Nine days after his marriage, he was sent to Taiwan to lurk, and it was forty-two years after he returned. Not only is Qingsi boiling into white hair, but his wife is already full of children and grandchildren, and he is Xie Hanguang, the underground worker who has been lurking for the longest time in China. What kind of story happened to him that year?
In 1917, Xie Hanguang was born into an ordinary family in Fengshun County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province. The second eldest in the family, there are nine younger siblings below. Although his family was poor, his parents saved money and let the smartest him read books. Xie Hanguang did not live up to the expectations of his parents, and after hard work, he was finally admitted to the Forestry Department of the College of Agriculture of Guangxi University with excellent results.
At that time, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xie Hanguang's patriotism was ignited, and he spontaneously organized a propaganda group for the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression with his classmates in the school, took to the streets to wave the flag and shout, and awakened one numb masses after another. In 1942, at the age of 25, Xie Hanguang graduated from school and took up the position of assistant at the Guangxi Provincial Agricultural Testing Ground. Later, because of his conscientious and responsible work attitude and excellent work ability, he was promoted to director in less than a year.
During this period, Xie Hanguang always did his best to rescue the fallen revolutionaries and help them evade the pursuit of the enemy. Although I am only an ordinary worker, I will feel great satisfaction to be able to make a modest contribution to the cause of the War of Resistance.
Those revolutionaries who had rushed from Xiamen, Chaoshan and other places were all reasonably resettled here, and later the farms he ran became the base for the secret activities of our Party personnel. In the process of getting along day and night, Xie Hanguang personally felt from them the fearless spirit of serving the people and not being afraid of sacrifice, and a seed of revolution slowly sprouted in his heart.
In 1944, the Japanese army, which was already at the end of its crossbow, launched a final large-scale attack on our southwest region. Xie Hanguang had no choice but to flee with the villagers everywhere, and all he saw along the way was a miserable scene full of devastation and mourning. It made him more deeply aware that "the rise and fall of a country is the responsibility of the puppeteer." It was also at this moment that he strengthened his determination to join the Communist Party and seek benefits for the people.
However, the party organization considered the unstable situation and for his safety, it did not agree to Xie Hanguang's application to join the party. Instead, he helped him find a teaching job in Gao County, allowing him to settle down for the time being. Here, while teaching, Xie Hanguang is also always paying attention to the trend of the current situation, preparing for the early success of joining the party.
It was not until after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression that Xie Hanguang finally became a member of our party as he wished. After joining the party organization, Xie Hanguang took advantage of his knowledge of Cantonese and often disguised himself as a businessman to travel back and forth to Hong Kong and Guangdong to inquire about news in the name of doing business, and passed on a lot of intelligence to our party. It was during this time working in Hong Kong that Xie Hanguang people met the love of his life, Zeng Xiuping. The two fell in love, and it didn't take long to enter the palace of marriage.
A few days later, Su Hui, the head of the South China branch in Hong Kong, approached Xie Hanguang and asked him to carry out underground work as "assistant director of the Taiwan Experimental Institute." Because Xie Hanguang's identity as a secret party member is not easy to be detected, coupled with his meticulous loyalty to the party and his extremely rich intelligence experience, he is definitely the best candidate to carry out the lurking plan.
After much deliberation, Xie Hanguang finally accepted the task. When he returned home, he hid the truth from his wife, saying only that he was going on a secret mission, from three or five months to two or three years, and told her to wait for him to return.
And the reasonable wife did not ask much, but told her husband to pay attention to safety and take good care of himself when he was away. The two young couples of the newly married Yan'er were completely separated before they had a few days of sweet life, and the next time they met, it was forty-two years later, and both of them were already gray-haired and faltering, which made people feel a lot of emotions.
After arriving in Taiwan, Xie Hanguang did not take much effort to find Zhong Haodong, an underground worker who had already taken root here. At the recommendation of the latter, Xie Successfully held the position of a technician in the Forestry Laboratory. During this period, while working, he secretly collected intelligence and transmitted it back to the mainland, making indelible contributions to the smooth development of related work. The following year, his old friend Chen Zhonghao was also sent here by the organization to carry out secret missions.
Zhong Haodong used his position as principal of Keelung to arrange Chen Zhonghao to serve as a teacher in the school. He privately disseminated progressive ideas to his students and organized revolutionary activities with astonishing results. Soon after, Zhang Bozhe and Liang Zhengqing also came here to help Xie Hanguang collect information and pass on intelligence.
Later, with the joint efforts of several people, they successfully founded the "Guangming Bao" in Taiwan, because the progressive ideas propagated in it were widely recognized by the local people and their influence became more and more great. However, such achievements gradually collapsed with the arrival of a person.
In 1949, the elder Chiang fled to Taiwan in defeat and blocked all major transportation routes. The underground workers trapped here have been completely cut off from the way to communicate with the outside world, and now they can only fight alone in a group for warmth.
As the reactionary forces became more and more rampant, these underground workers lurking in Taiwan gave them an extremely powerful counterattack regardless of their own safety. They exposed the shameless activities of the reactionaries in the newspapers, vigorously propagated progressive ideas, and ignited the revolutionary enthusiasm of millions of local people.
But the newspaper grew larger and larger, and soon attracted the attention of the enemy. Later, due to the loss of a top-secret letter, the entire newspaper office fell almost overnight. All the materials were confiscated, all the staff were arrested, and the editor-in-chief Chen Zhonghao escaped the disaster because he was out of work. From the mouths of these people, the enemy learned that the mastermind behind the "Guangming Newspaper" was Zhong Haodong, the principal of the Keelung School.
