Chapter 47: Redemption

"Labor makes man free!!" Standing at the gate that had just been painted, looking at the newly completed R County prison city camp, several leaders were chanting a few large Chinese fonts on the plaque on the gate of a labor camp, and their expressions were different, some were smiling and silent, some were holding back a lot of energy and laughing at where they were, and some were simply very bold and laughing somewhere, in short, none of them were in shape!

There is no harm without comparison.

Compared with a group of leaders who are chatting and laughing, there is a long queue next to them, and a group of blue-green eyeballed "laborers" who are shivering in the cold wind have richer expressions, many of them know Chinese, and there is basically no problem with conversation, but it is a little difficult for them to immediately understand the relatively much more complex Chinese characters, but it doesn't matter, the communication channel is around! After a friendly exchange with some Chinese prisoners who were held here, the meaning of the font on the plaque in the prison camp was finally clear! Before the guards shouted for them to gather, the explosive news spread among the group of foreign prisoners, and the terrifying message was as swift and merciless as the plague, giving them hope that they would be able to go home and hug their children and wives after their prison days. Many foreigners who believe in the blue six-pointed star have begun to mumble the scriptures, and begin to pray for the unbearable encounter they are about to face, and the painful memories passed down by their fathers have suddenly sobered these people, and they clearly remember that the bloody cleansing of their own race by the group with the inverted swastika symbol is now faintly about to be reproduced in themselves! Many people have already knelt down on their knees, their eyes are pale and there is no difference between them and the dead, the corners of their mouths are constantly twitching with tears, one by one, even if the cold winter freezes the tears pouring out of their faces, no one will wipe half a minute, let those ice edges of the fragments continue to fall! For a moment, sparse voices continued to sound among the prisoners. The expressions of foreigners of other nationalities and beliefs are also extremely rich, most of them are looking up at the sky, their faces are like ashes, and their mouths are of course the prayers they believe in.

For the performance of such a large group of foreign war criminals, the expressions on the faces of the Chinese prisoners standing around them are much calmer, for this group of people, it is just a different place to sleep, not the same work and food, why do you build so many new cells? It took so much effort to build a steel wire mesh wall and a watchtower tower, tsk, look at those newly painted walls, I wonder if there are Simmons and water heaters waiting for them inside? The prisoners, accustomed to a miserable life, began to turn their heads and say that thanks to Father Christopher's care, now that everyone's treatment has been implemented, there is no need to live in the low bungalow that the pigs and dogs used to hate! Ignoring the dangerous vigilant eyes of the guards watching nearby, the guys on their tiptoes shouted to the front: "Look, we have prepared new cotton coats, hey, look, they are all new, and the numbers are printed on them!" The flickering voice caused a wave of exclamation: "It's still Mr. Priest, only he still thinks about us sinners!" "Yes, you see, the little priest is over there, and he has something to eat, really! Eat! Don't squeeze, don't squeeze, take your own dishes and chopsticks, stand in line, and have a share! ”

A considerable number of Chinese prisoners are composed of the original rebels and a small number of old Sanmiao troops, and occasionally many of them are imprisoned for other reasons, in short, the composition is very complicated, but here, they all have a glorious title appointed by the previous government - labor prisoners!

Mr. Father Priest said that prisoners in labor camps are also human beings, not slaves, and human beings must have human rights, so they got thousands of sets of restructured winter coats from Zeng Jianguo and Zeng Changzhu, the two chief and deputy ministers.

