Newsboy

Adapted from the original work by Shao Chongfei, Zhu Yi, Wang Zheng and Lin Kehuan. "Xinhua Daily" was a party newspaper published publicly by the Communist Party of China in the areas governed by the Kuomintang during the Anti-Japanese War. Under the direct care of Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee, the beloved Vice Chairman Zhou Enlai personally led the staff of the Southern Bureau and "Xinhua Daily" to overcome numerous obstacles and engage in tit-for-tat struggle with the Kuomintang die-hards. In January 1941, the Kuomintang reactionaries cooperated with the Japanese surrender plot and set off the second anti-communist climax. They launched a sudden attack on our New Fourth Army in the Maolin area of ​​southern Anhui, causing heavy casualties to our anti-Japanese officers and soldiers, and Commander Ye Ting was captured. The parents of Shi Lei, a newspaper boy from Chongqing’s Xinhua Daily, also died heroically in the breakout. When the bad news came, the little newsboys were extremely sad. But Shi Lei had no idea that he was having a heart-to-heart talk with Cricket, a street boy who was selling the Kuomintang's "Central Daily News", telling him that only the Communist Party could save the suffering people. When Shi Lei learned from Vice Chairman Zhou's bodyguard, Xiao He, that there was a letter from his mother, he danced with joy and prepared several small gifts for his friends. It wasn't until Shi Lei took the blood-spattered unfinished letter left by his mother from Sister Li that he realized that he would never see his parents again. In order to cover up others' eyes, Chiang Kai-shek used