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Chapter 30 The Road Home

Chapter 30

road home

In Heilongjiang, a farmer hit the sorghum hanging from the eaves, and a big snake bit his fist.

In Shijiazhuang, a teacher yawned in the theater, and a gecko fell into his mouth.

In Zhejiang, an actor was humming a song while walking on a path. There was a toad squatting in the middle of the road. He stepped over it.

Extra actor Yang Xiaofan accidentally stepped on two rope traps. His feet were trapped and pulled into the air. He died miserably.

The role that Yang Xiaofan plays most is a Japanese soldier. He has no lines and has to "die" several times a day. Yang Xiaofan sometimes exchanges acting skills with his friends. He said that the more clumsy and clumsy he plays a Japanese soldier, the more the director likes him. He has to bend down when he goes into the village to raid.

When walking, you should have a salivating expression when you see the flower girl and the chickens and ducks in the village. When fighting, you must panic and run away. In short, you must show the mentally retarded side of the Japanese.

My friend said that we have been beaten by such a group of mentally retarded and idiots for more than 8 years. Aren’t we even more...

There were many heroes and heroic figures in the Chinese soldiers in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and many touching stories.

Regardless of the Kuomintang or the Communist Party, all soldiers who fight on the battlefield to defend the dignity of the motherland deserve respect.

During the Hundred Regiments War, an Eighth Route Army soldier asked a fellow villager to send a letter to his father. There was no text in the letter, only a few corn seeds. That year, the father and his son prepared to plant corn in the fields, but the son did not come back.

He died on the battlefield and only a few corn seeds were sent home.

The Japanese army attacked Zhongtiao Mountain, and the 31st Army of the National Army blocked 100,000 Japanese troops from the northwest at the cost of 27,000 killed, changing the entire war situation. Eight hundred soldiers from Shaanxi were forced to the edge of the cliff by the Japanese army and ran out of ammunition and food.

They faced Shaanxi, knelt down to the sky, then knelt down to their parents, sang Qin opera, and would rather die than surrender and jump into the rolling Yellow River.

According to an old man's recollection, those lines of Qin opera were sung like this:

Lianglangshan, Lianglangshan, Zhan Hu'er! The earth is shaking, good man, why should you fear life and death for the sake of the country!

He Weiguo could never forget that early morning when he left his mother and his village.

A 14-year-old boy carried a load to plow the fields, but was captured by the Japanese to build a gun tower. After he escaped in the middle of the night, the village had been destroyed by the war, and he did not dare to go home. He happened to encounter a group of defeated Kuomintang soldiers.

I cried and followed the team all the way. Later, I joined the army and fought in the war. From then on, I lived in Taiwan for decades, drifting all my life... and I could never go home again.

When he was fleeing, the child had been starving. When the troops stopped to eat, they would give him some. Most of the time, he had to pick up the leftovers. The Japanese army frightened him, and he only knew that he would be safe with the troops.

, he kept walking, not knowing where he was. In a county town, he picked up a map of China. Every time he walked, he drew a circle on it. These circles were connected together to form an escape route map.

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One day, an officer said to him: "Son, why are you always following us? You can leave and go home."

He Weiguo said: "My house was burned down by the Japanese."

The officer said: "If the Japanese burn your home, you must kill the Japanese."

He Weiguo said: "I want a gun."

The officer said: "Take this gun and you will be a soldier. You must fight for me until the last moment."

Later, He Weiguo found out that this officer was Sun Liren. Artillery fire roared, bullets roared, the war was over, residential areas were built on the craters, bullets rotted in the soil, and wild flowers grew on them. He Weiguo went to Taiwan with the army. He was mentally ill.

Even though I was confused during those years spent in the hospital, there are some details about my home that I can never forget.

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If you get close to his mouth, you can hear clearly what he is saying: loofah, pond, pomegranate...

He still remembered that the earthen walls of the old house were covered with loofahs with yellow flowers in bloom, there was a stone mill in the yard, and the paper on the window lattice was cracked. During his childhood, he always wore a torn cotton jacket and scratched the earthen walls.

Go up, look at the frozen pond outside the door, and the old locust tree beside the pond. His mother, wearing patched trousers, walked under the locust tree and thrust a grinning pomegranate into his hand.

That was the last memory of his mother, and he still remembered his mother's expression and actions at that time.

No one knows why, during the Mid-Autumn Festival one year, when this veteran in the mental hospital looked at the pomegranates and moon cakes on the table, he suddenly shed tears and howled like a child.

Some memories will not be forgotten as time goes by. On the contrary, they become clearer as time goes by, just like the crescent moon by the window, which always brings back memories of the past.

After He Weiguo recovered and was discharged from the hospital, he often attended veterans' gatherings. The themes of the gatherings were basically telling the same stories. Regarding the war, those Taiwanese veterans were not willing to talk much about the war. Most of the topics were the nostalgia for their hometown.

Hometown is a word that haunts the soul. Only wanderers outside can deeply understand what hometown is.

Due to historical reasons and the advanced age of these veterans, many of them cannot return home. Burying me in my hometown is the last wish of many Taiwanese veterans. There is an 83-year-old veteran who suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

He lost his ability to speak and sat on a wooden chair all day long. The only word he could say was: go home. His last wish was to scatter his ashes in the wheat field of his hometown.

After the opening of cross-strait navigation, there was a hometown gathering. A veteran visiting relatives returned from the mainland and brought three kilograms of soil.

