In 1973, , Xinchang, Zhejiang, when an old lady was carrying a bucket of corn up the stairs, she stepped on the air and rolled down. The bucket smashed her spleen and she passed out . The old lady woke up from a coma and looked at the relatives around her with a shy red cloud flying over her face. She said: she dreamed of her husband Liang Baitai, and dreamed of their bridal night. I dreamed that my husband taught her to read and read, and that he took her to a strange country...
When people heard it, they couldn't help crying.
The old lady's name is Chen Lianzhu, 53 years ago, her husband Liang Baitai, who was married for seven days, said goodbye to her relatives and went to Russia to study. The beautiful young woman waited to become a gray-haired old man, and finally reunited with her husband in a dream.
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Her elder sister Liang Xiaofen is as sad as her. In order to say " brother will not return, sister swears not to marry people" promise, is unmarried all his life, staying with his parents and Sister-in-law . Now that the younger sister-in-law and younger brother are reunited in a dream, her reunion with younger brother is not far away, right?
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Liang Baitai was one of the early leaders of our party. He was born in 1899 in a peasant family in Xinchang, Zhejiang. He was admitted to the Zhejiang First Normal Preparatory Course in 1918. During his time at school, he actively participated Student movement. In 1920, Liang Botai went to study at Shanghai Foreign Languages Society. In the second year, heard that he had the opportunity to study in Soviet Russia, so he immediately signed up for .
Liang Baitai went home to discuss with his parents, was strongly opposed by his parents . They hope that Liang Baitai will return to his hometown to be a teacher. He earns tens of yuan a month, earns a lot of money, has a stable job, and is respected by people. Why should he go to Russia in the freezing cold to suffer that share?
Liang Baitai insisted on going to study in Soviet Russia, but his father couldn't help him, so he said: " you can go to study abroad, you must be married, otherwise you don't want to leave the house. "
mother also cried Persuaded him: " Baitai, like people of our age, have embraced grandsons a long time ago, so you can get married ."
Liang Baitai has been engaged to Chen Lianzhu from the neighboring village for five years, Chen Lianzhu Two years older than Liang Baitai, she is a beautiful and virtuous girl . She is twenty-five years old this year. The Chen family is very anxious because she is not married. Liang Baitai doesn’t hate his fiancée, he just doesn’t like feudal autocratic marriages. In his opinion, autocratic marriages are " beast marriages". It is inhumane to let parents hold their grandchildren. His ideal society is a big one. In the family, men and women are equal, and the sons are raised together, instead of treating wives and children as private property.
Liang Botai wanted to dissolve the marriage contract with Chen Lianzhu, but his parents did not allow him, and Chen Lianzhu was also waiting for him desperately, so he had to give up. In order to study abroad in Soviet Russia, had to agree to his parents' request and marry Chen Lianzhu first.
His parents happily prepared for his marriage. On March 3, Liang's house was full of gongs and drums, and the house was full of joy. A sedan chair carried the bride Chen Lianzhu into the house. The bride's beauty was unanimously praised by people.
After three dynasties, Liang Baitai and his wife talked about studying abroad in Soviet Russia.He said: " Russia is far away from us, but everyone is equal there. There is no difference between rich and poor. I will go to the Soviet Union to study. In the future, our country will become such a country and we will live this life.
The beautiful life portrayed by Liang Baitai touched Chen Lianzhu. Although she is not willing to go far, she still wants to be her husband. She gently said to Liang Botai: ", since you want to go, you go, I am waiting for you." The news of studying abroad tells my parents that they are very reluctant. However, Liang Baitai was determined to study in Russia. promised to his parents and his wife that he would come back at most three years .
On March 10, Liang Baitai, who had just been married for seven days, said goodbye to his parents and family and embarked on the itinerary. On the eve of his farewell, Chen Lianzhu almost stayed up all night. As watched her husband sleep soundly, tears kept falling .
