Chapter 5: The Old Soldier Returns Home (5) The Old Man Meets the Soldier
It is a rare thing for a Taiwanese army general who has returned to China to visit relatives to go to City A on the mainland, and the old man is also a well-known entrepreneur in Taiwan, which will inevitably attract the attention of the personnel of the 'Federation of Overseas Chinese' and the 'United Front' department in City A, and finally even the reporters and hosts of the TV station will also come.
For such a big battle, Guo's mother and brother have been prepared for a long time, and they have always been polite to the people who came to see him, and at the same time, they talked and laughed at the same time, but they were also noble and elegant.
'Old man, what year did you go to the terrace?' The host of the provincial TV station finally got scheduled, and she came to Guo's mother's brother's room for an interview.
'In the second half of 1948, when I was married to my second wife, I was crushed by the gendarmes on the plane before we could be reunited! ’
'Second wife? ’
'Yes, I love her very much, my first wife was not in good health, it was an arranged marriage, and she rarely died,'
Do you want your new wife now? ’
'Think, I miss her very much, I haven't seen her for more than 40 years, maybe she's still alive, the reason why I want you to make this TV show is also to figure out how the media can find her! ’
'Find her, aren't you afraid that your current wife will not be happy, this can be called 'jealousy' in our continent! Hahaha! ’
I think she'll understand me! ’
'Then please tell me about your second wife in front of the TV crowd!' ’
'Okay, she is a certain person in Rehe Province, surnamed so-and-so, if she is still alive now, she should be 64 years old, her name is so-and-so! ’
In the nineties of the last century, people watched television after work, and the ratings of the provincial television station were very high, and the programs that interviewed the two sides of the strait were very high. It didn't take long for many letters to fly into the hands of Guo's mother and brother like snowflakes, and some of the letters also contained photos of the early years, but after comparing them one by one, there was no news of his second wife.
I see that these old ladies are here to cheat and cheat, they must know that our uncle is rich and want to recognize relatives, but fortunately, my uncle is not confused now. Not deceived! The sister-in-law of the Guo family was already very impressed that Guo's mother and brother were not in a hurry after losing the money, especially the relatives in the terrace, and soon remitted 100,000 US dollars to the old man, this money is not a small amount, some people have never seen so much money in their lives, and the itching of the roots of her teeth also occurred on her body.
In '48 and 49, there were more veterans who went to the terrace, and of course there were people in the same situation as my uncle, and they didn't say anything in the letter, but just came to ask if it was. Sister-in-law, I think you're thinking too much! Guan Yue felt that the Guo family's sister-in-law looked down on the poor too much, and to be honest, she married Guo Kaiwei. Otherwise, maybe she is still farming in the countryside.
"I said the third family, I think you have become more and more disdainful of me recently, why is the third child angry with you again." You hold your breath at home, don't send it to me, no matter how bad I am, it's your sister-in-law. That's a terrible thing to say! ’
"Sister-in-law, I don't care if I'm angry at home, but you can't look down on the poor, yes, I and Xiaoshan and his father are in conflict, but it doesn't mean that I have to sprinkle my anger on you, my uncle has money is his own, we as juniors, it's too late to help him be happy, how can I say this, in case I can find it,' Guan Yue and Guo Kaishan's divorce has been decided, for Guo Kaishan's future, her marriage is indispensable.
Just a week after the TV program was shown, a civil affairs officer from a poor county in this province called Guo Kaiying, because the contact number left by Guo's mother and brother was his, so Guo Kaiying also shouldered the responsibility of his uncle to find his relatives.
Is it Comrade Guo Kaiying? ’
'It's me, who are you?' ’
"I am from the Civil Affairs Bureau of a county in our province, and there is an old lady from a five-guarantee household in our county, and she said that she seems to be the long-lost ex-wife that your uncle is looking for."
'yes. ’
Then I'll give you her information, you remember it, go back and ask the old man, her name is so-and-so, she said that your uncle's surname is Liu, is this right? ’
'Yes. ’
'It's a person from a certain place in Rehe Province, brothers and sisters in the family~~,'
Guo Kaiying made a complete record of what he heard on the phone, and when he sent this information to Guo's mother and brother after getting off work, the old man looked at it a few times and it was already confirmed.
'I didn't expect her to be alive, where is she, I want to see her right away!' Guo's mother's brother looked a little excited, and his wife immediately took out the medicine for heart disease and gave it to the old man.
'Uncle, you have to be a little prepared for this old lady's situation, she married again after you left, three years later, and now her old man has passed away, she has no children, she is a five-guarantee household, her family is not too far away, it is two or three hours by car, if you really want to see her, I will drive to pick her up tomorrow! It was late at night, and Guo Kaiying didn't want his uncle to walk overnight.
Brother Guo's mother couldn't understand the good intentions of the little nephew, "Then I won't go tonight, but I have to go to see her in person tomorrow, not to mention that she has waited for me for three years, that is, one year, and it is worthy of me, our national army has lost the world at that time, she must have lived a very difficult life, I want to compensate her." ’
After more than 40 years, Fang met again, when the Guo brothers accompanied their uncle to the old lady's house, everyone was shocked, under the low grass house, it was made of mud, and the dilapidated yard made people unable to reminisce, how did the old lady live for so many years, when Guo's mother and brother saw the former wife, two lines of tears involuntarily flowed down.
