Chapter seven hundred and forty seventh evil deeds
The grain collection teams sent by the Japanese made every village miserable. Faced with the heavy task of paying grain, every household looked sad.
The common people work hard all their lives digging for food in the fields, and food is their lifeblood. Having food makes them feel at ease, at least they will not go hungry.
But now that the Japanese wanted them to hand over their food, they were reluctant to do so, but faced with the bright bayonets of the Japanese, they had no choice but to hand it over.
The common people felt filled with grievances at the thought of handing over the grain they had worked so hard to grow to the Japanese.
But they are unarmed people. What can they do if they don't hand over food? The Chinese Communist Party has retreated to the New South area, and the guerrillas are nowhere to be found. Even the big local households have defected to the Japanese. They are now helpless.
The road leads to nowhere.
"Master, if we hand over the food, what will we eat in the future..."
In the impoverished villager's home, Sister-in-law Zhang looked at the man squatting there and sighing constantly, and couldn't help but wipe her tears.
"Oh, but if we don't hand it over, the man named Liu will definitely not let us go, and he won't even be able to save our lives." Thinking of Liu Liang's ruthless, skinny man, he couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.
"How about we run away and go to Anhui to join our relatives."
"I heard that there's a war going on over there too, and the dead are piled up in piles. Why don't we go there and die?" The man said with a sad face: "Besides, those two goons have blocked the way out of Zhuangzi, so we can't get out.
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"Then what should we do? If we don't have food, we will starve to death. How can we survive this winter..." Sister-in-law Zhang said in tears.
"Hand over the food first. I know how to fish. You can go find some wild vegetables when the time comes. Let's make do with it first. If it doesn't work, we can go find the man named Liu and get some food back on credit."
Thinking that they would have no food to eat in the next period of time, they felt very aggrieved.
"It would be great if the guerrillas came back, then we would have food to eat..."
Sister-in-law Zhang suddenly misses the time when the guerrillas distributed food to them.
"Stop talking about it. This matter must be kept in your stomach. If that man named Liu knows that the guerrillas share his food with us, then we will suffer." The man hurriedly stopped the woman.
"Pah! Pah!"
Just as they were hiding in the room talking, suddenly there were two crisp gunshots outside Zhuangzi, making them raise their heads involuntarily.
"Stay here and don't move. I'll go take a look." The man said and walked towards the door cautiously.
Sister-in-law Zhang hurriedly whispered worriedly: "Master, don't go out."
"I know." The man said, walking to the yard and looking out through the crack in the door.
Soon, I saw several puppet soldiers dragging two villagers who were covered in blood and whose life and death were unknown from outside the village. A long blood streak was dragged out on the dirt.
When the man saw the faces of the two people being dragged, he was shocked and hurriedly turned around and returned to the house.
"Master, what's wrong?" Sister-in-law Zhang asked hurriedly and concernedly when she saw the pale man.
"The couple from the Zhou family next door were beaten to death. What a crime..."
Soon, there were puppet troops beating gongs and drums outside and shouting: "Everyone, go to the grain drying field, come over! Vice President Liu has something to say!"
The puppet soldiers were beating gongs and shouting, and soon the people from every household were walking towards the grain drying field in fear, where the puppet soldiers and Japanese soldiers had been waiting for a long time.
The Zhou family couple, whom they usually saw without looking up, were hanging with a rope from a big tree next to the grain drying field, covered in blood. The blood was still dripping down, but they were already dead.
Seeing this scene, the people who had originally considered escaping from Xiaowangzhuang were so frightened that they did not dare to look at the hanging Zhou family couple.
Liu Liang, the vice-president of the Maintenance Association, changed into a clean robe and was still standing on the slightly higher earth platform, but his face was as gloomy as the sky shrouded in dark clouds.
"Listen to me, the Zhou family is toasting without eating and being punished with alcohol. They don't want to pay for food, and they want to escape. Then it's no wonder that I'm ruthless. They asked for this!"
Although Liu Liang's voice was shrill, it resounded in the ears of every villager, causing many people to tremble uncontrollably. They did not expect that Liu Liang could really kill someone.
"See, this is what you will get if you resist the imperial army and don't hand over food. I know there are still some of you who want to escape, but I tell you, stop dreaming, it's just a dead end!" Liu Liang threatened with a stern voice.
Although the weather was not very cold, the villagers who gathered on the grain drying field were in the ice cave, their faces full of panic, fear, frustration, and ashen faces.
"I still say what I said, just hand over the food obediently and everything will be fine. If you don't hand over the food, then you are opposing the imperial army and the construction of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. You are a sinner! Unforgivable!"
Facing the arrogant Liu Liang, the villagers dared not speak out in anger at this moment, and wanted to rush forward and beat him to death. However, facing the Japs and puppet troops with loaded ammunition around them, they had to bow their heads.
"Squad leader Feng, starting from today, you will go door to door to collect food for me. If you don't have enough food, you can use it as collateral, including pigs, dogs, cattle, and sheep. If you can't get it out, you will be detained and sent to the town to build the turret!"
Seeing these trembling villagers, Liu Liang also took off his disguise and revealed his ugly face.
"yes!"
The squad leader of the puppet army showed excitement and asked them to go door to door to collect food. This was equivalent to giving them an opportunity to make a fortune. Why weren't they excited?
Soon, the puppet troops started from the east side of Xiaowangzhuang, breaking down the doors of every house and collecting more than 2,000 kilograms of grain.
"Boss, boss, we really can't get it out."
Faced with a huge amount of food, although the Huaihe River area is a land of plenty, the people's fields are not much, and most of them are in the hands of landlords. Therefore, their food is only enough for food and clothing for a year. How can they get two thousand yuan at a time?
That’s a lot of kilograms of food.
"It's easy to deal with the lack of food. Let me take away all the chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs. You go to the house and take a look. All valuable things are also taken away and mortgaged!"
The puppet squad leader waved his hand, and the wolf-like puppet soldiers rushed into the house and began to rummage through the boxes and cabinets looking for valuable things to stuff themselves.
And some puppet soldiers began to catch pigs and cows in the pig pens, causing chaos and chaos in the people's homes.
"Boss, please, we can't plow the land without cattle..." Watching the puppet army take away the old scalper, the male owner of the family hugged the puppet army's thigh and kept pleading.
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"Fuck you, old man! If you don't drink the toast, you'll have to drink it as a penalty!" The puppet soldier was hugged by the thigh, and he immediately became fierce, swung the butt of his gun and smashed it down.
"Ah!" The gun was pushed down hard, hitting the man's head so hard that his head was bleeding, and he fell to the ground wailing.
"The boss, the boss!" Seeing her man being hit, the woman hurriedly rushed over, crying.
However, these puppet soldiers who acted as minions of the Japanese army could not control so much. After looting the entire house, they went straight to the next house in a show of force.
The entire Xiaowangzhuang was in chaos and wailing. Faced with these things that were worse than bandits, the homes of the unarmed people were in a mess, and many people were injured.