The Buddhists say that people will have a lot of pain in this life, aging, sickness, death, we should learn to reconcile with pain, coexist with pain, but sometimes, it is not that we are jealous and hateful, but some things that make us hate it to the bone. In the thousands of turns of life, some people are worthy of our eternal life.
My aunt Meng Shujuan spent her whole life looking for a woman, and in order to find this woman, she forgot about marriage. It wasn't until the age of my son's founding that the woman my aunt had spent her life looking for was a prostitute.
In August 1946, at the witness stand of the trial of Japanese war criminals in Nanjing, the person she was looking for was identifying a senior Japanese officer with a premeditated, large-scale rape. At that trial meeting, the city of Nanjing was crowded with people, and after the Japanese slaughtered the city, almost all the remaining population in Nanjing gathered inside and outside the courtroom. The aunt squeezed her back in front of the woman, but what she saw was a plausible face.
The aunt confirmed that the voice, back, and expression were the person she was looking for, but the person denied it and quickly left the courtroom with the crowd.
From this time on, my aunt was convinced that the person she was looking for must be alive and had begun the greatest mission of her life, and she would spare no effort to know the whereabouts of the women she had despised the most but were the most fearless.
Hello everyone, today let me lead you to interpret Yan Geling's classic work "Jinling Thirteen Chao" and relive the unforgettable years of December 1937.
In the decades that followed, Meng Shujuan recalled in horror one after another that Nanjing, China, fell so quickly in December 1937.
The night before the fall of Nanjing, Father Ingeman and Vice Priest Adonador rushed to the river with Shujuan and sixteen female students from Wilson's Girls' School to catch a ferry to Pukou.
In the evening, a group of seriously wounded people suddenly arrived at the crossing, all wounded by their own gunshots, who were sniped by friendly units who had not received the order to withdraw from the front line halfway through the emergency retreat order.
The friendly forces, out of guilt, frantically grabbed boats at the ferry, and the priests and schoolgirls lost their ferry. Father Ingeman and Adonado could only take advantage of the night to send sixteen schoolgirls back to the church through the alley, thinking of finding an opportunity to send them away again.
On December 13, 1937, Nanjing fell.
The next day, at dawn, the schoolgirls were awakened by the crying of women downstairs, and they got up and peeked out of the window of the small attic, where several women in satin robes and flowers sat on the walls of the church.
The women were debauched, vulgar and noisy, and the deputy priest Abi was driving them away with a stick. Telling them that there is no food or drink here, and that a few more mouths will only make everyone starve to death and die of thirst. Then a woman of twenty-four or five suddenly knelt down to Father Ingemann:
"Our lives are not precious, and we are not worthy of your rescue, but we only want to die well, and even if we are cheap, we deserve to die a good death, and we will die without sin."
"The woman's kneeling back took root, but her shoulders and waist never stopped expressing."
At this time, a woman fell into the arms of the church cook Agu, and slept on Agu's body, and the mink coat slipped and scattered, revealing a shiny body.
Ah Gu fled with a frightened "ah" sound, and the women on the wall jumped in from the wall.
In this way, these women, with their own tricks and rogues, successfully squeezed into Wilson's Church.
Educated in the Oriental tradition, the female students with pure hearts are ashamed and embarrassed to see these kiln sisters, and their hearts are despised, and this kind of shameless thing is simply a shame for women!
In Meng Shujuan's heart, she deeply remembered the beautiful woman with the back, and she later learned from Fabi that these women were prostitutes of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, and the kneeling women were the head of the Qinhuai River, called Zhao Yumo.
Zhao Yumo in the movie
At noon the next day, the awakened kiln sisters began to go to the kitchen to rummage through the boxes and cabinets to find something to eat, and the female students quarreled with these kiln sisters for a biscuit, and bluntly said, "You are not worthy to come to the church to take refuge, insulting the sanctity of the church."
Red Ling was so angry that he began to scold, you guys who don't have a face... Hong Ling swallowed half of his words, and his mouth was covered by Zhao Yumo, who heard the movement and rushed to him, and was forcibly taken away from the kitchen by Zhao Yumo.
Among this group of female students, meng Shujuan and Xu Xiaoyu have a very delicate relationship, Xu Xiaoyu's father is one of the richest people in Jiangnan, and the arrogant Meng Shujuan feels that only such a girl is worthy of being her friend, but Xu Xiaoyu's beauty makes Meng Shujuan feel that beautiful women are most likely to hurt others.
She secretly disobeyed Xu Xiaoyu, because Xu Xiaoyu was at the top of her homework and her appearance was also beautiful, and with Xiao Yu, she might never have the day when She Meng Shujuan came out. Xu Xiaoyu's father was out doing business, and Nanjing fell too quickly to pick up Xu Xiaoyu.
