May 9, 1994, an early summer that was too ordinary to be ordinary.
On this day, it rained lightly in Shenyang. An old man who had just stepped off the train, led by the responsible persons of the Liaoning Provincial Foreign Affairs Office and the Taiwan Affairs Office who had already been waiting at the Shenyang Railway Station, sat on the extended Lincoln prepared for him in advance.
People say: "The little boy left home and returned to the old man, and the township voice did not change and the sideburns declined", but this wanderer who had been away from home for decades had long forgotten the hometown sound and could not speak a word of Chinese.
But the old man's excited emotions and the tears that have always been in his eyes all tell his thoughts about his hometown.
After traveling in Shenyang for a few days, the old man went to Zhang Zuolin's grave. Looking at the "tomb of the great marshal", the old man had mixed feelings. Kneeling down at the present, the wanderer who had been away from home for many years finally said a word.
Who is this old man? What exactly was the sentence he said in front of Zhang Zuolin's tomb?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" >, young marshal Zhang Xueliang</h1>
It is reported that the old man is an astronaut from the United States.
But his other identity is more thunderous than that of an astronaut - his father is the famous young marshal Zhang Xueliang, and he himself is Zhang Lulin, the youngest son of Zhang Xueliang.
(Young Marshal Zhang Xueliang)
Zhang Xueliang's deeds are widely known, and his father is Zhang Zuolin, who is known as the "King of the Northeast" among the warlords of the Feng clan, and he has lived a carefree life since he was a child, and has received the best education. But like his father, Zhang Xueliang has a tough side to his personality.
Although Zhang Xueliang was not familiar with world affairs and politics when he was young, after seeing the negative impact of the "no resistance" policy, he had a clearer understanding of the national crisis in his heart. With this sober understanding, Zhang Xueliang, together with Yang Hucheng and others, launched the "Xi'an Incident" to force Chiang Kai-shek to resist Japan and successfully promoted the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists.
However, the young marshal's political acumen was not as good as his father's, and after the "Xi'an Incident", Zhang Xueliang voluntarily surrendered his military power and accepted Chiang Kai-shek's house arrest. This allowed him to live in the shadow of the Chiang family for the rest of his life, and did not regain his freedom until the year after Chiang Ching-kuo's death.
Compared with the first half of the young marshal's spirited life and the second half of his frustrated life, his feelings are more enjoyable. Whether it is the "Fourth Miss Zhao" Zhao Yidi's decades of companionship, or the support and waiting for his wife Yu Fengzhi in his twilight years, it can be seen that the two women have a deep affection for the young marshal.
(Zhang Xueliang Yu Fengzhi)
Zhang Xueliang and Yu Fengzhi were married in 1914, and after the marriage, they had three sons and a daughter, namely the eldest daughter Zhang Luying, the eldest son Zhang Luxun, the second son Zhang Luxuan, and the third son Zhang Luqi. The names of the three sons are derived from "Erya Shidi", all of which are pinned on the good wishes of their parents, but unfortunately, none of the three sons have been able to die peacefully.
Whenever he thinks of his three sons and thinks of the three times he and his wife have experienced three times when the white-haired person sent the black-haired person, Zhang Xueliang always feels endless self-blame and pain. More than once, he said to the people around him in self-blame: "Yu Fengzhi and I have three sons, and as a result, they are all ahead of me, if it were not for me, they might not have left so early." ”
(Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi)
Zhang Lulin, the child of Zhang Xueliang and Miss Zhao Si, is also the youngest son of Zhang Xueliang. The youngest son of the young marshal has also experienced countless storms since he was a child, and even once almost could not recognize his biological parents.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="136" > choice of Miss Zhao Si</h1>
Compared with the sensitivity and concentration of the eldest brother Zhang Luxun, the extravagant and uninhibited of the second brother Zhang Luxuan, and the proper governor of the third brother Zhang Luqi, Zhang Lulin really does not have much sense of existence.
His mother, Zhao Yidi, was the daughter of Zhao Qinghua, then vice minister of communications under the Beiyang government. At a dance party, Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi fell in love at first sight, but at that time, Zhang Xueliang already had the right room Yu Fengzhi, Yu Gong, the Beiyang government and the national army did not deal with it; in private, Zhao Qinghua would not be willing to let his daughter make a small for others.
(Yidi Zhao)
Zhao Yidi's temperament was fierce, and seeing that his father did not agree, he eloped with Zhang Xueliang. Even if he had to face his father's rebuke, even if Zhang Xueliang already had a wife, even if he had no name, Zhao Yidi was still willing to follow Zhang Xueliang as a secretary, and gave birth to Zhang Xueliang's youngest son Zhang Lulin in 1929.
