"You have a wife and 3 children in your hometown, why are you forcing me to marry you?".
In the spring of 1938, Li Yunan, a 22-year-old girl who had been married for 3 months, suddenly heard that her husband Xu Mengqiu was a married man, and instantly collapsed, and asked Xu Mengqiu loudly, why did she lie to herself.
From this moment on, the little mercy she had for Xu Mengqiu was gone, and she only wanted to end this absurd marriage as soon as possible so that she could regain her free body.
Li Yunan was very aggrieved, really aggrieved, she didn't know at the time, and even more aggrieved things were still to come, because this husband who had no feelings at all, she still had a lot of hardships to eat!
Li Yunan, a native of Shaxi Town, Tongjiang County, Bazhong, Sichuan, was born in 1916 in a poor local farming family.
At that time, most of the land in northern Sichuan was concentrated in the hands of the landlords and gentry, and the common people lived a miserable life, and Li Yunan's family was often hungry and full.
Like most Sichuan girls, Li Yunan is also a pungent person, not afraid of heaven and earth, and has had the spirit of resistance since he was a child.
When she was a teenager, her mother had to wrap her little feet, Li Yunan couldn't hurt it, so she cried and screamed all day long, and after a few months, her mother compromised and didn't bind her feet.
At the end of 1932, a big event happened in Tongjiang, that is, the Red Fourth Front Army came to Tongjiang.
They painted slogans, engaged in propaganda, beat local tyrants, divided the land, and built several porridge shacks on the streets, boiled the rice of the landlords' families, and gave it to the poor to eat.
At that time, Li Yunan was 16 years old, selling melon seeds on the street, and was salivating when he was hungry for rice from the Red Army.
The Red Army was very kind to her, and when she was eating, she asked her if she was willing to join the Red Army, and Li Yunan agreed.
The reason why she was willing to join was not because of the aroma of rice in the Red Army, but because she saw that the female soldiers of the Red Army were wearing military uniforms and had a small pistol pinned to their waists, which was called a heroic posture, she was very envious and wanted to be such a person!
Signing up for the army without telling her family, Li Yunan was beaten by her mother after returning home, because the reactionaries in Tongjiang County at that time spread rumors everywhere, saying that the Red Army was "GCGQ", and the women in Tongjiang were so frightened that they did not dare to go out one by one, and her mother sent her to her uncle's house to hide for two months.
Her mother's violent beating did not make Li Yunan change her mind, and soon she joined the local boy boy squad, brushing slogans and singing revolutionary songs with the Red Army.
Li Yunan is uneducated, but she has a good memory, is bold, and has a big voice, even if she doesn't use a horn, people can hear her voice from afar.
Because of her initiative, not long after joining the Boy Scouts, she became the head of the Scouts, managing more than 40 "Scouts".
In 1933, 17-year-old Li Yunan was promoted to the women's minister of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Young Communist Party and the commander-in-chief of the Young Pioneers.
As the women's minister, Li Yunan commanded women at all levels, sent food and ammunition to the Red Army, helped the Red Army carry stretchers, and set up a medical team to help the wounded, making a lot of contributions.
At that stage, Li Yunan also did things out of the ordinary, and in her later years, she bluntly said that she might have unjustly killed 2 good people!
At that time, they caught two people, some people said that they were the enemy's spies, whether it was or not, Li Yunan didn't know, there was a war at the time, and there was no way to investigate, so she directly ordered to be pulled to the river to kill.
Of course, she has also been wronged, and the cause is her "god".
After Li Yunan participated in the revolution, he followed the Red Army in a big way, which frightened her parents, and they were superstitious to find someone to tell the fortune, calculate her "murder star", trick her home to "pass the disaster", and let her worship more than a dozen "godsons".
Unexpectedly, two of these "godfathers" were the "Heaven Covering Party" that specifically opposed the Red Army, so Li Yunan suffered, was removed from all his posts, and was arrested in the Security Bureau.
