twelve

The material carrier, which had not been seen for a long time, docked next to the factory's own wharf again. There were many patches on the hull, and the familiar crew changed faces. But several ships came one after another. The odd workers all gathered to unload the ship, the big crane of the power plant began to roar into a hill of coal, and the pumps of the salt pond were opened.

But the factory does not plan to start work immediately. Notify all departments to test the operation, complete maintenance, clean up, first celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the factory, and then start work.

The "Anniversary Festival" is a major festival of "Choda Co., Ltd." in Chungang, and for the members of the company, it is no less than the Obon Festival or the Dragon Boat Festival. Speech contests, wrestling, sumo wrestling, track and field, annual meetings, alumni associations (the factory has a technical school), earnest meetings, couples working in the same factory, children of the employees of the factory, and families of the employees of the factory, each has different commemorative celebrations. The club has a large number of gifts, souvenirs, and various prizes. In the words of Chairman Mr. Umezu, "The family will be reunited until Chinese New Year's Eve. Our big family has its own Chinese New Year's Eve, can we not celebrate it together? The soul of Caoda Club is all our members. The plant and equipment depend on us to have life, and we have to celebrate our own festivals. ”

Not all the workers and employees are satisfied with the company. There are also people who scold the factory director and the board of directors on weekdays, there are also people who slack off work with mushrooms, there are also people who fight, there are people who tear each other down, people who are dressed in tatters, and there is only half a box of lunch and a piece of pickles in the lunch box still spit on the president's black car. But on the day of the anniversary celebration, all this was put aside for the time being. When I met people with the company's emblem on the street, they greeted each other if they knew each other or not, "We are a family!" Congratulations! People on the road looked at it, showing some envy. The members know this and are happy about it.

This year was the most difficult year since the founding of the company, and although the US planes came twice in three days, and although they only passed by and had not yet dropped bombs, they always heard the sound of bombs, saw the blazing black smoke from the fuel depots on the other side, and the supply of raw materials was insufficient because of the blockade at sea, and people thought that the commemorative activities would be reduced or even canceled. However, the board decided to celebrate as usual. Not only do we not reduce the number of projects, but we also need to increase and expand them. Because it is the 50th anniversary, because it is a wartime, the people have redoubled their efforts.

Hua Gong is not an official member of the Society, or only half of the members belong to the Society, and the Club said that the treatment given to the members of the Society is only because of different living habits, and everyone is not invited to the banquet, but sends pork, flour, vegetables and wine to Xingyaliao, and invites everyone to make their own dumplings and make Chinese food. Performances and competitions are free to participate. During the celebration period, all holidays will be closed. They also contacted Youdao and the police station, and demarcated the section of the street from "Xingyaliao" to Zhongyan Department Store to allow them to move freely. There is a rule that three or more people must enter and leave in groups, and only Japanese is allowed to converse on the street.

The Chinese workers were delighted. The 50th and 60th anniversaries have little to do with them, but they are treated like they have never enjoyed since they arrived in Japan. It's been two years since I've seen what dumplings look like, and I haven't had the freedom to go out on the street without asking for leave or taking out a card. From here they are sensitive to a little breath: Japan's defeat will not last long, and they are deliberately deregulating to leave a way back! Just when these matters were announced, Youdao quietly announced a message: "Zhang Ju and Han Youfu have been released, it was a misunderstanding, but they are not in good health, and now they are living in the hospital, and the condolence bags that the club gave to the sick and injured workers also have theirs, you can send a representative to join the club's condolence team to visit, others don't go, they need to recuperate." ”

Finally, there is a way to live. Everyone cheered and chose Song Yuke to condole.

