One day in 1946, in a small town in southwest Henan, villager Sun Bangjun drove a carriage as usual, dragging wild vegetables he had picked up the mountain to the market to sell. When he set the stall up, he looked up and saw a man curled up in a corner, dirty and pitiful. Sun Bangjun was loyal and honest, and he always liked to help others, but he couldn't bear to see this scene, so he stood up and prepared to go to the beggar to inquire about his condition.
Japanese soldiers begged
"I said Sun Bangjun, don't go!" As soon as Sun Bangjun got up, he was stopped by people on the side.
"How?" Sun Bangjun can't figure it out, everyone is from a poor family, born in a chaotic world is even more difficult, can help a hand is a hand, what can not go.
“
I know you have a good heart, he is a Japanese soldier!
Those around him continued to dissuade.
Sun Bangjun took a closer look, but no, just now did not look carefully, the beggar in the corner was wearing a worn-out Japanese military uniform, not a Japanese soldier can be anything.
The people around me then said, ".
This Japanese soldier did not know where he came from, he had been in the town for a while, and he was talking to the villagers for food, and the villagers hated him, some spit at him, some threw stones at him, and the resistance was victorious, but no one was afraid of him anymore.
”
Hearing this, Sun Bangjun muttered in his heart, he wanted to know where the Japanese soldier in front of him came from.
Japanese army photo
The origin of the wounded soldiers in Japan
This Japanese soldier named Ishida Higashishiro, who survived in the town, was born in Masuda-cho, Akita Prefecture, Japan, which has the deepest lake in Japan, Lake Tazawa, and is also the birthplace of the famous Japanese dog Akita, and is the first place in the world to use "dog picking" as a scenic spot.
Ishida grew up in Akita-gu and later entered Tokyo Agricultural College, where he was supposed to be an expert in the field of agriculture, according to his growth trajectory. However, instigated by Japanese militarist ideas, Ishida enlisted in the army and became a member of the Japanese army invading China.
When he first arrived in China, Ishida was still very naïve, believing that the Japanese army was launching a "just war" and that it was coming.
Help China become better
”。 But as the war progressed,
Ishida gradually realized that the Japanese army was carrying out a naked invasion, and wherever the Japanese army went, it wantonly slaughtered the Chinese people, robbed property, and did nothing wrong.
Ishida began to doubt the unit, to doubt himself.
In a battle with Chinese troops, Ishida was wounded. This was a perfectly normal thing, but Ishida's body developed hemiplegia and he was not cured for a long time. He originally wanted to end it himself, but he couldn't show the courage, and it was better to die than to live.
Wounded Japanese soldiers
However, what he did not expect was that the Japanese army saw that he had lost its use value and directly abandoned him, leaving him to fend for himself. Ishida looked at the distant back of the troops, and there was a kind of pain in his heart that was difficult to express.
There are still his beloved parents in Japan, but he may never go back.
In desperation, Ishida had to drag the sick body all the way to Henan. However, with the defeat of Japan in 1945, Ishida's life became difficult, and he found that there was no longer fear in the eyes of the Chinese people, but instead a deep hatred for him, and it was common to throw rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves at him. Ishida did not resist, but instead picked up the rotten egg and stuffed it into his mouth, after all, survival is his top priority.
On the day Sun Bangjun came to the market, Ishida was already hungry and cold, hiding in the corner waiting for death. Despite the persuasion of the villagers, Sun Bangjun came to Ishida and handed him a nest head. Just as Sun Bangjun was preparing to leave, Ishida grabbed the corner of his clothes and signaled to Sun Bangjun, hoping to take him in.
After all, he was the first person to take the initiative to give himself a nest
。
Sun Bangjun still couldn't let go of the mustard in his heart, and just looked forward on his own, and Ishida crawled behind him. Sun Bangjun couldn't bear to look at it, so he had to carry Ishida up and back to his home.
At this point, the village is bustling.
Rural Henan in the 1950s
Three generations of grandchildren, supported for 47 years
"Sun Bangjun, who are you not good at saving, you have to save a Japanese soldier, and you have forgotten all those deep hatreds?"
"The Japanese don't care if he's dead or alive, you still have to take care of it, it's not boring to find yourself!"
If you save someone, one day the Japanese son will fight back and work with him to harm the people in the village, can you bear the responsibility?
The villagers blocked Sun Bangjun's door, chattering, and had to get this wounded Japanese soldier away.
Of course, Sun Bangjun knew the dissatisfaction of the villagers, and he opened the door and said somewhat helplessly: "I have been to the police station, and people say that now that Japan has surrendered, it is no longer possible to arrest Japanese soldiers, and the best way is to send him back." But I couldn't understand him, where he came from, and where to send him. ”
And he's injured now, throwing him out and leaving him to fend for himself, I really can't bear this heart
。 Sun Bangjun continued.
The Japanese nibbled on corn
Seeing that Sun Bangjun did not compromise, the villagers popularized him again
Farmer and snake
，
Mr. Dong Guo and the wolf
The story warned him not to be a farmer and Mr. Dongguo, so as not to be injured by snakes and wolves. But the villagers said that Sun Bangjun still insisted on leaving Ishida in his home.
