One morning in the winter of 1998, it snowed and the ground was shrouded in white.
After General Zhang Aiping got up at about 6:30 in the morning, he exercised as usual, and when it was time to eat breakfast at 8 a.m., the old General Zhang Aiping suddenly felt that this morning was a little different.
It turned out that his wife did not come out to exercise this morning, so he hurried to her room to look for it, but he did not find it for half a day. He asked the guard next to him, "Little devil, where is Grandma?" Why can't you find it everywhere? ”
"Late at night Grandma was sick and went to the 301 Hospital."
Hearing that her wife was hospitalized, Zhang Aiping was very anxious and hurriedly asked people to prepare a car to go to the hospital.
Seeing the lady lying on the bed, Zhang Aiping hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed his wife's hand, wanting to ask for warmth but did not know how to express it. It wasn't until the doctor told him that there was no big problem, and Zhang Aiping put her mind at ease to accompany her tearful wife home.
This year, Zhang Aiping is 88 years old, his wife Li Youlan is 79 years old, and the two elderly couples can still be like this, and they have to be envied...
Zhang Aiping and Li Youlan
Zhang Aiping was born in 1910 to a peasant family in Zhangjiagou, Luojiangkou Town, Daxian County, Sichuan Province, and began to participate in revolutionary activities in 1925.
Unlike General Zhang Aiping, who came from a poor background, his wife Li Youlan was born in 1919 into a large family in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and her father was Li Shanxiang, a well-known industrialist at that time.
The Li family is a local famous family, very prominent among Zhejiang businessmen, to Li Shanxiang's generation, but also to carry forward the family business, Li Shanxiang is the first person in modern China to introduce Siemens generators, or the first person in Zhejiang to establish a Western-style school.
In addition, he was a patriotic businessman, and after the Japanese invasion of China, he actively encouraged his children to join the army.
In November 1937, the Communist Party set up an office of the Eighth Route Army in Wuhan, and young people from all over the country wanted to go to Yan'an through the Wuhan office.
In March 1938, Li Youlan and others got rid of the Kuomintang agents and found the Wuhan Eighth Route Army Office, and when they saw the sign of the Eighth Route Army Office, several people jumped up excitedly and pestered the office staff at the door: "We are going to Yan'an, and we want to see Minister Zhou (Zhou Enlai is also the deputy director of the Political Department of the Military Commission of the National Government). ”
Zhang Aiping, who was serving as a staff officer at the time, was worried that Zhou Enlai's work was too busy, so she came out to block the car, but when these classmates saw that the person who came was not Zhou Enlai, they quarreled and did not leave, and they had to see Zhou Enlai.
Years later, Zhang Aiping and Li Youlan chatted in Yan'an and talked about it. Zhang Aiping said with emotion: "At that time, these students really couldn't help it. ”
Li Youlan smiled and said, "I'm just one of the dozen or so people who really can't help it!" ”
Zhang Aiping was slightly surprised before she said, "I am the staff officer on duty." ”
The two laughed at each other after they finished speaking.
After a day of quarreling, they met Zhou Enlai in the middle of the night, and Zhou Enlai affirmed the patriotic actions of the patriotic youth, but regrettably told them: "Fenglingdu has been occupied by the Japanese army not long ago, and I am afraid that you will not be able to go to Yan'an." ”
Just when everyone was disappointed, Zhou Enlai's words turned sharply: "Yan'an can't go, but you can go to the New Fourth Army Office in Nanchang, Jiangxi." ”
meet
In 1942, Li Youlan was transferred to northern Jiangsu
He served as a stenographer in the Funing Anti-Japanese Base Area.
In 1942, the Central China Bureau was in
The Shan Jiagang Primary School in Funing, northern Jiangsu Province, held the first enlarged meeting of the party committee, at which Zhang Aiping was asked to give a speech on the situation and experience of the development of guerrilla armed forces.
Due to the suddenness of the incident, Zhang Aiping did not prepare a speech, and could only think of an impromptu speech.
Early the next morning, a female warrior sent Zhang Aiping a stack of transcripts of his speech.
Zhang Aiping was attracted by the neat and beautiful handwriting at a glance, and unconsciously looked up at the girl. In the evening, Zhang Aiping carefully read the transcript, and he found that the transcript was very serious and clear, and there were some irregularities, and she also made corrections and recorded his speech as a brilliantly focused and logical article.
The next day, Zhang Aiping asked someone to inquire, and learned that the other party's name was Li Youlan, who was an organization officer of the Political Department of the Central China Party School, and this time he was transferred to do shorthand work. She is a person who can not only speak on stage, but also write a record, especially in shorthand, she has a special talent, she can often organize rambling speech into a well-focused, logical and very talented article.
One day, Li Youlan found that his gloves were missing, and immediately went back to the conference room to look for them, but he couldn't find anything. Just as she was returning to her dorm room, she heard a knock at the door.
When she went out to see, it turned out that General Zhang Aiping had come to deliver gloves.
After sending the gloves, Zhang Aiping said the purpose of her coming this time: "I want to learn shorthand with you, to see if you can quickly complete the rambling meeting speech and organize it into a beautiful article, I am very envious, please accept me as an apprentice, right?" ”
After getting Li Youlan's consent, Zhang Aiping often squeezed out time to learn shorthand.
With the increase of contact, Zhang Aiping realized that Li Youlan, a talented and very virtuous woman, could
Introduced as a confidant, married as a lifelong partner.
The half-month meeting was coming to an end, and before they parted, the two gave each other gifts to show their thoughts.
