History related pictures
April 6, 1989, for Gong Dacai, a veteran who lived alone in Taiwan for 44 years, it was an unforgettable day for a lifetime.
Just at the beginning of the year, he submitted an application to go back to his hometown in Hubei to visit his relatives with a nervous mood; for many days, the thick materials finally appeared in front of him with the instructions of "approval".
This means: After 44 years of separation from his hometown, he was finally able to return to his hometown in his lifetime, look at his wife who had missed him for half his life, and look at his son who had grown up.
After learning that the data was approved, Gong Dacai, who was already 75, couldn't help but cry out:
"This day, I have been waiting for it for too long, too long..."
Before he could calm down, he rented a car and came to a hill where he checked in every year.
Speaking of which, this is where Gong Dacai often stayed when he was a soldier; a small mountain stands on the sea, climbs to the top of the mountain, and looks along the vast sea surface, you can see the outline of the continent that appears and disappears from time to time.
During the years he was in the army, he had no entertainment activities; he often brought a pot of water and some dry food, looking at the other side at the top of the mountain, and stayed for a day.
For the elderly Gong Dacai: This ordinary hill embodies his countless homesickness.
During those years of wandering in Taiwan without roots, whenever he couldn't stand it, he stood on the top of the mountain facing the surging sea, shouting his wife and son's names loudly; only these strong longings accumulated in his heart made Gong Dacai walk alone on this strange land. On the day after the
review information was approved, he once again climbed to the familiar top of the mountain and watered and fertilized the mother-son coconut that had accompanied him for many years.
is different from the lonely and desolate mood in the past. Gong Dacai, who climbed the top of the mountain, was filled with unsatisfied excitement and expectation.
For so many years, this mother-son coconut with roots on the hill has been with him, listening to his longing for his hometown and family; now, he is about to return to the mainland to reunite with his relatives, just want to apply more fertilizer to this tree.
Gong Dacai was excited inside. What supported him to continue with his life alone is his concern for his distant hometown and relatives.
In this strange land, living alone is never easy.
Therefore, most of the comrades who retreated to Taiwan who retired to Taiwan chose to remarry and use the happiness of the new family to heal the sadness and coldness of those who have lost their roots.
It’s not that no one has introduced an excellent girl to Gong Dacai, but that Gong Dacai has rejected others’ kindness again and again; it’s just because, except for his first wife Xu Fengchi and his young son, he can no longer tolerate anyone in his heart.
1.
He clearly remembered: On the Dragon Boat Festival in 1942, he married his childhood playmate Xu Fengchi as he wished.
That year, he was only 18 years old and his wife Xu Fengchi was 17 years old.
Because the relationship between the two families is already good, even if it is an arranged marriage, the relationship between Gong Dacai and Xu Fengchi is particularly sweet.
The life after marriage is happy. Gong Dacai works diligently and supplements his family's income, while Xu Fengchi takes care of his parents-in-law and carries out housework. He is not rich and noble, but he is the most down-to-earth and stable life for his ancestors and farmers.
0s related pictures
1945, Xu Fengchi became pregnant, and the whole family was very happy;
But this year, the Kuomintang army, which was preparing to launch the civil war , began to go to the countryside to catch strong men, and the men were forced to leave home and hide around.
Gong Dacai, who was unwilling to leave home, had to sleep in the grave every day or hide in the cowshed in order to avoid being caught.
But it is not a solution for a long time. Gong Dacai, who was unwilling to delay farm work, was still working quietly in the fields. Unexpectedly, this appearance has rewritten the direction of fate from then on.
"Gong Dacai was arrested!" When the news came, his pregnant wife almost fainted.
Although the country people don’t have much knowledge, they have also developed some judgment on the world during these turbulent years.
Everyone knows in their hearts: unless they look forward to a peaceful era, Gong Dacai, who was captured, will never be able to go home again.
At the end of the twelfth lunar month in 1945, Xu Fengchi gave birth to his eldest son.
She named the child "Tai Wang" just because she hoped that her husband could go home to see the newborn child, and she also hoped that the war would end quickly and that her husband would return safely as soon as possible.
It was not until the second half of 1946 that Xu Fengchi finally found out about the troops where her husband was.
After learning about her husband's news, she immediately asked someone to write a letter and attached a photo of herself and her son Tai Wang.
In the years since when there was no news, the photo of his wife and son became Gong Dacai's entire attachment and concern.
In the life and death test of bullets, he survived again and again, just because he was worried about his wife at home and was unwilling to let his young son lose his father.
For Gong Dacai: we must survive, because only by living can we wait for the victory of Anti-Japanese War ; only by living can we have the chance to go home...
