The woman whose life was ruined by a paper file

I was in the fifth grade in Banma County, Qinghai, when I heard the full story about my neighbor Wang Yimei.

Many years ago, she was unable to resume her job because her file was lost by the organization department at some level, and she stayed in the job for 30 years. When she finally got her reinstatement papers, she died not long afterwards due to a cerebral hemorrhage caused by overexcitement.

I remember very clearly that when people talked about this incident later, the tone was mostly teasing and full of mockery.

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It was the late 60s, Wang Yimei was just over 30 years old and very beautiful. Although most of what people wore in those days was shabby, I remember her clothes were always neat and clean, as if they had grown out of her body and fit.

I often felt that this neighbor aunt and my mother kind of from the countryside, more or less unkempt women very different. It was only after a long time that I realized that this “pretty” came from the fact that she had studied and served in the military, and had a poetic heart.

Wang Yimei every morning and night to her four daughters cooking, sometimes see my mother did not make breakfast for me, I greeted her home and her daughters to eat together, eat, and her third daughter – my classmates Ai’er together to go to school.

Wang Yimei’s husband is called Wang Xicai, is the secretary of the county party committee office, in the county enjoys the reputation of “a pen”. About his fame, I heard from the mouth of classmates, their parents at home, said Wang Xicai is a big show, “bragging X do not need to play a draft”.

Once Wang Xicai had a cold, Wang Yimei put a rattan chair leaning against the door, let him lie there in the sun, but also from time to time run around the house to hand water and medicine, to help him pound his back. As soon as I saw Wang Xicai like that, I remembered the old landlord in the movie “Gao Yubao” that I had just seen, so I shouted at him: “You are an old landlord exploiting the working people, get up and go drink your medicine yourself!”

Wang Xicai immediately jumped up and kicked me in the buttocks, twisting his deformed face and scolding: “What do you know, you little brat, you dare to call me an old landlord! I’m telling you, I’m a serious peasant!”

Wang Yimei on the side of the giggling, while taking out a piece of potatoes handed to me while saying: “can not call him a landlord, because he was accused of being a landlord, auntie is now in this situation …… alas, to you say you do not understand.”

Wang Yimei did not have a serious job at that time, has been doing odd jobs. For a period of time, she was in the county government infrastructure site and mud and moving bricks to do small jobs. One day, a cadre family for a little thing to find her fault, scolded very hard, also want to hit her, fortunately was pulled away.

Wang Yimei also did not argue with her, the next day they resigned from work. A few days later, the daughter of the shrew stopped Ai’er in between classes and scolded her: “If your mother messes with my mother again, my mother will beat her to death, and I will beat you to death!”

Elle cried when she heard that.

I stood aside and said, “She hit you and you didn’t grow a hand?”

Elle said, “She has two brothers, and I only have two sisters, so I can’t beat them.”

I wanted to help Ai’er, but I couldn’t stop her and her family from being a loser, and I was so angry that I went home and told my mom about it. The story of Wang Yimei is what my parents told me at that time.

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In 1954, the Banma people’s government was officially established in Sai Laitang, Wang Yimei is the organization minister Wang Xinguang from the provincial party school selected cadres, once to the county was assigned to the league committee as an officer.

At that time, most of the work of the league committee are in the pastoral areas, Wang Yimei soon showed their ability to work. In addition to her own young and beautiful, attracted the attention of some young people on the county, something like to Wang Yimei side, including the county party secretary Ma Zili. Although the horse secretary early in Shaanxi home married, but after seeing Wang Yimei, also try to pursue her.

With in pursuit of her, there is Wang Xicai. At that time, Wang Xicai also just assigned from Xining to the county party committee office as a secretary, speaking a standard Mandarin, the air is extraordinary.

Wang Xicai and Wang Yimei often talk about movies and literature, the two are very opportune. Open-air movies in the courtyard, Wang Xicai will be early to carry a bench to sit there, waiting for Wang Yimei came, get up and let her bench.

Ma Zili’s way is different, he always called Wang Yimei to the office to talk about work, each time very serious, a few times down Tibet (to the countryside), but also deliberately called to inform the Mission Committee, let Wang Yimei with him, on the county’s only one Beijing Jeep, to the remote township.

