Chapter 2 two

twelve games The Little Shanghai Restaurant was buzzing with people.A thin black and yellow Taiwanese soldier in the house just came back and reported to them the news of his second brother. When the Japanese surrendered, his second brother was still alive, but he disappeared afterwards. He was in the same regiment. His second brother even saved his life. He was very grateful . Master Alu asked his sister-in-law to give a red envelope to the Taiwan soldiers to express her gratitude.The second sister-in-law was weeping in the room, and the lively gongs and drums of the puppet show outside came into the room.

Thirteen games In the Taijin Hospital, many Taiwanese soldiers who returned from injuries were admitted to the hospital, and some were undergoing physical examinations.Kanmi was busy all the time. Huanqing came to the hospital to visit friends from Taiwan soldiers, and the meeting was full of sadness and joy.When talking about the wounds suffered during the war, everyone got excited. They lifted up their clothes and pants to see who had bigger bullet holes, but none of them could compare to Ah Zaozi, who was seriously injured by machine gun fire and had his left calf severed. He chopped a piece of wood. Make your own prosthetics...

On the hillside far outside the window, someone was screaming and running.It was Mr. Xiaochuan's elderly father who staggered and stood on the slope and wanted to jump, and Xiaochuan cried for his father.Kuan Rong catches up to Mr. Ogawa and hugs him. Fourteen games At Jingzi Xiaochuan's home, his father was already asleep, and Dean Chen came to visit him in person, told him to rest more, and left.Kuan Rong was left in the quiet room. He was too frightened just now, and his whole body couldn't help trembling slightly. Ogawa quietly mentioned that the Japanese Overseas Chinese Repatriation Office was established on the radio recently (March 2, 1935), and they will be deported back to China in batches. "Father wants to go back, my elder brother and the others are gone, and I am the only relative...but I am a foreigner when I go back. I was born here, my mother died here, and my own country is strange and far away. The best time of my life is spent here, I will never forget it..." Restraining the choked words, Kuan Rong was very excited.At this time, if he bravely confessed something, it would not be impossible to keep Xiao Chuan, but he couldn't say a word of comfort.

There are photos of Xiaochuan's family on the wall. The two elder brothers in handsome military uniforms are still full of childishness. fifteen games The shrill whistle of the train sounded, and a southbound train galloped across the field. In the car, Huanqing was reading Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" in Japanese translation, and his third sister-in-law was sitting next to him, feeling sleepy.They went south to pick up the third brother, and received a letter. The third brother was sent back from the mainland, disembarked in Kaohsiung, and was seriously ill in the hospital. The letter was written by a nurse.

sixteen games A temporary medical clinic in a school in Kaohsiung is full of patients, bed next to each other.March has been as warm as summer in the south. Huanqing accompanied the third sister-in-law to find the third brother, who was in a deep sleep, sweat beaded on his scorched face, and his hands and feet were tied to the bed. Huanqing led his third sister-in-law over to ask a nurse who was writing a letter for a wounded soldier.Here the third brother suddenly woke up, struggled and screamed, the third sister-in-law was frightened, the nurse was not surprised, and let him scream and struggle...

seventeen games The third brother's nightmare.In prison, compatriots were lynched and their ankles were broken.The screams of the prisoners. The third brother who surrendered to the Japanese army fled, was surrounded and fought desperately on the train, shouting "I am Taiwanese—" and was knocked unconscious by the butt of a gun.The picture is blacked out, and the long sound of the train whistle seems to tear people apart. Eighteen games On a rainy morning, a sedan chair carried the third brother to Jinguashi, accompanied by the elder brother and the third sister-in-law. nineteen games

At Taijin Hospital, the eldest brother was discussing with President Chen. At present, the only way is to let the third brother stabilize and observe for a period of time. He was frightened, coupled with wind and cold, and then turned into malaria. The howling of the third brother burst out from the ward, and Kuan Mei rushed in, saying that the third brother broke half of the rope, strangled the third sister-in-law and went crazy. The burly elder brother could hardly control the third brother, so the doctor hurriedly injected a sedative to calm down.The third sister-in-law ran out to the ditch in the corridor because she was too frightened, and squatted down to vomit.

twenty games In Jinguashi Primary School, Kuan Rong was teaching phonetic symbols and reciting Mandarin in the classroom, but it was also the Mandarin that was bought and sold, which was not standard. The principal and three other people suddenly appeared outside the classroom. It was Teacher Lin Honglong who came back and called Kuan Rong, "Rong Zai!" Kuan Rong rushed out, hugged each other with joy, and found that they both learned to speak Mandarin.The principal said that Mr. Lin came back to pick up the director of teaching affairs. The two people who were with him were friends from other provinces of Mr. Lin, and a newspaper reporter named He Yongkang.

