1. Chinese couples are kind enough to adopt Japanese children
One day in November 1945, the weather in the Northeast was already very cold, with light snow in the sky. I saw a young Chinese couple with a blanket in his hand and a quilt in his hand, walking on the snow trail with a somewhat anxious face. Along with them was an older uncle, and the three of them hurried forward.
While hurrying, the couple muttered quietly, "What do you say the child looks like?" When we get to our house, can we raise him well? "It's all right, let's go see the child first, and then say, such a small child, are we enough to bring this little thing?" Don't give him cold. ”
After a while, a group of three people came to a two-story building in front of the door and stopped, the uncle came forward and knocked softly, the door opened, and out came a man about 35 or 6 years old, with a thin face and a small height, dressed in traditional Japanese clothes.
When he saw the person coming, he was stunned at first, and then he understood something in an instant, smiled bitterly, and made a gesture to invite 3 people into the house. After entering the house, the man did not say much, and led the 3 people straight to the second floor and came to the door of a room.
When he reached the door, the man first paused, and then, as if he had made up his mind, slammed open the door.
Inside the door, a child under the age of one was lying on a tatami mat, looking very thin and weak, and his small face was red because of the cold weather.
As soon as the wife of the Chinese couple saw this little baby, her heart instantly softened. When she reached out to the child, the child also held out his hands to her to hug. After she picked up the baby, the baby began to drill into her arms, there was a feeling of finding a mother, making her feel that she was particularly related to this child, and she did not want to let go in her arms.
At this time the man began to speak, in standard Japanese, with a worried and sad face. The woman could not understand Japanese, was very anxious, and asked the uncle next to her: "Uncle, is he remorseful?" Don't want to adopt our son? ”
The uncle shook his head and said, "No, he is just worried that you will have your own child in the future and will not be able to treat this child well." ”
The woman solemnly said to the uncle: "Uncle, please tell him that I like this child very much, and then whether we will have our own children or not, we will treat him as our own son, and will not let him suffer a little grievance." ”
When the uncle translated these contents to the Japanese man, the Japanese man "pounced" and fell to his knees in front of the Chinese couple and prostrated his head heavily to the couple to express his gratitude to them.
After that, the Japanese man took the child over, looked at it again and again, his eyes began to redden, he trembled his hands to tidy up the child's clothes, and handed the child to the woman.
When the woman took the child and walked to the first floor, the Japanese man chased after her and stopped the couple.
He opened the small bag wrapped around his son again and looked at it, and the tears flowed down and dripped on the quilt, which would be the last time he and his son would meet in his life. He failed to leave a photograph, a relic, or a letter for his own son, and the two remained strangers.
As the couple walked away with their children in their arms, the Japanese man still stood motionless in the snow, looking at the background of their departure from a distance, and the tears kept flowing down.
This child who is being held is the protagonist of this article, Yu Deshui, who was only 8 months old at the time, and his biological parents listened to the lies of the Japanese government and came to China with the dream of pursuing happiness, but finally ended up with a wife and children.
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Second, the Japanese army surrendered and used brutal means to deal with the Japanese who remained in China
When it comes to Japan's war of aggression against China, every Chinese hate the Japanese army at that time to the bone, and the heinous crimes they committed on the land of China can be described as the indignation of people and gods, which cannot be forgiven. However, the cruel Japanese army not only killed Chinese, but also ruthlessly inflicted a cruel hand on their own Japanese compatriots.
In 1931, the three eastern provinces fell, the Japanese army established a puppet manchukuo there, and more than 30 million northeastern fathers and villagers became slaves to the country, and they were driven to the ravine on the western side of the northeast. The conditions there were extremely harsh, and many Chinese died in the ditch.
It should be known that the area of the northeast at that time was equivalent to 3.5 times that of Japan's territory, and the Japanese army occupied this land, and drove the Chinese to the west, and there was still a vast land in the northeast that was not cultivated. At the same time, the Japanese army itself also needed a large supply of grain and grass, so the Japanese thought of a plan to transfer the Japanese to northeast China, which was the very famous "Million Plan" at that time.
The so-called "Million Plan" is to move 1 million people from Japan to the northeast, because the population is too large, so it is planned to be carried out in three batches.
In order to complete this plan, the Japanese government produced a large number of propaganda films in Japan and distributed various leaflets. Describe the northeast that he invaded China and snatched away as a fertile place that no one has discovered and is waiting to be mined. Tohoku is described as full of resources and gold, and as long as the people in Japan are willing to come over, they can live a rich life.