Former residence of Liang Baitai
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The marriage of Liang Baitai and Chen Lianzhu was facilitated by the eldest sister Liang Xiaofen threading.
Liang Xiaofen is seven years older than Liang Baitai. She has taken care of her only brother since childhood. In Liang Baitai's heart, the eldest sister is half a mother. Liang Xiaofen is tall and thin, full of strength, hard-working, vigorous and capable like a boy .
When Liang Xiaofen was fourteen years old, her parents sent her to a family named Wang to be a child bride-in-law . To be a child bride-in-law is very tragic. Liang Xiaofen did rough work and tiring work.After eating leftovers and wearing shabby clothes, the Wang family often beat and scolded her. Liang Xiaofen's mother-in-law is a romantic woman, and some restless men often come to their house, and have been hit by Liang Xiaofen several times. Liang Xiaofen couldn't bear it, so she told her mother-in-law's ugly deeds, mother-in-law became angry and beat her up . Liang Xiaofen couldn't stand the torture and wanted to escape home, but was caught by the Wang family halfway down the road. Her mother-in-law beat her up again and put her under supervision.
Liang Xiaofen still took an opportunity to escape home. She cried and told her parents about her experience at Wang's house. The parents looked at their daughter's wounds, crying with distress. The next day, the king of was aggressive and dignified, but Liang Xiaofen's parents did not let her go back . Later, the Wang family came to ask for it several times, but Liang Xiaofen's parents didn't let them go.
When the Wang family saw that the soft was not good, they wanted to come to the hard. They hired a dozen people, and wanted to take Liang Xiaofen back . Liang Xiaofen's uncle Liang Kaiyang is a martial scholar, Liang Xiaofen learned a few practical tricks from his uncle, she knocked down a few people with three punches and two kicks, and the other people did not dare to step forward. When the stalemate was in a stalemate, the villagers rushed over. , Relieved Liang Xiaofen.
Liang Xiaofen's uncle heard that the Wang family came to grab people, and felt that the Wang family was too bully, and took a group of people to the Wang family to " theory ", and the Wang family was so scared that they did not show up.
Wang's son is several years younger than Liang Xiaofen. Although Liang Xiaofen has been a child bride in the Wang's family for a period of time, did not converge with Wang's son. Long reluctant to talk about marriage and marriage. Although Liang Xiaofen didn't care about her marriage, she was very concerned about the marriage of her younger brother Liang Baitai, and she wanted to marry a virtuous and beautiful daughter-in-law for her younger brother.
Spring Festival in 1916,A group of guests came from Liang's house in the village. They were the five daughters of Chen's family in Daqigang in the neighboring village. They were called " five flowers on Daqigang ". Many folks in the village ran to watch the excitement, and Liang Xiaofen also followed. Looking at the five beautiful girls of the Chen family, Liang Xiaofen liked it in his heart. She thought, would be great if her brother could marry a girl from the Chen family !
She clicked on the side and asked people about it. People said that the first three girls in Chen's family are all famous, and the fourth and fifth girls are still in the boudoir. Liang Xiaofen thinks that the fourth girl Chen Lianzhu is a good match for her younger brother . She went home and told her parents that her parents said okay. She told her younger brother that the younger brother smiled and did not speak. Liang Xiaofen thought that his younger brother was acquiesced. Liang Xiaofen went to the Chen family in Daqigang Village to euphemistically explained this intention. The Chen family's parents did not comment. Liang Xiaofen felt that the Chen family seemed interested through his own observations, but he did not want to rush to agree.
After Liang Xiaofen left, the Chen family asked about Liang Baitai. People said he was a promising schoolboy. Chen Lianzhu’s parents were very happy. The two happily booked a kiss.
Liang Baitai passed by his prospective father-in-law's house on his way to school, and often went to his father-in-law's house to sit. Chen Lianzhu often prepares some fried peanuts, fried soybeans , let his fiance take to school as a snack .
