Zhang Wentian's wife, Zhang Ying, recalled: I was not intimidated by the enemy's butcher's knife, and I was more determined to make a revolution to the end

In the summer of 1926, the Northern Expedition was victorious. In order to welcome the Northern Expeditionary Army, disrupt the enemy's rear, mobilize the masses, and propagate the masses, I took a mobile propaganda team of more than 10 people to the streets every day, gave speeches, distributed leaflets, publicized the victory of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and called on everyone to support the Northern Expeditionary Army, and did not return to school until dark. Although people are very tired and their homework is a little behind, their hearts are comfortable and fulfilling. At this time, I put my personal education and future behind me.

In order to train cadres to meet the needs of the rapid development of the Great Revolution, the Party Central Committee established the Central Lianghu Party School in Wuchang in the winter of 1926. There were only two female comrades among us who went to Hunan, and I was one of them. I happily accepted the arrangement of the party organization and quietly walked out of the school. This was the beginning of my career as a professional revolutionary worker.

Two months later, in January 1927, I returned to Changsha from Wuchang. Changsha has been liberated from the warlord regime. The workers' and peasants' movements were in full swing, and the workers' and peasants' own organizations, the provincial trade unions and the provincial peasant unions, were formed. I was assigned to work as an officer in the Provincial Trade Union Workers' Movement Committee. He was responsible for managing the party organizations of the grassroots trade unions, and also attended citizens' meetings as representatives of the Communist Party, and also grasped the work of the party branches of several schools and factories, attended their branch meetings, and listened to reports...... I was 21 years old at the time, and because I was small, had two pigtails, and looked like a middle school student, people affectionately called me "the pigtail girl of the provincial trade union".

I was not familiar with the workers, had not done union work, lacked experience, and was a little timid. Guo Liang, chairman of the Provincial Federation of Trade Unions and secretary of the Workers' Movement Committee, saw my psychological state and said to me: "Zheng Jie, don't be afraid, be bold." To do revolutionary work, you must be bold, otherwise how can the reactionaries be scared away by our little Zheng Jie?" Guo Liang's humorous words moved and encouraged me.

For Guo Liang, I have long heard many of his stories, what Guo Liang outwitted Zhao Hengti's soldiers, "Guo Liang led the troops to capture Guo Liang",...... During the "27" general strike of railway workers, he took the lead in lying on the rails to block the train to prevent the enemy from sabotaging the strike, and his deeds were widely praised by the people. In 1927, he was only 27 years old and was already a well-known leader of the labor movement. I admired him in my heart, and after listening to his words, I became much more courageous.

Guo Liang also taught me how to work very practically. At that time, the main task of the workers' movement was to organize and mobilize the workers of the trade unions in all trades to wage an economic struggle against the capitalists and leaders. When I went to contact the trade union, he always told me about the characteristics of the industry, who to contact, what the task was, and how to talk. In the evening, Guo Liang always went with me to meet the trade unions of various industries. On the one hand, I organized it personally, and on the other hand, I was consciously led and taught it. Whenever he wanted to study the issue of holding a large-scale struggle, he had to carefully study with everyone the tactics of the struggle, the precautions to be taken, the problems that might arise, and so on. I was inspired. It can be said that Guo Liang's words and deeds taught me the first lesson on how to do mass work.

Under the leadership of Guo Liang, the Provincial Federation of Trade Unions is a united and harmonious fighting collective. I have a lot of tasks. I go out early in the morning and run around. I usually don't come back at noon, and I buy a piece of baked cake on the street to satisfy my hunger. Evening is the busiest time of the day. At that time, most of the trade union cadres lived in the provincial general office, and when they came back in the evening, everyone gathered around the table to have dinner together, and while eating, they talked, exchanged information, and told jokes, just like brothers and sisters in a big family. I'm young and a lesbian, and my comrades care for me like a little sister. Sometimes, when I was too tired and had tasks at night, I didn't talk much at the dinner table, and they would ask me with concern if I was not feeling well, if I was in any trouble? Here, life is stressful and work is difficult, but I feel warm and fulfilled.

