The story of the little hero Yulai

During the Anti-Japanese War, there was a small village called Luhua Village in the northern part of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region. 12-year-old Yu Lai lived in this village. Yu Lai likes swimming, and his swimming ability is very good. Later, Yulai went to night school, where he learned the simple words "We are Chinese and we love our motherland."

In the autumn, the Japanese began to raid again. Mom and dad left Yulai alone at home. Yulai was lying on the kang reading a literacy textbook. Suddenly he heard someone running on the street. Yulai stuffed the book in his arms and ran out. As soon as he stepped across the threshold, someone came in. He looked up and saw that it was Uncle Li, the traffic officer, and then heard the Japs screaming.

Uncle Li hurriedly moved the tank away and ran into the cave. When Xiaoyu came, he quickly moved the tank back to its original place. As soon as Yulai arrived in the main room, the Japanese forced their way in. In order to protect Uncle Li, Yulai remained strong and unyielding under the enemy's temptation and torture, making the enemy furious and yelling: "Shoot! Shoot! Pull out!" At this time, several gunshots rang out from the river.

After the enemy left, the villagers came to the river to look for Yulai. Yulai’s friend Tietou and several others all cried. The old people said with tears in their eyes: "You are not as young as you are when you have ambitions." Tietou Said: "Let's go down along the river to find the corpse from the rain!" At this moment, a small head suddenly appeared on the water, shaking the water on its head like a little duck.

He said to the shore: "The Japs are gone?" Everyone shouted happily: "Yulai is not dead!" It turned out that before the gunshot, Yu Lai took advantage of the Japs unpreparedness and jumped into the river. The Japs rushed towards the river. When the shot was fired, Yu Lai had already swam far away from the bottom of the water.

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Creative background

In 1940, Guan Hua from the Jidong area of ??the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border region left home and rushed to the anti-Japanese battlefield. He fought in the north and south for many years, but his strong The strong nostalgia left him with infinite nostalgia. When he was a child, he personally witnessed the head of the children's regiment of his village, who was several years older than him, leading a group of innocent children to stand guard, send chicken feather letters to the Eighth Route Army, and climb trees to look out to capture the enemy's situation.

After joining the army, scenes from my childhood always appeared in my mind like scenes from a movie. In this way, "Little Hero Yulai" with Yu Lai as the protagonist was created, which became the beginning of Guan Hua's creative career.

After the first draft was written, Guan Hua first asked Zhou Libo, then director of the research office of Lu Xun College of Literature, to review it. Zhou Libo was attracted and moved by the spirit of the protagonist Yu Lai in the novel, and repeatedly praised the novel as a well-written novel that is worth reading and a rare masterpiece. Zhou Libo encouraged and instructed Guan Hua to continue writing and write a novella or novel that truly reflected the people's anti-Japanese struggle in eastern Hebei.

The work "The Rain Will Not Die" was published in the "Jinchaji Daily", the predecessor of the "People's Daily", in 1948, and was well received by readers. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, an editor and reviewer from the Ministry of Education in charge of Chinese textbooks came to Guan Hua and told him that "Little Heroes Come in Rain" had been selected into the national Chinese textbooks. Since then, the little hero Yulai has become a hero in the hearts of children across the country for an entire era.

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