Chapter 28 27. Island of Life

The calendar had turned to the end of November 1937.This day is almost the end of the peaceful city of Nanjing - the ferocious Japanese army has surrounded the city of Nanjing. Nanjing has become an isolated island.Inside and outside the city, people panicked.Those people who used to be domineering and dignified in the capital of the imperial government of the Republic of China are gone now, leaving only the poor and the few foreign missionaries who have little to do with the city and their Believers and some doctors, volunteers, etc.Of course the defending army occupies a large proportion of the total population, but they are not the masters of the city.

Vautrin could see all the chaos clearly, but also sadly: Now a sad atmosphere prevails in Nanjing. Some people think that the Japanese will arrive in three days; others say it will be a few weeks.Today some city gates are closed to prevent stragglers from entering.Wounded are no longer sent into town. 10 am.I went to the embassy for a meeting with Harbert Thorne from the seminary, Fitch from the YMCA, Beders from Jinling University, and Trimer from Gulou Hospital.Mr. Paxton spoke of the possibility of robbery by soldiers and of the danger to foreigners.He said that as many foreigners as possible should evacuate Nanjing immediately, and those who cannot leave immediately should be prepared to evacuate. When the embassy is evacuated to the USS Panay, these people will also go together.If the city gates were closed, the embassy selected two places as meeting places for climbing out of the city by rope.Then each of us is asked to express our views on behalf of ourselves or our units.Bates and I believe that our responsibility makes it necessary for us to be here.Our interpretations are accepted and respected.

Today, less than 20 people go to Gulou Church to worship. Over 90 people attended worship at our neighborhood school today, and the reason, as you can guess, was not for bread and fish, but to see if they could come to our campus in times of crisis.Our answer was: "We will do everything we can to protect women and children, but only come if the situation becomes very critical. Only bedding and food, no boxes allowed." 2:30.I walked from Shanghai Road to Mingde Middle School.My heart is heavy.I kept running into groups of women and children looking for a "safe zone".They vaguely heard about the safety zone and wanted to confirm its location.I had to stop and talk to them.I told them that the safe zone hadn't been finalized yet, but that once it was, the city government would notify them.How they are like sheep without a shepherd.

I went to church and walked along Zhongshan Road.Zhongshan Road is the main road in Nanjing, it also looks bleak, in fact all the shops are closed.I saw only four kinds of transport: military trucks hauling war supplies like anti-aircraft guns; ambulances with officers; northern mule carts and rickshaws pulling the poor and their luggage... Today, all post offices are closed except Shimonoseki Post Office.The safe zone has not yet been determined.The Reuters reporter suggested to me that if we allow women and children to take refuge in our academy in the event that the safe zone plan cannot be realized, we should have the American embassy inform the Japanese commander of this fact.Although, I was not happy that I was the only woman present, but I felt the value of my existence.

This is Vautrin's diary written on November 28.It was night, and there was a thunder-like sound in the city of Nanjing from time to time, and the flames that could be seen everywhere lit half of the sky red.Several homeless stray dogs were howling miserably, which was heart-shattering. Early the next morning, Cheng Ruifang sent Vautrin a pack of hot dried tofu and said, "In Nanjing today, apart from you, Miss Heinz, and Miss Ball, there is no fourth foreign lady. " Vautrin said with a wry smile: "What I want to say is: in the city of Nanjing now, except for the 5 students in the family handicraft school we are teaching, there may not be any other school in class."

Cheng Ruifang said: "Then God should award us medals!" Vautrin turned around, stood in front of the Jesus statue, and asked very reverently, "Will God?" "God still depends on our future performance!" Cheng Ruifang pursed her lips and smiled. Women's sensitivity to war is limited, but they are particularly concerned about the weak around them. Stepping into the threshold of the last month of 1937, the cold air in Nanjing City is already very pressing, and the smoke of war seems to have choked everyone's throat. "Just as we were going to the Drum Tower Church, the emergency siren sounded (it is no longer sounded twice because the Japanese lines were too close to us), and soon there was the sound of bombing. Later, Wilson The doctor told me that the air raid happened at the "Xihua Gate" built by the Qing Dynasty. I am sad to say that the disasters caused by the air raid fell on the poor. He said that the mother and daughter of a family were killed on the spot. When Wilson found The numb father when he was still holding his baby, the top half of the kid's head was blown off... My heart aches for the Chinese soldiers, I learned that 50 wounded trekked from 20 miles to Nanjing. They said that many injured comrades fell on the side of the road.” December 5 was Sunday, and early in the morning, several loud noises were heard in the city.Needless to say, it must be the fault of the Japanese aircraft again.

It seems appropriate to describe the current Vautrin with three heads and six arms.In order to do a good job of receiving refugees, under her leadership, the school has evacuated all the dormitories, science buildings, art buildings, and central buildings that may be vacated. "Don't let the refugees sleep on the ground, even if it's a layer of straw or wooden boards, otherwise the children will be frozen..." Vautrin carefully guided everyone. "Okay, that's it. After everyone brings people into the school, they have to tell them where they should live, and then tell them how to pay attention to hygiene, and the family must stay together. By the way, don't take people who come in casually. Lead to the building, and arrange the next building after one building is full..." On the small lawn at the school gate, Vautrin was holding a small flag, and was instructing her "guide" how to receive and arrange the arrival refugees.

Her team was very poor. Except for Cheng Ruifang and a few workers, the rest were the children of the staff who stayed at the school.However, they are all very serious, and they all seem to be like recruits who have just joined the army, practicing meticulously. "Miss Hua, can we move in?" At this moment, a group of women and children dragging bedding and carrying bags had gathered at the school gate, and they were calling Vautrin's name outside the gate, begging.Obviously these people's homes are not far from Jinling Women's College of Arts and Sciences, so they all know Vautrin.

"Please come in when you come!" Vautrin greeted the people outside the door, while directing the people inside, "Take the people who came first to the experimental school. The first batch of people settled down, let them have a saliva to drink first..." On the first day of receiving refugees, the number of refugees was not large, but it made Vautrin feel the hardship of the work.Just put an 80-year-old man in a safe place, and the 3-year-old next to him pooped in the corridor... "Tonight, I look 60 years old and feel like 80 years old." Late at night, Vautrin returned to the dormitory exhausted.When she closed her eyes, she took a picture in front of the mirror and couldn't help being startled.

On December 9, various legends and rumors arose in the city, but there was no doubt about one sentence: the Japanese were about to enter the city. "Why is there so much fire in the northwest of the city? Could it be that the Japanese planes dropped bombs again?" Wautrin saw thick smoke billowing in the northwest of the city when she got up in the morning, and several fire dragons shot straight into the sky. Cheng Ruifang told her that it was the Chinese city defenders who lit the fire, and that the army was adopting "scorched earth tactics"—burning all the outer city buildings close to the city wall, lest the Japanese army use it as a cover for attacking the city.

