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One day in May 1994, the sky in Shenyang was drizzling. Standing on the platform of Shenyang Station were officials of the Liaoning Foreign Affairs Office and the Liaoning Taiwan Affairs Office. They were looking anxiously towards Beijing.
Finally, a train from Beijing slowly entered the station. The one who got off the train was a 64-year-old white-haired man. After getting off the train, he looked at the familiar architectural style around him and tears burst out from his eyes.
This old man is Zhang Xueliang's only living son - Zhang Lulin . At this time, 54 years have passed since he last saw every grass and tree in Shenyang.
So, why did General Zhang Xueliang, who had four sons, be left with only Zhang Lulin? Why did Zhang Lulin stay away from his hometown for 54 years? What did he do after returning to his motherland?
In his later years, General Zhang Xueliang said with great regret that he had given black hair three times to send people to black hair, but his children did not have any benefits from him, and the eldest and second brother died because of their own changes.
The words show that the pain of losing a child is hard to let go.
1914, under the management of Zhang Zuolin , the young commander of Northeast Army , Zhang Xueliang married the wealthy daughter Yu Fengzhi . He was a handsome man and a beautiful woman, and was a good match. It was a beautiful conversation at the time. After
, Yu Fengzhi gave birth to a daughter and three sons for Zhang Xueliang, the eldest daughter, Zhang Luying, , the eldest son, Zhang Luxun, , the second son, Zhang Luyu, , and the third son, zhang Luqi.
1927, in a dance party in Peking , Zhang Xueliang met Zhao Yidi, known as Miss Zhao Si, and Zhao Yidi's beauty and agility made Zhang Xueliang obsessed with it.
, and Zhao Yidi was also captured by Zhang Xueliang's graceful demeanor, and the two soon fell in love. 930, Zhao Yidi, who was a lover, gave birth to Zhang Xueliang's fourth son, named Zhang Lulin.
Zhang Xueliang's four-character name Ying, Xun, Qi, and Lin all have the meaning of beautiful jade in ancient Chinese. As a father, Zhang Xueliang hopes that his children have the virtue of beautiful jade and can live a life as nourishing as beautiful jade.
However, God always fails to meet his wishes, and the twists and turns of fate make Zhang Xueliang lose three sons one after another. And God first took away Zhang Xueliang's third son, Zhang Luqi.
Although Zhang Luqi was the youngest among the three brothers at that time, she was the most sensible and polite one.
In the mansion of the Marshal, who was very strict, he did not take up the status of the Prince of the Zhang family as a nobleman, but instead asked his subordinates about their well-being and helped them within his ability.
plus Lu Qi is talented and has a good ability to recite and arithmetic far exceeds that of his two brothers, so Zhang Xueliang and Yu Fengzhi both love this three sons very much.
But unfortunately, Zhang Luqi suffered from tuberculosis in 1929, which was an incurable terminal illness in that era of lack of medicine.
Although Zhang and his wife hired all famous doctors for Lu Qi, their illness is becoming less and less optimistic.
In July of the same year, Zhang Luqi, who was seriously ill and died unfortunately at the age of 10. Zhang Xueliang was in the office of Tianjin at this time. After hearing the bad news, he locked himself in the room and refused to let anyone approach, and cried for a whole day.
Among the three sons, Zhang Xueliang loves the most is the eldest son Zhang Luxun. But the death of the eldest son is the eternal guilt in Zhang Xueliang's heart.
When Zhang Luxun was young, he had mental problems and often spoke to flowers and plants.
Seeing this, Zhang Xueliang was even more pity for him. He not only took care of him at all times, but also invited the best teachers in the Northeast to provide academic guidance.
When Lu Xun grew up, his academic performance was very good. Zhang Xueliang also took advantage of the opportunity of overseas inspection to send him to Oxford University to study.
Zhang Luxun did not disappoint his father's expectations. He graduated from Oxford University with the first grade and became the editor-in-chief of " Times ".
However, after the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang was imprisoned and his mother was far away in the United States. Such a major family change caused Zhang Luxun's mental illness to recur again and was forced to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital for treatment.
