This title has sparked the curiosity of countless people. In that turbulent era, Deng Zihui and Lin Boqu, two Communist Party veterans, actually had an experience of recognizing each other's mistaken children. When the war raged, their children were temporarily entrusted to someone else's care, but when they re-recognized, a series of misunderstandings and disagreements arose. Deng Zihui made a puzzling decision at the time, he rejected his wife's suggestion to exchange his biological son, on the grounds that "they are all descendants of the revolution, don't change them." What's the story behind this? Why did Deng Zihui make such a choice? Let's find out.
The flames of war are raging, and the life experience is turbulent
In 1934, when the Chinese Civil War was in full swing, the Communist People's Revolutionary Army came to Ruijin, the base area of western Fujian, after an arduous Long March. Deng Zihui, Lin Boqu, and others, leaders of the Party Central Committee, knew very well that the next struggle would be even more cruel, and in order not to delay the march and battle, they could only resettle some Red Army children first.
After careful deliberations, the Party Central Committee decided that the families of the Red Army should be sent to the strategic hinterland by all units to find reliable peasant households to foster the children for a short time. Deng Zihui's lover Huang Xiuxiang has just given birth to a son, and Lin Boqu's wife Fan Lechun is also a novice wet nurse. The two mothers were concerned about the revolutionary ideals and resolutely entrusted their children to the temporary care of Fan Meihong and his wife, fellow villagers in Huichang.
That winter, the night was shrouded in the sweltering land of western Fujian. Ruijin County was solemn at the beginning of the lanterns, and the cries of women and children were endless. In order to escape the sweep of the Kuomintang army, the women and children began a long road of exile one after another.
A team of women led by Fan Lechun hurried to their hometown in Huichang. The sound of horses' hooves stirred up the dust on the field path, reflecting the bright moonlight. Everyone was silent, for fear of alarming the eyes and ears of the enemy.
ran all the way and finally arrived at Fan Meihong's house. Fan Lechun lay the two babies in his arms flat on the soft collapse, and said to Fan Meihong with tears in his eyes: "Brother Meihong, let's go!" These two children, one is the son of Comrade Deng Zihui, and the other is my flesh and blood. When the environment is stable, we will definitely take them back. You must take good care of them and treat them as if they were your own children! ＂
Fan Meihong wiped away tears and nodded, he knew that this was the party's trust and his responsibility was unshirkable. The team then returned to the road and soon disappeared into the night.
Since then, Fan Meihong and his wife have regarded their two children as their own flesh and blood. Due to the poverty of the family, he could only leave the smaller one and named it Fan Yide; and gave another relatively healthy child to Lai Zhaozhi and his wife, who had no children and no daughters, to raise, and gave the name Lai Pingya.
mistakenly recognized his life experience, and his mother said goodbye in tears
Time flies, and the smoke of war fades away. In 1949, the Chinese People's Liberation War was completely victorious, and the new Chinese regime was finally established. Deng Zihui, Lin Boqu and other revolutionaries of the older generation, while busy with national construction, did not forget the children who were lost many years ago.
This year, Deng Zihui entrusted Chen Renlin to go to Huichang, Jiangxi Province to find the two children who were separated that year. After many inquiries, I finally found a boy named Fan Yide.
Born in 1934, Van Yide was very intelligent and studious since he was a child. At the age of nine, he entered the school, and although his family was poor, he never delayed his homework. When he was 11 years old, his father Fan Meihong died of illness, and he had to drop out of school to work as a child laborer and make ends meet by working as a chorre in a shoe factory.
Despite the hardships of life, Fan Yide still cherishes the dream of going to school. It wasn't until he was 15 years old that a small accident caused him to recuperate at home, and his mother Guo Fazai confided in him the shocking secret - he was the son of a Red Army general, and Fan Meihong and Guo Fazai were just his adoptive parents.
This news undoubtedly brought a huge shock to Van Yide. He never expected that the parents who had raised him all the time were not his biological parents. His mother told him that if his biological parents were still alive, they would come to look for him in the future. Since then, Fan Yide has always looked forward to that day with great longing.
Sure enough, in the spring of 1949, the Huichang County People's Government received a notice from their superiors that they wanted to help the two revolutionary leaders find their long-lost children. Fan Yide immediately understood that this might be the moment he had been looking forward to.
After careful comparison and careful investigation by government officials, it was finally determined that Fan Yide was Lin Bingsu, the son of Lin Boqu, and the other child named Lai Pingya was Deng Susheng, the widow of Deng Zihui. So, Fan Yide and Lai Pingya were picked up one after another and went to reunite with their biological father.