Because there were only two kitchen knives, I had to select ten people to go to the room to chop the stuffing alternately, and the rest of the people cut the bamboo into small pieces as rolling pins, brush the table as a panel, and make dumplings in a noisy manner. The supply of minced meat is not available, the bag stops, and the stop time is to perform the show, trick tricks, play monkeys, learn to sell, count the treasures, triple knife, five-flower boxing...... Oh my God, after suffering and suffering for a year or two, I didn't know that there was such a hidden dragon and crouching tiger in "Xingyaliao", and there were even people who could carry a lunch box - three, not one - around the canteen! Yamazaki died, only Dao was in charge, and Youdao couldn't help but be welcomed by others, so he sang "Gaoyou Northwest Township" in Nanjing dialect, which made everyone laugh, because no one in the Japanese Chinese could hear a single word. Lady Hashimoto is a native of Tokushima and can dance the Awa Odori, she stilts her feet, lands on the ground with the tip of her pack, flips her hands and asks others to smash the table with a rolling pin to accompany her. Yamazaki died, she was the only one who shed tears, but she was also the one who did not hide her joy: "You always say that my words are unreliable. What do you think? Even the police station admitted that the North Korean man was back, didn't he? ”

Only Huzi can't keep up his spirits.

Oh, it's such a taste to think of people! It's really torturous! When he was first arrested, he was homesick, his mother, and his father, and he didn't know how they wept for themselves and how they lived. But after a while, it faded, and I only caught up with something to remind me of it, and then I thought about it again. Now I know that it is not called thinking, but just the word "concern" that people say. The common people said that they were "worried". I think it's a different kind of thing! How is she standing? How to laugh? Why do you cry and put your hand on your back and touch it? Is she lying down, sitting, and eating? Do you also repeat what the two of you said together? I really want to talk to someone, but I don't dare to say it, men miss women, hey, it's ugly! But you still have to think! That day, I should hug her and kiss her, I would rather let Master Guan give her a big knife than let go of such a beautiful moment. The gods of Japan must not care about these idle things! Japan also has good things, Chiyoko is good, and the immortals are more open than Master Guan.

The dumplings are cooked, the filling is too full, and the noodles are too soft. There is a lot of cooking, and there are fewer broken ones. The tiger picked up the broken ones and ate them. Put it on the lid of the lunch box to dry it and put it in the lunch box. Watch the play in the afternoon, and after watching the play, you may be able to sneak to Watanabe-sama's house, her house is outside the free activity area, and she will be beaten if she is caught by the police! Master Guan is not afraid of the big knife, but he is still afraid of fighting?

The dumplings were delayed, and it was already time for them to come to Kabukiza. At the entrance of the door, an old lady carried a stack of old newspapers, wrapping paper and cut brown paper bags, and stuffed them into people's hands one by one: "Please take them and wrap them!" Please wrap your shoes. Some of the people pushed her hand away, some took a piece of paper and threw her a small coin. Huzi had no money, and the clothes on his body were no cleaner than shoes, but it was not good to push the thin and dirty hands, so he only said: "No, auntie, I don't need it." ”

"It's Lu Jun, take it, how could I ask you for money!"

It turned out to be Aunt Watanabe, which was unexpected. Huzi took a piece of paper and deliberately rubbed it where he took off his shoes, and when others entered, he retreated. took out the lunch box from his arms and stuffed it to the eldest mother: "To Chiyoko, and you, and the little brother, this is a dumpling." ”

"Thank you."

"Is she better?"

"Okay, I'm going to work tomorrow!"

"Really?"

"Really, you wait for her, she misses you! But you're not going to kidnap her to China, are you? ”

There are no chairs in the Kabuki theater, and everyone sits cross-legged or kneeling on tatami mats. If the waist plate is not straight, it cannot be seen. The show isn't good either! When I first came in, it was a big fat man and a teenage thin girl talking cross talk. The big fat man called the little girl Mom for a while, and called Grandma for a while, but he couldn't understand it when it came to the point of laughter. Changed the show to be a puppet show, which should have been a bit interesting, but the Japanese puppets are too big, a puppet requires two living people to play, three puppets plus living people are nine people, standing full of one, but it is not overturned. It's just that he trembled with the recitation of a person next to him, neither as thrilling as Wang Xiaoer who made the tiger eat, nor as amused as Zhu Bajie's daughter-in-law. The Japanese clapped their hands and laughed, and the Chinese have become "foreign devils" here, and "foreign devils are dumbfounded when they watch the play"! Some yawned, some simply rushed tons, contrary to the daytime, but Huzi was very interested, God knows how, he understood most of the cross talk, and the puppet is so big, taller than the person who plays, it's really fun! In the end, Kabuki came up, and now everyone is active, singing and doing like Peking Opera, but singing slower than Peking Opera, and playing faster than China. A group of people came up to fight, one person stabbed a knife into the stomach of another person, and that person stuck a knife in his stomach, and used his own knife as a crutch, and climbed a long distance on crutches, but he didn't know which side was a good person and which side was a bad person, so he didn't know whether it was better to look at it and relieve hatred or admiration. When others applauded, they applauded, and it was the Japanese who were injured anyway.