In 1927, just as the Great Revolution was developing vigorously, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup. The warlords and the rightists of the Kuomintang throughout the country suddenly became arrogant and rushed to follow suit and frantically suppressed the Communists and the revolutionary masses. For a time, Changsha, Hunan Province was also overwhelmed by black clouds. The counter-revolutionary forces are already mobilizing troops and preparing to encircle and suppress the revolutionary forces in Changsha.

In order to strengthen the reactionary forces in Hunan, He Jian, a warlord living in Hankou, Hubei, transferred a regiment of reactionary officer Xu Kexiang to Changsha, and at the same time instructed his representative in Hunan, Yu Xiangsan, to secretly link up with reactionary armed forces, organize a coup headquarters, and create counterrevolutionary public opinion. In April and May, rumors spread throughout the city of Changsha, one saying that the workers' movement and the peasant movement had made a mistake and that the workers and peasants' overthrow of the local tyrants and inferior gentry was a "ruffian movement." At another time, they said that the Northern Expeditionary Army had been defeated and retreated one after another, had been beaten to the ground by the warlords, and that the National Revolutionary War had been completely defeated. These rumors have made people panic and at a loss.

One by one, the cadres of the trade unions in our province were angry and anxious, trying to explain to the workers and refute the rumors to the citizens, but the rumors were still spreading. According to the workers, the army is also constantly looking for faults and friction with the workers' pickets. Guo Liang believed that this was most likely a conspiracy of the reactionaries, who wanted to find an excuse to create a fuse and achieve the goal of openly attacking the workers' pickets and revolutionary forces.

By mid-May, the situation was becoming more and more urgent. The provincial party committee has made arrangements to prepare for contingencies, and has informed the workers and peasants in all counties to prepare for self-defense on the spot. On the evening of 20 May, the provincial party committee held a meeting and made a decision: Li Weihan and Guo Liang, the main responsible persons of several public activities of the provincial party committee, were transferred to separate routes, directed the work on the spot, and set up a secret provisional provincial party committee. The next day, Guo Liang returned to the Federation of Trade Unions and convened a meeting with us to arrange the contingency work. Each of them was paid a month's salary, and the cadres who had lived in the provincial federation of trade unions were dispersed to live elsewhere, leaving only a few people behind that night. I lived with another female comrade, Huang Houchun, director of the Mutual Masonic Association, in the staff dormitory of the provincial trade union at No. 7 Dongmao Street. Before leaving, I burned the names of the members of the trade unions so that they would not fall into the hands of the enemy in the event of an accident.

On the night of May 21 (i.e., "Horse Day", when telegrams were sent in rhyme to replace the date, this day is the word "horse"), it was dark and drizzling. I couldn't sleep, worried about the safety of Guo Liang and the comrades who stayed behind in the Federation of Trade Unions. I felt that the atmosphere was not right that night, and I had a premonition that something was going to happen.

At about 10 o'clock in the night, suddenly, there were gunshots in the city, and I exclaimed: Xu Kexiang really did it. We looked out of the window and saw a fire in the sky over Changsha. From the firelight, we speculate that the Provincial Federation of Trade Unions, the Provincial Agricultural Association, the Provincial Party School, and other places were attacked. Machine guns rang out for most of the night, and the situation outside was unknown, so we couldn't rush out. I was very uneasy, fearing that the enemy would come and attack. At this point, I mentally prepared for the worst. I said to Huang Houchun: "As soon as the enemy enters the gate, we will touch the electric door." I'd rather be electrocuted than caught by them!" I was determined to fight to the death.

This night is the famous Changsha "Ma-Ri Incident" in Chinese history. Xu Kexiang's ministry attacked nearly 10 open revolutionary organs, including the provincial party school, the provincial trade union, and the provincial peasant cooperative. Despite our prior preparations, more than 100 Communists, leftists of the Kuomintang, and revolutionary masses were shot dead in this counter-revolutionary coup.

