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In 1920, a young man finally married his beloved girl.
Their combination has made a good story of revolutionary love.
She is a crying, delicate woman, who was carefully raised by her parents before meeting the love of her life, like a flower waiting to bloom, beautiful and elegant.
But in prison, faced with the threat of the death of her enemy, she did not want to break off relations with her husband as the enemy wished.
Yang Kaihui and Chairman Mao
With her young body, she maintained the purest appearance of love and defended the revolutionary faith in her heart.
She is a legendary lady in the history of our party - Yang Kaihui;
Her husband, Chairman Mao Zedong, was the founder of New China.
In the moment of separation, they did not see each other for the last time.
Until 1982, the staff of the relevant departments in Bancang County, Hunan Province, was repairing the former residence of Ms. Yang Kaihui.
A pile of letters hidden in bricks and tiles once again showed their stories in front of everyone's eyes, and people could not help but be moved to tears...
Romantic encounters, mutual affection
Runzhi and Ms. Yang Kaihui met in a perfect encounter.
It was a rainy afternoon.
Chairman Mao
After taking a nap, Yang Kaihui was enjoying the rain in the courtyard when she suddenly heard a knock on the door in the distance.
Looking up, a tall, beautiful young man was slowly walking toward her.
In the later years of Yang Kaihui's life, this moment was replayed many times in her mind.
This tall young man came to find Father Yang, Yang Changji.
He speaks a thick Hunan dialect, but is polite.
When he learned that Yang's father was not at home, the youth spread out a book on the stone steps, watching and waiting.
When Yang Changji returned, he was still immersed in the book, and he did not even find it after standing in front of him for a long time.
"Runzhi, I've been waiting for a long time, what book am I reading?"
Father Yang cared in a gentle tone as he bent down to pick up the book that had been frightened to the ground by the youth.
At this time, Yang Kaihui, who was standing on the side, glanced at it and saw the title of the book, "The Communist Manifesto."
After this meeting, at the request of Yang Changji, Runzhi stayed at home, which also provided an opportunity for the two to meet.
In the days that followed, Yang Kaihui, who had just opened his heart, found that he had long been deeply in love with Chairman Mao.
But the age difference between the two is 8 years, afraid that her father will find out and punish herself, she has always buried this love deep in her heart and has never revealed it to anyone.
In fact, Chairman Mao's heart was also moved by this clever and clever sister.
But he felt that Kaihui was a girl of everyone, and he was still a young man with nothing, and the gap between the two in identity and status was too big.
In this way, the two people who were in love could not be honest with each other because of the careful thinking in their hearts.
What really makes the two of them open their hearts and show their love for each other is the appearance of Tao Yi.
Tao Yi
At that time, Tao Yi not only had a very rich family, but also a popular figure in Zhounan Girls' High School.
After knowing Chairman Mao at the Changsha Literature Society, Tao Yi launched a strong pursuit of him.
At this moment, Yang Kaihui began to become unable to calm down all day long.
She knew that in her heart, the weight of Runzhi was heavy.
That period was also the most difficult and silent time in Chairman Mao's life.
He could not face Kaihui's disappointment and her growing emaciation.
He wrote to him a beautiful verse that read, "A hook of the moon flows westward, and there is no reason not to shed tears."
Runzhi's poem made Yang Kaihui more determined to join hands with him for a lifetime.
The two of them hung their hearts over each other and began to connect.
Yang Changji
In 1920, the teacher Yang Changji died of illness, and Runzhi was busy before and after taking care of the aftermath.
This also made Yang Kaihui feel an unprecedented sense of security, and she began to envision the future life of the two.
In this year, the two finally walked together.
Yang Kaihui and Chairman Mao's wedding was not grand or lively, but it was the best memory of her life.
Soon after the marriage, Mao Zedong threw himself into the revolutionary cause, and the two began to live together less and more.
It was a time of upheaval and displacement.
From Changsha, to Chongqing, to Wuhan and Changsha...
Yang Kaihui suffered a lot with Chairman Mao, but he always stuck to the chairman's side, and sometimes even became his confidential secretary.
As the saying goes, in a bitter life, with companionship, it seems more precious and sweet...
We are in love with each other, and we respect each other as guests
Yang Kaihui devoted all his love to Chairman Mao.
She never complained about her busy career and less family care.
