Section V
The three of them thought that they must be dead. When they looked at each other, they still didn't believe they were alive, until they put their hands on their bodies and could feel their pulses beating, they dared to be sure that they were still alive, but they didn't understand why the Chinese didn't beat them to death.
A stout and tall guerrilla fighter was kept in a pitch-black hut. Sentinels Tapping and Tapping Walk around the doorway. The footsteps of the sentinels disturbed the silent night. The guerrilla fighters had not eaten for three days, and their stout bodies were cowered in the dark corners, like a shrimp that had been hollowed out and only its shell remained. The man wanted to sleep but couldn't. Hunger tortured him constantly in the corner**. From time to time he got up to drink the cold water from the bucket, and after filling his stomach, he shrank back into the corner. Every time he turned his body, the cold water in his stomach gushed out and gurgled from the corners of his mouth.
The guerrilla fighters were starved until the fifth day, when the door was opened. Two soldiers came, holding food in their hands, steaming hot and fragrant. The guerrilla fighters seemed to see a savior, reached over with both hands, grabbed the food and swallowed it lifelessly, biting their fingers from time to time, the food choked the man and burped, and the blood vessels on his face bulged. The man's stomach was like a balloon blowing up in the blink of an eye.
When the man had finished eating, he could no longer stand. Two soldiers dragged the warrior, and the warrior was dragged to a flat ground and lay there on his back. The bulging belly is like a bulging mountain. The two soldiers carried a wooden plank and placed it on the warrior's hill-like belly. At this time, many Japanese and Chinese excitedly gathered around the soldier to watch. After the board was placed, several Japanese soldiers walked over and stood on the plank in a fairly standardized and uniform manner. I heard the warrior howl in a choked voice, and the warrior's bulging belly sounded like a balloon that had been punctured, and the stomach flowed out along the cracked belly, and the warrior's eyes swelled angrily......
The three of them waited, waiting for death to fall on them.
At this time, the wind and thunder outside the window had been stirred into a ball. The wind and snow in the wild green ridge are blowing again. The wooden house resembles a small boat bobbing in the wind and waves. The three of them listened to the sound of the wind and snow, and got up from the kang in fright, and saw through the window that it was already a muddy outside. Only then did they realize that there were only three of them in the cabin.
"Why didn't they kill us?" Chino's face was gray.
"It's a matter of time before you kill or not." Kawa hung his head.
"Maybe they won't kill us!" Nofu looked through the window at the other cabin.
Ge was stunned and looked at his daughter for a long time, Bingjia lowered his head again and again, his thick braid was red, and his apricot eyes hung down in shame. My brother and sister-in-law sat on the side and raised their eyes at Bingjia from time to time.
"They're here, and it's so fulfilled—" Ge sighed out the window.
Ge was stunned to see the three people who came from the wilderness, and from that moment on, his heart never calmed. The Oroqen people are inseparable from the mountains and forests, just as the peasants cannot do without their own land. But for the sake of his daughter, who is getting older and older, he can't help but leave the mountains and forests, and when he sees his daughter who is as big as a day, he is stunned and anxious. From time to time, he sighed at the snowy mountains and forests, and saw that he was getting old day by day. He once thought about sending his daughter out of the mountains to find a man to marry. But he was reluctant to let his daughter live outside the mountains alone. The clansmen can't go back there, and the Oroqen people who don't know the truth will treat their family as rebels and break them into pieces with an axe. He couldn't let go of his daughter, his wife died, and he poured all his human emotions into his daughter alone.
The ghost sent the gods, and the wild green ridge fell from the sky, and three men came. If Ge saved them, they should repay me. Oroqen's life is bright, and his hatred is down. Ge looked at his daughter in a daze, and he didn't know how many times he asked:
"Which one did you eye?"
The daughter did not answer, her face turned redder, and her head hung lower. Plump's chest heaved and fell.
At this time, a group of hungry wild boars crept into the hut. The snow covered the mountain, and all the animals hid in their burrows. The wild boar searched for a long time in the breathless wild mountains, and finally found two small cabins in the mountain recess, and they smelled the scent of people from a distance.
The family heard the barking of the black dog, and when they looked out the window, the mad boars had already surrounded the hut. The family froze there, and they thought about being attacked by a herd of wild boars when they first arrived at Wild Green Ridge two years ago. Ge was stunned to know that the shotgun with loose sand was no longer useful for the wild boar herd. The two men took up their axes and kept the woman in the shadows. The black dog barked nervously, it looked back at its owner behind it, and saw that its master was ready to fight to the death, it was no longer so nervous, and barked more vigorously.
At this time, the wild boar came closer, and the leader of the group, with its stiff hair standing on end, and baring its long fangs, pressed towards the wooden house. Ge Su and Ge Mu rushed out the door. When the wild boar saw the person, he was very excited, and he struggled to pounce on him, and he dodged the blow of the wild boar, and cut it down with an axe, and the wild boar wailed, turned his head and pounced on him more fiercely, and he did not dodge it, and fell. The wild boar opened its mouth and was about to bite Ge Su, but at this time, the black dog had already pounced on Ge Su and protected his master with his body. The black dog screamed, blood flowed down his head, and the wild boar and the black dog writhed on the snow. Gemu stood up, and Gemu was already fighting with the wild boar that was forcing up again.
