In August 1969, in Baishi Village, Xingguo County, Jiangxi Province, two PLA officers suddenly walked to an ordinary peasant household under the leadership of local village cadres. Although Jiangxi is an old revolutionary area, it has been closed for generations, and few outsiders have passed by, and these two PLA officers are even rarer, which has attracted great attention from local village names, and many people have come to see the liveliness in the hot sun.
The purpose of their trip was to find a person, this person's name was Lai Yueming. When they knocked on the door of Lai Yueming's house, Lai Yueming was not surprised, and only said one word to them: It was Chen Yi who let you come! The two officers were slightly surprised, and then told Lai Yueming that it was Chen Yi's chief who ordered them to come to her.
The old lady in front of the two officers, who was dressed in tatters, with dark skin and wrinkles on her face, was Chen Yi's second wife: Lai Yueming!
In fact, everyone in the village knew that Lai Yueming was Chen Yi's wife, but no one believed it. Lai Yueming has always claimed to be Chen Yi's wife, and people in the village think she is crazy and see her as an old woman who is mentally abnormal. This time, the People's Liberation Army personally came to the door, and everyone was convinced that their neighbor was actually the wife of the founding marshal Chen Yi.
So why did the wife of Chen Yi, the founding marshal of the Tangtang Dynasty, become a peasant woman in a mountain village in Jiangxi? There are many twists and turns in this.
The story also begins with Lai Yueming's life. Lai Yueming, born in 1914 in Baishi Village, Xingguo County, Jiangxi Province, came from a modest family, but was quite decent. Originally, she was an ordinary peasant girl, but fortunately she had attended primary school for three years when she was a child. Although she did not study for a long time, she was able to meet the needs of basic reading, and these three years of student life played a key role in her later life.
Lai Yueming was born smart, spiritual, and stubborn, although a girl, but very assertive. Because the family was not too wealthy, Lai Yueming's father sent her to a wealthy family as a child bride when she was 14 years old. This was the fate of most of the poor girls at that time, but Lai Yueming was unwilling to succumb to this unfair fate from the bottom of her heart, and a flame of resistance gradually burned in her heart.
In 1930, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army gradually expanded its base area in Jiangxi, and when the Red Army's propaganda team came to Jiecun District, Xingguo County, the 16-year-old Lai Yueming was attracted by the Red Army's new ideas of democracy, openness, and resistance. Wasn't the Red Army preaching exactly the life she dreamed of? Break the shackles, break the feudalism, and fight for the fate of freedom for the poor self.
Lai Yueming's heart could not be calm for a long time when she returned home, she could no longer bear the fate of being manipulated and oppressed, she wanted to resist, she wanted to follow the Red Army. So, 16-year-old Lai Yueming quietly ran away from home one night and joined the Red Army, becoming a glorious Red Army soldier.
At that time, many girls like Lai Yueming actively participated in the Red Army, and she was assigned to work in the Women's Reform Committee. Integrated into the big family of the Red Army, Lai Yueming felt as if she had been reborn again, and she could feel vitality and hope at all times here, so Lai Yueming decided that this was the place she was destined to come, the cause she was destined to fight for, so she worked extra hard.
Because of Lai Yueming's hard work and outstanding achievements, she was promoted to the director of the Women's Reform Association of Jiecun District in the following year. Later, she was sent by the Central Committee of the Young Communist Party to Ruijin, the capital of the Central Soviet Region, to participate in further training, which was a rare opportunity.
During Lai Yueming's study in Ruijin, the overall situation in the Central Soviet Region took a turn, and the situation became more and more unfavorable to the development and growth of the Red regime. First, there was a problem within the Red Army, and Wang Ming, Li De, Bogu and others vigorously pursued the erroneous left-leaning line in the name of the Comintern. Externally, Chiang Kai-shek gathered a large army to launch the Fourth Counter-revolutionary Encirclement and Suppression War against the Central Soviet Region.
Due to the drastic change in the situation, Lai Yueming returned to Xingguo County without completing the original study plan. Later, by chance, Lai Yueming and Chen Yi met unexpectedly.
Lai Yueming has been working in the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee since his return to Xingguo County, and once the main forces of the Red Army entered Xingguo County to rest after the battle. In order to allow the soldiers to have a good rest, in addition to preparing various logistics materials, the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee also organized a theatrical performance for the soldiers.
After two years of work, 18-year-old Lai Yueming is already a versatile female soldier of the Red Army, so she will not miss such an opportunity. That night, Lai Yueming and another female soldier of the Red Army performed a mountain song duet, and the wonderful performance won warm applause from the audience and also attracted the attention of one person, who was Chen Yi, the commander-in-chief of the Jiangxi Military Region at that time.