Originally, I thought it was late at night, and the drama came out, and it was still bright outside, and there were tickets issued, and you could watch a movie, people were afraid that the movie was the same as the play, and it seemed "dumbfounded", but Huzi's interest did not disappear, and he went to the cinema again. This movie is also good, I understand it completely. It is said that scientists invented a cannonball and put the image of singing and dancing into the cannonball. No matter where the cannonball hits, it explodes with a bang, and people see the image of singing and dancing, and hear the sound of singing and music, and Torako thinks that this kind of cannonball is really better than 60 cannonballs, and Chiyoko can be put in it, and when he returns to his country in the future, he can bring some of these cannonballs, and blow one up whenever he thinks about her.

When I came back in the evening, people were surrounding Song Yuke to listen to the news. Song Yuke just sighed, refusing to say what the illness of Zhang Han and the others was, only saying: "I just chose a life." "Why arrest them, during the search, Han Youfu was copied from the North Korean woman's condolence bag, suspecting that Han Youfu had anything to do with this murder, poured a pot of cold water Han Youfu was a chicken, and had to confess that it was stolen from Zhang Ju, and it happened that Zhang Ju was also in Bamboo City when Yamazaki died, so he arrested Zhang Ju and sentenced him overnight, Zhang Ju only insisted that the bag was filled with rice by the North Korean woman when he sent rice. The case was solved at dawn, and the police no longer asked about Yamazaki, but asked about the big teeth and hunger strike, who came up with the idea, and which one was the mastermind? Zhang Ju admitted the big tooth beating, saying that the hunger strike was something that everyone couldn't eat, and no one was at the instigation. In this way, he tossed him for a while, and saw if the person was going to die, so he was released. Fortunately, he has hard bones and is bold, and he looks more blessed than Han.

Knowing that he would see Chiyoko tomorrow, Huzi couldn't sleep even more eagerly, turned over, let out a long breath, went to the toilet for a while, and drank saliva for a while. Lin Tianliang took a nap and hurriedly put on his clothes and went to the door to meet her. Chiyoko didn't come, but the Chinese workers all got up. It turns out that today is the right day, and I want to go to the shrine in the factory to worship God, hold a commemorative meeting, and listen to the chairman's congratulatory speech. Huzi followed the meal, and then went to worship the gods, like a wandering spirit, I don't know what to eat, and I don't remember what rituals have been done, and just after returning to announce the disbandment, he found a reason to walk back and forth outside the cafeteria, and he was not willing to go shopping, and he stretched out his head to look inside, only to see Hashimoto's aunt counting the fried tempura on a plate......

"Tiger!" There was a soft scream from behind, and he almost felt like an earthquake and turned around. Chiyoko was thinner, whiter, and more delicate. Wearing a white navy shirt, a blue skirt, the blouse and skirt are smaller, revealing a large section of the wrist and thin white calves.

"Are you alright?"

"Alright. What about you? ”

"I'm going to die!"

"Huh?" She anxiously asked, "Why?" ”

"Miss you!"

"Uh-huh!" She pinched him and pointed inside the room. Whisper, "Me too." ”

"Are you on duty at night?"

She nodded and smiled. Looking at the bomb shelter behind him, "Huh? ”

"Hmm!"

From this moment on, Huzi was like being possessed by a spirit. He felt that everyone was staring at him, listening to him with their ears, as if they all knew his secret, and when the time came, they would seize him. In order to hide this uneasiness, he deliberately spoke loudly, pranks and jokes for no reason. Originally, he didn't sign up for the sports meeting, but he insisted on going, and he temporarily tried to participate in the blind man's back lame race, but he ran third and received a pencil prize.