942, Yu Fengzhi took Zhang Luxun to the United States and left it beside him to take care of him, but his condition still did not improve much.
One day in 1981, Zhang Luxun, who was chatting with people in the corridor, suddenly turned purple and fell to the ground, never woke up again.
Due to the father's accident, his son died suddenly. This is the eternal pain in Zhang Xueliang's heart.
Not long after the eldest son passed away, in 1986, Zhang Xueliang's second son, Zhang Luyu, also passed away due to lung disease.
At this point, Zhang Lulin is the only one who lives Zhang Xueliang. And this youngest son of Zhang Xueliang has a lot of ups and downs.
914, the young commander of the Northeast Army, Zhang Xueliang, married Yu Fengzhi, a wealthy daughter, and gave birth to a daughter and three sons.
However, God is willing to do something, and God does not give Zhang Xueliang the opportunity to keep his children and grandchildren around. In the turbulent situation, the eldest son Luxun, the second son Luzun, and the third son Luqi all bid farewell to their father one after another and their souls return to the spring platform.
The pain of losing a son has also become a scar that Zhang Xueliang cannot erase in his life. Fortunately, Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi also have a son, Zhang Lulin, so they are not alone in their later years.
But the only youngest son who survived in the world, Zhang Lulin had a tortuous fate. He was separated from his biological parents when he was young and almost couldn't meet and recognize each other in his life.
So, how did Zhang Lulin leave her biological father and mother? What kind of bitterness are there?
In 1927, at a dance party in Peking, Zhang Xueliang met Zhao Yidi and fell in love soon. There was Wang Baochuan for 18 years in ancient times, so Zhao Yidi was Wang Baochuan during the Republic of China.
After Zhang Xueliang returned to the Northeast, Zhao Yidi, who had no name, still refused to do anything and cut off relations with his family. He came to Fengtian alone to find his "hero".
The palace empress Yu Fengzhi could not ignore the debt Zhang Xueliang had caused outside.
But in that special era, she could only swallow her anger under the dogma of women who had to understand the general and take the overall situation into consideration, and allowed Zhao Yidi to stay with Zhang Xueliang as a private secretary.
1930, Zhao Yidi gave birth to a son for Zhang Xueliang, named Zhang Lulin. Yu Fengzhi, who had just experienced the pain of losing his son, loved the child very much, and invested in building a small building for Zhao Yidi to live.
The young Zhang Lulin lived a very warm and happy life under the care of two mothers, but this life did not last long. With his father Zhang Xueliang being imprisoned, his tortuous fate was about to unfold.
1936, the Xi'an Incident broke out, Chiang Kai-shek After the incident was peacefully resolved, he went back on his word and imprisoned Zhang Xueliang. The once prominent Zhang family in Northeast China began a huge change.
Hearing that Zhang Xueliang was imprisoned, Zhao Yidi was anxious and wanted to take the young Zhang Lulin to accompany Zhang Xueliang, but due to many reasons, he could not travel and could only go to Hong Kong to live.
940, Zhang Xueliang was transferred and detained in Yangmingdong, Guizhou. Yangmingdong is located in a mountainous area, humid and stuffy, and there are many mosquitoes. Zhang Xueliang from the Northeast was extremely uncomfortable.
Not only that, he also faces interrogation from the Kuomintang spies every day. Under the dual torture of physical and mentality, General Zhang Xueliang's physical condition is getting worse every day.
Zhao Yidi, who is far away in Hong Kong, decided to go to Guizhou to take care of Zhang Xueliang, but if he wants to go, he cannot take the young Zhang Lulin with him. After all, a ten-year-old child can withstand the harsh conditions of imprisonment.
However, Zhang Lulin cannot ignore her. Who should she entrust her to? Zhao Yidi thought of the old acquaintance of the British Iyager couple.
In the early years, Iyag served as a quartermaster in the Northeast Army. He was very appreciated by Zhang Zuolin and was also familiar with the Zhang family. When Zhang Xueliang was in power, Iyag was even more important.
