Chapter 482

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, Humpty Dumpty arrived in Nagasaki.

The whole world was shocked.

Zhu Yuyan heard the news on the radio. Throughout the month of August, Britain was trembling at the power of the United States. Countless newspapers were singing the praises of Britain, blaming both the British royal family and the government in power, and there were even leaflets and some small broadcasts and talk shows, etc. that believed that Britain should recognize the United States as the king.

And Zhu Yuyan was talking to Su Chunjun about going to Japan.

This was not unusual; there were countless people from all walks of life who were running to Japan. Literary circles, painters, scientists, medical scientists, sociologists, some like biologists, other purely watchful idlers, the British aristocracy keen to find death, and businessmen.

She and Su Chunjun were barely half of the middle class, and although they had no industry or company, they were still a little bit famous in the publishing world.

But her desire to go to Japan had nothing to do with their translation work.

It’s a rare experience,” she told Su Chunjun. Such a powerful weapon, which belongs to the United States now, I hope it will belong to my country in the future. What kind of damage did it cause in Japan, and how did it affect the country, the people, the economy, the buildings, the land, the living creatures, and so on, must have had a far-reaching impact. I want to see it with my own eyes, record it, and as a first-hand account, send it back to my country so that it can be properly studied by those at home.”

–And as far as she knew, these were the only two times that a nuclear *was* dropped in a crowded urban center, and the impacts and damages were unlike anything the world had ever seen.

This information must be extraordinarily valuable.

There would never again be such a great opportunity to observe the damage caused by such a weapon. Japan is the world’s only guinea pig.

Only now were countless people converging on Japan, for one thing, because Japan was powerless to resist these spies from other countries – yes, they must all have had the same idea as she did, and only a small percentage were there for personal purposes, the vast majority were investigators sent by various countries.

She didn’t know if there were any in China, but she was more than willing to deliver this one for her country.

China could not be allowed to miss this opportunity.

Su Chunjun had been on the edge of his seat after hearing what terrible damage had been done by the two weapons dropped by the United States. Because it was not written clearly on the British report, except for the photos sent back by a frontline reporter, it was some exaggerated to unbelievable reports, such as a reporter in the UK definitely said that two big holes appeared in the middle of Japan, filled with seawater, and that those two nuclear*s pierced through Japan!

This report occupied the front page for dozens of days, and is still being believed.

If Zhu Yuyan hadn’t thought that if it were true, there was no way it wouldn’t have been reported in later generations – it would have been a great story, and there would have been beautiful photos of what would become the city’s central lake a decade or so later on the internet, how memorable.

If there were, there was no way she hadn’t seen them.

So there shouldn’t be.

Su Chunjun agreed, and the two of them started making preparations.

It was a bit risky to go to Japan in a private capacity now, but fortunately the two men’s years of work in British publishing had not been in vain, and Su Chunjun said he wanted to go to Japan to open his eyes, “This is really rare to see,” he told his editor-in-chief, “I must go to see it.” Encouraged by the publisher, he did not need the publisher to give him money, he only needed the publisher to give him a few documents, so that he could take the publisher’s identity card to board the British ship.

The two of them packed a lot of luggage at home and sent most of it to Dai Yuchan and Shi Wuwei, asking them to keep it for them.

Dai Yuchan and Shi Wuwei ran to see them.

Dai Yuchan: “Let’s go too!”

Zhu Yuyan handed them a box of new film, “No, you stay and continue translating, there is also this batch of film that hasn’t been sent back to China yet, you have to stay and give this to the person who came to collect the goods.”

Dai Yu Cicada: “You can’t go by yourselves, Japan must be very dangerous now.”

Zhu Yuyan thought for a moment and said, “I think …… society may be turbulent for a bit, but they should not dare to do anything to the British.”

Dai Yuchan didn’t react, “The British?”

Zhu Yuyan nodded, “Yes, we will live in a British military camp when we go, I will speak only English from start to finish, and we will all go to Japan as British.”

Dai Yu Cicada did not understand, “Do you go there …… to see how miserable the Japanese people are?”

Zhu Yuyan in the romantic novels she wrote loved to write the Japanese as fools fools lunatics thieves, she even used a pseudo-scientific tone of certainty to say that the Japanese people are inferior, they are inferior from the human race, so they are short and small and their teeth are not even. She always pretended in her novels to be an English scientist or an English aristocrat as such to disparage the Japanese, and the publishers didn’t notice that she was chucking in her personal favor, and it was surprising that there were people who spread such plausible falsehoods-presumably she made them up so much like the real thing, that when she read in a newspaper that an author affirmed that ” According to Sir Victoire’s research, the shortness of the Japanese and their teeth indicate that they come from a lowly island race” almost died laughing.