Lai Yueming's appearance made Chen Yi's eyes light up, and he has been inquiring about this girl since then. Chen Yi's actions were seen by Li Fuchun and Cai Chang, so they decided to match Chen Yi and Lai Yueming. Cai Chang was also the backbone of women's work at that time, and the little girls affectionately called him Sister Cai, and usually talked to her about anything. Cai Chang and Lai Yueming are also familiar, so they deliberately match the two.
Chen Yi was 31 years old at the time, handsome, handsome, dignified, and talented, a well-known talent in the Red Army, and at a young age, he became the commander-in-chief of the Jiangxi Military Region with his military achievements, and he was a well-known combat hero with outstanding achievements. Lai Yueming, like other young female warriors, naturally had long admired such heroes.
In her opinion, it was a great fortune to be able to meet such Red Army heroes and personally perform for them. Now that Sister Cai had actually told her that Commander Chen Yi liked her, she couldn't believe it was true.
Soon, under the active mediation of Li Fuchun and Cai Chang, the two newcomers with the appearance of langcai and women formed a revolutionary couple.
In fact, this is Chen Yi's second marriage, and before they got married, Sister Cai had already told Lai Yueming about Chen Yi's first unhappy marriage.
Chen Yi's first wife was Xiao Juying, and she also met and fell in love with Chen Yi in the Red Army and married in October 1930. Unfortunately, in September of the following year, Chen Yi went out on an emergency business trip, and on the way, he encountered white bandits on the way and delayed his return trip.
At that time, because of the urgency of the situation, Chen Yi told Xiao Juying that this time he was afraid that he would be more fierce and less lucky, and if he did not return within three days, it might be an accident, so she must take care of herself and continue the revolutionary work. It may also be because of Chen Yi's advice before leaving that Xiao Juying is more worried.
When Chen Yi hurried back, people found her body in the well in Xiao Juying's yard. Some people said that she was worried that Chen Yi would not be able to return and fell into the well, and some people said that she accidentally fell into the well when she opened the door in the middle of the night. In short, Chen Yi's first marriage ended unhappily less than a year ago.
After Xiao Juying's death, Chen Yi was deeply sad and depressed for a long time, and later he devoted all his energy to revolutionary work, and his mental outlook gradually recovered. Later, there were many people who wanted to introduce Chen Yi to the object, but Chen Yi always missed Xiao Juying and had no intention of remarrying until he met Lai Yueming.
Although Lai Yueming was only 18 years old, when she heard the story of Chen Yi and Xiao Juying, she was touched by their revolutionary feelings and resolutely married Chen Yi.
After Chen Yi and Lai Yueming got married, the husband and wife devoted themselves to revolutionary work together, and the cooperation between the two was also very tacit. In 1934, Chiang Kai-shek launched the fifth counter-revolutionary "encirclement and suppression" on an unprecedented scale against the Central Soviet Region.
At this time, the Central Soviet Region was faced with serious left-leaning errors and dogmatism, and Bogu and Li De completely grasped the military command. Mao Zedong was marginalized. On the military front, Li De stubbornly let the Red Army take the initiative to attack and forcibly attack the strong fortress of the Kuomintang army, and as a result, the Red Army suffered heavy losses under the enemy's strong fortifications and strong firepower.
Eventually, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China had to decide to begin the Long March. Chen Yi was a senior general in the Red Army at that time, so as Chen Yi's wife, Lai Yueming should have been conscripted with the captain. But at that time, Chen Yi was shot in the leg and was seriously injured, and he could not stand up at all, unable to follow the captain's signs, and could only stay. As a result, Lai Yueming decided to stay and take care of the injured Chen Yi.
At that time, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided that more than 86,000 people of the main force of the Central Red Army would withdraw from the Soviet Zone and begin the western expedition, leaving more than 10,000 people in the Central Soviet Zone to carry out guerrilla battles behind enemy lines, waiting for the main force of the Red Army to return in the future.
However, everyone knows that Chiang Kai-shek hated the Communist Party and the Red Army to the bone, and this time he mobilized millions of troops to surround and suppress the Red Army. This was a determination to completely eliminate the CCP and the Red Army. In fact, the hopes of survival of those who remain are extremely slim.
At this time, Chen Yi's leg was seriously injured, and he may not even have the strength to escape, and he could not bear that his wife was affected, so he persuaded Lai Yueming to go back to his hometown and hide first. When the wind passed, he went to look for her again.
But where is the stubborn Lai Yueming willing to agree, her husband is seriously injured, the situation outside is extremely critical, how can he abandon himself at such a time and escape? Lai Yueming did not agree no matter what Chen Yi said, she was determined to be with Chen Yi, it was a big deal to die together, and she sacrificed herself for the revolution!
