Li Biao sent a note and demanded money, and the six members of the Xie family were in danger
Date of interview: March 14, 2004
Interview location: Mushixi Village, Cha'anpu Town, Taoyuan County
Narrator: Peng Xuan, Peng Haiquan
My name is Peng Chuan, male, 70 years old, member of the Communist Party of China, junior primary education, family of two, living in the second group of Mushixi Village, Chaanpu Town, villagers.
My name is Peng Haiquan, male, 77 years old, illiterate, family of three, wife Xie Yiyun, 70 years old, Sun Pengxinqun is at school, living in four groups of villagers in Mushixi Village, Chaanpu Town.
[Summary of the following statements]
In the spring of 1949, our Mushi Creek produced Nan bamboo, and the economy was relatively active. The people who came to cut hemp and bamboo to make paper were all from Changde County and Wuling, and they came to help make paper here. There are also Bao families who come to Tongzhushan to pay money.
In the second half of the year, the People's Liberation Army came, and in September of the same year, bandits rose up and opened and opened bids everywhere. In the winter month of that year, when the bandits were entrenched in Xiangpingjie, he heard that there was a bandit named Li Biao (also known as Li Fuchu) of Zhengjiayi, and one day, he heard that there was an old paper shell in Mushixi that belonged to Changde Wuling, and there were six members of the family who were selling paper in the six groups of Mushixi. This Li Biao thought he had money, so in the name of the anti-communist Ninth Route Army, he sent a note to this Changde Wuling surnamed Xie, which read:
Boss Xie ××, because the anti-communist Ninth Route Army needs military expenses, you are limited to paying 300 yuan to Guangyang within three days, if you do not pay within three days, kill the whole family of six, and burn the house and Huaping.
Anti-communist Ninth Route Army
The 38th year of the Republic of China
The paper boss surnamed Xie read the words on the note, like a popsicle inserted in the leather eye, and was half cut off. This year, paper could not be sold, a family of six had to eat and dress, and the daily sales expenses were not small, plus in the winter month, the anti-communist Ninth Route Army sent a note of 200 yuan to Guangyang, only to pay it clearly, and now it is worth a penny. Today, I sent another slip, I want to pay Guangyang 300 yuan within three days, if I don't hand it over, the whole family of six will be killed. Ahem, what to kill.
The wife and children heard their father's wail, and the family of six cried together. The surrounding areas, who were all getting along well, heard the crying, and they all ran to ask Old Man Xie the reason. He doesn't talk about it, he's crazy, he's stupid. When the visitor saw that Old Man Xie was silent, he asked his wife. His wife said: "The bandits sent another note, asking to pay 300 yuan in three days, if they do not pay within three days, the whole house will kill a family of six, and the house will be burned, how can this live!" While persuading, the neighbor gave her an idea: "Only by asking which uncle's team to reconcile." Only then did Old Man Xie slow down and said, "The reconciled people also need to buy a few Lanqiao cigarettes, and cigarettes also cost money!" ”
Old man Xie, from the time he received the note sent by the Ninth Route Army, he did not eat and sleep day and night, he thought about how to survive for a family of six - it seems that he wants to escape, first avoid these three days, and then take a family of six to flee to another country at night, but if he wants to escape, he always has to carry a few meals of rice, and it also costs a few dollars; On the way to the Ninth Route Army, if a family of six encounters the Ninth Route Army and stops my family of six, saying that they should evade payment and join the Eighth Route, they should also be killed. Don't run away! When the three-day period expires, if there is no Guangyang payment, it is also a killing, and the house will be burned; The third way is to call for help, but who will save my six people? It was really shouting that every day should not be, shouting that there was no way out, and Old Man Xie wanted to become a dull and crazy person. He hadn't eaten for a day or two since he arrived, and his wife, children, and daughters all asked him to eat, and he didn't say anything.
Look at three days will come, if you don't hand over Guangyang, people will come to kill you, oh my God! Oh earth! I'm Xie for such a big crime, tying the door to kill six people! The poor family was crying again.
It's late at night, tomorrow at dawn the bandits will come, old man Xie, don't drink tea, don't eat, don't sleep, he thinks helplessly, this year is not useful to live, he has a heart, if you want to kill, kill, one does not escape, the other does not ask for people. After two days and two nights without closing his eyes, he collapsed on the bed and slept without taking off his clothes. His wife Liu Shi saw that her husband, who had been struggling on the line of life and death for two days without eating, drinking or sleeping, was finally willing to lie down and was busy covering the quilt for Old Man Xie.
He fell asleep. The family of six, all sleeping, only hope that the heavens will bless.
At dawn, neighbor Peng Jiliu said to his wife: "I didn't hear the crying in Old Man Xie's house, I was afraid that it would turn into a murderer." His wife said, "He's smoking in the house, cooking breakfast and eating - + it's okay." ”
Who knew that Sister Liu did not call her husband Old Man Xie to borrow rice, so she scooped the last liter of rice in her family, found some greens and rice soup in the vegetable garden, and cooked it into a large pot of porridge. When the porridge was cooked, it was already nine o'clock in the morning, so I went to call my family to come and eat. Shout to the children, the children have already got up. Calling her husband Xie Laotou again, he also woke up. So each of you has a bowl, he has a bowl, and the family is full.
Old Man Xie thought while drinking vegetable porridge: When the three-day period expires, Li Biao is coming today, why do I need to kill him? I searched for my way, or I could keep the entire corpse of my family of six. To die all the way.
He put the bowl away: "Liu Mei, the children are here, sit with me in the house." Old Man Xie stiffened his face and became angry.
Liu's wife: "Listen to the family." "The children thought to themselves: listen to Daddy.
They all found a stool and sat down.
Old Man Xie put a rope on the basket, first binding his wife's right hand, then the eldest child's right hand, three bundles of his daughter's arm, and four bundles of the second child's hand, all of them bursting into tears.
While letting his father tie his hands, Er'er asked his father: "Dad, you tied up your mother, brother, and sister, how can you do it?" Father. He asked while crying.
Old Man Xie tearfully tied San'er's right hand again. This child is not sensible: "Dad, where do you connect the family with ropes?" ”
After all five people were tied, Old Man Xie pulled his wife's rope by himself: "Shout all follow me!" ”
In front of his house, a pit flooded with bamboo paper was full, and as soon as the pit was full of water, he jumped into the pond and pulled the five people into the water with force. The wife and children understood that this was the case, and they all cried, and the five refused to go into the water. The cry alarmed the surrounding neighbors, and they all rushed to see that a rope tied five people to their lives for death. All the blind dates who came said: "Old man Xie, your practice is too scary, there is no money, when Li Biao comes, we will all say good things for you." He said as he untied the rope. At this time, it was nine o'clock in the morning, and I could only hear two cannons roaring like thunder towards Pingjie! The Communist Eighth Route Army led by the government came to surround the bandits, and Li Biao's bandits were so frightened that they fled for their lives.
It was the People's Liberation Army that saved the family of six from Old Man Xie.
After that, in order to thank the Communist Party, the government, and the masses, Old Man Xie changed the names of all three children, the eldest son named Xie Dangen, the second son named Xie Zhengen, and the third son named Xie Qunen - if the whole family of six had not come to the rescue of the surrounding masses, it would have been gone a long time ago, so Xie Qunen.
Later, by mobilizing the masses, the PLA government forced the bandits to surrender, the society stabilized, the situation fundamentally improved, and Old Man Xie's family, like all over the country, returned to their hometown to live a good life.
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