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1985, Zhuang Xinmin , then a department-level cadre in Shanghai, came to the Yimeng Mountains of Shandong again, which was where he fought when he was young.
But when he came here, he did not recall the pride of the glorious years. Instead, he walked into a small farmyard and knelt in front of a peasant woman with bright hair and cried bitterly.
Zhuang Xinmin said: "Mom, mom, my son is back to see you! Thank you, mom..." gestured in his hand to express his meaning, because the gray-haired old man was a deaf and mute.
cried so hard that he couldn't help himself Zhuang Xinmin knew in his heart that if there was no "mother" far away in Shandong, then he would not be his today.
Therefore, even if he is now in a high position, he will often mention his "father and mother" in Shandong with his family and friends. has repeatedly reminded his children and grandchildren that they will not forget that they have family in Shandong in the future.
As a department-level cadre in Shanghai, how could Zhuang Xinmin have a poor mother in Shandong? Since I have always been thinking about this mother so much, why not take her to Shanghai to enjoy her happiness?
I'm looking for my parents!
Since 1949, in the next five or six years, relevant units in the old revolutionary base in Shandong Province have always received letters from a person named Zhuang Xinmin in Shanghai. The letter said that he wanted to find his "paternity" in Shandong, and his reborn parents who saved his life during the War of Resistance Against Japan.
The writer said that he had served as the Eighth Route Army in the Yimeng area of Shandong Province. was unfortunately left alone during a mission and was pursued by the Japanese devils and was seriously injured. But fortunately, when he arrived at a small farmhouse, he met a villager with a child and saved him.
The peasant woman was deaf and mute, but she knew the righteousness and ignored the threat of the Japanese. She saved Zhuang Xinmin with milk when his life was in danger. and now New China has been established . He is fortunate to live until the day of victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, so he wants to find this couple who once saved his life. That is, the "father and mother" who saved his life!
More than that, Jinan Military Region Zhuang Xinmin's former comrade-in-arms also received the same letter from him, hoping to help find the person who saved him. However, in the first two or three years, these letters from Zhuang Xinmin did not receive attention.
Because there are too many incidents of searching for people and relatives after the war, the relevant departments cannot take into account so many letters while doing a good job in post-war recovery.
Two or three years later, the situation gradually stabilized, and the work of finding people and relatives was taken seriously. Because Zhuang Xinmin wrote letters for a long time, the incident was clear and complete, and the language and emotions in the letter became more and more earnest, this situation was taken seriously by the relevant departments of the local government.
After verification by relevant units, the Zhuang Xinmin, who wrote the letter, did serve as the Eighth Route Army in the Yimeng area, and now he works at the Shanghai Military Control Commission with Commander Chen Yi and .
With the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhuang Xinmin witnessed an increasingly prosperous country and felt that without the help of that couple, he would not have the life he has today. So Zhuang Xinmin wants to repay the couple with a firmer heart.
The staff in the Yimeng area were moved by Zhuang Xinmin's persistent spirit of repaying kindness, so they had letter exchanges with Zhuang Xinmin many times over the years, gradually completing most of the information at that time.
Local staff learned that the couple had hid him in an empty grave to take care of him. Combined with the woman mentioned in the previous letter, they were deaf and mute, so they slowly connected the information they had. The person in charge of
also referred to the Eighth Route Army march route and the location of the villages swept by the Japanese devils, and gradually investigated and narrowed the scope. finally locked on Mingdeying and Li Kaitian and his wife in Henghe Village, Mamuchi Township, Yinan County, Shandong Province.
After verifying with Ming Deying and his wife, they found that they had indeed saved such a soldier. Finally, Zhuang Xinmin contacted his savior.
Zhuang Xinmin, who is far away in Shanghai, was very excited after receiving a reply from the Yimeng area. However, because it was a critical period of national construction, no matter how much he missed his life-savior in Shandong, he could not leave his work and go to Shandong to visit.
In desperation, Zhuang Xinmin had to send letters and gifts to his benefactor through the address attached to the letter, and expressed his desire to receive his benefactor in Shanghai for retirement.
956, the autumn of 1956 could not withstand Zhuang Xinmin's warm invitation, and considering that Ming Deying was sick and weak, Li Kaitian came to Shanghai alone.
