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Every Monday, it is the time for the 93-year-old Zhou Yinzhi to visit his wife Wu Weilin at Zhejiang Hospital .
The old man clearly remembers that July 1st this year is the 101st anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the 69th wedding anniversary of him and his wife. The two young Communists specially chose the birthday of the Party to write down their life. oath.
In front of the reporter's camera, Wu Weilin carefully took the party flag from Zhou Zhi's hand, with a smile on her face.
Every time he goes to see his wife, Zhou Zhi will get up early, arrange his gray hair, put on a formal navy blue button-down top, and tidy himself up, as if he has returned to his teenage years.
At that time, although he was just an apprentice in a Shanghai photo studio, he was never afraid of danger and engaged in underground revolutionary work.
This is a piece of dusty history.
During the Spring Festival of 2020, my father suffered a sudden cerebral infarction. My daughter Zhou Xiaohong quickly called 120. Four medical staff wanted to use a stretcher to send her father to the ambulance. However, the unconscious Zhou Zhi held the sheets tightly with his skinny hands and refused to leave. He repeatedly repeated "Who betrayed me" and "I'm not going anywhere."
If it hadn't been for this accident, Zhou Xiaohong might never have known about the passionate and crisis-ridden past that her father's generation had experienced, which was buried under the photo studio of Shiliyangchang. Because in Zhou Zhi's view, this seemed to be the mission given to young people at that time. He was just one of the ordinary revolutionaries and "there was no need to talk about it."
Zhou Xiaohong recalled that her father sometimes had difficulty falling asleep when he heard sirens in the early hours of the morning. He recalled that his father especially liked to watch spy movies, such as "The Wave That Never Dies." He recalled that when his father mentioned Shanghai, it was before 1949, "It's so complicated." Very, unsafe" impression... It turned out that it was those years of underground revolution that became the background of my father's life.
In March 1949, on the eve of the liberation of Shanghai, Zhou Zhi joined the Communist Party of China. At that time, 16-year-old Wu Weilin, led by her brother who was an underground party member, was teaching literacy to workers in a workers' night school. In 1951, she and Zhou Zhi met through work.
The love between parents gradually sprouted from the common revolutionary experience and has passed through decades...
He has never been afraid. If he was afraid, he would not do it.
This is a period of time that is buried in old photos. history. In the photo, teenage Zhou Zhi has a shiny slicked back hair and a crisp suit. The 93-year-old man in front of him is energetic, neatly dressed, and his eyes are still bright. "Shanghai people pay attention to how they dress, and they have to look presentable when taking photos." In 1943, 14-year-old Zhou Zhi came to Shanghai from Ningbo, Ningbo, and worked as an apprentice in a photo studio run by his uncle. At the same time, he also stepped into the in the labor movement.
Zhou Zhouzhi when he was young
"At that time, all the seniors around me joined Yiyoushe. At first, they did propaganda work to safeguard the rights and interests of workers and oppose the oppression of capitalists." Zhou Zhi, the youngest in the photo studio, also joined. In his impression, Yiyoushe has people from all walks of life, some organize demonstrations and protest activities, and some organize mass development.
According to the selected collection of Shanghai party history materials of the Communist Party of China, Yiyoushe is a mass amateur social group mainly composed of shop assistants under the leadership of the underground organization of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai. Because of his positive performance, Zhou Zhi became a member of the Photographic Industry Directors Association. Only then did he realize that the Yiyou Society was not only to improve the lives of employees, but also a peripheral organization for the underground party to communicate and unite the masses.
Commemorative photos of the 50th anniversary of the founding of Yiyoushe (the first left in the front row is Zhou Zhi)
In the past two years, Zhou Zhi has traveled to five photo studios in Shanghai. "It's not safe if you stay for a long time and you're easily exposed. There are always meetings and the boss will have objections." Most of the photo studios he settled in were on the outskirts of the city, making it easy to go to the city for publicity and easy to retreat to the countryside. For fear of attracting attention due to the light, the preaching is often conducted in darkness. Once they heard chaotic footsteps or sirens, they quickly dispersed into the surrounding vegetable fields. Sometimes when I wake up the next morning, a few familiar faces disappear around me.
"This work is very dangerous. Many of our comrades were arrested at that time, but I have never been afraid. If I were afraid, I would not do it." Like Zhou Zhi, countless young people are passing on fire in the darkness, trying to illuminate That dark and turbulent era.
She has been connected to the revolution for more than 70 years, and she only recognized him on the hospital bed.
93-year-old Zhou Zhi only has vague memories of most things in his youth, but when we asked him about the time when he joined the party, he rolled his eyes and clearly The answer is March 1949.
