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Reportage | Tieliu Zhao Fangxin's "Oriental Mother"

Reportage | Tieliu Zhao Fangxin's "Oriental Mother"
Reportage | Tieliu Zhao Fangxin's "Oriental Mother"
Reportage | Tieliu Zhao Fangxin's "Oriental Mother"
Reportage | Tieliu Zhao Fangxin's "Oriental Mother"
Reportage | Tieliu Zhao Fangxin's "Oriental Mother"

Tie Liu, born in October 1967, graduated from the Literature Department of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts, and was a professional writer in the Political Department of the North Sea Fleet. He is currently the vice chairman of the Shandong Writers Association and a member of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He enjoys the special allowance of the State Council and is a famous cultural artist of Qilu in Shandong Province. He has won the "Five One Project" Award of the Central Propaganda Department, the Lu Xun Literature Award, the "Ordos Literature Award" Excellent Work Award of "Chinese Writers", the Taishan Literature and Art Award and other awards. He is the author of the long-form reportage "Patron", "Survey of Chinese Private Education", "National Memory - A Chinese Legend", "Zhishu and His Village", "Witness - Legend of the Red Community in Rural China", "A Village's Blood Book of the War of Resistance", novella "Huaixiang" and so on. His works have appeared in Chinese Writers, Contemporary Times, People's Literature, and People's Liberation Army Literature and Art. Many of his works have been reprinted by Xinhua Digest, Novel Monthly and various annual anthologies. Films based on award-winning works such as "Big Tinder" and "Yuanzi Cliff Defense" have been released in theaters nationwide and broadcast on CCTV.

Reportage | Tieliu Zhao Fangxin's "Oriental Mother"

Zhao Fangxin, born in September 1970, is a native of Qihe County, Shandong Province. He is a member of the China Writers Association, a member of the China Reportage Literature Society, and the deputy director of the Reportage Professional Committee of the Shandong Writers Association. So far, he has published 10 long-form reportage and essay collections. The long-form reportage "Chinese Peasant Book" (co-authored) was selected into the 2017 China Reportage Rankings, and the long-form reportage "Requiem of Chinese Veterans" was selected for many annual anthologies. He has won the 7th Xu Chi Reportage Award and the Taishan Literature Award. He is currently working in the Qihe County Literary Association.

- The milkmaids and the revolutionary descendants they raised

(Excerpt)

■ Iron flow Zhao Fangxin

introduction

On the vast Jiaodong Peninsula, open the dusty book of time, a period of old events that occurred in the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, gradually re-entered our historical vision: more than 300 ordinary rural mothers, in their flower-like age, walked into the smoke and flames of war, and fed 1,223 revolutionary babies with a holy motherhood beyond blood. Their milk nursed life traumatized by war, their love domesticated with ferocious cannon fire, and the "lullaby" they hummed into a symphonic epic of fragrant oriental mothers.

Gong Yuanhua and Wang Shuihua, the two milk ladies called "Hua", are particularly swaying and fragrant among them, and their stories are filled with the breath of mountain chrysanthemums, and they also echo the sadness of thousands of turns, shining with the vast radiance of motherhood...

"Bigfoot daughter-in-law" sends lovers

Gong Yuanhua's pair of "liberation feet" walked on the street of Nanmashi Village in Muhai County (now part of Rushan City, Weihai City, Shandong Province), attracting all the way to pointing and pointing, commenting on the foot, let you chew your tongue vigorously, I don't care! She walked faster than before, steadily, said where to go, raised her legs and walked, wrapped her feet for a while to walk like a knife mountain, the most intimidating thing to run upside down. Gong Yuanhua seems to liberate the feet below, but in fact, the upper brain shell is liberated, and she is obviously more receptive to new things and more cheerful and generous than the sisters who are trapped by the shroud. Her "liberated feet" attracted some criticism from some people, but also won the favor of a few people. Jiang Kefu of Cao'an Village was aimed at her feet and asked the matchmaker to propose to her. Jiang Kefu was a down-to-earth poor peasant, secretly joined the peasant association and joined the party a few years ago, and his first criterion for finding a daughter-in-law was not to have a small-footed woman. His original words to the matchmaker were "The little feet are not useful, I just want to find a big footboard", this sentence with the meaning of the declaration, ran into Gong Yuanhua's ears, and fell into a pit like a hammer. Her mother asked her about her attitude, and she blushed and said that she would listen to you. Watering the tree and pouring the roots, obediently listening to the sound, she immediately tasted the girl's pulse.

After the autumn of the twenty-third year of the imaginary age, the carriage of Jiang Kefu's family to welcome relatives rushed into Nanmashi, and the Gongyuan flower top with a big red hijab that was smooth and joyful from head to toe stepped out of the threshold under the support of concubines. Jiang Kefu glanced at it, "Liberate the foot" is right, this heart is put into the stomach. In the sound of blowing and beating gongs and drums, "Xi Driving" went out of the village and climbed up a mountain beam, and after this beam was the boundary of the Grass Temple, Gong Yuanhua also crossed the last hurdle of being a girlfriend, and in the days to come, she would appear as the daughter-in-law of the old Jiang family.

The village is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and people who do not know the details of the village do not know from the outside that there is a small mountain village hidden inside. In the spring and summer, the mountains are full of green waves, the fragrance of melons and fruits in autumn is blown by the wind, and the snow in winter closes the mountains, which also seals people's many extravagant ideas into the grass huts. Gong Yuanhua in Jiang Kefu's eyes like a heavenly immortal descended into his life, the original lonely and dead small courtyard became vivid and fragrant, the new daughter-in-law's tall figure undulated, black and white eyes blinked at him, he was drunk like drinking eight or two "old burns", the most experienced is still that pair of feet, pedal a pair of round-headed narrow-mouth embroidered shoes, stand firmly on the ground, that is really called a landing root! Throwing his steps away and walking out, his feet were like two small clouds that suddenly rose and fell, and the waist was wrapped around Nana, and he was about to pull out his eyeballs.

After Gong Yuanhua entered the door, all kinds of farm work could be afforded, and every piece of housework was done handsomely, and the in-laws chanted vigorously under the root of Jiang Kefu'er: "I don't know which life you have cultivated the blessing, married such a good daughter-in-law!" ”

……

During this time, what made Gong Yuanhua a little confused was that her husband was often called away after dark, and sometimes she slept a little, and when she touched the empty side, she couldn't help but beat a drum in her heart.

Once, Jiang Kefu came back and climbed up the kang in the dark, but he was blocked by a big foot.

"Don't talk about it tonight, I don't want to go to Kang!"

"Let me warm up first, this guy is frozen wood."

"No way! What do you say you're doing behind your back? ”

"Did you tell you that you couldn't do it?"

"Stay away from me, don't kick your nose in the face!"

