preface

The sun had set, and the afterglow had stained half of the sky red, but the golden light was still reflected on the earth.

A man dragged his tired body to the seat, and he sighed heavily, saying goodbye to the busy day.

After a while, a radiant old man, with a cane, sat next to the man.

The man looked at the old man, his face was covered with deep wrinkles, his eyes were extremely solemn, and he stared closely at the light of the setting sun that divided the heavens and the earth, very distracted.

The man also followed the old man's gaze, well, it was very beautiful.

The old man grinned and said, "The sun rising in the east is beautiful, and the sun setting in the west is also dazzling."

The man looked back at the old man and replied, "Yes."

The old man also turned his head to look at the man, he was stunned for a moment, as if he had discovered some secret, he said, "Child, you ......"

As soon as he was halfway through speaking, the man suddenly felt dizzy, fell heavily to the ground, and never got up again......

Volume 1 of the text: Zhao Xiaohui

1941, war of aggression, endless killing......

"Dad, why are we hiding?" The boy's eyes widened and he asked the man in front of him suspiciously.

"Hide and seek, it's fun," the man smiled, "Come inside."

The man put the boy in the closet and said to the closet, "Shall we start arresting people when we count to a hundred?"

The man knew very well that the boy could not count a hundred at all.

But the closet immediately replied, "Okay."

"Really good", the man went out satisfied.

At the entrance of the village, there was an army of about 100 people, all dressed in yellow uniforms, well-trained, and quickly lined up in a neat square under the command of an officer armed with a long knife.

The officer turned his head to look at the village, and after a while, a stocky middle-aged man and an old man appeared in front of the officer.

"I don't know what happened when the general came to the village?" In the face of many soldiers, the old man not only did not panic, but asked the officer in a hurry.

Without waiting for the officer to reply, the interpreter on the side spoke a non-standard Mandarin: "What can Taijun do when he comes to your place?" Why don't you gather all the people in your village here? ”

The general gave the order again, ordering the soldiers to surround the entire village, and it was still in the ravine, and as long as it was surrounded, it would be difficult to fly with wings.

Seeing this, the village chief had to ask the middle-aged man next to him to go back to the village to gather the villagers.

After a while, the whole village came, except for the children.

The officer was puzzled and didn't know what to say, and the interpreter hurriedly said, "What about the children in your village?"

"Taijun, children don't have to come out, we adults are enough," said a middle-aged man.

The interpreter translated the man's words to the officer, who was furious and drew his saber and yelled at the villagers.

The villagers couldn't help but take a few steps back, and the interpreter said at this time: "Taijun said to let all of you people in the village come out, including children, and don't force Taijun to order to go to the village to arrest him."

"Okay, okay", an old man in the front row gritted his teeth and sighed to the villagers behind him: "Go and call them over."

Many of the villagers have returned to their villages.

A man came to a courtyard, opened the door, came to the closet, opened it and said to the children hiding inside: "This time the time of hiding is extended, you have to count from one to three hundred, you must not count wrong, you can't come out until you finish counting."

"Dad, you're foolish, I've had a hard time counting hundreds, we might count to a hundred," the boy pouted.

"Gee, Daddy believes you," the man smiled.

"Okay Dad, you promised me to go to the hillside to catch the lamb after playing", the child in the closet is very sensible.

"Well", the man touched the boy's head: "That's good"

The man gave a few more commands, closed the closet door, and left.

At noon, at the entrance of the village

"Zhao Shanhua", a teenager hooked his shoulders and put his back on a middle-aged man, "Huh? What about your children? ”

Zhao Shanhua was speechless at the young man and said, "How can you hand over the child."

The boy touched his jaw: "Well, it makes sense." ”

Outside the village, there are many adults and children, many of whom are mixed with newborn babies.

"Taijun, we will do whatever you want us to do, and don't embarrass women and children," the old man said to the interpreter in his hoarse voice.

The interpreter listened impatiently and translated for the officer.

After listening to what the interpreter said, the officer turned pale and said something.

I saw the translator wave his hand: "Take them all!"