Zhuang Xinmin was very excited when he learned the news and asked his superiors for leave to pick up his "father" home. The leader knew that Zhuang Xinmin had finally found a savior from Shandong, so he immediately approved his leave.
General Chen Yi also said happily when he heard this:
"We cannot forget the grace of the people for raising them. I want to visit him with you."
So Zhuang Xinmin successfully asked for leave to take Li Kaitian home and took good care of him. Li Kaitian's time in Shanghai, from going out to going out to small clothes and eating, everything was arranged by Zhuang Xinmin himself, and everything was carefully arranged.
However, a few days later, Li Kaitian proposed to go home because he couldn't let go of the sick Ming Deying and the work of autumn harvest at home.
Although Zhuang Xinmin was regretful, he knew that he could not force himself to stay, and his "mother" in Shandong was still sick. So he borrowed a thousand yuan from his colleagues to ask Li Kaitian to take it back, saying that these are all for their elders.
How could the simple Li Kaitian accept these? After a few refusals, he barely accepted 300 yuan and some nourishing nutrients for the body, which brought Ming Deying to the body.
For the following years, Zhuang Xinmin never forgot his "paternity" in Shandong and often sends letters and gifts. Ming Deying watched her husband convey Zhuang Xinmin's gratitude and received the letters and gifts sent one after another. She often remembered her bumpy but worthy first half of her life.
The furnace is in the fire, and the red light is released. I boil chicken soup for my relatives...
911 was a memorable year for the history of the Chinese nation, because that year the Revolution of 1911 broke out. But at that time, the land of China had already suffered a lot, and more were people living in dire straits. They could not withdraw from their miserable life to pay attention to these major events. It was in such a year that Ming Deying was born in a poor farmer's family in Yinan County, Shandong Province.
The birth of a newborn did not bring more joy to the family that was almost unsustainable. The fate was still difficult for the miserable people, which made Ming Deying fall seriously ill when he was young. Because it did not receive timely and effective treatment, although Ming Deying barely saved his life, he also suffered from the root of lifelong deafness and dumbness.
Although there has been enough suffering, Ming Deying never gave up on himself, but has been working hard to live actively and optimistically. In his twenties, he came to Henghe Village, Mamuchi Township and married Li Kaitian with the help of the villagers.
Although her husband is about ten years older, she is honest and willing to work hard. With the help of the villagers, Ming Deying and his wife also found a job as a gravekeeper, and they could live a few acres of thin fields. Just as the days of Ming Deying's family gradually got better, a more cruel war came quietly.
Since the spring of 938, the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China's Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui Border Region has identified Yimeng Mountain District as an anti-Japanese base. More than ten years since then, people in the Yimeng Mountain District have begun to survive in the cracks of war. It was under this situation that Ming Deying witnessed the brutal behavior of the Japanese invaders with his own eyes and knew that The Communist Party The Eighth Route Army insisted on the revolutionary will of the War of Resistance. Therefore, while working hard to make a living, we have made every effort to help the comrades in the anti-Japanese team.
Just as the spring of 11943, the Yimeng Mountains encountered a large-scale sweep by Japanese invaders. At that time, Zhuang Xinmin, who was just a teenager, was already a caretaker of Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army. He was separated from the team while covering the wounded to break through and move. Unfortunately, he was discovered by the Japanese invaders and was chased.
In the endless pursuit, Zhuang Xinmin passed by the bullet several times, and had tried his best to avoid it, but unfortunately he was shot. When he ran to a cemetery, Zhuang Xinmin couldn't hold on and fainted. It happened that this was the cemetery guarded by Ming Deying and his wife.
Ming Deying and his wife, who had finished farm work, saw Zhuang Xinmin who had just fallen to the ground on the way home. Looking at Zhuang Xinmin's clothes and injuries, they realized that there must be pursuers nearby.
So he made a quick decision, and the couple worked together to carry Zhuang Xinmin into a hidden empty tomb. At that time, Zhuang Xinmin's blood had already flowed all the way. Li Kaitian went out to hide his traces and wanted to find some herbs to treat Zhuang Xinmin's injuries.