Xu Xiaoyu believes that one day her father will come to pick her up and leave, and she also bribes the hearts of all the female students stranded in Wilson's Church with the empty words of her father to rescue her, except for the arrogant Meng Shujuan.
Nanjing in 1937 was cold and cruel, but in the young and pure soul of 13-year-old Meng Shujuan, she hated the Japanese soldiers who burned and plundered outside the church, but this hatred was far less concrete and real than the contempt for the flowery kiln sisters in the church and the jealousy between her classmates.
Wilson's Church is an American church, and Father Ingeman has always felt at ease with the neutrality it possessed in the war, which is the only bargaining chip he thinks can keep the girls safe.
Wilson Church
But he and these children could not have imagined that on the night of the fall of Nanjing, it would quietly lose its neutral position.
A Chinese soldier with a serious chest injury quietly sneaked over the walls of the church and hid in the church cemetery.
The soldier was the regimental deputy of the Second Regiment of the Seventy-third Division of the Nationalist Army, a twenty-nine-year-old major.
Meng Shujuan remembers that the major surnamed Dai was a "born soldier with ideals", a person who was a soldier for the sake of ideals and not for the sake of mixed meals.
Major Dai lurked in the church for two days, and the water of the baptistery behind the church fed him.
At five o'clock in the morning of December 15, the sound of gunfire was intensely sounded on the Nanjing River, and that night, the door of Wilson's Church was knocked on, and it was the Japanese who sent the burial team to bring two surviving Chinese soldiers, And father Ingeman and Adonado resolutely refused to take in the Chinese soldiers, because they believed that the admission of Chinese soldiers would undermine the neutrality of the church and pose a great risk to the female students.
In the darkness, Major Dai took a gun and secretly pressed it against Father Ingemann's chest, the soldier at the door made a painful and dying struggle sound, the soldier who was standing had the bare tendons on the back of his legs, And Father Ingeman stood silently like a statue, and at this moment, the kind and benevolent Father Ingemann once again compromised in front of reality.
But the priest's only request was that all the weapons be handed in: "I only take in the refugees in Need of Help in China, and with the weapons I will lose the superiority of protecting the children." ”
Major Dai reluctantly handed over his weapons, just as Father Ingemann reluctantly took in three Chinese soldiers.
The wounded soldier told Major Dai that the Japanese were massacring Chinese soldiers, and more than 5,000 Chinese soldiers were killed by the river without resistance.
Xu Xiaoyu's father finally came to take her away and took away the two classmates who were usually the most considerate and obedient to Xu Xiaoyu. Meng Shujuan later learned that In order to return to Nanjing to pick up Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu's father sold a storefront house in Macau, used the money to do business with the Japanese, and sold the Japanese a little backbone and conscience.
Under the nest, Ann has finished eggs.
The war finally burned down on the church.
For the first time, Japanese soldiers snatched Father Ingeman's car, the old Ford;
The second time, the Japanese shōsa ordered the killing of unarmed Chinese soldiers.
The Japanese no longer believed in the neutrality of the American Wilson Church as Father Ingeman called it, and when they stepped into Wilson's Church for the third time, they demanded that Father Ingeman hand over the female students to attend the Christmas party organized by senior Japanese military officers.
Looking at the Japanese soldiers standing in the church, Father Ingeman compromised, knowing that he could not hide anymore and could only exchange his life for his life.
It was cruel, but Father Ingemann had no choice simply because they weren't pure enough.
But he couldn't say it. He pushed open the door heavily, but found Zhao Yumo standing by the door with her sister, ready for sacrifice, and asked Wilson Church to take away the students' choir dresses.
Meng Shujuan did not see Zhao Yumo and his party leave with her own eyes. But she knew that it was the prostitutes she despised the most who had saved them at a crucial moment.
At dinner that day, each student ate double portions of potato soup, and the students prayed all day for them to leave, but now that they were finally gone, Meng Shujuan was in the same pain as her heart, and she did not expect that her prayer had become a vicious incantation.
That night, a Western lady in the safety zone, Wei Telin, drove them away in an ambulance and escorted them out of Nanjing after several turns.
My aunt Meng Shujuan spent her life searching for the whereabouts of these women, and when I was twenty-nine years old, she completed the heaviest mission of her life.
Zhao Yumo was the only one of the thirteen women who survived.
Two resisted the attempt with a steak knife and were killed on the spot;
The remaining 11, after the Japanese officers had had enough, were sent to comfort stations, some of them fell ill and died, and some committed suicide.
My aunt told me that after leaving the church, she and her classmates often came up with the mantra of the kiln sisters, or came up with the minor tunes they sang, all subconsciously.
When quarrels arise, they are also rude and unforgiving.
They finally understood the women who had been looked down upon by them, and it turned out that everything was really nothing, even men and women, wasn't that the same thing?
Time has passed, the female students have finally grown up, and they have finally completely seen the women they regard as vulgar, and finally understand that people's nobility is not in identity, but in the heart.