47 years later, the veteran visited the dumb mother of Yimeng Mountain
"Mengshan is high, Yishui is long, good red sister-in-law, never forget."
Yimeng Mountain, it is a red fertile land. The name of Yimeng Hongjie has created a monument to history.
The group of Yimeng Red Sister-in-law reflects the humanity that is as bright as gold, and the true feelings that are as broad as maternal love.
This article tells the story of Zhuang Xinmin, a veteran of the Eighth Route Army, who searched for a "mother" and relived the touching historical facts of that period.
On October 14, 1990, autumn was dying on the land of Yimeng, and the clouds stopped and the wind was quiet.
A family in Henghe Village, Yinan County, sat in a north-facing farm courtyard and was crowded with onlookers. A veteran from Shanghai, facing the dumb mother of Yi Meng sitting in a wheelchair in the courtyard, walked forward on his knees.
Such a move made the villagers stunned. Zhuang Xinmin came to him, pounced on the silver-haired old woman, and shouted, "Mother! mother! mother! Your son is coming to see you! ”
Ming Deying looked at the gray-haired comrade in front of him. She searched for a memory from the vicissitudes of the distant past.
Recognize it! This is the wounded Soldier of the Eighth Route Army who came back from the anti-Japanese period of fighting devils. He was just a 13-year-old.
She grabbed Zhuang Xinmin's arm with both hands at once. "Ah, ah—" shouted loudly, as if to say: "Child, you are still alive, why didn't you come to see your mother earlier, the mother has been looking forward to you!" ”
The reunion of mother and son after 47 years, the "mother" of this continuous sound, behind the deep feelings of a period of flames and smoke, the true love of the anti-Japanese military and civilians who live and die together.
The little warrior Zhuang Xinmin was rescued by Uncle Li Kaitian and returned home
Zhuang Xinmin was born in 1930 in Rizhao, Shandong Province, the son of the commander-in-chief of the former Civil Ship Brigade of the Rizhao Branch.
He left his parents and siblings early for the needs of the revolution.
In the autumn of 1942, the 12-year-old Zhuang Xinmin was already a hygienist at the Incense Burner Stone Branch.
In the days and nights of the breakthrough, the little warrior Zhuang Xinmin did not know how many times he fell.
His body was bruised by spiked stones in many places, one green and one purple; his legs were cut by the sour jujube trees on the slopes of the barren mountains; the soles of his shoes were ground out of holes, and the soles of his feet were pierced by stones.
One afternoon in the first month of 1943, planes were hissing, guns were fired everywhere on the ground, and the personnel of the health center were scattered.
Zhuang Xinmin was anxious and afraid, and he could not shout loudly, which was a discipline that was particularly emphasized before the breakthrough.
He searched for a long time and did not find a comrade with him. The first time I left the group, the feeling of being isolated from the group was even more uncomfortable than the pain, hunger, and fatigue.
At this moment, a great uncle found this poor "little radish head". Walking up to him, he enthusiastically handed over a handful of dried raw sweet potatoes and said, "Child, are you hungry?" Give, eat first. ”
Zhuang Xinmin took it with both hands and chewed it up in a big mouthful, which was fragrant and sweet and delicious. Zhuang Xinmin looked at Uncle Uncle's face from time to time with grateful eyes.
This great uncle's name is Li Kaitian, a native of Henghe Village, Mamuchi Township, Yinan County. On his way back from delivering military food to the front line, he suddenly encountered a ghost sweeping and hiding from the ghosts to turn the mountain.
At dawn the next day, Uncle Li took Zhuang Xinmin to the direction of mamuchi in his hometown. Along the way, the enemy planes roared, dropping one evil shell after another, and smoke was everywhere.
Before long, the enemy rushed up and surrounded the masses, who had nowhere to hide. Uncle Always took Xiao Zhuang's hand and comforted him, saying, "Child, don't be afraid, just say that you are my son..." Listening to Uncle Zhuang's words, Zhuang Xinmin's heart suddenly felt much calmer.
Hundreds of people were herded to the South Temple near Ma Muchi and locked up for the night.
The next morning, a dozen or so devils with bayonets and two wolfhounds cheered and cheered everyone up.
The devils picked out a few young male laborers from the crowd and forced them to ask if they were the Eighth Route Army.
