Chen Geng and his wife Fu Ya
"March 8 is a day I must not forget, and it is also my most painful day." This is the most painful stroke recorded by Chen Geng in his diary in 1939.
On March 8 of that year, Chen Geng's beloved wife Wang Genying, unwilling to let the party's important documents fall into the hands of the Japanese army, chose to turn back to the school when she had already been transferred to the safe zone, and unfortunately died in the crazy sweep of the Japanese army.
After the sacrifice of his beloved wife, the grief-stricken Chen Geng made a vow: three years will not continue the string, and in the following year, the day and night thoughts of his deceased wife often make the general who has experienced hundreds of battles cut off his liver and intestines.
Until one day a year later, Chen Geng, who had just been seriously wounded on the battlefield of Huichang and returned to Yan'an, met another most important woman in his life while visiting Wang Zhitao, the director of the Anti-Japanese War Training Department, and her name was Fu Ya...
Encounters: From admiration to admiration
Fu Ya belonged to the big girl who grew up in the courtyard of the deep house, and from a young age, his family was well-off, his relatives loved him, and he had never experienced the hardships and hardships of the life of a poor family. But since she started studying, she has been deeply influenced by advanced ideas and has a firm pursuit of communism.
Therefore, under the introduction of the eldest brother, in 1938, with the ideal and mission of resisting Japan and saving the country, she resolutely and resolutely arrived in Yan'an and gloriously joined the Communist Party of China.
Fu Ya was beautiful in appearance, had received a good education since childhood, and could sing and dance, and was articulate, so as soon as she arrived in Yan'an, she became a rare talent in the literary troupe.
Through the wonderful appearances in many performances, Fu Ya's name was gradually known by the military and civilians of Yan'an, and eventually became a household name.
On the day that Chen Geng was at Wang Zhitao's house, Fu Ya happened to come here to borrow props, so the two of them met.
Chen Geng's humorous talk won Fu Ya's favor, in fact, for this general who has experienced hundreds of battles, Fu Ya has long heard of it, and his heroic deeds have long been spread in the army, at this time in Fu Ya's heart, Chen Geng is just a hero he admires, he exists like a mountain.
In fact, Fu Ya was worried, the family had made a marriage contract for himself, for his fiancé, Fu Ya at that time was also more satisfied, but later after Fu Ya came to Yan'an, he hoped that the other party could have the same aspirations as himself.
He came to Yan'an to fight for the revolutionary cause together, but the other party was not cold about it, so after many painstaking persuasions and did not wait for the results, Fu Ya's relationship was also gone.
Due to the reasons of work, Fu Ya and Chen Geng had more contact, and in the process of getting along, the two chatted more and more speculatively, and an inexplicable affection also developed between them.
Although the age difference between the two was 15 years, the torrent of feelings would never be hindered by the "gate" of age, so on February 25, 1943, Chen Geng's three-year promise to his ex-wife was fulfilled, and in the blessings of leaders and comrades-in-arms, these two revolutionary couples who had experienced ups and downs finally came together.
However, the union of the revolutionary couple did not go very smoothly, and at that time, because Fu Ya's brother was a Kuomintang agent and his hands were stained with the blood of the Communists, Fu Ya was initially implicated, and her marriage to Chen Geng was not approved.
The matter soon reached the ears of Deng Xiaoping, who was Chen Geng's immediate superior, and in this case, Deng Xiaoping had to speak for his beloved general.
After investigation, Fu Ya was still an excellent Communist Party member who could stand the test! It was Deng Xiaoping's justice that led to the smooth union of Chen Geng and Fu Ya, a revolutionary couple.
At the simple wedding, Fu Ya's face was always full of happy smiles, and the comrades-in-arms let her perform a program, so she sang a Soviet folk song, she herself had excellent literary and artistic cells, and the singing voice was displayed, stunning four seats, which suddenly made this simple wedding look particularly lively and vivid.
The groom's official Chen Geng also seemed particularly excited that day, at the wedding, the humorous he was witty, witty and funny, and told many jokes that made people understand, which made people can't help but laugh and laugh.
At that time, Luo Ruiqing, director of the Political Department, also quietly walked up to Fu Ya and told her softly: "You have found a good person." Fu Ya smiled happily again.
Fu Ya is an era woman with an independent personality, she does not want Chen Geng to interfere with her work, and does not treat her as an accessory, Chen Geng knows his wife's intentions very well, and immediately said: "You have your job, I respect your opinion." ”
Half a year after the marriage, Chen Geng's humor was overshadowed by Fu Ya, and as long as the two of them were together, there would inevitably be many laughter and laughter caused by humor.
Once, Fu Ya suddenly asked Chen Geng about his age, and Chen Geng told her that he was exactly forty years old, and Fu Ya immediately muttered a small mouth and said, "You are not honest!" Three years underreported when in love! ”
Chen Geng smiled and replied, "I don't mean to narrow the gap with you and get closer!" ”。 In life, the two couples are in this humorous and funny way to enhance their feelings for each other.
But the good times did not last long, and with the start of the Liberation War, the couple went to the battlefield and rarely got together. It was not until 1949, when Fu Ya accompanied the army south to Guangzhou, that she was able to reunite with Chen Geng.
