General Xu Shiyou made great achievements for the founding of New China and was a respected founding general. In 1953, when the domestic situation was stable, General Xu Shiyou temporarily put aside his administrative affairs and returned to his hometown to visit his relatives.
When the villagers heard that General Xu Shiyou had returned to his hometown, they all enthusiastically rushed to visit and congratulate him, but when Xu Shiyou saw his own uncle, he was furious and even pulled out a gun to kill his uncle. Why did General Xu Shiyou hate his uncle so much?
General Xu Shiyou's uncle was named Xu Cunli, who was originally a security chief in the old era, and in order to obtain personal benefits, he did a lot of things to bully the people.
More importantly, he experienced the counter-revolutionary activities of Chiang Kai-shek and Wang and was deeply poisoned by counter-revolutionary ideas, and at that time, as a local security chief, Xu Cunli also led people to personally arrest revolutionaries and patriots. And General Xu Shiyou happened to be the target of his arrest, and the mad Xu Cunli, regardless of good and evil black and white, nor did he care about family affection, launched a crazy hunt for General Xu Shiyou.
General Xu Shiyou led his troops to fight a guerrilla war in the Dabie Mountains, xu Cunli could not catch General Xu Shiyou, and even viciously attacked General Xu Shiyou's family and wanted to sell them to traffickers, he did not think at all that the people he was dealing with were also his relatives. Fortunately, General Xu Shiyou's family was finally saved from disaster.
In addition, Xu Cunli once took advantage of General Xu Shiyou's return home to visit his mother, and led reactionaries to break through the door and arrest him. Before this, General Xu Shiyou had already astutely realized the danger, and led the members of the organization to hide in advance, Xu Cunli pounced on the air, and he was not willing to return empty-handed, and actually forcibly arrested General Xu Shiyou's uncle and tortured him severely, first to vent his anger, and second, to force him to inquire about the whereabouts of General Xu Shiyou.
Several arrests failed, Xu Cunli looked for another way, he learned that General Xu Shiyou was going to pass through somewhere, so he led people to ambush there in advance, trying to capture General Xu Shiyou and all the members of his organization. When General Xu Shiyou passed by, he was surrounded by Xu Cunli's people, and the two sides fought fiercely, although General Xu Shiyou was able to escape, but two of his comrades lost their lives in this battle.
The various evil deeds that Xu Cunli did made General Xu Shiyou very angry, and he wanted to go to Xu Cunli desperately, but considering the fighting situation at that time, he could not let the organization suffer greater losses because of his impulsiveness, and General Xu Shiyou had to endure. However, thinking of his comrades who died, thinking of his family members who were hurt, hating the country and the family, General Xu Shiyou could not forgive Xu Cunli, which is why he did not return to his hometown for many years.
It was not until 1953 that he returned to his hometown with the approval of his leadership to visit his family and comfort the villagers. Knowing that Xu Shiyou had returned, and thinking of all the evil deeds he had done, Xu Cunli was terrified day and night, afraid that General Xu Shiyou would settle old accounts with him. Thinking about it, he decided to meet General Xu Shiyou, hoping that General Xu Shiyou would forgive him with concern for his family affection.
When General Xu Shiyou saw Xu Cunli and thought of the innocent people and revolutionary comrades who had been brutally killed by him, he pulled out his gun in anger and was about to kill Xu Cunli. Xu Cunli was so frightened that his legs went weak, and he immediately knelt down to plead, this spineless move made General Xu Shiyou even angrier.
General Xu Shiyou's mother was a kind old man, she heard about this incident, and quickly came out to stop it, if Xu Cunli died, his wife and children would lose their dependence, and for this reason, she even did not hesitate to kneel down to her son and plead. General Xu Shiyou finally suppressed his anger and temporarily spared Xu Cunli.
General Xu Shiyou could let go of his family hatred and spare Xu Cunli, but the national vendetta was still there, and Xu Cunli did not escape the punishment of the law in the end, and was finally sentenced to life imprisonment according to law and spent the rest of his life in prison.
After Xu Cunli was imprisoned, General Xu Shiyou took on the responsibility of taking care of Xu Cunli's family regardless of his previous suspicions, sending them money every month so that they could have no worries about food and clothing, and did not let them be implicated because of Xu Cunli's evil deeds.