bunny kid

The harm this escape brought to Xiao Yi was far greater than imagined.After he went back that day, he served the officer as promised. Xiao Yi recalled that night, when the officer knew that he had escaped, he was more violent than ever.But Xiao Yi didn't feel anything. He said that no matter how brazenly the officer abused him, it couldn't compare to the pain in his heart.

I can't express how I felt when I heard that sentence, my eyes just kept emptying.

But Xiao Yi survived, after six years of rape, after the sound of a gunshot, I saw him, thin and pale, slowly stepped out of the comfort station, and all the people walking with him were Xiao Yi walks among a group of women in their teens and 40s, which is quite ironic.

At that time, it was 1945.

Time did not exist during those six years. It only existed among people in life, not among those who were dying.During my days as a slave, I lived in fear every day. Death passed me by countless times. , My despair will be added. This is the normal state of concentration camps. Usually, I used it for less than half a year to feel numb to the corpse. , I've probably been turned into a hopeless beast by my ears and eyes.That was definitely not the me that Lin Zhi expected to see.

The day I reunited with Xiao Yi, I was shocked by his thin body with obvious bones, but I didn't know that I was taller than him and thinner than him.Xiao B said that he stared at me for a long time before he recognized me.Six years of malnutrition caused decades-long sequelae, and I am still quite weak today.

In the summer of 1945, Japan officially announced its surrender. The Japanese army retreated to the concentration camp. The surviving slaves stepped out of the prison cells where they were imprisoned, and truly regained their freedom.The National Army arrived with tanks one after another to rescue the refugees in the concentration camp. The soldiers were all scattered, searching for the survivors in the camp and the Japanese officers who might be left behind.Facing the soldiers rushing past me one by one, I was anxious and at a loss. In my desperation, I grabbed a soldier's arm and asked, "Comrade, do you know a strong man named Lin Zhi?"

The soldier was confused by me, and it took him a long time to say anything: "Ah? Who? Don't worry about it, get on the military vehicle and go to the shelter, and then you can find it slowly." After finishing speaking, the soldier roared and ran up.

When I was left alone in a daze, Xiao Yi quietly appeared in front of me.

Huang Yiguang, who had no relatives and no reason, and me, who was alone, walked together naturally, just like Peng Yu at the beginning, the two lonely people regarded each other as reliable companions.

We lived in a shelter for a while.

The notice of missing persons was covered with family-searching papers. I scanned them one by one, for fear of missing any news that someone was looking for me. Lin Zhi's news.However, there was no news for three months. Almost at the same time, the train from Taiyuan to Baoding opened again, and the way home was smooth.

I began to miss my hometown and thought of going home.I put this idea to Huang Yiguang, he didn't say anything, just nodded silently, agreeing to the decision.That's right, after all, he no longer has a place to belong to, and it doesn't seem to matter what he does in the future.

So, I made it a matter of course, and simply recognized Huang Yiguang as my godson.This is not only for the sake of writing, but also for Peng Yu, to change his name and protect the people they love the most, so I decided to bring Huang Yiguang back to his hometown.

At that time, it was almost late autumn.The number of refugees in the shelter kept leaving and increasing. I added the contact address on the missing person note, so that the missing person notice was hidden on the bulletin board tens of meters long.

Without any luggage, only a set of tattered clothes, a weak body, and a godson we just recognized, we just set out on our way home.

It was almost dusk when I arrived in Baoding. I looked around this city, which I had lived in for more than [-] years. It had been destroyed by shells and lost its original appearance. Looking at it now, I felt strange and alienated.

The eight years since I left Baoding was too long, and it was so long that the color of memories faded away. The city center, the corner shop, and the bustling street all turned into ruins. Going to my hometown in Mingxi Village has become more difficult.

With no rickshaws and no other means of transport, we had to walk home.

After a long journey, it was already dark when we got to the house.I pushed open the door with trepidation, not knowing whether there was anyone behind the door, let alone whether the house would have collapsed long ago. In this situation, the future is simply uncertain.

