Chapter 39 Chapter 5 "Three-inch Golden Lotus" travels thousands of miles - Zhou Uprising

"One step and three shakes make you vulnerable." This is the impression people have of women with small feet.The Red Army female soldier Zhou Uprising walked the "three-inch golden lotus" to complete the unparalleled Long March. In January 1935, Zhou Uprising was treated at the General Hospital of the Fourth Front Army in Wangpinghong, northern Sichuan.It turned out that when she moved with the army from the Hubei, Henan and Anhui base areas, when she crossed Bashan on the way, her hands, feet, ears, and calves were all frostbitten. She was hospitalized for more than 4 months and had not recovered.

One day, she suddenly heard that the troops were going to be transferred, and she was so anxious that her heart burned.She secretly lifted the "gauze" - a piece of rag that had not been sterilized, revealing two legs that were swollen as thick as an earthen jar. The blisters on the calf were one after the other, rotting like a hornet's nest.The muscles on the thighs have shrunk, and the calves are bent backwards, unable to straighten anymore. How is this good?In desperation, she came up with a way. In order to be able to transfer with the team on time, Zhou Qiyi had to take a risk: he took a "quick treatment" privately, that is, when he was away, he popped the blisters on his legs one by one to release the pus and blood inside.At the same time, enduring the pain, she insisted on practicing walking, trying to straighten her calf.She also made a "little pillow" out of straw, which was sandwiched between her thigh and calf when she slept, so that her calf would not bend backwards.

A few days later, Zhou Qiyi went to the hospital leader and asked to be discharged.The dean said to her worriedly: "Little ghost, you are in good spirits, but is your injury healed?" "Okay, okay! Chief, look!" posture, and jumped a few more.Finally, switch to stand on one leg again. "Hey, you can still be independent as a golden rooster!" A doctor said humorously, which made the dean and the people around him laugh. At this time, the hygienist Xiao Wang suddenly broke in.Seeing Zhou Qiyi like this, she teased him and said: "Dean, this is not the independence of the golden rooster. It should be called the 'Golden Lotus Independence'! Look, sister Zhou's 'three-inch golden lotus'." She was amused, but she pretended to be angry, and said to Xiao Wang: "What's the matter with Jinlian, from the west of Anhui to the north of Sichuan, is it one step less than you, or half a step less?" In a low tone, he said to Zhou Qiyi: "Look, sisters are panicked after three days of seeing each other, and they make fun of each other when they meet. Little devil, go back and get ready!" She was discharged from the hospital.However, "quick fixes" don't work.After being discharged from the hospital, the organization sent Zhou Uprising to serve as the captain of the General Politics and Women's Propaganda Team.But not long after, her calf was not only festered and suppurated, but also new blisters appeared all over her leg.She had to be admitted to the hospital again.

She embarked on the journey with the hospital. Under normal circumstances, staying in a hospital may be regarded as treating the wounded and enjoying "light blessings". However, the hospital during the march and battle is actually almost the same as the company, and the lightly wounded still march and walk.When we first embarked on the journey, there were bombing planes in the sky and enemy chasing soldiers on the ground. We marched hundreds of miles every day, and we had to fight every three days.During the journey, Zhou Uprising was quite strong. Marching and fighting are indeed a severe test for her.Zhou Qiyi is thin and has small feet. When others stride, she has to trot.Not long after running, her feet were blistered with blood.The continuous marching caused small blisters to appear on her feet before the big blisters burst.With small feet and disease, she has to endure great pain every time she takes a step.

