What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
In 1928, Ren Bishi, who was working underground in Nanling, was unfortunately arrested. Nationalist soldiers searched him and found nothing but a small amount of cash. When the Kuomintang interrogated Ren Bi, Ren Bishi calmly and calmly insisted that he was a businessman from Hunan to Nanling to do business. When the interrogation could not produce valuable information, the enemy tortured Ren Bishi, who clenched his teeth, and the enemy had no choice but to transfer him to Anqing for detention.
Picture | Ren Bishi and Chen Chunying
On the way to the transfer, Ren Bishi and the officers and men escorting him boarded a steamship, and many passengers stood by his side to watch the liveliness. Ren Bi's eyes were sharp, and he saw a fellow from the crowd, named Peng Youting, a small trader who transported silk in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui areas. Peng Youting also noticed Ren Bi and squeezed forward to greet him, and Ren Bi quickly gave his fellow a look and signaled him not to make a sound.
Peng Youting was also alert, not far away from looking at Ren Bishi. Seeing that more and more people were watching, the Officers and Men of the Kuomintang became angry and shouted at the crowd: "Go away and walk away, red-headed, what a good look!" "
Picture | a group photo of Ren Bishi (middle in the back row) and Chen Chunying (first from the right in the front row) in 1927
Ren Bishi immediately shouted in his throat: "Boss Mo Messy, I am not surnamed Chi, my surname is Hu, my name is Hu Shaofu, I am a guy from Changsha Chen Yueyun Paper Shop!" Then Ren Bishi began to talk about his grievances, cleverly revealing the address of his wife Chen Chunying in Shanghai.
When Ren Bishi was escorted away, Peng Youting immediately disembarked from the middle of the ship and boarded the train to Shanghai. After some twists and turns, Peng Youting found Chen Chunying, who was lurking in Shanghai, and told Chen Chunying what Ren Bi said on the ship as it was.
Chen Chunying immediately made a report to the party organization. During this time, Ren Bishi had been imprisoned in The Drinking Matang Prison and was again severely tortured, and he had always kept his original confession. The party organization in Anhui informed the CPC Central Committee of Ren Bishi's detention, and the comrades began to rescue him. Soon, He Weidao, an in-law of the Ren family and one of the four lawyers in Changsha, was invited out by Chen Chunying, who demanded that Ren Bishi's case be transferred from the Anqing Garrison Headquarters to the Anhui Provincial High Court. Chen Chunying has returned to Changsha and settled down in the Chen Yueyun paper shop opened by his cousin, pretending to be the boss lady.
The Anqing High Court sent people to Changsha to find Chen Chunying to confess, and what Chen Chunying said was exactly the same as what Ren Bi said, and the enemy confronted them one by one, and they could not find any flaws. Because of the lack of evidence, they had to acquit Ren Bishi. Soon after, Chen Chunying rushed from Changsha to Anqing and took Ren Bishi out of prison.
Ren Bishi was able to successfully escape from this prison disaster, in addition to the alertness and enthusiasm of his fellow villager Peng Youting, there was also a surprising tacit understanding with his wife Chen Chunying. Ren Bishi and Chen Chunying are a couple who combine arranged marriages, the two are young and plum bamboo horses, from acquaintance to love, it is precisely because of this deep emotional foundation that Chen Chunying can guess her husband's confession from the few words conveyed by others, and help her husband to overcome danger.
Chen Chunying is a native of Xinqiao, Changsha, born in 1902, her mother died at an early age, her father was a poor teacher, Chen Chunying grew up slowly under the pull of her brother and sister-in-law.
Ren Bishi's father, Ren Zhensheng, was also a teacher, loyal and humble. Ren Zhensheng's original partner Chen Clan unfortunately died of illness after a year of marriage, because of the deep feelings with the original match, the two families are difficult to give up, the two parents decided that in order to maintain the relationship of kinship forever, in the future Ren Zhensheng will marry a wife and have children, and the Chen family will marry a "doll relative".
Pictured| Ren Bishi and his wife Chen Chunying
Ren Zhensheng later married his second wife, Zhu Shi, and gave birth to a son, Ren Peiguo, who later changed his name to Ren Bishi. Ren Bishi married Chen Yifang, a girl of the Chen family, from a young age, chen Yifang was two years older than Ren Bishi, and officially moved into the Ren family when she was 12 years old. The two are young and green, influenced by good family style since childhood, intelligent and reasonable, because of their young age, the two people do not understand the true meaning of marriage, but both people regard each other as the best playmates.