The door was pushed open, and the mansion he saw was still standing there as usual, and there was even a familiar face standing there.

"Brother!" I blurted out.

My brother looked blankly at me, who was skinny and unrecognizable, paused for a moment, and then exclaimed in surprise: "My God!" My brother walked towards me unsteadily. I haven't seen you for 13 years. My brother's face has also changed a lot, he is obviously old.

"Mo Nian, you're still alive! You're still alive!" Tears welled up in my elder brother's eyes, which gradually turned into teardrops and fell down suddenly.

I was affected by my brother's emotions, but I cried more excitedly than him: "Yes! I'm still alive! Brother, where are your parents? Are they okay?"

The elder brother's expression of weeping with joy disappeared without a trace in an instant, leaving only a pale face: "At the end of the year, my parents are gone."

"Ah?" My face changed drastically, "What's going on?"

"Father and mother are old too, they can't stand such a torment, they..." The elder brother's brows tightened, as if he couldn't bear to say it, "They starved to death."

My heart tightened, and I was hurt and guilty. I didn't expect that the farewell 13 years ago would be a farewell. I am really an unfilial son who has not fulfilled my son's responsibility for many years.I was crying, hugging and crying with my elder brother, even though we are all old men, the emotions that should be vented should still be vented.I wiped away my tears and let go of my arms.

Suddenly, the sound of a child crying came from the side hall, and I looked at it in a daze, and a familiar woman staggered in with a two-year-old child in her arms.I took a closer look and found that the woman was Wen Huai.

The old man sniffed, and when Wen Huai approached, he immediately put on a smile and introduced eagerly: "Do you remember? Wen Huai, my wife."

Then, he happily pointed to the child in Wen Huai's arms and said, "This is my youngest son, my third child."

Accompanied by a burst of children's laughter, I saw a ten-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy happily chasing each other in the hall. Wen Huai hugged the child, and skillfully taught the children: "Don't run, there will be trouble!" The guests are here, say hello to uncle."

The nephew and niece stopped immediately, stood at attention and shouted obediently: "Hello, uncle."

Wen Huai didn't seem to recognize me yet, so he turned his head and asked his elder brother, "Why are there any guests?"

The old brother was amused, and quickly explained: "You can't recognize it? This is the end of the year!"

Wen Huai seemed to be frightened. She stared at me, who was skinny and dark, with an unbelievable expression on her face, as if memories from the past flooded her mind. Gone, why did you come back now? Where did you go?" Wen Huai's tears flowed down slowly, and he looked me up and down, "How did it become like this?"

I apologized endlessly: "I'm sorry."

A long-lost reunion ended here, and Huang Yiguang behind me was still an abrupt outsider, watching us in embarrassment and crying bitterly.I thought of him, and immediately introduced to my elder brother and Wen Huai, who was already a sister-in-law: "I introduce to you, this is Huang Yiguang, my son."

Out of nowhere, my brother suddenly slapped his thigh and yelled angrily, "I'm going! Don't you in the end of the year? Another one?"

I felt displeased: "Where do you want to go? He is really my godson! He is an orphan, I just took him back with kindness."

The old brother suddenly realized, and immediately turned from shame to joy: "Oh, you should have said it earlier."

I gave a wry smile and told the whole story of my experiences over the years, which just explained the reason why Lin Zhi was not around.

The area of ​​the toilet shed was attacked by air raids, and the entire wall of the parents' room was knocked down. Many gold and silver jewelry in the house could not be taken away, and they were all looted by the devils.

Now that the family has no money, even if they have money, it will become waste paper in this current situation. If they want to repair their parents' room, it is temporarily impossible.

I let Huang Yiguang live in Lin Zhi's room, he seemed very satisfied with the room, staring at me with wide eyes, with a smile on his lips.

"We have been back for more than half a month, and the toilets have been moved to the guest room at the far end, and there is no wood shop, so it is difficult to build a toilet shed by ourselves." My brother took all the quilts in my room to wash. When I wanted to help, I tried my best to stop, "Your feet have deteriorated, and it will be worse in the future when you get old. Just take a good rest."

