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In 2005, an 87-year-old man named Li Xiurong was paralyzed in bed and wept silently. She held a family photo with difficulty with her only movable hand, and kept muttering about a person named "连楼".
The old man's daughter Zhao Lianqin was heartbroken after seeing it. She knew that her mother was on her deathbed, and her only last wish was to let her son Zhao Liandong come back to see her.
But Zhao Lianqin knew that his brother would not come back. Ever since he went to Japan, he had become a different person.
He forgot the 40 years of humiliation his adoptive parents had suffered for him, and turned into a ruthless white-eyed wolf.
So why did Mr. Li Xiurong take in Japanese children in the first place? What happened to the 40 years of humiliation? Why is Zhao Liandong so ungrateful and callous?
Chinese couple adopts orphans of Japanese invaders
One day in November 1945, there was a snowstorm on the streets of Harbin. Unfortunately, it was bitingly cold under the beautiful snow scenery.
At this time, next to a remote garbage dump, a little boy named Shozo Noita was dying.
His hands and feet were ulcerated, and his whole body was as cold as ice.
Even if he was wearing a thick cotton coat, he couldn't feel the warmth, and he didn't even have the strength to breathe to keep warm.
After his father disappeared, Nobata Shozo's life fell from heaven to hell.
lives on the streets, and being hungry and cold has become an inevitable experience for him every day. It's not that he never thought about going home, but he was already "homeless".
People he knew suddenly disappeared, and the people here spoke a language he couldn't understand at all.
He wanted to ask passers-by for help, but the smiles of passers-by who were originally friendly froze and frowned after hearing his first words.
Noita Shozo's heart fell to the bottom, and he cried aggrievedly, feeling that the world was full of malice towards him.
All the sufferings Noita Shozo encountered were the sins of his country.
In 1931, the September 18th Incident broke out.
In order to invade China, the Japanese invaders annexed the three northeastern provinces.
In order to consolidate colonial rule and completely turn Northeast China into Japanese land, the Japanese army not only conducted "enslavement" education for the local people, but also adopted the method of invading immigrants.
Japan continues to migrate its citizens to the Northeast. These Japanese immigrants are called the "Pioneering Group".
The so-called development is to expand territory in China for Japan.
Japanese immigrants became the "upper class" in the Northeast. They took away fertile land and expelled hard-working Chinese people from their homes where they had lived for generations.
The displaced Chinese people became coolies and laborers of the Japanese army, and had to endure bullying, beatings, burning, killing, and looting by the Japanese.
The Japanese fascists tried to freeze and starve the Chinese people to death, and finally completely colonized the Northeast and became the rear area of Japan's invasion of China.
Fortunately, the Japanese conspiracy did not come true. With the support of anti-fascist forces around the world, China achieved victory in the Anti-Japanese War .
On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender. At this time, Japan had successfully immigrated 320,000 people to Chinese soil.
As part of the Japanese army that invaded China, the "Pioneering Group" knew that their evil deeds would inevitably be punished. When everyone heard the news of Japan's defeat, they panicked and fled in all directions.
The Japanese invaders regarded their own escape as the first priority. In order to escape by boat as soon as possible, they did not take care of their children at home.
As for their family members, the Japanese can only hope that the Chinese can give their old, weak, women and children a way to survive.
Many Japanese children were abandoned by their fathers in this environment and stranded in China, and Shozo Noita was one of them.
It's just that he is much luckier than other children.
40 years of "abuse"
Li Xiurong is from Wuqiao, Hebei Province. She and her husband Zhao Fengxiang settled at No. 35, Tai'an South 20th Street, Taiping District, Harbin.
They are a loving couple. After many years of marriage, they gave birth to a daughter.
Li Xiurong's family
The daughter is called Zhao Lianqin, who is cute and cute. They make a living by selling vegetables and need to work early in the morning and come home late every day. Their families are extremely poor.
But they did not complain about the misfortunes that life brought them, but instead lived with incomparable tenacity and courage.
But their peaceful life was broken by an uninvited guest. After that, Li Xiurong was humiliated and tortured for 40 years.
One day in November 1945, Zhao Fengxiang, who was out selling vegetables, ran back home holding a sleeping little boy with a bloodless face.
The little boy was wearing a Japanese cotton coat and Japanese boots, and was still mumbling. The boy's accent was exactly the same as that of the Japanese invaders. In the chaos of war, Li Xiurong immediately understood what was going on.
A different emotion arose in her heart. Looking at her husband's pleading eyes, Li Xiurong finally nodded. She understood that the Japanese were at great fault, but the children were innocent and they could not ignore them.
In order to save the child, they found hot soup and rice and fed it into his mouth. They took off his wet clothes and put on his daughter's thick leather jacket.