But Chen Yi understood that there was no point in the two people dying together, originally he had felt guilty about Xiao Juying's death, and now he must not involve Lai Yueming, who lived and died with him. In the end, at the insistence of Chen Yi, Lai Yueming could only bid farewell to Chen Yi and return to his hometown of Xingguo County.
After Lai Yueming left, Chen Yi's situation was indeed very dangerous, and he was repeatedly pursued by the enemy army and almost killed. Later, in the Meishan area, surrounded by enemies, Chen Yi hid in the grass for more than twenty days, and even once thought that there was no hope of survival, and wrote the famous "Three Chapters of Meiling" as his last words. Fortunately, Ji Ren had his own celestial appearance, and later Chen Yi escaped from the encirclement.
Later, Chen Yi gradually recovered from his injuries, and the overall situation gradually improved after returning to the team. After a long march, the CPC Central Committee and various Red Army units finally met in victory in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, and the Red regime was preserved and developed and expanded. After the Xi'an Incident, the Kuomintang and the Communists cooperated, and the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, and Chen Yi was an important leader of the New Fourth Army.
But Chen Yi was always worried about Lai Yueming, who had fled back to his hometown, and in 1938 Chen Yi sent someone to Xingguo County, Jiangxi Province, to inquire about Lai Yueming's whereabouts. However, after many inquiries, the people sent to get the news that Lai Yueming was arrested by her father and forced her to marry a family, and as a result, Lai Yueming, who had a stubborn personality, finally committed suicide by jumping off a cliff in order to resist this marriage.
Upon learning of this news, Chen Yi was very sad, and wrote with tears the poem "Xingguo Hostel" in honor of Lai Yueming: "The Xingcheng Brigade is miserable at night, and the moon is bright in front of the broken paper window; I am still left with the difficult battle, and Amon is ashamed of his old feelings." At this time, Chen Yi already thought that Lai Yueming had unfortunately died.
But in fact, Lai Yueming did not die. At that time, Lai Yueming and a group of men and horses came to the vicinity of their hometown to plan a long-term guerrilla operation. But then surrounded by bandits and engaged in a fierce battle, the guerrillas were defeated, Lai Yueming luckily survived, but has since lost contact with the team.
In desperation, he had to dress up as a beggar to avoid investigation. Later, by chance, he was discovered by his father, who was already a security chief and was leading people to search for the Red Army guerrillas who had slipped through the net.
Lai Yueming's father quickly took her home and told his men not to speak up. Because Lai Yueming has worked very actively in the Red Army in recent years, the locals all know that there is a Red Army girl in the old Lai family, and she is also married to a senior official of the Red Army. In order to save her life, her father made up a rumor that she should remarry someone else, but she vowed to die and finally jumped off a cliff to commit suicide.
Such rumors spread in the local area, and over time, people believed it to be true. Therefore, later, when Chen Yi sent someone to inquire about Lai Yueming's news, he mistakenly thought that Lai Yueming had really died.
Lai Yuming was indeed forcibly promised to a shoemaker after being captured by his father, but later the shoemaker died unexpectedly. Lai Yueming decided to look for Chen Yi, but on the way she repeatedly heard that chen Yi, the main general of the Communist Party, was captured by the Nationalist army and shot. At that time, there were many such rumors, but the mouths were shoveling gold, accumulating and destroying bones, and Lai Yueming heard too many rumors, and over time he believed it to be true. She thought that Chen Yi had really sacrificed, and since Chen Yi had already sacrificed, she had no more thoughts of looking for the organization.
In this way, under the difference between yin and yang, both husband and wife mistakenly believe that the other has died. So I had to start my own life.
Lai Yueming believes that after Chen Yi's death, he was once discouraged and lost the courage to live. It just so happened that a wounded Red Army soldier Fang Liangsong came back from his hometown, and the two talked about their days in the Red Army and developed attachment to each other. Over time, the two came together and had three children.
Originally, Lai Yueming's life also passed in this ordinary life, and the founding of New China only reminded her of the past glory days, but more than that, she missed Chen Yi.
It wasn't until ten years after the founding of the People's Republic of China that by chance, she saw a newspaper on her way back from a doctor's visit on her young son's back. The newspaper carried the headline of Chen Yi, vice premier of the State Council and foreign minister, receiving foreign guests.
Chen Yi? Which Chen Yi? Lai Yueming was shocked by the name, there were pictures in the newspaper, yes, It was Chen Yi, his husband. Although Chen Yicang is much older and has less hair now, she recognized at a glance that this was his husband, Chen Yi!
Suddenly, Lai Yueming couldn't suppress his excitement and grabbed the newspaper and read it carefully several times. Then there was silence for a while, and suddenly he shouted: "Chen Yi is not dead, my husband is still alive, my husband is Chen Yi..."
