In April 1926, Moscow was still cold and cold. Ordinary families are around the stove at this time, sharing the delicious food at the table, full of laughter.
But on the outskirts of Moscow, in an abandoned house, a cry broke through the silence. A little girl was born, and she was born with her father's expectations and love.
Jude looked at this lovely child, and he couldn't help but shed hot tears at the age of forty. Looking at the child's sparkling eyes, as if communicating with himself, Jude couldn't help but rub his daughter with his own scum.
Jude in his youth
Normal people are happy with a daughter in middle age, and they must be smiling, but for Zhu De, this belated surprise seems a little out of place at this time. Originally, the CPC branch in the Soviet Union issued an order to Zhu De: Immediately return to China to carry out his tasks without delay.
Zhu De looked at his wife He Zhihua, and when he reached his lips, he could not say it for a long time, but he always had to leave, so he shook his wife's hand and said softly: "This time the organization sent me back to China to preside over the work, and may soon have to leave." ”
He Zhihua nodded in response, thought about it and said, "You haven't given our daughter a name yet, so let's go after taking the name." ”
Zhu De blurted out, "Since you were born in April, let's just call it Forty." ”
In view of the turbulent situation in the country, the wife has just given birth and is still confinement. So Judd did not want to return home with his wife and daughter, and he decided to leave his wife and newborn daughter in Moscow and take them back after the situation stabilized.
Moscow in old times
Before leaving, Zhu De left all his cash to his wife and daughter, and also purchased a large number of material reserves. He said to He Zhihua: "You are staying in Moscow and taking good care of our daughter." This is all the cash I have on me, and when I return home, I will send money to your mother and daughter on a regular basis. I will not make you thirsty and hungry!" ”
Zhu De left and returned to China to participate in the vigorous revolutionary movement. But what he did not expect was that his wife He Zhihua had embarked on two completely opposite paths with himself from then on, and it was this parting with his daughter that led to Zhu De's reunion with him again exactly fourteen years later.
What is the background of Zhu Min's birth, and why is she unable to meet her father for a long time? Let's reveal the answer to this question.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="14" > Zhu Min's childhood</h1>
As we know it, it is also mentioned in history textbooks. In these 14 years, Jude's experience can be described as ups and downs, moving.
Group photo of Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, qin Bangxian
He launched the August 1st Uprising and became the commander of the Red Fourth Army of our Party. After the establishment of the Soviet Republic, he was the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Red Army. During the Long March, he led the Second and Fourth Fronts to Gansu to meet the Red Army. The All-out War of Resistance began and he became the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army.
What is less known is that in these 14 years, Zhu Min, Zhu De's daughter, who should have spent a happy and happy childhood, experienced unimaginable tribulations for ordinary people.
Zhu Min spent only a few months with his mother in Moscow, and was sent back to China by her mother. Why? It turned out that it was He Zhihua who empathized and did not fall in love.
She fell in love with He Jiaxing, a revolutionary young man who came to the Soviet Union from China for further study, so she did not even care about her daughter who was a few months old and lived her romantic life.
Although Zhu Min was sent back to China by her mother, she did not return to her father's side. He Zhihua entrusted his sister to send her daughter back to her mother's house in Sichuan and live with her grandmother and aunt. The aunt was very kind to Xiao Zhumin and changed her name to He Feifei as her own daughter.
Stills from "Seongnam Old Story"
When zhu Min was a child, her life was still passable, because her grandmother's family was after all a scholarly family, and she still did not worry about eating and drinking. It's just that in the heart of the young Zhu Min, he often can't help but think of a question: Where is my parents, and why don't they want me? She had also asked her grandmother and aunt, but they were silent.
Once, Zhu Min asked her grandmother this question again. Unable to bear the constant questioning, the grandmother took Zhu Min to the street market, pointed to the wanted notice posted on the wall, and said: "The portrait on the left side of this is your father, his surname is Zhu." ”
Xiao Zhumin deeply imprinted this rare portrait of her father in her mind, and as a young child, she seemed to understand the reason why her father did not come to find her, and she has never asked this question again.
Jude's wanted warrant
But the vicious reactionaries did not think of sparing the children of our party leaders; they searched everywhere and found out that Zhu De had a missing daughter, who was in the Chengdu area.