In the early morning of May 22, the gunfire stopped, and the surroundings were surprisingly quiet. We couldn't guess how much the situation had deteriorated outside, but at the same time, we felt that the dormitory was not a place to stay for long. That's when we thought of school. The revolutionary activities of many revolutionary comrades in Hunan began in schools, which have become the revolutionary camps in our minds. When you go to school, you can get protection and help, and maybe you can connect with the organization.

Notices of the "Committee for the Eradication of the Communist Party" have been posted on the streets, arresting the "chief of the Communist Party" Li Weihan, Guo Liang, Xia Minghan, and others. We didn't dare to look and ask too much, so we hurried, avoided crowded places, and walked through small streets and alleys to the Provincial No. 1 Girls' Normal School. Later, Cao Zijun (general secretary of the Federation of Trade Unions), Li Si'an (women's minister of the Federation of Trade Unions) and others also came. We stayed here for one night. The school needs to be cleared, and if we stay any longer, we will be exposed. Cao Zijun suddenly thought of a place to go, he once worked as an apprentice in a porcelain shop, and there was a junior brother named Luo Hanqing, who was very kind and didn't care much about politics. Cao Zijun suggested going to his house to hide for a few days. So, we went to his brother's house, and Huang Houchun and I lived in his small attic.

By this time, notices offering bounties for capturing the Communist Party had been plastered all over the streets and alleys of Changsha. Sentinels were also placed at the gates of the city and at important passages. The enemy is hunting down every day, killing people every day. Li Weihan and Xia Xi of the provincial party committee were forced to move and leave Hunan, and other comrades also went into hiding. I thought about how I could neither go back to my parents' house nor hide in my relatives' houses. Because during the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, my identity was public. In March 1927, she attended a town hall meeting as the only female representative among the ten Communist Party delegates. The list of deputies was published in the newspapers, and they did not dare to admit me. But I believe that the party organization must still be there, and I will do everything possible to find her.

After the defeat of the Revolution, the Party went underground. After losing contact, one of the ways to find the party is to "touch". If you go around the streets and alleys, you may be caught up when you meet a comrade, but if you run into an enemy, you will be captured and killed. And the female comrades find the party, which is another difficulty. At the time of the Revolution, most enlightened women cut off their long braids and wore their hair short or short. After the counter-revolutionary coup, the enemy viciously said, "Baba Tou, long live!" Lady Baba Ji Po was shot." Baba head refers to the bun on the back of women's heads in old days, and Lady Chicken is a bald-tailed chicken to insult women who have cut their hair short. My hair was first combed into short braids, and then it was cut into short boyish hair. Therefore, Cao Zijun and Huang Houchun thought that it was too dangerous for me to go out to "touch" the party, and did not agree with me going out. I insisted: "I am in charge of the party organizations of various trade unions, and I know many people and have many opportunities. "

I wore a school hat, covered my short hair, and dared to walk the streets. Once, I rode in a rickshaw through the Education Junction, a sensitive area that used to be a place for revolutionary mass gatherings and is now a killing ground for the enemy. When passing through the checkpoints, the sentinels are particularly strict in their interrogation. He asked me, "What are you going to do?" and I said, "Go to my uncle's house." My mother was sick and asked me to go to my uncle. "Why don't you go any other way, but pass through here?" asked the sentry suspiciously. I pretended to be anxious and said, "It will take a long detour, and if my mother is not seriously ill, why should I go to my uncle to do it?" The sentry looked at me carefully, and suddenly, with a lift of his hand, he took off the hat from my head. I was a little nervous, and I was ready to be arrested. Unexpectedly, the sentry just said mockingly, "Oh, it's a fluttering chicken woman again!" and waved his hand to let him go. Probably because I was small and looked like a student, the sentry believed that I had gone to find my uncle.

I've been bumping into each other for days. I was anxious, and I was pretending to be leisurely on the surface. I choose places where there are a lot of people. On this day, I pretended to go shopping at the south gate of Changsha, looking around, looking at the fabrics for a while, looking at the department stores for a while, and asking about the price. I suddenly heard someone calling my name, and when I looked closely, it was Zhang Yelai, the lover of Cao Dianqi, a cadre of the provincial party committee. Zhang Yelai motioned for me to go with her, and when I walked to a secluded place, she said to me softly, "Everyone is waiting for you at No. 7 Yingpan Street, go quickly." "It turned out that the party was also looking for us, and Zhang Yelai was sent out to find us. My heart was hot, and tears welled up in my eyes. But now was not the time to speak with tears, so I immediately left Zhang Yelai and ran towards the joint location.