"I told you, you have to be dumb!"

"Ahem! I want to give you a good idea so that the whole village knows! ”

"Aren't you raising the bar with me?"

"Who made you carry me on your back?"

"Good, good, my fault! I'll give you a real shake, I'm a party member..."

Gong Yuanhua was stunned: "You are blindly talking about two hundred." ”

Jiang Kefu pulled her body over and said face to face: "I am really a person in the party, and now that the anti-Japanese situation is tight, the organization has asked me to mobilize some young and middle-aged people to join the army to fight devils. He changed his tone of resentment, "Hey, I used to ask someone to go to your village to inquire about you, and came back to say that you have a proposition, put your own feet on your own, and think about how your thinking must be a little advanced, it seems that it is not different from those 'three women'..."

Gong Yuanhua smirked, "You man will still make the ghost heart eye!" - What do you mean by 'three women'. ”

"It's the ladies who circle around the pot table, the well platform, and the lampstand!"

"Yuck! Dogs can't spit ivory out of their mouths! Gong Yuanhua gave him the back light again, he went to pull again, and was beaten hard, she was still angry that he couldn't believe her.

He explained: "This is the discipline of the party, and it is not a matter of being secretive to you. After saying this, he pretended to be a gamble and turned his back, and after a while, he made a purring sound. Suddenly he felt a soft body leaning up, and then he was tightly wrapped in her arms.

Yu Shuzhen, who married Gong Yuanhua into the Cao'an Village, often came to her to pull a smile, and the two became little sisters who talked about nothing. Just after breakfast, Gong Yuanhua was cleaning the stove, brushing the pot and washing dishes and sweeping the floor, Yu Shuzhen walked in with the soles of her shoes, stomped her feet hard at the door, and shook the ice and snow on the soles of her shoes, seeing that Gong Yuanhua was busy, she followed the door frame of the inner room, while taking the soles of her shoes.

Gong Yuanhua said, "Don't be a supervisor, go to the kang to warm your feet!" ”

Yu Shuzhen said, "Is it okay for me to discuss something with you?" ”

"What's the matter?" Still so mysterious? Say it! ”

Yu Shuzhen stammered and said, "Don't you want Brother Kefu to run to my house?" ”

Gong Yuanhua's qi and blood surged, and with a "buzzing" sound in his braincase, his face instantly turned pale: "He, he, he, what happened to you?" ”

Yu Shuzhen yelled at her, "Where do you see your crooked brain?" He encouraged the men to join the army, and they were only married for a few days! ”

Gong Yuanhua turned back to god, "You talk like throwing half a brick, almost smashing a person to death!" ”

"Ouch! Your handsome appearance is carved out of a mold with Xi Shi, how can he see this stupid and stupid village girl! ”

"Your mouth is like a knife, but you can't talk about it!" Hey, what's your man's attitude? ”

"What attitude? As soon as it gets dark, it's like a hungry guy who has enough! Are you saying that men are like this? ”

"It's just that he's not active!"

"I don't want to tell him to go, where are the long-eyed guns on the battlefield?"

"Oh, it was you who dragged people's hind legs!" And say people stick to you! ”

"Sister, I really am not the main reason, the main thing is his business."

"When the sister is not talking about you, now the little devils have not hit us here, because there is the Eighth Route Army carrying, if the Eighth Road can not hold up, the devil's horse team and cars will reach the mouth of our village in the blink of an eye."

"Don't you say it so scary huh-huh?" I also wanted to pick him up, save the old man on the body of the man, he said that the men in the village have gone more, how to turn him can not be turned. ”

Gong Yuanhua smacked Shuzhen's voice, and her subtext was: "Your man is an activist, why doesn't he take the lead in joining the army?" She took off her apron and pulled Yu Shuzhen into the back room, "First go to Kang Nuan and warm her feet." The two climbed on the kang, ripped open the quilt, and the foot board was against the foot board, and after a while the foot was hot, and the words were full of spring.

"Sister Yuanhua, Brother Kefu didn't have to say anything to you, now those old ladies are muttering that he is a 'tracheitis'."

"Go and go, they love to bury people when they are fine, all day long the price of the east and the west is short, if you want to be more boring, you can't be as boring as them."

"You're saying that, but we're also literacy students."

"You've been on it too!" I have also been on, the gentleman who taught me is surnamed Yu, he speaks really well, and you are convinced. ”

"Yes! These gentlemen later learned that they were all that..."

"Which one is that?"

Yu Shuzhen lowered her voice and said, "Underground party." ”

Gong Yuanhua remembered the teacher Yu who smiled as soon as she spoke, remembered the winter night when the snow was dancing, if she hadn't gone to the literacy class, she might have become a woman who could only grind her teeth like those big ladies on the street, well, it was "three women"! Hmm, the name of this "three women" is too despicable, which guy with lack of virtue with smoke invented it?

Yu Shuzhen showed her the soles of the shoes that had been prepared, and the stitches were densely packed, in horizontal rows and vertical rows, "It's really a good needle and thread!" She turned her words sharply, "I just heard your voice, are you a man from the Pan family who doesn't go to the army?" ”

"I don't mean that, you have wronged anyone without a spanking!" Watch out for a needle in your awl! ”

"If you let the men of your family go, do you dare to ask your men to go?"

"Sister, when the man is gone, won't he fall to the ground this day?"

"Nothing! You also went to literacy classes, why are you so backward in your thinking? He also tied the man to the waistband of his pants. ”

"Well, are you willing to let your brother Go?"

"He joined the army as a regular officer, and I support him!"

"You don't ask him to be someone's home?"

"In the future, we will also be like the propaganda team of the Eighth Route Army, what is it called?" Women are also on top of half the sky and can't go around the pot table! ”

"I can't be my own family."

"Say a thousand ways and ten thousand, or you are dragging your legs."

"I... I also support him to go! If he didn't want to go, I would kick him under the kang..."

In the New Year, Jiang Kefu took a few young people from Cao'an Village to the district, and the young daughters-in-law also followed. Really at this time, their hearts are empty and uncomfortable, think about the days of a person in the future, some people gradually breed sour nostalgia, but they can't pull their own men home in public, although it is their own man, but if they go to the village, just the spit star will also smash people to death! Well, ducks cross the river with the current. When you get to the district, this low mood is immediately rushed to the Javanese country by the cheerful atmosphere, and it is twisting and singing dragons, and it is to put red and color on the men, and it is the leading cadres who take the stage to speak, and it is too inappropriate for you to shrug your face again, and then look at your men who only know how to grin and laugh endlessly, you white-eyed wolves! Look at you! I wish I had left sooner!

