Wen Jing has always cherished such a warm oil painting in the depths of her heart: one day in the first lunar month, under the sunset like a big egg yolk, a four or five-year-old girl with pigtails was carried by two curvy girls in turn, walking on the road paved with stones in Xiaoyizhuang in unison.

"Jingjing! People tell you to put sugar in your pocket, why don't you pretend? Zhu Yushan and Zhu Yuzhen complained in unison about their niece Wen Jing's poor performance when she was a guest at the New Year's greeting just now.

"I ...... I'm afraid to be embarrassed! Wen Jing replied while lying on Zhu Yushan's back.

"Hah! Are you afraid of being embarrassed by such a big trick? Zhu Yushan said sarcastically.

"I'm just embarrassed! I'm just embarrassed! Wen Jing shouted while shrugging her head and slapping Zhu Yushan's shoulder with her small fist.

"Okay, okay, don't talk about it; Don't move! The second aunt's arm is about to break. Zhu Yushan stopped the active Wen Jing, and then carried her up.

"The Guo family is also a dog! If you are hospitable, you should put sugar in your pocket for a little trick, empty politeness, hypocrisy! Zhu Yuzhen said angrily.

"And no wonder...... Hey! Isn't my mom like that? Zhu Yushan pouted at her sister and said.

"The uncle said that he wanted me to take the candy myself, but he said in his heart: Little girl, eat less! So I didn't take a single piece of candy. Wen Jing said the truth in a milky voice, and Zhu Yushan and Zhu Yuzhen couldn't help but look at each other after hearing this.

"Come on, Jingjing let my aunt carry it, okay? The second aunt is tired. Zhu Yuzhen said and took off the military canvas bag on her shoulder, ready to change it with her second sister.

"I can walk on my own!" Wen Jing saw the opportunity to break free and ran straight forward, Zhu Yushan and Zhu Yuzhen hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed her, and one of them held a small hand full of scabies, and continued to walk in the direction of home......

Indeed, Wen Jing's deepest memories of childhood are closely connected to a place called "Xiaoyizhuang".

There is an old photo that has been hidden in the ticket holder that Wen Jing carries with her like a talisman. This black-and-white photograph with a geared edge, a little smaller than a palm, should have been taken in the late sixties of the twentieth century. The photo shows a little girl with pigtails and a floral dress being held in the arms of a mother-in-law with short haircut, an old man and a young man looking at a portrait of a leader, holding a portrait of a soldier who is sideways and can only see half of his face.

Who is the person in the photo? Why did they take this picture? Of course Wen Jing knows, because the little girl in the photo is herself.

It's a long story, Wen Jing's grandfather Zhu Xinghua was the head of Xiaoyizhuang Bus Station. Although Xiaoyizhuang is a southern Jiangsu village that is not even a town, it is located on the main road from Zhenjiang to Nanjing. More importantly, Xiaoyizhuang is the station of a certain unit of the People's Liberation Army. It can be seen that Xiaoyizhuang Bus Station is not an ordinary highway transportation hub.

Although Zhu Xinghua is the stationmaster, he is actually the commander of the light pole and takes his family to eat and stay in Si. He and his wife Xu Guiying have three sons and three daughters, the eldest daughter Zhu Yuliang, the second male Zhu Zhili, the third female Zhu Yushan, the fourth female Zhu Yuzhen, the fifth male Zhu Zhihui, and the sixth male Zhu Zhicheng.

Wen Yuanfang was a lieutenant officer in the Xiaoyizhuang army. Probably because the officers often have the opportunity to go out, Wen Yuanfang fell in love with Zhu Yuliang, the eldest daughter of the stationmaster's family, so he invited someone to propose marriage several times.

Zhu Yuliang was seventeen years old at the time, had graduated from a technical school and entered the Jurong County Auto Parts Factory as a mechanic, and only returned to Xiaoyizhuang every month when he was on vacation. As the eldest daughter of the Zhu family, Zhu Yuliang was favored by her parents when she was a child, and it is said that she did not wear patched clothes once, nor did she taste hunger for a long time; When her younger siblings were born one after another and grew taller, she also went to work in the county seat. Therefore, in terms of age, she and her youngest brother Zhu Zhicheng are two generations.

When Zhu Yuliang was a child, he was told by fortune telling that he would marry far away in the future. Life, sometimes I really can't believe it! If you think about it, although Wen Yuanfang has more opportunities for officers to leave the army and go out, it is impossible to come to Xiaoyizhuang Bus Station every once in a while to buy tickets and take the bus; And the frequency of Zhu Yuliang's return to Xiaoyizhuang is even lower than once a month. Maybe Zhu Yuliang was met by Wen Yuanfang when he was selling tickets on behalf of his father when he went home, or maybe Zhu Yuliang was seen by Wen Yuanfang when he went to the army to take a bath or watch a movie...... In short, probability is no match for fate, and this marriage is predestined.

