In the early morning of June 26, 1959, before five o'clock that day, ** got up, got dressed, washed up, and went for a walk on the small lawn of the hotel where he lived.
He was wearing a beige shirt and gray pants, although his face was a little haggard, obviously he didn't sleep well last night, but he was in good spirits, after all, he hadn't returned to his hometown for 32 years, and it was rare to come back, even if it was his old man, he couldn't sleep with excitement.
**Former residence. Seeing that someone was standing guard for him, he walked over on a whim to talk to the guard.
At this time, the staff member Ma Baorong was opening the door of the duty room, and suddenly heard footsteps outside.
She walked over in surprise and shouted:"Hello!”
**Smiled and shook hands with Ma Baorong and asked:"Are you a ** person?”
"I am from Huashi (the name of a township in Xiangtan County). ”
"Ah, then we're fellow countrymen, do we work here?”
Ma Baorong held ***'s hand tightly and said excitedly"Yes. ”
After a few homely conversations, ** ready to go out for a walk. So he walked slowly down the hill alone.
Out of Songshan, after crossing the Yingbin Bridge, ** walked straight to the former residence. The guards who were secretly guarding *** immediately told *** and others that Mao Weisheng hurriedly got up and chased after him for a while before catching up with ***
**Said to Mao Jisheng"Today I'm going to go to my parents' grave. ”
Mao Jisheng led the way for *** and walked towards the overgrown hillside.
**And the rest of the entourage hurriedly caught up***
Everyone followed *** to the mountain. A farmer saw that it was difficult to walk up the mountain, so he asked his son to bring a walking stick to give it to him, **said:"I don't need to, I can go. ”
When they encountered thorns on the road, the leader of the road trampled down the thorns and broke off the branches of the trees that stood in the way.
**Say:"If you can go, I can go. Take care of the plants and trees, and don't break off the branches. ”
**The tomb of the parents is buried in the land Chongnan bamboo support.
His father, Mao Shunsheng, was a hard-working, frugal farmer, and his mother, Wen, was a loyal and loving woman. The two old men were buried together in 1920.
About forty or fifty meters away from the cemetery of ***'s parents, there are several tombs.
**Q:"Is it right in this place?”
Mao Jisheng said"It's a little bit ahead. ”
Nodding his head, he walked forward again.
A dirt mountain was overgrown with weeds, and when we arrived at the cemetery, everyone looked at the tombstone and knew that it was the joint burial tomb of *** parents. ** I also seemed to remember it, and whispered"Yes. ”
The tomb is surrounded by mounds of soil, sitting northwest and facing southeast, some firewood and grass grow around, and the tomb ** collapsed a hole.
I didn't tell everyone to come to see the cemetery in advance, and the accompanying staff didn't make any preparations, and they didn't bring any memorial items. Fortunately, Mao Jisheng, Mao Huasong and others were clever, pulled a few pine branches, picked a few purple rhododendrons, and bundled the weeds into a bunch and handed them to his old man.
Standing in front of the grave of his parents, he bowed deeply, offered the pine branches, and recited reminiscingly:"The predecessors worked hard, and the descendants were happy. After a pause, he added, "The worries of the world are worried, and the joys of the world are happy." ”
Looking at his parents' cemetery, ** was silent for a while, and the accompanying staff were very tacitly not disturbed*** to let his old man stay here quietly for a while.
On the way back, ** rarely didn't speak, just walked quietly alone in front.
After going to the tomb, ** came to the place where he lived when he was a child.
In front of the door, point to the pond in front of you and say to the accompanying staff:"It was in this pond that I learned to swim when I was a child. ”
Then he approached this familiar and unfamiliar place with his old man's remembrance, and bowed deeply three times in front of the portrait of his parents!
Subsequently, he said to the accompanying staff:"My mother was a peasant woman, generous, very kind, thrifty, and generous. No matter how high a person's position is, whether he is rich or poor, he must not forget the kindness of his parents, otherwise he will forget his roots. ”
**I looked inside and out here, and I was reluctant to leave, so Zhou Xiaozhou, a staff member who accompanied me, suggested that everyone take a group photo in front of the door here.
**Said with a smile:"Okay, let's take a picture.
This precious group photo** has been preserved.
Later, when I returned to the hotel accommodation, ** suddenly said to ***"Although we are materialists and do not believe in ghosts and gods, we have to admit that the parents of those who gave birth to me, and the comrades, teachers, and friends who taught me. The next time I come back, I'll have to see both of them. ”
"Do you want to renovate the cemetery?”Mao Jisheng, who was present, asked***
"No, just keep it as it is, just fill it in (because that's when the cemetery starts to flatten). After that, he asked again"Why hasn't this tomb been destroyed?”
Mao Jisheng replied"The local farmers have protected you out of love for you. ”