At the end of February 1946, the courtroom of the Military and Political Department of the Nationalist Government in Shanghai was once again opened, and the auditorium was full of people.
The judge faced Li Xianglan, who was standing in the defendant's seat with his head hanging down, and announced the final judgment: "After investigation, the defendant ... Li Xianglan, formerly known as Shuko Yamaguchi, is a Japanese expatriate born in China. ...... Due to the confirmation of his Japanese nationality, according to the Geneva Conventions... In the relevant article, the previously convicted crime of immediate execution of the death penalty is not established,...... He is hereby released in court and repatriated at a later date. ”
After receiving the verdict handed by the bailiff, Li Xianglan's excited tears flowed down her cheeks. At the same time that she bent down to thank the court, another person in her heart who made her thank her even more also came to mind.
She turned back to the auditorium, hoping that Liuba would be sitting there. She desperately wants to see Liuba and thanks her in person for saving her life.
But Liuba did not come, and the two of them may not see each other again in this life.
I sing for you, thank you for making me brilliant
...... ，
The southern wind blows cool,
The nightingale cried miserably,
The flowers under the moon are all dreaming,
Only that night incense spat out the fragrance.
I love the darkness of the night,
And love the nightingale singing,
Love that flower-like dream even more,
Embracing the night incense, kissing the night incense.
"Night Incense" is Li Xianglan's famous song, and Liu Ba is one of the promoters who promoted Li Xianglan's fame.
In the autumn of 1933, with the help of a personal concert held by Mrs. Podolesov to sing for his wife, Li Xianglan was discovered and caught in the picture by Dong Jinsan, the head of the planning department of Fengtian Radio.
Previously, in order to attract the attention of Chinese listeners, the puppet Manchukuo government opened a new program on the radio station, which needed an actor who could be accepted by all walks of life.
Li Xianglan, a Japanese little girl who was born in China and has been fully Sinicized, is considered by Dong Jinsan to be the best candidate.
Dong Jinsan's invitation was supported by Li Xianglan's vocal teacher, Mrs. Bodolesov, and Liu Ba, Li Xianglan's closest friend, also strongly approved.
However, the attitude of Li Xianglan's parents was different: the father of the three families, Anxiong, originally wanted his daughter to study the Chinese well and take the road of politics in the future, so he opposed his daughter to record songs on the radio.
But my mother felt that just going to the radio to record would not hinder my studies, and she could consider trying it.
The mother said: As a citizen, it is a responsibility to serve the government, and she strongly supports her daughter.
Li Xianglan listened to her mother's advice, accepted the invitation of Dong Jinsan, and in ignorance, made herself an accomplice of Japanese militarism.
The first song recorded on the radio was "Night Incense", a song that made many Chinese in the 1930s and 1940s know the name Li Xianglan.
But ordinary Chinese do not know the true identity of Li Xianglan, an authentic Japanese named Shuko Yamaguchi.
The Japanese politicians who have packaged Japan's Shuko Yamaguchi as China's Li Xianglan are suspicious. They wanted this little girl, who spoke fluent Chinese, to be a handy tool for their enslavement Chinese.
Although LiuBa knew that Li Xianglan was Japanese, she didn't care about this, there was no politics in the child's eyes, only friendship.
And the friendship between her and Li Xianglan was achieved almost instantaneously: in the summer of 1931, Li Xianglan went on a wild trip to Shenyang with the school's summer camp and met Liuba, a Jewish Belarusian girl, on the train.
Because they sat next to each other, they talked happily on the train, and when it was time to break up, the two little girls had become close friends who left each other's correspondence addresses and cared for each other.
That year, they were all eleven years old, both in the sixth grade of primary school, but one lived in Shenyang and the other lived in Fushun.
At that time, Li Xianglan was still Shuko Yamaguchi.
In the summer of 1932, Fumio Yamaguchi, the father of Shuko Yamaguchi, who was then an adviser to the Fushun Coal Mine, was censored for the anti-Japanese riots of the coal miners, who were suspected of being the insurgents.
After the review, the disheartened Fumio Yamaguchi was invited by his Chinese brother Li Jichun to bring his family to Shenyang.
During the Spring Festival of this year, Li Jichun, who was transferred from a general to the president of The Fengtian Bank, regarded Shuko Yamaguchi as a righteous woman, so he gave Shuko Yamaguchi a nice Chinese name: Li Xianglan.
Li Xianglan liked the name full of Chinese folklore, so when she sang on Fengtian Radio, she took this name as her stage name.
But she did not expect that more than ten years later, this name would almost bring her a killing disaster.
The young man did not know the taste of sorrow, and only wished that the sisters would always be with him
Moving to Shenyang was originally a helpless move by Yamaguchi Fumio, but it made the young and ignorant Li Xianglan very happy.
She rejoices that she can be a neighbor with Liuba, and does not hide her eagerness to see Liuba.
After the family had just moved to their new home in Shenyang, Li Xianglan made an excuse and ran to Liu Ba's house to meet with friends who had been constantly exchanging letters.
