"I thought Ningxia would be liberated soon and didn't want Xiaobao to suffer along with me, so that night, I fostered Xiaobao to a fellow villager's home.
This time, a comrade named Li Hai escorted me to the border of Ningxia. I went on the road alone, took the pass, and successfully entered the Ningxia defense zone.
My second uncle also arranged for someone to pick me up. The journey was smooth and I quickly returned to Ma Hongbin's army. I handed the letter to my second uncle.
After reading the letter, my second uncle was very excited and asked Shuisheng to accompany me for dinner. He took the letter to find Ma Hongbin.
During the meal, Shuisheng told me that Ma Dunjing and Ma Hongbin had another argument and almost fired a gun. In the end, Ma Hongbin agreed to defend the last line of defense.
Shuisheng also said that Ma Dunjing became suspicious of his second uncle and asked me to stay one night and go back as soon as possible tomorrow. It was very dangerous here.
I was unhappy and said: 'I am happier than anything else that you can abandon the darkness and turn to the light. I will definitely accompany you to welcome the liberation of Yinchuan and the People's Liberation Army!'
Shuisheng stared at me blankly for a long time and asked me if I still hated him?
I shook my head and said that I no longer hated him. After liberation, we would live a good life with Xiaobao.
We lived very happily those days, but I always felt that Shui Sheng was hiding something from me. I found that he was often in a daze, and when I asked him about it, he just laughed and told me not to think nonsense.
One day, my second uncle came and said that he would take Shuisheng to a meeting. When Shuisheng was leaving, he hugged me hard. In front of my second uncle, I was embarrassed and pushed him away.
That night, Shuisheng didn't come back, so I started to beat my head and asked A'jia. A'jia said, how much can an old woman like me know?
I lit the oil lamp and stayed up until the second half of the night, but Shui Sheng still didn't come back, and I didn't know what time it was, so I fell asleep in a daze.
When I woke up again, I was shaken awake by Ajia. I was stammering and couldn't speak. I suddenly realized that something had happened to Shui Sheng, so I quickly got dressed.
I finally understood what Ajia was saying. She told me to run quickly and gave me a special pass that Shuisheng left yesterday.
I asked again, but Ajia just shook his head, pushed a package to me, pushed me out, and said that Xiaobao couldn't live without his mother, and it would be too late if he didn't run away.
I put my package on my back and walked out of the yard. I saw Shui Sheng had left his horse behind. I rode my horse towards the city gate. When I got out of the city, I ran not far when I heard gunfire from behind.
I didn't know if the pass could still be used, so I simply ran to Helan Mountain. This decision saved my life.
After hiding in the mountains for a day, when it got dark, I secretly went down to the city gate to see if there were any notices posted.
Quite far away, I saw a row of people hanging in front of the city gate. I counted 9 people. Even closer, through the moonlight, I saw Shui Sheng.
I thought about something happening to Shuisheng, but I never thought it would be like this. I hid in a pit and cried.
After staying up late at night, I crawled closer and tried to get Shuisheng's body down, but the city wall was full of lights, so it was impossible to do so.
I remember that day was September 7th. I went back to the mountain and found a cave to hide in. I didn’t dare to run around anymore.
Twelve days later, our troops surrounded Yinchuan. I dragged my skinny body down the mountain and fainted when I saw the first soldier.
I was sent to a field hospital. Two days later, Yinchuan was liberated. I heard that Ma Hongbin and the 128th Army rebelled and opened the city gates.
Two days later, when I was almost recovered, the nurse came with three People's Liberation Army soldiers. I stood up and saluted, but the leader coldly asked me to follow them.
I never expected that what awaited me would be rounds of interrogations. When I told them about the mission I was performing, they didn’t believe me at all.
They asked me repeatedly, what is the special pass? Who is my upline?
I know that there is no point in explaining anymore. Unless the two leaders can see me and testify for me, anything I say is just sophistry and trying to clear out the charges.
In the evening, I saw Ajia who was covered with a white sheet. I cried so hard that they said that Ajia had committed suicide out of fear of crime.
I became anxious, jumped up and scratched the man, saying: 'You are stupid, why should an old woman commit suicide in fear of crime?'
Knowing that it was my family, I became the wife of a national army officer. They said that since I had a special pass and there were gold bars in the package, I must be performing a special mission, and I became a spy again.
They told me that if I take the initiative to explain the problem and seek leniency, I have no problem, so what should I explain?
I told them that if the chief didn't do it, they could find a comrade named Li Hai for me. He was from Gansu and worked in our Northwest Bureau.
They went to implement it and told me the next day that Li Hai had followed the troops to liberate Xinjiang. They could only wait for him to come back before they could prove it to me.
In this way, I was imprisoned. During this period, I heard other prisoners of war talk about the rebels who were demonstrating in front of the city, and then I found out how Shui Sheng died.
It turned out that after his attempt to rebel against Ma Dunjing failed, his second uncle wanted to get rid of him before the Ningxia campaign started, so he decided to carry out an assassination operation. Shuisheng joined the assassination team.
That night, they assassinated Ma Dunjing at a banquet and killed two adjutants. Ma Dunjing was injured in the shoulder, and all nine of Shui Sheng and the others were shot dead.
Later, Ma Dunjing lost four battles in a row, and when he escaped by plane, he took several Kuomintang officers with him. I guess my second uncle was also kidnapped like sister Ma Ying.
I thought I would be released soon, but half a year later, instead of waiting for Li Hai, I waited for the news of his sacrifice.
I was desperate and still missed Xiaobao, so I started making trouble every day. The prisoners of war began to call me a crazy woman and a toad for wanting to turn over and become a master.
Two more months passed, and my spirit became worse and worse. Suddenly one day, the prison guard said that someone was visiting the prison. I thought it was my mother who came to visit me.
When I entered the visiting room, I saw Brother Trumpet. He looked like a wild man, with his hair hanging on his shoulders and a full beard. He was carrying a trumpet and Xiaofeng with him.
I collapsed and just cried while holding my head. Brother Xiao didn't say a word and waited quietly for me to finish crying.
When I stabilized, Brother Trumpet told me that he had been looking for me these past few years and that he had traveled all over the Northwest.
After learning about my situation, he asked me to wait patiently for him. When he went to Peiping, he would definitely come back with the certificate to take me home.
I begged him to find Xiaobao first, tell me first when he found Xiaobao, and then help me send Xiaobao to my mother.
Thanks to Brother Xiaobao, I met Xiaobao a week later. The comrades in the prison took pity on me and let Xiaobao stay with me for one night.
The next day, Xiaobao left with Brother Xiaobao in tears, and a month later, I received a personal certificate from Mr. Peng."
"Then you and I will meet?"
Mi Xiaodie finally found a chance to speak, and Sui Ma shook her head.
"I saw you Da again more than ten years later. He had just picked up you and the fifth baby. The fifth baby was given to your eldest sister, and he came to us behind your back!"