Since studying abroad in 1922, Zhu De lost contact with Chen Yuzhen, during which time he heard the news that Chen Yuzhen was killed by the Sichuan warlords, until more than a decade later, when the Kuomintang and the Communists cooperated for the second time, Zhu De contacted his family and learned that Chen Yuzhen had moved to Zhu De's hometown to serve Zhu De's birth mother and heir. Chen Yuzhen never remarried in her life, and stayed in the Zhu family to provide for the elderly and sending Zhu De's two mothers to the end.
After Zhu De and Chen Yuzhen got married in Luzhou, because they both loved books, they soon set up an exquisite bookhouse where they read and discussed the books they had read, and sometimes wrote short poems and small articles. It is a house of more than ten square meters. The small nature is smaller, but the bookstore is properly arranged, several beautiful bookcases are placed on the wall, two chairs, a desk are placed on the south side, it seems very natural, very harmonious, a look will know that it is a good place to read and study.
There are a large number of books in the bookstore, including the Book of Poetry, which represents the ancient poems of the pre-Qin Dynasty; The Collected Works of Han Changli, representing ancient prose, and the Guanzhi of Ancient Literature; "Water Margin", "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Journey to the West", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which represent the Tang poems and Song Ci, "Three Hundred Poems of Tang", "Li Taibai's Poetry Collection", and "Xin Ren's Disease Dictionary"; The "Records of History", "Zuo Zhuan", and "Shi Stone", which represent the geographical travels, represent the "Travels of Xu Xiake"; The Analects representing the thoughts of Confucius and the Mo family, and the Mozi represent the ancient art of war, Sun Tzu;
Mencius, Xunzi, Han Feizi, LaoZi, and Zhuangzi, which represent Confucianism, Dharma, and Taoism; On Balance, which represents ancient materialism; "Ming Yi To Be Visited" and "Li's Burning of Books" representing ancient democratic thought; Representing the peasants' revolutionary thought, "Reading the Four Books", "Records of Mr. Xi Zhai's Words and Deeds", and "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom"; Representing the Western study of "The Evolution of Heaven" and "Darwin's Theory of Evolution"; Sun Yat-sen's speech representing the ideas of the bourgeois revolutionaries, "London is difficult to remember". The Compendium of Materia Medica and the Book of Agriculture, which represent ancient medicine.
In addition, there are "Yue Fei Biography", "Emperor Spring and Autumn", "West Chamber", "Peony Pavilion", "Xue Rengui Zhengdong", "Xue Dingshan Zhengxi", "Faust" and so on. After the ideas of the October Revolution in Russia and its manifesto on racial and ethnic equality spread throughout China, they also collected books or pamphlets on such subjects and subscribed to magazines such as New Youth and New Wave. Zhu De and Chen Yuzhen were very satisfied with this bookstore, and sometimes they came in alone and wandered in the sea of books; sometimes they came in with their hands and read greedily.
When reading the book, the room was unusually silent, and no one interfered with anyone, but sometimes they discussed with each other, and even launched some arguments, in order to make the problem clear, they applauded the patriotic actions of the ancient heroes Yue Fei and Shi Kefajing in loyally serving the country, they were inspired by the heroic fighting spirit of Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, Huang Chao, and Li Zicheng, they cheered sun Yat-sen's feat of overthrowing the feudal dynasty, and they were also angry at Yuan Shikai's despicable behavior of claiming to be emperor without authorization.
There is no time during the day, and they read by the light in the silent night. Sometimes I am too tired to engage in some recreational activities, or play the piano, or play chess, or swing the dragon gate array. Their love life is often spent in the bookstore. Knowledge gives them wisdom, and knowledge gives them a rich spiritual life. Their marital affection grows in a common hobby.
For everyone, regardless of the small family. In 1960, Zhu De and Kang Keqing visited Nanxi, and the former couple saw each other thirty-eight years later, and no one knew what they talked about.