Late one night, Li Yunan and more than a dozen people who were also tied up by Wuhua were escorted to the river beach.
Unexpectedly, it was just a false alarm, and those who were escorted over with Li Yunan were all cut down, only Li Yunan survived, and they told her afterwards that they had brought her here to "receive education".
This encounter scared Li Yunan a lot, and even a little crazy, and when those people saw this, they released her from prison and asked her to do coolies.
Soon, Li Yunan's experience reached the ears of Zhang Qiuqin, who was a political commissar in the Red Army General Hospital, and she immediately ran to find Li Yunan and took her to the hospital to take care of her.
After changing the environment and Zhang Qiuqin's care, Li Yunan gradually recovered, and then Zhang Qiuqin found a way to help her restore her membership.
Although her membership was restored, she could not go back to be her "women's minister", so she went to work as an actress in the forward troupe of the Red Fourth Front.
In 1935, 19-year-old Li Yunan participated in the Long March with the army, which was not a good memory for her.
Because she has seen the scene of 200 wounded soldiers kneeling on the ground and begging the troops to take them away, and she has also seen the tragic situation of the soldiers who were left behind in Jiajin Mountain.
For the able-bodied Li Yunan herself, the Long March was not so difficult, and the only pain that tortured her was the migraine left by sleeping in the open air.
In addition, due to the harsh environment, she also suffered from gynecological diseases, and she did not have a period for more than a year, and it was not until she arrived in Yan'an for a period of time that she slowly recovered.
Li Yunan, who is on the Long March, has no ability to help more people, what she can do is to sing with her loud voice, so that they can listen happily and walk more energetically.
After the end of the Long March, Li Yunan was sent to the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University to study for 6 months, and after graduation, he joined the propaganda team of the Red 4th Army as an instructor.
In March 1973, Li Yunan was transferred to the Yan'an Political Department as the leader of the literary and artistic propaganda team.
At that time, Li Yunan's propaganda team had a comrade named Wang Dingguo, who later became the wife of Xie Jueya, one of the five elders of Yan'an.
In October 1937, Li Yunan was once again sent to study at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, and her classmates included Wang Ronghua, Lin Yueqin and so on.
Being able to enter the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University twice for further study made Li Yunan very happy, because the more knowledge he had, the greater the possibility of being reused!
After only two months of enrollment, the organization sent her to the Political Department to engage in youth work, and she was also responsible for sending and receiving internal affairs.
Li Yunan is very satisfied with this position, and she works seriously every day, but what she doesn't know is that someone has "eyed" her.
Not long after joining the company, a director came to talk to her, hoping that she would marry Xu Mengqiu, the secretary general of the Political Department.
As soon as he heard this, Li Yunan immediately refused, the reason was very simple, Xu Mengqiu was 37 years old at the time, 15 years older than Li Yunan, and his legs were frozen during the Long March across the snowy mountains, and both legs were amputated at a high level!
Xu Mengqiu can only use his hands when he walks, holding a dumbbell-like tool in both hands, and swinging forward with his body!
Also in the Political Department, Li Yunan also knew Xu Mengqiu, speaking from her heart, she admired this old revolutionary, who was known as the first pen of the "Central Red Army", and admired his talent, experience, and disability, but if she was asked to marry him, she was 100 unwilling!
Seeing that she disagreed, the director gave her ideological work: "The marriage of a revolutionary soldier must be subordinated to the needs of the revolutionary cause, and if you marry Secretary General Xu, you can take better care of him, and he will contribute to the revolution, that is, you will contribute to the revolution......
Well...... It's a good thing to say, but Li Yunan still doesn't agree, she doesn't understand, why take care of him, she has to marry him, can't gay men take care of him if they live with him?
Because Li Yunan disagreed, the director kept doing her ideological work, and even sent his wife and a married female comrade to give her a special "lesson" every day.
I couldn't stand being annoyed, Li Yunan said angrily: "If you force me again, I will commit suicide!"
These words happened to remind them that they unloaded Li Yunan's gun, and then locked her in a cave and let her cultivate a relationship with Xu Mengqiu.
