1935年秋天，红四方面军进入草地，我和两个小同志得了肠胃病，走得慢，老班长留下照顾我们。
In the autumn of 1935, the red Fourth Front Army entered the grassland. My two little comrades and I got gastrointestinal disease and walked slowly. The old monitor stayed to take care of us.
才半个月，青稞面都吃完了，老班长为没吃的发愁时，他发现池塘边有鱼，便给我们钓鱼，做鱼汤喝。
Only half a month later, the highland barley noodles were all eaten. When the old monitor was worried about what he didn't eat, he found there was fish beside the pond, so he fished for us and made fish soup.
我从未见老班长吃过一口鱼，而他却说吃过了。于是，一天吃完饭，我悄悄地跟在老班长身后，见他只吃草根和剩下的鱼骨头。老班长看我发现了这事，就给我讲弄吃的不易，让我别告诉那两个小同志。
I never saw the old monitor take a bite of fish, but he said he did. So, one day after dinner, I quietly followed the old monitor behind, and saw that he only ate grass roots and the remaining fish bones. When the old monitor saw that I had found out, he told me that it was not easy to get food. Let me not tell the two little comrades.
渐渐地接近草地边了，可我们病得越来越重，老班长也瘦得皮包骨头。这天，老班长说要好好弄点吃的。我们就四处找野菜，拾干草，老班长去钓鱼，过了很久，也不见老班长回来，我们在一个池塘边发现了老班长。当我们费了很大劲才弄好鱼汤时，老班长已经奄奄一息了。
Gradually close to the grass, but we are getting more and more sick, the old monitor is skinny. This day, the old monitor said that he would make some good food. We went looking for wild vegetables and hay. The old monitor went fishing. After a long time, he didn't come back. We found the old monitor by a pond. When we had to work hard to make the fish soup, the old monitor was dying.
老班长鼓励我们一定要走出草地，自己却慢慢地闭上了眼睛。我们扑在老班长身上，抽噎了很久。我把鱼钩包好，想等革命胜利了，送到革命烈士纪念馆里，让子子孙孙都来瞻仰它。
The old monitor encouraged us to walk out of the grass, but he closed his eyes slowly. We fell on the old monitor and choked for a long time. I wrapped up the fishhook and wanted to send it to the revolutionary martyrs' memorial hall when the revolution was won, so that my children and grandchildren could pay a visit to it.
