In 1985, Liang Xingchu died in Beijing due to a sudden heart attack, and his former comrades-in-arms came to see him off. Ren Guilan, who lost her husband, was devastated at this time, immersed in the sadness of her husband's death. Suddenly, one day she remembered her husband's unfulfilled wish, and she was determined to help him fulfill his wish in order to make up for his regrets in this life.
Ren Guilan, who had perked up from her grief, began to comb through some of the information left by her husband before his death, after which she found the organization and made her only request. The central authorities attached great importance to this incident and immediately issued instructions: Agree! In the following ten years, Ren Guilan tirelessly followed the footsteps of her husband throughout half of China, just to fulfill her husband's wish before she died.
So what exactly is the husband's wish? What was her only request? Why did the Central Committee immediately agree to her request?
Ren Guilan (middle)
Talking about her husband Liang Xingchu, Ren Guilan's face was full of smiles, and her eyes could not help but reveal a trace of admiration and admiration. The acquaintance between the two stemmed from the fact that at the end of 1948, the Northeast Military Region held a work conference, and all the chiefs of staff had to attend the meeting on time, and In addition, Liu Yalou, chief of the general staff of the military region, specially emphasized that Liang Xingchu must attend this meeting.
Because in the Liaoshen Campaign, the army led by Liang Xingchu brilliantly completed the tasks arranged by his superiors, and also captured many new weapons, and captured many enemy officers alive, making meritorious achievements. The meeting asked Liang Xingchu to attend and speak, so that other colleagues could learn from him about their combat experience. At the meeting, someone asked: "The tenth column is named 'Montenegrin troops', do you know?" ”
Liang Xingchu was stunned and then said, "I don't know about this, if the superior has ordered it down, I agree with this name, if I were to seek our opinion, then I would definitely not agree." After his speech, he moved the Tenth Column to a town to the north, where the troops rested for a month before setting out.
Liang Xingchu (first from left)
In the process of resting, he felt incomparably relaxed, in the past battles he had been afraid that he had not slept a good night' sleep, and now he could finally sleep for a few days and nights, after sleeping for three consecutive days, Liang Xingchu suddenly felt an empty, unspeakable feeling in his heart.
He lay on the bed and began to reminisce about the past, fierce battles, dazzling artillery fire and a beautiful girl, suddenly he realized that this girl had been in his heart for a long time, he seemed to be in love with her, this woman was no one else, it was Ren Guilan. After repeatedly confirming his inner thoughts, he decided to go to the 28th Division to meet this long-missed girl.
Liang Xingchu and Ren Guilan had met before they had been in the 28th Division's garrison. The first time was when Liang Xingchu, after leading the Tenth Column to liaoxi, went to a work meeting and met the minister of health leading a group of medical personnel standing outside, catching the temperature plummeting that day and the cold wind blowing.
Liang Xingchu glanced at the woman in the crowd wearing thin clothes and tightening her body, and he felt very distressed, so he said to the guard: "Go and find a coat for her to put on." Liang Xingchu put on the cotton coat she found and left in a hurry, and many years later Ren Guilan recalled that she thought that the only person who gave her the coat was an enthusiastic administrator.
The second time the two met was on the day of the Black Mountain Blockade Battle, when Liang Xingchu was on his way from the artillery position to the command camp when he encountered the health soldiers who were transferring the wounded. Because of the cold weather, the wounded warriors felt cold, and a seriously wounded warrior kept moaning: "Cold, cold" as he moved to the rear.
At this time, a female soldier appeared, she stopped the stretcher, only to see her wrap a red brick with a cotton cloth that burned red, and then put it at the feet of the seriously wounded soldier, and cover the soldier with a futon, and asked with concern: "Is there any warm point?" The warrior nodded excitedly in affirmation. Liang Xingchu, who passed by, saw that there were such warm and considerate workers in the medical department, and he was very relieved, and he recognized this female soldier as the hygienist who was shivering in the cold in the army.
Nurse stills
He was very happy in his heart, she had been trained into an excellent female soldier, not afraid of difficulties, able to solve problems in time, even in the front line can work diligently. So he walked forward and said, "Your method is very good" Because there are too many wounded, Ren Guilan is busy with the work at hand and did not hear Liang Xingchu's words, so he did not give an answer.