On the day of parting, Fan Yide's adoptive mother Guo Fazai was very sad. She grabbed Fan Yide tightly with her cracked hands, and said in a choked voice: "Yide, you are the son left behind by the Red Army, and now that everyone is liberated, you should go with your biological parents." Mom, I'm old, I may not live long, you have to be together as a family... ＂
Fan Yide burst into tears, he never thought of leaving the home where he was raised. But Guo Fazai said: "Child, hurry up, don't worry about me." Your biological parents must be in the heavenly spirits looking forward to seeing you... ＂
In this way, Fan Yide left this poor but warm little home with tears in his eyes. The back of parting gradually disappeared in the twilight of dusk, and Guo Fazai was once again left alone in this small courtyard...
The search for a child is hard, and the family affection is regained
The wave of national construction is rolling in, and although Deng Zihui and Lin Boqu have heavy responsibilities, they have never let go of their thoughts about finding children. In the spring of 1949, they entrusted the staff of the General Office of the Central Committee to go to Huichang, Jiangxi Province, hoping to use the power of the local government to find the two children who had been separated that year.
Chen Renlin, secretary of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, is personally responsible for this work. With the strong assistance of the Huichang County Government, Chen Renlin and the members of the working group visited the county. After months of trying, they finally found two suspicious objects.
One is Fan Yide, a child laborer in a shoe factory on the outskirts of the city, who is said to have been fostered in a farmer's home since he was a child; The other is Lai Pingya, who belongs to a small revolutionary commando, and his family is also very poor. Their age, size, and some characteristics are not much different from Deng Zihui and Lin Boqu's description of their lost child.
In order to find out the truth, Chen Renlin decided to take them back to Beijing first and ask Deng Zihui and Lin Boqu to identify them in person. On a sunny day in May 1949, Fan Yide and Lai Pingya, accompanied by the working group, left their hometown and embarked on a long journey to Beijing.
Although he was looking forward to it in his heart, Fan Yide was skeptical about the fact that he was about to recognize his biological parents. After all, since he was a child, he only knew that Fan Meihong and Guo Fazai were his parents. Now he is suddenly told that there is another pair of biological parents, which makes him quite confused and uneasy.
After a week's journey, the two finally arrived in Beijing. First, they were placed in a temporary accommodation in a premises. In the days that followed, they were repeatedly asked by the working group about their family background, upbringing, and other details.
Eventually, early one morning in June 1949, Fan Yide and Lai Pingya were taken to two separate meeting rooms to meet with Deng Zihui and Lin Boqu. Deng Zihui and Lin Boqu looked at the two children and checked their appearance, height, voice and other characteristics one by one.
After a long time of exchanges and comparisons, the two sides finally came to a conclusion: Fan Yide is Lin Boqu's long-lost biological son Lin Bingsu, and Lai Pingya is Deng Zihui's son Deng Susheng, who was fostered in Huichang back then!
When this shocking result was finally revealed to the world, the scene was in an uproar. Fan Yide and Lai Pingya were extremely shocked, they never thought that they were actually the biological sons of the president of the republic and the top of the central government.
Subsequently, Lin Boqu and Deng Zihui hugged the two sons respectively and cordially asked about their upbringing. They are pleased to see that despite the difficult years of life, the children are all healthy, intelligent, and excellent in character and learning.
The warmth of the scene brought tears to the eyes of everyone present. At this moment, the separation, displacement, bitterness and expectation of several generations turned into tears of joy. After the war and the torment, fate finally dragged the father and son back again, so that they reaped the eternal gift of family affection.
After the surprise, there were many misunderstandings
After the reunion with Deng Zihui and Lin Boqu, the future of Fan Yide and Lai Pingya seems to have opened a new chapter. However, at this moment, an unexpected misunderstanding caused things to fall into a new entanglement.
In July 1949, Deng Zihui, Lin Boqu and other high-ranking party, government and military leaders received letters from their wives one after another. They were naturally very happy to learn that their husbands had found their long-lost biological sons, but at the same time, they also made a somewhat unexpected request to the husbands - to "exchange" the two sons back.
Deng Huang Xiuxiang and Fan Lechun wrote in the letter that they don't want their biological flesh and blood to be raised by others, and it is best to take care of them personally, after all, the relationship between mother and child is the closest and most intimate. If they insist on a biological relationship, they are also willing to wait for their children to grow up before reuniting with them.
However, Lin Boqu and Deng Zihui did not respond to these letters after receiving them. In fact, in their minds, the decision to entrust their children to others for the sake of the revolution was extremely helpless, and now that the children have grown up, healthy and outstanding, they really do not want to disturb the living environment to which they have become accustomed.
What's more, the children have been raised with dignity over the years, and in their opinion, it no longer makes much sense to distinguish between "biological birth" and "nurturing". During the years of the Revolutionary War, many children were displaced and had no way to find their relatives, and as long as the children were happy, they were satisfied.
"Ah Qu, do we want to listen to Bai Bai's words and make the two eldest children stunned? Deng Zihui said to Lin Boqu during a break in a meeting.
