On 1 October 1949, Chairman *** solemnly announced the founding of the People's Republic of China from the top of Tiananmen Gate, and the Chinese people stood up from then on.

This solemn proclamation was like a spring thunder that woke up the earth, heralding a new era and the beginning of a new chapter.

On the same day, Chiang Kai-shek was in Guangzhou, deploying the policy of "defending South China." However, he may not know that a group of Kuomintang politicians under him are going to the Guandi Temple to find a fortune teller to predict the fate of the Republic of China.

For these Kuomintang politicians, perhaps it is precisely because they are no longer able to control the national fortunes that they will turn to the interpretation of the heavens by the charlatans, in order to avoid disasters and seek blessings.

The fortune teller was overjoyed to see so many dignitaries and nobles coming to him for guidance, and naturally he was speechless and endless.

When asked if we could take a turn for the rest of the day when we retreated to the southeast corner, the fortune teller replied: "The revival of Hanbao is in sight, and the Central Plains is in sight."

When asked about the good luck and evil in Yangcheng again, the fortune teller replied: "Jun asked Yangcheng, the five sheep are free from disaster, and it is rare to have a hard ambition in the end, and He is familiar with running away, which is the will of heaven."

The fortune teller gushed endlessly, spitting lotus flowers, which made these dignitaries very happy, imagining that with God's help, Guangzhou would be safe. If these dignitaries had known that this fortune teller was just doing what he liked and deliberately coaxed them with sweet words, and half a month later, Guangzhou was occupied by the People's Liberation Army, would they let this fortune teller who spit lotus flowers foam at the mouth on the spot?

At the same time as these dignitaries were divining and divining, the People's Liberation Army was rapidly moving southward and had completed its deployment to attack Guangzhou.

On October 2, the day after the first National Day of New China, the Battle of Guangdong began.

Just a month earlier, on 2 September, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) flew over the dangerous Wuling Mountains in northern Guangdong by different routes, breaking through the enemy's boasted "Guangdong-Hunan-Jiangxi defense line."

In fact, as early as April 1949, when the People's Liberation Army's million-strong division crossed the Yangtze River to liberate Nanjing, the rule of the Kuomintang was effectively declared extinct. The remnants of the Kuomintang government fled to Canton in an attempt to put up a stubborn resistance. The three Kuomintang corps stationed in Guangdong, numbering about 150,000 people, were all under the command of Yu Hanmou, commander of the South China Military and Political Chief's Office. The Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense gave Yu Hanmou an instruction to consolidate northern Guangdong and secure Guangzhou.

On 10 October, although Yan Xishan and others were at a loss in Guangzhou, on that day they still held a "Double Tenth Festival" celebration rally in the auditorium of the Pacification Office, organized 5,000 people to hold a commemorative rally at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, and finally sent planes to drop anti-communist leaflets and carry out anti-communist propaganda on the streets, expressing their vow to defend Guangzhou to the death and fight to the death against the PLA.

However, it is ironic that under the powerful offensive of the People's Liberation Army, Yan Xishan, the premier of the Kuomintang Administration, immediately fled to Taiwan, and the slogan of fighting to the death with the communist army is still in his ears.

At 0:00 on 12 October, Acting President Li Zongren officially announced that the Nationalist Government had moved to Chongqing.

On October 13, Li Zongren left Guangzhou and flew to Guilin, and Chiang Ching-kuo once sighed in his diary: "My father has spent a lot of effort in the defense of Guangzhou!" “

On 14 October, seeing that the defeat was assured, the Kuomintang made a final struggle, and before retreating, blew up the old Haizhu Bridge in Guangzhou. In the afternoon of the same day, the 127th and 128th Divisions of the 43rd Army and the 132nd Division of the 44th Army, which were responsible for seizing Guangzhou, marched from Fogang, Conghua, Zengcheng, Huaxian, and other places, and the whole city was liberated that night.