Companionship: Long live understanding
For Chen Geng's ex-wife Wang Genying, Fu Ya also knew him very well. For such a female martyr, Fu Ya not only had no jealousy, but also admired her heart, and from her husband, she gradually learned the love story of her and Chen Geng.
Chen Geng and his ex-wife Wang Genying
It turned out that the humorous Chen Geng was also very hot when he launched the pursuit of Wang Genying, which happened in 1927, when the Fifth National Congress of the Party was being held in Wuhan, and Chen Geng would never have imagined that he would accidentally meet Wang Genying, a student he had long loved.
Chen Geng could no longer suppress his deep affection for Wang Genying in his heart, so his thoughts welled up, and a love letter full of love was written in one fell swoop.
However, after receiving the love letter, Wang Genying, instead of agreeing to his request, also pasted his letter on the wall, so that everyone could read Chen Geng's jokes, which made Chen Geng very upset, and his admiration was poured cold water.
But Chen Geng still did not give up, after repeated sincere overtures, Wang Genying's cold heart was gradually melted, and then after repeated matchmaking by comrades-in-arms, after the conclusion of the five victories, the two smoothly embarked on the palace of marriage.
The story of Chen Geng and his ex-wife deeply touched Fu Ya, who was full of respect for Wang Genying's heroic deeds of dedication to the revolution, and at the same time proud of her husband's great love and righteousness, in her view, Chen Geng was not only a good mentor on the road of revolution, but also a good man worthy of life.
Like Wang Genying, her married life with Chen Geng was also less and more, and at that time it was in a critical period of the Liberation War, and as a revolutionary family, Fu Ya supported Chen Geng's revolutionary work without complaint or regret.
She and Chen Geng have bred 4 children successively, and also regard Wang Genying's children as their own, and in the days when her husband was fighting on the battlefield, she took on the responsibility of raising and educating 5 children alone.
After a million heroes crossed the Yangtze River, the general trend of the Kuomintang had gone, and the war situation had eased somewhat, at this time the husband and wife had a long time to get along, and their feelings for each other gradually warmed up.
Fu Ya originally thought that after the founding of New China, Chen Geng, who had spent half his life on horseback, would relax and enjoy the happy life of his children around their knees. Unexpectedly, the central leadership was reluctant to give chen geng a talent, and after that, chen geng was still required to take part in some military operations in some local areas, and Chen Geng was also required to participate in the establishment of military academies.
In particular, in 1950, when the Party Central Committee decided to resist the United States and aid Korea, Chen Geng was entrusted with a heavy responsibility and personally opened the Korean battlefield as the deputy commander of the volunteer army.
When Chen Geng returned from the Korean battlefield, his health deteriorated, and finally on March 16, 1961, Chen Geng died of illness in Shanghai at the age of 58.
Fu Ya and her husband Chen Geng spent twenty-one spring and autumn together, from acquaintance, acquaintance to companionship, she always paid silently, without asking for anything in return.
Entanglement: The affection of blood thicker than water
Although Chen Geng's death was a huge blow to Fu Ya, at first, she felt that her sky had collapsed. For so many years, her husband has been her spiritual pillar, however, at that time, she could not let herself fall, raising 5 children to adulthood is the husband's entrustment to her, in addition, there are many blood thicker than water affection, worth their own involvement, search.
After the founding of New China, the Kuomintang army collapsed and withdrew to Taiwan one after another. As an unarmed commoner, Fu Ya's family also followed the Kuomintang troops to Taiwan in desperation.
Fu Ya did not know anything about this until one day, when she came to Guangzhou with a large army, she learned from the Southern Bureau that her family had arrived in Taiwan. This news was exciting and sad for Fu Ya at that time.
"Nostalgia is a shallow strait, I am here, my relatives are at that end", for Fu Ya, who is not confused at the age and has lost her husband, relatives on the other side of the strait, including her parents, have added a new melancholy to her, who is already emaciated.
When relatives could not see each other for a while, and her husband passed away for a long time, Fu Ya spent all his energy on two things to relieve the bitterness in his heart.
Wang Genying's heroic deeds deeply infected Fu Ya, so she took her husband Chen Geng's diary as a model, poured almost all her emotions into it, and wrote a biography of Wang Genying alone, called "Serving the Country He Ji Daughter Body", which was published in "Red Flag Fluttering" at that time, causing a sensation.
At the same time, her husband's diary was also published after carefully sorting out by herself, which not only proved that she had a good literary attainment, but also reflected her selfless broad mind as a Communist Party member.
After that, Fu Ya even regarded Wang Genying, whom she had never met in her life, as her own relative, and she actually took the initiative to undertake the obligation of supporting Wang Genying's mother, often sending money and carrying goods to the old man, during those years, she transformed herself into Wang Genying, and did a filial piety as a son of man for this heroic martyr, until the old man died, she could not stop chanting Fu Ya's good.
