He was an old man in the Red Army, who became dumb after leaving the team and suddenly started talking 14 years later!

In 1949, in Qingbanpo, Guizhou, a mute who could only draw with his hands suddenly began to speak. After the founding of New China, people around him learned that he was He Mulin, the leader of the teaching battalion of the Fifth Division of the Red Third Army, and a survivor in the battle of Qingbanpo. Back in January 1935, He Mulin followed the Red Third Army to Tucheng, Guizhou. On the 27th, the Battle of Tucheng began, and on the 28th, the Red Army and the enemy army launched a fierce struggle at Qingbanpo.

He Mulin was hit by an enemy bullet during a charge and passed out on the spot. He suffered a facial injury and his left leg was pierced by shrapnel from a shell. The comrades thought he had died and withdrew from the battlefield. Fortunately, in the afternoon of the next day, He Mulin actually woke up because of the severe pain of the wound. In the cold winter month, He Mulin was cold, hungry and painful. At this time, two small children happened to come nearby to pick up the shell casing. Hearing the sound, he stretched out his hand and shouted for help with all his strength. The two children heard the cry for help and rushed over, but they could not understand the Jiangxi dialect spoken by He Mulin, so they could only go back to find the adults in the family.

Upon hearing this, nearby villagers rushed to carry him to a cave called a high alkali trough, brought him food, and used ancestral herbs to treat his leg injuries. In this way, He Mulin miraculously survived, but the large troops had withdrawn, and he could only stay in Qingbanpo. Since the locals could not understand his Jiangxi dialect at all, in order to conceal his identity, He Mulin could only pretend to be deaf and mute, and went to a landlord's house to do long-term work. And this kind of pretending to be deaf and dumb for 14 years passed, and it was not until after liberation that he dared to speak.

After the founding of New China, He Mulin's identity as an old Red Army was confirmed, and he was arranged to do the sales of tobacco, alcohol and sugar in a shop below the supply and marketing cooperative, and was given a pension of 196 yuan per month. But he never received the money once. He said he could make ends meet with a salary of more than ten dollars a month, and the money that the state is struggling with now, he couldn't ask for.