Xu Shiyou has many legends, he went to the Shaolin Temple of Songshan Mountain to learn art at the age of 8, and during the whole eight years, he worked very hard. After going down the mountain, he wanted to find a job to make a living, but unexpectedly encountered bullies bullying good people, so he learned Lu Zhishen's move to kill the town of Kansai with one punch, beat the bully to death, and began his exile.
Xu Shiyou first went to wu Peifu's warlords as a small soldier and ate mixed food, and later joined the Communist Youth League and began his own revolutionary road. In the anti-"encirclement and suppression" operation in the Eyu-Anhui Soviet District, he can be said to have become famous in one fell swoop, participating in the death squad of the party organization 7 times, of which 4 times were on the verge of life and death.
However, they did not see him give up the hope of life, but on the contrary, he became more and more courageous, and he could be seen in the period of land reform, the period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the period of the War of Liberation, and the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. He also became a respected general in 1955 when he was awarded his military rank.
However, Xu Shiyou's most interesting thing to talk about is not the bravery and good fighting on the battlefield, most people in the world love gossip, and Xu Shiyou's marriage experience is very much in line with the gossip heart of the masses. He married three wives in his lifetime, not because the nature of a man who loves three wives and four concubines is difficult to change, but because every marriage is lamentable.
The wife remarried, the second fell into the well, and when the third wife arrived, Xu Shiyou shot three times at the bride. So bizarre, why not want to find out?
First, the first love of the heart, the wife who has no share
Because Xu Shiyou went to the mountains to learn art in his early years and later joined the army, the marriage was not as early as that of his peers. It wasn't until he was twenty years old that his mother set him a family affair. Xu Shiyou's hometown is in Xujiawa, and the wife who was determined by the words of the matchmaker is not far from Zhujiawan, and the woman's name is Zhu Ximin, who was born very beautifully. Although he is four years older than Xu Shiyou, no matter what age the age difference is, there are only advantages and no disadvantages in marriage.
Three years after the marriage was fixed, Xu Shiyou took time out of the battlefield to get married, it was winter, Xu Shiyou married this beautiful girl from Zhujiawan, but unexpectedly, the two were newly married, honey oil, a military order made Xu Shiyou return to the battlefield.
At that time, it was a deep affection, and Xu Shiyou promised Zhu Ximin: "Once the war is idle, I will return home and reunite with you." In fact, it was a useless guarantee when the man was on the top, and even if Zhu Ximin was just a village woman, he understood that once this battle started, it would not be able to end for a year or two, and at this moment, everyone could perceive that it was at the time of the great changes in the country.
But Zhu Ximin still told Xu Shiyou:
"You can fight with peace of mind yourself, and with my support at home, it will not let you have worries about the future."
Later, Zhu Ximin gave birth to a son for Xu Shiyou, named Xu Guang, and Xu Shiyou went, the battlefield changed quickly, and there was always no news for several years. Zhu Ximin and Xu Mu both knew that the sword and light on the battlefield were shadowy, the gunshots were loud, and it was not certain which stray bullet flew towards Xu Shiyou, and this person with a sharp heart would be gone. There had been no news for too long, and Xu Shiyou's wife and mother began to suspect that Xu Shiyou was gone.
Families without the support of men were crumbling, and the Kuomintang ransacked villages to take all the families of the Red Army to the north and sell them. Mother Xu could not bear the suffering of her daughter-in-law, so she could only persuade Zhu Ximin to remarry someone else. Zhu Ximin was naturally full of satisfaction with Xu Shiyou, but the world forced him to marry a nearby farmer in the end, and he would live forever.
It was not until after the founding of New China that the news of Xu Shiyou's death in battle reached Xu Jiawa, and Xu's mother immediately asked Xu Guang, who had grown up at that time, to bring a handwritten letter to Jinan to find his father. Xu Guang was naturally able to recognize his ancestors and return to the sect and enjoy the joy of heaven with his father. But his mother, Zhu Ximin, did not have this life, and she and Xu Shiyou were after all tricked by fate and had no part.
Second, the second term of Providence, the free love that has never been firm
Xu Shiyou's first marriage was arranged by his parents, but the second time was free love. After Xu Shiyou's long journey ended, he met his second wife, Lei Mingzhen, in Yan'an. Lei Mingzhen had already joined the Red Army in 1933, and he and Xu Shiyou shared the same faith and were also walking a common revolutionary road.
After the two met in Yan'an, there was no end to the conversation, although Lei Mingzhen was eleven years younger than Xu Shiyou, nearly a round of age. But this age difference makes Xu Shiyou look more attractive, making Lei Mingzhen more cute and bright. The two soon entered the palace of marriage, held a wedding in Yan'an, and began to become a revolutionary couple.
When they first fell in love and got married, the two were also bathed in love, Xu Shiyou's job at that time was to collect a large number of cattle and sheep for the army to eat, Lei Mingzhen secretly collected all the wool, rolled them all into wool thread, and privately knitted into a sweater. When winter came, Xu Shiyou received this special gift. Say no, that's impossible. At that time, Xu Shiyou thought that in this life, he would never fail Lei Mingzhen, a woman who would work day and night just to knit a sweater for him.
