1935年秋天，红四方面军进入草地，指导员让炊事班长照顾我和两个生病的小同志一起走在后面。
In the autumn of 1935, the red Fourth Front Army entered the grassland. The instructor asked the chief cook to take care of me and two sick comrades to walk behind.
一路上，老班长带着我们走一阵歇一阵。不到半个月，我们的粮食——青稞面，吃完了。饥饿威胁着我们。于是，老班长想法用缝衣针做鱼钩，为我们钓鱼，做鲜美的鱼汤给我们喝。
Along the way, the old monitor took us for a rest. In less than half a month, our grain, barley flour, has been eaten. Hunger threatens us. Therefore, the old monitor thought to use sewing needles to make hooks, fish for us, and make delicious fish soup for us to drink.
有一次，我悄悄发现，原来老班长把鱼留给我们，自己并没有吃鱼，而是吃着草根和我们吃剩的鱼骨头。我心里非常难受。可老班长却不让我把这告诉另两个小同志。老班长虽然瘦得皮包骨头，却还一直用饱满的情绪鼓励我们走出草地。
Once, I found out quietly that the old monitor left us fish. Instead of eating fish, he ate grass roots and the fish bones we had left. I feel terrible. But the old monitor didn't let me tell this to the other two little comrades. Although the old monitor was skinny, he still encouraged us to walk out of the grass with full mood.
挨了一天又一天，我们渐渐接近草地的边了。这天，老班长又为我们去钓鱼了，但是，他这一去就再也没有回来。最后，当我们终于找到他时，他已经奄奄一息了。
Day after day, we got closer to the edge of the grass. That day, the old monitor went fishing for us again, but he never came back. Finally, when we finally found him, he was dying.
我把老班长留下的鱼钩小心地包起来。我想，等到革命胜利以后，我一定要把它送到革命烈士纪念馆去，让我们的子子孙孙都来瞻仰它。这长满红绣的鱼钩上，闪烁着灿烂的金色光芒。
I carefully wrapped up the hook left by the old monitor. I think, after the victory of the revolution, I must send it to the revolutionary martyrs' memorial hall so that our children and grandchildren can pay a visit to it. On the hook, which is full of red embroidery, there is a brilliant golden light.