"The way of a gentleman is only loyalty and forgiveness. Do unto others as you would have them do to you. I do not want others to do to me, and I want nothing to be inflicted on others. This quote tells us to put ourselves in the shoes of others before we act.
If others are having trouble letting go of your mistakes, then you should reflect on whether you have done something hurtful. During the Anti-Japanese War, after a dispute between a cooking squad leader and a company commander, they did not talk for 50 years, but when they reunited in their later years, the two hugged each other tightly.
Li Wenqing was born in 1910 in Songzi City, Hubei. When he was 17 years old, Songzi City was hit by a severe drought, and the landlord still insisted on collecting land rent, forcing Li Wenqing to leave his hometown to work.
However, in the process of going out to make a living, his newlywed wife was forcibly occupied by the landlord young master.
In a state of extreme anger, Li Wenqing went to Theory, but was beaten and lost his home. With a strong sense of revenge in his heart, Li Wenqing chose to join the Red Army.
During his career in the Red Army, he followed the team to fight in the north and south, and the hatred of the country and family was gradually put down. However, in a battle the following year, Li Wenqing was almost killed. His right leg was wounded by the bomb, shrapnel was deeply embedded in his thigh bone, his abdomen was pierced by a gunshot, and his intestines even flowed out.
In that fierce battle, the number of hygienists was seriously insufficient, and many wounded soldiers could only lie on the side of the road waiting for treatment, and Li Wenqing was one of them. That evening, the ** commander passed by and saw him lying on the side of the road, mistakenly thinking that he had been sacrificed, and wanted someone to bury him properly.
However, Li Wenqing struggled on the edge of life and death to open his eyes and was rescued in time. After recovering from his injuries, Li Wenqing became more tenacious and courageous, and was soon promoted to the company commander of the 3rd Company of the 19th Regiment of the 3rd Red Army.
During a battle at Honghu, Li Wenqing was seriously wounded. After the battle, he did not recuperate enough, and his right eye was also grazed by a shell. Despite the frequent fighting, he never cared about his eye injury until his right eye vision blurred and his headache worsened.
Despite his severe eye injury, Li Wenqing completed the long march. He voluntarily gave up the opportunity to go to the Soviet Union and chose to open up an anti-Japanese base in Daqingshan, until he was forced to be admitted to the Peace Hospital in Yan'an.
Li Wenqing paid a huge price for the revolutionary cause, and his right eye had to be enucleated because it could not be treated. Even after suffering such a major blow, he did not regret it and still insisted on staying in the team.
Li Wenqing was extremely principled, and he insisted on opposing any special treatment like ordinary soldiers. However, it was his principled nature that led him to have a conflict with the head of the cooking class because of a pig, and the two did not say a word for fifty years.
It wasn't until later in life that they released their suspicions, but the guilt of these fifty years has made Li Wenqing unable to let go.
Zhou Shuhuai, born in 1903 in Shaling Village, Pengyang Town, Chuyang County, Hubei Province, is a fellow countryman with Li Wenqing. At that time, the whole country was full of progressive ideas, and Zhou Shuhuai, who was deeply oppressed by the landlords, was determined to overthrow the mountain that was pressing on the peasants.
He joined the peasant association, but for various reasons, the peasant association soon failed. Despite the failure of the peasant association, Zhou Shuhuai never gave up his ideals and beliefs in participating in the revolution.
In the turbulent years, Zhou Shuhuai resolutely devoted himself to the revolution. At that time, the Honghu Red Guards were poorly equipped, and spears and pikes became their main opponents against the enemy.
However, this did not stop them from being determined and courageous in their hearts. Zhou Shuhuai, with his outstanding leadership skills, became the captain of the Red Guards, his bravery and good fighting, so that the enemy was terrified, and the folk circulated such a ballad: "Lao Tzu's surname is Tian, and he lives by the Honghu Lake; Whoever wants to find me, unless it's a god. ”
This is the bravery and courage of the Honghu Red Guards. In 1928, Zhou Shuhuai joined the Communist Party of China under the introduction of comrades Liu Ying and Tian Bin, and since then, his life has been more full of challenges and struggles.