When the devil with the command knife walked up to Zhuang Xinmin, he stared up and down. One pulled on his torn cotton jacket and shouted, "Say! Yours, isn't it the Eight Ways...? ”
Uncle Li Kaitian, who was close to Zhuang Xinmin, pulled Xiao Zhuang's arm hard and said, "This is my youngest son, who came out to work with me..." ”
The devil kicked Uncle Li to the ground, and Zhuang Xinmin looked at the pain, so he rushed to pounce on Uncle Li and couldn't help but cry: "Daddy... ”
The devil looked at him thin and dark, and he didn't look like the Eighth Route Army. In the end, nothing suspicious was found, so forget it.
The devils began a new operation. The captured masses are tied together with common ropes and connected in rows. Escorted out of the temple gate straight to the east, a long line of people arrived at Yishui City in the dark.
The next day, the devils untied everyone and let them lead the many cattle and donkeys they had stolen from the common people out of Yishui City and went west.
Zhuang Xinmin's body was extremely weak, and it was really difficult to walk such a long distance, and it was difficult to support.
Along the way, the uncle led the cattle to the road, did not eat or drink, and he was exhausted. But he still had to do everything he could to take care of him, lest Xiao Zhuang suffer any carelessness under the enemy's bayonet.
Zhuang Xinmin tried not to let the uncle take care of him, and felt that he should take more care of the uncle, and he felt better in his heart.
In the evening, about a hundred people were locked up in a room and brought in a bucket of cold water and some raw sweet potatoes.
The Japanese were afraid that the Eighth Route Army would attack them, and they were not allowed to make a fire to cook, let alone make a fire for warmth.
Xiao Zhuang lay down next to Uncle Da, looking at his thin face, and remembered his parents: "If they are around, how can they take care of me?" Parents can do it, but Uncle Li is like this! ”
Thinking of this, Zhuang Xinmin unconsciously secretly shed tears.
A few days later, the livestock were sent to Tai'an City, the mission was completed, and the enemy let them go.
Everyone was like a big stone that had been carried for a long time, and it suddenly fell to the ground. Suddenly, I felt a lot more relaxed.
Although he was hungry, thirsty and very tired, he couldn't care less about anything, so he fled the enemy's dens one after another, left Tai'an City, and went straight to his hometown.
After escaping from Tai'an City, Uncle Zhuang said to Zhuang Xinmin, "Child, first follow me home, and then talk about it when you get home." ”
Zhuang Xinmin thought: "Uncle Da is a person from MaMuchi Township, and the original station of his troops is not very far from Ma Muchi, so it is also convenient to find troops when he goes to Uncle Da's house first."
These months of suffering have made Zhuang Xinmin's body very weak, and his whole body is as thin as wood. On the way back, he was already unconscious on uncle's back because of the high fever.
Ming Deying takes care of the comatose little warrior Zhuang Xinmin
Li Kaitian's family lived next to a forest, two tuanwan houses, a family of tomb watchers.
His mute wife, Ming Deying, was waiting anxiously at home, looking through.
After several days and nights, finally one night they returned to Ma Muchi and arrived home.
Seeing that her husband could return safely after this great disaster, Ming Deying happily stroked with his hand.
After Li Kaitian explained the situation, Ming Deying was as happy as seeing his son who had gone abroad return.
Hurriedly burned some rice soup and fed him bite by bite. Xiao Zhuang's heels had rotted and suppurated, and there were many wounds on his legs. Ignoring the unpleasant smell, Lady Mingde Ying boiled water with wormwood to blanch and bandage him.
When Zhuang Xinmin opened his eyes, the first person he saw was Lady Mingdeying.
Matilda's life
Speaking of Lady Mingde, she is also a bitter person who has experienced ups and downs.
In 1911, Ming Deying was born in Mamuchi Township, Yinan County, more than 5 kilometers west of Henghe Village.
Li Changjun, the eldest son of Mingdeying, said: "Even she herself did not know her mother's birthday, and later the brothers summed up that they had to find a date for her birthday, so they looked up the yellow calendar and set September 16 every year as her birthday." ”
When Ming Deying was two years old, he was mute due to illness and lost his mother at the age of 5. When she was 18 years old, she had no father.
His father, Ming Qingshan, had succeeded a childless tailor under his knees as a righteous son. After the death of the tailor's father, he was left with more than 20 acres of land.
Ming Deying took his younger siblings and took the plucked head and shovel that his father had used, and worked in the field all year round. Because he was deaf and dumb, after the age of 25, no one had yet mentioned his kiss.
