Everyone has heard the red revolution song "Ten Send the Red Army". As soon as the Red Army was sent down to the South Mountain, the autumn wind and drizzle were lingering, the wild cats in the mountains were wailing, and the leaves of the sycamores of the trees were finished, the Red Army! When the people and horses return to the mountain...
In the years of the revolutionary war, there was such a military sister-in-law, and in the crowd of people who bid farewell to the Red Army, she held the hand of a Red Army soldier for a long time and refused to let go. She wears a red flower cotton jacket on her upper body and a bouquet of red lings on her head. From the way she dressed, it was clear that she was a newlywed wife, sending her Red Army husband. Her name is Chi Yuhua, and she has just been married to her husband Li Cai for three consecutive days. Since her husband, Li Cailian, was a Red Army cadre, he had just received instructions from his superiors that Li Cailian should participate in the Long March with the troops. Looking at the two lines of tears shed by his wife, Li Cailian comforted her: "When the revolution is successful, I will definitely come back and wait for me." He took a mirror out of his satchel and handed it to Chi Yuhua. He left with the troops without turning back, and he never expected that Li Cailian would never come back after this trip.
After her husband left, Chi Yuhua took care of the housework and served his in-laws while not forgetting to read and write, and managed everything in an orderly manner. Chi Yuhua could occasionally receive letters from her husband, in which he repeatedly told her to take good care of the family and wait for him to return. In her reply, she also expressed her support for her husband's revolutionary cause, so that her husband could rest assured that she would follow the Red Army in the revolution, and she would wait for her husband to return, a promise, a firm commitment. Even if you wait until the sea dries up and the iron tree blossoms.
In 1935, in an anti-encirclement and suppression war, Li Cailian and his teammates were surrounded on all sides, and in order to cover their comrades-in-arms to break out of the encirclement, he brought two fighters to flank and ambush the enemy. In the face of a crazy enemy, Li Cailian and the soldiers finally ran out of food and sacrificed heroically.
After the news of Li Cailian's sacrifice came back, Chi Yuhua did not believe it, she firmly believed that the revolution would be victorious and her husband would definitely come back to her.
Later, the War of Resistance Against Japan was victorious, Chi Yuhua did not wait for the news of her husband Li Cailing, the War of Liberation was victorious, or did not wait for her husband to return home. Until the founding of New China, many boys who joined the army went home to visit their relatives. Chi Yuhua couldn't wait any longer, so he inquired about her husband's news in many ways, but still did not get the news of her husband's death. She found the relevant departments, because the country had just been liberated, the information was blocked, and the relevant departments did not know the whereabouts of Li Cailian, so she could only wait for the news. Chi Yuhua began to wait a long time again. While waiting, all kinds of gossip rushed to her face. Some say that her husband, Li Cailian, has a home and children outside and abandons her. Others say that Li Cailian became a high official and enjoyed happiness in Beijing. She didn't believe it. She firmly believes that as long as her husband is alive, he will not abandon her and will definitely come back. Who would have thought that this flash had passed for decades. Chi Yuhua looked at the path in front of the door every day, guarding, looking, hoping. The mirror that her husband left for her parting became her greatest spiritual sustenance. When she missed her husband Li Cailian, she took out a mirror to look at herself, and saw that her green silk in the mirror slowly turned into white hair. She still didn't wait for news from her husband.
It was not until 1983, when the Ministry of Civil Affairs confirmed that Li Cailian died in Ruijin in 1935, at the age of 22.
In the years that followed, Chi Yuhua successively served as the director of the township women's federation and the president of the agricultural cooperative, and because of his active work, he was commended by his superiors many times. Every day when she returned home from work, Chi Yuhua would still move a small stool to sit at the door of the house, take out the small mirror that had been treasured for many years, and watch the path in front of the door, so that she had been watching for a full 72 years, and for 72 years, waiting for her husband to return had become her lifelong habit and sustenance. Until April 24, 2005, Chi Yuhua died of illness at the age of 95.