In addition to her parents, who run a food store, Liuba's family also has an elder brother who speaks Chinese very well.
It's a friendly family and Li Xianglan loves them.
As for the impression That Liuba gave herself, Li Xianglan said in her memoirs: "People look particularly attractive, her skin is fair and transparent, her chestnut hair flutters with the wind, and her dark blue pupils are like blue-eyed dolls in fairy tales."
...... The sides of her nose under her eyes were covered with small brown dots, and when she smiled, she could really feel an indescribable charm. ”
When Liuba first met Li Xianglan on the train, he was also full of praise for this Japanese girl.
Soon after moving to Shenyang, Li Xianglan contracted a respiratory disease called "lung infiltration". After treatment, although the disease was better, the doctor recommended that Li Xianglan do some training to enhance lung energy.
His father proposed that Li Xianglan learn to sing and exercise her lungs with vocal exercises.
Under liuba's introduction, Li Xianglan wanted to learn to sing with Mrs. Podolesov, a famous Russian opera singer living in Shenyang.
However, Madame felt that Li Xianglan was timid and restrained, and her understanding was very poor, and she was unwilling to teach her.
Liu Ba tried her best to intercede for Li Xianglan, and finally let Li Xianglan stay in the teacher's class.
It was also Liu Ba's persistence that gave Li Xianglan the opportunity to sing Mrs. Podolesov's concert later. In turn, he was hit by Dong Jinsan, a hardcore fan of the wife, and became the anchor singer of the new show.
What Li Xianglan did not expect was that the government that her mother strongly encouraged her to praise and serve would one day extend its claws to her girlfriend.
Just when Li Xianglan's career was developing smoothly, Liu Ba accidentally disappeared, which made Li Xianglan's young soul suffer a great blow.
A teenage dream crushed by the claws of an animal
One late night in the summer of 1934, Liuba was lying in bed without the slightest sleepiness.
She looked at the pot of plain and fragrant night incense that Li Xianglan had given her on the windowsill, and she was so sad that she couldn't sleep. Li Xianglan was going to Beiping to study, and the two inseparable good friends were about to separate.
Liuba's heart was full of reluctance.
The night is already very deep, the night incense releases a faint floral fragrance, refreshing the heart, Liuba finally fell asleep.
In the dream she saw Li Xianglan wearing a beautiful Chinese-style dress, holding a bouquet of flowers, and running to her happily....
"Boom, boom,boom—boom!"
A slamming of the door woke Liuba from her sleep.
She opened her eyes and saw her mother standing anxiously in front of her bed, shaking her shoulders.
At this time, the sky is slightly busy.
While helping Liuba get dressed, her mother urged her: "Quick, Liuba is getting dressed, the Japanese are coming in!" ”
Sure enough, the Japanese came in! As soon as Ryuba got dressed haphazardly, a group of Japanese gendarmes shoved her father, who had gone out to open the door, and broke into the living room.
Liuba hugged her mother's arm tightly and stood by the living room window in fear.
The brother was also pushed into the living room by several gendarmes, and he was not even dressed.
Under the command of a Japanese officer, several gendarmes savagely rummaged through the rooms.
Frightened, She buried her head in her mother's arms, and her mother wrapped her arms around her tightly, and Liuba could feel her mother's body trembling slightly.
No one knew what was happening, and the Japanese gendarmes rummaged around the house with impunity.
The search was fruitless, and the Japanese officer waved his men to push The Yanaba family out of the courtyard and into the prison cart.
The prison cart was gone.
The search did not stop.
Early neighbors and some pedestrians stood on the street opposite The Yanaba family, watching the atrocities of the Japanese soldiers, whispering to each other and speculating about the fate of the Liuba family.
The search in LiuBa's house and the snack shop continued until the morning, when Li Xianglan rushed to the ground.
When she walked across the street, the Japanese gendarmes with live ammunition startled Li Xianglan.
Desperate to get away from the crowd, she ran to Liuba's house while crying Liuba's name in Japanese.
Seeing this little girl running over, the gendarmes immediately pointed their guns at her with great ferocity.
Because of her worries, this thirteen-year-old girl did not care about the fierceness of the gendarmes, and she wanted to know what had happened to Liuba's family and where Liuba had gone.
It was probably her Japanese language that restrained the gendarmes, and instead of being rude to her, they just drove Li Xianglan away like a stray dog.
Since then, Liuba has inexplicably disappeared, and there has been no news for several years.
The song is sung too bleakly, and the things of the world are really difficult to tell
In early February 1946, in the prison of the Shanghai Military and Political Department, Li Xianglan sat on a cold wooden bed with tears flowing down her face.
Some sources have confirmed that the Ministry of Military Affairs has judged Li Xianglan, a name with very Chinese characteristics, to be synonymous with evil.
That is to say, according to the name of the pursuit, Li Xianglan's sins are obvious, and the possibility of surviving is almost zero.
Li Xianglan never dreamed that her young life would end in the name of a country sinner.
