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At dusk on February 15, 1935, He Zizhen, who was showing signs of labor on the Long March, was carried on a stretcher to the door of a single-family tiled house in Changbangshang Village. After knocking on the door, an old woman opened the door, and the female Red Army Qian Xijun and Zhong Yuelin told the old woman that they hoped to borrow a house to have a child. The old woman said that she couldn't be the master, the house was not hers, it was Lu Fuhe's, and the people of the Lu family were gone, and she was invited to see the house.
Qian Xijun asked the old woman what her surname was? The old woman said: "Adults and children all call me a big woman, and you also call me like this." So Qian Xijun said to the man's wife: "We only borrow the house to protect from the wind and rain, and the mother gives birth on a stretcher, and will not stain the bed of the master's house." The barbarian woman saw the female Red Army on the stretcher who was in labor moaning constantly, and the Red Army who came with her, including an old man and a woman, spoke very kindly, so she agreed.
Qian Xijun
At dawn on February 16, Sun Yizhi, director of the infirmary of the Cadre Cultivation Company, and doctor Li Zhi delivered the baby, Qian Xijun was the assistant, Zhong Yuelin was the hand, and He Zizhen began to share the pain. Throughout the process of childbirth, she was accompanied by the indescribable bouts of abdominal pain and back pain that seemed to be broken in two,...... When the whole body was soaked with sweat, tears and blood, in the last spasm, He Zizhen finally gave birth to a baby girl in the ring room of the Lu family.
Because it was a temporary birth, there was nothing, so he used a basin on the back of the guard Wu Jiqing to fill it with water and wash the baby girl's blood-stained body. This basin is usually used to wash faces, feet, and dishes, but now it has another purpose. He Zizhen looked at her child's immature face, how lovely it was! How uncomfortable she was when she heard the sound of the child crying! She thought of the first girl who lived for more than 20 days, and then she thought of Mao Mao, who Mao Zedong liked very much, and then she thought of the boy who was born prematurely for the third time, and now she gave birth to the fourth child, and she could not take it with her, breastfeed her, give her mother's love, and she could only endure the pain of cutting her love in melancholy.
He Zizhen, Mao Zedong
He Zizhen knew that his superiors had already ordered that no one should march with a child, because the child's cry would expose the target of the troops, and besides, the Red Army did not even have the minimum conditions to maintain the life of a baby during the long journey, and it could not carry a delicate little life at all. He Zizhen wanted to talk to her husband first, but after thinking about it, her husband, who was ordered to be in danger at the Zunyi Conference, was extremely busy, and she didn't know where he was at the moment. Due to the urgency of the military situation, she didn't even have time to choose a name for her child, so according to the introduction of the native barbarian mother, the younger brother-in-law Qian Xijun and the guard Wu Jiqing went to the foot of the hillside a mile away to find the kind-hearted lonely old man Zhang Erpo to foster care.
Before Qian Xijun and Wu Jiqing left, Dong Biwu first gave them a little money and a few bowls of opium tobacco, and then handed them a note. Qian Xijun looked at it, and Dong Biwu's note read:
Fellow:
We are the army of the poor, we are liberating the poor, we are on the march, and there are female comrades who are in labor. After the child is born, please raise it to you, and hope that she will grow up.
Please!
He Zizhen
He Zizhen choked and took out the only 4 silver dollars from her body with her weak hand, and asked someone to take out 4 new white towels that she had been reluctant to use since the Long March, take off the eggplant-colored coat she was wearing on her body, and let the baby girl wrap up, and then hugged the baby girl over, kissed her on the little cheek and kissed it again and again, and then reluctantly handed the child over, and let Qian Xijun follow the woman out of the room.
This second wife Zhang is really good-hearted, and after taking in the child, she saved money to buy food and clothing for this descendant of the Red Army named "Wang Xiuying" by her. Xiao Xiuying had no milk to eat, so she asked her 15-year-old granddaughter to carry her to Cui's house, a few miles away across the river, to beg for milk. Every time there was a day in Baishachang, they would carry Xiuying to the street, and when they met a woman with milk, they would ask for milk, and if the milk still could not be received, they would grind rice flour and mix rice soup to feed Xiao Xiuying one bite at a time. makes "Wang Xiuying's" little face look red, and there is often a smile on her pretty fat face, which everyone loves when they see it. Zhang Erpo also said to her granddaughter: "Your parents died early, and there are not many people in my family, we have to bring this sister up, if her parents come to pick her up in the future, we are also worthy of her; if her parents don't come to pick her up, she is equivalent to one of your own sisters." ”
He Zizhen
Zhang Erma's mother-in-law worked hard and nursed carefully, who knew that Xiao Xiuying suddenly had red and big sores all over her body after more than 3 months, she didn't eat or drink during the day, and cried all night at night. Zhang's second wife hurriedly asked her granddaughter to carry Xiao Xiuying on her back to Baishachang Street to ask for a doctor for treatment. I have taken the medicine of several doctors, but it still does not improve. In the end, he still fell ill and died.
Mao Zedong was also the same flesh and blood, didn't he know how to love his wife and children? Why didn't he want to have a smile every day, a fragrant dream at night, and a warm home. However, for the sake of the great revolutionary cause, he had to make a difficult choice. This is something that ordinary people can't understand!
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