Little red correspondent Lai Renmei
□ Liao Haoping
During the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party, Lai Renmei and his wife were honored to accept the glorious medal and certificate of the 50th anniversary of the party awarded by the party organization. After excitedly wearing it for several days, they stored it in a rare unlocked "treasure box", and the children helped to sort it out, and found the certificates written by underground party members, the old revolutionary Ma Yueying, and the letters written by General Liu Yongsheng wrapped in red cloth. At the child's repeated requests, Lai Renmei, an 88-year-old veteran party member, told the story of the "red little messenger" revolution that had been sealed for more than 70 years.
Mr. and Mrs. Lai Renmei were awarded the 50th anniversary medal and certificate in the party
Ma Yueying was lai Renmei's guide on the revolutionary road, and General Liu Yongsheng was Lai Renmei's long-lost friendship in the revolutionary struggle, and he had a deep friendship.
In the cold spring of 1947, when lai Renmei, then 13 years old, was basking in the warm sun in Daping, his hometown of Tianluo Lake, and his neighbor Cousin Ma Yueying told him to go to the house, gave him sweet potatoes to eat, and mysteriously gave him the task, asking him if he dared to complete it? Lai Renmei was kind and honest and helpful to this man, and usually did not sponsor his orphan and widowed mother, and he admired shumu very much when he was young, and he was very polite and enthusiastic and obedient. Ma Yueying watched Lai Renmei grow up, knowing that his father and uncle had sacrificed for the revolution (his uncle Lai Changsheng was rated as a martyr after liberation), plus he was clever and clever, clear in love and hatred, good at climbing mountains and walking fast, so he was very fond of Lai Renmei, and every time he asked him to work, he could seriously complete it. This time asked him to help deliver the letter to the Xianshi Xiaohu village to the joint household Qiu Bingrong, he agreed to hide the letter in the old cotton jacket arm hole cotton, the road passed 2 enemy gun towers, the sentry was very strict, he was witty to deal with, the enemy wanted to search, he cooperated with the hands, the sentry search was fruitless, had to let go. Lai Renmei soon came to Qiu Bingrong's house, handed over the letter after the code, and successfully completed the task.
In August of the same year, in order to have a care on the road, Ma Yueying took Lai Renmei as a mother and son, and walked more than 60 miles to Gaoqian Village in Pubei, Guangdong Province (then the station of the Fujian-Guangdong Border Region) to deliver important letters. Lai Renmei replied mischievously with a red face: "Old goods, go to the house of the house." Ma Yueying said apologetically: "A child cannot be rude, but he is the famous commander of Liu Yongsheng." Liu Yongsheng laughed and said: "The little devil calls me 'old goods'", "In the future, everyone will call me 'old goods'". Since then, the organs of the border area have spread, and everyone who sees Liu Yongsheng is called "old goods", and he will respond happily. (There are other theories about the origin of calling Liu Yongsheng an "old commodity", such as liu Yongsheng taking himself when the East Guangdong Detachment was established in order not to reveal his identity.) No matter where the source is, "old goods" in the Fujian-Guangdong-Gansu Border Region is a name that makes the reactionaries feel frightened)
In the spring of 1948, Lai Renmei received instructions to wait at Hangyongbian Liang umbrella to lead the way for Qiu Qiyin, then secretary of the Yongding County CPC Committee, and Fan Yuanhui and Yu Zhongda, leaders of Hangyongbian, and to send them safely to The Village of Sanyi Yantouzhai in Shedu, Shanghangnan. In April of the same year, Lai Renmei repeatedly escorted guerrilla cadres from Longyan, Minnan Pinghe, and Raoping, Guangdong, to Shushuping for training and recuperation. During this period, Lai Renmei often sent letters and materials to and from The Yangmei Cave of Fengnui, Kyushukeng, Wangwubei and Jinzhai Tianluohu, Gushuangquan, Qitan and other base point villages, and never cried bitterly.
In the winter of 1948, Qiu Qiyin led the Hangyong Wugong Brigade to fight guerrillas in Jinsha and carry out a struggle against the stubborn resistance against the enemy, in order to combat the enemy's cruel persecution of the revolutionary masses, the Hangyong Wugong Team applied for the support of the Joint Minxi Detachment to prepare for a wise attack on the Gumu Governor Zhuangding Brigade, and the intelligence was transferred to Lai Renmei through the underground traffic officers, who delivered it to the Minxi Detachment. After the raid, under the command of Lan Hanhua, the leader of the Minxi detachment, and Fan Yuanhui, the political commissar, the raid quickly won a victory, killing Yu Zhonghao and 4 other people and capturing more than 10 rifles. At the same time ambush the supporting enemy, kill the enemy captain, and eliminate a large group of the supporting enemy.