But who would have thought: fate has set up a cruel scam from the beginning.
It is fake to win a battle and go home. Retreat and retreat to Taiwan is the ending that countless soldiers like Gong Dacai will face.
In 1949, Gong Dacai's troops were ordered to retreat to Taiwan; in the dilemma of being unable to escape or resist, this simple and hardworking farmer could only choose to accept his fate.
But because of the chaos of the current situation, Gong Dacai couldn't even send a goodbye letter to his wife. After
came to Taiwan, due to the influence of the decision at that time, the soldiers who retreated to Taiwan were not allowed to communicate with their relatives at home.
At the beginning, Gong Dacai was looking forward to it; as long as he survived well, he would have a chance to go home.
But as the changes year by year, the comrades around him remarried one after another. Gong Dacai clearly felt that his reunion seemed to have become a precious fantasy. There are also comrades in the middle of
, and they have introduced him to the object.
The Taiwanese wife of fellow villager He Wenhua has a sister who is very beautiful and wants to introduce her to Gong Dacai.
The girl was also very satisfied with Gong Dacai and even went to his house to do laundry and cook for him.
But Gong Dacai didn't appreciate it at all, and even made a big fuss about his fellow villagers:
"If anyone wants to mention this matter, don't worry about me turning against you."
For Gong Dacai: the other side of the strait is separated by his own deepest concern; as long as he is still alive, he will not give up the hope of going home; as long as he is still alive, he cannot give up the love with his wife Fengchi.
The life of wandering in another place is too difficult. Over the years, it has been that inconspicuous hill, and the thriving mother-son coconut on the top of the mountain, supporting Gong Dacai to live strongly.
2.
Finally, the situation has turned around.
Since 1987, Taiwan has relaxed its policies and agreed to the retired veterans to communicate with their families and return to their hometowns to visit.
After learning the news, Gong Dacai immediately wrote countless letters of "Gong Taiwang received" according to the address in his memory.
What makes him sad is that these letters that symbolize reunion end up sinking into the sea and there is no echo.
"Is there something unexpected happening to Feng Chi and his son? No, it's impossible!" After
denied this pessimistic idea, Gong Dacai insisted on writing a letter again and began to use various relationships to help him find his family.
Just as Gong Dacai was eager to find clues to his family, a young man named Gong Guangxu in Hubei Province was also trying to find his father; and his father was Taiwanese veteran Gong Dacai.
It turns out that after his son grew up, his wife Fengchi had changed his name to him; this is why Gong Dacai was unable to find his son's information.
Until October 1987, Gong Guangxu asked someone to issue a missing person notice in Taiwan. When he saw that his name was found in Taiwan's missing person newspaper, Gong Dacai was so happy.
With the help of his friends, he sent a letter to his son in his hometown, telling his various experiences in Taiwan.
Not long after, he received a letter from his son: Mother and I miss you very much, and hope we will reunite as soon as possible.
With news and whereabouts of relatives, Gong Dacai, who had been waiting for nearly half his life, could no longer contain his excitement and quickly applied for various procedures to return to his hometown to visit relatives.It was April 1989 that the procedures for
were approved.
Just like that, on April 28, Gong Dacai, who had been away from home for 44 years, finally returned to his hometown in Hubei.
When he set foot on the familiar land, all the relatives of Babao Town, Songzi City, Hubei Province were greeted at the airport.
Looking at the older partner who grew up with him, watching his son whom he had never met, and seeing that his neighbors had already changed their appearance, Gong Dacai's sadness that had been suppressed for 44 years all came in a surging wave.
Network picture
But among the crowds of people who picked up the plane, Gong Dacai never saw his wife.
He asked Gong Guangxu a little uneasy: Where is your mother?
Hearing his father's inquiry, Gong Guangxu looked a little uncomfortable, but he still comforted his father: You will see him when you get home!
The bus has been bumpy for a long distance and finally came to the countryside in my memory.
Seeing the hometown that was familiar and had changed when I was a child, Gong Dacai's mood became complicated.
We have been together for 44 years, and he doesn’t know whether his relationship with his wife Fengchi is as good as before?
In the evening, Xu Fengchi, who was worried about by Gong Dacai for half his life, finally showed up; when he saw her husband who had been separated for half his life appear in front of him, the old woman who had been through many hardships could no longer bear it and covered her face and cried bitterly.
When everyone sat down, Gong Dacai discovered that there was an old man in his 70s who accompanied his wife.
It was not until this time that his son Gong Guangxu, who was unbearable, quietly told his father: , his mother had remarried when she was young, and the reason why she didn't tell Gong Dacai at the airport was because she was afraid that he would not accept it for the time being.