"Can it solve the problem?" Vautrin felt that the tactics of the Chinese army were a bit ignorant. "We can't figure it out, but this has caused a large number of refugees without houses to flock to the city... It is estimated that more people will come to us today." Cheng Ruifang said. as expected.On the same day, Jinling Women's College of Arts and Sciences where Vautrin works received more than 300 refugees, some of whom came from Wuxi.These refugees told them: The Japanese had been killed all the way, and they had to flee to the capital. "Nanjing is the place where President Jiang stayed, and it is safer than our home. We thought that if we die, we will die in the imperial city with these high-ranking officials." Some refugees said this to Vautrin and the others. Poor people, how did they know that Nanjing, the capital, is actually not as safe as the small towns and countryside. The high officials here have already run and fled, so why are they waiting to die with you poor people!Vautrin suddenly felt that the poor in China were pitiful and pathetic. Vautrin is also one of the representatives who must attend the "press conference" every night.That night, the press conference was going on as usual, but Vautrin found that there were no official people present. Apart from the two journalists, there were only two low-level government officials on the Chinese side, and the rest were Rabe and Bedez. , Smythe and other foreigners. "Boom—!" The reception had just started about ten minutes later, when a deafening bang suddenly shook all the people present from their seats. "Bomb! The bomb is about to hit us! Disperse!" Someone shouted. Rabe told the members of his international committee: "It is estimated that there will be no more meetings like this starting tomorrow." Vautrin returned to her home from the venue and found that a pot of flowers on the windowsill had also been shaken down by the shock wave of the explosion.When visiting the newly arrived refugees, all she heard was crying and tragic experiences.A woman said that she came to Nanjing on business, but her 12-year-old daughter couldn't enter the city, and now she can't leave the city herself. "My daughter is on the other side of Guanghuamen, where she was beaten to death. Something happened to my daughter! Have pity on me, can you help me find my daughter!" The woman sat on the ground and wept bitterly, but no one seemed to know her. Can't help her. Vautrin was so sad that she didn't know what to do. Another woman from Sanchahe frantically said she wanted to find her mother.Vautrin asked where her mother was, but the woman herself could not tell, except that she had just disappeared at the school gate.Vautrin and Cheng Ruifang discussed whether they would be at the nearby Bible teacher training school. "Let's go, I'll take you there to look for it." Vautrin dragged the woman quickly to the Bible Teacher Training School.In the end, the man's mother was found, and the mother and daughter cried when they saw each other and hugged each other. As soon as Vautrin found out, the Bible Teacher Training School had received more than 1,500 refugees.God, this is worth it!Vautrin thought about it, and it is estimated that there will be a wave of refugees coming to her school tomorrow.This is how to do?She and Dean Wu Yifang originally planned to resettle 1,000 refugees at most, and now it takes less than two days!Thinking of this, Vautrin quickly walked back... She thought about tomorrow, what will tomorrow be like? Tomorrow, tomorrow is December 10th. On December 10, 1937, the city of Nanjing was obviously surrounded by heavy Japanese troops.At this moment, this ancient imperial city has been completely caught in the heavy artillery and smoke-filled battle between the enemy and us.There are no people to be seen on the street, and what I see occasionally must be homeless refugees. They were either killed by shells or bullets, or they were looking for a place of refuge with their heads in their arms... "Come in! Come in!" Vautrin's Jinling Women's College of Arts and Sciences was crowded with refugees in front of the gate and in the backyard.Soon, the old teachers' dormitory was full, and the central building began to move in.Some refugees stranded outside the school were trying to find their own way: they moved to build brick houses on their own initiative, and in a blink of an eye, the bricks became small houses—no bricklayer needed, just one or two reed mats to cover the roof. It became my own house! "Miss Hua, take a look, is my house okay?" A man proudly pulled Vautrin in front of his masterpiece, and promised to let him in for a visit.Vautrin took a few glances and was very impressed.But she thought to herself: Is this safe? However, the school has limited space and can only accommodate women and children. Some people, especially men, can solve the shelter by their own means, which is an option.Vautrin still appreciates this. "Boom!" "Boom!" The moment Vautrin stepped into the school gate, there were several loud noises in succession, and she suddenly felt the ground shake, her body couldn't stand still, and she shook several times... She didn't fall down, it was a stone wall