In 1985, Li Xiannian, then president of the people's republic of China, published an article in Hubei Daily commemorating the three martyrs Zhang Wenjin, Wu Zuyi, and Mao Chuxiong, and a 40-year-old unsolved case was settled.
Upon learning of this news, Wang Zhen, the 85-year-old founding general, finally regretted it for many years, and in Harbin, the 75-year-old woman Zhou Wennan cried bitterly and wrote "Xiong'er, Mother Misses You" with a pen to commemorate her son Mao Chuxiong, who was only 19 years old when he died.
Zhou Wennan, a native of Guilin, Guangxi, later settled in Changsha, Hunan.
In 1924, at the age of 19, Mao Zeqin was ordered to return to Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, to carry out revolutionary work, and served as the secretary of the executive committee of the Changsha Socialist Youth League, publicly identifying himself as a teacher at the Huangjiaping Yanzi Temple Civilian Half-Day School.
Coincidentally, Zhou Wennan's niece Zhou Guoying attended this school, and Mao Zeqin was extremely fond of this child, often going to the Zhou family for home visits, and when he came and went, he got to know Zhou Wennan.
Zhou Wennan was only 2 years older than this niece, and was in Changsha Hanguang Girls' Vocational School at the time, although Zhou Wennan was only 1 meter 5 tall, but his demeanor was neat and his personality was strong, and soon Mao Zeqin fell in love with this woman who was 5 years younger than himself.
When he met Zhou Wennan, Mao Zeqin was already married, his wife was zhao Xiangui, also a progressive young woman, and Mao Zeqin became a party member in 1923.
However, love is a magical thing that doesn't come first and come first.
In 1925, Zhao Xiangui went to moscow University in the Soviet Union to study, and in 1926, at the invitation of Mao Zeqin, Zhou Wennan went to Guangzhou to study, where the two married.
This year, Mao Zeqin was 21 years old and Zhou Wennan was 16 years old.
After marriage, Zhou Wennan entered the women's movement workshop to study, and gradually embarked on the revolutionary road, in Guangzhou, Zhou Wennan met the eldest brother Mao Zedong and the eldest sister-in-law Yang Kaihui, and got along with them very happily.
In 1927, the day before the Autumn Harvest Uprising, Zhou Wennan gave birth to a son, named Mao Chuxiong.
Unfortunately, only 6 months after the child was born, due to the traitor's whistle-blowing, Zhou Wennan's mother and son were arrested by the reactionaries and tortured, and the mother and son both fell seriously ill.
Zhou Wennan's mother and brother begged for help, and it was not easy to rescue Mao Chuxiong, while Zhou Wennan stayed in prison for 2 years, until 1930, when Peng Dehuai led the army to conquer Changsha, he was rescued and followed the Red Army to the Xianggan Su District.
Unfortunately, at this time, zhou Wennan's marriage with Mao Zeqin had already died in name only, and in July 1931, Mao Zeqin married his third wife, He Yi.
In April 1935, after the Long March of the Red Army, Mao Zeqin, who remained in the Soviet area to fight guerrillas, bravely defended his comrades in a battle, at the age of 30.
Although Zhou Wennan had divorced Mao Zeqin at that time, the 26-year-old Zhou Wennan, a 26-year-old husband and wife, was still grief-stricken, and since then, she has been busy with the revolution until 1942, 7 years after Mao Zeqin's sacrifice, she began her second marriage.
Zhou Wennan, who was engaged in guerrilla activities in Lianhua County, was also arrested again by the reactionaries in 1936, but thanks to the rescue of his nephew, he returned to Changsha in the winter of that year.
Soon, with the help of the organization, Zhou Wennan took his whole family to Shaoshan, taught at the Mao Ancestral Hall, and continued to engage in underground work.
At this time, Zhou Wennan and Mao Zeqin's son Mao Chuxiong was also 10 years old, so Zhou Wennan began to tell him the revolutionary story of his father, "Proud Yang" Yang Kaihui, "Hengshan Zhufeng" Mao Zejian, and his husband Mao Zeqin.
All this sowed the seeds of revolution in the heart of young Mao Chuxiong.
In 1938, Mao Zedong, who was in Yan'an, sent a letter to Zhou Wennan, with 20 pieces of ocean, hoping that she could bring her nephew Mao Chuxiong to Yan'an.
