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Miss the eldest sister Wan Qiru
The eldest sister Wan Qiru, who fled to Chongqing when she was a teenager, studied medicine and practiced medicine all her life, and when she was in her 30s, she met the "legendary years" of not being allowed to get married and start a family, and spent her bumpy life at the age of 89. In the autumn of 1990, the eldest sister Wan Qiru and the eldest sister's family came back to visit relatives, and relatives and friends in Nanjing and the eldest brother-in-law in Anhui jointly formed a "welcome team" of more than 100 people, holding a large banner of warm welcome at the exit of the airport to welcome them. Many people are very excited to see the eldest sister for the first time, the eldest sister listened to the introduction one by one, she smiled to everyone, she left Nanjing for more than 40 years, long gone, she also left the university airport that year, see the surrounding area now, it is still the same as when she left. In 1925, the eldest sister Wan Qiru was born in Fengyang County, Anhui. In 1937, when she was still in elementary school, the Japanese devils bombed Fengyang Fucheng, her mother was killed, she ran away with her father, and came to Chongqing a year later. In 1942, her eldest sister joined the army to resist the Japanese and studied military medicine in the army. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the eldest sister moved to Nanjing and settled down. In 1948, he went to Taiwan to seek help. In 1950, he was sent to Kinmen Island to practice medicine. At that time, the troops stationed on the island had a military order: all veterans guarding the island, both men and women, were not allowed to marry and start a family. Most of the female military doctors and nurses in the military hospital are over 25 years old, but the military order does not dare to disobey, and the eldest sister is still single after the age of this female soldier. However, the officers and men stationed on the island are mostly male, most of whom are 30 years old or older. Because most of the male young and middle-aged men on the island were also conscripted, there were many unmarried women or single-parent married women, and some soldiers stationed on the island fell in love with the women on the island in private, and some even gave birth to children. It is said that this is a disobedience to military orders, but the superiors understand and sympathize with the small soldiers on the island, and turn a blind eye. "Illegitimate children" are also a human life, and these babies who have come to the world need to find another way to survive instead of raising themselves. As a result, there were special jobs on Kinmen Island that had never been seen before, accepting "illegitimate" jobs for veterans and local women. The eldest sister went to the same female military doctor and nurse to do this "job" part-time. The work site is in a two-story fortification constructed of reinforced concrete behind the mountain. He usually treats the wounded and sick, adopts "illegitimate children," and sends "illegitimate children" to Taiwan orphanages in a concentrated manner. During the shelling of Kinmen in 1958, the officers and men on the island were very panicked for a while, hiding in bomb shelters, and did not dare to go out of the hole during the day. Although the cave is safe, there are many people and the environment is very poor, and the supplies cannot be provided in time. There was no way to make a fire in the cave, so I could only eat biscuits and drink raw water; for many days after the biscuits were eaten, they also ate raw noodles and rice, and many officers and soldiers fell ill. Medical staff, after receiving the call, the eldest sister and they also had to risk being shelled and enter the bomb shelter one by one. However, through radio and shouting, it was learned that after one day of shelling, the islanders could receive sufficient food supplies. The officers and men on the island did not believe it at first, but later found that the PLA really shouted that it was worth telling, so on the "Artillery Rest Day", the officers and soldiers walked out of the bomb shelter to breathe fresh air. At that time, the food on the island was not good, and I could only ensure that I had a full stomach. The troops could only eat meat once a week, mainly canned food, which was iron-clad and rectangular in shape, and the shell was simply American and domestic, and it contained either sea fish or beef. The food in the military hospital is better, and meat can be guaranteed every day. Female soldiers worked hard because they fed their "illegitimate children" part-time, and received special attention from their superiors, ensuring that there was meat to eat and milk powder. Of course, the milk powder is fed to the baby first, and when there is more milk powder, the female soldiers will flush and drink. I remember that it was a domestically produced "Kenin" brand milk powder, a cylindrical iron box. Listening to the eldest sister Shao, her female soldier once used a bamboo basket to mention one illegitimate child after another. The eldest sister has received and raised "illegitimate children" on the island for many years, receiving up to 37 babies in a month. The eldest sister said that in those days, it was also a pleasure to be able to bring up "dolls", which made people feel the preciousness of life. The method of receiving "illegitimate children" is very special, on duty upstairs at night, and the reception operation is all arranged at night. From the upstairs window protrudes a thick rope with a copper bell, and a bamboo basket is tied underneath. The "bastard" is placed in the basket and will cry. The eldest sister said that when there was crying, the female soldier on duty upstairs knew that someone had sent an illegitimate child. Some babies fall asleep, put into the basket without crying, the thrower shakes the rope, connects the copper bell above to ring, the upstairs duty knows that someone sent an "illegitimate child", so he gently lifts the basket, and the child will never see his parents again for the rest of his life. The eldest sister said that the place of work of receiving "illegitimate children" is behind the mountain. When shelling, the shells did not fall here, which was quite safe. The eldest sister was 35 years old when she returned to Taibei, and she had no children after marriage with her eldest brother-in-law, and she adopted a boy as an adopted son when she was raising an illegitimate child in Jinmen... The eldest sister's life is a bumpy life experience. The eldest brother-in-law died before her. Before dying, the eldest sister called and talked about her daughter-in-law's abuse of her for the first time. It turned out that the eldest sister's adopted son unfortunately passed away, and at that time there were two grandchildren, and the daughter-in-law had no job, and the whole family supported four people on her income alone. It is said that the eldest sister's veteran income is not thin, but he has encountered a daughter-in-law with a "bad conscience," which is the misfortune of the eldest sister. In 2018, I met a Kaohsiung chat netizen at the West Ancestral Hall, and after the enthusiastic netizens learned about my eldest sister's situation, they drove me to visit and sent videos and photos at that time, so that I could see the current situation of my eldest sister at that time.