"Zihui, you have a point," Lin Boqu agreed, "For so many years, we have lived for the interests of the people, do we still have to break the hearts of children in order to distinguish between blood relatives and non-blood relatives?" I already regard my two children as my own, and they are now devoting themselves to the revolutionary cause, so why should I let them bear unnecessary mental troubles? ＂
The two gave up and did not respond to the wives' requests. Deng Huang Xiuxiang and Fan Lechun couldn't see an echo, so they had to give up. Gradually, the matter was also shelved by both sides.
However, this is not the end, but only the beginning. The two children have suffered poverty since they were children, were abducted, fostered, and separated, and now there is the possibility of being "exchanged for them" again, which inevitably buries some haze and doubts in their hearts.
Especially Fan Yide, because he dropped out of school early, his education level was low, and he had experienced a lot of separation tribulations since he was a child, his heart became more and more defensive and cautious. For a long time afterward, he was in a state of wait-and-see and uncertainty, and it seemed that it was difficult to completely let down his guard against the new parent-child relationship.
At the same time, there is another party, who is far away in the small village of Huichang, Jiangxi, and is also curious and puzzled by this unexpected misunderstanding. It was Deng Xiuyun and Lai Zhaozhi, the two old men who raised Fan Yide and Lai Pingya back then. They look forward to the day when the children's biological parents will come and pick them up...
Say goodbye and reunite, and finally have a reunion
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is 1952. After experiencing twists and turns, Lin Bingsu and Deng Susheng gradually found their own direction in life. They were exceptionally admitted to Renmin University Hall and devoted themselves to further study.
At the same time, Deng Zihui and Lin Boqu also slowly came out of the opposition from the government and the opposition. They firmly believe that as long as their children grow up healthily, they will become qualified revolutionary successors in the future, and it does not matter whether they are related by blood or not.
Just when both sides were calming down, the arrival of a person once again pushed this long-lost past to the forefront.
In the spring of 1952, in a small courtyard in Beijing, it was Lai Zhaozhi and Deng Xiuyun who raised them in Huichang, Jiangxi Province, who personally received Deng Zihui, Lin Boqu and their two children.
With tears in their eyes, the old people in the countryside expressed their joy of reunion after a long absence to Deng Zihui and others. They told Lin Bingsu and Deng Susheng that since the two left, they had been looking forward to one day reuniting with their two amiable children.
Now, although time has passed, the old people's feelings for the two children have not diminished at all, and they only hope to fulfill their mother's wish for the evening and catch up with these two amiable and lovely sons.
Under the warm reception of Lai Zhaozhi and Deng Xiuyun, Lin Bingsu and Deng Susheng also felt sincerely grateful to the "adoptive mother" who brought them up. All the past events of the past seem to be reproduced in front of us yesterday.
That night, everyone sat together, and Deng Xiuyun and Lai Zhaozhi talked about the hardships of bringing the two children to their homes. It wasn't until late at night that they reluctantly left, agreeing to come back and walk around often in the future.
In the days that followed, Deng Xiuyun and Lai Zhaozhi often visited the campuses of Lin Bingsu and Deng Susheng, bringing them some game from the countryside and home-grown vegetables and fruits. Sometimes the children will take the initiative to visit the small courtyard where Deng Xiuyun and Lai Zhaozhi live, catch up with the two elders, and chat about some interesting things in the countryside.
Although the biological mothers Fan Lechun and Huang Xiuxiang have been looking forward to seeing the two from afar, Deng Zihui and Lin Boqu still insist on postponing the time for the children to meet their biological mother. They know that the children will inevitably be wary and uneasy at this time.
At this moment, fate once again turned around. In the spring of 1954, Deng Xiuyun and Lai Zhaozhi died of illness one after another. After Deng Susheng and Lin Bingsu learned the bad news, they personally went to Huichang, Jiangxi Province to take care of the aftermath for the two adoptive mothers.
In a small village in Jiangxi, they stood for a long time in front of two simple earth graves and stared. At this moment, they clearly feel that it is not only the biological mother who gives them hope and warmth, but also this amiable and respectable old man.
Subsequently, at the last moment before leaving, Lin Bingsu and Deng Susheng quietly planted a few pines and cypresses representing eternal life in front of the grave of the second elder, placing endless memories of these two adoptive mothers...
In the winter of this year, with the advent of the cold season, Fan Lechun and Huang Xiuxiang could no longer hold back their heartfelt wishes, and came to Beijing in person, and finally met Lin Bingsu and Deng Susheng separately. Although a little rusty, in the face of the arrival of their biological mother, the two sons still accepted this long-lost family affection with respect and filial piety.
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Since then, the mother and son have begun to meet and reunite regularly. In this brilliant land of China, a family that had been separated has been reunited in the torrent of years...