Maybe it was the sadness that had been suppressed for many years, or maybe it was the excitement when he saw Chen Yi, Lai Yueming couldn't care about his young son shouting in the back, he jumped and jumped on the street, and kept shouting: "Chen Yi is still alive, Chen Yi is still alive, he is my husband..."
People on the street looked at this strange woman in ragged clothes, shouting and screaming, and they all thought she was crazy!
But since then, Lai Yueming has been saying in his mouth that Chen Yi is still alive, he is my husband.... The neighbors were also sure that she was indeed crazy, and people who were close enough to persuade her would suddenly lash out at others and growl that Chen Yi was her husband! People who didn't believe she was crazy also thought she was crazy.
After a long time, there was a crazy woman here, shouting all day that Chen Yi was her husband, and it became a joke that spread.
In fact, Lai Yueming is not only not crazy, on the contrary, she is very sober. She originally wanted to save some money for the road and go to Beijing to find Chen Yi, but then she found that not only her family, but also the whole village was too poor. Besides, it was impossible for people to ruin her family and let her crazy wife really go to Chen Yi.
In addition, the husband's reminder is not unreasonable, even if you really go to Beijing, how can you see Chen Yi? But you are a vice premier, a foreign minister, can you just meet a person who wants to eat?
Therefore, Lai Yueming wanted to make a big deal out of it and let these gossipy people spread the news to Beijing, and she waited at home for Chen Yi to come to her. But she didn't expect that this wait would be ten years!
In 1969, when the two Platons found Lai Yueming, she had already understood that the news that had been circulating for ten years finally had a reply. But by then she had almost lost hope.
The two officers also conveyed to Lai Yueming the opinion of Boss Chen Yi, who had sent people to Xingguo County many times to look for her. But the news that everyone heard was that Lai Yueming had committed suicide by jumping off a cliff. Mr. Chen was so sad that he met Zhang Qian on the road of revolution many years later and eventually remarried.
Lai Yueming understood that Chen Yi had already married Zhang Qian, and now that he had his own family and children, the two could not be reunited. But she really wanted to see Chen Yi again, and if she saw chen yi again, she would be dead hearted.
After listening to Lai Yueming's request, the two officers said that they would definitely convey her opinion to Vice Premier Chen Yi and notify her as soon as possible if they had a reply.
Lai Yueming had been waiting for Chen Yi's reply since that day, but he had never waited. Later, due to some incidents, Chen Yi finally failed to reply to Lai Yueming.
In 1972, Marshal Chen Yi died, and Lai Yueming was so sad after hearing the news that he even set up a spiritual hall for Chen Yi at his home.
Lai Yueming never expected that when Ruijin parted, it turned out to be a farewell for the two, and from then on, the yin and yang were separated. Poor her lifelong waiting, in the end she still can't be reunited, maybe this is the destiny!
In January 1985, Cai Chang, the then president of the Women's Federation, Mrs. Li Fuchun, received a copy of the material, and when she opened it and read it carefully, she was surprised. This turned out to be the deeds that Lai Yueming had sorted out about himself and Chen Yi's life six years ago.
It turned out that after Chen Yi's death, Lai Yueming did not forget the revolutionary time when she and Chen Yi were together, nor could she forget her thoughts and concerns about Chen Yi for many years. Therefore, she decided to write down all these things and give them to the superior department, which was also an explanation for herself.
In 1979, Lai Yueming sorted out the events of the past few years with his own memory, and finally mailed them to the relevant departments. However, due to the special political environment at that time, this material was temporarily withheld.
It was not until 1985 that someone forwarded this material to the magazine "China Women", and after the editor-in-chief of the magazine read it, he felt that the matter was very important and did not dare to make the decision, so he forwarded it to Cai Chang, the chairman of the Women's Federation. Because the material said that it was Cai Chang who matched Chen Yi and Lai Yueming.
When Cai Chang, who was old, saw the events of lai Yueming's account of that year and the suffering she had suffered over the years, she couldn't help but burst into tears. So she immediately sent her daughter to Jiangxi to visit Lai Yueming.
In 1988, with the help of Cai Chang, Lai Yueming finally came to Beijing, but she could no longer see Chen Yi at this time. At this time, Cai Chang had also fallen on the hospital bed, and the two old sisters had seen each other again after decades, and they had endless words in their hearts to tell each other. But when we say goodbye, we see each other without words, but there are thousands of tears!
Lai Yueming and Chen Yi came together because of the revolution, and they also parted ways because of the revolution. In that era, there were still countless couples and families who gave up their happiness for the sake of the revolutionary cause and the prosperity of the motherland!
I am the Phantom of Shi Hai, and I am following me to praise history.