In April 1930, Jiang Huaijin, a medical officer stationed in Longyan, Fujian Province, suddenly received an urgent letter one day.
The letter said: "Comrade Jiang, a pregnant woman will go to your Red Army hospital to give birth in the next few days. Please make sure to make preparations and make sure there are no mistakes."
After reading this letter, Jiang Huaijin frowned. Come on, this person is definitely not an ordinary person.
Of course, no matter what the mother's identity is, the hospital will take good care of her. After all, as a doctor, your job is to treat illnesses and save lives.
In order to better complete the tasks assigned by his superiors, Jiang Huaijin quickly asked the staff to clean up a ward and prepare for the arrival of the mother.
A few days later, two Red Army soldiers on horseback came, which attracted people's attention.
Because one of them turned out to be a pregnant woman, the person whom Secretary Deng asked to take care of in the letter - Chairman Mao's wife He Zizhen, and the other was Chairman Mao.
With the sound of "Wow", Chairman Mao was delighted to receive a daughter of gold.
The birth of his daughter made Chairman Mao, who was worried about the future of the Chinese revolution, feel much better. He regarded her as the apple of his eye and named her Mao Jinhua.
He Zizhen looked at her infant daughter growing up day by day, feeling full of joy but also a little anxious at the same time. She knew that she would have to live a cosmopolitan life for a long time from now on, but what about her children?
Not long after Mao Jinhua was born, the Red Fourth Army led by Chairman Mao and Zhu De suffered from the "Three Provinces Encirclement and Suppression" launched by enemy forces from Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong respectively.
Facing the menacing enemy, the Red Army will certainly not be timid. After careful consideration, the organization decided to engage in guerrilla warfare with the enemy..
But if you want to fight guerrilla warfare, the troops will inevitably move or be chased and intercepted by the enemy. In this case, it will definitely be very dangerous if you bring a child with you.
In fact, during the marching and fighting years, many Red Army soldiers gave birth to children. For the safety of the children, some sent them back to their hometowns. Those who couldn't be sent back could only be fostered in the homes of local villagers. When conditions allowed, they would be sent back to their hometowns. Bring the child back.
For the sake of Mao Jinhua's safety, Chairman Mao and He Zizhen, after careful consideration, decided to temporarily leave the child to be raised by trustworthy villagers nearby. When they have the opportunity to take him back to them in the future, He Zizhen handed over the matter to Deng Ziahui.
After receiving the commission, Deng Zihui did not dare to waste a moment and quickly searched for suitable candidates in nearby villages. After much deliberation, he recommended shoemaker Weng Qinghe and his family.
Deng Zihui met Weng Qinghe when he was participating in the peasant movement. Compared with others, Weng Qinghe was worthy of trust.
Moreover, Mao Jinhua, who was not yet one month old at the time, still needed breastfeeding. It happened that Weng Qinghe's wife, Aunt Lin, had just given birth and could provide breast milk. So from many perspectives, Weng Qinghe is undoubtedly the best candidate.
In this way, Chairman Mao and He Zizhen endured the reluctance in their hearts and handed their infant daughter to Weng Qinghe, and gave him some money as a thank you.
Looking at He Zizhen's uncomfortable look, Chairman Mao comforted him: "The revolution will soon be victorious. By then we will take the children back to us. The separation now is only temporary."
But what they didn't know was that this A brief separation will eventually become an eternal separation.
So what happened to Mao Jinhua after she was given to Weng Qinghe to raise, so that her family could no longer be reunited?
Mao Jinhua first came to Weng Qinghe's house and cried loudly from time to time. After all, she was just a baby at that time. It would definitely take time to adapt to a strange environment after leaving her parents.
Fortunately, Aunt Lin had given birth and raised children and knew how to take care of children. However, the family was not very wealthy at that time and could barely make ends meet, so if the two children were breastfeeding together, Aunt Lin's milk would always be slightly insufficient.
But after all, the Red Army entrusted the children to themselves. As long as they had something to eat, they could not starve the children. So when the breast milk was not enough, Aunt Lin would feed the two children mixed with rice cereal.