The soldiers immediately understood, stretched out their bayonets, and surrounded the villagers.

In this era, almost everyone knew that there would be such a day, and most of the villagers accepted their fate and followed the soldiers tremblingly.

Finally, when it was time to get on the bus, the soldiers forcibly separated the children from their parents, which caused many parents to be dissatisfied and rebelled.

Seeing that the situation was out of control, the officer drew his saber and stabbed directly at one of the fathers of one of the resistants.

The father, lying in a pool of blood, and the seven-year-old boy wept bitterly, and he rushed to hit the officer, but was knocked to the ground by a soldier with an elbow.

The mother hurriedly ran over to pick up the child, her heart was like a knife, she couldn't suppress the anger in her heart, and shouted at the soldiers: "You beasts, you deserve to die, you all deserve to die!" ”

As soon as this sentence came out, the interpreter did not translate it for the officer, but the officer probably understood what she meant, and saw him raise his hand and hold a pistol in his hand.

"Bang!" The sound of gunfire that followed in the sky reached everyone's ears.

The boy lost both parents...

Everyone was stunned, and the interpreter said loudly at this time: "Obey the command of Taijun, those who resist, die!"

No one dared to resist anymore, the adults got into one car, and the children got into another.

In the car, an old farmer who calmed down asked the interpreter, "Can we know why Taijun separated us from the children?"

The interpreter said, "Adults have work that adults can do, and children certainly have work that children can do."

As long as he doesn't die, even if he lets a child do coolies, it's okay, and the old farmer is relieved.

Zhao Shanhua, who was also on the side, asked again: "Then why don't you leave?"

"Waiting for the search team to come back, of course," the interpreter said.

"Search team, what are you searching for?" , Zhao Shanhua is in a hurry, in case Zhao Xiaohui, who is hiding in the closet, is discovered.

"You're asking a little too much", the translator finally got impatient and looked at Zhao Shanhua coldly.

Zhao Shanhua no longer squeaked, he couldn't be too excited, otherwise he would definitely let the devil find out something strange.

The children on the other side, led by a soldier, got into another car, and along the way, there were two very small babies who were thrown on the ground because they were too small to be of any value, and it was impossible to take the time to raise them.

So these two babies were thrown to the ground, one of them fainted directly, and the other cried bitterly after landing on the ground. And the soldiers didn't even look at it, and at this time the search party returned with a few children hiding in the village, and they all arranged to get into the car.

The officer ordered the drive, leaving behind several corpses and the two newborn babies.

Three days later, the devils forced the villagers to take some kind of medicine and forcibly imprisoned them, being dragged out to work during the day and rushed back to the prison at night.

It's been three days, Zhao Shanhua is really anxious, he wants to know what Zhao Xiaohui's current situation is.

Zhao Xiaohui has also become unknown since then.

On the fourth day, Zhao Shanhua was eager to see Zhao Xiaohui, so he yelled in the prison, hoping to attract officers, but unfortunately, it attracted ruthless sticks.

Zhao Shanhua was lying on the ground dying, his eyes blank.

Many villagers came around, and those who had a good relationship with him came to help him up, and the man said, "Old Zhao, are you stunned, how can you have any son?"

"I'm not in the mood to joke," Zhao Shanhua's face was flat.

"Why are you not in the mood, this look is a demon", the villagers on the side said: "You don't even have a daughter-in-law, how can you have a child?"

"What!?" Zhao Shanhua was shocked, "I have a son!" He called, he called, what was his name. ”

The villagers were still trying to say something.

I saw Zhao Shanhua scratching his hair painfully, "Yes, I don't even have a daughter-in-law, where is my son." ”

"Yes, you've been yin and yang weird these days, what do you want to see a child, I see, you want to marry a daughter-in-law."

Everyone laughed, and in this environment, everyone was unprecedentedly optimistic.

After that, Zhao Shanhua was still confused, as if he was missing something, and he always felt that everything was not going well, but he didn't think much about it, and he worked hard to live now to have a chance to see the light of day again.

And the villagers have always been looking forward to that day.