After gradual investigation, these agents found grandma's house, and they kicked in the door and arrested their aunt and Zhu Min. In prison, they forced Zhu Min's aunt to admit that He Feifei was Zhu De's daughter, but the aunt insisted that Zhu Min was her daughter and did not know Zhu De.
After a series of interrogations, the enemy did not get any useful information, so he released his aunt and Zhu Min. When she was released from prison, her aunt hugged Zhu Min and cried.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="32" > father-daughter reunion</h1>
Originally, if the reactionaries had been pursuing an anti-communist policy, Zhu De would not have been able to find his daughter. The turning point of events came in 1937, when the Japanese army invaded China in an all-round way, and the two parties formed an anti-Japanese national united front. The Kuomintang has ostensibly relaxed restrictions and is no longer pursuing the children of CCP leaders.
On July 15, 1937, the Communist Party of China published the full text of the Declaration on Cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party
Therefore, Zhu De took advantage of this rare opportunity to trouble Zhou Enlai, who was the director of the Wuhan office at the time, to find his lost child.
Zhou Enlai heard that Mr. Zhu had a daughter who had lost contact with him, and hurriedly made this matter a top priority. After repeated searches and confirmations, the special agents finally believed that He Feifei was Zhu De's daughter. In order to confirm the importance of this news, Zhou Enlai entrusted his wife Deng Yingchao to pick it up.
Although Zhu Min left her parents at a very young age, she has no family memory. But Deng Yingchao passed by with Zhu Min's grandmother. After the aunt checked the information and confirmed Zhu Min's appearance, she was convinced that this was Zhu De's daughter.
So, next, 14-year-old Zhu Min, accompanied by Deng Yingchao, got on a carriage to Yan'an. When she arrived in Yan'an, Zhu Min, who was in a somewhat anxious mood, looked everywhere, and she wanted to see her father's figure. As everyone knows, Zhu De's mood in the past few days is also very uneasy, a fierce man who is not afraid of fighting, worried that his daughter has not met for such a long time, and the first meeting will be very angry.
Zhu Min and Zhu De
As the carriage slowly passed a mound, Zhu Min looked at a middle-aged man in the distance, dressed in a simple military uniform, with a pair of shoes stained with mud on his feet. Intuition told Zhu Min that this was the father.
Zhu Min couldn't wait, she ran out of the car and went straight to her father in the distance. At this moment, the resentment and incomprehension of 14 years seem to have all dissipated, and all that is left is love and embrace for his father. Running to Jude, she shouted loudly, "Daddy, Daddy." ”
"Hey." Jude responded to her.
Zhu Min couldn't bear it any longer, and she rushed into her father's arms and cried loudly, tears flowing down without a fight. Jude wiped his daughter's tears with the handkerchief he carried with him and patted her daughter's back with his broad palm. It is only a wordless appeasement, but it shows the greatness of the Father's love.
Later, Zhu Min recalled:
"I thought my father would forget me, but I didn't expect him to remember exactly what I looked like when I was a kid. Which day I was born, how many days the lunar calendar is, how many days the solar calendar is, my father remembers it clearly. It was then that I realized that my father was not looking for me, but that he had not been able to find me before. He gave too much for the revolutionary cause and for the sake of the anti-Japanese resistance. ”
Zhu De took his daughter back to his cave and showed her his notebook, the first of which was a photo of Zhu Min when he was born. Zhu Min in the photo has curly hair and only cares about silly music.
Zhu De said: "This photo carries my deep thoughts about you, whenever there is no one around, I will take it out, look at you when I was a child, and think that one day we will always meet again." No, now goodbye at last. Zhu Min felt her father's deep love from this photo, and she once again left tears, holding her father and refusing to let go.
Just reunited with her father, Zhu Min was reluctant to separate, even if it was temporary. When it was time to go to bed at night, she did not want to live in the arranged cave, she just wanted to lie on her father's bed and see her father's appearance more, Zhu De smiled and agreed to her, but said that she could only stay one night.
The comrades in Yan'an rarely saw Mr. Zhu's refreshed and energetic appearance, and in the past few days, Zhu De always put a smile on his lips, and he was so happy. Being able to reunite with his daughter makes this commander who commands thousands of troops and horses unable to hide his inner happiness.
After spending the Spring Festival with his father, Zhu De asked his daughter a question: "Min'er, what do you want to do when you grow up?" ”
"I want to be like you and become the Eighth Route Army." Zhu Min blurted out.
