"There was once a group of young people who could say goodbye every time they took off, and every time they landed, they had to thank God.
They fought in the clouds, winning or losing in an instant, and they grew up in the greatest war of mankind, and they had no choice.
Therefore, their love of flight, their vision of the sky, and those who hate the country and the family, the long-winded, and the love of their children must be transformed into the notes of fate, floating in the clouds. ”
This is the opening monologue of the documentary "Soaring Sky", and they are the first generation of air force pilots of the Republic of China.
They are a group of young people with an average age of only 23 years old, all from famous families, well-educated.
When the country was in danger, he enlisted in the army, and after hundreds of miles to form a flying brigade, he was a veritable "flying general".
In the face of this group of true celestial pride, no one is willing to imagine that the plane soaring in the sky will fall in an instant, and no one is willing to believe that the young man in fresh clothes and angry horses will become a piece of debris.
But this day will eventually come, and what is even more difficult to accept is that once the war of men in heaven is over, the war of women on earth has just begun
Hello everyone, today I bring you Mr. Bai Xianyong's historical documentary novel "A Handful of Youth", which tells you a romantic love story of an air force pilot
"Pilot" is a special profession, compared to the army and navy, the air force combat them, by people's imagination to give more romance,
For this group of high-altitude creatures, take-off is the norm in life, and landing is only an accident in life, so Zhu Qing said:
I don't know if the pilots are all enthusiastic, but I know that airplanes are like candy for children for them, which is an indispensable thing in life.
Zhu Qing and Guo Yi met by chance, not earth-shattering, but fell in love with each other at first sight.
Before this, Zhu Qingke never wanted to become an air force family member, but life is so strange, when you meet the right person, you have identified the right thing, you will instinctively be righteous.
On this day, Guo Yi took Zhu Qing back to see the "parents", in fact, it was Said that he saw the parents but actually saw Guo Yi's master and teacher.
Guo Yi's father was also an air force pilot, but unfortunately died early in the war, and his mother died of illness shortly after, so his father's colleague Zhou Weicheng took Guo Yi to his home.
This person later became Guo Yi's master, he had no children and no daughters in his life, and he adopted Guo Yi as a son.
Therefore, Guo Yi's ability to bring Zhu Qing here is equivalent to meeting his parents, and it also means that Guo Yi will be responsible for Zhu Qing's life
The master and the master were very surprised when they first saw this girl Who did not like to talk, and was well-behaved and quiet.
Because she and Guo Yi's lively and jumpy nature is completely different, according to Shi Niang's recollection afterwards:
"Zhu Qing is an eighteen- or nineteen-year-old rather thin yellow flower girl, her hair is not hot, she is neatly hanging behind her ears, she saw me with her head down halfway down, shy, very shy, very painful and pitiful, a meal down, how do I tease her, she is not able to answer the cavity, blindly vague response"
These two people who seem to be completely incompatible, because love is attracted to each other, regardless of the obstruction of those around them,
One was expelled for violating school discipline,
One was demoted for violating the discipline of a soldier,
But they eventually came together, and with the help of Shi Niang, Guo Yi and Zhu Qing got married.
But soldiers are not ordinary people, so the wives of soldiers are also doomed to live ordinary lives with their husbands.
A few days after the marriage, the war broke out, and the original two-week wedding leave and the planned honeymoon in Hangzhou could only be pushed backward indefinitely.
Guo Yi was ordered by the army to rush to the battlefield immediately, and Zhu Qing cried to death but to no avail.
The civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communists seemed to indicate that every family would not be at peace, and Zhu Qing finally understood the huge difference between ordinary women and the families of the Air Force
Entrusted by Guo Yi, Shi Niang came to enlighten Zhu Qing, who had just changed her identity and was not accustomed to it, and persuaded her as a person who had come over:
"Zhu Qing, Master Niang has a few words to tell you, I don't know if you want to listen, General Fei's wife is not easy to be, twenty-four hours, that heart is hanging in the sky,
Even if your eyes look to the sky and bleed, the people in the sky may not know, they are like those iron birds, suddenly flying to the east, suddenly flying to the west, you can't catch it.