Chen Lianzhu waited for five years, and finally waited until her fiance married herself, but after only 7 days, her husband was about to resign from home, she was very sad, reasonable she did not want to delay her husband, tearful support The husband went to study abroad.
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Liang Xiaofen helped his brother with luggage,After sending it one way after another, until it stopped at Dalingjiao, Liang Baitai said to Liang Xiaofen: "Sister , I will entrust my parents and lotus beads to you when I go ."
Liang Xiaofen nodded angrily: "Brother , don't worry, you don't come back, I won't marry!" Then she took out two silver corners from her pocket and handed them to her brother: ", you are here. Buy two snacks in the city to eat ." Liang Baitai took the two silver horns with her sister's body temperature, resisted tears, and said goodbye to her sister. Standing at the foot of Daling, Liang Xiaofen kept seeing his younger brother invisible, and walked home reluctantly.
Liang Baitai came to the county seat and took out the two silver corners that his sister gave him. bought a handkerchief and asked him to give Chen Lianzhu a souvenir . Chen Lianzhu put her handkerchief under the pillow. When she missed her husband, she took out the handkerchief, looked and looked, kissed and kissed, as if she was the incarnation of her husband.
After Liang Baitai left, the family looked forward to the stars and the moon, hoping for him to return to China as soon as possible. The cold and summer holiday, Three years have passed, Liang Baitai has not returned . Five years have passed, and Liang Baitai has not returned .
Liang Paktai's father couldn't wait for his son. He became anxious and died of illness in 1926. Liang Xiaofen, with a strong temperament, asked her father to build a grave next to her father's grave, indicating that she would do her filial piety to her parents during her lifetime and stay by her parents after death.
After the death of his father, there are only three women left in the family, and they owe a debt. Some people in the village sympathized with them. Some people in bullied her family's thin family, often provoke troubles, and humiliated them in every possible way ,The life of the three women was very difficult. His mother was old and weak, and his sister-in-law was weak and kind. Liang Xiaofen could only support the family business like a female man.
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Liang Botai bid farewell to his family and went to the Soviet Union to study with Liu Shaoqi, Ren Bishi, Xiao Jinguang and others. After his study period expired, he was sent to work in 1span2_span2_span2 in the Far East , Due to his busy work, he really can't get away from returning to China.
At the end of 1926, the Communist International sent representatives to Guangzhou to participate in the meeting. Liang Baitai traveled with the representatives of the Soviet Union as a translator. They arrived in Guangzhou in February 1927. After six years of parting and finally returning to the motherland, Liang Baitai was excited and quickly contacted his cousin who graduated from Whampoa Military Academy , and wanted him to help him with the matters of returning to his hometown.
Liang Baitai can't wait to run home in one step, kowtow in front of his father's grave , let his father forgive his unfilial son, and look at his mother who is leaning on the door and the sister who has never married for him. He also wants to take his wife Chen Lianzhu out and let her join the revolution with him.
If his wish comes true, Chen Lianzhu may leave the small village and follow her husband to a vast world, her life will be different.
But before Liang Baitai returned to his hometown, the "42 counter-revolutionary coup" took place. The Communist Party members were arrested in Guangzhou and Liang Baitai was detained. In order to rescue Liang Baitai, the Soviet representative temporarily granted him a Soviet citizenship. The Guangzhou government had to release Liang Baitai, Liang Baitai hid on a steamer and returned to the Soviet Union .
During his activities in the Soviet Union, Liang Baitai did not use a pseudonym, but always used his real name. He has a reputation and a big goal. "It's hard to stay in a country, but it's hard to return to a home". 's heart to return to China to participate in the revolution to visit his mother, sister and wife had to "die ".