She never hid the fact that she hated the Japanese, so Dai Yuchan assumed that’s what she was there to do.

Zhu Yuyan sits down and tells her, “No, it’s because American weapons are so powerful that I need to go see how much damage it’s doing – only a small part of the reason is to see how bad the Japanese are.”

Dai Yuchan: “If that’s the reason, then I should go too, there’s no way the two of you can do much work alone, adding the two of us will allow you to do more, and you’ll need someone to give you a hand.”

Zhu Yuyan shook her head, “No, I need you guys to stay in England and continue translating.”

Dai Yuchan got angry, she shivered angrily, “You can’t, you can’t always hold me back! I’m not afraid of sacrifice! I want to be able to help too! You can’t!!!” Tears suddenly rolled out of her eyes and she covered her mouth.

Zhu Yuyan was shocked and hurriedly wrapped her arms around her, “I’m not going to die, why are you acting like this?”

Dai Yu Cicada pushes her away vigorously, it’s clear she doesn’t believe it.

Zhu Yu Yan: “Well, there will be a little danger, but the danger is small. And I do need you guys to stay in England, it’s important, just like I need someone to guard the big rear and provide security for us.”

“It’s very important.” She held Dai Yuchan’s hand tightly, “You and Shi Wuwei will stay, continue translating novels, or you can write your own novels, in short, stay somewhat socially active, but not too active. I think maybe later on, Britain’s scrutiny of immigrants will be tightened once again, and will re-investigate you and Shi Wuwei once again, so we can’t all leave.”

Dai Yuchan was surprised, “Will investigate us again?”

I say again because they had been investigated almost once or twice a year for the past few years. They were two couples, neither of them had children, they were of equal age, and they were all Chinese.

Although they both spoke English, and Shi Wuwei even had the protection of the surname Tehran, there really wasn’t a trace of British blood to be seen in them.

If they hadn’t been living far away from the political and urban centers, and if they hadn’t made their living by translating novels, especially erotic ones, they wouldn’t have been able to escape from the British police and secret services so easily.

The most dangerous time was when they were actually taken to prison and interrogated every day, and told that the others had confessed – which sounded false.

After more than twenty days in prison, she and Dai Yucan were released first, while Shi Wuwei and Su Chunjun were imprisoned for nearly half a year before being released.

However, they were all cleared of any wrongdoing.

When they were arrested, Zhu Yuyan even wrote a letter to the Queen, partly to try to get Su Chunjun and Shi Wuwei out, although this was very unlikely, and partly to prove to the people who scrutinized them that their thinking was thoroughly British.

However, the British secret service didn’t know whether they were doing serious work or not. That time when they were taken for scrutiny seemed to be serious, but in the end they were released for a reason – the parliamentary scrutiny cut their fees, so the police stations and prisons released a portion of the misdemeanants just like that.

Britain at that time the parliament owed serious fees, tax collection and can not be collected, the war has caused huge social conflicts, the colonies are also in revolt, and the benefits of the war should have received did not receive the hands of the British society can be said to be full of holes.

At such a time, all these plausible spies of theirs were released.

Shi Wu-wei and Su Chun-jun recuperated for some time, and the most common tortures to which they were subjected in prison were starvation and fighting among the prisoners, of which fortunately there were two of them.

As for what kind of torture they had suffered, neither of them told them.

She just noticed that Mr. Sue was missing a couple of big teeth, which made his face not as big from side to side.

But since that time, probably by default they had no more problems, the reviews had become less and less frequent, not even once in the last year.

And the publishers didn’t seem to mind that they had been in jail, accepting their manuscripts as usual.

Dai Yucan frowned when she heard that there was going to be another review.

It was sometimes hard for her to see what Yan Yan was thinking, what she had planned, but she had gotten used to listening to her. Because she was basically right.

She always seemed to have an idea, and no matter what, she always seemed to know what to do.

Even Mr. Su obeyed her now.

By the time the four of them ate together in the evening, Zhu Yuyan once again reiterated that she wanted the two of them to stay in the UK, continue translating, and maintain their current state of life, not to draw too much attention to themselves, but not to fade into obscurity in society either.

