"I have been paying attention to your headlines to find the martyrs' family search project, yesterday I saw the name 'Yang Yuzhi' and felt that the name was right, and it was Chuxiong in Yunnan." There was a sudden feeling in my heart that I couldn't say it. Recalling the situation of seeing the search article, Yang Rongfu, the grandson of martyr Yang Yuzhi, said.
"Grandpa's family named him Yang Yuzhi, and when he went to the army, he wrote a letter to the army and signed it as 'Yang Yuzhi,' and the revolutionary soldier's certificate was written as Yang Jiazhi." He slowly explained the error that had occurred in the name, "My aunt and grandmother are the 'jade' generation. ”
In early June, volunteer Yang Ning provided a list of martyrs who had not yet contacted their relatives in the Liberation of Jinzhou Martyrs' Cemetery, including "Yang Yuzhi". At more than two o'clock in the afternoon of June 17, 2021, the headline seeker wrote a search article "Looking for the Relatives of Yang Yuzhi, a Martyr from Chuxiong, Yunnan, Who Is Buried in the Martyrs' Cemetery of Liberation Jinzhou, Waiting for His Relatives", and accurately pushed this article to the local area of Wuding County, Chuxiong, Yunnan. At eight o'clock in the evening, Yang Rongfu, Yang Yuzhi's grandson, happened to see it when he brushed today's headlines.
Until this moment, Yang Rongfu finally knew that after his grandfather's sacrifice that year, he had been buried in the Liberation Jinzhou Martyrs Cemetery.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > was taken away by the Kuomintang as a Zhuangding, and his wife was pregnant with Liujia</h1>
In 1940, in order to resist The Japanese, the Kuomintang forcibly grabbed Zhuang Ding everywhere. At that time, the saying was "three dings draw one, five dings draw two", the Yang family has eight brothers and sisters, of which there are three boys. Because the eldest son was in poor health, the second son, Yang Yuzhi, was unfortunately arrested.
In 1944, Yang Yuzhi escaped from the Kuomintang army, ran home, and then ran to hide in other places, and the old government could not catch Yang Yuzhi, so it arrested Yang Yuzhi's father and detained him in the district office. In order to save his old father, Yang Yuzhi had no choice but to join the Kuomintang army.
At this time, it was 1945, Yang Yuzhi had already started a family, his wife was pregnant with Liujia, and the couple should have looked forward to the arrival of the child with hope. However, Yang Yuzhi was once again forced to leave home. About half a year later, Yang Yuzhi's son, Yang Rongfu's father, was born.
After more than two years in the Kuomintang army, Yang Yuzhi joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army during the October 1948 uprising, and has been working in the office of the Political Department of the 54th Army, maintaining normal correspondence with his family.
He never returned home after he became a soldier, and once sent photos back halfway through. Throughout his life, this is the only photo that Yang Yuzhi left for his son. In the years that followed, Yang Yuzhi's son could only look at the photo and imagine what kind of a person his father was in his mother's narration, what he said when he spoke, and what he laughed like.
(Yang Yuzhi)
Sent back along with the photo, there is also a letter, signed "Yang Yuzhi". Unfortunately, with the passage of time, the letter has been yellowed, the edges are damaged, the handwriting on it is traditional characters, the ink is somewhat faded, Yang Rongfu It is difficult for them to read what was written on the letter at that time.
(Letter from Yang Yuzhi, signed as "Yang Yuzhi")
The Liberation War was over, but Yang Yuzhi did not return home for a long time. From 1951 to 1953, Yang Yuzhi suddenly interrupted the news. In 1953, Yang Yuzhi's father received a "Revolutionary Soldier Certificate" issued by the Political Department of the Fourth Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and the date of the above was written in 1950.
This "revolutionary soldier certificate" was the last news about Yang Yuzhi at that time, and after that, Yang's family never received any accurate information about him. "I received this military family card, but I don't know if he has sacrificed, and only now did I see the news of the headline search for people."