Suddenly, when she heard someone on the stage shouting Gong Yuanhua's name, she was stunned, and Yu Shuzhen stabbed her: "Hurry up and call you!" She was pushed and involuntarily walked to the stage, and a cadre said to her: "Next, please ask Comrade Gong Yuanhua to tell me how she supported her husband to join the army, and everyone applauded and welcomed!" Gong Yuanhua had seen such a scene, looking down at his toes, Jiang Kefu under the stage stomped his feet urgently: "Look at you, dog meat can't be on the big table!" Hey, just tell me what you said to me! ”

Gong Yuanhua heard her husband's voice, and raised her head sharply and shouted at him: "Boss, you can rest assured that you can fight the devil, I am waiting for you to come back!" There are guys at home! If you don't want to go, I will go, and I will never face you as a backward element again! As she spoke, she really entered the play, "Don't be afraid that you are tired, I am not that Miss Qianjin, you say that I am worse than you!" I also told you that you gave me a good performance in the army, made a great contribution, and did not lose my people! She said it straightly, and the people around Jiang Kefu stabbed him indiscriminately, "Make a big achievement and come back to that hey!" "Don't lose your man!" "Your daughter-in-law is so powerful!" So handsome! Jiang Kefu scratched his head and shouted, "You can rest assured!" All right! ”

Laughter broke out on and off the stage.

Yu Shuzhen peeked at her husband, his face was sprinkled with brilliant sunshine, he smiled and closed his mouth, just as he also threw his eyes at her, he raised his fist to show her strength, and suddenly her husband became tall and mighty, becoming a hero ready to go...

A few months later, a fresh and full little life descended on the Jiang family's large earth kang, Gong Yuanhua suddenly sang a lot of lullabies like a genius, her magnetic warm voice drilled out of the window ledge, climbed the chestnut tree outside the courtyard, paused slightly, grabbed the corner of the wind's clothes, was taken into the air, stepped on the drifting clouds and drifted into the distance.

The arrival of this baby girl filled the space after her husband left, comforting the loneliness of her lonely night.

What Gong Yuanhua did not know was that because of her transformation into a mother, she entered the vision of Jiaodong Nursery, and a powerful hand was preparing to pull her into the torrent of the times and write a different life with many sisters.

In the summer of 1942, when the hillside was thick and light green, and the fish in the river jumped and shrimp jumped, a woman with short eyebrows and a guard carrying a box gun walked across the trembling wooden bridge to the village of Cao'an.

Good things that fly in

In the early days of Jiaodong Nursery, the main job was to find a nursing mother. There are two types of nursing mothers, one is out of production and the other is out of production. The part-time nursing mother has to leave the family and follow the activities of the nursery, which is equivalent to the regular staff of the nursery, and the conditions for selection are very strict. The basic requirements of nursing mothers are that nursing women are in good health, decent, and have a relatively obvious tendency to progress, preferably those from families of Party members or families with relatives participating in revolutionary work; free-born nursing women need to have some literacy skills, big feet, flexible minds, and be competent for other jobs assigned by the institute.

Zhang Fuzhi, director of jiaodong nursery school, went to Cao'an Village this time to hear that the mass base in this village is good, and he wants to find a dairy lady who has left the home. Gong Yizhi, the leader of the Women's Rescue Committee of Cao'an Village, was waiting at the entrance of the village, and she took a few quick steps to shake hands with Zhang Fuzhi, and the two of them walked towards the village while talking. The potholed streets were littered with sheep dung and cow dung and firewood and grass debris, and the villagers who were shaking their fans in the shade of the trees looked at the three people who came over, and some people got up to greet Gong Yizhi, and she responded and continued to introduce the situation in the village to Zhang Fuzhi. She said: "This village is basically poor people, there are a few rich peasants, that is also the general selected in the team, compared with the landlords and rich people in other villages, like ants than elephants." Zhang Fuzhi said: "I came this time mainly to select a dairy lady who was out of labor, and now the institute has just sent in a child, which must be found as soon as possible." Coming to a small courtyard, Gong Yizhi held out his hand, "Let's go inside and talk about it." ”

Gong Yizhi poured a bowl of cold white for each of them. Zhang Fuzhi said straight to the point about the conditions for selecting a nursing mother. Gong Yizhi patted his thigh: "Far away in the sky and close at hand, there is a concubine in my family who is very suitable." ”

"Tell me about her."

"Her name is Gong Yuanhua, she is my uncle and sister-in-law, and she just added a girlfriend a few months ago, and she is pregnant."

"First, she is voluntary; second, political trustworthiness must be guaranteed; and third, she must be given a child's milk. If she meets these three criteria, she can come to work at the nursery. ”

Gong Yizhi pondered for a moment: "It is not difficult for her to see these three articles, her man joined the party a few years ago, last year she sent men to join the Eighth Route Army, and also spoke on behalf of the women at the farewell party in the district, that is, the third one is a bit difficult, her own child has not left her arms, I don't know what her attitude is?" ”

"Ask her as soon as possible, she's okay, so you can find someone else."

Sending Zhang Fuzhi away, Gong Yizhi went directly to Gong Yuanhua's house, and before entering the door, he heard Gong Yuanhua singing to the child: "The flower magpie is pretty, opens its wings and flies high, and flies to the Eight Road Camp, and flies to the Eight Road Camp, and says that yo, and reports good news to Daddy..." A magpie flew away from the national locust bush in the courtyard, as if it understood her lyrics to cooperate with her performance. Gong Yizhi stopped and listened for a while, admiring that this sister-in-law was really an all-round person, seeing the scenery and making up words, this head melon had nothing to say.

She pushed the door in: "This is the big famous horn invited by whom, and the rabbits on the South Mountain don't eat grass anymore." ”

Gong Yuanhua said through the window, "No one in our grass temple dares to fight with you, your mouth is full of hooks and thorns." ”

Gong Yizhi walked in, took the child in her arms and swayed, sighing: "This girl looks like an eyebrow, this nose and this eye, where to find it!" ”

Gong Yuanhua touched the sole of the shoe and squeaked up, the needle awl was smeared into the hair bush, and a drill was drilled on the sole, and the large needle led the hemp thread through the needle eye, and then held the hemp thread tightly, and the arm rose and fell like a white crane shining its wings, and it was like a tide rising and falling.