In the Spring Festival of 1949, Ma Yueying was caught by Li Guixian, the pseudo-chief of the Three Dams, and imprisoned in the artillery tower, severely tortured, poured with pepper water, and brutally destroyed for more than a week. Not getting what he wanted, Lee Kwai-hyun became angry and decided to shoot Ma Yueying. After Lai Renmei heard the news, she quickly reported to Qiu Qiyin and asked for a way to rescue him. Qiu Qiyin immediately led a team of armed workers into Sanba, wrote leaflets everywhere overnight and posted them asking for release, and also went to Li Guixian's home to do the work of his family and the whole village surnamed Li Zi, mobilizing everyone to ask Li Guixian to release people. Early the next morning, the whole village gathered outside the turret and did not allow Li Guixian to shoot Ma Yueying, but to release him immediately, or the armed workers would also kill his family, so Li Guixian had to obediently release Ma Yueying.
Liu Yongsheng wrote a letter to Lai Renmei
Proof of ma Yueying, an underground party member and old revolutionary
In the early morning of 3 April of the same year, Fan Yuanhui, Qiu Qiyin, and others led the Seventh Detachment of the Fujian-Guangdong-Gansu Border Column and more than 200 cadres of the Western Fujian Prefectural Committee, on their way from Yongding Gaopi via Hexi Tanghu to Fengnui Town Village, were discovered by a squadron of the Zhujiaqi Department of the security regiment that was trailing behind, and immediately gathered more than 800 people from four township offices, including Yongding Chengguan and Jinsha, and five township offices in Shanghang, Including Yongding, Lanxi, Lufeng, and Zhongdu, and gathered around the seventh detachment. At this critical juncture, the enemy's plot was detected by the Hangyong guerrillas, and the captain Yu Zhongda and the political commissar Xue Awu asked Lai Renmei to report the enemy situation to the detachment before the enemy caught up with the detachment. Lai Renmei lived up to the expectations of the people, and before the enemy formed an encirclement, he caught up with the team that had just arrived in Haokang Village and reported the enemy situation to Lan Hanhua, the commander of the seventh detachment, and our army immediately made combat arrangements. Before 9 a.m., the enemy surrounded the entire village, and a battle began with a difference of 4 times the strength of the enemy and us. Lan Hanhua calmly commanded, divided his troops to guard the favorable terrain, seized the commanding heights of the Baiyeyuan Mountain, and struggled to block the attack, and the 4 attacks launched by the enemy were all repelled by our army. At 5:00 p.m., the enemy launched another attack on our position, and the enemy squadron leader who took the lead was killed by me, and the enemy army was defeated in an instant, and the Hangyong guerrillas also attacked and harassed behind, and the enemy fled into the wilderness. Lai Renmei immediately ran to the villages of Qitan, Wangwubei, Kyushukeng and other villages to mobilize the revolutionary masses with boats to join the Hangyong guerrillas, as well as the revolutionary joint households of Haokang and Sanyi villages to help the Minxi detachment cross the Ting River and transfer to the snake Yangzhai back. At the cost of sacrificing 4 people, this battle killed and wounded 48 enemy people, won more with less, and played a border column, which greatly shook the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang in western Fujian.
In 1952, Lai Renmei was introduced by Qiu Qiyin, and Liu Yongsheng was recommended to the organization to officially participate in revolutionary work. He served as the township mayor of Jinzhai Township, the president of Jinsha Commune and Gaopi Commune, and was honest, upright, conscientious, and dedicated, only talking about dedication, being able to go up and down, and never talking about treatment. His fighting friendship with General Liu Yongsheng has lasted for a long time, and every time Elder Liu returns to Yongding, he must receive Lai Renmei, and when they meet him, he will ask him, "Is the little devil okay?" Lai Renmei responded, "'Old goods', thanks to your blessings, are fine." In 1979, General Liu Yongsheng took the illness back to Yongding to guide the work of the old district, lived in the second guest house of the county town for more than 20 days, and asked this "little ghost" to cook medicine for him to drink every day. This is the friendship and camaraderie that has experienced life and death.
Today, Lai Renmei, who has reached her old age, often tells people revolutionary stories such as qiu qiyin's red story, the history of the chen martyrs and the revolutionary activities of the Red Army, qiu qiyin's clever rescue of Ma Yueying, the story of Gu Shuangquan, and the story of Jinzhai Qitan Natural Village, warning future generations: It is more difficult to start a business and keep one's job. It is necessary to inherit the red gene, continue the red blood, listen to the party's words, follow the party, resolutely achieve the "two safeguards", and make new contributions in the journey of the new era.
(The author is director of the State Secrets Bureau of Yongding District)