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Chapter 56: Cross-Century Grievances III

Looking at the army defending the city on the city wall, it was still in strict order, and it was only a little relaxed. But as soon as I arrived on the street, it was already full of people talking and chaotic. When everyone was in the middle of the day, suddenly in the dust, the fleeing refugees with bare feet rushed to them, and when they asked them, they were all panting and no one could tell what had happened. Suddenly, dozens of horsemen galloped from north to south, fleeing in embarrassment, and the crowd avoided one after another. One of the people who was supporting was Shi Kefa, the governor of the town. It turned out that they wanted to break through to Dongcheng, but because the Manchu army was tightly defended and could not break through, they rushed south and wanted to break through Nanguan. From this, it was known that there was no doubt that the enemy soldiers of the Lu Dao had entered the city.

At this moment, another rider came from north to south, withdrawing the reins and walking slowly. The man on the horse looked up and wailed, and the two soldiers in front of the horse pulled the reins of the horse and left reluctantly. This scene is still in front of me, but I hate not being able to ask for his name at that time. After the cavalry had gone a little further, the soldiers defending the city abandoned their weapons and armor and uniforms, and jumped off the city walls to flee for their lives. Some people have broken their heads and died, and some have broken their leg bones. Looking back, the walls were empty.

The situation was even more chaotic where the city was broken. Previously, because the city wall was too narrow for the cannon to be placed, the governor Shi Kefa ordered a wooden plank on the battlements, one end on the city wall, and the other end on the dwellings, so that the width of the city wall was expanded. Able to place the cannon. The project was never completed. Here, the first enemy soldier to enter the city wields his weapons. Messing around. The soldiers and civilians defending the city fled one after another, crowding and trampling each other. The road on the city wall was soon clogged with people, so people jumped on the planks and crawled for help, trying to escape to the houses. But the plank was not strong, and when there were many people, it overturned, and the people fell like fallen leaves. Nine out of ten people fall to their deaths; The people who reached the roof of the people, running on the roof, stepping on the rubble, and there was a sonorous sound, and the sound was like a sword and a halberd striking each other, and like rain and hail carrying bullets, and the four should be endless. The inhabitants of the house were shocked and panicked. In the living room, inside and outside the hall, and even in the bedrooms, there were already soldiers and civilians who had climbed down from the city walls, all of them in panic looking for gaps and hidden places to hide. The owner's loud shouting could not stop it. At this time, Yangzhou City has all closed its doors, and everyone is waiting with bated breath. Don't dare to take any action.

The back hall of my house is facing the city wall, and when I peek out of the window, I see that the city is full of soldiers marching from south to west, and the steps are strictly organized, even if it is raining, there is no chaos at all. I privately summed it up, thinking that this is a disciplined and measured army, and it will not do anything to the people. The mind is a little settled. Suddenly I heard a knock on the door, it turned out that the neighbors had made an appointment to set up a case to burn incense to welcome the arrival of the Manchu army, in order to show surrender and dare not resist, although I knew that this would not have any effect, but in this situation could not immediately change the decision of everyone, so I had to respond. So everyone changed their clothes and stood in a queue, waiting for the arrival of the Manchurian army. But after waiting for a long time, the Manchurian army was not seen. I then went to the window in the back hall of the house to peek at the city wall, and saw that the Manchu army was a little sparser than before, so I stopped and walked. Suddenly, I saw that there were women among the Manchu soldiers, and judging by the color of their clothes, they were all local women in Yangzhou. I began to be terrified, and turned back to my wife and said, "If anything happens to the enemy soldiers entering the city, you should cut yourself to avoid humiliation." The wife wept and said, "All right! Then he wept and handed it over, and said to me, "I have saved a lot of private money before, and I will leave it to you to dispose of, if I die, there is no possibility of resurrection, what is the use of keeping this property?" So he took out all the money and gave it to me.

At this moment, someone came in and shouted: Here we are! Here it comes! I hurried out. From a distance, he saw several horsemen coming from the north, and they all pulled the reins of their horses and walked slowly, and met the queue of greetings, and bowed their heads as if to say something to the people waiting below. At this time, everyone in Yangzhou is in danger and is guarding their own affairs, so although they are not far apart, there is no communication between them.