Gong Yizhi looked at her with a smile: "Why would Brother Li Kefu be willing to let you become a soldier?" Not to mention the man, I look at your handsome appearance and want to kiss you! ”

Gong Yuanhua flashed the needle awl at her: "Hu Yun again, look at me not to sew up your mouth with twine!" ”

Gong Yizhi spat out his tongue: "I am here to send you good things, don't bite Lü Dongbin and don't know good people's hearts." ”

Gong Yuanhua raised her head and glanced at her, and the autumn waves flowed, and they had a special rhyme: "Did you make a meritorious contribution or receive an award?" ”

Gong Yizhi skimmed his lips: "I know that thinking about your mouth, this time a good thing has fallen on you." ”

Gong Yuanhua stopped, "Can I still have a good thing?" ”

Gong Yizhi deliberately teased the baby: "What is the name of our girlfriend?" ”

Gong Yuanhua knew that she was selling Guanzi, and she was not in a hurry: "The name I gave her is Changpu." ”

Gong Yizhi laughed and said, "You are really talented, why did you take such a strange name?" Everyone is Zhen'er, Ling'er, Xiu'er. ”

Gong Yuanhua said: "The name of the girl is exquisite, she is the Chang character generation, this can not be moved, Chang Pu Chang Pu, we ordinary people will prosper and develop." ”

Gong Yizhi cocked his thumb: "You really have some ink in your stomach." ”

"Where is the ink, I thought about it myself."

The Eighth Route Army has set up a nursery in Tianjiazhuang and is recruiting off-the-job nursing mothers, just now their director went to our village to find people, and the first one of them thought of you, do you think this is a good thing?"

Gong Yuanhua's eyes widened, "You must have been fooling around." ”

Gong Yizhi said, "Who can joke about serious things?" ”

Miyamoto believed, "Is it appropriate?" ”

"How inappropriate! However, you have to make up your own mind, you have to leave the child at home if you want to go to the nursery, are you willing to give it up? ”

Gong Yuanhua saved an "eyebrow knot", this is really a block, Changpu can't do without her, but she wants to go, she wants to go out with a man, the ready opportunity is in front of her, can you watch it slip away like a fish? She said with a pleading tone: "Sister Yizhi, I really want to go, you help me think of a trick, how will Xiaopu deal with it?" ”

Gong Yizhi looked down at the child in his arms: "The pieces of the handmaiden are not worth much, and they are given to the individual family." ”

Gong Yuanhua was anxious: "What a bad idea you have!" Your brother came back and asked Menizi, I said that I gave it to someone else, and the dog skin hanging on the south wall is not like a painting! ”

Gong Yizhi said, "I'm teasing you!" Solid eyes! See if you can find a relative to foster? ”

"It makes sense. Where can I find such suitable relatives? ”

"I look at it, just look for Li Shuzhen, the daughter-in-law of the Second Sister of the East Phoenix Cliff, the time she gave birth to the child is with your front and back feet, one sheep is also released, two sheep are also released, you give her some subsidies."

"Where do you go to get the subsidy?"

"Are you stupid or a tidal wave?" When you go to the nursery to do errands, you are subsidized, and you give her some points. ”

"Can she be willing?"

"You're in charge of this, I am familiar with Yang Xiying of the East Phoenix Cliff Women's Rescue Association, let her help you take the lead."

Gong Yuanhua took the child from her arms to see, Xiao Changpu was blinking his eyes at the black mercury, nibbling his fingers with relish, and suddenly she was reluctant to give up, such a small child had to leave the mother's arms, poor little concubine! Her tears had crawled to the edge of her eyes, and Gong Yizhi saw it: "Sister-in-law, what are you doing?" It really can't work, just forget it, don't hold on. ”

Gong Yuanhua narrowed her eyes and withdrew her tears: "Nothing! The little concubine is seven or eight months old, and she can also stop breastfeeding. Her indisputable tears finally crawled out, and she wiped her face hard and said hard, "Do you know what the women in your village call those women in our village who have been hiding at home all day?" ”

"Snort! How do you know the secret words of your two mouths? ”

"He called them 'three women.'"

Then she explained this strange word, and Lede Gong Yizhi slapped his face directly: "Brother Li's mouth is also damaged, he is discriminating against women, it is good that he joined the army, otherwise I would have to open his criticism conference!" ”

Gong Yuanhua said, "I am determined not to be the 'three platforms' in his eyes, not only will I not drag his hind legs, but I myself will also walk out of the Cao'an Village in this mountain nest!" ”

The next night, Gong Yizhi led Yang Xiying to Gong Yuanhua's house, she handed Changpu to Yang Xiying, and then came over to hug and kiss her, and looked at it, the child was sleeping soundly--where did she know that her fate was quietly changing, and she could only be taken to a strange place by strangers in sweet dreams.

The sun rolled over the mountain to the east, sprinkling light into the village of Kusana through the forest gap at the top of the mountain, and Miyamoto Flower, with her luggage on her back, stepped on the flame-like light, came to the entrance of the village to meet Miyayoshi, and then walked towards the northeast of Tianjia Village.

What does the new life that is about to begin look like? Can you be clumsy yourself? Will you not be able to ask people to go home again? ...... Gong Yuanhua's heart was full of emotions, but these unknown difficulties and doubts were naturally as light as a feather compared to her urgent heart to go to a new life...

Motherly love in the wind and snow

Strange life slammed a door into her.

Gong Yuanhua never thought that she would enter such a collective life: here pay attention to discipline, although she is not very clear about what discipline is; here everyone has a division of labor, such as the director Zhang Fuzhi, her job is to arrange things, who should do what, she has the final say, and then wang Kelan, she manages the canteen food, what to eat today, she set down to tell the cook to do, and then for example, her job is to milk children, a girl, called Shou Yong; here is full of nervous and happy emotions, Everyone tries their best to do their job well, and then help others as much as they can... In short, this kind of life is a new life she has never experienced, a fire surges in her chest, burning her cheeks crimson, walking in the wind, the strength of the body can not be finished - yes, in the past in the mountains in the field to do hard work, tired at the end of the day to die to live, now good, all day to night milk children, children asleep, she will help the room wash, help the nursery staff clean the courtyard, all of them are not energetic work, in vain to waste a good body of strength - she wondered, how such a brisk job, When you go to bed at night, do you still feel tired and panicked?

The life of the nursery with a procedural rhythm, Gong Yuanhua's original worries vanished into nothing, quickly adapted to here, it turned out that when shou yong was just taken over, the little girl's face was sallow, her eyes were lightless, after more than three months of breastfeeding, her face was rosy, her small eyes were bright, her small arms and legs were like lotus knots, And Gong Yuanhua had begun to set her up to learn to walk. Sometimes she also thinks of her own Changpu, thinking of a panic in her heart...

In October 1942, the wedding of Li Xiuzhen and Gao Junzhen added a spoonful of sugar to the relatively peaceful and uneventful life.

Gong Yuanhua cut a few red and tongtong happy characters overnight, pasted them on the doors and windows of their temporary marriage room, and used the remaining scraps to cut a small red flower and pasted it on Shou Yong's eyebrows, dressing her up like a blessed boy. "Your hands are really clever, seven fairies, right?" People gasped in admiration.