One day, Ma Zili had to let the driver drive the car to take Wang Yimei to the township government a dozen kilometers away from a hillside to see the stone scripture wall, back on the road, the jeep in a river, the wheels were turned up by the shore boulders turned over into the river. Fortunately, the river is very shallow, Ma Zili pressed on the body of Wang Yimei safe, Wang Yimei’s right leg is not in the middle of the two seats fractured.

At that time, the county hospital doctor technology is very poor, only a simple treatment, three months later, Wang Yimei still feel pain can not walk, they took leave to go to Xining Provincial Hospital to do a checkup, which found that the fracture place long fork, need to be broken and reattached. Wang Yimei only had to endure the pain, reattached again.

Wang Yimei in Xining during the surgery, Wang Xicai took time off work to visit her, pushing the wheelchair to walk with her in the hospital, to the street Hui restaurant to eat, before returning to the county also left her 50 yuan. And Ma Zili has been ignored.

So, Wang Yimei love Wang Xicai, is also the natural result.

1957 National Day, Wang Yimei and Wang Xicai got married. Ma Zili although the surface does not move, but actually waiting for an opportunity to retaliate.

At the end of that year, the county’s “anti-right” wind up, Ma Zili to the provincial party committee meeting, and Wang Xicai came to Qinghai together with the classmates, heard that Wang Xicai is actually a landlord component origin. Back to the county, Ma Zili checked the file and found that Wang Xicai filled in all the forms are “peasant”. Ma Zili is not satisfied, and let the Organization Department people back to Wang Xicai’s hometown of Xingtai, Hebei political examination, and indeed confirmed Wang Xicai’s landlord composition.

It turns out that Wang Xicai was adopted by his parents when he was a child to his aunt, who had no son, and a few years later she gave birth to a son and sent him back to his parents. The reason why he was able to receive a good education later on was because of his family’s richness. After joining the workforce, in order not to be affected by the composition, when filling out various materials filled in the “middle peasant”.

Ma Zili caught Wang Xicai’s handle, in the later three times in the political campaign, hard to Wang Xicai back to his hometown, Wang Yimei also followed, was sent down to a rural area of Xingtai, Hebei.

A time, the county people on this matter of discussion. Some people say that Secretary Ma this is a personal vendetta communiqué, too heavy-handed; others believe that for Wang Xicai such hidden origin, do not take the initiative to confess to the organization, it should be so handled, and even should be sentenced.

Wang Xicai gave part of his property to my family, and part to my Tibetan neighbor, and then the couple left early one morning in a truck pulling goods. The day before they left, I went to Wang Yimei’s house, far away, I saw a few small children at the gate to watch, a little closer, I heard the couple crying from inside the house.

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My father said that after being sent down to Hebei, Wang Xicai and Wang Yimei kept writing letters and petitions until the third year, Wang Xicai returned to Xining and found the old leaders who recruited him to work in Qinghai in 1954 to reflect the situation face to face. The old leader specifically sent a document to the county organization department, which allowed him to be reinstated in the name of correcting the “anti-right expansion” mistake.

My mother also said, that year she was following the brigade in the street paving gravel, far from seeing a liberation truck parked on the side of the road, Wang Xicai and his wife jumped down from the car, far away to call my mother. My mother said: “A few years have not seen, Wang Yimei old are a little unrecognizable, in the countryside must not eat well, nutrition can not keep up, hair are white, that face ah …… look at Wang Xicai, carrying a large burden, is simply fleeing, poor very … … …”

My mother led the couple home, first gave them a large pot of noodles, and beef. Wang Yimei took a look and said, “I can’t even get enough food in rural Hebei, why do you have beef to eat?”

My mother was helpless: “You forget that Banma is a pastoral area, there are cows and sheep, so you eat more.”

The two of them gobbled it up and soon finished the pot of food.

During that time, the couple took the children in my house to play the floor, Wang Yimei often told my mother about her life in rural Xingtai for three years: learning from farmers to plant crops, vegetables, soybeans and peanuts, and in the fall to dig sweet potatoes to collect corn, all the work, the days were already hard, but also had a big daughter, life is even heavier.

Wang Yimei also secretly said to my mother: “If you do what Secretary Ma said, when he divorced and then married me, although he is a second marriage I fill his room, but my work and living conditions must be much better, light Figure Wang Xicai has a culture, top of the fart, but not by the uneducated Secretary Ma was driven back to the countryside, suffered these years of crime ……”

My mother can only guide her, saying that the suffering is over, and when the public service is restored, everything will be fine.

