Chapter 22 4. Neiqiaowan Elegy

In Neiqiaowan, Nanjing City, there lived a family of three ordinary residents. The male named Liu Boss, in his 50s, was honest and honest, and didn’t speak much. Mrs. Liu Wang, in her 40s, is hardworking and frugal, and works in the dark to manage housework; her son Liu Amao, 19, is also a hardworking and loyal young man.Although the family of three lives in poverty, the husband and wife are loving, the son is filial, and the simple food is harmonious and happy.Although Liu Wang is introverted and doesn't talk much, she manages the family very smoothly, and does everything possible to save money from food and money to book a marriage for 19-year-old Amao.According to the happy plan of this small family, during the twenty-sixth lunar year of the Republic of China, the daughter-in-law was to be brought back for the son.

However, the iron hooves of fascism crushed their dreams.Just when their good wishes were about to come true, the troops of the Japanese invaders aggressively stormed into Nanjing City. On December 13, several soldiers from the 16th Division of the Japanese Nakajima Kinzao broke into Boss Liu's house viciously.In a panic, Boss Liu hurriedly hid his wife and son, and then opened the door tremblingly.The Japanese soldiers with rifles shouted and rushed in and searched everywhere. Liu Amao, who was hiding under the bed, was quickly dragged out by the Japanese soldiers. Several Japanese soldiers surrounded the two Chinese civilians, yelling and making gestures to see if the other party did not respond. A Japanese soldier took a sudden step forward, ripped off the clothes on Boss Liu's shoulders, and touched them with his hands. He touched Boss Liu's right shoulder, and when he touched the occupational helmet of a truck worker on Boss Liu's shoulder, he stepped back suddenly as if he had been electrocuted, raised his bayonet and shouted repeatedly: "Chinese soldiers!" Big ones!" Then the Japanese soldiers turned their attention to Liu Amao, touched his shoulders and then looked at his hands.Although Liu Amao is only 19 years old, he has been pulling a rickshaw for two years, and his hands are naturally hardened, so he has become a "Chinese soldier" as a matter of course.Several Japanese soldiers escorted the "enemies" they had found, and walked out of Boss Liu's house in a high-spirited manner.

When he left, Boss Liu knew that his going would be bad or bad, so he really wanted to take another look at his wife.He called her Ahua, she was a child bride, and they had lived together for more than forty years.When Ah Hua was brought here, she had no name. Everyone called her Mao Mei. When she grew up, Boss Liu didn't like this name, so she called her "Hua" according to the Chinese custom. What kind of flower is it?He thinks she looks like any flower, so he might as well call her Ah Hua.But he was extremely reluctant for A'hua to come out at this time, because he knew that if A'hua came out now, he would suffer a worse end than him.He left with this extremely contradictory and painful mood.When he stepped out of the house, he still couldn't help looking back, thinking to himself: Ah Hua, if I can't come back, you have to take good care of yourself!

There was no one left in the house, and it took a while before Wang Ahua dared to creep out from the woodpile where she was hiding.She quietly touched the wall, peeked into the main room, and confirmed that there were no traces of the Japanese soldiers. Then she hurried forward to close the gate, and then rushed into her son's room, her own room, the backyard, etc. like crazy. In the hut... looking for her husband and son everywhere.She was anxious, she was afraid, she wanted to shout but didn't dare to shout, several times she rushed to the door, trying to open it to look outside, but when she heard the gunshots and screams outside, she shrank back in fright.In this time of war and chaos, killing people like hemp, she went out to find someone alone as a woman, wouldn't she send meat to her door?

The room was in a mess, things were turned over everywhere, pots and pans were knocked all over the floor, and she didn't have the heart to pick them up. She sat on the edge of the bed alone, neither eating nor drinking, crying anxiously.At noon, she suddenly thought that if her husband and son came back, she would be hungry, so she hurried to the kitchen, made lunch quietly, and then went back to the main room to wait.The wind blew the door several times, and she thought her husband and son had come back, so she hurried to open the door, but there was no one there, and when she saw several corpses lying here and there in the alley, she quickly shrank back in fright.

In the evening of the next day, she couldn't hold back any longer, thinking that all the devil soldiers had returned to the barracks, so it would be okay to go out, right?So she ventured out of the house to look for her husband and son.She cautiously turned around in the alley, but Yuanjia Road was narrow, and she ran into a few devil soldiers head-on, and it was too late to hide.Seeing that it was a Chinese woman, Guizibing hurriedly grabbed it and dragged her away as if he had found a treasure.Ah Hua struggled desperately, crying and cursing, but what's the use of a weak woman?The Japanese soldiers dragged her to Shazhuxiang Elementary School, pushed her down on the desk, and committed the most despicable and shameless deeds of mankind in this sacred and solemn place where mankind preaches, teaches, and dispels doubts.Soldiers in a platoon of Nakajima's troops, after drinking and eating, took turns to go to battle, rushed to the desk, and wantonly ravaged this kind Chinese woman.At first Ah Hua struggled desperately and cried and cursed, then it turned into moaning in pain, and finally gradually lost consciousness...

At dawn the next day, Ah Hua woke up from a coma. The first thing that stimulated her to wake up was a bunch of keys tightly clutched in her hand.She sat up abruptly, spread her palms, looked carefully at the key in her hand, and gradually remembered that she came out after locking the door, and she came out to find her husband and son.But where is the husband now?Where is the son?They haven't returned home for two days and two nights. She looked around in a daze, and then ran out of the classroom anxiously.She forgot that she was naked, with disheveled hair, hunger and cold, and while running in the twilight morning light, she cried out in pain: "Amao, come back!..."

The painful cry was blown by the bitter cold wind, making people tremble when they heard it.The woman was tired from running, so she sat on a bluestone mill, counting the keys in her hand, and murmured: "Son, where have you been? Mom is waiting for you, come back soon!" !..." A 16-year-old young man nearby got up early in the morning to clean the yard. Seeing this tragic scene, he was overwhelmed with fright and hurried to his neighbor, Uncle Han.Uncle Han is an incense burner in the temple. He is over 70 years old and has seen many things in the world. He knew at a glance that this woman was driven mad by the Japanese devils, so he helped her into the house, gave her water to wash her body, and changed her clothes. After eating two bowls of hot porridge and asking about the situation, he walked her around the alley and sent her home.

After Ah Hua returned home, she gradually calmed down a bit, but she still missed her husband and son day and night, and her condition fluctuated from good to bad.After two months, many bad news continued to come, so that she finally despaired of the return of her husband and son.One day, she came to the Xieqiao River and murmured to herself while weeping: "Boss, Amao, you can't come back. I miss you so much. I have to go to the underworld to meet you." After she finished speaking, she jumped up. The ruthless river swept away this kind Chinese woman, but what could not be swept away was the tragic story of Ahua and her family of three.

Fifty-eight years later, the 16-year-old boy who rescued her and the 74-year-old Master Rongtong wrote an article in the "Yangtze Evening News" on April 20, 1995, as an eyewitness, exposing the brutal Japanese army. atrocities. It wasn't just one or two families who were victimized, the whole Nanjing was immersed in blood, tears and terror.Under the instigation and connivance of the army commander, the out-of-control Japanese army crazily pounced on every family in Nanjing like countless ferocious beasts.The ugliest and cruelest atrocities in human history woven by Yamato soul and Bushido spirit are performed here.