In August 1949, Wu Fushan, a political commissar of the 44th Army who had been away from home for 19 years, returned to his hometown with his wife. At this time, things and people in my hometown have already changed.
looked at the familiar fields and the familiar villages, and the old people who were once familiar passed away one after another, and most of the villages were juniors. When I arrived at the door of my house, I was still the familiar three main rooms, without any change. The only relatives living inside are the elder brother and sister-in-law who have been wasted by time.
Speaking of parents, perhaps Wu Fushan had regrets, because he had a revolution with leaving home in 1930 and "break up" with his family.
His old father is a migrant worker who travels around the world. He saved some savings and bought three ancestral homes that were once pawned, ending his wandering life. The family has a large population, and my father is getting older and can no longer support my family's life. My elder brother was sent to be an apprentice. After he became a teacher, he also traveled around the world to do something. My father hoped that Wu Fushan would also follow his elder brother's path.
There is no land at home, and even if you rent a land, you will not be able to make ends meet. You can work for the landlord all year round, which will not solve the problem of food and clothing in the future. To this end, my father arranged for him early on his life path, learned a decent skill, and settled down in the future, marry and have children.
Brother took him to a cloth shop to be an apprentice. After three years of apprenticeship, the boss will not let you learn at all. He will make you a servant more. If you don’t do things well, you will either beat or scold.
At this time, the spark of the Great Revolution spread here. He actively participated and had a certain revolutionary idea in his consciousness. After the April 12th Incident in 1927, their work was turned underground, and Wu Fushan became a party member.
Due to the battle between Jiang and Feng, this created conditions for the expansion of the Red Army . The surrounding areas of Ji'an have become the Red Soviet Area. The local armed forces in southwestern Jiangxi and the main forces of the Red Army launched an attack on Ji'an City.
Later, the troops entered the rest and the family sent him a message home. The 60-year-old father gave him a long talk, expressing that he was old and wanted to live a few days of stable and relaxed life. I was worried about your current appearance. The apprentice has not become a teacher, and he is not focused on finding a job. What will you do to support your family?
The young Wu Fushan said: Dad, I am also doing serious things, big things! His father roared: What a big deal! Be a serene person and be loyal to others. If you don’t study hard and do any exercise all day, it will affect the whole family.
In the environment at that time, revolution meant sacrifice, and after the April 12th incident, the brutality of the Kuomintang was outrageous. Although my father has never studied, he often travels around the world and knows some things, just one principle: be more stable, find a job and the whole family will suffer from you.
Wu Fushan couldn't help but shout: I'm afraid of being implicated, so we can break away from the father-son relationship. As soon as he said that, his father slapped him in the face. He couldn't understand why his father was so "stubborn". In his current poverty, he really had to be a bull and a horse for the rest of his life? Could it be that all descendants are oppressed and exploited in this way? In a fit of anger, he left home. From then on, he embarked on the revolutionary path and never came back for 19 years.
On the way to leave home, he thought a lot and felt complicated, but he insisted on making a revolution in the hope of a different new world.
In 19 years, I have experienced countless battles and many dangers. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, I wrote letters to my family, but I did not receive a reply. I wonder if my family had seen it. Wu Fushan followed the troops from Jiangxi to Sichuan and Shaanxi, and then arrived in northern Shaanxi. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Liberation War reached the Northeast, and now it went south to liberate Central and South , setting foot in most of China.
Now, the Red Army that year has come, and there is a new China, but his parents are gone. This is undoubtedly his biggest regret.
