Preface
Founding Marshal Peng Dehuai was a formidable general on the battlefield, Chairman Mao once commented on him: "Whoever dares to cross the sword immediately, only I am General Peng."
But Mr. Peng's love life is very bumpy, his wife Liu Kunmo has been missing for 10 years, and he has been his mother for 10 years, and his second wife Pu Anxiu chose to leave at the low point of Mr. Peng's life.
In 1961, Pu Anxiu summoned Peng Meikui, the niece of Mr. Peng, to visit her, and Pu Anxiu wanted Peng Meikui to copy a letter she wrote to Peng Dehuai, Pu Anxiu said:
"Give this to your uncle, and say I gave it to him. ”
And when Peng Meikui handed over the transcribed letter to Peng Dehuai, it brought a huge blow to Peng Dehuai, who was at a low point in his life, and sighed: "She is afraid of being like this!"
Why did Mr. Peng always say that Pu Anxiu was "afraid of being like this?" Why did Pu Anxiu write to Mr. Peng and ask his niece to transcribe it on his behalf? What is the love story between Mr. Peng and Pu Anxiu?
And the love story of Peng Dehuai and Pu Anxiu can be traced back to the Yan'an period in 1938.......
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Peng Dehuai has only been in love once in his life, and it is the only time, when he was a child, his family was poor, and he couldn't talk about marrying a wife, and later he became a soldier and a company commander, and he followed his grandmother's will and married a girl named Liu Kunmo.
This little girl is much younger than Peng Dehuai's, and Peng Dehuai only sent her to elementary school as a little sister, and then the Pingjiang Uprising, there was no news for nine years, and Liu Kunmo was forced to remarry and gave birth to a child when he said goodbye.
Therefore, during the Yan'an period, many veteran comrades were concerned about Peng Dehuai's marriage issue, and Li Fuchun, deputy director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, was most concerned.
At a tea party, Mr. Peng noticed Pu Anxiu, who was quiet and virtuous in the corner, and Li Fuchun found the "clue", so he took the initiative to introduce Pu Anxiu to Peng Dehuai:
"Xiaopu is a student at Beiping Women's Normal University, and after the Lugouqiao Incident, he came to Shanxi to participate in the anti-Japanese salvation, and was sent to Yan'an by the Shanxi party organization. ”
"That's good, Xiaopu, it's a pleasure to meet you today",
After Peng Dehuai finished speaking, he stretched out his hand to the other party with enthusiasm, Pu Anxiu was also stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect Peng Dehuai to be as serious as rumored, so he stretched out his hand a little shyly and shook Peng Dehuai's hand.
After going back, Li Fuchun, Chen Geng and other party comrades threaded the needle and urged them to get closer and communicate more, Peng Dehuai thought about it, and quickly frowned and said:
"People are foreign students, but I am a cow herding baby....."
Chen Geng hurriedly said:
"You're the Grand Commander now!
After the upright Mr. Peng went back, he wrote a letter to Pu Anxiu, and put forward the words "I love your hometown and am willing to return with you", and only wrote two pages, but expressed her desire to be with her hand in hand with unique feelings and sentences:
"We have all come together for the great task of national liberation, and we hope to be able to live and fight together on the front line of resistance against Japan. ”
So, Osamu Urayasu responded, and she responded:
"I'm willing to go with you to the front!",
So they simply held a wedding in Yan'an, and soon after the marriage, they went to the front together, so people called them "fighting marriages" and "couples on horseback".
From 1938 onwards, the two advanced behind enemy lines, fought side by side, husband and wife, and they made an appointment as husband and wife, resolutely not to engage in speciality, and to share weal and woe with the soldiers.
Whether it is behind enemy lines or in Yan'an, they are very strict in life, often living in a hut for two people, wearing the same coarse cloth uniform as the soldiers, and insisting on practicing Peng Dehuai's principle of "salt and salt, no salt and light" with soldiers in terms of diet.
In 1944, when they were going back to Yan'an for a meeting, and when they wanted to pass through the enemy's blockade line, Peng Dehuai covered his head with a white scarf, wore a gray cardigan coat, black cloth pants, and black-trimmed double-nosed shoes.
Urayasu was dressed in a moon-white cardigan coat and black trousers, and it was completely dressed as a northern peasant couple returning to their parents' house to string relatives, and the couple swaggered through the enemy's tight blockade and returned to Yan'an in triumph, and someone later made a poem for them:
"General Buyi's wife. Who is it to fight in the south and in the north?
The cave saddle is fortunate to be a home, leaving the world clear. ”
Later, due to the urgency of the war, Pu Anxiu and Peng Dehuai often lived separately, and they injected all their love into the war.
"You have been with me for so many years, you have suffered so much, and you have never complained about me, I should thank you. ”
Urayasu Xiu said lightly:
"Why should I blame you, that's only the enemy. ”
They understood and supported each other until 1959, when Mr. Peng's life was at a low point, and their love also ushered in changes....
