Looking at the sauce beans and pickles on the table, Liao Hansheng suddenly angrily scolded the village woman: "You shouldn't treat me with this!" When the village woman brought a stewed old hen, Liao Hansheng's anger reached its peak. Just when everyone was puzzled, the village woman shouted "Dad", and the scene suddenly froze. It turned out that this woman, who was called "the daughter-in-law of the Wang family," was actually Liao Chunlian, the daughter of Liao Hansheng? How could the father and daughter be so alienated? How will the relationship between Liao Hansheng and his daughter be unraveled? What amazing story is hidden behind all this?
Father-daughter relationship
On a cold night in 1927, Xiao Gengen experienced the most painful night of his life in a simple grass hut in Sangzhi County, Hunan. She worked hard and finally gave birth to a daughter. But before it was too late to rejoice, gunfire was heard in the distance, and the Kuomintang troops had already surrounded the area.
Xiao Gengen was an underground fighter of the Communist Party who had been active in the Sangzhi area. Her husband, Liao Hansheng, was also a Communist, and the two participated in the party-led peasant movement together. Due to the warlord scuffle and the repression of the Kuomintang, these underground party members had to hide in Tibet and live a homeless life.
That night, the noise of Xiao Gengen's production alarmed the Kuomintang army. Soon, the sound of gunfire reached the edge of the shed, and Xiao Gengen covered his mouth for fear of alarming the enemy. She looked at the newborn daughter in her arms with mixed feelings. If they are discovered by the enemy, neither mother nor daughter will want to live.
At this critical juncture, Liao Hansheng rushed back to the grass shed. When he saw the safety of his wife and daughter, he was immediately anxious. After a short discussion, the two made a difficult decision to leave their daughter in the care of their old family for the time being.
The encirclement of the Kuomintang army was getting closer and closer, and Liao Hansheng had to carry his wife and daughter on his back and escape from the encirclement at night. Along the way, they dodged enemy fire and were almost hit several times. Finally, when the sky was about to dawn, they came to Liaojia Village, Sangzhi County.
Liao Hansheng handed over his daughter to the old man in the family and told him to take care of it. With tears in his eyes, Xiao Gengen kissed his daughter's face and reluctantly put her in the old man's arms. Liao Hansheng pulled his wife and soon disappeared on the path at the entrance of the village.
Since then, the baby girl has been separated from her parents. Her father, Liao Hansheng, rejoined the revolution, fought alongside the Communists, and later became the founding lieutenant general. Her mother, Xiao Gengen, fought with her husband until the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
This baby girl is Liao Chunlian, the only daughter of Liao Hansheng and Xiao Gengen. She has not enjoyed the love of her parents since she was born, but was brought up by her relatives. When she was three years old, her mother, Xiao Gengen, returned to her hometown to see her daughter. But the situation was still very dangerous at that time, Xiao Gengen could only glance at his daughter from a distance, and then had to leave in a hurry.
Since then, Liao Chunlian has never seen his mother again. She spent her childhood in the arms of her grandmother, who told her revolutionary stories and told her how great her parents were. But for a child, what she longs for most is not heroic parents, but the love of her parents.
It was not until after the liberation that Liao Hansheng and Xiao Gengen had the opportunity to return to their hometown and meet their grown daughter Liao Chunlian. However, due to the long-term separation, the father and daughter seem very rusty and cannot establish an intimate relationship at all. Liao Chunlian is more in awe of his parents than close.
Later, Xiao Gengen died of illness, and Liao Chunlian completely lost his mother. She can only rely on a little care from her father Liao Hansheng to live. But Liao Hansheng is the founding lieutenant general after all, and he is entangled in affairs, so he has little time to take care of his daughter. Liao Chunlian learned to be self-reliant and self-reliant since she was a child, and after she got married, she lived the life of an ordinary peasant woman.
Liao Hansheng's military career
In 1927, Liao Hansheng joined the Communist Party of China, beginning his long and tortuous revolutionary career. As an underground party member, he engaged in the peasant movement in the Sangzhi area of Hunan, propagating Marxism and organizing peasant uprisings.
At that time, the Kuomintang reactionaries frantically suppressed the revolutionary forces, and Liao Hansheng and his comrades-in-arms could only hide in Tibet and live a homeless life. They hid in the peasants' homes during the day and haunted the fields at night to propagate revolutionary principles. As soon as there is a stir, immediately shift positions so as not to be captured by the enemy.