On the issue of his children's education, Fu Ya never dared to slacken off. For the 5 children, she gave up the choice of going to Taiwan to accompany her relatives, insisted that one person raise them in the mainland, and the 5 children did not live up to Fu Ya's expectations, and when they grew up, they were all military generals, and I believe that Chen Geng would have a spirit in heaven and would be deeply pleased.
In 1980, Fu Ya, who had passed the age of flower armor, was full of silver hair, and his thoughts for his family were more urgent. Perhaps heaven was also impressed by her.
One day, she suddenly received a letter from the other side of the ocean, this was the first time that her sister who had settled in the United States had written a letter to Fu Ya, who regarded this special family letter as a treasure, and read it dozens of times word by word, and each time she read it, her thoughts about her family increased by one point.
In his later years, Fu Ya took a group photo with his children
Two years later, my sister flew back to the mainland from the United States, the first time a pair of sisters had met after a lapse of thirty years, and when they looked at each other's old faces and the white hair that fluttered in the wind, they couldn't help but hug each other tightly and cry bitterly.
When the two sisters met again, it seemed that there was always something to say, they talked during the day, and they also talked at night, thinking that when they were separated from their sister, she was still a green silk, but now she was full of white hair, and when she thought of this, Fu Ya felt a lot of feelings.
I learned from my sister that my parents were long gone, and that when they arrived in Taiwan with the Kuomintang army, they had a rather difficult and miserable time, and later, with the continuous adaptation to the environment and the concerted efforts of everyone, life gradually improved.
Obsession: Be sure to go to Taiwan
In the course of the conversation with Fu Ya, the sister mentioned the most about her parents. In fact, before their parents died, they had already explained that after death, they should scatter their ashes into the sea, so that their souls could return to the continent of day and night with the rushing waves of the sea.
In order to fulfill his parents' last wish of returning to their roots, he personally went to Taiwan to take the ashes of his parents back to the mainland, which became Fu Ya's greatest wish at that time. It was a special circumstance, and this seemingly reasonable wish never came to fruition.
It was not until 1992, ten years later, that Fu Ya, who was 74 years old at the time, insisted on going to Taiwan and reuniting with his relatives who had been separated for more than 40 years, despite his old age and frail health and unwilling to listen to the advice of his family.
At this time, she was already the elder of the family, her younger siblings and nephews and nieces personally went to the airport to greet her, that day, the relatives drove more than a dozen cars, all the way to Fu Ya's family.
At that time, the Fu family was as lively as the New Year, the family booed and asked for warmth, promoted knee-length talk, and the family affection that was forty years apart and blood thicker than water was instantly recovered at that moment.
Under the guidance of her relatives, Fu Ya saw her parents' urn, and when her thin and slightly trembling hands gently picked up the urn, tears flowed unconsciously from her eyes, and at that moment, as if going back in time, the scenes of getting along with her parents in the past reappeared in Fu Ya's mind.
She seemed to see her father carrying her on his shoulders as a child, playing fun with the happy hours, seeing a rich and delicious meal cooked for her on the day of her long journey to study...
After only two months of living in Taiwan, Fu Ya personally held the ashes of his parents and boarded a flight back to the mainland. After that, she buried her parents' ashes on the shore of West Lake in Hangzhou, so that her parents could sleep in the intoxicating beauty of the West Lake.
In the first half of Fu Ya's life, she undoubtedly lived around her husband Chen Geng, and when her husband fought on the battlefield and heroically killed the enemy, she silently guarded the rear and carefully taught her children.
And when her husband died, she finally had time to think about arranging her own affairs, which may be an important reason why Fu Ya insisted on going to Taiwan to visit her relatives when she was already 74 years old.
In his later years, Fu Ya had been living in Beijing's Lingjing Hutong, Fu Ya cherished every grass and tree, brick by brick, and when Fu Ya was nearly ninety years old, he still liked to sit alone in the study, reading, writing, and writing memoirs without quitting, sometimes at two or three o'clock in the morning there was no rest, long-term fatigue coupled with the degradation of all aspects of the body's functions, so that the elderly Fu Ya finally fell ill.
But even lying on the hospital bed, Fu Ya still maintains an optimistic attitude and is full of yearning for a better life. As soon as her condition improved slightly, she would become very hungry and want to eat a variety of fruits and greasy golden roast duck.
Even when the trachea was cut open, Fu Ya always wore a very beautiful silk scarf around her neck, and when her sister gave her a gift, as long as her hair was fluffy and messy, the juniors would immediately help comb it, and the children hoped that she would be radiant and energetic every day.
On January 4, 2010, Fu Ya died in Beijing, thus completing her 92-year legendary life, and she has been alone for 49 years since Chen Geng's death.
On the day she left, beijing fell a rare snowfall in sixty years, making the period from the 301 Hospital to her home in Xidan particularly lengthy, the hearse slowly walked on the white snow, the clouds were low, the earth was mournful, and the buildings along the way were silent, as if to bid farewell to Fu Ya, a legendary woman who had worked hard all her life...
Ordinary, tenacious, determined, loving, as an independent woman who came from the war years, Fu Ya's life was ordinary and great, from her memories of her husband Chen Geng's affectionate words, we seem to be deeply infected by every little thing, every scene, every care, every sentence she recorded.
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