A letter made Peng Dehuai sigh
In 1959, Peng Dehuai's niece Peng Meikui came to visit Peng Dehuai, and Peng Dehuai said to his niece when he saw this:
"I'm moving soon, probably to Tsinghua University or the Summer Palace. ”
Since Peng Dehuai moved out of Zhongnanhai, his niece Peng Meikui often visited Peng Dehuai, and every time Peng Dehuai would tell Peng Meikui:
"If you work more, you will work for me, the people, and the party!"
And Mr. Peng also made a strict study plan, she was very serious, only slept four or five hours a day, when Peng Meikui persuaded him to rest, he always said:
"I used to fight wars and go from place to place, where could I have free time to study systematically, but now that I have time, I have to study seriously. ”
Peng Dehuai saw Peng Meikui's worried expression, so he comforted:
"Don't worry about my body, my stomach is not good, dermatitis often attacks, this is difficult to overwhelm people, I read books every day in a planned way, when I am tired of reading, I will work for a while, watering vegetables, pulling grass, I can also fight boxing when I am tired of reading, activities, and then continue to study, four or five hours of sleep is enough, I have always been like this in the past, how can there be such a blessing during the war years! Four or five hours of sleep can not be guaranteed. ”
At this time, Peng Dehuai was 61 years old, in the labor he and the soldiers together to dig the mud, pick up the frame, Peng Meikui persuaded the uncle to rest for a while, he always refused, very disobedient to the old, every time he sweated, but also said happily:
"I was born sweaty, and my whole body was comfortable. ”
Once, Peng Meikui came to visit Peng Dehuai and saw that Peng Dehuai's shirt sleeve was torn, Peng Meikui asked anxiously:
"Uncle, what's going on?"
Peng Dehuai said:
"That day, carrying water and watering vegetables, I fell into the pond, broke my arm, and tore the sleeve of my shirt. ”
Peng Meikui was very uncomfortable when she heard this, so she persuaded Peng Dehuai:
"Uncle, you're so old, don't do this work in the future. ”
Peng Meikui, who went back, wrote a letter to Pu Anxiu, hoping that his aunt could persuade his uncle, and the letter wrote:
"Uncle has low blood pressure, squatting or standing up for a while dizzy, and even suddenly falls, easy to be in danger, I hope my aunt can do the work to avoid such things in the future. ”
And Urayasu replied:
"Mei Kui, look at the desolate and dilapidated appearance there",
Later, he wrote a letter, asking Peng Meikui to bring her her daily necessities back, and when Peng Meikui asked Peng Dehuai for it, Peng Dehuai said:
"It's hard to ask for these things, the guard squad uses them, I don't want them, let her get them herself. ”
Peng Meikui conveyed Peng Dehuai to Pu Anxiu, Pu Anxiu just cried very sadly, every time, Peng Meikui continued to comfort, in the late autumn and early winter of 1961, Peng Meikui received a letter from Pu Anxiu, asking her to go over, Peng Meikui was full of doubts and the two went to Pu Anxiu's residence, as soon as they entered the house, Pu Anxiu shouted:
"Mei Kui, I have something for your uncle, you can help me transcribe it for her. ”
Peng Meikui was very puzzled, she thought to herself, why do you want me to copy it? So she took it and copied the letter of Shop Anxin, which roughly stated her worries and finally wrote:
"I'm not going to you anymore......"
After copying it, Pu Yasu Xiu said to Peng Meikui:
"You gave this to your uncle, and said that I gave it to him",
Peng Meikui brought the letter to Peng Dehuai, Peng Dehuai took the letter, did not look up and pay the money, and sighed: "This is called by you to copy, and you don't even dare to write a handwriting to me, I'm afraid it will look like this!"
After that, he crumpled the letter into a ball and threw it into the paper basket next to him helplessly, without even looking at it, and Peng Meikui didn't know the current situation of the two.
Later, Pu Anxiu wrote a letter to Peng Meikui to tell her that she was going to divorce Peng Dehuai, and Peng Meikui persuaded her:
"Auntie, don't ....."
Urayasu said with tears in his eyes:
"Let's go, let's go....."
When Peng Dehuai learned about it, he was also helpless, and muttered:
"She's not going to pick herself up, she's too vulnerable......"
Although Peng Dehuai was disappointed, he still respected Urayasu's idea.
In 1974, Peng Dehuai died of illness, and Pu Anxiu also missed the opportunity to meet Peng Dehuai for the last time, which made her regret for the rest of her life.
In his later years, Pu Anxiu even set up three rules to show people, one is not to pretend to be the marshal's wife, the second is not to enjoy any special treatment of the marshal's wife, and the third is not to take a penny from Mr. Peng.
In his later years, Pu Anxiu never regarded himself as "Mrs. Peng", and donated all his inheritance to the grassroots people in the name of Mr. Peng, in fact, one of her inheritance was also donated, part of it was taken out to support the construction of Mr. Peng's hometown, and part of it was distributed to Peng Dehuai's relatives and family.
In order to fill in the regrets, Pu Anxiu collected information everywhere, compiled Peng Dehuai's past into a collection, and published "Peng Dehuai's Self-Statement", which fulfilled her wishes and regrets of missing her husband.
In 1991, Pu Anxiu passed away at the age of 73, and she still missed Peng Dehuai in the last moments of her life.