At the age of 12, Ren Bishi, who had always been among the best in his grades, left his hometown and went to the high school attached to Changsha Normal School, and Chen Yifang sent Ren Bishi away with tears in her eyes.
At that time, the economic conditions of the Ren family were not good, and the tuition and living expenses that Ren Bi used to go to school could not afford at all. Chen Yifang, 14, proposed to Ren Bishi's parents that she could go to Changsha to work, taking care of Ren Bishi's life while working to earn money for Ren Bishi's schooling.
Chen Yifang thus came to the home of her relatives in Changsha and, with the help of her relatives, came to the Xiyuan Hosiery Factory outside the north gate of Changsha to do child labor. In order to be able to earn more money, Chen Yifang often worked overtime, she saved money, and gave almost all the wages to Ren Bishi, so that Ren Bishi solved the embarrassment of difficulty in maintaining his studies.
Ren Bishi went back to see Chen Yifang as long as she had time to rest, Chen Yifang was losing weight day by day, and Ren Bishi was very distressed, and every time he advised her not to be so tired. Ren Bishi was also angry and strong in his studies, and successfully completed the courses of high school and middle school. Over the years, the relationship between the two has become more intimate, although many progressive young people at that time are tired of arranged marriages and respect the original wife who their parents forced to marry, but ren Bishi and Chen Yifang, the pair, are dependent on each other, experience the hardships of studying, and begin to struggle for ideals.
In 1919, because of the influence of the "May Fourth Movement", Ren Bishi actively participated in the student patriotic movement in Changsha, and joined the Russian Research Society founded by Mao Zedong and others, where Ren Bishi was baptized by communist revolutionary ideas while working and studying.
In 1921, Ren Bishi, Liu Shaoqi and others rushed to the Soviet Union to study at the Eastern Workers' Communist University in Moscow, and officially changed his name to Ren Bishi. In 1922, Ren Bishi joined the Communist Party of China.
Figure | female cadres of the Red Army when they passed through Xingyi (from left): Chen Chunying, Cai Chang, Xia Ming, Liu Ying
The three years in the Soviet Union were the first long-term separation of Ren Bishi and Chen Yifang, Ren Bishi was worried that Chen Yifang was working too hard in China, Chen Yifang was also worried that Ren Bishi had a bad life in the Soviet Union, and Ren Bishi's living conditions in the Soviet Union were very poor, and he only had two pieces of bread and a few potatoes every day to fill his hunger. On a cold winter day, there was no heating stove in the room, and every time she thought of it, Chen Yifang was very distressed. Ren Bi often wrote letters to Chen Yifang, chen Yifang could not read, and to reply to the letter, he could only ask others to write. This is not only always troubling others, but also inconvenient to express all your inner thoughts.
Chen Yifang had the idea of learning culture, and she attended night school and would soon write a commonly used text. When Ren Bishi received the letter written by Chen Yifang himself, his heart was incredible and very happy. The typos on the paper are difficult for others to understand, but Ren Bi can read them at once. Ren Bishi wrote to his father and brother, imploring them to help Chen Chunying study. Ren Bishi said to Chen Chunying: "This matter is a lifelong conspiracy. "
The letter became the carrier for the two of them to convey their thoughts and love in a foreign country, and it was not until 3 years later, when Ren Bishi returned to China, that the two were reunited.
In 1924, Ren Bishi began to work underground in Shanghai, under the cover of a professor of Russian at Shanghai University. At that time, Ren Bishi was only 20 years old and did a good job. After the "May Thirtieth Massacre", in order to ensure the safety of Ren Bishi's life, the organization decided to take Chen Yifang to Shanghai, and Chen Yifang changed her name to Chen Chunying.
The two have been separated for 6 years, and this time when they meet, Chen Chunying is already a small and handsome big girl. The two held a simple wedding in Shanghai, fell in love for many years, and they eventually married a revolutionary couple. After his marriage, Chen Chunying served as an important traffic officer of the party organization, and like Ren Bishi, he devoted himself to the great cause of the liberation of the Chinese nation.