next to her. did her a favor.Waiting for her to look around again: Damn, a few bombs probably landed on the Divinity School and other places a few hundred meters away from Jinling Women's College of Arts and Sciences.After the bomb fell, the smoke and burning flames seemed to isolate her school from the outside world—"We are about to become an island of life!" At that moment, Vautrin thought of a word that was dangerous. At the gate of the school, the mother who lost her 12-year-old daughter stood there, anxiously looking for the fleeing people coming and going on the street—so many people crowded out of nowhere!Vautrin also felt strange. On the 10th, Vautrin’s assistant—Cheng Ruifang, the head of the health team in Zone 4 of the safety zone, wrote down the following details in her diary: ...Today, No. 700 (the name of the school building) is also full, and people moving to the safe area are constantly on the road, and so are those flocking to the school.The rickshaws are gone, men and women, old and young, are all picked and carried by themselves on the road, and they don't care about the sound of planes and cannons. It's really miserable.Refugees lived in the houses in the new residential area, some were rented, some were left unattended and moved in.Jinnan University (Jinling University) has lived in several houses, the new library has also lived in, and sheds have been set up in the yard. They have more people than us because both men and women live there.We only live with women and children, and we are not allowed to cook food. Some of them deliver food at home. If there is no food, we don’t eat much. We feed them, wash their face with water in the morning, and give them water to drink three times.There are more than a thousand people, and they are extremely busy, preparing water and boiling water, and delivering them twice a day.Now I plan to open a porridge factory opposite the gate, and there will be porridge in two days.What goes in is a small thing, and what comes out is a big thing.Some people escaped without bringing toilets. Although there are excrement buckets everywhere outside the yard, they are for children.The palace-style house now adds some color, the clothes, quilts, and diapers hanging on the windows are hanging on the trees... The pond on the 100th side has become a place for washing toilets and diapers. The pond on the library side has become a laundry place, and some people wash dishes there. What is a refugee area, this is it!Two words: dirty and messy.But who can take care of these, life-saving is the most important thing at this moment. What made Vautrin more anxious and worried was that some women among the refugees had just given birth to babies. When she woke up on the morning of the 11th, she heard two women crying. It turned out that their babies had died, and one was suffocated. Yes, one died of illness.I learned from Cheng Ruifang that five or six of the women who have come in are about to give birth... Poor child! "Focus on protecting the mothers and newborn babies." Vautrin specially told Cheng Ruifang that Vautrin, who had never given birth to a child, felt as if she had lost her own child.Maternity makes her pay special attention to the little life. December 12 was the last day before the fall of Nanjing.This day is the most chaotic day in Nanjing.From the commander-in-chief of the Chinese garrison to a puppy and kitten on the street, it seems that they don't know what to do.General Tang Shengzhi has been busy carrying out the evacuation "manual order" issued by Chiang Kai-shek since the morning, and then he withdrew from the Yangtze River in Xiaguan in a very embarrassing manner that night under the escort of a group of guards. The Chinese army in the city is almost completely messed up. The stray dogs and cats who were bombarded by the machine gun bullets and heavy shells of the Japanese army couldn't find them, and could only stare blankly in the streets and alleys, watching the people who were as stupid as them flee around... Vautrin on the 12th, recorded in her diary, may be the most accurate "at that time"—— Sunday, December 12. 8:30 p.m.As I was writing these diaries, heavy gunfire erupted again in the southwest of the city.The windows were shaken.As a precaution, I moved away from the window.The bombing continued throughout the day. Some people said that the Japanese army had entered the city, but I could not confirm it.A soldier told our gatekeeper that the Japanese had broken through Guanghuamen several times, but were driven back.We also heard that the 87th Division is taking over from the 88th Division.Unfortunately, Chinese troops pass through the safe zone all day long. At the press conference tonight, I heard that the garrison commander Tang Shengzhi was no longer able to command his own troops.There was looting in many parts of the city, except in the safe zone (and judging by the horrific explosions, I'm guessing there's not much left of the old and beautiful walls).Now Japanese planes can come in and out freely and drop a large number of bombs. They are neither blocked by anti-aircraft fire nor intercepted by Chinese planes. To burn all the houses outside the walls, and some