Chapter 69 Chapter Eleven Heroine, Ma Qian Tuo Gu

Clumps of yellow bamboo are dotted among the lush green trees, covering the red clay houses by the stream in an elegant and simple way. In the early days, the yellow bamboos on the bank of the stream were connected together to protect the stream, forming a solid embankment.Li Meiqun's natal family, the 80-year-old Zhong Laohan told us: This is called Zhuba Village.Li Meiqun gave birth to her only daughter here, and then "took care of an orphan before the horse". This incident once shocked the entire Soviet area, and the old man Zhong talked about the story that was widely circulated:

"Wow, wow," Quan Lie, who was not yet full moon, was hungry and cried twice.Due to insufficient milk, she was skinny and weak when she cried. Li Meiqun, a 23-year-old new mother, awkwardly relieved herself and stuffed the pacifier into Quan Lie's mouth.Quan Lie sucked a few mouthfuls, but the milk was empty, and she sucked hard, but faint blood came out.Meiqun twitched in pain. How can there be milk?After giving birth, her appetite increased greatly, but she didn't eat any nutritional supplements, and she couldn't even keep her full with each meal. Quan Lie crooked his small mouth, and cried twice more.

Li Meiqun was so anxious that she had no choice but to follow the example of rural women and feed Xiao Quanlie with rice soup and rice paste.Quan Lie was choked and coughed... Li Meiqun looked for help, and turned to the gray-haired, already aged mother-in-law. The mother-in-law turned a blind eye and shifted her eyes to the neem tree in the courtyard.The neem tree, in bloom again, oozes a bitter smell.The mother-in-law's heart is more bitter than neem seeds.She knew that this daughter-in-law's heart had long been wild, and she wished she could spread her wings and go "crazy" outside!The mother-in-law was right.Li Meiqun's heart had already flown away, and even her biological daughter, who was waiting to be fed, couldn't hold her back.

At that time, it was late January 1934.It is the opening day of the Second National Congress of Soviets. Originally, Li Meiqun would go to the "Red Capital" Ruijin no matter what, to attend this extremely high-level meeting.As a peasant's daughter, she was elected as the official representative of the Second National Congress of the Chinese Soviet Republic. Because of childbirth, she had to be absent. She never expected that at this congress, she would be awarded the honorable title of "Model for Expansion of Popularity" and elected as an alternate executive member of the Central Committee.Just on this important day, Li Meiqun gave birth to her beloved baby.For this reason, Li Meiqun actually named his daughter "Zhongquanlie".

However, the daughter and the revolution seem to be incompatible. The painful choice is getting closer. A family conflict finally broke out. That day, Li Meiqun was piecing together scattered fabrics to make a small dress for Zhong Quanlie. "Meiqun, do you really want to leave?" The mother-in-law asked angrily when she saw her through the window. Li Meiqun nodded and said: "Mom, you know, I am confinement, comrades from the ministry have come to visit several times, so many jobs are waiting for me, what can I do if I don't go!" So weak... Besides, if you bring the child to me, I will die myself. Rheumatism attacks from time to time, sore and painful, and I have to be taken care of when I walk, and I can't even hold the child! Meiqun, you stay in Xingguo , you can also make a revolution!" The mother-in-law tried her best to persuade her.

"Mom, you're right. I can still do some work at home, but I'm the Women's Minister of the Provincial Party Committee and an alternate member of the Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Soviet Republic. I have more important tasks!" Li Meiqun put her voice very softly , explain patiently. "Important, important, my daughter is not important." The mother-in-law couldn't bear it anymore, and rushed into the house, "Meiqun, your heart is really evil. Meiqun, do you think about when you married Yanzhang? For the sake of the revolution, You mobilized him to be a soldier, and even Yanzhang lost his life in the anti-'encirclement and suppression' campaign. Yanzhang died, and you married a new husband and helped him have children, leaving me an orphaned old woman to serve You are confinement..."

The mother-in-law wept and complained, unknowingly, exposed Li Meiqun's truth. "What happened in the past, I don't care about you. Now, Quan Lie is always your only seedling, the flesh that fell from your body, and you don't want to ignore it?! You can't even be a mother, why do you want to be a minister? , Commissioner, I don’t know how you live, but you have lived for decades, and you have been working for dozens of days! If you must leave, you can take her with you..." The words of the mother-in-law are like needles, and every sentence is piercing. The eloquent Li Meiqun was speechless at the moment.Because, the mother-in-law's words are correct, and it aroused Li Meiqun's endless thoughts...