preface
Cannon fire roared, wolf smoke rose everywhere..... In 1937, the flames of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression suddenly ignited the entire land of China. May this body be long to serve the country, why should he be born into the Jade Gate Pass.
At the time of national disaster and national crisis, there were many young men with lofty ideals, who were young but with patriotic enthusiasm and the determination to defend their families and defend the country to the death, and rushed to the front line of the war without hesitation.
Anti-Japanese fighters
Gentlemen are in service, regardless of the return date.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, these men and women with lofty ideals, heroes and martyrs gave up their families to protect China, and some of them unfortunately died on the battlefield, separated from their relatives and people, and some were lucky to survive, and finally waited for the victory of the war and returned home safely.
And the protagonist of the story we tell today is such a small person who lived in the background of the War of Resistance Against Japan, left home to join the army at the age of 15, but did not think about this difference, that is, the stars have shifted for decades, and when he stepped into his homeland again, he was already an old man with white hair.
He bid farewell to his mother and insisted on joining the army
This one once was
15-year-old
be called
Xie Chunsheng
He was born into an ordinary rural family with parents and a younger sister. Rise, the people suffer, die, the people suffer... After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the iron hooves of the Japanese army trampled on the land of China, so Xie Chunsheng's parents also took him and his sister to live a life of fleeing everywhere, upside down and displaced, in the process of fleeing,
Xie Chunsheng's father unfortunately died tragically under the guns of the Japanese army.
The woman is weak, the mother is just, and Xie Chunsheng after losing her husband
Mother Wang Xiuying
He strongly shouldered the burden of raising two children, wiped away his tears, held Xie Chunsheng in one hand, held his still young sister in the other, and carried a bag on his back, struggling to survive in this chaotic world.
In the process of fleeing, Xie Chunsheng, who was very young, had already seen too many massacres, bloodsheds and deaths, and tasted the heartache and blood and tears of the destruction of the country and the death of the family. Whenever he saw the brutal massacre of Chinese civilians by the Japanese army, Xie Chunsheng always clenched his small fists tightly, and he was eager to go forward and fight with the Japanese army.
Therefore, he made up his mind to join the army, rush to the front, kill the enemy, and contribute his own modest strength to the anti-Japanese resistance. But
However, his idea was opposed by his mother, Wang Xiuying.
For Wang Xiuying, who was a mother at that time, she had such an attitude towards her son joining the army, which was also understandable, after all, Xie Chunsheng was the only one in the family at that time, as a mother, where she was willing to let her son go to the front, after all, this parting, may be life and death, the Blood of the Xie family may also be broken. Coupled with the blow brought to her by the death of Xie Chunsheng's father, it made her so opposed to Xie Chunsheng joining the army.
Children's Regiment of the War of Resistance Against Japan
In the face of his mother's opposition, Xie Chunsheng also understood his mother's good intentions, but he had already
The heart has been decided
Even though he was regarded by his mother as an unfilial descendant, he was determined to participate in the action of resisting Japan and saving the country and serving the country.
So one night, Xie Chunsheng was ready to carry his mother on his back and quietly fled, and before leaving, he prostrated his head three times in front of his mother's window, then picked up his bag and embarked on his own journey. Xie Chunsheng knew that he was ashamed of his mother, he had planned to fight for a few years and then go home to serve his mother, at that time the Japanese army was also beaten away, and his mother's anger should also be eliminated, and he could live a peaceful life with his family. But I didn't think,
He walked for seventy years.
Because Xie Chunsheng was still young at that time, he only knew that he wanted to fight the Japanese army, did not understand the so-called islamic distinction, and did not know which camp to join, so he joined the nationalist army in a vacuum.
Don't look at Xie Chunsheng is only 15 years old, but he is young and promising, thinking that his father and compatriots have died under the butcher's knife of the Japanese army, so he is always morale on the battlefield, his unit has gone to North China to fight the War of Resistance, during which he has fought many victories, outstanding performance, and many meritorious awards.
By the end of the War of Resistance, he had risen from an ordinary small soldier to battalion commander.
