During the Anti-Japanese War, Luo Ronghuan and Xu Xiangqian led troops to fight, work and live in the Yimeng area for a long time.
"Yimeng mother" Wang Huanyu and his daughter-in-law "Yimeng Hongsao" Zhang Shuzhen noticed that many of the children of the chiefs and staff of the Chinese Communist Party and martyrs orphans were left unattended.
They took the initiative to set up a "wartime nursery" and raised more than 30 descendants of the revolution and 8 martyrs orphans in more than three years.
At that time, the conditions were very difficult. Zhang Shuzhen and her sister-in-law gave their milk to the young, poorly physique revolutionary offspring and martyrs orphans, and their own flesh and blood could only be eaten in a thick soup.
Many years later, Zhang Shuzhen's daughter asked her jokingly, why was she so "cruel" back then?
The old man Zhang Shuzhen’s answer is very simple-we can't let the martyrs break their roots if we sacrifice our lives... (Lei Yuzhu)