingming rushed over and hugged the yellow cat, and they hugged tightly and cried loudly. Pedestrians quietly walked past them, victorious, and on the streets of Nanjing, from morning to night, there were relatives and friends who met and hugged and cried.

The yellow cat said bitterly: "Eight years ago, when I was treating the wounded on the battlefield, I heard you shouting for me amid the rumbling of gunfire. I looked up for you despite the shells exploding around me, and I didn't see you in sight obscured by the smoke of gunfire. I'm sure I heard it right, I'm in a hurry to rescue the wounded and put the matter of looking for you aside. I didn't expect it to be eight years. For eight years, your shouts have been ringing in my ears. It accompanies me through long nights year after year. ”

Wang Mingming said: "I saw you in the fire, I called you, and you heard it." I'm running to you. The soldier stopped me. I shouted to him that I was his classmate, and you let me go. However, I was pulled out of the battlefield by him. That's eight years. ”

The yellow cat said: "For eight years, I had no relatives of mine, and for eight years, I was alone and begging along the street. For several winters, when I was about to freeze to death, it was you who shouted the yellow cat one after another, and you called me back from death, and I survived. I almost died of illness for several summers. It was you who shouted the yellow cat, and you woke me up from my coma. I stood up again.

"I can't die, I don't want to die. Because I'm going to wait for the day when this devil surrenders. I'm going to watch the devil kneel, bow his head, raise his hands and disarm. When I think about this, I have the confidence and courage to live.

"I often think of the days and nights we had together, and the beautiful and sweet days. Thinking that we were with Lotus and the girls in the class, we held hands and said that we were all daughters of Jinling, pioneers of resistance. It is said that when the devils hit Nanjing, we will pick up guns and fight the devils. Every time I recall those happy pasts, I increase my courage to live, and I believe that all the good things will come back to me.

"Our class did not have the exiled daughter of Jinling and I joined the volunteers, and we were determined to give our youth and lives to defend Nanjing. We fought together, and every day we kept a record of how many devils we killed and how many wounded we treated.

"Our classmates, the heroic daughters of Jinling, they gave their lives in the battle to defend Zhonghua Gate, and I want to live until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War to tell their teachers and classmates about their deeds.

"I'm wandering the streets begging for food, and I often hear you calling in the long nights. Your mournful shouts pierced the night sky and trembled over the city. Every time this time I feel you struggling in pain, you are choosing between life and death, hatred and fighting. ”

Wang Mingming said: "At that time, I had just come out of the fear of the massacre, I was disabled, and my face became extremely ugly. I was looked at as a ghost by people on the road and scolded for dirty things. I had a nervous breakdown. I ran wildly all night on the barren hills, screaming in pain. ”

The yellow cat said, "It was the telepathy that I heard your cry, and I called your name to the heavens except tears." One day I was shouting Mingzi, I said that you have to be strong, you have bitterness in your heart, you have hatred, let hatred support you to live. Your classmates are waiting for you, and passers-by say I'm crazy, and they shake their heads sympathetically and disperse.

"It's been eight years, and I'm looking forward to seeing you one day. I never thought that we had gone through the 'ninety-nine-eighty-one difficulty' and that this day had really come. The War of Resistance was won, and we were together. Oh my God. You've made it too late. ”

Wang Mingming and the yellow cat supported each other and sat on the ground under the tung tree on the side of the sidewalk. One is a rich lady Kuo, and the other is a dirty woman named Hanako, and the pedestrians and people in the car are looking at them curiously. Some had already walked over and had to look back at them.

A man who knew the yellow cat pointed to the yellow cat and said, "It's called Hanako, you ask for food in this area every day, and we all know you." You can order food, you can ask for a small amount of money, but don't pester this young lady, this young lady is so kind, you can't fool her. ”

The yellow cat bowed his head in accusation by this man. Wang Mingming took the yellow cat's hand and said to the man: "Sir, you misunderstood, she is my classmate and my good friend." She participated in the battle during the defense of Nanjing in the 37th year, and when she was fighting with the devil, she was blown off this leg by the devil's shell. After being wounded, she blew up the devil's armored car with a grenade.

"She is a hero of resistance. Brave volunteers, the defense of Nanjing failed. We are separated. She survived the Nanjing Massacre. Now that the War of Resistance has been won, we are reunited. She's going to start a new life. You should bless us. ”

As soon as Wang Mingming's words were finished, the people gathered around him applauded together.

The man said, "I can't imagine that you, the begging for food, have ever beaten devils, and your legs were not there when you beat devils, is this true?" He saw the yellow cat nodding to indicate that it was true. He said, "I blame you." You sacrificed your youth to defend Nanjing, and you knew that we would all help you. He took out the money from his body, took a few large tickets and said, "I'll help you,"

He said to the people around him: "A girl who defended Nanjing for three or seven years has fallen to such a point, which is a shame for our Nanjing people. We should all help her and don't let her ask for food anymore. ”

The people around shouted in unison. Everyone is paying for it. They threw the money in front of the yellow cat.

Wang Mingming stretched out his hands and said, "Thank you, no need, she won't ask for food anymore with me." Please put your money away. The yellow cat smiled sheepishly. She said: "Thank you, I have received everyone's wishes." I got together with my classmates, my good friends. Please rest assured, my friend is here, I will have food and shelter in the future, and I will not ask for food again. ”

The man said, "She is her heart, and we are our respect for the warriors." Girl, you don't have a lot of money. Everyone unanimously said: "We should help this anti-Japanese volunteer, she is a hero in defending Nanjing, and we will not forget the people who defended Nanjing." "They continued to drop the money in the arms of the yellow cat. The yellow cat bowed to everyone to thank you. Wang Mingming also thanked everyone repeatedly.

The man said, "Listen to what you say, you also participated in the Battle of Nanjing. Tell us about your experience at that time. ”

Wang Mingming thought about it, and she briefly told everyone that she was in Tongjimen on the 12th day of December in the 37th year, and she saw the [***] soldiers fighting bravely to kill the enemy. She talked about those moving deeds that could be sung and cried, and the people who listened shouted in unison, and more and more people listened.

Wang Mingming said that the volunteers walked out of the bunker, picked up guns, and drove the devils out of the city with the [***] soldiers. A middle-aged man said: "You're right, my brother is a volunteer, he was there that day, they picked up guns and fought the devils desperately, driving the devils out of Tongjimen." My brother was betrayed by the Han in the massacre, and the devils buried him alive. ”

Wang Mingming said: "During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, every family in Nanjing had glorious deeds of resistance, and at the same time there was a book of blood and tears. We have won, and we must always remember those who sacrificed their lives for the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and never forget the national shame and family hatred. ”

The man said, "Miss, you go ahead and talk about your business." We love to hear it. ”

Wang Mingming said: "Yellow cat, tell me, you blew up the devil's armored car here that day, and I saw you holding a grenade and dying with the devil." How did you come back to life. ”

"I remember that the devil's armored car rushed into the barricade and rushed towards me, and my wounded were killed and my leg was blown off," said the yellow cat. I took the wounded's grenade and crawled to the devil's armored car, I pulled the grenade with my mouth, one rolled over, because my leg was wounded, I didn't roll into the belly of the car. It's too late for me to roll. I threw a grenade into the belly of the car. The devil's armored car is finished. I was stunned.