People waited anxiously for them to get closer, only to realize that they were going from house to house asking for money. However, he is not very demanding, and if he gains a little, he will not ask more, and even if there is disobedience, although he threatens each other, he has not hurt anyone. Later, I learned that someone in Ludao donated 10,000 taels of money, and he was killed in an instant because there were local Yangzhou people who were undercover agents. One by one, the soldiers came to my house, and a man on horseback pointed at me and said to the cavalry behind, "Find me this man in blue and ask for money." "The soldiers behind me had just dismounted, and I had fled as fast as I could. The full army abandoned me and went away without getting on my horse. I wondered in my heart: "My clothes are vulgar like a countryman, why are you asking me for money?" At this time, my eldest brother and younger brother also came, so they planned together: "The house I live in is full of rich businessmen, do they think that I am also a rich businessman, what can I do?" "Everyone was very anxious and finally decided to move as soon as possible. So he entrusted the eldest brother to lead the women of the family and others from the remote road to the second brother's house in the rain. The second brother's residence is behind He's grave, and the left and right are extremely poor people, so it should be relatively safe. I was left alone to watch the movement. After a while, the eldest brother suddenly came forward and said, "The army on the street has already started to kill, what is the use of staying here?" Our brothers should be in the same place no matter what, live and die together, and even if they die, they can be hateless. "So I took the ancestor god and the eldest brother to the second brother's house. At that time, there were 12 people who avoided my second brother's house with my eldest brother, second brother and younger brother, a sister-in-law and a nephew, a pregnant wife and a five-year-old son, two mother-in-laws, and a brother-in-law.

The soldiers then ordered all the women to strip off their wet clothes from the outside to the inside, from head to toe, and ordered the women who made the clothes to measure the length, width, and narrowness of each person by a ruler, and then put on new clothes. These women, coerced by the soldiers, had no choice but to face each other naked, revealing their privacy, and their shyness and pain were indescribable. After changing clothes, several full soldiers selected women to hug left and right, drink and have fun, and laughed.

Soon, a man suddenly got up with his knife and shouted to the men in the back hall: "Barbarian, come, barbarian, come!" "Several people next to me have been restrained and unable to move, including my eldest brother. The second brother said: "The momentum has come to this, what can the husband say? Hold my hand and walk forward, and my brother will follow the group. At this time, there were more than 50 men in their custody. And the full soldier raised his sword and shouted. The souls of all the people have flown away, and no one dares to disobey and not move forward. When I went out of the hall with my brothers, I saw that the soldiers were killing one after another, and they were all waiting to be killed. At first, I wanted to die willingly, but with God's help, my heart suddenly moved, and I sneaked away and fled while others were unprepared. Back in the back room, and all the fifty or so people didn't notice.

There were still a few old women in the west room of the back house, and it was impossible to avoid them, so they couldn't get through. So he went through the middle hall to the back room, and found that it was full of horses and livestock, and he could not escape from it. At this time, his heart became more and more anxious, so he lay under the belly of the horse and crawled out from under the belly of the livestock. If the animals are alarmed at this time, they will be in a mess, and I will soon be trampled into pulp. Get out of here. I passed several houses, but there was no way to escape. Only a small passage between the houses next to it led to the back door, and the door on the path had been nailed shut.

I came from the back room to the front again, and when I heard the sound of murder in the front room, I became even more frightened. Looking around to the left, I found a kitchen with four people who had probably been caught cooking. I begged them to take me in and let me do some cooking with me, and maybe I would be spared. But the four of them sternly refused, saying: "The four of us are just caught to do chores, if the full army finds out that there are more people, they will definitely suspect fraud, and you will kill us!" "I pleaded and pleaded, and they began to get angry and wanted to pull me out, so I had to leave.

At this time, I became more and more anxious, and found that there was a shelf in front of the steps, and there was a large urn on the shelf, not very far from the roof. So I grabbed the shelf and climbed up, and as soon as my hand reached the position of the urn, the shelf suddenly toppled over, and my body had fallen to the ground, because the center of gravity of the shelf was too high and I used too much force.

