Sima Nianfang talked about his father's experience and his own past.

It turned out that after Sima Hongyan settled his younger brothers and sisters, he returned to Wanping City.

At that time, order had been restored in Wanping City except for some ruins.

After all, those who survive have to continue living.

Sima Hongyan had no intention of joining any faction. He looked down on those teams that fled without even caring about their brothers.

He planned to pull the trigger and do it himself, and take revenge on the Japanese.

So he sold all his shops and land, and even the title deed to his yard.

They only kept a grocery store as a place to stay and source of intelligence in the city, and asked a trustworthy old shopkeeper to help manage it.

Sima Hongyan took out the gold, silver and treasures accumulated by generations of his family, formed a team on the Daxi Mountain, and began his career of anti-Japanese revenge.

Sima Hongyan used his connections and familiarity with the geographical environment to rob the Japanese transport teams several times, which strengthened himself and made a name for himself.

Sima Nianfang's mother was Lu Xiangmei. Her family was also from Wanping City, and her father and brother ran a small restaurant.

She teaches in an elementary school. Although her family is not rich, they can get by.

One night in the winter of 1938, Sima Hongyan, who went into the city to gather information, exposed his identity and was chased by a group of traitors.

When he passed by Lu Xiangmei's house, he was hidden by his father and brother, which saved his life.

Of course, Lu Xiangmei's family was familiar with the eldest son of the Sima family. Lu Xiangmei, who was in her prime, was attracted to Sima Hongyan.

Sima Hongyan, who was determined to avenge his parents, wife and children, initially declined the girl's feelings.

But after nearly a year of entanglement, Sima Hongyan and Lu Xiangmei finally got married.

Lv Xiangmei and her husband went up the mountain. For safety reasons, Lv Xiangmei's parents moved back to their hometown in the countryside south of the city and bought more than ten acres of land to make a living.

Lü Xiangmei had been following her husband in guerrilla warfare against the Japanese invaders, engaging in a battle of wits and courage. As time went by, in the autumn of 1940, she gave birth to Sima Nianfang.

In the spring of 1945, Sima Hongyan's team was reorganized by the organization and became an authentic anti-Japanese guerrilla force.

It was also in the autumn of that year that the Japanese invaders, who were gaining popularity, intensified their mopping-up operations.

At that time, Lv Xiangmei was pregnant. For safety reasons, Sima Hongyan arranged for her and her daughter to live in a small mountain village and entrusted them to the care of her comrade's family.

Just one month later, the Japanese, led by a traitor, dispatched a large number of troops to launch a surprise attack on the guerrilla base.

With the help of snipers, five or six hundred Japanese soldiers launched an attack on the guerrillas.

Many guerrillas were killed after a desperate resistance.

After saying this, Sima Nianfang wiped away her tears and continued:

“After hearing the bad news, my mother went into premature labor and gave birth to my weak little brother.

Because my mother was in a bad mood during the confinement period, her milk supply was low, and my premature brother became even weaker and sicker.

We settled down in that small mountain village. With the money left by my father and the help of fellow villagers, we barely survived.

Four or five years later, the Japanese surrendered, and my mother returned to Wanping City so that I could go to school and take better care of my brother's health.

When we got back to the city, we lived in the backyard of the grocery store. We asked the old owner to continue to run the store.

My mother asked someone to send a gift and returned to school to teach.

But later, the money earned from the grocery store was not enough to cover the exploitation and extortion by the white-collar workers and ruffians, so my mother closed the grocery store, and we lost a source of income.

With my mother's salary and the money she earned from sewing and mending for others after school, it was just enough to cover the living expenses of our family of three and to buy medicine for my younger brother.

After her life became stable, my mother took us to the countryside to visit my grandparents and uncles.

But when we got to the village, we found out that only three out of every three people were left. Everyone else had been wiped out. My grandfather's family of seven was also gone.

Devastated, my mother took us back to the county town. The illnesses she had picked up during the confinement period, coupled with the sadness she had felt, had worsened her health.

My mother raised my brother and me with great difficulty using her frail body. She looked forward to liberation and my growing up.

The year I graduated from high school, I applied to a medical university with great hope, fantasizing that after graduation I would be able to support my mother and pay for my brother's medical treatment.

But the mere fact that I failed the political review shattered all my dreams and snuffed out all my hopes.

I asked them why I couldn't pass the political review, and they said my grandfather was a capitalist.

I said that my father used up all our family property to fight against the Japanese, and now our family only has a small courtyard to live in, and everything else is gone.

People say that this is the relationship between your three generations, and your family can only be the descendants of capitalists.

I had no choice but to go to medical school. But after graduating and working in a hospital for only six months, I was targeted by a scoundrel.

He is the youngest son of the director of the Grain Administration Bureau. He relies on his father's power to do nothing and get involved in fights. He is just a gangster.

He pestered me, but I ignored him, so he used his father's connections and, on the grounds that we had a bad background, withheld our tickets and transferred my mother from her teaching position to a sweeper and odd job.

Seeing that I still refused to give in, he transferred me to the hospital cafeteria to cook and threatened me that if I still didn't obey him, he would make my mother and I lose our jobs.

My mother was already in poor health, and she fell ill in a fit of anger. We spent all our savings but couldn't save her, and she passed away in frustration.

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