Chapter 8 Chapter 7 Rubber Balls in Singapore

Chapter 7 Rubber Balls in Singapore 1 I went on to write down my memory of my father here.It's still something that holds a strong grievance against him.I said I was dissatisfied, but after thinking about my father's words and deeds that caused my dissatisfaction, I felt that there were actually many reasons. It happened in the early summer of my second grade in elementary school (then it was called National School).Why do I even remember the seasons so clearly, because I put the rubber ball purchase coupon I got from school in the breast pocket of my jacket before my eyes, and ran home excitedly.

Although the war started only about half a year ago, perhaps because we lived in a small village, it was not easy to buy clothes for the children.The jacket I wear to school is my brother's old clothes.The clothes have been deformed and look limp.Mom cut a piece of thick paper and put it in her breast pocket, and sewed the mouth shut with thread.For this reason, from autumn to winter, and until the end of spring, I couldn't put anything in my pocket.Even if you catch a rare insect, put it in the triangular box made of paper and there will be no place to hide it later.I still remember how difficult it was for me.

I was lucky enough to win the rubber ball purchase coupon when hammering steel hammers in class.In February of that year, Japanese and British troops fought victoriously and occupied Singapore.Manila has been occupied before, the occupation, the occupation of Manila was achieved after the war with the United States.Why attack these countries?Because Singapore and Manila were colonies of Europe and the United States at that time.However, it is very important to open the Asia page of the world map and confirm with your own eyes that the Japanese army has even occupied those countries. Because of the occupation of these two countries, a large amount of rubber raw materials from the Nanyang Islands entered Japan.Therefore, although it is not yet possible to issue a rubber ball purchase coupon to each student, the winner of the nail hammer can get it.I'd rather have rubber balls than new clothes.This kind of ball is called soft tennis now, but at that time we played it with three bases according to our own rules.Baseball was officially introduced to our village, and it was after the war that even adults took part in softball games.

I've never been drawn in a lottery before, and I was so happy to get a rubber ball purchase ticket today.I immediately ran home, went straight to the backyard, and reported to my dad who was doing a final check on the bundles of paper-making raw materials. Of course, I also need to ask my dad for the money to buy the ball. After listening to my words, my father was silent for a long time, but when he opened his mouth, he asked me to give the purchased coupons to the children who lost to me. The white bark of the yellow Ruixiang tree came in bundles. I walked out disappointed.Mom caught up with me and asked me why Dad couldn't buy a ball.So, for the first time, I plucked up the courage to return to my father.I told my dad, who was sitting there silently working, why the kids in the village got these rubber ball coupons.Naturally, all I said was repeating what the teacher had said with gratitude in class:

"Our Japanese soldiers were brave and strong, and defeated the British soldiers guarding Singapore. This is what our Japanese soldiers collected rubber and sent back to our motherland with love..." Dad stopped what he was doing, took a serious look at me, and said the following: "If any country's brave and strong troops come to our village," Dad looked up at my mother drying a bunch of strings under the eaves. Persimmons, "Soldiers full of love take away these dried persimmons and give them to children in their own country. What do you think?" I was dissatisfied with my father's words in many places, but I couldn't organize my thoughts, so I didn't say anything.Dad's serious eyes fell on me again, and then he closed his lips and concentrated on his work.This means that this matter is over and there is nothing to say. I can only return the purchase vouchers to the school.It's so unkind!So infuriating!I walked out, at the gate, I saw that my mother had prepared the money, and now I still remember, it was about twenty to twenty-five yuan.My mother knew the result from my face, and said with some dissatisfaction: "Your father himself accepted the special ration of wine after the fall of Singapore!"

At that time, I was not so much dissatisfied with my father as I wanted to refute my mother's statement. 2 Think about the dissatisfaction caused by my father's words one by one. This is what I did many times at that time.As a student of a national school, I am very clear about my thinking attitude. Taking my own country, which was called the Great Japanese Empire at that time, as the center of the world, it is a kind of nationalism, and it should be called supranationalism. When I was in school, I accepted the way of thinking taught by my teacher how to strengthen the big Japan. On the blackboard, the emperor and empress were drawn on the shining branches, and under the branches was the "world picture" of the Japanese archipelago.But as soon as I got home, I carefully kept in my heart the legends and stories told by my grandma and mother in the village that I wanted to pass down from generation to generation, and I used them to generate my imagination and describe the "world picture" in my heart.All of this is so natural and does not interfere with each other.

