She is the school flower, he is a battalion commander of Sun Yat-sen's guard regiment, the two met by chance, the battalion commander liked the school flower and began to pursue the school flower, but their love affair was opposed by the rich father of the school flower, he said: My daughter is not married to the regimental commander! In the end, this battalion commander became a military commander, he was Ye Ting, and the school flower was Li Xiuwen.
Ye Ting and Li Xiuwen fell in love, Li Xiuwen was still in middle school in Guangzhou, when she was 15 years old, young and beautiful, was the school flower of Zhixin Middle School. Ye Ting was a battalion commander in Sun Yat-sen's guard regiment, and under Ye Ting's pursuit, Li Xiuwen also fell in love with this handsome young officer.
When Ye Ting offered to marry Li Xiuwen, his father, a wealthy businessman, replied, "If you want to marry my daughter, you must be the head of the regiment." "Li Xiuwen's father, who served as a high official in the Qing Dynasty, later abandoned his official position to engage in business, and became a famous rich man in Macao.
Ye Ting fought hard for three years, and he really became the leader of the Independent Regiment of the Fourth Army, so Father Li fulfilled his promise and agreed to marry his daughter Li Xiuwen to Ye Ting, when Li Xiuwen was 18 years old and Ye Ting was 29 years old. When Li Xiuwen got married, her father also gave her a large dowry.
After the outbreak of the All-Out War of Resistance, in January 1938, Ye Ting was appointed commander of the New Fourth Army. In order to support the anti-Japanese resistance, Li Xiuwen sold her jewelry and bought 3600 guns for the New Fourth Army. After the outbreak of the Anhui Incident, Ye Ting was unjustifiably detained by Chiang Kai-shek for a long time. Li Xiuwen had to return to her mother's house with 9 children and live on the help of her mother's family.
One day, several strangers came to Li Xiuwen's residence, and they brought a note written by Ye Ting, who said that he had arrived in Hengyang and asked her to hand over the three children to accompany him. Li Xiuwen then followed Ye Ting's instructions and let them take the second, fourth, and fifth elders with them. Later, the three children, along with Ye Ting, were imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek in the Chongqing White Mansion.
In March 1946, Ye Ting was released, and Li Xiuwen ignored the persuasion of his family and took his youngest child to Chongqing to meet Ye Ting. On the 30th day of Ye Ting's release from prison, she flew from Chongqing to Yan'an with Ye Ting, a daughter and a young son, and the plane crashed in Shanxi. Li Xiuwen and Ye Ting's family of four were all killed. That year, Li Xiuwen was 39 years old and Ye Ting was 50 years old.