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"Actually, after the Guangzhou bombing in 1938, Grandpa Rong transferred most of his property to Hong Kong and overseas, where his second son, third son and daughter took care of it."

In a ward in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Eden sat in a chair and described: "In 1941, after he took Rong Jinzhi's wife back to Guangzhou, he had already contacted the maternity hospital run by the Church of England in Hong Kong, and wanted to take her to Guangzhou. He was sent to be taken care of by his second daughter-in-law and third daughter-in-law. However, the eldest and youngest wife’s health was too weak, and she almost had a miscarriage after returning to Guangzhou. Mr. Rong was afraid that the boat would be bumpy, and he would not be able to face the danger of returning home in the future. My son was withdrawn from the ward in Hong Kong, and I stayed with my old wife in Guangzhou to accompany the delivery.”

The long-term turbulent life in the battlefield destroyed the health of the youngest grandmother, especially after she became pregnant. She was in fear all day long, fainted several times on the way back to the south with her father-in-law, and often dreamed that her husband was escorted to the execution ground and died under the Japanese bayonet.

Fortunately, Mrs. Rong is an open-minded person, and he is not harsh on his eldest son's choice of such a difficult life path. On the contrary, he fully supports him and takes good care of his daughter-in-law.After winter, news finally came from Hong Kong that Rong Jinzhi arrived in Hong Kong safely, but because Guangzhou had fallen and the Japanese army was rampant, he dared not return home publicly for the time being.

The eldest grandma finally felt relieved, and the old man Rong breathed a long sigh of relief. He decided to wait for his daughter-in-law to give birth and bring the whole family to Hong Kong to reunite with his eldest son.

However, bad luck always seems to accompany this precarious family. On December 1941, 12, the bad news came and Hong Kong fell.

Rong Jinzhi's son was born, but what greeted this little baby was the coldest winter in southern China.

The three sons of the Rong family were trapped in Hong Kong, the business closed down, and their assets were seized and seized by the Japanese army. Only the daughter was doing business in the UK at the time, and has not been affected yet.The old man Rong turned gray overnight, and used all channels to contact Rong Jinzhi, asking them to try to go to England to reunite with his sister.After discussing with the two younger brothers, Rong Jinzhi decided to let the third brother go to England with the remaining cash and promissory notes, and he and the second brother went back to Guangzhou to take care of their parents, wife and children, and then tried to go abroad from the mainland.

At the turn of winter and spring, Rong Jinzhi and his second brother split into two groups, one by land and the other by water, and took advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese army to repatriate the refugees from Guangzhou to go to their long-lost hometown.

"He didn't come back, did he?" Levi had almost guessed the rest of the story, "Rong Jinzhi, I remember this name, it should be the father of great-grandfather, right?"

"Do you remember this?" Eden was a little surprised, then nodded and said, "Yes, he is my great-grandfather, your great-great-grandfather."

"Did he die in Nanshitou Correctional Center on the bank of the Pearl River?"

Eden was silent for a while, and said: "Yes, no one thought at that time that the waterway leaving Hong Kong does not lead to Guangzhou, but to hell."

After the fall of Hong Kong, resources were scarce, and the Japanese army began to repatriate the Guangzhou people who had fled to Hong Kong since 1938.Some refugees traveled by water, that is, the "official" route organized by the Japanese army, while some did not trust the Japanese army and chose to "smuggle" back by land.

At that time, Rong Jinzhi didn't know which road was safer, so he and his second brother each chose a road so that the two brothers would not all die.

A few months later, the second brother went through untold hardships and returned to Guangzhou by land at the cost of losing an arm. Rong Jinzhi, who never saw anyone alive or dead, never appeared in this world again.

Zong Ming remained silent until this moment when he opened his mouth: "According to the data, Hong Kong had a population of 150 million before the fall of the Japanese occupation, and it became more than 60 at the end of the Japanese occupation. Of the 80 people who decreased, nearly 20 were Guangzhou refugees. Most of them mysteriously disappeared on the way to be repatriated."

"Yes." Eden glanced at his indescribable daughter-in-law...son-in-law...son-in-law—forget it whatever—and said, "Rong Jinzhi is one of them."

"How did you know that he was imprisoned in Nanshitou Correctional Center?" Levi's suddenly recalled the scenes he had frequently dreamed about, and he said, "It's strange, I seem to often dream about the scenes of refugees being repatriated, the Pearl River, the galleon, the stone The wall, the sun flag... why, why am I dreaming of this? It's like seeing it with my own eyes!"

"Because you have indeed seen it with your own eyes." Eden sighed and said, "Let me continue to finish this story."

In the spring of 1942, the second young master of the Rong family returned to Guangzhou. After many inquiries, he could not find his brother's whereabouts.Old Master Rong reluctantly decided to move his family away. In case the eldest son suffered misfortune, at least he would keep his only child.

The family in the flames of war is extremely miserable, but also extremely united. The second youngest of the Rong family supports his father to take his mother and sister-in-law to seek refuge in the UK, but he once promised his elder brother to go home together. Now that Rong Jinzhi has not returned, he cannot leave .

Brotherly love is deep, and Mrs. Rong couldn't hold back his second son, so he had to agree with him to stay alone and wait for his elder brother, and lead the whole family across the ocean to England to reunite with his third son and daughter.

The group drifted on the sea for several months, and finally arrived in England after a lot of hard work. Unexpectedly, the Nazi war had already burned there, and the situation in Britain began to deteriorate.

