In 1929, on the second day of the Chinese New Year, before dawn, Chi Yuhua sent her husband Li Cailian, who had gone to the front line to fight, to the village entrance. This was the second day of their new marriage, in the era of war, they were not allowed to stay in the sweetness of the newlywed, in order to end the war as soon as possible, Chi Yuhua and Li Cailian had to endure the pain of separation.
Speaking of the love between Chi Yuhua and Li Cailian, their love is a special kind of love, Chi Yuhua, who is three years older than Li Cailian, entered the Li family at the age of 9 and became Li Cailian's child daughter-in-law. In 1929, 15-year-old Li Cailian and Chi Yuhua married and officially became husband and wife. The love of that time was different from the love of today, and in the chaos of war, it was always involuntary. For the sake of national security, Li Cailian went to the front line on the 3rd after her new marriage.
In 1928, at the age of 14, Li Cailian began to embark on the revolutionary road and joined the party organization in the same year. During the revolution, although Li Cailian was not very old, she always worked actively and diligently, and was praised by her comrades-in-arms and superiors. In 1929, although she and her wife Chi Yuhua had just married, Li Cailian chose to put the revolution first, and Chi Yuhua could only watch him go to the front line in order to support her husband.
However, before Li Cailian left, he said to Chi Yuhua, "Keep a good home, read more, do more for the Red Army, and wait for me to return." At the behest of her husband, Chi Yuhua later served as the women's minister of the district Soviet, and has been working for the Red Army and has been waiting for his return.
In 1933, after the fourth victory against encirclement and suppression, Li Cailian was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Young Communist Party of the Soviet Union and became one of the young senior leaders during the revolution. Chi Yuhua went to Qiliping, Ningdu County, where Li Cailian was located, to meet her husband in a hurry that year, but after this parting, Chi Yuhua never saw her husband again. She waited for her husband's news every day, and when others said that Li Cailian had died, she always remembered her husband's promise not to believe the rumors and wait for him to return. However, during the period when she was firmly convinced that her husband would return, Li Cailian never appeared.
Chi Yuhua began to look for her husband, but there was no news, and after a long time, Chi Yuhua developed the habit of getting up every day to wait for Li Cailian at the village entrance, and it was not until 1983 that Chi Yuhua waited for the news of her husband. However, this year Chi Yuhua received a martyr's certificate, and Li Cailian had already been betrayed by traitors in 1935.
Chi Yuhua, who got the martyr's certificate, still did not give up the belief of waiting for her husband to return from the village every morning, and every day she would feel the small mirror that her husband gave him before he died to comb his hair.
In these years, Chi Yuhua has sent away her in-laws and children, and her daily hope of survival is to wait for her husband to return. In 2005, Chi Yuhua, who had been waiting for her husband for 72 years, died at the age of 95.