I had no choice but to hurry back to the small door. He grabbed the big nail that nailed the door with both hands and shook it desperately, but he couldn't open it. Hit with a stone, and the sound reached the outer court. Afraid of being discovered by the soldiers, he had to shake it again until his fingers were cracked and the blood flowed incessantly, and the blood flowed down his arms to his elbows. At this time, the long nail loosened, pulled out with all his strength, and finally pulled the nail out in his hand. The latch was pulled in a hurry, but because the wooden latch was soaked in rain and rose, it was hard to open and several times more difficult to open. I became more and more anxious, and slammed the latch with all my might, and with great force, the latch was not opened, and the door frame suddenly broke, and the whole door tilted and fell, and even the wall next to it collapsed in a large part, and the sound was as loud as thunder. I hurriedly shrugged over the rotten door, and I didn't know where I got so much strength out the back door.

Outside is the foot of the city. It was full of soldiers and horses. It simply can't be passed. So he immediately squeezed into the back door of the left neighbor of Qiao's house, but found that there were people hiding everywhere there was to avoid people, and they were all resolutely unwilling to let others enter. From back to front, all five large houses are like this, until the main gate, which is already adjacent to the main street.

The streets are full of soldiers coming and going, and everyone probably thinks that this place is dangerous, so no one is hiding here. I hurried in, and saw a bed in it, and there was a roof above it, so I seized of the pillar and climbed up to it, and bent down and lay down. Wheezing, I suddenly heard the wailing of my brother on the wall, and then heard the sound of raising a knife and slashing, and it took a total of three slashes before falling silent. After a while, I heard the second brother's cry and pleading, saying, "I have money in the cellar of the house, let me go!" I'll go and get the money out to you. Only the sound of a knife was heard, and everything fell silent again. At this time, my heart is like anointing, my eyes are dry without tears, my bowels are broken, and I cannot help myself.

After a while, a man of soldiers took a woman hostage and went straight into the house, intending to rape her in her bed. At first, the woman resolutely resisted, but later had to give in under the violent coercion of the Manchu soldiers. When she was done, the woman said, "It's too inconvenient to be close to the street, and you may be discovered by others, so don't stay here for long." The soldiers then took her away again. In the meantime, I was almost discovered.

There is a partition made of bamboo mats on the roof, which cannot withstand the weight of people, but it can be used to grasp the beams. I climbed up with my hand on the truss on the beam, and stepped on the camel beam with my foot, which was covered by a mat, and it was pitch black above the beam, which was not easy to find.

We searched for the remaining rice in the mortar, but the rice was gone, so we had to endure hunger with the eldest brother. That night, his wife almost died in the search for a short time, but fortunately, Mrs. Hong saved her life. On the 28th, I said to my eldest brother, "I don't know who will survive today?" Brother Wo is fortunately unharmed, please protect my Peng'er, even if it is just for a while. The eldest brother also wept and comforted, and finally said goodbye and fled to other places. Mrs. Hong said to her wife, "I hid in a broken cabinet yesterday. Safe all day. Let's take a different place with you today. But his wife refused. Still hiding behind the coffin with me.

Not long after this day, several full soldiers rushed into the house, broke the cabinet, and robbed Mrs. Hong. They punched and beat the old lady in every way. But Mrs. Hong gritted her teeth and never confessed. I was very grateful for her great kindness, and later I gave my second brother's family property a hundred taels of silver, and the rest of my family also had dozens of gold and silver money. gave Mrs. Hong together and thanked him for saving his life.

After that, more and more soldiers came, and the soldiers who came to my hiding place came back and forth, one after another, but as soon as they arrived at the back of the house, they saw the coffin and left. Suddenly, more than a dozen soldiers came with a lot of intimidation, and they came very violently, and instantly saw a person coming straight to the coffin. Rub my feet with a long rod. I was shocked and looked at it. It was found that there were local Yangzhou people who were Manchu guides to find the hiding people, and it was estimated that they wanted to extort money. The Manchu guide was somewhat familiar, but forgot his name. I begged them for mercy, and when they asked me for money, they gave them some money, and they did not embarrass me too much, saying, "Because she is pregnant, you have cheapened your wife." The last few soldiers said to the others, "Let him go for now." "These talents dispersed.

