In 2007, in Gaohe Village, Henan Province, a man named Li Mingshan was preparing to renovate his family's house because it had fallen into disrepair. When he came to the roof to collect the tiles, he found a strange mark on one of the green tiles. Curious, Li Mingshan took some effort to lift this tile up, and there was a bullet underneath. For ordinary people, bullets are not casually picked up, Li Mingshan was very surprised, carefully picked up the bullet in his hand to observe. The bullet is very light in weight and has no wear. He tried to twist it, but he screwed the bullet off and dropped a note from the bullet.
Although this note has oxidized and turned yellow and is a little brittle, the handwriting is still legible. Li Mingshan couldn't help but read it out: Now borrow hegao village Li Da Niang bud valley five buckets, salt three pounds. The signature is the Pistol Company of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the thirteenth day of the winter month of the year of Jia Shu. Only then did Li Mingshan understand that this crumpled piece of paper was also involved in a past. The year of Jia Shu, that is, 1934, this was actually the Red Army of that year, written to Li Mingshan's grandmother Xiang Xiaocui's IOU!
On the second day of the first lunar month in 1934, after several days of heavy snow, the weather finally cleared. After many days of long trekking, the Red 25th Army came to Hegao Village in Sanmenxia, Henan, which is the village where Xiang Xiaocui is located. In the past, where the Kuomintang soldiers passed, they had to fish and flesh the people, and even forcibly arrested Zhuang Ding. The people in the village could not distinguish the difference between the Kuomintang and the Red Army, but only knew that another person with a gun had come, and they had to flee to the back mountain to hide. Xiang Xiaocui could only stay in the village because he was wrapped in a small foot and could not run fast, but this army did not oppress the people in the village, which made Xiang Xiaocui feel relieved.
One day, there was a knock on Xiang Xiaocui's door, and she heard a young man outside the door asking: "Fellow villagers, we are the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, we want to rest here with you, is it convenient for you?" Xiang Xiaocui opened the door and saw that the Red Army outside the door was thinly dressed, hungry and yellow, shivering in the cold wind. She recalled the high-spirited Kuomintang warlords before, and felt that these little fighters in front of her were not bad people, so she let them in. The Red Army entered Xiang Xiaocui's courtyard and first picked up a broom to help her clean up the snow in the courtyard and clean up the front and back courtyards.
After cleaning up the yard, the Red Army took out dry food, made a fire by themselves, boiled some thin porridge and drank it, which was their food. When Xiang Xiaocui saw this, he couldn't help but blush his eyes, and the Red Army was concerned about the situation: "Lady Li, what is wrong with you?" Xiang Xiaocui's husband's surname was Li, so the Red Army called her Lady Li. Xiang Xiaocui sighed and told them about his son who had been arrested by Zhuang Ding, but he had not heard from him so far, and he did not know whether he was still alive. At this point, Xiang Xiaocui stood up and said, "I'll make you some food." All of them are big and small guys, such a cold day, just drink porridge is not enough. ”
During the war, the soldiers were in chaos, and Xiang Xiaocui's family did not have any good things to eat, but it was better than the Red Army drinking porridge. After a meal, Xiang Xiaocui also understood that the Red Army was a good soldier, and she came to the back mountain to let the villagers who were hiding come back. These villagers were also suspicious, but when they saw the Red Army helping the villagers clean up and do farm work, they let down their guard. The Red Army lived in the village for a little more than half a month, and got along very well with the villagers, and the villagers realized that this team was different from the previous warlords.
Many wounded soldiers, under the meticulous care of the villagers, gradually improved their health, and the villagers completely let down their guard, and also helped the Red Army soldiers to transport supplies, and some villagers also took the initiative to give food to the Red Army, but they were all rejected. A Red Army soldier carrying the seriously wounded on a stretcher found Xiang Xiaocui and asked, "Can we take care of a few wounded soldiers upstairs in your house?" We will never enter your back room, and we will not move you a needle and a thread. After Xiang Xiaocui listened, he quickly cleaned up the room, and then a Red Army squad leader first counted the grain upstairs and cleaned up the hygiene.
In the afternoon, another soldier found Xiang Xiaocui and asked, "In the morning, our rice bags were empty, and now we don't have to eat, can you please borrow us some grain?" We have warriors who have gone to the East and West rivers to fight the local tyrants, and when they come back, they will return the grain. Xiang Xiaocui took out five pounds of bud grain and handed it to the Red Army, and said that there was no need to pay it back, and the soldiers thanked each other one after another, took the grain to borrow the stone mill of their fellow villagers, and the other part of the people went to the mountains to find firewood. The Red Army, which came down from the mountain, brought back four bundles of firewood, took out three bundles for Xiang Xiaocui, and took out the remaining bundle to boil water for cooking, and the Soldiers of the Red Army used these firewood and the grain xiang Xiaocui gave them to make a meal.