However, after Zhong Haodong was arrested, he never revealed where Chen Zhonghao went and the identity of other underground workers. In the face of the enemy's severe torture and coercion and inducement, Zhong Haodong has always adhered to the bottom line, did not confide in the other party an important message, and finally the angry enemy was brutally killed.
At this time, Chen Zhonghao, who was hiding everywhere, seemed to be unable to hide under the pursuit of the enemy day and night. At such a moment of crisis, Xie Hanguang and others disregarded their personal safety and found a false identity for Chen Zhonghao, named "Lin Chenkang", and flew to the United States first in the name of overseas exchanges, and then returned from the United States to Chinese mainland. Under the cover of everyone, Chen Zhonghao got on the plane and left safely as he wished.
After that, Xie Hanguang and others lived a period of stability, while working hard, while collecting intelligence in the dark. They all know that in this isolated and helpless environment, it is only a matter of time before they are discovered, so it is better to gather more intelligence and let the comrades who have the opportunity to return later pass on the information. However, what people did not expect was that they would be exposed so quickly.
One day six months later, Cai Xiaoqian, the chief of the underground workers, was captured by the enemy because of his identity leaks and quickly defected. As a result, more than 500 intelligence officers lurking were captured, more than 1,800 people were implicated, and the identities of Xie Hanguang and others were quickly discovered.
His comrade-in-arms Zhang Bozhe did not choose to steal his life alone when he knew that there was danger, and considering that most of his comrades knew nothing about it, he quickly passed on the news of his identity exposure, and he himself was captured by the reactionary forces and unfortunately died. The enemy moved so quickly that most of the comrades were caught one by one without any time to react. Xu Maode, Liang Zhengqing and others were all slaughtered, but Xie Hanguang, who was the farthest away, was fortunate to escape the disaster.
He ran wildly along the trail, walking sleeplessly for five days and five nights, and finally settled in front of a small village. The village chief asked him for his identity with great caution, and he lied that he was a soldier of the Nationalist army who could not bear the oppression and gained the trust of the people. Not long ago, a villager named Ye Yikui died, so the village chief asked him to take his place and live in the village, and thirty-eight years have passed. During this period, some people introduced him to him were politely refused by him, because his heart had been thinking about his newly married wife day and night.
In 1987, Taiwan lifted martial law and liberalized its policy of returning to the mainland to visit relatives. Xie Hanguang, who had been trapped on the treasure island for forty-two years, finally had the opportunity to leave the village where he had taken refuge and embark on a journey back to the mainland. I think that when he was sent to the mission by the organization, it was a good age for the wind and prosperity, but after returning from many years, he was already a white-haired old man.
After many inquiries, I finally found my wife's current home address. But standing at the door of the house, he wandered for a long time, but he never dared to knock on the door. He didn't know how his family had changed after all this long wait? Just when he was hesitating at the door, suddenly the door opened and a middle-aged man stepped out from inside. Seeing this strange old man, he asked puzzledly, "Who are you looking for?" ”
Xie Hanguang trembled and said, "I am looking for Zeng Xiuping." The middle-aged man did not know what kind of relationship the old man had with his mother, but out of courtesy he took him in.
When he entered the house, when the eyes of the two old men touched together, the whole heaven and earth seemed to be instantly quiet, and his wife trembled and said, "Han Guang, Han Guang, you are Han Guang, right?" The old man replied hesitantly, "It's me, I'm Han Guang, I'm back." Then the two embraced each other tightly. Even after many years, because of their deep feelings, they can still recognize each other at a glance.
Later, his wife, Zeng Xiuping, greeted the middle-aged man next to him and explained that it was his father. When he heard these words, Xie Hanguang was completely shocked, he originally thought that he had not returned for such a long time, his wife may have remarried, he came back at this time just to be able to look at his wife, to understand that she was very good and was already satisfied, and others did not dare to do more extravagant hopes.
But what he didn't know was that not long after he left, his wife Zeng Xiuping found out that she was pregnant. After that, he single-handedly pulled the child up with painstaking efforts. Xie Hanguang, who learned of this, could not help but burst into tears, feeling deep remorse for his debt to his wife for so many years. Now he not only has a son, but also has three more grandchildren, which can be described as a happy family.
Shortly after returning home, he took the identification card with "Ye Yikui's" name on it and found the relevant local department. He shared his experience and recounted his previous identity, but the staff did not grant his request due to insufficient evidence.
Wanting to carry the names of many comrades-in-arms on his body, Xie Hanguang rekindled his fighting spirit, and it didn't matter if he could not restore his identity, but so many lost comrades-in-arms were still waiting for him to prove their identity and make their sacrifices and dedications public.
Finally, after much effort, Xie Hanguang found his comrade-in-arms Chen Zhonghao, who had the honor of returning to the mainland, and proved his identity with his help. The relevant local departments not only restored his party membership, but also let him enjoy the treatment of retired cadres, with a monthly salary of more than 400 yuan, which is probably more than 10,000 yuan now.
In addition, with the efforts of Xie Hanguang, the identity of the comrades who sacrificed their comrades has also been proved, and they enjoy a very high honor as martyrs, and their dedication will be forever remembered by us. In 1996, Xie Hanguang died at home. Although he had only enjoyed nine years of natural happiness, this period was undoubtedly the happiest time of his life.