One day in 1938, Chairman Mao invited a special couple to dinner in a cave in Yan'an, and on this day Chairman Mao was in a very good mood, and he asked the kitchen to make some dishes with meat to entertain the couple.
Near lunchtime, a tall young man with glasses came to Chairman Mao's residence, followed by a good-looking lady, chairman Mao hurriedly beckoned them to sit at home, the young man saw a chili fried meat on the table, he smiled and said to Chairman Mao: "Chairman! How can there still be meat to eat? We let the chairman break the money! ”
Group photo of Xu Guangda and Chairman Mao
Chairman Mao smiled and waved his hands to let the couple sit down to eat, and at noon on this day Chairman Mao also prepared wine, and the first thing Chairman Mao said when he took the wine was: "Congratulations on your husband and wife reunion, I haven't seen Xu Guangda smile so happily for a long time!" Today's meal is considered to be a dust for Xiao Zou! ”
The couple, the man is Xu Guangda, who later became the founding general, and the woman is Zou Jinghua, who accompanied General Xu Guangda throughout his life, at this time Xu Guangda and Zou Jinghua have not seen each other for 10 years, which is the first reunion of their new marriage after 10 years.
Zou Jinghua was a little embarrassed after hearing Chairman Mao's words, and she raised her glass and said, "Thank you Chairman for inviting us to dinner!" ”
Chairman Mao smiled and asked, "How is Teacher Zou's health?" I hadn't seen him in a long time! ”
Zou Jinghua was stunned for a moment, she did not expect that Chairman Mao would suddenly care about her father, she nodded and said: "Father is in good health!" When I joined the revolution, he said that he missed the days when I was with Chairman Mao! ”
Zou Jinghua's father was named Zou Xilu, who was a lecturer at Changsha Normal School, and when Chairman Mao was studying at Changsha Normal School, Mr. Zou Xilu was Chairman Mao's teacher of traditional Chinese studies, and Chairman Mao admired Zou Xilu's profound knowledge, and Mr. Zou Xilu also praised Chairman Mao when he was young.
Chairman Mao said, "Well, I haven't seen Teacher Zou for many years!" When you go to Hunan one day, you must visit Teacher Zou! ”
Zou Jinghua said happily, "Then my father will definitely be happy!" He often missed Chairman Mao! ”
In the midst of laughter, Xu Guangda's mood was very good, he had not been so happy for a long time, he looked at his wife from time to time, Xu Guangda talked about work several times, Chairman Mao smiled and said: "Guangda! You just can't get rid of the habit of talking about work at the dinner table! Today is a family banquet, I invite you husband and wife to dinner, I will not talk about work! You're such a worrying person! ”
Chairman Mao's trust and love for Xu Guangda is different from others, in 1932 General Xu Guangda was shot and wounded while commanding the battle of Yingcheng, the position where the warhead was penetrated was tricky, the medical conditions in China at that time could not remove the warhead, Chairman Mao ordered Xu Guangda to be sent to the Soviet Union for treatment.
Soon after Xu Guangda entered the Moscow International Lenin Institute in the Soviet Union to study military affairs, shortly after the outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Xu Guangda returned to China after completing his studies, Chairman Mao was very happy when he learned about it, when Xu Guangda arrived in Yan'an, Chairman Mao personally went to greet him, this incident made Xu Guangda very moved, Xu Guangda recalled in his later years: "I was a student of Chairman Mao all my life, when I returned to Yan'an, Chairman Mao personally came to greet me, when he held my hand with warm hands, I was extremely excited in my heart. From then on I decided to follow Chairman Mao for the rest of my life! ”
Chairman Mao once said: "Xu Guangda is a great intellectual in our army, and we must listen to the suggestions of young people in everything we do, and I like to talk to young people like Xu Guangda!" ”
A soldier dies for a confidant, and a woman is for herself. Later, in the Liberation War, in order to defend Chairman Mao, Xu Guangda, the famous Yan'an Defense War, led his army to march all night long, and did not retreat in the bloody battle.
Chairman Mao liked Xu Guangda's open-minded personality, and Chairman Mao once said in a chat with Premier Zhou: "The marriage of Xu Guangda and Zou Jinghua is a model for everyone. ”
Earlier we mentioned that Xu Guangda and Zou Jinghua have been separated for ten years, and the hardships and bitterness in this are difficult for people who have not experienced it to understand.
