Xie Chunsheng in 1922 was born in a peasant family, when he was a child, his family was poor, and his family of four pointed to that acre of land to eat only during the New Year's Festival to barely fill his stomach, fortunately, his mother Wang Xiuying's hand was still clever, and he sewed up a little gadget to subsidize the family, so as not to starve to death in the famine year, and this life lasted for 15 years.
By 1937, when the harvest was not ideal, Xie Chunsheng's father looked at the children who were running out of food, and his heart was a little worried, and people outside were saying that the Japanese devils were going to declare war on China. In that village in the northeast, every day there are villagers who pack up and run out. Xie Chunsheng's father did not want to leave, he was a person who missed his hometown, but looking at the departure of every family around him, Xie Chunsheng's father also had to make the decision to leave.
The father sold all the family property for two pallet trucks to pull goods, and changed some pots and bowls of pottery, so the father and Xie Chunsheng each pulled a car, the mother and sister walked behind, and the family of four began to migrate to the south.
Along the way, Xie Chunsheng saw many, including tin shells that could carry people in the city, young people standing on high platforms and speaking, and some ordinary people in military uniforms who could not avoid them when they saw them. His father told Xie Chunsheng that the soldiers were Japanese and that they were hateful invaders.
In the days of going south, although it is very tiring to run around every day, selling things depends on luck, but fortunately, the family still supports each other together. Xie Chunsheng also believes that when his father is old and can't move, he will pull the car and sell it by himself, and his life will always go on.
But the good times did not last long, when Xie Chunsheng's family went south to Shanghai, Xie Chunsheng saw such a prosperous place for the first time, it was different from other places, there were more iron shells than anywhere else, and there were more Japanese soldiers than other places. At that time, Xie Chunsheng did not know why this group of people was so unreasonable, they hit the goods on the flap truck, and they were ready to smash the board cart pulled by the father and son.
Xie Chunsheng's father was originally an honest man, but all his belongings were smashed by this group of Japanese devils, and the clay people also had three points of anger, so they quarreled with the Japanese soldiers.
At that time, before the Lugou Bridge Incident, all the little devils were trying to provoke.
Xie Chunsheng's father's actions just hit the arms of this group of little devils, so Xie Chunsheng saw with his own eyes that the devil's steel gun pierced his father's chest.
At that time, Xie Chunsheng only had one idea, and fought with this group of devils! The mother, Wang Xiuying, hugged her son, and she knew that in the face of these steel guns and bayonets, the only thing she could do was to stop her son, and his son must not leave her again.
In this way, Xie Chunsheng watched his enemies, killed people and left with a big swing, but he couldn't do anything, his mother and sister on the side had already cried into tears, Xie Chunsheng could only grit his teeth, put his father's body on the board, and find a place to bury it.
Xie Chunsheng hated ah, he longed to be able to kill all the Japanese soldiers, coincidentally, Xie Chunsheng saw the recruitment announcement, saw the announcement of Xie Chunsheng eager to immediately join the army, and then trained a good skill to avenge his father.
However, such a passion was stopped by the mother who was worried about her son, and the clear-eyed people knew that the war was about to be fought, and to join the army now was equivalent to sending them to death. His husband is dead, and if even his son is sacrificed, what will he and the little daughter in the family do? Therefore, the mother also specially pulled Xie Chunsheng out of the local army.
But Xie Chunsheng knew that if everyone did not join the army, there would be more tragedies like his own country, and his father was killed by Japanese devils, but even the dead father did not succumb to this group of invaders.
So late one night, Xie Chunsheng prostrated his head three times at his sleeping mother, he knew that he was not a filial son, but the death of his father, and the devil's invasion of Chinese territory, Xie Chunsheng could not just be so reckless and secretly alive no matter what, so Xie Chunsheng chose to leave quietly. At this time, Xie Chunsheng was only 15 years old.
Xie Chunsheng had not read a book, could not read a few words, and mistakenly joined the Kuomintang troops, at that time Xie Chunsheng did not think about the difference between the Two Armies of the Kuomintang and the Communists, anyway, the recruiters said to him: "Follow us to fight devils." ”
The unit that Xie Chunsheng joined was the later famous Seventh Steel Army.
Xie Chunsheng, who had just joined the army, was still young, and he didn't even carry the gun much, so he was arranged to be a communication soldier, because he had pulled goods with his father before, Xie Chunsheng's foot strength was still quite good, and he was also handy in coping with the work of the communication soldier.
And when the war entered the white-hot stage of the year, a tough battle of the Seventh Steel Army, the battle situation at that time was very fierce, the troops ordered as long as they could move forward, the correspondent was no exception.
