Among the thousands of Chinese comfort women who were taken captive by the Japanese army into comfort stations, there were a pair of beautiful twin sisters: Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu.
The 18-year-old twin sisters, since the Battle of Wuhan and the Japanese invasion of Wuhan, followed their parents to hide in a small village at the foot of Huangpi Mulan Mountain. At that time, Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu were still two little girls, but with the progress of the war years, by 1943, the two sisters had become like flowers. The more beautiful the two sisters became, the more anxious their parents became, and in the chaos of war, beauty was as much a scourge as money.
At that time, the area around Huangpi was in the garrison area of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army.
One night, the Japanese suddenly surrounded the village.
Two days ago, two Japanese soldiers were chasing a girl who was washing clothes by a small river when they were killed by a group of young Chinese people with a chong and sank to the bottom of the river.
The Japanese sent troops to surround the four villages along the small river, and they wanted to retaliate.
On the threshing floor, men were forced to stand under a wall, and women and children were taken to the village ancestral hall.
Machine guns went off, and the men of the village were slaughtered, and the men of several other villages suffered the same fate.
In the ancestral hall, young women were singled out, and old women and children were locked in the ancestral hall, and the doors and windows were all blocked with firewood and grass.
In the roaring firelight, there were the cries of old people and children.
Young women were raped and gang-raped, as were Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu.
After the rape, the Chinese women were taken back to the headquarters of the 3rd Division by the Japanese army, and were ready to be sent to comfort stations and other Japanese military garrisons in various places. The Japanese army believed that it was more beneficial to deal with Chinese women in this way than to kill them with a single sword. Just as these young women were escorted into the headquarters, Kawasaki Miyao, the commander of the 3rd Division, discovered Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu, and on the eve of Japan's defeat, an incident occurred that made the Japanese army full of bushido spirit laugh.
Kawasaki Miyao is 39 years old and a graduate of the Japanese Army School. Handsome in appearance and dignified in appearance. After graduating from school, he was promoted quickly and was a backbone of the Japanese Army's Young Zhuang faction.
On the battlefield in China, Kawasaki Miyao was known for his bravery and good fighting, and he made many military exploits. For His Majesty's "holy war", Kawasaki Miyao has always refused to marry a wife, so as not to use two things. For this, he has received special praise from the military department.
Of course, Kawasaki Miyao is not the kind of man who is clean and self-loving, and he will show a special interest in women whenever he has the opportunity. But he never fell in love, and he has never been in love with any woman. In the land of love, he has never cultivated the plow.
When he saw Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu, he was stunned as if he had found two pieces of jade. The vividness of the twin sisters, and their supreme beauty, made him seem to have been taken away from his soul. He immediately instructed a staff officer to send Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu to him.
The colonel's staff officer saw the lieutenant general's interest in women for the first time, of course, he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately personally picked out Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu. But he regretted that he didn't find out earlier, otherwise, he could have gotten his hands on it. But now, I had to bite the bullet and send Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu to the commander's mansion.
Kawasaki Miyao was staying at the Xuangong Hotel in Hankou at the time. An entire floor was occupied by him. In addition to him, there are 10 geisha. As a Japanese, Kawasaki Miyao has a special hobby of Japanese singing and dancing, as long as he is free, when he eats and drinks, he has to listen to geisha sing, watch geisha dance, or ask geisha to drink for him. Happy, he also went crazy with the geisha, made a fuss, sang and danced, not at all like a lieutenant commander. Therefore, Kawasaki Miyao's entertainment is carried out in secret, and the floor where he lives is not allowed to go up at will.
When the colonel's staff officer sent Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu to the Xuangong Hotel, they only handed over to a commander's orderlies at the staircase and left.
When the orderly led Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu to Kawasaki Miyao, who was drinking, Kawasaki Miyao looked at them with a happy smile and frowned. It turned out that when Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu were gang raped by the Japanese soldiers in the village, they were unkempt, disheveled, and red-eyed from crying.
Kawasaki Miyao immediately instructed the geisha who was drinking: "You take them to take a good shower and change into Japanese clothes!"
"Yes!" the geisha bowed deeply.
Don't look at Kawasaki Miyao often laughing with geisha, but he never slept with geisha, and he never even had obscene actions, and the demeanor of a dignified Japanese samurai also made Japanese geisha like him and admire him from the heart. But this time, the geisha were surprised by the attention shown by Kawasaki Miyao to these two Chinese women.
When Kawasaki Miyao carefully looked at Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu, the sisters didn't know whether it was a curse or a blessing. They never dreamed that this Japanese devil's official would have the problem of "love at first sight" for her sisters. Kawasaki Miyao's heart was sweet at this time, if it weren't for the fact that he wanted to maintain a little bushido dignity in front of the geisha, he asked him to kneel down and suck his toes in front of him, they were so beautiful and moving in his eyes.
Kawasaki Miyao finally waved his hand, let the geisha take Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu, and sank into the upcoming good dream alone. Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu, who had just walked into Kawasaki Miyao's room after taking a shower and putting on kimonos, were so shocked that Kawasaki Miyao put down his wine glass and stood up.