Chairman Mao
After 1924, Chairman Mao's work became busier.
During that time, when our Party's revolutionary cause suffered setbacks, Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei respectively launched revolutionary coups and lit up the butcher's knife at the Communist Party of China.
But for a woman, having children is a big thing in life.
Yang Kaihui successively gave birth to three brothers, Mao Anying, Mao Anqing, and Mao Anyong, for Chairman Mao.
As a husband, Chairman Mao was busy with his career and missed his wife three times to accompany him.
When Mao Anlong was born, Chairman Mao visited Yang Kaihui a week later.
In the hospital room, as soon as Chairman Mao saw his weak wife, the tears could not stop falling.
He choked and said to Yang Kaihui:
"I'm sorry for you, three children were born, I didn't stay by your side, I'm not a qualified husband."
In order not to make Chairman Mao feel guilty, Yang Kaihui quipped to him:
"You're a big man, even if you keep by my side, can you give birth to a child for me?"
The whole ward was amused by her funny words.
Yang Kaihui
Chairman Mao looked at the sleeping Shore Dragon in the nanny's arms, and a long-lost smile appeared on his face.
In his heart, his wife's understanding has also become the biggest driving force for his career to move forward.
However, it did not take long for Chairman Mao to "abandon" Yang Kaihui again.
During this period, outside the Party, our Party was faced with a grim situation;
Within the Party, Chairman Mao proposed at many meetings that he should change his thinking on work.
The Soviet-Russian revolutionary road of "cities encircling the countryside" will not work in China.
But in life, Chairman Mao has always been uneasy about his wife.
He deliberately sought out Xiang Jianyu, hoping that she could comfort Yang Kaihui for himself.
It was a warm afternoon, two old friends, strolling under the willows, the breeze blowing.
At this moment, they seem to have returned to the past time of studying at Changsha Girls' High School.
To the police
Xiang Jianyu briefed Yang Kaihui on the situation in our party in the past year.
When I heard my friend say that many comrades of our party were tragically assassinated by the Kuomintang opposition,
Her heart suddenly went up to her throat, and she was very worried about Chairman Mao's safety.
But the police patted her on the shoulder and smiled and told her:
"Mao Zedong, as a man, was always very lucky."
This sentence only slightly relieved Yang Kaihui.
In the memory of Yang Kaihui's life, August 1927 was a day of separation and farewell.
The Party Central Committee sent Mao Zedong to the Changsha front to direct the Autumn Harvest Uprising.
It was a short period of happiness, and Yang Kaihui leaned on Chairman Mao's broad arms.
She forcibly endured the reluctance in her heart, tears were already swirling in her eyes, and whispered softly:
"My children and I will be at home waiting for you to return safely."
But no one expected that this parting would become the eternal regret of the two people.
Yang Kaihui and Chairman Mao
Yang Kaihui is a strong and loyal woman.
As soon as the children grew up, she threw herself into the organization of the peasant movement without hesitation.
Looking back at the seven years of marriage between the two, they have always gathered less and left more, but the love between each other has never changed...
A piece of love letter, telling each other about their hearts
After Chairman Mao left, what Yang Kaihui had to do every day was to collect some news about the Chinese Communist Party and Mao Zedong.
She began to fall into deep thoughts, but in order to distract her husband from his career,
She could only begin to write letters to herself, but also to her husband, to express her inner lovesickness.
In 1982, when the staff of the relevant departments in Itakura Prefecture opened the letters and opened the first one, all the people were left in tears.
Letters found
Yang Kaihui wrote:
"Runzhi, I can't sleep all night, and I start to think about you, but I can't write to you, your career is great, I am willing to bear everything that is lonely..."
Chairman Mao at that time had long since become a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh of the Kuomintang opposition.
At the end of 1927, the Kuomintang even offered a reward of 5,000 oceans in Changsha to catch Mao Zedong.
The days went by slowly, one day, one month or a year, Yang Kaihui did not wait for the news of Chairman Mao, and the other Mao family members did not hear from them.
Finally, in 1928, Yang Kaihui finally waited for her husband's reply.
In his letter, Chairman Mao metaphorically expressed:
"In recent months, our business has not been very good, but now that we have moved to a place, we have slowly made money."
The tacit understanding between the two made her understand that this was her husband's report of peace.