Because his return to China is far away, Liang Botai and his fellow Zhejiang province Zhou Yuelin who studied in the Soviet Union lived together. Zhou Yuelin was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province and grew up in Shanghai. In 1926, she went to study in the Soviet Union and gave birth to a daughter named " Iskra ". Before she could tell her husband the news, her husband died.
Zhou Yuelin fell ill.
Liang Baitai developed affection with Zhou Yuelin in the process of taking care of Zhou Yuelin. He wrote to Chen Lianzhu for divorce. I don't know if Chen Lianzhu has not received the letter, or she does not believe that her husband will "rest" herself, is still at Liang's house waiting for Liang Baitai to return .
Zhou Yuelin gave birth to a son to Liang Baitai, named "Fuli". Liang Baitai regarded his stepdaughter and son as if he had come out, he washed out the photos of the two children and sent them to his mother, telling her that she had grandchildren, and he still hoped that his sister would come to the Soviet Union to help them. look after kids.
Liang Baitai’s mother was so happy to receive the photos of her grandchildren and she burst into tears. She washed her hands and burned incense, took the photos of her grandchildren to the position of her husband’s god, and said to her husband: “, we have a back from Liang’s family. I know you couldn’t close your eyes when you died, because you didn’t hold your grandson, and you were not reconciled. Now that we have grandchildren and granddaughters, you can feel at ease under Jiuquan."
Liang Xiaofen heard that his younger brother had I am very happy to have children, She wanted to help her younger brother take care of the child according to the instructions in the letter, but she didn't know the way, didn't speak northern dialect, and didn't worry about the old mother. In the end, she didn't make the trip.
Chen Lianzhu heard that her husband had a wife and children in the Soviet Union, had a mixed feeling of Chen Za, she had not seen her husband for almost ten years, and thought of her husband being around the knees of foreign children, enjoying the family happiness, and being with the elderly. The mother-in-law Lone Deng Leng Ying, feeling pleased and disappointed in her heart, she can only force a smile and cry secretly.
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In 1931, the organization raised Liang Baitai and Zhou Yuelin to return to work in China. Due to the hard work and danger, they were not allowed to bring their children. They put their children in the Moscow International Children's Hospital.
After returning to China, Liang Baitai and Zhou Yuelin came to the newly established Chinese Soviet Republic. Liang Baitai served as a member of the Constitution Drafting Committee , responsible for drafting the " Constitution Outline of the Chinese Soviet Republic" and the "Draft Constitution" , "Marriage Regulations", "Government Organization Law" and other laws. Zhou Yuelin serves as Minister of Women of the Central Committee and Director of the National Hospital .
Liang Baitai works hard, low-key and pragmatic. At the Second National Congress of Soviets in 1934, Liang Baitai and Zhou Yuelin were elected as members of the presidium together.
In October 1934, during the Long March of the Red Army, Liang Baitai stayed in the Soviet area and assisted Xiang Ying and Chen Yi in the work of . In early 1935, Liang Baitai was injured and arrested during a breakout and was killed on Dayuling .
Zhou Yuelin was also arrested and detained in Fujian Longyan Prison with Mrs. Xiang Ying and Zhang Liang . It was not until the second cooperation between the Communist Party of China that was released on bail by Liang Baitai's classmates . After Zhou Yuelin and Zhang Liang were released from prison, they had nowhere to go, so they had to come to Liang Baitai's house to get some news about Liang Baitai. Zhou Yuelin gave birth to another boy in the Soviet area, and he was fostered in a fellow villager's home. Considering that she could not tell the whereabouts of her child to Liang Baitai's mother, she asked Zhang Liang's child to pretend to be her own child and went to Liang's house with Zhang Liang's mother and son.
Liang Paktai's mother saw "grandson ", and she beamed her eyes. She carried her in her arms during the day and let her "grandson" sleep next to her at night. Zhou Yuelin lives with Liang Xiaofen. She asks Liang Xiaofen about Liang Baitai. Liang Xiaofen has no exact news about her brother. She only vaguely heard that brother has sacrificed .
