On October 2, 1949, the day after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Fourth Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. The 15th Corps of the 4th Field Corps and the Liangguang Column launched an attack on the Kuomintang troops defending Nanyue, and on 14 October, the PLA took advantage of the victory to pursue and encircle and annihilate the main force of the enemy fleeing in the direction of the southwest coast. By the end of October, more than 60,000 Kuomintang troops and their remnants had been wiped out, and most of the province had been liberated. In the face of the powerful attack of the People's Liberation Army, the remnants of the defending enemy are like ants on a hot pot, and they know that they will not be able to hold out for long.

Commander Mai, who was stationed in the southwest of Guangdong, had several head-to-head confrontations with the People's Liberation Army but were defeated, and the soldier who had participated in the expeditionary force to fight against Japan in Southeast Asia had long been tired of the fratricidal civil war, and he knew that fighting with the unstoppable People's Liberation Army at this time could only be a dead end, in order to save the lives of the officers and men of the regiment and also leave a way back for himself, he decided to lead the whole regiment to revolt and surrender to the People's Liberation Army after painful thinking.

Commander Mai summoned all the officers above the company level in the regiment to discuss the uprising, Lin Nanhui didn't know much about politics, but he was a disciple of Commander Mai, and no matter what decision Commander Mai made, he was a staunch supporter of Commander Mai. The atmosphere of this meeting was very tense, and at the meeting, Lin Nanhui took out a pistol and stood behind Captain Mai as a bodyguard, if anyone dared to oppose Captain Mai's decision, he would collapse someone. After Commander Mai explained the stakes of the uprising, all the middle- and lower-ranking officers of the regiment unanimously agreed to surrender to the PLA. Commander Mai's decision to lead the team to revolt changed Lin Nanhui's fate from then on.

The people of the town woke up one morning and suddenly found a strange phenomenon, the Kuomintang soldiers in the town took off the blue sky and white sun badge on their hats overnight, and claimed to have revolted. Then there were a large number of PLA troops stationed in the town and surrounding areas.

After the uprising, the PLA troops sent a large number of backbone elements to reorganize the original team. At this time, Wang Hongju was already a member of the Communist Party of China and a cadre with the title of company, and he was assigned by his superiors to Lin Nanhui's company as a political instructor.

After Wang Hongju came to the new company, he gave several vivid political lessons to the officers and men who had come from the uprising, and after listening to the political lectures preached by Wang Hongju, Lin Nanhui felt that many of the political propositions of the Communist Party were for the good of the common people, and he raised his hands in favor. After political education. The soldiers knew what they were fighting for and who they were fighting for, and the unit was completely different from before. Therefore, Lin Nanhui was very glad that Captain Mai took him to the Communist Party, he was an arrogant person, but he admired Wang Yunqing, a young instructor, very much.

The troops were to take advantage of the victory to pursue and force the passage of the Qiongzhou Strait. The troops went around looking for boats, borrowing boats, building ships, and recruiting boatmen. One day, after training, Lin Nanhui and a few soldiers who grew up by the sea were helping the fishermen repair the boats that were preparing to cross the sea, when a young girl found him. The arrival of this girl immediately attracted everyone's attention.

"Wow! Whose family is this girl? It's so beautiful! ”

"Ouch, this girl is one of the most beautiful women in our place!"

"Yes, even if you get to the provincial capital, this sister won't lose to those women in the city!" Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at the girl in front of them intently.

This beautiful girl is Lin Nanhui's own niece, Lin Meijiao, the only daughter of Lin Nancai.

Lin Meijiao is twenty-eight years old. It is the fresh flowering season of the water spirit, she has a melon seed face, a high forehead, and a pair of apricot eyes; Her skin was fair and delicate like mutton fat, and her thick jet-black hair shimmered with a metallic sheen in the sun. Lin Meijiao is wearing a tight and loose black silk dress today, and the sea breeze blows, blowing out her plump and delicate figure. It is truly breathtaking to have such a beautiful woman in a remote seaside town!

Lin Nanhui has not married and had children so far, and he treats this niece as his own. is very loving, and Lin Meijiao has been close to her uncle Lin Nanhui since she was a child, and her uncle is better than her father. Lin Nanhui felt very strange when she saw Lin Meijiao coming to the army to find her, so she put down the work she was doing. He asked, "Gillian." Why don't you stay at home, why do you come all the way here to find me? ”

Lin Meijiao saw that there were many people next to her looking at her, she was a little ashamed, lowered her head and did not speak. Lin Nanhui said: "Let's go." Let's talk in a different place. He pulled Lin Meijiao aside and asked her why she came to the army, Lin Meijiao hugged her uncle's shoulders and cried before she could speak.

