Ye Fei was a senior general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, during the war years, he was powerful, powerful in East China, famous in the north and south of the river, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Ye Fei was awarded the rank of general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
In the sixties of the last century, her sister Emma, who was far away in the Philippines, wrote to Ye Fei, saying that her family was in trouble and hoped that her brother could send some money back to help tide over the difficulties.
This matter seems to be a normal thing for Emma, but for Ye Fei, it is a very difficult thing, he refused his sister's request, and after more than 20 years, Emma has never replied to the letter, and this matter has also become a hidden pain in Ye Fei's heart.
It wasn't until the eighties, when Ye Fei visited the Philippines, that he saw his lost sister again, he said:"I hope you can forgive me. ”
Did Emma forgive Ye Fei? Why did he refuse his sister's request? Why is his sister in the Philippines?
In 1914, Ye Fei was born in the Philippines in a mixed Chinese and Filipino family, his motherMercatoIt's Filipino, fatherYe SunweiIt's Chinese.
Ye Sunwei's ancestral home is in Fujian, he was born in a poor family in Jintao Township, Nan'an County, Fujian Province, at the age of marriage, Ye Sunwei married a wife, and then in order to survive, he left his bride at home like everyone else, and went to Nanyang alone.
In 1900, he arrived in the town of Diawang in Quezon Province, Philippines, where a large coconut grove grew around the town, where Ye Sunwei helped people collect coconuts in order to make money, and thus met Miss Mercato.
Mercato's family is not a famous family in the Philippines, but it is also a well-off family, and compared with Mercato, Ye Sunwei is relatively poor.
Mercato is a local indigenous person, and Ye Sunwei is a migrant worker and does not have a passport; The Mercato family is Catholic and Catholic, and Ye Sunwei has no religious beliefs; But love is like this, it seems that two people who are not in the right household fall in love with each other and have come to the point of getting married.
Locally, Catholics are not allowed to intermarry with pagans, and there is only one way to marry Mercato, and that is to be baptized and become a Catholic as well.
So Ye Sunwei accepted the baptism and merged into the Zomai family, for this, Ye Sunwei had only one request, that is:In order to be worthy of his ancestors and his wife, he had to send his first two sons back to his hometown, and the rest of the children could become Filipino citizens. The Mai family also readily agreed.
After marriage, Mercato gave birth to two sons, and Ye Sunwei named them Ye Qicun and Ye Qiheng. Ye Qicun is the boss; Ye Qiheng is the second, that is, the later Ye Fei.
When Ye Fei was five years old, Ye Sunwei returned to his hometown with his two sons as previously agreed.
The year was 1919, nearly 20 years had passed since Ye Sunwei left home and went to sea, although the wife of the family did not have much difficulty in life, but her life was relatively lonely and lonely, so she adopted a child.
In this way, the 7-year-old brother and the 5-year-old brother stayed in China forever, and Ye Sunwei returned to the Philippines after sending the two children back, and never returned.
It was a completely new environment, and for the two brothers, who had never lived in China, they didn't know anyone, they couldn't understand the language, and it was very difficult to communicate with people.
Although the adoptive mother was kind, it was difficult to communicate, so the two brothers had to rely on each other, and they walked more than ten miles of mountain roads to school every day.
When it was time to go to middle school, under the strong recommendation of the teacher, the two brothers came to Xiamen together and studied in Xiamen.
In 1928, 14-year-old Ye Fei first joined the underground party of the Communist Party of China, and a year later, Ye Fei developed his elder brother, and the two brothers embarked on the road of revolution together. It's just a pity that my brother was killed by the Kuomintang in the late 30s.
In 1932, Ye Fei was arrested by the Kuomintang authorities in Xiamen for participating in progressive activities, and because he did not reveal his identity at that time, he was sentenced to one year in prison on charges of "being young, ignorant, and going astray."
At that time, according to the laws of the Philippines, Ye Fei was a Filipino citizen, and after his parents found out, they spent a lot of twists and turns to find the Philippines, hoping that ** could agree to extradite Ye Fei, and finally agreed.
Ye Fei's mother, Mercato, was still not at ease after knowing it, and she personally set off from the Philippines by boat to pick up her son. After all kinds of tosses, by the time Mercato came to Hong Kong with great difficulty, Ye Fei had already been released from prison after completing his sentence.
After being released from prison, Ye Fei did not forget his identity, he quickly got in touch with the underground party organization, and endured the thoughts of his mother and the guilt in his heart, Ye Fei sent a telegram to his mother, saying that he had gone to Japan to study, so that his mother could return to China with confidence.