I used the emotional conflict with my father as a clue to my memory. Looking back on myself at that time, I found that I was still too deeply influenced by the teacher's education.This makes people think of how powerful the national school education at that time, including the current primary school education, is. First of all, my father also used the word "brave and strong" to describe Japanese soldiers when talking about soldiers from other countries, as if any country could have such a "brave and strong" army like ours. I am very dissatisfied with this statement.And the meaning of "soldiers from which country attacked the village in the forest..." means that the Japanese army will be defeated by the divisor?How is this possible?This is absolutely impossible!Ah, my father is a shameful person!I thought so, very angry.Of course, when I returned the rubber ball purchase coupon to the teacher at school, I couldn't reveal my father's opinion to the teacher, and I knew this very well.

In addition, I still remember that when I heard my father say, "Soldiers from which country attacked the village in the forest...", I suddenly thought of "Jangzong's Ministry". "Changzong Ibu" is a sentence that scares children.When I was very young, I always yelled at night with my younger siblings and refused to sleep under the covers.At that time, grandma would say: "The Changzong family is here, look, the Changzong family is here!" Grandma's trick was very effective, and we immediately got under the covers and quieted down. Nagamune Gabu Motonin was the governor of Tosa (now Kochi Prefecture), and he unified the four countries based on Tosa.Grandma told me the folklore based on the history of the Warring States Period.That's a lot of scary stories, too.Not only that, but my father also took me to the big fork in the road where the army of Nagamune crossed the Shikoku Mountains from Kochi to Ehime.

However, even if Changzong’s army has attacked here, it is impossible for any other country’s army (I feel that this army may be from the United States or Britain) to move here.I don't know why I am so convinced. Immediately after the defeat, the American garrison drove into our village in a jeep, and even threw chocolate and chewing gum at the children in the neighboring village.This is what I heard later.Probably chocolate and chewing gum have been distributed in other villages.When we arrived at our village, the American soldiers just waved their arms to the villagers... As I overlooked the jeep driving into the village on the road beside the river from a high place in the forest, I thought about what my dead father said.

Here's another complaint about Dad.I think it is wrong, even cowardly, for my father to compare the Japanese army's transportation of rubber resources from Nanyang, including Singapore, to the robbing of food for the children in the village. However, if troops from other countries come in, won't they plunder food besides plundering rubber resources?In fact, I also have this kind of doubt and worry deep in my heart.Because of this, when Dad told me his "theory", I didn't refute it, but just got angry at him sullenly.Because of this memory, in the second year after the defeat, when I heard that the occupying army was distributing food, I developed a good impression of the United States as a country.

3 Probably everyone has seen words like "conservative" and "progressive" used in newspapers and magazines.It is necessary to examine the original meaning of such words, but my research here is somewhat different from the general investigation. Let’s take a look at the actual use of these words, and perhaps we can express them as follows: Survive according to the existing way of existence and movement of the country and society; adapt to all these to survive; imagine and describe everything in the future with the natural extension of the current way of existence; do not want to improve everything now; completely according to the country and society where it is located A strong way of thinking to determine your own attitude.In particular, I regard everything I have been taught as very important, practice it step by step, and at the same time teach others the same way after a while. I think people with the above characteristics can be called "conservative".Of course, there is a big gap in the actual performance of conservative ways of thinking and living. Even among these "really conservative" people, there are things they like and things they don't accept. I don't want to say that it is the view that "children are conservative first".It may be said that a child comes into this world as a new life and is very sensitive to all new things. It is ridiculous to say that a child is conservative.However, babies are completely satisfied with their environment, and they are completely submissive and dependent on everything adults do for them. However, when a child starts to re-examine his own state and starts to stand on his own little by little under the care of adults, he (she) is no longer a conservative baby, but changes towards the direction of "progress". That is to say, he will be such a person: he begins to accept and own things that are different from the way of thinking he has always held, or things created by himself, and he starts to update and transform every bit of things around him. own country and society. At that time, I was very disgusted with my father's remarks, and even felt that I had heard something terrible.Frankly, it was like being attacked by Dad's words.Still, I knew I couldn't fight back against Dad with my own logic.Later, my aversion to my father began to fade, and gradually, my father's point of view was accepted by me.However, when I think I can say this in my own language, the war is over and my father has gone.