In 1979, during his detention, Zhou Yuelin kept appealing upwards for many years, trying to prove his innocence, but never got a response. Zhou Yuelin is getting older, plagued by diseases, and her body is weak, but she still does not give up the hope in her heart, looking forward to one day being able to reveal the truth. This time, Zhou Yuelin received a reply: The relevant departments wanted to review Qu Qiubai's case and found a newspaper published by the Kuomintang in 1955 with the following message: "The wife of the secretary of the ChiGong Fujian Province surrendered and confessed the identity of qu Qiubai, the bandit leader." That is to say, the betrayer who exposed Qu Qiubai's true identity was not Zhang Liang and Zhou Yuelin, who were captured together, but Xu Shi, the wife of the secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee.
On November 15 of the same year, the Beijing Municipal Higher People's Court revoked the original judgment on the case and declared Zhou Yuelin innocent. After 24 years, Zhou Yuelin completely got rid of the crime of "betrayal".
Born in 1906, Zhou Yuelin was originally just an ordinary spinning mill woman. Although she is the body of Yasukuni, she also cherishes the righteousness of her family and country when she sees that the country is in misery. Even though she worked hard to make a living during the day, at night, she still insisted on going to night school.
Finally, her persistence came to fruition, and her progressive attitude was always in the eyes of the Party Central Committee, and the organization invited her to join the Chinese Communist Party and sent her to the Soviet Union for study. Zhou Yuelin met Liang Baitai in the Soviet Union and married, the two also gave birth to a son and a daughter during the Soviet Union, and in 1931, the two were transferred back to China to work, and the two children stayed in the Soviet Union.
From 1932 onwards, she served as the director of the Women's Department of the Central Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the following year she was promoted to the head of the Women's Department of the Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China, presiding over the work of the whole party on women.
There are very few women who have presided over the work of the whole party in the Party. Before Zhou Yuelin, there were only two people, Xiang Jingyu and Yang Zhihua, and Cai Chang was not.
In 1934, at the "Second Congress" of the Chinese Soviet, Zhou Yuelin was elected as a member of the presidium of the central government, and was the only female member of the presidium, and her status was so high that no other female cadre could stand out.
In 1935, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized a large number of troops and continuously increased the encirclement and suppression of the Central Soviet Region, and the situation of the Communist Party in the Soviet Region became increasingly tense. Soon after, the Nationalist army had occupied most of the area.
In the early morning of February 24, Qu Qiubai and his party braved the rain to reach the vicinity of Shuikou Town, Maotian District, Changting County, Fujian Province, and were exhausted. Qu Qiubai decided to take a break first and burn the fire to bake the wet clothes. Who knows, this decision has caused a disaster.
At that time, Qu Qiubai was suffering from tuberculosis and was very weak; He Shuheng was close to Hua Jia and was also the focus of care; Zhang Liang was the wife of Xiang Ying, secretary of the CPC Central Bureau, who was already six months pregnant, and the long-term trek had a great impact on her; Zhou Yuelin first led the guards to open the way, and then turned back to meet Qu Qiubai and others.
At that time, a battalion of the Kuomintang was stationed in Shuikou Town, and after the enemy discovered the traces of Qu Qiubai and others, they immediately surrounded them. As soon as the captain escorting Qu Qiubai and the others heard the gunshots, he threw down the oil on the soles of Qu Qiubai and the others' feet and escaped without a trace.
In the midst of the crisis, Deng Zihui pulled out his pistol and organized a counterattack. However, there were too many enemies, and Deng Zihui had to retreat while fighting, covering the breakthrough of Qu Qiubai and others. Seeing that it was difficult to break through and unwilling to fall into the hands of the enemy, Uncle He took out his pistol and said to Deng Zihui: "Comrade Zihui, I have revolutionized to the end!" With a gunshot, He Shuheng was sacrificed.
Qu Qiubai and Zhang Liang, one sick and one pregnant, could not run at all, in the face of the enemy's crazy pursuit, can only move frequently, which is a huge physical exertion for Qu Qiubai and others.
He was soon caught up and arrested by the enemy and subsequently imprisoned.
However, after Qu Qiubai was captured, at first the enemy did not recognize his identity, and Qu Qiubai himself said: I am just a doctor, named Lin Qixiang. Zhou Yuelin said that her name was Huang Xiuying, a nurse at the Red Army Hospital, and this time she had left the Red Army and returned to her hometown in western Fujian; Zhang Liang said that she was the wife of a Hong Kong businessman and was "kidnapped" by the Red Army. The enemy could not identify him and could only keep him in prison.
The regimental commander Zhong Shaokui did not immediately believe the identities of these three people, but because Zhou Yuelin and Zhang Liang were both women, and Zhang Liang was pregnant, Zhong Shaokui felt that even if the two had any connection with the Communist Party, they were only small roles and not worth the trouble.
However, Qu Qiubai made Zhong Shaokui very attentive, and Qu Qiubai was too calm in the face of the enemy, which made Zhong Shaokui have to defend, in case he was a leader, it would be a great achievement.
Therefore, among these three people, Qu Qiubai became the most concerned person, while Zhou Yuelin and Zhang Liang left prison one after another.