At this time, the material conditions of the Red Army were very difficult, especially the lack of medicines.It is the best disinfection for the general minor wounded to be able to wash the wound with salt water.Therefore, it is really impossible to rely on drugs to alleviate the pain of the Zhou uprising.In this case, we have to rely more on "spiritual therapy", that is, talking, laughing and singing while walking to divert our attention.You see, how innocent she is, how optimistic and strong she is! She herself is a sick person, and the continuous marching and walking is tiring enough.But as soon as she arrived at the campsite, she dragged her tired body, endured the pain in her legs, and helped the medical staff take care of the seriously injured.Small maggots appeared in the wounds of some seriously wounded, and Zhou Qiyi patiently picked them out one by one with his hands, and then cleaned them with a clean rag dipped in salt water.The fatigue during the journey and the busyness after camping made her forget the pain of her own wound.After finishing her work, she lay down on the ground and soon fell asleep.

Optimism, diligence, and tenacity are the reasons why Zhou Uprising was praised by comrades in arms and valued by leaders.After recovering from her injury, she was left in the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Hospital.At that time, the staff in the hospital, except for the director Zhao Jianguo who had been a doctor, were all temporarily transferred from various units.In the past, needless to say, they treated people, even the medicine was so poor that they had never seen it.As far as the hospital is concerned, it is only a medical rescue team, and the equipment is quite simple, only a few scissors and tweezers.As for medicines, they are even more rare, there are only a few kinds such as "Hong Jiang Dan" and "Bai Jiang Dan", which are also collected and boiled by themselves.

It didn't take long for Zhou Uprising to deal with all the technical skills provided by this simple medical condition.But relying on these efforts alone, it is difficult to complete the task.So, she marched and studied, gradually accumulating medical skills.Along the way, the people in front carried a small blackboard with common words such as "salt water", "red Jiangdan" and "disinfection" written on them, and the people behind looked at it as they walked.Although this method is clumsy, it is very useful for them who are illiterate.Zhou Uprising relied on this method to learn cultural knowledge and medical technology.Once, she found a book on traditional Chinese medicine, and she memorized it as she walked, asking others if she didn't understand it. When she reached northern Shaanxi, she had already memorized it all.

One day, Zhou Uprising and the others came to a village.In the yard, they found a big basket. A comrade half-jokingly said to Zhou Yiyi: "Xiao Zhou, here is a 'wicker bed', which is smaller, and it is just right for you to sleep on." what!She lay in it, bent her body into a "boat", resting her legs and head on the edge of the basket, and started snoring after a while. She had a good night's sleep.The next day, Miss Xiao Wang woke her up, but she complained straight away: "You are so bad, you have disturbed my dreams!" She worked in the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Hospital for more than a year.Because of Zhang Guotao's erroneous ideas, they have gone down many wrong paths.Zhou Qiyi dragged his sick body and walked across the surging Jialing River and Dadu River, walked through the "difficult to go to the blue sky" Shu Road, climbed over the rolling Denglai Mountains and Daxue Mountains, and finally stayed in Sichuan and Xikang for a while. .

Soon, Zhou Uprising came to the bottom of Dangling Mountain with his troops. At this time, she worked as an instructor in the guard company.According to the requirements of her superiors, she led the soldiers of the company to prepare shochu, hot peppers and other items to keep out the cold when climbing the snow-capped mountains.Dangling Mountain is located in a minority area. Due to the brutal plunder by the Kuomintang government, the local people were so poor that they couldn't even find these things. Seeing that they were wearing thin clothes, an old man tried to persuade them: "On Dangling Mountain, the ice and snow are reaching the sky. You are wearing such thin clothes. You must freeze to death when you go up." But Zhou Qiyi said to him: "Thank you, old man. However, there is no difficulty that our Red Army cannot overcome. Let alone a world of ice and snow, even a mountain of knives and a sea of ​​fire, we have to go through it.” The next day, before the rooster crowed, they started to go up the mountain.