Group photo of Xu Guangda and his wife Zou Jinghua
Zou Jinghua's father was named Zou Xilu, who was not only Chairman Mao's teacher, but also Xu Guangda's teacher, Zou Xilu was a man in the late Qing Dynasty, who ran a private school in Hunan, and Xu Guangda studied in Zou Xilu's private school when he was a child.
When Zou Jinghua and Xu Guangda first met, they were still teenagers who did not care much, once Xu Guangda fainted while studying in a private school, and when he woke up, there was a little girl around him to take care of him, and the little girl smiled and said: "Brother, you are awake!" ”
This little girl is Zou Jinghua, Xu Guangda listened to the sweet voice, left a deep impression on this kind little girl, soon after the Zou family changed, Zou Jinghua's mother died, father Zou Xilu was very sad, Zou Jinghua's elder brother felt that the family population was too large, so he proposed to let Zou Jinghua marry as soon as possible.
Zou Jinghua knew that a woman marrying someone was like a second reincarnation, and she very much wanted to marry a husband who loved her, at this time Zou Jinghua thought of the kind big boy Xu Guangda, and said: "If you want me to marry someone, you can also!" I want to marry the xu family's brother! ”
Zou Xilu personally went to Xu Guangda's home to propose to him, Xu Guangda's father agreed to come down, and in 1928, 20-year-old Xu Guangda and 18-year-old Zou Jinghua held a simple wedding in their hometown in Hunan.
In Zou Jinghua's own words, although she and Xu Guangda have known each other for a long time, the marriage between the two of them is actually an arranged marriage in the traditional sense.
However, it is such an arranged marriage that makes Xu Guangda and Zou Jinghua love each other for a lifetime, and life and death follow each other.
Just 28 days after Xu Guangda and Zou Jinghua were married, Xu Guangda left the newly formed family and went to Yan'an to work. This year Xu Guangda was able to return to his hometown originally to avoid the enemy's arrest, before Xu Guangda has been engaged in military transport work, because his identity was exposed by the enemy wanted, he and Zou Jinghua just married not long ago, the enemy has tracked down his tracks, ready to go to Hunan to arrest him, Xu Guangda who learned of this news had to leave Hunan in a hurry and go to Yan'an to work.
Before leaving, Xu Guangda said to Zou Jinghua: "My departure this time is really a revolution! The future will be full of dangers, if in the future our husband and wife have the opportunity to see each other again, it is naturally a good thing, if I sacrifice for the revolution, you will choose another good person to marry, do not have to be widowed for me! ”
Hearing Xu Guangda's words, Zou Jinghua's tears couldn't help but flow, and Zou Jinghua helped Xu Guangda sort out his collar and said, "I'll wait for you to come back!" If something really happens to you, I'll give your parents a pension and send them to the end, and I'll be your wife for the rest of my life! I won't marry again except you! ”
Time is like the sand in the seam, it is easy to slip away, Xu Guangda and Zou Jinghua's separation is 10 years long, these 10 years Zou Jinghua served Xu Guangda's parents in the Xu family, for a long time, Zou Jinghua always had someone around her to persuade her to remarry, her relatives often said to Zou Jinghua: "So many years there is no news of Xu Guangda, you are still young, it is important to plan for your future, or remarry! ”
After Zou Jinghua heard her relative say this, she coldly said to this relative, "You don't want to come to my house in the future!" Our Xu family will not associate with you in the future! ”
Among all the people around Zou Jinghua, only his father Zou Xilu has always supported his daughter's approach, but Zou Xilu watched his daughter alone pick up the burden of the Xu family, and he was also extremely distressed, one day Zou Xilu went to visit his daughter, and when he just walked to the door, he heard Xu Guangda's father say: "Good girl! You don't have to wait for Xu Guangda anymore, I heard at the market today that he had died! ”
Zou Xilu almost fainted at the xu family door when he heard this, and Zou Jinghua cried and said, "I don't believe it! He must still be alive! ”
Zou Xilu stood at the door of the Xu family and did not dare to go in, he could not bear to see his daughter in tears, after a long silence Zou Jinghua said: "Live to see people, death to see corpses!" I am determined not to remarry unless I see Brother Xu's body with my own eyes! ”
Zou Xilu knew his daughter, Zou Jinghua had a kind and gentle personality, but she had a unique strength and stubbornness in her bones, and in the end Zou Xilu left silently, never daring to enter the door.
Xu Guangda (right) and his wife Zou Jinghua (left).
In the first month of 1938, another teacher of Chairman Mao, Mr. Xu Teli, came to Changsha, when the Eighth Route Army had just opened an office in Changsha, and Xu Teli was the person in charge of the Changsha office of the Eighth Route Army.
