1. The material conditions of the accompanying city are very poor
1. Nankai Middle School is built in the suburbs, so it is stipulated that all students live on campus. My family lives two miles away and must also live on campus. At that time, vehicle traffic was almost impossible, with a wartime slogan: "A drop of gasoline and blood". I have not heard of anyone having a private car at home.
2. During the war, larger institutions and schools all use trumpets to determine the time for daily life and get out of class. Because I can't afford to buy a big clock during the migration, I can't dream of an electronic clock. Every day, it was six o'clock, and it was not yet dawn, so I blew the horns so loudly and persisted. We struggled to get up from the wooden bed crawling with bedbug , especially in winter, which is really a hard thing. When lined up on the playground, the fog in the mountain city was often so thick that it was impossible to see the face of the neighbor. Before morning fuck, Wang Wentian, director of the female middle school, often gave a speech. Almost everyone will never forget her for the rest of their lives. She said to us: "The heart is growing, and smoke is coming out on the head!"
3. When the first semester of the second grade of junior high school was about to end, the weather suddenly became very cold, and most of us had frostbite on the heels and fingers.
4. The day Li Xin'e got transferred to the class. The instructor took her to the door. He said loudly, "This is the freshman Li Xin'e." She was really short, in the seat of my left hand, and I was short and thin at that time.
5. Li Xin'e was the first guest I took home. She was as thin as me, and it attracted my mother's care. We only know that she is from Yunnan and her father is a soldier. She was transferred to Chongqing to garrison and brought her to Nankai, but her mother did not come. From then on, I invited her home almost every weekend. My mother knew that she was tortured by malaria and so she didn't grow taller, so she cared for her more, increased her nutrition, and treated her the same way as me.
6. In such a difficult environment, we don’t eat well every day, wear bad clothes, get bitten by bedbugs at night, run away from the alarm during the day, and don’t even let go of the night with moon.
7. During the war, many students had no money to buy books, so they calmly went to "Shiyu Chao Bookstore" to read one by one to absorb knowledge.
8. During the war, due to poor paper quality and difficult printing, there were some books that really touched me. After reading them a few more times, they would have worn marks.
2. Poor sanitary conditions
1. The biggest trouble in dormitory life is bed bugs. The bed bugs in the Nankai Middle School building were very quarrels. When we go home, we are not allowed to enter the house. We have to put our luggage in the yard first, then remove the quilt and wash it. If there are bed bugs, we will throw them away. Sometimes even the books are bed bugs. Mr. Zhang Zhongmou 's autobiography also wrote about bed bugs at Nankai Middle School, mentioning their protest to the school.
In order to deal with bed bugs, every few weeks, three or four of us girls carried their wooden bed boards to the steam room next to the boys' dormitory. The bed bugs on the bed boards would some of them smoked the bugs. Later I found it was useless because there were so many bed bugs that had entered the floor and ceiling, so I couldn't remove the house and burn it. In the evening, the dormitory will turn off the lights one or two hours later before the exam. When we work late at night, we will see the terrifying scene of strings of bed bugs climbing down the wires on the light bulb without a lampshade and directly connected to the wires. Even on the floor there are countless bed bugs crawling over from their feet.
We can only sleep while being crawled by insects, and no one will be unforgettable for life. Bed bugs are helpless and the school cannot solve them because there is no way to disinfect them at that time. There was no "DDF" during the War of Resistance Against Japan. If there were, it would be something amazing. We didn't escape the threat of bedbugs until we graduated and left. As for mosquitoes and flies, let alone. Even so, Nankai is already a very particular school, and there is a gauze cover in the restaurant. But no matter how particular you pay attention to it, it cannot stop the hygiene problems in difficult environments. Looking back on our teenage years, no one was not bitten by bedbugs. It's really not easy. Alas, the bed bug, which was as hateful as Japanese planes, almost entangled us. It's another nightmare. If I start writing about them, I'm afraid I can't stop writing. Those years were all dependent on young flesh and blood.
2. When I pass by Shapingba , I will definitely buy a large bag of peanuts, go to my father's small president's office, sit on the single bed where he was sleeping while reading the manuscript overnight (he has manuscripts on his desk, so we are not allowed to touch them). If he was not here, I would peel out a handful of the best peanuts and leave them in a small pot of earthen burnt tiles for him. Peanut peeling was about 40 years old in his time, especially in politics, and would never take the initiative. One day, he told me that I would never sit on his bed and eat again, because a mouse came to the bed the night before and bit his nose.
3. The fear of death
1. Chongqing, thirty miles away, is still under the vicious "fatigue bombardment" of Japanese planes, and cannot release the alarm day and night.
2. The two of us girls from the extreme north and southwest China became friends under the bombardment of the enemy. The feeling of truly sharing weal and woe is unimaginable to those who grew up in peace. Especially during the night air raid, halfway through the emergency alarm, the two fifteen-year-old girls shared the unsolved fear of the irresistible fear. It is probably two or three o'clock in the morning when the alarm is lifted. Removing the alarm is a long and slow sound, as if it is urging us to be very happy, and we are still alive. Hundreds of people stumbled towards the dormitory because they had not been asleep all night, and few were interested in looking up at the sky that had just brought death threats.