Ming Deying married Li Kaitian, who was 21 years older
One day in 1936, Ming Deying's second uncle, Ming Qinghe, passed through Henghe Village and went to his hometown to beg for a drink because of thirst.
Coincidentally, the person who handed him water to drink was Li Kaitian. When the two people met, they came and went, you said a word, I said a word, and began to pull.
Li Kaitian is also a man of bitter fate. Born in 1890 to a poor family.
The family's two acres of land were also sold to the landlord because of his father's alcoholism. There was an older brother who died early, and after the death of his parents, he was alone.
Work as a long-term worker for the landlord to maintain a person's life. Because he had no land, no money, no father and no mother, he did not start a family when he was over forty years old.
Ming Qinghe looked at Li Kaitian as a loyal and honest person, and in the small talk, he knew that he had not yet become a relative, and said tentatively: "My family has a niece, who is a mute, who is not young, and has not yet settled down. ”
Li Kaiwen, Li Kaitian's brother, when he heard this, he stepped forward and asked, "Old Brother Ming, how old is your niece this year?" "Pig, 25 years old this year." Li Kaiwen tried his best to match, ming and qinghe matchmaking, and under the agreement of the two of them, the two families agreed on this affair.
On an auspicious day, Ming Deying put on a red wedding dress and rode a donkey. Accompanied by relatives, she married to Henghe Village in the simplest and simplest way to send relatives in the Yimeng Mountains. Married to a man 21 years older than her, Li Kaitian.
After marriage, the two people's lives are unfinished, with neither land nor stone houses. Fortunately, the enthusiastic villagers helped them again, found a home for them, and went to the Li family woodland by the river to guard the tomb of li zu.
Since then, a tuanwan house has stood in front of the Li family woodland, which is a kind of conical small grass house in the Yimeng Mountains, low and narrow, and you have to bow your head and waist when you enter and exit.
Although Ming Deying could not hear or speak, she understood the general truth of the world. During the day, she went to the field to help her husband work, and at night she lit an oil lamp to spin thread. When her husband finished her work, she prepared her meal. When her husband went to work in the fields, she brought water. Husband slept she unfolded by being....
Although the couple lived a very poor life, they were very harmonious, and gave birth to two sons and three daughters: Li Changjun, Li Changyin, Li Changying, Li Changjuan, and Li Changhua.
Zhuang Xinmin lived in Yi Meng's mother's house for 41 days
The movie sings, "I boil chicken soup for the warriors..." "In reality, where is chicken soup in Mingdeying's house?"
The enemy swept from day to day, like a cloud of wind. Although the family was very poor, Ming Deying made everything that could be eaten at home for Zhuang Xinmin to eat.
He sometimes saw the eldest lady quietly wiping her tears, and he felt that the eldest lady was worried about eating.
In addition to worrying about eating, Lady Mingde Ying also had to find a way to cover the small soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.
The sudden addition of a teenage child in the family can easily arouse the suspicion of the enemy. When the enemy came to sweep, Ming Deying consulted with her husband and moved him to an empty grave in the woodland.
When the enemy did not come to sweep up, Uncle Li Kaitian took him back.
He saw that The eldest uncle and the eldest mother's family were really too poor, and there were often up and down meals, and several of her children were often hungry and crying.
The family ate the wild vegetables dug up to fill their hunger, but they gave everything they had, cooked a little potato and sweet potato for Zhuang Xinmin to eat.
Zhuang Xinmin gave in several times and asked his younger brothers and sisters to eat. Mingde Ying said to him in a dumb voice: "You have to eat more, your body is great, so you can beat the devils fiercely, give us Chinese out of breath!" ”
He recuperated for 41 days at the home of his uncle and mother-in-law, the wounds healed and scarred, and he basically recovered his health, before they agreed to let him go.
That night, Lady Mingde Ying, under the small oil lamp like a bean, stitched and threaded Zhuang Xinmin's torn clothes and rotten shoes. Cooked sweet potatoes and potatoes, wrapped them for him and took them with him on the way to eat.
Before parting, Zhuang Xinmin's mood was very complicated, and the joy of returning to the army was intertwined with the inseparable mood of the benefactor. He didn't feel sleepy at all, and watched Lady Mingde Ying busy with this and that, and accompanied her until dawn.
Before leaving, the eldest uncle and the eldest lady looked at and looked at it, sent it and sent it, as if they wanted to send their son out of the far door again. With tears in her eyes, Lady Mingdeying gestured vigorously, telling him that she could not find the troops to come back.