Zhu De smiled and said, "After the war is over, what do you want such a female doll to do as a soldier?"
Then he added: "The task of our generation is to make a revolution and strive to create a brand-new New China. Your duty as young people is to build the country after the founding of New China in the future. In the future, the country will definitely need a large number of knowledge and technical talents, and I am ready to send you to the Soviet Union to study! ”
Although the young Zhu Min did not want to be separated from her father again, she knew that what her father said was right.
The date of his departure was determined, and Zhu Min would go to Moscow to study with Li Min, the child of Mao Zedong, and Luo Beibei, the son of the martyr Luo Yinong. On the day of departure, Zhu De personally came to Yan'an Airport to bid farewell to Zhu Min.
He held his daughter's hand tightly, refused to let go for a long time, and finally said to Zhu Min with tears: "Child, your body is weak and easy to get sick, you must take care of your body, exercise more, and it is always good to be stronger." In addition, you are going to study this trip, or do not fall in love at the age of 20, but focus on learning. Father looks forward to your return, and hopes to cherish it. ”
Zhu Min shed tears and waved goodbye to her father.
<H1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="55" > the tragic experience of the concentration camp</h1>
At the end of January 1941, Zhu Min, like other children, was assigned to study at the Children's Academy of the First International in Moscow. In order to hide their identity, each Chinese child has his own pseudonym, Zhu Min's name is Zhu De's personal name, called "Chiying", which means red hero, pinning Zhu De's ardent expectations for her.
Moscow Young Pioneers
Because of his poor health and unsatisfactory water and soil, Zhu Min, who had just arrived, first suffered from tracheitis, and then suffered from asthma, often coughing non-stop. For health reasons, Zhu Min was sent to the Young Pioneers summer camp in Minsk to recuperate, hoping that she would first recuperate her body and then enroll in classes.
Unexpectedly, it flew into trouble. When the Soviet-German war broke out, the nursing homes on the front line were suddenly occupied by the German army, and Zhu Min, who was recuperating, and more than 20 other children from all over the world, became prisoners of the German army.
More than 20 children were stuffed into sealed train cars and taken to German concentration camps. The train drove slowly, and because of the corpses, the children had to squeeze into the stinking, disease-ridden carriages. Each person ate only a piece of moldy bread that was eaten until the seventh day, when the carriage door was opened, and Zhu Min was already extremely weak. But what she didn't expect was that the purgatory that greeted her had only just begun.
concentration camp
Entering the camps, everyone is searched and all clothes and belongings confiscated. Before Yan'an boarded the plane, Zhu De gave Zhu Min a signed pen, which has now been confiscated.
In the concentration camps, the food was very bad, there was only one piece of moldy black bread every day, and there were a few small bugs in it from time to time. The Nazis were very cruel, both adults and children had to do hard labor, and those who were inefficient would be whipped by jailers.
Zhu Min had witnessed the fascists wantonly slaughtering unarmed Jews, and as a young child, she was deeply shocked by this human tragedy. But the strong Zhu Min was not defeated by this setback, and she waited for 14 years to reunite with her father.
Now that she has just separated from her father and has been arrested in a concentration camp, she must not accept this ending. Even if there is a sword mountain and a sea of fire in front of you, you must persist, you must go out alive, and then reunite with your father, Zhu Min thought.
Zhu Min was with foreign children
The best way to protect yourself in concentration camps is to hide your true identity. In order not to leak any identity information, Zhu Min began to learn to dress dumb and not speak a word of Chinese, which is more than 3 years.
Because he did not speak Chinese, he could not speak a foreign language, and he did not understand the language of other people, which caused Zhu Min to want to speak more and more. The long silence made Zhu Min almost lose his language function, and he was later rescued and took a long time to recover.
Because of malnutrition, Zhu Min's hair fell out wildly, and after several years of life in the concentration camp, her height was not even an inch tall. But whether it is the lack of spirit that cannot speak, or the lack of hungry materials, it is not the most difficult for Zhu Min, and what makes Zhu Sensitive the most painful is illness.
In the days of the concentration camp, everyone's biggest fear is getting sick. Zhu Min had seen the SS drag several sick people outside, shoot them directly, and then drag them to an incinerator to burn them.
