The next day, the morning of April 4th. Early in the morning, the sound of suona sounded in Wulongyu New Village, and the Li family and the Bai family gathered at the entrance of the new village early.

The reason why it is so early, is because the Dayun Temple and the Luoyan Guanyin Opening Ceremony will be held soon, the invited guests will arrive in Wulongyu today and tomorrow, not only Chen Guan, the whole Wulongyu people are very busy, we must finish the joint burial ceremony as soon as possible, and we can not delay the Dayun Temple and the Luoyan Guanyin Opening Ceremony!

After the two mothers were brought to the courtyard of the Chen family, the meal was served immediately. It is still a traditional meal in Wulongyu, with a few small dishes per table, corn grits soup, and bar buns, which is equivalent to breakfast.

After eating, under the guidance of the suona class, Chen Xuezhi and Chen Guan both wore filial piety clothes and went to the ancestral grave of the old Chen family.

Li Fulai led the young men in the village to take turns in the cemetery last night to dig the grave, and the tomb was built all night. It is a tomb across the mountain, and a window is opened on the wall of the tomb, which is connected with the tomb of Chen Deda.

Chen Guan wants to bury the bones of Grandma Bai and the news of the joint burial of grandparents I don't know how to get out, the funeral ceremony was held so early, Zhouli Township Mayor Yu Kecheng, Tonghua Town Party Secretary Tao Haishan, Town Mayor Zhang Lei, Longwan Town Party Secretary Liu Shouyong, Town Mayor Xu Ke all arrived with the heads of their respective departments, the county Public Security Bureau, the Civil Affairs Bureau, the Finance Bureau, the Organization Department, the Political and Legal Committee and other departments of the leaders also rushed over, including friends from Shuiquan City. Especially Jin Chenxiao, Xue Ming and others from Shuiquan City, they didn't know how early they got up, anyway, they rushed to the ancestral grave of the Chen family before the joint burial.

Deputy Secretary Li Lide, Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department Hu Ming and others were in Dayun Temple and also rushed over.

For a while, what was originally a simple little thing became a big thing!

According to the custom, the filial son first went down to the tomb to check it, and then wiped the coffin clean with a filial piety cloth, and with the shout of the whirlwind head, that is, the master of ceremonies, he was buried, and then the tomb door was sealed, the grave head was saved, and the monument was erected!

The inscription was written by Chen Guan a long time ago, and it was handed over to the shop in Mingshui City that specializes in carving tombstones, and even the tombstone base was poured in advance. Wait for the grave to be raised, dig a pit in front of the grave, put it on the base of the tombstone, and erect the tombstone.

The top of the stele is a sculpture of Chen Deda wearing the uniform of the Eighth Route Army, holding a steel gun to charge, the forehead of the stele is engraved with the seven big characters of "Wulongyu Revolutionary Banner", the front of the stele is engraved with the "Eighth Route Army veteran Chen Deda and his wife Edelweiss, Li Yaqin Monument", the lower part of the stele is engraved with the son Chen Xuezhi, daughter-in-law Zheng Yulian, Sun Chen Guan Jingli and the year, month and day, the front of the stele is engraved with wheat ears, grain ears, corn cobs, lotus, pomegranates, walnuts, persimmons, peaches, apricots and other patterns.

It turns out that Chen Guan's grandmother's name is Li Yaqin!

On the back of the stele, there is an inscription written by Chen Guan.

The inscription records the life deeds of Chen Deda, Bai Xueweiss, and Li Yaqin, and the words reflect the swords and swords of that era of blood and fire, showing the greatness, selflessness and humanity of love!

After the tombstone was erected, the leaders of the county civil affairs bureau and the leaders of the county armed forces department spoke one after another, highly affirming the contributions of Comrade Chen Deda and the martyrs of Edelweiss to the revolution in Wulongshan District!

Zhou Bing, who rushed to Wulongyu from Shuiquan to participate in the reception of tour guides, recited the inscription written by Chen Guan in standard Mandarin.

