In 1956, Du Yuming's eldest son committed suicide without tuition fees, and his wife vowed not to go to Taiwan again
Du Yuming reformed for ten years, the eldest son committed suicide because of no tuition fees, and his family was ostracized in Taiwan
One day in 1956, Du Zhili knocked on his brother's door, found that the door was unlocked, broke the door and found his brother who had died and a bottle of sleeping pills under the bed.
At this time, Du Zhiren was studying at Harvard University, and there was only one year left before graduation, so why did he choose suicide at this juncture?
Du Zhiren was Du Yuming's eldest son, at this time New China had been founded, Du Yuming was captured in the Huaihai battlefield, the family in Taiwan felt that his life and death were unknown, without Du Yuming, the family's life was particularly difficult, his mother Cao Xiuqing only had a meager salary to support his younger siblings, Du Zhiren could only rely on his own part-time work and loans to pay tuition, go to school during the day, go to work at night to make money, and so tired of a disease.
However, he was about to graduate, and the loan was suddenly terminated, so Du Zhiren had to drop out of school and wait for him to pay the tuition.
One day, she wrote a letter to her mother, asking her to help raise 3,000 yuan, only 3,000 yuan he could graduate, and it was because of this 3,000 yuan that he chose to end his life to resist his miserable life.
Cao Xiuqing himself was helpless there, how to raise 3,000 yuan, in desperation, he could only write to Chiang Kai-shek and ask for a loan of 3,000 yuan. It was only half a month later that Chiang Kai-shek agreed to sign, and the amount of the loan was only 1,000 yuan, and it had to be paid in two installments, that is to say, the loan of 1,000 yuan would take two years, which was deliberately not to let their families live well.
Cao Xiuqing took the 500 yuan he had in his hand, and there were 2500 yuan, how could he raise it so easily.
Du Zhiren, who only received 500 yuan, was also disappointed, and could only beg his sister Du Zhili and brother-in-law Yang Zhenning.
Yang Zhenning and Du Zhili
But the sister and brother-in-law can not raise such a large amount of money in a short period of time, can only do their best, and kindly comfort the brother will definitely raise money.
At this time, Du Zhiren knew that the money was always unable to be raised, and he never expected that at this time, he was surprisingly calm, and silently entered the bedroom after dinner.
Who would have thought that his calmness would be a manifestation of despair, and the sister and brother-in-law thought that he wanted to open up, so he did not say anything more.
Until noon the next day, Du Zhili saw that his brother had not yet gotten up and went to knock on the door, who knew that there was no movement, the door had been locked, she found Yang Zhenning, opened the door, and found his brother who had lost his breath lying on the bed and a sleeping pill bottle under the bed, and nearly a whole bottle of sleeping pills was swallowed by Du Zhiren.
Logically speaking, when we know that Kuomintang officials went to Taiwan, they carried a large amount of family wealth, and in the later period, corruption among Kuomintang officials became commonplace, and almost every high-level official would have a lot of property, and they either went to Taiwan or some went abroad.
However, Du Yuming left only a few gold bars to his family, although it seems that there are many, but to support a large family, these gold bars are absolutely impossible, so in the later period, Cao Xiuqing can only do odd jobs to support his own children.
Finally, for 3,000 yuan, she put down her dignity to borrow money from Chiang Kai-shek, as the commander's wife, in the end, she could not even raise a loan of 3,000 yuan, and her son committed suicide in anger because of the tuition fee of 3,000 yuan.
Yang Zhenning and mother-in-law
At this time, Cao Xiuqing was also almost on the verge of collapse, her husband's life and death were uncertain, the eldest son committed suicide, her mother-in-law was seriously ill, and her young children, how did this make a woman bear it?
After experiencing so many changes, a woman still has the courage to bear all this, which shows that she is by no means an ordinary woman, she has already seen clearly the style of the Kuomintang saying one set and doing one set, she also knows that she goes to the loan, Chiang Kai-shek will not give her so easily, although she has suffered so much, but she must persist, she is convinced that her husband must still live in the world.
The combination of Du Yuming and Cao Xiuqing is the word of the parents' fate.
In 1923, when du Yuming graduated from high school at the age of 19, his father told him that he had a family affair, and the object of marriage was Cao Xiuqing.
As a highly educated, young and promising youth, how could he possibly accept such an unreasonable request from his father?
Cao Xiuqing is also smart and handsome, and her father Cao Wanzi is also very fond of her, because she does some business, her family is relatively wealthy, and Cao Xiuqing has also studied and studied poetry and painting since childhood. Her father was even more courageous, often going out to do business, Cao Xiuqing was also deeply affected, and the family's education made her bold.
Cao Xiuqing learned that her father introduced her to her relatives without his consent, and he was also a thousand and ten thousand opponents. Later, probably out of curiosity, she also called her friends to inquire about what kind of person Du Yuming was, and she knew that Du Yuming liked to play chess, so she put on the chessboard and waited.
Du Yuming
Du Yuming saw that naturally he would want to kill two games, and every time Cao Xiuqing would wait until Du Yuming's interest came to leave, so that they could play chess all the time.
