After the end of the counterattack against vietnamese self-defense, General Xu Shiyou moved into No. 8 Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing. Moving here was a deliberate decision by Xu Shiyou, and although he had not long ago shown great power on the battlefield, he also had to face the arrival of aging.
People are old, and they feel powerless everywhere when they work, so Xu Shiyou proposed to the central government that he would no longer work and would not go to Beijing. Guangzhou was originally a more suitable place for the elderly, but the climate was too humid, which made Xu Shiyou feel uncomfortable. Finally, Xu Shiyou came to Nanjing.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > retreat to the countryside</h1>
Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum No. 8 is a very secluded residence, the main body is a two-story small Western-style building, there are dozens of acres of yards outside, once left a lot of flowers and trees, although because of the lack of care and chaos, but after the renovation, the garden environment is very good. After Xu Shiyou entered the door, he was in a good mood and said to the guard: "This is a suitable place for my retirement." ”
The next day, Xu Shiyou made a big renovation of his garden, the first step was to remove the flowers, the past owner of Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum No. 8 walked in a delicate style, the flowers and grasses raised in the courtyard were quietly cultivated, but Xu Shiyou saw the headache, said that he could not raise these delicate things, he said: "I am from a farmer!" These flowers and grasses are not suitable for me to raise, and I think I am the most suitable for growing vegetables here. ”
As a result, the lawn in the courtyard was dug up, and Xu Shiyou and his staff planted a large amount of corn, sweet potatoes, wheat, radishes, sorghum in the yard... After planting these, there is still a large open space in the yard, Xu Shiyou changed it to a pig pen, dug up the pond where ornamental fish used to be raised, and changed it into a real fish pond.
Xu Shiyou is very satisfied, and now that he has a vegetable garden, a pigsty, and a fish pond, he can be at ease to become a "village chief" here. Then Xu Shiyou built a guard building next to the small western-style building, which is a very simple two-story concrete small building, of course, not as good as the small western-style building, but very practical. Xu Shiyou personally designed this guard building, which can overlook the entire garden from the bottom and the entire street from the top, and if there is a war, this small building can be used as a bunker immediately. Although he left the army, Xu Shiyou still maintained his military style.
Since then, Xu Shiyou has begun his own pastoral pension life, for Xu Shiyou, who has been busy for a lifetime, this is a leisurely holiday that he could not ask for in the past, and the staff around him did not have to deal with documents anymore, but picked up a hoe, and followed Xu Shiyou every day to plant a piece of land, Xu Shiyou was interested in dividing the territory for everyone, such as the guard managing the corn field, the secretary managing the sweet potato field... Xu Shiyou himself was in charge of more than a dozen rabbits, and he jokingly called himself "Rabbit Commander".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > harvest season</h1>
In the first autumn, Xu Shiyou's "small village" achieved a bumper harvest, and Xu Shiyou was very happy and began his new "work" - pickling pickles. Xu Shiyou purchased several large vats from the outside, washed and dried the collected green vegetables, neatly stacked them in the large vats, laid a layer of vegetables, a layer of onion and ginger salt oil, and then poured cooking wine, buckled a tight lid, wrapped a layer of plastic sheeting on the outside, and pasted with mud.
This pickle craft is Xu Shiyou when he was fighting in dabie Mountain with his fellow villagers to learn the "secret recipe", when he tried this taste, he kept the secret recipe in mind, but later busy, which has the kung fu to pickle pickles, now retired, there is also this leisure.
When the pickles opened the cylinder, Xu Shiyou shouted a large group of people, it was the Spring Festival, everyone used the vegetables in the vegetable garden and the pigs and fish raised by themselves to make a large table of good dishes, Xu Shiyou was excited to open the pickle jar in front of everyone, one person put a dish, the entrance tasted, crisp and refreshing, let people have endless memories, whether it is raw or stir-fried vegetables are delicious, Xu Shiyou while eating while telling everyone the stories of those battlefields, he pointed to the "successful experiment" of the pickle jar and smiled and said to everyone: I've won another big battle! ”
This pickle became Xu Shiyou's "signature dish", that year's Spring Festival, all of Xu Shiyou's acquaintances and friends received pickles from Xu Shiyou, Xu Shiyou had to be very proud to emphasize when entertaining others to try: "Try, this is my old Xu hand pickled pickles!" ”
After recuperation, Xu Shiyou's health was better than before, but after all, he was old and had to be carefully maintained. The doctor gave Xu Shiyou two requirements, the first is to exercise more, and the second is to quit drinking. Exercising Xu Shiyou is acceptable, but abstaining from alcohol is impossible, who does not know that Xu Shiyou's favorite is wine? Xu Shiyou said to the doctor, "I'd rather die than drink!" The doctor was very helpless, and could only persuade Xu Shiyou to drink less, and the staff around him also tried all kinds of ways to let Xu Shiyou drink less, but the old habits of these decades were not broken.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > people go to the empty building</h1>
Although Xu Shiyou's great cause of abstinence from alcohol has been closely watched by everyone, the results are still limited. Until 1985, Xu Shiyou felt that he had abdominal pain as soon as he drank, so he tried not to drink. However, after the examination, the doctor found that Xu Shiyou had suffered from liver cancer, which made everyone very panicked, and the doctor persuaded Xu Shiyou to go to the hospital for treatment and long-term recuperation.
But Xu Shiyou knew that his body had reached this step, and if he couldn't be cured, it didn't really mean much, and he told the doctor that he wouldn't go to the hospital, just nurse his illness at his own home. So the hospital had to let the doctors also move to No. 8 Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum and stare at Xu Shiyou's body every day.
Xu Shiyou himself is very optimistic, life, old age, illness and death, that is the law of nature, Xu Shiyou has fought for half a lifetime, experienced more life and death, these things are nothing to look away from. In the last days, Xu Shiyou still stayed comfortably in his small village, with his crops, and once he said to the doctor: "Unfortunately, I don't know if I can see the harvest next year." ”
In September of this year, Xu Shiyou suddenly fainted at home, and after being sent to the hospital, although the doctor wanted to save Xu Shiyou's life, but the return to heaven was lacking, and the general who had lived a lifelong life had reached the last moment of his life. Xu Shiyou was sometimes unconscious, sometimes awake, and everyone said a lot of words around him, but he couldn't hear them.
On October 22, 1985, Xu Shiyou died of illness in Nanjing, which was another harvest season, but Xu Shiyou's crops could not wait for the owner to return. People were reluctant to let him go, and in his lifetime, he made great contributions to the motherland, and the people remembered him. Perhaps thankfully, he was happy and content in the last journey of his life, and after he is gone, history will always remember him.