Chairman Mao
That night, there was a sudden cold wind blowing outside.
Yang Kaihui tossed and turned in bed.
She looked forward to seeing her husband, but at the same time did not want to delay the development of his revolutionary cause.
In his heart, he has been weighing and has been exhorting himself.
In her second letter, she wrote that "the letters are not accessible, and there is no one to ask." ”
Not only that, yang kaihui had a long dream at night.
She recalled her encounter and acquaintance with Chairman Mao.
Both are people who are not good at expressing feelings, and their inner likes are often hidden in their hearts.
In fact, Yang Kaihui has always wanted to thank Tao Yi, and it was her appearance that made Runzhi and her finally come together.
She is also reminiscing about "Yu Meiren Pillow" written for him by Runzhi, which should have been a sweet time, but now it has been filled with loneliness.
But she was not upset, she felt that what her husband had done was for the great cause of the people, for the people, and for the nation.
It's just that women are always vulnerable, and she really misses her husband too much.
Thinking of this, she wrote down with a stroke of her pen, "Hate peerless flying, fly to meet the Zi people." The people are not allowed to see it, and there is no time to worry about it. ”
Yang Kaihui manuscript
By this time, tears had already soaked the writing paper.
There were too few ways for her to learn about her husband and the Red Army;
Coupled with the fact that the opposition had been publicizing the dilemma of the Red Army after reaching Jinggangshan all day, he couldn't help but make Yang Kaihui feel a tightness in his heart.
On the other hand, Chairman Mao, who had not heard from his wife and children for a long time, entrusted Wu Fushou to go to the countryside and countryside of Changsha to look for Yang Kaihui's mother and son.
When Wu Fushou returned, he told a piece of news that shocked Chairman Mao unusually:
Yang Kaihui has been sacrificed, and the children cannot be found.
In fact, this is a lie by the villagers in Changsha, and the Yang family is very prestigious in Changsha.
At that time, the opposition arrested the Communists day and night in Changsha, and many people regarded Wu Fushou as an agent of the Kuomintang opposition.
After this, Yang Kaihui's correspondence with Chairman Mao was also broken.
A white lie that caused the two to break off contact again.
Yang Kaihui wrote in his diary:
"Lose contact with you, as if the whole world has abandoned me."
Flowers bloomed, the four seasons swirled slowly, and she received a letter from her cousin Yang Kaiming.
However, the situation made her even more uncomfortable.
Yang Kaihui was wondering if her husband was really in trouble.
She knew what kind of person her husband was, and for him, career was more important than life.
It was only when the two were married that Chairman Mao personally promised her that he would take himself with him wherever he was in the future.
Yang Kaihui did not want to be left behind by her husband, but she felt that she was facing a major choice in life.
She wrote in her diary:
"As long as you are well, my happiness will come."
In 1929, she saw a piece of news in the newspaper that shocked her.
Jude
The wife of the Red Army general Zhu De was captured and killed, and the enemy cut off her head.
She began to imagine, as a family member of a revolutionary, what choices she would make if the person who was arrested was her.
She even hoped that if her husband really encountered difficulties, she could die for him.
Yang Kaihui also had a belief in his heart that even if he was arrested, he would not be afraid in the face of the enemy's butcher's knife.
It's just that she is most worried about the safety of her three children.
The child is innocent and naïve, and she is reluctant to have children.
Thinking of this, Yang Kaihui began to plan ahead.
Yang Kaiming
She wrote to her cousin Yang Kaiming:
"I'm going to start arranging something. I had a hunch that one day the enemy and the Grim Reaper would finally come.
But at that moment, I should be fearless and fearless.
I don't care about everything anymore.
It's just mothers and children, and I hope they can live well.
If one day I have an accident, you must take care of them for me. ”
Unfortunately, Yang Kaihui's worries happened to him truthfully one day.
Heaven and man are eternally separated, and stones sink into the sea
In 1930, the Hunan warlord He Jian launched the "Qing Party Movement" in Changsha.
In order to catch Mao Zedong and his family, He Jian offered a reward of 1,000 fast oceans.
On October 24 of the same year, under the betrayal of traitors, the opposition surrounded Yang Kaihui's home.
She was celebrating her 8th birthday for Mao Anying.
Yang Kaihui was already ready to face the torture of the opposition.