of the houses inside, was, I think, a grave mistake, and a sacrifice of little value.Who suffers the pain of destruction?Not even the poor in China!Why not hand over the city intact? At 10:30 this morning, I went to Gulou Church, and there were about 60 people there.A member of the church's emergency committee gave a good sermon.Many refugees lived in the church yard (now that the gunfire has practically stopped, I don't know if that means the walls have been breached and the Japanese have entered the city). Refugees continue to pour into the campus, and three buildings are already filled with refugees. Now, the art building is also accepting refugees.Unfortunately, the porridge factory run by the Red Cross is still closed, so life is very difficult for the refugees who do not bring food.Under our repeated urging, the porridge factory may open at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, but if the city falls tonight, I am afraid that even this will not be possible. In times of distress and terror, something interesting happened.The tailor surnamed Guan on the opposite side of our Dongmen Street foolishly asked the staff of the "New Life Movement Committee" to store some of their belongings in a room of his house before evacuating Nanjing.As the Japanese approached, he began to worry.Today, I called Mr. Fitch, and we told him to destroy all written materials, and we will be responsible for the destruction.All afternoon, he and his wife and all the relatives moved the piles of material to our incinerator to burn.They moved over and over again, sweating profusely, and destroyed all the materials in time (you can hear the gunshots, the Japanese have already entered the city). The manager of the central building, which has always been capable, was hoarse tonight because he tried his best to keep the ground clean for these refugees.In the afternoon, he told the janitor, it was harder than heaven to keep a child from urinating on the floor.The janitor said, "Why didn't you stop them? Tell them not to urinate anywhere?" Lin said in a hoarse voice, "How could I not?! But when I turned around, they urinated again." 5pm today.When I went to the English department, I saw a fire belt on Zijin Mountain, which surrounded 1/3 of the top of the mountain.I don't know how the fire started, but it meant that many pine trees were destroyed. From 9:00 to 10:00 tonight.Mr. Chen and I inspected the campus, and the laundry worker surnamed Hu and his neighbors all came.They were worried about the retreating soldiers coming tonight because they had a young girl at home.Not many people in the city will sleep tonight.From the Nanshan apartment, we can see that the south of the city is still burning, and so is Xiaguan.Tonight I will have to sleep fully clothed so that I can get up when I need to.May the night be over soon. Exactly one year ago today, General Chiang was detained during the Xi'an Incident. Vautrin has a good memory.In such a chaotic and tense moment, how could she still remember the incident of Chiang Kai-shek being trapped in Xi'an a year ago?A year ago, "General Jiang" was arrested because he did not sincerely fight against Japan, and his subordinates Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng were arrested, so the Xi'an Incident shocked China and the world.Under persecution, China's top leader had no choice but to start advocating resistance to Japan.It has only been one year now, and the anti-Japanese war is burning all over the eastern half of China, but it is a tragic scene of failures! Vautrin was obviously feeling something.This American missionary, who deeply loves China and regards China as her second home, is weeping and lamenting for China's suffering and misfortune. The 13th was the first day the Japanese occupied Nanjing.Almost all the Chinese in Nanjing were stunned that day. They didn't know how the Japanese who entered the city with butcher knives would deal with them, and they didn't know what else they could do?escape?Life is in the hands of others, how to escape?Where are you fleeing to?Where is safe? There is a "safe zone" in the city. Can a dozen foreigners withstand tens of thousands of occupying troops?But in any case, the "safe zone" is safer than your own home!Everyone thought so, so whether it was the common people or the original city defenders, they dragged their families with them, or abandoned their guns and refitted, and fled into the safe zone one after another...including Vautrin and the others' Jinling Girls' School. "This is a girls' school, men are not allowed in!" At first Cheng Ruifang and the others stopped many men with such words, but they couldn't stop them at all.The soldiers seemed to be more afraid of the Japanese soldiers, so many Kuomintang soldiers jumped over the wall into the school without even taking off their clothes. "Hey, you come in like this. If the Japanese soldiers come in and see you later, what will the women and children here do? Isn't everyone safe?" A school worker grabbed two men who were soldiers and yelled stand up. "I beg you, uncle! We really have no place to hide. If we go back to the street, the Japanese will surely cut off our heads. Please! Please..." The