At No. 7 Yingpan Street, I met my old superiors, Xia Minghan, Lin Wei, He Gaoren, Teng Daiyuan, and Jian Quai, who worked in the provincial party committee, and Peng Gongda, who succeeded Li Weihan as secretary of the provincial party committee. They said to me: "Comrade Guo Liang has left Hunan, and only you are the only one who is most familiar with the situation of the trade union's party organization. Our most urgent task now is to immediately restore the Party and caucus organizations at all levels and to reorganize the struggle in the heart of the enemy. They asked me, "Do you remember the list of party organizations?" and I immediately replied, "It's all in my heart." Someone asked me, "Are you afraid that the enemy is killing people every day?" I said, "If you are not afraid, if you are afraid, you will not come to seek the party." "

They didn't just ask me, they wanted me to be mentally prepared. At that time, the White Terror in Changsha was very serious, and a large number of comrades had already been killed. The Changsha female teacher I studied in alone was sacrificed by more than a dozen student Communist Party members. A female student I knew was only 16 or 17 years old and was arrested by the enemy because she went to the street to post slogans after the "Ma-Ri Incident." When the enemy demanded that she confess to her instigators and accomplices, she refused to answer. The enemy pulled her out and shot her. When she was shot, a shot missed the point, and she shouted "Mom" in pain. She is still a child, and the enemy will kill even such a child, which shows how crazy she is. In this white terror, there are also people who are afraid, depressed and retreat. Witnessing the sacrifices of my comrades, I had nothing but hatred in my heart, and I was determined to continue fighting.

I threw myself into a new battle. Immediate work was set about restoring the party organization in the trade unions in order to fight the enemy more vigorously.

In October 1927, the Yangtze River Bureau (acting for the Central Committee) sent Comrades Luo Yinong and Wang Yifei to reorganize the Hunan Provincial Party Committee. After the reorganization, Comrade Wang Yifei was appointed secretary of the provincial party committee. The Central Committee decided that I would be an alternate member of the provincial party committee and minister for women. The work of the provincial party committee was all transferred underground and carried out in secret.

The environment is getting worse and the life is getting harder and harder. Because of the scarcity of funds for the party's activities, we hardly received any living expenses, and it became common for us to have a full meal and a hungry meal, but no one complained about it. At that time, Wang Yifei, Lin Wei and other comrades and I lived in the Secretariat of the Provincial Party Committee, which was rented from the common people's wooden houses. In order not to attract the attention and suspicion of outsiders, Lin Wei changed his surname to Xiong. The house was rented in his name, so the head of the household became "Young Master Xiong". Wang Yifei is his cousin. I was young, and they all affectionately called me "Mao Mei".

Every day we are working intensely, and we are in danger of being arrested at any time. I remember one night, Wang Yifei came in from outside the door with a cold air, and when he saw that we were waiting for him to have dinner, he casually asked, "What is delicious today?" We told him that we were going to have a tooth sacrifice today to improve the food. But he didn't get happy, and suddenly said to me: "Sister Mao, don't go out these days." I hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" He told me: "The trade union office in Fuyali was destroyed by the enemy, and Comrade Chen Endeavor was also arrested. His lover reported that the enemy asked who had been to them, and especially your name. I said, "I have an important meeting tomorrow morning, so how can I not go out." He said, "It's too dangerous, tomorrow we will send someone else, you should avoid it first." "My heart is hot and sour when I hear it, and if I want to talk about danger, Comrade Yifei's situation is more dangerous than anyone else. I am a native of Hunan, and I am familiar with the streets and alleys of Changsha. With the situation, it is always easier to get out of the crowd or hide in the people's homes. As for Yifei, who speaks an authentic Zhejiang dialect, is not familiar with Changsha life, as long as he is targeted by the enemy, it is really difficult to get out. However, Yifei always did not listen to advice, braved the cold wind every day, and sometimes ran around hungry every day.