I was in a state of panic when suddenly a young man dressed in red walked up to me with a long knife in his hand, shouting for me to come out. I had no choice but to come out, but he didn't speak, but raised his weapon against me. I gave him the money, and he took it, and he didn't give up, and when he saw his wife, he wanted to take her away. The wife held up her nine-month-old belly and fell to the ground desperately. I then begged him with his belongings: "My wife, who has been pregnant for many months, fell from the roof yesterday and injured herself, and she could not sit up, so how can she walk?" The young man in red didn't believe it, so he lifted his clothes and looked at his wife's abdomen, and then saw the pants that had been stained with blood before, and then walked away stupidly. I saw this man-filled boy kidnap a young woman, a young girl, and a child. The child screamed for food from his mother, which annoyed him, so he swung a knife and struck him, and the child died of a split brain. and then escorted the young woman and the young girl away.

I told my wife that this place had been discovered and that she could not survive, so she should find a good place to hide. And my wife insisted on committing suicide, and I was really afraid of having no owner, so the two of us came out, tied ropes to the beams of the house, and hanged ourselves from the beams together. But halfway through, the ropes around our necks broke together, and we both fell to the ground. Before he could get up, many soldiers had already rushed into the gate and walked straight to the hall, but fortunately they had not had time to cross the two corridors. My wife and I hurriedly fled outside the door and ran to a grass house. The hut was full of village women, who agreed to keep their wives but wouldn't let me in. I hurried to another grass hut at the south head, where the grass was piled up and connected to the house, and I climbed to the top of the haystack, lay down and hid, and covered myself with weed, thinking that I could be free of trouble.

But in a short time the full army arrived, and they leaped up to the haystack and whipped their spears at the bottom of the grass. I had to come out of the haystack and beg for my life, and I was given a lot of money. The soldiers took the money and searched the haystack again, and found several more people, and gave him the money. The soldiers then departed satisfied, and several of them once again burrowed into the haystack. When I observed this room, there were several large square tables against the wall, and the square tables were covered with straw on the periphery, and there was nothing under the square tables, which could accommodate twenty or thirty people. I forced my way under the table, thinking that I had a plan, but the wall beside the table was rotten, and suddenly a large piece of the wall collapsed from a waist high, revealing a large hole, and there were soldiers outside, and they saw that there were people inside, and they stabbed them with spears from outside the hole. Everyone in front of the cave was stabbed, and I was stabbed in the back of my thigh. Those who approached the cave had no choice but to crawl out of the cave on their knees, and they were all immediately tied up by the full army. I and a few people far away from the cave hurriedly crawled out of the haystack.

I had to go to my wife's hiding place again. His wife and all the women lay on their stomachs in the haystack of firewood and grass, smeared their bodies with blood, sprinkled them with coals on their heads, and foamed them on their faces, like ghosts, until they found their wives by sound. I begged the women, and at last I got permission to go to the bottom of the grass, and the women lay on it, and I held my breath and did not dare to move, and I was almost suffocated. My wife handed me a bamboo tube and asked me to hold the end in my mouth and the other end on it, so that I could breathe out without suffocating to death.

At that time, there was a full army outside, and he killed two people, and the matter was so strange that the pen could not carry it. The women on the grass trembled with fear. Suddenly, I heard the sound of wailing outside, and it turned out to be a full soldier who opened the door and entered the room. But then the full army strode out again, and never looked back.

(29th) The day is getting dark, and the women are getting up, and I can come out of the grass, and I am already sweating like rain. In the evening, the same wife went to the Hong house, and the two elders of the Hong family were there. Big brother also came here. said that he was robbed during the day to pick up something. Later, the Manchurians rewarded him with a thousand dollars. And let him come back. Today, I saw corpses piled up everywhere along the way, bleeding like a stream, and the tragic situation was indescribable. I also heard rumors that there is a general surnamed Wang, who lives in the Li Mansion in Zhaoyang, Benfang, and saves tens of thousands of dollars every day to help refugees, and his subordinates kill people and often dissuade them, so many refugees save their lives. This night was sad. Fall asleep. The next day, it was already the 29th.

It has been five days since the 25th, and I secretly hope that I will be fortunate enough to meet the forgiveness. Rumors outside were rumored that the Manchu army was going to slaughter the whole city, and the people's hearts were even more panicked. Due to the blockage of the moat, it has now become a smooth road, so more than half of the remaining Li people in the city braved their lives to come out of the city, walking by night and day, trying to escape outside the city, but because of this, they suffered a disaster. There were many outlaws outside the city, and there was a lot of money in the city. They took advantage of the fire to rob and set up ambushes and interrogate passers-by on the main road where the refugees fled at night. Looting gold and silver, no one dared to rise up and resist. My wife and I still shouldn't risk running away, and my eldest brother can't bear to leave the city alone because of me. When the day came, the thought of fleeing was gone.

