Chapter 18 Chapter Seventeen

At the international court where war criminals were tried, my aunt Meng Shujuan believed that the woman she saw, whose face was completely changed and whose back was the same as before, was Zhao Yumo.Meng Shujuan wrote a letter to Fabi Adornado who was in the United States at the time, telling him that Zhao Yumo was still alive.Fabi's maternal grandmother died in October 1945, and left a little property to the orphan Fabi, who went to America to sell it.My aunt told Fabi in the letter how Zhao Yumo denied being Zhao Yumo, and Fabi's reply arrived a month later, saying that perhaps Zhao Yumo could only survive by becoming another person.

As the Japanese army massacred the city of Nanjing, the incident of rape was gradually revealed and its scale gradually revealed. My aunt's pursuit of Zhao Yumo was even more persistent.She thought her entire life had been changed by those seven days in December 1937.She told me that after leaving the church, she and her classmates found that the kiln sisters’ vocal songs often appeared, or the ditties they sang, and those dirty and energetic ditties were actually learned by the students, all subconsciously. of.Occasionally, they quarreled, and they were no longer the girls they used to be. They became rough and unforgiving. Your mouth is dirty and I am dirtier than you. Once the taboo is broken, they think it is nothing special. something?Who is not pulling or withdrawing?When it comes time to relieve hatred, there is no language that can relieve hatred than the words of kiln sisters.In the months that followed, Fabi Adorna tried hard, but failed to completely restore them to the original choir girls.

When my aunt told me this, she smiled: "How could Fabi know that it was a great liberation for us. We learned how to liberate ourselves from these lowly women who were sold into slavery." When I was twenty-nine, my aunt Meng Shujuan completed her investigation into the whereabouts of thirteen Qinhuai River women. Zhao Yumo was the only one among the thirteen women who survived, and she also confirmed how the middle and high-level Japanese military officers shared her and twelve other "female students" that time.Two of them attempted to resist with steak knives (taken from the Wilson Church dining room), but failed and were killed on the spot.The remaining eleven women were released to the newly established comfort station after the Japanese officers had enough. Within two or three years, they died one after another.Zhao Yumo's survival should probably be attributed to her outstanding appearance and style. Those who enjoy her are middle- and lower-level officers, so the guard on her is gradually relaxed, and she finally escaped successfully.Probably she escaped after being a comfort woman for four years. As for why she had plastic surgery, my aunt has never been able to find the answer, and neither can I.