Under careful care day and night, the boy's face finally had color.
The couple also took out the savings they had saved for a long time. They used the money to hire a doctor for the boy to nurse him back to health.
Although life at home has become more difficult, Li Xiurong and his wife have no complaints at all. As long as their children grow up healthily, no matter how hard they are, it will be worth it.
After the boy recovered, Li Xiurong and his wife gave him a Chinese name: Zhao Liandong.
From then on, Zhao Liandong became a part of the family. Zhao Lianqin has always been an only child, and the sudden addition of a brother made her very excited.
Li Xiurong and his wife were also happy that their children were in harmony, but Zhao Liandong still faced arrest by the Soviet Red Army.
For this reason, Li Xiurong and his wife burned his Japanese clothes and began to teach him Chinese.
The wish of Mr. and Mrs. Li Xiurong was that Zhao Liandong would become an ordinary Chinese child. Unfortunately, things went counter to their wishes. Zhao Liandong did not give them any peace of mind at all.
They first sent Zhao Liandong to study in a Chinese school, hoping that he would become a well-behaved, sensible, and well-educated child.
Because he could not speak Chinese well, Zhao Liandong was ridiculed by his classmates after a roll call in class.
Zhao Liandong, whose self-esteem was humiliated, became more rebellious and mischievous. He not only dropped out of school, but also often went out to cause trouble..
After the conflict broke out, Zhao Liandong cursed the neighbor's children in Japanese. After hearing this, the neighbor's children quickly ran home and told their parents.
"There is actually a little Japs here!"
The neighbors spread the news one by one, and finally everyone knew that there was a Japs in the village.
The angry villagers came to Li Xiurong's house and wanted an explanation.
Mr. and Mrs. Li Xiurong knew that the matter they had been trying to hide had been exposed. Seeing the massive questioning, they felt annoyed and guilty.
The Japanese committed unforgivable crimes against China, and the entire village was a victim.
Countless of their relatives and friends died at the hands of the Japanese.
Even the villagers themselves narrowly escaped death and suffered from displacement. One can imagine their resentment towards Zhao Liandong.
The villagers demanded that the Japanese Japs be driven away. Li Xiurong and his wife couldn't bear it when they saw the aggrieved and innocent look in Zhao Liandong's eyes.
For this reason, they, who were originally respected, became notorious "traitors" in the village and were considered a disgrace to the Chinese people.
Faced with the insults and disgust from the villagers, Li Xiurong and his wife cried for countless days and nights.
For this Japanese adopted son, the couple suffered countless hardships, and they swallowed it with tears every time. However, their suffering is far from over.
In 1955, Li Xiurong became pregnant, and the couple's originally depressed mood began to improve.
They gradually forgot about the unsatisfactory life and put their infinite hope in this new life.
Full of joy, the child is already seven months old. He often kicks around in Li Xiurong's belly. She can clearly feel the child's existence.
At this time, Li Xiurong was pushed by a neighbor and was stillborn.
The neighbor’s surname is Wang, and he is a very poor Chinese.
During the war of aggression against China, his whole family was destroyed by the Japanese invaders.
Wang cannot retaliate with kindness. Hatred has been torturing his heart for many years.
When he was alone, he hated the Japanese the most except the Japanese.
Therefore, he felt resentful every time he saw "traitor" Li Xiurong, and the conflicts between them could not be effectively resolved.
After a quarrel, a hot-headed and irrational Wang made an irreparable mistake against Li Xiurong.
After the miscarriage, Li Xiurong was informed by her doctor that she could no longer be pregnant.
But Li Xiurong, who suffered endless pain, could not blame Wang. She lost her child, and Wang lost his relative.
The adopted son was ungrateful after returning to Japan.
The pain of losing her child made Li Xiurong increasingly haggard. In order to start a new life, she no longer had to accept the abuse from her neighbors.
In 1955, Li Xiurong's family was forced to move to Wuqiao, Hebei.
Returning to her hometown again after many years, Li Xiurong felt mixed emotions.
She slowly remembered the bad memories she had in Hebei. These memories faded away after she went to Harbin, but the familiar yet unfamiliar environment made the memories clear again.
These memories are related to what happened to her natal relatives and are her eternal nightmare.
Li Xiurong's uncle is called Li Wanhe, and he was originally an ordinary and ordinary Chinese man.
But in 1938, in order to save an insulted Chinese woman from the Japanese army, his limbs were chopped off and his stomach was disemboweled by the Japanese army.
The dazzling blood made Li Wanhe's brother Li Wanxiang (Li Xiurong's father) unable to restrain his urge for revenge, and eventually he died at the hands of the Japanese army.
His death was as tragic as his brother's. He was nailed to the wall with twelve nails by the Japanese army.