Under the deliberate concealment and cajoling of the Japanese government, many Japanese people who do not know the truth have dragged their families and mouths, with the expectation of a happy life, and embarked on the road to emigration to northeast China, including Yu Deshui's parents.
Beginning in 1936, Japan successively moved more than 800 pioneer groups and 270,000 Japanese people to China in the name of pioneer groups. None of these emigrant Japanese people expected this to go, and they were not greeted by the beautiful life promoted by the Japanese government, but by a road of no return that eventually forced their wives to disperse.
In August 1945, the Japanese army announced its surrender. All The Japanese troops and high-level personnel stationed in the northeast received orders to withdraw to Japan. All units of the Kwantung Army and relevant high-level officials received information in advance and concentrated on returning to Japan by train.
However, the 270,000 pioneer members who were tricked into coming to China to explore "happiness and beauty", these Japanese civilians who were supposed to be protected by Japan's own military, were completely unaware of this news at first. Later, after learning of Japan's surrender, the members of the Pioneer Regiment were ordered to stand still.
Gradually, the members of the pioneer group began to feel that something was wrong, but they did not know what to do, and everyone fell into a panic.
At this time, someone finally told the members of the Pioneer Regiment that the emperor had surrendered and that they could return to Japan. So everyone began to pack their bags happily, take their wives and children with them, and plan to go to Harbin to take a boat back to Japan.
However, these ordinary Japanese people did not know that the docks in Harbin had long been blocked by the Soviet army, and it was impossible to return to Japan by boat from there.
On the way to Harbin, because of the chaos of soldiers and horses, the road was far away, and many old people and children died on the way because of their weak bodies. What is even more unacceptable is that after learning that the docks were occupied and could not return to Japan, the Japanese army began to use the so-called "Bushido" spirit to force the people of the pioneer group to commit suicide.
In the face of such a cruel order, there are still people who choose to obey them.
In order to comply with this order, a deputy commander of the Pioneer Regiment drew a saber and slashed his 20-year-old daughter, and then committed suicide by caesarean section.
The Japanese also gave poison to the pioneers, causing them to commit suicide by swallowing the medicine en masse. However, because these poisons are made in a hurry and have insufficient efficacy, swallowing them will only make people continue to have severe abdominal pain, not immediately fatal.
After swallowing the medicine, many people can't stand the pain and choose to take out a knife and stick it in their chest and neck, ending their lives in such a cruel way.
There are those who are willing to accept the suicide order, and of course there are those who do not refuse to carry it out.
For the members of the Pioneer Regiment who did not want to commit suicide, the Japanese army directly killed them by machine gun fire and throwing grenades at the crowd. Some Japanese soldiers with a slight conscience could not accept such a brutal killing of their compatriots, but they had to carry out orders. After killing their fellow Japanese, they chose to commit suicide.
In the process of being forced to commit suicide in this series, some members of the pioneer group began to find ways to save themselves, they could not survive, and they also tried to hide their children and send them out to ensure that the children could survive.
Sometimes, among the corpses of thousands of ordinary Japanese people, there may be dozens of Japanese children who have not yet died, and the Chinese people will pick up these children for treatment and adoption when they encounter them.
According to statistics, when the Japanese army surrendered and withdrew from China, about 4,000 Japanese orphans remained in China and were adopted by Chinese families.
Yu Deshui is one of the more than 4,000 Japanese orphans, and he is one of the lucky ones.
Yu Deshui's biological mother died shortly after giving birth to him, leaving his biological father alone in China. After Japan's surrender, according to the relevant orders, he also needed to return to Japan, but he knew that many members of the pioneer group died on the way back to Japan, and it was still unknown whether he would be able to return to his hometown alive.
After the death of his wife, only 8 months old son was left, and he knew that he was a big man, and it was impossible for him to return to Japan with such a small child, and the child was likely to die on the road.
After thinking about it, he decided to leave his son in China and find a reliable family to adopt, which is better than dying on the road, so the trustee found the Chinese couple.
Although they knew that the little milk baby was a child of the Japanese, the Chinese couple learned about the situation of the Japanese man's family and understood that if they did not adopt the child, the child might die. So both husband and wife moved their compassion and decided to take the child home, no matter how brutal the Japanese army was, the child was always innocent.
