In 1987, Lu Dingyi, vice premier of the State Council, received a strange letter from the person who sent the letter, although he had no intersection with him, but after reading the letter, he could not help but wet his eyes, writing to a university teacher, who told Lu Dingyi that his mother was his long-lost daughter.
Lu Dingyi and his ex-wife have a son and a daughter, both children lost contact with him during the Red Army period, Lu Dingyi once sent many people to find the whereabouts of his son and daughter, but only found the son, the whereabouts of the daughter has not been found, for decades, he has been thinking about his daughter every moment, worrying about the whereabouts of his daughter.
Now that the letter had been sent to him, and the writer had told him, "My mother is your daughter," how could he not be excited to see such a content?
In order to determine whether the contents of the letter were true or false, Lu Dingyi immediately folded the letter paper and stuffed it back after calming down, and wrote a letter of help to the relevant departments, asking the government to investigate on behalf of the government:
It must be extremely difficult to investigate. But there was no other way but to trouble the provincial government. Thank you, thank you!
So why did Lu Dingyi's daughter get separated from her father? Is the content of this letter true or false, is the mother of the female teacher really Lu Dingyi's daughter?
Let us turn back the clock to the revolutionary period of the Red Army and recreate this historical story of the intestines...
Endure the pain and separate from his wife and daughter
In December 1931, Lu Dingyi's wife Tang Yizhen gave birth to a baby girl in Ruijin Yeping, Jiangxi, a revolutionary holy land, and after discussing with his wife for a few days, Lu Dingyi decided to take the name of the place and name her daughter Yeping to commemorate the revolutionary holy place where her daughter was born.
Lu Dingyi worked in the army of Ruijin, Jiangxi, and was the propaganda director of the Central Bureau of tuansu District, and the work content of his wife Tang Yizhen was different, Tang Yizhen was the director of the sanitary materials factory of the Central Ministry of Health, and the location of this sanitary materials factory was in DupingPing village Pipa Lane, which belonged to the area of "Shengli County", and there was a distance from the place where Lu Dingyi worked.
It is precisely because of this that soon after the birth of his daughter Ye Ping, he went with Tang Yizhen to Ping'an Village, and the husband and wife could only meet when the army was on vacation.
By the summer of 1932, Lu Dingyi had fewer opportunities to meet with his wife and daughter, and he was transferred to Shanghai, from Shanghai to and from where his wife and daughter were, even if it took several days by train, not to mention that Lu Dingyi had a task and could not come back casually, so Lu Dingyi did not see his wife and daughter for a long time, until 1933 when he returned to Ruijin in the Central Soviet Region.
At that time, the sanitary materials factory managed by his wife had moved to Ruijin, and Lu Dingyi also returned to Ruijin to work, however, just when Lu Dingyi thought that he could live a peaceful life with his wife and daughter on the side, The heavens made a joke to him, causing him to lose his wife and daughter.
In 1934, Chiang Kai-shek, who wanted to eliminate the Communist Party quickly, took advantage of this opportunity to march aggressively, and in this context, the Red Army proposed a strategic transfer policy, intending to withdraw from the Soviet zone and begin the Long March.
At this time, Tang Yizhen was pregnant with her second child, and judging by her physical condition, she could not follow her husband on the long march, and on the day before departure, Tang Yizhen left her daughter at home, mounted a horse, and quickly moved towards the camp where her husband was located.
Lu Dingyi will never forget the day when his wife Tang Yizhen drove the horse to him, and after stopping, his wife jumped off the horse and hugged him.
"The revolutionary situation is grim, it will be dangerous for children to follow me, I will find an ordinary people's home in Ruijin, and foster our daughter to an ordinary person's home."
"I know, you have to protect yourself and wait for me to come back."
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The wife did not talk a lot, but only said some arrangements for her daughter's whereabouts, and told him to come back safely.
The next day, Lu Dingyi marched with the team and began the Long March, tearfully bidding farewell to his wife and daughter, however, what Lu Ding did not expect was that the separation of the husband and wife had become Yong ti.
The wife died generously, and the whereabouts of the children were unknown
Shortly after Lu Dingyi left, Tang Yizhen handed over his daughter Yeping to Zhang Dewan, the administrator of the sanitary materials factory, and entrusted Zhang Dewan to find a family for his daughter to foster, and did not require the family to be rich and wealthy, as long as the head of the family was of good character and reliable.
Zhang Dewan said to Tang Yizhen: "You can rest assured, I will certainly live up to the trust and will hand over the child to a reliable family to raise." ”
In this way, Zhang Dewan took Tang Yizhen and Ye Ping, the daughter of Lu Dingyi, to Yandu, where he found a family and fostered his children there, while Tang Yizhen himself followed Mao Zeqin (Mao Zedong's third brother) and others to Changting, Fujian Province, where he worked as a provincial party committee of the Young Communist Party.