Zhou Yuelin and Zhang Liang had to leave after the Spring Festival, and Liang's mother would not let them take her "baby grandson" away. Zhou Yuelin had to tell her the truth. When Liang's mother heard that her grandson was a fake, 's eyes were black and she slumped on the ground, crying loudly . Zhou Yuelin assured her that the two children who stayed in the Soviet Union and the children who stayed in the Soviet area would be retrieved as soon as possible, and Liang's mother stopped crying.
During this period, Chen Lianzhu was the most complicated. Seeing her mother-in-law holding her grandson with her eyes shining, she felt melancholy of being left out, but she is always a kind-hearted woman, no matter how she sheds tears at night, she always entertains Zhou Yuelin and Zhang Liang with a smile during the day. Since Zhou Yuelin and Zhang Liang came back with their children, this deserted home has become lively. The family had a happy Spring Festival. She likes the lively atmosphere very much.
Zhou Yuelin was with He Zizhen, Kang Keqing, Qian Xijun and others
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After Zhou Yuelin and Zhang Liang left, the Liang family never heard of Liang Baitai and their children. While waiting, Liang's mother passed away from illness, and only two women, Chen Lianzhu and Liang Xiaofen, were left at home.
In 1949, the country was liberated. Chen Lianzhu and Liang Xiaofen have white hair , they often stand at the entrance of the village, standing by the road, watching groups of People's Liberation Army passing by, hoping to see Liang Baitai's figure, always wants to go. Disappointed .
Chen Lianzhu and Liang Xiaofen wrote to Mao Zedong asking about the whereabouts of Liang Baitai, Zhou Yuelin and their children, and the Central Organization Department replied " does not know the whereabouts of this comrade" . They asked the Xinchang County Party Committee to help find the whereabouts of Liang Baitai and his children. In 1955, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China replied to the Xinchang County Party Committee: Liang Baitai had been sacrificed, and Zhou Yuelin's whereabouts were unknown after he was released from prison .
After hearing the news of Liang Baitai's sacrifice, Chen Lianzhu and Liang Xiaofen cried with each other. had always had a illusion in their hearts that Liang Baitai might still be alive. Now their dreams are completely shattered. Chen Lianzhu and Liang Xiaofen tearfully packed a few pieces of clothing that Liang Baitai wore in his early years and put them in a small coffin. The two women of carried the coffin and cried out Liang Baitai's name as they walked. , The smeller is sad.
The two of them built a clothing mound for Liang Baitai. Just like Liang Xiaofen built a grave for herself next to his father’s grave decades ago, Chen Lianzhu built a grave for herself next to her husband's burial mound. She could not sleep with her husband, and was buried with her husband after death.
Liang Baitai can't come back. The two elderly people are particularly eager to find Liang Baitai's children in the Soviet Union. They only know that the nicknames of the two children are " Najia" and " 沙沙", these two names are common names in the Soviet Union, looking for two children with these two nicknames is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack. and they wrote to Wang Ming, Yang Shangkun, Lin Boqu, Wu Yuzhang and others. They all replied, and they did not know the whereabouts of the children.
The response from the Central Organization Department Office to them is: is not easy to find in a short time, once there is a result, I will write to you immediately to tell you !
Chen Lianzhu and Liang Xiaofen waited until their deaths, but they did not hear anything about their children.
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Because there is no strong man in the family, Liang Xiaofen took up the role of the eldest man, she speaks and does things smoothly and neatly. She is as powerful as a man and can carry a hundred catties. The wheat basket goes upstairs, and can carry the pig dung to the field. Once she went to buy a tank, and the seller saw that she was thin and slender, and she didn't seem to be vigorous, and said, "You can take the tank back, but I won't charge you." Liang Xiaofen actually carried a heavy urn back home, and took the urn back home without stopping. However, after she returned the back of the tank, she still sent the money back. She said, " is a joke. Buying a tank is going to buy a tank. My Liang Xiaofen is not a cheap person."