Only then did she realize that her once beautiful self was just like Puyi, the emperor of Manchukuo, a tool in the hands of the Japanese fascists.
In mid-February, the Trial Court of the Military and Political Department of the Nationalist Government in Shanghai sentenced Li Xianglan to death for the crime of traitor and Japanese espionage, who served Japanese militarism with all his heart.
"February spring breeze is like scissors", this scissors that should be romantic and amorous, at this time extremely sharp, seem to cut off all the dreams of this beautiful girl who is only twenty-six years old, and cut off her life path.
Li Xianglan stared blankly at the blue sky outside the iron window, and his thoughts were like a bird that had lost its soul by the sound of gunfire, and it drifted into the sky in a chaotic way.
When Li Xianglan wept desperately for herself, she did not know that in her apartment in Shenyang, Liu Ba was also anxious to rescue her.
This Russian girl, who was captured by the Japanese with her family, was not rescued from the concentration camp by the Soviet army until the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and soon became a clerk at the Soviet consulate in Fengtian.
One day, Liu Ba saw in the newspaper that Li Xianglan had been arrested in Shanghai as a traitor and a Japanese spy, and was sentenced to death.
This kind girl was frightened, and she was eager to immediately rescue Li Xianglan from prison and put her under her protection.
However, in the face of the conclusive verdict of the Ministry of Military Affairs, her efforts were like the cries of a nightingale in the storm, so insignificant!
You are a nocturnal incense destroyed by the storm, but I still want to keep your fragrance
The date of Li Xianglan's execution has arrived.
Early in the morning, the female prison guard sent a new set of clothes to the cell, watched indifferently as Li Xianglan changed out of her prison clothes, and then walked out of the cell step by step.
At this time, Li Xianglan felt that life was like a fickle drama.
I think back to when I walked to the center of the stage as a star, she was greeted with applause and countless flowers. In the face of these Li Xianglan feels how beautiful the world is, and life is full of sunshine.
Now, as she stands alone under the walls of prison, waiting for her death, she finally understands the true meaning of the words that Kawashima Yoshiko gave her, "You will do as you believe."
But what if he understood it, when he accepted the recommendation of Dong Jinsan, he had already missed the opportunity to work according to his own beliefs, and thus became a puppet subject to people.
Life has come to an end, and the drama of life, no matter how wonderful it has ever been, should be over.
Goodbye, I used to love China that way!
Goodbye, loved my loved ones like that!
The muzzle of the gun was already raised, and the prisoner was about to raise his right hand, when suddenly there was a terrible cry: "Leave people under the gun -!" Leave people under the gun--! ”
An officer of the Military and Political Department hurriedly walked into the execution ground, followed by LiuBa.
Liu Ba saw Li Xianglan, who was about to be executed, and she ran desperately while tearing her heart out and shouting.
How the voice was so familiar, so familiar that Li Xianglan didn't have time to think about it before she turned around: "Liu Ba! Liuba—! Is that you?! ”
It is really Liuba, the cute Liuba who has not seen each other for nearly ten years and has not heard from her, really appeared in front of her.
She wanted to go forward and hug Liuba, but was rudely stopped by the prison officer.
Liuba was also stopped behind the firing squad, and she turned around in a panic and extended her hand to the officials of the Military and Political Department who had come with her to the execution site.
The officer handed a document issued by the Ministry of Military Affairs to the prison officer, which was a piece of identification of a Japanese national and a document of revision of the judgment of the Ministry of Military Affairs.
It turned out that when Liu Ba was trying to find a way to rescue Li Xianglan without success, she suddenly remembered Li Xianglan's identity as a Japanese.
She rushed to Li Xianglan's home in Beijing and asked her parents for Li Xianglan's household registration certificate.
According to the Treaty of Geneva, with this certificate, Li Xianglan could be exonerated from the crime of traitor and treated as an ordinary Japanese prisoner of war.
Li Xianglan never dreamed that her transnational love affair with LiuBa would be continued in this way after so many years of breaking.
Liuba saved her own life.
A few days later, Li Xianglan and some Japanese were deported and embarked on a steamer back to Japan.
On the boat, Li Xianglan stood by the spiral ladder, looking back at the crowd on the shore for a long time, she still tried to see her best friend in the crowd, she wanted to see Liuba again.
But until the ship lifted anchor and left the harbor, the familiar figure did not appear.
Facing the distant Shanghai, facing the land that gave birth to her and raised her when she did not know when to see again, Li Xianglan once again shed tears.
Facing the desolate sea, she sang the last song in China:
......。
All my life drifts with the spring breeze,
No one knows meihua's heart, no one knows.
After the wind and snow frost,
You have come to understand the poor plum blossom,
It awaits your sympathy to make it
Eliminate the worries of the heart.
No one knows meihua's heart, no one knows the scriptures.
After the wind and snow frost,
Eliminate the worries of the heart....
She hopes that Liuba can hear her singing, as a way to comfort the unforgettable transnational affection between the two girls.
. END .
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