At dinner, each person was given a bowl of sake. An adult took fried "tempura" to change with him, but he refused to change it, and wanted to fight with that person, and he always lost when he drew the fist, and he drank half a bowl after a while, which was a little floating. The man wondered if it was wrong. Changed to whoever wins who drinks, and even wins and cheats to pour down the half bowl of wine to finish.

He sat there stunned. Won't you be caught? There won't be a police officer secretly watching "Xingyaliao"! Maybe Yamazaki is still ghostly! How do you get it? It's a shame to be dead, it's not going to live, and it's shameless to kill Chiyoko. Maybe he will be beaten again, Yamazaki beat Han Youfu and asked him: "Are you messing with Japanese women?" Song Yuke will also ignore himself, and he will not be able to see anyone when he returns to China in the future. His heart was crumbling, and his face turned pale. When the people saw that he was not looking right, they said:

"I can't drink, I drink too much, help him lie down."

He was willing to leave everyone, and let them help him to bed, pull the quilt over his head, but he was still scared and nervous, and his whole body trembled, and even the paving board squeaked. He thought it would be better not to go, and told Chiyoko that he was sick. She'll forgive. Thinking about it like this, he was relieved and stopped shaking. But when he really wanted to get up and inform Chiyoko, he changed his mind again, why didn't he go? I fell in love with a woman for the first time in my life, and I can't break the contract, what kind of man am I? In the middle of a war, maybe a bomb will be over. I haven't been close to the people I love in my life. You can't close your eyes even if you're dead! No, you have to go, and you have to die. Didn't you swear that you weren't even afraid of Master Guan's big knife?

But he trembled again, and his upper teeth went straight down. Song Yuke came in to take a look and was startled: "What's wrong with you?" It's not malaria, is it? ”

"Too much wine!"

"Look at this, I'll bring you a bowl of water!"

Song Yuke brought cold water and forced him to drink it to sober up. After drinking it, he was even colder. Lian said, "Okay, it's much better, and my heart is much happier!" Tell me to rest alone. ”

Song Yuke is gone. Outside, they were clapping and laughing, and a few people sang Erjin Palace, and others used their mouths to pull the strings for them. Maybe it's too early to go now, so let's go and wait for her first, I shouldn't have asked her to wait for me. He turned off the light, opened the back window, and climbed out. Then he stilted his feet, bowed down, and moved forward step by step, so that he was not so careful, and no one paid attention to him. For the first time, there was a chance to drink, and everyone was using indulgence to cover up the sorrow in their hearts.

He slipped to the entrance of the air-raid shelter, saw that there was no one outside, and almost jumped in with both hands on the wooden bar at the door, and before he could stand firmly, a white shadow pounced on him and hugged him. Kiss him like crazy. He hugged her too, only to know that she was so delicate, and he was really worried that he would crush her if he tried harder.

"Oh, Chiyoko."

"What's wrong with you, shaking like this? My teeth are ringing! ”

"I'm cold, cold."

"It's not cold. Tiger, are you scared, right, scared? ”

"I don't know, I can't control it. Always shivering! ”

"Don't move, hold me, and you'll be fine in a while. It's good to have a fixed mind, what are you afraid of? ”

"People will grab ......"

"How about grabbing? I'm willing to give myself to you! I'm not married, and I have the right to love whoever I want! ”

"Chiyoko, we're not messing around, are we? It's not like everyone else is looking for happiness. I want to marry you, the war is over, I am no longer a slave to the country, I can make money, I will marry you immediately, do you promise? ”

"I'm yours. It has long been, always will be, marry or not. ”

"I must marry. But it's going to take years......"

"I'll wait. Wait for the hair to be gray, as long as you can get married, you will be happy to be a husband and wife for a day. ”

Song Yuke was not worried about Huzi, so he went to the house to see him again. When I turned on the light, the quilt was lifted, and the person was gone, but the back window was opened. He went to the windowsill to look, and sure enough, there were shoe prints. He wiped off the shoe prints, closed the window, and walked out of the hallway where the food was delivered. When I arrived in the courtyard, I paced lightly, and there was a childish laugh at the entrance of the air-raid shelter. He walked a little farther away, found a backlit place to sit down, and kept a sentry for them.

