In August 1945, Japan announced its surrender, and the War of Resistance Against Japan was finally victorious.
However, at this moment when the whole country was rejoicing, in the Los Angeles nursery in Yan'an, an incomparably heart-wrenching tragedy occurred.
Liu Bocheng's 6-year-old daughter Liu Huabei was brutally murdered, and a piece of her abdomen was also shaved off, and the blood stained the entire quilt red.
After the bad news came out, Liu Bocheng and his wife were very distressed and difficult to accept for a while.
The crowd was very angry, and the central government also attached great importance to it, and immediately ordered the security department to investigate and find out who killed Liu Huabei, who was only 6 years old.
During the investigation, a child who lived in the same room as Liu Huabei said that on the night Liu Huabei was killed, he heard Liu Huabei say to the murderer:
"Uncle, I know you."
This clue shocked everyone and made the case even more confusing.
So, who exactly killed Liu Huabei, and what was their purpose?
Happy life in Los Angeles daycare
Liu Huabei was Liu Bocheng's second child, born in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Bocheng served as the commander of the 129th Division, and together with Deng Xiaoping led the fighters to fight against the Japanese army.
Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping
At that time, the war situation was very turbulent, and Liu Bocheng and his wife had no time to take care of their daughter Liu Huabei.
Therefore, Liu Huabei, like his brother Liu Taixing, was entrusted by Liu Bocheng to be taken care of by others, and basically rarely saw his parents.
At that time, the descendants of most of the generals of our army, like Liu Huabei, often had to follow the troops to move, facing many dangers, and many children were even severely malnourished.
In particular, Liu Huabei's brother Liu Taixing, when he was half a year old, his grandmother suddenly left, could only eat wild vegetables paste, diarrhea every day, soon thin skin and bones, almost two years old can not walk.
Liu Taixing took a photo with others
In 1939, Fu Lianzhang proposed to Chairman Mao to open a central nursery in Yan'an.
Chairman Mao expressed his approval and said to Fu Lianzhang, "This is a big deal, we must hurry up, the sooner the better, and let Jiaojiao be the first to register." ”
Jiaojiao is Chairman Mao's daughter Li Min, and Chairman Mao is very concerned about Li Min, but he has not had time to take care of him.
In the spring of 1940, the Yan'an Central Nursery was established, with Ugly Zigang as its director and responsible for taking care of the children.
When it was first established, it was said to be a nursery, but in fact there were only a few cave holes, and the conditions were very simple.
Li min
The first batch of nurseries also accepted only 7 children, including Chairman Mao's daughter Li Min.
Later, the generals on the front line sent their children one after another, and there were more and more children in the nursery, and Liu Taixing and Liu Huabei were among them.
In the nursery, in addition to the director ugly Gang, there are also some nursery staff served by young female cadres, who are not afraid of suffering or tiredness, and take good care of the children very seriously.
Despite the best efforts of the nursery staff and the soldiers, the central nursery still encountered many difficulties.
In the period after the establishment of the Central Nursery, the War of Resistance Against Japan entered a stalemate, and the Japanese army carried out various sweeps and blockades against the Eighth Route Army.
In addition to the Japanese army, the Kuomintang also began to "passively resist Japan and actively oppose communism," and even imposed an economic blockade on the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region in a vain attempt to trap our army.
The warriors' lives were therefore very difficult, and they did not even have food to eat.
Under such circumstances, everyone naturally did their best to ensure the children's lives first, and the soldiers starved and demanded that the supplies be provided to the children first.
Still, children are often at risk of outages.
Song Qingling
At this time, Song Qingling in Hong Kong was very concerned about the situation of the nursery, and when she learned that the children's lives were very difficult, she immediately contacted the patriotic overseas Chinese in Los Angeles in the name of the "Alliance for the Defense of China" and organized fundraising.
Patriotic overseas Chinese in Los Angeles donated medicines, clothes, food and various children's supplies to the nursery.
The materials were transported to Yan'an after a very difficult transportation, which greatly improved the lives of the children in the nursery.
In order to thank these patriotic overseas Chinese, the central government changed the name of the central nursery to "Los Angeles nursery" in May 1942.
