In the autumn of 1987, in an official residence in Taipei, a white-haired old man was lying on the bed, repeating the name "Yaro, Yaro" in his mouth, but no matter how he called, no one answered.
This old man was Chiang Ching-kuo, the leader of the Taiwan region, who was 77 years old at the time, and because he was seriously ill and was about to die, his consciousness began to become blurred
As for what he called out for a brief emotional entanglement with himself, and gave birth to two illegitimate sons Jiang Xiaoyan and Jiang Xiaoci's old lover Zhang Yaruo, then what is the profound story between the two? Why did Chiang Ching-kuo still remember her before he died?
Photo | chiang ching-kuo in his later years
In the world's cognition, Chiang Ching-kuo's legitimate wife is only Jiang Fangliang
The love story between the two is also legendary. In 1925, Chiang Ching-kuo was sent to Sun Yat-sen University to study under Chiang Kai-shek's arrangement, and at first his situation was quite good, but later, as Chiang Kai-shek launched several counter-revolutionary coups in China and wantonly slaughtered and persecuted Communists, the news spread to Moscow, which made Chiang Ching-kuo reprimanded by many classmates and indirectly hindered his return to China.
At that time, the CPSU ordered him to be detained as a bargaining chip with Chiang Kai-shek, and later, out of distrust of Chiang Ching-kuo, he was sent to the Ural Heavy Machinery Factory as a worker.
So Chiang Ching-kuo met his lover Finna Ibateva Vahareva, that is, Jiang Fangliang.
Because of her company, Chiang Ching-kuo's heart was greatly comforted, and this transnational love slowly began to take root, and finally came to fruition, and in December 1935, the son of the two, Jiang Xiaowen, was also born smoothly.
In March 1937, under the efforts of many forces, Chiang Ching-kuo could finally take a plane back to China, and Jiang Fangliang, as his wife, also followed him away without hesitation and came to the land of China, at this time, in addition to adapting to Chinese customs and habits, she also needed to understand that her husband's identity was very special, and she had to quickly adapt to the changes that were about to take place around her.
Pictured| Chiang Ching-kuo and his wife Jiang Fangliang
However, at that time, there was still a contradiction between Chiang Ching-kuo and his father Chiang Kai-shek, so the couple took a long time to be accepted by Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling, and then under their personal witness, the two married once again in Xikou, Zhejiang, where Chiang Ching-kuo was born.
After that, Jiang Fangliang began to patiently learn Chinese and Mandarin and Ningbo dialect, and got along well with her mother-in-law Mao Fumei, and in 1938, she and Chiang Ching-kuo gave birth to a lovely daughter, Jiang Xiaozhang.
At present, the marriage between Chiang Ching-kuo and Jiang Fangliang is very harmonious and happy, and it is also very envious of outsiders, but after only a year, the "third party" between the two has appeared, she is Zhang Yaruo,
Although this person only had a brief three-year emotional entanglement with Chiang Ching-kuo, he remembered it for more than 40 years.
Picture | Zhang Yaruo old photo
The story also dates back to 1939, when the Japanese began to lead troops to attack Nanchang in order to open up the communication line in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and after successfully occupying this place, they launched a brutal torture and killing of the innocent local people, and finally forced to move out of the way, looking for a temporary safe shelter, and Zhang Yaruo was among them.
At this time, she had become a refugee, preparing to flee to Ganzhou for refuge, and when she was desperate, she happened to see a job advertisement that said that the commissioner's apartment Mr. Jiang's family was looking for a tutor, so Zhang Yaruo decided to try it.
Because he was born in Shuxiang Mendi, and his father was the three yuan and the first in the pre-Qing Dynasty, Zhang Yaruo was not as backward in thinking as other women, but entered the academy early to be educated.
When she was studying in Nanchang Middle School, she was already able to sing and dance, and she could also write a good hand, and slowly became a prominent figure in the class, and was also called "talented girl" by her classmates.
In addition, Zhang Yaruo herself is very good-looking, with phoenix eyes and cherry lips and nose, and a pair of cute dimples, so she also has a title of "school flower".