When the troops needed fresh blood to enrich the main force, the brave and combative Zhou Shuhuai was selected to join the stretcher team of the Red Sixth Army, and his heroic performance won many praises from the leaders.
Soon, the Red Sixth Army was incorporated into the Red Third Army led by **, and Zhou Shuhuai was transferred to the cooking class and became a squad leader.
In 1932, the Red Army units adjusted the standard of food expenses, and an ordinary Red Army soldier could get 1 dime of ocean or 1 pound and 6 taels of rations per day, plus three cents of vegetable money.
However, for young men who need to constantly travel, train, and fight, these foods simply cannot satisfy their consumption. As a result, the food of the Red Army soldiers was actually not very good, and they may not even have time to eat properly during the rapid march, and could only bite a few mouthfuls of dry food to satisfy their hunger.
After a great victory, the warriors camped in the mountains to rest. They are looking forward to improving their food. Soon, a pig was sent to the cooking class, and Li Wenqing asked the soldiers of the cooking class to kill the pig and provide better food for the soldiers.
Zhou Shuhuai agreed, because he had been marching and fighting, so he had not made delicious dishes for the soldiers for a long time, and everyone could only rely on potatoes and wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger.
When the pig was brought back, Zhou Shuhuai immediately asked the cooks to start dealing with it, and after some busyness, the pig was killed and cleaned. Because the pigs are very large, the pigs are also very rich.
Zhou Shuhuai watched those tempting pigs go into the water, couldn't help but move his thoughts, and decided to act immediately, strike first, and fry the pigs in the water with several soldiers in the class, and give himself a delicious feast.
They immediately went into action, ignoring the pork, but rinsing the pig in water, cutting it into pieces, pouring it into hot oil and stir-frying. The soldiers stationed in the camp were attracted by the smell of meat and woke up one after another.
Title: Justice and Discipline of Warriors On an ordinary day, the soldiers smelled the smell of meat and walked along the sound, only to find that the soldiers of the cooking class were enjoying the "small stove".
This situation aroused the anger of the soldiers, who immediately reported the situation to Li Wenqing. Li Wenqing was looking at the strategic map, and when he heard this report, he immediately stood up and walked to the cooking class angrily.
He ordered the squad leaders to notify the soldiers to assemble, and the whole company was assembled, and then brought the soldiers of the cooking squad led by Zhou Shuhuai to the whole company. In the face of Li Wenqing's reprimand, Zhou Shuhuai, as the squad leader and the squad leader of the cooking squad, actually took the lead in opening a small stove without permission and enjoying the food of the soldiers of the whole company, which was very bad.
Li Wenqing immediately ordered a few soldiers to hang Zhou Shuhuai on a tree, preparing to physically punish him and let him remember it for a long time. This story teaches us that the warriors need to be disciplined and not break the rules because of a momentary **.
Li Wenqing's actions have embodied his sense of justice and responsibility, and they are worthy of our study.
Li Wenqing left in a hurry after giving the order, not noticing the brutal corporal punishment inflicted on Zhou Shuhuai by the soldiers. However, it was this negligence of his that caused a big mistake that he regretted for the rest of his life.
At first, the fighters just tied Zhou Shuhuai to the tree in an orderly manner and pretended to hit him a few times with sticks. But with Zhou Shuhuai's departure, their anger over the incident intensified.
They bravely and fearlessly charged forward, fighting for the honor and safety of their country, however, their efforts were not duly rewarded. The cooking class, which was used as a logistical support, took advantage of his position to fill his own pockets and open small stoves privately, causing many soldiers to be seriously malnourished and in a worrying physical condition.
Today, they finally waited for a long-lost meal of pork, hoping to take this opportunity to comfort themselves, but the waiting time made them feel disappointed and angry, because Zhou Shuhuai actually ate it first.
