One day in 1951, on Xizhangdian Street in Macheng County, Hubei Province, the elderly Lady Zhou Xingrong sat under the low eaves of her house as usual to bask in the sun. A few years ago, her husband died, and her three sons were killed in the war, leaving her alone as a widow and an old man living a life of old age. As she grew older, she was almost blind in both eyes and her ears were not very good, and her life was very difficult.
Old Society Women
Just as Zhou Xingrong was reminiscing about the past, a noisy sound suddenly came from the street, and the sound was getting closer and closer to her. Zhou Xingrong thought that she had heard wrongly, she had been helpless for all these years, no one had come to the door for a long time, how suddenly...
Before Zhou Xingrong could think about it, a loud voice came from her ear, only to hear a man crying and shouting beside her:
"Mother, I am Wang Shusheng!" The child is late, let you suffer, the big brother is no longer there, from today onwards, I will come to send you to the end of the pension!
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Although Zhou Xingrong couldn't see the appearance of the person coming, she remembered this familiar voice all her life, and she couldn't help but cry loudly, her lips slightly open, and said:"
Is it the sound of trees? You're back?
With tears in his eyes, Wang Shusheng slammed his head at Zhou Xingrong and said, "Mother, from now on I will be your own son, so you will call me Zhengdao!" ”
Looking at the haggard appearance of the eldest lady in front of her, Wang Shusheng's thoughts went back to decades ago, and his life was saved by the eldest bride's son...
National Army
On the front line of life and death, the eldest bride saved the Red Army
One night in May 1928, Zhou Xingrong was tired after a hard day and was ready to close the door to rest. Suddenly, there were several dog barks, interspersed with the shouts of a group of people and some gunshots. During that war-torn era, Zhou Xingrong was not surprised by such a scene, especially after the outbreak of the jute uprising, the White Army's action of arresting insurgents and communists became more and more frequent, which made Macheng County chickens and dogs restless.
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Mo Fang ran away from the red bandits, handed over Wang Shusheng, and rewarded the ocean with two hundred!
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Wang Shusheng, come out and die quickly, lest the villagers be implicated by you!
The sharp shouts of the white army upset Zhou Xingrong, and she ignored them, preparing to close the door and hide quietly.
Before Zhou Xingrong could close the door, the door was pushed open, and a young man in tattered clothes and in a hurry suddenly broke into the room.
Zhou Xingrong fixed his eyes on it, this is not Wang Shusheng, her second son just followed Wang Shusheng's uprising and fell under the muzzle of the White Army's guns.
She didn't have time to think about it, so she pulled Wang Shusheng into the room and quickly closed the door.
There was a brief silence in the room. Wang Shusheng had been chased by the White Army for several days, and he was already cornered, so he had no choice but to hide in the big lady's house, and if the big lady offered him out in exchange for money, he had no way. But What Zhou Xingrong calculated was how to save the revolutionary in front of him.
After some contemplation, Zhou Xingrong made up his mind and said:
Tree sound, you take off your clothes, let me put on the son," the white dog doesn't know what you look like, let him go in your place.
Zheng Dao, the eldest son of the Zhou family, was at home at this time, and when he heard his mother say this, he stood in front of Wang Shusheng and said firmly, "I will go for you!" ”
"You..." Wang Shusheng was just about to speak when zhou Xingrong interrupted, she asked Wang Shusheng to take off his clothes and put them on her son Zheng Dao's body, and then let Wang Shusheng hide in the wall of the room.
Wang Shusheng
After everything was ready, Zhou Xingrong opened the door and shouted to the White Army who was looking around: "Come quickly, Wang Shusheng is here with me!" ”
When the White Army heard that they had found "Wang Shusheng", they were very happy, and they pounced into the room with their teeth and claws, and immediately tied up the "Wang Shusheng" with five flowers. Zheng Dao, who pretended to be Wang Shusheng, did not forget to shout at Zhou Xingrong in order to do enough tricks:
You old immortal thing, thanks to my Wang Shusheng so trusting you, wait for me to come out, see how I clean you up!
When the White Army heard this, they were more certain that he was Wang Shusheng, and immediately gave Zhou Xingrong a reward of two hundred oceans and captured "Wang Shusheng".
Zhou Xingrong originally thought that the white dog would be released back to his son after being tortured at most.
Unexpectedly, the next day, the enemy brutally killed "Wang Shusheng" and cut off his head to show the public.
When the bad news came, Zhou Xingrong cried bitterly and lost his voice, and immediately fainted to the ground.
Wang Shusheng, who had been hiding in the wall, saw the scene that had happened clearly, and he hurried to the room, supported Zhou Xingrong, and anxiously shouted: "Big Lady, you wake up!" Ma'am! ”
Under the careful care of Wang Shusheng, Zhou Xingrong woke up slowly. Her two sons have given their lives for the revolution. As the mother of a revolutionary, as the mother of the Red Army, she knows why she did this, but she also wants to know what kind of person the Red Army in front of her is.
Wang Shusheng, who accompanied the bedside, slowly told Zhou Da Niang about his military experience...
Join the revolution and hand blade relatives
In 1905, Wang Shusheng was born into a landlord family in Chengmagang, Macheng County, Hubei Province. Don't look at Wang Shusheng's family as a kulak, but the whole family supported the revolution, and his two older brothers, a younger brother, and a younger sister all joined the revolution later.
Wang Shusheng lost his father at the age of 6 and his mother at the age of 9, and his family fell into the middle of the road and grew up under the care of his grandparents. At the age of 18, Wang Shusheng was sent by his grandparents to Study at Macheng Senior Primary School, where he was first exposed to communist ideas under the guidance of revolutionaries and joined the Communist Party of China in 1926. Soon after, Wang Shusheng returned to Macheng under the arrangement of the organization to lead the local peasant movement.