Later, the two gradually became acquainted, Du Yuming and Cao Xiuqing said their troubles, but when they knew that the little girl in front of them was Cao Xiuqing, Du Yuming smiled, and the girl in front of him was informal, and he also liked her.
In this way, the two people who originally resisted the fate of their parents came together.
Later, Du Yuming was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy and joined the Kuomintang, and after graduation, Du Yuming also became an excellent officer. Zhang Zhizhong once said that he and Chen Geng were Du Chen Zhizuo, the world's greatest.
At the same time, his wife Cao Xiuqing also entered the Yulin Women's Normal School, joined the Communist Party at school, and later became the party secretary of Mizhi County.
After the Northern Expedition, it became the trough period of the couple, Du Yuming and his wife were dismissed, and the whole family only relied on a 20 yuan allowance to survive.
Cao Xiuqing reclaimed a piece of land herself, planted her own vegetables and fields to support her family, and she was convinced that her husband would one day come out on top.
A year later, Zhang Zhizhong returned to China, and Du Yuming was reused as the deputy commander of the 25th Division. Cao Xiuqing also suddenly became the wife of the official, and this life ended in 1949.
Du Yuming and Cao Xiuqing in their later years
In 1949, Du Yuming was captured in the Battle of Huaihai, and Chiang Kai-shek, fearing Du Yuming's defection, asked to take Du Yuming's family to Taiwan, and when his family was a hostage in Taiwan, Du Yuming did not dare to renegade.
Cao Xiuqing took her mother-in-law and five children on a plane to Taiwan, and she believed Chiang Kai-shek's words that in Taiwan they would certainly have no worries about food and clothing for their family.
But at this time and another time, Cao Xiuqing at this time was no longer the wife of the general with unlimited scenery, she was only the family of a defeated general, and Chiang Kai-shek did not arrange accommodation for them, nor did he promise to let their family have no worries about food and clothing, and only gave them a small subsidy every month. But a family of six or seven people, the children still have to study, this little money alone is far from enough. Cao Xiuqing had no choice but to let her mother-in-law help watch the children and went to work at the Taipei Tobacco Bureau herself, relying on this income to support her family.
In order to let her children go to school, she could only put down her face and beg Du Yuming's former colleagues, hoping to intercede with Chiang Kai-shek.
In order to keep Cao Xiuqing, Chiang Kai-shek deliberately said that Du Yuming's life and death in the mainland were unknown, perhaps he was already dead, and Cao Xiuqing could only erect a crown tomb for her husband, which was his spiritual sustenance when he was desperate and helpless. She saw through Chiang Kai-shek's face, and her appearance was inconsistent, he said that if Du Yuming died, he must have died in battle? Cao Xiuqing has always believed that Du Yuming is still alive in the world, and she also believes that one day, the family will be reunited. Erecting this crown tomb only made Chiang Kai-shek let down his guard.
Half a year after Du Zhiren's death, his mother-in-law also passed away, and on the day of the funeral, Chiang Kai-shek unexpectedly appeared, and after he looked at himself calmly and expressed his condolences, it seemed that he had returned to the Chiang Kai-shek who promised Cao Xiuqing before liberation.
Why did Chiang Kai-shek's attitude change drastically?
At this time, Yang Zhenning had already won the Nobel Prize, and Taiwan was in the stage of vigorous development and needed a large number of talents, and Yang Zhenning, as the first Chinese to win the Nobel Prize, Chiang Kai-shek naturally wanted to fight for it. Chiang Kai-shek could only curry favor with Cao Xiuqing, hoping that she would persuade her son-in-law to settle in Taiwan.
At this time, Cao Xiuqing received a letter from her daughter, and Du Zhili told her mother in the letter: Your old friend has corresponded with us, and he cares about you very much...
In the reader's daughter's letter, she knew that her premonition had always been right, that Du Yuming had always lived well, and that there was no inhuman life on the mainland that Chiang Kai-shek had said.
Cao Xiuqing tried to calm her excited heart, at this time her son and mother-in-law both died, and the news of her husband's death was undoubtedly the best news she had heard since she went to Taiwan. But she could not let Chiang Kai-shek know that she already knew that her husband was still alive, she wanted to meet him as soon as possible, and she could not stay in Taiwan for a minute.
Cao Xiuqing asked Chiang Kai-shek to go to the United States, after all, the matter was very big, and in order to let Yang Zhenning go to Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek immediately agreed to Cao Xiuqing's request.
At this time, the chairman of the committee and the chairman's wife showed the hypocrisy of human nature to the extreme, when Cao Xiuqing boarded the plane to the United States, Song Meiling personally came to see her off, she held Cao Xiuqing's hand, full of "care" and said: Mrs. Du, you are fat, the last time I saw you, you were very thin.
The last time we met, the honorable Lady Jiang only treated her as a stranger, but at this moment, Lady Jiang warmly shook hands with her. Chiang Kai-shek greeted Cao Xiuqing and the children with a smile on his face, the purpose of course was for Yang Zhenning to go to Taiwan to develop and help them besiege the mainland.