Oil painting: Yang Kaihui and Chairman Mao
Therefore, when a man raised a torture device in his hand, he asked her with a vicious face:
"You know that the law strictly prohibits the Communist Party, and you still want to join, do you know what the consequences are?"
Yang Kaihui did not have a trace of fear, she looked up, looked at the other party with firm eyes, and asked:
"Are your laws protecting the people? Since you cannot protect the interests of the people, we, the Communists, need to overthrow you. ”
When the enemy saw this, he had no choice but to intimidate her:
"People who enter here, if they don't shed nine layers of skin, they can't get out, you are a weak woman, think of your children, don't carry everything alone." 」
"I can't choose life and death, but I can choose light and darkness."
Yang Kaihui
For these threats, Yang Kaihui did not compromise or fear in the slightest.
In fact, after Yang Kaihui was imprisoned, the Chinese Communist Party thought of many ways to rescue Yang Kaihui through various channels.
Cai Yuanpei even personally wrote to Chiang Kai-shek, asking him to release Yang Kaihui.
However, at that time, He Jian believed that if he could find a way to make Yang Kaihui take the initiative to surrender himself, the blow to the CCP would be very huge.
Therefore, in prison, the Kuomintang opposition wanted Yang Kaihui to "oppose the water" through various channels, and personally wrote a letter of breaking with Mao Zedong.
It's just that she vows to die and will never betray her love and betray the revolution in exchange for her life.
He Jian was infuriated by his actions.
HE Jian
Unable to bear it, he wrote a letter to Chiang Kai-shek.
In the letter, He Jian wrote:
"Killing Yang Kaihui will deter other Red Army soldiers even more and force Mao Zedong to take a desperate road."
Later, Chiang Kai-shek personally issued a secret order to execute Yang Kaihui.
November 14, 1930 was the last day of Yang Kaihui's life.
He Jian sent a squad of soldiers, fully armed, to take Yang Kaihui out of the prison.
When the execution car stopped at GuanShanling, she began to realize that this would be the end of her life.
But she was not afraid, and she had been using silence to express her firmness, and anger at her enemies.
At the execution site, the opposition warlord raised his pistol and fired two shots at Yang Kaihui's back.
But Yang Kaihui at the time of sacrifice did not have a look of fear on his face.
Her eyes were full of tenacity, and at the moment of death, Yang Kaihui's eyes glared at He Jian fiercely.
That year, Yang Kaihui was only 29 years old.
She wrote greatness and strength in her short life.
Due to the blockage of the news, Chairman Mao did not learn of the death of his beloved wife until half a year later.
Chairman Mao
At that moment, Chairman Mao's tears fell like rain.
Looking back at his marriage to Kaihui, he has been busy with the revolutionary cause, but he has neglected to take care of his family and relatives, especially Kaihui, who owes her too much.
To this end, Chairman Mao wrote with a stroke of his pen that "kaihui's death is irremediable."
In 1956, Chairman Mao wrote in his poem "Butterfly Love Flower Answer to Li Shuyi" in memory of his deceased wife:
"I lost pride in Yang Jun and lost willow, and Yang Liu flew straight up to the heavy Xiao Jiu."
Three years later, Chairman Mao returned to his hometown of Shaoshan after nearly thirty years of absence.
For him, everything has changed, and many of the deceased are gone.
Revisiting the old place, Chairman Mao once again thought of his wife who was suffering.
He did not expect that his wife was so tenacious that she wrote all the love of a woman for her husband in these unsent letters.
But what is deplorable is that Chairman Mao did not see the letter of his beloved wife in the end, which became a huge regret.
Because in 1982, when Yang Kaihui's unsent letter to Chairman Mao reappeared, Chairman Mao had been dead for six years.
postscript
Heroes and children have been born in ancient wars.
In that era of war and chaos, it was countless benevolent men who were not afraid of sacrifice and were full of profound intelligence to serve the motherland who drove the enemy out of China and guarded the magnificent mountains and rivers of the country, so that they could have a happy life today.
And these like-minded patriotic couples are even more worthy of people's respect.
In countless nights, Yang Kaihui is no longer the tough Red Army soldier in the eyes of outsiders, she is just a wife who misses and worries about her husband.
This kind of love has withstood the test of life and death, and has been precipitated by years, and has experienced the admiration of generations of descendants.
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