Third, knowing the truth, Yu Deshui collapsed
Yu Deshui went to his adoptive parents' house, and as his adoptive mother promised, he received the best care. There are delicious food at home, all of which are given priority to Yu Deshui to eat, there are many mosquitoes in the summer, and when he sleeps, his adoptive mother is around to fan him and help him drive away mosquitoes to ensure that he can sleep well.
Yu Deshui, who was raised by his adoptive parents in this way, felt that his home was very warm, and never doubted that he was not born to his adoptive parents.
When he was a child, some friends who knew a little bit of the inside story would call him "Little Japan", and he was very angry when he heard this name, but he never went to his heart, and he did not go deep into why others called him like this.
In this way, Yu Deshui grew up carefree, married and had children, and all the changes came when he was in his 40s.
In 1984, Sino-Japanese relations returned to normal, and many orphans who remained in Japan because of the war began to return to Japan to find relatives. The director of Yu Deshui inadvertently asked Yu Deshui: "Why don't you go looking for relatives, don't you go back to Japan?" Yu Deshui was very confused when he heard it, he was Chinese, why did he go back to Japan to look for relatives.
The director of the factory saw that Yu Deshui did not believe what he said, and swore that he asked Tai Deshui's father, and he personally said that Yu Deshui was a child of the Japanese. Looking at the factory director with a serious face, Yu Deshui's heart began to ripple, is what the factory director said true? He recalled that when he was growing up, others called him "Little Japan", and his face became heavier and heavier.
Once doubts arise, it is difficult to dissipate them.
Yu Deshui returned home and wanted to ask his mother about it to dispel the doubts in his heart. But when he returned home, saw his mother with two white sideburns, and thought of the pain his mother had suffered for him over the years, he really couldn't open this mouth, and he swallowed the words to his mouth.
Although Yu Deshui was not born to his adoptive mother, he also established a mother-child relationship after years of getting along. In those days, the mother saw her son's several times of wanting to talk and stopping, and she knew what happened to her son, and she was embarrassed to open her mouth to herself.
The mother took the initiative to say to Deshui: "Son, you are your mother who grew up watching, what have you encountered in the past few days?" Talk to your mother, it doesn't matter, everything your mother can bear, you talk about it, otherwise I will feel bad when I look at you like this. ”
Yu Deshui looked at his mother's inquiring eyes and finally opened his mouth: "Mom, some people say that I am not your own child, I am a Japanese child, is this true?" ”
Finally asked this sentence hidden in his heart for a long time, Yu Deshui looked at his mother nervously, he hoped that his mother would reply to him, there was no such thing, it was all said by others.
Then he will be liberated and will never be bothered by this again.
However, Yu Deshui did not expect that his mother did not take this question seriously at all, and replied very casually: "Yes, you are a child of a Japanese, so what?" Isn't it also my son? ”
At the moment of getting the answer, Yu Deshui instantly felt cold, and the education he received from childhood made him deeply understand the evil deeds committed by the Japanese army in those years, and he would actually be a Japanese child, which was a reality that he could not accept at all.
At that time, Yu Deshui felt that the sky was like falling, why everyone else was Chinese, but he was actually a Japanese.
Yu Deshui's wife knew about this, and her reaction was the same as that of her mother-in-law, thinking that the two had been married for so many years, the children were so old, and the Japanese were Japanese, no big deal. There was no one around who discriminated against Yu Deshui and his children, and everyone got along with ordinary Chinese.
However, only Yu Deshui could not let go of this matter. After he got the answer, he felt that life had lost its meaning, life had become confused, and those days were like the walking dead, and his mind was full of "Japan has committed so many crimes in China, why am I Japanese, why am I the descendant of sinners?!" ”。
When his thoughts went to extremes, Yu Deshui even wanted to go to the end of the road to end his sinful identity. But thinking of his adoptive parents, who had loved him for many years, and his wife and children, he finally gave up on this idea.
Fourth, the adoptive mother persuaded Yu Deshui to go to Japan to find relatives
Beginning in 1972, Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations were normalized, and the two governments began to jointly solve the problem of post-war orphans and arrange for the original Japanese orphans to return to Japan to find relatives.
Yu Deshui never thought of going back to Japan to find his biological parents, in his eyes, his adoptive parents are his parents. Many people advised him to go back and look for it, but he kept refusing.
Until 1986, the adoptive mother said to Deshui: "Child, your biological mother is gone, you go back to see if your father is still there, let him see you, let him know that we have not lived up to his original instructions, and we have raised his son well." ”
Yu Deshui heeded his mother's advice and decided to embark on a journey to Japan to find his relatives.
