In 1949, the civil war broke out, and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party faced each other fiercely. In these turbulent times, countless families have been forced to separate, and relatives and friends have had to leave their homes and travel to unfamiliar lands to start over. Xu Liangyu and Guo Ruomei are one of the couples, they were originally a family in Qingdao, but they were forced to separate in the flames of war. As a Kuomintang officer, Xu Liangyu fled to Taiwan with his wife, and temporarily entrusted his newborn daughter Min Min to his sister Guo Ruolan to take care of.
Forty years later, the two sides of the strait were finally open to family visits, and 69-year-old Guo Ruomei returned to her hometown with the joy of reunion, but she did not expect to hear her sister crying and blaming herself: "Sister, I'm sorry, I lost your daughter!" This sentence was like a blow to the head, and Guo Ruomei was confused. She never imagined that such a heartbreaking thing would happen in the years after the separation. Where did Min Min go? How did her sister lose her? For a while, Guo Ruomei was full of suspicions...
1. Wars are raging and relatives are separated
In 1949, the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was fierce, and the flames of war burned all over the land of China. Qingdao, a coastal city, could not escape the invasion of bad luck. As an instructor in the Kuomintang garrison, Xu Liangyu received an order from his superiors that he must lead his family to evacuate Qingdao and go to Taiwan within two days.
This sudden news was like a blow to the head, and Xu Liangyu's family of three was at a loss. Xu Liangyu's wife Guo Ruomei was in the postpartum period at the time, and her daughter Min Min was born not long ago. Seeing that the happy days of the family were interrupted by the smoke and flames of war, Guo Ruomei was heartbroken.
Faced with her husband's questioning, Guo Ruomei fell into a dilemma. The first is to leave with the young Min Min, but the baby is too weak to bear the hardships of wandering, and the second is to leave Min Min in Qingdao for the time being, but she is worried that she will not be able to reunite in the future.
Just when Guo Ruomei was hesitant to make a decision, her sister Guo Ruolan arrived in time, and she took the initiative to take care of Minmin temporarily. Guo Ruolan knows that her sister has a hard time starting a family, she has been sluggish since she was a child, and now she finally has a place to live, and she must no longer be a drag on her sister.
After repeated considerations, Guo Ruomei finally made a difficult decision - to temporarily entrust her daughter Minmin to her sister to take care of, while she and her husband Xu Liangyu left first and went to Taiwan.
In October 1949, Xu Liangyu and his wife embarked on a ship bound for Taiwan, and the parting mourning lingered in the air for a long time. Guo Ruomei stared at Qingdao from the side of the ship, and her heart was mixed. She didn't know that this parting was forty years long.
After arriving in Taiwan, Xu Liangyu's family lived a rather difficult life. As a Kuomintang officer, although Xu Liangyu has a military salary to receive, in an unfamiliar environment, they still run into walls everywhere. For a long time, the husband and wife could only live in a simple straw hut, with wind and rain, and life was hard.
Despite the embarrassment of life, Guo Ruomei still cares about her daughter and sister who are far away on the mainland. In the dead of night, she always burst into tears, thinking about the sound and smile of her relatives. She secretly prayed that the fighting would be extinguished as soon as possible and that she would be reunited with her loved ones as soon as possible.
However, fate often plays tricks with people, Xu Liangyu died in an overdrinking, and Guo Ruomei suddenly became an orphan and widow. In order to support her three sons, she had to put down her body and do all kinds of hard work.
In this way, 40 years passed silently, until 1987, when the door to family visits was finally opened between the two sides of the strait. If Guo Ruomei is reborn, she is eager to find the whereabouts of her daughter and sister, but she never expected to hear her sister's heartbreaking self-blame.
2. Reunion after the war, shocked to hear bad news
In 1987, the two sides of the strait finally opened the door to visiting relatives. This good news is like a spring breeze, blowing in the heart of 69-year-old Guo Ruomei, which rekindled her hope of reuniting with her relatives.
After months of searching, Guo Ruomei finally found the whereabouts of her sister Guo Ruolan in Qingdao. The two sisters lived in the old house, but the house was already dilapidated.
Seeing her sister's old face, Guo Ruomei couldn't help but burst into tears. After 40 years of separation, both of them have grown old, but each other's voices and smiles are still imprinted in their minds. Guo Ruomei stepped forward and hugged her sister tightly, and the two looked at each other and cried, tears soaking each other's clothes.