In the first half of 1933, Ye Fei came to the Special Committee of the Communist Party of China in Mindong and participated in the creation of the Mindong Revolutionary Base Area and the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. The road to revolution is always full of swords and swords.
Once, Ye Fei made an appointment with a comrade at the inn, and when Ye Fei and the others were together, three unknown people came to him and suddenly hit him with a gun, Ye Fei was shot in the head and passed out on the ground. They searched Ye Fei's whole body, snatched all the pistols and notebooks from him, and fired three more shots at him before leaving.
Ye Fei's life should not be extinguished, he crawled out of the inn with his last breath, and then was rescued by the villagers passing by, the bullet in the head was taken out, but the bullet in the chest could not be taken out, so it remained in his body and spent his life with him.
After the start of the Anti-Japanese War, the guerrillas led by Ye Fei were reorganized into the 6th Regiment of the 3rd Detachment of the New Fourth Army, and Ye Fei was the commander. In mid-February 1938, the 6th Regiment was sent to the East Road area of Jiangsu Province and placed under the command of **.
In mid-July 1939, Ye Fei commanded troops to raid Shanghai Hongqiao Airport, destroying 4 Japanese planes and killing many Japanese puppet soldiers. After the Southern Anhui Incident, Ye Fei was appointed as the commander and political commissar of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the New Fourth Army, and led his troops to participate in and command the anti-sweeping and anti-clearance operations in the Soviet Union and Central China.
During the Liberation War, Ye Fei served as the commander of the 1st Column of the Shandong Field Army, led his subordinates to recover Dafenkou and Tai'an, and participated in important battles such as the Lunan Campaign, the Laiwu Campaign, Menglianggu and Huaihai.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Ye Fei served as the second secretary of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, deputy commander of the Nanjing Military Region, etc., and in 1956, he was promoted to the first secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, the first commander and political commissar of the Fuzhou Military Region.
Therefore, in the opinion of her sister Emma, her brother, as the secretary of the provincial party committee, is fully capable of supporting their family by coordinating and managing the economic lifeline of the province.
In addition to his two sons in China, Mercato has six children, including four sons and two daughters.
During the Second World War, Ye Fei's family in the Philippines was also active on the front line of the anti-Japanese resistance, and Mercato supported the children's choice, but would silently pray for them in his heart.
The Mai family was relatively wealthy in the town, and they opened a rice mill, where Mercato's eldest daughter, Emma, would help her mother with household chores and the rice mill business when she was not working.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, since China and the Philippines have not yet established diplomatic relations, Ye Fei cannot directly contact his mother. He took his third brother Ye Qidong back to China to study, and later Ye Qidong started a family in China.
In the 60s, Mercato died, and Ye Fei's father died during World War II, and the family's life in the Philippines began to become poor.
Emma couldn't help but write a letter to her brother Ye Fei, hoping that Ye Fei could send some money back to the family. But Emma didn't know that this matter was very difficult for Ye Fei.
As early as the year when Ye Fei participated in the revolution, he cut off economic ties with his family, and he didn't have much savings, besides, as a member of the Communist Party, the rice mill represented the capitalist's industry, and he didn't want to do anything that violated his principles.
Therefore, after thinking about it again, Ye Fei still sent Emma a letter back, in which he expressed his attitude and principles, and said that if his younger siblings are willing to come to China, he will definitely do his best to help.
But Emma was disheartened after receiving her brother's reply, and she didn't send another letter to Ye Fei for twenty years.
I heard that in order to earn money to support her family, Emma went to someone else's house as a maid to support her younger siblings, and she never married to start her own family.
In 1989, Ye Fei, then vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, visited the Philippines at the invitation of the Philippines, where he met his sister Emma.
In fact, over the years, this matter has been buried in Ye Fei's heart, and it has never passed, and he feels guilty that he has delayed his sister's lifelong event.
The first thing he did when he saw Emma, Ye Fei asked her how she had survived the difficult time and whether she would hate him for being ruthless at the beginning. Emma said that at the beginning, she really couldn't figure it out, and she couldn't figure out why her brother didn't leave home after becoming a big official, but now she understands that her brother still remembers them.
Besides, over the years, the younger brothers and sisters have also taken care of Emma, so Emma gradually understood Ye Fei, and she knew that her brother was different from the big officials she had seen before:The elder brother is a big official, but he has no money.
When Ye Fei said to Emma, "I hope you can forgive me." Emma hugged Ye Fei and cried, the gap between the decades was gone, and since then, Emma and they have never mentioned any economic requirements like Ye Fei, they are just proud to have such a great brother.
Ye Fei is not only the pride of Emma, but also the pride of China, and even the Filipinos respect him very much, they call Ye Fei "General",* said:Comrade Ye Fei is a general of China and a son of the Philippines.