Chen Lianzhu's Personality and Liang Xiaofen complement each other, has a gentle personality and meticulous workmanship. She can cook good dishes, make good needlework, and raise silkworm cocoons . Her nephew said: Even if there is no food, you can eat three bowls of rice cooked by your aunt.
For decades, two struggling women worked in a division of labor, , one for the outside and one for the inside . Although there is no man in the family, they both managed their days in an orderly manner.
When they arrived at the rural cooperative, both Chen Lianzhu and Liang Xiaofen were in their 60s and 70s. They insisted on planting land, vegetables, pigs, and silkworms. Two gray-haired old people, one after the other, carried the dung bucket to water the vegetables. The folks admire their strength and often help them with work. The two of them tried their best to give back to the villagers. Sometimes when it was windy and rainy, the villagers couldn't make it back in the field, so they put away the clothes and food they had dried. They have a few yuan in subsidies every month. Whenever the villagers ask for help, they always take out the money from the bottom of the box and lend it to the villagers.
Chen Lianzhu and her aunt Liang Xiaofen have lived together for 53 years. In November 1973, Chen Lianzhu carrying a bucket of corn went upstairs and placed it, rolled down with one foot. The bucket broke her spleen, and she passed out with pain. At the county hospital, Chen Lianzhu woke up from a coma, with a smile on her face, she said to her relatives next to her: she dreamed of her husband Liang Baitai, dreamed of the wedding night in the bridal chamber, dreamed that Liang Baitai taught her to read, and also dreamed She followed Liang Baitai to a strange country...
When Liang Xiaofen heard this, tears rolled. She knew that the life of her brother-in-law was coming to an end, and 's life was not far away.
People carried Chen Lianzhu home,When she was dying, Chen Lianzhu saw the portrait of Liang Baitai hanging in the hall, and suddenly her eyes lighted up, asking people to take off her husband's portrait and give her. She held her husband's portrait in her arms, and two lines of tears flowed silently down the corners of her eyes. After waiting for 53 years, she can finally see her husband.
In December 1973, Chen Lianzhu died of illness, at the age of 77, people buried her next to Liang Baitai's burial mound according to her wishes, allowing her to accompany her husband and never separate.
The death of Chen Lianzhu hit Liang Xiaofen a great deal, and she with a stronger nature bears her grief and said, " Hades Palace must have a late arrival ." She lived steadily for another four years. One day in , in September 1977, she was sitting in a chair for dinner. She was suddenly unconscious and died a week later at the age of 86.
Her life is the same as her character. She is simple and clean, not sluggish. According to her last wish, people put a piece of clothing worn by her brother Liang Baitai into her coffin. asked her brother to In this way, he will always accompany his sister who has been waiting for his life.
For a marriage contract, the beautiful girl Chen Lianzhu waited for her husband for 53 years, and for the promise of "Brother will not come back, sister will not marry", Liang Xiaofen kept her parents and younger brother-in-law and waited for 57 years. In that turbulent era, the two of them were just insignificant little people. However, the fate of the little people was wrapped in the big era, and there was a tragic atmosphere.
Finally, let me talk about Liang Baitai’s wife Zhou Yuelin and three children:
After Zhou Yuelin left Liang’s house, he did not find an organization and had to marry a boatman.In the 1950s, she was framed as a traitor and detained for more than 20 years. She was rehabilitated in 1979. In 1982, Zhou Yuelin settled in Liang Baitai's hometown. Chen Lianzhu and Liang Xiaofen have passed away and she has not been able to see them.
The sons and daughters of Zhou Yuelin and Liang Baitai left in the Soviet Union, disappeared during the Great Patriotic War of , fostered in the Soviet area, died of illness during the war.
References:
Chinese Writers Net: Belief
Let’s say Liang Xiaofen
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