The Xueba system takes me back to when I was six years old

Sitting in the car, Ye Jin was bored and started browsing VB. She was browsing casually as usual, but for some reason she suddenly clicked on the private message interface.

A wide range of messages in the private messages instantly came into view: some were enthusiastic fans expressing their love for Ye Jin's work; others were people from all over the world who actively submitted their works to her to share their beautiful hometown.

However, just as Ye Jin was about to quickly skip over these private messages, one special message caught her attention. This private message was like a sharp sword, piercing Ye Jin's heart directly, causing ripples in her originally calm state of mind.

After reading the long essay and watching the video, Ye Jin couldn't calm down for a long time.

So, during this time in the car, Ye Jin asked Xiaoliu to help search for some specific information related to it and carefully integrate them.

The mass graves at the coal mines in City D (Datong, Shanxi Province) contain the following sentence in the short essay submitted: "Everyone knows about the massacre in City N (Nanjing), but few know about the mass graves at the coal mines."

Ye Jin was no exception. She had never heard of the term "mass grave in coal mines".

Perhaps you have heard of it at some inadvertent moment, but the narrator only mentioned it briefly at that time without giving much explanation, so that it disappeared deep in your memory like a passing cloud.

When people mention S Province (Shanxi), the first thing that comes to mind is coal mining and the wealthy coal bosses. However, behind D City in S Province lies a painful history.

According to the contributor, when she set out on the road to the D City Coal Mine Mass Grave Site Memorial Hall, she was surprised to find that the place was deserted and almost deserted.

She couldn't help wondering: Was it because she came at a bad time? Or was it really because few people knew about this place? In any case, she was the only one in the entire memorial hall that day, as if time had stopped at that moment.

The R army robbed 1400 million tons of coal and lives here. Their average age was no more than years old, and the youngest was only seven or eight years old.

There is a mountain next to the memorial hall, on which there are countless blank monuments, "There are no people on the mountain, and there are people everywhere on the mountain."

During the R army's occupation of City D, they brutally plundered City D's coal resources and captured men from many areas and tricked them into working as laborers in the coal mines of City D.

Miners worked hard for more than ten hours a day in extremely harsh conditions in mines, and countless laborers died from torture.

After the death of the laborers, their bodies were thrown into the wilderness, resulting in "mass graves" filled with bones. Among them, the Nangou Mass Grave accounted for the deaths of more than 60,000 miners, making it the largest mass grave in D City.

During the eight years that the R army occupied the coal mines in City D, they implemented a policy of "exchanging people for coal", plundering 8 million tons of coal and causing more than 1400 miners to be tortured to death. On average, one person died for every 6 tons of coal produced.

There are 14 relatively complete existing large "mass graves", including the Nangou "mass grave" of Meiyukou Mine, which consists of two holes, the upper hole is 6.7 meters wide and more than 40 meters deep; the lower hole is 4.5 meters wide and more than 70 meters deep.

There were piles of corpses in the cave, some with broken legs, some with broken spines, some with pierced heads, and some were in a crawling posture towards the cave entrance.

The miners mined coal under the surveillance of the R country's gendarmerie, mining police, secret agents, and foreign dog teams. They worked underground for 12 to 16 hours a day and drank dirty water from the mine when they were thirsty or hungry.

When something unusual happened in the mine, they still forced people to go down. When an accident happened, they only grabbed the machines but didn't save people.

In 1938, water gushed out from the No. 9 face of the Meiyukou Mine, but Bandit R still forced the workers to go down the mine. As a result, groundwater rushed out and trapped more than 120 people underground for 15 days. All of them starved to death except for 8 people.

In June 1941, the unsupported Baidong West Mine was about to collapse, but more than 6 people were still forced to go down to dig coal. As a result, the roof collapsed and they were all crushed to death.

In the spring of 1943, the No. 4 coal mining face in the south of Xinzhou Mine collapsed, crushing eight workers. One of them was half exposed but still alive. The R army on the scene hacked the worker to death with a knife and told the others to dig out the machines.

Miners get a meal card every day when they come out of the mine, which is equivalent to 5 cents in counterfeit currency, only 15 yuan a month, while the salary of a small foreman is over 100 yuan.

They ate steamed bread, black bean cakes and moldy "Xingya noodles". More than 110 people slept in a mud house that was more than 30 meters long and four or five meters wide, covered with sacks and cement paper bags.

If they were sick, they were not given medicine. If they could not stand up, they were carried by corpse-carrying teams and thrown into "mass graves". If they were suspected of having infectious diseases, they were sent to "burning grounds" and burned to death before they could even breathe their last.

The wild wolves and dogs in City D are extremely fat because they were fed fat in the "mass graves".

The R army attempted to cover up the truth at the time, destroyed all relevant information, and flatly denied its crimes.

However, they had never expected that on top of those piles of bones were copper coins and bills minted by the R Army themselves. These ironclad evidences became irrefutable proof of the crime!

Not only that, the contributor also attached a video she took when she went to the memorial hall. After watching it carefully, Ye Jin was deeply moved, so she integrated the contributor's words with her own feelings, compiled them into an article and published it to the public.

巧合的是，今日是8月15日。叶矜在文章末尾特别注明：“1945 年8月15日R 国无条件投降。”

She couldn't help but feel deeply moved. For her, this period of history, both in her past and present lives, was like a mysterious door that had just opened.

Each of us should face history bravely. If even we ourselves choose to turn a blind eye, how can we expect the invaders to face up to the past?

When they arrived, Xiao Li looked at Ye Jin's slightly red and swollen eyes, and a trace of concern surged in his heart. He whispered softly and carefully, "What happened? You look like you've been crying..."

Ye Jin took a deep breath, trying to calm the waves in his heart, and replied in a slightly low voice: "Just now... I saw a post on Weibo, and I felt a little heavy. You can also go and take a look."

After that, she raised her finger and pointed at the screen of her mobile phone, indicating Xiao Li to follow the blogger named "Little Sun" and told him to pay attention to the blogger's latest updates.

Although Xiao Li had some doubts, he still nodded and said that he would do as Ye Jin said, "Okay, I understand. I will check it out as soon as I get back."

After receiving the response, Ye Jin said a simple goodbye to Xiao Li and turned to leave, walking towards a nearby convenience store.

Entering the store, she picked up a popsicle, hoping that it would help her red and swollen eyes return to normal as soon as possible.

After waiting for a while and seeing the redness around his eyes gradually fade away, Ye Jin finally felt relieved and walked towards Yang Zhenyu's home.