(Yang Yuzhi revolutionary soldier certificate, the certificate wrote "Yang Jiazhi")
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" > son silently identifies others as his father</h1>
Yang Yuzhi's father has been carefully preserving it after receiving the revolutionary soldier certificate. When Yang Yuzhi's son grew up, the documents were handed over to him for safekeeping.
Yang Rongfu said: "When I was very young, my father was looking for him, and he had never seen his father in his own birth, so he must find him." Every time Yang Yuzhi's son went out to inquire about the news, he would bring with him photos and letters, as well as the certificate of the revolutionary soldier. These vouchers about Yang Yuzhi are full of a son's deep thoughts about his father and the urgency of meeting him.
Around the 1970s, when the production had not yet arrived, someone once told Yang Yuzhi's son that Yang Yuzhi had returned to Wuding County, Chuxiong. Yang Yuzhi's son asked someone to inquire about the appearance of "that person" at that time, saying that he looked like his father, and that he had a scar that had been checked with his mother and the villagers, and it was also right. He drove the carriage to the county to buy machinery, and with the proof materials, he rushed to find the "man's" unit and asked him if he was "his father."
People in the same unit were very unhappy with Yang Yuzhi's son's behavior of rushing to the door, and said: "You have to follow the organizational procedures to find it, don't find the unit like this." Yang Yuzhi's son had a big fight with several people in the unit, and he returned home angrily, saying, "No! ”
"This incident left a deep shadow on my father," Yang Rongfu said helplessly, "he said he wouldn't look for it later, but in his heart he always thought of 'that person' as his father." ”
At that time, some of the elders were old, and the juniors were not deeply impressed with Yang Yuzhi, not to mention that Yang Yuzhi was away from home for about thirty years, "at that time, no one could prove whether 'that person' was really or not," Yang Rongfu sighed.
(In the middle is Yang Yuzhi)
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="25" > "Finding him was my father's greatest wish while he was alive!" </h1>
In 2016, Yang Rongfu's father still passed away with regret.
Yang Rongfu said with regret: "My father never met his father when he was born, and finding him is my father's greatest wish when he is alive!" ”
Since Yang Rongfu remembered, Yang Yuzhi's photo has been sealed in a photo frame, hung on the family hall, and when he was a child, he listened to the elders tell the story of his grandfather: "My grandmother told me that my grandfather was a very playful person when he was young!" Young people, more lively, more funny! Yang Rongfu smiled on the other end of the phone.
Previously, because Yang Yuzhi's life and death were unknown, the Yang family had never erected a monument for him. After the quarrel in the 1970s, Yang Yuzhi's son gambled in his heart, feeling that "the father did not recognize his son", but also silently identified "that person" as Yang Yuzhi. "That person" was already married at that time, so the Yang family did not bother him.
"Now I know that it may not be me, it is someone else who told my father wrong, this is the one, this is the truth!" Yang Rongfu mentioned the news released by the headline search: "I have been paying attention to it before, many people are not on the number, just saw it yesterday!" ”
At eight o'clock in the afternoon of June 17, Yang Rongfu saw the news and immediately told his brothers and sisters about this matter: the grandfather he had confessed before may have confessed wrong. He is now working in Kunming, and he wants to discuss with his brothers and sisters to find a time to go to the Liberation Jinzhou Martyrs Cemetery in Liaoning Province to worship his own grandfather, and he also wants to erect an inscription for him in the martyrs' cemetery in his hometown so that future generations can worship him.
At this time, it was finally possible, but his father's regret of finding a fruitless life was finally over, and the big stone in Yang Rongfu's own heart finally fell.
To commemorate the merits of the martyrs, comfort the heroic souls of the martyrs, inherit the red gene, and tell the red story well; the headline search launched the "Looking for the Descendants of the Martyrs" project, cooperating with the Liberation Jinzhou Martyrs Cemetery in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, to jointly find relatives for the martyrs. In the past successful cases, the media relay search for the descendants of martyrs, played a great role, the headline search for people sincerely invited media across the country to participate in the "search for martyrs descendants of the media volunteer service group".
If there are clues related to the descendants of the martyrs, please contact the headlines to find people (email: [email protected]; tel: 010-83434440, 010-83434485), there will be special staff to verify the information and follow up.