Section 1 - Prologue(1)
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Hunan is a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, it has always been an outstanding person, and there have been many celebrities, the war era is even more talented, one of the founders of the People's Republic of China, the president of the country is Hunan, and other celebrities are no longer listed one by one, most of them are familiar.
The establishment of New China was not an easy task, and the difficult things experienced in the middle can only be understood through some historical materials, movies or TV dramas. Of course, there are still some veterans of the war who are lucky to be alive, and they can also know a lot about those years. It's just that the description of a third party is always not as real as what you see with your own eyes, and these things are very far away from now, only a few people are still willing to go to the bottom of the understanding, not to let everyone remember history, but to let more people understand how difficult it is to live a peaceful life now.
On July 7, 1937, Japanese imperialism launched the long-planned "Lugou Bridge Incident", which was Japan's wolf ambition to swallow up the whole of China within three months and establish the "Greater East Asia Economic Co-prosperity Sphere" that they dreamed of.
In May 1944, Japan invaded Hunan. On June 1st, Pingjiang County fell, on the 14th, Liuyang fell, on the 18th, the provincial capital Changsha fell, and on the 22nd, Hengyang was invaded.
When the county seat of Pingjiang was destroyed on June 1, the Japanese army continued their "three lights" policy, and all the residents of Pingjiang county fled to various parts of the countryside or fled to other places. The inhumane nature of the Japanese army has always been known to everyone, the original Pingjiang Uprising site was also destroyed (after the founding of the People's Republic of China has been repaired), the Japanese army sent a team to search for the township, and one of the ten-person Japanese army detachment came to a place called "Hidden Five Villages" (this is a fictitious place name, please do not sit down).
The village is surrounded by high mountains, and the village is surrounded by heavy mountains, and there is only one way in and out of the village, which is the exit and entrance of the village. However, there is a river across the village, the river is turbulent, and the villagers are inconvenient to enter and exit, so a wooden bridge is built here. I don't know if there was any talent or talent in the village, who gave this bridge a peculiar name, but this name is also very consistent with the construction of the wooden bridge, called "Wumu Bridge". The bridge is made of five giant trees, but it is difficult to tell what kind of trees were used because of the age of their construction.
There are more than 100 people in the village, and because their ancestors lived here, everyone is no different from a family. Usually, the people in the village rarely go out, they are all self-sufficient, and they can only learn about the outside world through the mouths of the sellers or some young adults who leave the village. But most of them don't have the idea of making a living in the village, because they are used to living here, so they don't know much about the outside world, and they don't know where to start when they leave the village.
On June 3, several women who were washing clothes at the entrance of the village noticed that 10 men dressed in yellow and carrying guns on their shoulders had arrived at the Wumu Bridge, apparently trying to enter the village. The young Atsui had never seen so many outsiders come here at the same time, and the two women beside her muttered a few words, and then took the wooden basin back to the village to report.
There has always been a village rule in Yinwu Village, that is, what the village chief says is a holy decree, and the people in the village will never disobey and dare not disobey. The village chief is a lifelong system, and after death, the son of the village chief or the new male direct descendant of the village chief continues to serve as the leader, so it is also considered a hereditary system. The village chief is an old man in his sixties, with white hair and a long horse coat, which is really a bit fairy-like. The village chief's surname is Qin, and he ranks second in the family, because the eldest family is used to calling him the second master, so everyone can't remember what his real name is.
When Atsui got home, he hurriedly put down the wooden basin, then untied the apron around his waist, and immediately walked towards Village Chief Qin's house. The villagers are busy with their own housework, and Sister Tang, who was feeding the chickens in front of the house, saw Acui who was busy suddenly, and said with a smile: "Acui, are you in a hurry to find the village chief to tell you about it." (Hunan has always had dialects, and there are great differences in different places, almost one tone in five miles and one tone in ten miles, but fortunately, I changed these dialects to vernacular, which is also easy to read.) )
Atsui stopped, turned around and said, "There are a few people at the entrance of the village, they seem to be coming into the village, and Sister-in-law Qinglin asked me to hurry up and tell the second master." ”
Sister Tang originally wanted to tease Acui, but Acui said that someone from outside the village was coming in, she knew that this matter was very important, so she naturally didn't dare to delay Acui, and said again and again that she should hurry up and find the village chief.
The village head, Qin Erye, was squatting at the door of his house smoking dry cigarettes, smoking pot after pot, as if there was something trivial lingering in his heart. What can be a big deal that can make the village chief irritable? Otherwise, the village chief would not have squatted in front of his house and smoked, and it was bag after bag. The smell of dry tobacco is very strong, if it is not for people who have smoked for more than many years, they can't stand it, and the village chief can't stand it if he smokes it like this, of course, he can't stand it, so that he smokes it himself and rolls in his stomach, and he coughs until he stops, knocking off the ashes in the smoke pot.
