The Red Era: Living in Seclusion in a Siheyuan as a Boss

Chapter 489 A poor family produces filial sons, and a country rarely produces heroes!!!
"If you read this letter, my son may have already died. Please don't be too sad. My son died for the country. It is a glorious thing. Goodbye, dear mom and dad!"

This was the suicide note that the martyr Liang Shan secretly wrote at home before his death. He was already in tears when he finished writing it.

Wait for Zhong Xingguo to return early from his home visit leave.

Ge Xiaohu and Zhong Xingguo, on behalf of all the comrades in the Tiger Assault Brigade, visited the families of their fallen comrades Liang Shan and others.

When they arrived at Liangshan's hometown, Ge Xiaohu and his companion were completely shocked by the poverty there.

When they found Liang Shan's mother, the old woman was begging on the street alone, which made people feel very distressed.

Even after so many years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there are still places where people cannot get enough food to eat and cannot even afford clothes.

Some farmers have many children at home, but only one complete piece of clothing. They give it to whoever goes out, and the rest are left running around the yard naked.

There were hardly any modern appliances, and if there were any, they were only flashlights.

There is no electricity in Liangshan’s hometown, and the lighting is still based on traditional soybean oil lamps.

Ge Xiaohu was from Beijing, and he couldn't imagine that even under such difficult conditions, Liang Shan had always maintained an optimistic attitude in front of his comrades.

When her mother saw her comrades from Liangshan coming, she almost cried her eyes out.

His mother and Ge Xiaohu cried as they told stories about Liangshan's past.

Liang Shan's parents were honest farmers with a very low family income. In addition, Liang Shan had many brothers and sisters, so the family often spent more than they earned and was very poor.

In order to ensure that her children would have enough food to eat, Liang Shan's mother often went out to beg on the streets.

Liang Shan, who was still young at the time, felt mixed emotions when he saw his mother's behavior, so much so that he was very resistant to the food his mother begged for and was unwilling to eat it.

In fact, Liangshan was just having a bad temper. He couldn't bear to see the mother begging for her children. He couldn't bear to eat the food that she had begged for with so much trouble.

His mother knew this very well, and every time she would put food next to his pillow when Liangshan was unaware, so that Liangshan could eat some food at the bedside when he was hungry.

When Liang Shan grew up and recalled these little things, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

He hated himself for being so willful and making his mother worry. He would never forget what his mother had done for him.

The difficult conditions in his childhood made Liang Shan develop the good qualities of perseverance, strength and fearlessness of hardship.

When he grew up, Liang Shan was sponsored by kind-hearted people to go to school.

Liang Shan worked very hard during his school years and was highly regarded by his teachers and classmates.

During his school years, Liang Shan learned a lot of patriotic texts, which gave him the ideal of serving his motherland one day.

There is one way to achieve this ideal, and that is to join the army.

Last year, Liang Shan successfully joined the army. In the army, Liang Shan is deeply loved by his comrades because of a special habit. Since he has suffered from poverty since he was a child, Liang Shan has two nicknames in the army: "No Leftovers" and "Eat for the Next Meal".

It turned out that Liang Shan had difficulty getting enough food since he was a child, so he was very frugal with food after joining the army.

He cherished this hard-earned opportunity to eat very much. Every time he ate, he would eat up all the food. Sometimes he would even leave some food for the next meal.

For this reason, Zhong Xingguo, Li Erhu and other comrades sometimes went to Liangshan as a joke.

But this also made Liang Shan and his comrades more harmonious and close.

Because many people in the army at that time came from poor backgrounds, Liang Shan's behavior made them empathize.

Just when Liang Shan was training hard in the army, the "Tiger Commando" suddenly received an order to join the war, and he prepared to march to the front line with his comrades to join the battle.

In one battle, after Liangshan and his men had gone through untold hardships to break through the enemy's position, they saw a scene that made all the soldiers cry with anger.

Because the enemy’s positions were filled with supplies and weapons that the Xia Kingdom had provided to the “ungrateful wolves” at that time.

Looking at the clear words "Aid from Xia Country" on the sack, all the soldiers present had tears in their eyes and tears of indignation fell like raindrops.

Team leader Ge Xiaohu shouted angrily: "Two billion yuan raised a wolf cub."

Because of these "wolf cubs", they don't know how many soldiers have sacrificed their lives and how many have lost their best comrades.