The mountain road twists and turns, spiraling up in a zigzag shape.At first, they thought nothing was wrong, and talked and laughed while going up the mountain; however, the further they went up, the thinner the air, and they felt flustered, short of breath, headache and nausea.At this time, Zhou Yiyi seemed to feel that the sky was turning, and the earth was also turning.It was much quieter now. In order to save energy, everyone tried not to speak, just climbed up silently and with difficulty... After a while, Shao Shiping, who had served as the chairman of the workers' and peasants' democratic government in Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, came over on horseback.He often comes to the guard company, he is talkative and amusing, he has no airs, and he is quite casual with the company soldiers.Seeing that Zhou Yiyi was sweating profusely from exhaustion, he smiled and said to her: "Little devil, are you tired? Come and pull the horse's tail!" At this time, if he could pull the horse's tail up the mountain, it would be a real blessing.However, the stubborn Zhou Qiyi became "stubborn" again.She said to Shao Shiping: "I am a member of the Communist Party, how can I pull the horse's tail up the mountain?" She pouted, then blamed him and said: "Chief, why don't you ask others to pull you? Pony tail, let me pull it?" "Cough! You have small feet, so you should be treated specially in special circumstances!" Shao Shiping teased.

When the little feet were mentioned, she blushed, but she did not show weakness, and said, "What's wrong with the little feet, if you can go up, so can I!" After she finished speaking, she raised her head, ignored Shao Shiping, and said loudly. step forward. At this time, Shao Shiping raised his whip, lashed the horse's butt, and said loudly: "Comrades, come on, don't fall behind Xiao Zhou!" In one sentence, everyone was amused. When the sun was westward, they approached the top of the mountain.Here, the mountain wind is howling, making people unable to stand still; the snow is knee-deep, and under the snow is a layer of ice one or two feet thick, which slides like oil on a glass pane.If you are not careful, you will sit on the "slide" and slide down into the bottomless mountain stream.Zhou Qiyi and the others couldn't stand at all, so they had to climb up slowly and cautiously on their hands and feet.Crawling...they couldn't walk anymore, so they helped each other: pull in front, push in back, and move forward step by step. Just as the Zhou uprising and the guard soldiers were exhausted and panting, suddenly heavy rain poured down.Just after the rainstorm, hail came crashing down again, the big ones were as big as walnuts.In an instant, the sweat-soaked and rain-drenched clothes turned into ice armor, which wrapped around the body hard, like icemen one by one. After crossing the snow-capped mountains, although Zhou Qiyi could barely make it on his way, his legs and feet were rotten and bloody due to frostbite again.She was sick and started to have a high fever... A few days later, Zhou Yiyi's illness did not improve.One day, Shao Shiping came to her and said, "Xiao Zhou, are you feeling better? I want to discuss something with you. Now, the army marches and fights every day. If you are sick like this, why don't you find a reliable fellow villager to live in first, and wait for the situation. I'll pick you up when I'm done!" When she heard this, she burst into tears immediately.She cried and said to Shao Shiping: "No, I don't! Even if I die, I want to be with the Red Army. If I climb, I will also climb to the base!" Before Shao Shiping could speak, she said like him again: "When joining the party, I have sworn that I will never leave the revolution, never leave the Red Army, doesn’t that count?” “But now you are so sick, especially those feet…” When she mentioned her feet, she cried more sad.Before Shao Shiping finished speaking, Zhou Qiyi hurriedly said: "Chief, if it weren't for these feet, I wouldn't be able to participate in the revolution." Thinking of the tragic experience in the past, she cried bitterly: "My family is in Xiaohe Village, Jinzhai County, Anhui Province. Although I am not rich, my family has fields and barely enough food to eat. Why do I still join the army? It starts with my feet." "When I was 6 years old , my husband’s family sent me a shoe sample that was only three inches long, and asked me to bind my feet like that. At that time, I was not sensible, but my family was in a hurry, so they began to bind my feet. At