"Mother, you also come to listen to your grandfather tell the story of the princess of the Hou family! There are devils!" Xiao Yu took his mother's hand and ran to the stone bench in the courtyard, and the grandfather sat on it to bask in the sun.
"Yuyu, do you want a story from your grandfather again?" Grandpa squinted his eyes and smiled, and hugged Xiao Yu to his knees, "Today I will talk about the little sister of the Hou family, and those hateful devils!"
"That story is really scary...... Mom said. I sat down and listened to my grandfather talk about the past that I had never heard before.
Twelve-year-old Hou Xiaomei lives in a small village in Hainan called Clarify. One day in 1939, when Hou Xiaomei was planting rice in the field, several Japanese soldiers with guns suddenly appeared on the ridge, pointed a gun at Hou Xiaomei, and arrested her to a nearby stronghold.
The camp was home to many young women who had been forcibly taken to serve as comfort women. Hou Xiaomei was violated by Japanese soldiers in turn, which marked the beginning of her nightmarish encounter.
After Hou Xiaomei was caught in the stronghold, she was imprisoned in a hut. That night, four or five more Japanese soldiers came to gang rape her, and she screamed in pain, but the Japanese soldiers covered her mouth and slammed her in the mouth with the butt of their guns. The next day, 12-year-old Hou Xiaomei was dying, but the Japanese soldiers continued to ravage her.
For the next four months, the Japanese soldiers took turns to assault the weakened Hou Xiaomei every day. One day, her mother went to the stronghold to see her daughter, but was violated by Japanese soldiers. In the end, in order to save his daughter's life, Hou Xiaomei's father had to sell all his belongings to save her from the clutches of the devil.
However, the bigger nightmare has just begun. When the parents found out that 12-year-old Hou Xiaomei's belly had grown, they were terrified -- she had been violated by Japanese soldiers and became pregnant! So the parents began to try to get their daughter to have an abortion.
They beat their daughter in the stomach with wooden sticks and pushed her down the mountain. But the baby just doesn't fall off. The mother felt sorry for her daughter and begged the villagers to let her give birth to the child and throw it away, but she was unanimously opposed.
In the end, a barefoot doctor was found in the village, and he poured a large amount of medicine on Hou Xiaomei, and finally knocked out the child of the Japanese soldier in her stomach. But 12-year-old Hou Xiaomei died in great pain.
Hou Xiaomei's death aroused the anger of the villagers against the Japanese soldiers. They called a blacksmith and drove three long iron nails into the belly of Hou Xiaomei's cold corpse.
"The little devil's seed must die! I was horrified to hear it, and the mourning in my grandfather's voice made me even more sad.
Eighty-three years have passed, and the small village is still as quiet as ever, only the memories of the old people in the village are still reminding future generations of the tragedy of those years. Every time I think of Hou Xiaomei, who lost her life at the age of 12, and the pain experienced by her mother and grandfather's generation, I can't help but have red eyes. We must remember history if we are to avoid a repeat of the tragedy.
Hou Xiaomei's tragic assault and injury, pregnancy and forced abortion by her family have become a microcosm of the atrocities of the Japanese army on Hainan Island.
The best years of her life were ruthlessly taken away from her, and her family and villagers were carried away by hatred. The scars of history have not yet fully healed, but we cannot repeat the mistakes of the past.
Only by inheriting positive energy and resolving hatred with kindness can young lives thrive in sunshine and hope. May all Hou Xiaomei rest in peace, and may their stories be remembered to warn future generations to stay away from the shadow of war and discrimination.