Chinese soldiers knelt on the ground, so pitiful. "Let them in! Quickly take off your military uniform!" Vautrin passed by and signaled her workers to let the two soldiers go. "Thank you, thank you Bodhisattva! Thank you Guanyin Bodhisattva!" The soldier immediately kowtowed to Vautrin. Vautrin shook her head.She shook her head because she didn't know how many similar things she had to deal with this day.On this day, Nanjing people only do one thing: run for their lives.Vautrin and the others have to do dozens or even hundreds of things. On this day, she recorded like this: I heard that at 4 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese had already entered the city through Guanghuamen.Heavy artillery bombarded the city gates all night. It is said to be in the south of the city, but I sound like it is in the west of the city.There was also intense gunfire in the city.I didn't sleep much all night.In my half-asleep state, it seemed to me that the Japanese soldiers were chasing and shooting at the retreating Chinese soldiers.For fear of accidents, none of us went to bed with our clothes off. After 5 o'clock, I got up and went to the front gate of the school. Everything was quiet there, but the gatekeeper said that a large number of retreating soldiers passed by the gate, and some of them begged for some civilian clothes.This morning, a lot of uniforms were also found on campus, and our neighbors wanted to come in, but we tried to convince them that if they were in the safe zone, they were as safe as us, and that anywhere in the safe zone should be as safe. This morning, the porridge factory in front of our school finally opened, and we distributed breakfast to each dormitory building in turn according to the order in which the refugees came to the campus.The meal ends at 10:30.We will have dinner again in the afternoon. ... At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, someone told us that there were several Japanese soldiers on the hill to the west.I went to the Nanshan apartment to check, and there were indeed a few Japanese soldiers standing on the top of our "West Hill".Soon, another worker called me, saying that a Japanese soldier had entered our poultry experiment field and demanded chickens and geese.I rushed over immediately and told him with gestures: the chicken here is not for sale. After the heavy shelling and bombing, the city was unusually calm.Three dangers have passed—robbing by soldiers, bombing by planes, and bombardment by artillery—but we face a fourth—our fate lies in the hands of a victorious army.People are very anxious tonight because they don't know what the future holds. 7:30 p.m.The person in charge of the cafeteria reported that Japanese soldiers were occupying a house with rice opposite our school gate.I tried to get in touch with the leader of this group of Japanese soldiers, but to no avail.The guard at the door is so fierce, I really don't want to see him.Later, I met with Chairman Rabe about the matter, and they said they would settle the matter tomorrow, but all agreed that caution must be exercised in dealing with this matter. Tonight in Nanjing there is no electric light, no water, no telephone and telegram, and no newspaper or radio.All of us are indeed separated by an impenetrable zone... This is the island of life. On December 14, the Japanese soldiers in Nanjing City were arresting and killing people everywhere, mainly targeting those Chinese defenders who had not escaped from the city and had put down their weapons and were hiding in various places.Rivers of blood are already flowing everywhere on the street, and the "mopping up" plan formulated by the Japanese army has just begun, and it is directed at the "safe zone" led by Rabe... The people in the "safe zone" didn't know what was happening outside at this time, let alone the Japanese soldiers charging towards them with butcher knives. Vautrin only knew to do what they could. More people came today, and they all escaped from the safe zone, because Japanese soldiers ran to their homes during the day to rob money and rape them.There are quite a few people stabbed to death on the street, this is the case in the safe zone, and even more outside, no one dares to go, most of the stabbed to death are young men.Today, the third floor of No. 500 is also full.At noon, seven soldiers jumped over the bamboo fence behind No. 300. Miss Hua was not there, so we had to let them go...Master Wei sent a letter to Gulou Hospital this morning. If he didn't come back tonight, he might be dragged away by the Japanese army.Many people on the street were dragged away, life and death.The Golden Women's University now has four to five thousand people. This is Cheng Ruifang's diary.She told us that as of the 14th, Jinling Women's College of Arts and Sciences had accepted 4,000 to 5,000 refugees! "I'm so busy! I'm so exhausted!" Cheng Ruifang used these six words to report to Vautrin the working status of the campus that day. But at this time, Vautrin seemed to be more concerned about the major events that were happening outside the campus—the Japanese were massacring Chinese soldiers who had laid down their weapons in Shimonoseki! "Before