But Xu Shiyou did not expect that he did not live up to Lei Mingzhen, but Lei Mingzhen wanted to fail him.
At the end of 1936, Lei Mingzhen was assigned to the county as the director of the women's department, and Xu Shiyou was studying at the Red Army University in Yan'an, and the two still had a long plan for the future, but fate did not give them a future.
In the ultra-left "Criticism Movement", Xu Shiyou was implicated and sent to prison. At that time, it was only a wrong move made by Xu Shiyou before his political thinking was mature, and he also felt confused, and he wanted to see Lei Mingzhen again in prison, to tell her that he was by no means a counter-revolutionary, and to make her believe in herself and not worry.
Xu Shiyou entrusted someone to carry a message to Lei Mingzhen, but unexpectedly only waited for Lei Mingzhen to write a letter of absolute love to cut him off, followed by a divorce letter. Xu Shiyou looked at the two words of divorce, and only felt a faint pain in his heart, and the seven-foot boy was actually in tears.
Later, after Mao Weiren corrected the ultra-left approach, Xu Shiyou was acquitted. At this moment, Lei Mingzhen suddenly realized that he had wrongly blamed Xu Shiyou and came to seek a reunion. But as soon as Lei Mingzhen arrived at Xu Shiyou's residence, she saw Xu Shiyou close the door:
"Divorce is what you propose, you can stay as you want, in short, I don't want to have anything to do with you in the future, everyone has been shooting and scattering since then!"
Lei Mingzhen was also aggrieved, Xu Shiyou was in prison at the time, everyone said that he was counter-revolutionary, persuaded Lei Mingzhen to divorce, Lei Mingzhen on the one hand doubted Xu Shiyou, on the other hand, under pressure, there was a move to propose divorce. This also completely broke the heart of Xu Shiyou, a person who had been shot on the battlefield and gritted his teeth to support himself, and was forced to tears by the word "divorce" that he did not trust.
Later, Chen Geng also wanted to match the two again, but both were rejected by Xu Shiyou. He had endured the pain of this betrayal the first time, and he did not want to feel it a second time. The relationship between Xu Shiyou and Lei Mingzhen had already passed when Lei Mingzhen fell into the well against Xu Shiyou. It is not so much providence that it is a matter of providence to make people, but rather that Lei Mingzhen has never been firm with Xu Shiyou, and it is also a regret that he has encountered the wrong person at the right time.
Three, three shots shooting surprise? Hand in hand to grow old
People of the older generation often say that if everything is not going well, then don't worry, just do yourself, and the heavens have their own arrangements. Xu Shiyou was like this, after the failure of the second marriage, he spent all his energy on leading soldiers to fight, and when he came to Jiaodong as the commander of the military region, his third marriage followed.
The career is done well, and the road to love is smooth. This time, the heroine's name is Tian Minglan, who is exactly 18 years younger than Xu Shiyou, and when Xu Shiyou began to fight as a soldier, the little girl was waiting to be fed.
Xu Shiyou met Tian Minglan at a Zhujie conference, and Tian Minglan was a propaganda team who was responsible for dancing at the meeting and celebrating the achievements of the soldiers. Xu Shiyou looked at Tian Minglan from a distance and never walked out again. He turned to his comrades and said,
"This little girl looks handsome, dances well, and smiles beautifully!"
This year, Tian Minglan was only 19 years old, and her life was also bumpy, and she had already become someone else's child bride at the age of 9, and she had experienced too much suffering along the way. But by Xu Shiyou's side, all her wounds can be treated gently. Although Xu Shiyou was an iron man, as soon as he arrived at Tian Minglan, he turned into tenderness. The two soon fell in love with each other and decided to stay together for life.
This time the wedding was very simple, only invited some familiar comrades-in-arms to gather together, a cup of thin tea, let everyone witness this love together. However, it is worth mentioning that due to the simple wedding this time, Xu Shiyou also specially thought of a way to make the guests smile.
He pinned three flowers on the bride's head and shoulders, and standing five or six meters away from the bride, he pulled out his pistol and aimed it at the bride's head. At this time, if you change people, you will be scared half to death, and if this shot is wrong, the wedding will become a funeral! This Tian Minglan just believed Xu Shiyou and watched with a smile as her husband shot himself.
Only to hear three gunshots ringing out from the auditorium, three flowers have landed on the ground, Tian Minglan is safe and sound, still standing there with a shallow smile, a bright and lovely smile. This wedding support project can be described as ingenious, and the guests who come and go are first pinched and sweaty, and then burst into warm applause. After all, the one who dared to risk the bride at the wedding was Xu Shiyou. The only one who dared to take his life to play with Xu Shiyou was his beloved Tian Minglan.
The marriage between the two lasted for more than forty years, until Xu Shiyou gave up on the world, and it came to an end. People of the older generation can easily go to old age with a relationship, but General Xu Shiyou has spent three full years before he found the love of his life. During this period, many ups and downs were actually accompanied by a turning point in the revolutionary road, but fortunately the ending was successful, and General Xu Shiyou could be regarded as living up to this life!
Text/Lamb
Reference: Xu Shiyou Refused to Remarry his Second Wife, Dongyue