When the elder brother stepped out of the room, he yelled into the distance: "Xia Xiao! Huiyuan! Help your uncle clean!"

After drinking it, the two nephews ran over huffing and puffing. When they saw me, they were secretly shy, and their voices were thin and low: "Uncle, how can we help you?"

I pointed to the basin next to it: "Just wipe the furniture with a wet towel."

As soon as the two children heard this, they started to work immediately. I have to say that Wen Huai's education was really good. When these two nephews grew up, they were very filial to their parents, even me.

On the second day after returning home, my brother and I went to the bungalow where we used to live with Lin Zhi. The flowers and plants outside the bungalow had withered, and as far as the eye could see, there was only a piece of withered yellow.

When we stepped into the bungalow, it was empty and there was no human breath.That's right, if Lin Zhi has already returned, why wouldn't he go back to his hometown to find me?Come here to find someone, of course there will be no results.

"Lin Zhi will be safe and well." Facing me who was frowning, my brother had no choice but to comfort me like this.

We start farming.To be honest, although our Liu family has a field in the village, we haven’t farmed it since our grandparents. We have rented it out to other villagers for farming for many years. Now that we haven’t leased it out, we can naturally use it for our own use.

We have been farming since then.After the war ended, the civil war was on the verge of breaking out, the economy fell back sharply, and the currency depreciated sharply. Coins were no longer as good as dirt, and food was the most valuable thing today.In addition, Wen Huai gave birth to a little daughter during this period, and the need for food was even greater.

During the four years of the civil war, we all relied on our own rice, vegetables and pigs to make a living. These four years have been relatively stable.After the founding of New China, the economy began to recover and industrial development started. In the early 50s, my brother began to suggest that Yi Guang and I go out to work to earn money. After all, it is not enough to have food to provide daily necessities. Money is not enough in this era start to matter.

Persuaded, we used our father's connection to get a factory packing job.After all, I am not young anymore, and the demand for educational talents is far lower than before the war, so I am lucky to have a job.

There are two people working in the family, and my brother has earned a lot from farming, and I have saved a lot of change, so I started to have an idea.

I visited a newspaper called New Taipei Daily and told the editor there that I wanted to find someone.A man with a beard asked me to choose a page, write the words of the missing person notice, and I had to charge by the number of words.So much money down, it is a bit sad.

So I just briefly wrote a few words:

Lin Zhi:

The hometown is still there, waiting for your return.

Liu Mo Nian

Because this is a daily magazine, the missing person advertisement was published in a small column in the corner of the advertisement page of the newspaper the next day.

However, one day passed, several days passed, and there was still no news.

I told Yi Guang about this, and he said that such a small column was only published for one day, so of course people would not notice it.

After that, I would visit the New Taipei Daily every week. After saving a lot of money, I published more frequently. Later, I went in and out of the newspaper office every day, and even became a frequent visitor of the newspaper office.

However, I didn't get the slightest return for my efforts, and I even missed out several times. Two of them were scammers, and I was told by the editor that I had news about Lin Zhi. The materialist" wanted to cheat me out of money.I can't remember those details, and after experiencing a few empty joys like this, I have become less and less hopeful about it.

Until Xia Xiao got married, and the nephews and nieces started families one by one, Lin Zhiyi still had no news.

Two years ago, my elder brother and Wen Huai passed away one after another. I always thought that I, who was weak, must be the first to go. Who knew that the sudden serious illness took them away without any warning, and did not give us any psychological preparations to stay. Until now , I am the only one left.

For so many years, looking for Lin Zhi has become the only motivation for my life.It's not that I haven't thought about it, maybe he's long gone.But if I give up looking for him, I may not even have the chance to know the news of his death.

I know that there is something wrong with my body, and now I am near the end of my life, at least, if I can know about Lin Zhi before I die, then I will fulfill my last wish in this life.