Shi Wuwei asked her, “What can we do for you?”

Zhu Yuyan: “Translate more manuscripts, write more novels, whatever.”

Translating manuscripts was their source of livelihood, after Zhu Yuyan wrote her own romantic novels, the other three also started to dabble in this industry, at first they were all a bit unable to let go, but after realizing that it was still easier for her to publish the manuscripts she wrote, they all started to learn from her style of writing as well.

Zhu Yuyan: “We need some social impact.” Even if it’s from writing erotic novels.

Social unrest caused frequent crimes, the lack of police force made the society began to look forward to another force to keep the people, detective novels rose to prominence after Zhu Yuyan was the first to start writing erotic detective novels.

She did not design too many links, is to walk a straight line, found that the crime appeared detective appeared beauty appeared to fight the detective won to hold the beauty.

The next installment will be a new beauty.

It turned out to be a huge hit due to its simplicity and brutality.

This is also the fundamental reason why they can get the help of publishers so easily this time.

Because they were already a best-selling author.

With her path to success, it was easier for Shi Wuwei and Dai Yucan to copy it, and after getting her introduction, the publication of their novels went smoothly.

They were no longer short of money, even though they were spending more and more, but they didn’t pawn their jewels anymore. The few remaining pieces of jewelry became their souvenirs, which they occasionally wore to show off their “aristocratic collection”.

Dai Yucan was very worried, Shi Wuwei comforted her when she returned to her room, “I don’t understand why Yan Yan must let us stay, she has always been very smart, but I think this time it’s more than just to protect us.”

Dai Yucchan said uneasily, “She said it was to help them look after the big rear, I don’t understand, what big rear? What does that mean?”

Shi Wuwei: “I don’t know either …… Are they going to be gone for a long time?”

Dai Yu Cicada woke up with a steep shock!

As a result, she pressed Zhu Yuyan the next day before hearing her say, “Yes, I conservatively estimate that it will take at least two years, and it may take longer.”

Dai Yu Cicada was surprised, “Didn t you just go to see how miserable they …… are? Is it going to take so long to see?”

Zhu Yuyan: “This time is unusual, I think there may be more far-reaching effects, it’s not something that can be seen clearly in a short time.”

Dai Yuchan: “Then, then can we visit you guys halfway through?”

Zhu Yuyan immediately said, “No, we may come back halfway.”

Dai Yuchan was pressed by Zhu Yuyan in the end, and before her departure, she repeatedly confided that Shi Wuwei could not leave England.

“Neither you nor your sister can leave, you must stay here.” She said at the pier.

Shi Wuwei wrapped his arms around the sobbing Dai Yuqian, puzzled for a hundred times, “We’ll just continue translating?”

Zhu Yuyan nodded, “Continue translating.” Then shoot it on film and send the film back home.

Shi Wuwei’s sluggish head seemed to understand something, but he did not ask.

Su Chunjun didn’t pursue it either, he silently supported her decision.

They boarded the ship and traveled to Japan amidst ribbons and cheers.

The ship’s journey was very joyful, because it was getting closer and closer to Japan, the figure of warships could be seen in the sea from time to time, Zhu Yuyan openly asked the crew to help her to take pictures with the warships, or with the airplanes that flew by, or with the occasional coastline, the different colors of the sea, the sea birds circling in the air, the whales or other fish that they encountered, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., and all of them on the deck soon knew about the passionate photographer husband and wife, where the wife, like a The wife fluttered around like a happy bird, and the husband always watched her enthusiastically.

Nor were they at all shy about their destination, Japan.

“They are so poor!” Zhu Yuyan exclaimed, holding up her champagne in the restaurant, “It’s so sad! I think I should go visit and donate some money to them or something.”

“They definitely need the care of a compassionate wife like you.” A gentleman said.

“But I think it must be dangerous there, there will be a lot of germs.” A white wife said.

Zhu Yuyan nodded, “Yes, but we’ll be staying in a British barracks where there should be clean food.”

Others were curious, and the scene became even more heated when they learned that the couple were well-known authors, and more than one of them had read their novels.

The madams and ladies envied Zhu Yuyan, thinking that her married life must be very happy.

One lady asked in a low voice, “Do you have any secret?”

The wives and ladies all gathered around to listen quietly.