When Lao Song was nine years old, his parents married a thirteen or fourteen daughter-in-law. I can't say that I love or not love when I get along since I was a child, anyway, I am used to each other, and I think it has always been like this, and it should be like this. He taught to earn money, and she had children; He participated in the Anti-Japanese War, and she took care of her in-laws; She is hardworking and dedicated, and although she was arrested in Japan, she doesn't have to worry about family affairs at all. He is also an intellectual, but he is not enthusiastic about free love, his wife is good, and "freedom" may not be so suitable and so accustomed. He despised Han Youfu's kind of obscenity. He fundamentally disapproves of the matter of Torako and Chiyoko. But he felt sorry for these two children! Blame the pitiful. Life or death are uncertain, let them go, as long as they don't make trouble. Therefore he will protect them with all his heart.

From the incident of Torako and Chiyoko, Song Yuke thought of Kenji Ito and Torako's sister. Two or three days before he was arrested, he had been commissioned by the organization to visit Ito in Hulou, and he saw a beautiful picture at Huzi's sister's house. The mother-in-law held the child, and the daughter-in-law rushed to make a small homespun sweat for Ito, and Ito sat on the ground and knitted baskets with his father. Daddy weaves, and Ito cuts red wicker for him. When Lao Song came, his daughter-in-law immediately moved a kang table and put it under the jujube tree, went into the house to boil water, snatched the sickle in Ito's hand and said, "Hurry up and talk to Lao Song, what are you doing here?" Sensei is in a hurry and has no work to do, so when my leg is healed, go down to the ground with me to get wheat! Ito didn't understand it and grinned. Daddy smiled and said, "If you don't do it, you don't listen, you prefer to be beaten by her!" ”

Lao Song found that since that dangerous night, the relationship between several members of this family and Ito has changed a little, and it has become more intimate and family-like.

Everything is very happy, the whole family is very harmonious, the old couple needs a righteous son to inherit the family business, and Sister Huzi is still young, so of course she should find another husband. How natural it was for Ito to be grateful for the young widow who had protected him with his life and credibility. However, this is a matter involving two countries, and it must be stopped immediately to prevent problems from occurring. Ito can't give up his responsibility to his own country for a woman, and a young widow can't afford to suffer another life after a parting! What does it do when it doesn't bear fruit? Sister Huzi is still young, and it is not good for her to remarry when this matter is spread. Old Song went back to make a report and managed to transfer Ito to a village far away from here. Old Song wanted to ask Huzi to relay the first half of this matter to Chiyoko until his sister protected Ito, in order to explain the fighting friendship between the Chinese people and the Japanese anti-war alliance.

There's movement at the entrance to the cave. Huzi came up first, he turned around to pull Chiyoko, and the two hugged again in the dark field, but the inside of the cave was darker than the outside, and they saw a figure squatting not far away in the blink of an eye, and they were so frightened that they forgot to let go of their hands.

Lao Song coughed and said slowly, "Don't be afraid, it's me." Chiyoko didn't understand, but still had a cold war, Huzi told him that he was Lao Song, and Chiyoko covered her face and ran away. Huzi replied shyly, and approached Lao Song with a guilty mood.

"You're cool here!"

"Uh-huh."

"You know everything?"

"What? I don't know anything! ”

"Big brother, don't look down on us."

"Well, I know it."

"Really, I'm going to marry her. Marry her! ”

"Child's words!"

"Look, I'm going to pull with other women in this life, don't pay attention to me. You spit in your face! I don't want anyone, I want Chiyoko! We're not messing around! ”

"That's what the novel says from the album book......"

Suddenly, a shrill whistle sounded, and they wondered, "Why did it get so fast?" Is it six o'clock? "The sirens installed on the roof roared, and it turned out to be air raid sirens. The people in the building ran out one after another. Two searchlights crossed into the sky, and the sound of anti-aircraft gun fire rang out.

Chiyoko hadn't gone far, but she hurried back and got into the hole. shouted to Lao Song inside, the two of them quickly entered the cave, Lao Song went down, and the people in the building also ran out. Huzi was greedy to see the excitement but squatted at the door and refused to go down, Chiyoko came out again and pulled him and said, "Come down, come down!" I beg you, don't worry me. Ignoring the strange eyes that people were looking at her, she dragged Huzi in and pressed her down beside her.