Li Xiuzhen often carried the sick children in the institute to Jiaodong Hospital to see a doctor, and when she came and went, she met Gao Jun. Once, when she took her child to see a doctor again, Dr. Gao secretly gave her an embroidered handkerchief and said, "The last time I saw you wipe your sweat, your handkerchief pierced a hole, so I asked someone to buy you a piece from Yantai, and you smelled it." At night, Li Xiuzhen put a handkerchief under her nose, and the fragrance filled her whole body, and she fell asleep in this beautiful breath and had a dream: she walked into a sea of flowers, her heart was full of sweetness, and The military doctor Gao smiled and waved to her in the shaking flowers... When she woke up in the morning, she found donghai rubbing the handkerchief, and it was already stained with saliva and snot, oops! You little nuisance! She reached out to grab it, Donghai thought she was playing a game with him, simply bit the handkerchief in her mouth to let her pull, Li Xiuzhen pulled several times can not tear down, the key is that she does not dare to use hard, afraid of tearing the relic, how to explain to the sweetheart ...

A heart-warming scene appeared on the scene of the wedding ceremony - the so-called ceremony is a random organization, and everyone has fun together. After Zhang Fuzhi announced that the two had been approved by the organization to become a legal couple, Yu Guoyi asked the two to stand side by side and prepare to worship heaven and earth, when Zhang Donghai, who was temporarily managed by Zhang Jingzhi, suddenly broke her hand and called niang to run to Li Xiuzhen, and a strange man stood next to the nursing mother, which made him feel unhappy, Li Xiuzhen naturally picked him up and held him in his arms, and people laughed at this sudden scene.

Someone coaxed, "How nice! I didn't worship heaven and earth to pick up such a big son in vain! ”

Gao Jun's face turned red into a big red cloth, and Li Xiuzhen looked light.

Yu Guoyi cleared his throat and shouted: "Revolutionary comrades are strong-willed, and they will always move forward in all difficulties and dangers!" Now I announce the official start of the wedding of Comrade Li Xiuzhen and Gao Junyi, and the following worship the heavens and the earth! Hey, Xiao Donghai, you come down first, let your mother worship the heavens and the earth and then hug you okay, hey, how can you stick to a piece of puppy skin plaster like a stick and can't take it? Come, let the uncle hug-"Donghai simply wrapped his arms around Li Xiuzhen's neck, ignoring this set at all.

Doctor Gao said: "We are revolutionary fighters, we don't worship heaven and earth, and we go out to make people laugh." ”

Yu Guoyi said: "If we do not worship heaven and earth, then we will worship the revolutionary teachers Marx and Engels." ”

Someone asked, "How do you worship?" And there are no images of the two teachers here? ”

Yu Guoyi said: "I see three bows in the direction of Europe, there is such a meaning." ”

Zhang Fuzhi smiled and said, "Where is this statement!" Don't mess around! You salute your comrades and you're done. ”

The two of them made a standard salute in the laughter of the group, Donghai was dazed, he couldn't understand what this man in an earthy yellow military uniform was doing with his mother, just when he was dazed, Gong Yuanhua a few people surrounded a couple of newcomers into the cave room, how Donghai coaxed him not to leave, as usual, he slept with Li Xiuzhen, Li Xiuzhen sandwiched between the two men, one moment was pulled by Donghai to face each other, the next moment was dragged by Gao Jun doctor, a moment Donghai found out, and pulled her over, upside down several times, Donghai finally fell asleep, and Li Xiuzhen plunged into the hot baking arms of Gao Jun's doctor...

One night the cold wind blew, full of yellow leaves flying like butterflies, the dry grass on the ditch head shook its head and tail, the dead cicadas on the poplar willow trees on the edge of the village held the dead branches and swayed with the wind, and suddenly the branches broke and fell to the ground, and it was smashed to pieces. Winter is coming like this.

A messenger ran into the nursery against the strong wind and handed a letter to Zhang Fuzhi, she opened it, immediately changed her look, and shouted: "Old Yu! Older than! ”

Yu Guoyi came out of the side room: "What's wrong, Director Zhang?" ”

Zhang Fu's face was anxious, needless to say that something big had happened: "Quickly summon all the personnel to my place for a meeting!" ”

Yu Guoyi ran out to inform, and after a while everyone arrived.

Zhang Fuzhi stood on the steps, waved the letter in his hand, and said: "Comrades, just now the district party committee sent an urgent notice that the devils organized a large-scale 'sweep' and carried out the 'three-light policy', so let us quickly make preparations for evacuation. The situation is urgent, and you have asked the militia in the village to help bury our useful things for use when we return; comrades, your task is the most severe, that is, to hide with your own milk, and you must find the safest place to ensure that our revolutionary descendants are foolproof! Also, you're still responsible for notifying our non-dairy ladies and letting them transfer immediately! Comrades, do not take any chances, the devil's 'sweep' this time is more ferocious and cruel than any in the past, we must fight 100 percent of the spirit to oppose the 'sweep', the time has come to test us! ”

The air was suddenly filled with tension, and it seemed that an explosion could occur with the touch of a match. The adults in the nursery were busy packing, and the children were placed on the kang to let them laugh and cry.

Gong Yuanhua and Li Yuhua were in a group, she carried the baggage, picked up Shou Yong, ran to the courtyard, and told Li Yuhua to leave quickly. Where to go? Head into the mountains. To which mountain? Let's go north into the mountains. Not far north of Tianjiazhuang is a vast group of mountains, mountains and mountains, peaks, valleys, as long as you drill into the deep mountains and old forests there, it is equivalent to a safety lock.

Li Yuhua was still cleaning up something, Gong Yuanhua shouted again with a white face, and his voice changed tone: "Yuhua, what are you rubbing?" Don't be overwhelmed by the rags! ”

Li Yuhua ran out in response, frowning widely, obviously not yet picking up Li Suo.

Gong Yuanhua also didn't bother to pay attention to her, ran out of the courtyard door, and came to the north and south streets, where the panicked villagers on the street all ran in one direction - there were children in the north mountain, there were people holding children, there were old women and old men with carts, some were holding cattle and sheep, some were holding chickens and ducks, and some were carrying oil cans, they mixed in, running along a winding gravel path... There was a relatively smooth road in the south of Tianjiazhuang Village, which led to the surrounding towns, providing convenient conditions for the Japanese army to quickly advance to this area. Sure enough, Gong Yuanhua and Li Yuhua left the village on their front feet, and several silver-gray planes flew over Tianjiazhuang, which were reconnaissance and bombers for the Japanese army, indicating the imminent arrival of the Japanese ground troops.

