In 1988, chen Yi had been dead for 16 years, but an old woman came to the Beijing Women's Federation and claimed to be Chen Yi's wife. When the staff heard the old man's words, they were only surprised at first, they all knew that Chen Yi's lover was Zhang Qian, so who was the old woman in front of them, and why did they claim to be Chen Yi's wife.
Figure Lai Yueming
The old woman continued, "I am Lai Yueming, Chen Yi's wife, I am still alive, and I want to find Sister Cai Chang." When the staff saw that the old man said so surely, they reported to Cai Chang, who was the director of the Women's Federation at the time, and Cai Chang heard the name Lai Yueming and immediately shed two lines of excited tears.
This old man named Lai Yueming was indeed Chen Yi's wife at that time, and in 1932, Lai Yueming, who was only 18 years old at the time, entered Ruijin University to study, and met Chen Yi by chance during a performance. Lai Yueming was very beautiful, and he sang very well, which quickly attracted the attention of Chen Yi, who came to watch the performance, and later Lai Yueming recalled: "When singing, a wide and two-chambered chief in the front row applauded us several times, I think he always looked at me, and later learned that his name was Chen Yi. ”
Figure Elderly Lai Yueming
Since that day, Chen Yi has paid attention to this lively and bright little girl, and all this has been seen by Chen Yi's friends around him, and he wants to match them. The enthusiastic Cai Chang saw that Chen Yi already had a good feeling for Lai Yueming, and he was ready to talk to Lai Yueming. Lai Yueming had been working with Cai Chang at that time and had always trusted and respected Cai Chang, but when he heard that Cai Chang wanted her to marry Chen Yi, he refused at first
"Big sister, I have no culture, I have not been to school, and I am not worthy of the chief." He's the chief, and I don't have a good temper. Lai Yueming said worriedly that she was born in a poor peasant family, and she had a deep inferiority complex in her bones, which made her dare not accept Chen Yi's love for a while. When Cai Chang saw Lai Yueming say this, he comforted her and said, "Commander Chen is very good, if you form a revolutionary partner, you can just make progress together!" ”
Portrait of a female Red Army
Although Lai Yueming refused, under the repeated persuasion of Cai Chang, he still accepted Chen Yi, and on September 9 of the same year, they held a simple wedding. It is said that the reason why Chen Yi chose to marry on September 9 at that time was to take a long-term meaning. But the brutality of the war shattered their wishes. Due to the left-leaning mistakes of Bogu and others at that time, the Central Red Army has been in a passive situation, and the party organization has arranged for Lai Yueming to return to his hometown in Jiangxi and lead local women to work for the party. Such a separation is undoubtedly painful for Lai Yueming, and she always tries to inquire about her husband Chen Yi's news.
Later, in the course of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, Chen Yi was seriously injured, and after this news let Lai Yueming know, she was a weak woman who had to cross two mountains on foot and risk her life to cross the enemy's blockade line before finding the field hospital in the rear of the Soviet area. When Lai Yueming saw her husband lying weakly on the hospital bed, tears immediately flowed down, she took Chen Yi's hand, crying and shouting her husband's name: "Chen Yi, I am your Yueming, I came to see you!" ”
Figure The old site of the old revolutionary area
Chen Yi was also touched to see Lai Yueming, when his thigh was injured by an enemy bullet, and although he had undergone surgery, the blood had not completely stopped. During Chen Yi's recuperation period, Lai Yueming carefully took care of Chen Yi every day, and even stayed in front of his hospital bed at all times, Chen Yi's injury slowly improved, but Lai Yueming lost a lot of weight due to overwork. Chen Yi was very distressed about his wife, but he didn't know how to express it, more often than not, he could only shed tears.
Although that time was painful, it was undoubtedly a sweetness for a loving couple to be able to get together. After Chen Yi recovered from his wounds, Chen Yi received an order from the party organization to lead a part of the fighters to find a new revolutionary base area. At that time, to break through the blockade of the reactionaries, this road was undoubtedly uncertain, so Chen Yi was not willing to let his wife Lai Yueming follow him and was ready to leave Lai Yueming behind. Lai Yueming was reluctant to be separated from her husband, but had to accept the party organization's arrangement.
Figure Stills of the Red Army
When they were separated, Lai Yueming couldn't help but cry, thinking that her husband Chen Yi had left this time, and she didn't know when she would be reunited with herself, her heart was as uncomfortable as a knife, but for the sake of the revolution, she couldn't leave her husband behind. Sadly, Lai Yueming separated from Chen Yi this time and has not seen him since. Chen Yi was also very reluctant when he left, but he was still full of hopes that he would one day return victoriously and reunite with Lai Yueming.
Lai Yueming, who returned to his hometown, in addition to enduring the thoughts of her husband Chen Yi, also had to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang reactionaries, who were searching for and arresting personnel related to the Red Army. In such a white terror environment, lai Yueming's father wanted to forget Chen Yi and marry someone else in order to protect his daughter, because once the reactionaries knew that he was Chen Yi's wife, she might really be killed by the Kuomintang.