Li Xiurong couldn't help but choke up when thinking of the tragic death of his father and uncle.
She hated the Japanese, and she had questioned whether her decision was correct or not. However, Zhao Liandong had been raised by the couple and had long been regarded as their own son. How could she be angry with him because of the wrong things done by others.
After letting go of the painful past, Li Xiurong's family quickly started a new life in Hebei, and their life got better and better.
's adopted son Zhao Liandong has matured as he grows older. Not only does he no longer play with other children, he also learns pure Chinese.
As their adopted son has integrated into the Chinese environment, the abuse Li Xiurong's family has received has almost disappeared.
As an adult, Zhao Liandong learned skills and went to work in Tianjin Power Machinery Factory. In 1958, he married a wife and had children.
Seeing her grandchildren being born one by one, Li Xiurong felt the joy of a family relationship.
When Zhao Fengxiang passed away in 1970, Li Xiurong, who had suffered for half his life, had only his children to rely on.
No matter how much suffering he suffered in the past, Li Xiurong thought that this would be forever when he saw his adopted son Zhao Liandong getting married and starting a family and respecting his parents like an ordinary Chinese.
At this time, she didn't know that people's hearts are fickle. She didn't know what Zhao Liandong was really thinking deep inside.
With the continuous improvement of China's comprehensive national strength, in 1972 Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations were normalized .
In the 1990s, Sino-Japanese relations further heated up. Not only do the two countries have close economic exchanges, there are more and more official consultation organizations, and cultural exchanges have been fully developed.
In December 1992, with the support of his adoptive mother, Zhao Liandong ran back to Japan to find his relatives.
According to Zhao Liandong, he just wants to know his life experience and see if his biological parents are doing well. He will come back soon.
Li Xiurong believed what Zhao Liandong said. From that day on, she began a long wait, but she never waited to get her son Zhao Liandong back.
In February 1994, when a familiar figure appeared in front of Li Xiurong, Li Xiurong cried excitedly.
But before she was happy for long, Zhao Liandong's words immediately shattered her expectations.
"My original name was Noita Shozo, and now I am here to take my wife and children back to Yokohama, Japan."
" Noita Shozo? " Li Xiurong muttered the name silently, feeling despair in his heart, and his eyes were filled with tears again.
After Zhao Lianqin heard about this incident, he hurriedly ran to save his brother.
But Noita Shozo had made up his mind, and with everyone thinking about him, he left without any hesitation.
Noita Shosankai made such a cruel decision after careful consideration.
Since being adopted by the Chinese, Japan has become a distant memory for him. Decades of living in China have changed him. He can speak fluent Chinese and is familiar with Chinese culture.
Anyone who meets him has no doubt that he is a Chinese, but he knows that he is not Chinese.
In his childhood, many Chinese children told him this fact.
"You are a little Japanese, you are not Chinese."
The neighbor's children looked at him with hatred, and his classmates at school laughed at him. Countless resentments and supercilious glances came towards him alone.
Noita Shozo firmly remembers his identity as " a child of Japanese devils ".
Noita Shozo knew about the enmity between China and Japan. His adoptive mother Li Xiurong, his father and uncle died tragically at the hands of the Japanese.
Therefore, many relatives hate him. A Chinese uncle once insulted his adoptive mother for taking him in as " not knowing the shame of the country and the hatred of the family. ".
As an object of hatred, he is unwilling to live in China forever.
What's more, China's economy at the end of the 20th century was not as good as Japan's.
For the sake of career and to give his wife and children a better life, Nobata Shozo wants to be a Japanese in his last life.
From then on, Nobata Shozo refused to go home no matter when it was a holiday or when his adoptive mother was sick. Zhao Lianqin wrote to his brother Zhao Liandong, but countless envelopes disappeared without any response.
In addition, the Zhao family also discovered something that was enough to prove Nobata Shozo's indifference.
The Japanese government has a policy: Chinese who have adopted Japanese orphans can go to the Japanese public security department to fill out a form and receive financial compensation.
However, Shozo Noita took away the subsidy in the name of his adoptive mother, and the Zhao family could not get any return for their decades of kindness.
Li Xiurong still deceived himself and said: "No son wants to miss his mother. I don't believe that he doesn't want to come back to see me."
However, 11 years have passed, and Li Xiurong, who was suffering from illness, has reached the end of his life.
She shed all her tears, but she still had not waited for this day.
Once upon a time, in order to save innocent Japanese children, a Chinese couple suffered humiliation for forty years.
However, not everyone in this world knows how to repay kindness. Having expectations from a person without a conscience will only bring you pain.
This also tells us that not everyone deserves to be treated sincerely.
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Reference:
Qingdao News Network: "Orphans of Japanese invaders refused to visit their sick Chinese adoptive mothers after returning to China"
