There is a small winding ditch in the Area of Mamuchi Township in Linyi, which is called the Wangjia River, and the well-known "Red Sister-in-law" Ming Deying lives in the nearby Henghe Village. She was the first yimeng red sister-in-law, one of one of one hundred moral model figures who made great contributions to the founding of New China.
In 1908, Ming Deying was born in a poor family in the embankment village ten miles west of Yokogawa Village, and has often had upper and lower meals since childhood. In that era of lack of clothing and food, even if Ming Deying's parents did their best for the family's old and young rations, they still had to live the daily life of eating chaff and throat vegetables, because there was no money, even if the two-year-old Ming Deying launched a high fever, there was no money for treatment, ten days later, Ming Deying's fever subsided, but he fell into a lifelong illness that could not open his mouth and speak normally.
Because he is deaf and mute, he often suffers from insults and insults, and from an early age he understands things and makes a living by begging. Later, in her thirties, she came to Henghe Village in order to beg, and with the mediation of her local father and fellow villagers, she married Li Kaitian, who was in her forties.
Since Li Kaitian was also a poor man, after marriage they had no way to make a living, the enthusiastic father and fellow villagers then brokered them to be tomb keepers and live by farming in the plots between the graves or on the side.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China, Yimeng Mountain became the core area of the Shandong War of Resistance, and the area around Mamuchi was more known as "Little Yan'an". Every year, the Japanese invaders had to dispatch a large number of troops to carry out large-scale encirclement and suppression in this area, and to carry out cruel and ruthless burning and looting. All this made Matilda, who had a simple class sentiment, hate the Japanese invaders very much.
At that time, the shandong column headquarters, the administrative organ of the general headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong, was set up in Mamuchi, and the security department of the Political Department was set up in Henghe Village. Ming Deying personally saw the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army treat their fathers and fellow villagers like parents, help their fathers and fellow villagers carry water and firewood, rescue the lonely and elderly, organize their fathers and fellow villagers to carry out production and cultural learning, and the advent of the Eighth Route Army made this place a new world.
Ming Deying personally experienced the simplicity and admirable integrity of the Eighth Route Army. In January 1941, the Japanese invaders dispatched more than 50,000 people to carry out a large-scale "encirclement and suppression" in the Yimeng Mountain area in an attempt to destroy the leading organs of the party, government, and army in Shandong in one fell swoop. On the morning of the 4th, the Japanese invaders gathered a large number of troops and suddenly surrounded the mountain column headquarters stationed in Mamuchi, and two regiments of the first brigade of the mountain column quickly entered the battle and broke through.
The battle lasted until the next morning, when a small warrior broke out and rushed to the wangjia river, and the two Japanese invaders found out and chased after them, and he hurried to the cemetery guarded by Ming Deying. The two Japanese invaders followed closely behind and chased them to the cemetery, and the small warriors relied on the tombstones to engage in a "hide-and-seek" counter-chase with the enemy.
The enemy soldiers jumped like thunder and shot at him many times, but the little soldier could not dodge and was wounded in two places on his body, and he was forced to run north again. At this time, Ming Deying was sitting in front of his tuan scoop (a kind of small house in the Yimeng Mountains), taking care of a few children who were still learning to speak. She was deaf and couldn't hear the gunshots in the cemetery. And as soon as the little warrior ran out of the cemetery, he hurried to her.
Ming Deying was stunned to see it, and rushed to meet her, and when the little warrior saw that she could not speak, he took a hand and told her that there were Japanese soldiers chasing him in the cemetery. Mingde Ying knew this, still resolutely pulled the little soldier back into her regimental scoop, pushed to the side of the bed, the little soldier was afraid of dragging his sister-in-law and did not want to hide on the bed, Ming Deying knew that it was not too late, and pressed the little soldier to the bed with all his strength, ripped open the torn mattress next to the bed, and covered the little soldier with his head and feet.
The two Japanese invaders did not find the little warrior in the cemetery, so they came to The Regiment of Maungtoku-young. Ming Deying's tuan scoop is relatively low, and you can see it inside when you stand at the gate. The little warrior was short, lying under the mattress and could not see anything unusual, and the two robbers looked at it and did not suspect anything under the broken mattress.
The two Japanese invaders saw that Ming Deying could not speak, so they did not suspect her at all. Following that, the Japanese invaders were busy making gestures to ask the little warrior where to go, and at this moment, Ming Deying's hanging heart was put down, and he calmly gestured, saying that the little soldier had run to the western mountain. Eventually, the Japanese soldiers were led away.