Figure Chen Yi
Therefore, Lai Yueming's father spread the news that Chen Yi had died in the local area, and soon the news spread throughout the streets. Lai Yueming also heard this rumor, at first, she felt difficult to accept, and even did not want to believe, but at that time, Chen Yi was in a tight war at the front line, coupled with the complicated environment at that time, he could not get in touch with Lai Yueming, and Lai Yueming also believed that Chen Yi had died. At first, she felt that it was difficult for her to accept such a fact, but under the persuasion of her father, she slowly accepted such a fact, and at the same time, she became dead in her heart and had no interest in anything.
At this moment, her father was ready to marry her, and Lai Yueming had to obey her father's arrangement and was married to a shoemaker. Lai Yueming cried again on the day of the wedding, she remembered the wedding with Chen Yi at that time, although it was so simple, but it was full of freedom and love, unlike now, she once again returned home, arranged by her father to marry a man with no emotional foundation, she felt very desperate, but had to accept the arrangement of fate.
Figure Chen Yi (right) and Su Yu (left)
After Chen Yi separated from Lai Yueming, he also kept thinking about his wife in his heart, but for revolutionary reasons, he could not go back to visit, and could only ask people to inquire about the news. However, Lai Yueming's father had already married his daughter at this time, and he did not want his daughter to be implicated because she was once Chen Yi's wife, so no matter who came to inquire about her daughter, he said that her daughter had died of illness.
The people sent by Chen Yi also got the news that Lai Yueming had died of illness. Chen Yi was very distressed after learning this fake news, and did not expect that his beloved wife had died so young. Chen Yi turned his tears and thoughts into thick ink at the bottom of the pen, and wrote a small poem for his wife Lai Yueming, mourning the love of his life: "The night of xingcheng brigade is miserable, and the moon is bright in front of the broken paper window." I was still left with a hard battle, and Amun was ashamed of his old feelings. In this poem, Chen Yi writes about his deep thoughts about his wife Lai Yueming and the pain of losing his beloved wife. After a few years, Chen Yi slowly walked out of the sadness of losing Lai Yueming and remarried Zhang Qian.
However, Lai Yueming's unfortunate departure has always become a heart disease that Chen Yi has been vaguely painful throughout his life. What Chen Yi didn't know was that Lai Yueming didn't die at all, after she married the shoemaker, although the shoemaker had no culture and an ordinary family, he was still loyal and honest, so it was also good for Lai Yueming, and Lai Yueming gave birth to a daughter for the shoemaker. Although Lai Yueming is very hard to manage housework every day, after having a daughter, Lai Yueming's mood is slightly better, and her life is still passable. Unfortunately, in the chaotic world of flames, the most ordinary happiness is also a luxury, and bad luck soon pushed Lai Yueming into the abyss.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Lai Yueming's hometown was also plundered by Japanese devils, and Lai Yueming's shoemaker husband also died at the gunpoint of Japanese devils. After losing her husband, Lai Yueming took her daughter with her, and she was in a chaotic world of war and chaos, and her life was very difficult. In order to survive, Lai Yueming decided to look for the Red Army again, but in the social environment at that time, it was not easy to find the Red Army organization.
Later, Lai Yueming met an old Red Army soldier Fang Zhiliang, who was crippled on one leg because he had been wounded in battle. But Lai Yueming did not dislike him, thinking that he was more reliable and reliable, so he took his daughter to marry this man. Although Fang Zhiliang's legs are lame, he is also very concerned about Lai Yueming, and because he is not in good health, he often feels ashamed of his wife. Lai Yueming later gave birth to two boys and a woman and three children for Fang Zhiliang, and slowly began to adapt to the married life with Fang Zhiliang.
Although later with the liberation of the country, Lai Yueming's life gradually settled down. But whenever the night is quiet, she always can't help but think of Chen Yi, thinking of the husband who has lived with her for a short time, but is the most loved in her life. Lai Yueming couldn't forget Chen Yi's teachings to her, as well as her appreciation and affirmation for this poor woman, and that simple but warm words, but every time she thought of Chen Yi, she would secretly weep, and she always thought that Chen Yi was really long gone.
In 1954, Lai Yueming once saw a picture of Chen Yi in the newspaper, and then learned that Chen Yi was not dead at all, and that she had always received false news. But Lai Yueming's mood at this time was complicated, on the one hand, he was happy that his lover was still alive, on the other hand, he secretly blamed Chen Yi, why did he not come to him for so many years, and there was no news, did he really forget his own woman who was obsessively in love with him? Why abandoned her so desperately?
With these doubts in mind, Lai Yueming wanted to go to Beijing to meet Chen Yi and ask him in person why the matter was going on. When Lai Yueming's current husband, Fang Zhiliang, knew that his wife, who had once been Chen Yi's wife, was now going to find Chen Yi, his heart was very painful, because he himself had completely regarded Lai Yueming as the lover he spent the rest of his life with, how could he watch his wife leave him? Fang Zhiliang could only persuade his wife to put the past aside, but such persuasion was obviously powerless, lai Yueming since he knew that Chen Yi was not dead, he often took Chen Yi's photo to see, looking at it stupidly, and sometimes tears would flow from his eyes.
