In December 1938, in order to completely cut off the ambiguous exchanges between his wife Wang Yingxia and Xu Shaodi, then director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education, Yu Dafu decided to leave the motherland. Therefore, he gladly accepted the invitation from Singapore's Sin Chew Daily and prepared to unite with overseas Chinese in Singapore to continue to participate in anti-Japanese propaganda work.
However, Wang Yingxia put forward a condition for Yu Dafu: "We must ensure that we do not mention anything about the previous derailment before we can go to Singapore with you." ”
On the way to Singapore by steamship with his wife and children, Yu Dafu wrote "The New Language of the Dynasty", in which he firmly wrote: "China will never perish, as long as the military and the people resist to the end, they will definitely win the final victory!" ”
What everyone did not expect was that Yu Dafu and Wang Yingxia's trip to Singapore not only did not ease their husband and wife relationship, but let their feelings come to an end.
Yu Dafu and Wang Yingxia
Coming to live in Singapore, the relationship between husband and wife has come to an end
At that time, Yu Dafu was already a big name in the Chinese literary circles, and during the time when he came to Singapore's Sin Chew Daily as an editor, he became the most famous Chinese cultural celebrity in Nanyang.
In order to carry out propaganda work against the Japanese aggressors, Yu Dafu gathered a group of patriotic overseas Chinese literary and artistic youths, took "Sin Chew Daily" as a position, and called on overseas Chinese in the Nanyang region to unite and contribute to the motherland's War of Resistance Against Japan.
It was at this time that Yu Dafu became acquainted with Tan Kah Kee, the leader of Nanyang Huaqiao, who formed the Singapore Overseas Chinese Anti-Japanese Mobilization Committee and served as its chairman. Yu Dafu served as an executive member and chairman of the Anti-Japanese Federation of Cultural Circles, actively organizing the anti-Japanese work of overseas Chinese.
In 1939, Lu Xun's younger brother Zhou Zuoren accepted the invitation of Wang Jingwei's puppet regime to assume the post of librarian of Peking University and officially became a traitor. When Yu Dafu, a good friend, heard the news, he severely rebuked Zhou Zuoren for his traitorous behavior toward the enemy and wrote a special article, "Literati", to openly draw a line with him.
Lu Xun's younger brother Zhou Zuoren
Besides
"The central figure of various pseudo-organizations, try to see if there is a human-like one?" It is either a frustrated third-rate warlord or a scoundrel, a bankrupt personality, and a rat who is corrupt to the bone marrow. Such a scumbag is simply a beast that can't even wear a crown. ”
Immersed in the work of cultural salvation every day, Uddhav realized the value and meaning of life. But in the dead of night, he also has a knot that is difficult to unravel, that is, his family conflicts and emotional disputes.
In the days when they came to Singapore, Yu Dafu and his wife Wang Yingxia did not live a stable life, but still made a big fuss every three to five minutes, as if they had reached the point where water and fire could not be tolerated.
It was not until August 1940 that Yu Dafu and Wang Yingxia officially announced their peaceful separation, and simultaneously published news of the divorce in newspapers in Singapore, Hong Kong and Chongqing. Such a pair of talented women who once made many people envious, finally ended in divorce, and Wang Yingxia then returned to the motherland with her children.
Mr. and Mrs. Uddhav
In 2000,
"What I want is a stable family, and Yu Dafu can only be friends with him, not husband and wife, and the biggest difference between me and Yu Dafu is the difference in personality." 」
Indeed, after marriage, Yu Dafu often treated love with the poetry and wine style of literary and artistic writers, but he ignored a true meaning that has been eternal since ancient times, that is, "Even the most beautiful love needs to be carefully cared for; No matter how happy the marriage is, it also needs to be constantly managed. ”
Without his wife's control, Yu Dafu continued to stay in Singapore alone, but Singapore did not become his final destination in life.
Attack on Pearl Harbor
He took refuge in Sumatra and was mistaken for a Japanese spy
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese successfully sneaked up on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in the Pacific, and then turned their attention to some countries in the South China Sea to plunder strategic resources.
Two months later, seeing that Singapore was about to fall into the hands of the Japanese army, Yu Dafu and Hu Yuzhi, who were jointly engaged in the propaganda of the cultural war of resistance, had to embark on the road of escape again.