When the two old men were in the past, the Guo brothers were waiting in the car, and after a long time, Guo's mother and brother walked back to the car, invited out their own wife, and then walked into the low grass house.
After waiting for her husband for three years, she received 30,000 US dollars as a reward, which was a huge amount of money in the nineties of the last century, which was enough for an old lady over sixty years old to spend the rest of her life in peace.
As soon as Guo's mother and brother, who were originally very energetic, got into the car, they were paralyzed, and it was not until the car drove back to City A that he sighed and said, "She is also a person with a hard life!" ’
After making a wish, Guo's mother and brother planned to return to their hometown to worship their ancestors. In order to achieve consummation, the second sum of 100,000 US dollars from the platform came again, and in the ancestral hall of the Liu clan in a certain place in Rehe Province in the past, there was a head drive, and they all received a huge amount of money from Guo's mother and brother in advance, and built a new dilapidated ancestral hall, waiting for the arrival of Guo's mother and brother.
The old people over the age of 60 still remember that there was such a young man in the clan who was a high-ranking official of the national army, and after everyone shushed the cold and asked for warmth, the large-scale ancestor worship ceremony began, according to the local tradition. To burn the yellow paper to tell the ancestors to heaven, Guo's mother and brother specially wrote a series of thousands of words of sacrifice, after reading, and very devout to the ancestral tablet to worship, because the ancestral tomb of Guo's mother and brother was damaged during the turmoil, Guo's mother and brother also and the young descendants of the clan, the parents' grave on a big 'grave bag. ’
The next stop after leaving a place in Rehe Province is the capital, accompanied by the Guo brothers, Guo's mother and his wife and Guo's mother. I had a thorough tour of the capital.
After going to the 'Tiananmen' Gate and walking into the 'Leader's Memorial Hall', Brother Guo's mother looked at the old leader's face very carefully, and he said with emotion. 'Thirty merits, fame, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons, no matter how great a person is, there will always be a day when he closes his eyes. I've heard about this person for a long time, and when I see it today, the style is still the same! I'm not as good as my generation. I'm not as good as my generation! ’
Guo's mother didn't have any feelings for the old leader, she just walked briskly, and then sat at the exit of the memorial hall and lit her own cigarette.
'Big brother, sit down for a while, smoke a cigarette and rest!' Since Guo's mother was hit last time, her legs and feet have not recovered sharply, and it may be that she has walked too much today and is a little tired.
Guo's mother and brother saw that the little sister smoked, and his own addiction to smoking also came up, and he also lit a '555,' Guo's mother and sister-in-law did not smoke, and when they saw that the two fireworks were facing him, he got up and avoided it.
Smoking naturally has to flick the ashes, Guo's mother and Guo's mother and brother talked and laughed at the same time, the cigarette ashes and discarded cigarette butts also fell to the place, and then an old man with a red armband came over.
'Comrade, don't litter here!' You just threw two cigarette butts, one for five dollars, and a fine of ten dollars, take the money! ’
Guo's mother has been alive and well in China, and she is no stranger to the actions of this old man with red armbands, she immediately extinguished the cigarette butt in her hand, and said apologetically, "We admit punishment, we admit punishment." ’
Guo's mother's elder brother Zecai was puzzled by the younger sister's behavior, and he asked very sharply, "This old gentleman, I want to ask you, is it okay to smoke here?" ’
The old man with the red armband looked Guo's mother and brother up and down, "It's not written here, so naturally it can be drawn." ’
Then let me ask you, if you can smoke here, why don't you have a peel box, we sit here and smoke, where do you let us throw the cigarette butts?" ’
"I don't care if there is a peel box or not, anyway, I saw the two of you throwing cigarette butts, don't bother, pay the fine, two ten yuan!" ’
Guo's mother and brother stopped the little sister from taking out the money, and he talked to the old man with the red armband again, and at this time, there were more onlookers.
The old man with the red armband was not 'fighting' alone, there were several old friends who also wore red armbands around him, and these people also surrounded Guo's mother and brother, shouting loudly.
'I am a veteran who has returned from Taiwan, this is my Taiwan compatriot card, I really didn't expect that you are not a legal society here, if you want to fine, but the tag is marked, so that it can have a warning effect, and now you are not ready for the leather box, and there is no brand, I am not convinced! ’
In the distance, an old man with a red armband on his arm never came over, he was looking at this side noisily, when Guo's mother and brother revealed his identity to everyone, he walked over slowly, "You said that you are a veteran of the national army, can you let me see your Taiwan compatriot card?" ’
Guo's mother and brother thought that they had met the leaders of these 'old men with red armbands', and they could finally find the person to say the salute, so they handed the Taiwan compatriot card to the old man.
After receiving the Taiwan compatriot card, the old man with the red armband turned around and left without looking at it, and he said to a few accomplices around him, "Let them pay the fine, and if they don't pay his documents, they won't return their documents!" ’
'Yes, Commander Liu, we will resolutely follow your instructions!' , I said the old man on the terrace, did you listen, our Commander Liu has said it, don't talk nonsense, pay you! (To be continued......)