In 1950, the commander of the Chuanxi Military Region returned to his hometown to visit his relatives and found that the ancestral house was in ruins. He asked the guards to look for the old mother, but they did not find her, and the commander was impatient. He was walking down the street, and suddenly a begging old woman appeared in front of him, and the commander recognized who it was. He knelt on the ground and shouted, "Mother, my son is not filial piety!" ”
The commander of the Western Sichuan Military Region was named Liu Zhong, a native of Shanghang, Fujian Province, who was born into a poor family. The children of the poor family had long been in charge, and Liu Zhong had gone out early to become a mason, and had been bullied by the bullies and inferior gentry. At the age of 21, the ideas of revolution spread throughout the Shanghang area, and Liu Zhong officially joined the Peasants' Association and led the peasant movement.
In 1929, the Red Army passed through Liu Zhong's hometown, and he chose to join the Red Army without hesitation. Since then, Liu Zhong has participated in a series of battles such as anti-"encirclement and suppression", the Long March, the Jifu Campaign, the Northern Henan War of Resistance, the Battle of Tongpu, the Defense of Yan'an, the Battle of Jinzhong, the Battle of Linfen, the Battle of Taiyuan, and the Liberation of the Great Southwest, and has made outstanding meritorious achievements.
In June 1950, Liu Zhong served as the commander of the West Sichuan Military Region and took time out of his busy schedule to return to his hometown to visit his relatives. From the time the general joined the Red Army at the age of 23 to the age of 44 when he returned to his hometown to visit his relatives, he has been away from his hometown for 21 years. The grass and trees in his hometown are still so familiar, the sound of the countryside is still so beautiful, Liu Zhong only took the guards, and the light car Jane returned to Caixi Township.
According to familiar memories, he came to his family's ancestral house, but found that the ancestral house was in ruins and there was no sign of living there. Liu Zhong immediately ordered the guards to look for his old mother separately until they found it. The guards searched for more than half an hour, but did not find the chief's mother, and returned to report to the chief.
Liu Zhong found the home of a neighbor he knew and asked with tears: "Fellow, do you know where my mother is?" The neighbor saw Liu Zhongrong return to his hometown and said apologetically: "General Liu, I am sorry for you, I did not take good care of your mother." All these years you were not at home, and your mother made a living by asking for food. ”
Liu Zhong only said, "Please show me the way and take me to find my mother!" The neighbor walked in front, and Liu Zhong walked through the alleys and came to a street in the township. Only to see an old woman dressed in rags, begging in the street, Liu Zhong recognized the old mother at a glance. Ignoring the large number of pedestrians on the street, he flew over, knelt on the ground and shouted, "Mother, I'm sorry for you!" ”
The old mother saw the neighbor coming, but did not recognize the son, and the neighbor rushed forward to explain. When the old mother heard that her son had "come back from the dead" (the Kuomintang reactionaries claimed that Liu Zhong was dead), she was too happy for a moment and fainted. Liu Zhong quickly picked up his mother and sent her to the health center for treatment, and after the doctor rescued him, the old mother woke up.
In the hospital bed, the old mother gently stroked her son's face, and years of thoughts turned into tears. She said to her son, who kept crying, "Child, just live, you just come back." Liu Zhong knelt on the ground again and kept kowtowing to his mother, a famous man who had done his duty to the country, but failed to fulfill his filial piety for his old mother.
When the villagers saw Liu Zhong's actions, they were moved to tears and moved by General Liu Zhong's filial piety. Since then, Liu Zhong and his wife have taken the old mother to their side to take care of them, and sent the old mother to the end of the old age. Liu Zhong and his wife not only took good care of the old mother and let the old mother live a happy and happy old age, but also took care of several orphans who sacrificed their comrades-in-arms and dedicated their lives to the cause of the revolution.