In 1928, Liao Hansheng participated in the establishment of the famous Soviet base area on the Hunan and Jiangxi borders. In this red land, he took the position of a partisan and fought many encounters with the enemy. Although the equipment is outdated, everyone's morale is high, and they regard death as home.
In 1930, the Hunan and Jiangxi border soviets were destroyed by the "encirclement and suppression" operation of the Kuomintang army. Liao Hansheng and other Red Army fighters were forced to withdraw from the base areas and began a long career of guerrilla warfare. They went all the way to the west, fought in Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi and other places, and fought with the Kuomintang army.
In 1934, the main force of the Central Red Army began the famous 25,000-mile Long March. Liao Hansheng also joined this team, following Mao Zedong and other proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation, crossing countless mountains and rivers, and walking through the difficult road of nine deaths and one life.
During the Long March, Liao Hansheng was in desperate situations many times, but he never gave up his revolutionary beliefs. After the Zunyi Conference, he became a member of the Communist Party of the Central Red Army and followed the Party Central Committee to the north to resist Japan.
In 1937, a full-scale war of resistance against Japan broke out. Liao Hansheng fought all the way, from North China to Central China, and then to the base area in northern Shaanxi, he participated in major battles. He witnessed the barbaric atrocities of the Japanese army, and strengthened his determination to resist the war to the end.
In 1945, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression won the final victory. But the Kuomintang reactionaries did not abandon their counter-revolutionary nature, and soon a civil war broke out with the Communists. Liao Hansheng continued to fight on the front lines, working for the seizure of national power.
In 1949, the People's Liberation Army won a decisive victory. In this civil war, Liao Hansheng grew from an ordinary soldier to a high-ranking general, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general. He personally witnessed the birth of the People's Republic of China and became one of the founding generals.
After the victory of the Liberation War, Liao Hansheng has been serving in the army. He served as deputy commander of the South-Western Military District and also worked in the General Staff for some time. It was not until 1979 that he retired from the army and began a new phase of his life.
For more than half a century, Liao Hansheng has been active in the front line of the revolution. From an ordinary underground party member to becoming the founding lieutenant general, he used his life to interpret the original intention and mission of a communist. He has experienced life and death, bloody and bloody winds, but his pursuit of ideals and beliefs has never wavered. Liao Hansheng is such a revolutionary hero who can sing and cry.
Liao Chunlian's independent life
In 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded, Liao Hansheng, as the founding general, was entangled in affairs and had little time to take care of his daughter Liao Chunlian. Liao Chunlian, who has learned to be self-reliant and self-reliant since he was a child, married Wang Youfu, a farmer from the same village, at the age of 20 and began the life of an ordinary peasant woman.
The days after marriage were not easy, and Liao Chunlian had to take on the farm work of the whole family. Every day, I get up before dawn, make breakfast for the elderly and children in the family, and then go to work in the fields with my husband. Spring ploughing, summer ploughing, autumn harvest, winter storage, all year round farm work must be done by yourself.
In 1958, Liao Chunlian gave birth to a son. Fortunately, her husband Wang Youfu suddenly fell seriously ill and soon died. As a young widow, Liao Chunlian suddenly shouldered the burden of supporting her family.
During the day, she works alone in the fields, and at night she comes home to take care of her elderly in-laws and young son. Sometimes she was so tired that she would lean against a tree in the field and take a nap before continuing her work.
1962 was a particularly difficult year. Due to the weather, the crops failed that year, and Liao Chunlian's family could not eat enough, so they could only rely on drinking wild vegetable root soup to satisfy their hunger. Once, his son was so hungry that Liao Chunlian had to take out some of the remaining seeds at home and cook them.
In this way, Liao Chunlian shouldered the burden of his family alone, and finally survived those difficult days by relying on his diligence and tenacity. Her son grew up, got a job in the county, and life finally improved.
In 1979, Liao Hansheng retired and returned to his hometown. He wanted to take good care of his daughter, but he didn't expect to be snubbed by his daughter. It turned out that when Liao Chunlian was in his 20s, he once asked his father for help.
