General Ye Ting is a famous military expert of mine, but at the same time, he is also a good boy who is all-round in culture and martial arts and has a good appearance. Young friends may not know,
General Ye Ting and his wife, Li Xiuwen, a rich and wealthy man in Macau, had a "life-and-death love".
That period of the past is also a romantic legend that spans history. In the mid-1920s, Ye Ting served as a guard battalion commander in The Palace of Marshal Sun Yat-sen and fell in love with Li Xiuwen, the daughter of a wealthy businessman.
Three years later, Ye and Li were happily married.
After the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising, Ye Ting was wanted by the enemy. Li Xiuwen followed her husband into exile in Kuala Lumpur overseas, ate chaff and became a refugee for nearly a decade. At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, General Ye Ting resolutely chose to return to China to form the New Fourth Army.
At the same time, Li Xiuwen returned to Macau and persuaded his parents to donate his life savings to buy 3,600 pistols, 1.1 million rounds of ammunition and a large number of telescopes to send them to southern Anhui.
Later, Ye Ting was detained by Chiang Kai-shek.
Li Xiuwen resolutely rushed to jail with his whole family and accompanied Ye Ting.
In 1946, after Ye Ting was released from prison, the couple and their child Ah Jiu flew back to Yan'an together, but unfortunately they were shipwrecked in the middle of the way and fell off a cliff.
Twenty years of life and death, a rich lady accompanied a revolutionary soldier around in exile, scattered the family wealth, transported arms to the front, set up stalls, farmed land, and squatted in prison. Staged a period of singing and weeping chaotic children's love.
First, acquaintance and love
Lee Xiu Man was born in 1907 to a wealthy merchant family in Macau. Later, he returned to Guangzhou to go to school, and was the "school flower" of the famous local girls' high school. In the early 1920s, Ye Ting served as the commander of Sun Yat-sen's Second Guard Battalion. Once, Ye Ting went to meet his old friend Li Zhangda. On the road, I saw a girl in a white dress and a green dress, exhaling like a blue, running towards him with a two-year-old doll.
The girl's eyes were slightly frightened, and she shouted at the baby, "Don't go to the road!" Seeing that the "baby" ran to the front, Ye Ting took a copy of it, hugged him, and then handed him back to the girl. The girl blushed, said "thank you" to him, picked up the child and left. Old friend Li Zhangda came over and told him that this beautiful girl was his hometown's daughter Li Xiuwen, and the "baby" was her little nephew.
Since then, Ye Ting has often run to Li Zhangda's home. After coming and going, Li Xiuwen also learned some things about Ye Ting through Li Zhangda, and also read his revolutionary articles published in "New Youth", and the feelings between the two slowly developed. Li Xiuwen's father has been doing business overseas for many years and has seen the world, and the Li family is not opposed to their free love. However, Ye Ting went to the door to propose to him, but was still rejected by Father Li.
Mother Li told Ye Ting that the Li family hoped that after he was promoted to the head of the regiment, he would come back to propose to him. In 1925, Ye Ting returned from studying in the Soviet Union and became the leader of an independent regiment. The following year, Li Xiuwen and Ye Ting held a wedding.
Second, throw away all the money in support of the revolution
Because of the revolution, Ye Ting and Li Xiuwen initially gathered less and left more. After the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising, Ye Ting's army was scattered, and Li Xiuwen followed her husband into exile in Kuala Lumpur, where they opened restaurants overseas, worked as workers, and even picked wild fruits to fill their hunger. Husband and wife are in love with each other, suffering for ten years. In the middle of the way, Ye Ting borrowed money to study in Germany and learn military knowledge. Li Xiuwen was at home with the child, silently guarding their family.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Ye Ting insisted on returning to China to form the New Fourth Army. Li Xiuwen knew that her husband's heart was full of world events, and he would do it with him without saying a word. Lack of food and clothing, and hunger and hunger are commonplace. Because the Kuomintang refused to allocate enough armaments and materials to the New Fourth Army, Li Xiuwen resolutely returned to Macao and persuaded his father and mother to donate the coffin books to support the War of Resistance. Together with donations from relatives and friends overseas, more than 3,000 pistols, millions of rounds of ammunition, a large number of telescopes and other materials were raised.
Li Xiuwen, a slender and weak rich woman, started the "arms business" for the first time. She risked losing her life at any moment and transported the ammunition home. Who knows, the halfway way was cut off for Gu Zhutong of the Kuomintang. Li Xiuwen repeatedly negotiated with Gu Zhutong, but the other party refused to return. So Li Xiuwen wrote a letter to tell Ye Ting, and Ye Ting found Gu Zhutong before he chased back the batch of materials.
3. Accompany your husband to prison
After the outbreak of the "Anhui Incident", Ye Ting was imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek. Li Xiuwen was far away in Guangdong, and after receiving the news, he could not eat for several days. In order to find out where Ye Ting was imprisoned, she said goodbye to her mother and children and ran back and forth in the dust. It was not until the end of 1942 that it was found that her husband might have been imprisoned in Enshi, Hubei.
Li Xiuwen went to Chen Cheng, the commander of the Sixth Theater, and asked to see Ye Ting's face, and Chen Cheng agreed to her request. Later, Li Xiuwen widely spread Ye Ting's situation in society, and the Kuomintang was pressured to allow Ye Ting to "leave prison for reflection", and Ye Ting was placed under house arrest in Guilin for three years. And Li Xiuwen took his old mother and children to accompany him to "go to jail" together.
House arrest is not free, but it is even more difficult for a large family to live. The softness that Li Xiuwen brought from Macao was sold out, and the cheques sent by relatives from the sea were also privately swallowed by the guards' agents. In order to eat for the whole family, Li Xiuwen had to sell all her jewelry in exchange for a few lambs and piglets to raise, and she also planned to feed her young son Ah Jiu with goat's milk.
During the day, Li Xiuwen followed Ye Ting to learn to grow vegetables and fertilize, let the children go up the mountain to herd sheep, and the family lived a meticulous life. In the dead of night, she put her arms around her husband and reminisced with him. Since Ye Ting's arrest, the couple have been separated. The city of Changsha fell, and Li Xiuwen fled with his mother and children and stayed overnight in the barren mountains. As a result, the bandits robbed, but fortunately Li Xiuwen was resourceful and threw the bag of money into the grass in advance. After the bandits left, they retrieved their money bags, so that everyone did not starve to death in the middle of the road.
After many months of this, Ye Ting was escorted to Enshi again. Li Xiuwen only moved to live outside the city with a dozen people from his family, relying on wild vegetables and sweet potatoes to survive. Later, he met Li Jishen and moved to Guangzhou. By the time the couple said goodbye, it was another three years.
In 1946, Ye Ting was released. Ye Xiuwen got the news and took his daughter Ye Yangmei and son Ah Jiu to meet him. The two were reunited after a long absence, and Ye Ting happily hugged her and said: We seem to be married again. On April 8, 1946, Ye Ting's family flew from Chongqing to Yan'an, and the plane crashed in Shanxi, unfortunately, the whole family was killed.
epilogue
Lady Ye, Li Xiuwen, was born into a wealthy family, and since marrying General Ye Ting, she has been adrift and floating for twenty years. In the end, with a young life of thirty-nine years old, he fulfilled the promise of not abandoning his husband and sharing misfortunes and blessings!