In 1982, an elderly man from Taiwan worked tirelessly to cross thousands of mountains and rivers to come to Beijing Airport. In his hand, he holds the urn of an owner of the ashes.
The news of the old man's return to the mainland shocked **, and he attached great importance to it and immediately held a memorial service for the owner of the ashes.
Today is my birthday, and I should have treated you to a good meal, but I have to bother your sister to cook for us. ”
Xiao Minghua knew that his brother was joking, and replied with a punchline: "Don't worry, pay the bill after eating." Everyone laughed, and the family was in a good mood and shared the joy of family. However, a sudden knock on the door shattered the silence.
Xiao Minghua's heart tightened, and she reacted immediately, and whispered to her husband Yu Fei: "The person who came may not be good, you leave through the back door, without my personal permission, no matter who tells you not to come back." ”
Then, she did not forget to tell her husband to pay attention to the clothes pole outside the back door. They had agreed that if there was something hanging on the clothesstick, it would mean that the home was safe, and if there was no clothespole, there might be a problem.
After that, Xiao Minghua asked his brother to continue the previous topic and make everything look normal.
Xiao Minghua stood at the door, there was a knock on the door, and she responded loudly: "May I ask who it is?" Then he opened the door. There were two strangers standing outside the door, and after they came in, they began to look around, and saw that it was not Yu Fei sitting at the dinner table, so they asked, "Is Professor Yu Fei at home?"
Mr. Lu from the Provincial Social Affairs Department wanted to ask him some questions. The two guests spoke very politely, but there was a cold glint in their eyes. Xiao Minghua immediately understood, and calmly replied: "He was not at home, he went to visit a teacher at National Taiwan University." ”
Seeing that there was no Yu Fei in the room, the two strangers said goodbye and left. Xiao Mingzhu's family was frightened and confused. Xiao Mingzhu heard Xiao Minghua say: "If something happens, don't be impulsive."
If someone asks about your relationship with me, you have to insist that we are brother and sister, and we have only helped me financially, and you don't know anything else. "In terms of hiding her identity, her sister Xiao Minghua is much more experienced, and although Xiao Mingzhu is worried about her sister's safety, he can only do it.
However, this turmoil is menacing, and Xiao Minghua successfully protects everyone, but she herself is in trouble.
Two days later, in the middle of the night, Xiao Minghua was arrested by the Taiwan Provincial Security Command, ** before, she still remembered to take off the freshly dried clothes from the clothes pole and calmly got into the military vehicle.
As an elder brother, Xiao Mingzhu was also not spared and was taken to the prison to be tortured, but Xiao Mingzhu firmly stated that he and Xiao Minghua were only brother and sister, and knew nothing about it.
Although the Security Command had no evidence to prove that Xiao Mingzhu was suspicious, he had to be released. But Xiao Minghua did not escape this disaster, and she endured countless tortures in prison.
The handyman had seen Xiao Minghua hanging from a beam, his arms beaten to the ground, and the blood on the outside of his mouth had dried up. Bruises were visible all over her fingers, arms, and body, and the enemy wouldn't even let her sleep, intent on mentally torturing her.
In prison, Xiao Minghua spent 278 days of torment, suffering from various torture instruments every day, and could only express the pain in his heart by writing a diary.
Xiao Minghua, an underground intelligence officer of the Communist Party of China, is concerned not only about his own safety, but also about the safety of the party organization and comrades. During a prison visit, she subtly conveyed a message.
She asked someone to bring out a medicine bottle with only seven cod liver oil pills left, and claimed to send a few more bottles. Actually, this is her code word to her comrades"Seven"In the Jiaxing dialect with"Go"Homophony,"Fish"with"on"Homonyms, so"Seven cod liver oil pills"The code word is"Yu went"She hoped that the party organization would arrange for the comrades to leave as soon as possible.
When she learned of her intentions, the comrades who visited her were moved to tears. Sure enough, as Xiao Minghua wished, the comrade successfully escaped under the arrangement of the party organization and successfully brought the information back to the mainland, which was highly praised by the front-line command of the People's Liberation Army.
This precious information is of great significance to the liberation of Hainan Island and Zhoushan Islands. On the day of the celebration of liberation, Yu Fei stood sadly on the coast, looking in the direction of Taiwan.
However, at this time, news came that Xiao Minghua died bravely. Xiao Minghua was born in 1922 in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, and Chaoyang, Guangdong is his ancestral hometown. When he was about to reach adulthood, his parents died of illness, leaving him and his younger brother Xiao Zijian to rely on each other.
In order to allow his younger brother to grow up healthily, Xiao Zishan and Xiao Zijian left their hometown and began a life of wandering. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, when many people were forced to leave their hometowns, Xiao Zishan took his younger brother to join the refugee team and came to the bustling Shanghai Beach.