In 1946, a year after Uddhav was killed on the Indonesian island of Sumatra,
A few days before the fall of Singapore, Yu Dafu and some Chinese compatriots who were carrying out anti-Japanese propaganda in Singapore began to retreat, in fact, they did not know where to go, then they only "drifted"! ”
In this case, Hu Yuzhi and Shen Zijiu, Yu Dafu, Zhang Chukun, Shao Zonghan and Wang Renshu fled westward to Buganbaru on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Uddhav
However, the island has been occupied by the Japanese army, and there are Japanese devils stationed on the island, but the troops are relatively small. In order to avoid being recognized, several of them had to change their names and surnames and go to the destination town of Bayeux on the island of Sumatra on official business.
In mid-April 1942, Yu Dafu, who had changed his name to "Zhao Lian", took a car and arrived at Baye's official business first. Baye official is a very quiet town, the population here is only more than 10,000 people, of which the local native overseas Chinese occupy more than 1,000 people.
When he first arrived in the town of Baye, Yu Dafu was not familiar with the place of life, and even food and living became a problem. Therefore, he looked for help from the local overseas Chinese compatriots, and what he did not expect was that everyone was deliberately avoiding him.
It turned out that on the way to Ba Ye in a car, the driver and other passengers on the car were all Indonesians, and he was worried about revealing his identity, so he dressed up as a "migrant worker".
Japanese in Sumatra
Suddenly, a Japanese military vehicle stopped them, but none of the Indonesians on the car understood Japanese, and even the driver thought that the Japanese were going to requisition his car. Yu Dafu had studied in Japan for ten years, naturally he could speak fluent Japanese, and it turned out that the Japanese just wanted to ask for directions, and there was no other malice.
At that time, the Japanese army had just invaded Sumatra, and had not yet found anyone who understood Japanese in the local area, so there was no translator.
Yu Dafu stepped forward and replied to the Japanese's inquiry in Japanese, and the Japanese thanked him for giving him a military salute before leaving.
Seeing this, the Indonesians in the car were all stunned. They believed that this "migrant worker" looked like a man who could speak Japanese, and even the Japanese saluted him, and must be a Japanese spy in disguise.
When the car arrived at the town of Baye, the driver spread Yudav's "spy identity" everywhere. In less than two hours, all the overseas Chinese in the town knew the news.
In this way, when Yu Dafu went to the local overseas Chinese compatriots for help, everyone mistakenly thought that he was a spy sent by Japan, so they avoided him like a plague god.
Forced to work as an interpreter for the Japanese army, he continued to hide his identity
One day, Yu Dafu once again cheekily went to find the local overseas Chinese leader Cai Chengda, and as soon as he came to Cai Chengda's house, he saw a Japanese gendarme here. Since Cai Chengda could only speak Chinese Hokkien and the local language, and could not speak Japanese, he pulled Yu Dafu over as an interpreter.
Seeing that "Zhao Lian" spoke Japanese so fluently, the Japanese gendarmerie stationed in Bukit Tinggi was looking for an interpreter and forcibly took him to the Japanese gendarmerie as an interpreter.
Yu Dafu retorted: "I am just a businessman, and I cannot take on this heavy responsibility." ”
The captain of the Japanese gendarmerie replied: "This is a military order, it must be obeyed!" ”
Japanese gendarmes
Yu Dafu knew very well that he was "a soldier who had just met a soldier, and he couldn't explain it clearly", so he had to temporarily agree to work as an interpreter in the Bukit Tingyi Gendarmerie Brigade.
More than a month later, Hu Yuzhi, Shen Zijiu, Zhang Chukun, Wang Renshu, and others also arrived at Baye's official duties one after another, and they explained their reasons to some wise overseas Chinese leaders in the local area. Only at this time did everyone believe that Zhao Lian was not a spy sent by Japan, but a real Chinese.
Yu Dafu chose the town of Baye as a foothold, originally to avoid the Deployment of the Japanese Army, but was mistakenly arrested by the Japanese gendarmes as an interpreter. It was during this time that he took advantage of his position to secretly help many overseas Chinese and Indonesians in the area.
