The spire of the North Pagoda Temple in Suzhou stands tall in the darkness and overlooks the whole of Suzhou, where most of the city is burning, and billowing black smoke obscures the sky, making the deep night even more gloomy. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The lights in the city have been controlled, except for those burning flames, the whole city is shrouded in darkness, and the young Su Er and his father and mother, who are closed and hiding at home, hide under the windows in fear, observing this dark city like hell through the cracks, fear spreads in their hearts.

The streets were littered with discarded debris, large parcels and small baskets lying haphazardly on the wet ground, bloodied corpses soaked in muddy water and swollen, both civilians killed by stray bullets and soldiers who resisted valiantly.

No one dared to collect the corpses, and from time to time the devil soldiers marched through the streets in a grand procession, their leather shoes trampling the ground so loud and arrogant that they trampled the city to the ground.

Under the light of the torches, the heavy glowing steel helmets of those devil soldiers, the snow-bright bayonets hanging high on the head of the spear, and the incomprehensible words with hideous faces all made Su Er, who was hiding at home, afraid.

In the dark night, these chirping ghost soldiers are like the legendary ghosts from hell, so powerful and terrifying, so that Su Er's mother kept kowtowing to the enshrined Guanyin Bodhisattva, and whispered a prayer to Guanyin Bodhisattva, hoping that these ghosts would leave as soon as possible, and that the night would fade as soon as possible.

Gunshots still rang out from time to time in the city, and the scattered Chinese soldiers relied on the cover of the ruins to continuously attack the devil soldiers who invaded the city, but the corpses were constantly dragged out and thrown into the street by the devil soldiers, and the resistance became weaker and weaker.

Su Er's heart was also tightly clenched together, and he couldn't suppress his excitement whenever the gunshots rang out outside, the government soldiers were still resisting, and they were still in the city, which made the fear in Su Er's heart dissipate a lot.

But every time the excitement didn't take long, the gunfire would disappear into the night again, and he hid under the window and began to worry about the resisting government soldiers, did they run away? Or is it already dead?

Su Er used to hate those government soldiers very much, every time he went to his own restaurant to eat, he always ate white food, and he was rude and loud, scaring other guests away, but now he inexplicably felt that those government soldiers made them feel safe, and every time he couldn't hear the gunshots, he couldn't help but worry about them.

Now Su Er is very worried, very afraid that these government soldiers will be killed or abandon the city, in fact, the Chinese defenders have withdrawn from Suzhou, and the rest is just stragglers, but Su Er still feels at ease even if only stragglers remain.

"Second son, come here, don't lean against the window, be careful that the bullet doesn't grow eyes."

Su Er's father is very kind-eyed and rich, and he is also a well-known figure in Suzhou City who has been in charge of a restaurant all the year round, and he has experienced a lot of winds and waves over the years, although there are constant gunshots outside, he is sitting firmly on the Taishi chair at the moment, but he is also calm.

He opened a restaurant on Heng Street of Beita Temple, and over the years he has maintained an attitude of making money with kindness, although he has not caused any trouble, if nothing else, this family business will be left to Su Er and will be passed on.

But since August, the business of the restaurant has begun to plummet, especially after the plane of the devil soldier came to Suzhou and bombed it several times, many people began to flee, and the business became more and more untenable, but this is a family business accumulated in a lifetime, and I can't bear to lose it like this.

Although they closed the restaurant and went home, they did not leave Suzhou City, Su Er's father can be regarded as a figure who has seen the world, this soldier has lived for dozens of years, and he used to be beaten by various marshals, and later he was a bandit.

All the forces in Suzhou sang and I appeared, tossing back and forth for so many years, he is also used to it, they are ordinary people, as long as they stay at home in peace and don't go out to cause trouble, no matter if they win on their side, they can still open the door to do business and live.

So this time, although it is rumored that the devil soldiers are fierce and brutal, and they kill people without blinking, for Su Er's father, who has seen the world, it is just rumors, and he has not seen the Japanese, and his own restaurant has also entertained him, and it is not that he has two shoulders and a head, how can it be so terrible, so this time he did not flee with his family and mouth.

First, he has seen the world and doesn't think how fierce the Japanese are, and secondly, the family business for the rest of his life is here, if he escapes, the family business of the war and chaos may be gone, he has to stay here, and in the future, he will also count on this family business to Su Er, the only seedling, to say a good daughter-in-law.

"Second son, listen to your father, come here." Su Er's mother believed in Buddhism, knelt on the bunk and said broken thoughts in her mouth, worshipping Guanyin Bodhisattva, and seeing that Su Er was still lying by the window, she hurriedly shouted.

"Dad, what do you say happened to those who were soldiers? Was it killed by the Japanese? Su Er lay there and did not move, and he was still worried about the Chinese soldiers who were fighting guerrillas in the city.

Su Er's father scolded: "What do you care about so much, hurry up, what does their life and death have to do with our ordinary people, it's better to die, and you can save yourself from coming to our restaurant to eat white food later."

Although Su Er was stupid and couldn't read the book, he went to a private school for a few days and came back, but the procession on the street a few days ago shouted loudly, down with Japanese imperialism, not to be a slave to the country, he thought in his heart, if he can't beat the Japanese, isn't that a slave to the country?

Su Er's mouth inexplicably came out of this sentence: "Dad, I think it's better for them to come to eat white food than those Japanese, at least they don't kill people, you see those people on the street were all killed by the Japanese."

Su Er's father wanted to reprimand Su Er again, but suddenly there was a clattering shout outside, and a team of devil soldiers came over with torches, and the room suddenly fell silent.

"Open the door! Open the door! The Imperial Army wants to search! A swaggering gong sounded in the streets, accompanied by a knock on the door.

Su Er looked out through the hole in the window, wasn't the one who was knocking on the door the ruffian and the black cripple on the street on weekdays? How did he get mixed up with the Japanese?

The door across the street soon opened, it was the home of Su Er's playmate since childhood, several ghost soldiers with guns broke in, and there was a sudden burst of chickens and dogs jumping inside, Su Er saw his playmate dragged out from childhood, and the black cripple hit his playmate to the ground with the butt of a gun, and did not get up again, and the black cripple was still scolding and saying something.

An inexplicable surge of anger swelled up in his heart, and he was about to rush out, but was grabbed by his father: "Second son, don't make trouble, they are just searching for those who are soldiers, and they have nothing to do with us."

"Su's shopkeeper! Open the door, open the door! The black cripple soon led the devil soldiers to the door of Su Er's house and began to knock on the door.

"Second son, take your mother into the house, don't come out." Su Er's father commanded, hurriedly tidied up the old cotton robe on his body, got up and went to open the door.