Chapter 54 54. They are in the second battlefield

During the Dingmao Mid-Autumn Festival, a letter was sent from Fushun, Sichuan to the front of Songmaoling. People saw that it was written by Hu Zhengying, the wife of Martyr Zhu Houliang, the eighth company instructor who died here four months ago.Attached to the letter was a poem, which she requested to read at Houliang's sacrifice site: He couldn't hear his wife's call, just like last time, she didn't hear his voice in time.During the Spring Festival of Dingmao, Zhu Houliang sent a tape to the ground from the position.But the family didn't have money to buy a tape recorder, so she borrowed it from others, and they said that there was something wrong with the recorder, so she ran home and cried.It wasn't until the bad news came and the reporter came to her home to interview that she heard the voice of her husband half a year ago from the reporter's tape recorder——

She looks forward to his letter every day.She reads news from the front line in newspapers every day.That day she went to the mail room to look for newspapers again, but what she found was disappointing. People hid the People's Daily that day because there was news of his sacrifice on it.When the leader was about to tell her the news, she was going to night school with her bag on her back.The work unit received a notice from the County Civil Affairs Bureau and was discussing how to tell Hu Zhengying that she borrowed brushes from the first floor to the second floor. When people asked her why, she smiled and said to practice calligraphy. Hou Liang sent the package.A few days later, she grieved and sent the package anyway.However, what was written on the envelope and package this time was no longer "Zhu Houliang's receipt".She said in the letter that Hou Liang confessed two things in his letter to me before he was alive. One was to ask me to buy some anti-heatstroke medicine and send it. He said that the soldiers were too hot in the cat ear holes.Blame me for not hurrying up, and now follow his instructions and send it to you.The second thing, he said that he was too busy, and asked me to help him with some work, often write some letters to your relatives in the rear, and give them some comfort.Please tell me your home addresses, I will write to your relatives in accordance with his will...

The comrades deeply missed their instructor, and also deeply felt the good sister-in-law and elder sister who sent countless letters of comfort from the front line. Zhu Zengzhu, director of the Political Department of the Group Army, wrote "For the Peace of the Sun Never Sets" "Long article. On the eve of New Year's Day, Lao Shan received another long letter from Hu Zhengying: Facing our innocent and lovely little daughter who has lost her father's love forever, I couldn't believe the tears on my face, especially when the house saw an uncle of the People's Liberation Army in military uniform on TV, she would repeatedly ask: Who is her father? Not so proud; whenever Ajie in the kindergarten gave her candy, the child would also ask her to save some for her father, and eat it when his father came home during the New Year; when the child played with the children and talked about their father, my stubbornness And ignorant child!She always told the children that her father was still fighting bad guys on the front line, and after beating the enemies, he would buy her new clothes and tell her many stories about the old mountain frontline... My child!Your dad can never come back.My heart was really broken, I was admitted to the hospital, and lost more than 30 catties.

However, for the sake of peace, justice, and the peace and happiness of the motherland, I don't know how many soldiers' wives bear the burden of the family alone with their weak shoulders, perseverance and tenacity.The sweat of plowing the fields and taking care of mothers-in-law and children, and the tears of longing in the middle of the night, all contained their pure and sincere love for their husbands, soldiers.War is not only a test for soldiers, we are also tested. The dead have already gone, leaving only endless thoughts and sorrows to the living.After Zhu Houliang died, Hu Zhengying kept watch for him every day—the portrait of the martyr surrounded by black gauze and white flowers hung in the middle of the room, and the relics of the martyr were placed on the case below: diary, violin, military medal, correspondence teaching materials...every day , she wiped and wiped the remains.When eating, she put a bowl, a pair of chopsticks, and a pack of cigarettes under the portrait, and said softly: "Houliang, eat quickly. We are waiting for you. Your stomach is not good, so you can't eat cold food." Every festival, she would let her three-year-old daughter Heng Heng kneel down to her father and ask him to come down for a reunion...

