Xue Xiaochi ‖ grandfather was an anti-Japanese hero

Think of your relatives on the thick soil of heroes

Laboring on the thick soil that our ancestors defended and transformed, there is always a hero in my heart riding a horse and galloping on the great plains of thousands of miles...

The hero who rode the horse was my grandfather.

At that time, my grandfather's regiment was besieged in a wood by a company of Japanese troops. The commissar, the chief of staff, and many soldiers were killed, the only radio station was damaged in the artillery fire, and the message requesting reinforcements could only be passed on by people, and the regimental commander asked the remaining soldiers: "Who has the courage to break through and move the soldiers?" Only to hear the mute of human breathing, a hero's steel words came out: "I am a communist party member - I have courage!" The regimental commander then ordered his grandfather to rush out of the encirclement alone to move the rescue troops...

Grandfather Prancing Horse swung a gun, attracting a large army, completely annihilating a japanese company. The War of Resistance Against Japan was victorious, the War of Liberation was also won, and my grandfather responded to the party's call to disarm and return to the fields to support agricultural construction, from a mutual aid group to a primary society, and my grandfather served as the leader and president of the group. Then there was the "Agricultural Dazhai" period, when my grandfather, as the secretary of the village party branch, took the lead, pulled a rickshaw car, and led thousands of people to level the land and build water conservancy. They created a series of trunk canals and bucket canals, and the flowing water gurgled to pour green patches of countryside. The wheat waves above the flat green area roll like an ocean, and the harvest of wheat nourishes the people's children and grandchildren.

The predecessors planted trees, and the posterity cooled off.

The cool descendants stopped working under the shade of the trees on the bank of the main canal, and they could no longer see the predecessors coming to cool off together, but they saw a majestic eagle flying gently in the blue sky, and the big eagle flew over the high ground on the northwest slope of the trunk canal, and then slowly landed on the top of a loess tomb. This scene reminds me of the burial in that earthen grave was the grandfather of a Communist Party member who was my anti-Japanese hero Jia Laomo. Although he passed away, his heroic party spirit inspired those who came after him. In my mind, my heroic Communist Party grandfather is the thick soil of our unceasing heroes.

I remembered the hero's story as a farmer, and planted grain and produced grain on the hero's thick soil for ten years, which solved the problem of food and clothing; thirty years of planting trees and producing fruits, which solved the economic problem. When the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, after the fortieth anniversary of reform and opening up, came, my fellow villagers and I demolished the old and built a new one, and we have already transformed the old old countryside into a new rural area for urbanization. Today, standing on the thick soil of heroes, I feel that I am worthy of being the descendants of heroes!

Qingming Festival is a "Thanksgiving Day" that remembers relatives and hangs on to the ancestors. At present, the situation of prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Zhongshan is still grim, according to the unified deployment of the Zhongshan City Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters, in 2020, Qingming suspended the on-site sacrifice and sweeping activities, and Zhongshan Daily launched the "Qingming Thinking of Relatives" essay collection activity. The theme is "Qingming Thinking of Relatives"; the object of remembrance is the relatives who have passed away; the essay is mainly essay, with a length of less than 800 words. Essay call period: from now until April 4. At the end of the article, please indicate your real name, contact information, full bank account name, account number, etc.

◆ New Media Center of Zhongshan Daily Newspaper Group

◆ Editor: Xu Xiangdong

◆ Second instance: Lan Yunliang

◆ Third trial: Yue Caiying

◆ Material source: Zhongshan Daily