Leave Ming Deying to take care of Zhuang Xinmin. Ming Deying was anxious when he looked at Zhuang Xinmin who was still twitching in pain in a coma, but there was no water or food in the empty grave.
Ming Deying was quick to get wise, remembering that he was still in breastfeeding . So she didn't care about anything else, untied her clothes and dripped her milk into Zhuang Xinmin's mouth, miraculously awakening him.
Zhuang Xinmin looked at the woman in front of him and called in a daze, "Mom, mom..." Zhuang Xinmin probably missed his mother and mistakenly recognized Ming Deying as his mother; may also think that Ming Deying saved herself with milk, so she is her mother.
But Ming Deying looked at the half-grown child in front of him, but felt a sense of sadness spread to her heart. He is obviously a child, so why did he suffer such sin when he was born at such a time!
Ming Deying and his wife may have been out of respect for the Eighth Route Army, perhaps it was compassion for a teenager seriously injured child, or perhaps it was mixed with the love of parents. No matter what, they took care of Zhuang Xinmin in particular.
Li Kaitian boils water for Zhuang Xinmin every day, picks herbs to help his wounds relieve inflammation and relieve pain, and Ming Deying cooks and boils soup for him every day.
In order to supplement nutrition for Zhuang Xinmin, he also killed the only two chickens in his family and stewed them into chicken soup for him to drink. Under the careful care of Ming Deying and Lee Kai-Tian, Zhuang Xinmin's injuries have basically healed for half a month and his complexion has improved a lot.
Zhuang Xinmin watched Ming Deying and his wife delayed their farm work in order to take care of themselves, and even killed the only two chickens in the family to supplement him with nutrition. He felt really sorry. Moreover, the Japanese invaders' storm continued in , so he had to return to the team quickly, and stayed there to be afraid of causing trouble for Ming Deying and his wife.
So Zhuang Xinmin said goodbye to Ming Deying and his wife. The two knew that Zhuang Xinmin was leaving and hurriedly tried to keep him, hoping that he could completely recover his injuries before leaving.
But Zhuang Xinmin was resolute and refused to add any burden to this family, let alone take the risk of letting the Japanese invaders hurt his kind and reborn parents.
Ming Deying looked at this "son" who had only been destined to be with him for less than a month. Apart from silently praying in his heart that he could be safe, he could not help him any more.
Perhaps Ming Deying's prayer had worked. After leaving, Zhuang Xinmin was not only safe and had a smooth career, but also kept thinking about her and Lee Kaitian.
"Mom, my son is here to see you!"
Before leaving, Zhuang Xinmin looked at the couple who sent him to the intersection and secretly made up his mind: I hope his kind parents can be safe and sound. If he can drive the Japanese devils out of China alive, he will definitely come back here to repay his "father and mother"! After leaving
, Zhuang Xinmin successfully found the team and continued to fight with thousands of soldiers, striving to drive the Japanese invaders out of China.
But then a civil war broke out, and Zhuang Xinmin participated in the Liberation War again, traveling to many places, completely losing contact with Ming Deying.
Until 1949, we achieved the final victory and ushered in the founding of New China! At this time, Zhuang Xinmin had already followed General Chen Yi to work at the Shanghai Military Control Commission. Unlike the lack of a stable place in the war, Zhuang Xinmin's life became stable. So he was even more concerned about his "paternity" in Shandong, and I wonder if he would have a chance to repay this life-saving grace.
So with a try-out mentality, Zhuang Xinmin began to try writing letters to relevant departments in Yimeng, Shandong and his comrades in Shandong. Hard work pays off, and Zhuang Xinmin really found his savior.
Since Zhuang Xinmin contacted Ming Deying and his wife in 1956, he has never stopped sending them letters and gifts.
Sometimes it is a variety of nutritional products, sometimes it is new clothes, and sometimes it is sent directly to the living expenses. No matter how much Ming Deying refused, Zhuang Xinmin never stopped these actions of repaying kindness.
What Zhuang Xinmin did not expect was that his actions of repaying his kindness saved him again. It was a few years later, and someone spread rumors and maliciously slandered him, saying that he had no contact with the organization for more than half a month when he was recuperating at Ming Deying's home, and he might have acted ill-behaving during this period.
