Chapter 6 six

Before entering the courtyard of the township office, I heard people yelling and dogs barking, accompanied by laughter.After entering, I saw a Japanese soldier pulling a foreign dog, directing the foreign dog to chase the men who were packing up the New Year's ceremony, but holding the leash to prevent it from actually biting.Seeing the people being chased and jumping, and the New Year ceremony trampled in a mess, the Japanese soldiers laughed with their mouths open.Seeing Song Mingtong and Zhiguang walking in, he held the dog back, still laughing. Song Mingtong asked the villagers: "What's the matter?"

Xiang Ding said that the Japanese soldier seemed to want something, and because everyone couldn't understand, he called the foreign dog to bite them. Zhiguang went forward and said in Japanese: "Is there anything you want them to do?" The Japanese soldier said: "I want some eggs, my dog ​​is hungry." Zhiguang translated it, and Song Mingtong asked someone to bring a small basket of eggs.The Japanese soldier knocked one open, and the dog sucked it clean in his hands.After knocking four or five times in a row, the dog stopped eating.The Japanese soldier wiped his hands with a towel and said, "Do you have any cigarettes? Give me a few boxes."

Song Mingtong went into the house to look for it, and took out three packs of cigarettes.When the Japanese soldiers saw it, they waved their hands repeatedly and said, "Don't want this, it's better. Do you have 'Temple of Heaven' and 'Qianmen'?" Song Mingtong said no, he could send someone to buy it immediately and told him to wait. The Japanese soldier looked at his watch and said, "I have something to do, can you buy it and send it to me?" Zhiguang asked him, "Where are you sending it?" The Japanese soldier said: "The imperial army is stationed, I am on duty at the construction site outside the gate."

Zhiguang asked, "Did they tell me to go in?" The Japanese soldier said, "You said you were looking for me. My name is Katayama. But don't take the cigarettes outside for others to see, understand?" "clear. "I'll wait. If you say nothing, I'll kill you tomorrow." After talking about Katayama, he took the dog and walked out. After walking a few steps, he stopped and asked Zhiguang: "Hey, did you speak Japanese just now?" "Yes, can you understand Chinese?" "Hey, there are children here who can speak Japanese?"

"I went to school in Tianjin, and I went back to my hometown for the winter vacation." "No wonder, that's great. Come on, you can come to play with me without giving me cigarettes." This is really auspicious and heavenly, and when he was worried about not being able to find the door, he suddenly sent a pass.Song Mingtong hurriedly asked someone to buy cigarettes.Bought two in total.Zhiguang said that he should not give too much at one time, and it will be more difficult to serve after his appetite grows. He only took five boxes, and left the rest to Song Mingtong for storage, and put the cigarettes in his pocket.Just go to the Japanese mansion to find Katayama.

According to Song Mingtong's instructions, Zhiguang went out of the village and walked northeast. From a long distance, he saw three cylindrical red brick bunkers, four or five stories high.When I got closer, I saw that the three bunkers were connected by a red brick wall. There were crenels on the wall, barbed wire and parapet trenches under the wall, and a 200-meter-wide open space between the walls, barbed wire, and trenches.Hundreds of peasants are digging trenches and building bunkers in this open space.There were two piles of firewood at both ends of the open space, and a Japanese soldier sat next to each pile of fire, watching the civilian husbands while warming the fire.There were also two Chinese supervisors, one fat and the other thin, in black cotton robes and white armbands, holding wooden sticks in their hands, calling and urging the peasants to work.Katayama saw Zhiguang first, called him, and pointed to the suspension bridge, and he himself walked to the suspension bridge and said something to the sentinel.When Zhiguang reached the bridge, he was not stopped, followed Pianshan to sit by the fire, and took out three packs of cigarettes—he thought it was a pity to give him all five packs, so he only took out three packs.Katayama was quite satisfied with the three boxes, and happily waved to the Japanese soldier sitting by another fire: "Come here, Kato-kun."

Kato is slower than Katayama, thin, wears short-sighted glasses, and has a slightly hunched back.He was holding a rifle, and besides the ammunition pouch, he carried a square leather bag with a red cross on it.When he came over, Katayama held up a pack of cigarettes and said to him, "Smoke a pack. I know you haven't been to the doctor for several days, and no one will give you cigarettes." "Where did you get that cigarette?" "This kid sent it. Well, this is Kato-kun." Zhiguang stood up and bowed to Kato and said, "My name is Zhiguang, it's the first time we meet, please take care of me."

"Well, you can speak Japanese?" Kato said with his eyes widened behind his glasses, "Aren't you from here?" "I go to school in Tianjin and I learn Japanese at school. Our school has Japanese teachers." "Really? Japanese teachers are strict, right?" Katayama said: "When I was in middle school, Kato-kun was my teacher, teaching physiology." Zhiguang said: "Then I have to call you Mr." Kato asked: "Can you sing Japanese songs?" Zhiguang said: "Will you be a few, pigeons, spring is here, moon moon." "Sing one sing one."

