Preamble:
"Put the little radish head, he's only eight years old, let him go to the street to ask for food." ”
On September 6, 1949, the Kuomintang reactionaries received orders to eradicate all the political prisoners in prison, and among them was the eight-year-old little turnip.
Despite Song Qiyun's constant pleading, the spy still brutally killed him, in order to cover up the crime, the spy buried their family of three on the spot and irrigated cement on it, and the little radish became the smallest revolutionary martyr, but how was he arrested and put in prison?
Arrested and sent to jail
"Do you want to eat candy? Call Auntie, and Auntie will give you candy to eat." "The little radish head growing in prison has never eaten sugar at all, let alone knows what candy tastes like.
Faced with the candy temptation of the spies, the young little radish head unconsciously stretched out his skinny little hand. Just as his hand was about to touch the candy, he suddenly retracted, "Mom said, you are all bad people, so I won't eat your candy." Ignoring the spies, he ran back to his cell.
The little radish head who returned to the cell told his mother Xu Linxia what had just happened, and asked curiously, "Mom, what does sugar taste like?"
Hearing the child's inquiry, Xu Linxia was heartbroken, her poor child had been imprisoned with her since she was 8 months old, and she had never even eaten a single candy when she was so old.
She hid the sourness in her heart, dipped her finger in a little salty salt placed at the window, and then dotted it on the lips of the little radish head, "This is the taste of sugar." ”
The other comrades who were imprisoned in the prison also turned their heads to cry after seeing this scene, they didn't want the little radish head to see their sad scene, and they didn't want him to be sad with it.
His father Song Qiyun was the secretary of General Yang Hucheng before he was arrested, and his real identity was an underground party member, and after joining the Communist Party in 1927, he was assigned to General Yang Hucheng and was responsible for united front work.
The mother Xu Linxia is a member of the Women's Salvation Association, both of them were assigned to Yang Hucheng's side to fight together, Xu Linxia is responsible for helping her husband and the organization to transmit information in her daily work, and the husband and wife are running all day long to resist Japan and save the country.
On December 2, 1936, when Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang launched the Xi'an Incident that shocked China and foreign countries, the husband and wife participated in it and assisted Yang Hucheng in matters related to the incident.
After the Xi'an Incident, General Yang Hucheng was liquidated by Chiang Kai-shek, and Song Qiyun did not escape the poisonous hands of the Kuomintang.
In September 1941, Song Qiyun received a telegram from his "wife", and Song Qiyun, who did not suspect him, hurriedly packed his things and rushed to the direction of his home, and was arrested by the Kuomintang spies who had been waiting for a long time when he arrived at the door.
It turned out that it was not a telegram sent by Xu Linxia at all, this was all a drama of the Kuomintang, Xu Linxia learned that her husband was taken away by the Kuomintang and sent her two older children to a neighbor's house to take care of them, and she took Song Zhenzhong, who was a few months old and couldn't do without him, to run around in Xi'an City to inquire about her husband's whereabouts.
The Kuomintang feared that Xu Linxia would leak her deeds, so they took her and Song Zhenzhong to the women's prison in Chongqing's "White Mansion", while Song Zhenzhong was held in the men's prison upstairs.
An unexpected reunion of a family of three
Xu Linxia and Song Zhenzhong were rudely pushed into the prison by the spies, and as soon as they entered the prison, Xu Linxia smelled a damp and pungent smell. The cell was cramped and dark, and here she saw many Communists like her, some covered in scars and lying dying on the dirty, cold floor, others slumped on the ground as thin as skin and bones.
In the following days, Xu Linxia tried his best to take care of Song Zhenzhong, as the saying goes, "it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice", and the meals sent by the Kuomintang every day were either spoiled or moldy and smelly rice bran or soup made from rotten vegetable leaves, and the portion was not much.
The cell that can't receive the sun is even colder every night, and what accompanies Song Zhenzhong growing up is the screams, moans and chains colliding every day, and the sound of rubbing on the ground.
Xu Linxia picked out the big and good soybeans in the bowl every time in order to make him eat better, and he ate the leftover moldy and shriveled soybeans.