Gong Yuanhua and Li Yuhua alternately held Shou Yong and ran. Sporadic gunshots rang out from behind. After they crossed two mountain beams and crossed two lines, there were only more than a dozen people left in this flow of one or two hundred people when they first left the village. They stopped and watched, surrounded by steep peaks, and it turned out that they had burrowed into the belly of the mountain, where the day was as silent as midnight, only the occasional falling dead leaves splashed and crackled, and a stone rolled down on the steep wall, causing a series of rattling sounds, which were as loud as rolling thunder in the sky. The sun's shadow was tilted to the west, and the forest was shrouded in orange light waves, dark red tree trunks, oily black needles, dead yellow leaves, unkempt bushes, and bare black stones, all being caressed by the sunset, smeared with a warm and bright color, and the birds and finches that threw themselves into the forest chirped a few times, and the cry dripped like mercury, smashing the dead branches and leaves under their feet and trembling. If it is not running away from the enemy and walking in the forest with a child in her arms, what a rare leisure enjoyment!

Gong Yuanhua looked down at Shou Yong, she had tear marks on her cheeks, she was scared to cry in the bumps just now, now she was snoozing with her eyes closed, her body was twitching for a while, she had never suffered such a crime, her weak internal organs were turned upside down and left the position, crying and no one comforted, can you not be wronged? Gong Yuanhua dipped a little spit to wipe away the dust marks on her face, gently patted her back, and after a while, she spat out a leisurely "alas" word, and her body was flattened.

Gong Yuanhua then thought of the other sisters in the house, were they all safe and hidden? Thinking of Li Shuzhen and his daughter Changpu of East Phoenix Cliff, they should also be transferred, right? And the in-laws and uncles of Cao'an Village, what happened to them? ...... At this thought, her heart went up and down, and she stood up with Shou Yong in her arms, walked around the tree, and finally sighed: "Hey, people have their own lives, and they can't manage so much." She asked Li Yuhua, "What did you pack up when you went out?" No more lives? Li Yuhua said: "A few clothes to wear in the Spring and Autumn Period." "I forgot to bring dry food, did you bring it?" Li Yuhua's face changed, "Patronizing and running outside, I didn't think about this at all." Gong Yuanhua was worried, I don't know when the devils "swept" past, if it lasted for a few days, I am afraid it would not be able to come down. "Hey, Yuhua, you're holding Shou Yong, and I'm looking for something to eat here?"

Miyamoto had grown up in the mountains since she was a child and had a lot of experience in mountain life, so it shouldn't be a problem for her to fool around for a day or two. It was a mixed forest dominated by pine and cypress, she walked towards the depths of the forest, the daylight had been covered by the peaks, the sky was getting late, she looked up at the tree to see if there was any fruit such as pine nuts on the tree, or if she could find a wild walnut tree or a mountain date tree, unfortunately, the shadow of the tree made twilight stained into a soft ink color, she couldn't see clearly, she returned empty-handed.

Far away, he heard Shou Yong crying, Gong Yuanhua quickly ran over, took the child from Li Yuhua's hand, untied the cardigan, and sent the tits up, Shou Yong smacked a few mouthfuls, stopped crying, and seemed to be hungry.

The twilight was thick, the stars were bright, and only the silhouettes of the mountains not far away were left. Silence spreads, darkness reigns. Suddenly, Li Yuhua cried out in shock: "Shou Yong Niang, you see--" Gong Yuanhua faintly saw her pointing in the direction of Tian Jiazhuang, sending her eyes to look, and was also startled, and the sky over there was roasted red by the fire. Miyamoto cursed, "These jackals with a thousand knives!" These bastards! These beasts who lack fathers and mothers! Whoops—" She didn't expect herself to cry, yes, that's where she started her new life, so why not hurt people?" She couldn't remember the last time she cried, oh, the night she ripped off the shroud! That time she cried for her new life, but this time she cried for the home of the victims. In the tears, she vaguely saw the vicious ghost soldiers twisting their bodies in the firelight, the cold shining bayonet reflecting the flames, and the group of devils laughed wildly and stabbed the bayonets at the ordinary people who were waiting to be killed. There were also people crying not far away, it was the few fellows who hid here together. Li Yuhua was also lying on a pine tree and sobbing. Shou Yong fell silent.

The pace of the night was particularly slow, as if it were stuck by a viscous liquid, and one second was stretched into two seconds, three seconds, five seconds, and ten seconds. The night is harsh. Gong Yuanhua took out a small mattress from the bag and wrapped Shou Yong tightly, revealing only a small face. She was afraid that the child would not adapt to such a dark night, and after a while she would kiss her forehead and try her body temperature, her lips were cold, Shou Yong's forehead was also cold, and she was worried: What if the child suffered from wind and cold? She was in a hurry to bake a layer of sweat on her body, the wind blew, like wearing an ice coat, full of cold, she stood up, stomped her feet and walked around, it was difficult to drive away the chill, and a series of indisputable grunts came out of li yuhua's stomach, Li Yuhua also echoed with a sharp heart, running out from the morning, a grain of rice did not stain the teeth, and over the mountains and mountains, can you not be hungry? Miyamoto found a stout pine tree and sat down, leaning on it to prepare for a nap. Li Yuhua did not sit down, she said: "You two sleep first, I will put a whistle for a while, in case the devil finds someone familiar with the terrain to guide the way." "Well, be careful not to overheat!" I'll sleep for a while, you'll wake me up when you're sleepy, and you'll sleep again. ”

A small silver-white dream burrowed into her mind... Jiang Kefu and some Eighth Route Army soldiers were lying on a hillside, shooting at the ghost soldiers who rushed up, his marksmanship was very strong, and wherever she thought, he would hit him. A devil in a steel helmet climbed up, she wanted to hit his eyebrows, the village must have his share, Jiang Kefu pulled the trigger, the devil's eyebrows flew out of a bright red flower; she saw a thin monkey-like ghost hidden behind a rock, was aiming at Jiang Kefu, she was in a hurry, quickly hit the top of his head, she saw Jiang Kefu rushed to the sky without hurrying to shoot a shot, the bullet fell from the sky like a long eye, and was shooting at the top of the skinny monkey devil's head; her heart was beautiful, and her husband must have made a great contribution. Soon he will be back on a jujube red horse dressed in a big red flower. Suddenly Jiang Kefu was standing in front of her, his face was covered with blood, his mouth was open, and his two rows of teeth were so white, he asked, "What do you think our little concubine looks like?" Her heart flickered, what if he found that her arms were not Changpu? Then she advised herself that it was okay, when he was a soldier, the child was not born, and he did not know what Changpu looked like. She happily handed Shou Yong to him: "Look at it, you can't pull it out of your eyes!" Jiang Kefu took the child and only looked at it, then changed his face, and he yelled: "This is not my little concubine, I don't want it!" After saying that, she threw Shou Yong under the cliff, and before she could turn her face to him, she jumped down and shouted, "Mother is coming!" The mother is coming! ”......

