Wang Kui's family is in Sifangtai, his family is poor, and he herds pigs for the landlord at the age of seven. My mother was sick and had no money to treat it, so I endured it, and my mother was gone when I was ten years old.

In 1945, Wang Kui was 14 years old. The Japanese surrendered, the Quartet fought the landlord, he had no pigs to release, and came to the house of Uncle Suihua, and the aunt treated him very well.

At that time, there was a Japanese airport outside the north gate of Suihua, and many ordinary people went to the airport to grab things, and he also went with others. The good things were all snatched up, and there were some rags left in the courtyard, and he saw a stack of boards, and carried a large piece to the market, and sold it for a few dollars.

When he grew so big, the first time he had money, he put it in his torn clothes and walked around barefoot, like a wild child.

When I walked to the current Suihua No. 2 Middle School, I saw a lot of Soviet Red Army soldiers in the courtyard, and they were holding money and making comparisons in it, as if they wanted to buy food.

Hearing that they love to drink, Wang Kui found a few soda bottles, filled half a catty of wine in each bottle, and then mixed it with water. He bought a bottle of wine for eight cents, and sold it to the Soviet Red Army for two dimes after water.

It's too early to go, there are three standing guards outside the door, watching the standing guard pass, he goes over to sell again, and the six bottles of wine inserted in his waist will be sold out in a while. Some give money, some give things.

At that time, Japanese women were locked up in the airfield, Japanese men were locked up in the tunzi on the west side of No. 2 Middle School, and the Soviet Red Army was guarding outside. Wang Kui went to the tunzi over there to see, and the Japanese were gesturing inside, wanting to buy food.

He bought a basket of twist flowers and ran to sell them while the guards were away. He had just sold two twist flowers, and he was looking down for money, when a Japanese snatched a basket of twist flowers, and the twist flowers were poured out, and the empty basket was thrown out, which made him angry.

The next day, he went to sell twist flowers again, and a board was placed under the basket with a layer of twist flowers on top. As soon as he arrived, a group of Japanese people held out the money, and he collected six large tickets, threw the basket into it and ran away.

Once, Wang Kui sold wine and called the Soviet Red Army pickets to see it. He ran in front, the pickets chased behind, fired two shots, and did not hit him.

He ran into a courtyard, and the man saw him hiding behind the door, and he didn't squeak.

The pickets came and gestured to find the child, and the man pointed to the side, and the pickets chased after him.

The picket went away, he came out from behind the door, and the man slapped him. They were afraid that if a bad man entered the house, he would harm his daughter-in-law.

Wang Kui was frightened and sick, had a high fever, and slept for a month.

His throat was broken and he couldn't eat anything dry, so his aunt made porridge for him to drink every day.

When he recovered from his illness, all the things and money he exchanged were gone, and he asked his uncle to gamble.

In the first month of 1947, I heard that Wangkui was recruiting. Wang Kui looked in the past, but the two recruiting stations didn't want him, thinking that he was young and short.

When he arrived at the third recruiting station, he didn't want him yet, so he didn't leave.

An official asked him, "What will you do?" ”

Wang Kui said: "I can herd pigs, and I have been herding pigs for landlords since I was seven years old. ”

The official said, "We have a few pigs, so tell this child to feed us pigs." ”

Wang Kui later learned that the official was a battalion commander named Su Taiwu, a native of Jiangsu. Battalion Commander Su saw that the cotton jacket and cotton pants he was wearing were blooming inside and out, and asked people to give him a yellow cotton jacket, and after a few days, he gave him a small cotton pants, although it was old, Wang Kuike was happy. He used to wear cotton jackets and pants during the day and night, and he wore them for two years, and there were a lot of lice in them.

Wang Kui wore a new jacket and pants, and he worked harder. After feeding the pigs, sweeping the yard, watching the battalion commander's daughter-in-law wash clothes, and quickly help fetch water.

The camp commander's daughter-in-law is a student of Qinggang, and she has not been married to Su Ying for a long time, she said: "You feed the pigs and sweep the yard, it's hard enough, I'll just come by myself." ”

Wang Kui said: "My work is done, and it's okay to be idle." ”

After feeding the pigs for three months, Camp Commander Su asked Wang Kui to be an internal staff member for him, which was later referred to as a correspondent. After three full meals a day, with shoes, hats and covers, Wang Kui's frostbite on his hands and feet was cured, and he grew taller.

