72 years, maybe this is a person's life, maybe you will feel that this is very long, can be used to do a lot of things, but for her, such a long time, but only enough for her to do one thing, that is, to wait for her husband to return.
Who is she? She was Chi Yuhua, the wife of Li Cailian, a senior red army general. Li Cailian's family was very poor, but his father knew the importance of culture, even if he borrowed money to let him go to school, Li Cailian was also exposed to revolutionary ideas, and he joined the Communist Party at the age of 15. In 1933, he was promoted to the secretary of the central county of Jianning County, Fujian Province, and he was also the youngest cadre at that time. In 1934, he was appointed secretary of the Central Soviet Sub-Bureau of the Young Communist Party and was sent to Jiangxi, the base of guerrilla warfare at that time. Unfortunately, in May 1935, because the deputy squad leader of the guard was bribed by the enemy, he fired a shot at Li Cailian in the back, and Li Cailian, who had just turned 22, fell on the battlefield.
In that era, Chi Yuhua changed from Li Cailian's child daughter-in-law to his wife, but after only three days of marriage, Li Cailian went to the battlefield. Before going out, Li Cailian found his wife and told her not to tell others that he was on the front line, because he was very poor at the time, he spent all the money on his body, and only bought a mirror for his wife to leave.
In 1949, after the founding of New China, Chi Yuhua still couldn't help but miss it and went to the army to find her husband, but unfortunately there was no news. So she sought help from the Women's Federation, but the Women's Federation could not bear to tell her directly the fact that her husband had sacrificed, so she told her to live well at home, and her husband would come back to see her. She gave birth carefully, and also became the township women's director, and later the county people's congress deputies, and the "March 8" red flag bearer.
In 1983, the Ministry of Civil Affairs verified the fact that Li Cailian had sacrificed herself and personally handed over the martyr's certificate to Chi Yuhua, but Chi Yuhua did not give up her waiting, as if this was her mission, this wait was 72 years, it was her life. Old Man Chi Yuhua sat at the threshold of the gate every day and waited, and the threshold of her home was eventually sunken by the depression where she sat. On April 24, 2005, the elderly Chi Yuhua passed away with longing for the age of 95. Not everyone can spend a lifetime waiting for one person, and we should still leave more admiration to this old man in addition to regrets.