dawn, there seemed to be heavy artillery bombardment of the city walls again—maybe they were blasting down the roadblocks that prevented the main force of the Japanese army from entering the city, and there were still gunshots from time to time. Maybe the Japanese soldiers were shooting at the retreating Chinese soldiers, or shooting at the robbers. I can still hear the gunshots in the direction of Xiaguan. In my imagination, these bullets were fired at the Chinese soldiers sitting on the crowded sampans, rowing desperately to the north of the river. Poor people, They have almost no chance to escape these relentless bullets." Vautrin's record of the massacres in Xiaguan and other places is by no means her "imagination", and it is obviously only after more than one person who witnessed it told her about it Accurately recorded in her diary. As a foreign missionary who hated war, Vautrin said of the role of women in war: "It seems to me that if everyone is responsible for war, all those who advocate war should volunteer to fight. .Women can serve in hospitals,clothing and comforting the wounded.Even high school girls can make a big difference in the myriad of jobs required to equip and maintain an army.Women can join the military or The Red Cross, or work in social services. When the war is over, women or young people will have a more onerous task, caring for orphans and widows of fallen soldiers, not to mention the honorable task of helping disabled soldiers." She went on to point out: "Those of us who believe that war is a national crime, a crime against the spirit of God's creation. We can dedicate our strength to those innocent victims, to those whose families were burned and looted, Or people who were injured by aircraft or artillery during wartime, helping them recover.” As a benevolent and compassionate female teacher, Vautrin was even more unwilling to see the brutality of the Japanese army against Chinese women. There have been a lot of reports from other parts of the city about Japanese soldiers catching "flower girls" everywhere for rape and gang rape.For this reason, Vautrin angrily told Cheng Ruifang and others: "In our place, the Japanese will never be allowed to do such a thing!" Returning to school from a meeting at the headquarters of the Safety Committee, when Vautrin found out that Japanese soldiers were guarding the gate of her school, she immediately stood at the gate in person, ready to fight resolutely at any time when the Japanese soldiers tried to capture female refugees. "You don't need to stand here!" A Japanese soldier held a gun and picked Vautrin's skirt with the tip of a bayonet, beckoning her to go away. Vautrin did not back down, saying: "This is my school, and I am obliged to keep the gate safe." The Japanese soldiers had no choice but to retreat to the side.But from their eyes, it can be seen that they must be thinking of ways to deal with this difficult American woman. On the 15th, another day when refugees flooded into the campus.In order to prevent accidents, during the ten hours from morning to night, except for the meal time, Vautrin stood at the gate in person, watching the steady stream of refugees walking into the campus.Several groups of Japanese soldiers came, but when they saw this American woman with the Red Cross emblem pinned to her arm sleeve, they had to walk away in despair. The campus is already overcrowded. Vautrin and Cheng Ruifang initially estimated that at least 3,000 new students have entered! "Someone just asks for a place to sit on the lawn, but even that request is difficult for us," Vautrin said. What made her most unacceptable was that countless refugees told her about the misfortune of themselves and their families. Some of them had their husbands killed by Japanese soldiers, or their sons were killed, or they and their daughters were raped or gang-raped by Japanese soldiers... "If God gave me the power, I really want to kill those Japanese soldiers who raped my sister!" Vautrin clasped her hands in anger, and swore to God. "Today is hell, the darkest day I have ever experienced in my life." On the 16th, Vautrin's friend Mr. Fitch came to complain to her.Vautrin replied: "I feel the same way." In her diary on the 16th, Vautrin recorded: ... 10:00 a.m.Jinling Women's Liberal Arts College underwent an official inspection—a thorough search of Chinese soldiers.More than a hundred Japanese soldiers came to the campus and first searched a building.They asked us to open all the doors. If the key was not found for a while, the Japanese were very impatient. One of them had an ax to force the door.When the thorough search began, my heart sank because I knew that upstairs in the offices of the Department of Geography there were hundreds of cotton padded clothes for wounded soldiers made by the Women's Salvation Society.We haven't had time to dispose of these cotton coats yet, and we don't want to burn them, because we know that many poor people are in great need of cotton coats this winter.I took the Japanese soldier to the west room of that dangerous room, the Japanese tried to get in through an adjacent door, but I didn't have the key.Fortunately I took them to the attic