First of all, Li Yu was very interested in Zhou Yuelin, so he asked Zhong Shaokui to bring Zhou Yuelin back to his home and let Zhou Yuelin deliver and serve the confinement of his wife.
Zhang Liang was favored by a rich businessman, this rich businessman is over fifty years old, but his wife can not have children, he heard that the security team caught a pregnant woman, he thought about it, spent a lot of money to buy Zhang Liang home, the child born belonged to him, and Zhang Liang also became his little wife.
At the same time, Qu Qiubai began to find ways to save himself, and he wrote to Lu Xun and his wife Yang Zhihua in Shanghai, asking them to try to bail out of prison.
That is, in the process of Lu Xun, Yang Zhihua and others actively rescuing in Shanghai, Qu Qiubai's identity was discovered by the enemy.
Because Wan Yongcheng, the secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee at that time, unfortunately died, and his wife was captured, she could not withstand torture, and confessed that it was Qu Qiubai who was captured by the enemy. Immediately, the case reversed sharply, and Zhou Yuelin and Zhang Liang were detained again. Under the designation of the traitors, all three confessed their original identities, but they were silent about the secrets of the organization, and despite torture, they still did not confess.
Unable to find out the information, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Qu Qiubai to be shot. Qu Qiubai died in 1935 at the age of 36.
When the Kuomintang discovered that "Lin Qixiang" was Qu Qiubai, the leading figure of the Communist Party, they immediately arrested Zhang Liang and Zhou Yuelin and returned them to Shanghang Prison. The enemy believed that the two of them must also be important figures in correspondence with Qu Qiubai, so they strictly interrogated them for re-imprisonment. Finally, the Kuomintang authorities in Shanghang sentenced Zhang Liang and Zhou Yuelin to 10 years' imprisonment each on charges of being "a vigilant communist bandit" and transferred them to Longyan Prison.
It was not until May 1938 that Zhou Yuelin and Zhang Liang were released on bail, and the bail they were released by Chen Shimin, the deceased of Zhou Yuelin's husband, who held an important position in the Kuomintang party department in Longyan, Fujian Province, and he also used the cooperation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to successfully release Zhou and Zhang from prison. At this time, it had been three years since Qu Qiubai was killed.
When Zhang Liang returned to the Headquarters of the New Fourth Army, Xiang Ying, who was then the deputy commander and political commissar of the New Fourth Army, believed that it was Qu Qiubai betrayed by Zhang Liang and Zhou Yuelin, so he ordered Zhang Liang to be shot. After that, Xiang Ying directly declared that Zhang Liang was the traitor who killed Qu Qiubai. In this way, Zhang Liang died unjustly, and this traitor's hat was worn for decades.
After being released from prison, Zhou Yuelin urgently searched for the organization, but the times were turbulent and chaotic, and she did not find the organization. Zhou Yuelin was disheartened and decided to compromise with life. She committed herself to a poor boatman and became an authentic housewife. Originally, life had polished her heroically, and now she hid in the sea of people, like an island.
After the founding of New China, Zhou Yuelin's heart lit up hope, she wanted to return to the organization, wanted to find her two children who remained in the Soviet Union and a lost son who remained in the Soviet Union, but unfortunately, the children who remained in the red zone died prematurely, and the two children who remained in the Soviet Union were also missing. While she was still on her way back to the organization, disaster struck again.
Zhai Qiubai was killed, but Zhang Liang and Zhou Yuelin were fine. Zhang Liang had been executed by Xiang Ying, and only Zhou Yuelin was still alive. Therefore, on August 25, 1955, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau arrested Zhou Yuelin, and on the 28th, she was taken to Beijing and imprisoned.
During the investigation, investigation, and interrogation, Zhou Yuelin was detained for ten years until December 1965, when the Beijing Municipal Intermediate People's Court issued a formal criminal judgment sentencing Zhou Yuelin to 12 years in prison for "betraying the party leader" and was sent to a labor camp on the outskirts of Beijing to serve his sentence. In 1969, Zhou Yuelin was sent to Yuci Women's Prison in Shanxi To serve his sentence and undergo labor reform.
In 1979, the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau discovered the real murderer who betrayed Qu Qiubai in a long-sealed document.
This material is the interrogation transcript of a family member surnamed Xu captured by the Tang Enbo Department of the 8th Division of the Nationalist Army on April 10, 1935, 46 days after Qu Qiubai's arrest. This discovery was combined with the newly acquired information secretly identified by the telegrapher Zheng Dapeng, and the truth came to light, overturning the original claim that the two women had betrayed Qu Qiubai's identity.
On November 15, 1979, the Beijing Municipal Higher People's Court revoked the original verdict and acquitted Zhou Yuelin. After 24 years, Zhou Yuelin completely got rid of the crime of "betrayal". When she was 74 years old, she could not calm down for a long time with the verdict. Two lines of tears fell, almost dripping onto the verdict.
The following year, in accordance with relevant policies and the standards of joining the revolution in 1925, the relevant departments handled the formalities for Zhou Yuelin's leave of absence and prepared for her follow-up resettlement work. Later, Zhou Yuelin returned to Liang Baitai's hometown of Xinchang and settled down, serving as a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Xinchang County, and spent his old age until his death in 1997.