Regardless of the complicated feelings of these people, Hu Kuishan, as the supreme warden here, is dressed neatly today, wearing a new-style military hat that has just been issued, two shiny metal military ranks are very neatly standing on his shoulders, and on his chest is a first-class combat merit medal just issued by the military department - a wolf head badge with teeth and claws! (The suppression of the Sanmiao rebellion and his Hu Kuishan have a lot of credit, plus the merits of torture, this medal is more down-to-earth) There is also a second-class rescue medal! (Hu Kuishan organized manpower search and rescue several times, which is a great credit, which is also seen by the military and civilians of R County!) The style is a golden cross depicted in the middle of the double osmanthus branches, the shape is very quaint style, the only thing worth mentioning is that unlike the poor urine of the previous dynasty, our Restoration Army used real money! All first-class merits are all gold medals, second-class military merits are naturally made of sterling silver, and third-class copper ones are ordinary after all, but they are full of weight, made of pure copper, and Tong Suo is not bullied! Throwing away the old and tattered military uniform that was dirty and not rubbish in the past, and putting on a new uniform, Hu Kuishan stood proudly, if it weren't for the murderous aura on his body that was so thick that people felt suffocated, it was really terrifying, just looking at his smiling face, it was not unapproachable.

Aside from the red-faced him, a character standing next to him who couldn't help but laugh played a much more positive role, that is, it fully offset most of Hu Kuishan's anger, you have already guessed that it is the righteous daughter of our big leader, Zhang Wenwen and Miss Zhang! Now the little princess is seven years old, she is not big, she is wearing a well-fitting pink fur dress, combing her braids, she is opening her bright eyes, constantly scanning the various people under the viewing platform.

"Uncle Hu, Uncle Hu." With a childish accent and a sweet and greasy tone, our little princess pulled the corner of Hu Kuishan's clothes. "Why are those foreign uncles and uncles crying? Did you bully them? Pointing to the various foreign war criminals who were already exuding despair under the stage, our princess asked in puzzlement.

"Well,,, this" Hu Kuishan is usually a ruthless character who exists like a god in the minds of his subordinates! However, in front of the little girl he loved, our Comrade Lao Hu was also like the usual uncles who doted on children, and he was asked so much that he didn't know how to answer. "They didn't make a mistake, so why bully them?" A series of childish questions came.

"This, uh-huh! Uncle told you, these people are all bad people, very bad people, you see, they don't look like us! You see, how fierce they look, all with thick arms and thighs. I have heard old people often say that far west of where we live, there is a group of man-eating rakshasas! They are so fierce, and some of them specialize in eating children! Their heads are the size of a washbasin, and their bodies have old hair, uh, teeth, and they're so old, yes, you see, they're not like the guys in front of you! All of them have long beards and blue eyes, the most fierce ones,,,, you look at the one over there, the kind that eats people the most, the eyes are green, don't get close to them, they are man-eating rakshasas! "Maybe it's a blessing to the soul, or maybe it's a flash of inspiration, our illiterate Hu Kuishan suddenly patted his head, where to open his mouth, and started to blow nonsense with the old woman who fooled the child in his past." But, it's Uncle Hu! "The little princess is so clever that she doesn't eat that at all:"Uncle Christopher also has blue eyes and yellow hair, and Uncle Che, his eyes are also green." Why are they so good to me, take me to play, teach me to read and write, especially Uncle Che, who took me to ride a big horse last time, it is those big horses in the army, but they are very energetic! ”

Belch..... Hu Kuishan felt that his ability to fool people was not as good as a yellow-mouthed child, and he was actually speechless when he was asked by the child!

"Also, the two mothers often take me to play with the big dogs who can stand and walk, their paws are so big, their teeth are sharp and long, they look so fierce and fierce, why are all their eyes green? They don't eat people, and they're so nice to me, and they play with me everywhere, you see, those big dogs even caught a squirrel brother for me to keep company! As she spoke, Wenwen took out a chubby squirrel from the small schoolbag behind her and showed it in front of Hu Kuishan. Belch.... Actually, Uncle Priest and Uncle Che are not the same as those Rakshasa ghosts below, yes, yes, the breed is different! As he was talking, Hu Kuishan saw that the priest not far away was looking at this side with a solemn face, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly stopped his breath!

"It's not that the breed is different, they're not the same people at all!" My God, I call Mr. Priest a Rakshasa! Wait for Wenwen, the child, to go back and shout in front of the big guy, won't his little life be over? Hu Kuishan, whose heart was in his throat, immediately changed his words: "Mr. Priest is not the kind that my uncle said... Hell, Mr. Priest is a good man, well-hemm, a great good man, the best and the best of the best! Hu Kuishan touched a cold sweat, slandering a clergyman, or the number one celebrity under his master's command, do you still want to be mixed?