Understand each other's intentions
In the two months of separation, Zhang Aiping wrote more than a dozen letters to Li Youlan, but did not receive any reply.
Just when Zhang Aiping was anxiously waiting, li Youlan also had an accident there.
On this day, Li Youlan was called to the office by her section chief, who knew that as soon as she entered the office, the section chief took out a stack of letters from the drawer and threw them on the table, and said with anger: "How can you write letters to people casually?" Why not just communicate casually when reporting to the organization? ”
Li Youlan took a look at the name on the letter, immediately recognized that it was written by Zhang Aiping, and immediately asked very angrily: "Why did you withhold my letter, and what right do you have to withhold my letter?" I haven't received a single letter so far, so how can I say that I'm casually communicating with people? I'm communicating with people, what's wrong? What discipline was violated? ”
After asking several questions, the section chief was stunned, and he said, "Don't forget your identity, he is the leader, you shouldn't be too casual, you go back!" ”
Li Youlan was also not a person willing to be bullied, and she grabbed the letter on the desk and rushed out of the office and came to the reeds.
The envelope was not sealed, Li Youlan knew that the letter had been read, she read it according to the date of the letter, there was no excessive language in the letter, and said in the last letter: I have not received your letter, am I sick? I may come to see you in two days.
Just when Li Youlan was immersed in Zhang Aiping's letter, a voice suddenly sounded in his ear: "Run here and doze off, I really will choose a place!" ”
Li Youlan turned his head to look at it, and saw Zhang Aiping standing there smiling and groaning.
"You don't talk much about equality to me, I wrote you a dozen or so letters, why don't you reply a word?"
"Didn't you just receive it!" I've always wondered, you said letters, how come it's been two months without a letter? No, my pitching boss withheld all the letters. ”
"Youlan, I really thank your boss, when you help me introduce, I want to thank him in person."
"Thank him?" Li Youlan said in surprise.
Zhang Aiping said triumphantly: "Of course, I want to thank him, but he has helped me a lot!" At least he let me know your attitude, and you don't reject my feelings for you, which gives me hope. ”
After this conversation, the hearts of the two came closer...
In the evening of this summer, a sudden rainstorm washed down the hut where Li Youlan lived, and she could only hide under the eaves of the neighboring house in frustration.
At this time, there was a sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and it turned out that Zhang Aiping was worried about her and braved the rain.
"Got a roof?"
"Are you still here in this kind of weather?"
"Youlan, will you marry me?"
"Willing to marry you! I won't get married today! ”
"Why can't it be today, go, come back with me!"
It turned out that two days ago, Zhang Aiping had already consulted Li Youlan's opinion, hoping that the two could get married as soon as possible. Li Youlan said that her considerations must be personally approved by Commander Chen Yi, otherwise the reproachful eyes and the discussion behind them are all things she cannot bear.
No, Zhang Aiping, after obtaining Chen Yi's consent, came to Li Youlan with the marriage application that signed Chen Yi's name.
So why did the section chief of Li Youlan Li Youlan say that she was, and what worries did Li Youlan have?
Li Youlan married Xiang Ying
It turned out that after Li Youlan arrived in the New Fourth Army, she was arranged to do mass work.
Because of her outstanding performance in her work, she soon participated in the study and training course held by the military department, and because of her outstanding talent, she was soon known as "a flower in the army".
In 1938, Li Youlan gave a speech on the stage of the New Fourth Army Conference, and Xiang Ying, who was sitting under the stage, fell in love with her at first sight. Soon after, he began to pursue Li Youlan. As long as it is Li Youlan's activities, Xiang Ying will not be absent.
Under Xiang Ying's meticulous care, Li Youlan soon fell in love.
In early 1941, Li Youlan married Xiang Ying.
However, less than two months after the new marriage, the news of Xiang Ying's sacrifice came, and Li Youlan could not bear the blow and was depressed for a long time.
However, her husband's sacrifice did not dampen her enthusiasm for revolution, and in order to divert her attention, she threw herself into her work to help herself out of her wounds.
This is also the reason why Zhang Aiping and Li Youlan met, the two of them had a good feeling for each other, but neither of them took this step.
However, all this ended with Chen Yi's signature and marriage consent, and the two ushered in a new life.
On August 8, 1942, Zhang Aiping and Li Youlan were officially married, this year Zhang Aiping was 32 years old and Li Youlan was 23 years old.
After getting married, the two have been spent in the joy of meeting each other and the thoughts of parting, and this time it has been more than sixty years. In the ups and downs of more than 60 years, Li Youlan has always been unfazed and not afraid of danger, and she has supported the whole family with her thin shoulders. Later, someone asked her to draw a line with her husband, but she smiled slightly: "Everyone has been taken away by you, what else can't be drawn?" But either way, I wouldn't agree to divorce him. ”
In order to rescue Zhang Aiping from prison and wash the sewage that had been spilled on his body, Li Youlan tirelessly ran around, and after several tosses and turns, he did not flinch, and finally gained freedom.
General Zhang Aiping was later put in charge of China's missile industry, and Li Youlan was transferred to his side to take care of Zhang Aiping's life and body...
In the fall of 1974, Zhang Aiping wrote a poem "
Wing Four Seasons Orchid
" to express feelings for his wife.
Idle in the valley,
Pray for earthly descent.
Sword Leaf BiRuSu Rui Jie,
Ice muscle jade heart melting.
Fragrant incense stained the hall,
Elegant and elegant.
Although it is a frost and snow night,
The fragrance is better than spring.