【Issue 2240】
Study well the party's historical | Tell the red story well
Artwork: Half a quilt | Recitation: Zhu Lufang
Source: Party Branch of Shangyou County No. 6 Primary School
Submission: Organization Department of Shangyou County Party Committee
On November 6, 1934, the Red Army broke through the second blockade line of the Kuomintang, and the Central Red Army Health Department was stationed in Shazhou Village, Wenming Yao Nationality Township, Rucheng County, Hunan Province, on the border of Xianggan and Gansu.
One night in the winter of that year, three female Red Army soldiers who were unfortunate enough to be separated from the team and lost stumbled to the village of Shazhou, hungry and cold, exhausted and exhausted. Instead of entering the village, they knocked on a broken thatched hut a few dozen meters from the village. The hosts are a young couple, the hostess is called Xu Xiexiu, the couple has just married, and the family is destitute.
The masters didn't ask them who they were or where they came from, but they knew exactly what they were. So they gave everything they needed and prepared a rough tea and light meal for the hungry and tired guests. After eating, Xu Xiexiu led the three guests to the bed. It was a bed frame made of bamboo, and under the broken mat of the bed was straw, and the female warriors opened their only quilt.
The next day, when the day was dark, Xu Xiexiu and the three female Red Army soldiers woke up at the same time, and the female Red Army found that the male host had been sleeping on the grass pile at the door to guard them. The female warriors' eyes were moist. Before leaving, they decided to give this only quilt to Xu Xiexiu and his wife, but the couple said that they would not accept anything, they said: "The three of you share such a quilt, it is cold, and you have to drive so far, how can we bear to take it, we are at home, at least there is a place to hide from the wind and rain!"
The three Red Army girls could not convince Xu Xiexiu and his wife, so they involuntarily threw the quilt on the bed, withdrew and ran outside, Xu Xiexiu quickly picked up the quilt, desperately chased out again, pushed the quilt over at the mouth of the village, and the stalemate could not be stopped, at this time a Red Army girl felt a pair of scissors from her backpack, and the three of them looked at each other in unison, and firmly cut a quilt in half. They took Xu Xiexiu's hand and choked and said, "Big sister, don't push it now, you can accept this half of it, and when the revolution is victorious, we will come back to see you." Xu Xiexiu took the half of the quilt with trembling hands, unable to say a word, and tears flowed down...
Xu Xiexiu sent the three female Red Army soldiers to the mouth of the village, looking at the rolling mountains and rugged trails, worried that the female soldiers of the Red Army did not know the road, Xu Xiexiu asked her husband to send the sisters another ride, send a little farther, to the other side of the mountain. She stood at the entrance of the village, reluctantly watching her husband and three sisters go away step by step...
Unexpectedly, the three female Red Army soldiers and her husband encountered the enemy's attack, the enemy drove the people of Shazhou Village to the ancestral hall, forced the villagers to say who had done things for the Red Army, and half of the quilt left by the Red Army was also searched out and burned, and Xu Xiexiu was punished for kneeling in the ancestral hall for most of the day.
After the Red Army left, on November 7 every year, Xu Xiexiu always walked to the bridge at the foot of the mountain where he was separated from them, hoping to see her husband and the three Red Army girls again.
Source: Gannan Daily
Editor: Xie Zhongying Proofreader: Peng Fang
Duty Director: Ming Xinwu
Editor: Xie Yunsheng Chen Yuxin