The three of them saw the crazy wild boars, and it was the first time they had seen such ferocious pigs. The three of them stared at each other for a moment, not knowing what to do. Nofu first remembered the gun buried in the snow on the hillside. Ge Su, Ge Mu and Black Dog have fought with the wild boar. Several wild boars approached the hut at the same time.
"Gun—" Nofu shouted, slammed the door open, and ran towards the hillside as if he were fleeing.
Kawao and Chino also came to their senses and ran towards the hillside together. When they dragged their guns out of the snow shells, several wild boars followed.
Ge Su and Ge Mu were pounced on by the wild boar several times, and rolled up several times, and in the end, the two of them only had the ability to parry. Again and again, the wild boar pounced on the two men more ferociously.
Then the guns rang out, first one, then two, and then three guns rang out in one piece. The wild boars were startled by the sound of the gunshot, and began to retreat as they saw their kind fleeing screaming at the sound of the gunshot.
Three men stood on the hillside, and four stood in front of the hut, staring at each other blankly.
Later, the three men threw down their guns and walked towards the wooden house. There was chaos in the snow in front of the wooden house, the black dog's stomach was cut open by the fangs of the wild boar, its stomach and intestines flowed to the ground, and the flesh of its head was exposed, and it fought to the last moment to defend its master, and it looked at the wild boars that had escaped, and barked in a low voice, and then looked back at the intact owner, and then fell down.
The family cried around the black dog. Later, the black dog was buried. The family knelt down at the black dog's snow grave.
The three of them looked at all this, and their eyes were red. They thought of Hiroshima, they thought of Shiro, and tears flowed out.
It was warm in the hut and the fire was blazing. Two women were busy barbecuing on the fire.
Ge Su and Ge Mu sat on the kang with the three of them. The three of them looked at the busy woman, and then at Ge Ji and Ge Mu, and the fear of death gradually disappeared. The three of them saw the pride of the family from the bloody battle against the wild boar. Ge was stunned that the three people would have guns, he didn't know where the three people came from, and through a bloody battle with the wild boar, he felt that the three people had stood with him. When the Oroqen people encounter danger while hunting, no matter who sees it, help the hunter out of danger, then the two of them can take care of each other.
The barbecue was soon ready, and a dinner was set up that was even more sumptuous than yesterday's, and the wind was still blowing outside the window, and the snow was still falling.
Wine was pouring in the wooden bowl in front of everyone. The three of them were eating and drinking, and their mood was completely different from yesterday. The three of them drank without scruples under Ge Ge's enthusiastic persuasion. The old man looked at the wild man lovingly. Nofu saw the trust in the old man's gaze, and his heart was very excited, and his hanging heart was also steady. He occasionally picked up his head and met the gaze of Binga standing nearby, his eyes flickering for some reason, and quickly avoided them. Binga also hung his head, and stood there with a red face. Seeing all this, the old man drank happily. When he looked at Yefu again, there was an extra layer of content in his eyes. When several people were slightly drunk, the old man said to his daughter, "This is the young man." Then he dimly went to look at the nofu, who did not know what the old man was saying. He stretched out his hand and drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp......
Late at night, a few people finally finished drinking the sprinkle to their heart's content. After packing up, the sister-in-law climbed onto the kang and took out a white sheet from the cloth bag and spread it on the kang. Three people were drunk and fell there.
Ge Su and Gemu picked up Kawao and Chino and walked to a wooden house, where only Binjia and Noo were left. Nofu woke up at some point, and he saw Binjia standing beside him with his hands down, and he didn't know where he was for a while. It took a long time to see everything in the room, as if he understood everything, but he didn't seem to understand anything, and then he looked at Binjia, who had a ruddy face and a strong body, in a daze.
From time to time, Binjia glanced at Nofu out of the corner of his eye, and from time to time he stood up and filled the hearth with chopping wood. Binjia, who had finished chopping wood, sat in the shadows. The wind was still blowing outside the window, and the snow was still falling. The fire in the hut was blazing red, and the wooden house was lit up and out.
After some time, Binga stood up and walked over to Nofu. Nofu stared blankly at Binjia. Binga bent down to help Nofu take off his shoes, and Nofu dodged in fear. Bin Jia froze there, and for a long time, she threw herself on the kang. He cried with the white sheet under his body. She remembered her mother who was bitten to death by a wild boar, and remembered the small mountain villa of the Oroqen people who had lived in the Great Khing'an Mountains for generations. Bingjia cried very sadly, and I don't know how long it took, Bingjia fell asleep.
Nofu sat there, looking at Binga, who was sobbing. Looking at this warm cabin, he thought of Hiroshima. Yefu's parents are gone, and his brother and sister-in-law raised him. He thought of his brother and sister-in-law who lived in Hiroshima, and thought of Shiro, and at this time, the singing voices of Kawao and Chino sounded faintly in his ears:
Hiroshima is a good place,
There are fish, sheep, and food,
Pretty girl walking in the cherry blossoms,
In the sea came the sun......