“Oh, I shouldn’t tell too much to a young lady like you.” Zhu Yuyan whispered as she looked around, “But I must say that it is not to have children! Not only is it dangerous, but having a child can get in the way of a couple’s fun. That’s not something that can be said, God forgive me.” She made a cross on her chest.

“Surely we can’t not have children? Right?” A young unmarried lady nervously glanced around with the wives around her, trying to find some support, “We have to have children when we’re married, I mean, people just need to get married in order to inherit?”

A wife who was also married intoned, “That’s a wise and clear statement. Even though I have two children, all I can say is that if I didn’t, I would have been able to be happier than I am now.”

“Children are not a necessity.” Another wife chimed in, “Just as a husband may not be rich, if he doesn’t have land, what’s the need to have a child to inherit it? The money will just be spent.”

Many married wives voiced their approval. Money is a necessary thing in marriage; children are not.

“How can I?” A young wife spoke carefully, “I mean, I’m certainly not saying I won’t have children, I definitely still need one or two, but I wouldn’t want to have that many, my mother had five.” She uncomfortably shifted her butt on the sofa, “I don’t know how to …… reject him always.”

As if Zhu Yuyan had descended from the true God to enlighten the believers, she quietly chatted with the fretful wife afterward, mentioning that handy little thing.

“It can even make a man last a little longer, I mean …… it’s just as useful for men as it is for women, except that it’s a little expensive, but it’s well worth spending a little bit of money every now and then.” Zhu Yuyan said softly.

This quiet whisper swept across the ship in a very short period of time, and everyone believed that this must be the magic weapon for the couple’s deep affection.

Su Chunjun said to Zhu Yuyan, “I should have carried a box of this when I boarded the ship, I’m sure I could have made a fortune.”

They had certainly brought some with them, for fear that they would not be able to buy them in Japan, and after being mobbed by the gentlemen, Mr. Su let out five of them, so distraught that he refused to let them out even if someone else behind him called for a higher price.

Mr. Su angrily said to the gentlemen who were blocking him in the smoking room, “For God’s sake! You guys can go back home and buy it again! As for me, I’m going to a barren land where God knows how many months I’m going to be, can I even make a trip back to my country just to buy this!”

The gentlemen laughed.

“If necessary.” A young gentleman winked.

Mr. Sue straightened her collar, “Then I’ll have to come back on a ship once, too.”

It’s hard to believe that this stuff isn’t used by many people nowadays, besides being expensive, it’s just unknown. Even these middle class wives and ladies rarely have complete knowledge of sex.

Zhu Yuyan was treated as a guru because of her reputation for writing novels and had made many close friends on the boat trip.

But after disembarking in Japan, she had to face another world.

British and American ships circled the Japanese sea.

Zhu Yuyan and Su Chunjun did not wander, they disembarked in Yokohama and then took out the publisher’s letter of introduction into the British barracks and chartered a suite in the hotel outside the barracks, which had a horse-drawn carriage and automobile, and also included three meals, as well as maids of honor, housekeepers and secretaries.

The hotel was already full, and the street outside, where it was stopped by the barriers of the British army, was full of Japanese refugees, huddled in a wailing mass on the ground, many of them covered with blood.

The innkeeper, an American Jew, said, “These people won’t live long, the skin on them is rotten.”

Zhu Yuyan and the others had spent a lot of money, and the hostel owner was willing to talk to them.

Zhu Yuyan: “I’d like to go and see where they are concentrated?”

Hostel owner: “Everywhere, everywhere in the open space, lying all over, these are the ones who fled here.”

Zhu Yuyan: “If I want to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is there any way to do so?”

Innkeeper: “Oh, I wouldn’t advise a wife like you to go to such places, wait at least a month, now they are full of corpses, the stench is unbearable.”

Zhu Yuyan: “Haven’t the bodies been packed up yet? It’s already October now.”

Innkeeper: “No, because no one has gone, there is a search for volunteers everywhere, I’ve heard that they pile up the bodies on boats and throw them into the sea, only some of the ones that can find their families may be buried – but most of them were blown up together.”

Zhu Yuyan: “How many bodies are there?”

Innkeeper: “No one has ever counted them, but I’m guessing there are more than 100,000 of them.”

Zhu Yuyan waited for a week at the barracks and finally found a team that could enter Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It was a rescue team organized by the church with people from various countries, and there were quite a few like her who didn’t seem to be there to rescue but to interview and take pictures.

They found the army to send them there.