You marry into our village, Zhu Qing, don't blame me for being honest, you have to be fierce, you have to be fierce, before you can bear the risks in the future.",
In the war years, man's life is decided by God, and love is a luxury here, especially for men in the air, who do not belong to women on earth.
Waiting is always difficult, but with the company of the teacher, Zhu Qing also behaved very calmly.
During this time, she learned to cook, learned to knit sweaters, learned to play mahjong and, of course, heard about the appalling "Air Force family" marriage model:
The lives of Air Force officers may disappear at any time, so their sense of responsibility for love and family is strong enough to entrust their wives to their comrades in the same team.
Whoever sacrifices, there will be a next brother or friend to the top, just like this one, to replace him to fulfill the responsibility of being a husband and father, just like the teacher said:
They are doomed to live us,
Who knows, this sentence turned into a slur, and it didn't take long for the news of Guo Yi's sacrifice to come, a few days of marital love, and a few months of anxious waiting,
Guo Yi and Zhu Qing, a deeply affectionate couple, separated forever after a brief intercourse in a long fate.
Zhu Qing could not accept the reality, she held her husband Guo Yi's uniform and ran out of the air force family village that suffocated her like a madman.
The name of this village is "benevolence", but fate has not given them a little kindness to this group of women.
She was going to look for Guo Yi, but she heard that Guo Yi had fallen and shattered with the plane, and she went there to look for it, so Zhu Qing ran wildly regardless of it and crashed into the telephone pole.
Now, she was carried back by well-meaning people, everyone surrounded her, this group of women were connected to their fate, originally gathered together were chattering and had endless words, but at the moment they couldn't think of any words to comfort Zhu Qing.
They were all silent, looking worried, waiting for the next news, which husband's bad news would be brought
Zhu Qing finally did not die as desired, and the master did not leave her step by step, and after taking care of her for a month,
Her parents came from Chongqing, looking at her daughter, whose face was like dead ash and her eyes were sunken, Zhu Qing's father was silent, but Zhu Qing's mother could not help but say a word to her daughter:
"Damn, I want her not to marry the air force, disobedient, end up like this",
Then the disheveled Zhu Qing was carried off the bed and pulled away with a scooter, this is the fate of the soldier's family, the man's battlefield is in the sky, is with the enemy, and the woman's battlefield is on the ground, is with himself,
Since a woman married a soldier, she must be prepared to arm her heart into a brass wall, and from this point of view alone, Zhu Qing's cultivation is still ahead
Within a few days of Zhu Qing's return to Chongqing, the flames of war reached Ren'ai East Village, and the teacher's wife did not have time to feel sorry for Zhu Qing any longer, so she and the family members of the air force began to flee.
After several ups and downs, these women and children followed their husbands to Taiwan, and now, the war is no longer so frequent, and they have lived a few years of peace.
On this day, the Air Force Freshman Club held a recreation party, the teacher received two tickets, she was bored and wanted to see the liveliness, so she took the little girl from the neighbor's middle school with her.
When they arrived, the party had begun for a while, and it was hard to squeeze in, and there were drinkers, dancing, coloring, and noisy.
At this time, a woman dressed in enchanted clothes stepped onto the stage, and the audience immediately burst into thunderous applause, she "laughed and groaned without half a shyness", holding the microphone in one hand, stroking the hair of the bird's nest with the other hand, and sang:
"Where is the east mountain, a handful of green; where is the west mountain, a handful of green, Lang has the heart to come to the sister has the heart, Lang, let's both become relatives",
The woman on the stage sang the heart, the teacher under the stage listened to the mind, this song she is familiar with, suddenly, someone patted her shoulder, and called out "master niang",
Shi Niang was very surprised, her surname was Qin, since her husband died on the way to Taiwan, no one called her "Shi Niang" anymore, in Taipei, everyone called her Mrs. Qin,
Suddenly, the two words "Shi Niang" were very far away, and she looked back and saw the woman who had just sung "Dongshan Yiqing" on the stage.