The place where he used to take refuge must not be left any longer. Because my wife was pregnant, I repeatedly saved the day, so I hid alone in the deep grass by the pool, and my wife and Peng Er no longer hid, but just lay on the grass. Several times the soldiers came, searched his wife, and only gave her a little less money and let her go. Later, a very fierce man came, a man with a rat-headed eagle eye, and a disgusting appearance, who wanted to rob his wife.

The wife fell to the ground and told him what she had said before, and if the soldiers did not listen, she must force her to stand up. The wife dragged her belly and spun on the ground, refusing to get up, and the soldiers were beating with their swords on their backs, and blood spattered their clothes, and the inside and outside were stained. Earlier, my wife had warned me, "If there is misfortune, I will surely die, and you must not come out and plead for the sake of your husband and wife, for it will cause trouble to your sons." If I die, I will die in front of your eyes, so that you will die and don't have to worry about me. "So I hid in the grass and didn't come out. When I saw that my wife would not go with him, I also thought that I would die at the hands of the soldiers. But the soldiers did not kill her, and never gave up to take her away, he grabbed his wife's hair and wrapped it around his arm for several weeks, dragging her to the ground and dragging her sideways. This was repeated several times, and he walked a stone's throw away from Tian Mo to the deep alley. During this time, every few steps he took, he would hit his wife several times with the back of his knife, and he scolded angrily, and so on until he reached the street. Suddenly, many Manchu cavalry arrived, and one of the cavalrymen said something to the Manchu soldiers in Manchu, and the Manchu soldiers left their wives. The wife can slowly creep back and cry, and at this time she is already completely skinless!

Suddenly, the flames broke out again, and there were many grass houses in front of and behind the He family's tomb, and they would be burned to ashes immediately when they were lit. In the intervening gap, there were still one or two people who had escaped the net, and they were forced by the fire, and they all rushed out, but as soon as they came out, they were immediately killed, and no one was spared. Some people refused to escape from the flames even if they died, and there were as many as a few to hundreds of people who set themselves on fire in a house, and I really don't know how many grievances and bones there are in each house!

There is nowhere to avoid in the huge Yangzhou city at this time, and it cannot be avoided, once it is caught, there is no money to die, and there is money to die; Only by honestly coming out and waiting by the roadside, or mingling with the corpses, life and death are unpredictable. I had no choice but to go behind the coffin with my wife and son, and continue to hide with mud all over my face and body. Looking at each other is no longer visible.

At this time, the fire is getting more and more blazing, the coffins in the tomb are all ignited, the light is like electricity, the sound is like a landslide, the sad wind is angry, it is silent, the red sun is bleak, and there is no light. In front of me, I saw countless Yaksha demons in hell galloping and killing thousands of human beings. In addition to the palpitations, sometimes dizzy, in a trance I no longer know if this body is still in the world.

Suddenly, I suddenly heard footsteps coming violently, and the screams shook my heart and lungs. Looking back at the wall, it turned out that the eldest brother was caught by the soldiers again. From a distance, I saw that the eldest brother was holding on to the Manchu soldiers, the eldest brother was so powerful that he had to escape from the opponent, and the Manchu soldiers ran behind to chase him out of the alley, and he didn't come back for a long time. I was shaking inwardly when I suddenly saw a man naked and disheveled in a cloak coming to my hiding place. If you look closely, it is actually the eldest brother, and the full soldiers chasing the eldest brother are the vicious-looking ones who wanted to rob my wife in front and gave up halfway. Because the eldest brother was forced by the full army, he had to ask me for money to save his life. I had only one ingot of silver left on me, and I took it out to the full soldier. The anger of the soldiers did not subside, and when he took the money, he raised his knife and slashed at the eldest brother, who immediately tossed and fell to the ground, and the blood sprayed a few steps away, and the blood and water were impregnated with the sand on the ground.