As for the village chief's worries, it had to start with a salesman who passed through the village three days ago. On that day, the little sixth son who lived in the village hurriedly ran to the second master's house, saying that there was a seller at the entrance of the village, and asked the second master Qin if he wanted to let him enter the village. On weekdays, there are often sellers who pass through Yinwu Village, and there is no need to make a fuss about such things, Qin Erye was reading a book at home, waved his hand, and said: "Let him come in, the people in the village haven't added anything new for a long time, see if there is anything to use for everyone to come out and take a look." ”
Xiao Liuzi got the permission of Qin Erye and ran away. It didn't take long to hear that the village was lively, and the second master's wife entered the house from outside, carrying some groceries in her hand and said to Qin Erye: "I said old man, you should also go to the village to have a look, now everyone is at the grocer's place, maybe you can get a book or two from him." ”
Qin Erye is one of the few people in the village who have read books, the second master has loved to read since he was young, there are a lot of books hidden at home, and the books in the house are brought back from the outside from the grocers or people who go out of the village over the years, every time he talks about the books hidden in Qin's house, the second master will always use a hearty laugh, stroked his gray beard and said: "That's right, who in the village doesn't know that the second master I am a book lover, if I was born a few years earlier, the second master I will also go to take the exam to show the talent man back." ”
Now when we look at the village chief's thoughts, of course, we will think that he is a frog at the bottom of the well, and the world outside the village is so big. However, weren't the Chinese people at that time also like this, only seeing that their country had a culture of 5,000 years, they never knew how to accept the advanced industry and technology of the West, and they only held a few books every day, and they were proud of their ignorance.
Of course, it cannot be said that the village chief is incompetent, he has been the village chief for decades and has done a lot of useful things for the village. He encouraged the young people to go out of the village, take the surplus goods from the village to be exchanged and sold outside the village, and help the village buy all kinds of daily necessities, which were unimaginable to the people before.
Second Master Qin put down the book in his hand, lit a pot of cigarettes and walked out of the house. The merchant was surrounded by the villagers in the middle of the village's clearing, and from a distance it looked as if they were besieging him. However, it can be seen from the smiling faces of the villagers that they welcome the arrival of the seller, at least there is no dissatisfaction among them. The village chief quietly walked into the crowd, and when everyone found out that the village chief was coming, they all consciously moved out of the way and let the village chief pick first. The village chief was not interested in these groceries, but found a worn-out book under the grocer's burden, and the village chief looked through a few pages of the book and asked the grocer how much the book would sell.
The grocery man actually doesn't know how to read, and he picked up this book from the city, and the grocery man said with a smile: "Uncle, if you like this book, take it, anyway, I don't know how to read, you just leave me for a meal at noon." I've been on the road all morning, I haven't eaten breakfast, and I'm really hungry now, do you agree? ”
When the village chief saw that the grocer said that the book didn't cost money, he was naturally overjoyed, and said that it was okay, and when the grocer ran out of goods, he asked the villagers to take him to his house to eat, and he now went back to tell his wife to cook. When the grocer saw that lunch had been settled, he thanked him repeatedly.
Qin Erye took the books and went home, and when he entered the door, he told his wife that the grocery man was going to come over for dinner at noon, and asked her to prepare the meal earlier, so as not to wait in a hurry, and then sat in the room to read. At noon, the grocer came to the village chief's house under the guidance of the village children, and the village chief heard the noise outside, thinking that the grocery man was coming, and put down his books and went out to pick him up.
The meal was ready, and the village chief invited the grocery man to sit down to eat, and said with a smile: "You're welcome, you can eat as much as you can, where did you get it?" ”
The grocer was really unkind, picked up the dishes and chopsticks and picked them up in a big gulp, heard the village chief talking to him, hurriedly swallowed the food in his mouth, and replied: "I came from the north, and now the whole country is fighting, and little Japan has occupied the north." Two days ago, I came here by taking a small road, and when I passed through the county seat, I saw a lot of small Japanese patrolling the city, and I guessed that the city might also be occupied by small Japan, so I had to take the country road. ”
The village chief has never been out of the village in his life, and the new things outside are all heard from the young people in the village, but in recent years, the young people who have left the village have not returned, so they are also very ignorant of the word "little Japan". He asked, "What does Little Japan do?" "Isn't there a soldier in the city, how can they be occupied? Where did the county lord go? “
The grocer put down the dishes and chopsticks and said, "You don't know, I heard that little Japan floated from the sea, they all have guns, and when they see men, they kill men, regardless of adults or children, killing, burning, looting, raping and plundering, there is nothing that they don't do." I'm afraid all the soldiers in the city are dead. I heard from people in other villages that the county lord had already run away with his wife and children, and where could he care about the lives of others. “
As soon as the village chief heard that the county lord had run away with his wife and children, he was immediately furious and said: "This blue sky and white day, a dignified county lord, actually left the people of a city and fled by himself, there is simply no royal law." “
Second Master Qin may have read too many books, and unconsciously formed a bookish atmosphere, and he was naturally indignant about the county lord's smuggling. Second Master Qin's wife advised him not to get excited, this was all a matter outside the village, and it had nothing to do with them. The village chief gradually calmed down, smiled and said that he was rude, and asked the grocer to eat first.
Unexpectedly, the grocery man said something again, and it was this sentence that made the village chief sad for several days. The grocery man said: "Now that Little Japan has occupied the city, and the neighboring villages next to it have also been occupied, I estimate that it may come to your side in the next few days, and you had better be prepared, village chief." ”
When the village chief heard this, he naturally couldn't help but say something righteous, pointed to the door and said: "If they dare to come, I will take the whole village to split them, I don't believe that they can be more powerful than the big insects on the mountain." ”