Chapter Eighty-Five: Memories of an Old Man

"I've never heard you tell a story like this, and your past never seems to have been brought up to anyone." Yamaguchi Masakawa said helplessly.

"Yes, these are stories that should have been brought to the grave, and although it is very helpless, it is true, like the really dark things in Grimm's fairy tales are covered up." Yamaguchi Kuma: "It's just that the Japanese official thinks too simply, you must know that fairy tales can be faked, but history can't be faked, history is like a mirror, no matter how you cover your flaws, you can't cover the scars on your face." ”

"You rarely told stories when you used to, I thought you were the kind of man who only knew how to kill and sell stolen goods." Yamaguchi Masakawa Road.

"Can you pour me a glass of wine? Although the doctor often told me, I still felt that I should come a little more, after all, I would probably not be able to drink alcohol after today. Yamaguchi said, glancing at the rain outside.

"Of course, we are only opponents in some aspects, but not enemies, if we put aside interests and beliefs, we should be very close grandchildren, you know? To this day, I still miss the time when you took me to see the release site of Kamen Superman. Yamaguchi Masakawa said with emotion.

"yes, back then I remember your dream was to be a kid like Crayon Shin-chan, because you said Shinnosuke Nohara was the cutest kid in the world." Yamaguchi Xiongyi shook his head slightly.

"Not now, Shinnosuke Nohara won't grow up, but I will, I have too much and too much burden on my body." Yamaguchi Masakawa walked to the closet again and poured a full glass of red wine for Yamaguchi Kumaichi.

Yamaguchi Masakawa raised his glass, and suddenly there was some silence.

"Let's start with the struggle between the Yamaguchi-gumi and the Five Elders, tonight is a long time, you shouldn't be so anxious to kill me." Yamaguchi Kumachi took a sip of his wine.

Yamaguchi Masakawa nodded slightly in agreement.

"Japan's yakuza is generally formed by two parts of people, one is the original aristocracy left over from those samurai and ronin, without land, they began to build dojos, attracting everyone to learn, they soon attacked each other without business talent, duel has become one of the easiest ways, but with the continuous change and reform of Japan, the suicide has been suspected of breaking the law, so these samurai ronin began to serve the merchants, in that era when merchants were the lowest, this way is not strange, The Five Elders' Guild was established as a result, but the Five Elders' Guild did not stop at serving merchants, they were truly loyal to what they considered to be the Emperor, who had the blood of the Tokugawa family in his veins. Yamaguchi paused: "Tokugawa Yoshiki was the last Japanese general and returned power to the emperor before he died, but it is described that Tokugawa Yoshiki should have another heir." ”

"I didn't expect there to be such a story." Yamaguchi Masakawa suddenly interjected and said.

"The change of sovereignty is never so simple, nor is it so bland, the conflict of power and the clash of interests are always endless, as a person in power, how to effectively balance all this is the most important thing, and the rest is nonsense." Yamaguchi Masakawa Road.

"Does that kid really still exist?" Masakawa Yamaguchi asked.

Yamaguchi Kumaichi shook his head, indicating that he didn't know: "Next, let's talk about the Black Dragon Society, in fact, you should know about the history of the Black Dragon Society." ”

"The Black Dragon Society was founded after Japan's defeat in World War II, Japan was in ruins after World War II, and the Japanese military was also controlled by the U.S. military, and MacArthur was Japan's shadow emperor, which is a history that we hate against." Yamaguchi Masakawa said viciously.

Yamaguchi Kumaichi didn't have much of a so-called appearance: "The viciousness in your eyes may be very different from what I'm going to say next." ”

"I once fell in love with a woman, an authentic Chinese woman, at that time I once swore that coming to this country is my mission, not staining the blood of any Chinese people is my essence, you may not believe it, I have been eating military canned food for the past few months, several times I smelled the stewed chicken in the big iron pot and drooled, but I still controlled it, when I was young, I believed in Christianity, I firmly believe that if I make a mistake, the Lord will punish me."

Yamaguchi Masakawa was silent, this was completely different from the Yamaguchi Kumaichi he knew, the Yamaguchi Kumaichi with his memory was the godfather of the gangsters known as the iron fist, and there were no less than a thousand enemies who died directly in his Thomson machine gun and indirectly in his hands.

"You must have been very innocent at that time." Yamaguchi Masakawa racked his brains, but finally only thought of such an adjective.

"But things quickly went beyond my imagination, and we moved from local aggression to full-scale aggression, and I didn't have any good feelings about this battle from the beginning. The area of the four islands of Japan is not as large as a province in China, just like the most common entertainment on the streets in Japan paper net goldfish, Japan is the paper net, and Huaxia is a shark, although the shark is still sleeping, but no one can guarantee that the shark will not wake up, and the first thing the shark wakes up is to break the paper net. Kumaichi Yamaguchi affirmed.

"You must have not taken this idea very seriously at the time, after all, no one in power would admit his defeat, and your national pride seems to be pitiful." Yamaguchi Masakawa took a sip of red wine and said, the sky outside had begun to rain lightly.

"No, no, no, my national pride is actually dispensable, for war, the lives of soldiers are just a way for them to play tricks, and the so-called national pride is just a little psychological comfort to my brothers when launching a suicidal charge." Yamaguchi bears together.

"And then? I want to hear the text. Yamaguchi Masakawa didn't seem particularly satisfied with Yamaguchi's answer.

"Text? The text is very fucked up, the Kwantung Army has entered the pass, and Huaxia has begun to organize the most effective counterattack, the war has begun to fall into a standoff, the Japanese military headquarters is starting to be overstretched, they have no way to draw more troops, and those stupid guys are actually preparing to plan Pearl Harbor. When Yamaguchi Kumachi mentioned the Japanese Navy, disgust came over him.