These supplies were all collected by their motherland through frugality, but they did not expect the "ungrateful wolves" to be so treacherous.

The one who felt the most uncomfortable was Liang Shan. He had never eaten white rice since he was a child, and before he joined the army, he felt so heartbroken when he saw the white rice in front of him that he could hardly breathe.

Special forces are different from other troops. They undertake the most difficult and dangerous tasks and may be sacrificed at any time.

So, when Liang Shan and his comrades were getting ready to go, they suddenly received a special order, which was to go home to visit their families.

Although it is reasonable to go home to visit relatives before going to the battlefield, Liangshan and his men know that this trip may be dangerous and they may never come back.

So after returning home, Liangshan helped with housework very diligently.

During the six-day visit, he worked tirelessly in the fields and helped his parents with all the housework.

Before returning to the army, Liang Shan used his savings to buy a new set of clothes for his parents, and tucked a suicide note he had written long ago inside the clothes.

In his suicide note, Liang Shan first apologized to his parents for not telling them that he was about to go to the front line.

Then he asked his brother to take good care of his parents and his younger siblings. He hoped that his younger siblings would study hard and contribute to the country when they grow up.

That rescue mission was extremely dangerous, and the besieged friendly forces managed to break through the enemy's firepower blockade.

Liang Shan submitted letters of request to the commando captain Ge Xiaohu several times, hoping to become a member of the commando and rush to the front.

Ge Xiaohu was moved by his heroic spirit and approved his application for battle. He assigned him to the first assault team and appointed him as the first demolitionist.

Originally, Liangshan was the second blaster, but this did not fit Liangshan's personality.

He always strives to be the first and likes to be at the forefront.

So when Liang Shan heard the decision to arrange him as the second demolitionist, he immediately found the captain of the commando team, Ge Xiaohu, and volunteered to become the first demolitionist.

He said to Ge Xiaohu with great enthusiasm: "If there is someone on this battlefield who needs to rush to the front and dare to sacrifice, that person must be me. This is my determination to join the war and also my determination to serve the motherland."

Liang Shan's words moved Ge Xiaohu, and he agreed to Liang Shan's request and changed Liang Shan to the number one blaster.

Later, Liang Shan proved that he was worthy of the position of the number one blaster, but the price of proving it was his life.

At seven o'clock in the morning on the day of the operation, the sunlight had not yet completely penetrated the dense mountain forest, and the twenty members of the commando team had been lurking in this hidden woodland for a full two hours.

They held their breath, as if they were part of the forest, quietly waiting for the decisive order to attack.

Finally, the captain Ge Xiaohu's low and powerful command rang in their ears.

The members of the commando team seemed like activated beasts, bursting out with astonishing power in an instant.

Like a pack of wolves, they rushed towards the enemy's position swiftly and orderly, and every movement revealed the tacit understanding and precision of long-term training.

Faced with this sudden attack, some enemy troops were immediately thrown into disarray.

Some of them were in panic, while others stood there in a daze. Before they could react, they were hit by Xia Jun's bullets and fell in a pool of blood.

The enemy was doomed to defeat in this battle from the very beginning.

Some enemy troops who escaped immediately relied on fortifications to launch a desperate fight.

Because the enemy's fortifications were extremely strong, Liangshan and his men were under heavy fire from inside the enemy's fortifications.

They had difficulty breaking through the enemy's defensive positions and many soldiers were injured.

The fortification that Liang Shan was in charge of was the one with the heaviest enemy machine gun fire.

As the first demolition expert, he took the lead and picked up the explosives to destroy the fortifications.

Relying on the experience and skills gained from hard training, Liang Shan successfully approached the enemy fortifications under the cover of his teammates.

When the time was ripe, Liang Shan bravely picked up the explosive pack and rushed to the fortifications and threw it into the fortifications. With a loud "bang", the enemy's fortifications were reduced to ashes.

But at this moment, the firepower point of another enemy position locked onto Liangshan.

In an instant, dense rain of bullets poured towards him like a storm.

Liang Shan was unable to dodge and was shot in multiple places.

The blood instantly dyed his clothes red, and the wound on his stomach was even more shocking, and even his intestines were vaguely visible.

Seeing this, the teammates hurriedly wanted to rush forward to rescue, but were stopped by Liang Shan with a firm voice.

Liang Shan knew very well that he was now in the enemy's fire network, and any rash action might bring irreversible consequences.