Just like that, under Aunt Lin's careful care, Mao Jinhua gradually adapted to this environment. Not only did she no longer cry as she did when she first arrived, she also let out bursts of giggles from time to time, which made people happy to watch.
However, unlike his wife Aunt Lin, Weng Qinghe did not focus on the food and clothing of the child at home. Instead, he spent all day thinking about how to send her away and where to send her.
Because Weng Qinghe was worried that if people from the Kuomintang came one day and found that the children of the Red Army were being raised in his home, wouldn't they be implicated? If they lost their lives again, he would break out in a cold sweat every time he thought about it.
One day when my wife Aunt Lin was holding Mao Jinhua in her arms and breastfeeding, Weng Qinghe came into the house in a panic and said anxiously: "No, I heard that the Kuomintang is coming to our place. You should pack up quickly. Send this baby away."
Upon hearing this, Aunt Lin hugged Mao Jinhua tightly, "No, if you send this baby away, how will you explain it to her parents when they come to ask for her, let alone this child? Are you willing to stay with us for so long? "
"Oh, I can't control that much!" He hugged Mao Jinhua and secretly handed her over to a man named Weng Gu, regardless of her crying. raised by people.
Since then, except for Weng Qinghe, everything about Mao Jinhua’s whereabouts has become a mystery...
On the other side, Chairman Mao and He Zizhen, Mao Jinhua’s parents, are always concerned about their daughter who is fostered in a different place.
So when the Red Army conquered Longyan again in April 1932, Chairman Mao wanted to see his daughter Mao Jinhua immediately.
But he had no choice but to be busy with official duties, so he could only entrust his brother Mao Zemin to go to Weng Qinghe's house to see his daughter.
Under the guidance of local officials, Mao Zemin successfully found Weng Qinghe's home.
After meeting Weng Qinghe, Mao Zemin followed his brother Chairman Mao's instructions and first gave him 150 yuan ocean as the cost of raising the child for so many years, and then asked to see the child.
Weng Qinghe felt angry when he heard this. Mao Jinhua had been sent away by him a long time ago, so he didn't know where she was now.
But if he fully explained what he had done back then, he would probably be punished, so in desperation, he made up a story to show that Mao Jinhua died of a serious illness not long after he was sent there. .
After hearing the news that his niece had died in infancy, Mao Zemin was stunned for a moment. Why did such a good child die in infancy? When I think that my eldest brother is still thinking about this child, I don't know how to explain it when I go back.
But Mao Zemin did not know that his niece Mao Jinhua was not actually dead, but had been adopted by different people many times.
After He Zizhen heard the news that her daughter had died, she was heartbroken. She couldn't believe how the daughter who was once so lovely in her arms died after leaving her.
But at that time, He Zizhen considered that the revolution had not yet succeeded, so she could only suppress her inner doubts first, thinking that when the situation stabilized in the future, she would investigate whether her daughter Mao Jinhua was really no longer alive.
After all, the situation at that time was special. He Zizhen knew that there were many ordinary people who had adopted Red Army children. In order not to implicate herself, she lied about the child having died or giving it to others for adoption. She firmly believed that this was the case with her own child.
Chairman Mao looked at his wife's persistence and chose to believe that his daughter was still alive. Therefore, over the years, the organization has never given up the search for Golden Flower.
Weng Qinghe never let go even when the organization came to confirm whether Mao Jinhua was really dead.
It was not until 1963 that Wu Chaofang, a cadre in Longyan area, received a letter from Yang Yuehua looking for relatives.
wrote in the letter: "I am a person who has lost my biological parents for more than 30 years... According to my adoptive mother's memories, when my adoptive father handed me over to her, he said that I was a descendant of the Red Army, but he was forced to The situation at that time could only foster me in Weng Qinghe's home, but Weng Qinghe was afraid of implicating himself, so he sent me out. After several changes, I ended up at my current adoptive father's home..."
Wu Chaofang read this letter I was overjoyed because Deng Zihui had repeatedly asked Longyan to pay more attention to the search for Chairman Mao's eldest daughter Mao Jinhua.