Xu Teli and Zou Xilu are good friends for many years, he went to visit Zou Xilu for the first time, when chatting, Xu Teli knew about Zou Jinghua's situation, Xu Teli suggested that Zou Jinghua go to Yan'an to study, Zou Xilu agreed, and Zou Jinghua was very willing, because she never believed that her husband Xu Guangda would sacrifice so much.
When Zou Jinghua passed through the office of the Eighth Route Army in Xi'an, he met Lin Mingwei, whose father was the famous Lin Boqu, and Zou Jinghua asked his old classmate about Xu Guangda, but Xu Guangda was in the Soviet Union from 1932 to 1937. In November 1937, Xu Guangda had just returned to China and arrived in Yan'an, and Lin Mingwei did not know Xu Guangda at this time.
Lin Mingwei called his father Lin Boqu to explain the ins and outs of the matter, when Xu Guangda had just served as the education chief of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, And Xu Guangda's great name Lin Boqu naturally knew.
But at this time, Zou Jinghua and Xu Guangda had been separated for ten years, lin Boqu was not sure whether Xu Guangda had remarried his wife, so he sent a telegram to Xu Guangda to inform him of this matter, Xu Guangda said happily: "Zou Jinghua is my wife, I have just returned to China, and I am preparing to pick her up in the near future, I only have this one wife, please rest assured Secretary Lin!" ”
Soon after Zou Jinghua finally arrived in Yan'an after several twists and turns, she saw a familiar figure hovering at the intersection in front of her in the distance, Zou Jinghua accelerated his pace to meet it, and when he approached the intersection, Zou Jinghua shouted: "Brother Xu! Is that you? ”
Xu Guangda said with tears after hearing his wife's voice: "Is it Sister Peach?" I am Xu Guangda! ”
The two then hugged and cried, at this moment, even if the ground shook, they could no longer separate the couple who were stronger than Jinjian, Xu Guangda hugged Zou Jinghua and cried like a child, Zou Jinghua also cried into tears, she kept saying: "Brother Xu! I'll wait until you're back! ”
Soon after many people in Yan'an heard that Xu Guangda's wife had come to reunite with him, especially many young students came to visit Xu Guangda and Zou Jinghua, and the students admired the love of Xu Guangda and Zou Jinghua, at that time Yan'an had such a saying: "The most beautiful love story in the world is the love between Xu Guangda and Zou Jinghua!" ”
Ten years of waiting did not make Zou Jinghua give up looking for Xu Guangda, in that war-torn era, how many people may not see the sun of tomorrow when they are asleep, but Zou Jinghua never believed that Xu Guangda had been sacrificed, and her persistence finally got the best result.
In the later years of Xu Guangda and Zou Jinghua, many people asked strangely: "You two heard that your parents arranged marriages, why can the feelings between the two of you be so deep?" ”
Xu Guangda smiled and did not speak, Zou Jinghua said: "Things in this world are uncertain, there is a destiny in the darkness!" I've been waiting for him and he's been waiting for me, it's that simple! ”
On June 3, 1969, General Xu Guangda died in Beijing at the age of 61, on that day Zou Jinghua cried into tears, that day Zou Jinghua lost his "Brother Xu" forever, Zou Jinghua took care of the aftermath of General Xu Guangda, she called her son Xu Yanbin to the front and said: "Your father was innocent all his life, he told me many times, he must be innocent and heirloom!" You should remember! ”
A group photo of Xu Guangda and Zou Jinghua and his son Xu Yanbin
On May 19, 2004, the elderly Zou Jinghua died of illness in Beijing at the age of 93, and Zou Jinghua left three last words to his son Xu Yanbin before his death:
I left, and the body was sent to Babaoshan by the comrades and family members of my party group for cremation, and in addition, do not bother the army and local leaders at all levels and other comrades.
I'm gone, don't do any rituals, the rituals will disturb many people. The elderly will be sad when they come, affecting their physical health, and the arrival of young and middle-aged people will delay their work and study. It costs a lot of money to do the ceremony, the wreath is so expensive, and it costs the money of the public and the people, and I feel heartache.
I still have a total of twenty-five thousand dollars in my passbook. You took out ten thousand yuan and paid the last membership fee for me. The remaining fifteen thousand yuan, when your father's 100th birthday is the 100th anniversary, publish a book for him, print his past articles, print 100 copies, and give them to his old leaders, old comrades-in-arms, old subordinates and friends as a souvenir. I can't do this, I feel a pity, you have to do it for me.