Among the more than a thousand founding major generals, the name Yi Yaocai does not seem to be very loud, and he has served as the deputy commander of the 63rd Army and the first deputy commander of the North Sea Fleet, and his fame is incomparable with Zhong Wei, He Jinnian and others.
However, Yi Yaocai has a status that is better than Zhong Wei and He Jinnian, that is, he has two brothers-in-law, one is a founding general and the other is a founding lieutenant general.
The founding general, Wang Ping, married Fan Jingxin, the eldest daughter of the old Fan family in Fuping County, Hebei Province; the founding lieutenant general, Wang Zonghuai, married Fan Jingming, the second daughter of the old Fan family; and the founding major general Yi Yaocai married the third daughter Fan Jingyang.
That is to say, the three daughters of the old Fan family were married to the admiral, lieutenant general, and major general respectively, which is probably unique in the history of the world army!
Today, let's take a look at the story of Yi Yaocai and Fan Jingyang.
Speaking of which, the marriage between the two is still a bit of a coincidence, because originally another person went on a blind date with Yi Yaocai, Fan Jingyang only accompanied the other person, and the result was that she was caught in the picture.
A month after this meeting, Fan Jingyang received the order to "get married immediately", and at this time she was still completely in the dark, and she didn't even know who she wanted to marry.
Later, after some explanation by her section chief, Fan Jingyang understood that she was going to marry Yi Yaocai, chief of staff of the military sub-district.
In fact, Fan Jingyang had already heard of Yi Yaocai, and that meeting also had a very good impression of him, so there was no rejection, agreed to it, and soon completed the marriage smoothly.
The love marriage in the war years was much purer than it is now, and although the marriage between the two seemed to be hasty, until Yi Yaocai's death in 1990, the husband and wife were harmonious and harmonious, and happily walked through the 50-year golden marriage.
If the story ends like this, then the love between Yi Yaocai and Fan Jingyang is undoubtedly very perfect, but there is another woman in Yi Yaocai's life, named Zhang Feng'e, what is going on?
This began in 1927.
At that time, although Yi Yaocai was only 10 years old, according to the customs of his hometown, he had reached the age of setting up a child bridesmaid, so Yi Yaocai's parents found a child bride for him in a nearby village, that is, Zhang Feng'e.
But later, Yi Yaocai's family suffered a great change, his parents were killed, Yi Yaocai ran out to join the Red Army in order to escape the pursuit, leaving Zhang Feng'e alone in his hometown. Zhang Feng'e is a traditional rural woman who believes in the beginning, although her husband is missing, she has been waiting for him at home, and has never had the idea of remarrying.
Yi Yaocai, who was far away in the army, was completely unaware, and he originally thought that Zhang Feng'e had already married someone else, so he married Fan Jingyang in 1940.
(Photo: Fan Jingyang's three sisters)
Many years later, when Yi Yaocai returned to her hometown with her wife and children to visit her relatives, she saw Zhang Feng'e, who was still single, and could not help but be stunned, and the two were relatively speechless and silently went to the grave of their parents.
Originally, Yi Yaocai was ready to leave the next day, but when he saw Zhang Feng'e's current appearance, he still couldn't bear it after all, no matter what, she was his own child bride, and she had not married until she waited for herself. Considering that it was impossible to persuade her to remarry, Yi Yaocai could only choose to help her improve her life, and also went to the local township government civil affairs bureau to win her a martyr's subsidy, which made her poor years of life improve.
In the final analysis, this kind of thing is no wonder of anyone, Zhang Feng'e's infatuation and bitterness are not wrong, Yi Yaocai's free love and legal marriage is not wrong, the real mistake, I am afraid it is the old society of all evils!
Fortunately, Yi Yaocai's wife Fan Jingyang was also reasonable, and after understanding this past, she did not block it, but worked with her husband to do her best to help Zhang Feng'e.
In 1990, after Yi Yaocai died of illness, Fan Jingyang followed his will and sent him back to his hometown in Jiangxi for burial. Eight years later, Zhang Feng'e also passed away, and Fan Jingyang agreed to bury her next to Yi Yaocai, which can also be regarded as a name for Zhang Feng'e, who has been struggling all her life.