He didn't want to put his comrades in more danger because of himself.

Liang Shan quickly took out the medical kit from his body and, with his strong willpower, gave himself a simple bandage.

Then he crawled to a huge rock and hid behind it, intending to observe the specific situation of the enemy's fortifications.

However, as soon as he stuck his head out, the enemy's bullets rained down like raindrops, and one of them hit his head. Liang Shan felt his eyes go dark, and then he lost consciousness and fell to the ground.

"Xiao Liang!" Seeing this, Ge Xiaohu's eyes were red. He grabbed the submachine gun and yelled, "Fuck you, I'll fuck your grandma!"

The other comrades also turned their bullets into anger and fired wildly at the enemy.

"Take away this firing point for me and avenge Comrade Liang Shan!" Zhong Xingguo roared with red eyes. He thought Liang Shan had already died.

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After a while, Liangshan woke up to the sound of fierce gunfire all around.

Due to excessive blood loss, Liang Shan felt dizzy. After resting for a while, he immediately stood up to observe the situation on the battlefield.

He saw many of his comrades falling under enemy fire.

If this fortification is not removed, it will be very disadvantageous to the Xia army.

Liang Shan picked up a blasting tube and began to approach the enemy fortifications.

After continuous efforts, they finally arrived two meters away from the fortifications.

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The enemy also discovered Liang Shan and was about to point their guns at him and shoot.

But they never imagined that Liangshan had already made up his mind to die.

Liang Shan resolutely rushed towards the fortifications in the face of bullets and pushed the blasting tube in.

When the enemy saw the blasting tube coming in, they hurriedly picked it up and threw it out.

On this side, Zhong Xingguo saw that Liang Shan was not dead, and shouted excitedly: "Captain, Liang Shan is still alive!"

Liang Shan reacted faster than the enemy. He knew very well that he could not let such a thing happen after finally arriving in front of the fortifications.

So he bravely rushed forward and blocked the firing hole of the fortification with his body.

At the last moment, Liang Shan shouted: "Captain! Take everyone to hide quickly."

After a deafening "boom", the enemy's solid fortifications were instantly torn into pieces, turning into flying debris all over the sky.

At the same time, Liang Shan was suddenly blown away by the overwhelming sound of the explosion, like a kite with a broken string, and finally fell heavily on the hillside not far away.

As the smoke of the attack gradually dissipated, the commandos quickly began searching at the foot of the mountain.

After a difficult search, they finally found Liang Shan's body.

At this time, Liang Shan was covered with wounds and blood. His face was twisted and firm, as if telling of his bravery and indomitable spirit during his lifetime.

On his finger, the pull ring for pulling the explosive tube was still tightly wrapped around it, which was a testimony to his last battle.

His comrades knew very well that Liang Shan had died heroically and his life was forever frozen at this moment.

To express their respect and condolences to this heroic comrade, everyone took off their hats, bowed deeply to him, and tears of grief and anger flashed in their eyes.

However, the fighting did not stop.

After a moment's silence, all the commandos seemed to be driven by an invisible force.

They roared and roared, and launched a more fierce charge towards other enemy fortifications.

Even though countless bullets were flying towards them like dense raindrops, they did not retreat at all.

Instead, he rushed forward without hesitation and built an indestructible line of defense with his flesh and blood.

When sorting out the relics left by the Liangshan martyrs, his comrade-in-arms Zhong Xingguo found Liangshan's last words in a tape recorder. His last words were very simple, with only twenty or so "mother".

It turns out that before the war, the company would arrange for everyone to use a tape recorder to record their last words to prevent accidents from happening on the battlefield and not being able to say them later.

After Liang Shan got the tape recorder, perhaps because he was afraid of being sad, he didn't want to say much, and only recorded the word "mother" more than twenty times.

After the war, the front command decided to award the Liangshan martyrs the honor of "First Class Merit" and named them "yellow-like heroes."

Comrade Zhong Xingguo and leader Ge Xiaohu, accompanied by the local armed forces, returned to Liangshan with Liangshan's military medals, pensions and relics.
Liang Shan's mother was not at home. After searching for several times, he finally found his mother at a street intersection.

But her mother was not shopping at this time, but begging.

This scene brought tears to the eyes of everyone present, and Zhong Xingguo, a comrade-in-arms who had experienced life-and-death battles with Liang Shan, burst into tears.