It is said that Zhu Xinghua tried his best to oppose this family business. There are three reasons: first, Wen Yuanfang is eleven years older than his daughter Zhu Yuliang, one is a dog and the other is a chicken, and there is a risk of restlessness for chickens and dogs; the second is that the distant side of the text is weak and weak, not the appearance of longevity; The third is that Wen Yuanfang's hometown is in the countryside of Zhuji, Zhejiang, and he is afraid that his daughter will suffer and be helpless after marrying far away. And his wife Xu Guiying thinks that although this hairy son-in-law can speak well, there is no lack of old and kind, plus he has the status of an officer, even if he is transferred to a local place, he should have an official and a half-job, so his daughter will never suffer with him.

In fact, Zhu Yuliang didn't have a good impression of Wen Yuanfang at first, because Wen Yuanfang was not amazing and would not be funny and flattering her; However, as time passed, Wen Yuanfang finally captured her heart with the writing and handwriting in the love letters.

Zhu Xinghua saw that his eldest daughter was resolute, and his wife's strong approval, so he had no choice but to agree to this family business. What made Zhu Xinghua finally make up his mind was his younger brother Zhu Shenghua's words in a letter: "Brother, it is said that our surnames may come from the late Spring and Autumn Period after the Yue State Doctor Zhu Jiying or the thirteenth grandson of Yue King Goujian, and the hometown of the future eldest nephew is in Zhuji, the capital of the ancient Yue Kingdom. From this point of view, the eldest niece and the eldest nephew should be fateful. ”

Soon after Wen Yuanfang married his wife, he returned to his hometown in Zhuji with his wife. Three or four years after marriage, ten years of turmoil began, and their eldest daughter Wen Jing was also born in the troubled times. In order not to affect the revolutionary work, and to reduce the adverse impact of social turmoil on the children, Wen Jing was sent to the rear of Xiaoyizhuang's grandmother's house.

Two-year-old Wen Jingte loves to play, is curious about the world, and has an adventurous spirit. One summer afternoon, in order to wash off a little chicken poop on her sandals, she sneaked to a pond alone while her second aunt and aunt were taking a nap.

Wen Jing put her little feet into the water, and then slid into the pond with a "poof" along the moss slate. In the water, she instinctively struggled and fluttered, gulping down the pond water containing the fragrance of aquatic plants, like a paparazzi about to drown, scaring those small fish and shrimp to flee in all directions......

It is estimated that she will not shout "help" at that time, at most she will only shout "mother", "father", "mother-in-law" and the like. When her life hung by a thread, it was a scorching afternoon, people were dozing off at home, and the occasional hurried coach whizzed by. In addition, there is not even a single dog walking on the road; Only the cicadas on the neem tree were making a fuzzy noise, as if to cry: "Dead! He's dead! ”

Unfortunately, the cicadas' alarms fell on deaf ears.

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Wen Jing encountered the first threshold in her life, the Grim Reaper was opening a bottomless black hole approaching her step by step, her life was like a wisp of green smoke, about to be swallowed by this black hole, and the hoarse cicada chirping seemed to come from another world......

When Wen Jing grew up to be three or four years old and began to be a little sensible, her grandmother Xu Guiying took out this photo and told her a story about the uncle of the People's Liberation Army who bravely rescued a child who fell into the water.

At the critical moment when Wen Jing was about to be caught by a ghost after falling into the water, a People's Liberation Army soldier in his twenties happened to come from the direction of Xiaoyizhuang Bus Station. He wore a neat grass-green military uniform, and the red stars on his military hat shone brightly; Carrying a military canvas bag in his right hand and a military kettle in his left, he was humming a barracks song and walking lightly towards his unit. As he passed by the pond, he suddenly heard a "bang" in the water, like the sound of a big fish jumping up to the surface of the water to perform diving. But he didn't see the big fish, only a handful of children's hair looming in the water. "Oh no, there's a kid overboard!" He shouted, but he didn't have time to unload his belongings and jumped into the water......

Wen Jing, who was angry, was recaptured from death by a PLA soldier in this way.

Wen Jing heard her grandmother say that after her uncle of the People's Liberation Army did a good deed, he refused to even keep his name and returned to the army; After many inquiries, his grandmother's family finally found him. In recognition of his righteous and courageous deeds, his unit gave him a second-class meritorious service. That photo is a group photo of Xu Guiying holding Wen Jing, who has not recovered for a long time, and being with the hero. In the first few years, the families still heard from him, but then they lost contact.

Since then, finding a life-saving benefactor has become a long-cherished wish of Wen Jing.

Because Wen Jing almost died because of playing in the water that time, Xu Guiying sighed and said: "This little girl is not a worry-free master!" For this reason, Xu Guiying also punished Zhu Yushan and Zhu Yuzhen sisters for not eating for a whole day.