Los Angeles Daycare
That's why in Yan'an, there is a nursery named after the American city of Los Angeles.
After that, Song Qingling repeatedly tried to provide various supplies to the Los Angeles nursery, and once even sent a large scale to the children, so that the nursery staff could better understand the children's physical condition.
It can be said that the ability of childcare to successfully survive the crisis is inseparable from the help of Song Qingling and many patriotic overseas Chinese.
Song Qingling
In the nursery, Liu Huabei is relatively young, because she has not seen her parents for a long time, and she and her brother are extra close, and they follow her brother Liu Taixing's ass almost every day.
Liu Taixing also loves this sister very much and always does his best to take care of her.
In fact, not only Liu Taixing, other children and all the nursery staff are very fond of Liu Huabei.
She looks cute and loving, with a chubby little round face, big eyes, and that look is not very attractive.
Of course, the nursery staff liked Liu Huabei so much because she was the most obedient child in the whole nursery.
Liu Bocheng (stills)
Although he is young, he has never been naughty, and he often takes the initiative to help the nursery staff, which can be said to be the heart of the entire nursery.
Liu Bocheng and his wife are very busy at work and rarely come to the nursery, so every time they come, Liu Huabei is very happy.
Liu Bocheng and Liu Bocheng also loved this second daughter very much, but unfortunately, everyone did not expect that such a lovely Liu Huabei would be brutally killed.
At the age of 6, he was brutally killed by the enemy
In August 1945, Japan announced its surrender and won the War of Resistance Against Japan, but Chiang Kai-shek launched a civil war in a vain attempt to eliminate the Chinese Communist Party.
Chiang Kai-shek and Chairman Mao
They also dispatched a large number of agents to carry out various sabotage activities in the Liberated Areas.
There are many children of senior generals of our army and orphans of martyrs in the Los Angeles nurseries, which naturally became the focus of the Kuomintang agents.
The staff of the nursery also found strangers nearby many times, so the director of the nursery, Ugly Gang, specially asked the nursery staff to stand guard 24 hours a day, and there must be no slackness.
One night at about 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, Xiao Yan, a childcare worker on the night shift, suddenly found two figures in the cave where the child lived.
At the same time, he also heard what seemed to be movement down the hillside, which startled her and hurriedly shouted loudly.
"Get out and catch the bad guys!"
Xiao Yan's cry immediately woke up the other nurserymen in the nursery, and the figure on the top of the cave suddenly disappeared.
But when another childcare worker on night duty went down the hillside to check, suddenly someone smashed the dirt block down the hillside, frightening Xiao Yan into hurrying to continue shouting.
Ugly Gang with children
Soon, the ugly director and the other nurserymen came out, they first went to see the child, after confirming that there was no problem, called the cook who lived under the hillside, and went to the nursery together to look around, and found nothing.
In the nursery, except for the cooks, the other staff are basically lesbians, because the nursery is located on the hillside, there is no one nearby, and most of the male fighters are sent to the front, so there are almost no male comrades in the nursery.
After this incident, the ugly director once again raised the vigilance of all the staff, and finally failed to prevent the tragedy from happening.
On the night of August 18, 1945, it was a Saturday, and although it was only August, the night was exceptionally cold.
The director of the nursery, Ugly Gang, carried a horse lantern and went into the caves where the children lived, and checked the children's situation very carefully.
This is a habit she has formed over the years, no matter how late she must go to see the child before going to bed, otherwise she will not be able to sleep at all.
At this time, most of the children were already asleep, only a few children were still playing naughtily, and ugly Gang gently coaxed them to sleep.
She also found that some children had kicked the quilt open, and she covered the quilt for fear that the children would get sick.
By the time everything was done, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening, but she didn't dare to slacken off a little, and she definitely couldn't let the children have an accident no matter what.
Then she walked out of the cave and walked over to the two nurseries on duty and went out of her way to tell them.
"You must be vigilant, understand?"
The two nurserymen patiently listened to the instructions and said to ugly Oka.
"Ugly director, you can go to sleep with confidence, we will definitely protect the child."
At this time, ugly Gang returned to the cave where he worked and slept together.