Wang Xicai soon returned to the county party committee office as secretary, but the turn to deal with Wang Yimei’s work relationship, strange things happened – the Organization Department said it did not find her file.

The then organization minister came to ask her, who gave her file to when she came to Banma in 1955? Wang Yimei was also very confused at the time, how can something like the file bring it privately? It was all transferred from the organization. The minister said well, we will look for it again.

Unexpectedly, more than half a year has passed, the file is still not found, Wang Yimei by the Organization Department hung out to dry. She went to the leadership of the Organization Department to request reinstatement, the new Minister of Organization promised to say that they will definitely implement, but just promise, there is absolutely no follow-up.

Wang Yimei pondered for a long time, think the crux of the problem is still related to Ma Zili, they bypassed Ma Zili and the county organization department, the petition letter directly to the state government and the provincial government, but still like a stone sinking without news – later she learned that these petition letters submitted, no one even read, directly returned to the Banma County Organization Department.

For a while, they always quarrel, because Wang Yimei keep writing letters, spent a lot of money on stamps, even to the parents back home are not enough money.

Looking for the county mayor, looking for the director of culture, looking for the minister of propaganda, even the director of animal husbandry, as long as the county leaders, Wang Yimei ran to, to people over and over again: “Organization Department how could I lose my file? Someone must be plotting against me, not to let me reinstate, you have to give me justice ……” This is said more, and Xianglin sister-in-law like. Later, as long as these directors and section chiefs see her, they hurriedly turn their heads and hide, afraid of being pulled by her.

Wang Yimei so rambling 3 years, Ma Zili was finally transferred to the state Bureau of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry as the director, leaving the county. Wang Yimei felt that the stumbling block was removed, and have hope again, will continue to come to the county organization department every now and then. At that time, everyone in the Organization Department knew her, and later, the office of the young people once they saw her come, they gave her a cup of tea, let her sit there and no longer care about her. At first she still speaks, and then she did not say a word, take the newspaper to read, almost to noon when cooking, went home to cook for their daughters, like people working in the Organization Department.

One day, the Minister of Organization was really a bit annoyed, went to find the new county party secretary to discuss, decided that no matter what, to her to solve the problem. But rechecking all the cadre files in the county, she was the only one missing – no file equals no way to start solving all the problems – the problem was once again put on hold.

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The two of them had a very good relationship, and they would go around during the New Year holidays. 1963 after the Spring Festival, the Minister said to Wang Yimei: “I have to go to the province to hold a cadre meeting, if you are free, and I will go to the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee to check your file, there is a file before you can say the matter of public office, no file You are a ‘black’.”

Wang Yimei hurriedly agreed to down. At that time, she had given birth to a son, less than two years old, still breastfeeding, thinking that the minister’s special car to and from just a few days, entrusted my mother to help Wang Xicai look after the child.

I did not expect that a few days later, the county party committee temporarily decided to let Wang Xicai lead a group, including my father, together to Zhiqin Township to engage in social education. This is a political task, Wang Xicai can only entrust the son to my mother.

The house was not in a state of flux, and after two days, my mother suddenly received a telegram from her home in Henan, saying that my grandfather was critically ill. My mother lost her mother when she was a week old, since she was raised by her grandfather, the feelings of father and daughter can be imagined, so she entrusted Wang Yimei’s son to her best friend, and returned home in a hurry.

My mother left a few days, Wang Yimei’s son began to diarrhea. Auntie rushed the child to the county hospital, which was in poor condition at the time, and did not wait until that night, the child could not resist the continuous dehydration and did not breathe.

That night, Ai Er found me and said that her brother had died, and cried for a while afterwards. I then accompanied her to the hospital and secretly looked at the dead child placed on the hospital bed.

Wang Yimei is a few days after the return, the file is still not found. On the way back encountered heavy snow blocked the road, and delayed a few days, arrived home only to learn the sad news that her son died of illness. She went to the mountains like crazy to find a place to bury her son, but no one dared to tell her.

She wandered on the hillside all day, and her sorrowful, mournful cries were creepy. Even I did not dare to approach.

After a while, the organization minister gave Wang Yimei an idea, suggesting that she go to Lanzhou to find the old leaders who assigned her to Qinghai, to see if the original unit can make up a copy of the file.

