On the afternoon of June 22, 1931, a pair of young lovers appeared in the shanghai cinema, and because the two went out too early, in order to kill time, they went to the coffee shop next to them to wait for the movie to be staged. Two bored people were chatting with each other, when suddenly a familiar figure appeared.
This man joined the small talk, but his inadvertent conversation revealed a shocking secret and saved the CCP underground at that time.
Among the young lovers, the man's name is Chen Zhigao, a famous lawyer in Shanghai Beach, and his father Chen Qishou is a former Qing Erpin master. His girlfriend, Huang Mulan, was a red female agent trained by our party, and she was born into a feudal family in Liuyang, Hunan Province, at the age of 24. In the 1930s, the shanghai beach suddenly changed, and the organization sent "beauty spy" Huang Mulan to approach Chen Zhigao and save Comrade Guan Xiangying, who was imprisoned in the patrol room at that time.
The person who joined the small talk was Chen Zhigao's good friend Cao Bingsheng, who worked in the patrol house of the concession. On this afternoon, Cao Bingsheng was idle, and just happened to meet Huang Mulan and Chen Zhigao in the café, so they sat down together and chatted. Inadvertently, Cao Bingsheng told Chen Zhigao that the patrol room had arrested a cadre in the morning, and it seemed that it was not small.
"The patrol house caught an underground party early in the morning, and it looked like a high official. However, this person is also too spineless, and the prison guards who patrol the arrest room have not yet moved, he has recruited everything. ”
Looking at Cao Bingsheng, who was full of disdain, Huang Mulan suddenly felt that something big was not good, and she had a premonition that something big was going to happen. A few minutes later, Huang Mulan hurried away under the pretext of a headache, and on the way she kept thinking, who was this traitor caught by the patrol room? After returning to the residence, Huang Mulan told Pan Hannian the news as it was, and made his own judgment.
"This traitor is most likely Xiang Zhongfa."
Pan Hannian was Huang Mulan's direct superior, and Xiang Zhongfa was one of the leaders of the underground party at that time, and the matter concerned the safety of Zhou Enlai. After carefully listening to Huang Mulan's analysis, Pan Hannian felt that her conjecture was very reasonable. Cao Bingsheng and Huang Mulan were not familiar with each other, and he did not know that Huang Mulan was a spy installed by the underground organization, and there should be no traps in this. Frightened out of a cold sweat, Pan Hannian told Huang Mulan not to act rashly, and then hurried to Zhou Enlai's residence.
After listening to Pan Hannian's account, Zhou Enlai immediately made a judgment, believing that xiang Zhongfa had been arrested by the Shanghai Patrol House, and that he was likely to be unable to withstand torture and defection. Xiang Zhongfa had been living with Zhou Enlai the night before, but this morning he suddenly disappeared, and when he thought of this, Zhou Enlai immediately gave instructions.
"If this is the case, then Comrade Guan Xiangying will be in danger." You asked Comrade Huang Mulan to seize the time to rescue Guan Xiangying. ”
After saying this, Zhou Enlai moved out of his original residence and told the other comrades to be careful. Sure enough, not long after they left their original residence, the door was opened by Kuomintang agents. Fortunately, Zhou Enlai and others retreated in time, and the consequences were unimaginable.
After assisting Zhou Enlai in evacuation, Pan Hannian immediately found Huang Mulan and conveyed Zhou Enlai's instructions to her. After receiving the instructions, Huang Mulan was also very anxious, so she once again put pressure on her "boyfriend" Chen Zhigao.
It turned out that long before Xiang Zhongfa was arrested, Huang Mulan had already actively rescued Chen Zhigao through his relationship. Chen Zhigao's father, Chen Qishou, was a prominent figure in Shanghai's judicial circles and served as president of the Shanghai Criminal Court for 18 consecutive years. It was in the name of meeting his parents that Huang Mulan was able to come to Chen Zhigao's home and then get his father.
The beautiful and moving Huang Mulan, after seeing Chen Qishou, appeared to be very well-behaved and sensible, and soon won the favor of Chen Qishou.
