At the end of September 1956, many relatives and friends received an invitation from Ma Zeying, the founding major general and political commissar of the Fifth Division of the People's Liberation Army Air Force, saying that he would hold a wedding for his son Ma Yongyi in October.
On the day of the wedding banquet, the Ma family came to many guests, a festive and joyful atmosphere. However, when the bride and groom appeared hand in hand, the guests were shocked: the bride turned out to be the daughter of Major General Ma Zeying!
In other words, Ma Zeying let his daughter marry his son.
Everyone knows Ma Zeying, knows that he is extremely principled in his dealings with the world, and will never do anything that violates ethics and morality, but the scene in front of him is real, and everyone is puzzled: What is going on?
Ma Zeying saw the confused expressions of the crowd, smiled and said, "Dear distinguished guests, please forgive me, there are some things I should explain to you first." ”
Sure enough, this seemingly unethical marriage is really hidden behind it.
To find out the ins and outs of this marriage, we have to start with an old incident from 22 years ago.
In the winter of 1934, Ma Zeying, who was the instructor of the health team of the Fourth Regiment of the Second Division of the Red First Army, began a arduous long march with his unit.
One day, the Red I Corps was suddenly attacked by an enemy force, and a fierce battle began between the two sides.
As the battle progressed, the wounded continued to be sent to the health team, and Ma Zeying led the team members to treat the wounded in a race against time.
At the height of the fighting, two stretcher bearers carried a bloodied and unconscious Red Army wounded man. Curiously, the male wounded man had a swaddled baby in his arms who was crying incessantly.
Ma Zeying asked in surprise, "How did this warrior take his child to fight?" ”
The stretcher bearer explained: "His wife was also in the army, and in the breakout battle, his wife died heroically, and the soldier had to tie the child to his body to continue fighting, but he did not expect to be seriously injured again..."
Ma Zeying listened, and immediately arranged for medical staff to rescue the seriously injured person, while he himself picked up the child.
Just then the badly wounded man awoke, his eyes open, his mouth open, as if he had something to say.
Ma Zeying quickly leaned down and brought his ear close to his mouth.
In a very weak voice, the wounded man said intermittently, "I... I can't do it, the drug is used by other comrades... It's just that...... Just this kid... child...... I request..."
At this point, he no longer had the strength to speak, but two lines of tears flowed from the corners of his eyes.
Ma Ze greeted him and hurriedly said, "Leave this child to me!" Comrades you rest assured! ”
When the wounded man heard this, a grateful smile appeared on his face, and he immediately tilted his head and died like this, without even leaving his name.
Although Ma Zeying was only 22 years old at the time, he had never been in love or married, but he had become a father - he adopted the martyr's orphan and called him father and son.
As we all know, during the Long March, the Red Army had to face the enemy's heavy siege, and the situation was dangerous and complicated. Ma Zeying with a baby, is more troublesome, no doubt added a great burden to himself.
Although Ma Zeying did not know the baby's parents and only met once before his father died, the revolutionary friendship with his comrades in arms in the army made Ma Zeying always keep his dying instructions firmly in mind and shoulder the heavy responsibility of raising and caring for the children.
When the troops marched, Ma Zeying carried the child on his back; when he slept, he was afraid that he was sleeping too deeply on the child, so he picked up the child and sat down to sleep; there was not enough food to eat, he would rather starve himself, but also let the child have something to eat; during the snow mountain, he took out the cotton in his cotton jacket, sewed a small cotton jacket, and finally let the child safely cross the snowy mountain under the cold...
Because the conditions were too harsh and the environment was too harsh, countless Red Army soldiers fell on the Long March. However, what is amazing is that Ma Zeying, a young novice father, took the unrelated baby safely to Yan'an.
Later, after being introduced, Ma Zeying married Guo Zhiyong, a female student of Yan'an Anti-Japanese University. After they became a family, they had their own children, but they always treated the martyr's orphan as if they were their own, even more attentive than caring for their own children.
Ma Zeying named the child "Courageous", which means that he wants him to be a brave and resolute man.
Under the upbringing and education of Ma Zeying and his wife, Ma Yongyi grew into a young man with excellent academics and character, and was also admitted to university and participated in work.
At this time, Ma Zeying and his wife, like many parents all over the world, worried about Ma Yongyi's lifelong events.
They found that their biological daughter and Ma Yongyi had a good relationship since childhood, and the two were always happy when they were together.
Over time, Ma Zeying and his wife also had a seemingly bold but completely plausible idea: Since these two young people are not related by blood and are in agreement with each other, why not simply let them change from brothers and sisters to two sons?
Unexpectedly, when Ma Zeying and his wife asked the children for advice in a tentative tone, the two young people implicitly agreed, which was really a great joy for everyone.
On the day of the wedding, although some guests did not understand why Ma Zeying let their son and daughter marry at first, when they learned the truth of the matter, they were deeply touched and sent the most sincere wishes to the couple.