Only now did they understand why the last words in Liangshan's recording only consisted of 20 or so words.

Ge Xiaohu sadly told his mother the news that Liang Shan had died heroically.

He also found the suicide note hidden in the old man's clothes and read it to the illiterate old man.

The old man collapsed to the ground, tears instantly wet his face, and cried, "My son, my son, the last time you came home you left without a full meal, why are you gone now?"

The remains of the Liangshan martyrs were cremated and buried in the Martyrs Cemetery in Yunnan Province.

Later, Liang Shan's mother wanted to go to his grave to help him sweep it, but the family was too poor, and transportation was not well developed at that time, and the journey from his hometown to Yunnan Province was very far.

Liang Shan’s mother once held her youngest son Liang Gui’s hand and told him, “I am old, and I don’t know if I can go see your brother.

When the family has the means, you must go to Yunnan Province, sweep your brother's grave, and bring some soil from our place. If I die, you can scatter it on my grave. Mom misses him all the time."

Before leaving, Ge Xiaohu and Yu Zhongxingguo took out almost all the money they had and stuffed it all into the pockets of this great mother of Liangshan.

Later, after Ge Xiaohu returned to the army, he reported the difficulties of the martyr Liang Shan's family to his superiors.

Comrades donated generously and pooled some money to send to Liang Shan's family.

After Liu Zhiye learned about this, he asked the people of Liujiazhuang to donate one million yuan in cash to the Second Guard Division of the Garrison District, with the aim of helping the troops solve the problem of blood compensation for martyrs and disabled soldiers.

When Liang Gui and other sponsored families of martyrs arrived at Chuncheng Railway Station, the scene made them tear up.

There was a banner hanging at the train station that read: "Welcome all the martyrs' families to the Spring City!"

When they arrived at the tombs of Liang Shan and other martyrs, everyone bowed deeply.

Liang Gui even cried and said, "Brother, I came to see you with my mother's thoughts. Rest in peace, brother."

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As soon as Zhong Xingguo returned to the army, he could not wait to pick up his pen and vividly described the touching stories of his comrades Liang Shan to his pen pal Liu Shuxian from Peking University through letters.

The moment Liu Shuxian received the letter, tears instantly burst out and she cried uncontrollably.

She grew up in a wealthy family and had never experienced the hardships of life, let alone what suffering was.

In the letter, Zhong Xingguo described his hometown of Liangshan, which was unfamiliar and shocking to her - it turned out that in some corner of this world, there were still many people struggling for basic food and clothing, with no clothes to wear and no food to eat.

However, even in such an environment, some people still have their country in mind, are full of passion, willing to sacrifice their lives and have no hesitation.

The story of Liangshan deeply moved Liu Shuxian and gave her a deeper understanding and insight into the world.

It was from this period that the carefree Liu Shuxian's mood slowly changed.

Not to mention, Zhong Xingguo and Liu Shuxian gradually became more frequent in their correspondence.

Let’s say Ge Xiaohu went home to visit his relatives again with his bag on his back.

This time he came back with great glory.

First-class hero!
Before Ge Xiaohu could even reach the front door, a child at the entrance of the courtyard shouted, "He's back! He's back! My Uncle Hu is back!"

Then, a large group of neighbors came out from the front door.

Ge Xiaohu was confused and asked, "You guys, what are you doing?"

The third uncle Yan Bugui shouted happily: "Zhu Zi, hurry up and set off the firecrackers!"

"Okay!" He Yuzhu replied, and immediately picked up a bamboo pole that had been prepared long ago, on which was hung a painting of "Red Earth".

Xu Damao ran over excitedly and lit the firecrackers with the cigarette in his mouth.

In an instant, "crackling..." deafening sounds of firecrackers rang out in the alley.

Then, Ge Xiaohu saw his mother Du Juan with red eyes, walking towards him hurriedly accompanied by his sister Ge Xiaohong.

"Xiao Hu, my son, you are finally back! Woohoo, I was so worried about you..."

"Mom!" Ge Xiaohu's eyes instantly turned red. He ran forward a few steps and hugged his mother Du Juan tightly in his arms.

Du Juan said anxiously: "Huzi, let me see if you are missing that part!"

Ge Xiaohu burst into tears and smiled, "Mom, I'm fine. My injuries have long been healed. I'm not missing any limbs. If you don't believe me, take a look!"

(End of this chapter)