However, Xiao Zishan hoped to find help from relatives and friends in Shanghai, but he found that the streets of Shanghai were full of people who had lost their jobs due to the economic depression. Finding a decent job here is like climbing to the sky, so Xiao Zishan can only start from the bottom and do various jobs, such as carrying water, salvage, and being a hawker.
After Xiao Zishan failed to start a business in Shanghai, he began to travel around the country until he found a new starting point in Fengjiaqiao, Jiaxing, Zhejiang. There he established a family handmade hosiery and amassed a little fortune.
Under the introduction of a friend, he married a wife and had children, and his family life was relatively happy. Xiao Zishan has three older brothers and one sister, the youngest of which is Xiao Minghua, who is the baby of the family.
Because of the sequelae of her sister's illness and the need to be taken care of, the responsibility of taking care of her sister fell on Xiao Minghua's shoulders. Xiao Minghua is smart and capable, her parents and brothers love her very much, and they named her "Huabao".
Although her childhood was relatively peaceful, the family's small workshop went bankrupt as warlords fought and they had to move to Kaifeng, Henan.
The difficulties of life and the turmoil of the world did not defeat Xiao Minghua's family. In order to repay his parents for their nurturing kindness, Xiao Minghua went all out in his studies and was successfully admitted to Chongqing Normal School in 1941.
After graduation, due to his outstanding results, Xiao Minghua was selected by the school to be assigned to the teacher training class of the Ministry of National **, specializing in the application of Chinese phonetic symbols in the field of education.
In class, Xiao Minghua could always hear the roar of shells outside, and the students could only hide in the air-raid shelter to continue studying. In the process of teaching, Xiao Minghua read progressive books extensively, and revolutionary passion gradually swelled in his heart.
In 1943, Xiao Minghua was admitted to the National Women's Normal College in Baisha Town, Jiangjin County, Sichuan Province, where famous scholars who had come to Sichuan since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, including Chen Duxiu.
Under the influence of literary literacy, Xiao Minghua decided to use the pen as **, and her first batch of essays, essays and ** were completed in the academy.
Xiao Minghua and editor-in-chief Xie Bingying met in the monthly magazine "Yellow River", and Xie Bingying's "Diary of a Soldier" and "Autobiography of a Female Soldier" deeply influenced her. The experience of studying at Baisha Town Women's College became a turning point in her life and laid the foundation for her later participation in the revolution.
In 1946, Xiao Minghua decided to go north to pursue his university dream. At Peking Normal School, she participated in sports while studying and met Zhu Fangchun. Zhu Fangchun is a professor of educational psychology at Beijing Normal University and an underground CCP worker in the Jizhong Military Region.
He was mature and steady, with high ideological awareness, which brought a lot of inspiration to Xiao Minghua, and gave her a large number of progressive books, including ***'s "On New Democracy".
Life and death don't matter to me, I've decided to dedicate everything to the party, and that's why I've applied so many times. She was deeply inspired by the spirit of martyrs like Li Dazhao and Wen Yiduo who dedicated themselves to the people's revolutionary cause, and was determined to move forward bravely.
Zhu Fangchun listened to Xiao Minghua's resolute proposition, and his heart was full of comfort. He asked Xiao Minghua to sit down and began to arrange for him to join the party. In 1948, Mr. Tai Ching-nong, the head of the Department of Chinese Literature at National Taiwan University and a famous writer, and his assistant teacher Liao Weiqing warmly invited Hsiao Minghua to work in Taiwan.
Seeing that the liberation of the mainland was imminent, the only way for the Kuomintang to retreat was Taiwan. After receiving the invitation, Hsiao Minghua realized that this might be the best opportunity to expand the party's influence in Taiwan, so he immediately proposed the idea of going to Taiwan to carry out work.
Zhu Fangchun knew that danger was everywhere, but the last thing they were afraid of was danger, so he actively helped Xiao Minghua report to his superiors. Soon, the party organization approved their proposal, hoping that Xiao Minghua would gain a firm foothold in Taiwan first, and then decide on the next move when the situation became clear.
Xiao Minghua said goodbye to relatives and friends and took a boat to Keelung Port to meet Liao Weiqing. Accompanied by Liao Weiqing, she met with Mr. Tai Jingnong and was warmly welcomed by Tai Jingnong's wife.
During this period, Mr. Tai Ching-nong offered Xiao Minghua two positions, one was to serve as a teaching assistant in the Department of Literature and Literature of Taiwan University, and the other was to go to Taiwan Provincial Normal College as a teaching assistant, the only condition was that the course needed to be opened.