At this time, the guard standing on the side could not look at it anymore, and said to the female soldier: "Comrade, we Commander Liang are talking to you, why don't you answer?" The female soldier reacted and said sincerely: "Commander Liang, I was just busy with work and didn't hear you talk, I'm sorry" Then Liang Xingchu asked: "What is your name, the work is very good, it is worthy of praise."
"Report Commander Liang, my name is Ren Guilan, this is what I should do." After a few words of greeting, the two were busy with their work. It is this kind of contact and chat that makes Liang Xingchu have a spark of love for Ren Guilan. Due to the tension of the previous war, Liang Xingchu did not have time to think about these things, until he was idle, he knew that this female soldier had taken deep roots in his heart.
Liang Xingchu and Ren Guilan
Liang Xingchu, who came to the Twenty-eighth Division, looked for Ren Guilan's figure in the Ministry of Health, and he went straight to the conference room but found that the Ministry of Health was holding a meeting at this moment, and Liang Xingchu, who was standing outside the window, listened to the speech in the room:
"At the moment of emergency of the war, the rear medical team resolutely and resolutely joined our column, and threw herself into the rescue work without rest, especially the health team of the Twenty-eighth Regiment was bombed, and when the rescue capacity was short, Comrade Ren Guilan took the initiative to apply to the organization to go to the most needed place on the front line, and her spirit is worth learning from all of us!"
Liang Xingchu could not help but applaud outside the window after he entered the conference room, the soldiers saluted him one after another, the commander arrived at the first meeting of the Ministry of Health, naturally indispensable to speak, he said: "In the Montenegro blockade battle, there were many heroes in our column, among which Comrade Ren Guilan is an excellent soldier, I hope that everyone will learn from her and become an excellent female soldier, a heroine!" ”
Liang Xingchu
After that, Liang Xingchu always ran to the Twenty-eighth Division, the weather was cold and the wind and sand were severe, he had an eye disease, and Zhou Chiping, the political commissar who saw the beginning, took the initiative to go to the Ministry of Health to transfer Ren Guilan to the health team of the column headquarters, specifically responsible for treating Liang Xingchu's eye disease. In this way, in the treatment of two days, I got to know each other a lot, Liang Xingchu took the initiative to tell his origins, he studied the blacksmith craft with a teacher in the blacksmith shop for three years before joining the army, but he was scolded during the apprenticeship.
He felt that this should not be the case in his life, so he chose to join the army and devote himself to the cause of revolution. At this time, Ren Guilan felt that the former Commander Liang had become much kinder, and she talked about her own life, she had fled to Harbin with her parents, her parents had also opened a shop in business, but later because of the death of her father, the family fell, and the mother and daughter had to choose to join the army in order to maintain their livelihood, and then she was assigned to the Ministry of Health to study.
After a period of getting along, Liang Xingchu decided to express his intentions to Ren Guilan: "Comrade Xiao Ren, in getting along, I feel that the two of us are quite suitable, so it is better for us to establish revolutionary feelings." At this time, Ren Guilan did not know what revolutionary feelings were, she only knew that her impression of Liang Xingchu was very good, she thought that revolutionary feelings were a meaning of revolutionary comrades, so she nodded shyly.
Liang Xingchu and Ren Guilan
Ren Guilan, who was confused, returned to the Ministry of Health and met the squad leader on the way back to the dormitory, and the two had a good relationship, so she asked: "Squad leader, what is the revolutionary feeling?" The squad leader covered his mouth and smiled and said, "Who wants to establish revolutionary feelings with you, people are in love with you." Hearing such an answer, Ren Guilan was shocked and immediately blushed, and she immediately blushed at the thought of how cheerful she had promised at that time.
After the relationship between the two developed steadily for a while, after the political commissar Zhou Chiping learned about the progress of their relationship, he suggested that liang Xingchu and Ren Guilan's relationship be further advanced, because the war was urgent and they were about to enter Shanhaiguan. Finally, in September 1949, under the approval of the director of the corps, the two were successfully married and married as a revolutionary couple.
After marriage, the two have never been separated, and the husband and wife have a harmonious relationship. In 1973, Liang Xingchu was transferred to Taiyuan, Shanxi, by his superiors to work in a chemical plant more than 30 kilometers from the countryside. This hero, who has been fighting for half his life, has long been indifferent to the level of position and fame, he feels that as long as he serves the people, he is very satisfied with a solid job.