"Sister, you're finally back!" Guo Ruolan said excitedly, "We can live together again." ＂
"yes, we're finally reunited. Guo Ruomei wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and her face was filled with a long-lost smile.
However, the joy only lasted for a moment, and Guo Ruolan's words pulled her sister back to the coldness of reality.
"Sister, I'm sorry... I lost your daughter Min Min!"
This sentence was like a blow to the head, which beat Guo Ruomei to the point of confusion. She never imagined that such a heartbreaking thing would happen in the years after the separation.
"What?!You said Min Min was lost by you?" Guo Ruomei's eyes widened and she asked in disbelief.
Guo Ruolan nodded painfully, her eyes were red, and she seemed to be about to break the embankment in the next second. Her lips trembled, and she explained in fits and starts, "Shortly after you left that year... I married a PLA soldier ... He was soon transferred to the south, and I had to temporarily leave Min Min in the care of my stepmother... ＂
But then, in order to make a living, my stepmother ... neglect to take care of Minmin, causing Min Min to go missing... She was afraid of being punished, so she fled Qingdao with Minmin... Since then, I haven't heard from Minmin... ＂
Hearing this, Guo Ruomei's tears burst out of her eyes. She covered her mouth and sat down in pain. Min Min was so young, how could she have suffered such misfortune? She entrusted her daughter to her sister so that she could be properly cared for, but she did not expect to end up in an even more dangerous situation.
"Sister, I'm sorry... I'm so sorry... Guo Ruolan couldn't cry, she fell to the ground, hugged her sister's legs tightly, and cried bitterly.
Faced with her sister's self-blame, Guo Ruomei's heart was like a knife. She knew that her sister didn't mean it, but the environment was too difficult back then, which led to such a tragedy. However, Minmin's whereabouts remain a mystery forever, and they will never be able to find the poor child again.
In this way, the two sisters hugged each other and cried, unable to help themselves for a long time. The war had torn them apart, and now when they were reunited, they found that their relatives had long since been heard from. The sisters have endured so much suffering and trauma that they can only vent their pain with tears.
3. The shadow of war, the suffering of families
Under the smoke of the civil war in 1949, the Guo family, an originally happy family, could not escape the invasion of bad luck. The war not only separated Guo Ruomei and her sister Guo Ruolan, but also caused the young Min Min to suffer the first major blow in her life.
Not long after Guo Ruomei and her husband Xu Liangyu left Qingdao for Taiwan, her sister Guo Ruolan suffered a family accident. In order to support the family, the Guo family's stepmother had to temporarily entrust Minmin to someone to take care of her, while she went out to work to earn money.
However, due to her stepmother's neglect to take care of her, five-year-old Min Min accidentally went missing during an outing. For this young child, wandering alone in an unfamiliar environment can be extremely dangerous.
When the news reached Guo Ruolan's ears, she was in a foreign south with her husband. Thinking of her dear niece encountering such an accident, Guo Ruolan couldn't help crying bitterly, and immediately decided to return to her hometown immediately to find Minmin's whereabouts.
However, when she rushed back to her hometown in Jining, she found that the house was already unoccupied. After inquiring, Guo Ruolan learned a chilling fact - in order to escape punishment, her stepmother fled her hometown with Minmin, and there was no news.
This bad news undoubtedly brought a heavy blow to Guo Ruolan. At one point, she thought it would be a wise choice to put Min Min in the hands of her stepmother. After all, as the younger sister of her biological mother, her stepmother will naturally take care of Minmin with her heart. Unexpectedly, it ended up in such a tragedy.
Losing Minmin, Guo Ruolan was in great pain and fainted on the spot. When she woke up, she found that she had been pregnant for several months. In that era when medical conditions were extremely backward, Guo Ruolan's body suffered heavy trauma and was unable to give birth again.
In order not to delay her husband's future, Guo Ruolan finally chose to divorce her husband. Although she has since been searching for Minmin's whereabouts, she has never found anything. It wasn't until eight years later that she learned Minmin's true whereabouts from a distant relative.
It turned out that after fleeing from her hometown, her stepmother had been wandering around with Minmin and eventually settled in Sichuan. However, the good times did not last long, and the stepmother's husband soon died, and she herself was often sick, and her life was in trouble.