At that time, Ren Bishi secretly organized students and workers to carry out strikes and strikes under the leadership of the party, which was very dangerous, and Chen Chunying unconditionally supported her husband's work, rain or shine, relying on each other.
In 1928, Chen Had just given birth to a daughter, but Ren Bishi was arrested in Nanling. Chen Chunying, who got the news, immediately took the newborn baby to Changsha and played the boss lady of Chen Yueyun's paper shop according to the information given to her by Ren Bishi. When the enemy came to confront and confess, she skillfully replied, dispelling the enemy's suspicions. When Chen Chunying rushed to Shanghai to take Ren Bishi out of prison, Chen Bishi learned that because the road was too fast, it was raining along the way, and in the late autumn of the slaughter, his daughter Su Ming died unfortunately because of the cold. Ren Bi, who was injured all over his body at the time, burst into tears.
In November 1929, Ren Bishi was arrested again in the Shanghai Concession, this time under electrocution, and he insisted on making a false confession, saying that he was a businessman from out of town. According to him, Chen Chunying arranged a small businessman's mansion in a very short period of time, and once again circumvented the enemy as the merchant's wife, once again rescuing her husband.
The couple reunited again, and soon, Chen Chunying became pregnant for the fourth time. When she was pregnant, Chen Chunying told her husband that no matter whether the child was male or female, he named her "Yuanzhi", hoping that the child could have great ambitions. Because none of the previous three children survived, both were very careful this time pregnant.
Since then, Ren Bishi has tried his best to take his wife with him, and they have been constantly circulating around Shanghai and Wuhan. Until 1931, when Ren Bishi was going to attend a conference in Jiangxi Su District, Chen Chunying was about to give birth, so he stayed. The two were inseparable, ren Bishi Qianding told him, did not expect that Chen Chunying had just given birth to his daughter Yuanzhi, and he was imprisoned for being betrayed by traitors, and at that time, Yuanzhi had just passed bailu and had to be locked up in a cell with his mother. In prison, Chen Chunying always remembered her husband's tenacity and indomitability, she was tortured, but she was always reluctant to say anything about betraying comrades and organizations.
Pictured | Ren Bishi's couple and children
Every time the enemy came to interrogate Chen Chunying, she insisted that she was an ordinary rural woman. When the enemy wanted to continue to ask questions, Chen Chunying pinched the child's ass. When Yuanzhi cries, the enemy becomes impatient, and the interrogation is over. It was not until half a year later, under the rescue of Comrade Zhou Enlai, that Chen Chunying was released.
The couple reunited after the disaster, and the two who have experienced the pain of imprisonment cherish each other even more. Soon, the Long March began, but Ren Bishi's body deteriorated, and under the harsh environment of the Long March, Ren Bishi escaped from death many times. Chen Chunying carefully took care of her husband's body, and in the difficult war years, this kind of inseparable love was even more precious. Ren Bishi said affectionately to Chen Chunying: "This arranged marriage has given me the greatest happiness, and we will be arranged in the next life." "
The two daughters "Expedition" were born on the way of the Long March, which is also the origin of the name "Expedition". Chen Chunying, who had just given birth to a child, was very weak, and at that time, the warriors had not had the next meal, and how many people's lives were forever left on the snowy mountains and meadows.
Ren Bi was distressed about his wife, and when he ate, he gave chen Chunying all the good dishes to eat, and where there was a river, he took time to go fishing, stewed some fish soup to supplement Chen Chunying's body, and Zhu De, who had a strong relationship with Ren Bi, also helped to fish together.
Picture | "He Long and Ren Bishi on the Long March", Cui Kaixi created oil paintings
With the progress of the Long March, there are fewer and fewer ponds in the ditches, and Ren Bi can't catch fish when he wants to. Every time he arrived at the camp, Ren Bi and his comrades looked for wild vegetables around, washed and boiled them, and then picked out the tender leaves and gave them to Chen Chunying to eat first.
During the Long March, Ren Bi had been carrying the child on his back, and he also had to support his wife, and the cloth bag carrying the child was sewn up by Ren Bi himself. At that time, when Zhang Guotao wanted to win over Ren Bi, he sent Wang Ronghua to take care of Chen Chunying, who was sitting in confinement. He did not expect that this would be a pair of revolutionary lovers liu bocheng and Wang Ronghua, and people even laughed that the expedition was the red bride of Liu Bocheng and Wang Ronghua.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Ren Bishi served as the director of the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army, and led the army to the front line with Zhu De and Peng Dehuai. Chen Chunying was separated from her husband again and stayed in Yan'an, and the war years were precarious, and her daughter had to be sent to her hometown first. A family of three is separated from three places in this way, and they don't know when they will see each other again, and once something happens, it is life and death.
