However, with the passage of history, many soldiers who defend their country are far away from home and wandering outside under many special factors.
However, when these people get old, they always want to leave the leaves and return to the land where they were born. They struggle for the first half of their lives, and their only wish for the second half is to go home.
There is such a veteran from Taiwan Province Province who left home for more than 70 years and returned with white hair. He carefully asked his nephew, "I have no money. Do you still support me?" Very sad. This is Deng Xuegui, a veteran of Taiwan Province Province.
Deng Xuegui, a native of Changning, Hunan Province, was born in 1926. He is the boss of the family, and there are two younger sisters and a younger brother below.
It is said that the children of poor families take charge early, so Deng Xuegui became the son of taking charge early. He has no education and has helped his parents share the burden of the family since he was a child.
However, in that war-torn era, life was already very difficult. It is difficult to support the family. Even though he did his best, the whole family still didn't have enough to eat and clothes.
In order to survive, 1948, 22-year-old Deng Xuegui joined the army, so that he could not only eat enough, but also defend his country and honor his ancestors.
After joining the army, he didn't say that he could be rich or expensive, but it was much better than the days when he didn't have enough to eat. Just when he thought he could ensure the life of his family, the "bad news" came.
The Kuomintang was doomed to defeat at 1948, but he entered the Kuomintang army at this time, so he inexplicably followed him to Taiwan Province Province.
It is estimated that the Kuomintang soldiers at that time had no idea that they were still fighting so hard in the early days of the liberation war, but they experienced a rout overnight. In this case, Chiang Kai-shek ordered large troops to retreat to Taiwan Province Province.
Deng Xuegui never thought that one day he would leave his hometown and go to a strange place. Even after living for many years, he didn't know that the road back to his hometown would be so difficult in the future.
He thought that joining the army could defend the country and make his family live a better life from now on. Now it's all a dream.
After he came to Taiwan Province Province, it didn't go smoothly as expected, and he was a stranger. With such a meager salary, he can't afford it in Taiwan Province Province, where prices are high.
He often can't even afford a toothpaste, let alone such an important event as his wife and children. This embarrassment accompanied him all his life.
At this time, he will miss his hometown more. The sentence in Yu Guangzhong's Homesickness: "Homesickness is a shallow strait, I am here, and the mainland is there" can best express his feelings at the moment. He doesn't know the situation on the mainland side, and he doesn't know whether his mother is well.
The mother at this end misses her eldest son who joined the army day and night. She often looks around the village road, thinking that her son will appear at home one day, but she never waits for her son to appear day and night.
This tragedy that separated the two sides of the strait caused countless families to go where to go at that time, and some veterans failed to return to their homeland until their deaths.
His mother worked hard for her family for the first half of her life. Although it was very hard, her children were all around, but what I didn't expect was that her son, who never came home after she left, thought about it day and night, but never waited.
But isn't Deng Xuegui on the other side of the mainland?
He tried every means to contact the mainland and wanted to get news from his family.
In the end, everything paid off. A few years later, Deng Xuegui finally got in touch with his family, but he didn't know that he and his old mother had been separated forever.
It was not until later that he realized that he was only one year away from his mother and only one year away from seeing her.
The younger brother didn't want to tell his brother the truth, so he lied to reassure his brother that his mother was still alive.
But once such an emotional bond is connected, it becomes more and more unmanageable. Deng Xuegui is eager to go home. He dreamed of meeting his family in countless dreams, and even more, he returned to the place where he was born and raised.
1987 September 16, at the regular meeting of the Kuomintang, Jiang Jingguo announced the opening of the mainland to visit relatives. At this point, Taiwan Province veterans who have been separated from the mainland for nearly 40 years can finally set foot on the road to return home.
Countless veterans embraced each other and were excited. From June 4th,165438+1October 4th, the first batch of Taiwan Province compatriots who returned home to visit relatives entered the mainland openly, reaching thousands by the end of the year.
