In 1911, a girl named Ming Deying was born in Yinan County, Shandong Province, and within a few years her mother died, her father remarried, and soon Ming Deying fell ill and had no money to treat her hearing loss, and later she could not even speak.
People in that period had a miserable life, not to mention a deaf and dumb girl, who had to beg around and suffer in order to live. At the age of thirty, no one was willing to marry her, and later married Li Kaitian, a foreigner who was more than ten years older than her, and the two people who had no house and no land went to the cemetery to become tomb keepers in order to make a living.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Yimeng Mountains were the key sweeping area of the devils, and although she could not hear or speak, she witnessed the atrocities of the devils with her own eyes, hated the Japanese devils very much, and had a good feeling for the soldiers of our army who helped the common people.
In 1941, she and Li Kaitian's third child was born. Suddenly, one day the Japanese army raided our army's headquarters in Shandong, and the battle was fought for a day and a night, and a soldier named Zhuang Xinmin broke through the enemy's encirclement and ran into the cemetery that Ming Deying was looking for when he retreated, and Ming Deying hid Zhuang Xinmin and pointed out the wrong direction to the devils, and Zhuang Xinmin was safe.
In order to save Zhuang Xinmin, who had fainted and could not even drink water, Ming Deying, who was breastfeeding, fed him his own milk, killed the only two chickens left in the family to replenish his body, and the only broken quilt in the family was also given to Zhuang Xinmin, but she and her husband and children were starving and freezing.
After the injury, Zhuang Xinmin knelt down to Ming Deying before leaving, called out to his mother, and said that as long as he lived, he would come back to see her. After the liberation of the whole country, Zhuang Xinmin followed Commander Chen Yi to Shanghai to work, and in the peaceful days, he missed his mother Ming Deying in Shandong more and more, and began to inquire about the whereabouts of Ming Deying in the Yimeng Mountains of Shandong, which was looked for 6 years. Finally found Ming Deying in 1955, because of the needs of the work Zhuang Xinmin did not go to see Ming Deying in time, but every year he sent her money to send things.
Later, the feeling of missing became more and more intense, he wanted to take the Ming Deying family to Shanghai, Ming Deying did not come, Li Kaitian came, Zhuang Xinmin personally went to the railway station to pick him up, and after taking Li Kaitian home, he treated him like his own father.
It was not until the autumn of 1985 that Zhuang Xinmin met Ming Deying, whom he thought about day and night, and this was the first time the two met after 44 years. Zhuang Xinmin recognized Ming Deying at the first sight of her, and took his wife and children to kneel down for him, thanking the old man for saving his life. After the story of the elderly Mingdeying spread, the local government was very concerned about her life, not only renovating her home but also giving her 60 yuan per month for living expenses, and Zhuang Xinmin's assistance to the elderly has never stopped.
In 1995, the old man Ming Deying died, and Zhuang Xinmin could not kneel in the direction of Shandong, and still paid tribute to the old man of Ming Deying at home.