During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the conditions of the Eighth Route Army were relatively difficult, because every day in addition to marching, it was necessary to use continuous movement warfare and guerrilla warfare to attack the Japanese army, which would be very expensive for shoes, and the quality of coarse cloth shoes at that time was not good, and the shoes for walking hundreds of miles of mountain roads would surely wear out soon.
After all, the Eighth Route Army's favorite tactic is to carry out a rapid march of 120-160 miles a day and a night, suddenly appearing at a certain Japanese stronghold and launching a rapid offensive that cannot be concealed.
Under such circumstances, it was difficult for the logistics units to keep up with and replenish them at any time, so the Eighth Route Army would temporarily borrow grain and cloth shoes from the relatively wealthy local families in the form of loans. At that time, in Gepai Town, the Eighth Route Army borrowed from Chen Hongqing 120 catties of cotton, 50 pairs of cloth shoes and 60 catties of cloth.
And Wang Pinghui of the Eighth Route Army, who was in charge of this matter, wrote an IOU to Chen Hongqing, promising that "in case of emergency, you can go to the Yan'an base area to collect it, and if you are not in a hurry, the whole country will be liberated in the future, and you will be transferred." ”
Chen Hongqing was worried that the Japanese army would find the IOU in the sweep, so he hid it in the crack in the wall. Later, Wang Pinghui was killed in the war, and Chen Hongqing also died, until this year, Chen Hongqing's son Chen Kaiji wanted to rip off the old house to rebuild, and found this IOU in the crack of the wall.
But now Chen Hongqing's children and grandchildren do not want to honor this IOU, but want to preserve it as a special heirloom.