In 1938,
A cowherd was "caught" by the Kuomintang, and at the age of 14, he was forced to carry the barrel of a gun to the battlefield.
Lack of food and clothing, malnutrition.
The regimental commander cherished the young cowherd and kept him by his side as a service soldier.
In 1949, the Kuomintang fled,
The regimental commander also fled. Before leaving, the regimental commander entrusted his wife and two sons to the care of a 24-year-old cattle herder.
It was agreed that after the situation had stabilized, they would pick up their mother and son again.
Don't want to do this, it's 66 years.
In the past 66 years, the cattle herders have left their hometowns, starved the barren mountains, and slept in wild temples; they have been misunderstood and beaten and scolded, but they have always guarded and protected the wife and children of the regiment leader.
In 1979, the regimental commander across the sea wrote a letter to thank the cowherd and advised him to consider being with his wife.
A few more years passed
The regimental commander and the regimental commander's wife both died one after another. The cowherd baby is 90 years old and is still alone. Later, the two sons of the regimental commander helped him find his relatives.
When the cowherd returned to her hometown and saw the persimmon tree in front of the door, the play "Guan Yun Chang Zhongyi Qianqiu" that she had heard before resounded in her ears, and the old tears suddenly flowed.
Ten years of brotherhood, a lifelong commitment. For the sake of faith and righteousness, the cowherd baby spent most of her life wandering in a foreign land, suffering enough,
It was only in 2016 that he found his relatives.
Three months after the successful search for relatives, the 91-year-old cowherd passed away.
Many people went to pay his funeral, and people said that he was righteous. This cowherd is a long hair, and that's his story!
First, from cattle herding to service soldiers
When the Kuomintang came to "catch Zhuang Ding", Yu's long hair was only fourteen years old.
then
Many people in the village hid in the mountains, and only he was herding cattle for his aunt's house.
In those days, a cow was worth more than his worth. If the cow is lost, how should he explain it to his uncle?
Again
Yu Longhair felt that others would not pull him to become a soldier, because he was not tall enough to have a gun at that time.
However, the people who "catch the strong ding" do not think so. For being arrested as a soldier, Yu Longhair initially did not have any resentment.
His family was the poorest family in the village, and he had two younger brothers below him, plus his parents, and a family of five was so poor that they drank the northwest wind.
Soldiers at least have food to eat, and
He was very lucky after he became a soldier, and as soon as he arrived in the army, he was transferred by the regimental commander Yi Ziqing to serve as a service soldier.
Commander Yi is said to be a high-achieving student from the Whampoa Military Academy, and he is a cultural man who treats people with kindness and kindness. They fought in a trench, and Commander Yi saved his life several times.
When there was no war, Commander Yi took him as his own little brother,
He often touched his head to tell him about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Guan Yunchang.
Later, the Kuomintang lost the battle, and Commander Yi had to flee with him.
Before leaving, it was stipulated that the chief could bring his family, and he could take three people with him. But
Easy Regiment Leader
He felt that in this case, he should first take the adjutant and the other two subordinates. Hence it
Entrusted his wife Chen Shuzhen and two young sons to Yu Longhair,
Bring it back to your hometown in Shaoyang, Hunan.
At that time, he and Commander Yi thought that they would soon be reunited.
Who knows the straits are separated, and this distinction is decades. In the case of soldiers and horses, Yu Longhair did not dare to let go of Chen Shuzhen's orphaned and widowed mother.
There is no way to return to Pengshui's hometown in Chongqing.
Second, the brothers are scattered, and there is no home to ask about life and death
After liberation, Yu Changfa brought the letter to his hometown in Chongqing. But his family had already moved and couldn't find it. The locals are xenophobic, and it is not easy to find a job with long hair, and they are often bullied.
Chen Shuzhen dragged her two children and lived with long hair, and there was also gossip. So Yu Longfa worked outside during the day and gave food to their mother and son every evening.
During the three years of natural disasters, Yu Changfa left the grain to Chen Shuzhen's mother and son, and ran to the mountain to dig wild vegetables and chew grass roots. At the end of the 1960s, he was arrested and beaten because he had been a soldier of the Kuomintang. Chen Shuzhen saw that he had been beaten so badly that she cried and told him to leave while applying medicine for him.
Yu Longhair said: Sister-in-law, in this case, I will not leave! If it weren't for Commander Yi, I wouldn't have survived to this day.
That's how hard it was
In 1979, the two sides of the taiwan strait could communicate. After receiving a letter from Commander Yi, Chen Shuzhen found that he had already started a family in Taiwan.
It turned out that after the Defeat and Escape of the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek asked the soldiers to "localize" as soon as possible. Commander Yi thought that he would never come back, so he married a new wife in the local area.
After learning that over the years, Yu Changfa took care of his wife Chen Shuzhen and his two sons, and Chen Shuzhen had not remarried, and his heart was extremely guilty.
Commander Yi sent some money with the letter,
Persuading Yu Changfa to marry Chen Shuzhen, Yu Changfa did not agree.
I think that he took care of Chen Shuzhen's mother and son in order to teach righteousness and keep his promises. At that time, Commander Yi also chose to take his brother away first because of his morality. How could he marry a sister-in-law, wasn't that bad righteousness!
Everyone was dumbfounded by what he said, and he did not dare to persuade him again. afterward
In 2009, Chen Shuzhen also died. At this time, Commander Yi's two sons, Hao Guang and Hao Ming, were both over half a hundred years old, but Yu Long Hair was still alone.
One year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the two brothers took the old man's hand and asked him: Uncle, do you want your family? Yu Longhair looked at the moon in the sky and recalled, "I'm in my hometown, and I have two brothers and sisters." But after decades of separation, I don't even remember what they looked like. Can't find it again, can't find it back... I won't lose my eyes when I die..." The old man began to cry when he finished.
thereupon
The two brothers of the Yi family tried their best to find relatives for the old man. In 2016, with the help of netizens and relevant departments, he finally found his relatives with long hair in Pengshui, Chongqing.
Before going to meet his relatives, the 91-year-old Yu Long Hair was seriously ill and lay in the hospital for many days. In the radio he carried with him, he had been playing the play "Guan Yun Chang Zhongyi Qianqiu".
He left home at the age of fourteen and escorted the regimental commander's wife to Hunan at the age of twenty-four. For more than sixty years, he missed his hometown, his father and his relatives and friends every day. But in order to fulfill his promise, he could not go home. Later, I couldn't go home. Now I'm finally home.
But his only remaining third brother died a month before he returned home.
The son of his third brother took his hand and said: My father's greatest wish in life was to find his uncle, and now he has finally found you, but he is only one step late...
Yu Longhair heard the words of the eldest nephew and looked at the old persimmon tree in front of the door and wept silently, unable to say a word for a long time.
epilogue
During the war years, a cowherd and a regimental commander lived and died together on the battlefield for ten years, establishing a friendship. The regimental commander has culture, and he teaches the cowherd baby to recognize the two words of righteousness. Teach once, be used for life. Since then, the cattle have long hair, and in order to uphold the faith, they have drifted to a foreign land for sixty-six years.
Unfortunately, filial piety is difficult to complete, whenever Lu is white from tonight, the moon is the hometown of Ming, the long hair of the cattle herder is regretting that "there are brothers scattered, and there is no home to ask about life and death." afterward
It took seven years for the two sons of Commander Yi to finally find relatives for Yu Changfa.
In 2016, Yu Longhair successfully searched for relatives, but failed to see the last side of his younger brother.
Three months later, Yu Longfa died. When the local people heard about his deeds, they went to his funeral. Everyone says that this old man has been righteous all his life, which is really precious!