First I felt the earth tremble, and then I heard a heavy explosion. There were a few brave people who never went down to the cave and worked as volunteer reporters outside the door. B29 bombers, five in groups, five in groups, no one can count how many groups. The anti-aircraft guns hit the white smoke one after another, and they did not hurry, they flew smoothly and steadily from a high place above the white smoke, without slanting arms, nor descending, and diving, and dropped bombs from the armpits of the wings! Whistling, with the sound of the wind, turned into a thunderbolt, a firelight. Half of the sky in Chungang City is red, and the Caoda factory has become a sea of fire, and the pungent smell of amonia and sourness fills the entire space with the smell of burnt......

The Chinese workers whispered while pressing their ears with their hands and their stomachs close to the ground to absorb the shock: "This pot of wine is enough for the rabbit cubs to drink!" ”

"Okay, let's celebrate, fiftieth anniversary, the end of life."

Chiyoko didn't care about anything and leaned her body next to Torako. At every loud noise, she cried softly, "Oh! "Squeeze it on Huzi. Huzi suddenly felt that he had grown up a lot, and he was no longer a little Liba who took care of himself. He has a responsibility on his shoulders, and this is his person. He had to protect her and cherish her. He was novel, proud, and a little heavy. Whatever others thought of it, he went around in a circle, put her on the side against the wall, and lay herself on the side by the hole, and hid most of her body under his own body, and he thought that the bomb was like a man, and that if it came down from the doorway, he would save her, and use his back. He said to her like a child, "Don't be afraid, I'm here!" ”

"Immortal bless, let us die together!"

Song Yuke felt that they were too careless and a little angry. But people were saving their lives and thinking about their own business, and no one had the leisure to pay attention to the little children.

The bombing lasted more than half an hour, but the alert was never lifted. When the people tried to crawl out of the cave, Tsubakioka was already in a state of confusion. The station and cafeteria have all been turned into temporary bandaging places. Stretchers carrying wounded people and carts pulling corpses crowded the streets, and the firefighters did not fight the fire, which had no hope of extinguishing, but only demolished the houses adjacent to the fire. Chiyoko stood in a daze for a while, let go of Torako's hand and ran.

"Where are you going?"

"Mother and brother...... "Mother and brother," she said as she ran, "ah, what a sin I am! ”

The Ministry of Labor and the Police Department sent people to gather Chinese workers to participate in the clean-up of the site and the demolition of dangerous houses. People tied big ropes to the pillars of small buildings made of bamboo, shouted "one, two, three", and with a bang, the pharmacy collapsed; With a bang, the tavern collapsed; Boom, boom, boom, dwellings turned into rubble and garbage. Some of the owners of the house are rushing through the house to snatch everything they can move; Some just shouted and cried, trying to fight with the people who demolished the house, and were pushed away by the police who led the team; Some Mu Ran stood next to the collapsed house, letting tears flow across their faces, not snorting or saying a word, as if they were completely unconscious.

The next few days became a festival for Chinese workers! They have done hundreds of jobs in Japan, but only this time they are willing, not lazy and hardworking, and the more they work, the more happy they become, full of joy. As long as no one is watching, every time they pull down a house, they shout, "Hooray!" "They spent six or seven hundred days and nights in Japan, and only these days and nights did not sigh or worry. After eating well and sleeping soundly, people suddenly became kind, and no one fought, scolded, or gambled. The people who had made enemies with each other smiled and joked when they met: "Congratulations, congratulations, the holy war to the end!" "Get rich, get rich, the plane is coming!"