When Zhou Shuhuai was beaten, the surrounding crowd was talking about it, and their emotions became more and more intense, and they all seemed to feel that Zhou Shuhuai had done something unforgivable. The warrior with the stick was also affected by the anger of the crowd, and his hands became heavier and heavier, until Zhou Shuhuai was hung from a tree and could not dodge, and his begging for mercy was to no avail, and shouting for them to stop was to no avail.
After a long beating, the fighters realized that Zhou Shuhuai had fainted.
The soldiers instantly realized that they were attacking too violently, after all, they were all comrades-in-arms, and no one thought of killing people, but just wanted to give them a warning. So everyone hurriedly untied Zhou Shuhuai from the tree, and then immediately sent him to the medical soldiers for treatment.
After Zhou Shuhuai was sent to the medical soldiers, Li Wenqing learned about the situation. He was keenly aware that while he didn't make the fighters fight hard, the way he handled the matter was too drastic.
Li Wenqing immediately put down the matter at hand and went to apologize to Zhou Shuhuai.
Although Zhou Shuhuai was reluctant to forgive Li Wenqing and called him a tyrant, which is not surprising. Because Li Wenqing fell into a lifelong illness because of a waist injury, and he did have a short temper before.
At that time, when he was studying at the Anti-Japanese University in Northern Shaanxi, there was an urgent need for military cadres on the front line, so Li Wenqing filled the vacancy and served as the commander of the 715th Regiment of the 120th Division.
The short-tempered Li Wenqing refused to compromise and even pulled out a pistol to threaten the political commissar. After this incident, some people took this opportunity to accuse **'s troops of being too "gangster", which made ** very angry.
He decided to severely punish Li Wenqing and tie him up. From then on, no matter what Li Wenqing said, he resolutely refused to understand, let alone forgive. These two comrades-in-arms, who had lived and died together in the same company, never said a word in the past 50 years from the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to the end of the War of Liberation and then to the founding of New China.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the two families still lived in the compound of the same military region. In order to improve the relations between the two families, the commander of the Chengdu Military Region personally mediated when Li Wenqing was seriously ill and hospitalized in the 90s.
According to Li Wenqing's son Li Hai, one day he was taking care of his father in the ward when he suddenly saw an old man standing at the door of the ward.
The old man was holding a cane, wearing an old military uniform that was slightly old without a collar badge and cockade, and did not enter the ward, but quietly stared at Li Wenqing on the hospital bed at the door.
Soon, Li Wenqing noticed his gaze, although he was already seriously ill and it was difficult to get up on his own, he still tried his best to lift his body and called softly: "Zhou Shuhuai!" ”
Under Li Wenqing's call, Zhou Shuhuai walked in slowly and motioned for Li Hai to help him up and lie down. Li Hai brought a stool, and Zhou Shuhuai sat down beside Li Wenqing's hospital bed.
The two old men looked at each other for a long time, although they did not communicate with each other, but the feelings in their hearts were extremely deep. Suddenly, as if they had reconciled with their past grievances, they hugged each other and wept, hoarse.
The fifty years of grievances finally disappeared in this bitter cry.
Zhou Shuhuai and Li Wenqing served in the same company and lived together in the compound of the same military region. They experienced the most difficult period of the Anti-Japanese War together, although there were some grievances between the two, but after all, it was not hatred, and finally under the influence of comradeship, the contradictions between the two were resolved.
On TV screens and newspaper pages, we can often glimpse such a scene: ** Ten-year-old Red Army soldiers, sticking to the deep mountains and old forests, silently guarding the graves of their comrades-in-arms who once lived and died together.
This kind of friendship between life and death is difficult for ordinary people to understand and experience, but no one will not feel moved by them. It is their fearless dedication decades ago that has brought us the better life we have now.
This is an inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood, and their dedication is worth remembering forever.