It is well known that the founding general Ye Fei has dual citizenship of China and the Philippines. His father, Ye Sunwei, a native of Nan'an, Fujian Province, traveled alone to the Philippines to earn a living, where he has since settled. He fell in love with a local woman and married two sons and a daughter, the second of which was Ye Fei.
In 1956, Ye Fei received a letter from the Philippines, written by his sister Emma.
Emma said that her father died a few years ago, and the family had no financial resources, and life was very difficult. I hope that Ye Fei can send a sum of money to his family to help his family tide over the difficulties.
Ye Fei looked at the letter and fell into deep thought.
Ye Fei's mother, Mercato, is from a large family and is Catholic, and her family requires that the first two children born after marriage be sent back to China, so that the rest can stay in the Philippines.
So when Ye Fei and his brother Ye Qicun were both 5 years old, Ye Sunwei took them back to their hometown in Fujian.
The Philippines has not revoked the citizenship of the two children, whose birth certificates have been kept with the local government.
At that time, the world was chaotic and bandits were rampant, and the bullies in their hometown heard that Ye Sunwei had made a lot of money in the Philippines, so they arrested him and blackmailed the Ye family. In the end, the person was redeemed, but the Ye family was also in debt.
Ye Sunwei could only return to the Philippines to continue to earn money to pay off debts, while Ye Fei and Ye Qicun remained in the Ye family and were raised by his original wife Xie.
Xie tried his best to raise the two children and send them to school sparingly. Ye Fei quickly got used to the life of the motherland and began to familiarize himself with the world with curious eyes.
While studying in Xiamen, Ye Fei came into contact with various progressive books and periodicals, and the ideas conveyed in them left a deep impression on him.
He began to take the initiative to understand the red spirit and embarked on the road of revolution. However, the opportunity for Ye Fei to really approach our party came after April 1927.
At that time, Jiang launched the "April 12" incident, and many members of our Party had to go underground. Ye Fei looked at all this, and his heart was full of disdain for the Kuomintang. He immediately decided to drop out of school and join the revolutionary activities led by our Party. This year, Ye Fei was 14 years old.
Ye Fei was operating in secret, because he was still young after all, and he did not attract the attention of the Kuomintang at first. But just two years after joining the revolutionary ranks, he was accidentally exposed during an operation and captured by the enemy.
Ye Fei insisted on telling the interrogator that he didn't know anything, and even half of the information was not exposed. The Kuomintang did not have enough evidence to identify him as a "red element", so it had to release him.
After Ye Fei went back, he continued his activities without hesitation.
After that, Ye Fei was arrested several times, and each time he saved the danger like this.
In 1932, the organization recognized his outstanding performance and officially approved him to join our party. Ye Fei also accumulated a lot of experience in those years of "exercise" and grew into an excellent revolutionary.
The "Huotong Rebellion" in May 1933 was initiated by the workers' and peasants' self-defense forces led by Ye Fei in Banling Village. Since then, Ye Fei's reputation has also officially spread. But as more and more people knew his name, the Kuomintang reactionaries saw him more and more as a thorn in their side.
In November 1933, after receiving the task of the organization, Ye Fei went to Fu'an County to prepare to meet other members, but he did not expect that someone would disclose the news to the Kuomintang.
Ye Fei came to the inn that served as the location of the joint and waited in a private room on the second floor. Within minutes, he heard hurried footsteps outside the door.
He also thought that the comrade of the joint was coming, and when he looked at the door, he was pinned to the ground by three people who suddenly rushed in. One of them took out a gun and fired three shots at him!
Fortunately, it was a downtown area, and the three spies did not dare to make more stops.
After they searched Ye Fei's body, they fled in a hurry without checking Ye Fei's breathing.
Ye Fei, who was dying, was sent to the hospital by the masses, and the organization immediately sent doctors to treat him. The shrapnel of the three bullets remained in Ye Fei's body, and the doctor successfully removed two, but could not do anything about the one in his chest. But Ye Fei was still rescued.
This time the danger of his life did not discourage Ye Fei's enthusiasm, and after recovering from his injury, he began to work again.
After the failure of the fifth counter-"encirclement and suppression", Ye Fei stayed in eastern Fujian to lead the local guerrilla group to continue the struggle. They established a base in eastern Fujian and grew stronger and more important.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Ye Fei came under Chen Yi and continued to shine on the battlefield as a regiment commander. In countless battles, he gave full play to his military talents and won many victories for the party and the people.
In the later well-known battles such as the Laiwu Campaign and the Battle of Crossing the River in the Liberation War, the troops led by Ye Fei also made great contributions and laid a solid foundation for the liberation of the whole country.
At the conferral ceremony in 1955, Ye Fei was awarded the rank of general, becoming one of the youngest founding generals on the mainland.
Ye Fei never forgot his adoptive mother Xie.
Although she is not her biological mother, she has been raising Ye Fei and Ye Qicun as her own children for so many years, and Ye Fei has long regarded her as her biological mother. After the liberation of Fuzhou, Ye Fei took Xie to his side and did his filial piety.
As for his family in the Philippines, Ye Fei has always maintained a relationship - they have always contacted by letter.
About a year after the award, Ye Fei received a letter from his sister Emma, whose contents struck him like lightning: his biological mother Mercato had died.
Although she had not seen her for many years, she was still her own mother, and Ye Fei fell into incomparable sadness.
A few months later, Emma wrote another letter with another bad news: their lives in the Philippines were extremely difficult.
His father, Ye Sunwei, died as early as the Anti-Japanese War, and now that his mother is gone, the situation at home is even more unsustainable. In order to support her family, Emma had to go around looking for work alone, a job she had never thought of before: maid, for example, she now has to do it.
Almost a year ago, Emma learned that Ye Fei had been awarded the rank of general, and she had some ideas about asking him for help.
After all, Ye Fei, as a founding general and also the commander of the Fujian Military Region, how can he say that he is a big official? Then it is naturally easy to fund them with a sum of money.
This kind of thinking is normal, after all, Ye Fei is Emma's biological brother, and when there are difficulties at home, how can my brother not help.
But Ye Fei fell into a tangle.
As a party member, he has no money left over from him other than his monthly salary, and he cannot take more money to help his family at this time.
After thinking about it, although he couldn't bear it in his heart, Ye Fei still picked up a pen and wrote a reply, saying that at this time, the country was in ruins, and construction was needed everywhere, and he didn't have much money on him to fund Emma and them.
But if Emma wants to, she can bring her family to China, and he will do his best to take care of them.
After that, Ye Fei never received a reply from Emma. He knew that Emma should be very disappointed, and he only sighed in his heart.
In January 1989, Ye Fei received an invitation from the President of the Philippine Senate and returned to Manila, Philippines for a visit. As soon as he got off the plane, he saw a woman waiting there with flowers in hand.
Although he hadn't seen her for many years, Ye Fei looked at her and still recognized her as his sister Emma!
Ye Fei stepped forward, but the first thing he said was an apology:
"I always hope you will forgive me. As a party member, I really can't get more money..."
Emma smiled: "I was angry with you at first. But I really didn't understand you at the time – I always thought you were as rich as the Filipino officials! Now that I think about it, I'm proud to have a brother like you. ”
Both brothers and sisters laughed and hugged each other.