Until the surrender of the Japanese army, all the strongholds in the county were still posted everywhere with notices that the puppet county government would reward the heads of the Yu Xinhe brothers with 5,000 yuan.

After the surrender of the Japanese army, the two brothers, Yu Xinhe and Yu Xinmin, drove a carriage with two guns in their waists, and took the She sisters back to their hometown Yujia Village in a beautiful manner. At this time, the family was already deprived of tiles and destitute, but the villagers still jointly elected Yu Xinhe as the patriarch.

Yu Xinhe and Yu Xinmin built two large grass houses on the ruins of the Yu family's ancestral hall and the Yu family's old house. He dug out the books, utensils and a small amount of gold and silver that Mr. She had hidden back then, and was determined to start from scratch and revive the Yu family's business.

In the Spring Festival of the year of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the brothers married the She sisters respectively. The elder sister She Wenfang married Yu Xinhe, while the younger sister She Wenxiu married Yu Xinmin. It is said that the wedding ceremony was a major event in Yujia Village and even the whole county, and the squires from all over the country came to celebrate. At that time, before the breakdown of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the county magistrate of *** and the county magistrate of the Kuomintang came to congratulate him in person.

Before the start of the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the provincial chairman Han Deqin's beloved generals, the Kuomintang guerrilla commander-in-chief of the four counties in northern Jiangsu, Major General Xu Zhitai, had promised Yu Xinhe, who was only 20 years old, a high-ranking official of the head of the tax police regiment, but the Yu Xinhe brothers did not want to participate in the civil war, and the hatred of the country and the family had been avenged, so they were willing to hide among the people and become farmers.

What puzzled Yu Songyuan as an adult was that his father and master, who had a clear distinction between love and hate, weishenme did not join ***, which became a piece of Yu Songyuan's heart disease later, and he always wanted to understand.

Father and master, mother and aunt, have never been silent or secret about their whereabouts in those years. But Yu Songyuan still learned from the mouths of the old people in the village that maybe it was the death of his aunt that made them choose to volunteer for the people.

Although my aunt has repeatedly fought against the Japanese invaders and contributed to the country and the nation, he is an old soldier and a small landlord, and his personality is too upright and strong. In the course of rent and interest reduction and land reform, he was brutally struggled for his emotions and passive resistance, and finally died of depression. The aunt was also used as a landlord's wife, parade in the street to criticize and fight, and then because she was unwilling to be humiliated, on the third day after her aunt's death, she also committed suicide by throwing herself into the river.

Yu Songyuan himself also thinks that although his uncle is a landlord, the place where he is located was full of vast reeds and wilderness and grasslands, and all his land was not robbed and occupied by others, but he himself led his children and nephews to open up the wasteland, no wonder he couldn't figure out how to make a fuss. Thinking of this, Yu Songyuan began to understand the big and small master a little.

By that time, my aunt's son and nephews had fled to relatives in other places. The funeral of my uncle and aunt was undertaken by my father Yu Xinhe and my brother Yu Xinmin. The two brothers were famous, and there was no reason to criticize them, so the local cadres did not embarrass them.

Whether the death of his aunt is the only reason why his father Yu Xinhe and the brothers are willing to bury their names in the township, Yu Song is far from knowing. But he can be sure that the tragic deaths of his father, grandfather, and aunt, who are famous and invincible, and who once terrified the Japanese invaders, must have had an important impact on their life choices.

By the time the whole territory of northern Jiangsu was liberated in 1949, Yu Xinhe's home road had already been dilapidated, and only a few dilapidated thatched huts were left that leaked on all sides, and he had become an out-and-out destitute peasant household. At the time of the land reform, it was rated as a lower middle peasant. The only valuable things in the house are a few antiquities quietly raised from the dry well under the old house, including a few thread-bound ancient books, some calligraphy and paintings, porcelain, and a plaque of the Ming Dynasty.

