"Pray to the mother river beam, white hair sad to see the tears withered." On the night of the tragic firewood, it is better to have a son than nothing. --Qing Huang Jingren, "Don't Be Old Mother"
The story to be told today may be more controversial, because the protagonists of the story have indeed been criticized for a lifetime, but they have the most beautiful qualities in the world, and great love has no boundaries.
In 1945, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression finally ushered in the dawn of victory, and the Chinese people worked together to drive the invaders out of their homes. The three eastern provinces are the land most affected by the Japanese army invading China, since 1928, the Japanese army used the conspiracy to launch the "Huanggutun Incident" to kill the "King of the Northeast" Zhang Zuolin, began to plot against the northeast, and launched the "September 18 Incident" on the night of September 18, 1931, the northeast has since fallen, and the puppet state of Manchukuo was established.
For a full 14 years, on the one hand, the people of the northeast have finally regained their light, on the other hand, the Japanese army is indeed stationed here too deeply, especially from their own country to deceive many young people to come to reclaim the northeast, after the Withdrawal of the Japanese Army, many of the Japanese civilians who evacuated with them could not even save themselves, and could only choose to leave their children behind. Zhao Liandong is such a Japanese orphan who was left behind.
In 1945, although it was not yet winter, Harbin, the northernmost part of Our country, was already extremely cold, the wind was constantly whistling, and Zhao Fengxiang, who was pushing a scooter to go home, saw a little boy of about 6 years old on the road.
How dangerous is it that there are still children outside alone at this late hour? Zhao Fengxiang, who was kind-hearted, stepped forward and asked, "What is your name, little friend?" Are you lost? Where is home, do you need your uncle to send you back? The little boy looked at him, but opened his mouth to spit out a series of Japanese. Zhao Fengxiang understood that this was a Japanese child who had not been taken away.
The great hatred of the family country is still in front of you, and it is impossible to say that Zhao Fengxiang does not hate it, but how innocent is the child? At the beginning of human nature, Zhao Fengxiang felt that after all, he was a child who didn't understand anything, if he really let it go, it was likely that this cold night would pass, and tomorrow he would see his frozen corpse on the street.
Zhao Fengxiang brought the little boy home.
Li Xiurong is Zhao Fengxiang's wife, at first Zhao Fengxiang was also very nervous, afraid that his wife would blame himself, but Li Xiurong knew his husband and knew that he was a kind hearted person, not to mention that the children had entered the house, and he could not bear to drive out again. The little boy lived in Zhao Fengxiang's home and had a Chinese named Zhao Liandong, which changed from a family of three to a family of four.
Li Xiurong can accept Zhao Liandong, but the neighbors can't accept it, the persecution of the three eastern provinces by the Japanese army is too serious, in order to give the children a slightly more tolerant environment, Zhao Fengxiang's family decided to move back to their hometown in Hebei.
Poor, indeed poor, back to Hebei family can only squeeze in a small thatched hut, 4 people crowded on a kang, life barely can go on, but Zhao Liandong is a Japanese child The matter was also discovered by the old family. Li Xiurong's father was an anti-Japanese fighter, but Li Xiurong adopted a Japanese child, which made the family accept it?
For the sake of Zhao Liandong, their family can be said to have lost all their relatives and friends, and no one has come and gone. As the days go by, even the deepest hatred will be slowly consumed by time, not to mention that Zhao Fengxiang and Li Xiurong are good in nature, and the relatives and friends around them finally accepted them, but Zhao Fengxiang died in 1970 because of hard work.
After Zhao Fengxiang's death, Zhao Liandong went to the northwest with Zhao Lianqin (Zhao Fengxiang and Li Xiurong's own daughter), Zhao Liandong also found a wife, and the days seemed to be finally bitter, but Zhao Liandong proposed the idea of returning to Japan to find relatives.
It was already 1992, Sino-Japanese relations had eased, many Japanese stranded in China, as well as Chinese in Japan, had embarked on the road of searching for relatives, and although Li Xiurong had some bad feelings in his heart, he still agreed and gave him a sum of money to pay for the trip.
Zhao Liandong gave himself a Japanese name called Noban Shozo, and returned after 3 months in Japan, but did not mention anything about what happened during the period, saying only that his relatives were Japanese officers. Li Xiurong felt uncomfortable in his heart, Aren't the Japanese officers the same batch that invaded China? But looking at her adopted son, who had been raising her for so many years, she didn't know what to say.
In 1994, the 39th year of Lee's adoption of Nobane Shozo, Nobane Shozo went to Japan again, and before leaving, he told Lee So-young that he would definitely come back and buy a big house for Lee. Li Xiurong didn't care what house was not a house, she only cared about whether her adopted son would come back.
In fact, Li Xiurong himself already had feelings, knowing that Nobane Shozo would not come back. Sure enough, Nobane Shozo went back to China without any trace, no more news, not to mention a phone call and a letter, not even a text message.
In fact, the matter of Noban Shozo is still a case, in that era, there were many Japanese orphans who were raised by Chinese, and after the relaxation of relations between the two countries, many of them also went to Japan to look for relatives, but they always remembered the love of their adoptive parents, and Harbin once had orphans who returned to Japan and organized a group to come back to find their adoptive parents, they thought that they were a Chinese in addition to the Japanese bloodline, and they were very incomprehensible to Zhao Liandong's behavior.
Now that Li Xiurong is very old and his health is not very good, the reason why he has been holding on is actually to see Nobane Xiangsan again. Some people say that Li Xiurong should not have raised Shozo Nobane in the first place, but there are many people in this world who will do wrong things and thus hurt good people, but this does not mean that good people are wrong.
I hope that Li Xiurong can completely put it down, after all, life is short, don't bother with some people who are not worth it.