"What about Uncle Che? Is he a bad guy? Little Lori continued to ask questions reluctantly.

"No, absolutely not, your old Uncle Che is also a good man, a great man! And those foreign uncles in white coats are all good people, do you think, the last time you were sick, it wasn't those uncles who gave you injections and medicines, and your illness got better? Hu Kuishan breathed a sigh of relief, this coaxing child is not an ordinary technical job, I have been with Wenwen for so long, and I still boast that I am a part-time prince and a princess! Seeing that the child finally nodded slightly in agreement, Hu Kuishan felt that he could finally take a breath. But the next question that made him angry was coming soon.

"Then why did these blue-eyed uncles make mistakes? Is Dad going to punish them? Wenwen's big eyes looked at the bald man next to her with infinite innocence.

"Yes, they made a big mistake, a big mistake, well, they did a great bad thing! They burned our grain, lots and lots of food, you see, uncles, aunts and uncles had to work tirelessly every day, and finally got some food, but they burned it! Have you ever seen those aunts and uncles who worked in the fields? How tired and hard they are, yes, yes, that poem: You must know that the Chinese food on the plate is hard work...... "It's very rare, our illiterate people held back the first pirated poem in their lives to educate the little princess."

"Oh!!" Zhang Wenwen screamed excitedly, her face changed, and without waiting for Hu Kuishan to stop her, Xiao Lori rushed down the viewing platform in a few steps, and suddenly rushed to those foreign prisoners and shouted: "You have done something wrong, my father will punish you!" Punish you! A group of foreigners who were still praying for their tragic fate raised their heads blankly, looking at the small little girl in front of them shouting unintelligible words at themselves, but no one dared to move, six heavily armed guards and thirteen full-time night wolf members were staring at them with sharp eyes like sabers, and a giant black dog with a wagging tail and never going far away from Wenwen followed closely behind the girl, Enough for any bad intentions to vanish under these aggressive gazes! What's enough just to scold? As if she was puzzled, Wenwen bent down, grabbed a few handfuls of snow, kneaded it into a small snowball three times and two times, and viciously smashed it into the face of a tall and thin foreign war criminal closest to her, and the war criminal did not dodge, allowing the snowball that was not very high to smash on his face! "You're all badass, big badass! Big badass! Bad apple! "How can a snowball be enough to express her hatred, Wenwen opened her throat and scolded a few words, and when she continued to prepare to rub another snowball, the war criminal suddenly turned his face and faced Zhang Wenwen, who was about to "commit murder" again. Wenwen just hesitated to look at the man for less than two seconds, without extra politeness, the child raised the snowball in his hand, and smashed it out mercilessly, one after another, as if these barbarians in front of him were not human, and they could be bullied and insulted at will! Without the slightest sense of sympathy, Zhang Wenwen, under the guidance of hatred education, wantonly vented her anger at those war criminals who had no will to resist.

An imperceptible wry smile appeared on Hu Kuishan's face, finally, he fulfilled the entrustment of the big leader, and finally, he completely became the kind of person his mother didn't want to be! Why do my eyes get moist? Hu Kuishan was suspicious and wanted to wipe it, but he immediately woke up, what kind of occasion is this! How many pairs of eyes are monitoring everything here, and the flustered Hu Kuishan is steady, fortunately, no one notices his gaffe! Secretly observing the surroundings again, except for those guards and night wolves who have the same intentions as themselves, no other ordinary human beings are aware of the strange waves that have just risen in their hearts, but there is no absolute in everything, while everyone's attention is attracted by Wenwen's personal performance, when Hu Kuishan peeked around, suddenly, a pair of blazing eyes shocked him! Christopher, dressed in the decoration of a cardinal archbishop, looked at him steadily, his eyes were like torches, and his eyes were like electricity! As if he had seen through Hu Kuishan's little thoughts, the priest silently pulled up his long sleeved robe, and looked deeply in the direction of Hu Kuishan for a while, then turned around and walked down the viewing platform with his hands behind his back, several attendants followed him closely, and even the heartless Zhu Protector glanced at Hu Kuishan before following the priest away.