"Dead brains!" The villagers were angry, and there was no way to take Sun Bangjun, so they had to disperse.
Sun Bangjun provided for Ishida, originally thought that it was just a matter of one more pair of chopsticks, but as Ishida's injury became more and more serious, the mental aspect was also affected, and even became a "humble", Sun Bangjun had to take him to see a doctor, one after another, he actually spent all the family's savings, fortunately, is in Ishida with treatment, hemiplegia miraculously healed.
During that time, in order to let Ishida recover as soon as possible, Sun Bangjun was carrying urine and not knowing how many times he got up at night.
Sun Bangjun's daughter-in-law
After Ishida was healed, Sun Bangjun thought that he was a man and a laborer in the family, so he arranged some farm work for him. But I don't know how, Ishida not only can't do heavy work, but even some simple work can't be learned.
I can only stay at home and live an "ancestral" life, with clothes to open my mouth and food to reach out.
The villagers looked at Ishida like a waste, and they couldn't understand Sun Bangjun's original decision, and the gossip spread more and more, and they cut off contact with Sun Bangjun, and even the children did not let them play at Sun's house.
Some people even believe that the reason why Sun Bangjun took such good care of this Japanese soldier must be that the Japanese soldier privately gave him a sum of money.
So some idle bastards sneaked into the Sun family and wanted to steal money, only to find that the Sun family was destitute, and even the rice jar was empty. Where do these people know that in order to take care of Ishida, the Sun family has long been in debt,
Even Sun Bangjun's grandson Sun Baojie was admitted to the Normal University, and because there were Japanese wounded soldiers in his family who did not pass the political examination, he passed the university.
Rural life
In the face of the criticism of the villagers, Sun Bangjun has always had his own ideas, he believes that the war is over, and this Japanese soldier is also a human life.
"Repaying grievances with virtue" is the traditional virtue of Chinese
。 Therefore, in 1964, before sun Bangjun died, he repeatedly told his family that he must take good care of Ishida and, if possible, send him back to Japan to reunite with his relatives.
After sun bangjun died, sun baojie took over the task of taking care of Ishida and took good care of this "old uncle". In order to take care of him, Sun Baojie lost the opportunity to fall in love with many girls, and did not marry and have children until he was in his 30s. In Sun Baojie's view, this "old uncle" has long been a member of the Sun family and an inseparable family.
In this way, the Sun family took care of Ishida for 47 years, without complaint or regret.
Ishida Koshiro
Sending Japanese Soldiers
In 1972, China and Japan resumed normal diplomatic relations, and people-to-people exchanges were on the right track.
After learning this news, Sun Baojie immediately took action, announcing Ishida's identity to the outside world and seeking help from social forces.
However, due to the underdevelopment of information technology, it was not until 1992 that Ishida's identity was finally confirmed.
In April 1992, a Japanese delegation visited Henan for a local visit. After Sun Baojie knew, he immediately went to Zhengzhou to inform the relevant departments about the presence of Japanese soldiers at home. After the relevant departments learned of this situation, they communicated with the Japanese delegation visiting China at an event.
Coincidentally, the Japanese delegation to China had a veteran who had invaded China and belonged to the same unit as Ishida, and he was highly suspicious that Ishida, who had disappeared that year, was officially supported by the Japanese soldiers of the Sun family for 47 years. After the group arrived at Sun's house, the veteran recognized Ishida at a glance and told everyone that his name was Ishida Higashishiro, a native of Akita Prefecture, Japan.
However, Ishida had always been mentally abnormal, and he was an old man in his eighties at that time, and he could only remember the names of his mother and brother, and he did not know anything else, let alone the specific home address. As a result, ishida's search for relatives has reached an impasse.
Ishida Higashishiro's experience
However, this matter did not drag on for too long, our country conducted a "DNA" identification of Ishida, and in combination with Japanese domestic information, the government finally found Ishida's brother.
Soon after, Ishida's brother came to Henan and met Ishida Higashishiro, who was thought to be dead, and the two brothers hugged each other and burst into tears.
Ishida's brother immediately decided to take him back to China, but at this time Ishida was in trouble, and the Sun family took care of him for 47 years, at this time he left is not too selfish and too ruthless. But Sun Baojie felt that this was a great thing, "Old Uncle" is old, and returning the fallen leaves to the root is his best choice.
He wouldn't ask for anything in return, just do it as a normal thing.
In 1993, Ishida returned to China as he wished, and when he told his story about his experience over the years, the people of Akita Prefecture were so moved that they donated money and raised 5 million yen and handed it over to Sun Baojie. Sun Baojie naturally did not accept it, and he took this huge amount of money to the local government and handed it over to the organization, which was used to build a botanical garden and school for Sun Baojie's hometown of Taishan Temple Town.
Ishida Higashishiro also did not forget to repay the Sun family, and later the descendants of the Sun family went to Japan to study, and Ishida provided a lot of financial support to repay the old favor.
The evils of the Japanese army invading China will never be erased, but peace is the existence that the people of both countries aspire to. Chinese civilian actions tell the world that we are a friendly people who know how to repay grievances with virtue. If peace is broken, we will still raise our swords and guns and, like countless revolutionary martyrs, go into battle to kill the enemy and defend the country!