Five months later, the troops moved to the former national high school outside the south gate of Suihua, and he became a guard with a shell gun on his back.

The troops were about to fight, and they got into stuffy tankers, and when they passed Harbin, they heard gunshots. They sat in Zhaodong, got off the stuffy tanker, and went to Zhaozhou. The Kuomintang was well equipped, but their equipment was not good, and they often fought guerrilla warfare, turning around in Jilin and Liaoning.

At that time, it was cold in the northeast and the snow was heavy, so it was impossible to dig trenches, and snow blocks were commonly used to base trenches.

During the attack on Changchun, the 60th Kuomintang Army stayed in the city, and the Communist troops lived outside the city and surrounded it for seven months.

I heard that the common people in Changchun City were so hungry that they had eaten up the bark, and a big cake could be exchanged for a big girl as a daughter-in-law, and the Sixty Army did not eat much. The Kuomintang planes brought food over, but they did not dare to fly too low, for fear that the communist anti-aircraft guns would be shot down. The plane can only be at a high place, throwing down with a parachute to eat. Some of those who fell into the city were robbed by the common people; Those who fall outside the city are those of the Communist Party.

Seven months later, the Sixty Army revolted, and Changchun was liberated.

After the liberation of Changchun, Wang Kui served as a guard for the division commander, they were the 147th Division of the 49th Army, and the division commander was called Zheng Chunzhi.

Lin Biao held a meeting of senior cadres in Qiqihar to study the liberation of Northeast China. There was a meeting here, and the troops over there were concentrated in Jinzhou. After the meeting of senior cadres, Jinzhou was also surrounded by troops.

The Kuomintang transferred four divisions from Guannai and came to Jinzhou by boat from Huludao, but the communist troops stopped them and fought a fierce battle in Montenegro, killing many people on both sides. I heard that there was a battalion fighting there, and twenty-three of them came back alive.

After the battle, there was not a single good tree in Montenegro, it was all stump. The ground let the shells blow up a pit and a bag, and those bags looked like small grave bags.

When Wang Kui and his division arrived in Jinzhou, Jinzhou had already been liberated. Other troops rested, they went to fight Shenyang, fought from Tiexi, and fought in one day.

The lunar calendar is almost October, and the troops are issued padded jackets, but not cotton pants, but clippers. Open the city of Shenyang, there were clothes in the Kuomintang warehouse, and they took them and put them on their bodies.

The troops stayed in Shenyang for more than a month, and they thought they were all right. Most of the soldiers were from the Northeast, and they thought that it was time for Ma to go home.

When the troops received the order, the leaders hurriedly held a meeting to cheer up their spirits and liberate the whole of China.

The troops entered the pass from Shanhaiguan and attacked Tanggu first, and the Kuomintang in Tanggu quickly withdrew.

At night, it was cold in the trenches, and the chief had a cotton coat, so he said to Wang Kui: "You go to the front of the tunzi to have a look, find some firewood and bring it back to sit, is it also warmer?" ”

Wang Kui walked to Tunzi, often stumbling on things, and when he touched a dead person, they called him "dead". He walked to a house on the north side, and there was no firewood in the courtyard, and the house was darkly lit and the door was open. It seemed that everyone had run away, and he wanted to go in and see if there was any firewood in the kitchen.

He smeared and entered the house, coldly let people hold one foot, he raised his foot up, and the people followed, without saying a word, so frightened that his head was big. When he touched his waist, this man was cold, a dead man, and he stuck his foot in the armpit of the person. At that time, he was not afraid of the dead, but he was afraid of the living, and this time he took out his feet as soon as he exerted his strength.

When he arrived at the front yard, he saw what seemed to be a few piles of firewood, and walked over to see that it was a cellar entrance. Lying at the mouth of the cellar and listening, there were voices of talking, men and women, as if they were Kuomintang soldiers who had not withdrawn.

He stood at the mouth of the cellar and shouted, "What are you doing? Hurry out and get out! ”

There was no movement in there.

He then shouted: "Get out of here, you are surrounded!" If you don't come out again, you will throw ** in it! ”

A person came out of the cellar, and Wang Kui shouted, "Throw down the gun!" Put your hands behind your head! ”

A total of four people came out, three men and one woman. Fortunately, he came out of the cellar one by one, and threw the guns first, otherwise he would have been alone and it would have been really difficult to deal with them.