Hu Kuishan's little heart, which had just calmed down, was stared at by Mr. Priest meaningfully, and suddenly jumped up and down again! Who is Mr. Priest? One person is above 10,000 people, and more than 30,000 fanatical believers under his command are equivalent to 30,000 dead soldiers who are not afraid of death! Although he is a subordinate of Zhang Jiaming's cronies, in front of Mr. Priest, his status is estimated to be not even a bedbug! In the past, I didn't have to worry about priests who were only in charge of civil affairs, but now it's different, not only civil affairs, military politics, police affairs, but even the gendarmerie have priests! If Zhang Jiaming's strength is a mountain, then Mr. Priest's power is the grass and trees on the mountain! The mountains provide the building blocks of life, and the vegetation provides nourishment and nourishment for the mountains! The two are closely combined, and one is indispensable! And what about yourself? How does a small cell boss who is in charge of a jailer compare with these behemoths?

Hu Kuishan knows that he has made a big mistake, but he still knows how to make up for it! Although all his starting points are actually for this collective, in order to realize the entrustment of the big leader, however, he was forced to do this, and his real wish is not to let a pure child bear the resentment of the previous generation because of the old hatred! That's the way it is, the person caught between the two dilemmas is the saddest, Hu Kuishan, who can't help himself, has completed a major event in his life, but because of this, he has incurred the oppression of another invisible mountain!

Looking at the priest's distant back, Hu Kuishan thought for a moment, gritted his teeth, got off the viewing platform without saying a word, picked up Zhang Wenwen, who was still gritting his teeth and scolding, and followed the footprints in the snow, chasing the priest step by step.

The ceremony was not so cumbersome, and since Mr. Priest was not interested, there was no reason for the big guys to stay in the snow of early spring.

Several loud jailers began to shout at the commander's behest: "Those wearing yellow uniforms, all go to the disinfection room in front, and receive the order of Shangfeng, to disinfect your gang of rice and flowers, and clean your body!" What to watch? Hurry up, hurry up, don't fucking grind, you guys be honest! Queue up! Keep up, do things honestly, and there is still sweet wine to drink today! Opposite them, a group of foreign war criminals who were still standing in the snow looked at the gate with six big characters in front of them, "Labor Makes People Free" with six big characters pasted on the gate in front of them! All the war criminals did not move, they all knew the meaning of those fonts, it was cold, without the slightest hint of pity, as long as they walked in, they would never see the sunshine of tomorrow, and the same should not be twice! The blood and tears left by your ancestors!

Seeing off Mr. Priest, on the viewing platform, Wei Zhongshu and a military general were already smiling and sobbing, looking at the faceless faces of these foreigners is a great pleasure in itself! Tell you to burn Lao Tzu's military rations, ask you to sneak attack Lao Tzu's rear, and tell you to kill my brother, Lao Tzu will not torture your body, but will deliberately torture and torture your spirit today! What does it mean that capital sins can be avoided, but living sins cannot be escaped?

The foreign war criminals had been grinding for a long time, mourning in the snow for a long time, even though the cold wind was whistling on their heads, and a group of guards with impatient faces and violent elements were roaring all over their bodies, and none of them were willing to cooperate. It's the same with you! Unbelief? If you look at the surrounding environment yourself, you can see at a glance that the guards of those yellow prisoners are all ordinary soldiers, and the guards are all special agents of the Seventh Division in black uniforms! The foreign war criminals were not confused, and many of their grandparents were coaxed by the SS in black uniforms to push them into the gas chambers step by step, and finally enter the crematorium and turn into dust! If I had to add one more thing, the obvious meaning of the phrase "Labor makes man free!" ”

The situation was deadlocked, but the officers on the scene were getting smaller and smaller, as if they had not seen the expressions of these foreign war criminals in a desperate situation. And the most realistic sound of the bolts pulling the bolt of the Seventh Division, who were becoming more and more impatient next to them, had quietly sounded!