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Below: 50 years of eldest sister Jinmen on the island
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Below: Sister-in-law Dai Yongxiu took a photo one by one
Remembering his sister-in-law Dai Yongxiu
In the 60s of last century, my brother was demobilized and transferred to Duyun, Guizhou, married and had children with his sister-in-law, and settled in this cloudy mountain city in Guizhou's Qiannan Prefecture. My sister-in-law is in her old age, and in 2018 I received a call from her, saying that her condition was at a low point, she was about to reach the end of her life, and she wanted to see me before she died. Looking back, the first time I met my sister-in-law was in the summer of 1966, more than half a century ago, when I was a junior high school student. At this time, his father died and his family was poor. After seeing my sister-in-law, my sister-in-law pulled me to the department store to buy new clothes and pants for me, and gave me pocket money. The second time I saw my sister-in-law, the whole family was sent to the countryside in northern Jiangsu, and my sister-in-law came to visit us. The next day, her sister-in-law asked to see the plot of land allocated by the production team, and she used a hoe to help weed, and picked up a dung bucket to fertilize and water the cabbage and turnips. My sister-in-law said that she had also farmed and knew how to be diligent and not lazy. The conditions in the remote villages of northern Jiangsu are poor, and in the days of 10 years of decentralization, every New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival, my sister-in-law always sends us remittances and sends us some clothes and pants. When we returned to Nanjing to work, my sister-in-law was already a mother of four children, and the children had not yet joined the work. My mother often said to us: "Back then, your sister-in-law was very filial to me as a mother-in-law, people's hearts changed people's hearts, now there are many brothers and sisters-in-law, you all work, I also enjoy retirement pension, it's time to repay your brother and sister-in-law." "Therefore, every Spring Festival, my mother would always instruct me to send Nanjing's bacon sausages and belly to my sister-in-law, remit money during the Dragon Boat Festival, and send mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival to express my wishes. After my mother passed away, my sister-in-law has maintained correspondence with me, and the brotherhood has continued. My brother, in May 1949, signed up for the army on South Taiping Road and went to the southwest to suppress bandits and liberate all of China. During a mission, he was hit by a gunshot by bandits and fell to the ground and passed out. When he woke up, he was in the army tent hospital. It turned out that it was this woman at that time, and now my sister-in-law was the first to discover my brother and walked more than ten miles to report to the troops. More than half a century later, my sister-in-law and I have only met twice. Today, my parents passed away early, and my sister-in-law is far away in the Guizhou Plateau, and I still remember us. My sister-in-law was seriously ill and dying, so I called her to the bank to comfort her. My sister-in-law called and got angry: "Now everyone is living well, there is no shortage of anything, I just hope that in my lifetime, I can see the brother of my in-laws..." After meeting her sister-in-law, I learned that she had not eaten for four days, and the doctor wrote that she was critically ill. When I walked into the ward, my sister-in-law saw me coming, and immediately had spirit, asked her nephews and nieces to help her sit up, held my hand, and said intermittently: "How many years, I have not been able to honor my mother-in-law, I feel guilty and uneasy, today I finally look forward to my brother-in-law's brother to see me..." Seeing this, the nurse on duty was surprised, and whispered in private: "This may be the reflection of the light back." " My sister-in-law's life, my life of being a frank and honest person, my sister-in-law has experienced too much suffering in this life, I hope she can live an easier life on the side of heaven...
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Sister-in-law Dai Yongxiu took photos one by one