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Chapter 375 Nanyang, that is paradise (second update, please subscribe)

The reason why people live is to... live better.

This is true for everyone, regardless of China or foreign countries.

Even though two years have passed, Yu Aizawa still remembers the moment before noon on August 8th.

She was working in the fields at the time when she saw a messenger running from the village. As he ran, he shouted that the emperor would conduct a "tamune broadcast" at noon, and then walked away.

Compared with this news, even the news that the United States has sunk to the bottom of the sea cannot be more shocking.

The Emperor is going to speak!

The emperor never spoke directly to his subjects; until now, his words had always been conveyed in the form of "emperor's edicts." Either the text of the edict was printed, or the edict was read by others in fear.

Until now, Aizawa Yuu still remembers that she ran back to the village as fast as everyone else, constantly reciting a sentence from the "Education Rescript", which everyone must recite and recite every day since they were students. Keep it in mind.

"Once a crisis comes," the "Edict" says, "you must sacrifice your lives for the empire righteously." Yu Aizawa clearly knows that the country's situation is at stake. Last year, the Japanese army invaded Kyushu, and last year's famine was also used by Western monsters. How many people died of starvation due to chemical weapons. She could only imagine that the Emperor would inspire every Japanese to make greater efforts to support the war—in fact, to be prepared to fight to the death.

The villagers gathered in front of the only radio in the village. This radio could only listen to the only channel of the national radio station, and the reception quality was very poor. The emperor's speech was surrounded by crackling noise, and the content of his speech was difficult to understand. Understand, the emperor's voice was high, his tone was reserved and unnatural. He did not use everyday spoken language, but a very formal language, mixed with ancient idioms from time to time. Aizawa Yuu, who was kneeling on the ground, was talking to other people in the crowd. While exchanging glances, she heard a man who had recently moved here because of the famine talk to himself.

"That is to say..." the man murmured. "Japan was defeated."

Aizawa Yu felt that all the strength was drained from her body. She didn't know whether it was hunger or sadness. As soon as her eyesight went dark, she fainted. When she woke up, she found that she was still sleeping on the ground, under her The other people around him who were hit also fell to the ground.

The emperor's voice disappeared, but the radio continued to buzz, and an announcer was broadcasting. His words were deeply imprinted in Aizawa Yu's mind - "The Imperial Japanese Army will be disarmed and Allowed to be repatriated."

This made Yu Aizawa suddenly full of hope. Her husband, who was drafted and sent to Manchuria, might be coming back. That day, she prayed from day to night, "Please let my husband not commit suicide." "What she is most worried about now is that her husband will commit suicide as a soldier's duty.

In fact, Aizawa Yuu thought too much, but she believed that many Japanese might choose death rather than the humiliation of defeat. It was not unrealistic. After all, for many years, soldiers in Japan were prohibited from surrendering. They were warned that There is nothing more shameful than surrendering. When the flames of war reached the Japanese mainland, the civilians were also instilled with the concept of fighting to the death. "It is better to be broken than to be destroyed." However, after the emperor's Yuyin was broadcast, he chose "broken jade" "There are actually fewer people than imagined. Only a few hundred people committed suicide. The vast majority of them were officers, and almost all of them were low-level officers. This number is almost equivalent to the number of officers who committed suicide when Germany surrendered. Germany simply does not have the crazy "belief" in committing suicide and sacrificing one's country like Japan does.

In other words, the so-called 100 million pieces of jade is actually just to coax the common people, and few people will believe it at all. No one among ordinary people would believe it, and no one at the top would believe it.

In any case, for Aizawa Yu, the war was over, but she did not wait for her husband, only waited for the news of his death - he was sent to Siberia by the Russians and died in the ice and snow of Siberia.

How can Aizawa Yuu continue to live after losing her husband?

In the winter before the surrender, many people starved to death because there was no food. Now after the surrender, they are still hungry.

It was at this time, when the whole family was suffering from hunger, that her mother-in-law kowtowed to her and begged:

"How about you go to Nanyang to work? At least you can get a few months of food. That way the whole family can survive."

In the past two years, the radio and newspapers have been full of advertisements for recruiting female workers in Nanyang. As long as you are willing to go there, you can get more than 330 kilograms of rice, not only food and accommodation, but also earn yen a month. salary.

In order for her family to survive, she said:

"Well, I will go. I will take Ashin with me. If Ashin goes, I will go. If I don't take Ashin, I won't go."

Ashin is her daughter. Although she is only five years old, she must keep her daughter with her no matter what. After all, that winter two years ago, many people even killed their own children in order to survive, and then... Therefore, she did not dare to leave her daughter here.

She was not the only one to go. The next day, her neighbor Ahua came over and told her that she was going to Nanyang. "It was said on the radio that every day in Nanyang is like a festival. You can wear beautiful new clothes and eat as much white rice as you want. Ayou, why don't you come with me?"

Aizawa Yu said without hesitation:

"I'll go as well."

By coincidence, Miyoko on the side also said:

"I also want to go to Nanyang. I heard that there are dances there every day. All the girls will wear beautiful Nanyang skirts and dance under the lanterns, just like the rich people in Tokyo in the movie. Let's go together!"

Miyoko's home is at the foot of a mountain, and her land is full of rocks. No matter how much we till the land and fertilize, we can only harvest a few radishes and sweet potatoes. Instead of starving or starving to death, it is better to go to Nanyang to work.

In this way, a group of them walked together and took the train to Yokohama. There was a ship transporting laborers waiting for them in Yokohama. Yu Aizawa was not the only one with the child, but she was lucky, Ah The letter is a girl. If it is a boy, he cannot get on the ship. Of course, he can also throw the child away, and there are quite a few people who do this. Poverty fully exposes the dark side of human nature.

That night, when they checked into the warehouse at the dock, Yu Aizawa, Miyoko and the others found that they seemed to be in heaven - white rice.

"Mom, is this rice? Is it for us to eat?"

Looking at his daughter's longing eyes, Aizawa Yu nodded repeatedly and said.

"Yes Yes……"

In fact, she herself couldn't believe that the rice was for them.

Eating the rice in the bowl and feeling the sweetness of the white rice, she seemed to understand at this moment why her husband kept mentioning white rice in his letters to her.

Yes, there is no food in the world that tastes better than white rice.

"Mom, it would be great if I could eat it every day."

The daughter said from the side.

Eat white rice every day?

is it possible?

After sleeping in a crowded warehouse for a night, the next day they ate all white rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner. So much so that they even felt that it was a sin to eat white rice three times a day, and they did not dare to eat it for a long time. Put down the chopsticks.

But, on the third day, it was still white rice!

White rice, salted radish, if this life is not paradise, then where is paradise?

This is not how people live!

On the fourth day, the boat arrived and it took ten days to get to Borneo. The boat was very crowded, with people crowded next to each other. There was no place to sleep, only places to sit. People were crowded in there like animals. Fortunately, there was an exhaust fan above the head that kept blowing the wind. People in the cabin will not feel stuffy.

There are still many people crowded on the open deck. Because he has a child, Aizawa Yu was arranged into the cabin, but it is also very crowded here. It can only accommodate eight people in the cabin, and a full twenty-four people are crammed into it. Individuals, not including the three girls, could only sit there or take turns sleeping.

In this way, a landing ship packed with nearly 7,000 people slowly sailed away from Yokohama and headed towards Borneo.

You can actually eat white rice on the boat!

So like other people, although Yu Aizawa has not yet arrived in Nanyang, his heart has already reached Nanyang. Is that paradise?

A paradise where they can eat white rice every day.

(End of this chapter)