This woman is Zhu Qing, and no one knows why Zhu Qing, who returned to Chongqing, is in Taiwan at this moment.
No one knows why Zhu Qing, who blushed when she first said a word to a stranger, can now sing loudly on the stage and talk and laugh in the crowd.
Is that Zhu Qing, who refuses to even raise her voice and speak, the woman in front of her with a graceful posture and unlimited style?
Some of the teachers did not dare to recognize, and some did not dare to think about what kind of beating a woman had to go through in order to laugh at everything
After Zhu Qing's box was opened, The master had an understanding of her situation over the years, she was living well now, singing, cooking, and when she was idle, she would play mahjong at a table.
Don't worry about when someone will come home or whether they will come back again.
She has long looked down on the changes, so she is no longer bent on death, pursuing the two white heads, and Zhu Qing, who has an indifferent face, looks like the teacher and lady of the year
About three or four months later, when Shi Niang was shopping in the market, she met one of Zhu Qing's card friends, and from her mouth, Shi Niang knew that Xiao Gu, who often appeared next to Zhu Qing, died in a plane crash a few days ago.
After hearing this, Shi Niang immediately rushed to Zhu Qing's house, and she vaguely remembered the situation when Guo Yun died, Zhu Qing was mad,
But when she rushed to Zhu Qing's place, she was seriously applying Kou Dan to her toes, and there was no half anxiety and sadness on her face, and then Zhu Qing smiled and got up to zhang Luo's wife to eat.
When talking about the lover Xiao Gu, he also had a calm face:
"Xiao Gu has no relatives here, and his aftermath was clearly handled by me and a few of his classmates, and yesterday afternoon, I transported his ashes to Bitan Cemetery for burial."
Shi Niang quietly looked at Zhu Qing, she did not apply powder, she looked young and cheerful, compared to ten years ago, her cheeks were plump a lot, it looked like her skin was also slippery, not at all like a woman in her thirties,
Shi Niang felt that although she was a little older than Zhu Qing, she couldn't find any words to enlighten her.
Also in the face of death, Zhu Qing's words and deeds before and after had a sharp contrast,
Ten years ago, when Guo Yi died, Zhu Qing was painful to follow him, but when Xiao Gu died ten years later, Zhu Qing was unusually calm.
She grew up, and finally let go of her obsession of "one person and one life", and was able to accept the impermanence of the world calmly.
But Shi Niang was not happy for her, because of these truths, only the cruel reality and the hardships of the years could teach her, Zhu Qing learned how to be an air force wife, but the men in the sky were gone.
Shi Niang remembered her husband Zhou Weicheng, who was slightly luckier than Guo Yi, escaped the shells, survived the war, but got dysentery on the ship returning to Taiwan and was thrown into the endless sea.
Shi Niang was not overly sad, even if her husband who had soared all his life was about to be buried in the belly of the fish, she already knew that her husband could not live on his own
The best destination for soldiers is the battlefield, followed by the side of the lover, and now Shi Niang and Zhu Qing understand this truth.
Therefore, they do not have the luxury of living with the men in the sky until they are old, but only to warm each other in the turbulent years of war,
The cruelty of war is unimaginable to us living in the era of peace, and choosing to become a family member of the Air Force is to choose to become a person who is invincible and embark on a "cold-blooded and ruthless" road
Of course, this is not alarmist, according to historical records, in 1928, one of the cradles of the Chinese Air Force, the first motto of the establishment of the Jianqiao Central Aviation School was:
"Our bodies, our planes and our bombs should perish with the positions of enemy warships",
90% of the pilots who went out from here died in the war.
For this reason, the aviation school stipulates that the marriage age of the Air Force cannot be earlier than 29 years old, and pilots generally dare not fall in love and dare not get married.
Because their lives will end at any time, and once they have a tie, they will bring endless pain to each other
This is the war, this is also the reality, the young body of the air force is fragile in the war of life, and the women behind them must also learn to live hard in the fire of war.
Because this is both a respect for one's own life and the best tribute to the person who has loved you deeply