This is their war.This is what war is for them. The weight on their bony shoulders was too heavy.In society, in life, psychologically, and emotionally, the burden is too heavy for them. Being a woman is hard. Being a woman in China is more difficult. It is especially difficult for the wives of Chinese soldiers. It is even more difficult for the wives of martyrs. The wife of the platoon leader Zhang Jinsheng was a factory worker in Tangshan. They got married within seven days, and her husband went to the front line.She kept writing to him, sending him apples, mooncakes, malted milk, and tapes of her voice.But what she was looking forward to was a thunderbolt from the sky.The comrades in the army asked her what she wanted, and she said: "I don't have any demands. I only have two regrets. One is that I should marry him earlier so that he can enjoy more warmth in the world; Flesh and blood..." The military newspaper reporter who interviewed was deeply moved, and said that he must write about her and let the world praise her.The leader of the army said to the reporter: "Please, don't write about her, let her live a peaceful life. In the battle of Zhenbao Island, a battle hero died. A few years later, his widow wanted to She remarried, but the army leader repeatedly did her job, telling her to focus on raising her children and cherish the title of heroic wife. Until now, her daughters have all gone to college and have boyfriends, but she is still alone."

The People's Liberation Army Daily once published a letter from a reader signed by Hu Shilu.The letter said: Guo Ximei is a native of Mei County, Shaanxi Province, a member of the Communist Party, joined the army in July last year, and worked as a worker in a factory for the families of the army.Her lover Zhang Xinkui applied to serve as an instructor in the Second Company of a certain unit on the front line.She actively supported her husband to go to the front line, took on the housework of raising children and taking care of the elderly, and she did a very good job.In March of this year, Zhang Xinkui died honorably in the battle to rescue his comrades.

After Zhang Xinkui died, he left behind a four-and-a-half-year-old child, a father who was paralyzed in the lower limbs due to a cerebral thrombosis, an elderly mother, and a younger brother who was disabled in the front line.Seeing this situation, some well-meaning people said to Guo Ximei, how can you, a frail and sick woman, support such a family?Guo Ximei said, I want to bring up the child and provide for Xinkui's parents until their death. In August, when several leaders and family members of the regiment visited Guo Ximei, they also talked about this issue.Guo Ximei said, I am only 29 years old this year, it is unrealistic not to consider this issue, it is just a matter of time.As soon as the word spread, there was a lot of discussion inside and outside the camp.Some people scolded her behind her back: "My husband wants to remarry before his bones are cold. It's so unfeeling. What kind of women's model, what kind of party member!" Isn’t that right?” Someone also tried to persuade her with their own words: “I was a widow at the age of eighteen, and I’ve been here for decades, and you’re almost thirty, why do you want to remarry? It’s better to grow up the children and get a good reputation. When the mother-in-law heard about this, she proposed to remove her grandson's household registration, and asked Guo Ximei to make a statement that if she wanted to remarry, she would have to keep a filial piety for three years.Even some army leaders are considering whether their child, Ximei, will be allowed to be a female model if she remarries, and whether she will be judged for meritorious service and awards.

Guo Ximei told the author with tears in her eyes: I have many difficulties.I haven't even finished elementary school, and my child wants me to tell him stories all day long, and I really can't satisfy him.One night, the light switch broke, and instead of bothering anyone else, I went to fix it myself in the middle of the night and got knocked out by the shock.There are many more troublesome and difficult things in life than this. I want to remarry because I want to raise our children and make the old people live more comfortably, so as to reduce the troubles of the organization and comrades. It is not for the sake of leisure , Min Kai Xinkui's parents don't care...

War is a man's business.Gunpowder is a male hormone. But war is always contrary to the nature of women.What the war gave women was exactly what they least needed.They suffer in silence even though they least need it. Our great mother and wife. Our introverted Chinese women.