After your grandmother was arrested, she was tortured, but she remained steadfast. After being imprisoned for a month, he was secretly executed by the Japanese puppet army, and the execution ground was on that river beach. She was killed at the same time as more than 30 soldiers of the New Fourth Army or underground members of the Chinese Communist Party.

Yao fled through the back door with me in her arms, returned to her parents' house, and declared that I was her own child. Yao had no culture, wrapped her little feet, and she took me with me until the day of liberation five years later.

After liberation, the people became the masters of their own country, and the country ushered in a new world. But for Yao, the nightmare has just begun.

At the beginning of 1949, his hometown was liberated, Zheng Kemin became the battalion commander of the People's Liberation Army, and he returned to his hometown in fine clothes. However, when he returned to his home, he was surprised to see that Yao was carrying a nine-year-old boy. He turned around and brushed his sleeves away, immediately making his parents and parents-in-law who came to welcome him tremble with fright.

Although Yao has applied to the people's government and reinstated my status as a martyr's child, Yao has also been rewarded by the government for this. Although the four elderly people, relatives and friends in the family all confirmed to him that I was indeed an orphan adopted by the Yao family during the extraordinary period, he still could not accept the Yao family, let alone me.

It turned out that after your grandfather Lin Ziqiao was killed, the news that your grandmother was arrested and killed by the enemy in the line of duty soon spread to your grandfather's old unit. Soon there was news that Lin Xueer was killed at the same time as her son.

Although this news was proven wrong due to me and Yao's appearance, it was a few years ago. He couldn't believe that in the critical situation that the enemy had already broken through the door, the small-footed Yao clan was almost weak, and he could still calmly escape through the back door with me.

He neither refutes nor accepts the explanation that Yao has given him, and deep down, he does not admit that I am the son of Lin Ziqiao and Lin Xue'er. I remember very well that Yao saw that the time for him to return to the team was approaching, but he didn't accept her and me at all, and he was desperate, and even said something that women of that era couldn't say at all.

I remember that one night on the eve of the army's march south, Yao knelt at his feet and said, "You are suspicious of me, I can prove my innocence with death." But I'm dead, what will happen to this child? You can't bear to let him go to the Invalides School and be an orphan? He has no parents anymore, he is sick and weak, and I don't want him to lose another mother. It's easy to prove my innocence, in fact, after all these years of marriage, you have never touched me, and I am still a daughter ......"

However, before she could finish speaking, Zheng Kemin, who was angry and angry, had already slammed the door and left.

He soon went south with the army, and as a military cadre, he remained in the provincial capital from then on. In 1951, he took the initiative to dissolve his marriage with Yao, and re-established a family with a beautiful lady in the provincial capital, a female college student from the National Provincial University. Moreover, this lady later gave birth to two boys and two girls, a total of four children.

Yao's young widow took me to live a difficult life.

She never remarried, and she took me like her own son. Yao's parents and in-laws soon fell into ruins, and her life was unimaginable, how difficult and desolate it was. She has no skills, no culture, and has been bound since she was a child, so she can't do heavy work. All she could do was paste matchboxes in the street factory, which couldn't feed the two of us at all.

She is good-looking, she was born in a large family, and it is not difficult to remarry. Someone came to the door to propose, and her parents also wanted her to remarry. However, she refused again and again. It wasn't until I grew up that I realized that it was Zheng Kemin who made her afraid and desperate for men, and she was afraid that she would find another person like this and make me feel wronged again.

The people's government found out about our difficulties and specially transferred her to the county government canteen to work as a worker, and we barely survived. However, due to years of depression and unhappiness, she became ill from hard work, and her health became worse and worse.

During the three years of natural disasters, she became seriously ill, her whole body was swollen, she collapsed at once, never got up again, and finally died in early 1962. After I buried my adoptive mother, who had been so kind to me, my life soon fell into an even more hopeless situation.

Although as a child of martyrs, I received a lot of care from the people's government, but after Yao's death, I was still an orphan, and my health has always been poor and I can't do physical work.

In fact, when my adoptive mother and I were in trouble, your grandfather Lin Ziqiao's comrades-in-arms never forgot us. When I was in a desperate situation, they also reached out to me and actively coordinated to arrange me to work at Marina Farm as a general manager. The farm was still a labor camp at the time, which was relatively easy and did suit me very well. That's where I met your mother.

But I later proposed that I want to be transferred to the place where my mother sacrificed, and I will take any job. So, then I went to the school, first to watch the gate, but also to do it in the cafeteria, and then Zuihou went to the school-run factory. After I came to work at the school, your current grandfather, Zheng Kemin, also sent someone to contact me twice, wanting to transfer me to the provincial capital to work.

I know it's just a gesture for him. However, after so many years of suffering and the tragic death of my adoptive mother, I can't forget it, and I can't forgive his indifference and ruthlessness. Besides, your mother and I were already married at this time, so I was very determined to give up.

"I don't want to bring these things to the coffin, I originally wanted to tell you when you grow up. I tell you this, I hope you all remember that you, like Xiaoyu, are the descendants of the martyrs, and you should cherish each other and help each other. Like your grandparents, no matter how hard and poor you are, you must continue to strive for self-improvement and live with your head held high. ”

"So you named me Lin Xue to commemorate my grandmother, right?"

In the process of narrating, Lin Xue couldn't control her emotions at all, and tears fell down her eyes. After the forester had finished speaking, she stood up and walked outside to the pool to wash her face. Then, she said to the forest worker, "Dada, I want to burn paper for Grandma and Grandma Yao tomorrow." ”

The next day was the weekend.

