Written by Wu Zhimin.
Obituary
Zhang Wei (wife of General Peng Shaohui), an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a time-tested and loyal communist fighter, and a retired cadre of the former Division of the Meteorological Research Institute of the General Staff, died at 11:58 on November 30, 2023 in Beijing at the age of 93.
According to Comrade Zhang Wei's last wishes, the funeral was simple and no farewell ceremony was held.
There is a mourning hall at home, and the condolence time is from December 1 to December 5.
On the afternoon of November 30, I saw the obituary of Aunt Zhang Wei's death from the WeChat group, and after being shocked, I received Zhiqiang's **, and after comforting him, I made an appointment to go home on the afternoon of December 1 to mourn.
Because Uncle Peng Shaohui was the leader of the predecessor unit of the 38th Army and the commander of my father's International Division of the Young Communist Party of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and in the 70s of the last century, the two of them were respectively in charge of the foreign affairs work of the People's Liberation Army and the Beijing Military Region.
Peng Zhiqiang is my comrade-in-arms of the 38th Army, and after joining the choir, he was in the same men's small chorus program group. His wife, Yue Zhongqiu, is a good friend of my wife, Zhong Hongjiang. A few days ago, they went to Ningdu, Jiangxi Province to participate in the celebration of the 90 th anniversary of the founding of the International Division of the Young Communist Party. Although I already knew about Aunt Zhang Wei's condition, when the bad news came, I was still very sad in my heart. can't help but think of the past when Aunt Zhang Wei and Uncle Peng Shaohui met and fell in love.
In Peng Shaohui's diary on May 24, 1949, there is such a paragraph:
The troops departed today. In the morning, after Mr. He talked to me, I went to Jinyuan City at 11 o'clock. Huang Zhongxue, chief of the Political Department of the Seventh Army, who was temporarily staying in Jinyuan to deal with the work in the rear, explained the work. After saying goodbye to Zhang Zhenggang and his wife and Zhang Wei, he drove through the Jin Temple and Qingyuan City to Chaijiazhai. ”
Zhang Zhenggang is a clerk of the Taiyuan County Water Conservancy Bureau, and Zhang Wei is his daughter.
In the midsummer of 1949, Taiyuan County was liberated. A unit of the People's Liberation Army lived in Taiyuan County, and what made Zhang Wei even happier was that the minister of this unit, Zhang Deyan, lived in his home. Zhang Wei could see that his parents were as happy as himself. Considering that the army commander Peng Shaohui was still single, Zhang Deyan began to pay attention to the landlord's daughter, Zhang Wei, who was already working in the Taiyuan County Committee of the Communist Party of China.
It was a fiery era, and the masses of the people loved the Communist People's Liberation Army and supported the newly established regime. Young students, in particular, are excited and enthusiastic. Zhang Wei is a simple girl, happy in her heart, all written on her face, expressed in action, and the vitality of youth makes Zhang Wei full of vitality.
One day, Minister Zhang stopped Zhang Wei, who was about to go out, and said, "Zhang Wei, do you want to join the People's Liberation Army?"”
Of course I do!When he heard that he had joined the army, Zhang Wei forgot his shyness and blurted out.
Well, our health school of the Ministry of Health of the Seventh Army is recruiting students, and there are places for girls, so go and sign up!”
Zhang Wei put on a military uniform and became a health soldier in the People's Liberation Army, and soon became the best among the cadets.
Minister Zhang wanted to talk to the landlord and his wife, which was more in line with tradition, but after thinking about it, Zhang Deyan changed his mind and decided to talk to Zhang directly.
Zhang Wei, I would like to introduce you to an old comrade of ours, and if it is suitable, you can get married. Zhang Wei was taken aback!Kind, knowledgeable, and busy with work all day, Minister Zhang, why did he suddenly talk about this!