The Japanese kabuko in the room also let out a sigh of both appreciation and jealousy.
Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yuxiang were two pearls, which overshadowed everything in the room, but they stood trembling and frightened at the door of the room, not knowing what this Japanese official was going to do.
Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu's parents were cultural people, and they were well-off families before the war. Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu were very young, and their parents taught them literacy, embroidery, and music rhythm, and when the sisters were 12 years old, they could play the huqin, pipa, sanxian, and yueqin twice. After hiding in the countryside, their parents collected all their musical instruments for fear of causing trouble, but still taught their two daughters to read. A small handpiece is also written in a particularly elegant manner.
The Japanese army who lewd the sisters naturally didn't care about these specialties of the sisters, and Kawasaki Miyao naturally didn't know these specialties of the sisters, but he was already shocked by the temperament of the sisters. Kawasaki Miyao has an innate ability to identify women. He soon sensed that the sisters were by no means vulgar country women. During the war years, everything for people has been turned upside down.
"Come, come here!" Kawasaki said in a stiff Chinese dialect: "Come, sit down!" Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu saw Kawasaki's gentle attitude, but still timidly approached the table.
After Kawasaki beckoned the sisters to sit down, he beckoned the geisha to continue playing the three strings and dancing the "Soma Menglan Minor". While the kabuki were singing and dancing, Kawasaki's eyes never left the sisters. Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu also found that Kawasaki was watching them, so they had to lower their heads and dare not move. My heart was still full of the screams of the villagers in the gunfire and the firelight, and the cries of my parents······ and the shame that the Japanese army left on them.
But the singing of the geisha and the melody played by the three strings made them relax a little from their fears, and sometimes they couldn't help but glance at the geisha who played the three strings.
Kawasaki immediately caught the sisters' mood changes, smiled and said, "This one, you will?"
Shangguan Ying nodded, "I've been here!" Kawasaki beckoned to the geisha who was playing the three strings, took the three strings and handed them to Shangguan Ying: "Yours, play the play!"
When Shangguan Ying took the three strings, her hand trembled slightly, and her heart was full of fear in front of this Japanese official.
"Bomb, don't be afraid!" "I······ Can't play a tune like her······"" Yours, play as you like!" the geisha had stopped singing and dancing, and looked at Shangguan Ying curiously. Shangguan Ying closed her eyes to calm herself, she felt that these three strings maintained the fate of her and her sister. After calming down a little, she adjusted the three strings again, and the song "Su Wu Shepherd" flowed out of the strings sadly. As soon as the strings stopped, Kawasaki pointed to the pipa in the arms of another geisha and asked Shangguan Yu, "Yours, can you play this?"
Shangguan Yu looked at Kawasaki and then at Shangguan Ying.
"Let's play, Xiaoyu!" Shangguan Ying encouraged her sister with a look in her eyes.
Kawasaki beckoned to the geisha holding the pipa: "Give it to her!"
Shangguan Yu seemed to be less courageous than Shangguan Ying, and almost didn't drop the pipa to the ground when he took it.
Kawasaki frowned, then smiled knowingly.
"Play it well!
Kawasaki understood Shangguan Ying's words of encouragement and nodded.
Shangguan Yu seemed to have calmed down, but his fingers trembled slightly again as he adjusted the strings of the pipa. She hadn't touched an instrument for several years, and she suddenly felt a sense of intimacy in her heart.
Kawasaki's gaze couldn't help but be completely fixed on Shangguan Yu's shy, timid and excited face. He glanced at a few Japanese geisha casually and shook his head.
The pipa finally set its tone, and Shangguan Yu also calmed down from the momentary cordial excitement, his fingers pulled up the strings violently, and a sad and majestic arpeggio shook in the room.
Kawasaki closed his eyes.
The geisha's eyes widened.
Sometimes high-pitched, sometimes low-pitched, arpeggios are like thousands of horses galloping and sneaking
The arpeggio stopped. But Kawasaki still hadn't opened his eyes, the muscles on his face trembled, and his hands trembled lightly on his desk.
Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu were stunned, thinking that this song had caused a big disaster, and looked at Kawasaki Miyao without saying a word.
Unexpectedly, Kawasaki Miyao slapped his palm, cocked his thumb and said, "Okay, your "Ambush on All Sides" is played so well!"
Kawasaki smiled and pointed at Shangguan Ying· Yours, play "Ambush on All Sides" again!"
Shangguan Ying's face flushed, and she took the pipa in her sister's hand and played it.
In the room, the geisha all stood quietly in the corner. Kawasaki nodded to the arpeggio.
Shangguan Yu glanced at Kawasaki Miyao curiously, she couldn't imagine that in the brutal and tyrannical Japanese army, there was such a person as Kawasaki who knew music and rhythm, and he still appreciated "Ambush on All Sides" so much!
That night, Kawasaki Miyao, who was extremely excited, left Shangguan Yu and Shangguan Ying behind, showing another special love for women: ordering the two sisters to strip naked and lie on the bed with him! Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu, who had been gang-raped by the Japanese army, had no way out but to obey.