After being locked up for 10 days, Li Yunan agreed, not because of love, but because of pity, because women are inherently good.
After a simple wedding, they became a couple, but what she didn't expect was that the man she was committed to marrying was a married man.
Soon after discovering that Xu Mengqiu had a family, Xu Mengqiu was organized and arranged to go to the Soviet Union for treatment of his legs, and Li Yunan entered Kang University to continue his studies.
Temporarily getting rid of Xu Mengqiu made Li Yunan feel a lot more comfortable, but she still felt pain from time to time because she was pregnant with his child in her belly!
She understands that only by beating the child in her womb can she have a chance to completely cut off relations with him!
In order to achieve this goal, she drank alcohol and water boiled from neem bark, and in the end she had no choice, she went to an abandoned cave in Yan'an, and jumped down again and again.
After breaking her leg and bending her waist, she finally achieved her goal, but unfortunately, the child was gone, and the bond between her and Xu Mengqiu still could not be broken.
After Xu Mengqiu left Yan'an, he wanted to transfer to Xinjiang to the Soviet Union, but in Xinjiang, he was left behind by Wang Shengshicai of Xinjiang and made him the deputy director of the Department of Education.
In April 1941, Xu Mengqiu took Li Yunan to the Soviet Union, intending to go to Germany to get prosthetics, when the Soviet-German war broke out, and after staying in the Soviet Union for a period of time, they transferred to Kazakhstan and returned to Xinjiang.
During this period, Li Yunan gave birth to a son, Xu Weitao.
In 1942, Sheng Shicai took refuge in Chiang Kai-shek and began to arrest Communist Party members on a large scale.
At that time, Li Yunan and Chen Mengqiu had been married for 4 years, and she married him for the revolution, but he betrayed the revolution?
Li Yunan didn't think about it, so he wrote a divorce agreement in prison and broke off the relationship with Xu Mengqiu!
However, this divorce agreement was not approved by the reactionaries, and they still locked her up with Xu Mengqiu and asked her to take care of Xu Mengqiu, who had no legs.
At that time, their child was just over 1 year old, and they had to take care of both the child and Xu Mengqiu, who couldn't take care of herself.
But even if she was in prison, even if the child was often hungry and screaming, she never wavered in her revolutionary determination!
In 1945, Xu Mengqiu and Li Yunan's family of 3 were released, and after being released, Xu Mengqiu took refuge in the military command, and he did not let Li Yunan's mother and son leave, and Li Yunan could only continue to live in humiliation with him.
In 1949, when Nanjing was liberated and the Kuomintang fled Nanjing, Xu Mengqiu had no use value and was abandoned by the Kuomintang.
After Xu Mengqiu was arrested, Li Yunan finally got rid of this person, and she returned to her hometown Tongjiang with her child.
In 1951, Tongjiang began a vigorous land reform, Li Yunan threw himself into it, busy and happy, as for Xu Mengqiu's life and death, she never asked after leaving, because she didn't care at all.
In 1955, Li Yunan came to Beijing, she found her comrades-in-arms in Yan'an that year, and through their certificates, she got the divorce certificate with Xu Mengqiu.
Knowing that the organization proved that she was in a happy mood on the way home, you can imagine how happy she was.
It's a pity that even if he got the divorce papers, in the "movement" 10 years later, Li Yunan was still not spared, and because of Xu Mengqiu, he suffered countless hardships.
Fortunately, she has gone through the Long March, she is an extremely tenacious person, she survived those difficult years, and was rehabilitated in the 80s of the last century.
In 1987, at the age of 71, she began to receive a pension, a treatment with department-level cadres, and lived a peaceful and stable old age with her children and grandchildren.
In Li Yunan's later years, the three words "Xu Mengqiu" are still a taboo in their family, as long as they mention it, Li Yunan will lose her temper, maybe, she was hurt too deeply by him!
In 2010, Li Yunan completed his life at the age of 94.