Wang Yimei feel very reasonable, they set off to Lanzhou. But people said that the leaders had long been assigned to go to Baiyin or Dunhuang, she took the train and went to Dunhuang, and then to Baiyin, a big circle, a lot of trouble, only to know that the old leaders were transferred back to other units in Lanzhou, and then go back to Lanzhou, which found the old leaders.

The old leader explained that the file in the original Wang Yimei was assigned to go to Qinghai with people away: “If there is no file, the other side will not receive you, the problem should come from the Qinghai Provincial Organization Department, you go to the Qinghai Organization Department to check is the proper direction.”

Wang Yimei returned to Xining, again to the Provincial Organization Department to find the file, the operator has received her several times, see her again is very helpless: “Your file is indeed with you to go to Guoluo to report together, this is a procedural issue, there is no mistake, if there is a problem, must be Guoluo not us.”

The leaders of the organization department of Guoluo are even more familiar with her: “No file how to arrange your work in Banma County that year? Obviously the problem is the county organization department, find them to implement.”

Once again, the problem returned to Banma County.

The county organization department clerk dead bite said that the year simply did not see her file. Wang Yimei completely discouraged, exhausted to look for so many years, from the beginning of the anger to later discouragement, and then to do nothing and stumble, she felt that she was completely victimized, and even no place to call for justice.

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In the days to come, as long as the county change, the new secretary or organization minister took office, Wang Yimei will go to them persistently reflect their situation, asking the government to restore the reputation and public office. Although each time the promise will be investigated, but after she left the sea is stone.

This summer, Wang Yimei always feel chest pain, to the county hospital to check, the doctor suspected her breast problems, suggested that she go to Xining detailed examination, but also said that this and long-term sulking has a lot to do with. To Xining, Wang Yimei really found breast cancer, in the provincial hospital to do the removal surgery.

When the body is better, and people happen to be in Xining, Wang Yimei take advantage of this opportunity, and then to the Provincial Archives Bureau. Archives Bureau leaders and clerks have changed several crops, but have heard the old comrades said Banma County has a Wang Yimei, year after year to find her lost files, like a story passed on.

When she came to the bureau again, the young girl who received her said “I am Wang Yimei of Banma”, sitting next to several young people are coincidentally gathered around, to repeat the circumstances of her lost files, she chattered from beginning to end again.

After listening to the story, these young people, like those young people in the past, nodded their heads and said, “Oh, so that’s how it is!” Then while saying “will definitely reflect your situation to the leadership”, while persuading her to go back and wait for news.

Wang Yimei also know, they are a trip in vain, how many years have passed, no one has long been responsible for this matter.

By a paper file ruined the life of the woman
In the summer of 1980, wang yimei in the street met the former banma county party committee organization minister wang xin gang, at this time, he is the vice chairman of the qinghai provincial political consultative conference, is now and the state political consultative conference an inspection team in the county inspection work. Wang Yimei stood on the roadside under a very tall poplar tree, will own these years of living conditions to Wang Xinguang listened to, said to the difficult place, inevitably shed tears.

After the old leader returned to Xining, gave specific instructions to the Guoluo State Party Committee, the state party committee gave instructions to the county party committee, requiring a thorough solution to the historical legacy of Wang Yimei. The county government did once again thoroughly check all the cadre files assigned in 1954, or the old problem: all the cadres and employees of the county have, but only the lack of her copy, as if from the beginning does not exist at all.

Wang Yimei finally desperate, even with the help of noble people, but also powerless to return to heaven, never mention this again.

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Time has been pushed back more than 4 years.

One day at noon, Wang Yimei just had lunch, the head of the county agricultural bank with a kraft paper bag, came to her home: “the bank in the demolition of the old vault before organizing the storage of accounting files for many years, accidentally found your personnel file is sandwiched in it. It should be the end of 1955 or early 1956, the county for many days in a rare rainstorm, when the Organization Department is still living in adobe houses, probably for the security of personnel files, the county’s personnel files temporarily sent to the bank vault next door for more than a year, it is estimated that when moving back, carelessly forgot your file here, how many years no one found, thought it might be useful to you, rushed to send you ……”

From the establishment of the government in 1954 to 1979, the former county agricultural bank was the People’s Bank, only in 1980 changed its name to the present, so the old vault has been saved since the establishment of the various types of accounting files.

