Eight

Land Rover and Takahashi Shizuko walked into the optical store, the house was still so big, but it was full of dazzling array of glasses of thousands of colors, illuminated by the light, and near the door there was a man-high cylindrical shelf, with hundreds of hooks sticking out, hung with cheaply processed glasses. The glasses on this shelf alone are several times more colored than the entire store back then. Behind the shelf stood a young man with long hair and a tight shirt, politely greeting him, "You are welcome to pick something?" ”

"Excuse me," said Land Rover with confidence, "this is Mr. Yoshida's shop, right?" ”

The young man said politely, "You are mistaken, my surname is Otani." ”

"Oh, so it used to be Mr. Yoshida's business?"

"I took over the shop from my father. My father came from Kita. ”

"You have a family name Watanabe at the back of this shop, right? Next door is a bathhouse, and then there is a Wufu shop......"

"No, behind me is the stadium that rolls the earth, and then there is the 'Kikumasamune' sake wholesale office, and next to it is the 'Golden Bird' brand mosquito coil store, as far as I can remember, there is no surname Watanabe."

Land Rover said, "Thank you! "Walk out of the store. Ten minutes had passed, and this time the bus was delayed again, and he was not in the mood to stay on Chungang Street again. Discussed with Shizuko, and simply went to the station waiting room to wait for the next train.

The next bus arrives in forty-five minutes. The waiting room was quiet, and there were a few people sitting in front of the TV, watching boredly, and on the TV screen, a woman was biting a steak and opening her eyes wide, as if she had seen a kappa born, and shouted:

"So delicious! How? It turned out that there was a heavenly kitchen seasoning ......"

This was followed by the Metropolitan Police Department's examination of a murdered man's body on the side of a highway in Yamanashi Prefecture. The narrator shows his head in the corner of the screen and says that the man was killed by his stepwife. The store run by his stepwife went bankrupt, and his body was used to defraud the insurance money......

The two of them found a corner and sat down away from the TV. Shizuko asks Tsurushi to say a little more about the anti-war alliance.

Hushi remembered Song Yuke. Song Yuke promised to tell him the story until he returned to China. So he couldn't tell Chiyoko.

The wounded anti-war League, the bespectacled devil comrade, was bandaged in Hu Lou and transferred to an old Chinese medicine doctor in a neighboring village to ambush and recuperate. The old Chinese medicine doctor only lives with his wife, and has an only daughter who marries in a foreign village. His family, like all the local families, dug a hole in the ground, and during the day they hid the comrade of the anti-war League in the hole, and at night they helped him out to let loose in the courtyard. They don't know what this foreigner is called. When the village chief sent the people here, he only said, "His surname is Teng, so let's call him Lao Teng." ”

On this day, the daughter came to her mother's house, the son-in-law carried a string of sesame oil buns, held a basket of white-flour buns, and the daughter sat cross-legged on the back of a donkey, holding a three-month-old doll in her arms. The old couple was overjoyed, drank and killed chickens, and entertained guests. But my daughter grew up with her parents since she was a child, and she was used to seeing the joy and anger in the corners of the old man's eyes, and as soon as she entered the door, she felt that they were a little overly enthusiastic and overly nervous. Fortunately, the rules here are that the daughter lives in her mother's house, and the son-in-law must say goodbye that day, and stay up until the sun is in the west, and the son-in-law rides a donkey out of the village, and the daughter speaks:

"The water spilled by the married daughter, my parents and I have two hearts!"

Wei Wei was busy and asked: "Ni, I couldn't be happy with your father when you just arrived home, and what did you provoke?" ”

"You've got something to hide from me."

"It's fine."

"Why are there three chickens left? What about my aunt's head? What about the old reed? ”

"I sold it for foreign oil for salt."

"Have you also oiled the bedding for salt? Why is there a bed of twist quilts missing? ”

Mom can't catch the ballast. Dad grabbed it and said, "Let's base the area, and pass through the team for a long time, who doesn't lend a quilt to cover the comrades?" ”

The daughter didn't say anything, but she was still skeptical. She thought that something had happened to her mother's family and that she had broken her fortune, and the old man was sad and unwilling to tell her, so she stayed for three days and five days, and was not afraid that she would not come out of her mother's mouth.

The countrymen are afraid of boiling oil, and the day is gone. Riding a donkey during the day, she was tired and sleepy, so her daughter packed up the cadres in the west wing early and slept with the child. I slept until midnight, turned over and woke up and heard movement in the courtyard, alas, it was really ghostly, the old man and his mother really had two hearts with themselves. She licked the broken window paper and peeked out, and the father was limping back and forth with a man in the dark field. I only heard the man suppressing his throat**, but he didn't speak, and his daughter laughed. The people in the base area are used to hearing and watching these things, and she only laughs at her father for keeping it too seriously, and even her daughter doesn't believe it.