It turned out that in 1952, in order to support his son, Xu Fengchi had to remarry and marry Yang Jianquan, a farmer in the same town.
Now, Gong Dacai, who had lost contact for half his life, is back.
Xu Fengchi learned that he was in a strange land and was eagerly waiting for 44 years of reunion, and she burst into tears.
But at the same time, a new problem was also placed in front of her: Gong Dacai is her husband, but Yang Jianquan, who has been with her for most of her life, is also her husband, and the biological father of her five children.
If she made a choice, she would have no desire to abandon Yang Jianquan and leave; even if she had no love, her life would have become a family affection that she could not bear to give up.
3.
Why don’t Gong Dacai know about such a difficult choice!
He had been waiting for a long time, but he didn't expect that the reunion he had been waiting for was the current scene; he wanted to leave with his wife and son too much, but he also knew clearly that Yang Jianquan is Fengchi's real husband now.
When everyone dispersed, the son with red eyes found his father Gong Dacai.
"Dad, can you not break up your mother and stepfather..." said this prayer that was accumulated in his heart, and Gong Guangxu had already burst into tears.
Gong Dacai was stunned when he heard this, but in his son's painful eyes, he realized: Yang Jianquan's efforts for the Gong family over the years.
Just like all relatives’ praise, Yang Jianquan is a rare good man; since he married Xu Fengchi, this honest man has taken good care of Xu Fengchi and his son with all his heart.
Later, Yang Jianquan and Xu Fengchi had 5 children in succession, but his most love was always left to Gong Guangxu, who was not his biological child.
In the famine era, Yang Jiancai would rather suffer his children than never let Gong Guangxu get hungry.
From childhood to adulthood, Gong Guangxu's clothes are the latest, while young younger brothers and sisters wear his old clothes.
Later, Gong Guangxu was taken back by his grandparents, but as a stepfather, Yang Jianquan still paid tuition and living expenses for his children every year, for fear that he would not live well.
When questioned by the biological children, Yang Jianquan once said: Gong Guangxu is my child, and he is also the child of the Gong family; marrying your mother is my luck, and I must take good care of the descendants of the Gong family.
Such care and love are comparable to biological father and son.
Gong Dacai, who learned the truth, burst into tears; yes, this wasted half of his life was a fate that made people feel bad, and no one could blame him; now he saw Fengchi had a stable family and filial children, he should be relieved; and when faced with Yang Jianquan who took care of his son in every way, Gong Dacai felt very grateful, and such kindness would be difficult to repay for his whole life.
Let’s go through the past, why bother to hold on to it!
Just like that, Gong Dacai, who had completely figured it out, returned to Taiwan again.
Before leaving, he gave Yang Jianquan a new set of high-end clothes to express his gratitude; For his wife Xu Fengchi, who had been concerned about for half her life, all the words were eventually replaced by a simple "take care".
If things continue like this, it will be considered as a matter of finalization.
But the incident happened: In 1990, Fengchi's current husband Yang Jianquan unfortunately passed away.
As the eldest son, Gong Guangxu and his younger brothers and sisters couldn't bear the elderly mother's deep grief, and even more so that his biological father who was far away in Taiwan was lonely; so he hoped to promote the renewal of Gong Dacai and Xu Fengchi.
When the children wrote to Gong Dacai in Taiwan about this, Gong Dacai did not immediately agree; he first went to the temple to burn incense and pray for blessings, and then, as his relative, he worked with Xu Fengchi to mourn Yang Jianquan for three years.
It was not until 1993 that 79-year-old Gong Dacai returned to his hometown.
This time, in the wedding room solemnly arranged by his children, he reunited with his half-lifelong wife as he wished.
The love story between Gong Dacai and Xu Fengchi also has a perfect ending here.
In this story, I was moved by Gong Dacai's unwavering love, and even more by Yang Jianquan's deep love and friendship; to a certain extent, Xu Fengchi was lucky. In the sad ending of countless women looking forward to their husbands returning home but ending up being forgotten, Xu Fengchi met two good men that are rarely found in this world.
One cares for her for half her life, and the other walks side by side with her... Even the story of three people has never been crowded or troubled; on the contrary, their efforts and gratitude make this story that spans half of her life more precious and moving!
This person is like a rainbow, and you will know that you will meet...
In the era when feelings are gradually materialized, I am glad that I have witnessed this touching story during the shuttle time.
#Telebrity Creation Challenge#
———END————
Other recommendations——
Author: Chu Shi
From the legendary experiences of storms, we will temper the awakening of the world of ordinary life!
original works, plagiarism will be prosecuted;
pictures are from the Internet, and infringement will be deleted immediately!
If you like this article, you might as well like it before leaving~
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-