However, such an excellent girl, the road of feelings is not very smooth, she had a marriage when she was fifteen years old, married to her own cousin, although the two are close, but there is no common language in many things, a personality is more lively and trendy, one is more conservative and self-sustaining, and finally forced to helpless, the other party tragically committed suicide, since then Zhang Yaruo has resumed singleness.
And after experiencing this unfortunate marriage, Zhang Yaruo also has more and more of the charm that a young woman should have, she dresses herself more and more beautifully, every time she walks on the street is very eye-catching, but the good times are not long, with the arrival of the Japanese army, Nanchang City is suddenly chaotic, Zhang Yaruo can only flee to Ganzhou with her family, and at this time she can not imagine that she will soon meet a man who affects her life's fate.
At that time, seeing the recruitment notice and learning that Chiang Ching-kuo was going to open a training class for young cadres, Zhang Yaruo took the initiative to sign up for it, and it was from this time that the two officially intersected.
Zhang Yaruo slowly began to throbb in her heart by getting along with Chiang Ching-kuo, and as for Chiang Ching-kuo, she also admired Zhang Yaruo very much, because in addition to her beautiful appearance, she was also very smart and clever.
Picture | old photo of Chiang Ching-kuo
After each conversation between the two, Chiang Ching-kuo always had a refreshing feeling, so soon there was a spark of love between them. As the time they spent together became longer and longer, Jiang Chingguo also felt more and more inseparable from each other, and it wasn't long before he transferred Zhang Yaruo to his side as a secretary.
So at that time, in the eyes of outsiders, they were superiors and subordinates, but in private, they were lovers with glue-like feelings.
Because Chiang Ching-kuo is already a husband with a wife and a very special identity, this relationship cannot be open to the outside world, and can only be concealed for the time being, but soon Zhang Yaruo became pregnant, and the highest authorities in Chongqing, who had been turning a blind eye, immediately sent a secret telegram to let Chiang Ching-kuo deal with the matter as soon as possible.
In order not to live up to his father's trust, in order not to let the successor of the Jiang family be stained, Chiang Ching-kuo ordered his subordinates Wang Zhigang and Zhang Yaruo's good friend Gui Hui to take her to Guilin, Guangxi province, to give birth.
The three of them took a detour from Liuyang, Hunan, then to Chongqing, then took the waterway again, and finally arrived in Guilin, stayed in the former Dahua Hotel, and a few days later, Jiang Chingguo arranged for the director of the Guangxi Department of Civil Affairs to rent a house for Zhang Yaruo, so that she had a stable residence.
In the following days, as long as there is free time, Chiang Ching-kuo will travel thousands of miles to visit Zhang Yaruo, and the two will go to the surrounding temples together to pray for the unborn children.
On March 1, 1942, Zhang Yaruo finally gave birth to a pair of baby boys in Guilin, and his friend Gui Hui conveyed this good news to Chiang Ching-kuo in time, and he immediately rushed to Guilin from Nanchang and saw that he had two such cute children, Chiang Ching-ri was very excited, and he kept holding them and kissing them.
Soon this news also reached Chiang Kai-shek, although it was not too glorious to say it, but after all, Zhang Yaruo gave birth to the blood of the Chiang family, so while he was happy, he also passed on the word to chiang ching-kuo.
According to the clan ranking of the Jiang family, the two children were named Xiaoyan and Xiaoci,
After having the official name, Jiang Jingguo also informed Zhang Yaruo that although they did not have a formal marriage relationship, the two children should still be surnamed Jiang in the future.
Since this day, the number of times Chiang Ching-kuo came to Guilin has become less and less, Zhang Yaruo in order to pass the time, can only go to the local art museum to see the play, usually take care of the two children, the life is very stable, until one night half a year later, the change suddenly happened.
Zhang Yaruo was originally invited to a dinner party, and when she came back, she felt a special pain in her abdomen, and after enduring until the next morning, she went to the hospital accompanied by Gui Hui, but when the doctor finished the injection, her condition did not alleviate, but became more and more serious.
In the end, without even a day passing, Zhang Yaruo died suddenly, and his life ended forever at the age of thirty-two.
Because her death was too sudden, so many years later the outside world also speculated about the cause of Zhang Yaruo's death, some people thought that she was too weak after giving birth, some people said that she deliberately exposed the affairs between her and Chiang Ching-kuo, so she was assassinated by Chiang Kai-shek, and some people said that she was poisoned by Chiang Ching-kuo's men, in short, there are different theories.
