At the end of 1916, a farmer surnamed Chen in Liushupu, Xiangxiang County, Hunan Province, welcomed the groom, and just as the family was happily pasting couplets, setting off firecrackers, and inviting guests, the groom suddenly disappeared.
While the family was looking for the groom, the gentleman of the school told his mother that her son, Chen Geng, had joined the army and joined the army. Eleven years later, Chen Geng has become the commander of the special service battalion of the National Revolutionary Army.
In 1927, he wrote a letter home, and Tan Shiming next to him couldn't hold it anymore, he wanted to follow his eldest brother to become a soldier, and his wife okra fully supported his idea.
So, Tan Shiming wrote a letter to his eldest brother Chen Geng to express his wishes. And this Tan Shiming is the future general Tan Zheng. Tan Zheng and Chen Geng are not only close comrades-in-arms and comrades, they also have a special kinship, they are Uncle Lang.
In 1903, in a small mountain village in Xiangxiang, Hunan, the birth of a baby boy brought new vitality to the family, and the family named him Chen Shukang, which was later Chen Geng.
Six years later, Okra of the Tan family gave birth to a baby girl, and she later became Tan Zheng's wife. The Tan family is a well-known local family, and his father, Tan Runqu, is a local teacher.
Chen Geng's grandfather was a general of Zeng Guofan, and later returned home from the army and ran some family businesses. The Tan family and the Chen family are right. At the age of six, Tan Shiming was sent to study in the Mongolian Pavilion, but it didn't take long for it to become a primary school.
Tan Shiming went to Qixingqiao National Primary School, and Chen Shukang also came to Tan's house to study. The two became close friends. Tan Shiming helped Chen Shukang practice writing, and Shukang taught Tan Shiming fist and foot kung fu, and this happy time lasted for three years.
Shu Kang went to the county's Dongshan High School, but Tan Shiming failed to do so because of his father's opposition. As a teacher in an old private school, Tan's father had a repulsive attitude towards the new way of education, which also affected Tan Shiming.
Although the Tan family is a scholarly family, Tan Shiming does not want to go to the new-style school, and the Four Books and Five Classics have not yet been read.
Tan Run District ran around to inquire, and by chance found an unsealed private school near Chen's house, so he sent his eldest son to Chen Yihuai's house to study. When Tan Run and Tan Shiming came to visit Chen's house, the door was opened by a seven or eight-year-old girl okra, and they hit it off at first sight.
Chen Shukang and Tan Shiming soon became friends, and the Chen family was also very affectionate to Tan Shiming. The Chen family is different from the Tan family, they do not have the shackles of feudal etiquette, nor do they have the dullness and rigidity of scholars.
Chen Shukang's grandparents are very amiable, often with the children, and will teach them martial arts, and the family is happy.
One day, Tan Shiming asked his grandfather why he came back from the Hunan army, and his grandfather told him that the Hunan army was fighting a peasant rebel army, and he regretted working for the corrupt Manchu emperor, so he resigned and returned to his hometown.
This made Tan Shiming worship his grandfather even more. The days in the Chen family were the happiest time for Tan Shiming when he was a teenager, and it also laid a solid foundation for his future development.
Here, they don't have so many rules and regulations, especially when Chen Shaochun went home to tell them about the uprising and Yuan Shikai's ** behavior, which had a profound impact on Chen Tan and the others.
The relationship between Seima and Okra was deeply rooted as early as their youth. At that time, Okra was a warm reception to Shimei, and they spent countless boring and tedious days together.
Although the world name was in the Chen family, okra also became a part of his life, she helped him clean his room, play with him, and listen to him talk about state affairs. This kind of deep friendship also allows other family members to see their feelings.
As okra grows older, their relationship becomes more intimate and even love. Although they were shy in the face of this feeling, their elder brother Chen Shukang saw the tacit understanding between them and the temperament of a natural pair.
This kind of simple and pure love is enviable.
Before leaving, Tan Shiming said goodbye to his grandfather and okra affectionately, and his grandfather Chen Yihuai expressed his deep love to him and promised to send him to Dongshan Higher School for further study.
When Tan Shiming returned home, he expressed his yearning for Dongshan Higher School to his father and prepared relevant learning materials, but his father did not agree to his request due to family difficulties and fear of new knowledge.
Although Tan Shiming was helpless, he did not give up his dream, and he decided to spend two years learning relevant knowledge in preparation for going to Dongshan Higher School.
Okra knows Tan Shiming's intentions well, she has been actively looking for information about Dongshan Academy, and at the same time, Chen Shukang has left home to join the army, and before leaving, he also asked his father's friends to help Tan Shiming enter Dongshan Academy.
* shows the contents of the New Youth Magazine, which describes the upsurge of the workers' and peasants' movement and the positive response of the Dongshan School. In this process, Tan Shiming, a nerd in everyone's eyes, also showed a high degree of enthusiasm.
His experience at Dongshan Academy had a profound impact on his life and made him unforgettable for the rest of his life. He wrote in his autobiography: "The activities I participated in in the Dongshan School where Chen Geng and others studied were very inspiring to my ideological transformation, and from this time on, I began to have democratic scientific ideas and patriotic and anti-imperialist thoughts.