In 1940, Zhao Yidi and his youngest son Zhang Lulin found the Yiyage couple who settled in the United States. told them about General Zhang Xueliang’s experience and said that he would go to Guizhou to accompany his lover and ask them to help raise Zhang Lulin.
Iyager, who was deeply favored by two generations of the Zhang family, was not only indignant of Chiang Kai-shek's rebellion, but also admired Zhao Yidi's loyalty to Zhang Xueliang, and immediately agreed to help raise Zhang Lulin.
Before leaving, Zhang Lulin held his mother's hand and wailed. Zhao Yidi also burst into tears, but in the end he made up his mind and boarded the ship back to China.
Since then, Zhang Lulin began a foreign country, living under someone else's roof, and being separated from her parents thousands of miles away.
Since Zhang Xueliang was a political prisoner at that time, Zhang Lulin's identity was very dangerous. Before returning to China, Zhao Yidi repeatedly reminded Yiyager and his wife not to reveal Zhang Lulin's true identity.
In order to protect the safety of this child, Yiyager changed Zhang Lulin's name to "Ker," and taught him to learn English. He was not allowed to use Chinese in daily communication. He also asked him to change his words to call Yiyager and his wife parents.
Despite this, Zhang Lulin's appearance characteristics with yellow skin and dark hair are still too eye-catching in the United States. Unidentified people keep coming to ask the Iyagers and his wife where the child came from.
In desperation, Iyager could only pretend to have an quarrel with his wife over this child, claiming that this was his "romantic debt" during his time in China, and then gradually suppressed the suspicious eyes of the outside world.
In order to further ensure Zhang Lulin's safety, after he finished elementary school, the Iyagers and his wife moved their family to a more inclusive and open Los Angeles.
Under the careful care and training of the Iyagers and his wife, Zhang Lulin's academic progress was rapid. was admitted to the California University of Astronautics with excellent results, and after graduation, he joined the California General Administration of Space and became an aerospace expert.
What Zhang Lulin missed the most in his heart, who was growing up, was his parents and hometown far away from him. Every time he dreamed late at night, his tears wet his eyes.
And on the other side of the ocean, this mother-son lovesickness lingers in Zhao Yidi's heart all the time. 946, after Zhang Xueliang was taken to Taiwan, his imprisonment conditions were relatively relaxed and his health gradually improved. Zhao Yidi's longing for his son became more and more popular.
In 1940, in order to take care of his imprisoned lover, General Zhang Xueliang, Zhao Yidi went to the United States and entrusted his young son Zhang Lulin to the Yiyagers and his wife to raise him. Then he returned to Guizhou to accompany Zhang Xueliang.
Zhang Lulin grew up healthy under the careful training of the Iyagers and his wife and became an aerospace expert at the California Space Administration. But the longing for parents and motherland has always lingered in Zhang Lulin's heart.
The mountains and rivers are thousands of miles away, and they cannot stop the mother-son relationship and Zhang Lulin's patriotism. With the relative relaxation of General Zhang Xueliang's imprisonment conditions, Zhang Lulin got the opportunity to meet her mother and returned to her hometown in the Northeast in the 1990s.
So, how did Zhang Lulin and his son meet? What did he do after he set foot on the land of his motherland again?
Zhang Lulin was able to meet her parents again, and Dong Xianguang made great contributions to the help of .
Dong Xianguang was originally sent by Soong Mei-ling to monitor Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi.
However, over the years of getting along, he was not only impressed by the charm of General Zhang Xueliang, but also moved by the deep love between Zhang and Zhao, and became the close friend of Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi.
In 1955, Dong Xianguang went to the United States under the order of the Taiwanese authorities. Before leaving, Zhao Yidi asked him to help find his son Zhang Lulin, and Dong Xianguang agreed immediately.
But in the vast crowd, Zhang Lulin has changed her name and surname, and the long-term English environment has made him forget his mother tongue, so it is not easy to find him.
For this reason, Dong Xianguang went to the United States to inquire about it from multiple sources, and even used his relationship in the US Congress. Then I found out that at an air force base in , , there was a person's experience very similar to the person he was looking for.
Dong Xianguang immediately rushed to California, took a photo of the person, and sent it back to Zhao Yidi.