My five-year-old Peng Er pulled the clothes of the soldiers and wept and begged for the life of my eldest brother. The soldiers stopped to wipe the blood on the knife with Peng'er's clothes, and suddenly slashed at the eldest brother again, until the eldest brother was placed in a place of mortality. Then he grabbed my hair and asked for money. While he was still hitting me with the back of a knife. I said the money was gone. If you have to pay for it, then I will only die. But I have other possessions for you. The soldiers then pulled me by the hair and walked to Hong's house. My wife's garments were placed in two large urns, and I turned them upside down and took out everything for her to choose. The soldiers began to pick and choose, and there was nothing of value such as gold beads that they did not want, and the clothes were picked up and some were taken. After picking, I saw that Peng Er had a silver lock under his head, and cut it with a knife. As he left, he stared at me viciously and said, "I won't kill you." Someone has killed you. "I learned that the statement that the Manchu army wants to ** the whole city is true, and I think it is certain to die.

I put my son back in the house, and my wife hurried out to see my eldest brother. The eldest brother's neck was slashed with a knife on the front and back, the knife wound was more than an inch deep, and the wound on his chest was even more serious. The two of us helped him to the Hong Mansion and asked him, but he didn't feel any pain, and his mind flickered. After the settlement, my wife and I went back to the same place to hide.

Many of the neighbors in the neighborhood were lying in the midst of the corpses. Suddenly, a human voice came out of the corpse, and it turned out to be a neighbor who knew each other. said to me: "Tomorrow must be the most rebellious after the city, everyone wants to **, you better leave your wife and run away from the city with me!" "My wife also insisted on persuading me to run away with him, but I thought that my eldest brother was dying, how could I bear to leave? I thought again: In the past, I relied on the money I still had to save for my life, but now that the money is empty, I can't continue to survive. I fainted and almost died of exhaustion in a moment of pain, and it took me a long time to wake up.

The fire gradually went out, occasionally heard a few cannon shots in the distance, and the number of soldiers in and out gradually decreased, my wife and Peng Er and I found a dung cellar to hide in, and Mrs. Hong also came to rely on us. Later, I saw several men who were taking four or five women captive, two of whom wept incessantly, while two of the younger ones were unimpressed and laughed freely. Two soldiers caught up with them to rob the women. So much so that several Manchu soldiers fought against each other and tore each other apart, and later one of them persuaded them in Manchu. Subsequently, a full soldier carried a young woman to the tree and Yehe, the other two women were also raped, the old woman cried and begged not to, and the two young women were not ashamed, did not refuse, after being raped by dozens of people, they still had adultery with the two full soldiers who chased them, and one of the young women could not get up and walk at this time. I know this woman as the daughter-in-law of the Jiao family, and I think about what her family has done on weekdays, and it is not an exaggeration to be retributed.

Then suddenly I saw a man full of officials come to me. This person is dressed in red and wearing a sword, full of soap boots, less than thirty years old, and has a handsome appearance. An attendant next to him, dressed in yellow clothes and armor, looks burly. Later, there were several Han people carrying heavy loads and accompanying them. The man in red looked at me for a long time, pointed at me and asked, "See that you are not the same kind as these people, tell me honestly who you are?" "In my heart, there are often people who are saved because they pretend to be big, and there are people who are killed immediately because they pretend to be big, so I don't dare not tell the truth. The red-clothed man then smiled and said to the yellow-clothed entourage, "Are you convinced?" I knew that this barbarian was not an ordinary person. "Who is it that Mrs. Hong asks? I told the truth, and the man in red said, "Tomorrow, the prince (Duoduo) ordered the knife to be sealed, and you can save your life!" Be careful these days, don't send yourself to death. He ordered someone to give me a few pieces of clothing and a piece of silver, and asked, "How long will you wait without eating?" I said five days, "Come with me." "My wife and I were puzzled as we walked, but we didn't dare not do it.

When they arrived at a house, although the house was small, it was full of firewood, fish, meat, grain and rice, and there was an old woman in it, and a child was twelve or thirteen years old. When she saw that we had arrived, the old woman was terrified, and wailed to the ground and begged for mercy. The man in red said to her, "I spare your life for the time being, and you serve these four men well, or I will kill you, and this son of yours will go with me." So he took the child and said goodbye to me.