During this period, together with Comrade Teng Daiyuan, I organized peasants and peasant women to participate in a riot in the suburbs of Changsha. The original plan was to cooperate with the city workers to launch the "Gray Day Riot" on December 10, 1927, but the plan was lost, the riot was unsuccessful, and the party organization was seriously damaged again.

In December 1927, Wang Yifei was arrested by spies, along with several other leading comrades of the provincial party committee, and the party organs were also destroyed in more than a dozen places by Kuomintang spies. Six provincial and municipal party committee leaders and more than a dozen comrades were arrested at once, and everyone was very heavy and anxious. In order to try to rescue these comrades, the provincial party committee sent a female comrade who usually does not show up to visit the prison. The comrades who visited the prison saw that Yifei was dressed too thinly, and said to him: "Next time, we will send you a quilt and cotton clothes." Yifei said resolutely: "No need, I don't need anything." Don't come to see me again. "When I learned that Yifei refused to be visited in prison, I was sad and wept. Yifei was ready to sacrifice, and at the last moment of his life, he still wanted to protect his comrades and preserve the revolutionary forces. On the Chinese New Year's Eve of the Lunar New Year in early 1928, Comrade Wang Yifei, five other leading comrades of the provincial and municipal party committees, and 14 comrades were shot dead by Kuomintang reactionaries in Changsha Education Association. When they were about to be executed, they were righteous and awe-inspiring, shouting revolutionary slogans.

Wang Yifei and six other leaders of the provincial and municipal party committees were killed, and then Ren Zhuoxuan, the former head of the propaganda department, defected, and it was difficult for the provincial party committee organs to operate. The predicament facing Hunan urgently needs to be fully understood by the CPC Central Committee. At that time, there were only three members of the provincial party committee: He Senior (Organization Minister), Lin Wei (Secretary General) and me. Lin Wei was about to go to Liling, and Senior He stayed in Changsha, so he decided to let me pretend to be a student and go to Shanghai to report to the Party Central Committee, asking for the head (to send a new provincial party secretary) and ask for money. Sending me off was Lin Wei, the secretary general of the provincial party committee, who had just married me. Before leaving, he repeatedly told me: "Sister Mao, you have a heavy responsibility on this trip." Along the way, we have to pass through Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces, which are long and dangerous, so we should try to talk as little as possible, and be more cautious when encountering suspicious people. "

Shortly after the Spring Festival in 1928, I left Changsha for Shanghai. It was the first time I had traveled far away on a train alone. It was an open-top train, the north wind was howling, and the carriage was extremely cold, shivering from the cold. I have only one thought in my heart: I must find the Party Central Committee and report to the Party Central Committee!

Coincidentally, on the day of the Lantern Festival, I passed through Hankou to take a steamer, and there was still some time, so I walked around the Jianghanguan wharf. Suddenly, I heard someone behind me shouting softly and urgently: "Xiaojie!" I looked back and saw a woman standing in front of me, wearing a floral satin cheongsam with her hair braided high on her head. I just felt familiar, but I couldn't think of who it was. She pulled me over: "I'm Li Canying! Why did you come to Wuhan? Did something happen at home?" Li Canying is Guo Liang's wife, and I was really pleasantly surprised. She told me to go with her to the house. Along the way, Li Canying told me that Guo Liang is now the secretary of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee, and his public identity is that of a manager. As his wife, so dress up decently. When I saw Guo Liang, I was filled with joy and sorrow, and I couldn't help but burst into tears. I poured out my condolences for the fallen comrades and my worries about the revolutionary situation in Hunan. The two of them were also very sad and indignant when they heard this.

Guo Liang told me that the CPC Central Committee sent Comrade Li Weihan to Hunan to inspect the work, passing through Hankou, and now staying at the Changjiang Hotel. He must have been curious to know about the situation in Hunan.