Time passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye, Tang Yizhen was in the giving birth period, and in order to ensure the safety of Tang Yizhen's life during childbirth, the organization asked the mother of Deng Zihui (one of the founders of the Soviet District and vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference after liberation) to escort Tang Yizhen to a safe place to give birth.
Tang Yizhen
Deng Zizhen's mother took Tang Yizhen to the home of a disabled Red Army soldier surnamed Fan and lived in their home, originally, Deng Zihui's mother expected to wait for a few days before it was time for production, who knows, on the second day after coming to the Red Army family's home, Tang Yizhen's stomach moved, but fortunately, Deng Zizhen's mother was experienced and experienced, and successfully delivered tang Yizhen, so that Tang Yizhen was out of danger of life and gave birth to a baby boy safely.
After Tang Yizhen woke up, Deng Zizhen's mother hugged the baby boy over, Tang Yizhen looked at the child's face, and involuntarily remembered her husband's smile in her mind, she told the people present: "The child's name will be taken after the husband returns, first call him Xiaoding." ”
Tang Yizhen's words made all the entrants present moved, and Tang Yizhen named the baby boy "Xiaoding", which was to miss her husband Lu Dingyi.
Tang Yizhen knew that her identity was sensitive, and she would continue to engage in the revolutionary cause after that, and it was undoubtedly a very dangerous thing to keep her newborn son by her side, and her son was her weakness, and if the enemy really caught her, it was very likely that he would use his son to threaten.
Therefore, tang Yizhen, after some very establishment, on the fourth day after giving birth, told the Fan family that they should give Xiaoding to them to raise, in order to make them agree, Tang Yizhen said in a pleading tone: "Big brother and sister-in-law, these few days of getting along let me clearly understand, you are reliable people, the child staying with me is too dangerous, please raise Xiaoding, when the revolution is victorious, I will come to meet the child, if I do not come, you will tell the child that his mother died because of the revolution, and the glory of death." ”
In this way, Tang Yizhen handed over her son Xiaoding to the Fan family to raise, and after recuperating in the Fan family for a while, she also returned to the revolutionary ranks and continued to fight for the revolutionary cause.
On January 28, 1935, Tang Yizhen was unfortunately surrounded by the Nationalist army during a mission, and the Nationalist army captured her and her comrades-in-arms and locked them up at the regimental headquarters of The Lower Laiba Village, Sidu.
During her imprisonment, Tang Yizhen thought a lot, and her husband was still on the Long March Road, waiting for her to return; The daughter and son who were fostered in other people's homes were still waiting for her to pick her up, she was not willing to bow to fate, she had such a big responsibility, how could she easily give up the hope of escape.
Therefore, in the evening, Tang Yizhen sneaked out of the place where she was being held while the enemy guards were not paying attention.
Unfortunately, however, the enemy soon spotted her fleeing, conducted a carpet search near Shimoraiba, and captured her back at dusk on 30 January.
Tang Yizhen, who was captured, was severely tortured by the enemy, and in the face of the enemy's torture to force a confession, she refused to open her mouth, and was finally knocked unconscious by the enemy, on the 31st, Tang Yizhen was escorted to the execution ground by the enemy army and stabbed to death by the executioner on the spot, and she was only 25 years old this year.
He Yi
After the victory of the Long March, Lu Ding always wanted to find the whereabouts of his wife and children, but what Lu Ding did not expect was that he waited for the news of his wife's death.
One day, He Yi (Lady Mao Zeqin) came to northern Shaanxi and gave birth to a baby boy from Tang Yizhen, who was fostered to someone else, but he himself was unfortunately arrested and executed by the enemy army. After Lu Dingyi learned of this news, he still felt a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and he did not say a word to He Yiduo, but looked at the ground with red eyes, and his mood could not be calmed for a long time.
Lu Dingyi had insomnia for more than half a month, and when he lay in bed at night to rest, he couldn't help but think of the happy days he had spent with his wife, and the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable it was, and after that, whether it was a big event or a great tragedy, Lu Dingyi couldn't shed tears.
After the peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident in 1936, Lu Ding began to look for his son and daughter, when he was in an important position, he wanted to attack the Japanese army, and he could not find time, so he entrusted the Tang family to investigate, but he did not find it for a long time. After the founding of New China in 1949, Lu Dingyi sent people to find and investigate, however, he searched for more than thirty years, and he could not find his daughter, only his son Xiaoding.
Xiao Ding was fostered in the Fan family of the disabled soldier of the Red Army, the Fan family has been waiting for Xiao Ding to take care of him like his own son, named Xiao Ding Fan Jia Ding, and never treated him badly, and Fan Jia Ding and his father Lu Dingyi recognized in 1979, after recognizing his father, Fan Jiading learned that he had another sister who did not know where to go, and his sister was named Ye Ping.
Blood is thicker than water, and fan family must not let their sister stay behind, after this, he also joined the team of looking for his sister, and worked with his father to find the whereabouts of his sister.