Wang Kui escorted them to the division headquarters, and the chief personally interrogated them.

These four men were Kuomintang telegraph operators, and when the troops retreated, no one told them.

arrested four people at a time, received a radio station, and Wang Kuili made two small contributions.

In 1949, after the liberation of Guilin, he lived with the chief in the Bai Chongxi Mansion. Guangxi has many mountains and bandits, and when the Kuomintang retreated, it left behind a lot of people and weapons, and they were also in the 100,000 mountains. At that time, a company of the Communist Party did not dare to live in a tunzi casually.

Once, he went to Yangshuo with the chief. After the county leaders reported their work, the chief wanted to go to Jinbao District to have a look, and three guards and a groom followed the chief on horseback.

The five of them first lived in the district chief's courtyard, who was the district chief of the Kuomintang before and was still used after the founding of New China.

The chief said to Wang Kui: "You go outside Tunzi to see if there is a comparable house, it is best to come here today, and let's go out to live in the evening." ”

On the way here, Wang Kui really found a house, a two-story building, with a brick wall on the outside, and a very clean courtyard. The owner of the house was a Kuomintang family member, and after her husband died, she stayed here to teach.

Wang Kui said: "We are down to work, a total of five people, want to borrow from you for a night, I don't know if it's convenient?" ”

The female teacher said, "It's not inconvenient, you can live if you want." ”

After dinner, the five of them went upstairs to stay. The chief said, "There are many bandits here, and you take turns to stand guard." ”

It was Wang Kui's turn to stand guard, and he heard a voice outside the wall, not alone. I must have heard that a senior Communist official had come to Jinbao District, and the bandits were targeting him.

Wang Kui reported to the chief, called those people up, and the chief whispered: "Don't alarm them, if they do it, go up to the wall and hit one by one." Before they make a move, let's withdraw first. ”

The chief asked Wang Kui to ride a horse and run in front, the two guards were one on the left and one on the right, and the horseman from the cavalry division got on the horse quickly, and he could fly on the horse without kicking, and he pressed the formation behind. The key is to shoot when you go out, the one on the left shoots to the left, and the one on the right shoots to the right, and hit them off guard.

After arranging, five people rushed out, and Wang Kui's horse ran the fastest.

Ran out for a few miles and stopped, but one person did not follow, and I did not know whether those people were alive or dead.

He rode back to find him, and met the chief halfway through, and they were talking and laughing.

One of the guards remembered that the documents were still there, hidden in the cellar.

The chief said, "Let's go back and get it, if they can't catch us, they will definitely leave." ”

When they went back, they saw that the bandits were gone.

A few days later it rained heavily, flooding the stone bridge. Wade across the bridge, water over your knees. The groom led the chief's horse across the bridge with his own horse, and one horse let the water wash away, and the groom followed suit.

The chief found the village cadres in front of him, explained the situation, and asked them to help salvage.

The village cadres were in a dilemma.

The chief said: "I don't have any money with me, the cost of fishing people and coffins, you can go to the county ** tomorrow to get it." ”

There was a dam half a mile away, and the villagers found the body of the groom at the root of the dam and buried it on the spot. I heard that the horse husband is also from Suihua, and there is an old lady in the family, and Wang Kui doesn't remember his name.

The next day, the village cadres went to the county to get the money, but they didn't get the money, and they also let the county leaders educate them.

Wang Kui's standard photo. Hainan Island, 1954. Courtesy of Wang Kui.

Wang Kui took a group photo with his daughter-in-law. Hainan Island, 1954. Courtesy of Wang Kui.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Kui went to Changsha to study at the Fifth Infantry School for two years and seven months, with the first half of the year studying culture and the last two years of military studies. After graduating, he went to Hainan Island, where he was a lieutenant and company commander.

The leader specially gave him leave and asked him to go home to find his daughter-in-law. The introducer introduced several girls, and when they heard that they were going to Hainan Island after getting married, they were all afraid, no one knew where Hainan Island was, and they were afraid that he was a liar.

Later, I still found my daughter-in-law in Sifangtai, one is that both sides know the roots, and the other is that the girl has no father or mother. They stayed on Hainan Island for a few years.

In 1960, the higher authorities called on their families to return to their hometowns to participate in production and labor. There was no one in the daughter-in-law's family, she returned to Suihua, and Wang Kui also followed the demobilization back to Suihua. He worked as a secretary in the Suihua Food Factory until he retired.