This little warrior finally escaped the disaster! Matilda rushed back to the house and ripped open the mattress, but she was stunned. Only to see this little soldier because of the future time to bandage the wound, the wound bleeding too much has fainted, the face is as white as paper, the lips are peeled, breathing is not smooth, dying. Now that the situation is urgent, it is too late to cook immediately to replenish his strength.
Matilda Immediately decided to shove the milk into the little warrior's mouth. The sweet milk gradually moisturized the warrior's heart. Seeing that the little warrior gradually woke up, Ming Deying showed a happy smile. In order to protect the little warrior, Ming Deying consulted with her husband and hid the little warrior in an empty grave in the cemetery, with fine grass on the top and firewood on the outside, and Ming Deying went in and out, suturing the wound for him, and delivering food and water.
A few days later, the little warrior's wounds became inflamed and festering, and a burst of odor was emitted, and MingDeying was so anxious that he hurriedly asked her husband to buy back herbs to boil out the medicinal soup and clean up the wounds for the little warrior every day. At the same time, she killed the two remaining hens in the house and boiled them into chicken soup and fed them to the little warriors one by one.
12 days passed. The little warrior was healed under the care of Ming Deying and his wife. It was time to leave, he was going to return to the anti-Japanese front, and when he left Mingdeying and his wife, walking on the road, the little soldier burst into tears, constantly looking back, looking back, looking back again...
At the end of 1942, the Japanese aggressors, with the close cooperation of the Air Force, carried out a cruel and ruthless "dragnet and cover" sweep of the Yimeng Mountain base area. The Yimengshan War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered the most arduous stage. The masses helped the elderly and their children to flee day and night to the nearby valley forest. The incense burner stone branch of a military medical office of the Shandong column stationed here, because there was no time to move, it was scattered and hidden among the common people, and the enemy circled around each mountain.
Zhuang Xinmin, who was only thirteen years old at the time, worked as a caretaker here. After the sanitation was washed away, he fled alone with the fleeing crowd deep into the forest. One night, he ran into a valley and suddenly felt hungry and lonely. At this time, Li Kaitian also happened to come, he looked at Zhuang Xinmin, preliminarily judged that he was a small eighth road, then took out a handful of dried sweet potatoes and stuffed it to Xiao Zhuang, saying: "Stinky boy, eat quickly, we are a family, you don't run around, follow me." After that, the old and the young were like fathers and sons, relying on each other for their lives.
One noon, they and many ordinary people fled to a canyon and were found by the Japanese invaders, at first the warplanes bombarded indiscriminately, followed by shell bombardment, many of the fugitives fell in a pool of blood, and the rest were all captured by the Japanese invaders and locked up in the South Temple of MaMuchi. The next day, The Japanese officer walked back and forth through the crowd with a command knife, checking them one by one. When he came to Zhuang Xinmin, the Japanese officer narrowed his eyes, glanced at it, and suddenly said: "Your Eighth Road..." Li Kaitian grabbed Xiaozhuang's arm and said in a loud voice: "This is my child." The fierce and vicious Japanese officer saw that Li Kaitian was an authentic Chinese peasant, and also saw that Zhuang Xinmin was dry and thin, wearing a native cloth, and indeed did not look like the Eighth Road, but finally eliminated his doubts.
The Japanese invaders then escorted them to Yishui City and forced them to send the stolen cattle and donkeys to Tai'an. After several days of torture and destruction, they were released by the enemy and allowed to return home. Just on the road, Li Kaitian took XiaoZhuang's hand and left, and then he simply carried him on his back and walked for a long time, and finally returned home this night. When Mingde Ying saw her husband returning from thousands of miles and bringing a small warrior, she was overjoyed, as if her children who had gone away many years ago had returned home.
Seeing that Zhuang Xinmin's feet had been worn out, inflamed and red, she washed his feet with salt water and wrapped them in a neat cloth. Then, despite the peculiar smell again, Ming Deying hugged XiaoZhuang's leg and scrubbed it with herbs to heal it. After Ming Deying bandaged his wounds and feet, he saw that Xiaozhuang was hungry and tired, but there was no food at home. So she went out and borrowed a few potatoes from her next-door neighbor, cut them into strips with a knife, boiled them, and mixed them with sesame salt for Xiaozhuang to eat, which at that time could be regarded as a delicious dish.