Since then, Kawasaki has stayed with the sisters in addition to dealing with military affairs, and gradually, the three have come to know each other in a hybrid dialogue between Chinese and Japanese. Especially after Kawasaki led the two sisters to watch the life of the comfort women in the comfort station, the sisters relied on Kawasaki Miyao even more. The two sisters never imagined that this indifferent and decisive Kawasaki Miyao, who usually handles military affairs, would really fall in love with them!
The sisters were not in love with the Japanese who had killed their parents. Dependence is cowardice, but not love.
The sisters' beauty, their mastery of music, and their gentleness and docility gave Kawasaki a rare sense of comfort and joy of life during the war.
After more than a year of inseparable life, Kawasaki is inseparable from Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu. Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu also seem to be inseparable from Kawasaki. The two of them had become Kawasaki's exclusive comfort women, but Kawasaki treated them as his nominal and de facto wives, and every night he had to sleep with the sisters, and whenever he had time, he had to listen to the sisters play and sing Chinese music, and the geisha were snubbed by Kawasaki.
War will not allow Kawasaki Miyao to indulge in the gentle country forever. Just when Kawasaki Miyao got carried away, the Japanese army was losing on the battlefield, the Allied planes began air raids, and the battle reports of the defeat in front also continued to reach Kawasaki.
One night, Kawasaki suddenly looked at the two sisters with a gloomy face on the bed: "Do you love me?"
Shangguan Ying was stunned for a while, and then laughed: "Is it necessary to ask this now?"
"No, I want you to say it!" Kawasaki's face twisted.
Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu glanced at each other, understanding what it would mean if they didn't say it. couldn't help laughing, jumped up and hugged Kawasaki and kissed and kissed: "Love you, love you, who else can you love if you don't love you?"
Kawasaki's face relaxed: "Are you willing to go back to Japan with me?"
This is something that the sisters have never thought about, and they can't help asking: "Kawasaki-kun, do you want to go back to Japan?"
"I'm asking you!"
"Wherever you go, we will follow you!"
Kawasaki smiled. He knew that Chinese women married chickens and dogs.
In fact, the sisters had no idea that Japan was losing the war, and Kawasaki never allowed them to come into contact with the outside world.
On August 12, 1945, the door suddenly opened, and Kawasaki hurried in. "Bring those two suitcases!"
Shangguan Ying looked at Kawasaki: "Are you leaving?" "Yes!"
A few days ago, Kawasaki discussed with the sisters to put all the gold, silver, jewelry, and valuable things into these two suitcases.
By the light of Kawasaki's flashlight, Shangguan Yu saw four Japanese soldiers standing at the door of the room. In an instant, the suitcase and change of clothes were moved downstairs to the truck parked in front of the hotel, and Kawasaki led the sisters and the six geisha who remained with him into the truck.
The planes are still bombing. The Japanese troops of the 3rd Division were already putting up a final standout resistance to the Chinese guerrillas in the area around Wuhan.
Their commander, however, ran away with his beloved beautiful Chinese comfort women.
As a result, the entire chain of command was thrown into disarray.
Kawasaki Miyao actually took Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu out of the truck that continued to drive forward, and the three of them slipped into the woods on the side of the road with two large suitcases, and discussed going to live in a small town without war.
Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu had already understood that the Japanese were finished, but looking at the pistol Kawasaki was carrying, they still didn't dare to take a step away from him. Three people stayed at an inn in a small town in the evening.
Too tired, Kawasaki and the sisters all fell asleep. When they woke up, the town was filled with gongs and drums and firecrackers.
When Kawasaki opened his sleepy eyes, he looked at the sisters: "What is today's holiday?
Shangguan Ying thought for a while: "It's not a festival today, is it welcoming gods in the town?"
Kawasaki snorted.
"Let's go out and have a look?"
Kawasaki shook his head and said, "If you want to see it, go and go, don't run far." I want to sleep a little longer. "When he came to town yesterday, he was so tired that he was choking with two suitcases and having to take care of the sisters who were only carrying a small bag for a change of clothes!
As soon as the sisters arrived outside the store, they understood that the Japanese had surrendered! They immediately cried and laughed with joy, but they did not forget to say to the people in the town: "There is a Japanese officer living in this hotel!"
Excited and angry people poured into the hotel.
At this time, Kawasaki also heard the cheers of the people outside: The Japanese have surrendered!
Just as he was stunned, Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu led the people to rush into the room. He suddenly realized that they were no longer the tame, gentle Chinese women he knew, but his enemies. He slept in his arms for more than a year, and deceived his enemies for more than a year! He just made a gesture of pulling out his gun, and people pounced on Shangguan Ying amid the exclamations of "Don't let him pull out his gun!"
The gun was taken away.
Kawasaki Miyao was dragged out of the room and outside the hotel.
By the time the town office arrived, there was only a blur of flesh and blood on the ground.
Next to them, Shangguan Ying and Shangguan Yu were sobbing softly······
Next to it, there are the sighs of onlookers, young and old, men and women.