Zhang Lulin's birth made Yu Fengzhi's impression of Zhao Yidi change somewhat, and Lady Zhenggong was distressed about their mother and son, not only took milk powder and braved the wind and snow to visit, but also built a small Western-style building for Zhao Yidi near the Marshal's Mansion. Zhao Yidi was very grateful, and the relationship between the two women was alleviated.
(Zhao Yidi and son Zhang Lulin)
Zhang Lulin spent the days until she was ten years old with her mother, and one day when she was ten years old, her mother took him to an American home. Before, Zhang Lulin's life was often uncertain, so she did not feel anything abnormal, until her mother was about to leave, little Zhang Lulin seemed to perceive something, holding her mother's leg and crying loudly.
No one knows what kind of struggle Zhao Yidi experienced at that time, but what we do know is that Zhang Xueliang, who was far away in Guizhou, had already experienced three years of house arrest at that time. Between her son and husband, Zhao Yidi chose the latter.
(Middle-aged Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi)
But choosing a husband does not mean abandoning his son, and the family chosen by Zhao Yidi is Zhang Xueliang's old friend, Iyag and Eina from the United States. Zhao Yidi's move is to let Zhang Lulin fully accept a Western-style education, and does not want him to remember his identity, so that his son can have an ordinary life.
After entrusting his son, Zhao Yidi rushed to Guizhou to find his lover and was ready to accompany Zhang Xueliang to lifelong house arrest.
By 1946, Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi were secretly escorted to Taiwan by the Kuomintang and imprisoned in an abandoned fort in Kaohsiung. Such days were not until 1954, when Song Meiling arranged for them an English enlightenment teacher named Dong Xianguang, named to teach English, in fact, to observe Zhang Xueliang's ideological dynamics.
(Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Mei-ling and his wife)
However, what Song Meiling did not expect was that Zhang Xueliang and His wife and Dong Xianguang felt sorry for each other in their long-term relationship, and gradually let go of their guard against each other, but became friends who could be trusted.
The following year, Dong Xianguang, who was arranged by the KmT top brass, had to go to the United States to take up a post, and before leaving, he asked Zhang Xueliang if there was anything he could do for them. Zhang Xueliang did not say anything, but Zhao Yidi hesitated, and finally put forward a request for Dong Xianguang and his wife to help her find her son, and they hoped that Dong Xianguang could help find her son Zhang Lulin, who had been lost for more than ten years.
(Dong Xianguang)
At this time, 15 years have passed since she fostered Zhang Lulin, and we don't know what made a mother force herself to endure these 15 years of thoughts. But at the moment when she finally saw hope, what she was most worried about in her heart was still the little teenager who was only 10 years old in her memory.
Dong Xianguang and his wife were very sympathetic to Zhao Yidi, especially Lady Dong. Although the only thing Zhao Yidi could provide them with was the address they had left when the Iyags corresponded 15 years ago, she also promised that as long as Zhang Lulin was alive, they would definitely find him.
(Zhang Lulin and father Zhang Xueliang)
The search for Zhang Lulin was very tortuous, and the original house of the Iyags was burned down in a fire in 1952, fortunately there were no casualties, and Iyag himself left San Francisco with Zhang Lulin before that, and eventually settled in Los Angeles. In order to protect Zhang Lulin, the Iyags gave him a complete westernized education and gave him an English name.
Dong Xianguang and his wife finally found Zhang Lulin with the intervention of the US State Department. At that time, Zhang Lulin had already become an aerospace expert under the training of the Iyags, but because of her long-term Western-style education, Zhang Lulin had completely forgotten how to say Chinese.
Kung Fu paid off, and Dong Xianguang and his wife immediately wrote a letter to Zhang Xueliang and his wife, and attached a black-and-white photo of Zhang Lulin. Although the eyebrows of the young people in the photo have changed greatly, Zhang Xueliang and his wife still recognize at a glance that this young man is their son.
((From left to right) Zhang Lulin, Zhang Xueliang, Zhang Juxin, Zhang Juyang)
Knowing Zhang Lulin's whereabouts and current situation, Zhang Xueliang and his wife's hanging hearts can be regarded as letting go. Dong Xianguang and his wife, deeply aware of the family's pain, constantly lobbied in front of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling, hoping to get Zhang Lulin to come back to visit her parents.
But even so, when Zhang Lulin finally met her biological parents, it was already a year later. At this time, Zhang Lulin already had her own wife, Chen Shuzhen, whom she met during her studies.