Wang Yimei opened a look, is indeed their own search for years of archives, suddenly raised his head and shouted: “God, you can open your eyes ah! Then sat down on the floor like paralyzed and cried bitterly.

At that time, Wang Xicai was reading a book in the room, heard her shouting, startled, came out to see that the file was found, and then see her sitting on the ground bawling sad look, followed by the old tears flowing, for a while before squatting down, holding her, pulled her to the chair to sit.

By the afternoon, Wang Yimei uncharacteristic, mouth humming Shandong ditty on the door, in the county only three to four hundred meters long street walked back and forth several times, and later walked to the farm airport in front of the path, turned a corner to the river.

This river is the Dadu River and Jinsha River upstream river, the river is fast, the sound of water resounding through the river valley. Wang Yimei sat on the bank, let the fierce river valley wind blowing until dark, Wang Xicai repeatedly called her home she did not return, only said “you go back first, I will sit here and then back.

The four daughters came home from work and couldn’t find her anywhere and were worried that something might have happened to her. When they met Wang Xicai, who was returning home from the river, they learned that their mother’s file had been found, and she was happy to scurry around, sitting alone and singing by the river at that moment.

The four daughters have not gone to the river, they heard Wang Yimei singing, we will clap hands together, laughing and going home.

The next morning, Wang Yimei went to the post office to make a long-distance call to tell the news to the old leader Wang Xinguang, the old leader again to the Banma County Organization Department called, asked the current Minister Zhang to solve as soon as possible.

Minister Zhang looked at Wang Yimei’s file, then knew that Wang Yimei’s brother Wang Yichuai, in 1947 Mengliang Mountains battle to capture the Nationalist integrated 74th Division that tragic battle died, is a special hero. What surprised Minister Zhang is that Wang Yimei joined the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in 1950 after graduating from junior high school, and was stationed in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, and then changed to Lanzhou with the whole unit in 1954, and then with the entire division of soldiers collectively transferred – part to the Baiyin copper mine, part was divided to Dunhuang to engage in oil, part was divided to the conditions more difficult conditions in Qinghai.

Wang Yimei came to Qinghai in response to the Party’s call, and after six months of study in the East China Economic Training Course at the provincial party school, she was selected by Wang Xinguang, then head of the Banma County Party Committee, and came to Banma in April 1955. By the day her file was found, it was exactly 30 years since she came to Banma.

Minister Zhang took 500 yuan to Wang Yimei’s home to condole with her, apologizing for the aggravation she had suffered over the years, adding that now that she had her file, the organization would solve her historical legacy as soon as possible.

However, the reinstatement of public service and not as Wang Yimei expected as immediately for, but again dragged nearly half a year still no news. Wang Xicai know that there is a problem, but I do not know where, to the county people’s trade company’s hometown to go to Chengdu to buy goods, brought back three cases of Wuliangye, and Wang Yimei in one night together to Minister Zhang’s home.

Minister Zhang said: “Not the county does not do, but the state Organization Department individual leaders hold different views. Minister Ma Zili you know it, have the opportunity to go to the state to see him.”

I did not expect that after so many years, it is still Ma Zili from the obstruction!

Wang Xicai and Wang Yimei went to Ma Zili’s house with a case of Wuliangye, when Ma Zili was working as a minister in the state organization department, in charge of the organization work in the following five counties. Ma Zili waved his hand and said to them both: “This is a mistake in the government’s work, not who intended to do so. Go back, I will call Minister Zhang again to implement it, and ask him to solve it as soon as possible.” The next day, Wang Xicai and Wang Yimei also invited Ma Zili with his wife in northern Shaanxi, at the time the best restaurant in the state capital to eat a meal, which went back to the county.

The first time I saw the paper, I was able to get the red-headed document from the Organization Department of the county party committee and assigned to the county Bureau of Education and Culture. 30 years of aggression, all in this red-headed paper.

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On August 7, our two families decided to have a dinner together to celebrate the reinstatement of Wang Yimei, in the words of the adults, this is called “gaining a new life”.

That afternoon, Wang Yimei and my mother together to the county’s only department store, bought five or six bottles of canned fruit, a few pounds of pastry and a few bottles of “Jiangjin”, “stinging five plus” white wine, my mother fried a few dishes at home brought over, and Wang Yimei fried a few dishes together on a large table.

