Do you know that there are three holy places of revolution in China? That is JinggangShan, Yan'an and YimengShan. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it can be said that in eight hundred miles of Yimeng, every mountain burned the fire of the anti-Japanese resistance, and every inch of land was sprinkled with the blood of revolutionary martyrs.
In 1938, Xu Xiangqian and Luo Ronghuan led the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army to go deep into Shandong and open up the Yimengshan Revolutionary Base Area. In the 11 years from this to the liberation of the whole country, more than 100,000 soldiers died in this heroic land. Moreover, the people of Yimeng joined the army and participated in the war, fully supported the troops, and the so-called unity of the army and the people was as one person, to see who could be the enemy in the world. Today, the author wants to tell a touching story of Yi Menghong's sister-in-law, a story of knowing gratitude and repaying gratitude.
It was the winter of 1941, it was particularly cold, and the Japanese had just carried out a 10,000-strong sweep. There is a family in The Shore Village of Yinan County, the man's name is Li Kaitian, a poor peasant, a house, no acre of land. At the age of 38, he has not yet married.
A year ago, a woman who wanted food passed by here, and the villagers brokered the marriage of two people, the woman was named Ming Deying, 31 years old, a mute woman. Without a house, the villagers helped them build a thatched hut around the cemetery, and they could only cat in and out, and when it rained heavily, it rained lightly in the house, and the temperature outside the house was similar in winter. But the good guy has his own house, his own home, and the two feel very happy.
This year, Ming Deying gave birth to a son, life is still hard, but the birth of a new life makes the two feel that life has a head start. And as the people in the old revolutionary areas, the husband and wife had a heart for the Eighth Route Army, and Li Kaitian often helped the militia to send the wounded of the Eighth Route Army to a safe place.
At noon this winter, Sister-in-law Ming, who was basking in the sun outside, saw a young man wearing the uniform of the Eighth Route Army running towards here desperately. More than 10 Japanese troops were in pursuit in the distance. Matilda's house was built next to a cemetery with hundreds of graves. The ancient trees in the sky are next to each other, and the barren grass is as tall as a person. So Little Eight Road will choose to run here. Ming Deying saw the wounded little warrior running breathlessly, and she greeted him.
"Big sister-in-law, big sister-in-law," Xiao Balu shouted at her. Ming Deying pointed to his mouth and waved his hand, indicating that he would not speak. She held her son in one hand and grabbed Xiao Balu's arm with the other and pulled him into the thatched hut.
This little eighth road is called Zhuang Xinmin, only 18 years old, and is a hygienist in the Shandong column. After the Japanese army swept through, Zhuang Xinmin was seriously wounded and lost contact with the troops in the process of breakthrough and transfer. At this time, he was chased by the Japanese army, and he was seriously injured, and he was tired of running for a long time, and he was tired and collapsed. But when Xiao Zhuang saw that the thatched hut was narrow and small, the Tibetans were very difficult, afraid of tiring their sister-in-law, and turned around and wanted to leave. Ming Deying pushed him down on the bed, covered him tightly from head to toe with a quilt, pretended to be fine, and sat on the stone platform in the doorway with the child in his arms.
Soon, a group of Japanese soldiers with bayonet-mounted three-eight large cover guns ran over, and they couldn't help but look at the thatched hut and found nothing. Just ask sister-in-law Ming. She calmly indicated that she could not speak, the Japanese army gestured and asked her if she saw an injured Eighth Route Army, Ming Sister-in-law pointed to the west mountain, the Japanese army did not suspect, pulled her leg and chased towards the west mountain.
Watching the Japanese army disappear, Sister-in-law Ming hurried into the house and saw Zhuang Xinmin in the quilt cracking because of the wound, the blood stained the quilt a large piece, and in addition to sprinting, severe dehydration caused shock. Sister-in-law Ming saw that the water in the water tank had been used up, and it took a long time to carry water back and forth in the village, and she could not go, afraid that the Japanese army would return again. At this time, Li Kaitian was helping the militia to deliver the wounded and was not at home. Sister-in-law Ming was in a hurry. With a "wow" sound, the child under the age of one began to cry, and this cry reminded her.
Sister-in-law Ming undid her clothes, and the milk dripped into Xiao Zhuang's cracked mouth drop by drop, and he slowly woke up.
Worried about the return of the Japanese army, Li Kaitian, who returned home, together with Sister-in-law Ming, moved Xiaozhuang to an empty tomb nearby. Sister-in-law Ming gave XiaoZhuang the only quilt she had, and put down the urinal pot and the bedpan. In this way, he hid in an empty grave during the day and took him to live in a thatched hut at night.
In order to supplement Xiaozhuang's nutrition, Ming's sister-in-law killed the only two hens in the family and made chicken soup for Xiaozhuang to drink. The family ran out of food, and Sister-in-law Ming ran to the village to ask for some sorghum and cornmeal to go home and boil porridge for Xiaozhuang to drink. On the 5th day, Xiaozhuang's wound was suppurative, and Sister-in-law Ming washed Xiaozhuang's wound with salt water several times a day. Half a month passed, and under the careful care of the couple, Xiao Zhuang's wounds healed quickly.
Xiao Zhuang asked to return to the army, because if he stayed any longer, there would be nothing left in ming's sister-in-law's family, and it would be difficult for the family to survive. With tears in her eyes, Xiao Zhuang thanked the couple again for their life-saving grace, and Sister-in-law Ming smiled and shook her hand. She sent Xiaozhuang to the market, and borrowed money to buy him a pot cake to eat on the road.
Time flies. A few years later, the whole country was liberated. The ming sister-in-law's family has sent four relatives, namely, son, girl, nephew and grandson, to join the army. And Zhuang Xinmin's 18-year-old Xiao Balu is already a department-level cadre. But he never forgot the life-saving grace of Ming's sister-in-law. Zhuang Xinmin finally found the two old people after many twists and turns through the help of the Yinan County Post Office.
In the Spring Festival of 1956, Zhuang Xinmin took his "father" Li Kaitian from Yimeng Mountain to his home in Shanghai for half a month. Sister-in-law Ming couldn't leave because she was looking after the family and didn't come. During this half month, Zhuang Xinmin's family entertained Li Kaitian with the highest etiquette.
In the days that followed, the two families kept in touch. During the New Year's Festival, Zhuang Xinmin still sent the gifts for the festival early. In the spring of 1985, Zhuang Xinmin re-embarked on Yimeng Mountain, at this time Li Kaitian's father had passed away, and the sister-in-law of that year was also more than 70 years old, with a hunched back and a wrinkled face. When the two met, only tears flowed. Sister-in-law Ming still remembers Xiaozhuang. At this time, Xiaozhuang was also almost 60 years old.
In 1995, the 85-year-old YimengHong sister-in-law Ming Deying died, and Zhuang Xinmin's children went to the old man on behalf of their father to send the old man to the end. Since then, every year in the Morning Sun, they have to come to the grave of Grandma Ming Deying to sacrifice. The plot of Ming Deying's rescue of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army was compiled into the dance drama "Yi Meng Song". The story of Yi Menghong's sister-in-law saving the wounded with milk spread throughout the country and became a household name.