In 1924, a matchmaker suddenly came to the Xu family's "cold house", as soon as she entered the door, she congratulated her, Xu Mother was very strange, asked the matchmaker He Xizhi, the matchmaker replied: "Zhu Ximing, a girl of the Zhu family, has taken a fancy to your family Xu Shiyou, let me go to the door to propose to you!" Mother Xu was very surprised, Zhu Ximing was a good girl praised by everyone in the ten miles, and she was not worried about marriage, and her own family, destitute, how could she look up to her son? When the matchmaker saw that Xu Mu did not believe it, she said, "Your family friends dance knives and guns, and fight for the poor, where to find such people?" In xu mu's shock, the matchmaker took away Xu Shiyou's shoes...
Three days later, the matchmaker came to the door again, holding a copper basin in her hand, a pair of men's shoes and a pair of women's shoes in the basin, and wore them together with red threads, Xu Mu was shocked, is this not the meaning of "growing old together"? Xu Mu then believed that Zhu Ximing really wanted to marry her son Xu Shiyou!
This Xu Shiyou was none other than general Xu Shiyou, the famous founding general of the later dynasty!
Xu Shiyou was born in a poor family in Xujiawa, Henan, his father died early, followed his mother to rely on each other, because he liked martial arts, he followed the martial arts master as a miscellaneous servant, and later went to the Shaolin Temple to learn martial arts, after returning to his hometown, he fought unevenly, presided over justice for the poor people, and became very famous, Zhu Ximing was willing to marry Xu Shiyou because of Xu Shiyou's chivalrous and courageous courage!
Although it is an arranged marriage, but Xu Shiyou is not rejected, first, Zhu Ximing is a rare good girl, second, Xu Shiyou is a big filial piety, the mother worked hard to give herself a marriage, how to make the old man a piece of hard work, put into vain, so in 1924, 23-year-old Zhu Ximing and 19-year-old Xu Shiyou became relatives!
After marriage, the young couple got along very harmoniously, but unfortunately, only 3 days after the new marriage, Xu Shiyou received the fighting figures and returned to the army, after which the husband and wife gathered less and left more, but it did not affect the feelings of the husband and wife at all, knowing that the husband was the master of the poor people, throwing his head and spilling blood, although worried, but Zhu Ximing gave his full support, and his mother-in-law took shoes together, supported the front line, and sometimes went to the front line to wash clothes for the soldiers!
Zhu Ximing gave birth to Xu Shiyou 3 children, but unfortunately, the first two children died prematurely, in 1929, Zhu Ximing and Xu Shiyou's third child Xu Guang was born, Xu Shiyou was very busy at work at the time, went home to take a look, and then hurriedly left, Zhu Ximing took the child, waiting at home for Xu Shiyou to come back and give the child a name, this wait, that is, 3 years, Xu Shiyou stepped into the house again, it was in 1932, did not expect that this time to meet, the husband and wife are farewell!
After leaving home, Xu Shiyou went with the troops to Shaanxi and Gansu to open up a revolutionary base area, but unfortunately, soon after Xu Shiyou left home, his hometown was occupied by white elements, these people burned and plundered, no evil, for the red army family, even more brutal, either forced to remarry, or sold to other places, Xu Mother was very worried about the safety of her daughter-in-law, kind words of persuasion, let the daughter-in-law remarry to an honest cropper nearby, and she took her grandson Xu Guang to rely on each other!
Although he remarried, in Zhu Ximing's heart, he will always be the daughter-in-law of the Xu family, often going to the Xu family to take care of the lives of his son and Xu mother, zhu Ximing's husband who remarried, is also a good person, and he is also very supportive of these things that Zhu Ximing did, but unfortunately, it was not long before he remarried, this husband died, and after that, Zhu Ximing lived alone!
Because it was the war years, Zhu Ximing never had news of her husband Xu Shiyou, until the liberation of the whole country, Zhu Ximing saw the news about Xu Shiyou in the newspaper, which knew that Xu Shiyou was still alive, but at this time Xu Shiyou had already started a family, and his wife Tian Minglan had already given birth to several children for Xu Shiyou, and the two had no possibility of reunion!
It turned out that soon after Xu Shiyou left home, he heard that his wife Zhu Ximing and the fourth brother Shisheng were arrested by the Security Bureau, the fourth brother Shisheng was killed, Zhu Ximing did not know whether he was alive or dead, at that time, the Security Bureau was a very terrible existence, the people who went in, there was little hope of coming out alive, Xu Shiyou thought that his wife had died, and in 1934, he married Lei Mingzhen, but the marriage between the two lasted only two years, and it was declared over, in 1943, Xu Shiyou married his third wife, 19-year-old Tian Minglan!
Although he could not continue the frontier with Xu Shiyou, but knowing that Xu Shiyou had arranged his son Xu Guang into the army, zhu Ximing was very pleased, in 1965, the 64-year-old Zhu Ximing came to the end of his life, and before he died, he still remembered Xu Shiyou and said to his son Xu Guang:
I only confessed that I was the daughter-in-law of the Xu family, and after I died, I was buried in the Xu family grave!
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After Zhu Ximing's death, his son Xu Guang, in accordance with Zhu Ximing's last wishes, will be buried in the Xu family's grave and commemorated by a monument, Xu Shiyou heard the news of Zhu Ximing's death, and it was also the old tears that ran rampant, instructing Xu Guang:"
Always go to the grave to see your mother!