During the meal, first our younger generation took turns to give her a toast, followed by a toast from the same generation. Wang Yimei change over the years do not drink, especially after the cancer drop does not stain the habits of all, not to refuse, a tilt of the neck on the belly, and finally into their own cups down, everyone on the side can not persuade. She drank a bottle of white wine and half a bottle of red wine, and then crawled on the ground and vomited, even her daughter laughed and said, “The old lady is going to play with alcohol madness.”

My father was also on the side to explain: “This is a volcanic eruption that has been suppressed for many years, holding half a lifetime, we have to let her play a drunken madness it.”

Suddenly, my mother saw her vomit dirt mixed with bright red blood, worriedly asked: “all vomit blood?”

Wang Xicai then said, “30 years she has not been so happy once, too much to drink, sleep until tomorrow will be fine.”

We carried Wang Yimei to the bedroom bed, undressed, also brought wet towels to wipe her face, put her to sleep, and sat down to talk about some gossip before we left.

The next morning, Wang Xi woke up and pushed Wang Yimei said, “Get up early to eat, you can also go to work officially.”

As a result, Wang Yimei like not heard, until 8 o’clock, still not moving. Wang Xicai then felt wrong, shaking her hard, but she still looks like she can not wake up. Wang Xicai asked his youngest daughter to rush next door to call my mother, he himself ran to the county hospital to call the doctor.

I went with my mother, saw Wang Yimei lying in bed, as if sleeping very quietly, my mother held her in her arms, shouting “Wang Yimei Wang Yimei! You wake up, you wake up ah”, but also pinch her human center, but her eyelids such as sticky glue, is closed tightly can not open.

The doctor is a graduate of a medical school in Sichuan to support the border graduate students, working for many years in the countryside of pastoral areas, a look at it said: “is likely to be a stroke, quickly pulled to the hospital to rescue!

Wang Xicai found a frame car, Wang Yimei pushed to the hospital. After learning that her file was lost for 30 years and then recovered, the night before her reinstatement, the doctor said, “Needless to say, it must be too excited with a lot of alcohol.”

After more than 20 days of treatment, Wang Yimei at least saved a life.

Minister Zhang heard, also visited the hospital once, lightly said some to eat well and so on; county party secretary came to the hospital one night, standing at her bedside, looked at her and said “you have to relax, try to go to work as soon as possible”, and then left; it so happened that the days of Minister Ma Zili in the county on business, learned that Wang Yimei had a brain infarction, also carried a few canned fruit to see her, with a very grumbling tone of her said: “you excited about what, is not the restoration of public office to work, but also drank a pound of wine? Now you can’t, right?”

Wang Yimei was discharged from the hospital, but since then lost the ability to express themselves, the right side of the body also lost consciousness. Four daughters took turns to take care of her daily life. She lay in the recliner at home all day and night, staring at the sky outside the window, sometimes unconsciously tearing up.

When her daughters saw her pity, they wanted to talk to her, but she could only respond “yada yada”, and sometimes when she couldn’t express her meaning, she smacked her own mouth with her hand, scaring her daughters to stop talking to her, and she became even more lonely.

Six months later, after confirming the fact that Wang Yimei can no longer work normally, the County Organization Department according to her in 1955 the actual work in the county for less than 3 years, to her for the sick retirement – that calculation, she simply can not get a few money, Minister Zhang on the spot, said: “Wang Yimei is the earliest to Banma A group of old comrades, but also the family of martyrs, she returned to Xingtai with Wang Xicai that three years also counted in the working years, from finding her file to the present two years also counted in the working years.” This is the 10 years of service to her for the sick retirement, each month can get a few dozen dollars.

Wang Xicai went to Xining to find the year together with Qinghai, has long been a department-level leadership of classmates, said for Wang Yimei, want to transfer to a better climate Xining. However, the transfer of work has not been done, Wang Yimei in the second recurrence of cerebral infarction induced cerebral hemorrhage died at the age of 53.

Wang Xicai heeded the advice of my father and his four daughters, to go to the south slope of their dead son’s remains for many years out of the tomb, with Wang Yimei buried in the outskirts of Banma County on a hillock, in the words of Wang Xicai, let her son accompany her not lonely.

In the second year after the burial of Wang Yimei, Wang Xicai’s four daughters were transferred to Xining one after another to work. In the third year, Wang Xicai also went through the retirement procedures, followed by the eldest daughter in Xining retirement, after that there is no longer any contact with Banma County.