Cao Xiuqing has also seen through Chiang Kai-shek's face, and Chiang Kai-shek only allows her to go to the United States herself, while her remaining children can only stay in Taiwan, and has set a deadline.
After arriving in the United States, Cao Xiuqing returned the ticket and stayed at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, and after inquiring about Du Yuming's situation, she decided to return to China and reunite with her husband.
Yang Zhenning and his father-in-law and mother-in-law
Yang Zhenning also hopes to return to the mainland as soon as possible. As early as 1955, Premier Zhou Enlai had already made contact with Yang Zhenning, in 1957, the news of Yang Zhenning's Nobel Prize reached Beijing, Zhou Enlai sent a representative to Sweden to express congratulations, the representative was Yang Zhenning's teacher Zhang Wenyu and his wife Wang Chengshu, before leaving, Zhang Wenyu went to see Du Yuming, Du Yuming congratulated his son-in-law, and wrote to Yang Zhenning for the first time to celebrate, Yang Zhenning was also very excited to receive a letter from his father-in-law.
Cao Xiuqing also witnessed her son-in-law's glorious moment in the United States, and she also knew that she was getting closer and closer to returning to China, and the day of reunion with her husband was getting closer and closer.
In 1959, Du Yuming also received a amnesty notice, and when the government asked him what else he wanted, his only request was to be reunited with his family, and soon Cao Xiuqing received a letter from the mainland, which clearly stated that Du Yuming hoped that his wife would return to the mainland to settle down. Cao Xiuqing, who received a letter from her husband, was naturally happy, but at the same time, she still had four children in Taiwan, and she had to go to the "embassy" of Taiwan in the United States, hoping to let them buy a plane ticket on their behalf and visit their children in Taiwan.
Taiwan also knew the news of Du Yuming's amnesty, once Cao Xiuqing returned to the mainland, then Yang Zhenning could not go to Taiwan again, Chiang Kai-shek asked her to return to Taiwan immediately, and even sent someone to the United States, saying that Chinese mainland unsafe and so on.
Cao Xiuqing has heard enough of Taiwan's hypocrisy, how can Chinese mainland's life be bad, every year Yang Zhenning's father will go abroad to reunite with the family, from Yang Wuzhi, Cao Xiuqing also knows the ever-changing nature of the motherland in recent years.
Premier Zhou met with Yang Zhenning
It was not until 1963 that Yang Zhenning arranged for his mother-in-law to go to Geneva regardless of difficulties, and was personally picked up by comrades from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and boarded a plane from Geneva to the motherland.
After Cao Xiuqing returned to China, Premier Zhou and Chen Yi met du Yuming and others and their wives in the Great Hall of the People, and Zhou Enlai and Cao Xiuqing shook hands cordially.
It was not until 1971, when Sino-US relations eased, that Yang Zhenning had the opportunity to write a letter to his father hoping to return to China to visit his relatives as soon as possible, which was the first time Yang Zhenning had returned to China more than 20 years after he had left the motherland, and it was also the first time he met his father-in-law Du Yuming.
Probably for the first time, Yang Zhenning seemed particularly nervous, and when he was called "Mr. Du", Premier Zhou corrected him, "You should call your father-in-law." ”
In 1973, Yang Zhenning and his wife returned to Beijing again to visit their relatives, and this time Yang Zhenning proposed to see Chairman Mao, and Chairman Mao agreed as soon as he heard it, and after the conversation, Chairman Mao and Yang Zhenning took a group photo to commemorate the occasion.
Yang Zhenning shook hands with Chairman Mao
Although Cao Xiuqing returned to the motherland, she still has four children left in Taiwan, and when she thinks about this, she worries that the Taiwan side will definitely be embarrassed by her children everywhere, and she can only worry about the other side.
After Cao Xiuqing went to the United States, the second son Du Zhiyong and the third son Du Zhiyan's life in Taiwan was more difficult, they were excluded everywhere, Du Zhiyan was forced to drop out of school to become a taxi driver, Du Zhiyong although highly educated, but the hero was useless, suffered from white eyes, life was impermanent, the world was cold, and Du Yuming's colleagues also looked at it coldly. The two daughters were also cautious throughout their lives.
In 1981, Du Yuming died, Cao Xiuqing called the Taiwan authorities hoping that the four children in Taiwan could return to the mainland to mourn their father, and finally there was no response, they could only set up a spiritual hall in Taiwan, a generation of generals, except for their daughter Du Zhili, the lives of other children were so miserable.
A year after Du Yuming's death, Cao Xiuqing met her children in Hong Kong, and the children had been persuading Cao Xiuqing to return to Taiwan, and she made it clear that she never wanted to return to Taiwan, and died of illness in 1984, not seeing the last side of her children.
It was not until his later years that Du's four children in Taiwan had the opportunity to return to the mainland, which was their home.
The tragedy of Du Yuming's family is the result of Chiang Kai-shek's selfishness and narrow-mindedness, and Chiang Kai-shek's selfishness, narrow-mindedness, rebellion, hypocrisy, and inconsistencies in appearance have led to the tragic fate of Du Yuming's four children in their lives.