Xiang Xiaocui saw that the warriors had not eaten vegetables for two days, worried that their bodies were not nourished enough, so they filled a large pot of sauerkraut pickles from the vegetable jar at home, and sprinkled some salt and gave them to the soldiers to eat. Of course, the warriors could not accept it, and quickly resigned: "We cannot eat the people's things in vain, this is against discipline." Xiang Xiaocui said, "What is called white food, this is what I sent you." If your leaders disagree, let me say it. The soldiers trotted all the way to ask the battalion commander, and after getting permission, they were willing to accept Xiang Xiaocui's pickles.
Not long after, the Red Army, who had gone to Liangchuan to fight the local tycoons, returned and brought back some grain. A Red Army man in his thirties came to Xiang Xiaocui's house and said apologetically: "I thought I could get grain from the local tycoon landlords, but there are not many landlords on your side, and there is not enough grain to get, so I can't get you." I write an IOU, even if we don't come in the future, as long as the Red Army goes from here, the IOUs will work, and we will not owe the people anything. Xiang Xiaocui got the IOU, and the Red Army repeatedly told her to hide it well, and once the Kuomintang found the IOU of the Red Army, it would be trouble.
Xiang Xiaocui did hide the IOU, but not out of fear. Later, many Red Army teams passed by Xiang Xiaocui's village to repair, and she never took out the IOU. In Xiang Xiaocui's view, these grains were given to the Red Army by himself to support the revolutionary cause, and they were not counted as loans. According to later records from Sanmenxia City, more than 500 young people joined the Red Army at that time, and many villagers risked their lives to send intelligence and supplies to the Red Army. Compared with them, Xiang Xiaocui felt that he had only sent some grain, how could he still ask the Red Army to return it?
A few days later, the Red Army, who had written an IOU, took several soldiers from house to house to inform them to go to the Guandi Temple in Lancao Village to attend the military-civilian party. The villagers were very happy, they had never heard of it before that there would be an army to hold a party with the people. The villagers who received the notice went to the Guandi Temple, and the courtyard was crowded with people. The Guandi Temple was equipped with a rostrum and a performance platform, and slogans propagating revolutionary ideas were also painted on the walls. After everyone arrived, the Red Army soldier in charge of the host said that he would first let the Red Army propaganda team perform a song and dance, which caused the villagers to clap their hands and applaud.
After the performance of the party, the leaders of the Red Army began to explain the Policy of the Red Army to fight the local tycoons and divide the land, and the leaders of the Women's Federation also explained the marriage law of the democratic government and the idea of equality between men and women, which won the heartfelt support of the villagers. After the party, many villagers found the Red Army and wanted to join. After the military-civilian party, the Red Army contingent will soon set off. The troops assembled at the mouth of the village and, with the order of the regimental commander, rushed to the next destination.
In 1959, Xiang Xiaocui was already more than eighty years old, and when she was dying, she called her children and grandchildren to her, and her voice intermittently told the IOU of the Red Army at that time: "The Red Army has laid the foundation for the world, so that we have food to eat and land to plant... The Red Army came to live in our house, borrowed grain and salt from us, and made an IOU. You can't mention it, and you can't go to the government. This is our contribution to the country. Grandson Li Mingshan firmly remembered his grandmother's teachings before she died. However, Li Mingshan did not know where his grandmother hid the IOU until 2007, when he repaired the house in his hometown and found the bullet, and found the IOU. The older generation of people are very simple in their emotions, selflessly dedicated to the country, and do not ask for returns.
After the founding of New China, Xiang Xiaocui could have taken this IOU and gone to the government, but she never wanted to do so. After Li Mingshan found the IOU, he kept his grandmother's advice and still kept the IOU well. It wasn't until 2012, when the county sorted out the red story, that this IOU was known to everyone. After investigation and appraisal, the leaders of the county cultural office confirmed that this was indeed an IOU left by the Red Army. The leader said to Li Mingshan: "This is a precious cultural relic, we can give you a certain amount of money as compensation, and the IOU will be handed over to the county cultural center for safekeeping." ”
After consulting with his family, Li Mingshan decided to donate this cultural relics free of charge, and he would not ask the government for money, and he must abide by his grandmother's wishes and not add trouble to the country. An IOU from 74 years ago may seem to have little economic value now, but it is a memory of a period of misery and has extraordinary historical significance. Someone once offered 300,000 yuan to buy this IOU from Li Mingshan, but Li Mingshan politely refused. As Xiang Xiaocui's grandson, he has always remembered his grandmother's teachings, regarded this IOU as a memorial to that era, and never forgot the sacrifices made by the Red Army for the revolutionary cause of China.
An IOU that hides deep feelings. The great soldiers of the Red Army, despite the extreme scarcity of material conditions, still held their positions and won great victories. The military and the people have a deep sense of righteousness, and only with great people can there be a great army. A kind family like Xiang Xiaocui is also a virtue of Chinese, and it can also be regarded as a contribution to the Chinese people. It is precisely because of these great people and the soldiers of the Red Army that we have won the victory today. The martyrs who sacrificed themselves on the road of revolution are all worthy of admiration, and Xiang Xiaocui, as a villager who supports the revolution, also contributes his own strength. Just as the Battle of Crossing the River was won by the common people with a cart, the people's liberation army and the people's military and civilian fish and water conditions have been evident as early as the Red Army period.
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