The definition of "revolution" is "change the destiny", but that is for most people. For the red female spy Huang Mulan , her revolution is precisely "obedience" -
Huang Mulan
1942, Huang Mulan cried to her "online" Zhou Enlai in Chongqing and told her husband Chen Zhigao's affair. It turned out that in the tenth year of his marriage to her, his first college love Peng Qingxiu rekindled. At this time, they had given birth to three children.
Huang Mulan was 35 years old at this time. Because of her proper maintenance, she still looks young and beautiful. How could she be willing to live with her cheating husband like this?
The unwilling Huang Mulan once applied to work in Yan'an shortly after knowing that her husband had cheated: she no longer wanted to stay in Chongqing to continue her spy work, and she wanted to leave her husband completely.
After Huang Mulan cried, Zhou Enlai expressed sympathy for her. But his next words made her give up. He said:
"We Communist Party members should be more focused and have a higher and farther perspective. Even if the democrats have had such a romance, sometimes they are probably just for the needs of social work and act like a show. In this regard, they should not be demanding from non-party people... You must be broader, put the overall situation first, and don't care about these small things in life."
Zhou Enlai
Huang Mulan wiped away his tears and murmured involuntarily. She felt a little wronged. Over the past decade, she has made many sacrifices for the "big picture".
Huang Mulan was actually a sacrifice to marry Chen Zhigao. This man was not the type she liked. The reason why she agreed to his proposal was all for "obedience".
Before marrying Chen Zhigao, Huang Mulan had three marriages. Her first marriage was arranged by her parents, and her husband was a second-generation ancestor who only knew how to smoke opium and beat maids. After escaping that marriage, she married the revolutionary Wan Xiyan. Shortly after their son was born, Wan Xiyan died. Afterwards, for the sake of revolutionary cause, she reluctantly sent her son back to her husband's hometown and went to work in the central government.
Huang Mulan's third husband is also a revolutionary, and they met in Wuhan. After marriage, the couple fell in love with each other, but the marriage in the revolutionary era was always ill-fated. Shortly after the marriage, He Chang was transferred to the Central Soviet Area, and the two were forced to divorce.
Before He Chang was about to be transferred, Huang Mulan wanted to go with her. She had lost her second husband forever because of "life separation". She was afraid that after sending He Chang away and their son, her tragedy fate would be repeated again.
Huang Mulan, who didn't want to endure the separation of life and death, cried for three days. He Chang's persuasion failed, so he had to find Huang Mulan's friends Wu Defeng and Qi Yuande to do ideological work. They advised her to "obey" the organization's arrangements and stay in Shanghai because there was a major task waiting for her: to rescue the arrested revolutionary patriots.
On one side is love and righteousness. Huang Mulan finally wiped away her tears and chose "righteousness". And the subsequent ending was as expected: she and He Chang separated forever.
He Chang
After he separated from He Chang, Huang Mulan's first task was to rescue Guan Xiangying, the early military leader of the Communist Party of China. What she never expected was that it was during the process of performing this mission that she once again "obeyed" the arrangements, and this time she would sacrifice her marriage.
In order to rescue Guan Xiangying, the young and beautiful Huang Mulan dressed up as a noble lady. She found Chen Zhigao, who was a lawyer in the French Concession in Shanghai, and asked him to come forward to participate in the rescue. Chen Zhigao's father Chen Qishou is the president of the Criminal Court of the Shanghai French Concession, a master of Shanghai legal circles, and a life-saving "benefactor" of Shanghai Beach tycoon Huang Jinrong .
Huang Mulan found Chen Zhigao, which was almost equivalent to opening up the Ren and Du meridians. Sure enough, at her request, Chen Zhigao helped him rescue Guan Xiangying very successfully.
During the rescue process, Chen Zhigao developed a good impression of Huang Mulan and he began to pursue an offensive against her. At this time, Huang Mulan had always been concerned about her third husband He Chang and did not want to have a close relationship with him.
However, everything that happens next will change her mind.
Young Huang Mulan
June 0June just June shortly after Huang Mulan rescued Xiang Ying, she and Chen Zhigao made an appointment to watch a movie at the Da Guangming Cinema . While the two were drinking coffee in a nearby cafe, a French translator from the concession authorities revealed in a chat: They offered a reward of 100,000 yuan and arrested a big leader of the Communist Party of China, a Hubei native, with a mouthful of gold teeth, a rosacea nose, and only 9 fingers.
Huang Mulan raised her ears after hearing this, and the following words made her nervous. The translator said: This person has no backbone and has not used any punishment, so he has given everything.
Huang Mulan quickly determined based on the information provided by French translation: this person is Xiang Zhongfa, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee.
"If this person betrays, the underground party of the Communist Party of China, including Zhou Enlai and others, will be taken away!" Huang Mulan's mind was spinning rapidly, and she had to find a way as soon as possible.