This was the first time that Xie Chunsheng really took up a weapon to kill the enemy, during the battle, Xie Chunsheng did not show a trace of fear, but instead vented all the hatred of the national disaster and family hatred, he remembered that his father was stabbed in the chest by the bayonet and still had an unyielding look at the devil.
This look now turned into his courage.
The battle was over, and after a five-hour battle, Xie Chunsheng's troops successfully retaken their positions. Although the overall situation of the war was concerned, the battle was a failure, which led to the fall of Shanghai.
In the later battles, Xie Chunsheng also followed the Seventh Steel Army to the battlefield many times to heroically kill the enemy, and made many meritorious achievements in the subsequent wars, and finally waited for the victory of the war on August 15, 1945.
On that day, when he heard the news, Xie Chunsheng was excited, he knew that his father would be proud of him, and at the same time, Xie Chunsheng also thought that he could go home. Over the years, Xie Chunsheng has been thinking about his mother and the little sister in the family, and he thinks that the great revenge has repaid himself and can finally go back to honor his mother.
On the other side of Xie Chunsheng's mother Wang Xiuying also learned the news of victory, since her son secretly ran to join the army, Wang Xiuying has been very worried about her son, before the war daughter will go to inquire about the war situation every day to tell her mother, but the daily war situation is very fierce, dead and injured, and over time even the little sister in the family does not believe that her eldest brother is still alive, and does not talk about the war situation.
But the bond between mother and son has made Wang Xiuying believe that her son is still alive. On the day of victory, Wang Xiuying let her daughter buy a pot of wine, sprinkled it on the ground, and said to the sky with trembling: "Child, his father, your son has avenged you." ”
Looking into the distance again, he murmured, "Son, Mom is waiting for you to come back." ”
But Wang Xiuying still did not wait for his son, the victory was not long after the Kuomintang began to fight, Xie Chunsheng did not understand why the Japanese were finished fighting, Chinese still have to fight with themselves, but there was no way, the soldiers to obey the order as their duty, they can only participate in the war again.
What Xie Chunsheng did not expect was that this time participating in the war would be far away from his hometown for decades.
The Nationalist army was beaten to retreat to Taiwan, just arrived in Taiwan, Xie Chunsheng thought that this place should be good, if he can bring his mother and little sister here, it may be a beautiful thing, his side is about to be discharged, with the retirement subsidy to do a little business, find a beautiful daughter-in-law to take care of the mother, the rest of his life is also very good.
But he did not expect that the two sides of the strait were separated like this, looking at the mainland, Xie Chun was worried, he came out as a soldier for many years, he never had contact with his family, he did not even know whether his mother was healthy, how his little sister was doing, was he married, these problems, he wanted to use his own eyes to see, to see what his mother looked like. But the relations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party continued to deteriorate, and I could not go back.
In the following decades, Xie Chunsheng did some small business according to his own preferences in this strange place, married and had children, and had his own home, and his life gradually became flat. But the home across the coast became his long-term regret and pain.
Finally, in the 1980s, the mainland and Taiwan began to actively improve until December 15, 2008, when the three cross-strait links were realized. 86-year-old Xie Chunsheng was finally able to return to his homeland, and with the support of his grandson, Xie Chunsheng finally returned home after more than fifty years, stepping on this land, he was a wanderer who had been far away from his hometown, and finally returned to the embrace of his homeland.
Xie Chunsheng stood in front of the village in his hometown with a cane and a tortuous step, but this place was no longer what Xie Chunsheng remembered. In fact, Xie Chunsheng also thought that his mother may no longer be there, but he thought to himself, even if his mother really left, he would have to say goodbye to her in front of her grave this time.
Fortunately, Xie Chunsheng's mother is still alive, under the efforts of all parties, the mother and son are finally reunited after 71 years, 106-year-old Wang Xiuying is waiting every day, she believes that her son will come back, so where Wang Xiuying lives is the place where her son was born.
When Xie Chunsheng came to his mother, the 106-year-old man could only collapse on the bed, breathing like gossamer, already very weak. When Xie Chunsheng saw his mother, he just shouted excitedly: "Mom, I'm back."
Hearing this voice, Wang Xiuying opened her eyes, even after seventy-one years, her mother still recognized her child at a glance and whispered Xie Chunsheng's name. A little tear appeared in the corner of her eye, and she knew that her son was back, that her son was not dead, that his son was still a hero.
That night, the centenarian left.
Maybe Xie Chunsheng will also regret it, he has just met his mother, and he has not yet had time to fulfill his filial piety. But I think if Xie Chunsheng had chosen again, he would still have chosen to leave home alone that night, because behind him there was always a mother who wanted to protect him, so that he could protect the nation.