In 2007, an old farmer named Li Mingshan in Henan Province was in disrepair and was ready to ask the engineering team to repair it from beginning to end. While cleaning the tiles in the attic, he accidentally found a marked green tile, and when he lifted the tile, he found a bullet underneath.
The bullet had lost its original luster under the erosion of time, and it had little weight in its hand. Out of curiosity, Li Mingshan twisted the bullet away and found that there was no gunpowder inside, only a small yellowed note.
Because of its age, this note is yellowed and old, and the handwriting is somewhat blurred. Looking at this note, Li Mingshan suddenly realized that the secret that his grandmother had buried for 73 years had finally been revealed.
So what exactly is written on this note? For what reason did Li Mingshan's grandmother keep it in the bullet and bury it for so long?
In the 1930s, when China's internal wars were constantly in turmoil, and when it faced a war of aggression against China launched by Japan at any time, the Chinese people were in a state of panic under such a turbulent current government. After the defeat of the Fifth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression Campaign, the Red Army was forced to start the Long March.
In December 1934, under the leadership of Xu Haidong and Cheng Zihua, the Red 25th Army braved the wind and snow to arrive at Lancao Village in Sanmenxia, Henan. The men, women and children of the village looked at so many soldiers, thinking that they had come to recruit soldiers again, and closed the gates one after another and fled toward the mountain. Li Mingshan's grandmother Xiang Xiaocui had limited mobility because of her foot binding, so she could only stay at home trembling.
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The Red Army soldiers who had traveled all the way here were sleepy and hungry, and they urgently needed to rest here. At that time, Xiang Xiaocui was making breakfast when he suddenly heard the Red Army soldiers outside the door knocking on the door and shouting:
"Fellow, is anyone here?" We are the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and we want to borrow you to take a break. ”
Xiang Xiaocui opened the door with trepidation, looking at the red army soldiers who were thinly dressed and shivering in the snow and wind, Xiang Xiaocui felt that these soldiers did not look like bad people, so he led the red army to the courtyard.
The Red Army soldiers did not immediately repair the courtyard after entering, but made many brooms to clean the snow and debris in the Xiang Xiaocui courtyard.
Xiang Xiaocui looked at this group of gentle and close Red Army soldiers, let down his guard, and went to the mountain to find the villagers who were hiding. The villagers were suspicious, probing the Red Army in Xiang Xiaocui's home, and after seeing that the Red Army soldiers were indeed different from the warlord troops in the past, they returned home one by one with confidence.
At lunchtime, the Red Army soldiers raised a fire on the ground, and they took out the grain they carried and poured it into the pot, boiling it into a very thin pot of porridge, and the soldiers drank it one by one.
Xiang Xiaocui looked at these soldiers who did not have enough to eat and wear, and could not help but shed tears, and the Red Army soldiers hurriedly asked: "Lady Li, what is wrong with you?" (Xiang Xiaocui's husband's surname is Li, so he calls himself Li Da Niang)
When Xiang Xiaocui saw that the conditions of the Red Army soldiers were so difficult, he couldn't help but think of his eldest son who died in battle, and when he talked about his son who was taken away by the Kuomintang as a strong man, Xiang Xiaocui burst into tears and fainted emotionally.
After waking up, Xiang Xiaocui found that he had been helped to bed by a Red Army soldier. Seeing Xiang Xiaocui wake up, the Red Army comforted her one after another: "Big Lady, your son has sacrificed, our Red Army is your son, and when we win the battle in the future, we will come to honor you!" (This sentence is typed out)
Xiang Xiaocui was very touched, and at night, she was distressed that the Red Army soldiers were poorly dressed, so she let the Red Army soldiers live in the house, and the soldiers of course refused. Under Xiang Xiaocui's repeated persuasion, the Red Army let the young soldiers live in the cowshed to keep warm, and Xiang Xiaocui carried corn stalks and wheat straw stacks from home to spread under the soldiers to prevent the cold.
Early the next morning, the Soldiers of the Red Army spontaneously cleaned up the village and helped the people in the village to do farm work, and the people in the village let down their guard against the Red Army.
The originally deserted village was suddenly lively, full of laughter and laughter, and the villagers warmly invited the Red Army soldiers to live in their homes.
The Red Army soldiers could not escape, so they placed the wounded in the homes of the villagers. The wounded were in a very dangerous situation due to bad weather and sanitary conditions, and many of the soldiers gradually improved under the care of their fellow villagers.
Unlike the soldiers or bandits who came to the village to expropriate and riot, the Soldiers of the Red Army, although they lived in the homes of the villagers, always adhered to the principle of not taking a needle or a thread from the masses.
