One day in 1974, Yichang and his wife went to the home of General Xu Shiyou as a guest. However, when passing through the yard,The chief's wife directly covered her nose with a handkerchief, twisted her brows and looked at the guard next to her, and complained loudly. This makes it happen to go out to greet guestsGeneral Xu Shiyou's face suddenly darkened, and he said directly: "Look at your bear appearance, what do you know?"”
Then he "taught" the chief and his wife together.
After the news spread, many people were curious about the reason why General Xu Shiyou was angry. In fact, the reason why the chief's wife was "reprimanded" was precisely because she disliked General Xu Shiyou's "golden pimple".
At that time, General Xu had settled in Nanjing to retire and lived a longing life in his old ageAmong them, there is a "thunder point" that others must not touch.
So, why did this veteran general "make a big fuss"?Is there something behind this?
Xu Shiyou was born in an ordinary rural family in Macheng County, Hubei Province.
At that time, he was very disgusted with the landlord class, because the grain produced by cultivation did not belong to him in the end, but had to be handed over to the landlords. This also planted the seeds for Xu Shiyou to pick up the ** to resist oppression.
When he was 8 years old, his parents could not afford to feed all their children because the family was too poorIn order to reduce the burden on his parents, the sensible Xu Shiyou said goodbye to his parents at a young age and went to Shaolin Temple alone to learn art.
Xu Shiyou studied hard after entering the Shaolin Temple, but he learned a lot of Shaolin Temple in 8 years, and finally lived a life that could fill his stomach. It was the happiest and most impressive time of his youth.
It's just that the good times didn't last long, 16-year-old Xu Shiyou accidentally killed a landlord when he was in a fight, and he was forced to leave the Shaolin Temple and began to wander around.
After a long period of wandering, Xu Shiyou did not have enough food and clothing, and began to miss his life in the countryside, he wanted to have a piece of his own farmland, where he could live a life where the food he cultivated belonged to him and could fill his stomach.
But this wish could not be realized at the time.
At that time, the peasants were suffering from the oppression of the landlord class in the old society for a long time, and there were repeated foreign invasions. If the country cannot be stable, the people will not be able to live and work in peace and contentment.
Xu Shiyou realized that only resistance could usher in hope.
So when the Beiyang warlord Wu Peifu recruited soldiers, Xu Shiyou enlisted in the army, ending his wandering life, and he began to fight against oppression and aggression.
In September 1926, under the influence of communism, Xu Shiyou officially joined the Chinese Communist Youth League, starting his life of fighting for the cause of communism.
Xu Shiyou's thinking also underwent a great change at this time, and he realized that it was necessary not only to resist but also to have the support of the people, and to change the decadent and backward thinking of society.
For the ideal in his heart, Xu Shiyou traveled to various battlefields, charged into battle, bravely killed the enemy, defended the territory of the motherland, and fought for the people
However, the long-term war life made Xu Shiyou feel tired, and Xu Shiyou longed for the natural and leisurely pastoral life in the ancient pastoral poems.
He imagined his old and leisurely farming life, and he wanted to be able to eat the food he grew and achieve a self-sufficient rural life, which he believed could bring him spiritual comfort.
In the chaotic and difficult war environment, Xu Shiyou began to yearn for a stable life in the future, and gradually came up with the idea of going to the countryside to retire
But later, Xu Shiyou's rural life was different from the depiction of the poem, not isolated from the world, but loved each other, helped each other, and realized "do it yourself".
Finally, Xu Shiyou waited for the retirement life he had been thinking about for a long time.
After fighting the last battle of his life, the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, Xu Shiyou found that his body was getting worseSo he decided to leave the army, take a back seat, and after weighing the pros and cons of all parties, he decided to go to Nanjing to retire.
When he arrived in Nanjing, Xu Shiyou finally chose to spend his old age at No. 8 Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, and the neighbors who lived in the nearby courtyard were all cadres Xu Shiyou was familiar with.
At that time, the yard was full of precious flowers and plants, andXu Shiyou is a simple and thrifty person, and he pays attention to practicality
Xu Shiyou frowned when he saw the flowers in the courtyard, he felt that these flowers were useless, and immediately said to the guard in charge of the repair of the yard"Unplug them all, I'm going to grow vegetables. ”
The guards were all surprised, not understanding why Xu Shiyou was growing vegetables in such a beautiful house.
But the guards knew that Xu Shiyou had a fiery temper, so they plucked all the flowers in the yard and brought the seeds and fertilizers needed to grow vegetables.
After that, Xu Shiyou lived the rural life of his dreams.
Every day after the morning exercise, Xu Shiyou will water and fertilize in the yard, take care of the vegetables in the yard, and take care of their growth like his own children. Not only that, Xu Shiyou also raised chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry at his residence.
Under Xu Shiyou's careful care, the yard became a vegetable field, and Xu Shiyou sat in the yard leisurely every day, appreciating the fruits of his labor, bringing stability and happiness to his heart.