In this small town by the sea, Lin Meijiao is not only outstanding, but also a famous talented girl, she has been talented and intelligent since she was a child. I don't love women, I love to read, and after Lin Meijiao graduated from elementary school, I crossed the sea and sent my daughter to Qiongzhou School across the Qiongzhou Strait to study in middle school. After graduating from junior high school, Lin Meijiao was admitted to the teacher's college, and after the outbreak of the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, there was chaos everywhere. Lin Meijiao felt bored at home and wanted to cross the sea to continue her teaching profession, preparing to become a teacher after graduation. The purpose of the iron abacus to let her daughter study was originally to train her to be a well-read lady, so that she could marry her to a rich man in the city to be Mrs. Kuo in the future. He saw that his daughter had grown into a well-read and slim girl, so he opposed his daughter continuing to study, so the father and daughter had a lot of conflicts.

In order to dispel her daughter's desire to continue studying, the iron abacus put a large stack of account books in the hostel in front of her daughter and asked her to help manage the accounts, but Lin Meijiao had no interest in doing business, and she was dizzy when she saw the account books full of dense and small characters.

Seeing that her daughter didn't want to take care of the accounts, the iron abacus put her in front of the counter of the hostel to collect money, who knew that the beautiful Lin Meijiao stopped in front of the counter and became a big news in the town, some of the descendants of the wild waves came to the hostel from time to time to flirt with Lin Meijiao, Lin Meijiao couldn't stand the harassment of these people, so she simply stopped doing things in the hostel, and still wanted to continue studying.

The iron abacus couple couldn't control this baby daughter, so they secretly discussed finding a good family to marry their daughter out, Lin Meijiao overheard the conversation of her parents and was very panicked, she didn't want to marry early, so she ran to the army station to find her uncle Lin Nanhui for help.

After listening to Lin Meijiao's cry, Lin Nanhui was very dissatisfied with his brother and sister-in-law's practice of marrying a daughter, but he was a company commander and was leading the troops to prepare for the battle of crossing the sea, and he could not leave the army and go back to the town to persuade his brother and sister-in-law during this extraordinary period. I can only comfort my niece with kind words and persuade her to go home and negotiate with her parents. Lin Nanhui stroked Gillian's shoulder and said, "Gillian, when you go home and tell them, just say that you are still young and not yet married." You just say that I said this! Lin Nanhui paused and added: "By the way, you still have to tell them, just say that if they want to marry their daughter, they must first ask for the consent of my uncle!" Otherwise, don't want to marry your daughter! ”

But what Lin Meijiao said then was beyond his expectations, "Uncle, I'm bored staying at home all day. I want to secretly go back to the teacher's college to study, can you help me? ”

"Gillian, why are you so confused! Now there's going to be a war right now. The Qiongzhou Strait has been blocked, passing ships will be sunk, how can you return to the division? ”

"Then I'll go to the provincial capital to study."

"Forget it! Your Abba won't give you money, you can't even eat, what can you take to study? You're going to die of reading! ”

"Uncle, can you lend me some money first? I'll pay you back when I make money later! ”

"Gillian, I treat you as my own daughter, my money is your money, and you don't have to borrow it at all! When I was a company commander in the national army, I took my brothers to eat and spend all my money when I had money. Didn't save any money. I am now a hard and simple PLA company commander, and I have no money! ”

Lin Meijiao felt disheartened, she wiped her tears and said, "Uncle, you can't help me, then I'll go home first." ”

Lin Nanhui said to her niece with some embarrassment: "Gillian." Don't be upset. Anyway, without my nod, they want to marry you off! That's all I can do for you! ”

Lin Nanhui reluctantly sent her niece away and then returned to the ship repair site, Wang Hongju, who had been standing aside and watching for a long time, walked up to Lin Nanhui and asked with great interest: "Old Lin, who is the beautiful girl who was pulled aside by you just now and whispered?" ”

Lin Nanhui said proudly: "Instructor, that girl is very beautiful!" Tell you. She is my own niece, the daughter of my eldest brother. ”

"I thought I saw her wiping her tears, didn't I?"

