The sixties of the nineteenth century, a very ordinary day. This day is the Qingming Festival, and many schools in Shenyang will organize students to go to the cemetery of the martyrs to resist US aggression and aid Korea to visit the graves.
Dong Yaodong's school also organizes such activities on Qingming Day every year, and there are many children of martyrs in his school, and every time they enter the cemetery of the martyrs to resist US aggression and aid Korea, these children will call to each other, "Look, this is your father." "This is his uncle. "For young and ignorant children, they don't know what this cemetery means.
The little Dong Yaodong walked past one tombstone after another, and he saw many familiar namesSpecial combat heroes Yang Gensi and Huang Jiguang, first-class combat heroes Qiu Shaoyun, Sun Zhanyuan, Yang Liandi, etc., among them there is a small tombstone, which buries a person named Cai Zhengguo.
Dong Yaodong also touched this silent tombstone with his own small hands, helping it remove the surrounding weeds and patting off the soil on the monumentIt's just that he would never have thought that this hero who seems to have nothing to do with him turned out to be his father!
Cai Zhengguo, born in Yongxin County, Jiangxi Province in October 1909, joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in September 1929. In April 1932 he joined the Red Army. In 1933, he became a member of the Communist Party of China.
Cai Zhengguo participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in 1950 and served as the acting commander of the 50th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteers, and was unfortunately killed in an air raid in 1953 at the age of 44. Six years after Cai Zhengguo's death, Zhang Bo married Dong Fengkui under the persuasion of the people around him, and renamed Cai Xiaodong Dong Yaodong.
When he was a child, Dong Yaodong was an "outlier" among his classmates, in that era when family planning had not yet been implementedDong Yaodong is a rare only child, and he is the "young master" in the eyes of his classmates.
Dong Yaodong's mother Zhang Bo cares about Dong Yaodong meticulously, in that era when candy is still a "rare thing", if any child has a candy, the surrounding children must be envious for a long time.
However, Dong Yaodong is used to these things, not only that, Dong Yaodong's home even has cod liver oil, vitamins and other thingsIt can be seen that Dong Fengkui and Zhang Bo love this only son deeply.
Dong Yaodong has been a person with a strong personality since he was a childIn order to get rid of his classmates' perception of him badly, he worked hard to participate in labor at school, and he was always the first to do the dirtiest and heaviest work, and Dong Yaodong soon grew into a strong man.
When he was fifteen years old, Dong Yaodong moved his mind to join the army. He first told his mother Zhang Bo what he thought, but his mother tried her best to stop him, but Dong Yaodong had made up his mind.
At night, his father Dong Fengkui called him to the study, and the father and son talked all night, and Dong Fengkui understood Dong Yaodong's thoughts. The next day, Dong Fengkui persuaded his wife Zhang Bo, and finally Zhang Bo tearfully agreed to his son's request to become a soldier.
So fifteen-year-old Dong Yaodong got on a big truck to the army and began his military career. In the army, Dong Yaodong is the same as before, he is not afraid of hardship or tiredness, and he always rushes to be the first in difficulties, maybe in Dong Yaodong's heart, he still wants to prove to others that he is a man.
One day when he was eighteen years old, Dong Yaodong was on duty at a military camp in Dalian as usual, when a black car slowly drove into the barracks, and a young officer got out of the car.
After a while, the officer did not seem to find the person he was looking for, and left. It turned out that the young officer was looking for no one else, it was Dong Yaodong.
Not long ago, Dong Yaodong's mother, Zhang Bo, met General Deng Yue, deputy commander of the Shenyang Military Region, and General Deng Yue and his wife were going to Dalian, so they invited Zhang Bo to go with them.
After Zhang Bo arrived at the Dalian military camp, Deng Yue sent someone to the military camp to pick up Dong Yaodong, but when his subordinates came back, he was aloneDeng Yue asked him what was going on, and he said that there was no such person as Cai Xiaodong in the army roster, and Zhang Bo, who was on the side, understood what was going onShe stepped forward and whispered that she had changed the child's name to Dong Yaodong.
Deng Yue knew what was going on as soon as he heard it, and he asked Zhang Bo in a low voice if the child still didn't know his life experience, Zhang Bo choked and nodded.
When Deng Yue heard this, he said that the child was eighteen years old and had the right to know his true identity, so he sent someone to take Dong Yaodong over.
As soon as Dong Yaodong arrived at the house, he felt that the atmosphere was unusual, these former serious military commanders looked at him with a strange and loving look, and his mother sat in front of him silently bowing her head.
Next, Dong Yaodong heard something he never thought he would hear in his life"Xiaodong, I called you today to tell you the truth about your life experience" "Your name is Cai Xiaodong, your father's name is Cai Zhengguo, a revolutionary martyr, and your father died in the Korean War. ”
Dong Yaodong's eyes were in a tranceDon't you have a father, his name is Dong Fengkui. What's going on? Why all of a sudden an unreachable hero became his father?This is almost impossible for an eighteen-year-old who has grown up peacefully.
But the looks of these uncles and aunts told him that this was the case, and he recalled the humble "preferential treatment" he received in the barracks as a child, the extraordinary doting of his father and mother, and the fact that his mother was just an ordinary housewife, but knew many chiefs and officers.
At this moment, the truth was revealed, Dong Yaodong couldn't accept it for a while, and fainted.
When he woke up, he only felt that his heart was stirring and uneasy, full of all kinds of complicated emotions. Cai Xiaodong came to the martyr's cemetery for the first timeIn the drizzle, he stroked his father's tombstone, a thousand words were blocked in his heart, and he gently pressed his forehead against the tombstone, as if it was attached to his father's body.
In the drizzle, there seemed to be a burst of warmth from the tombstone, as if the biological father he had never met comforted his son with a generous palm. Although he has never met his biological father, Cai Xiaodong feels extremely cordial and proud.
There were countless children like Cai Xiaodong during the war years, some of their parents were revolutionary soldiers who died heroically, and some were innocent people who were brutally killed.
Others inherited their father's last wish and joined the army as soldiers, continuing to shine for the revolutionary cause.
Today's happy life is a sequel to the martyrs who gave their lives for the revolution, who gave their lives for the revolution, and their descendants deserve to be treated kindly.