At the beginning of 1939, the Northern Branch of the Communist Party of China held an important meeting in Cangfenggou, Fuping County, and Peng Zhen conveyed the spirit of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Sun Yi (founding lieutenant general), president of the military and political cadre school of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, and Tian Xiujuan, director of the Women's Rescue Association of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region, both attended the meeting.
In his speech at the conference, Sun Yi freely described his experience in speeding up the training of grassroots cadres in the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines. With a broad mind and the courage to focus on the future, 22-year-old Tian Xiujuan proposed at the meeting that the party organizations in the border areas and the women's rescue associations of the whole border areas should care for and allocate women cadres.
Sun Yi's speech is humorous, easy to understand and fascinating. Tian Xiujuan's speech was fully argumented, rigorously narrated, and beautiful, attracting people's attention.
It was at this meeting that Sun Yi and Tian Xiujuan met for the first time, developed a good impression of each other, and developed a love, affection, and first love.
Sun Huzi, the head of the first school of the military and political cadre school, has long been famous inside and outside the border region. Before this meeting, Tian Xiujuan had also heard others talk about Sun Yi, saying that he participated in the revolution, struggled heroically, had a theoretical level, had courageous work, and especially had rich experience in training cadres.
Nie Rongzhen, commander and political commissar of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, has long been concerned about Sun Yi's marriage. He and his wife Zhang Ruihua have brewed many times, thinking that although Sun Yi and Tian Xiujuan have different personalities, they are likely to become a good match.
They know that Sun Yi is serious, down-to-earth and willing to work, but his temper and temperament are somewhat subjective, impatient and eccentric, and they should have a loyal and honest partner with a gentle temperament to help each other.
Not long ago, Commander Nie said to Sun Yi: "Comrade Datian, director of our border district women's rescue association, is loyal and serious, has attended the women's normal school, you are from Dacheng, she is a big fellow in your big western county!" Find a way to reach out to her. ”
Tian Xiujuan (as people love to call her, or simply her name is Datian) is the head of the "three sisters of the Tian clan" in the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region who are rumored to be engaged in revolutionary work.
Datian was born in November 1917 in Wanxian County, Hebei Province, and graduated from Baoding Women's Normal School in Hebei Province; In January 1938, she joined the revolution, soon joined the Communist Party of China, and presided over the work of the county women's rescue association, which was known as a model county for women's work in border areas; In September, she was elected as the director of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region Women's Salvation Association.
Tian Xiujuan has short ear-length hair, a pair of big watery eyes, bright eyes and teeth, beautiful and handsome, simple attire, and generous manners...
Datian's living space is always filled with the word "work", Zhang Ruihua, who works in the Organization Department of the Northern Branch of the Communist Party of China, sees it in her eyes and is anxious, and she entrusts her girlfriend Liu Guangyun, who is a few years older than Tian Xiujuan, to inspire and induce her to consider her life's events many times.
On the way to a meeting, while walking and talking, Guangyun involuntarily opened the chatterbox: "Datian, my good girl, you are not young, it's time to think about your marriage!" ”
"Well, don't be in a hurry, now is the time when I need to concentrate on work!" Tian Xiujuan still had no intention of talking about it.
"I don't agree with you, can't you concentrate on work when you find someone? To be honest, there is a gay man, he..." Liu Guangyun not only bluntly expressed his different views, but also brought up Sun Yi's name.
She looked at Daejeon's face and said with a smile: "I would like to be your big matchmaker, how about it?" After that, Liu Guangyun pushed Tian Xiujuan hard.
Embarrassed Tian Xiujuan, who didn't know what to say for a while, his face was red and his heart was uneasy. She knew that Liu Guangyun was enthusiastic and did things safely, the two walked side by side, and Guangyun was waiting for her to express her position!
The military and political cadre school was ordered to be abolished, and Sun Yi was transferred to the chief of staff of the military region, working beside Nie Rongzhen and stationed in the leading organs of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region in Tang County and Jiazhuang.
On the Qingming Festival, more than 500 people from units directly under the military region led by Commander Nie Rongzhen and Chief of Staff Sun Yi planted trees on the eastern slopes. ”
"Don't yet, don't yet!" Sun Yi replied cheerfully.
With the commander's "threading needle", and Zhang Ruihua's secret "lead", coupled with Liu Guangyun's strong assistance, Sun and Tian finally started a relationship, and they took each other as their favorites.
Time passed so fast that in late August, the party committee of the Jin-Cha-Ji District of the Communist Party of China held a meeting of party representatives in Nanzhuang Town, Fuping County, and a village south of the Shahe River, with Tian Xiujuan and Liu Guangyun both delegates to the meeting.
At this time, Sun Yi, who was preparing to be transferred to the Central Hebei Military Region as chief of staff, before taking office, the head of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region intended to arrange for him to temporarily stay in Chengnanzhuang for a few days to rest, which may be the intention of Commander Nie, here to help Sun Yi solve the marriage matter as much as possible. For this reason, Sun Yi was specially asked to attend this party congress held in the border region.
It was also Liu Guangyun's "collusion" and brewing that prompted Sun Yi to summon up the courage to move forward to the other side of the "river of love".
Sure enough, during the meeting, Sun Yi personally wrote a sincere and frank letter of courtship and sent it to Tian Xiujuan, who was attending the meeting.
This is a unique "love letter", which begins with a brief self-introduction that shows the simple and heroic style of a soldier: his family is poor, he has been married, and he has a daughter, who has been in the old army for many years, and in 1931 he revolted in Ningdu and joined the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Because of years of war, there was no contact with the family for a long time, and the brother came to the team to inform him that his ex-wife thought that her husband had died in the war and had no livelihood, and took her daughter to remarry...
The young girl Tian Xiujuan received the courtship letter for the first time, and she was really uneasy in her heart, and from time to time she secretly read the letter alone.
When she saw Sun Yi's straightforward words at the end of the letter, "You don't love my beard, you can shave it, but I love your fat..."
According to Tian Xiujuan's later recollection, although he had no contact with Sun Yi at that time, he had heard that he was a good person, and he was presiding over the work of the women's rescue association at the border district level, and he often showed his face, and his goal was obvious. After thinking about it, under the intertwining of many factors, Tian Xiujuan made up her mind, and the next day, she decided to agree to Sun Yi's request and immediately reply.
The elegant and calm Tian Xiujuan replied not only with sincerity, but also with true feelings.
The letter said to Sun Yi: "As for growing a beard, that is your personal hobby, I will not interfere, you will take care of yourself..."
The heart has a soul and a little understanding. After the Jin-Cha-Ji Border District Party Congress Party Congress, Sun Yi asked Tian Xiujuan to go to the residence of Chengnanzhuang East Street for a talk.
Some lovers met each other and talked a lot, confided their respective experiences, and in the heart-to-heart frank exchange, increased their understanding of each other, and finally agreed: September 15 before Sun Yi went to the Central Hebei Military Region to take office as the wedding day.
An unforgettable day has finally arrived. This night came, the sky was full of stars, only the Big Dipper was the brightest. An ordinary farmhouse in Chengnanzhuang is Sun Yi and Tian Xiujuan's newlywed cave house. Although the house is small, there are many people who arrive; The ceremony was simple and the atmosphere was warm.
Interestingly, a few young cadres talked and laughed according to the custom of Hebei countryside "cave houses". Wang Ping (founding general) and his wife Fan Jingxin, who was once the political commissar of the Central Hebei Military Region, also crowded into the ranks of young people and rushed to the "listening room" under the window of the "cave room"!
So many love stories have been passed down as good stories by posterity.