After a few days together, Chen Qishou offered to let Huang Mulan become his "daughter of the house". Of course, Huang Mulan would not let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and without hesitation, she agreed, and after that, she used this level of identity to serve as a tutor for chen Qishou's children, and truly became the family of Chen Qishou's father and son.
When the time was ripe, Huang Mulan told Chen Zhigao that he had a distant relative named Li Shizhen who had been mistakenly arrested and sent to Shanghai Longhua Prison, hoping that he could help him rescue Li Shizhen. Chen Zhigao was worried that he would not have a chance to please Huang Mulan, and as soon as he heard this request, he immediately agreed, and at a dinner party one day, he told his father Chen Qishou about it.
"Miss Huang is assured, this matter is wrapped up in me."
When Chen Qishou heard this, he agreed without the slightest hesitation. A few days later, Huang Mulan received an invitation from Chen Qishou to come to the Chen family for dinner. Huang Mulan rushed there to take a look, and it turned out that Chen Qishou had invited the warden of Longhua Prison. He introduced Huang Mulan to the warden and told Li Shizhen about li shizhen, asking for the release of this distant relative from Longhua Prison.
"This Miss Huang is even closer than my own daughter, and her relatives are also my relatives."
The Li Shizhen that Huang Mulan and Chen Qishou called them was actually Comrade Guan Xiangying, who had been imprisoned in Longhua Prison for several months. The warden obstructed Chen Qishou's influence and promised to go back at the dinner table, promising to release the people when he returned. However, the actual situation is much more complicated, when Comrade Guan Xiangying was arrested, there was also a large box of confidential documents that were searched, and he was actually the key target of Longhua Prison.
As a result, although the warden promised to release the person immediately, Huang Mulan did not hear the news that Guan Xiangying should be released from prison for a long time. The search of Premier Zhou's residence shows that Xiang Zhongfa has completely defected, and it is difficult to guarantee that he will not confess to Comrade Xiangying. Zhou Enlai, Chen Geng, and others were so anxious that if Comrade Guan Xiangying was released from prison one day later, his danger would be one more point. Therefore, the organization constantly urged Huang Mulan, urging her to release Guan Xiangying through Chen Qishou's forces as soon as possible.
Huang Mulan, through Pan Hannian's communication, knew the importance of this matter, and she immediately came to Chen Qishou's home. Huang Mulan, who had quite a means, coaxed Chen Qishou to laugh through his superb speaking skills. Seeing that the old man was so happy, Huang Mulan took the opportunity to complain to him again, saying that his distant relative Li Shizhen was still in prison.
"He's still in prison, I don't have any face, you don't have face."
After hearing this, Chen Qishou was very angry and asked someone to invite the warden to his home and ask him why he did not release him. The warden helplessly told him that it was not that he did not want to release people, but that Secretary Li of Longhua Prison did not want to release people. Although he was the warden, he could not disobey the orders of his superiors. However, the warden told Chen Qishou that his boss, Secretary Li, had a hobby of smoking cigarettes.
Chen Qishou has stood firm in the official arena for many years, and of course he knows the strength of throwing himself into his favor, and he knows even more about the means of Enwei and Shi. Therefore, he personally wrote a letter to Secretary Li of Longhua Prison, telling him that Li Shizhen in prison was only a rough person, and that the people in the countryside did not have any great ability, let alone be an underground party member. At the same time, Chen Qishou also sent someone to send two pounds of fine tobacco soil, asking Secretary Li to look at his own face and make a convenience.
Secretary Li learned that Guan Xiangying had been detained for several months, and the censors did not ask for a reason, so he made a shunshui favor and released him. After Guan Xiangying came out of Longhua Prison, he was warmly welcomed by Chen Zhigao, a famous lawyer on the beach, who not only personally drove to pick him up, but also chartered a luxurious hotel to pick him up.
Guan Xiangying, alias Li Shizhen, escaped from the tiger's mouth in this way, but the female agent Huang Mulan, who worked hard to save him, fell into a dilemma.