Ominous memories enveloped this group of war criminals who had completely fallen into the paranoia of persecution, and panicked voices began to tremble: "We have been betrayed!" "They want to kill us!" "God's people, these yellow-skinned Nazis are insane.... United, we can't sit still! "Unite you, brothers of Christ, fight with them !!" The shouts grew louder and louder, and a storm of grief and anger quickly coalesced among the prisoners, and the forces in charge of monitoring nearby were not half weak.

"Target, prisoner in front!" A cold voice gave an order, and as the command came, rows of automatic rifles lit up on the edge of the prisoners, and the military jeeps standing next to them also opened the canvases on their frames, and the brand-new machine guns that had just been oiled were all revealed, and the muzzles of the black holes pointed at the high-nosed foreigners in the middle of the field without mercy. An officer with epaulettes indicating a second lieutenant drew his rifle and walked to the front row and shouted: "Blind dog-eyed ghost! Do you want to rebel? ”

"You're murdering, outright murder, do you want us to stretch our necks and let you push us into that gas chamber?" A voice raised its head, speaking Chinese that could be distinguished. Immediately after, another voice began to sound, also in that strange tone of Chinese pronunciation: "Yes, I ask you to abide by the Geneva Conventions and give us fair treatment of prisoners of war." ”

"Geneva Conventions? What is this? Can it be eaten or can it be used? "Standing on the cusp of the wind and waves, a junior officer, and a second lieutenant with a simple peasant level of education, he was obviously very confused by this new term. The adjutant next to him understood this, and hurriedly stepped forward and whispered like this.

"Oh!!" The second lieutenant put on his military hat with a gun, and shook his head leisurely: "You don't fucking talk nonsense with Lao Tzu, there is an order from the peak, isn't this just to make a nest with you and change a good place to sleep, if it weren't for Mr. Priest's intercession, and the peasant brothers in the county worked overtime, so that we were tired and half dead to rebuild this prison camp for you to live in, what's the matter?" A slut is hypocrisy! Brothers, don't be polite to these ghosts, and if you don't obey, you will discount their doglegs for me! I see what these turtle grandsons can do! ”

With a shout, a group of wolf soldiers who had been waiting impatiently on the side pulled out the thick wooden sticks on their waists, and pounced into the crowd of prisoners in groups of three or five. After some beating and scolding, he easily took down these ghosts, and in pairs, dragged these guys who were still bleeding from their noses and skulls to the gate of the prison camp.

"I don't want to die..... Please... Give me.. O mercy, forgiveness. Sin us, Virgin Mary, save your wretched people! "People do not mourn or cry, and before they enter the steel gate, the first few prisoners who have been dragged away are suddenly bursting with an astonishing force, but this strength can only be used to cry and pray.

Most of the members of the 7th Division Special Service Team are also composed of people with low culture to the point of outrageousness, how can they understand the possibility that these war criminals are afraid, but they are very practical, and they throw the prisoners into a specially made new porter that looks like a large bathroom near the gate, and they no longer care about things, and the other team members who followed the prisoners did the same, and soon, crackling, they threw in a large number of high-nosed and blue-eyed balls. Without waiting for this group of frightened guys to see their environment clearly, they stood up one by one, and the iron gate inlaid with thick glass was already descending not far in front of them!

"No !!!" The screams of the sky and the earth made the crowd rushing out of the mouth crazy, and the high-nosed people did not know where to burst out of power, and one by one they rushed towards the iron gate that had been closed, roaring hoarsely, and in pain! The doomed end has come, and the doom that befell the ancestors of the Jews has finally befallen them, and the dead faces of the people are knocking weakly on the iron door, while crying for mercy or help! However, no one paid attention to them, even the remaining foreigners who were still waiting outside to be forcibly dragged away were collectively silenced, and the cruelest side of human nature was staged in these Oriental lives, even the war criminals who were violent in front of their partners before were as well-behaved as little white rabbits, and they hung their heads silently one by one.