The person who can be mentioned is Minister Zhang, whom he respects. Zhang Wei rose to the red risk and didn't dare to look at Minister Zhang. Minister Zhang spit out: "The old comrade I mentioned participated in the Long March and is our army commander. ”
Zhang Wei never spoke, nor did he express his position. She didn't know what to say.
The old comrade I'm talking about is not old, 35 years old. You can consider my words, the army commander is commanding the troops to participate in the battle to liberate Taiyuan, and when the battle is over, you will meet and meet, and you have the final say on whether it will be okay or not. ”
The girl Zhang Wei's heart was full, but empty. I want to tell my parents, but what can I say?The Ministry of Health has four couples getting married, and the military commander is coming to attend the wedding. The little correspondent happily conveyed the good news to Sister Zhang Wei.
Peng Shaohui, who was dressed in dust, came, and he sat on Zhang Deyan's bed. A ray of sunshine on a spring afternoon shone obliquely on Peng Shaohui's body. Zhang Wei was called in by Zhang Deyan and said, "This is Commander Peng." Zhang Wei hurriedly raised his hand to salute, and before he could see whether the other party returned the salute, he buried his head deeply. The girl with her head down still saw the person sitting in the sunlight with her peripheral vision. I can't see that this person who was called the army commander by Minister Zhang is an "old" comrade, he is not tall or burly, and he is missing an arm.
Zhang Wei concluded that he would not marry this person. She wanted to run out immediately, but out of politeness, she sat down anyway and didn't say a word. The man said, "You eat sugar!"He pointed to a plate of candy prepared by Minister Zhang on the table.
Zhang Wei smiled in his heart: This is our home, and you are the guest. And so the first meeting ended.
After seeing Zhang Wei, Peng Shaohui was very satisfied, and he decided in his heart that that she was the woman of his life. Although she is still so young, her dignified demeanor shows that she is a sensible and responsible girl. Although he didn't know what the girl was thinking, he felt that as long as he was sincere, he would impress her.
Soon, there was a second meeting. It was arranged by Zhang Deyan, but Zhang Deyan did not come forward.
Peng Shaohui only thought about his own sincerity, and asked Zhang Wei about his Xi, work, and family while letting him eat and drink.
When Peng Shaohui talked about getting married again, Zhang Wei couldn't wait to grab the conversation and said, "I don't want to get married, I want to continue to go to school!"Peng Shaohui smiled, and did not say that he agreed or disagreed.
As soon as Zhang Wei said this, the two of them became relaxed and spoke casually. But most of them are still Peng Shaohui talking, and Zhang Wei is listening. Zhang Wei's gaze swept over the empty sleeve more than once: how did his arm break off?I won't ask this time, he'll tell me later.
Afterwards, Zhang Wei was very strange, how did he know that there would be a next time?At that time, I was full of thoughts that I would not marry him.
Zhang Wei told his parents about the military commander and said, "I'm too short. He is also older, and he has one arm missing. ”
The mother agreed with her daughter: "Since this is the case, I don't think it's appropriate." ”
But his father said something completely different from his mother: "He is short, he is a nobleman, don't you see that he is a handsome man who leads thousands of troops?"When she is older, she will hurt people, and her daughter is honest, and she will not be bullied if she follows him. One arm, that's for the revolution, glorious!The father is the head of the family and the backbone of the family's trust, and he believes so, and his wife and daughter's thoughts can't help but follow him. Zhang Wei was even very grateful to her father, and her father's words made her a floating heart and suddenly settled down. The girl's settled heart was immediately filled with a pair of sparkling eyes on her black and red face, and the figure with the empty sleeve tube was shaking in front of her, and the Hunan dialect was ringing in her ears.
Regarding the issue of age, Peng Shaohui did not want to hide anything from Zhang Wei. The next time they met, Peng Shaohui still told Zhang Wei: "I belong to a horse.""
Zhang Wei was surprised again: Horses?I am also a horse and I am 19 years old. He doesn't look like a man in his 40s!