Chen Zhigao originally liked Huang Mulan, and with Zhou Enlai's intention to make Huang Mulan close to him, he constantly proposed to this beautiful spy. Comrade Huang Mulan, who could not resist, reflected this matter to the organization, and did not expect that she and Chen Zhigao would actually fake the drama and really do it. At that time, the organization took into account that the situation in Shanghai was too complicated and changeable, so huang Mulanshui pushed the boat and accepted Chen Zhigao's marriage proposal.
At that time, Huang Mulan appeared as the widow of Wan Xi, but in fact, her husband at that time was Comrade He Chang. Huang Mulan, whose original name was Huang Dinghui, experienced four marriages in his life, all of which ended in failure. Her first husband was a local brother in Liuyang, and his vices were intolerable to Huang Mulan, and the two divorced soon after. Since then, Huang Mulan has embarked on the road of revolution, and her name means "admiring Mulan". Her second husband, Wan Xiyan, died not long after the two married, after which Huang Mulan, with the approval of the organization, became a legal couple with He Chang.
However, considering Huang Mulan's special status, her true relationship with He Chang was not allowed to be made public, and only appeared as Wanxi's widow. This is also one of the reasons why Chen Zhigao, the second generation of Shanghai beach officials and barristers from a noble background, is after Huang Mulan. Huang Mulan agreed to his request for exchanges, originally to save Comrade Guan Xiangying, who was in prison at the time, but he did not expect that it would be difficult for him to escape now.
"I decided to dedicate everything I had, including my life, to the organization."
After careful consideration, Huang Mulan still accepted the organizational task and agreed to marry Chen Zhigao.
One day in 1933, Chen Zhigao officially married Huang Mulan in his mansion, and the two embarked on the palace of marriage. After getting married, Huang Mulan had to choose to quit the Chinese Communist Party and became the wife of Chen Zhigao, a senior Kuomintang official. She also lost contact with her third husband, He Chang, and after the death of Comrade He Chang in 1935, Huang Mulan completely broke off his relationship with him.
Huang Mulan, who had a son with He Chang, was helpless to give up in the war, and the children of her and her second husband, Wan Xiyu, were also fostered in other people's homes and lost their news. After marrying Chen Zhigao, Huang Mulan, while actively supporting the ccp's underground work as a banker, philanthropist, and wife of a senior Kuomintang official, also began a normal life as a husband and son. She and Chen Zhigao gave birth to a total of 6 children, 2 of whom died tragically and 4 were raised by the couple.
But even so, Huang Mulan's fourth marriage ultimately failed. After the founding of New China, Chen Zhigao left the mainland on the pretext of going abroad to engage in trade, and flew away with his first love. Huang Mulan, who was always reluctant to his homeland and organization, could only let his husband leave after all kinds of persuasion was ineffective. From then on, she had no contact with Chen Zhigao until the two of them died one after another.
After 1955, Huang Mulan, due to some connections, has been in prison. Until 1980, Premier Zhou Enlai's wife, Deng Yingchao, was very sympathetic after hearing about Huang Mulan's encounter and came forward to return him to the normal trajectory of life. In 1994, Huang Mulan retired from his position as counselor of the Shanghai Municipal Government and chose to retire in Hangzhou. After many organizational searches, the children she gave birth to with Wan Xi and He Chang were later found, but Huang Mulan still chose to live alone.
From 1955 to 1994, nearly 40 years have passed, and this legendary red female agent has lived alone, and she has become accustomed to such a life. In 2015, the elderly Huang Mulan, who was already 108 years old at the time, was awarded the medal for the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. 2 years later, this great woman ended her life at the age of 110.
In his later years, Huang Mulan wrote an autobiography looking back on the past of his life, and this "Autobiography of Huang Mulan" was later published. The heroine in the movie "The Sound of the Wind" is based on the old man Huang Mulan, a beautiful spy with both talents and looks, with such a film and television image, forever staying on the screen.