That year, not long after Liao Chunlian's husband died, she was pulling her young son alone, and life was too hard. She had no choice but to go to her father, Liao Hansheng, hoping that his father could help her arrange a job in the county so that she could live a better life.
Unexpectedly, Liao Hansheng directly rejected his daughter's request at that time. He said to Liao Chunlian: "What's wrong with doing construction in the rural areas, because there are so many people like you in the rural areas, do you have to arrange for work? You can't enjoy special care just because you are my daughter." ＂
Hearing his father's words, Liao Chunlian was heartbroken, cried and turned away. Since then, she has never taken the initiative to find her father, and rarely mentions that she is Liao Hansheng's daughter in front of outsiders.
In this way, the relationship between father and daughter has always been very rusty. Liao Chunlian put all his hopes and dependence on himself, and relied on his diligence and tenacity to finally get through the most difficult period of his life. She used her independent life to interpret the indomitable nature of an ordinary peasant woman.
Father and daughter reunited
One day in June 1979, Liao Hansheng, who had retired from the army, returned to his hometown of Sangzhi County, Hunan Province, after a long absence. This time he came back for two things, one was to sweep the grave of his late wife Xiao Gengen, and the other was to do a rural survey by the way.
As the founding lieutenant general, Liao Hansheng is a household name in Sangzhi County. As soon as they heard that he was coming back, the local government made enough preparations. They mobilized manpower to flatten the dirt road leading to Liaojia Village, and also set up a small square at the entrance of the village to serve as a place to receive Liao Hansheng.
Liao Hansheng arrived as scheduled at noon. When he saw the enthusiastic villagers waiting at the entrance of the village in the scorching heat, the old man burst into tears. Accompanied by village cadres, he first went to sweep his wife's grave, and then visited some poor households and the families of martyrs.
When it was lunch time, the village cadres wanted to invite Liao Hansheng to the village chief's house for dinner. Unexpectedly, Liao Hansheng waved his hand and said, "You don't need to go to the village chief's house, let's go to Dongtou Wang's house for dinner." ＂
"That's not good, General. The village cadres looked at each other, unable to understand why Liao Hansheng was a guest at a stranger's house.
"What's wrong with going to the people's homes for a meal? Our party cadres just want to mingle with the masses. Liao Hansheng explained with a smile.
So, the group came to the door of Wang's house in this way. However, the local woman, Wang, did not show Liao Hansheng as much respect as other villagers. Not only is she not called "General Liao", but even the most basic hospitality is very ordinary.
At first, Wang was served a plate of beans and pickles. Seeing such a simple dish, the village cadres who accompanied them were a little unhappy, and they began to reprimand Wang: "Do you know who this is? He is General Liao Hansheng, the founding lieutenant general of the People's Republic of China, why are you so rude to the general?"
Seeing this, Liao Hansheng hurriedly stopped the reprimand of the village cadres, and he said with a smile: "It's okay, it's good." ＂
If it's just soy beans and pickles, Liao Hansheng doesn't mind much. But when the Wang family served the last dish, Liao Hansheng's face suddenly became gloomy, and he scolded loudly: "You shouldn't entertain me with this!"
It turned out that what Wang brought was an old hen that had been stewed for a long time. In those days, the old hen was the "little treasury" of the rural people, and it could be exchanged for money at any time, so how could it be stewed and eaten?
Just when everyone was confused, Wang suddenly shouted: "Dad!" This dad stunned everyone present.
A closer look reveals that this woman, who is called the "daughter-in-law of the Wang family," is actually Liao Chunlian, the daughter of Liao Hansheng! A father and daughter who have not seen each other for many years are actually reunited on such an embarrassing occasion.
It turned out that Liao Chunlian was entrusted by his parents to relatives to raise him since he was a child, and he didn't see his father Liao Hansheng for the first time until he was 20 years old. Later, she married a peasant from the same village and lived an ordinary peasant woman's life.
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Due to various reasons, Liao Chunlian's relationship with his father has always been very rusty. In this reunion, she deliberately put on a cold face towards her father to repay her previous grievances. However, when she saw her gray-haired old father, she couldn't bear to treat her like this. So, Liao Chunlian secretly stewed the only remaining egg-laying old hen in the family to entertain his father who had been reunited after a long absence. After a "Dad", the father and daughter finally regained their affection, and Liao Hansheng hugged his daughter tightly in his arms.