where there were more than two hundred women and children, which distracted the Japanese soldiers (we burned all these clothes after dark, and Mr. Chen also put his A gun was thrown into the pond). On two occasions, Japanese soldiers seized our workers and said they were soldiers and wanted to take them away.But I said, "They're not soldiers, they're coolies." They escaped being shot or stabbed to death.They searched all our buildings where refugees lived. Four Japanese soldiers, including a low-ranking officer, wanted something to drink. We took them to Mrs. Cheng's dormitory.At that time, we didn't know that there were 6 machine guns on the campus, and there were many more Japanese soldiers standing guard outside the campus, ready to shoot if anyone escaped.When the most senior officer left, I wrote him a certificate saying that we only had women and children here, which helped us keep the other small groups of Japanese troops out of the school for the rest of the day. Just after noon, a small group of Japanese soldiers came in through the side door of the former infirmary. If I hadn't been there, they would have taken Tang's brother away.Then they went up the road and asked to come in by the laundry door, and I got there just in time.If the Japanese suspect anyone, it will be the same fate as the 4 Chinese tied up behind them.The Japanese took the 4 men to West Hills, where I heard gunshots. Today, all the crimes in the world can be found in this city.Yesterday, 30 female students were taken away from the language school.Today, I heard dozens of tragic stories about the girls who were taken last night, one of them was only 12 years old.The Japanese also robbed food, bedding and money.Mr. Li was robbed of $55.I reckon every door in this city has been opened and robbed repeatedly.Tonight, a car with 8-10 women passed us.As the car drove by, they shouted: "Help! Help!" The occasional gunshots from the streets and hills made me realize the tragic fate of some people, and they were probably not Chinese soldiers.Most of the day, I was guarding the front door or being called to other problems—running off to other parts of the school to deal with the wave after wave of Japanese soldiers entering the campus. Tonight, Mr. Cheng, a worker in our Nanshan apartment, came and said that the lights in the house were all on.我的心一沉，我想一定是被日本兵占据了。我上去后发现，瑟尔·贝茨和里格斯先生昨晚忘记关灯了。 科学楼管理员蒋师傅的儿子今天早上被抓走了，还有一个姓魏的也至今未归。我们想做点什么，但不知如何做。因为城里没有秩序，我不能离开学校。 ……南京今夜成了一个可悲而破碎的空壳，街上空无一人，所有的房子一片黑暗，充满了恐怖。 我不知道今天有多少无辜、勤劳的农民和工人被杀害。我们让所有40岁以上的妇女回家与她们的丈夫及儿子在一起，仅让她们的女儿和儿媳留下。今夜我们要照看四千多名妇女和儿童。不知道在这种压力下我们还能坚持多久，这是一种无以名状的恐怖。 从军事的角度来说，占领南京或许会被认为是日军的一个胜利，但是从道义的角度来看，这是失败，是日本民族的耻辱。这将破坏未来与中国的友好与合作，而且将永远失去今天居住在南京的居民的尊敬。 要是日本有良知的人知道南京发生的一切就好了！oh god!阻止日军凶残的兽性，安慰今天无辜被屠杀者的父母们破碎的心，保护在漫漫长夜中备受威胁的年轻妇女和姑娘吧！愿没有战争的日子早日到来！正如你在天国所为，你也一定会恩泽芸芸众生。 漫漫的长夜里，魏特琳连续数次起来在耶稣像前为她热爱的南京城和留在她校园内的数以千计的妇女孩子们祈祷……同时，她真的很恨日本占领军了。 12月17日这一天，对日本占领军来说，是个“喜庆”日子，他们的最高司令长官松井石根要来了，几万日军在中华门举行隆重的“入城仪式”。然而这一天，对南京市民来说，也是最耻辱的一天。 对魏特琳来说，则是永远耻辱的一天——这一天，她为了保护校园内的姐妹兄弟和孩子们，与日本兵对峙，日本兵打了她耳光，并且不止一次用肢体动作和谩骂来污辱她…… 这一天她的日记写得很长，字字句句都是对日本人一直想抵赖的大屠杀罪行最直接和最有力的控诉： 我7时30分到校门口，给与F.陈在一起的索恩先生捎了个信，红十字会的粥厂必须有煤和米。又有许多疲惫不堪、神情惊恐的妇女来了，说她们过了一个恐怖之夜。日本兵不断地光顾她们的家（从12岁的少女到60岁的老妪都被强奸。丈夫们被迫离开卧室，怀孕的妻子被刺刀剖腹。要是有良知的日本人知道这些恐怖的事实就好了）。但愿这里有人有时间写下每一件可悲的事情，特别是那些抹黑脸庞、剪掉头发的年轻女子的遭遇。看门人说，她们从早上6时30分就开始进来了。 整个上午我都奔波于出现日本兵的大门口、小门、南山和宿舍。今天早饭和午饭时也跑了一两次。数天来，没有一顿饭不被跑来的工人打断：“华小姐，3个日本兵进了科学楼……” 整个下午都在校门口，管理交通，阻止难民的父亲、兄弟和其他携带了食物和日用品的人进入校园。 校园内原有四千多名难民，现在又来了四千多人，食物成了一个非常复杂的问题，因此，我们对进来的人必须谨慎选择。 人群不断拥入，我们简直无法应付。即使有房间，我们也没有足够的力量来管理。我们与金陵大学联系，开放了他们的一个宿舍，他们将派一名外国人在那儿整夜守卫。下午4时～6时，我接受了两大批妇女和儿童。这真是一幅令人心碎的景象：惊恐的年轻姑娘、疲惫的妇女拖儿带女，背着铺盖和衣物，拖着沉重的步履走来。我很高兴我和她们一道走，因为一路上我们遇到了好几批日本兵正在挨家挨户地搜查，他们身上背着各种各样抢来的东西。 好在玛丽·特威纳姆在校园里，因此，我认为我能够离开一会儿。我返回时她告诉我，下午5时，两个日本兵进来，看见草坪中央那面很大的美国国旗，他们把它从旗杆上扯了下来，企图把它带走，但旗帜太重，放在自行车上太累赘，于是就把旗帜扔在科学楼前的一个土堆上。玛丽在配电房找到了他们。当她与他们交涉时，他们脸红了，因为知道自己干了坏事。 我们吃完晚饭时，中央楼的那个男孩跑来说，校园里有许多日本兵正向宿舍走去。我看见两个日本兵在中央楼前推门，坚持要求把门打开。我说没有钥匙，一个日本兵说：“这里有中国士兵，日本的敌人。”我说：“没有士兵。”和我在一起的李先生也说了同样的话。他们打了我一记耳光，也狠狠地打了李先生，坚持要开门。我指了指侧门，把他们带进去。他们在楼上楼下到处看，似乎在找中国士兵，当我们出来时，看到另外两个日本兵绑着我们的3个工人出来。他们说：“中国士兵。”我说：“不是士兵，是工人和花匠。”他们确实是工人和花匠。日本兵把他们带到前面，我也跟着去了。当我到前门时，看到一大批中国人被迫跪在路旁，包括陈先生、夏先生以及我们的一些工人在内。一名日军中士及他手下的一些人在那儿。很快，在日军的押送下，程夫人和玛丽也来了。他们问谁是学校的负责人，我说我是，然后他们让我来指认每一个人。不幸的是，有些新人是最近刚雇来帮忙的，其中有一个人看上去像是一个士兵，他被粗暴地带到路的左边，并被仔细地审查。当我来指认工人时，陈先生开口说话，想帮助我，他被日本兵狠狠地揍了一顿，并被带到路的右边，强迫他跪在那里。 在整个过程中，我们真诚地祈祷，求主保佑。这时一辆车开来，上面坐着菲奇、斯迈思和米尔斯。后来，米尔斯留下来和我们待了一夜。日本兵强迫他们下车站成一排，脱下他们的帽子，并且搜身，检查他们有没有手枪。幸好菲奇和那个中士能说一点法语，那位中士同他手下的人讨论了好几次。起先，他们坚持要求所有的外国人以及程夫人和玛丽离开，当我说这是我的家不能离开时，他们终于改变了主意。随后，他们让男性外国人坐车离开。当这些被抓的人站着或是跪在那里时，我们听到尖叫声和哭喊声，并看见有人从侧门出来，我猜想是日本兵把大批的男性帮工带走了。事后，我们发现了他们的计谋：把负责人困在前门，由三四个士兵假装审查和搜捕中国士兵，而其他人则在大楼里挑选妇女。当这一勾当干完后，日本兵带着陈先生从前门出去，我们肯定再也见不到他了。他们走后，我们还不敢肯定日本兵确已离开，而是以为他们还守在外面，并准备向任何敢动的人开枪。 我永远也不会忘记这一情景：人们跪在路旁，玛丽、程夫人和我站着。枯叶瑟瑟地响着，风在低声呜咽，被抓走的妇女们发出凄惨的叫声。当我们默默地站在那儿时，“大王”过来说，有两名在东院的妇女被抓走了。我们叫他赶快回去。我们为陈先生和其他被抓走的人祈祷，希望他们能够获释，我肯定以前从来没做过祈祷的人，那一夜也做了祈祷。 时间似乎凝固了，在恐惧中我们长时间没敢动，到10时45分，我们才决定离开。看门的杜偷偷地向门外看了看，没有人在那里。他悄悄走到边门，边门似乎也关上了。我们所有的人都站起来，离开了那里。程夫人、玛丽和我到东南宿舍，那里没有人，程夫人的儿媳及所有的孙子都不在了。我被吓坏了，但程夫人平静地说，他们一定和难民们躲到什么地方去了。在她的房间里，东西被翻得乱七八糟，显然是被抢劫过了。接着，我们到了中央楼，程夫人的一家、王小姐、何小姐和布兰奇·邬都在那里。后来，我和玛丽到实验学校，令我吃惊的是，陈先生和罗小姐正静静地坐在我的客厅里。当陈先生告诉我们他的经历后，我想真是奇迹救了他的命…… 这一天，程瑞芳亲眼看到魏特琳被日本兵打耳光，也亲自看到日本兵如何欺负魏特琳的助手陈先生等一幕幕场景。