The night was getting deeper, the weather was getting colder, and there was exceptional silence around.
The two nurserymen kept patrolling the nursery, but they didn't find anything unusual, and they couldn't help but feel a little cold.
So the old nurseryman said to the young, "You watch here first, and I'll go and boil some hot water." ”
"Okay." The young nurseryman nodded and replied, but not long after the old nurseryman left, her stomach suddenly hurt.
At first she thought it was the wind, so she wrapped her clothes tightly, but her stomach hurt more and more, and before long she squatted on the ground in pain, sweating profusely.
She wanted to call out to the old nurseryman, but the thought of shouting like this would definitely wake up the children.
She thought about it and decided to go find some painkillers to take.
She felt that it was already the middle of the night, it was almost dawn, she had left for a short while and came back, and there should be nothing wrong.
So she hurried to find painkillers to eat, and soon felt better, so she returned to the yard with the old nurseryman.
The two men looked around again, but still found nothing unusual.
After that, they went to the cave where the child lived and looked at it, and found that the cave was very quiet, so they were much relieved.
Soon, a night passed, the sky gradually brightened, and the morning light came again.
The next morning, when the whistle sounded, the children came out of the bed one by one and began to get dressed and wash their faces.
Of course, there are also young children who do not wear clothes, and the nursery staff will help them wear them.
Although Liu Huabei is only 6 years old, she can already dress skillfully, and she does not need the help of a nurseryman at all, and sometimes she even helps other children get dressed.
But this morning, some nursery workers suddenly found that Liu Huabei had not risen, which made them very confused.
In the past, Liu Huabei was always the first child to get dressed and come out to do morning exercises every time, how could he not get up today.
They couldn't help but worry, could this child be sick.
The nurseryman hurried to the cave and opened his mouth to see.
"North China, North China."
But no matter how she shouted, Liu Huabei never moved, and the nursery staff panicked even more and hurried to Liu Huabei's bed.
She found that the quilt completely wrapped around Liu Huabei, and the whole person was motionless.
The nurseryman hurriedly opened the quilt, but the scene inside stunned her.
Liu Huabei was covered in blood in the bed, lying motionless on the bed, the whole person had long been frozen, and the abdomen had been ripped off, and the blood had stained the snow-white quilt all red.
"Ugly director, ugly director!"
Seeing this scene, the nurseryman screamed and went to find the ugly director in a panic.
Soon, almost everyone arrived at the cave where Liu Huabei was located, and they were very sad, and they all couldn't help but shed tears.
Ugly Zigang looked at Liu Huabei's corpse, she was already in tears, she couldn't believe that such a lovely North China had been killed, and she kissed this little guy's chubby round face yesterday.
The identity of the murderer is a mystery
Although he was very sad, ugly Zigang still endured the heartache and said to the crowd: "Zhou Guizhi, Cao Hejing, you two protect the scene, the others take care of the child, even if you sacrifice yourself, you must not let the child have an accident again." ”
Then the ugly gang immediately reported the matter to Fu Lianzhang and the central security department, looking at the body of North China, she felt extremely guilty and remorseful.
Fu Lianzhang
If she had guarded North China last night, North China would not have been brutally killed, which made her explain to Liu Bocheng and his wife that they believed in her so much, but she failed to protect North China.
Despite the pain, ugly Zigang still let people tell Liu Bocheng and Wang Ronghua about this matter.
When the two learned of the murder of their children, they were stunned on the spot.
Then Liu Bocheng calmly asked, "Has the news been confirmed?" ”
The soldier who delivered the news suppressed tears and replied very unbearably.
"Sure, the ugly director asked you to go to the nursery."
Liu Bocheng
Liu Bocheng nodded and said calmly, "Well, you go back and tell the ugly director that we will arrive in a moment." ”
After the soldier left, Liu Bocheng sat in a chair and did not look up.
Wang Ronghua stood straight, seemed to stop thinking, and after a long time she looked down at her husband Liu Bocheng, and then as if she had lost all her strength, she suddenly lay on Liu Bocheng's body.
"Bo Cheng, is this true, North China she, she really, really?"