Seeing Xiaozhuang eat, Ming Deying was happier than seeing his son eat. Mingde Ying's family also only has a kang, a bed of broken quilts, and at night Xiaozhuang sleeps with his uncles and aunts and younger siblings. Ming Deying basically did not sleep all night, for the safety of Xiaozhuang, she ignored the cold at night, and then carefully observed outside, and sentry several times.
For several consecutive days, Zhuang Xinmin lay on the kang. Ming Deying cooked the grain of his family and next-door neighbors for Zhuang Xinmin to eat. The old man and his younger siblings can only eat some bran vegetables and drink some thin soup. Sometimes, unable to get a delicious food for Xiaozhuang to eat, Ming Deying could only quietly wipe away his tears with guilt. It was really difficult to see the aunt's home, Zhuang Xinmin's body was slowly recovering, he proposed to go several times, but Ming Deying and the old man insisted on not allowing him to go, and kept saying: "Your feet are not good enough, not strong enough, live for a few more days to raise and go again!" A few more days passed, Zhuang Xinmin's health was much better, and he proposed to go back to the army. Seeing that he was resolute, the couple agreed, but before leaving, Ming Deying stitched and threaded zhuang Xinmin's torn clothes and shoes carefully, personally put them on for him, looked at it and looked at it, as if he wanted to send his son out again.
Before leaving, Ming Deying went to the village to borrow a few sweet potatoes, cooked them, and gave them to him to eat on the road. The two sons took Zhuang Xinmin's hand and sent it to the village entrance. With tears in his eyes, Ming Deying made a strong gesture so that Zhuang Xinmin could not find the troops and return. Zhuang Xinmin's heart fluctuated, there were thousands of words but did not know where to start, only said one sentence: "Father, mother!" I'll be back to see you guys. "
Reluctantly said goodbye to the two old people, far away, Zhuang Xinmin looked back, through the blurred tears, saw the two old people are still at the mouth of the village constantly waving, waving...
Zhuang Xinmin was persecuted during the "special years", and the relevant working group wanted to use his history of leaving the army for a period of time to designate him as an internal ghost. Ming Deying and his wife did their best to prove the truth once again in a truth-seeking and pragmatic manner, so that Zhuang Xinmin could work for the party again. Zhuang Xinmin said with emotion: "My parents saved my life again." "
In the blink of an eye, more than twenty years have passed, and in November 1990, Zhuang Xinmin, who was nearly seventy years old, took his wife thousands of miles and made a special trip to Yimeng Mountain to visit MingDeying. And hugged Ming Deying tightly... "Red Sister-in-law" Ming Deying was 90 years old at the time. Because she was in good health, she often cooked her own food and cooked vegetables, and could eat two pancakes and a plate of dishes at a time. For many years, the county allocated funds, the village people helped, Mingde Ying family has built 4 brick houses, 2 west houses, all with red brick walls, but also built a wall, installed with green paint large iron doors, the residence is clean, tidy and bright.
The walls of Ming Deying's room are filled with plaques and pennants sent by the army, schools, and institutions, and one of them reads: "Merit will last forever, hero red sister-in-law." It mainly shows the revolutionary identity and contribution of the elderly Mingdeying.
At that time, Minister chi of national defense also personally visited the hero Red Sister-in-law in Yinan, and wrote: Mengshan Gao, Yishui Chang, Good Red Sister-in-law, never forget. These 12 big characters full of affection are not only praise for yimeng red sisters-in-law like Ming Deying, but also hope that the spirit of the Yimeng red revolution can be passed on forever.
At that time, the old man Ofe Mingdeying had a fixed living allowance of 60 yuan per month, of which the county financial appropriation and distribution was 40 yuan, and the well-known actor Wang Yumei sent her 20 yuan per month. Since the 1960s, various leaders and party members and cadres from all provinces of China, military cadres, students and other representatives from all walks of life have come here to visit and comfort, and the endless flow of people has successively entered and exited the rural courtyard of this remote village, and the elderly Ming Deying is full of endless gratitude.
Looking back at the past years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, countless red sisters-in-law, with their simple feelings and warm care, helped many revolutionary fighters and promoted the victory of the revolution, and they were the most trusted families of the children and soldiers, and they were also the warmest rear area. Even today, ordinary people in peacetime must understand a truth: at any time, only the military and the people can work together to win the revolution.
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