Zhuang Xinmin choked up and said, "Mother, you and your father's great kindness will never be forgotten in your lifetime." As long as I am still alive, I will definitely come back to see my father and mother! ”
Uncle Li Kaitian sent Comrade Zhuang Xinmin to jishang and bought him a pot cake to eat on the road. When parting, two people, tears welled up.
Zhuang Xinmin returned to the battlefield and searched for Yi Meng's father after liberation
Zhuang Xinmin found his troops after several twists and turns, and continued to devote himself to the battle of blood and fire, life and death.
He established a firmer conviction in his heart: Only by liberating the oppressed broad masses of the people can he truly repay the favor to Uncle Yimeng and the eldest bride and the common people like them.
In 1949, the troops crossed the Yangtze River, and Zhuang Xinmin participated in the battle to liberate Shanghai. After the liberation of Shanghai, Zhuang Xinmin became a cadre of the Military Control Commission.
The battle life of birth and death was over, and Zhuang Xinmin's mood of missing Yimeng's relatives was even more urgent. He wanted to know how the second elder was doing now?
Zhuang Xinmin wrote many times and sent "Yishui Ma Muchi Henghe West Uncle Li received." The letter said: "Thank you to the savior, call the letter to tell me about the situation." "But there has been no such person.
Later, Zhuang Xinmin wrote again, saying that "Lady Li is a mute." Murakami Lee Kai-wen said, "The Kaitian family, the Kaitian family is a mute. Li Jialin, Hexi, also belongs to the Yokogawa Brigade. ”
In December 1955, the Yinan County Shore Causeway Post Office finally sent him a letter.
The letter said: "Comrade Zhuang Xinmin, I have told you a good news, and after many searches, we have already contacted your Yimeng relatives. They are Li Kaitian and Ming Deying, and their home address is Li Jialin, Henghe Village, Mamuchi Township, Yinan County, Shandong Province. ”
Yimeng's father Li Kaitian came to The House of Zhuang Xinmin in Shanghai
After receiving this news, Zhuang Xinmin was so excited that he did not close his eyes overnight, and immediately sent a letter and travel expenses, inviting Yi Meng's grandmother to leave for Shanghai immediately.
In the spring of 1956, Li Kaitian carried Zhuang Xinmin's address to Shanghai to see his son. As soon as he got off the train, Zhuang Xinmin, who was waiting at the station, held Uncle Li's hand tightly and shouted: "Father, you are coming, and your son will do filial piety!" ”
The old man was wearing a black 80% new cotton jacket and cotton pants, and a straw rope was tied around the outside of the cotton jacket. His dark face was covered with wrinkles and stubble, and he already had a lot of white hair on his head.
At that time, Uncle Li was 66 years old, and he spoke with a cheerful and powerful voice. Through the look, it can be seen that although life is not very rich, it is very satisfied.
Yimeng's father lived in the "son" home in Shanghai. Zhuang Xinmin's lover entertained his old man's home every day with a meal that was not heavy.
Zhuang Xinmin washed the feet of the elderly before going to bed, got up early to serve food to the elderly, and honored the elderly before and after busyness.
Zhuang Xinmin accompanied his father to Shanghai at night, went to the zoo, soaked in the bathhouse, told about the vicissitudes of Shanghai, and took him to the unit where his eldest son Li Changjun was located.
Zhuang Xinmin said to his children, "This is your grandfather, you can not honor me, if you do not honor your grandfather, you will never do it!" ”
Recalling the difficult events of those years, Zhuang Xinmin couldn't help but cry, and Uncle Da also cried.
Li Kaitian's face was full of tears, and he said: "When I received your letter last year, I don't know how many tears I shed when we were caught by the devils and led the devils to Qin'an with cattle and donkeys. When the devil pressed his neck with a foreign knife, he didn't expect that we both had today! ”
The old man lived for half a month, and he had to go back. Zhuang Xinmin mobilized Yi Meng's father to go back and make arrangements for him to come to Shanghai with his mother and raise them old by himself.
The old man said that the big city is too noisy, there are many people, the words cannot be understood, and the time of living is not used to it. When he left, Zhuang Xinmin gave him a stack of money specially borrowed by the leaders, and asked him to go back to build a house and no longer live in the Tuan scoop house.