Although 15 years apart, the middle-aged man in the photo sent by Dong Xianguang has a very similar face to Zhang Xueliang. After several identifications of , Zhao Yidi was so surprised that he screamed out. This person was his son Zhang Lulin!
Through Dong Xianguang's mouth, Zhang Lulin also learned about her parents' situation in Taiwan, and immediately wrote a trust to Dong Xianguang to bring it back.
In 1956, after many lobbying, Zhang Lulin finally obtained the consent of the Taiwanese authorities to come to Taiwan to visit her father and mother. After that, Zhang Lulin and her parents maintained frequent correspondence.
In the letter, General Zhang Xueliang mentioned his longing for his motherland and his hometown in the Northeast many times. I often think about going back and taking a look, then listening to the local accent of the Northeast, and eating food from the Northeast.
This is exactly what Zhang Lulin thought. He left China at the age of 10. His memory of his motherland has long been blurred, but he has never forgotten that he is the descendant of Yan and Huang, and his ancestors among the white mountains and black waters.
Especially after meeting aerospace researchers from China at work, Zhang Lulin became more convinced of her belief in "going home to see you".
In the spring of 1994, a letter sent from Beijing made Zhang Lulin very happy, and the letter invited him to attend the aerospace exhibition held in Beijing in May.
He immediately called his parents, and Zhang Xueliang on the other end of the phone was also happy, asking him to go back to his hometown in Northeast China after attending the event.
When the plane slowly landed at Capital International Airport , Zhang Lulin was still very nervous. He knew too little about China and had been away from here for too long. He was worried that the people here would treat him like an outsider.
But he soon found that he was wrong. The director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau not only came to pick him up the plane in person, but also arranged for him to stay in a four-star hotel. In the air show the next day, he was also allowed to enter the satellite exhibition hall that was not open to the public.
All of this made Zhang Lulin feel the warmth of home, and he was also sincerely pleased for the vigorous development of the motherland's aerospace industry.
After participating in the Beijing Air Show , Zhang Lulin kept running to the Northeast where she was most beloved.
After 54 years, when he stepped onto the black soil in the Northeast again, 64-year-old Zhang Lulin burst into tears. He missed this place so much. The first stop from to the Northeast, he first went to the "Master's Mansion" that had been converted into the General Zhang Xueliang Memorial Hall.
Looking at the grass, trees, tables and chairs here, he was filled with emotion. While rubbing the utensils in Shuai Mansion , he talked about his time in the Shuai Mansion.
Then, Zhang Lulin went to Marshal Lin, which is the location of the tomb of grandfather Zhang Zuolin. Zhang Xueliang often mentioned it in correspondence with Zhang Lulin in previous years.
As a son, what he regrets most is that he failed to go back to sweep the graves and burn incense for his father Zhang Zuolin.
Zhang Lulin kept his father's regret in mind. This time he returned to the Northeast, he took pictures of the grass and trees of Marshal Lin , and planned to take it back to Zhang Xueliang to see it, and he also squandered his wish.
In this trip to the northeast, Zhang Lulin not only visited her old place again, but also met many old friends. As soon as he learned that Zhang Lulin was back, many old subordinates of the Northeast Army and Zhang Xueliang's old relatives and friends came to meet him.
They ate simple Northeast cuisine together, telling each other about the past and current situation, with a smile from the bottom of their hearts on their faces. After returning to the United States, Zhang Lulin told Zhang Xueliang what he saw and heard in the Northeast.
Zhang Xueliang was deeply moved and wrote two sentences "The crane dreams of returning to the nest, but the clouds have no heart to come out of the mountains" and sent them to the old subordinates of the Northeast Army back then, which shows General Zhang Xueliang's attachment to his hometown.
In fact, in that turbulent era, many people, like Zhang Lulin, were forced to wander in a foreign country. Some were lucky enough to return to their hometown, but more people would never come back.
However, no matter where these lives are or where they are, what they dream of is the terrifying land of the Eastern China.
Because, like us, they have yellow skin and dark hair, and like us, their bodies are filled with yellow blood, and like us, they have a red Chinese heart.
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