All the way over, Japan was in a state of panic, and everywhere you looked there were bodies of people who had fled, lying by the side of the road, some covered with white cloths, some with nothing at all.

Japan had declared its surrender and the country looked like it had collapsed together.

The Japanese did not accept that the country had even declared its surrender, and young Japanese students marched through the streets crying and cursing, demanding that Japan revise its surrender order, and both men and women knelt down and kowtowed or prayed to the heavens that Japan had not lost the war and had not surrendered.

But they were very quiet when they saw foreign troops and a line of foreigners’ vehicles driving by, and would quickly make way without the need for British troops to drive them away, and others would stand neatly by the side of the road bowing, saluting and waving to the convoy.

Zhu Yuyan really can not understand these strange Japanese.

It is true that the war caused great harm to Japan, but the Japanese, even though they were oppressed by the Japanese government, still did not accept the reality of Japan’s surrender as a failure of the government.

–They are only willing to accept the reality of Japan’s victory.

From the moment they started the war, even if they were forced to drag themselves into it, they did not accept the result that Japan would lose anymore.

However, contrary to the cries of the people, the Japanese newspapers, television stations, and radio broadcasts were proclaiming the surrender of Japan, and that the people of Japan had to hurry up and get back to their lives because there were huge war reparations to be paid.

But Japan’s economy is clearly collapsing.

The country had been running as a war machine for the past ten years, leaving no life at all for its citizens, and now that it had suddenly lost the war and was going to hand everything over to the victorious country to decide the fate of the nation, there was no way for them to turn it around right away.

All the stores on the road were closed, and those that were closed were smashed, and prices were so high that food could not be bought anywhere.

But the British soldiers demanded that the hotels should open as usual and supply them with food.

So when their procession stopped, all the stores on this street had to rush to open their doors and deliver all the food.

Zhu Yuyan ate the eggs and rice sent up by the Japanese with peace of mind, but this poor food did not satisfy everyone, and some began to back away, thinking that the road was obviously more difficult than they had thought, and that the ideal of helping the Japanese was a little too far away.

When they finally reached Hiroshima, the entourage was one-third smaller.

Zhu Yuyan and Su Chunjun stayed to the end.

They were assigned jobs immediately after entering Hiroshima.

Zhu Yuyan was assigned to manage a road hospital because she claimed to have worked as a nurse.

The road hospital was because it was located right on the road, and the patients were residents of Hiroshima, some of whom had been dug out of the rubble, and some of whom had only slowly gotten worse in the meantime.

They had no beds and had to lie on the floor.

And of course there was no medicine, no doctors, no everything.

There was also very little food and water.

Zhu Yuyan didn’t have to be responsible for anything, she didn’t need to fix the food and water or care about the lack of medicine, the white doctor who sent her here said, “You just need to write down when they died.”

Zhu Yuyan: “Just need to record the date of death?”

White doctor: “There’s nothing more we can do.”

She began to wander up the road hospital, hovering over one patient after another.

Most of their eyes were covered, and almost every one of them was a bloodstained mess with maggots. It was rumored that a bachelor of biology was studying the maggots, and they thought they were good for wounds, and asked the nurses to leave the maggots alone.

It was quite good, she had no problem with it.

Almost everyone’s skin had disappeared, like a bloody ulcer, rotting, with burnt edges.

So they died quickly, and new ones were brought in quickly.

The Malu Hospital was expanding every day, and there was no way to clean the dead away right away, so they had to wait for the body trucks to come and pull them.

Zhu Yuyan kept track of every death, and it wasn’t as if she wasn’t touched when she saw young teenage girls and old men, not to mention some of the children among them. But one day she saw a man, clad in a Japanese military uniform.

He was fairly strong, so he was still alive, and was making much more noise than those around him.

She’d gotten close enough to hear that he was humming a song, “Jun’s Generation,” the Japanese national anthem.

Finally, the church had sent some medicine that would cure the inflammation in their bodies.

Each time she whispered in Japanese as she passed the man, “You’re so strong, sir, I think you’ll last a few more days, I’ll give this medicine to someone else first.”

The man would then struggle and scream at her.

But he didn’t scream for long, about five days, and he died.

After half a month, the white doctor came over to check on this side, and he looked at her record book and said, “Why are so many men dying?”

Zhu Yuyan said gently, “They are too sick, and all these strong men are willing to give up their medicine to the weak.”

The white doctor didn’t care and said, “So be it.”

He returned the record book to her.