In 2019, Taiwanese veteran Deng Xuegui made a phone call to mainland nephew Deng Youai.
"Is it friendship? I want to go back to Changning . I have no money now. Are you still willing to support me?" old man asked carefully.
Deng YouaiI was very happy when I heard that it was my uncle's voice. He remembered that my uncle said that his family was not in good condition and did not want to come back, so he talked about the situation in his hometown on the phone .
But before he could think about it, Deng Xuegui misunderstood the other party's meaning, and he was both sad and sad at this time.
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"You don't have to be nervous, to be honest, I can die more comfortably when I go back!"
"Uncle, you misunderstood, I will definitely pick you up!"
Deng Xuegui, as a Taiwanese veteran, what happened to him? Why did he ask for help from his nephew at the age of 96?
And Deng Youai is just Deng Xuegui's nephew. He does not have any support obligations . Why did Deng Youai agree at once?
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月1 Deng Xuegui was born in a rural family in Changning, Hunan. When he was older, his family had younger brothers and sisters, which made the already poor family worse.
Deng Xuegui was already an adult at that time. He knew that he could not add burden to his family, and that his younger brothers and sisters could not give it to others, and he could not starve to death. So he decided to leave his hometown and embark on the road to joining the army.
And the Kuomintang army was recruiting soldiers in the village, Deng Xuegui resolutely signed up, so Deng Xuegui joined the Kuomintang for the same reason as many young people at that time.
After Deng Xuegui went to the army, he not only had monthly payments, but also had enough food. He occasionally sent some money to his family to report his safety, while his mother always missed him.
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1947, 4-year-old Deng Xuegui followed the Kuomintang army by Changning , and he was able to return to his hometown to take a look at his parents and family.
However, the situation of the war is complicated and unpredictable. Although Deng Xuegui survived by chance, he could no longer meet with his family.
At the end of the War of Liberation, the Kuomintang was defeated, and about 500,000 Kuomintang troops were transferred to Taiwan one after another, and Deng Xuegui also followed the army to enter Taiwan , and no news has ever been heard from now on.
"Grandma has been waiting for her uncle to come back. We all think that her uncle passed away in the war, but only her grandmother firmly believes that he is alive."
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Deng's mother would sit next to the path at the entrance of the village every day waiting for Deng Xuegui to come back, and her family had advised her.
"Xuegui hasn't come back for so long, I'm afraid it's been long since..."
"Don't curse Xuegui, he will definitely come back. I'll wait for him here, and he will come back one day!"
Every time Deng's mother heard someone say that Deng Xuegui died, she was always very angry to argue with others.
Deng Xuegui's younger brother and sister have their own families, and every time Deng's mother sees her family happy scenes, she feels very uncomfortable.
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"Xuegui, your younger brother and sister have started a family and started a business. Are you married outside and not coming back?"
The old and weak Deng's mother cried every day, and even cried blindly in her eyes. Forty years have passed, and Deng Xuegui still has not come back, and there is no news.
1987, Deng's mother left the world with regrets, but the grief shrouded in this family still did not dissipate.
It was also in this year that cross-strait relations improved. At the end of 1987, Taiwan allowed people to return to the mainland to visit relatives .
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, and Deng Xuegui's younger brother and sister have been asking about him, until 1988, when they finally learned that Deng Xuegui followed the Kuomintang to Taiwan .
They were ecstatic after they learned the news.
"Mom is right, my brother is really not dead!"
"Returning to his hometown"
Deng Xuegui is not a good life in Taiwan . He could still live in the army when he was young. When he was old, he could only find a place to settle down.
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He and more than 20 veterans from Changning lived in Taoyuan City, Taiwan Province.
The environment there is similar to Chang Ning, but the dialect is very special. Deng Xuegui can't understand it very much, and those locals don't welcome them, such as foreigners, .
Although Deng Xuegui can not receive much subsidy, luckily, can help each other with his comrades, so life can barely go through .
In 1987, after Deng Xuegui received the news that he could go back to his hometown to visit his relatives, he was very excited and signed up to participate in the activity of returning to his hometown to visit his relatives as soon as possible.