After reading the inscription, Chen Guan faced his relatives and friends and made a speech "In memory of my grandparents".

Chen Guan's tone was not high, but everyone present heard it clearly!

I heard Chen Guan say: "My grandfather Chen Deda, born in a family of long-term workers, has been herding cattle for the landlord's family since he was a child. When I was 16 years old, my grandfather became the chief of security in Wulongyu Village and received an old sleeve rifle. At that time, the horn of resistance against Japan had been sounded, and the Eighth Route Army crossed the Yellow River east to Shanxi to fight to the death. In the remote Wulongyu, soldiers and bandits are still rampant, and the common people live in dire straits, and their lives are as cheap as grass, and life is worse than death. In order to find a way to live for the poor villagers in Wulong Mountain, and also to fight devils, my grandfather dragged the old sleeve rifle issued by the chief of the guard, smuggled across the Yellow River, went to Shanxi to join the Eighth Route Army, and embarked on the revolutionary road. Since then, he has been fighting on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, and the little devil has gone in with a white knife and a red knife has come out, and he has started a life-and-death struggle! It was also in the great team of the Eighth Route Army that my grandfather learned literacy and culture, and grew up to be the platoon commander of the Eighth Route Army! ”

"After the Japanese invaders launched the Battle of Henan-Xiang-Gui for the purpose of opening up the mainland communication line, the **** soldiers on the frontal battlefield were defeated like a mountain, and they were defeated for thousands of miles, and even the Central Plains Provincial Government of the Kuomintang gave up the ancient capital, and Jiang Dingwen, the commander of the first theater of operations, fled to Ningshui, and exchanged the pistol made of gold zuò given to him by Chiang Kai-shek for a donkey, wrapped a towel around his head, disguised as a peasant, and fled to the deep mountainous areas of Ningshui and Mingshui. At this critical juncture, at this time, the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army was ordered to advance into the Wulong Mountains, and my grandfather was a platoon commander of the Independent Regiment, who returned to his hometown with the army, and here launched a tragic tug-of-war with the Japanese invaders and local recalcitrants. That is, in Wulongyu, the Kuomintang spies plotted against our army's newly incorporated troops, launched an incident, killed the old Red Army and the old Eighth Route sent by our army to various units, and defected to the enemy. At this time, my grandmother, the martyr Edelweiss, had also joined the Eighth Route Army in Wulongyu and became a glorious soldier of the Eighth Route Army. On the night of the Wulongyu Incident, Grandma Edelweiss, who got the news, rescued my grandfather, and the two of them hid in an old willow tree in the big bamboo garden of Wulongyu in the pursuit of the rebel troops and escaped. That night, at the critical moment of life, my grandfather Chen Deda and grandmother Edelweiss Bai had a sincere love. However, the struggle is complex, and life is at stake. My grandfather has rich combat experience, seized the gap between the search and arrest of the rebel troops, escaped from Wulongyu with Grandma Edelweiss, and found an underground traffic officer with hunters as a cover under the Luoyan Peak, the main peak of Wulong Mountain, and wrote a letter to the head of the independent regiment to report the urgent information of the Wulongyu incident, which avoided further losses of our army, and also provided first-hand information for our army to return to the division to quell the rebellion. ”

"After the information was sent, my grandfather and white grandmother did not wait for the main force of our army to return to the division to quell the rebellion, but began to take revenge on the rebels and kill the rebel officers. Slowly, the reputation spread, and more than a dozen lost cadres of our army gathered around my grandfather, and re-raised the banner of the Wulongshan Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Brigade to fight back against the rebels! It was also in the battle of attacking Wulongyu that my grandmother Edelweiss stood up in order to cover my grandfather's retreat, shouted to her father Bai Deli, and wanted Bai Deli to see the relationship between father and daughter and no longer pursue, but was hit by the machine gunner of Bai Deli's anti-Japanese communist brigade and fell in a pool of blood. Later, the main force of our independent regiment returned from the ancient capital to Ningshui and Mingshui areas to quell the rebellion, and the main force of the Kuomintang Hu Zongnan also dispatched from the Xijing area to reinforce the Wulong Mountain area, and this area once again became a tug-of-war area. It was not until the Liberation War that our army advanced into the Wulong Mountains that the bones of my grandmother Edelweiss were buried in the Martyrs Cemetery in Longwan Town. ”