In the letter written by the person named "Yang Yuehua", there are many important clues that are consistent with the Golden Flower they are looking for.
On January 17, 1964, in order to further verify Yang Yuehua's true identity, the local county committee of Longyan gathered Yang Yuehua, her adoptive mother Qiu Lanzai, her aunt Zheng Qiudi, and Weng Qinghe and his wife and other related personnel to prepare for a On-site verification meeting.
At the meeting, Weng Qinghe admitted for the first time that Mao Jinhua was not dead, but was put up for adoption by him due to the situation at the time.
Later, based on the memories of people present about Yang Yuehua’s adoption process, she was probably Mao Jinhua.
Shortly after Mao Jinhua was given to Weng Gu, she was given to a Kuomintang soldier named Zhang Xianzhi as a daughter. However, because his wife died later, he was so grief-stricken that he had no energy to raise Mao Jinhua.
So he entrusted Mao Jinhua to a man named Qiu Yingsong. It happened that his wife Qiu Lanzai liked girls very much, so he gave her a new name, Yang Yuehua. The reason why she took the surname Yang was to commemorate her late husband (Qiu Yingsong was her second husband).
When things progressed to this point, Yang Yuehua's path to recognizing her relatives became clear.
But just when Yang Yuehua was about to successfully recognize her marriage, Weng Qinghe went back on her word again. He said that he was confused and what he said yesterday was actually not true. The child who was fostered in his home died of illness soon after.
On the side, Weng Qinghe’s wife Aunt Lin said that the child did not die but was given away by him.
Faced with the completely opposite statements from the couple, the investigation and evidence collection work reached a deadlock, and they had no choice but to put it on hold temporarily.
Time flies to 1971. Due to the arrival of Luo Wanchang, an old Red Army soldier, Yang Yuehua's identity verification is once again put on the agenda.
Because after Luo Wanchang returned to Longyan, he heard some news that Yang Yuehua might be Mao Jinhua, so he reported this matter to his old superior, Mao Jinhua's uncle He Minxue.
He Minxue was very excited after learning the news and quickly reported it to Premier Zhou. Although Premier Zhou was in poor health at the time, he was still very concerned about the matter and hurriedly sent He Zizhen's sister He Yi's daughter-in-law Zhou Jianxia to verify the authenticity.
In this way, Zhou Jianxia arrived at Longyan with the verification information provided by He Zizhen that Jinhua had a large mole on the sole of her right foot and two small moles on her knees.
As a result, Yang Yuehua matched the information about the physical characteristics provided by He Zizhen. Coupled with the previous investigation of her adoption process, Zhou Jianxia felt that the person in front of her was probably Mao Jinhua.
However, it is very regrettable that due to various reasons, Chairman Mao and He Zizhen were never able to see Yang Yuehua in person to confirm whether she was Mao Jinhua back then.
Although her life experience was full of ups and downs, she was lucky enough to be married to a good husband. They had a very good relationship over the years, almost never quarreling, and they had six children.
Several of Yang Yuehua's children are also doing ordinary jobs, some in printing factories and some in cigarette factories. Although they are not rich, they live a comfortable life.
Although Yang Yuehua's true identity was later confirmed, she never thought of "going through the back door" to arrange good jobs for her children.
Although Yang Yuehua did not grow up beside her biological parents, she inherited the excellent genes in their bones and relied on her own efforts to strive for everything, including self-esteem and self-love.
When the organization asked her whether she wanted to change her real name to "Mao Jinhua", Yang Yuehua smiled and shook her head, because she felt that as long as she knew it in her heart, no matter what her name was, it would not change the fact who her parents were. .
And from beginning to end, Yang Yuehua only wanted to meet her biological parents. She never thought about using her identity to gain any benefits, so after clarifying her identity in the organization, she had no other requirements.
Later, even though Yang Yuehua retired, she still contributed her strength to the people's cause and continued to shine. People can't help but sigh that she is worthy of being a descendant of a great man.
. END .
[Text | Bingtang]
[Editor | Daniel Li]
[Typesetting | Drizzle]
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