Since modern times, Japan has brought great suffering to China. Since the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1898, Japan has never stopped invading China. After the September 18th Incident, they regarded Northeast China as their own territory, and gradually began to systematically dispatch " development teams" from their own countries in an attempt to occupy Northeast China forever.
History has proved that invaders will not end well. On August 15, 1945, the Japanese Emperor announced his surrender. The Japanese "immigrants" who used to be domineering in the past instantly became street rats. A few with connections can find opportunities to return to the country, and most of them have to live on wandering.
The winter that year happened to be a bit cold. Of the 1.55 million Japanese who stayed in the Northeast, about 170,000 were either frozen to death or starved to death. More than 5,000 Japanese died in Fangzheng County, Heilongjiang alone.
Originally, the number of deaths was even higher, but many kind-hearted Chinese people saw how pitiful they were and chose to take them in, thus saving many lives.
In 1946, the Communist Party, the United States, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan began to organize the repatriation of Japanese nationals stranded in Northeast China, and these Japanese returned to their country one after another. However, during the implementation process, the group of Japanese orphans was in a very embarrassing situation due to issues such as identification.
The Japanese government was in a mess at that time. It had the mentality that one thing would be worse than one thing less and was not willing to take care of it at all. Therefore, these Japanese orphans were unable to board the ship. In the end, the kind-hearted Chinese people took them in.
However, such kind deeds may not necessarily be rewarded. A Chinese couple withstood the pressure and humiliation to adopt a Japanese orphan for 40 years, but what they got was the most chilling ending.
In November 1945, when the temperature in the Northeast was very cold, a small vendor Zhao Fengxiang in Taiping District, Harbin rushed to the market with a cart to sell vegetables. On the way, he met two Japanese pulling a child. They kept chatting with passers-by with pleading eyes, but the others hurried past and ignored them.
When Zhao Fengxiang passed by, the two people also walked over, pushed the child next to them, and spoke a string of Japanese. Although Zhao Fengxiang didn't understand, he could understand the meaning by looking at their expressions and gestures.
This puts Zhao Fengxiang in a difficult position. From a national perspective, he is unwilling to adopt this Japanese child. After all, he himself has been bullied by the Japanese in recent years. But after the other party's repeated requests, Zhao Fengxiang still felt compassion. Seeing that the child was wearing thin clothes and had frostbite on his face and hands, he finally agreed.
This little boy’s Japanese name is Nosaka Shozo. He was born in 1941. His parents were unable to get an extra quota to return to China, so they could only give him to the Chinese to help raise him. When the disaster came, it was not just the couple who flew away separately.
After Zhao Fengxiang closed the stall that day, he took Nosaka Shozo home. When he was approaching the door of the house, he felt a little uneasy and didn't know how to talk to his wife Li Xiurong. Because Li Xiurong's father and uncle both died fighting the Japanese invaders, but now he has to raise a Japanese descendant. Will his wife agree? After thinking about it, Zhao Fengxiang decided to confess.
Li Xiurong was indeed surprised when she heard about it, but when she saw the child's pitiful appearance, she didn't say anything, turned around and went back to the stove to continue cooking.
After the meal was ready, Li Xiurong looked at the Japanese child carefully at the dining table. The frostbite all over his body and the fearful look in his eyes made her really hate it. She acquiesced in her husband's choice and asked her three-year-old daughter Zhao Lianqin to sit with the child. After eating, she let them play together.
The couple considered that the neighbors around them hated the Japanese and were afraid of being looked at strangely, so they changed Nosaka Shozo's Chinese name Zhao Liandong , and burned all the clothes, shoes and socks they originally wore with Japanese traces.
But there is no airtight wall in this world. How could such a big child who can speak Japanese appear out of thin air and hide it from others? Soon the news that Zhao Fengxiang's family adopted a Japanese boy spread around.
After that, people often passed by their house and would make sarcastic and sarcastic remarks. Some even called the couple directly in front of them as traitors. After all, the sons of countless Chinese families died at the hands of the Japanese, but then the Chinese had to raise the sons of their enemies. Many people could not accept it.
Li Xiurong would argue with others at first, but as time went by, he felt powerless. Even if it was very unpleasant, he could only pretend to turn a deaf ear.
Two years later, when Zhao Liandong reached school age, Li Xiurong and his wife sent their two children to the same primary school and the same class in order to have someone to take care of them. Li Xiurong was worried that other students would be discriminated against if he spoke Japanese, so he told Zhao Liandong that it was best to speak Chinese to communicate with others.
But Zhao Liandong has passed the stage of language enlightenment and does not speak Chinese very well. In order not to be noticed by others, he basically does not speak and has very few friends.
Once the teacher asked him to answer a question in class, but he was not very familiar with his Chinese name. It took him a long time to realize that he was calling himself. When he answered the question, his mouth was full of Japanese accent, which attracted ridicule and ridicule from other students. This made Zhao Liandong blush instantly, and he became even more withdrawn from then on.
When he was in the third grade, he had an argument with his classmates. The other party called him a "Japanese X", which made him feel humiliated. After returning home, he told Li Xiurong that he did not want to go to school anymore and only wanted to do some hard work with his adoptive father Zhao Fengxiang. Li Xiurong tried to persuade her several times to no avail, so she had no choice but to follow his wishes.
In 1953, the son of Zhao Fengxiang and Li Xiurong was born, but the couple still treated Zhao Liandong very well and did not treat their Japanese son differently because they had their own son.