They meet again after a long separation, facing such a strange and familiar land. When they left, they were young men, and when they came back, they were already white-haired. Everything has changed. This feeling is really beyond the understanding of ordinary people.
However, the most painful thing is the eternal separation between man and nature. At that time, millions of veterans from Taiwan Province Province also launched a campaign to visit relatives in Taiwan Province Province and held a rally in the name of "Mother's Day". The veterans are wearing white shirts with bright red "homesickness" printed on the front and "Mom, I miss you so much" written on the back.
This is the wish of countless people, Deng Xuegui is no exception. He is eager to get everything ready for returning to his hometown. He has become more economical than before. In order to be able to go back and honor his mother, he also took several jobs at the same time, just to save more money, and also hoped that his mother would be pleased to know that his son had actually had a good life in recent years.
But which mother can not miss her son, countless old people like Deng Xuegui's mother miss her son, crying blind, and slowly collapsing Lacrimosa. She died at the end of 1987 without waiting for her son's return.
This eternal separation between heaven and man is the most unspeakable pain. If this rule had been opened one year earlier, would Deng Xuegui have met his mother? We don't know.
But when he returned to his hometown, the first thing he did was to visit his old mother, but he looked everywhere in the front and back yards, but there was no sign of his mother.
At this time, he still has hope, but his heart is already cold. I hope his mother is joking with him.
It was not until his younger brother led him to his mother's grave that he had to admit this fact and burst into tears. His mother is no longer alive.
Young Lang, who was in high spirits in those days, has now become a white-haired old man, standing in front of his mother's grave, still recalling the scene when he left his hometown. It was a long time, but now things have changed.
This really reflects Yu Guangzhong's words: "Later, homesickness was a short grave, I was outside and my mother was inside."
After he first arrived in his hometown, although he regretted not seeing his mother, he decided to look around at home and stay for a while. After all, this is where he was born and raised.
But in the 1980s, although the appearance and conditions of rural areas in China have changed greatly, there are still some places that are not very good. So he donated the money he had worked so hard to save over the years to his hometown, hoping to help the people here and let them live a better life.
He decided to build a school. Because of his poor family, he never read any books and suffered from illiteracy all his life. He knows that knowledge has changed his destiny, and he wants the children here to walk out of the mountains and have a better life in the future. This is a great event for generations.
So from 65438 to 0988, every time Deng Xuegui went home, he would donate his savings during this period to help these villagers who needed help more.
Every time he comes back, the people in the village are also very happy. Everyone knows that he is a good man and that he really helps everyone.
So every time he comes back, people in the village kill chickens and sheep to entertain him. What's more, please sing on stage to express your inner joy.
This simple way of villagers often infects Deng Xuegui, but the more this time, the more complicated his feeling of falling leaves returning to their roots.
He wants to come back, but there are some things that always make him hesitate in Taiwan Province Province.
He has never been married in his life, on the one hand, because the expenses in Taiwan Province Province are really quite large, and there is simply not enough money to get married. He just wants to go home;
On the other hand, in the early years, the Kuomintang banned soldiers from Taiwan Province from getting married, resulting in many veterans like him never getting married. Moreover, Taiwan Province natives have always looked down upon these people from the mainland and often called them "old taro boys".
As he entered old age, he spent most of his time in Taiwan Province Province with his comrades. Before the opening of home leave, many veterans got together and promised each other that whoever could return to the mainland alive and who died late would be responsible for carrying the ashes of the villagers who died first back to the mainland to find their roots.
But gradually his comrades are getting old, leaving him alone. He became an island in Taiwan Province Province. No one can understand him, and no one speaks to him with a local accent. Loneliness inevitably strikes.
With the aging of his comrades-in-arms, he remained unmarried all his life and was alone in Taiwan Province Province. He wants to come back, but "parents are here and life is still there; When parents are gone, there is only a way home in life. "
Brothers and sisters are all married and have children and grandchildren. Now I'm an outsider when I come back, and I don't want to bother the younger generation to take care of themselves.