Figure Chen Yi stills
Although Lai Yueming and Chen Yi have not been with Chen Yi for a long time, her heart has always been filled with Chen Yi, and she is very depressed when she cannot go to Beijing, eager to write a letter to Chen Yi, but this simple idea was still not realized at that time. Lai Yueming loves Chen Yi in her heart, but at this time, she is already a mother of 4 children, she is more considering that she has responsibility for her children, and her current husband Fang Zhiliang is already lame, if she wants to leave him again, it is inevitable that she will be a little too cruel. The kind Lai Yueming thought about the various responsibilities he was carrying now, and finally dismissed the idea of going to Beijing to find Chen Yi.
Lai Yueming has spent decades in contradiction and pain, and usually she takes care of her children and takes care of housework like other mothers, but she has never forgotten her former lover Chen Yi. Although Lai Yueming decided not to go to Beijing again, he always paid attention to Chen Yi's situation through newspapers and radio.
Figure Chen Yi (second from right)
In 1972, Lai Yueming learned the news of Chen Yi's illness and death, and for a while she cried almost fainted, for so many years, although she and Chen Yi did not live together, she was always praying for Chen Yi's safety, and Chen Yi's death made her feel very sad. Before I didn't go looking for Chen Yi, I still considered that after they separated, under the difference between yin and yang, they all had their own families, but now that Chen Yi had died, the man he had loved all his life, she would never see him again in this life, and she felt extreme pain. Lai Yueming's son saw that his mother was so sad, so he decided to accompany her to Beijing to meet the deceased and fulfill his mother's wish once. When Lai Yueming came to Beijing accompanied by his son, it was already 1988, and it had been exactly 16 years since General Chen Yi died of illness, so the opening scene appeared.
Cai Chang heard that Lai Yueming was still alive and had come to Beijing, and he was also very excited, but at this time, Cai Chang and Lai Yueming were already white-haired old women, thinking about the old events of that year, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion. Lai Yueming and Cai Chang said, "Big sister, do you remember me?" I am Lai Yueming, Tian Luo girl! Cai Chang looked at Lai Yueming in front of him, who was polished by the years and was full of vicissitudes, and couldn't help but feel a pang of pain, and it seemed that the figure of Lai Yueming's performance program when he was young appeared in front of his eyes.
Lai Yueming came to Beijing this time, asked to go to Chen Yi's memorial hall to see Chen Yi, everyone also agreed to her simple request, just like this, Lai Yueming came to Chen Yi's memorial hall, as soon as she saw things related to her husband, all the memories related to Chen Yi rushed to her heart for a while, her tears could not be stopped, thinking that when she and Chen Yi were separated, she thought that they would meet soon, but unexpectedly, decades had passed, and they met in such a way.
Figure Chen Yi's memorial service
While crying, Lai Yueming watched all the cultural relics about Chen Yi, and here she seemed to sense her husband's breath again. Lai Yueming saw Cai Chang, and also dispelled her heart knots over the years, that is, Chen Yi never forgot her, and the reason why he did not come to her for so many years was not because he abandoned her, but because he always thought that she had died, so he chose to remarry. Lai Yueming, who knew the truth, cried even harder, she didn't think that she had misunderstood Chen Yi for so many years. Although chen yi and Chen Yi are now separated forever, this trip to Beijing can also be regarded as a wish of the elderly Lai Yueming.
Figure Mao Zedong and Chen Yi
With the support of her son, Lai Yueming walked through every corner of the memorial hall and pointed out some souvenirs of that year to her son with her trembling fingers. The son knew that his mother, Lai Yueming, was a glorious female soldier of the Red Army, and he could not help but be proud of his mother. In the memory of Lai Yueming's life, the most beautiful is the memory of her own Red Army, during which time she got rid of the shackles of female identity, studied and fought with many soldiers, and marched forward together for the ideal of new China.
Chen Yi and Lai Yueming were originally a pair of loving couples, but due to the trickery of fate, they led to decades-long separation, and finally under the influence of a series of objective reasons such as misunderstandings and inconvenient communication, the two people set up a new family, regrettably passing by. But the reason why they were willing to endure separation from their lovers in those years was that thousands of people would live a good life from now on, they were all communists, and they thought more about their country and faith.
From this point of view, although their love ended with a separate ending, it is worthy of admiration and touch by future generations. At the same time, Lai Yueming is also a kind and rational woman, after learning that Chen Yi has remarried, she chose to stay in her hometown rationally and silently bless her lover without disturbing his life. Since hearing of Chen Yi's death, Lai Yueming has been offering Chen Yi's tablet at home to pay tribute to her former lover. If Chen Yi knew that Lai Yueming, a kind and infatuated woman, had loved him all her life, she would also feel heartache and moved.
For the sake of the revolution, Chen Yi not only paid his youth and blood, but also gave up his own small family that could have been warm to become a big person in China, and this dedication is still touching to this day, and it is precisely because there are generals like Chen Yi who are willing to pay everything for the party and the people that we can write one legend after another, from a weak country that is humiliated by others to prosperity and independence. Although Chen Yi and Lai Yueming have some regrets in love, they have never been ashamed of their faith, and they are not ashamed of the party and the people.