After breakfast, Yu Songyuan rode to the street to buy fire and offerings, and at nine o'clock in the morning, he followed the foresters along the embankment to the upper reaches of the Guan River. After walking for several kilometers into the confluence of the Guan River and the Tangxiang River, the foresters descended the embankment and entered the bush-covered alluvial delta to a relatively flat meadow. Lin Gong faced the river embankment and placed the offerings, poured wine into the two bowls, and then knelt down solemnly, Lin Xue knelt down, and Yu Songyuan also quickly knelt down.

Lin Gong lit incense, raised it to the sky and bowed, then took it in his hand and whispered:

"Mom, my son has come to see you again, bring you something to eat, and send you some money to spend. More than forty years ago, you and Da Weiguo sacrificed their lives to leave their young son alone on this shijie. Today, I brought your granddaughter and son-in-law to see you. Mom, may you be in the Spirit of Heaven and bless your grandchildren with a safe life. Mother, the world is long, the soul is not far away, you and Dadu rest in peace, I and your children and grandchildren, will live well, and will come to see you every year......"

The frail and sick forest workers wept like a complaint, unable to tell the endless nostalgia for their father and mother, and the tears of decades of longing. He put the incense on the ground, and then, respectfully, bowed four heads. Lin Xue and Yu Songyuan also followed him and kowtowed four times to his grandmother and the martyrs!

The forester lit the fire paper again, and Yu Songyuan slowly scattered the dark coins into the fire. The black smoke and dust, rushing xiangshang, rushed out of the bushes and rushed towards the sky.

Lin Xue asked, "Great, is grandma from here?" ”

Lin Gong nodded, "This is the place where your grandmother Zuihou was righteous, this was the execution ground of the Japanese puppet army, from March 39 to March 39, to the surrender of the Japanese invaders in 1945, there are thousands of ***, New Fourth Army and anti-Japanese people who were killed here." ”

After the memorial service, the three of them walked along the river embankment Xiangxia, walked about four or five kilometers away, and arrived next to the county seat. Here is another tributary of the Guan River, called the Waste Yellow River. At the confluence of the Guan River and the abandoned Yellow River, there is a large area of forest on the embankment, and a large wasteland under the embankment, which turned out to be a mass graveyard.

The forester took them in, and soon found the tomb of the Yao family, only to see that the tombstone read "The tomb of the virtuous Yao." Lin Gong first put on the offerings, lit incense and inserted it on the ground, and then took Lin Xue to kneel respectfully, and Yu Songyuan also knelt down and kowtowed to Yao's four heads.

Lin Gong lit the fire paper, Lin Xue helped turn money with a wooden stick, and said: "Grandma, xiexie, you saved me back then, and you will also be my grandmother in the future, every year, I will come to see you and send you money to spend......"

Yu Songyuan has refilled the grave and dug the top of the grave when Lin Xue's father and daughter turned into paper.

After the forest workers returned to their hometowns, Lin Xue was uneasy at night and couldn't sleep, so Yu Songyuan sat on the trestle with her, and the general sat quietly beside them, and the three of them listened to the sound of the rushing waves and quietly looked at the black river.

Suddenly, Lin Xue asked, "Brother Yu, I can't imagine it. If we lived in their time, do you think we would be like them, fighting devils and not afraid of sacrifice? Then he said quietly, "And so they went, leaving not even a grave behind." ”

Yu Songyuan said, "Girl, the people have not forgotten them, and the monument to the revolutionary heroes in the martyrs' cemetery in our county also records their immortal exploits!" Seeing Lin Xue's sad and sad appearance, he said distressedly, "I know what you are thinking, and when there are conditions in the future, I will definitely set up a monument at your grandmother's righteous place!" ”

In order to make her happy, he hugged her shoulders again and said, "You may not know, but I want to tell you during the day today that the place where your grandmother was righteous is the same place where I and the general caught pythons and badgers that day." When I was poor, it was your grandmother's spirit in heaven who blessed me. ”

Lin Xue was shocked and asked, "How is it possible?" You deceived me again, and you didn't know me then. ”

Since they knew each other's births, Yu Songyuan and Lin Xuexin became closer. They cherish each other, love each other, and love each other. However, perhaps what is difficult for the more unrestrained young people in modern times is that they love each other so much, but it is limited to holding hands, hugging each other, and kissing each other's lips, and they simply do not understand "kissing" in the modern sense.

People who take the college entrance examination are the same as those who are already in love, and they always feel that life flies. In the blink of an eye, the peachy and willow-green month of May has arrived. Beside the river beach and in the woodland, the grass and trees are thick, and the clusters of crape myrtles and wild roses are densely interspersed.

Since May, northern Jiangsu has entered the rainy season. From late May to early June, there were several intermittent thunderstorms. That night, lightning flashed and thunder roared, and torrential rain poured down. In the middle of the night, several thunderbolts woke Yu Songyuan up, and the continuous thunder made him, who had always been bold, feel terrified.

Suddenly, a panicked knock and Lin Xue cried and shouted clearly from the rain: "Brother Yu, open the door quickly!" Yu Songyuan hurriedly got up and opened the door, just at this moment, a lightning, the sky and the earth were white, and in the continuous thunder, a big fireball fell from the sky, rolled down to a big locust tree in front of the pool, and exploded like an earth-shattering sound, and the big locust tree was blown off by Qi Root, and it fell down with a bang.

The frightened Lin Xue screamed "whooping", and threw herself into Yu Songyuan's arms in despair, covering her ears with her hands, still trembling all over. The general also rushed in, whining and whispering, and it seemed to be frightened as well.