"After the liberation, my grandfather became the head of Longwan Town, leading the villagers to carry out land reform, organize production, and support the national Liberation War and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. In life, my grandfather met my grandmother Li Yaqin, started a family, and raised my father. Later, my grandfather was dismissed from his post as district chief and imprisoned for being falsely accused. My grandmother, Li Yaqin, was frightened by this and became mentally ill. Later, my grandfather was investigated by the organization and proved to be innocent, and after his release, he has been working at the grassroots level in the township and has become an unknown ordinary worker. In such a difficult situation, my grandfather Chen Deda, has never forgotten Grandma Edelweiss, every year on the Qingming Festival to take me to the tomb of Grandma Bai, the fifth courtyard of the Bai family compound where Grandma Bai lived before her death, grandpa never allowed others to move any ornaments, in order to commemorate his lover Grandma Edelweiss! ”

Chen Guan changed his words and continued: "For a long time, my grandmother Edelweiss was buried alone in the martyrs' cemetery, separated from my grandparents. When I was alive, Grandma Edelweiss could give up her life to protect my grandfather, but she couldn't go to the same cave when she died. This is the sorrow of that era, the sorrow of my grandfather, and the sorrow of our children and grandchildren! ”

"Last year, I went to New York to participate in a study class in the United States, and when I was in my spare time, I found Mr. Bai Derong Bai, the largest scholar in Wulongshan District and a doctor with five doctors, and conveyed to him the feelings of the people in my hometown who missed his old man. Mr. Bai is already an old man, and his children and grandchildren are all successful Wall Street elites, but he never forgets his hometown, and said in front of me that the roots of the Bai family are in Wulongyu. Mr. Bai reminded me that I should not let Grandma Edelweiss and my grandparents be buried separately all the time, and they should be buried together to fulfill the long-cherished wish of my grandfather and Grandma Bai. ”

"I thought at the time, my grandfather and my white grandmother met in the ruthless war and fell in love. Is there anything more sincere and greater in the world than this? The era of the old man has passed, right and wrong, grievances and grievances are not to be said, even little Japan and we have signed a friendship treaty with them, why did my grandfather and white grandma really love each other and block bullets for each other, but they couldn't be in the same hole after death? Therefore, I immediately promised Mr. Bai Derong that when I returned to China, I would definitely bury Grandma Bai's bones and let her be buried with my grandparents. We are a family of in-laws! Grandma Edelweiss is my grandmother Chen Guan. Like my grandmother Li Yaqin, they are the elders of our Chen family, the pride and glory of our Chen family! ”

Chen Guan said affectionately: "Today, we finally buried the bones of grandpa and Grandma Edelweiss, fulfilling the long-cherished wish of the two old people. However, joint burial is only a formality. The reason why I want to engage in this form is to remind me from time to time, and also to remind my children and grandchildren, to always remember the feat of my ancestors who shed their blood for the sake of emancipating the people's minds! Always remember that when a person comes to the world, it is small to seek personal welfare, but it is great to seek benefits for the villagers! Always remember that there is nothing in the world that can be accomplished overnight, if you want to do one thing, and do one thing for the benefit of the villagers, you must be able to endure hardships, be able to risk your life, and be able to stand the grievances!

Dear grandfather and grandmother, rest in peace in the spirit of heaven! ”

After Chen Guan finished speaking, with a burst of firecrackers and flashing thunder, the ceremony was completed!