On September 2, 1986, the day Yu Deshui set out for the trip, the adoptive mother got up early, personally made dumplings for her son to send off, and took out the pocket money she had saved for many years for Yu Deshui to use on the road.
Among the money were 10 yuan, and there were also a few cents and a few cents of change, and Yu Deshui knew that this was all his mother's savings. He reassured his mother that he would be back soon, and that the change would not be used, so he stayed at home first.
After eating the dumplings, the adoptive mother insisted on sending Yu Deshui to the station, took his hand and choked up: "Child, my mother has no culture in this life, and she does not know where Japan is and how far away it is from us." I don't know if the weather over there is cold or hot, will you be dissatisfied with the water and soil in the past? If you find your father, take him back to live here, more than 40 years, my mother can't bear you. ”
After Yu Deshui listened to his adoptive mother's words, a big man also shed tears, and he said to his mother: "Mom, you can rest assured, your son will come back soon, and I will not leave you." ”
There were 50 Japanese orphans who went to Japan with Yu Deshui to find relatives, and only 12 finally found their relatives, and Yu Deshui did not find his own mother.
When he was preparing to leave for China, he was asked if he regretted not finding his Japanese father and when he was going to return to Japan to settle down.
Yu Deshui smiled and replied, "I'm not coming back, my parents are still in China." ”
A few years after returning to China, from 1988 to 1989, Yu Deshui's adoptive parents died one after another, and he insisted on keeping three years of filial piety for his parents before taking his wife and son to japan to live.
When he arrived in Japan, he was asked to take a Japanese name in order to receive the relevant subsidy fees in accordance with the regulations. Yu Deshui grew up by the Songhua River, so he named himself Songjiang Changji.
Although he has a Japanese name, he does not like to be called by his Japanese name, and prefers to be called Uncle Yu by others.
After living in Japan for 2 years, Yu Deshui's children stayed in Japan, and he and his wife returned to China, and they did not plan to leave in this life.
Fifth, the kind China repays its grievances with virtue
There were many children like Yu Deshui, and the Japanese army slaughtered Chinese at that time, but the kind Chinese used their love to take care of the innocent Japanese children in the war.
The elderly Liu Shuqin in Harbin also adopted a Japanese child, when this Japanese child and her son had smallpox at the same time, because the family did not have enough medical expenses, she chose the Japanese child to be sent to the hospital for treatment, and her son was treated with home remedies. As a result, the Japanese child was cured, but his son fell behind and became a cannabis seed.
Elder Li Xiuwen's father was a member of the Anti-Japanese Coalition Army and died to resist Japan. In order to save more than 10 girls who were snatched by the Japanese soldiers, her uncle was discovered by the Japanese army, and directly cut off his hands and feet, opened his stomach, and died tragically at the hands of the Japanese army. However, she still adopted a Japanese girl later, even if she was ostracized by the whole village, she had no regrets.
Like Yu Deshui's adoptive parents, Liu Shuqin, and Li Xiuwen, there are many kind Chinese, they are not high-ranking officials and nobles, most of them are just ordinary ordinary people, living on their own hard work.
But they still reached out to Japanese children in the face of their own very difficult lives, because they felt that the children were innocent and left their love to the descendants of the Japanese who had hurt the Chinese people.
When Japanese orphans search for relatives, taking into account the contributions of Chinese adoptive parents to these children, a special policy has been introduced: it is stipulated that the Chinese adoptive parents must sign and agree before these orphans can return to Japan. More than 4,000 Japanese orphans eventually chose to return to Japan to settle down.
The adoptive parents of the 3,800 Orphans of Japan, without exception, all signed the consent form, and as long as the child is willing, they would rather be sad and respect the child's choice.
There is an old father who signs while comforting the child, letting him rest assured that he will go to Japan, that he is in good health, that he does not have to worry about him, and that he will come back to see if he has time.
But as soon as he turned around, the old father cried his heart and lungs, and the tears were all about the child's reluctance. There are also many adopted families, only adopted children, adopted daughters and one child, and once they return to Japan, the elderly can only live alone, and there are no children next to them.
Even so, these kind Chinese adoptive parents still trembled and signed their names under the consent form.
War, which brings more harm to people, is behind the rupture of countless families, resulting in countless human tragedies.
Use a sentence from Yu Deshui as the end of the article.
When he left Japan after the search for relatives, a reporter asked Yu Deshui if he had anything to say? Yu Deshui said a sentence: "I hope there will be no more family search teams in the world." ”