The expressions on the faces of many veterans looked very nervous. Everyone sat together like primary school students. No one spoke, and no one even gasped loudly. They seemed to be participating in a solemn ceremony, and each person was given a spoonful of soil. Some veterans

Treat the soil as a treasure and lock it in a safe; some veterans put the soil in a teapot and drink it.

It is difficult to leave their homeland, and perhaps they will never be able to set foot on their hometown again in this life.

In order to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, after consultation between the relevant departments on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, a group of veterans of the Kuomintang Expeditionary Force were invited to come to the mainland to participate in activities. When they were young teenagers at the time and now old people in their twilight years, these veterans of the expeditionary force went through a

The train station was extremely small. There were people in the waiting room in twos and threes. There were farmers going out to work, students studying, couples traveling, and civil servants on business trips. The receptionist held up a banner - "Welcome the Expeditionary Forces Home."

!" When a group of old and gray-haired veterans appeared, applause came from nowhere in the waiting room. The applause was lonely at first, but then everyone stood up, smiled, and applauded!

The veteran's expression is even a little shy, and the veteran's white hair is a real honor.

He Weiguo was also one of them. Being invited to visit the mainland this time strengthened his determination to return to the mainland and settle down.

When he returned home, before he even set foot on his homeland, he knelt down and cried bitterly because of his heartache. Time had changed his appearance and taken away his relatives from the mainland... His original home was long gone.

Many years ago, he carried a burden. He was still young when he went out, but he was old when he came back.

In his life, he was lonely and lonely, like a dandelion in the wind and rain.

When He Weiguo was working at the cemetery, some Taiwanese veterans had nowhere to place their ashes, so they had to entrust him to bury them here. The homes of those Taiwanese veterans in the mainland are no longer there, and some can't even find their villages.

This loneliness

The old man often muttered to himself and was in a trance. He would be in a daze for a long time and say to the fallen leaves:

"Father, mother, brother, and my comrades, you are all waiting for me below."

The actors wearing Japanese soldier costumes and the faint sound of artillery fire at the nearby shooting scene made the veteran insane and relapsed. The trauma of the past could not be erased, and his memory returned to the period of the Anti-Japanese War. This kind of mental disorder

The state made him mistakenly believe that he was still on the battlefield. He killed an innocent man, made a bow and arrow to hide outside the gun tower, and shot another actor who spoke Japanese. Finally, he grabbed a pistol and hid in a cave

, making the final resistance.

At that time, the bearded director wanted to film the scene of rounding up veterans, but was driven away by armed police officers and soldiers.

Director Chen said: "Are you pretending to be a reporter? What are you causing trouble?"

The bearded director said: "So many people can't catch anyone. It's really stupid. Do you want to keep guarding the entrance of the cave so that the veteran can't bear the hunger and run out, and then catch him? But I see that cave

There may be snails, frogs, snakes, etc., and a veteran can hide there for months without any problem."

Two armed policemen confiscated the bearded director's camera and walked down the mountain on his arm.

The bearded director said: "Wait a minute, I have a way to get the veterans to come out."

Director Chen asked: "What can we do?"

The bearded director said: "We have a special actor on the crew who looks a lot like Sun Liren. Isn't this veteran a subordinate of Sun Liren? We can let our special actor wear Sun Liren's old military uniform and order him to come out to receive instructions. As long as

When he comes out of the cave, you go up and catch him."

The situation was critical at that time. He Weiguo had a gun in his hand and was in the dark. In order to avoid casualties, the armed police officers did not choose to enter the cave and arrest him by force. Although the method provided by the bearded director was a bit absurd, it was necessary to try it. The special actor quickly

He put on his clothes and arrived at the scene. He stood in front of the cave and shouted, asking He Weiguo to put down his weapons and walk out of the cave.

There was silence in the cave. After a long time, a word came from inside: "Password?"

The password is a military code used to identify ourselves and the enemy. The special actor spread his hands helplessly. No one knows which battle in the Anti-Japanese War He Weiguo's memory is in, and what the military password was in that battle at that time.

The trap plan failed.

When it got dark, a group of armed police officers quietly sneaked into the cave with night vision equipment and planned to make a surprise arrest. However, they were stubbornly blocked by the old man He Weiguo. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, the armed police officers and soldiers chose to retreat in time. Next, after research and discussion, the command

The Ministry proposed four options: first, flooding, pouring water into the cave and drowning the criminal; second, smoke, but it is impossible to know whether there are air holes in the cave; third, blasting, but the cave cannot be conquered for a long time and explosives cannot be placed

; Fourth, fire attack.

Su Mei said: "Aren't these four plans the way the Japanese used to treat the fellow villagers in the tunnels?"

Bao Zhan said: "It's really ironic. The old uncle is a hero who fights Japanese devils."

Hualong said: "Is there any room for relaxation? Our country's laws stipulate that mentally ill patients are not criminally responsible."

Professor Liang said: "He is a mad man with a gun in his hand. He has killed one person and seriously injured two people. If he is released, he will continue to harm society, so we can only..."

The scene was at a stalemate.

While everyone was arguing about how to deal with this veteran who had lost his mind, "bang", a gunshot came from deep inside the cave. Bao Zhan shouted "no" and rushed into the cave entrance to take a look.



The veteran's last bullet was reserved for himself.


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