twenty one Reunited after a long absence, at a restaurant in Jiufen, Kuan Rong and his gang cleaned up for Mr. Lin.I asked about Teacher Lin’s wife, who was in Chongqing at that time, she was pregnant, she panicked to take refuge in the air-raid shelter during the air raid, she fell down the stairs, she suffered a miscarriage and died of excessive bleeding. In the bewildered silence, Teacher Lin began to sing a song in a low voice, "My home is on the Songhua River in the northeast, where there are forests and coal mines, and there are soybeans and sorghum all over the mountains..." is one of the exile trilogy " On the Songhua River".He Yongkang and the others, even Kuan Rong could sing, followed suit, and the singing became louder and louder, as if resounding throughout Jiufen Mountain City.

twenty two games It seemed that such singing was faintly heard in Taijin Hospital. The third sister-in-law was feeding the quiet and almost dull third brother.However, in the distant singing, the third brother's consciousness seemed to gradually wake up, trembling slightly.In a trance, the singing voice suddenly rose up, "September 18, September 18, from that tragic time..." It seemed that someone else sang it, and it seemed like the singing in memory.The third brother's tears fell silently and slowly, until he was fully awake.  The third sister-in-law looked at him and called earnestly: "Ah Liang, Ah Liang..." The third brother hugged his wife tenderly.

twenty three games On a rare sunny day, on the street where Japanese overseas Chinese live in Jinguashi, some Japanese people are selling pawns, clothes, dishes, old clocks with pendulums, furniture, radios, etc.Shizuko Ogawa was also among them, standing there with her eyes downcast and a sewing machine in front of her. When Huanqing and the mine workers passed by and saw Xiaochuan, they couldn't bear it. They bowed and greeted Xiaochuan, and Xiaochuan returned the salute reverently.There was music streaming out, and the other side was selling gramophones. The workers watched curiously, and someone else asked the price. twenty four games In the elementary school in the afternoon, Lang Lang Tongyin was studying Mandarin.Xiao Chuan came to find Kuan Rong with a long box in his arms, and only the principal was in the office, saying that Mr. Wu went to Taipei with Mr. Lin Honglong, and joined in the establishment of a journalists' union.Xiao Chuan left sadly, she knew that Kuan Rong was avoiding her. There was a low rumble of thunder from the distant mountains. twenty five games There was a muffled thunder, and the wind blew, and Kanmi went to close the windows in the hospital. The third brother slept peacefully and deeply, and the third sister-in-law took a nap beside the bed. Xiao Chuan came to visit and gave the box to Kuan Rong. It turned out to be a high-quality bamboo sword used by his father and brother to practice kendo. The two brothers had died in battle, and the father was old and could not take it away.What Kanmi gave was a kimono, Kanmi pushed it back and said no, Ogawa insisted on taking it, and couldn't help crying, and hurriedly put away her tears and said goodbye.Qie didn't know when it started to rain, Kanmei found her umbrella and lent it to Xiaochuan, and watched Xiaochuan, who was holding a black cloth umbrella, go farther and farther away... Japanese folk songs played on the phonograph gradually rose in the distance. Twenty-six games The golden melon stones under the spring rain are immersed in the lustful water vapor, and they are gloomy. In the hospital dormitory at night, Hiromi Minato wrote a diary under the dim light bulb. OS said that his brother actually likes Xiao Chuan, why didn't he confess his love to her?Because of the inexplicable national consciousness, it is very difficult.The dean said that Huanqing's inner ear may be damaged, but the eardrum is still good, because he can hear the sound of blowing bubbles clearly when swimming in the water.He is most afraid of the brakes of the tricycle, the sound of pulling the handle, and the sudden closing of the door in a closed room, which will not be able to stand the vibration of the sound waves. twenty seven games The melodiously playing Japanese folk songs turned out to be Huanqing who bought a Japanese gramophone and put it up in his residence, but he couldn’t hear it himself, so that a bunch of adults and children crowded in the room could listen to it.He is busy developing photos. The third sister-in-law suddenly came to him, and because she was illiterate and unable to talk in writing, she figured out that she was borrowing money from him. Twenty-eight games There is an earthen hut in Jiufen, hidden behind Xiaohu Restaurant, and the third brother is obviously a regular customer here.The third sister-in-law came into the dormitory with money and saw that the third brother was chatting very well with a person. The man thought that the third sister-in-law was a fan, made fun of it, and found out that it was the third sister-in-law, and apologized and quit.This person is an old friend of the third brother, called Red Monkey. Pulling the curtain, the third brother leaned on the tatami mat and began to puff, and handed the opium to the third sister-in-law to smoke too, but the third sister-in-law didn't want it.Pushing the third sister-in-law down on the bed... twenty nine games In the small wine house in front, Red Monkey and his concubine, Aju, drank sullenly.Seeing the third brother coming out from the dormitory at the back, inviting the third brother to have a drink, the third sister-in-law was not happy, and urged her to go back to the hospital as soon as she had slipped out for too long.The third brother simply sat down and drank, but the third sister-in-law persuaded him to be exhausted and left. While drinking, Red Monkey talked about the potholes in Jinguashi, where the Japanese printed money during the war.Seeing that Aju was not there, he took out a banknote to show the third brother, and pointed out that two seals were missing, because the stamps were printed elsewhere. .