Zhang was already a cadet at the Seventh Army Health School. She was a soldier, and she already knew the distance between soldiers, and she didn't know how to ask a commander such a question.
Without allowing Zhang Wei to figure out the most basic things, Peng Shaohui led his troops to march to the northwest. Before leaving, Peng Shaohui made a special trip to Zhang Wei's house to say goodbye. Peng Shaohui greeted Zhang Wei's parents very respectfully, and then told them that the troops would march to the northwest to complete the task of liberating the whole of China, and the health school where Zhang Wei was located would also go west with the army. This time, thousands of miles, thousands of miles, it may take a long time, and marrying Zhang Wei may be outside. However, please rest assured, I will not let Zhang Wei suffer, and I will always be good to her.
The dignified leader of an army can make sincere promises to his future father-in-law and mother-in-law like an ordinary son-in-law, which makes Zhang Wei's parents happy and satisfied. What could be more satisfying for parents than having a reliable home for their daughter?
Zhang Wei has been shyly standing beside her parents, but her heart is more excited: her school will also go west with the army, what kind of heat will it be to march and fight!She even wanted to see for herself how the commander commanded the battle. A one-armed military commander rode a horse and a gun across the field, which is a scene only in the book. However, the army commander in front of him was talking to the two old men about getting married, Zhang Wei felt a little ridiculous, getting married on the way to the waris talking about something closely related to Zhang Wei, but Zhang Wei feels as if it is someone else's business.
In any case, in just one month, it is impossible to make two people who have never met a few times want to be together and walk together.
One day, Zhang Wei received a letter from the army commander. After Peng Shaohui finished talking about his situation, he asked Zhang Wei how his Xi was and how his life was. Zhang Wei said, okay, I like this kind of life.
At the end of the letter, he said that he should mingle with other people, and not be special...This is the tone of the command. Zhang Wei pouted, what am I doing special?I'm no different from everyone else, I take the same courses, eat the same food, wear the same clothes, what's so special?Thinking about it, Zhang Wei's face turned red again, he regarded me as his wife!Will his wife be special than others?Zhang Wei couldn't think of anything special about himself.
Reading the simple letter, as if stared at by those sparkling eyes, Zhang Wei turned it over and looked at the letter. The mood is indeed unusual, and this may be a special one. Zhang Wei wrinkled his nose, made a mischievous grimace at the letter, and read it from beginning to end, the font was a little sloppy, but the pen was clear and not difficult to recognize, just like his Wow Wow but not absolutely incomprehensible Hunan dialect. He wrote this letter on the march, to lead the troops, to command the battle, to deal with a lot of things, and to think of finding time to write to me - I don't care what he says. A stream of heat filled her heart - Zhang Wei laid out the paper, and she wanted to write a reply letter to Peng Shaohui in front of her. Shao Hui: When she called him like this in the letter, her face was red and her heart was pounding, but she didn't change.
At this time, Zhang Wei was wearing a well-fitting military uniform, and he was heroic. After the long letter was sent, the girl worked harder in anticipation to study Xi and work, and she did not want to disappoint those sparkling eyes.
The letter is fast to go backwards, the rear has been liberated, but the letter is extremely slow to move forward, and there is a war ahead. He received a letter from Zhang Wei. The letter was written on June 25, and today is July 29. It's really "the beacon fire lasts for three months, and the family letter is worth 10,000 dollars"!Peng Shaohui recorded this very precious letter in his diary that day along with the victory: "...When returning to his home in Baoping Temple, the troops were arranging to set off, and received a letter from Wei. The letter was written on June 25 by the Fenyang Health School....”
Peng Shaohui didn't know that Zhang Wei, who was writing a letter at the Fenyang Health School, had already left Fenyang and was on his way to Xi'an. Zhang Wei's trip was safe and happy, because there was an unstoppable army of the westward expedition ahead. Zhang Wei is familiar with and likes the life of the military school, walking is a soldier on the march, and living is a student in class. The days are fresh every day. She wondered, is this also fate?Otherwise, why would it be so adaptable to the life of the troops?