The university teacher wrote to the deputy prime minister: My mother is your daughter
One day in July 1987, Lai Zhangsheng, a male teacher at Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, received a book called "Wind Exhibition Red Flag", which contained all revolutionary memoirs.
The neighbor who sent Lai Zhangsheng the book was one of his neighbors, who often talked to his mother about some past events, and also knew his mother's bumpy life, and after his neighbor handed the book to him, he deliberately opened an article in the book and urged Lai Zhangsheng to read it.
The article is titled "Memories of Tang Yizhen Martyrs", which is a eulogy for the memory of Tang Yizhen martyrs. Lai Zhangsheng read carefully at the urging of his neighbors, and as he read it, his breathing suddenly stagnated, because he read that the martyr Tang Yizhen had two children, and the girl born to the martyr Tang Yizhen was named Ye Ping, who was born on December 30, 1931, and was fostered in an ordinary family during the Long March.
The article describes it like this:
Martyr Tang Yizhen, born to two children. The first is a girl, Name Ye Ping. Born on December 30, 1931. Fostered in Yandu during the Long March. I tried my best to find this child, from 1937 to now, it seems hopeless. If she was there, she would be fifty years old.
When Lai Zhangsheng read this, he couldn't help but think of his mother's name, her mother always called herself "YePing", the pronunciation of this "Wild Ping" and the pronunciation of "YePing" is so similar, it is not certain that the true identity of the mother is the "Ye Ping" mentioned in this article.
Lai Zhangsheng thought about it carefully and found a point in the article that could confirm the identity of the mother, which said that the mother was fostered in Yandu, and the city where the mother was located, Yudu, was once called Yandu. In addition, the age of the mother can also correspond to the age mentioned in the article. Based on the above speculations, Lai Zhangsheng felt that it was necessary to write a letter to the author of the article, and perhaps the mystery of his mother's identity could be solved.
Lai Zhangsheng continued to read, carefully read this article, when he saw the author of the article signed, his heart suddenly beat wildly, the author of the article signed "Lu Dingyi", for this person, Lai Zhangsheng is no stranger, Lu Dingyi from the Red Army period followed the Communist Party to fight the world, after the founding of the Country also became the vice premier of the State Council, is a well-known big figure, is Lu Dingyi his grandfather? Isn't he dreaming?
With excitement, Lai Zhangsheng wrote a letter to Lu Dingyi, which was roughly as follows:
Hello Elder Lu, I read the article "Memories of the Martyr Tang Yizhen" written by you, and the situation of Ye Ping, the daughter of the martyr Tang Yizhen, that you wrote down has many similarities with my mother, and I think this is not an accidental coincidence...
If my mother is really the daughter of the martyr Tang Yizhen and you and can be confirmed, I can also comfort the martyr in the spirit of heaven——— the martyr's heroic soul is immortal, and there will be people after her!
After writing the letter, Lai Zhangsheng sent the letter to Beijing, but it should be noted that Lu Dingyi was busy with official duties, and during this period he did not go to Beijing but to the northeast, so the letter was sent out for a long time before lu Dingyi saw it.
At that time, Lu Dingyi, who returned to Beijing to read the letter, his eyes were instantly moist, and it was inconvenient for him to personally verify the authenticity of the content of the letter in his old age, so he wrote a letter to the Jiangxi Provincial People's Government, asking his son Fan Jiading to take this letter to the Jiangxi Provincial People's Government and ask for the assistance of the Jiangxi Provincial People's Government to investigate the identity of Lai Zhangsheng's mother.
After the Jiangxi Provincial People's Government received Lu Dingyi's letter of request for help, without saying a word, it sent people to investigate, and through heavy investigation, the Jiangxi Provincial People's Government finally determined that Lai Zhangsheng's mother was really the daughter of the martyr Tang Yizhen and Lu Dingyi!
On November 30, 1987, under the arrangement of the government, Lai Zhangsheng and his mother Ye Ping came to the scene of the recognition, and not long after the two of them arrived, a white-haired old man with a kind face appeared at the door.
This white-haired old man is Lu Dingyi!
The reception staff and reporters present watched Lu Dingyi take a heavy step step by step, and his heart was deeply touched, lu Dingyi walked in front of Ye Ping, excitedly held her hand, his hand trembled uncontrollably, that is, at this moment, Ye Ping shouted: "Daddy! Is it Daddy? ”
Ye Ping's "father" made Lu Dingyi's heart cry out, and at this moment he finally couldn't control his emotions, his eyes were red, and he trembled in his voice: "I am your father, my daughter, my daughter, my father is looking for you so hard..."
At this point, the father and daughter, who have been separated for 53 years, have re-recognized each other and are reunited! And their story has also been passed down as a good story, which will always be remembered by the world...
In fact, in that war-torn revolutionary era, there were many children of revolutionary volunteers who were fostered in other people's families because of the war, and they gave up their small homes for the revolution for everyone, and their noble revolutionary spirit was touching, let us pay tribute to them!