On the eve of the liberation of Shanghai, 16-year-old Wu Weilin taught workers literacy in a workers' night school, led by her elder brother, an underground party member. In the photo, Wu Weilin has neat short hair and long, slender eyes. Her comrades remember her as a "tomboy" who was very popular.
The young Wu Weilin
At the end of 1951, Zhou Zhi began to serve as the leader of a working group, and Wu Weilin was a member of the working group. "She was the one who chased me." Speaking of how the two met each other's eyes, several smile lines appeared on the corners of Zhou Zhi's mouth. In Zhou Xiaohong's impression, her mother never hesitated to respect and appreciate her father: "She said that her father was very good at work, active in activities, and handsome, so she quickly found her little sister to go as a matchmaker."
The common revolutionary experience gave the couple an extraordinary tacit understanding. There is a half-open copy of "The Korean War in American Eyes" under the bookcase in the living room. When there is no news on the TV, Zhou Zhi and his wife will sit on the sofa and read. After the eyes degenerate, they shed tears easily. Zhou Xiaohong often saw her father wiping his tears with a tissue while reading.
Before her mother got Alzheimer's disease , Zhou Xiaohong often felt that her mother loved her father more. But when she and her brother proposed sending their mother, who could not control her emotions, to the hospital, they met with almost fierce opposition from her father. When the family had dinner together, his father would always look at the food on the table in a daze, and said for a long time: "Your mother loves crabs the most. She must feel uncomfortable."
Zhou Xiaohong gradually realized that what her parents never said to their children, The passion and bravery that belonged to their era were buried deeper and deeper in the heart of their father because of their mother's illness, just like the 50th anniversary commemorative photo of the founding of Yiyou Club sandwiched in the middle of the album. Only when he goes to the hospital to visit his mother every Monday, rain or shine, and the two old men in wheelchairs hold their wrinkled hands together, will his father regain the desire and vitality to talk.
"My mother doesn't recognize us, she only knows my father." Zhou Xiaohong said helplessly. At this time, her mother would let her and her brother go to work, saying that she wanted to talk to her father alone. "She would drag my father along. hand, said with a smile, "I think we should be together."
A quarter of a popsicle and continuous donations for more than ten years
Zhou Xiaohong remembered that when she was a child, she and her brother were the most obedient children in the entire compound. Because once there is a conflict with other children, the motherâs loud voice will always be accompanied by the pain of being pinched on the ears. âThere are no snacks at home. Only when I have a fever, my mother will buy me a quarter of a stick of red bean popsicles. "Wu Weilin in the
photo album always has short hair, square glasses, a white T-shirt and a long black skirt, "one with dots and one without dots, which she has worn for thirty years." Her father looked gentle. Even if you educate your children, you only need to roll a newspaper into a tube and gently hit the head twice. After the liberation of
, Zhou Yizhi took over the preparation of the East China Film Distribution and Exhibition Company. When Zhou Xiaohong goes to work with her father on duty, she will see the densely written blackboard in her father's office and the pile of small notes on the desktop. "It's so difficult to watch movies in rural areas!" Zhou Zhi likes to watch movies. He remembers the excitement of running several miles to the film exhibition in the next village when he was a child. He also wants more rural children to watch movies, "We make movies The school (now Zhejiang Art School ) just wants to train more projectionists."
Zhou Zhiren, general manager of the Film Distribution and Exhibition Company,
Zhou Xiaohong doesn't understand why her mother is so strict with her children but is always generous and smiling to other children? Why do her parents have so little savings for so many years? Why do they meet every time? During the holidays, they always had endless calls and dumplings sent to them. Why was his father eager to go to Shanghai after the epidemic situation improved? It wasnât until he was sorting out old photos for an interview that Zhou Xiaohong was stuffed in the storage box by his parents. The "special party dues" receipts and donation commemorative certificates show this. When Zhou Zhi was organizing a film distribution and screening company, he selected several key members from the army, and Lao Wang was one of them. His wife was a family member of the army. Wangâs meager salary canât afford the expenses of his familyâs eight children. âWe canât help but we donât need it. "Zhou Zhouzhi doesn't think there's anything special about using one-third of her salary to support the children of her colleagues. Just like the letters Wu Weilin sent to Shanghai every month, she always kept in mind the current situation of her comrades in arms and met those who were in difficulty. I just want to help.
Zhou Zhi does not shy away from talking about death with his children. âIt is a good thing to be buried in the same land with so many comrades after death. "Zhou Zhouzhi is still thinking that while he can still move around, he will go to Shanghai this month to meet old comrades he has not seen for a long time, and to see the places where he once worked and struggled.
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