Although Wang Shusheng was born into a landlord family, he has a great sense of justice, especially he is not accustomed to those local tyrants and bullies who run amok in the townships and oppress the people in the north. After returning to Chengmagang, the first thing he did was to fight with his uncle and grandmother. For this reason, the uncle and grandmother pleaded with him in person: "We are relatives, can't we open up to one side?" ”
Wang Shusheng's answer was loud and clear:
As long as it is against the peasant association, even if it is a mother-in-law, it must fight with him to the end!
Wang Shusheng's uncle Ding Pillow Fish, a well-known local bully, not only fished the people, but also led his family to obstruct the peasant movement and smashed the command post of the peasant association. When Wang Shusheng learned of this, he was furious and immediately led the peasant army into the Ding family and personally sent his uncle Ding Pillow Fish to the guillotine.
Jute Uprising
In 1927, the Kuomintang culled Communists and progressive masses across the country. Ding Yueping, the son of Ding Yueyu, was dissatisfied with the peasant association and had a vendetta against his father, so he bribed more than 10,000 members of the "Red Gun Society" to create the Macheng Massacre. The "Red Gun Society" was a descendant of the Boxers, and the local people thought that they were invincible, and they were very frightened and allowed to be slaughtered by the other side.
Wang Shusheng was a well-known sharpshooter, standing at the head of the city, and in the distance he saw a red-clad master in the enemy's ranks, looking majestic and arrogant. The thief captured the king first, and Wang Shusheng loaded the bullet, and one shot resulted in the master. Seeing that the people of the "Red Gun Society" could also be killed, the people joined the peasant rebel army one after another and took up arms to drive away the reactionaries.
In 1927, the jute uprising broke out, which greatly shook the rule of the Kuomintang in the Dabie Mountains, and the generals who came out of the rebel army directly changed the fate of China, and Wang Shusheng was one of them.
Under the brutal strangulation of the enemy, the jute uprising eventually ended in failure, and Wang Shusheng was forced to go underground for guerrilla warfare. On December 20, Wang Shusheng and other rebel leaders met at the Wujia Temple in Xizhangdian to discuss the next battle plan. However, due to the traitor Gao Mi, their whereabouts were controlled by the White Army, and the Wujia Temple was surrounded. In desperation, Wang Shusheng and others had to disperse and break through. The White Army shouted slogans such as "Capture Wang Shusheng Alive" and "The Whistleblowers Are Rewarded Heavily" and chased after Wang Shusheng. Wang Shusheng had no way out, so he knocked on the door of Zhou Da's mother's house.
Many years later, he became a general and sent the benefactor to the end of his life
Listening to Wang Shusheng telling the stories of the past, Zhou Xingrong was full of emotions, the Red Army in front of him was indeed a big hero, and his son's sacrifice to cover him was also worth it. Tremblingly, she took out the two hundred oceans rewarded by the White Army, handed it to Wang Shusheng, asked her to buy a coffin, bury her two sons together, and tearfully begged him to take her third son with her and join the revolution.
Zhou Da Niang was so affectionate and righteous, which made Wang Shusheng have mixed feelings, and for a time, several emotions of emotion, self-blame, and sadness and indignation lingered in his heart, and could not be dissipated for a long time. He choked and shouted, "
Mother, how should I repay you in this life?
Coming back is the best news:
.” Zhou Xingrong turned his head and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.
The next day, Wang Shusheng and the third son of the Zhou family embarked on a journey to find the Red Army troops, and then joined the Red Seventh Army in eastern Hubei. In April 1928, during a battle, Zhou Xingrong's third son, like his two older brothers, sacrificed his precious life for the revolution. This incident became an eternal pain in Wang Shusheng's heart, and the Zhou family dedicated three sons to the revolution, so that Wang Shusheng, an iron-boned tough guy, cried twice in less than a year. Wang Shusheng secretly swore in his heart:
When the revolution was victorious, he recognized Zhou Da Niang as his own mother-in-law and sent her to the end of his life.
Old Society Old Lady
However, the road of the revolution was tortuous, and in the following twenty years or so, Wang Shusheng experienced anti-"encirclement and suppression", the Long March, the Western Route Army's Western Expedition, the War of Resistance, and the War of Liberation, spilling youth and blood on the battlefield, but he could not return to Macheng to see his own dry wife.
In the blink of an eye, in 1951, Wang Shusheng, who was the commander of the Hubei Military Region, led the "Dabie Mountain Base Area Visiting Group" to the place where the Red Army had fought to find relatives of the Red Army and comfort the veteran soldiers.
On that day, Wang Shusheng wore a capable military uniform and met with Zhou Xingrong. When he saw Zhou Da Niang leaning in front of the door, hanging on to the old man, he couldn't help but cry, and he couldn't stand to kneel in front of Zhou Da Niang and shouted:
Mother, your tree sound is back...
Zhou Xingrong's three sons died for the revolution, and Wang Shusheng regarded her as his own mother and served her around. Wang Shusheng proposed that he wanted to take Zhou Da Niang to the provincial capital to facilitate her care. But Zhou Da Niang said that she was older and used to living in the mountains, and she couldn't bear to leave. Wang Shusheng did not want to embarrass Ganniang, so he had to give some instructions and leave the Zhou family. Since then, he has entrusted the local government and comrades-in-arms to visit the Zhou family many times and take care of zhou's life.
In 1955, Wang Shusheng was awarded the rank of Grand General.
In 1959, Zhou Xingrong died peacefully.
The story of Zhou Da Niang's parents replacing the founding general has touched countless people, and it is still praised today, not forgetting the heroic mother.