In order to hide his identity, Yu Dafu began a series of "performances", showing an image of a businessman who "only does business and does not understand politics".
Statue of Uddhav
- 1. Pretend not to drink
In fact, Yu Dafu's usual alcohol addiction is very large, and he must pretend not to drink in front of the Japanese gendarmes. As the saying goes, "spit out the truth after drinking", in case you get drunk one day and reveal your true identity.
- 2. Pretend to be rich
Since coming to the Japanese Gendarmerie as an interpreter, Uddhafu has always called himself the owner of the distillery, determined not to take a penny of the Japanese gendarmerie's salary, and pretended that he was not bad at money.
In fact, Yu Dafu, together with Hu Yuzhi, Zhang Chukun and others, raised money and co-founded a distillery called "Zhao Yuji", and the three of them served as bosses, accountants and managers respectively, becoming a secret livelihood place for Chinese anti-war propagandists.
Zhao Yuji Distillery
At first, the business of "Zhao Yuji" distillery was not good, and Yu Dafu and others developed two liquor brands, one called "Shuangqing" and the other called "First Love". Perhaps it was these two brands that made japanese people sound very comfortable, and more and more Japanese soldiers came to visit, and the winery business suddenly caught fire.
Yu Dafu also often invited the Japanese gendarmes to drink, and instructed the distillery to brew high liquor, hoping to slowly drink them to death. In addition, Yu Dafu occasionally sent a little money to the Japanese gendarmes, which was loved and trusted by the Japanese gendarmes.
Over time, seeing that Yu Dafu was so rich and had not yet married his daughter-in-law, the Japanese became interested in his personal problems.
In order to completely dispel the suspicion of the Japanese, Yu Dafu deliberately did the third thing, that is, to marry his daughter-in-law.
Wang Yingxia
- 3. Married a local overseas Chinese wife
In 1943, at the age of 47, Uddhav began his third marriage in Sumatra, marrying a local native Overseas Chinese woman named He Lianyou. However, He Lianyou could only speak the local language and could not speak Chinese, so Yu Dafu worked hard to learn the local language.
In order to prove that he is also a person with a wife, at the wedding banquet, Yu Dafu specially invited the Japanese gendarmes to drink happy wine, and filled in the name "Zhao Lian" on the marriage certificate, and even the age was changed to several years younger.
Compared with his previous wife, Wang Yingxia, the "first beauty of Hangzhou", He Lian's appearance is indeed bland. Yu Dafu believes that Wang Yingxia is because she looks too beautiful, so she will attract so many incidents. Taking refuge outside, life is naturally as calm as possible, and the ugly wife will not cause so much trouble.
Uddhav's Former Residence
Not only that, He Lian also had a bit of a clumsy feeling, and Yu Dafu often said to outsiders: "My wife is a Mother-in-Law." ”
"Brahma" means, in local parlance, "two goods" and "silly hat". The reason why Uddhav wants to marry a stupid woman is mainly for his own safety, and he will not have so many doubts.
Pretended to be sick with lung disease and no longer worked as a translator for the Japanese army
However, always working as an interpreter in the Bukit Tingyi Gendarmerie is not a problem, and Yudaf wants to leave this magic cave. In order to be able to leave smoothly, he pretended to have a very contagious lung disease to see if the Japanese would allow themselves to stay here.
In order to make his lung disease more similar, Yu Dafu began to take a shower early in the morning every day, and finally fell ill with a cold and kept coughing.
Uddhav
When he came to the local Japanese military hospital to see a doctor, Yu Dafu also specially brought several bottles of "Double Qing" and "First Love" liquor, in order to bribe the Japanese military doctor and let him issue a certificate of lung disease diagnosis.
Yu Dafu came to the Bukit Tingyi Gendarmerie with a lung disease diagnosis certificate and coughed vigorously, which frightened the Japanese gendarmes and worried about contracting lung disease. As a result, the captain of the Japanese gendarmerie resolutely agreed to Yudaf's departure, and Yudaf's elaborate escape plan was not in vain.
Although Yu Dafu no longer works as a translator for Japanese devils, he still can't avoid having to socialize with the Japanese gendarmes, and he has always been vigilant, and he has not escaped the fate of revealing his identity after all.
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