After Liang Xingchu was transferred to work in the chemical plant, the husband and wife, who had never been separated, maintained the exchange of letters. Liang Xingchu got along well with his colleagues in the factory, although the job position was not high, he insisted on doing his job diligently and sincerely, never slackened, and won the trust of colleagues with his cheerful personality, but at this time he was more than sixty years old.
Because he was injured many times in the war years when he led the soldiers to fight, so the physical condition was not very good, Ren Guilan also knew her husband's physical condition, she applied to the organization to liang Xingchu's side, the application was quickly approved, she happily took her son to Taiyuan, Shanxi to see her long-missed husband, she took care of her husband, while working at the grassroots level, it was very hard.
With the passage of time, Liang Xingchu has become well known in the basic factory, and colleagues sometimes greet him and greet him affectionately as "Old Man Liang", or "Uncle Liang". No matter what others called him, he responded enthusiastically, so he got along very well with his colleagues, and did not put himself on the line because he had led soldiers to fight as a commander.
Portrait of Liang Xingchu
Ren Guilan once been a medical staff in the medical department in the army, and now in the grassroots also often see patients, do their best to help the masses solve the problem, when encountered because of the inconvenience of legs and feet can not come to see the patient number, she carried the medicine box to the door to see the doctor, whether day or night, as long as there are patients, she has everything. During the years of working at the grassroots level, the two forged a deep friendship with the local masses, and until they later returned to Beijing, they often received greetings from them.
In 1980, the Beijing Military Region informed Liang Xingchu's family to move to live in the guest house, and soon after Liang Xingchu finally waited for his superiors to correctly and affirm his evaluation, and his treatment should be handled according to the main post of the military region, and Liang Xingchu was assigned to the work of a consultant of the Jinan Military Region or the Shenyang Military Region.
During the discussion, Liang Xingchu refused, explaining: "I have only fought in battles, and I can't do the work of consultants." After much deliberation, he decided not to embarrass the leader for his work, so he decided to leave. He reflected to the higher-level organizations that in order to cultivate young comrades and leave them more opportunities, the organization did not consider his work distribution, he asked for a leave of absence, because he was unwell, and asked to settle down in Beijing to facilitate medical treatment.
Liang Xingchu (middle)
After the approval of the retirement report, Liang Xingchu felt that he finally had time to review his life, and he decided to sort out his life's experience and write a memoir, which was convenient for young people to leave in the future, which was regarded as a wealth for society. As a wife, Ren Guilan naturally supports her husband, and the two have a deep relationship from marriage to now, and they have hardly quarreled.
After retiring, the two temporarily lived in a small building of a guest house in Baishiqiao, Beijing, and later moved to the newly built dry rest house. Liang Xingchu himself told his wife about his two current wishes, the first was to hear his grandson call him a grandfather, and the second was to be able to move to a new home. However, liang Xingchu's two wishes had not yet been realized, and he died at the age of seventy-three because of the ineffectiveness of sudden heart attack rescue.
In the face of her husband's sudden death, Ren Guilan felt that her sky had collapsed, and she had been immersed in sadness, and she quickly thought of her husband's unfinished wish before he died, and the memoir of her husband's life had not yet been written, so she decided to complete his unfinished wish for her husband.
Photo of Liang Xingchu youth
Subsequently, Ren Guilan made his own small request to the central government, hoping to write down her husband's life, and the central government immediately issued a directive: "Agree!" Liang Xingchu spent half his life fighting for the revolutionary cause, suffered a total of 9 injuries in the war, and he never complained about half a point. When Ren Guilan learned that the organization had approved her request, she shed tears of joy and excitement.
The Central Military Commission found all the materials and archives before Liang Xingchu's death, and then quickly completed the first draft in combination with military history, and successfully issued it after review by the headquarters. Ren Guilan considered that her husband's old acquaintances before his death might gradually become older and forget some deeds, so in order to find more accurate and detailed information, she began to follow in her husband's footsteps from 1987, traveled to all the places he had visited before his death, and interviewed people who knew her husband.
After more than ten years of preparation, she finally wrote out her husband's memoir of his life, which is not only a memoir, but also a wife's thoughts about her husband, and an affirmation of her husband's life! It also reflects Ren Guilan's sense of responsibility as a revolutionary soldier and her admiration and admiration for her husband Liang Xingchu, she wants her husband's life not to be forgotten by future generations, and at the same time let us know how difficult it was for people who fought for the revolutionary cause in those years, and cherish the present!