程瑞芳这样写道：“华小姐她是一个美国人，竟然跟我们受一样的罪……”“这种亡国奴的苦真难受，若不是为民族争生存，我要自杀。” 这是一个中国人的呐喊与愤慨。而此刻，我们的“圣母”——魏特琳女士则仍在默默地承受，更加忙碌地安置难民和处理一件件棘手的事。 “一大早，神情惊恐的妇女、年轻姑娘和孩子就潮水般涌了进来。我们只能让她们进来，但没有地方安置她们。我们告诉她们只能睡在露天草地上，不幸的是天气现在冷多了，她们又得忍受另一种折磨和新的痛苦……”魏特琳对拉贝等国际委员会的成员们诉说，她本希望几个男士能帮助她，可人家告诉她：金陵大学等其他地方的人数远远超过了金陵女子文理学院。“拉贝主席的家里，就那么一块手掌大的地方，已经挤了600多人！”有人悄悄对魏特琳说。 魏特琳再无怨言了。只能如此：各管各的事，大家全力以赴，能救多少人就救多少人吧！可怜的中国人！还有可憎的日本人！ “你的，为什么不让我们进去？”魏特琳觉得现在最难对付的就是那些蛮横而粗暴的日本兵。他们时不时地端着枪，跑到学校里来找“花姑娘”。17日晚，就在魏特琳忙于对付一个上楼的日本兵时，另几个日本兵强行从程瑞芳等眼皮底下抢走了11个年轻妇女。 “我的上帝！她们不该去呀！”魏特琳一听就火了。果不其然，第二天早上这11个人只回来了10人，她们个个都低着头，不好意思见人。其中有一个妇女告诉魏特琳，她们全被日本兵奸了一夜，有的人被日本兵轮奸了20多次……“野兽！狗都不如！”魏特琳气得尽量想用最脏的话臭骂这些日本兵。 大概日本兵也知道，金陵女子文理学院里的“花姑娘”最多、最漂亮，因此他们想尽办法、以各种方式进来找“花姑娘”，这让魏特琳忙得不可开交。学校连她只有3个外国女人，日本人除了她们3个外国女的，任何人都别想拦住他们。有一次程瑞芳想挡住一队日本人拖走一名妇女，结果日本兵立即用刺刀顶着她的胸部说：“你的敢挡，将你一起的带走！” “这是美国学校！你们不能如此无理！”只有魏特琳出现时，日本兵才不敢为所欲为。 “我的就要花姑娘！你的走开！”日本兵有时也在魏特琳面前发狠。一次，几个日本兵气势汹汹地用枪刺顶着魏特琳，坚持要带走人和拿走抢劫的东西。 “你们谁敢？！”魏特琳大义凛然地站在原地，一动不动，一双愤怒的大眼睛透过镜片，死死地盯着威胁她的日本兵。 “你的——死啦死啦的！”气急败坏的日本兵举起军刀，直朝魏特琳当头劈下……他们想吓唬她退却，但失败的却是日本兵自己。 魏特琳冷冷地从鼻子里透出一声：“哼！”面不改色地依旧岿然不动。 倒是有一次几个日本兵趁魏特琳她们忙不过来，偷偷翻墙进来，欲对两名妇女实施强暴时，被匆匆赶来的魏特琳喝住后一顿臭骂，骂得那几个日本兵红着脸溜走了。 “不能让日本兵如此无法无天！”18日，魏特琳带着秘书一起跑到日本使馆，向日方外交官提交了日本兵在校园内所犯的暴行记录，并要求日本使馆出面制止日军的劣迹。 魏特琳的一身正气，令日本外交官田中先生也大为感慨道：“使中国人免遭彻底毁灭的唯一原因，就是南京有为数不多的十几位外国人啊！” 可不是，中国人民永远不要忘了一些普通的美国人为我们做了许多我们自己做不到的好事。 逃难的妇女和姑娘仍如潮水般地涌进金陵女子文理学院……压在魏特琳和她团队肩上的担子重如泰山。难民们已经不再把金陵女子文理学院当作一个简单的避难场所了，而是唯一能保护她们贞操与生命的圣地！ 她们和她们的家人，为了进这里，宁可长时间地跪在地上乞求魏特琳她们。“起来！姐妹们起来吧！”魏特琳的心尖阵阵发痛，她甚至一边抹眼泪，一边扶着这些弱女子和她们的孩子，一步一步地引他们走进校园——尽管这个地方她们也只能用自己的肉体抵御日本军队的刺刀和枪炮。 女人伟大。女人不易。天下的女人都有一颗同情的爱心。当她们看到野兽向自己的姐妹施暴时，她们绝对是站在同一战壕的，即使不是一个民族、一个国家的女人。 昨晚又是一个恐怖之夜。许多人跪下请求让她们进来。我们让她们进来了，但不知今夜她们将在何处睡觉。 8时，一个日本人同日本使馆的一位官员一起来了。由于我们已经知道难民的米不够了，我要求他把我带到安全区总部，他同意了。在总部，一辆德国车送我去见索恩先生，他负责大米的分配。他许诺9时把大米送到学校。随后，我坐这辆车回宁海路5号。现在唯一能保护汽车的办法就是有外国人在场。在我走回学校的路上，许多父母亲和兄弟们一再请求我，要我把他们的女儿、姐妹带回金陵女子文理学院。有一位母亲，她的女儿是中华中学的学生，她说，昨天她家被反复抢劫，她已无法保护自己的女儿了。 上午其余的时间，我都从校园的这一边跑到另一边，把一批批的日本人赶走。我去了南山三次，然后又到校园的后面，接着又被急呼到教工楼，据说那里有两个日本兵上了楼。在楼上538房间里，我看见一个家伙站在门口，另一个正在强奸一名姑娘。我的出现和我手上那封日本大使馆的信，使他们慌忙逃走。在我内心深处，我真希望自己有力量把他们揍扁。如果日本妇女知道这些恐怖的事情，她们将会感到多么羞耻啊！接着，我又被叫到西北宿舍，发现两个日本兵正在偷吃饼干。看到我时，他们匆忙离开了……——12月19日的日记里，魏特琳这样写。 日军进城以来，天天都在烧杀抢奸，尤其是一周以后，日军官兵主要犯罪集中在“找花姑娘”过程中的奸杀上。而金陵女子文理学院作为保护妇女和孩子的主要“安全区”点，因此在一周之后仍有大量妇女拖儿带女地涌进这个校区。原本只准备接待200～1000名难民的校园，此刻的难民人数已达万人之上，几乎可以站立的地方都被人占满了，草坪上、道路上……凡是脚能踩着的地方，全被难民挤占了。程瑞芳带的团队是负责难民吃饭问题，一万人一天只吃碗粥，也得有十几只大锅才能满足，哪来那么多米粥，那么多锅？更何况，这些老百姓哪懂什么规矩，一听说有粥饭来了，就争抢着去盛上一碗两碗，结果许多人一天抢不上一碗粥，于是哭的闹的甚至还有抢的。“排队，排队的人才能有供应！”程瑞芳示意难民这样才能确保不乱，确保分配平均。 吃一顿兴许能对付一下。可吃一天、吃十天如何解决呀？魏特琳必须找拉贝主席去协商，结果是：拉贝主席说他那里还有多出十倍的难民也没有解决哪怕一天一碗的食品供应问题！ “难道只能让我们自行解决？”魏特琳真是急了。 拉贝耸耸肩，说：“或许还有一个办法……” 魏特琳忙问：“什么办法？” “找日本人去要！” 魏特琳的眼珠子一下睁大了：“他们？他们会给难民们吃的？上帝，这不等于让羊去问狼你饿不饿一样吗？” 拉贝苦笑地说：“大概就是如此。”末后又说：“不过国际法规定：占领军有义务担当起难民和俘虏的基本生活保障。” 魏特琳摇头表示：“我想日本人才不会管这些呢！” “办法还得自己想：一万多人的吃喝拉还有生病、生孩子都得要我们想办法。”魏特琳知道现在只能靠自己，靠自己的团队。 然而这还不是最要紧的，最要紧的是现在住在金陵女子文理学院的妇女们最担心的就是生命得不到保护。日本人每天进来要“花姑娘”，不从者肯定是死亡，顺从者也有不少是去了回不来的。 “华小姐，快！快快！南山公寓那边又来了几个日本兵正在拉着几个妇女施野呢！” “不得了啦！教师宿舍里怎么也跑进了几个鬼子呀！他们在屋子里就干了起来……” “哎呀呀，华小姐你快去救救她们吧！日本兵又在干坏事了！” 20日一天里，魏特琳像一名四处灭火的消防员，不时被人一会儿拉到南山，一会儿又叫回中央楼……“滚！你们这些不要脸的日本兵！快滚！滚！”每一次魏特琳出面，起淫、动奸的日本兵只得被迫停止犯罪和收敛行为，他们又气又恼，却又不得不赶紧逃跑。日本兵不是怕魏特琳，而是怕她是一个美国人，而且是一个敢于去日本大使馆告状的美国人。也正是因为怕魏特琳的原因，所以金陵女子文理学院四周成百上千的蠢蠢欲动、欲火难抑的日本官兵潜伏在那里，都在伺隙乘虚看着魏特琳不在现场的那一瞬，窜进校园，抓住“花姑娘”就施暴…… “只要我知道，我看见，我就决不会让这帮野兽糟蹋了我的姐妹们！”魏特琳紧握拳头，愤怒地发誓。这也让她每天24小时处在高度紧张的战斗状态之中。 “每天要处理和阻止多少起日军奸淫中国妇女的事？我自己也记不清了！”魏特琳对拉贝主席说，她希望他从其他安全区内调些志愿者“警察”过来帮助维持秩序。拉贝真帮了忙，并且同日本使馆方面交涉后，日方另增派了几个宪兵。哪知这些日本宪兵来后，不仅要吃要喝，而且还顺手牵羊多占“花姑娘”便宜！这让魏特琳更愤怒。“我们宁可自己维护秩序，也不要狼来看护羊群！” 软弱的“羊群”，自发组织起对抗的队伍，同残暴的恶狼斗争，谁胜谁负，似乎十分清楚，然而正是魏特琳的无畏、勇敢和智慧，把一群群贪食强淫的恶狼赶走和吓跑了。这也让“华小姐”的名声在日军占领后的南京城里一传百、百传千，“女人想活命，想不被日本人糟蹋，就找华小姐去”。在如此氛围中，金陵女子文理学院再度成为妇女和孩子们集结的地方——魏特琳“麾下”的难民人数激剧增至两万余人！ 如何照顾和安置如此庞大数量的难民，魏特琳与她的团队超负荷地工作着，现在她们连“忙死、累死”这样的话都没时间顾得上说了。所有工作人员几乎每天都要工作20小时以上，剩下的4小时休息时间里，也会至少被打扰几次。而这并非是魏特琳她们所承担的全部责任。 12月24日那天，日军来了一位高级别的军官，还有一名使馆外交官及一名翻译，他们一起来找魏特琳，提出要让她配合从妇女中挑选100名妓女为日军“服务”。 魏特琳对如此赤裸裸地公开侵犯中国妇女人权的行为表示愤慨，她不同意日方的要求。 但来者不善，而且带着威胁的语气告诉她：“如果为日军安排一个合法的去处，我们的这些士兵就可以减少到你们这儿骚扰。”言外之意是：如果不从，你们金陵女子文理学院休想能安宁。 “妓女干她们的本行，这也无可非议嘛！”翻译悄悄跟魏特琳说。 “那也得她们自愿。”魏特琳毫不客气地回敬道。 “给你一个下午的时间考虑。”那位日军军官显得很傲慢和愤怒地甩下一句话，带人走了。 显然这是下的最后通牒。 这事让魏特琳犯大难了：同意吧，妓女们愿意吗？到日本兵那里，可不是闹着玩的，之前早听说也有妓女跟着日本兵走了，但回来的却很少，不是被他们奸死，就是被他们折腾半死后扔到一边杀死。谁还敢在日本兵那里“吃荤饭”？ 与程瑞芳等商量的结果，认为只能试试而已。后来的结果，如张艺谋的电影里所描述的那样，有21名过去曾经当过职业妓女的妇女站了出来，她们站出来的行为，没有受到其他妇女们的歧视，恰恰相反倍受尊敬，因为她们每站出来一个，就救了另一个良家妇女。魏特琳感激她们。其他所有的难民也感激她们。 第一车被日军拉走的妓女们临走时，金陵女子文理学院的难民们表示了对她们的敬意——起立目送。 还有79人怎么办呢？日本人会不会从其他妇女中挑呀？这是大家所担心的。 程瑞芳很担心发生不测，日本人可不是好惹的。所有的难民都一下陷入了万分惊恐之中。 “只要我在，她们就是安全的！”就在这时，魏特琳站了出来，像女神一样。难民们尤其是那些良家妇女们向她投来无限信任和期待的目光。 “无论如何，华小姐你要救救我们啊！”妇女们依然心惊肉跳地担忧可能发生的可怕一幕。 “请大家相信我。”魏特琳安慰姐妹们。其实，魏特琳自己心里也没有底。她区区一个弱女子，能抵挡疯狂的已被胜利冲昏头脑的日军？ 接下去的每一分钟里，魏特琳觉得自己是被扔在火红的铁板上炙烤——她的神经和心脏绷得极度紧张。 as expected.傍晚前，日军拉人的卡车又来了，说必须要把剩余的“名额”拉走。 “这是不可能的！”魏特琳坚决不同意。 “你敢违抗皇军的命令？”日军蛮横地用枪刺顶着魏特琳的鼻尖。 “不是我敢不敢违抗的问题，而是我们同你们的将军与外交官商定的事——我们只同意你们带走自愿去从事性服务的职业女性。现在这里已经没有这样的人了，我当然不能随意更改同你们长官达成的协议。”魏特琳义正词严道。 日本兵气得不知所措，只得空车而归。 “华小姐太伟大了！”“救命菩萨！”校园内顿时一片欢呼，妇女们围着魏特琳欢呼雀跃，许多人激动得热泪盈眶，甚至痛哭流涕，她们感激魏特琳救了她们，也救了她们的家庭。 战争时期被侵略者占领地区的女人，向来都会碰到格外多的麻烦事。现在，金陵女子文理学院的万余名难民中，不断传来一声声婴儿的啼哭——“今天又新生了两个孩子！”程瑞芳又来向魏特琳报告。程是唯一的护士，她主动承担了这些新生孩子的接生任务。在这乱成一团的难民营里，妇女生孩子是件最麻烦和头痛的事。 “一定要千方百计让孩子和母亲都健康地活下来！”魏特琳这样对程瑞芳说，“即使全校只有半碗粥了，也要留给产妇和婴儿喝……” “我明白。”程瑞芳点点头，事实上她一直在这样做。 魏特琳一生没结婚，可她却有一颗天下最好的母亲之心。只要有空，她一定去看一看新生婴儿及产妇，让工作人员尽量照顾好她们。可惜