The Japanese Navy and the Japanese Army are more like brothers who broke up because of their separation, not only tearing each other down, but also hating each other.

"We followed the railway to North China, which is a plain, a plain that cannot be seen with the eyes, you can't imagine how happy it would be if food was planted on these plains." Yamaguchi bears together.

"At that time, your thoughts seemed simple." Yamaguchi Masakawa half-jokingly.

Yamaguchi Kumaichi shook his head helplessly, and his spoken voice became very low: "It was also here that I killed a Chinese soldier." As a guerrilla, he was betrayed by a traitor, a squad of seven or eight people was attacked by one of our squadrons, those Chinese people were really strange, some people had hard bones like iron stone, but some people had soft bones like eels, that Chinese soldier was the first case I said, he only had an old-fashioned rifle in his hand, this kind of gun called the old sleeve by the Chinese people, even the rifling had been smoothed, I found him in an empty room, and in front of him lay the body of an officer, and I subconsciously aimed the muzzle of my gun at him, there was not a little fear in his eyes, and there was a kind of excitement in his thoughts, as if he felt that he had been relieved, he had no bullets, I wanted to save him, I didn't pull the trigger. ”

"Your behavior should be labeled cowardly and cowardly in times of war." Yamaguchi Masakawa said disdainfully; "And then?"

Yamaguchi Kuma: "And then?" Then he died, he hit my bayonet, I can't forget the look in his eyes when he was dying, that feeling of disgust and disgust, and later I became a hero, I was also commended, and the army department awarded me a medal. ”

"It's an honor." Yamaguchi Masakawa said.

"It's more like a shame for me, there was a Catholic church where I was stationed at that time, although Catholicism and Christianity were a little different, but at that time I couldn't manage so much, I took off my military uniform, and slipped out while I was free, in that era when everyone didn't have enough to eat, no one would believe in God, and then I often went to church to pray, in fact, I didn't believe in Catholicism at all, I just sat there and told me over and over again about the mistakes I had made. But God still favors me, do you remember the Chinese girl I mentioned at the beginning of the story? Whenever Yamaguchi Kumachi mentioned these four words, he was very excited, as if he had returned to the teenage years: "She also came, fate is so lucky, put us together again, although she doesn't remember me, but I can never forget her, at that time China has been rendered by the war, and it has become a new empire outside the border, but the Chinese people have never recognized it, just call it the puppet Manchukuo, that girl also went south to find a way to live, but there are too many people fleeing the famine, in order to survive, She had no choice but to become a nun. ”

"It's like a very tragic love history." Yamaguchi Masakawa Road.

"It's an abbreviation for an era, and countless lives have changed because of it. At that time, I was not wearing a military uniform, but I just glanced at her from a distance, at that time she was taking care of some children who had no permanent residence, the priest in the church was a German, Germanic people, and she was the only nun in the whole church, but even then she did not show sadness, she always tried her best to take care of those children, there were only two or three tables and chairs in the empty church, and even the sculptures were already dilapidated, but those children were very happy and always pestered her. There seemed to be light in Yamaguchi's eyes.

However, Yamaguchi Masakawa broke his light; "You always tell the story of her, but you don't know that person, do you? Or maybe you didn't talk to her. ”

"That's right, that's the last thing I did, because war will leave a lot of people displaced, unclothed, and hungry, even for adults with hands and feet, not to mention a church without any financial resources and a yellow-haired girl with seven or eight children." Yamaguchi Kumaichi said sincerely; "Soon their food was cut off, and the children who lost their food supplies immediately became yellow and thin, but at that time, because of my merits, I was promoted to a squad as a quartermaster, and the next thing was very simple."

"You're using your power for personal gain, right?" Yamaguchi Masakawa said decisively.

"You can't be wrong when you say that, but at that time, in my eyes, there was no race, and it was difficult for people to survive, at that time, our military rations were generally canned food and flavored soup, but those people had never eaten these things, because the battle line was stretched too long, and the supply of Japan soon had problems, and it was possible to ensure the distribution of some meat, but later, we could no longer taste the taste of meat, and most of the canned food was mixed together with cow blood or sheep blood and some soy productsAt that time, I also knew that this battle was coming to an end, that the war was a attrition, and that it was clear that we were going to lose. But the military department at that time was completely frenzied, and they asked us to solve the ration problem on the spot, which actually did not have much impact on the garrisons stationed in the rear, and they did not never eat military canned food. Yamaguchi Kuma: "I take advantage of my position to steal some cans for her and let her make ends meet. ”

"Haven't you been under suspicion?" Masakawa Yamaguchi asked.

"Of course, it was very difficult for people to live in this land at that time, and she was naturally very nervous in the face of sudden munitions, but my lie was perfect, I said that I was a second-class dealer, and the black market was very popular in those days, and I hung out some of my merchant certificates, for which I studied Huaxia for a long time." Kumaichi Yamaguchi said proudly; "She actually still didn't believe it, after I put down some cans, the rest of my life can be regarded as slowly getting acquainted, I have to say that it was really the happiest time I ever had, there was no war, only me and her and some children, those children affectionately called me uncle, the two of us sat in the church, I am still nostalgic, even like living in that land forever."

"But you're back, and you've formed the Black Dragon Society." Yamaguchi Masakawa pulled Yamaguchi Kumaichi back to reality with a word.

A hint of disgust came over Kumaichi Yamaguchi's face, as if to express his displeasure with breaking his memories.