That night, Guo Liang took me to the Changjiang Hotel, found Comrade Li Weihan, and reported to him about the situation in Hunan. And told him that people like him who had been openly active in Changsha could not go there anyway, because the situation there was too sinister. Li Weihan wrote a letter to Zhou Enlai, head of the Central Organization Department, on the spot, saying, "Zheng Jie is from Hunan, please take care of him." "He also decided to ask Liu Changqun, the head of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, who had come to Hankou with him, to go to Shanghai with me. Liu is familiar with the situation, and he is a gay man, so he should be safer if he has a care on the road. Li Weihan told me that after I arrived in Shanghai, I stayed at his house.

The next day, I took a boat with Liu Changqun to Shanghai. Before leaving, Guo Liangsai gave me a few Huangyan oranges and told me to keep them for eating on the road.

When I arrived in Shanghai, I first stayed in a small hotel. Liu Changqun went to report to the Central Committee. Soon someone came to connect. The person who came turned out to be an old acquaintance Gong Yubing. After meeting, I was very affectionate and happy. I opened the seam of the cotton pants and took out a letter of introduction from the Hunan Provincial Party Committee to the Central Committee, which was written in rice soup. Gong Yubing was amazed at my smooth arrival in Shanghai this time, and kept saying, "It's not easy, it's really not easy!" He settled me in Li Weihan's house and went to report the situation to the party Central Committee. When I arrived at the Party Central Committee, it was like returning to my mother's home. A stone in my heart fell to the ground.

About two days later, I was taken to a house in the French Concession, where a meeting was taking place. After a while, Qu Qiubai, Xiang Zhongfa, Zhou Enlai, Yun Daiying, Li Lisan, and other central leading comrades received me. I reported to the Central Committee on the heroic sacrifice of Wang Yifei and other comrades, and on behalf of the Hunan Provincial CPC Committee, I requested that the Central Committee send a new secretary of the provincial party committee to Hunan and allocate funds for the activities.

After I reported on my work, the party Central Committee, considering that the situation in Hunan was too dangerous, asked me to stay and work in the central organs. I don't fit into life in Shanghai. First, they can't speak Shanghainese, and the language barrier brings a lot of inconvenience, and second, they are not accustomed to the water and soil. Soon I found out that I was pregnant, and I was very unwell, so I still wanted to go back to Hunan to work. At this time, Lin Wei had gone to Liling to serve as secretary of the county party committee and organized the Soviet power. He came with two letters and wanted me to go back as well. When I made a request to the Central Committee, Li Weihan said to me: "You have beaten the root of the iron neck, and you are not afraid of being killed!" Comrade Zhou Enlai understood my feelings and agreed to let me go back to Hunan.

I returned to Changsha from Shanghai and did not find the joint. If you stay in a hotel for more than three days, you must have a shop guarantee, and it is not easy to find a store with this guarantee. I found my sister-in-law at the civilian art center, and knowing that my parents were still living in Changsha City, I wanted to go home and stay for a few days. But as soon as I got home, my father asked me with a straight face, "Why are you still coming back?" My mother quickly pulled me aside and said, "You can't stay at home, people are always visiting you." I said to them, "You are dead outside." My mother said to me, "There are only two ways now, one is to turn yourself in and give up your job." I know your temper, and you will never go down this path. The other is to be caught and killed. You are hard-hearted. You go, go far away, Mom can't bear to see you die next to me, Mom can't stand it......" Mother burst into tears and couldn't go on. I know the environment is dangerous and I understand my mother's heart. I had a hurried lunch at home, took a picture with my siblings, and left.

It was drizzling that day, and my mother stuffed me with 20 yuan and called a rickshaw. I sat in, covered with a canopy, and covered the front with a tarpaulin, and no one knew who was sitting inside. The car pulled slowly, and I looked back through the gap and saw my mother walking with the car in the rain and fog, until I reached the door of my aunt's house, and then bent in.