In 1955, this family finally experienced a big change. Their neighbors had a bloody feud with the Japanese invaders. Several members of the family were killed by the Japanese invaders. Therefore, since Zhao Liandong was adopted, the two families had quarrels from time to time. But this winter the quarrel was particularly serious.
Li Xiurong fell to the ground while pushing each other. Normally, a fall would be painful at most, but at this moment, Li Xiurong still had a child in her belly. After being sent to the hospital, the child could not be saved, and Li Xiurong lost her fertility forever.
This incident made Li Xiurong particularly sad. They also knew that they could no longer live here, so they prepared to move their family to Li Xiurong's natal family. However, Li Xiurong's brother learned that there was a Japanese child on the trip and refused to let them in, so they had to live in a foreign country for a few years.
Zhao Fengxiang and Li Xiurong are really great from a certain perspective. For a child who can be called the "son of the enemy", they hurt their bodies, offended the people around them, and even refused to recognize their close relatives. This kind of sacrifice is really not something ordinary people can do!
In 1958, there was a craze for large-scale industrial development across the country. Zhao Liandong and his sister Zhao Lianqin both responded to the call and actively participated in it. Zhao Lianqin went to Ningxia and later settled there, and took Zhao Fengxiang and Li Xiurong with him. Zhao Liandong worked in Tianjin, successfully married a wife and gave birth to 5 children.
At that time, Zhao Liandong would still take his whole family to visit his adoptive parents during the holidays, and they seemed to be enjoying themselves.
After China and Japan established diplomatic relations in the 1970s, relations between the two countries improved a lot. Later, Japanese people came to China one after another to look for their children left behind, and some Japanese orphans traveled eastward to look for their parents. This kind of separation of flesh and blood caused by human factors is very topical. Many Japanese media have begun to follow up, and the Japanese government has also begun to pay attention to this issue.
After Zhao Liandong heard the news, his heart began to stir. His childhood experience had a great impact on him, so he never fully identified himself as a Chinese.
Zhao Fengxiang had passed away at that time. Zhao Liandong told his adoptive mother the idea of going to Japan. Unexpectedly, Li Xiurong agreed very much. At this time, Li Xiurong only thought that Zhao Liandong was a child who never forgot his roots and his filial piety was commendable, so she made a special trip back to Harbin and found some old people from the past to help confirm Zhao Liandong's Japanese identity.
There happened to be a local non-governmental organization following up on the Japanese orphans. After confirming his identity, Zhao Lian Dong was quickly sent to Japan. There was also an association there that helped, and Zhao Liandong successfully found his blood relatives who were still alive.
A few months later, Zhao Liandong returned to China. He told Li Xiurong that he had found his biological father and that Japan had a policy that any descendant of a Japanese could obtain Japanese citizenship, so he came back this time to take his family to settle in Japan.
Li Xiurong was a little surprised and a little sad. After all, the kindness of raising her for decades could not compare to that of flesh and blood. But she also understands that blood ties are often irreplaceable.
More than a year later, Zhao Liandong, who had changed his name to Nosaka Shozo, moved back to Japan with his wife, children and grandchildren. Before leaving, he said that he would never forget his adoptive mother and sister.
However, since the separation, the two parties have lost contact. Nosaka Shozo has not sent a letter back, which makes Li Xiurong extremely disappointed. She can only deceive herself on the grounds that her adopted son is too busy, hoping that her adopted son will come back to see her.
In 2001, Li Xiurong was paralyzed in bed due to a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. Since then, her body has been very weak. She still murmurs the name of her adopted son from time to time. Seeing that her mother's time was running out, Zhao Lianqin couldn't bear that her mother would leave with regrets, so she tried her best to contact her eldest niece.
This eldest niece is the eldest daughter of Nosaka Shozo. When the family was still in China, Zhao Lianqin had a very good relationship with her eldest niece. But after hearing Zhao Lianqin's request, the eldest niece said that their family would never come to China again. Zhao Lianqin said angrily: Could it be that my mother wanted to see her before she died, but he didn't come back?
The eldest niece remained silent. Many times, silence is the default.
Zhao Lianqin did not dare to tell her mother, but seeing her mother in pain all the time, she still had a glimmer of hope, so she and her husband Zhao Xiaodong went to Japan to search. It was not easy to get the address, but Nosaka Shozo disappeared behind closed doors and would not respond no matter how he called. With no other choice, Zhao Lianqin and her husband had no choice but to return to China.
In 2015, Li Xiurong passed away, and Nosaka Shozo did not appear in the end. During that trip to Japan, Zhao Lianqin also learned something.
Shortly after Nosaka Shozo returned to Japan, the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare approached Nosaka Shozo and told him that Chinese families who adopted Japanese orphans could also go to Japan or receive a certain amount of compensation, etc., and asked him if he needed to contact the Chinese families who adopted him.
However, Nosaka Shozo refused on the grounds that "the person involved was illiterate." Such behavior is really chilling.
How to put it, in fact, these Japanese orphans or the second and third generations of orphans are relatively pitiful. Whether in China or Japan, they have never been able to integrate. Therefore, there is a mafia organization in Japan called "nuluoquan", which was developed by a group of orphans and second-generation orphans to stay together for warmth.
Chinese people do not regard these people as Chinese, and Japanese people do not regard these people as Japanese. They cannot find a sense of belonging and will definitely have psychological problems.
However, these are not the reasons for Nosaka Shozo not to repay his kindness. No matter what other people think, Li Xiurong and his wife always regard him as their son and have never asked for anything. However, he was treated with such indifference and they were unwilling to see him before they died. It is no exaggeration to call people like
white-eyed wolves.
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