The father was still carrying the man, and the daughter felt that there was a noise somewhere in the village. In order to keep the anti-Japanese army's movements secret, all the dogs were killed in the base area, and the enemy could not detect the movement of our troops there from the barking of dogs. However, the enemy also took advantage of this to form a night raiding party. A team of dozens of people, riding bicycles, suddenly entered the border villages of the base area and searched for anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians. Daddy didn't hear anything behind his ears, and Lao Teng also heard footsteps, he grabbed Daddy, pointed out the door with his finger, and only blinked an eye Someone was already knocking on the door and shouting.

Dad hurriedly picked up the wounded and walked to the back of the house. The daughter jumped off the kang, pushed the door and ran out, startling the father and the old vine.

The daughter said, "The enemy has come to the door, and your hole is behind the house, is it too late to drill into it?" ”

Daddy said, "You can't wait here!" ”

The daughter pushed her father away and complained: "Such nonsense, you still want to hide it from me!" She snatched the wounded man's arm and put it in the west wing. When he entered the house, he pushed it on the kang: "Go into the quilt!" With a shout, the child woke up in fright. The daughter picked up the child, plugged the child's mouth with a nipple, and urged: "Hurry, when is it, you can still take care of feudalism!" ”

Lao Teng understood what she meant not by hearing, but by intuition. At this time, the gate was slammed. The Japanese accent of Chinese shouted more and more urgently: "Open the door, quickly, if you don't open the door, you will die." ”

The daughter pushed the wounded man into the kang, pulled his clothes and said, "Take it off, there is a farmer sleeping in a coat?" ”

At this time, the old man had opened the door, and two bayonets were facing his chest and asked, "Are there any eight-way ones?" ”

"Nope."

"Lying is dead and dead!"

"Where are you going to look!"

The Japanese soldiers searched the room with flashlights, and scared the old woman into a mess of mud.

They entered the west wing again, and immediately heard the cries of children and the gasps of adults. With a flashlight, a woman puts her arms around her child and hides her head under her shirtless husband's armpits. All three cowered in horror. The task of the Japanese army this night was to search for the Japanese "traitor" who had come to the base to shout. Chinese rural women have a very strong feudal mentality, and they will never sleep under the same bed with a Japanese! They said a few obscene words and smashed the man who was happily sleeping with his wife and son with the butt of their guns. A gust of wind went away. After they went out, the wounded had to go down to the kang. The daughter said, "Don't worry, who will guarantee that they will not come back?" She sat down in the courtyard with the child in her arms, touching her thumping chest. When it was almost dawn, and there were already people driving the cattle down to the field, the wounded man put on his clothes, leaned against the wall and walked outside, and knelt down in front of the young mother, despite the pain in his leg!

"You comrade," she held the child, unable to pull him, so anxious that she stomped her feet, "What are you doing here, aren't we all Chinese, aren't we all for the war of resistance......

The wounded uttered a long list of words of gratitude, crying as they spoke. The daughter stayed for a while, ran to the upper room and jumped and shouted: "Daddy, what have you done!" How do you get a Japanese seed to hide at home? ”

"The Japanese are not all bad breeds!" Dad smiled and said, "He fought with us, and his leg was injured by the devil soldiers!" ”

When the morning dawned, the roosters here and there crowed into a warm morning song, and the father and daughter helped the wounded into the hole in the ground to start a normal life for the day. The mother was frightened and sick, and every nightfall, her daughter would go down to the cave to help the wounded man out, wash him, change his dressing, and help him slip his legs.

The wound healed. The old vine was able to move freely with a stick. After dark, no one came to help him out of the cave. He couldn't open the hole himself, and he was very anxious. The hole opened in the middle of the night, and it was the old man and the old mother who came to help him.

The wounded asked, "Where is the eldest sister?" ”

The old lady just sobbed.

The wounded's heart was pounding, and he asked urgently, "Did something happen to her?" ”

The old man said as calmly as possible: "The Japanese army swept and burned her house, and no one escaped from her husband and in-laws, and the village chief personally came to pick her up......"

After listening to this, Shizuko Takahashi covered her chest with her hands, and her eyes were red.

She asked the Land Tiger, "Is this true?" ”

"Most of it is true, and the core is true."

"I don't know what you mean."

"When people told me, they changed a few things. I changed a few things when I told you, but the basic facts didn't change. ”

"You don't know what the original facts were?"

"Yes."

"Why don't you tell the truth?"

"Most of the parties are still alive, so it's not convenient to tell the facts."

"I still don't understand."

"You might understand it when you're older, but you don't have to. There are still big differences between Japan and China in terms of customs and psychological state. Although Westerners classify us in the same cultural type. ”

The megaphone reported that the train to Hiroshima was about to enter the station, and they hurriedly got up and ran to the platform.