The night I left, the police came. Fence my house first, then go in and search everywhere. I couldn't find it at my house, so I called a few cousins around me who were also called "Mao Mei", and took my photos to check and interrogate them one by one. In the end, my mother was taken to the police station and interrogated for more than ten hours. My mother was so bold that she insisted that I didn't come home, not even a letter. I went out in the afternoon to my sister's house. They got nothing. Our family asked a chamber president surnamed Zheng to come forward as a guarantor, and only then did we release my mother. I didn't know anything about this at the time, but I was told to me ten years later when my younger brother Liu Bin went to Yan'an to join the revolution.

After I came out of my house that afternoon, I could only go to one of Lin Wei's fellow villagers, Boss Zhou, who opened a coal shop. He sympathized with the revolution and had a friendship with Lin Wei. I went to Shanghai, Lin Wei went to Liling, and the letters exchanged between the two were forwarded through him. When I got to him, he took out two letters from a hidden place in the back room and brought them to me. As soon as I saw it, my heart sank: Isn't this the letter I sent to Lin Wei? He said: "The two letters have been here for a short time, and no one has come to pick them up. Something may have happened to Liling. You must not go now, you must not go to the mouth of the tiger to die in vain!" he told me to go back to Shanghai at once, and immediately buy a train ticket for Hankow for me. I didn't buy it, so I was put on a sailboat. The ship was dirty and messy, and it took three days and three nights to reach Hankow.

never expected that as soon as he returned to Shanghai, he would get the bad news that Lin Wei died in Liling. The organization wanted to hide it for the time being, for fear that I would not be able to bear the blow. Cao Zijun understood me, and he thought he had to tell me right away that long pain was better than short pain, and he believed that I would survive.

In September and October 1928, Yi Zusan came to Shanghai to report to the Hunan Provincial Party Committee (then located in Shanghai), and I learned the details of Lin Wei's sacrifice. One night in March 1928, Lin Wei, Yi Zusan, and Chen Gong were holding a meeting outside the city when they were discovered by the enemy. Several of his men burst out and ran on the ridge. Lin Wei was highly short-sighted, fell behind, was shot in the leg by an enemy shot, and fell into the paddy field. In order to cover his comrades, he said to the enemy who rushed up: "You don't have to chase after you, I am responsible." "Lin Wei was unyielding after his arrest. The enemy was afraid of robbing the prison, and soon killed Lin Wei in Liling Zhuangyuanzhou.

Lin Wei was a work-study student in France, and then went to the Soviet Union, returning to China in the winter of 1926. I worked with him, spent two years together, and became husband and wife. Due to the demands of revolutionary work, we were separated a week after we were married. Before leaving, we met again soon, but we didn't expect that the separation would become forever.

Immediately afterwards, Guo Liang was also killed on March 29, 1928. He served as secretary of the special committee in Yueyang and was arrested for being a traitor. When the enemy forced him to confess his comrades, he calmly replied: "When you open your eyes, there is not a single Communist Party, and when you close your eyes, your eyes are full of Communist Party." Knowing that they could not get a confession from him, the enemy hurriedly escorted him to Changsha in a special car. After he was killed, he hung his head on the head of the city at the lion's gate for public display.

I really can't bear this series of heavy blows, just two or three months, Wang Yifei sacrificed, Lin Wei sacrificed, Guo Liang sacrificed...... I was devastated, but I was not intimidated by the enemy's butcher's knife, and this sea of blood and hatred strengthened my determination to fight to the end.

[Liu Ying, born in Changsha, Hunan Province in October 1905, formerly known as Zheng Jie, the wife of the proletarian revolutionary Zhang Wentian. She joined the Communist Party of China in 1925 and served as the head of the Women's Department of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the secretary of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the director of the Propaganda Department and Organization Department of the Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China. In 1934, he participated in the Long March of the Red Army and served as the director of the Political Department of the third echelon and the secretary general of the Central Team. After 1935, he served as director of the Propaganda Department and Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, director of the Secretariat of the General Office of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, member of the Standing Committee of the Hejiang Provincial Party Committee and Liaodong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and head of the Organization Department. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, and member of the Ministry Party Leadership Group. After 1978, he was successively elected as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a member of the Standing Committee, and a member of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Delegate to the 7th, 8th, 14th and 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. He retired in 1991. He died of illness in Beijing on August 26, 2002 at the age of 97. 】