When Zhuang Xinmin was questioned by the organization, he frankly told him about his injuries at Mingdeying's house and provided the address to the organization's Mingdeying's house, not afraid of the organization's investigation.
When the investigator sent by the organization came to Ming Deying's house, he explained his purpose to the couple. After hearing this, Li Kaitian quickly said that Zhuang Xinmin was indeed recovering from his injuries here during that period, and he has been thinking about them over the years and sent a lot of letters and gifts to his family.
Ming Deying was very worried when she knew about this and pulled the investigators to plead. was troubled by not being able to speak, so she could only gesture with her hands, and Li Kaitian was helping with the translation. The investigators saw that the couple had a sincere relationship and could show the letters and objects they had received in recent years.
Investigators were also moved by the simplicity of Ming Deying and his wife and Zhuang Xinmin's kindness. So after going back, he reported these things to his superiors truthfully. Zhuang Xinmin's innocence was proven, and Ming Deying and his wife saved him again.
Until 1985, the country developed well. Zhuang Xinmin also became idle in his work. After arranging his work, he hurried to Shandong to visit his savior.
, led by local staff, Zhuang Xinmin successfully arrived at the small courtyard where Ming Deying and his wife lived. Decades have passed, things have changed.
The once young woman has now become a twilight old man, but the outline of her facial features and the kindness in her eyes will not change with time. Zhuang Xinmin recognized the "mother" who had saved him at a glance.
Looking at the old man in the yard, Zhuang Xinmin knelt down excitedly, crying in the direction of Ming Deying "Mom, mom, my son is here to see you!" also gestured according to the previous communication method in memory, hoping that Ming Deying could understand his meaning.
Ming Deying looked at the excited person in front of her and then looked at the content of her husband's gestures. She remembered it! This person can indeed be said to be his son, the little soldier who drank her milk decades ago, and the son who has been sending money and goods to her for so many years.
Ming Deying gestured excitedly to express her gratitude, and tears also spilled out of the corners of her eyes. She was born at the wrong time and had a very ups and downs in her life.
But at this moment she felt happiness again, because the country is getting better and better, and her children are filial, and the "son" she saved in her early years has always been thinking about her.
At the same time, the Party and the country will never forget the people who have contributed to the founding of New China. Just like Ming Deying, although she was born in a difficult era, her life was bumpy when she was young. But in his later years, he not only received repaid and filial piety from Zhuang Xinmin, but also received the care of the government.
After learning about this moving past, the relevant departments of the local government began to help Ming Deying. provides Mingde with livelihood subsidies every month, and also helps her family repair their houses, and often visits them during festivals.
All these make Ming Deying's life much better, and this mute peasant woman who was unfortunate all her life finally tasted the sweetness of life in her later years.
995, 84-year-old Ming Deying came to the end of her life. She left quietly in her sleep. Although she died without success, she was still painless. This bumpy old man received the last kindness of fate.
Zhuang Xinmin, who received this news in Shanghai, couldn't accept it for a moment and cried bitterly. After several comforts, his family barely stabilized his emotions.
After learning that Ming Deying was leaving peacefully, Zhuang Xinmin finally slowly came over and set up a mourning hall for Ming Deying at home. He brought his descendants together to incense Ming Deying and gave the old man his last journey devoutly.
Although Ming Deying has passed away, she and the spirit of "Red Sister-in-law" represented by her will remain immortal! is as sang in the song "Yimeng Song": " Mengshan is high, Yishui long, the hearts of the military and civilians are looking to the Communist Party... The fire in the furnace, red light is emitted, I boil chicken soup for my relatives..."
When Ming Deying and his wife met Zhuang Xinmin, they stewed chicken soup to nourish their bodies. After healing, Zhuang Xinmin successfully found the team, followed the Communist Party's footsteps, and drove the Japanese invaders out of China with his brave and fearless comrades!
In 2009, Ming Deying was named "100 heroic and model figures who have made outstanding contributions to the founding of New China". allows us to relive the hardships and touching stories of the "red sisters-in-law" along the way in New China.
It has been decades since the Anti-Japanese War. There are fewer and fewer people who have experienced that history like Ming Deying, but we will never forget those people and those things.
Shandong's "Red Sister-in-law" spirit will be passed down forever, inspiring and touching generations of Chinese people!