first, they bound my feet slowly. When I was 7 years old, I bound them hard. Yes. My mother squeezed my toes bit by bit, pinched them, wrapped them with a foot wrap, and then sewed the cloth with a needle and thread. When I was eight or nine years old, the wrapping became more severe, and I had to add chicken intestines Belt', wrapping around while spraying soju. I cried out in pain, but my mother was cruel, and wrapped me up with all her strength. My feet were on fire all day long. During the day, I secretly soaked them in cold water At night, I dare not put the quilt under the quilt, but lean against the wall to cool off to reduce the pain. A few times, I secretly removed the foot wrap, and when I found it, I was scolded severely, and then bound even harder "When I was 9 years old, my mother gave birth to the sixth child. When my father saw that it was a girl again, he didn't want her anymore. He put her on the ground and cried from the cold. At this time, I have begun to understand. Listen I was really worried when I heard my sister crying." "Later, I asked grandma why she threw my sister on the ground. Grandma said, who could call her a woman?" After she finished speaking, she turned her face away and wiped her tears. Girls should be thrown away? I cried and insisted that grandma pick up my sister. At this time, grandma cried even more sadly, so she asked me to pick up my sister. The sister survived and named Dong Nu." "As I grow older, I feel more and more unfair. The family treats me and my brothers very differently. I am confined to the house all day long, cooking, cooking, and sewing. They don’t let me watch the show, saying that I’m a tiger, because I’m afraid I’ll offend others. Girls love beauty, but my family never lets me dress up and wear clothes. Only then did I know that this was the 'poison of feudal ethics'. "In the summer of 1929, the Red Army came to my hometown to promote 'strike the local tyrants, divide the land', 'cancel exorbitant taxes', 'implement equality between men and women', 'marriage autonomy', etc. These new things attracted me at once. I think the Red Army can That’s great, all the opinions seemed to be for the poor. Later, I simply joined the Boy Scouts. But this time I got a hornet’s nest. My mother beat me, my brother scolded me, and my family ignored me. But I have my own ideas , beat and beat, scold and scold, I still have to go out." "In August 1931, I just turned 18. My family made new shoes and clothes for me, and wanted to marry me off as soon as possible. When I heard the news, I burst into tears because I had seen that man, He is a fool. His father is a moneylender. The villagers hate him and call him a dog's tail. How can I marry such a family? I would not die, but my mother still persuaded me. The fingertips were promised to someone as a marriage. This is destined, you will be someone else sooner or later. That night, I tried to persuade my mother again and again, but my mother insisted on letting me get married. The persuasion was hopeless, and I didn’t sleep a wink all night.” "I thought about it a lot...finally, I came to a conclusion: only the Red Army is for the sake of the common people, and can help women get a new life. Follow the Red Army, I'm sure you're right. The next day, I sneaked for more than 70 miles , went to Mabu to join the Red Army." After speaking, Zhou Qiyi wiped away his tears and said to Shao Shiping: "Chief, the old ethics have harmed me and forced me to embark on the road of revolution. Today, the old ethics have not been completely smashed, do you have the heart to let me give up halfway? "Shao Shiping was moved.He agreed to let Zhou Uprising remain in the army.The next day, he sent a stretcher to carry Zhou Uprising on the march.However, Zhou Qiyi felt very uncomfortable.She thought: Comrades are very tired, and I don’t have enough to eat. How can I bear to increase the burden of others?Therefore, she only sat for a day, said nothing on the stretcher, gritted her teeth and followed the troops on the road. Luhuo, a minority area.Troops are stationed here. One day, elder sister Kang Keqing approached Zhou Qiyi and said, "Xiao Zhou, I am going to transfer you to the health center of the headquarters. Do you have any comments?" "No." Zhou Qiyi replied very simply. "I'm not an official, I want to be a hygienist!" Sister Kang reminded. "Okay! As long as it's a revolution, it's the same for everything!" Indeed, at that time, unconditional obedience to organizational arrangements had become a habit.Everyone