3. After the most violent fire in Chongqing that year, we chose a team of boy scouts representatives to walk into the city to go to the national crisis together. After walking for most of the time, the soldiers carried out countless charred corpses from the fire that had not been extinguished and transported from the army out of the city. The commander led the teacher: "What are these kids ( Sichuan dialect ) doing? Take them back quickly!"
We stood on the side of the road and cried desperately, singing: "We, we are young soldiers of the Chinese nation. Although we are young, we are very ambitious..." It is said that after returning to school, the teacher was remembered for a serious mistake. But those charred corpses stretched for ten miles and were my nightmare for half of my life.
4. The bombing was the most severe in the first year of high school, with heavy casualties.
5. On June 5, 1941, a Japanese plane hit Chongqing City at night, and a suffocation tragedy occurred in the Xiaochangkou tunnel, killing and injured about 30,000 citizens. The report pointed out that Japanese planes dropped bombs and exploded exits across the tunnel, blocking the escape route. Rescuers opened two or three exits in the fire. Most citizens in the tunnel had torn their clothes before suffocating, their chests and flesh were cracked, and their faces were full of struggle and pain, and very few survived.
6. On August 7, 1941, Japanese planes began to carry out "fatigue bombing" on Chongqing day and night. Almost every day, more than 100 planes exploded across Sichuan, and some small cities were half destroyed. The purpose was to destroy the Chinese people's defense of the War of Resistance. On the twelfth day, between one week, day and night, no six hours. The drinking water and lights in Chongqing were cut off, and the people were cut off. He is homeless, but under this abuse, his will to resist the war is stronger. On this day, eighty-six attacks again, and Zeng Jiayan, who was stationed in Chairman Chiang, all hit the last shot. On the 30th of the same month, the Huangshan Military Conference venue was attacked, with several casualties and injured guards, and the auditorium of the National Government was blown up.
Through August, in Chongqing, which is known as the three major furnaces, along with Nanjing and Hankou, the scorching sun was burning in midsummer. The citizens of Chongqing were bombs and endless fires of fire. There was no complete street in Chongqing. Citizens were living in purgatory and suffering.
One day, Japanese planes exploded Shapingba to destroy the spiritual fortress of the Cultural Center; half of the roof of my house was shaken down, and the farmer next door was killed. His mother sat on the ridge and cried for three days and three nights. Hong Chan and Hong Juan bravely returned to the duo-collapsed dining room. When they saw that the white rice in the wooden rice bowl was still warm, they actually ate a bowl before returning to school. That night, it started to rain heavily, and our whole family was half sitting and half lying, huddling in the house with half roof.At that time, my mother was sick again and had to lie on her bed. The whole bed was covered with a large oil cloth to cover the rain. My father sat at the head of the bed, holding a large oil umbrella in one hand covering his and his mother's heads, and just waiting for dawn...
That was the scene of my earliest youth. Death can fall from the sky day and night, but the vitality of the survivors is getting stronger and stronger. Even if they are only seventeen or eighteen years old, they will have a strong spirit of refusal and roar.
4. Inner disappointment
1. In the sixth year of the war, only Guizhou, Sichuan, Xikang , Qinghai, Xinjiang and Yunnan have not yet fallen into the opponent. The daily battle report is in a tug-of-war state of stalemate.
2. One night, I woke up from my dream and suddenly couldn't sleep. I went to the dormitory and stood by the corridor window. Suddenly I heard the singing singing from the music classroom not far away: "The moon hangs high in the sky, the light shines everywhere... In this quiet night, I remember my hometown... The atmosphere was very sad, and I kept crying. Half a century has passed, and the sadness brought by the song. The pain of family and country, the confusion of personal future has left an indelible mark on my young heart.
5. The conditions of Sichuan Wuhan University during the Anti-Japanese War
1. After eating a bowl of vegetables and soup in the dormitory every day, I went to Baita Street to turn to Shaanxi Street to "exploration" and found some snacks that can be eaten.
2. The gravel road is slippery for many years. The water west gate is at the corner of the street. From early morning to sunset, countless people carried water from Dadu River . The wooden barrels at both ends of the shoulder pole were swayed to each pool and poured about one-third of them on the gravel road.
3. The electric lights in the dormitory house were extremely dim and there was no sunlight during the day. On the contrary, after the lights were turned off at nine o'clock, those who had homework should light their own small oil lamps (the most primitive type of porcelain bowl with a semi-concave porcelain, pour some tung oil, put two or three lanterns of lanterns and grass ignite with matches). Before the exam, I would be extravagant and light a small candle.
4. When it is cold in winter, the only door cannot be opened, and the air is dirty. Eight people have to spend seven days a week, and they can only hope to go home for a little full and sleep better during the summer vacation.