Guangzhou was liberated, China's last first-class city was liberated, and the last nest of the Kuomintang on Chinese mainland was overturned.

Since then, the sacred and solemn land of the People's Republic of China, from the Pamir Plateau in the west to the mouth of the Yangtze River in the east, the five-star red flag is constantly replacing the blue sky and white sun flag and fluttering on the map of China.

When the news of the liberation of Guangzhou came, Yulin was so excited that he couldn't help himself. Guangzhou, for Yulin, is the hometown where he was born and grew up, and it is also the homeland where his relatives are buried here, and now he has finally returned to the embrace of the people.

Recalling the years in Guangzhou, Yu Lin's mood was difficult to calm down, Yu Lin sat on the sofa, listening to the news about the liberation of Guangzhou on the radio, and there seemed to be an unforgettable scene of struggle with the Japanese invaders. Father, mother, second uncle, second aunt, eldest brother Yuting, Uncle Yao, Doctor Huang, Brother Ma and other deceased figures suddenly appeared in front of him, pulling his thoughts far and far away all at once......

"Yulin, what are you thinking?" Yu Rong leaned on Yu Lin's shoulder, looking at his deep and distant gaze.

"Yurong, Guangzhou has been liberated, I really want to go back and see." Yu Lin stroked Yurong's hair.

"Me too, Guangzhou has been separated for seven or eight years, right?"

"Seven years and five months. I wonder if my father's grave is overgrown with weeds and barren. I, as a son, can neither serve tea and pour water for my parents before their deaths, but also fail to provide for their old age and send them to the end, and let their tombs be barren and grassy, as a son of man, I am really ashamed of my father. Yulin couldn't help but feel sad.

"Yulin, don't say that, the old lady is the person who knows you best, you gave up your family and life for the sake of the people, they will not blame you, they will definitely be proud of you."

Yu Lin looked at Yu Rong silently and hugged Yu Rong tightly in his arms.

When Guangzhou had just been liberated, all walks of life were in ruins, the social order was turned upside down, the social atmosphere was also a miasma, and all kinds of illegal and criminal acts were rampant. Considering that Lu Yulin was from Guangzhou and had a better understanding of Guangzhou's customs and social conditions, the higher-level leaders decided to let Lu Yulin return to Guangzhou to manage public security.

Lu Yulin received an order from his superiors to go to Guangzhou and take up the post of director of the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau. Returning to his hometown has always been Lu Yulin's long-cherished wish, and now he can finally achieve his wish.

On the bank of the Huangpu River, the river breeze was blowing slowly, Mingfeng and Yulin were standing by the river, and the two seemed to have endless words.

"Yulin, you are about to go to Guangzhou to take up your post, you and the children are leaving, and our yard is really deserted. I really can't bear to let you go. Ming Feng patted Yulin on the shoulder.

"I can't bear to be here, we've been here for seven or eight years, and these seven or eight years have been thrilling years, and they are also unforgettable years." Yu Lin looked at the surging river and felt a lot: "Mingfeng, here we have fought side by side, there have been laughter and tears we have left, there have been blood we have spilled and pain we have experienced, these unforgettable marks are indelible." “

"Yes, the bloody storm we have experienced over the years is unforgettable." Ming Feng empathized with Yu Lin's emotion.

"Shanghai is Shuxian's hometown, which is my hometown. Mingfeng, don't worry, when the children are on winter and summer vacations in the future, I will often bring them back to visit all of you. Yu Lin turned his head and looked at Ming Feng with a smile.

Ming Feng patted Yulin on the shoulder: "Yulin, before leaving, do you have any other requirements?" “

"Nothing else, I just want to move the remains of Shuxian and Ah Cheng to our Lu family's ancestral grave, I once told Yurong to let her bury our Lu family together no matter what, I once told her that if our Lu family can't stay together before we die, then let's continue to be next to each other after death."