Zhiguang cleared his throat and began to sing: Come out, come out, moon. Round, round, so round, The moon as round as a plate... Kato first clapped his hands, then sang softly, and finally wiped away his tears. "Kato," Katayama yelled sternly, "don't forget you're a soldier!" "Yes, Mr. Private!" Kato stood at attention, "Forgive me, I haven't heard the children singing for a long time, I have been living in the children's singing!" "Forget it, sit down and rest!" The three of them sat there silently warming themselves by the fire.Tomohiro took a peek. Although Katayama was young, he already had three beans on his collar, while Kato only had one.

"Katayama-kun," Kato said, "I heard Mr. Captain say that he wants to take a Chinese child as a servant." "yes?" "He said that he would train cadres who will be supported by China and Japan from among the children in the future. Take two reliable children, live with us, help us with odd jobs, we take care of him, teach him Japanese..." Just as he was talking enough to attract Zhiguang's attention, there was a commotion on the suspension bridge.First, someone shouted and scolded, and then saw two people fighting.The peasants who were working stopped their hands and stretched their heads to look in that direction.The skinny supervisor shook his wooden stick and shouted, "Work, work! I'll goug out anyone watching the excitement." Zhiguang saw a puppet soldier knock down the fat supervisor to the ground with a gun butt on the other side of the suspension bridge. , Kicking around with your feet.The fat supervisor rolled over and got up, then ran towards the suspension bridge.But the Japanese soldier standing guard stopped him with a gun and shouted: "You bastard, go outside and come in after you have beaten enough." The fat supervisor bowed and said, "Taijun, help, Taijun, help!" As he said, blood ran down his head. .The face dripped down, and after a while the right half of the face turned into a gourd of blood.Seeing that the Japanese soldiers were not paying attention, the puppet soldiers chased him up from behind and put another gun butt on his back.The fat overseer turned his head and ran out again.The puppet soldiers chased after him and scolded: "I smashed your illegitimate child to death, I smashed your illegitimate child to death..."

"They should be stopped," Kato told Katayama. Katayama said: "Leave these scumbags alone, dog eats dog." Kato called the skinny supervisor over and asked, "Why did they fight?" The thin overseer said: "They are from the same village. The soldier's elder brother died, and the overseer was a maintenance member in the village and raped his sister-in-law. At that time, the soldiers were ordinary people, so they dared not mess with him. Now that he is a soldier, we come to him revenge!" Katayama said, "What does the fat man sleep with his sister-in-law?" Zhiguang told him: "In the eyes of the Chinese, this is a disgrace to his family." Katayama said: "I don't know why..." Suddenly the bell to call it a day rang.Because the two supervisors were not around, the peasants shouted, found tools and ran to the suspension bridge.The Japanese sentry quickly stopped them with guns, and the thin overseer immediately left the fire, shouting loudly: "Don't crowd around, line up, line up!" The people were already in chaos, and no one listened to his shouts.The sentry is in a hurry.He picked up his bayonet and stabbed at the crowd.Someone in the front fell down screaming, and the back was still rushing forward. Katayama roared, swung his gun and hit the peasants shamelessly.The supervisor also picked up his stick to help beat them, and the people started screaming and scattered. "Kneel down, kneel down!" Katayama yelled, "Kneel down everyone, and I will shoot anyone who doesn't kneel down." The supervisor couldn't understand what he was shouting, and was about to ask for clarification.Katayama grabbed the supervisor, kicked him in the crook of the leg, and pressed the supervisor down to his knees.Katayama shouted: "It's all right, it's all like this." People hesitated at first, and then knelt down in twos and threes. Katayama swung his rifle and hit the legs of the kneeling people with the butt of the gun, shouting: "Kneel down, kneel down." A large group of people, densely packed, slowly All knelt down. Left Zhiguang, a Chinese, stood there, his face flushed with anger and humiliation, his eyes filled with tears, and he turned his head away. "Son," Kato patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let's go, you go, I'll take you out." Zhiguang somehow got out of the suspension bridge, and after walking a certain distance, he covered his face and burst into tears. Song Mingtong saw that Zhiguang had gone for a long time and hadn't returned. He was very worried and was standing at the door waiting for him.Seeing him running back with tears streaming down his face, he was surprised.He hurriedly asked him: "What happened, were you bullied?" "Our masses, our fellow villagers..." "Speak in the room, talk in the room." Song Mingtong helped Zhiguang into the house, Zhiguang cried out, and Song Mingtong reached out to close the door.Zhiguang said: "Don't shut it up. Aren't all the people in your township office also Chinese? Everyone, listen to the reason why the devils bullied us." "Don't listen, they have seen more than you!" Song Mingtong still closed the door. Zhiguang said: "I am not ashamed or sad to see my compatriots being bullied by foreign ghosts. Is this still called Chinese?" Song Mingtong said: "You can't drive away the devils just because you are sad and ashamed, and you can't drive away the devils if you hide far away." "I can't stand this! I'm going back to the combat unit." Song Mingtong said: "If you want to fight against Japan, you have to be willing not only to sacrifice and bleed, but also to be wronged and wronged. You are more educated than me. You don't need a heavy hammer to beat the drum. The superiors can trust you when they send you to perform tasks." Song Mingtong took out his cigarette pouch to smoke, and stopped talking.He felt that it was enough to say these things to Zhiguang. Sure enough, after a while, Zhiguang wiped away his tears and asked embarrassingly: "When will Deng Mingsan lead me to Xiaoweizi?" Song Mingtong said, "Go now."