When Weng's son-in-law first met, Yang Zhenning called Du Yuming Mr. Du, and the premier said a word, and everyone laughed
One is a world-renowned physicist, the other is a famous general in the Nationalist army, Yang Zhenning and Du Yuming's lives do not seem to intersect, but it is a solid son-in-law relationship.
Unexpected love, foreign countries meet the past
Yang Zhenning was a student of Tsinghua University in his early years, and his father Yang Wuzhi was a well-known mathematician in the United States and a professor at Tsinghua University.
However, at that time, because of the War of Resistance, Tsinghua University moved to Kunming and formed a temporary joint university with Peking University and Nankai University, Southwest United University.
In 1944, after graduating from the Institute of Southwest United University, Yang Zhenning went to teach at the affiliated middle school of the United Nations University at the age of 22, Du Yuming's daughter Du Zhili was a student in the second class of the high school he taught, although the two did not have a relationship at that time, but it was also the beginning of fate.
In August 1945, Yang Zhenning was admitted to the University of Chicago.
In 1947, Du Zhili accompanied his father Du Yuming, who suffered from kidney disease, to go to the United States for medical treatment, because Chiang Kai-shek was busy fighting a civil war, Du Yuming, who had already arrived at the Shanghai airport to prepare for take-off, was "detained" and urgently transferred to the northeast battlefield to command the battle against the People's Liberation Army, but failed to make the trip.
The 18-year-old Du Zhili could only go to the United States to study alone and entered the "Methodist College" to study English literature.
Later, after her father Du Yuming was captured by the People's Liberation Army in the Battle of Huaihai, the family's economy became a problem, and she had to improve the free "St. Vincent's Literary Academy" and still study English literature.
One day in 1949, Du Zhili ate at a Chinese restaurant in Princeton, USA, met Yang Zhenning unexpectedly, teachers and students met, extraordinarily affectionate, similar in age, the same is the end of the world, met and fell in love, a year later the two married.
Separated by constant affection, hard-won warmth
After the founding of New China, their elders separated on both sides of the taiwan strait.
Yang Zhenning's father-in-law, Du Yuming, was originally a Kuomintang general and was captured by the People's Liberation Army during the Battle of Huaihai. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was afraid that Du Yuming would "defect to the Communists" and "escorted" Du Yuming's wife Cao Xiuqing's entire family of 8 to Taiwan as "hostages."
After Cao Xiuqing came to Taiwan, his family life and children's education were not taken care of, and he relied on a meager salary to survive, and it was difficult to live a difficult life. She had to frequently run among some of Du Yuming's old classmates and colleagues, begging them to intercede and get some relief funding, before reluctantly placing her children in school.
At that time, the Kuomintang knew very well that Du Yuming was living well in Beijing and was not in personal danger, but told Cao Xiuqing that Du Yuming had been killed.
Later, cao Xiuqing learned that Premier Zhou had contacted his daughter Du Zhili and son-in-law Yang Zhenning through certain channels, and after learning through them about her husband Du Yuming's safe life in Beijing, she clearly realized that being closed in Taiwan would not be able to get in touch with Du Yuming, and that life and separation would be equal to death, so Cao Xiuqing decided to leave.
In 1957, after the Kuomintang learned of Yang Zhenning's Nobel Prize, it changed its previous attitude and suddenly took good care of Cao Xiuqing, and when Cao Xiuqing proposed to go to the United States, she was not only immediately approved, but also the Chiang couple personally sent her off.
Finally, after some twists and turns, Cao Xiuqing came to the United States as she wished, living with her daughter and son-in-law, waiting for the right time to go to Beijing to reunite with her husband.
Shortly after Cao Xiuqing arrived in the United States, Du Yuming was pardoned, and he chose to settle in Beijing, where he served first as a commissioner of the Cultural and Historical Committee of the CppcC National Committee and then as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
At this time, Du Yuming wrote a letter to Cao Xiuqing in the United States, asking her to settle in Beijing and spend her old age together, and finally after many efforts, Du Yuming was finally reunited with his wife.
The wanderer returned, and they were finally reunited thousands of miles apart
In 1971, with the changes in the international environment, Yang Zhenning wrote a letter to his father, he wanted to return to China to visit his parents, parents-in-law and classmates and friends, and when the State Council learned of it, it said that "the motherland opened its heart to welcome Yang Zhenning's return from the ocean."
In the same year, Yang Zhenning and his wife Du Zhili returned to their homeland after a 26-year absence, becoming the first Chinese-American scientist to visit New China.
On July 28, 1971, after 21 years of marriage to Du Zhili, Yang Zhenning met his father-in-law Du Yuming for the first time in Beijing, and together with his father-in-law's family, he was cordially received and entertained by Premier Zhou.
Premier Zhou and Yang Zhenning had a cordial conversation, ranging from scientific research, social issues, international dynamics to family life, with a wide range of unrestrained conversations.
When he heard Yang Zhenning call Cao Xiuqing's mother and Du Yuming "Mr. Du", he immediately corrected him and said: "It should be called Lord Yuezhang." ”
During the banquet, Premier Zhou also said to Cao Xiuqing humorously, you sit next to your son-in-law, and your mother-in-law loves your son-in-law the most!
Everyone in this room couldn't help but laugh.
In the following two years, Yang Zhenning returned to China with his wife every year and was cared for by leaders at all levels.
Pi Fu has a responsibility, and Weng and his son-in-law are running for the cause of the reunification of the motherland
In the three years from 1971 to 1973, Yang Zhenning returned to the motherland to visit his relatives four times, which caused great repercussions in the world.
Under his leadership, a number of Chinese-American scientists returned to the motherland to visit, opening the door to the final scientific exchange with the outside world.
Yang Zhenning and his father-in-law Du Yuming used their influence to devote themselves to realizing the great cause of the reunification of the motherland with practical actions.
In the late 1970s, Du Yuming disregarded his elderly body and worked tirelessly to realize the reunification of the motherland, writing articles in newspapers and periodicals at home and abroad, and persuading his relatives and friends in Taiwan to come to the road of the reunification of the motherland with an attitude of laying out the facts and being reasonable.
Yang Zhenning and his family's patriotism of caring for both sides of the strait and bearing the country in mind has inspired generations of Chinese sons and daughters, who are a precious asset of the motherland.