His wife's maternal grandfather was named Cheng Wanhai, whose hometown was the Majia Shack in Dagushan Town, Yitong County, and his maternal grandfather Xian xian had died for many years, and when he was alive, he drove a carriage for a living.
The old man was born in 1918, at the age of 41, and some of his youngest daughters, that is, my mother-in-law.
Originally a bland farmer, but because of an accident, cast a legend of a lifetime.
This incident, when I was chatting with my mother-in-law, I was deeply shocked after listening to it, how undignified people at that time lived under the cruel rule of the Japanese invaders, but how much suffering they had to go through to live without dignity.
Yitong County, Huaide County, the two counties are adjacent, one with water, and the suffering experienced is also very similar.
First the Russians occupied and ruled, and then the Japanese came, and at that time, the Princess Ridge in Huaide County was centered on a hundred miles, and there was a large-scale plunder and cruel rule. Ordinary people's lives are miserable.
One day, the 17-year-old grandfather and other young people in the village ran to Gongzhuling to prepare to rob the Russian material warehouse, which is not how bold it is, but because life is too bitter, the weather in the northeast is cold and abnormal, the people who lack materials are hungry, hungry and cold, and finally desperately take risks.
Perhaps the people guarding the warehouse did not expect that someone would dare to do something to the material warehouse, and before they could react, my grandfather and his party died smoothly.
I think my grandfather was definitely not an honest farmer, and his bones were full of restless blood. Otherwise nothing would have happened later.
Not long after the robbery of the Russian warehouse, the Japanese occupied the northeast, and the material warehouse did not make any waves.
However, in order to occupy the northeast for a long time and invade China, the Japanese wantonly built military facilities such as railways and bunkers. He began to requisition Chinese laborers, and my grandfather was unfortunately arrested and sent to Mudanjiang as a laborer at that time.
The Chinese of forced labor by the Japanese now counts more than 10 million people, some in the occupied areas, some going to Japan. The history of Japan's aggression runs through the history of the blood and tears of Chinese laborers.
My grandfather was one of these suffering people, and how miserable was the laborer's life?
First of all, there is danger, according to my grandfather and my mother-in-law's recollection later, they were forced by the Japanese soldiers to use guns to build railways, repair artillery towers, and the old height of the artillery towers, without protective measures, if they accidentally fell down and fell to their deaths, the body was directly dug into a pit and buried.
What to eat is a standard, which can ensure that the laborers will not die of hunger, and as for eating enough to eat well, it is a matter of no extravagance.
From time to time, some people are tired and unable to get up, and the laborers who have lost the value of their labor are directly and brutally killed by the Japanese, and they will not be sent to the labor hospital for treatment.
The laborers died one after another, and as slaves of the country, how could they have a good life?
It is not that no one has thought of escaping, but there are not many successes, and the Japanese are extremely strict in their defenses, even if they occasionally run out, they will be found by the traitors in the village and caught and rewarded.
The fate of those who were caught back was extremely tragic, and there was a kind of punishment of killing chickens and frightening monkeys, giving people two sacks, and the dead one tied in the middle of the two sacks, using four people to hold a corner of the sack, lifting the "Dun" on the ground, which is the meaning of falling, once, twice, three times. When to throw people over, that is, to fall to death, they are willing to give up. This way of harming people may seem inconspicuous, but in fact it is a very cruel way of torturing people, and the people in the sacks have to endure extremely painful torture before they die.
Under such circumstances, my grandfather still chose to run away, and the horizontal vertical was a death, in case he ran out and picked up a life.
One day, the Mudanjiang labor camp was foggy and the visibility was extremely low, and my grandfather took the opportunity to run out and perform a Chinese version of "Polar Rebirth". The difference is that the German soldier Kivens crossed thousands of miles, and the Mudanjiang River to the town of Dagushan in Yitong County was only a thousand miles.
For a farmer, a thousand miles of land is also the limit, and this part of the journey, my grandfather walked for three months.
I asked my mother-in-law, how did my grandfather solve the problem of eating and living in these three months? Are there any dangers on the way back?
The mother-in-law sighed, which is so easy, on the way back, my grandfather was all the way back from inquiring all the way to beg for food, and when passing through an unknown village, he was even recognized by the traitor.
The traitor pretended to give food to his grandfather, and while saying something, his grandfather thought that the other party was a good person and told the truth.
The traitor then secretly sent his wife to the devil's place to inform and receive the reward, while he and his grandfather were in trouble.
Soon, a ghost with a live gun went to the traitor's house and grabbed his grandfather, tied him up with a rope, and then escorted him away.
The traitors had two sons, and a Japanese soldier escorted his grandfather out of the village, at this time, the Japanese soldiers did not know what they remembered, and the traitors wanted to return to the village. The wife who ordered the traitor looked at the grandfather who was tied up with flowers.
Grandfather saw the two people leaving, knew that the opportunity was coming, he lied that he wanted to be convenient, the wife of the traitor could not let the grandfather to solve, as a woman naturally could not get too close, the grandfather quickly hid in a wild firewood.
The woman did not see her grandfather come back, knew that she had been deceived, looked around, disappeared, and quickly ran back to the village to find someone, which gave the grandfather more time to escape.
My grandfather, who was ready to break the net, continued his escape and ran home for three months.
I think that at that time, there must have been many such legends, but they were annihilated in the dust of history, and the parties concerned took this as a talking point after tea and dinner, and gradually disappeared.