A concentration camp full of corpses
Therefore, even if he is often in poor health, Zhu Min has to endure discomfort and strive to recover from immunity, and dare not say his condition.
The internal disease is good to hide, and the external disease is difficult. Once, Zhu Min suffered from cervical lymph node, because there was no treatment, tuberculosis ulceration, pus blood flowed to the collar, the hardened collar in turn stimulated lymph nodes, resulting in more swelling of the neck.
There was no way to block the, and during a routine examination, the guards discovered Zhu Min's condition and took her to the infirmary. The German doctor did not examine at all, but only glanced at it slightly. He condescended to look at the prisoners in the camps and did not treat them as human beings.
Therefore, when Zhu Min was sent in for treatment, the doctor only pressed Zhu Min's head, did not sterilize the knife, did not apply anesthetics, and only cut it towards the ulcer, squeezing out the blood at the pustule alive.
The "torture" ended, Zhu Min fainted, and the guards carried her back to the cell. When Zhu Min woke up, he found that the ulcer area on his neck was larger, because of the rough treatment, it often led to high fever. But Zhu Min did not give up lightly, and every time she could not hold on, she would remember what her father said to herself and look forward to a reunion.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="82" > return home</h1>
As for Zhu Min's encounter in the German concentration camp, because the war blocked the flow of information, Zhu De at home did not know it, and thought that his daughter was studying hard. During this period, Zhu De also wrote a letter to his daughter, which was also returned because the postal route was not available.
Until 1944, Jude had not received news from his daughter for too long, speculating that her daughter must have been in trouble, but out of the requirement that her identity could not be revealed, he did not choose to explore the whereabouts of her daughter. It was not until January 1945 that the Red Army captured the concentration camp, and Zhu Min, who had been tortured for 3 years, was finally rescued.
Mr. and Mrs. Zhu De and Zhu Min
At the rescue office, Zhu Min has not dared to reveal his identity. Until the appearance of the new commissar of the shelter, the new commissar was very enthusiastic to rescue each child, asking in detail about the child's situation and helping them find their relatives.
Zhu Min let down her guard, knowing that the Soviet Red Army was a good person, so she spoke Chinese, indicated that she was Zhu De's daughter, and entrusted the Red Army to deliver news to the country.
After this news reached Yan'an, Chairman Mao first saw the telegram, and as soon as he saw the name "Chiying," he remembered this name, which was not Zhu De's daughter, so he informed Zhu De of this news.
When Zhu De heard about it, he came to see that the girl's experience was his own daughter, so he quickly sent a telegram asking the Soviet Union to escort his daughter back to China.
When Stalin heard the news, he ordered the Red Army to personally escort Zhu Min back to China. But unexpectedly, Zhu Min did not agree to return to China. She said: "The purpose of my coming to the Soviet Union has not yet been achieved, I am Zhu De's daughter, I must learn something to achieve before I can return to China." ”
Zhu Min and foreigners
From 1945 to 1949, Zhu Min spent only 4 years to complete the 10-year course from elementary school to high school in the Soviet Union, and was successfully admitted to Lenin Normal University. In 1952, Zhu Min graduated from university and returned to China to teach at Beijing Normal University.
The moment she got off the plane, Judd greeted her below, and the two were relatively speechless. Zhu De understands that his daughter has completed her transformation; Zhu Min knows that her father is very concerned about herself, and her motivation to persist until now is to become a person who is like her father and useful to the country.
Later, Zhu Min and Liu Zheng got married, and the two lived happily and happily, giving birth to 6 children.
On April 13, 2009, Zhu Min, accompanied by her husband and children, died peacefully in hospital at the age of 83.
Zhu Min hated her mother, but not because her mother did not raise her, but more because her mother betrayed her father and betrayed the revolution.
In his later memories, he said:
"I hate my mother not because she didn't raise me, but because she betrayed the family, betrayed the revolution. She only cares about her own private enjoyment, which is completely different from her father's ideals, and her life is a failure. As a daughter, I can't forgive her. ”
Although the first half of Zhu Min's life was full of hardships and setbacks, she was never intimidated by difficulties, and she understood what a truly progressive force was. She learned from her father, studied cultural knowledge assiduously, and mastered the real skills. For decades after returning to China, he has been teaching in the school, guarding the three-foot podium and contributing his strength between the inches.