Later, Ren Bishi was dispatched by the central government to the Soviet Union to serve as the representative of the Communist Party of China to the Comintern, and the couple spent two years in the Soviet Union and gave birth to a daughter Yuanfang. When the situation was unstable and the domestic war was raging, Ren Bishi and Chen Chunying finally decided to foster their daughter in the Soviet Union, so as not to let her die in the turbulent displacement like her previous sister.
After his return, Ren Bishi continued to devote himself to the anti-Japanese work, often working all night, and Chen Chunying was always by his side, helping to sort out and copy documents. The fatigue during the Long March caused Ren Bishi's body to be seriously damaged and fell ill. The living conditions in Yan'an are poor, and Chen Chunying must be attentive to everything and take care of Ren Bishi's body.
Picture| On September 6, 1937, Zhu De, Ren Bishi, Zuo Quan, Deng Xiaoping, and others crossed the Yellow River by boat and rushed to the anti-Japanese front in Shanxi.
During the Liberation War, Ren Bi was the commander of the direct command, which was busier than the Yan'an period, and had to move with large troops. The long journey exposed Ren Bishi's health problems, and he not only checked for high blood pressure and heart disease, but also developed mild diabetes. Chen Chunying had to follow Ren Bishi with his child, who was only a few years old, to ensure that he would enter the work in a better state.
Chen Chunying and Ren Bishi had 9 children in their lifetime, but because of the upheaval and displacement of the revolution, they only supported 4 children, including daughters Yuanzhi, Yuanzheng, Yuanfang and the only son Yuanyuan. The separation of flesh and bones is the pain that Ren Bishi and Chen Chunying must experience. Yuanzhi and his mother immediately after they got out of prison and saw Ren Bi, Ren Bi hugged her and kissed and smiled, calmed down or decided not to leave the child by his side, the couple endured the pain and sent the child to their hometown in Hunan.
Figure | Ren Bishi and Chen Chunying
After the total defeat of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, Chen Chunying fostered his son Ren Xianggan in the home of his fellow villagers, and his son's whereabouts have not been found since. In those days, many Red Army couples left their children with their fellow countrymen when they evacuated. At that time, the enemy burned and plundered in the Soviet area, and very few children really survived.
The expedition was able to survive the Long March, and it was a blessing that was sought through the efforts of my parents and many comrades. Yuanfang was born in Moscow and was placed in the International Children's Hospital at the age of 1 year and 2 months. In 1940, Chen Chunying gave birth to a son Yuanyuan, and it was not until 1946 that Chen Chunying brought Yuanzhi and the expedition to Yan'an, and the brother and sister met for the first time...
Finally ushered in the day of liberation, and Ren Bishi's illness was already very serious. Ren Bishi went to the Soviet Union for treatment. For Ren Bishi, the happiest thing in the last year of his life was to meet his daughter Yuanfang, who was in the Soviet Union. At this time, the couple had been separated from Yuanfang for 10 years, and Yuanfang never knew who her parents were. She felt a warmth she had never felt before in just a few days with her father. It's just that Xiao Yuanfang didn't think that the time she and her father had spent together was running out.
Tu | Zhu De and Ren Bi were in Yan'an
At that time, New China was in ruins and waiting for the new, and Ren Bishi was reluctant to spend too much of the country's money, so he let Chen Chunying stay in China. Chen Chunying was relieved not to be relieved of Ren Bi's body, and wrote a lot of letters after leaving for half a year, constantly telling Ren Bi to pay attention to his body.
After returning to Beijing, Ren Bishi and Chen Chunying still maintained their past living habits. He often said: When we enter the city, we must pay more attention to economy.
Ren Bi was recuperating at home, and the house was next to the road, and the traffic was very noisy every day. The organization took into account his physical condition and suggested that he move to another place of residence, but Ren Bishi did not agree. The organization wanted to repair his house again, but he politely refused. At that time, the country's economy was still very difficult, and the couple hoped that the state's money could be used for national construction.