never cared about the level of their positions, not to mention the instructor as a soldier, even the regimental and division commanders were sometimes transferred to become soldiers at once. Zhou Qiyi came to the headquarters health center happily.Since the health center had just been established, only Fu Lianjun was in charge of setting it up.Seeing her coming to report, Fu Lianjun happily said to Zhou Qiyi: "Now I have a helper." Dr. Fu Lianjun used to be the director of a missionary hospital in a foreign country.Because he was dissatisfied with the darkness of society and yearned for revolution, he abandoned his comfortable living conditions and defected to the Red Army with some expensive medical equipment and medicines.He has saved the lives of many central leaders and Red Army soldiers. Fu Lianjun was very satisfied with the arrival of Zhou Uprising.She had stayed in the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Hospital, and she was considered a half-hearted doctor, so Dr. Fu always liked to take her with him when he went out to treat illnesses and injuries.Later, many sisters came to the health center one after another, such as Lin Yueqin, Chen Zhenren, Li Kefen, Zhang Tiannan, Wang Yuchun, etc. Now the health center became lively. In July, the troops came to a small village on the edge of the meadow.Everyone was busy preparing the grass, raising food, rope and bamboo poles, etc.Zhou Yiyi is a careful girl.Seeing that this area is dominated by animal husbandry, there are scattered hairs shed by livestock everywhere, so she made some extra preparations: she picked up cow hair, wool, and camel hair, twisted them into threads, and wove a pair of colorful wool shoes to wear on her feet. up, very warm.Seeing that Zhou Qiyi had a pair of woolen shoes, some female soldiers were also very jealous, and they all followed suit and started making woolen shoes. Before entering the grassland, Ren Bishi's lover Chen Congying was about to give birth.When she was in labor, Dr. Fu took Zhou Qiyi to deliver the baby.In a mud house with ventilation on all sides, a little life was finally born.Dr. Fu said to her seriously: "Xiao Zhou, this task is entrusted to you! No matter how much you pay for the revolutionary offspring born on the Long March, you must ensure their safety!" The body is very weak, lying on a stretcher all day; the baby is also skinny due to lack of nutrition.But Zhou Qiyi tried his best to take good care of him, and did everything possible to keep Chen Congying and the baby alive. Soon the troops entered the meadow. Fu Lianjun was old and knew a lot of knowledge, and Zhou Qiyi always pestered him to tell stories.That night, Zhou Yiyi asked him to tell a story again, but he stopped suddenly after he started.Everyone urged him to tell it quickly, but he deliberately staggered his tongue, shook his head and said, "I am a bag of treasures, and I let you empty it out. How can there be so many stories?" He's sleeping!" Zhou Yiyi took the lead in booing, and the sisters were also chattering around him. "Okay, okay, change your look today." After finishing speaking, he pondered for a while, and then said to everyone with a smile, "I'll change your names for you, okay?" Prestige leaders, but also learned scholars. At this time, he proposed to change everyone's name, which was simply wishful thinking. "Okay, okay!" Everyone said in unison. "Doctor Fu, correct me first! Correct me first!" Zhou Qiyi scrambled to say. "Okay, let's come one by one. You, Zhou Qiyu, might as well be called Uprising, which is both popular and nice." "You, Chen Jinren's name is too vulgar. If you want to get rich, hold a golden baby. I think it's better to change it to Chen Zhenren. May you Become a real person with lofty ideals." "Lin Yingqin, it sounds awkward, why don't you change it to Lin Yueqin, it sounds much more pleasant." Since then, the three of them have changed their names to be loud and innovative. After a full 20 days, Zhou Uprising and the others walked out of the grass. After crossing the grassland, we came to Walnut Village.This is the first village encountered when walking out of the grass, and the troops rest here. Looking at his swollen legs in the muddy water, Zhou Qiyi couldn't help but say, "You should be liberated now!" down. So, she asked a few sisters to help, and three or four of them pulled the shoe off, but they were already torn to pieces.It has finally completed its mission. This female Red Army soldier with a pair of small feet walked towards Yan'an in this way.