Ming Feng nodded solemnly: "I can understand, okay, I'll arrange this matter for you." Then I will go to the mass grave near the Secret Bureau tomorrow and move Ah Cheng's remains out first. “

"I'll go with you." Yu Lin said gloomily: "I want to go and see Ah Cheng's grave." ”

The next day, Mingfeng and Yulin took several public security officers to the mass grave near the Secret Bureau, in this cemetery, Yulin and Mingfeng searched for a long time, only in an inconspicuous corner, they saw a grave bag, on which a wooden sign was inserted, on which the book: Yuan Guicheng's tomb.

Yu Lin stood in front of Ah Cheng's tomb, remembering Ah Cheng's last moment, and the cry of tears: "Young master, Ah Cheng was born as a member of the Lu family and died as a ghost of the Lu family, and Ah Cheng took the first step." ”

Yu Lin couldn't help but burst into tears: "Ah Cheng, I'll take you home and go back to Lu's house." ”

Yu Lin and Ming Feng personally dug up Ah Cheng's coffin from the mass grave and then loaded it into the car.

Ming Feng patted the soil on his hands, turned around, and saw a wooden sign inserted on a tomb not far away, which read: 'Lu Yulin's Tomb'.

"Yulin, come and see."

Ming Feng greeted Yu Lin, Yu Lin ran over, and when he saw his tomb, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

"I guess this must be Tan Jingting's handiwork. If he hadn't moved flowers and trees to confuse the public, I might have returned to Jiuquan a long time ago. Yu Lin admired Tan Jingting's strategy very much.

"Yes, the dungeon of the Secret Bureau is so tight, if it weren't for Tan Jingting, we wouldn't have been able to rescue you from the secret bureau's cave, and Tan Jingting not only rescued you unconsciously, but also blamed Zhu Hongda, and got rid of Zhu Hongda by Pang Tianxi's hand, thus replacing him in the first position of the Secret Bureau, which opened the door for us to rescue the comrades in prison, intercept the materials shipped to Taiwan, and let those spies who tried to destroy Shanghai show their original form and be wiped out by us." Xu Mingfeng was also full of praise for Tan Jingting.

"Indeed, Brother Tan has contributed greatly to the liberation of Shanghai."

"Yulin, then guess who is buried in this tomb?" Ming Feng asked Yu Lin curiously.

"According to my understanding of Tan Jingting, the person buried inside should be Ah Qiang, there is no Qi Ruiqiang among the large and small spies arrested by the Security Bureau, I guess he should lie here, Tan Jingting knows that Ah Qiang kidnapped my son and tortured me, so Tan Jingting will not let Ah Qiang go, he is avenging me! He is also really well-intentioned. ”

"Tan Jingting is really a talent, but unfortunately, he wants to live a reclusive life now."

"After I go back to Guangzhou, I will invite him out of the mountains, it's a pity that a talent like him is buried in the mountains and wilderness."

"Tan Jingting mainly has too many concerns, he feels that he has arrested the Communist Party, and he has the blood of the Communist Party on his hands, especially when facing you, he has a sense of guilt, he will feel that if he didn't order you to arrest you, you would not have been tortured by Ah Qiang's gang, so he felt that he had committed an unforgivable sin, and there was a dead knot in his heart, which just shows that Tan Jingting is a very affectionate person. It seems that the bell must be tied to the bell, and only you can open the knot. ”

"Well, Brother Tan is indeed a person who values love and righteousness, and he is also a responsible person, I will definitely convince him."

"I have already informed the comrades in northern Jiangsu of Shuxian's coffin, and they will soon transport Shuxian's remains to Shanghai."

Yu Lin shook Ming Feng's hand and nodded gratefully.

Yulin left Shanghai with the pot-bellied Yurong and the children and headed for Guangzhou. The fat aunt was not worried about Yurong, who was about to give birth, and insisted on following Yulin to Guangzhou, but Yulin and Yurong could only agree.

Before leaving, Mingfeng, Shuyan, Tiger Boy, and Shengnan all came to see off Yulin's family, and on the platform, everyone was reluctant.