There is no hope of returning home
Looking forward to it, looking forward to it, the War of Resistance Against Japan finally ushered in victory, and Xie Chunsheng also thought that he could go home to visit his mother. But apparently his way home was not smooth, because of the outbreak of the civil war, Xie Chunsheng was forced to stand against the troops of our army.
But in the end, with the overall victory of our army troops,
In 1949, Xie Chunsheng's unit also had no choice but to flee to Taiwan, and Xie Chunsheng has since left the mainland, and the day of his return to his hometown has become far away.
Xie Chunsheng, who fled to Taiwan, misses his hometown and his mother more and more intensely, and he does not know whether his mother and sister survived the war. If they survive, where are they now? Is the mother healthy? What does my sister look like when she grows up? Did you go to school? Waiting for Xie Chunsheng's heart all the time.
But according to the situation at that time, his desire to return to his hometown had become a luxury, so he could only wait. During this period, he also married and had children in Taiwan, living his own post-war life, day after day, year after year, time flickering, that is, 70 years of time.
At this time, Xie Chunsheng was already an elderly man, his body was not as good as a day, he was often troubled by illness, every time he would think of his mother and sister, and whenever he told his wife about the pain of his thoughts, the tears always couldn't help but dazzle out. But even though time passed mercilessly, Xie Chunsheng still did not give up the hope of returning home.
After 70 years of separation, he finally returned to his hometown to find his mother
Finally, the Emperor Tian did not pay off, and Xie Chunsheng's years of waiting ushered in hope. 15 December 2008,
The Two Sides of the Taiwan Strait Officially Realize the "Three Links"
Xie Chunsheng finally had the opportunity to embark on the way back to his hometown, but at this time he was already an 86-year-old man, four generations in the same house, with his own new family and family.
At that time, Xie Chunsheng was even lying on a hospital bed, out of consideration for Xie Chunsheng's body, so his wife and children had advised him not to go back.
However, Xie Chunsheng, in order to obsess over returning to his hometown in his heart, has long forgotten his own illness and insisted on going home to find his mother and sister, and even said in tears:
"Even if I die, I'll go back and see."
So a month later, Xie Chunsheng trembled and dragged his elderly body back to his homeland, because 70 years had passed, and his hometown was already human, not at all what he remembered.
According to the calculation of time, the mother Wang Xiuying at this time should have been 106 years old, and the possibility of still living in the world is not large, coupled with the earth-shaking changes in his hometown for 70 years, Xie Chunsheng wants to find relatives, it can be said that it is as difficult as ascending to the sky. So how should Xie Chunsheng find his former mother and sister?
In the end, thanks to the development of information in the Internet age, in desperation, Xie Chunsheng can only seek the help of the media, with the publicity of many media and the help of some well-wishers, Xie Chunsheng really found his mother and sister who have been away for many years.
After learning that his mother and sister were still alive, Xie Chunsheng could not hide the excitement and joy in his heart, and after getting the specific address of his mother's place, he immediately went to meet him.
When I saw my mother Wang Xiuying again, my mother had been bedridden for many years and her sanity had become unclear, but she had not forgotten her son who had left home.
According to Xie Chunsheng's sister,
For so many years, her mother, Wang Xiuying, could not let go of this son, and she always believed that her son must still be alive, even if she was delirious, she still called her son's name all day.
The young man left home and returned to the old man, and the township voice did not change the sideburns
...... In his lifetime, seeing his mother again, Xie Chunsheng could no longer hold back the emotions in his heart, felt that he owed too much to his mother in this life, did not fulfill the responsibility and filial piety that a son should have, and immediately fell to his knees in front of his mother, wept bitterly, and called out a belated" "Mother."
At this time, although Wang Xiuying's vision was blurred and her ears were back, when a "mother" was shouted, Wang Xiuying looked at the old man with the same gray hair in front of her, although she was also stunned for several seconds, but then tears flowed from the corners of her eyes, and tightly held Xie Chunsheng's hand and said a word in a vague voice
"Baby, you're back."
This scene could not help but make everyone present moved. It is precisely because of love, because of the thoughts and persistence in her heart, the 106-year-old mother is still obsessively waiting for the return of his son, although the son at this time is also 89 years old, but the flesh and blood affection, difficult to separate, and even beyond the boundaries of time and distance, touching deeply.