The War of Resistance

Seeing Shang Zhen walking over with a long gun in his hand and a short gun on his back, no villager said anything this time that Shang Zhen had attracted the Japanese.

All the villagers were silent, and some even stepped back, with a look of fear on their faces.

You used words to hurt me yesterday. Why are you so scared when you see me today?

Shang Zhen felt a little strange when he saw the expressions of the villagers, but he just thought about it briefly and suddenly understood.

Several families in the village had died.

The first two people who died in the village were two old people, but later when the Japanese army encountered them in the field, they killed all the villagers, including men, women and children.

And yesterday, all the houses were burned down by the Japanese army.

Although the house walls cannot collapse, most of the houses have been burned to the ground.

This is a typical post-war village.

People who have died in the family are naturally making arrangements for the funeral.

The mother-in-law was calling the nickname of her dead child, while the child who was not yet sensible would cry and look for his mother. Shang Zhen even saw a middle-aged woman crying loudly and saying: "Mom, it's been so difficult for you in this life. Why are you gone like this?"

If it were just the above reasons, then the atmosphere in the village would naturally be sad.

But at this moment, a villager named Liu Neng in the village was beheaded again, which created an extra terrifying atmosphere.

This atmosphere is different from the previous atmosphere when Japanese troops entered the village.

The Japanese devils are beasts that kill people. These are the inherent perceptions in the minds of the Chinese people.

When the Japs enter the village, if there are no dead people in the village, they will not be called Japs. The villagers are more or less mentally prepared.

But this time was different. This time the Japanese were all gone. How could Liu Neng's head and body be separated when he woke up in the morning? This is a murder case!

Just imagine, although the house was burned down, most people slept well. When they woke up, some people's heads moved.

Everyone has to sleep, but who knows anything while sleeping? Anyone who falls asleep is a living dead.

Even Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms slept with their eyes open, but they were still asleep, but their eyes were open.

Zhang Fei was just a living dead sleeping with his eyes open.

So who wouldn’t be scared when everyone wakes up and finds their fellow villagers being killed right next to them?

Shang Zhen, who had become ragged again, held his weapon and moved forward firmly with a soldier's pace and a soldier's momentum. Who knew that the villagers regarded him as a savior rather than a evil star, and finally stepped aside.

Shang Zhen quickly found his target. Who else could be surrounded by people besides Liu Neng?

I can't tell whether it was Liu Neng's luck or misfortune. Liu Neng's home was the only one in the village that was not burned down, but Liu Neng died.

Soon, Shang Zhen was squatting next to a corpse covered with a torn straw curtain in front of the house, and the sound of a woman crying could be heard in the yard. She thought it was the family member of the deceased Liu Neng.

As soon as Shang Zhen squatted down, there were older villagers nearby who quickly pulled away or pushed away the children who came over.

Shang Zhen put his hands on the straw curtain. He was about to lift his hands but stopped. He turned around and saw Xiaojiu standing beside him and watching.

"Have you ever seen a dead person?" Shang Zhen asked, but his hand did not move.

"I've seen it before," Xiaojiu replied.

"Are you afraid?" Shang Zhen asked.

"A little bit." This was Xiaojiu's answer.

There was a hint of approval in Shang Zhen's eyes. Xiaojiu's answer was very honest and he did not deceive himself.

"In an era when human life is like grass, you won't be afraid after seeing it too much." Shang Zhen turned around and opened the straw curtain on the corpse.

But the moment Shang Zhen opened the straw curtain, time seemed to stand still.

Even the adults who had seen Liu Neng's death began to feel their hearts pounding, and Xiao Jiu's face became paler.

Shang Zhen asked Xiaojiu if he had ever seen a dead person? Xiaojiu has seen it before.

For example, when his grandfather died, he was originally a tall man of over 1.80 meters, but after his death, he seemed to have become less than 1.7 meters tall.

But no matter what? That is death from illness, death from old age, and normal death.

But how did Liu Neng die?

According to folk parlance, that is called a violent death. He died in an accident.

Liu Neng's head was under the straw curtain, but it had been separated from his body.

His head and neck were all disconnected, like a goose or duck whose head was chopped off with a kitchen knife!

There was blood on the section of the neck, but it looked like the bloody neck of a pig butcher after he removed the pig's head.

The so-called bloody neck means that after a pig is stabbed in the heart with a butcher's knife, the knife edge is soaked in blood, so the meat there is stained with the color of blood.

Meat stained with blood is naturally a different color from meat in other places.

There is a famous dish in the Northeast called pig-killing dish. It means that a family has fattened a pig, and when the New Year comes, it will kill the pig, and the neighbors will come to help.

In today's era, killing pigs is definitely a big deal.

Since the neighbors come to help, the family who kills the pig always has to arrange a meal.

So we have to use pig blood neck meat, big fat meat slices that are just a few fingers of fat, and blood sausage to stew in a big pot of sauerkraut.

This is the origin of Northeastern pork-killing vegetables.

As for why the blood neck meat had to be used, it was naturally because the meat there was soaked in blood!

The owner wants to keep the good meat that has not been soaked in blood for his own family to eat during the New Year, so how can he be willing to give it to others?

Just imagine when killing a pig, the knife only passed through the pig's neck, and the blood dyed the meat on the neck red and black.

And when you kill a person and chop off his head with one knife, how much blood is there?

Therefore, Liu Neng's current appearance is more stimulating to the senses than a decapitated pig!

Of course, this situation only applies to ordinary civilians. It is a common thing for veterans like Shang Zhen who have gained blood on the battlefield.

Shang Zhen paid no attention to the surrounding villagers, but carefully observed the knife edge where Liu Neng's head was severed.

The blade was really neat, and it looked like it had been cut with some kind of sharp weapon.

Shang Zhen knew that for ordinary people, even an ax couldn't cut such a knife with this kind of blade!

This situation can also be compared to killing a pig.

When people chop pork ribs, how many people can say that they cut the ribs in two?

For ordinary people, it is just a matter of cutting the ribs straight with an ax or a bone chopper, and the fracture will never be so smooth.

But the murderer who killed Liu Neng did it!

How could this not make Shang Zhen have some associations with the murder weapon that killed Liu Neng and the identity of the murderer holding the murder weapon.

Only the Japanese swords had a steel mouth like that, which could chop off people's heads.

Could it be said that this was killed by the Japanese?

But that's wrong. If it was the Japanese who did it, why would the Japanese break in and kill people secretly in the middle of the night?

They could have surrounded the entire village and killed all the people in the village.

Shang Zhen thought for a moment, but still couldn't give himself a logical answer. He knew that he still needed to ask the people in the village, especially Liu Neng's family, if they had encountered any unusual situations.

Shang Zhen, who no longer thought about it, stretched out his hand to cover the straw curtain. When he turned to look at Xiao Jiu, he saw that Xiao Jiu's face had turned pale.

Shang Zhen didn't know how to comfort Xiao Jiu, who could be said to be a teenager or a child.

But he knew that he had to say something after all, and after a moment he said: "Dead people are just uglier to look at. Dead people are actually not as scary as living people.