Wolf smoke is everywhere, and war is raging;
Sons and daughters of a troubled world, there will be a difficult time.
As the saying goes, "The flames last for three months, and the family letter arrives at ten thousand gold." Once, in those stormy days, a family letter carried many unforgettable loves and infinite courtesy entrustments...
These are two family letters sent from the smoke and flames of war a hundred years ago. A letter from his wife to a general at the front, and a letter from a righteous soldier who was about to go on the expedition to his pregnant wife. One of them was written into textbooks by the Japanese to warn soldiers not to be greedy for life and afraid of death when fighting heroically. Another family letter, a hundred years later, was transformed into a movie - "One Hundred Years of Love Letters", which is still touching.
Ye Zhichao fled
In June 1894, Ye Zhichao, the direct subordinate governor of the Qing Dynasty, was ordered to go to Korea to help quell the Dongxue Party rebellion and fight against the Japanese army that came to provoke. On September 15, in the crucial decisive battle of Pyongyang, the two sides fought fiercely from day to evening, without winning or losing. The Japanese army was short of food and grass, and its support was difficult to sustain, and it was ready to retreat. However, something unexpected happened to them. Ye Zhichao, the commander of the Qing Army, actually hung up the white flag, fought timidly, opened the door and fled. Ye Zhichao ran very fast, at the speed of one marathon a day, six days in one breath "running more than five hundred miles"! It wasn't until I crossed the Yalu River that I dared to stop. Because the commander fled and fought timidly, the army was in chaos, the city of Pyongyang was destroyed, and the soldiers were chased and killed all the way, and the dead and wounded were exhausted. While cleaning up the battlefield, the Japanese army found a letter from Ye Zhichao's wife to him. "The king shall ascend to the throne, and the family shall be spared by wealth, and it is advisable to raise oneself." And spring and autumn high, hope for good and self-sufficiency, do not face the enemy..." The gist is to instruct your husband, you from a small soldier to a military general, it is already very difficult, our family is not short of money, it is time to enjoy life, fight do not fight desperately, you are also old, fight must not rush to the front, protect yourself in the back... Ye Zhichao also really obeyed his wife's teachings, and secretly lived in the battlefield, defeating the army and humiliating the country.
On the night of April 24, 1911, three days before the Huanghuagang Uprising, the revolutionary soldier Lin Juemin knew that he would die nine times in his life, and he had long held the heart of certain death. So he left the last letter on the handkerchief to his wife Chen Yiying, the "Letter with Wife", also known as the "Farewell Book with Wife":
"Yi Ying Qingqing Ruhui: I am now saying goodbye to Ru Yong with this book! When I wrote this book, I was still a man in the world; when I read this book, I had become a ghost in Hades.
When I wrote this book, the tears and the pen and ink went down together, and I could not actually write the book and wanted to put the pen down, and I was afraid that Ru would not detect my heart, saying that I would endure Ru and die, saying that I did not know that Ru did not want me to die, so I endured sorrow as Ru said.
I love Ru dearly, that is, this love ru is a thought, so that I dare to die. Since I met Ru, I have always wished that all lovers in the world would become dependents; but there are fishy clouds everywhere, and the streets are full of wolfhounds, and I am happy, how many can I? Sima Chun shirt, I can't learn too much to forget my feelings. Yun Yun: Benevolent "The old man is old, and the old man is old; the young man is young, and the young man is young." I am full of my heart for Ru, helping the people of the world to love what they love, so I dare to die first, regardless of Ruye. Ru Ti my heart, in addition to crying, also think of the people of the world, when Yi Le sacrifices the welfare of my body and the body of Ru, for the people of the world to seek eternal happiness. Don't be sad!
The people of the world should not die and those who do not want to leave, can not be counted, those who love like my generation, can bear it? This is why I dare to die recklessly and ignore Ruye..."
Three days later, the uprising failed, and Lin Juemin bravely rebelled at the Tianzi Wharf in Guangzhou, at the age of 24.
Famous and heroic people are not serious about selfishness.
It is difficult to sacrifice one's body to go to the country, and it is difficult to see death as a sudden return.
——Cao Zhi, "The White Horse"
Women are born for love, soldiers are born for the motherland! We don't want to accuse a wife of caring for her husband. However, in the face of national righteousness and personal feelings, soldiers should know the trade-offs. Soldiers have iron bones and thousands of tender feelings. However, how can it be that "since this body has already promised the country, it is difficult to xu Qing"... A family letter from a hundred years ago, dusty for a long time, but touched like new.
Author: Ding Lili
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