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but unexpectedly, it was still one step late, Deng Xuegui did not catch up with the first activity , and this also made him miss the last chance to see his mother.
When some fellow villagers come back to visit their relatives one after another, Deng Xuegui got news about their hometown from them. Although there were only a few words, he was already very happy.
At the same time, a fellow villager also brought back a letter to Deng Xuegui, , and this letter was exactly the written to him by his younger brother.
letter describes some family situations. brother said that both the brother and sister are living well, and each has a family, and the mother is waiting for him to come back.
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Deng Xuegui thought to himself that his old mother was already in her eighties at this time. If he didn't hurry back, he might not be able to see his old mother.
But what Deng Xuegui didn't know was that his mother had already passed away at this time . In order to get him back to his hometown earlier, his younger brother lied that his mother was still alive and had been waiting for him, hoping to meet him.
So, Deng Xuegui hurriedly submitted an application for returning home, but this application was not easy to handle. comrades accompanied him around the city and it took him a month to get the application for .
The transportation equipment at that time was not as advanced as it is now. He first took a boat to the mainland, and then took a plane, train and bus several times.
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Although Deng Xuegui is very tired, , when he thinks that his old mother is still waiting for him, he immediately comes to mind , and he looks forward to seeing his mother.
When Deng Xuegui returned to his hometown, he realized that his mother had passed away.
Deng Xuegui was very angry and blamed them for lying to himself. However, Deng Xuegui was actually himself even more blamed. He could have come back one year early, but he was only one step late, and he never saw his mother again.
Deng Xuegui knew that his mother had been waiting for him for forty years and was heartbroken, so he held his mother's photo and knelt in front of her grave and cried.
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"Mom! My son is back late, I'm back too late!"
But people cannot be resurrected. Now, He can only go to the grave every day to see his mother .
After Deng Xuegui worshipped his mother, his family took him around his hometown.
At that time, some rural areas in mainland China were not well developed, not as good as Taiwan, , and Deng Xuegui also found that Changning's primary school was very dilapidated, and the children often had no food and clothing or were not warm, so he took out some money to repair the school .
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Later, he knew that the villagers were not living well, so he went to send money one by one.
Deng Xuegui was even more willing to spend a lot of money on his family. He took out the money to build a house for his three nephews , and also gave them a red envelope.
Deng Xuegui was like a rich man returning home in glory at this time, and was welcomed and loved by everyone. When he left, many villagers came to see him off.
They sent Deng Xuegui to Hengyang , looking for a car, setting off firecrackers, and beating drums.
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When Deng Xuegui left, his nephew repeatedly tried to keep . He hoped that Deng Xuegui would stay and the younger generation would give him a care for his old age and see him off.
"Uncle dislikes the dry toilet here, the sanitary conditions are not good, it is much better in Taiwan, and his hometown is in the countryside, with many mosquitoes, so he doesn't want to stay."
Deng Xuegui doesn't dislike the bad conditions in his hometown, If his old mother is still there, he will definitely be willing to stay . Now his mother is gone.
He misses his comrades who are still living in Taiwan. Some of them have no family at all, and he wants to go back and accompany these comrades.
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Seeing Deng Xuegui leaving, the family no longer tried to keep him. They only hoped that Deng Xuegui could live a better life in Taiwan.
However, Deng Xuegui did not live a wealthy life. After returning to Taiwan, he worked hard to earn money and saved money. With the expenses of living, all the remaining money was sent back to his hometown .
He has returned to his hometown four times, and he will bring money and food to his family every time, and never treats his family unfairly.
With the development of the times, the cost of living has gradually increased, and Deng Xuegui has become increasingly unable to do so. He started to have no money to send it back, and the news from his family has also been cut off.
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"Uncle's monthly salary is only a few dozen yuan, and his comrades have passed away one after another."
Deng Xuegui used to be able to sit with his comrades to play chess, drink tea, and chat, but now he is the only one left here .
This gray-haired old man sat at the head of the bed and told his miserable old age.