Xiang Xiaocui saw that the Red Army soldiers had less and less food, so he gave his family's five pounds of bud grain and three pounds of salt and pickled sour yellow vegetables to the Red Army soldiers. What is the reason why the mother gives her son something to eat? ”
Although Xiang Xiaocui said that he had given grain to the Red Army, how could the Red Army violate discipline? The instructor of the Red Army took out a pen and paper and typed an IOU:
"Now borrow Gaohe Village Li Da Niang Baogu five pounds, salt three pounds, workers and peasants Red Army pistol company, the thirteenth day of the winter month of the year of Jia Shu"
He also repeatedly instructed Xiang Xiaocui not to be seen by the Kuomintang or bandits, and if the Red Army came here in the future, Xiang Xiaocui could exchange this voucher for grain and be valid forever.
During the few days when the Red Army was stationed, the village was cleaned up in an orderly manner, and the villagers also learned the basic revolutionary knowledge in contact with the Red Army, and they learned that the Red Army troops were the people's children and soldiers, and everything was based on the interests of the people.
Strive to make the broad masses of working people turn themselves into masters and no longer be exploited and oppressed. Many young and middle-aged people in the village voluntarily joined the ranks of the Red Army and decided to join this vigorous revolutionary cause.
Soon after, the Red 25th Army received instructions from its superiors to continue to advance, the villagers bid farewell to the Red Army soldiers in love, and the Red Army soldiers repeatedly advised the villagers not to tell the red army that they had received, otherwise they would be brutally persecuted by the enemy.
Xiang Xiaocui remembered what the Red Army soldiers said to herself, and she had always treasured this receipt and buried this secret deep in her heart.
Once she stumbled upon an empty bullet in the field, she picked it up and thought it was very commemorative. So he put the IOU into the bullet and hid it under the tiles of his house.
After that, the Red Army fought in the Luonan area of Shaanxi Province, and some troops went to Lancao Village in Lushi County to repair it, during which some compatriots who had helped the Red Army came up with the previous IOUs, and the Red Army cashed them out one by one. Xiang Xiaocui had never asked the Red Army for grain, she herself was willing to give grain, and she had no intention of going back.
The people in the Lushi County area had received basic revolutionary education before, and after this time they came into contact with the Red Army again, hundreds of ordinary people voluntarily joined the army, and the people who could not join the army spontaneously led the way for the Red Army, received grain from the Red Army, and established a deep love of fish and water with the Red Army soldiers.
In March 1959, the eighty-year-old Xiang Xiaocui had reached the end of his life. At this time, she told her children and grandchildren about the secrets that had been buried for many years, and when she was dying, she still held Li Mingshan's hand tightly and said:
"The Communist Party is good! Red Army good! With them, we have enough to eat, and the poor in the old society simply cannot survive. In the past, the Red Army came to live in our house, once borrowed our family's grain and salt, and now that we are liberated, you must not ask the state for money and grain, and do not cause trouble to the country! ”
Xiang Xiaocui's children and grandchildren did not know the location of this IOU until her death, so they only buried this secret in their hearts, never made a public statement, and with the passage of time over the years, Li Mingshan gradually forgot about this matter.
The family's old house fell into disrepair, and Li Mingshan contacted the engineering team to prepare to renovate the old house again. While cleaning up the debris and tiles upstairs, Li Mingshan found that there was a green tile on the roof that had been marked, and out of curiosity, he unveiled the tile and discovered the secret that had been 73 years since 2007.
Li Mingshan burst into tears and recalled the touching story told by his grandmother, and it turned out that all this was true. The news spread quickly, and soon after many reporters came to interview, wanting to understand this touching military and civilian fish situation. Li Mingshan told in detail every time, and when talking about his kind grandmother, he always couldn't help but have tears in his eyes.
As it continued to be exposed, some people with ulterior motives also began to visit, and in the name of collection, they even bid thirty thousand to buy the bullet and IOU.
Thirty thousand yuan is undoubtedly a huge fortune for Li Mingshan, an old farmer, but Li Mingshan did not hand over this IOU because of this, in his heart, this IOU meant far more to him than thirty thousand yuan.
The leader of the county's cultural management office personally came to Li Mingshan's home, led professionals to investigate and identify, and after confirming that it was an IOU left by the Red 25 Army during the Long March, proposed to exchange bonuses and double materials for this precious cultural relic.
After consulting with his family, Li Mingshan decided to follow his grandmother's last wishes and give this precious cultural relic to the state for free, refusing the money and materials given by the leader.
This IOU is treasured in the Red 25 army memorial hall, although the IOU is small, but it carries a strong military and civilian fish water conditions, it is a good explanation of why the Red Army can develop with the spark of the stars into a burning trend, why the Kuomintang in the huge advantage of numbers and equipment, will still be defeated by our party?
To borrow a phrase from a great man to answer: "Everything depends on the people, everything is for the people!" "Our party has always represented the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people, and with the close integration of the party and the people, such an army supported by the people and serving the people is bound to achieve victory!"
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