The old woman, surnamed Zheng, suspected that I was related to the man in red, so she treated us with good hospitality, thinking that so that her children could return. Later in the day, news came that my brother-in-law had been kidnapped by a Manchurian soldier again, and I didn't know whether I was alive or dead, and my wife was very sad. After a while, the old woman brought out fish and rice for us to eat, not far from Hong's house, and I took the food and sent it to my eldest brother. The eldest brother has a throat injury and can't swallow food, so he only eats a few bites and doesn't eat, I comb my eldest brother's hair, wash away the dirty blood, and my heart is like a knife! On this day, I told the words of the man in red to many people who had not left the city, and the hearts of the people relaxed a little.

The next day, May 30, the massacre of the Manchurian soldiers decreased slightly, but it was not that there were no killings, it was not that there were no pillages, but the poor places were still slightly safer. The rich families in Yangzhou were all searched, and their children were all taken captive from the age of six or seven to their teens. On this day, the traitor soldiers of Xingping Bo Gaojie rebelled and surrendered to the enemy also entered the city of Yangzhou, and their plundering was even worse than that of the full army. On the second day of the fifth lunar month, an official announcement came that officials had been set up in Daozhou County, and there were officials holding security cards everywhere to inform the people that there was no need to be afraid. The monks of the monasteries were also instructed to incinerate the corpses, and many women were hiding in the monasteries, and many died of starvation. The number recorded in the cremation book totaled about 800,000, and there were also those who fell into wells and threw themselves into rivers, closed their homes and set themselves on fire, and hanged themselves in remote places.

On this day, I burned cotton ashes and used human ashes to heal my eldest brother's wounds. In the evening, he cried and told the eldest brother the news of the death of the second brother and younger brother, and the eldest brother had gradually dimmed, so he just nodded.

On the third day of the fifth month, the government posted a notice to open warehouses and release grain to help the victims. Mrs. Hong and I went to the gap to receive rice, and the rice was actually the military rations stored in the town of Shi Kefadu, piled up like hills. But thousands of stones were empty in an instant, and the people who came and went to receive grain and rice were all anxious, with broken arms and shins, knife marks all over their bodies, blood stains, and their faces like candles and tears, broken quail clothes, and filthy noses. Many people were armed with crutches and carried straw bags, like the ghosts in the temple. It's the beggars who can make people look at it. When everyone is competing for grain and rice, you compete for each other, and you don't give in to each other, even if you are close to your relatives. The strong and fierce men carried grain and rice again and again, and the weak did not get any food for a day.

On the fourth day of the fifth month, the sky began to clear, and the corpses on the side of the road were soaked in rain and swelled, and their skin was blue-black like a drum, and the flesh and blood were festering in it, and the smell was compelling, and then the sun was exposed, and the smell became more and more intense. In Yangzhou City, the corpses are burning everywhere, even in the house, it is also smoke, forming like a fog, and the fishy smell is spread hundreds of miles away.

Alack! Millions of living beings here have died once, although the heavens and the earth are ghosts and gods, they can't help but be miserable! On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, people hiding in secluded places began to quietly come out, and every time they met, they wept and couldn't say a word. Although a few of us were in a better situation, we still did not dare to stay in the house for a long time, and after eating in the morning, we avoided the wilderness, and dressed up as before. Because there are no less than dozens of people who come and go every day to take advantage of the fire to rob, although they are not armed with weapons, they also fight with open fire, threaten and intimidate, and extort property, and people are often beaten to death by them with wooden sticks. As soon as these people meet women, they still don't let go, and they do all kinds of evil acts of kidnapping and adultery, I really don't know if it is the Manchurian army, the Ming army or the chaotic people? On this day, the eldest brother finally died of serious injuries and sore bursts. It's hurt, it's painful!

When we first suffered, there were eight brothers, sisters-in-law, nieces, wives, and relatives, but now only three remain, and the wives and sisters are not counted. How many people in Yangzhou know about people who are similar to my family? We have been on the verge of death several times, and it is fortunate that we have died, but if we do not die, there should be very few people like my wife and I who can get away with it, and we are still miserable! From April 25 to May 5, the 10 days before and after were all personal experiences and personal witnesses, and only then did they record the truth. If it is heard from elsewhere and unconfirmed, it is not recorded here at all.

I hope that future generations will be fortunate enough to be born in a peaceful world and enjoy a happy life free from war. If you don't strengthen your self-cultivation, you will blindly destroy heaven and things and enjoy yourself excessively, you should be awake and vigilant after reading this note! (To be continued......)