"I heard the mysterious melody that David king of Israel had played to please God...... and began to sing in the crowd of war criminals who sat down on the ground, and this foreign song was softly sung from the mouth of one of the thinnest foreigners, and then, one after another, as if contagious, all the war criminals began to sing in tune: "I have also seen the sign you left on the marble arch..... Love is not for me a triumphant march, but a cold and shattered hallelujah song...."

The onlookers of the Seventh Division were stunned, these foreigners are really weird, they were making a fuss just now, and now they suddenly come to the collective chorus? Just as the eyes were staring, another collective cry came: "Before, you will make me understand what it really means to be gone..... The holy dove is also slowly approaching you, and every breath we breathe is a voice of praise to God - hallelujah...... Hallelujah, Hallelujah. ”

Even the stone-blind soldiers of the Seventh Division know what these grandsons are singing, dare to love, you are doing deathbed mass?

Whether it is the foreigners crying and wailing in the big room, or the war criminals sitting and waiting to be killed in the outer camps, they all have a resolute expression after singing the hymn, and of course, according to the little official who came back to write the report after observing the scene: These guys have been scared to the point of and urine! What is a little inconsistent is that it is different from the fear of death at the beginning to the acceptance of fate later, and the mental outlook of this group of people has indeed changed greatly.

Just when a group of foreigners decided that today was their sacrifice day, a row of lamps suddenly lit up overhead, and before the big guy came to his senses, he just cared about covering the dazzling light, and then, a stream of hot water poured down! The two timid high noses were scared and screamed like ghosts! It didn't matter if it was heard inside, but it startled the crowd outside, who had just quieted down, to their feet! Sure enough, these Dongfang spawns are so cruel, what vicious methods will they use to kill us, Zyklon B? Aqua regia? Mustard gas? Tsk, these yellow-skinned Nazis must be an unscrupulous group of demons! Unbelief? Listen, the first two screams only lasted less than five seconds before they stopped! It must be a new poison with a more devastating and lethal effect! The symptoms of persecution paranoia completely occupied the hearts of all the prisoners, and their dead gray faces were like the walls that had been painted with white paste again - extremely white, it was over, father, mother, son, daughter, wife, we really want to say goodbye this time!

Time passed little by little, and after waiting in place for another ten minutes or so, the door actually opened again! All the war criminals craned their necks, trying to see the terrible scene that would happen inside, it must have been so cruel that it was impossible to describe in words: one by one the bleeding partners lay on the cold floor, like a pig that had dried up the blood, white, or the eyes that had completely turned blood-colored looked up at the sky blankly, and the soft collapsed body could not move for half a minute, and finally a group of Nazi workers in chemical protective suits dragged their bodies into a small cart like dogs, and then, The crematorium will be their final destination! The moment the iron gate opened, many timid people actually closed their eyes, they didn't dare to look at the possible cruelty in their imagination!

"They're alive, they're ...."Many people were inspired by that incredulous voice to look up again and focus on what was ahead, "You see, they... They're fine, nothing..... So, what the hell are they..."No one said anything about the following words, the gang of war criminals who walked out of the iron gate have been cleaned clean, and they have changed into clean and comfortable cotton cold coats, although the boots on their feet are a little ill-fitting, but it is useless to make these prisoners feel uncomfortable, the most considerate thing is: a few big bald people with less hair can also receive warm winter hats, and a few particularly weak bodies are supported out by their friends, although their complexion is poor, But there was a satisfied and comfortable expression on his face!

"Okay, you turtle grandchildren are listening, don't you just let you take a bath and disinfect it, it's like life and death, and you're crying like a big man? Did you see it clearly this time, don't ink it, and follow me in order to go in and wash it clean, do you hear clearly? It was still the same cold voice that was scolding, but this time, this harsh voice was so gentle in the ears of the war criminals, a sentence from the memoirs written by these: For the first time, I am grateful to this merciful commander, who made me understand that sometimes, mercy can be expressed in a fierce way - Private Wa Xin, a private in the Far East