However, at that time, Zhou Wennan was already working underground in Changsha, and it was inconvenient to leave, and he could not make the trip.
Looking at his uncle's letter, the 11-year-old Mao Chuxiong was excited and eager to go to Yan'an to participate in revolutionary work, but unfortunately, at that time, he was too young, Shaoshan to Yan'an, and thousands of mountains and rivers, Mao Chuxiong could only wait for the opportunity bitterly.
Fast forward to 1945, when Mao Chuxiong was already 18 years old, and it happened that the southward detachment led by Wang Zhen returned to Yan'an, passing through Xiangtan, and Mao Chuxiong immediately found Wang Zhen:"
Commander Wang, I am the son of Mao Zeqin, and I will go with your troops to find your uncle.
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Wang Zhen was a fierce general under the chairman, as early as when he was in Changsha, he met Mao Zeqin, the two were comrades-in-arms who had fought side by side for many years, and wang Zhen was very happy to see his nephew grow so big:"
Well, I'll take you to uncle!
In September of that year, Mao Chuxiong left his hometown and joined the army, and on the way to Yan'an, Mao Chuxiong became a soldier in the fourth company of the teaching regiment.
Although he was thin and young, Mao Chuxiong never cried bitterly, and followed the soldiers to carry water and clean up together, and Wang Zhen was extremely satisfied with his performance.
Two months later, Mao Chuxiong followed the southward detachment to the Central Plains Military Region and was arranged to enter the headquarters to learn to receive telegrams.
Soon, the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the whole country rejoiced, however, driving away Chiang Kai-shek from other places, immediately began to start a civil war, in May 1946, the Nationalist army pointed to Shanhaiguan, quickly occupied Changchun, Jilin, and controlled most of the area south of the Songhua River.
In June 1945, the Nationalist army gathered 300,000 troops and began to attack the Central Plains Liberated Area, and under the leadership of Li Xiannian, Zheng Weisan, Wang Shusheng, Wang Zhen and others, the Central Plains Military Region successfully broke through.
At the most critical moment, Mao Chuxiong found Wang Zhen several times and asked to work in the company, but Wang Zhen refused.
In August 1946, the Nationalist army proposed "peace talks", the Central Plains Military Region to send representatives to Xi'an, Wang Zhen felt that Xi'an is safer than following the army around, so he asked Mao Chuxiong to serve as our representative Zhang Wenjin's guard, and followed him to Xi'an.
He also specially instructed Zhang Wenjin and Wu Zuyi to send Mao Chuxiong to the Eighth Route Army office as soon as they arrived in Yan'an, and asked the comrades to send him to Yan'an.
However, the most reasonable arrangement was unexpected, Chiang Kai-shek did not want to grasp the truth of the Central Plains Military Region negotiators appeared at the negotiating table, on August 10, 1946, at the behest of Hu Zongnan, Zhang Wenjin, Wu Zuyi, and Mao Chuxiong, who marched to Ningshan County, were pushed out of the bunker and buried alive, "secretly executed."
At the time of his death, Mao Chuxiong was only 19 years old.
The "disappearance" of the representative of the Central Plains Military Region is a big deal, and our side strongly protested, but Hu Zongnan flatly denied it...
When Mao Chuxiong died, his mother Zhou Wennan was only 36 years old, and she lost her son in middle age, and the grief in Zhou Wennan's heart can be imagined, and what makes Zhou Wennan's heart ache even more is that she does not even know what her son sacrificed and where the bones are.
Mao Chuxiong's sacrifice also became a regret in Wang Zhen's life, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Xiannian, Wang Zhen and others sent people to visit many times, but unfortunately, things did not make much progress.
In August 1976, a unit in Dongjiangkou Town, Ningshan County, was working on a project and inadvertently found 3 corpses, and the investigation team responsible for investigating the murder of Mao Chuxiong and 3 people immediately went to visit.
After a long investigation, it was finally determined that the three corpses were Zhang Wenjin, Wu Zuyi, and Mao Chuxiong.
In January 1985, the investigation report was placed on the desk of President Li Xiannian, who said that the investigation was clear.
Immediately after that, there was the opening scene of the article, and after 40 years, Zhou Wennan finally found the remains of his son.