After much deliberation, Hsiao Ming-hua accepted a position at the Taiwan Provincial Teachers College and began her legendary chapter here. After stabilizing down, Hsiao Minghua relied on his status as a teacher to obtain a relatively secluded residence in Taiwan in order to better transmit information to the organization.
At the same time, in the mainland, because the organization society movement attracted the attention of Fu Zuoyi, Zhu Fangchun, in order to avoid pursuit, the organization decided to let her go to Taiwan to temporarily avoid the limelight and fight side by side with Xiao Minghua.
Yu Fei and Xiao Minghua led Taiwan's underground work side by side, but the long-term cooperation has attracted the most attention. In order to avoid revealing their identities, the organization decided to let them pretend to be in love for a long time and become husband and wife.
With this as a cover, the two seem to be very affectionate in the eyes of outsiders. It so happened that a "social science research society" was held in Taiwan, which they saw as a good opportunity to propagate the revolutionary spirit.
Through the lectures, they can get acquainted with many young people with lofty ideals and cultural and educational elites, and contact revolutionaries who are good friends with our party, so as to kill two birds with one stone. In 1949, when the news of the peaceful liberation of Peking reached Taiwan, the situation was tense, they had not received instructions from the organization for a long time, and if there was no more news, blind action could lead to the exposure of their identities.
At the critical moment when the mainland was about to be completely liberated and the Kuomintang was about to retreat to Taiwan, General ** personally ordered that military intelligence on Taiwan and the islands off the mainland be obtained at all costs.
After receiving the order, Yu Fei and Xiao Minghua immediately launched an operation, and they tacitly cooperated, and soon obtained top-secret information from the Kuomintang, including a special map - when Japan invaded Taiwan, a very accurate map drawn in accordance with the scale of Taiwan, including the trees, is very clearly depicted.
This map was of great significance to the liberation of Taiwan, but because of its importance, the Kuomintang hid it very secretly, and only a few operational staff officers had access to it, and others had to be approved by the chief of staff.
Yu Fei and Xiao Minghua worked hard to obtain this map, which laid the foundation for the liberation of Taiwan.
Yu Fei obtained an important piece of information, which was hidden in the stone wall of a secret room, tightly locked by two locks, and the keys were kept by two people. After careful consideration, Yu Fei and Xiao Minghua succeeded in obtaining the map and began to secretly package and organize it.
Xiao Minghua worked hard day and night, and finally completed all the sorting work, and before the New Year of 1950, he cleverly hid the information in an object disguised as an airbox.
So, how do you safely send this information back to the mainland? Time is pressing, and they must get the intelligence to the organization before the mainland liberates Taiwan. They eventually found an old lady who planned to visit relatives in the mainland, and asked Yu Fei to pretend to be her relative to escort her back to the mainland.
They first arrived in Zhoushan, and then took a boat from Zhoushan to Shanghai, and the whole process was full of difficulties and challenges.
Yu Fei and Hsiao Minghua were Taiwan's underground intelligence agents who made outstanding contributions to the liberation of Hainan Island and nearby islands. From December 1949 to January 1950, they sent intelligence six times in a row.
However, as the identities of some underground workers in Taiwan were exposed, the identities of Yu Fei and Xiao Minghua were also discovered. In order to protect Yu Fei, Xiao Minghua himself was arrested by the enemy.
Before going to justice, she also knitted a sweater for each of her three lovely nephews and nieces, and also comforted other inmates to wish them early freedom. In the early morning of November 8, 1950, Xiao Minghua and three other underground intelligence agents were sentenced to death.
After her death, her brother Xiao Mingzhu secretly incinerated her body and tearfully kept her ashes in an urn. When packing up his sister's relics in prison, Xiao Mingzhu found that a suicide note was mixed in the diary written by Xiao Minghua, and there was a sentence in it that made Xiao Mingzhu burst into tears instantly.
She said: "Don't take my bones back to her hometown, just let her stay in Taiwan!" This is Xiao Minghua's deep attachment to the motherland, and it is also a symbol of her selfless dedication.
In 1982, Xiao Mingzhu couldn't suppress his longing for his hometown, and he took Xiao Minghua's ashes and returned to Beijing by plane. The one who picked up the airport was their common eldest brother, who took the urn and cried bitterly: "Big brother, it's me who is not good, I failed to protect my little sister!" ”
At this time, Xiao Minghua's family knew that their favorite "Huabao" turned out to be an admirable underground worker of the CCP. This news shocked **, so ** posthumously recognized her as a member of the Communist Party of China and a revolutionary martyr, and arranged a memorial service for her.
At the memorial service, Yu Fei appeared again as Zhu Fangchun, and he burst into tears and couldn't help himself. 32 years after Xiao Minghua's sacrifice, on September 16, a tombstone was erected for her in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery in Beijing.