If things go on like this, the entire family will be defeated before the battle is over. Grandpa Rong made many plans and decided to develop in the relatively stable United States at that time.In order not to put all eggs in one basket, he and his old wife took away the eldest daughter-in-law and the youngest grandson, and left the pair of children in the UK to continue looking for opportunities to stand up.

Since then, the entire Rong family has been divided into three branches. The old man of Rong took root in the United States with the line of Rong Jin. Civil war, ten years of catastrophe, became a part of new China.

For more than half a century since then, these three groups have developed independently, and with the turbulent situation and the dilution of blood, they have completely lost contact. The group that stayed in the United States changed its surname to "Reeves" and became a standard American citizen.

"So, we are the descendants of Rong Jin, and your great-grandfather was the only son of the Rong family." Eden said, "I didn't know much about the past of the family. It's over, he only heard some fragments from Mrs. Rong's mouth, and very few of them were relayed to me."

After a pause, his eyes became serious, and he said softly: "I really understand these things, and I know that the suffering and hatred our Rong family endured was after we married your mother."

Eden met Levi's mother, Li Zhen, in high school. Because of their similar blood and similar personalities, the two quickly developed a good impression of each other.After being admitted to the same university, they fell in love immediately and stuck together like glue.

The most direct consequence of frequent dating is that Li Zhen is pregnant.At that time, Eden was only 21 years old and had just been admitted to the graduate school of business school.

Both the Reeves family and the Li family maintain certain Chinese traditions. Now that they have a child and love each other so much, the parents of both parties held a wedding for them logically.After the honeymoon, the newlyweds moved out of the student dormitory and rented a small apartment to build a small home. Eden's father packed all his son's books and toys from childhood to adulthood and sent them to him.

Speaking of this, Eden suddenly stopped, lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes, as if he was trapped in some kind of deep memory.

Zong Ming waited for a while, then opened a can of coffee and handed it over.Eden seemed to be awakened by him, raised his eyes and said "thank you", and continued: "When I was packing the things my father sent me, I found a small wooden box. Inside the box was a bundle of letters wrapped in oiled paper. I was afraid that it was an important document, so I called my father and asked if I wanted to send it back, but he said that it was left to me by my grandfather and specified that I should inherit it, so no one else in the family has ever opened it, including himself. Inside."

Levi's heart moved, and some vague pictures flashed in his mind.

Eden took a sip of coffee and said hoarsely, "That's Rong Jinzhi's diary, to be precise, it's "Notes on Nanshitou Concentration Camp" co-authored by him and a reporter named Yu Hua."

At the beginning of 1942, Rong Jinzhi took a three-yoke sailboat with a red circle painted on the bow, commonly known as "big-eyed chicken" to Guangzhou from the waterway. Before landing, he was detained by the Japanese army stationed in Guangzhou in the name of "quarantine". South Stone Correctional Facility.

A young reporter, Yu Hua, was also detained together with him.

Yu Hua is also from Guangzhou. After graduating from middle school, she worked for Hong Kong's "Shen Bao".He carried a camera with him, took pictures all the way, and recorded everything that happened along the way after the "big-eyed chicken boat" set off from Hong Kong.And Rong Jinzhi has the habit of keeping a diary. He has nothing to do on the boat and writes a lot of what he saw along the way and his own memories.

One loves to shoot and the other loves to write, and they cherish each other, and gradually become good friends.

After entering the Nanshitou Correctional Center, they were divided into the same prison cell, and they jointly witnessed and recorded the brutal atrocities committed by the "8604th Unit" against the returning refugees.

It was also there that Rong Jinzhi met his former student, Ito Hikaru.

Ito Hikaru was influenced by extreme militarism at that time, and became completely unreasonable. He first tried to persuade Rong Jinzhi to serve in the 8604th wave unit, but after being rejected, he threatened him to expose his Communist Party identity and send him to the Northeast. on trial.

Rong Jinzhi never surrendered, or even despaired. After he was imprisoned in the concentration camp, he realized that these refugees might not be able to get out. The Japanese army probably never planned to send them back to Guangzhou from the beginning to the end. The reason why they used "repatriation" In the name of driving them out of Hong Kong, it was just to relieve the pressure of survival on Hong Kong Island, and by the way, to provide a large number of experimental living bodies to the 8604th Unit of the wave.

When he thinks of his desperate family and his infant son, his heart hurts like a knife.He tried to escape with the refugees, but there were a large number of Japanese troops stationed here, and the guards were extremely strict, and there was no chance of contacting the outside world, let alone escaping.

His only hope is Ito Hikaru.

He was familiar with this young medical student, and they often drank together when they were in the medical department. He believed that this young man who had vowed to cure diseases and save lives was not completely devoid of humanity, and as long as he tried to wake him up from extreme militaristic thoughts, he could help refugees escape South Stone Concentration Camp.

"He succeeded?" Reeves recalled Ito Kenta's story. Ito Hikaru was finally sent back to the mainland for trial because of refugees fleeing, and almost died...

Could it be that Rong Jinzhi convinced him?

"It's a success." Iden smiled wryly, and said, "He used his own death to convince Ito Hikari—when he took his brain out of the cranial cavity with his own hands, Ito Hikaru had an epiphany and hid it from his superiors. The results of my own research helped the refugees convey information to the people of Guangzhou, and indirectly helped their escape.”

"Although the vast majority of refugees were killed in the end, and those who survived died of various infectious diseases, Rong Jinzhi succeeded after all. He made the secret of Nanshitou known to the world, and made the few thousand remaining refugees He returned to his relatives. He also let Ito Hikaru find the salvation of human nature, and completely betrayed the militarism that was once solid in his heart."

"It's just that he paid the price with his life."