Meng Yan's Transformation

Yunqing cried all the way, and when she was about to reach Longjiang Railway Station, she finally sorted out her emotions and came out of her sad mood...

Wang Quanfu drove the carriage to the vicinity of the train station and stopped the carriage with a "whoa" sound. He said to Yunqing, "Sister-in-law, it's better for you to cry, so you don't feel depressed. But don't be sad anymore. No one will take care of you on the train. You should be careful. This is my wife Jinxiu. She asked me to give you tea eggs, homemade steamed buns, and a cup of tea... I won't see you off to the train."

Yunqing got off the carriage, took the things from Wang Quanfu's hand and said, "Brother Quanfu, you should go back soon to avoid making Jinxiu worry. Drive slowly and be careful. Go back and thank Jinxiu for preparing so many things for me..."

"Sister-in-law, why are you so polite? Zhan Yu saved two lives in our Wang family, but I haven't thanked him yet. Even if we don't thank our own people, it's all in our hearts. I'm leaving now. You should go buy a train ticket. Go, go..." Wang Quanfu said as he drove away in the carriage.

Yunqing hurried to buy a train ticket.

Fortunately, the train to Jinzhou, Liaoning, was about to arrive in 20 minutes. And there was only one ticket left, which Yunqing bought. After buying the train ticket, Yunqing ran straight to the ticket gate and caught up with the ticket inspection.

Yunqing got on the train, found her seat, sat down, and felt as if her body had been hollowed out. She slumped in her seat, thinking about how her daughter had just returned and how she had been left behind again, and how she had not been able to take care of her father's sickness by his bedside. Tears welled up in her eyes again, and she tried to raise her head, open her eyes wide, and control her emotions, in order not to let the tears fall...

"I have failed so badly in my life. I am sorry to my old father and my children. Did my father call my name before he died?" Yunqing thought, thinking of her father's life unfolding before her eyes...

Yun Deqiu, with the courtesy name Fengrun, was called Yun Daqiu by his colleagues. He was born in a landlord family, the eldest son of the mistress of the house. When he was three years old, his mother died of illness. The third concubine was in charge of the family and abused him. When his father was not at home, he dropped rice grains while eating, so the third concubine stripped him naked, left him in a red bellyband, and made him kneel in the ancestral hall as punishment. Therefore, he was the eldest son and the young master since he was a child, but he lived worse than the long-term worker in the family. While being abused by the third concubine, he was also bullied by several sons born to the third concubine. The third concubine wanted Yun Deqiu to not grow up, and if he died young, the family property would go to her own sons. But Yun Deqiu was born lucky, and he was almost killed by the third concubine several times, but he was safe. Finally, when he was thirteen years old, on a silent midnight, Yun Deqiu fled with a broken heart for his family. He ran all the way in the dark, and he smelled the fragrance of the air, the free April day...

Yun Deqiu became the youngest soldier of the Eighth Route Army. He was not afraid of hardship and was brave and strong.

Yun Deqiu grew up quickly in the army. Because he had attended a private school at home and could read and write, the commander liked him and asked him to write documents for him. The soldiers liked him and asked him to write letters home for them.

Yun Deqiu was not afraid of bullets and gunfire on the battlefield and made great achievements.

After China was liberated and land reform was carried out, Yun Deqiu returned to his hometown as a land reform cadre. Because Yun Deqiu joined the revolutionary army, the superiors specially approved that Yun Deqiu's family be exempted from the landlord criticism meeting, and their property was not confiscated.

Yun Deqiu was married to a beautiful lady from a wealthy family under the arrangement of his father. After marriage, they had three sons and one daughter: Yunxuan, Yuncheng, Yunwen, and Yunqing.

Yun Deqiu was away from home for a long time due to work. She was both a father and a mother to several children. (The children had no money to go to school, so she taught them cultural knowledge. The eldest son Yunxuan was particularly good at science and liked chemistry and physics. The daughter Yunqing was very talented in poetry and painting.) She could not get any help from her parents-in-law, and she became sick from longing for them. She cried until she went blind...

Yun Deqiu's leader took into consideration that his wife was blind and could not take care of the children, so he sent him back to his hometown to establish the Jincheng Paper Mill. (Zhong Lingyuxiu died of illness before Yun Deqiu returned.) Yun Deqiu rose from an Eighth Route Army soldier to a brigade commander, then to a land reform cadre, and then to a factory builder. Yun Deqiu exhausted his brain working for the country, and a piece of his skull turned black, so the state paid for a plastic skull replacement.

Zhan Mengyan once lay on her grandfather's back and saw this plastic skull without hair. She asked curiously, "Grandpa, this bone on your head doesn't have hair. It feels cool and smooth, and it makes a clang clang sound when you knock it."

Yun Deqiu shook little Mengyan on his back and said gently: "Grandpa is tired. His hair is gone and his skull is broken..."

"When I grow up, I will help grandpa with the work and won't let him get tired anymore..." Zhan Mengyan touched grandpa's head lovingly.