"Xingyaliao" is no longer controlled. The factory has been blown into a pile of scrap metal and completely shut down. Evacuation of workers is underway. The Ministry of Industriousness was withdrawn from the Ministry of Labor, and even Hashimoto's aunt, who cooked, no longer came to work. The society contacted the labor association, and the Chinese workers were no longer useful here, and there was no food to supply, so it was better to send them back to China. The company had a factory in Shandong, and it was said that the rear of the war might have to be transferred to North China and Manchuria, and that the factories there would be strengthened, and it would be more advantageous for them to work there. It takes a lot of time to go through the procedures for returning to China. Youdao can no longer take care of the daily affairs of "Xingyaliao". Youdao's home has received an evacuation order, and he shook hands with everyone very friendly and said goodbye one by one, and has never been seen since. The club had no choice but to ask the Chinese workers to nominate a few people to manage themselves, and even the houses were in charge of themselves. The current gang asked for the keys and account books from Hashimoto's mother, only to learn that the rations of the Chinese workers in the first half of the year had been stolen and divided by Yamazaki, and the rest was not enough to eat for two months. The gang invited all the staff to a meeting to discuss how to eat, is it a long-term plan? Or eat a full meal for a few days to nourish your intestines. Most people say: "You can eat on your stomach, eat a meal is a meal, and then find a way to eat up, and there is a way to get to the mountain!" Song Yuke asked, "What way?" Some people said: "I really have no choice but to go to the police station and ask for detention, the prisoners always have to be fed, and it seems that they will not have a few days to survive!" Naturally, no one was in favor of this approach. Going to be a prisoner when you're about to win? Song Yuke suggested: "It's more than usual, but you can't eat casually, at least you have to eat for a month, and you can't wait until China is victorious, and we are starving to death." ”

It was not enough for the hospital to accept the wounded, and there was no spare place for Zhang Ju and Han Youfu to live, so they were kicked out. The two were tortured at the police station and could not walk back from the hospital, so the Chinese workers found a cart to deliver lunch boxes to push them. Originally, it was enough to go to only four people, but they all wanted to meet early, so they went to about a dozen of them. Ever since the bombing, the air raid sirens have not stopped for a day, and sometimes an American plane has come and gone, clicking a shuttle of machine guns in the air quite high, and then flying away leisurely. There was a radio in the "Xingyaliao" area, which was originally placed in the office room for the exclusive use of Yamazaki and others, but the Chinese workers moved it out and put it loud to listen to the air defense siren.

"At 6:20 a.m., 10 B29 planes entered the sky over Nagasaki and are now flying southeast, and at 6:20 a.m., 15 B29 planes entered the Sakajin area and dropped 10 bombs, and during the damage investigation, ...... at 6:30 a.m."

The demolition of houses was carried out by the city hall, the air defense command, and various groups. The incumbent could not bear to see the family business of his compatriots destroyed! He also did not want to be hated by others, so he decided to give this to the Chinese workers. They only handed over the demolition site and house number to "Xingyaliao" every day, and checked it afterwards, and did not participate in the construction. Song Yuke was elected as the person in charge, he thought that he had to pick up Zhang Ju and Han Youfu in person to be affectionate, and handed over the work to another person to be responsible, and he and a dozen people pushed the cart to the hospital. The car stopped at the entrance of the hospital, and everyone wanted to go to the building to support Zhang Ju. The two of them came out with their hands on the wall, and everyone saw that this tall man was tortured to the point of skin and bones, his flesh was yellow and bright, and he had completely lost his original shape, and his nose couldn't help but be sour. Han Youfu choked up and said, "I'm a human being in another life, I never thought I would come out alive!" Zhang Ju was hard, although he stood on the ground and shook it, he still patted his chest:

"Dude, don't worry, let's see who survives whom! I didn't die, but Tojo stepped down! ”

Put them in the car and sit down, everyone hugged them and walked to Xingyaliao, talking and laughing all the way, and when they walked to the door of Yoshida Optical Store, someone said loudly: "Quiet, someone shouts something!" ”

As soon as the words stopped, I heard it, and Chiyoko ran behind and shouted: "Tiger, tiger!" ”

People pushed the land rover and said, "Go quickly, the little daughter-in-law called you!" ”

Zhang Ju rolled his eyes and said, "What's the matter?" Is it really hooked? If it's good, gambling is not advised. Let's go quickly, don't delay people to say their own words. ”

People teased Han Youfu and said, "What about your one? ”

Zhang Ju pointed to Han Youfu's burden: "Dried squid, fried soybeans, and even the family money sent him." Japanese daughter-in-law Chinese food, not ambiguous at all, I want to be a Chinese, I have to recruit the elderly here! ”

Huzi blushed from his face to the base of his neck. These days, he and everyone are demolishing the house and pulling the dead body, so happy that he really forgot about Chiyoko. When I saw her, I felt a little ashamed, but I still said with a little anger: "Why did you come to me in front of so many people!" ”

"I'm sorry. Tiger, forgive me. I don't have time, I've been waiting for you under the pole over there for a long time, you came over, you can't see me, I can't ......"