(Zhang Lulin and her family)
The two generations met again after a gap of fifteen years, and there were endless things in each other's mouths. But the reunion is joyful after all, unable to resist Zhang Lulin's request, Zhang Xueliang named the names of "Zhang Juxin and Zhang Juyang" for his two grandsons, which together are faith.
After meeting his parents, Zhang Lulin's family of four stayed in Taiwan for a month, and in front of his lively and cute little grandson, Zhang Xueliang seemed to have forgotten the pain of half a life's house arrest. After that, every year Zhang Lulin would take her family to Taiwan to visit her parents, and the two sides also corresponded frequently.
At this point, everything seems to be moving in a good direction.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="135" > familiar and unfamiliar land</h1>
(Chiang Ching-kuo)
In 1990, with chiang ching-kuo's death, Zhang Xueliang finally gained a greater degree of freedom. According to Zhang Xueliang's original intention, he wanted to return to the mainland of the motherland.
But Zhang Xueliang also knew that the Kuomintang would not allow him to return to the mainland, and could only adopt a compromise method under the choice: the couple went to the United States, and the task of returning to the mainland was entrusted to his son Zhang Lulin, who let Zhang Lulin help him realize his wish to return to China.
In the process of getting along with her father, Zhang Lulin heard her father mention the past of the northeast more than once, when Zhang Xueliang was old and could no longer withstand such a toss, so he wanted and was willing to go back for his father. For Zhang Lulin herself, her attachment to her homeland also made him want to go back to see what was going on.
(Zhang Lulin and parents)
It's just that this attachment is not strong at this time, for Zhang Lulin at that time, rather than returning to China, what he wants to do is to take care of his parents and let them spend a peaceful old age.
This idea continued until after Zhang Lulin retired, after a long period of retirement, Zhang Lulin accidentally met a domestic aerospace worker in the United States, and the two found that the more they talked, the more speculative they became, and soon became very good friends.
This friend came to the United States with the delegation, and on the occasion of parting, he warmly invited Zhang Lulin to visit his hometown. Zhang Lulin agreed, and in the conversation with her father after returning home, he once again felt his father's desire to return to his hometown.
(Zhang Xueliang, Zhang Xuesen and Zhang Lulin)
Looking at his elderly father, Zhang Lulin suddenly and deeply understood that his father really pinned his wishes on himself, although he had almost no impression of his hometown and did not remember his grandfather's appearance at all, but his desire to return to his hometown was sublimated at this time, and for him it had risen to a height of almost a sense of mission.
In 1994, Zhang Lulin was invited to a special conference in Beijing, and at this time the Kuomintang's hand could not reach out, and he thought that the opportunity to return to his hometown was ripe, so he informed his parents of the news. Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi were excited when they learned about it, and they were once in tears.
It's just that for Zhang Lulin, when he was far away from his homeland, he was still a teenager, and at this time he was already an old man who was dying of old age, and he could be said to have no memory of Chinese. In such a situation, he can only ask the staff to take care of himself on the plane.
Zhang Lulin, who finally returned to her homeland, returned to her hometown of northeast China without stopping after participating in the meeting. Knowing that the young marshal's son had returned, Zhang Xueliang's old department and old friends brought their descendants to visit, and this friendship that spanned half a century made Zhang Lulin tearful and regret his father even more.
After bidding farewell to her father's old department and old friends, Zhang Lulin visited the "General Zhang Xueliang Memorial Hall" and the Zhao Si Miss Building and burst into tears, as if she saw her own past. For General Zhang Xueliang not to return to his hometown to see it again, this is not only his regret, but also a dream that General Zhang Xueliang's close friend "cannot achieve." ”
Before returning to the United States, Zhang Lulin's last stop was the Great Marshal Mausoleum, where Zhang Xueliang's father and Zhang Lulin's grandfather, Zhang Zuolin, the King of Northeast China, was buried. What surprised him was that even after more than half a century of wind and rain and turmoil, the Great Marshal Tomb was still very well preserved.
When Zhang Lulin knelt in front of Zhang Zuolin's tombstone, although this grandfather he had never seen in his life, although he had only heard about his deeds from his father's mouth, Zhang Lulin at this moment still had mixed feelings and tears. Under the agitation of various emotions, after remembering the ups and downs of more than half a century, and after thinking of her father on the other side of the ocean who was likely to regret her life, Zhang Lulin knelt in front of her grandfather's grave and said these nine words:
"I'm coming to see you on behalf of your son."