Just when her stepmother was about to die, she finally wrote a letter revealing Minmin's whereabouts to Guo Ruolan. But when Guo Ruolan rushed to Sichuan, she only had time to see her stepmother's body.
From the mouth of that distant relative, Guo Ruolan learned the whole story of Minmin's disappearance. It turned out that the reason why the stepmother fled her hometown with Min Min was completely out of a sense of panic and self-preservation.
She was afraid that Guo Ruomei and Guo Ruolan's husband were both powerful figures, and once she was held accountable for neglecting to take care of Minmin, she would not be able to bear it. That's why she had to take Minmin away and run away.
However, it is gone, and Minmin's whereabouts have become an eternal mystery. Although Guo Ruolan has been looking for it since then, she has never had any clues.
This war has brought great trauma and pain to the Guo family. Min Min's disappearance is like a thorn in the hearts of her loved ones, reminding them of the cruelty of war. Although the relatives searched hard, they finally found nothing, so they could only accept this cruel truth.
War ruthlessly took Minmin's life, but also the hope and happiness of an intact family. This past is like a mirror, reflecting the depth of the trauma that war has inflicted on civilians.
4. Relatives are searching, and the pain is difficult to settle
The bad news exploded in Guo Ruomei's ears like thunder, and her heart seemed to be torn apart, and the pain was unbearable. The whereabouts of her daughter Min Min turned out to be a mystery, which she couldn't accept.
After learning the news, Guo Ruomei immediately began to search for Minmin's whereabouts. She asked around, hoping to get even the slightest clue. However, with nothing to gain, her mood became more and more depressed.
Just when Guo Ruomei was about to give up hope, a turning point finally appeared. One day, eight years later, a distant relative came to visit, and he revealed a big message - Min Min's possible whereabouts were in Sichuan.
It turned out that after Min Min went missing, her stepmother took her around in order to escape punishment. Eventually, they settled in a small, remote village in Sichuan. But the good times didn't last long, and the stepmother's husband died soon after, and she herself was often sick, and her life was in trouble.
Just when her stepmother was about to die, she finally wrote a letter revealing Minmin's whereabouts to Guo Ruolan. However, when Guo Ruolan arrived in Sichuan, she only had time to see her stepmother's body.
From the mouth of that distant relative, Guo Ruolan learned the whole story of Minmin's disappearance. The reason why the stepmother fled her hometown with Min Min was completely out of a sense of panic and self-preservation. She was afraid that Guo Ruomei and Guo Ruolan's husband were both powerful figures, and once she was held accountable for neglecting to take care of Minmin, she would not be able to bear it.
After learning the news, Guo Ruomei's heart was extremely heavy. She never imagined that entrusting her daughter to her sister and stepmother would cause such a tragedy. Min Min is so young, how could he have suffered such misfortune?
What's even more heart-wrenching is that even if they know Minmin's possible whereabouts, they have no way to start looking for them. After all, this was decades ago, and there was no news of Minmin, so there was no way to find out.
In order to find her niece Minmin, Guo Ruolan asked around for clues, but found nothing after all. She felt guilty and felt that she had failed her sister's affectionate friendship.
"Sister, I'm sorry... I'm so sorry... Every time she thinks of this, Guo Ruolan can't help crying. She threw herself to the ground, clutching her sister's legs and crying silently.
Faced with her sister's self-blame, Guo Ruomei's heart was like a knife. She knew that her sister didn't mean it, but the environment was too difficult back then, which led to such a tragedy. However, Minmin's whereabouts remain a mystery forever, and they will never be able to find the poor child again.
In this way, the two sisters hugged each other and cried, unable to help themselves for a long time. The war had torn them apart, and now when they were reunited, they found that their relatives had long since been heard from. The sisters have endured so much suffering and trauma that they can only vent their pain with tears.
This war has brought great trauma and pain to the Guo family. Min Min's disappearance is like a thorn in the hearts of her loved ones, reminding them of the cruelty of war. Although the relatives searched hard, they finally found nothing, so they could only accept this cruel truth.
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War ruthlessly took Minmin's life, but also the hope and happiness of an intact family. This past is like a mirror, reflecting the depth of the trauma that war has inflicted on civilians.