During the "social education" movement, the "four olds" were popular in the village, as in other parts of the country. Yu Xinhe's father was a famous squire, although their family was already an out-and-out poor peasant at this time, but the "four olds" in the village still had to start from their family.

Yu Xinhe's third daughter, Yu Qin, took the initiative to take the activists to raid her home, which made the Yu Xinhe brothers heartbroken. These antiquities, which have been carefully treasured for many years and bear the imprint of ancestors and play a role in cultural inheritance, were instantly turned to ashes by the merciless flames.

Before the arrival of the raiders, the Yu Xinhe brothers hurriedly rolled up some of the thread-bound ancient books, hid them in a large urn for pickles, and buried them in the ground next to the latrine. These dozen books were spared and became the only heirloom worth cherishing for the Yu family later.

Although Yu Xinhe is an authentic farmer, he is able to martial arts and literature. He and his brother Yu Xinmin have practiced good martial arts since childhood. But in his bones, Yu Xinhe is still an upright and authentic old-style cultural person, with an authentic Soviet body with a majestic atmosphere and a long rainbow.

Due to their family history, the two brothers did not go to the Progressive School, let alone receive the influence of new ideas. When they were children, their families had private schools, and they and the She sisters were closed in the family school, and they had read the Four Books and Five Classics, studied the hundreds of schools, and the collections of the past dynasties were also widely read, and they had a profound Chinese cultural heritage.

But usually, the Yu brothers are extremely low-key, there is no sour and rotten atmosphere, and they are based on hard work in agriculture all their lives. They are diligent and thrifty, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, and their daily life is no different from that of the peasants in the village. Usually in the village, when someone has a red and white happy event and needs a couplet, they will come with their mouths open and write it out by hand, and that's it.

The professor and Mr. Chen came from southern Jiangsu, and two cars came to the village in the evening. As soon as the vehicle stopped, Zhou Kun surrounded them with armed militiamen holding guns and shouting slogans. The onlookers also shouted slogans, raised their arms into a forest, and the scene became a temporary criticism meeting.

The elderly professor and the lame teacher Chen lowered their heads and listened to Zhou Kun announce various reform policies for the "four types of elements". The old, weak, sick and disabled, the helpless orphans and widows, the two delicate and beautiful young women, and the three-year-old girl who was frightened and crying in the arms of the young woman, were like a flock of sheep falling into a wolf pack.

Yu Xinhe couldn't stand it anymore, he separated the crowd of onlookers, "Old Zhou, it's getting late, let the old and the young settle down first!" As he spoke, he said loudly to the surrounding crowd, "Those who are willing to help stay, and those who are not willing to help will soon disperse!" ”

As soon as the words came out, the crowd gradually began to disperse. Zhou Kun was on the rise, but when he saw that Yu Xinhe and Yu Xinmin had already led people to help unload the truck, he had to hastily withdraw the troops and disperse with the militia.

It gets dark early in the countryside. That night, by the time the professor and Mr. Chen had cleaned up, it was already eight o'clock in the evening. She Wenfang and She Wenxiu had already cooked at Yu Songyuan's house, stir-fried vegetables, and opened two bottles of sweet potato roast, inviting the two families to come over for dinner.

One table for adults and one table for children. The children had already mingled with Yu Songyuan and Yu Songquan when they were unloading and putting things in the two houses. They had been hungry for a long time, and they had eaten vigorously at this moment.

The adults of the two families were beaten as soon as they got off the bus, and now there is wine and food on the table, and they all burst into tears. The professor said, "Boss Yu, Elder Yu, when I unloaded the car just now, I knew that the location of the house was so good, and it was your brothers who fought for it. Fortunately, in the afternoon, it was you who broke the siege again, and my old woman toasted your brother first. ”

Teacher Chen also said with emotion, "I can see that the eldest brother and sister-in-law are all people in the martial arts, chivalrous and courageous, benevolent and righteous." We are all guilty of sin, and in the future, our two families will have to trouble you. The two young women also said one after another, thanking them endlessly.