"What does Dad look like?" "What did Dad do?" As he grew older, Song Zhenzhong's doubts about his father became bigger and bigger, and every time Xu Linxia patiently repeated over and over again, "You have to remember that your father is a hero, he is a good person who does things for the people of the world." ”
Finally one day when Song Qiyun was in the garden of the prison, she was seen by Xu Linxia, she happily took Song Zhenzhong to the crack of the iron gate, and said happily: "That thin and tall, bearded man is your father." This is the first time that Song Zhenzhong has the impression of seeing his father since he grew up.
He shouted out in delight, "Daddy, Daddy." Song Qiyun turned his head in disbelief and saw the skinny and pitiful child, who even had clear ribs, and his tears could no longer be controlled.
This is the first time the family of three has met in many years, and it is also the first time he has heard the call of his youngest son, but he didn't expect it to be in such a way.
Sacrificed on the eve of victory
However, after this "accidental" meeting, the comrades-in-arms in the prison went on a hunger strike together, "We must let Little Radish Head meet his father once a week, and let Little Radish Head receive education." ”
Under the protests of the people, the Kuomintang was also afraid of making a big fuss, and agreed to let Song Zhenzhong go to the men's prison every week to receive education and meet with Song Qiyun. Song Zhenzhong got a new name for "little radish head" because of this "movement", and also got a hard-won opportunity to "go to school".
He was now six or seven years old, but he was only three or four years old, and his head was growing bigger and bigger because of chronic malnutrition, which contrasted sharply with his body.
However, despite this, the little radish head did not lose his innocence and hope, and since then he has a certain amount of freedom, which can shuttle between the men's prison and the women's prison, and because of his young age, the spy is not guarded.
Under the education of everyone, Little Radish became an intelligence officer in the prison, bringing the latest news to everyone every day and performing the task of transmitting intelligence, such as whether anyone came to the prison today, whether anyone was injured again...
He took a small pencil given to him by his teacher in prison, General Huang Xiansheng, and everyone nailed the remaining straw paper together as his Xi book every day, so the little radish head learned to write and read, "I am a good boy, I will always love the Communist Party of China." ”
This is the first sentence of the little radish head study, he took the theory of communism to heart and waited for the dawn of victory with everyone. After he learned to write, his first letter was to his brothers and sisters at home, and there were only four words "brother and sister" in the letter, but it contained his endless thoughts.
The daily walk of the little radish head brings rare joy to everyone, and it also brings hope to everyone, and the blood of the revolution is once again carried forward under the running of the little radish head, and the spark can start a prairie fire, and this fire will sooner or later burn the darkness and sin of the Kuomintang.
However, even such happiness in the midst of suffering could not be maintained, and on September 6, 1949, Song Qiyun's family of three was transferred again, this time they were taken to the pine forest slope of Geyue Mountain in Chongqing. The Kuomintang was now in the ascendancy, and Chiang Kai-shek, in the face of these political prisoners, ordered mass executions.
After arriving at the place, the spy took the lead in waving the bayonet in his hand to Song Qiyun, Xu Linxia was grief-stricken, she knelt on the ground and begged bitterly: "Let go of the little radish head, he is only eight years old, let him go to the street to ask for food." ”
"Okay, let's see if he can go. After that, the spy stabbed the little radish head with a knife, Xu Linxia's eyes were full of resentment, and he rushed forward to hug the body of the little radish head and cried loudly, "Don't worry, soon your family of three will be reunited." ”
In this way, Xu Linxia also fell in a pool of blood, and afterwards, in order to cover up the truth, the spies buried them on the spot and sealed them with thick soil to wash away the blood.
It was only two months later that the comrades found their bones, the hands of the little turnip head resting on their chests, as if praying for hope, and in his hands was the hard-won pencil, a child who was less than 9 years old who died on the eve of victory.
"I want to grow up to build our country like my teacher. It is a pity that he could not realize such a beautiful wish, his life is short, dark, but also full of light, he has been on the road of pursuing light, just like those revolutionary heroes, waiting for the darkness to pass, waiting for victory to come.