Both husband and wife believe that they have gone through the Long March, lived in the cave dwellings in Yan'an, and have a house, which can be settled down, and they can live well, and there is no need to repair it. Vegetable money must not exceed the standard, daily necessities must not exceed the regulations, furniture can not be used ... Ren Bishi and his wife have always been strict with themselves, and they cannot take more and make special things at all.
In May 1950, Ren Bishi returned to Beijing with his daughter. This is the first reunion of the Ren family, the children excitedly surrounded Yuanfang, and the family happily took the first family portrait of the whole staff, but it was also the last family portrait of the family.
Pictured| Ren Bishi family portrait
Whenever he thought of the last few months of Ren Bi's life, Chen Chunying was extremely remorseful. After the Korean War, Ren Bishi did not care about his illness at all, and the doctor told him that he could only work 4 hours a day and he had long been left behind. Dealing with a large number of government affairs every day, Ren Bishi began to work all night, Chen Chunying persuaded him many times to persuade him to rest more, but he kept saying "tomorrow and tomorrow's business."
In the early morning of October 27, Ren Bishi suddenly suffered a large-scale cerebral hemorrhage, and many rescues were ineffective, and he died at noon at the age of 46.
The picture | a photo taken by Ren Bi from the mirror for his daughter Ren Yuanfang
When Ren Bishi died of illness, he was covered with a quilt given to him by his comrades during the Long March in 1935, and a blanket that he personally captured from the enemy in 1934, and the vest he wore was woven by Chen Chunying with a woolen scarf during the Yan'an period.
Ren Bishi's decades-long career as a horseman earned him three nicknames— "Camel," "Quilt," and "Mommy in the Party."
The nickname "camel" is what Ye Jianying once said, and he bears a heavy burden and walks a long and arduous road. He gave everything in the revolutionary cause, but did not enjoy the happy life of New China for a few days; called him "Quilt", because Ren Bishi was upright and warm, like a quilt in the cold winter moon, and gave the comrades the greatest care; "the mother within the party", Ren Bishi was meticulous in his life and work, especially for the new comrades, with a motherly care.
In this leader, there is indomitable and tenacious in dealing with the enemy, as well as warmth and selflessness for comrades.
When such a warm Ren Bishi left, Chen Chunying was widowed in middle age, with illness, and raised his children alone. Ren Bishi's departure made Chen Chunying's body collapse quickly, and although she worked for a while later, because her body could not bear it, she had to leave the confidential work she had been doing for decades and truly loved.
Picture | Chen Chunying and Ren Bishi in 1948
Because she missed Ren Bi too much, Chen Chunying could no longer live in her original apartment, and every time she saw things and thought about people, it was a heavy torture for her. Marshal Nie Rongzhen understood Chen Chunying's pain and freed up his own backyard, and Premier Zhou approved a special fund to build a new residence for Chen Chunying. After Chairman Mao heard about it, he directly informed Ren Bishi that all the family lived in Zhongnanhai.
Chen Chunying has been industrious and simple all his life. After Ren Bishi's death, she returned the car that Stalin gave to Ren Bishi, the soft bed and piano used by Ren Bishi at home, and even her daughter's bicycle. When there is no one in the house, the lights must not be turned on, and the clothes on the body are also patched up and repaired. There were guests at home, and the dinner served by Chen Chunying was also a simple home-cooked dish.
The marriage between Chen Chunying and Ren Bishi was extremely feudal, and the advanced young people at that time, both men and women, opposed the arranged marriage ordered by their parents, which had become a typical embodiment of the rebellious consciousness and freedom consciousness of the progressive youth at that time. Since the age of teenage, Ren Bishi has decided to spend his life with Chen Chunying, and since he was a teenager, he has decided to dedicate his life to the cause of the people and national liberation, which is not a submission to arranged marriages, but gratitude and long-term affection.
Figure | Chen Chunying's later years
Chen Chunying watched her husband grow from a hot-blooded teenager to a general with a world in mind. The love and marriage between Ren Bishi and Chen Chunying run through the entire struggle process. Chen Chunying, who left Ren Bi, missed her lover all the time in the next few decades of her life. When Ren Bishi died, Chen Chunying was only 48 years old, and she lived alone for 55 years. In her later years, she often said: "It is enough to live a lifetime with Himhiroshi." "