For this vegetable garden, Xu Shiyou spent a lot of effort, and he can say that he dotes on this vegetable field, and he does not allow others to dislike it at all.
Once, a chief brought his wife to visit Xu ShiyouBecause the weather was relatively hot at that time, the smell of fertilizer came out after being exposed to the sun, and the whole yard was filled with the smell of fertilizer.
At that time, when the chief's wife passed by the courtyard, she covered her nose again and again, looking disgusted, as if she was looking at a garbage heap.
But how could Xu Shiyou, who has always been straightforward, tolerate the disgust and disgust of others for the crops that he regarded as treasures, so he bluntly reprimanded the chief's wife:"You're so good again, look at your bear-like look!”
Xu Shiyou also reprimanded the chief's wife for not understanding the hard work of rural people and disrespecting the fruits of others' labor.
The chief and his wife were speechless by the lesson, and their faces were flushed and full of shame.
After the news of this incident spread, the friends who visited General Xu in Nanjing did not dare to show disgust when they passed by the courtyard.
When the guests entered the living room and looked into the courtyard, they were amazed by General Xu's cultivation skills, saying that these vegetables in the yard grew very healthy, the leaves were bright green, there were no signs of pests and diseases, and each one was full of vitality and vitality.
In fact, the vegetables in this vegetable yard are indeed growing happilyMany cultivators came to ask Xu Shiyou about his cultivation methods, and General Xu also carefully taught people how to grow vegetables.
During his retirement in Nanjing, Xu Shiyou lived in harmony with his neighbors. In the process of getting along and exchanging, Xu Shiyou learned more farming knowledge from them, and took care of his own vegetable field better and better, and the vegetable field in the yard thrived under the careful care of General Xu.
Xu Shiyou also shares the vegetables he grows with his neighbors or leaders, sharing the joy of harvest with others.
But the good times didn't last long, and soon General Xu realized a new problem.
It turned out that because of the long-term war and the negative state of eating big pot rice, the enthusiasm of the peasants was not enough, and the output was far from reaching the number of peopleThis made General Xu, who had experienced a long-term life of not having enough to eat, begin to pay attention to the problem of food and clothing for the people.
Xu Shiyou experienced a life of not having enough to eat when he was a child, so in his later years, he was more empathetic to the people at that time, and he also began to pay attention to the question of whether people were well fed.
General Xu Shiyou was concerned about the people's food and clothing problems, and he once said:"As communists, if we serve the people wholeheartedly, we must always keep the weal and woe of the masses in mind and help the masses solve their worries and difficulties.
Xu Shiyou said so and did so. He practiced the guiding ideology of communism, stepped on the rugged and difficult stones, and opened the way for his successors.
In the first few years of living in Nanjing, Xu Shiyou initially focused on the small vegetable patch in his backyardLater, he found that a person's well-fed and well-fed people did not mean anything, and only the well-fed and well-fed people of the whole country could truly represent the richness of a country.
He began to set his sights on the farmland of the country.
Since then, Xu Shiyou has begun to focus on the farming life of farmers.
At first, Xu Shiyou was just guiding by the side, but later he rolled up his sleeves and joined the farming, helping local farmers to cultivate and improve people's food output.
In his spare time, Xu Shiyou would go to the fields and work with local farmers, and he would teach them how to grow more and better crops.
He would also plow the land himself, work with the farmers with a hoe, and at this time you could see him smiling in the fields and hear him laughing with the people.
Under the guidance of General Xu Lao and the careful care of the croppers, the local vegetables were harvested.
Xu Shiyou told the people with practical actions that as long as you are willing to work hard, there will be harvest, and as long as you work hard enough and learn successful experience, you can create a better life. Xu Shiyou also uses practical actions to make people's lives better and better.
Under the guidance of Xu Shiyou, the enthusiasm of many farmers has gradually increased, the grain output has gradually improved, and the local people have also lived an all-you-can-eat life.
People affectionately call Shiyou "peasant general".
In Xu Shiyou's later years, his time was spent in the farmland except for drinking, and it can be said that the farmland was his second battlefield.
Xu Shiyou truly went from the masses to the masses.
He once said:"As a party member, you should put the people first in everything and serve the people. ”
Although he left the battlefield, Xu Shiyou still devoted himself to the cause of people's construction, he was diligent, cared about the people, and dedicated himself to the people's food and clothing
In 1985, this veteran general who cared about the country and the people passed away due to illness.
General Xu Shiyou made outstanding military achievements in his life, and he was an outstanding military strategist. He fought bravely on the battlefield, lived a simple, unpretentious, sincere and frank life, dedicated his best youth to the motherland, and devoted his life to the construction of improving the people's lives.
is such a beloved old general,He was concerned about the farming life of the rural people and the problem of the people not having enough to eat. Xu Shiyou has always been concerned about the people, and has been personally involved in farming
Whether it is a battlefield or a farm, what remains unchanged is the most sincere feelings of veteran General Xu Shiyou for the party and the people, he will always live in the hearts of the people and deserve to be remembered forever by future generations.