Suddenly woke up, reached out and touched Shou Yong in her arms, her heart snapped and fell to the ground, no, put her hand into the mattress to touch her feet, my god, turned into a Xiaoice knot! She rubbed it with her hand, trying to pass her temperature to her, but her hands were also cold, what to do? Her brain suddenly woke up, she called Li Yuhua, Li Yuhua squatted down: "What's wrong?" Gong Yuanhua said urgently, "Xiao Yan'er's feet are cold, ah, her body is also cold and crazy, and if she continues like this, she will get sick!" "What do you say?" "Let's sandwich her in the middle, don't let the wind blow her, and can't think of any other way." Gong Yuan untied the waistband of his cotton pants, gently put Shou Yong into his cotton pants, took a sip slightly, and then covered the mattress, and hugged Li Yuhua face to face with his hands, as if to make a simple hut for Shou Yong, minimizing her contact with the outside world.

The necessary equipment for the old Jiaodong people to spend the winter is the cardigan cotton jacket and large cotton pants, plus a pair of "pig skin ties". How big are these big cotton pants? Wear on the body, can not be directly tied to the waist, you need to first put the waist of the pants "Burmese" up a long roll and then tie the belt, this "Burmese" is equivalent to the meaning of folding, that is, the waist of the pants to close the mouth, this roll is almost equivalent to a quarter of the circumference of the entire cotton pants waist, it is not difficult to understand why it is called "big cotton pants".

The most humble cottage in the world uses the most luxurious materials - simple and pure love.

In the middle of the night, the dark clouds climbed up from the north, getting denser and thicker, and the fine snowflakes in the confusion fell into the collar, and Gong Yuanhua leaned over to listen to Shou Yong's even sniffles, and slept soundly. Li Yuhua also woke up. They were silent, surrounded only by the sound of falling snow.

His arms were stiff, his legs were numb, his feet were wooden, and the tips of his ears hurt from the snow bites. Hunger and cold and sleepiness hit the two of them, the gastrointestinal tract had reached the point where they did not even have the strength to protest, and the consciousness was clear and chaotic. Suddenly Shou Yong giggled, babbled in his dreams, and fell asleep quietly.

Gong Yuanhua was stunned, feeling that there was something wrong with the heat between the two strands, it turned out that Shou Yong had peed, what to do? I don't care, anyway, there is no replacement of cotton pants, but Shou Yong's little ass is not "painted" ah! She moved her arm to signal Li Yuhua to remove the shelf, and she touched a piece of "placket" in the bag with one hand and stuffed it under Shou Yong's ass.

She stretched her legs and shook her body, her body sour. Li Yuhua stood up and gently stomped his feet, and the snow balls on his shoulders rolled down.

"Shou Yong Niang, you can hold Shou Yong for me for a while."

"Let's talk about it tomorrow, and freeze the child again after a toss."

"How does that work?" Are you able to eat? ”

"What a big deal. Haven't you heard anyone say it? There are only unattainable blessings in this world, and there is no suffering that cannot be eaten. ”

"Shou Yongniang, I ask you something, what did you come to the nursery?"

"Huh? The man is a member of the party, he joined the army to fight the devils, it is said that I should stay at home and take care of the old and the young, no one will say that I am a backward element, but the organization can find a reliable person to be a nursing mother, find someone who treats the descendants of the revolution with a solid heart, and when I hear this, is it not to find such a person as me? I take good care of the child, let the child's father and mother rest assured to fight the devil, drive the devil back to the hometown as soon as possible, and the child's father will not come back early? ”

"Mm-hmm. I came to the nursery because of the arranged marriage at home, I had to marry an old and ugly landlord, who was older than my father, my father and mother poured ecstasy soup in their hearts, looked at the fire pit and pushed me in, I gambled, I ran out, you don't care if I live or die, I can't care about you. I first attended the women's rescue club and then went to the nursery. ”

"Oh well, you're not simple! Dare to mess with the family directly! Your father and mother are also true, what age have they still done this kind of thing! ”

"Who said it wasn't coming?"

When the sky was bright, a sister-in-law who was hiding from the devil came to see them and gave them a tortilla. The two thanked each other. The sister-in-law said, "I see it, you are this...?" "Stretch out your hand and light up a figure eight. Li Yuhua did not comment, just asked you which village you are, the sister-in-law said the name of the village, Li Yuhua asked you how to plan today, the sister-in-law said that they discussed, think it is not safe to hide here, after all, it is not very far from the village, they are ready to continue to go inside at dawn, it is best to find a cave to avoid the wind and snow. Miyamoto said that I was from Kusanagi Village, so let's go with a companion. The sister-in-law said yes, there are still two old masters over there, and they are not afraid of encountering any wild things.

After the eldest sister-in-law left, Li Yuhua broke the cake into small pieces and gave gong Yuanhua two pieces, kept one for himself, and wrapped the rest into a handkerchief. Shou Yong woke up, shook his hands, and hummed. Gong Yuanhua chewed the cake in small bites, chewed it thinly, smeared it on his fingers, and fed it to Shou Yong. After feeding the cake, she grabbed some snow and took it into her mouth, melted, warmed up, mouth to mouth little by little to the lips, Shou Yong skillfully sucked it over, and gulped down. It is said that the child is a rectum, eat it and pull, for a while, Gong Yuanhua and Li Yuhua smelled a familiar smell at the same time, the little guy shit, this time can not be accommodated, Gong Yuanhua took her out, Li Yuhua wiped her ass at the fastest speed, replaced by a new piece of "brace", "lose and lose, not ashamed!" Gong Yuanhua nodded at her forehead, ashamed of her, and she actually laughed "shamelessly" in cooperation.

Suddenly there was a burst of gunfire from the south, and the devils were marching in this direction and had to be moved.

A group of people braved the wind and snow to run in the northwest direction, and a roadless hillside in front of them blocked the way, and there was no other way to climb up and say it again. The rocks in the snow are very slippery, and if you are unstable, you will be a toe, and when you slip your head, two men will walk in the front and stop to help everyone when they encounter steepness. Stumbling, climbing to the top of the mountain, looking north, there are still mountains, and there are more peaks than this mountain. Looking south, a group of Japanese troops were fanning their flags toward the valley just now. Everyone gasped for breath. The sister-in-law's daughter, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, has been sticking to Gongyuan flowers, looking down at Shou Yong from time to time, teasing her, Shou Yong issued a crisp laugh, which fell on everyone's eardrums like snowflakes as white and warm, pleasant, invisibly adding courage to move forward. When going down the mountain, there was still no road, everyone followed the two men groping down, to the bottom of the mountain is still a valley, the advantage is that there is a rock protruding out of the formation of a semi-enclosed roof, like a mountain stone open mouth, both leeward and dry, compared to yesterday's conditions are really a bit of a taste of heaven and earth.