All this made me mentally prepared for the revolution later. In 1926, Tan Shiming graduated from Dongshan School and returned home, and his father, Tan Runqu, was happy that he was able to finish his studies, get married, and settle down at home.
However, Tan Shiming's heart yearns for revolution. His father disagreed with his decision, and he seemed to have no way to serve the country. The only one who could help him was his friend Chen Geng.
During their studies at Dongshan Academy, they exchanged letters, and Chen Geng encouraged Tan Shiming to devote himself to the revolutionary struggle.
Chen Geng's uncle's words deeply inspired Tan Shiming. After consulting with his wife, he decided to follow the path of Chen Geng. Although Okra knows that her husband is not here, she still wants him to do what she loves.
After they discussed, they wrote a letter to Chen Geng, and Tan Shiming also began to wait for Chen Geng's reply while teaching. At this time, Tan Shiming saw the news of the "National ** Northern Expedition Declaration", and he secretly took it home to show his wife.
Both of them believed that there must be Chen Geng in the Northern Expeditionary Army. As long as Chen Geng really returned to his hometown, Tan Shiming would follow him, and waited until a few months later to expect Chen Geng's reply.
However, the reason why Chen Geng did not reply to the letter for a long time was that he went to the Soviet Union to study. After half a year of study, he returned to China and served as the commander of the special service battalion in the Eighth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, in Wuhan.
Picture "The Great Cause of the Army" Tan Zheng stills Tan Shiming received a letter from his eldest brother, the husband and wife were very happy, okra asked her husband to quickly reply to her eldest brother, telling him that he was going to be a Northern Expeditionary Army.
Fourth sister, if I leave, you. Okra comforted her husband and supported her husband's choice. The letter was sent, and soon after, I finally received a reply from Chen Geng from Wuhan, which said: "In a few days, an adjutant surnamed Zou of the National Revolutionary Army will take people to Xiangxiang to recruit new soldiers, and by the way, he will take the name of the world and go to Wuhan to join the pen." ”
Tan Shiming's wish for many years finally came true, but he never saw his wife again. One day in March, two soldiers came to the door of Tan's house, and these two people came to pick up Tan Shiming to be a soldier.
When Tan Runqu heard this, he was furious, no matter what his father said or how he scolded him, he was silent, only blamed all the sins on Chen Geng, and ran to Chen's house in one breath, blaming Chen Shaochun for teaching his son no way, not only Chen Shukang went to be a soldier himself, but also seduced his son, how could Chen Shaochun not know the intention of his in-laws, how could he not know the melancholy in his son-in-law's heart.
The person who knows Tan Shiming best is not his father, but his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Chen Shaochun has long written him into the Chen family tree. Chen Shaochun persuaded Tan Run District that when the child is older, he will have his own ideas, and his parents can't control it.
These boys and daughters are changing their thoughts, and their hearts are bigger than ours. It's not a bad thing that they want to go out and fight and break through. The children can't go our way, so let them go out! ”
Finally said that Tan Run District, Tan Shiming can finally show his ambitions, he quit his job as a primary school teacher, left his homeland, and took the most critical step on the road of his life.
In March, Tan Shiming left home and began his journey to pursue his dreams. His father-in-law and mother-in-law came to see him off early, and his wife okra gave him a ride after a ride, and the husband and wife kept asking them, but they didn't expect this to be a farewell.
Tan Zheng changed his name to Tan Zheng in Wuhan and wrote to his wife to tell her that he worked as a clerk in Chen Geng's barracks, and Chen Geng was very concerned about okra. He now practices every day but still misses his wife.
After Tan Zheng left, Okra was under great pressure at home, taking care of her younger siblings and taking care of household chores. The only thing that comforted her was that she could read the letters written to her by Tan Zheng at night, and she held them to her chest, as if Tan Zheng was by her side to comfort her.
Tan Zheng followed Chen Geng to leave the National Revolutionary Army and threw himself into the battles of the Nanchang Uprising and the Autumn Harvest Uprising, making great contributions to the founding of the People's Army.
During the Long March, Chen Geng served as the head of the Red Army cadre regiment, led the team to rush across the Jinsha River, seized the vanguard, took the lead in crossing the river and crossed the Jiajin Mountain, paving the way for the victory of the Red Army.
Tan Zheng served as the director of the Political Department of the 1st Red Division in the early days of the Long March, constantly broke through the defense line, and always took the lead in important battles such as advancing to Jiahe, forcibly crossing the Xiangjiang River, crossing the Chishui River four times, and forcibly crossing the Dadu River, and finally won the victory, and was affirmed and commended by the leaders many times.
At the 1955 general award ceremony, Tan Zheng stood in the third position from the left, nostalgic for okra. Shortly after Okra's husband died, she was bedridden due to overwork and never got up again.
Although some people kept introducing the object to Tan Zheng, he never came out of his thoughts about okra, and Chen Geng also persuaded him many times, but he was still indifferent. However, in 1937, under the introduction of *** and Lin Yueqin, Tan Zheng finally got out of his thoughts of his deceased wife and got acquainted with Wang Changde.
Your sister-in-law okra left too early, how nice it would be if you could see the liberation of all of China! Although what okra did was insignificant compared to her husband's, she still made her own contribution.
Without her support and her dedication at home, there may not be Tan Zheng's legendary life.