Lady Mingdeying saved Zhuang Xinmin for the second time
For many years after that, during the New Year's Festival, Zhuang Xinmin sent money, cloth, candy and other filial piety to the elderly, and Yimeng's father and wife also let their families send peanuts and other native products to Shanghai.
Ming Deying often compares herself to others, she also has a son in Shanghai, treat her well!
In the mid-1960s, some people questioned the more than 40 days that Zhuang Xinmin spent recuperating at Ming Deying's home. He was even slandered for leaving the team and running away.
In desperation, Zhuang Xinmin had no choice but to ask Yi Meng's mother for help, he said: "My history, my Shandong mother can testify." ”
The external transfer personnel came to Ma Muchi and found Ming Deying's home and explained their intentions. When the old man figured out the purpose of the person who came, he pointed to the sky and patted his chest. He also measured the height of a child with his hands, how to hide it in an empty grave made of stone... As he spoke, the tears fell in large pieces.
Uncle Li Kaitian said to the visitor, "What she means is that the conscience of heaven and earth was that Zhuang Xinmin was injured in our family at that time." He was a little kid! It's not easy to fight with the devil, he is a little hero, don't wrongfully accuse him, don't harm him! ”
The people who came were also touched, and they believed the words of the old man. Zhuang Xinmin was once again saved by his Yimeng mute mother.
Mother and son reunite
On October 14, 1990, Zhuang Xinmin had just left for retirement, and he felt that he could not delay it any longer. Father Lee Kai-tin died in 1972, and he didn't want his wish to visit his mother to become a regret.
Zhuang Xinmin returned to his heart like an arrow, and he and his lover Zheng Quanying rushed to Yimeng Mountain with three generations of the family. The car is getting closer and closer to Yokogawa Village, his mood is getting more and more unstable, and the scenes of the past come to mind.
Once, Yi Meng's father gritted his teeth and dragged his tired body. Carrying the injured on his back, he staggered forward step by step on the steep and uneven hillside. Under the kerosene lamp, The old lady of Yimeng sewed clothes for him, scrubbed and healed his wounds, squatted by the pot and pan to boil medicine for him, cooked for him...
The wanderer who had been away for a long time saw his mother-in-law and cried out in sorrow. Ming Deying took his hand, one finger and one finger to count, pointing at him, and pointing to the east. When Zhuang Xinmin left that year, he was walking towards the east, and she still clearly remembers.
He tightly held the old woman's hands, which had gone through the vicissitudes of the years, no longer dexterous, no longer full, no longer powerful, but still so warm, so loving!
The old man, in tears, pulled Zhuang Xinmin and his wife to see her new wooden bed and new quilt. Look at the wheat, corn and peanuts piled up in the house.
Then he said, "The family now does not worry about eating or wearing, and lives a good life every day, which is a happy life that I could not dream of before." ”
The former Tuan Scoop House is gone, and now it is three red tile houses. Surrounded by a yard that is more than one person high, the small courtyard looks spacious and flat.
The eldest son, Li Changjun, joined the army in Shanghai and retired to work in the village. The second son, Li Changyin, was at his mother's side. The eldest daughter, Li Changying, and the second daughter, Li Changjuan, were married to Beiguanzhuang and Dongshan Incense Burner Stone, respectively. The youngest daughter, Li Changhua, also joined the army, and the garrison was in Lingbao County, Henan, and when she went to Shanghai to study, she also went to the home of the eldest brother Zhuang Xinmin.
Forever a family
On the second day of the Chinese New Year in 1995, Ming Deying, who had never suffered from a serious illness in his life, had a cold and fever, causing pneumonia, resulting in heart failure, and immediately entered a coma. Due to The elderly mingde, he died on April 21, 1995 at the age of 84.
When the bad news reached Shanghai, Zhuang Xinxin was heartbroken, but he was bedridden due to illness and could not go to Shandong to mourn.
He immediately asked his son to send a telegram: "The old lady of the revolution, the great mother, will always exist in the hearts of her children and grandchildren."
Zhuang Xinmin set up a spiritual hall in his home, and the whole family bowed down to the east of the mountain.
Zhuang Xinmin sent another 1,500 yuan from Shanghai to Yinan, and as the eldest son, he erected a monument to his father and wife in Yimeng.
On March 9, 2006, veteran soldier Zhuang Xinmin died in Shanghai. On his deathbed, he instructed his children and grandchildren to always remember and be grateful to Yimeng's family and the people of the old district.
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