Yu Xinhe stood up, "Professor, Teacher Chen, you two are from the homeland of our ancestors, you are here, it is fate, we are all very happy." Today is a pick-up for you, and we won't say anything unhappy! As he spoke, he led the whole family with Yu Xinmin and gave them a toast.

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Since the beginning of the "Hongwu dispersal", although more than 600 years have passed, the Northern Su Yu clan has also spread throughout South China, East China and the vast areas of the central and western regions. But through genealogical praise and oral transmission from generation to generation, generation after generation of Yu descendants keep in mind their roots - Suzhou Changmen.

In fact, not only the Yu family, but also in the three cities of Yangzhou, Huaiyin, and Yancheng in northern Jiangsu today, almost all people say in unison that their ancestral home is Suzhou Changmen, and they are descendants of Changmen.

It is precisely because their ancestors are from Jiangnan, their roots are in Wuzhong, and their ancestral shade is in ancient Suzhou County, so the people of the Yu clan in northern Jiangsu naturally come to relatives of the people who came from the ancestral home of the Yu clan in Jiangnan in the sixties and seventies. In modern Mandarin, there is a natural sense of closeness.

Yu Xinhe, as the respected patriarch of the Yu clan, is the most prestigious person in Yujia Village for decades since the Anti-Japanese War, and is also the natural backbone of the villagers. Even though the rebels fought vigorously in other villages, none of them dared to do anything wrong in Yujia Village and spread wild at will.

In those chaotic years of hunger and precariousness, the brothers Yu Xinhe and Yu Xinmin carefully sheltered the professor and Mr. Chen. There is no objection to engaging in sports, but it is not okay to abuse them for no reason. For this reason, they also formed a grudge with the cadres of the brigade and some people with ulterior motives, and planted a curse for themselves.

The two families of the professor and Mr. Chen trembled and settled in Yujia Village. The happiest thing about the naughty boy Yu Songyuan is that he has two new partners. Only seven years old, it was then that he received a harsh lesson in family law for the first time.

The professor's daughter-in-law, Yu Yueyue, is a well-known performing artist in the provincial capital, and less than a week after she was sent to Yujia Village, she was targeted by Zhou Jianguo, the secretary of the brigade.

That morning, Yu Yueyue was drying the quilt on the wire in front of the door. It happened that Zhou Jianguo was passing by on a bicycle and saw Yu Yueyue, a widow like a willow shaken by the wind, was combing the quilt in front of the door, so he jumped off the bicycle and stepped forward to ask for warmth.

Zhou Jianguo looked very caring in front of the professor, and put his hand on Yu Yueyue's shoulder. Yu Yueyue's care for the secretary did not dare to resist, so she had to skillfully avoid his pig hands and pour him a bowl of water in the house.

Zhou Jianguo was used to being powerful, and when he saw that Yu Yueyue was deliberately avoiding him, the fire in his heart rose.

He didn't take Yu Yueyue's bowl, but he lectured the professor and Yu Yueyue in a loud voice, "You are here to be re-educated, don't dislike us poor middle peasants, don't stubbornly stand on the opposite side of the revolutionary masses." I'm going to give you a good lesson, I'm going to have a meeting all day today, and I'm ...... in the evening."

Before he finished speaking, Yu Songyuan, who was only seven years old at the time, saw that Zhou Jianguo was bullying women, and he was bullying professors and aunts, he was indignant and full of slingshots, and after aiming accurately, his little hand was loosened, and with a "poof", a small pebble the size of a thumb was accurately hit in the middle of Zhou Jianguo's head.

Although he is only a seven-year-old naughty boy, Yu Songyuan has a lot of caution and energy. He had no idea how powerful the stone would be or what danger it would cause. With a "plop", Zhou Jianguo fell to the ground in response, and the big reason behind him was naturally beaten back by Shengsheng......