In the eyes of villagers, Deng Xuegui, who returns generously every time, is a veteran of Taiwan Province Province and a native of Taiwan Province Province with a superior life.
As everyone knows, these are all the old-age money he saved and his filial piety to his mother.
At the age of 25, I followed the army to this strange place and lived there for forty or fifty years.
In his view, this place is neither home nor home, but an inn in his life, and he will eventually go back.
In his 90 s, he still insists on washing, cooking and taking care of his daily life.
Since the cross-strait opening up, he has been home four times and spent all his money every time. But after all, he is old and gradually feels overwhelmed. He really can't stand the bumps, his legs and feet are inconvenient and the journey time is too long. He can't stand such a toss.
But his dignity and integrity as a veteran doomed him to bear all this alone and not tell his descendants about it.
Once, he called his nephew Deng Youai and said, I have no money. Do you still support me?
This sentence sounds very sad and hopeful, because he has no children and daughters under his knees and no one to take care of him in his later years.
In the residential area where Deng Xuegui lived, there used to be more than a dozen veterans, together with several elderly people in Hunan. Now they are all gone, leaving him alone, stumbling and staying in this empty house.
Now he wants to go home, but his parents, brothers and sisters have passed away, leaving him alone in the world.
From 1988 to 2003, he went home four times, but in the next ten years, he never set foot on his hometown again. Every time every family is happy, he stays alone in Taiwan Province Province, never enjoying the family happiness of his children and grandchildren.
Nephew Deng Youai advised him to go back to his hometown several times, but he was stubborn. He wants to go back, but he can't
Because of the differences in life for decades, he is not used to the way of life in his hometown. Deng Youai once said that his uncle specifically mentioned this toilet. Because of his age, he can't adapt to the dry toilets in the countryside. This kind of toilet is really hard for an old man his age.
Moreover, in the countryside, in summer, there are many mosquitoes, so he moves slowly, so every time he persuades, he is often rejected by his family.
Are these conditions really the reason why he can't go back to his hometown?
Not really, because my nephew Deng Youai has said more than once that he wants to take his uncle home, or he can live in his own house, whichever he likes.
As for the problem of this rural dry toilet, he also said that he can rebuild a toilet for him alone, because the material conditions can actually be changed as long as he wants to come back.
But every time I call my uncle, Deng Xuegui, an old man, doesn't want to mention it like a selective neglect.
The villagers, whether Deng Youai or others, all mentioned the old man Deng Xuegui and showed their approval.
Everyone is willing to help as long as he comes back. This is the simplicity of China people. He helped everyone selflessly, and everyone was naturally willing to contribute to his later years.
Nephew Deng Youai once said that as early as his teens, when his uncle Deng Xuegui first contacted his family, his father learned that his uncle had no family and no descendants in Taiwan Province Province. Considering his retirement in his later years and the idea that China people have no offspring, he quietly adopted Deng Youai under the name of Deng Xuegui in his family tree.
He is willing to support the elderly for the responsibility left by his father and for fulfilling the duties of a younger generation.
There is an old saying in China: "Children have to support themselves, but they don't want to be with their relatives". Yes, everyone is old and misses their hometown most. Some people go home all their lives.
Old Deng Manxue, who is in a foreign land, wants to go home, but he is afraid of bothering the younger generation. Moreover, he is even more sorry for his parents and brothers because he hasn't been home for decades. He doesn't want to increase the burden on his children and grandchildren.
However, there are younger generations like Deng Youai. As long as Deng Xuegui is willing to come back, he has fulfilled his wish and is also a wanderer who has left his hometown and is homesick.
Fortunately, Deng Xuegui was very pleased to learn about his nephew's attitude and has already begun to prepare for the procedures of returning to the mainland.