Nowadays, There is only him in Taoyuan City, . His life is very difficult, his legs, feet and eyes are particularly bad, and he is about to be unable to survive.
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019, Deng Xuegui was 96 years old and could not live on his own. Then he called his nephew Deng Youai, hoping that the other party could pick him up.
Deng Youai remembered that his uncle said that his family was in poor condition and did not want to come back, so he talked about the situation at home on the phone.
"The conditions at home may not be as good as those in Taiwan now."
Unexpectedly, Deng Xuegui misunderstood , and the beginning scene appeared.
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Deng Youai promised him that after he arranged the family affairs, he would immediately go to Taiwan to take him back.
"Uncle, don't worry, I'll go to Taiwan in a few days to pick you up. I'll give you my old age and see you off."
How good Deng Xuegui was to them, Deng Youai had to repay him one by one. He didn't just say it.
After Deng Youai took Deng Xuegui home, he was still afraid that Deng Xuegui would not be used to living in his hometown, and the children in the village liked to make trouble again. Therefore, Deng Youai built a new house and installed an air conditioner, a TV and a refrigerator .
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He always remembered that the old man loved to clean, so he changed the barn to a toilet, and he quit his job and took care of Deng Xuegui at home.
The orphans left behind in the era
Not all Taiwanese veterans are willing to join the Kuomintang’s . Some of them are beggars and orphans, without fathers orphans. The Kuomintang needs to absorb "fresh blood", so they kidnapped the half-old child on the roadside.
If they really can't catch the "strong men", they will go to various local households to find male men of the right age. If does not follow the Kuomintang, they will shoot and kill their family members .
Someone just got married and was arrested by the Kuomintang to join the army . When he returned to his hometown again, his wife had remarried.
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and these soldiers did not voluntarily leave the mainland and go to Taiwan . They had no idea what was going on. They were confused and followed the Kuomintang army on a steamer.
Deng Xuegui was lucky to have his nephew supported him in his later years than many other veterans in Taiwan.
Most of these soldiers stayed in the army when they were young. They had never had contact with the outside world and could not learn any skills to make a living.
Therefore, once they are old or sick, the army will only give some money and clothes to send them away. , let them fend for themselves, and, they are not allowed to contact their families, let alone return to their hometown.
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As they get older, they will gradually become "marginal people" in society. has even fallen to the point of becoming beggars . How ridiculous and sad.
Although the Kuomintang called these veterans "Veterans", it did not introduce any policies to support them. Instead, in order to reduce social pressure, they asked them to work on construction sites.
Because they are not familiar with Taiwanese dialects, they cannot find a job locally. These "famous people" can only respond to the government's call so that they can survive.
Some people were even sent to places with extremely harsh environments to build roads. Hundreds of veterans did not die on the battlefield, but died in the wilderness . What an irony.
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In addition, soldiers like Deng Xuegui cannot get married.
The absurd policies formulated by the Kuomintang, does not allow them to obtain their ID cards and do not have a household registration , in order to tell them that the Kuomintang will one day be able to counterattack the mainland.
When they can get married, they are already old and weak. In order not to delay others, they have to choose not to marry for life. Those who want to get married and continue their family can only marry some women with disabilities or dementia.
How can this be called kindness?
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Chiang Kai-shek Later, three no policies were introduced: no contact, no negotiation, and no compromise. After the improvement of cross-strait relations, Taiwan still does not allow private letters and communications between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Until later, public opinion began to intensify , and some veterans took to the streets to protest, unanimously demanding to "return to their mother's arms", and many people also spoke for these veterans.
The Taiwan government then began to "relax" and allowed veterans to return to the mainland to visit relatives one after another.
However, there are too many people who have died in for various reasons in , and even a few of their ashes can return to their hometown.
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Some veterans can no longer find their family after leaving the mainland . When their parents passed away, perhaps no one still remembered his existence.
Cross-strait relations are a national event and are also the hope that these elderly people who have left their hometown can return to their hometown and return to their roots.
They are orphans left by the times, and their bodies are like flies.
Nowadays, most veterans far away in Taiwan have either returned to their hometowns or turned into dust and smoke to return to their hometowns.