Huzi regretted it and felt sorry for her. Whispered and asked her, "Don't be angry, what did you just say that you don't have time?" ”

"We were told to evacuate, and my mother and I were going to Hiroshima to find my uncle. The younger brother has followed the school. ”

Huzi struck like lightning. Frozen there for a long time.

"When are you leaving?" After a while, he squeezed out a sentence.

"Today, right now, your men have tied the rope to the beam of my house."

"Nope! Chiyoko, no! ”

"We don't count what we said, we are grass people, maybe my brother is right, we should oppose this war......"

The door of Yoshida's optical store was wide open, and there was a rectangular counter in the optical store, but there were no glasses, no guitar, no kind old man, and no horse-drawn carriage that was always walking slowly.

They glanced at each other, silently walked into the store, closed the door casually, hugged each other tightly, and said nothing for a long time. In the end, Chiyoko touched Torako's face with both hands and said, "I have to go, help my mother pack her things." Forget me. ”

"No, you said you were mine."

"It's yours, it's been a long time, and it always will be!"

"I will marry you, you wait for me!"

"Aren't you too bitter then? Am I not falling on you in my heart? ”

"What stupid words, you are the second and most precious ...... in my heart"

"The second? What else do you have the first one? Tiger, you didn't tell me. ”

"Motherland, love the motherland and love you. When the war is over, the two will be combined. ”

"I'm yours, at your disposal."

Chiyoko kissed Huzi, took out a small white handkerchief bag from her arms and stuffed it into Huzi's hand, covered her mouth, lowered her head, and hurriedly walked out. Whimpering as he ran.

Torako opened her handkerchief, revealing a strand of long, black and soft hair that exuded Chiyoko's unique milky aroma.

He wrapped his hair, put it in his close-fitting pocket, and ran quickly to Xingyaliao. When he arrived at the dormitory, he shook off the quilt, mattress, and baggage, he wanted to find something for Chiyoko, but he didn't know what he could find, in fact, he didn't have anything, what were he looking for? Later, he calmed down, remembered an idea, found a piece of clean paper, wrote the words "China, Donglu Village, Yucheng County, Shandong Province" with a pencil, folded it and ran out. Song Yuke came to meet him, and when he saw him so flustered, he hurriedly asked, "Where are you going?" ”

"I'll send Chiyoko, I'll go if I'm called, and I'll go if I'm not called. I'll talk about it when I have something to say. ”

He didn't wipe his sweat, he didn't tie his shoes when they were opened, and he ran to the door of Watanabe's house in one go, and at this time the courtyard was shouting: "One, two, three!" With a bang, the house fell, and a puff of choking dust rose into the air, and he nailed it as if he had been hit on the head, and demolished a dozen houses, and for the first time he looked at the collapsed bamboo bone tiles and shed tears. He hoped that Japan would be punished, and that punishment should not fall on the poor people!

"What about Chiyoko? Chiyoko! ”

People told him that he had gone and got to the station.

He hurried along the way to the station. Turning past Yoshida's optical store, I finally saw two short figures, carrying packages in their hands and bags on their backs, walking among the rubble full of broken beams and columns. He shouted, "Chiyoko, Watanabe-sama!" ”

The two men stopped. Turned around and waited for him.

Huzi chased after him, didn't bother to greet the eldest mother, stuffed the note into Chiyoko's jacket pocket and said, "Keep it, my family's, no, our family's address." ”

"Well," Chiyoko looked at him, her chest slumped together, and she said in a slurred voice, "Mom, please turn your back on your face." ”

"I'm with my face back! The children. ”

Chiyoko stretched her face in front of Torako and let him kiss her tear-drenched cheeks one last time.

"Goodbye, my master."

She carried her bag and left with her mother, never looking back, biting her lip as hard as she could to keep herself from crying again. Huzi looked at her slender back obsessively, disappearing behind the ruined walls, and disappeared into the smoke of gunpowder from the fire that never went out......