Gong Yuanhua handed Shou Yong over to Li Yuhua, and she still wanted to go around to see if she could find something to eat, because she was worried that if she was hungry, the milk would go back, and Shou Yong had not yet eaten a normal meal, which would be trouble. She also believes that in this inaccessible mountain wilderness, there are always some leftover fruits for birds and finches.

She walked southeast along the valley floor, the cobblestones slippery at her feet, but she became accustomed to it, leaping lightly like a hare, her eyes wandering the trees around her. I don't know how far I went, but she finally found a few walnut trees, full of walnuts wrapped in sauce, she excitedly picked a few, smashed open, the fruit is very rich, the oil aroma is unusually strong. She took off a bag and filled the inner pocket of her cardigan, because she didn't know how long to hide here, and she tried to get as many reserves as possible. Her mood gradually became cheerful, and she couldn't help but sing:

Persuade lang to persuade one more day,

The pillow honey can't finish speaking,

I hope my husband will agree

You go to the edge seal stronghold.

Persuade Lang to fight three more,

Sweet words he does not listen,

Angry Gui Feng shed tears,

The iron heart was also touched.

Back under the big stone mouth, she gave some walnuts to the sister-in-law, who gave them two nests and two ripe sweet potatoes. The little girl was already familiar with Li Yuhua, sitting next to her and listening to her tell the story of the Eighth Route Army fighting the devils. Two or three elderly old men smoked cigarette pots and locked their brows, and the wrinkled faces behind the smoke could not see sorrow and joy. Yes, what is there to be happy about, the villages and the land are being ruined by the devils, the livestock are in the process of escaping, life is upside down, and even if it can survive, it is a difficult job. Young people don't care about these, as long as they can get by in front of them, they should be happy, they should eat when they should eat, and things in the future will be ,—— there will be a road before the car to the mountain, God has arranged it well, don't worry about the days to come. Shou Yong became a small living treasure for everyone to be happy and relieved, passed from the hands of this person to the hands of that person, and her little face with pink carvings was like a small sun, driving away the anxiety and depression in people's hearts. Gong Yuanhua consulted with Li Yuhua that the devils "sweeping" were generally in the form of locusts, and they would not live in a place for a long time, whether they had been beaten today, and they could return to Tianjiazhuang tomorrow. Li Yuhua said I will go back to see first, you are waiting here, if it is safe, I will climb to the top of the mountain that I turned over this morning to put a pile of cigarettes, and you will go back when you see the smoke. Gong Yuanhua told her to be careful, and to observe every step before acting.

That night, there were several piles of fire, several people surrounded a pile, Gong Yuanhua coaxed Shou Yong, and the flames illuminated her white face red, and her expression was idyllic and with a slight sorrow. Her thoughts were flying all over the place, she never thought she would enter such a life, a life that was no longer just for herself and her husband and children, it carried a hot temperature, it was like a big river with rough waves, she was like a leaf that fell on the surface of the river, running with its flow... She touched Shou Yong's palms and feet, tucked the corners of the mattress on her body, leaned against the stone wall and took a nap...

At noon the next day, someone saw a puff of green smoke rising from the top of the south mountain, everyone was excited to go back, Gong Yuanhua climbed to the middle of the mountain and met Li Yuhua, who came to meet him, she told everyone that the "sweep" of the devils had passed, and many villagers had returned to the village one after another. Gong Yuanhua asked her about the nursery, and her face sank and quietly told her: "Comrade Zhang Jingzhi has sacrificed." Gong Yuanhua stood still in shock and leaned on a tree to settle down, "What's going on?" Li Yuhua said: "I saw Zhang Fuzhi's director, she said that Comrade Zhang Jingzhi was pulled into the 'net' by the devil, and in order to cover the retreat of other comrades during the breakthrough, he was killed in the battle." Gong Yuanhua silently shed tears, and she chanted, "This blood debt must be repaid by the little devil!" She bit her lip to restrain her emotions and continued to climb up, a smile of Zhang Jingzhi appeared in front of her eyes, and her beautiful song floated in her mind... She finally couldn't stop crying on her stomach in a tree.

Everyone is returning to the house one after another, order is being restored, life is restarting, but some loopholes can never be filled.

People reported on the evacuation in the past few days, and one of Zhang Fu's notebooks was written down. Zhang Fuzhi praised Gong Yuanhua and Li Yuhua' group, saying that they were honest and sincere about their breasts, and they were good at overcoming difficulties according to local conditions, and they could also mingle with the masses, publicize the party's policies at any time and anywhere, and show their true colors of loyalty to the party and the people. The first time Gong Yuanhua listened to the praise, his heart was a little cramped and uneasy, and he felt that where he had done such a good job, it was commonplace. She heard about Li Xiuzhen's experience and felt that she was qualified to accept this praise. At the beginning of the evacuation, Li Xiuzhen pulled the East Sea mixed in with the common people to run up the mountain, the enemy plane roared overhead, the East Sea looked amused, suddenly broke free of her hand, turned around and went to chase the plane, who wanted to at this time a shell roared down, Li Xiuzhen instinctively pounced on it and pressed the East Sea under her body, and the East Sea also thought that she was playing a game of eagle catching chickens with him, and laughed happily under her body. Later, they hid in a hole, was searched out by the Japanese army, brought to an officer, asked what she was doing, whether the child was a child of the eighth road, she denied it, the ghost officer pulled the East Sea over to look left and right, wanted to find some clues, and did not see any Ko'er. The devil's soldiers drove the common people forward, Li Xiuzhen hugged the East Sea, saw a forest tens of meters away, suddenly pulled her legs and ran, her body shook left and right, because she heard the comrades in the army say that it was easy to be hit when running in a straight line when running away. The devil fired, and bullets flew from behind, hitting the bark of the trees on both sides...

This winter, Shou Yong got a chickenpox and was in the process of being transferred by the medical team, and Gong Yuanhua held her and treated her with the team. She rode a large mule with two baskets on its back, Shou Yong on the left and medical equipment on the right. The mule hissed along the mountain road, her body swaying gently like a willow branch in the wind. She thought that's what a march to fight looks like. Sure enough, the team encountered harassment by one or two Japanese puppet troops during the march, and the guards were well armed and equipped, and they were beaten away in a few clicks. The medical team is constantly shifting, and even the New Year is spent in sports. Miyamoto flower really experienced what is called marching.

In 1944, the nursery organized a baby health competition, and Gong Yuanhua, Li Yuhua, Li Xiuzhen, etc. were all commended as "parenting models". The prize was a bed of bright red silk quilts, and Gong Yuanhua caressed the smooth quilt surface, creating sweet ripples in the bottom of her heart.

——Published in PLA Literature and Art, No. 1, 2022

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