After the outbreak of the Korean War, after hearing that China was going to send volunteer troops to support Korea, Mao Anying quickly submitted an application to join the war.
Chairman Mao approved Mao Anying's application with pride and heartache. However, in Mao Anying's heart, if he wanted to enter the Korean War, he also had to obtain the consent of an old woman.
The Chairman had all agreed, so why did he have to seek the consent of others? Who is this old woman? She is Mao Anying's "handsome mother", a heroic revolutionary female fighter - Shuai Mengqi.
Progressive young woman - Handsome Mengqi
Born into a poor peasant family in Longyang, Hunan Province, Shuai Mengqi's parents have far-reaching visions and support their daughters in studying despite the difficulties of life.
Shuai Mengqi, who is only 6 years old, is studying in a private school, and she has not lived up to her parents' efforts, and she is very competitively admitted to Zhounan Girls' School.
During her studies at the girls' school, Shuai Mengqi was influenced by progressive ideas, but the poverty of the family could no longer support her to study, so Shuai Mengqi left the school and became a factory worker.
Later, Shuai Mengqi did not waste his knowledge and became a teacher in a girls' primary school, in which Shuai Mengqi met many progressive young women, and they also opened a minyi school together.
As a progressive young woman, Shuai Mengqi naturally came into contact with Marxism and knew the Chinese Communist Party.
She longed for a better life after the success of the revolution, so in 1926, Shuai Mengqi, under the introduction of Zhan Leqian, decided to join the Communist Party of China and make her own contribution to China's revolutionary cause.
Prior to this, Shuai Mengqi had married a progressive young man named Xu Zhizhen, and the two had a daughter. Chasing ideals, the family is also happy, handsome Mengqi's life looks full of light, but this is not the case.
Arrested and imprisoned
The tragedy of Shuai Mengqi's life is also a microcosm of many Communist Party members who sacrificed their lives for ideals and revolution at that time.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup d'état, and the whole land of China fell into a white terror. At this time, Shuai Mengqi was sent to Changsha and Wuhan as a liaison officer to find the lost party organizations.
Before leaving, Shuai Mengqi said goodbye to her husband Xu Zhizhen and her daughter, and at that time they did not know that this goodbye was a farewell.
In the years of wandering outside, Shuai Mengqi missed her husband and daughter who were far away from home all the time, but she also always struggled for her revolutionary ideals, and she wanted to create a brighter China for her daughter. Gradually, Shuai Mengqi also became a senior cadre of the Communist Party and was active in various revolutionary activities.
For the Communist Party, which was operating underground at the time, the more active it was, the more dangerous it became.
In 1932, Shuai Mengqi was arrested by the Kuomintang for being betrayed by traitors within the organization.
The betrayer of Shuai Mengqi was a factory worker named Xiaozhu, who had been missing for several days, and Shuai Mengqi had to ask Wang Dajie to take over her job.
That day was the first day that Wang Dajie participated in the work, and Shuai Mengqi met with her at Xinzha Bridge, but unexpectedly, there were already ambushed Kuomintang agents there, waiting for Shuai Mengqi to "throw himself into the net".
In the face of the arrest of the agents, Shuai Mengqi behaved calmly and wittily, pretending to be a rural woman who did not understand the world, and asked in a Hunan dialect: "What's wrong, what are you doing?" ”
In the process of the agent's search, he snatched two keys and threw them into the Suzhou Creek to protect his comrades.
Severely tortured, tight-lipped
Shuai Mengqi, who was captured by the agents of the Nationalist army, was brutally tortured. Tiger stools, pressed bars, waterboarding, and other conceivable tortures have left scars on Shuai Mengqi's body, and even the enemy has poured kerosene into her eyes, mouth and nostrils, causing Shuai Mengqi's eyes to go blind.
Seeing that Shuai Mengqi was unwavering in the face of severe torture, the enemy also sent betrayers to lobby Shuai Mengqi, but Shuai Mengqi, who was determined, did not waver, and in the end did not betray the party organization.
With such great effort, the enemy was unable to pry open Shuai Mengqi's mouth, so he had to put her in a "model prison" in Nanjing.
In the "model prison", Shuai Mengqi was imprisoned for four years, but during these four years, Shuai Mengqi did not forget her responsibility as a Communist Party member, she secretly propagated Marxism, and also took the lead in launching a campaign to demand that the Kuomintang guarantee the basic human rights of detainees, and demand clean bath water, hot meals, wind and exercise time.
It can be said that even in prison, Shuai Mengqi showed his purpose as a Communist Party member to seek happiness for the people and serve the people.
In 1937, Shuai Mengqi finally ended her imprisonment and was successfully rescued by our party. However, the tragedy of her life is far from over.
Fu ions dispersed and started a new business
Shuai Mengqi was imprisoned for four years, lived four years of inhuman life, during which the party organization could not contact Shuai Mengqi, her family could not contact Shuai Mengqi, Xu Zhizhen thought that Shuai Mengqi had died, so he married someone else and formed a new family, and her only daughter also died in the war.
Shuai Mengqi, who suffered from prison, suffered such a family tragedy, but all this did not hit her, but made Shuai Mengqi more powerful. After forgetting his grief, Shuai Mengqi threw himself into the revolutionary cause.
Shuai Mengqi, who lost her children, paid special attention to the children, and she knew that many young people had left behind revolutionary orphans after sacrificing themselves in the revolutionary cause, and although the party cared for them, they still lacked the care of their mothers.
Therefore, after entering Yan'an, Shuai Mengqi adopted many revolutionary orphans, and Shuai Mengqi took care of them as if he were taking care of his own children.
In addition to the revolutionary orphans, Shuai Mengqi was also responsible for taking care of the children of some cadres. These children felt meticulous care and motherly care in this revolutionary heroine who had experienced hell on earth but never gave up her faith and ideals, and they all affectionately shouted "handsome mother" to Shuai Mengqi.
And Mao Anying, who is also one of the many children who are cared for by the "handsome mother", has never forgotten this mother-like person. Therefore, this is the reason why Mao Anying said at the beginning that Mao Anying's resistance to the United States and aid korea must also go through the consent of his "handsome mother."
After Mao Anying's sacrifice, Shuai Mengqi, who learned the news, was also white-headed, grief-stricken, and even seriously ill, Shuai Mengqi has determined from the heart that these children are her own children, and each of them affects the mood of this great "mother".
The Scythians are gone, and the living are like this. Shuai Mengqi's life continues. After his retirement, Shuai Mengqi did not live a resting life like the elderly, but still devoted himself to the cause of youth education and training of young cadres, and continuously cultivated talents for our party.
In 1998, Shuai Mengqi finally went to Beijing, and she was 101 years old. Every step through the founding of New China, even in his later years, has made his own contribution to China's development. "No children, but full of children and grandchildren", the handsome mother has won the love and respect of the children with her care. And this is the life of a truly glorious Party member.