In February 1950, Chengdu was enveloped in a strong New Year's atmosphere and ushered in the first Spring Festival after the founding of the People's Republic of China. After a long period of war, people finally let go of their worries in a peaceful and stable environment, and enjoyed the joy of the Spring Festival and the warmth of family reunion.
Although most of the shops are closed for the New Year, a small restaurant on Sanqiao South Street is still open and welcoming customers. Several PLA soldiers walked into the small restaurant and asked what to order.
The proprietress smiled and reported the name of the dish, and the People's Liberation Army nodded and said, "Boss, come with a dish and a soup." The proprietress was stunned when she heard this, tears rolled in her eyes, and she said in a trembling voice: "Please wait, the meal will be ready soon!."1. The origin of "hard meal".
This small restaurant, called "Hard Meal", has been in operation on this street in Chengdu for 20 years. Initially, the restaurant was opened by a man named Cha Yaoxian, but then he suddenly disappeared. So his wife, Huang Tixian, took over the management of the restaurant.
Huang Ti, the wife of the missing man, has been faithfully running the restaurant for nearly a decade since taking over. Although she knew that her husband might have been unlucky, she never gave up her commitment to her husband and has been running this "hard meal" for 20 years.
In fact, it is not nonsense for Huang Tixian to speculate that her husband is more than lucky.
Although her husband Che Yaoxian is ostensibly a businessman, he is actually an underground Communist Party member in Chengdu, and the "hard meal" is not only to provide a resting place for revolutionary colleagues, but also to provide a safe place for underground party members to hand over information.
A restaurant in Chengdu called "Hard Meal" once provided a secret meeting place for underground party members. Ordinary citizens can order food and dine normally, while underground party members need to use a specific code to activate another business system.
They would ask for the menu in a vague way, and then ask for "one dish and one soup", which became a code between them. Once the store receives a code, it will direct underground party members to a specially set up private room to ensure that they have a safe environment for eating and meeting.
At the same time, for the party members who participate in revolutionary activities, the "hard meal" will also provide them with free meals to do their part. Even after the founding of the People's Republic of China, this restaurant called "Hard Meal" still opened, witnessing and carrying the arduous course of the Chengdu Revolution.
The owner of the restaurant, Huang Tixian, ran it first, not only because she was waiting for her husband's return, but also because of the accumulated feelings for the restaurant over the years. When Huang Tixian learned the news of her husband Che Yaoxian's death, she was so distressed that she couldn't help but fall to her knees with tears pouring out.
The love between Che Huang and his wife has always been unswerving, and they were able to love each other freely in that era, support each other, help each other, and overcome countless hardships and dangers together.
The family of the little rich still struggled to protect themselves during the war years, and Che Yaoxian fell behind in the family road and became an apprentice to the business, eager to inherit his father's business. Hardworking and appreciated, but worried that he would not be able to inherit, the proprietress proposed to find him a daughter-in-law to keep him.
Che Yaoxian was 20 years old, and when he looked at the grocery store across the street, Huang San, the proprietress suddenly realized and decided to match. Huang's father reluctantly said that Miss Huang had an idea and didn't listen to her family.
Che Yaoxian was determined to learn about it, and Huang San did not refuse, and the two became husband and wife, and named her Huang Tixian.
In 1928, under the influence of proletarian ideology, Che Yaoxian secretly joined the Communist Party, and the husband and wife worked together to carry out the revolution, and Huang Tixian also began to assist her husband in underground work.
In 1930, in order to support the revolutionary activities of underground party members in Chengdu, Che Yaoxian rented a storefront and opened the "Hard Meal" restaurant to facilitate underground activities and use the business income to support comrades.
However, the restaurant soon aroused the suspicion of the Kuomintang. One day, a Kuomintang agent led people to search the shop and interrogated Che Yaoxian: "Are you involved with the Communist Party?"
Confess leniently!Che Yaoxian firmly denied it, but the spy sneered and pointed to the name of the store and said: "Even if it has nothing to do with the Communist Party, why did you choose the name 'Hard Meal'?"*Is it also called 'Revolutionary Rice'?
Che Yaoxian was prepared and calmly replied: "Mr. Sun Yat-sen once said, 'The revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard', have you even forgotten the words of the father of the nation?"The spy was speechless, and in the end he couldn't find the flaw, so he had to leave in a huff.
In 1940, Che Yaoxian was involved in the "rice robbery" planned by the Kuomintang, was arrested and began a years-long prison sentence.
Before **, in order not to worry his wife, Che Yaoxian only told her that she had something to go out and couldn't return home in a short time, and asked his wife to take care of the "labor meal". Huang Tixian remembered her husband's entrustment, firmly guarded the "hard meal", and operated day after day, waiting for her husband's return.
In prison, Che Yaoxian was coerced, lured, and beaten by Kuomintang agents, but he always adhered to the information he knew, never gave in, and never let the Kuomintang succeed.
After six fruitless years of interrogation, the Kuomintang decided that Che Yaoxian was useless, and on August 18, 1946, they secretly executed him and a group of underground party members, and a young and brave hero died.
In 1954, Huang Tixian died of illness, and finally reunited with her husband in another world after 14 years. The two have been married for more than 20 years, but they have spent very little time together. Let's pay tribute to this pair of great revolutionaries!