After the French translator left, Huang Mulan pretended to have a headache and asked Chen Zhigao to send him home. After returning home, she quickly informed Pan Hannian of the important news.
On the night of learning the news, Zhou Enlai, Li Fuchun, Cai Chang and many comrades from the Central Committee quickly completed the transfer. When Xiang Zhongfa brought the people from the police station to Zhou Enlai and others' residence, he naturally lost his life.
After Huang Mulan made great contributions, the central government keenly realized that Chen Zhigao is of great significance to the current revolution. So, after learning that Chen Zhigao was proposing to Huang Mulan, the central leader Liu Bochui said to her hesitant:
"After you and Chen Zhigao formed a family, it will be more conducive to protecting your identity, and it is very likely to open up a new situation. This is definitely a work need. I will definitely prove to the central government that this is not your unorganized behavior, but completely obeying the needs of work. ... For Comrade He Chang, in the future we will explain the reasons to him. He Chang is a very enlightened person, and he will never blame you."
With Liu Bochui's encouragement, Huang Mulan finally agreed to Chen Zhigao's proposal. When she got married, because she was always thinking about Revolution and He Chang, she and Chen Zhigao made three agreements: first, support her in rescuing the arrested comrades; second, do not interfere with each other's personal actions after marriage; third, allow her to recognize her ex-husband's orphan in the future.
The year when we got married, Huang Mulan once again obeyed the organization's arrangements: shed the party and appeared and acted as a democrat in .
Huang Mulan and Chen Zhigao Wedding
As Liu Bochui said, after marrying Chen Zhigao, her underground work was opened up a whole new situation. She successfully relied on her husband's relationship and rescued many comrades in the party.
Shortly after marriage, Huang Mulan learned about He Chang's death, but she was so sad that she could only swallow her sadness. After He Chang's death, she poured all her feelings into Chen Zhigao. But, when she was wholeheartedly treating him and giving birth to children for him one after another, he cheated on him.
How could Huang Mulan bear the sudden betrayal of the person who obeyed you and spoiled you to the core in the past? When she thought of all the things between them, her heart was as if she was shattered. At this time, "escape" has become an almost instinctive choice.
But Huang Mulan is not an ordinary woman after all, she is an organized revolutionary. Therefore, her every move must be approved by the organization.
After listening to her crying, Zhou Enlai said, "Put the overall situation first", which made her completely see the reality: not only can she not divorce, but she must also continue to play the role of "Chen Zhigao's wife".
For the following years, Huang Mulan has been enduring her personal feelings under the needs of the revolution. She and Chen Zhigao have always been in harmony. Such days are nothing to Chen Zhigao, who already has a new love, but for Huang Mulan, they live like a year.
Huang Mulan and Chen Zhigao
Shortly after the founding of New China , Chen Zhigao was dissatisfied with the position given to him by the new regime: he applied for it, hoping to start another career overseas. Considering that overseas development and profit for the country can break the Western blockade, the organization is interested in sending Huang Mulan to go abroad with her husband.But this time Huang Mulan finally stopped obeying: she refused.
In May 1950, Chen Zhigao left Shanghai and settled in Hong Kong with his first love. Since then, Huang Mulan and Chen Zhigao have never met again.
Chen Zhigao, Huang Mulan and his son and three daughters' family photo
After sending Chen Zhigao away, Huang Mulan ended the aftermath of Tongyi Company jointly established by her and Chen Zhigao, which is also a conclusion she drew for their marriage. She is very sure: from now on, she will enter a new life. Everything in her new life will be decided by her.
The reality is not as Huang Mulan thought. The political storm did not let her go. She had complicated experiences and was imprisoned several times because of the "Pan Hannian case". After being released from prison, she has been working hard to rehabilitate herself. That's right, she wants to get back everything that should belong to her. Her efforts were not in vain. In 1980, she was rehabilitated... After the rehabilitation, Huang Mulan focused all her attention on her children and grandchildren. Her greatest happiness was that she often counted "how many good things are there in her family this year". Most of these "good things" are the success of her children and grandchildren or even a little progress for her younger generations.
Occasionally, Huang Mulan will also talk about her marriage with her descendants. Her descendants all know that it is He Chang who she regards as true love. Her grandchildren always thought: If it weren't for the revolution, she and He Chang would have been the happiest couple.
On February 7, 2017, Huang Mulan passed away in Hangzhou , Zhejiang, at the age of 110. When she left, there was no sadness and joy on her face.
Later generations of researchers have summarized Huang Mulan's life as "obeying life". They believe that Huang Mulan's obedience is almost at heart.
However, everyone who truly knows her life knows that "obedience" is not her nature. Like the progressive women of her contemporaries, she always has "rebellion" in her heart, and she has not always "obeyed", and her "obedience" is limited to the revolutionary era.
So, her obedience was actually sacrifice, not nature, her early obedience and later resistance were all proved that she was a true revolutionary.