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COUNTY MAGISTRATE1 NINE Dreams Cao had used a brilliant stratagem2 in the late autumn of 1928to wipe out the bandits of Northeast Gaomi Township led by my granddad. Decades later, whenGranddad was in the mountains of Hokkaido, this tragic3 page in history was always before him.
He thought back to how smug he had felt as he was driven in his black Chevrolet sedan on thebumpy Northeast Gaomi Township mountain road, an unwitting decoy who had led eighthundred good men into a trap. His limbs grew ice-cold at the memory of those eight hundred menlined up in a remote gulley outside Jinan City to be mowed4 down by machine guns. While he wasroasting fine- scaled silver carp from Hokkaido’s shallow rivers, he agonised over the eighthundred deaths.?.?.?.
After making a pile of broken bricks, Granddad climbed over the high wall around the Jinanpolice station in the small hours of the morning, then slid down the other side into clumps5 ofscrap paper and weeds, frightening off a couple of stray cats. He slipped into a house, changedfrom his black wool military uniform into some tattered6 clothes, then went out and merged8 withthe crowds on the street to watch his fellow villagers and his men being loaded onto boxcars.
Sentries9 stood around the station with dark, murderous looks on their faces. Black smoke pouredout of the locomotive, steam hissed10 from the exhaust pipes.?.?.?. Granddad walked south on therusty tracks.
At dawn, after walking all day and night, he reached a dry riverbed that reeked11 of blood. Thebodies of hundreds of Northeast Gaomi Township bandits were piled up in layers, filling half theriverbed. He felt
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