Wang Ronghua could no longer say the complete words, but just kept crying and talking, and the whole person was immersed in the great sorrow of the bereaved woman.
"Ronghua, be strong, I am as sad as you are to lose North China, but we are about to go to the front line, we still have to complete important tasks, and we must not fall at this time!"
Liu Bochengqiang held back tears and gently comforted his wife, he was also very heartbroken to lose his beloved daughter, but he knew what kind of heavy responsibility he was carrying, and he absolutely could not fall.
"I know, I, I will....."
Wang Ronghua said while crying, he had long been unable to cry.
Liu Bocheng hugged his wife tightly and continued.
"Ronghua, if you want to cry, cry now, don't cry when you get to the nursery, the comrades who were killed in the nursery in North China must be very guilty, so let's not increase their pressure."
Wang Ronghua
Wang Ronghua nodded, then suppressed tears and began to pack up his things and go to the nursery.
Soon after, Liu Bocheng and his wife arrived at the nursery, and Ugly Zigang took them to the scene and told them what had happened with great guilt.
At this time, Liu Huabei was lying quietly on the bed, and his small face, which used to be full of smiles, was now very pale.
It turned out that every time she saw her parents, she would always jump and jump happily, but now she could no longer speak or smile anymore.
Wang Ronghua did not dare to look at her daughter, she did not know how she got to her daughter.
At this time, she couldn't help but have tears in her eyes, she thought of Liu Bocheng's blessing, and immediately suppressed the tears, determined not to let herself cry.
Subsequently, the couple silently walked out of the cave and looked at the very sad staff around them.
Liu Bocheng and Wang Ronghua
"Comrades, don't be too sad, this is the enemy's conspiracy, and we want to attack us by assassinating North China, so we must be strong, defeat the enemy, and let the enemy's plot fail."
Hearing Liu Bocheng's words, all the staff of the nursery shed tears.
They thought that Liu Bocheng would blame them, but Liu Bocheng comforted them instead, which made them extremely touched by the spirit of selflessness.
Subsequently, Liu Bocheng and his wife went to visit the other children, and then left the nursery and went to the front line.
Liu Bocheng
After Liu Huabei was killed, the central authorities attached great importance to it and sent security departments to conduct a careful investigation of the entire nursery.
During the investigation, a child who lived in the same cave as Liu Huabei said that he had seen an uncle with a cloth wrapped around his head that night and walked to Huabei's bed with a flashlight.
He heard Liu Huabei say, "Uncle, I know you." ”
The uncle hurriedly said, "Don't talk, the child, the uncle will give you biscuits to eat." ”
What happened after that, the child did not know.
The security department immediately conducted an in-depth investigation based on this clue, but after a long time of investigation, it has not found the person with the cloth wrapped around the head that the child said.
Until now, the case has become a pending case, and the murderer has never been found.
But it is certain that the enemy killed North China in order to strike at Liu Bocheng, who was invincible on the battlefield.
The enemy thought that by assassinating Liu Huabei, they could crush Liu Bocheng, but they underestimated Liu Bocheng's firm will and unchangeable revolutionary determination.
After returning to the front, Liu Bocheng quickly adjusted his mentality and led the fighters to launch a counter-offensive against the Kuomintang reactionaries.
Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping
In September 1945, Liu Deng's army concentrated the main forces of three columns and launched the Shangdang Campaign, successfully annihilating more than 35,000 Kuomintang enemy troops and capturing more than 31,000 enemy troops, dealing a heavy blow to the Kuomintang reactionaries and smashing the enemy's plot.
However, for the tragic death of his daughter, Liu Bocheng has always been very heartbroken, even after decades, Marshal Liu Bocheng is lying on a hospital bed and about to die, he still said sadly.
"The case in North China has not been solved, and I am blind to death."
Today, Liu Bocheng and Wang Ronghua have passed away, but the murderer of North China has still not been found.
The murderer may have died long ago, and the truth may never be known, which is a great regret.
But in the same way, Marshal Liu Bocheng's great selflessness and patriotic spirit are worthy of admiration and study by all of us.
Bibliography:
Chinese Communist Party News Network: Liu Bocheng's 6-year-old daughter North China: The mystery of being killed in a nursery