During his stay in Tianshui, Peng Shaohui sent a report to the organization requesting marriage, and his superiors approved it.
Zhang Wei was taken from Xi'an to Tianshui by a truck from the logistics department.
After his speech, Peng Shaohui announced to everyone: "I invite you to today's dinner, and I have prepared a little wine, first, to celebrate the victory of the Longnan Campaign, and second, to count my wedding wine, I will marry Comrade Zhang Wei!"”
Everyone was jubilant and rushed to congratulate the commander.
With a lot of people and the kind of hot local soju, the simple wedding banquet is extraordinary.
On the bed, Peng Shaohui hugged his wife: "Zhang Wei, you will be transferred to Tianshui without consulting you, you won't be unhappy." Zhang Wei shook his head and nodded again. "Originally, I wanted to wait until the end of the battle, but there was such a gap. I would love to have a home. ”
After more than 20 years of fighting, from Hunan, Jiangxi, Hubei, the Long March, northern Shaanxi, Shanxi, Chahar, Hebei, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Longnan, he finally settled in a place called home, and it was good to have a home. It was a very peculiar feeling. Peng Shaohui slept peacefully.
Zhang Wei couldn't fall asleep for a long time in the sound of thick and even breathing.
It was at that moment that Zhang Wei understood what it meant to be closely related. He was also thinking about what he was thinking. Besides, she likes him to call her over and over again with a unique Hunan accent. It was at that moment that Zhang Wei Xi was used to answering her husband's way of communicating in her heart. She knows what she thinks, her husband knows it in his heart, and he doesn't need to say anything, so she always talks little, but her heart is very steady. That night, Zhang Wei's hand touched her husband's stump arm, and reverence and pity were intertwined in her heart, turned into tenderness, and put it into her fingers, she carefully stroked it on the stump arm...
Writing this, the love affair of the older generation made me cry. ）
In 1950, Peng Shaohui and his wife Zhang Wei.
The Seventh Army on the march to the Great Northwest.
In 1952, Zhang Wei was in the compound of the Northwest Military Region in Lanzhou.
In 1972, in the residence of the right lane of the Ji'an Institute in Beijing, Peng Shaohui and Zhang Wei in the front row, and Peng Zhiqiang, the second from the right in the back row.
In 1976, Peng Shaohui and his wife took a group photo with their in-laws Yue Liduan and his wife, front row from left: Zhang Wei, Peng Shaohui, Yue Liduan, Cao Jing (Mrs. Yue Liduan);Back row, from left: Peng Jingping, Yue Zhongqiu, Peng Zhiqiang, Yue Weimin.
Peng Shaohui (front center), Zhang Wei (front right), Peng Zhiqiang (back right), Yue Zhongqiu (back left).
On the afternoon of April 28, 1978, ** went to the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army to bid farewell to Peng Shaohui's body and express condolences to his relatives.
On the afternoon of April 28, 1978, ** went to the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army to bid farewell to Peng Shaohui's body and express condolences to his relatives.
At 0:53 on April 25, 1978, Peng Shaohui died at the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army at the age of 72.
At 11:58 on November 30, 2023, Zhang Wei passed away at the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army at the age of 93.
Uncle and aunt meet in another world, and there is no pain in heaven!
On the morning of December 1, the leaders of the choir of the descendants of the founding generals of Beijing went to the funeral hall of Aunt Zhang Wei to lay flower baskets and express condolences to relatives.
Wu Zhimin, Zhong Hongjiang, Sun Zhengzheng, Wang Bing, Song Xiaopeng and his wife went to mourn.
On August 5, 2023, a symposium was held in Ningdu, Jiangxi Province to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the International Division of the Young Communist Party. From right: Yue Zhongqiu, Peng Zhiqiang, Wu Zhimin, Zhong Hongjiang.