And according to Gui Hui's brother once narrated, when he learned that Zhang Yaruo's body was in a condition, he went to the hospital to take care of it, and then the doctors and nurses came in to give her injections, less than ten minutes after leaving, Zhang Yaruo suddenly shouted that his eyes were black, the doctors and nurses immediately rushed to the rescue, the result was that twenty minutes later she was still unfortunate to die, the cause of death was blood poisoning, when the doctor did not go through blood tests, but hastily made a conclusion, so the matter is still doubtful, and after decades, the truth is still unraveled.
At that time, Chiang Ching-kuo, who received this news, was very reluctant to accept the facts, and he was trapped in a sad mood all day, and in order to cover his tears, he could only wear sunglasses all the time.
Later, because he was too busy with work, he sent his subordinate Wang Zhigang to take care of Zhang Yaruo's aftermath, and told them that Zhang Yaruo's body was buried in Guilin, and the two children were also sent to Wan'an, Jiangxi to be raised by Lady Zhang.
When the children were 4 years old, Chiang Ching-kuo approved them to be passed on to his uncle Zhang Huanruo, and changed their surname to Zhang.
In 1949, when the War of Liberation was gradually drawing to a close, and upon learning that the Kuomintang was in a hurry, Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan in a hurry, and Chiang Ching-kuo followed, as for the two seven-year-old children and their grandmother, they were also escorted early.
I thought that chiang ching-kuo would assume the responsibility of his father at this time and take good care of filial piety and filial piety, but as a result, he did not know whether it was to maintain his position in the Kuomintang or to protect the face of his father Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo did not let the two children recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors, but continued to let them take the surname of Zhang and live the life of ordinary civilians.
Pictured| Chiang Ching-kuo and his father Chiang Kai-shek
At that time, the Zhang family was basically crowded in two small rooms, living conditions were very difficult, and by the sixties, Taiwan had begun to popularize radio and electric fans, but the Zhang family still had nothing, fortunately, there was an old lady Zhang at home, although it could not provide good resources for the children, but it would definitely not make them unable to read.
So Jiang Xiaoyan and Jiang Xiaoci two brothers were very hard in their studies, and finally they successfully entered Soochow University together with their own efforts, and after graduation, they began to cultivate in their own fields.
As for Chiang Ching-kuo, although he did not put too much thought into the two brothers at this stage, he had begun to rise politically, gradually controlling the military power of the state government, and stabilizing the road to succession, and when Chiang Kai-shek passed away in 1975, Chiang Ching-kuo officially assumed the post of "great president" and became busier and busier.
With the continuous growth of age, Chiang Ching-kuo's body began to appear a variety of diseases, such as earlier because he liked to eat sweets, with the accumulation of the sun and the moon, it evolved into diabetes, and then cataracts and nephritis and other symptoms, slowly, Chiang Ching-kuo's body can no longer withstand the torture of illness, often need to take insulin to live, in his old age he can not even move.
Pictured| Chiang Ching-kuo
In 1987, Chiang Ching-kuo's body became weaker and weaker, and his consciousness began to become blurred, and knowing that he was about to die soon, he began to think of the deceased, such as Zhang Yaruo, the woman who only left a brief three-year memory in his life. Maybe it is the death of man, and his regret for what he left in his heart earlier has never been able to let go.
Zhang Yaruo died suddenly without any warning, leaving himself forever, and also put an end to this relationship that lasted only three years, so even in the past few decades, Chiang Ching-kuo still missed her.
In addition to Zhang Yaruo, Jiang Jingguo also deeply felt very guilty about the two children Of Jiang Xiaoci and Jiang Xiaoyan, because he failed to disclose the origins of the two to the outside world, and they had never been able to come to see themselves as descendants of the Jiang family, let alone wait until after his death.
Fortunately, Jiang Xiaoci and Jiang Xiaoyan were very filial, and many years later, when they learned that their birth mother's grave was still buried in the mainland, they asked their friends to help them repair it, and finally on September 4, 1993, Jiang Xiaoci personally arrived in Guilin, Guangxi Province, and returned to the place where he was born.