"Here's the thing. Gillian is my eldest brother's only daughter, and I am not married and have children, so she has become the pearl of our brothers! Gillian originally studied at the teacher college on the other side of the strait, but later dropped out due to the war. Gillian wanted to continue studying, but my eldest brother didn't want to provide her with education anymore, not only forcing her to learn to do business, but also wanting to marry her off quickly. Gillian came to me to complain. I feel uncomfortable looking at her tearful appearance, but my uncle really can't help her! Lin Nanhui shook his head dejectedly, and then Wang Hongju found that Lin Nanhui's eyes were a little moist.

"Hey!" Lin Nanhui sighed and turned to leave.

Wang Hongju looked at Lin Nanhui's back and thought, it is really rare for such an upright and rugged man to have a tender and childlike side! He wanted to help him.

"Company Commander Lin, come back." Wang Hongju called Lin Nanhui back, and he asked Lin Nanhui: "How old is your niece this year?" ”

"Gillian is seventeen years old." Lin Nanhui looked at Wang Hongju strangely and asked, "Instructor, aren't you looking for Gillian's in-laws?" ”

Wang Hongju just smiled and shook his head without speaking.

Lin Nanhui raised her voice and said, "Instructor, if you ask, my Gillian dares to say that she is one of the best beauties in this town!" You can't put flowers on cow dung if you find her in-laws! ”

Wang Hongju couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

"Instructor, what are you laughing at?" Lin Nanhui was laughed.

Wang Hongju said with a smile: "You look like Zhang Fei, but when you talk about Gillian, you look like an old grandmother." ”

"Instructor, don't you really want to be a matchmaker for Gillian, right?"

"By the way, I just want to be a matchmaker for Gillian, but this mother-in-law is our army. Recently, our army's art troupe is recruiting literary and artistic soldiers who are educated, have performance talents and can speak the local dialect. I think Gillian is both beautiful and educated, which is quite suitable for being a literary soldier. Since Gillian is unhappy at home and doesn't want to get married, let her go to our army to exercise. The head of the art troupe, Wu, is my old comrade-in-arms and good friend, and I am ready to recommend Gillian to him. I wonder if you're willing to be an uncle? ”

"Great, of course I do!" Lin Nanhui couldn't keep her mouth shut. He was happy and a little worried, and asked: "Gillian is pampered and can't endure hardships, can the art troupe want her?" ”

Wang Hongju asked rhetorically: "You don't have to worry about this, the army is a melting pot, as long as it is a piece of iron, it can be made into steel!" ”

Lin Nanhui clasped his hands into fists and said, "Instructor, I thank you for Gillian first!" ”

Wang Hong raised his hand and said, "What's the hurry?" Don't thank me yet, I don't know if Gillian will agree. ”

"Agree, Uncle agrees, she agrees!" Lin Nanhui patted his chest vigorously.

"Company Commander Lin, you first ask someone to bring a letter to Gillian and ask her to come again in a few days."

"Okay."

After Lin Nanhui left happily, Wang Hongju returned to his house and wrote a letter of recommendation to the head of the art troupe, Wu. A few days later, Lin Meijiao came to the company again to visit her brother, and Lin Nanhui brought Gillian to Wang Hongju. He pointed to Wang Hongju and said to Gillian: "Gillian, he is my instructor Comrade Wang Hongju." ”

"Hello instructor!" Gillian greeted Wang Hongju, and she glanced at Wang Hongju with big watery eyes and lowered her head shyly. Wang Hongju carefully looked at the girl in front of him, and saw Gillian Tingting standing curly like a beauty in the wind, and couldn't help but praise: "There are beautiful women in the south, one smile is in the city, and the other is in the country." Gillian is really beautiful! ”

Lin Nanhui then added: "My niece is not only beautiful, but also literate and hyphenated and can sing and dance. ”

Wang Hongju asked Gillian: "Gillian, are you willing to participate in the art troupe?" ”

Gillian happily replied, "I do." ”

Wang Hongju said solemnly: "Your personal conditions are very good, I think the head of the art troupe Wu will definitely want you!" And I'm your sponsor, he can't help but give me face! However, you have to work hard in the art troupe, and you can't embarrass me! ”

Lin Meijiao happily bowed to Wang Hongju and thanked her: "Thank you, instructor!" (To be continued......)