In September 2014, Fang Fei, a veteran volunteer who cared for Anti-Japanese War , received a call from a man who asked for help finding his mother's ex-husband to fulfill his mother's wish, which led to a unique love. The protagonist of the story is Zhang Shuying. When she first met her husband, she was only 14 years old. She had just graduated from a private school in Fuzhou. My mother arranged for her to go on a blind date. When she heard that she was an officer, she was not very happy. In her impression, the soldiers were very fierce.
However, when she came to the blind date place accompanied by her mother, she was moved.
She had never seen such a beautiful and gentle officer. She was tall and always smiled. When faced with her mother's inquiries, she would answer one by one. She was respectful and humble, and she was not as similar to the image of an officer in her mind.
This officer is called Zhong Chongxin , the major staff officer of the 87th Division of the 71st Army. At that time, he had graduated from Whampoa Military Academy for 4 years, and was 30 years old. The family had three generations of single-handedness, and his mother was anxious to let him get married.
Maybe there is really a love in this world that has always put state affairs first and is unwilling to get married. After seeing Zhang Shuying, he mentioned kinship.
14-year-old Zhang Shuying is still a child no matter how precocious she is. She has received modern education since childhood and loves fashion and wants to wear the popular white wedding dresses nowadays, but due to limited conditions, she can't buy a wedding dress.
Zhong Chongxin bought a white veil and two pairs of fashionable shoes for his little wife. Although 77 years later, Zhang Shuying still remembers clearly that she was wearing a red wedding dress and smiled foolishly in her white veil that night. Her friends all smiled and said: You are so lucky, you met a good man.
Yes! She really met a good man in her life!
Zhong Chongxin does not have the carefreeness of a soldier at all. Instead, he is romantic and delicate in his mind. Perhaps because of the big age difference, he simply raises his wife as his daughter.
After getting married, I handed over all my salary to my little wife. I would accompany my wife to go shopping with me when I have time, buy delicious and fun things for my wife, and I wouldn't let my wife wash clothes. I always said that the military uniform was too thick and my opponent was not good.
He is very kind to his wife, but he is frugal to himself and loves to smoke, but he only buys one pack in a month. Occasionally, when I want to play cards, I will act coquettishly with my little wife.
He often praises his wife, "My sister is so beautiful, she looks good without makeup!" "My sister is so beautiful when wearing blue cheongsam!" This led to Zhang Shuying never put on makeup again, and the most colors of clothes in the closet were blue and blue cheongsams.
is love in the 1930s, and it will always take away a tragedy. Where can the homeland with fire be able to accommodate a pure land?
1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident , the national war of resistance began. On the 7th night of July, Zhong Chongxin hurried back home and told his wife that he was going to the battlefield and went to Shanghai. He said that this was the mission of the soldiers.
At the train station of Changshu , the couple who were about to part with each other silently for a long time, the sound of the flute of the train was long, and he should leave. Zhang Shuying didn't dare to look at her husband's departure back, waved her hand and turned around.
Zhang Shuying, who was sad alone, suddenly felt a heat on her back. Zhong Chongxin walked back at some point, hugged her in his arms, leaned his head against her shoulder, and said softly: "A sister, wait for me in my hometown, wait for me to come back to pick you up!"
Zhang Shuying turned around and looked at her husband with red eyes and cried!
The two never met again.During this period, Zhong Chongxin wrote several letters to his wife, including the longing for her, and the news that his cousin died and his fellow villager died. If he can't come back one day, take good care of himself and do whatever he wants. If you are still young, find a good family to marry, etc., words of advice.
Zhang Shuying said that for a while, he didn't dare to open the letter because it was too sad. In the winter of 1937, the division headquarters received her and her mother-in-law from Wuhan. She passed by Yangzhou and received a call from Zhong Chongxin.
On the phone, Zhong Chongxin kept telling his young wife that he had been promoted and served as the chief of staff of the lieutenant colonel of the 259th Brigade. He took good care of himself at home and came back to see her when he had time. Don’t be afraid!
Zhang Shuying, who has never seen her husband in Wuhan, kept asking about Zhong Chongxin's news. Later, the division commander told her that the 259th Division participated in the Nanjing Defense Battle , and many soldiers were unknown in their lives.
Just like that, this phone call became the last conversation between the couple. In a state of anxiety, Zhang Shuying took her mother-in-law back to her hometown Rongchang . They all believed that Zhong Chongxin would come back to pick them up.
Seven years have passed, and in 1944, Zhang Shuying met her husband's comrades on the street. Only then did she realize that her husband, her lover, died as early as 1937 in the Nanjing Defense War.
The mother-in-law who could not accept this bad news passed away the next year.
Zhang Shuying had to return to her parents' home. Soon, my parents and younger brother went to Taiwan, but Zhang Shuying was reluctant to do so. She said, Chongxin is in Nanjing, and I will guard him for the rest of my life.
It is said that When I was young, don’t meet people who are too stunning, otherwise you will be full of regrets throughout your life.
This sentence is most suitable for Zhang Shuying's mood at this time. She met the best person at the age of 14. Even though this marriage only lasted for two years, the three words Zhong Chongxin were engraved into her bones.
Zhang Shuying, who lives in her fellow villager's home, rejecting others' pursuit again and again until 1949, in order to survive, she married her second husband Li Ziqing.
Life is also a happy life. Both husband and children treat her very well. Her husband's kindness smoothed her pain, but there is always a Zhong Chongxin in her heart.
Zhang Shuying's biggest wish has always been to find Zhong Chongxin's spiritual position and to pay good tribute to her deceased lover, but considering the feelings of her family, she never mentioned this experience.
Until the death of her second husband, all three children had grown up and got married. Zhang Shuying told her about this experience and proposed to find Zhong Chongxin's spiritual position.
Fortunately, the children are all well-educated people. After some ideological struggle, they also admire Uncle Zhong's spirit of dedication to the country. Soon the whole family reached an agreement and would definitely fulfill their mother's wish.
However, in the years of war, there were thousands of people who sacrificed their lives for the country. So long has passed, how can we find a person who has passed away so easily?
In 2014, this old lady who had been looking for her for 77 years, finally received good news.
The youngest son's call for help was responded. The volunteers traveled to several places and finally found out about Zhong Chongxin's spiritual position, which was enshrined in the Taipei Martyrs' Temple where the soldiers who died in the anti-Japanese war.
1 November 22 at 3:20 pm, 93-year-old Zhang Shuying went to Taipei with her helpless efforts, accompanied by volunteer Fangfei and her youngest son Li Changgui, to see her beloved lover. No, to be precise, to see her lover's spiritual position.
At the beginning, the family was worried about her body and was unwilling to let her go. But in her words, I want to see him. I love him for the rest of my life and miss him for the rest of my life. It is worth it to see him with my ashes.
6 days in Taipei, and the old lady stayed in Martyrs' Temple for 26 days. She said that she could spend more time with him!
Perhaps, today we cannot understand Grandma Zhang's obsession. She already has a husband and child who loves her. Why is she still obsessed with that sad past, but this love is so beautiful that it makes people heartbreaking. It reminds us that today's happiness is hard-won and we should know how to cherish the people in front of us.
77, from black hair to white hair, I only paid tribute to the countless heroes who sacrificed for the country and nation during the War of Resistance Against Japan.
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