The eldest daughter, Yang Yuehua, lives among the peopleYear.
One day in 1929, Dr. Jiang Huaijin received a handwritten letter from the secretary of the special committee of western Fujian in Aihua Hospital in Longyan, Fujian. In the letter, Dr. Jiang was instructed to prepare her mind and work for a woman who was about to go to the Red Army Hospital to give birth, and stressed that the delivery must be successful and there should be no mistakes.
This woman is ***'s wife, He Zizhen.
Mao Jinhua, a woman born in Fujian, is closely linked to her fate. In July 1929, ** left the army due to dysentery and came to western Fujian, during which he recuperated while guiding the revolutionary cause of the Fujian people.
Although He Zizhen is pregnant, she still decided to follow *** to take care of his daily life. In the evening after the successful conclusion of the Gutian Conference, in order to let He Zizhen give birth with peace of mind, he sent someone to Jiaoyang Town, Shanghang County, and wrote a letter to Fu Baicui, the commander of the Fourth Column of the Red Fourth Army.
In the letter, ** said that he would leave early the next morning, but He Zizhen was about to give birth and could not move with the troops. Therefore, he asked Fu Baicui to transfer He Zizhen to the Fujian West Special Committee for resettlement.
After He Zizhen stayed in Jiaoyang for one night, the secretary of the special committee of western Fujian sent her to Longyan Aihua Hospital, which was founded by the Red Army. Ten days later, He Zizhen successfully gave birth to a baby girl at Longyan Aihua Hospital.
Longyan was the political, economic, and cultural center of western Fujian, where the Red Army established its revolutionary regime. Therefore, arranging He Zizhen to give birth here was the best choice at that time.
After ten days in Aihua Hospital, He Zizhen was taken to his side. **I like the daughter He Zizhen gave birth to for him, although Yang Kaihui gave birth to three sons for *** before, Anying, Anqing, and Anlong, but this daughter is the first daughter of ***.
Seeing that He Zizhen's mother and daughter were safe, ** was naturally very happy. But the situation facing the Red Army at that time was very serious, and He Zizhen obviously could not take an infant child to follow the Red Army.
** I had to endure the pain and mobilize He Zizhen to foster the child in the villager's home, and personally promised: "When the revolution is victorious, we will take her to our side!" Although He Zizhen is a legendary heroine, the mother and daughter are heart-to-heart, and she is naturally reluctant to give such a young child to others to raise.
But under the circumstances at that time, she also knew that this was the best choice, so she had to entrust *** to find a reliable family in Longyan to raise this girl.
After careful consideration, ** handed over his daughter, who was only a few months old, to the family of Weng Qinghe, a shoemaker on Chengguan North Street, Longyan County, to take care of. When leaving, He Zizhen put on a small silver ring and a small foot ring for the child, and left some clothes and 15 silver dollars, and specially instructed Weng Qinghe that the girl's name is Mao Jinhua, hoping that they can take good care of the child.
** recalled that Weng Qinghe showed extreme enthusiasm for Mao Jinhua and held it tightly in his arms and was unwilling to let go. He told *** that according to local customs, his adoption of Mao Jinhua was equivalent to marrying He Zizhen, so he gave He Zizhen a jar of old wine and a jar of glutinous rice wine in return.
In addition, he also grabbed three chickens and some native eggs from his chicken pen and gave them to He Zizhen. On the occasion of parting, He Zizhen reluctantly hugged Mao Jinhua and kissed and kissed all the time.
Mao Jinhua seemed to know that her mother was about to leave, and she kept crying. Weng Qinghe's wife hurriedly mixed a bowl of rice cereal for her to feed, and it was not until Mao Jinhua was full and fell asleep that He Zizhen held back her tears and left Weng's house.
In May 1930, after the withdrawal of the Red Army, Longyan was occupied by the Kuomintang Liu Chengbo. Weng Qinghe witnessed Liu Chengbo's frenzied liquidation of the locals who had helped the Red Army, and began to worry about the fate of Mao Jinhua, the daughter of the Red Army leader, because although the Red Army had left, he was about to face potential danger because of his adoption.
He fidgeted all day long, and often had nightmares in which he dreamed that he was captured and shot by the Kuomintang army. Eventually, one night in July, Weng Qinghe abandoned Mao Jinhua in front of a small grocery store at the south gate of Longyan while she was asleep.
The next morning, the owner of the grocery store, surnamed Lin, found the abandoned Mao Jinhua and placed her on a bamboo chair in front of the store, hoping that someone would be able to claim it.
The fate of Mao Jinhua has not been decided after the days have passed. Although Boss Lin himself didn't want to take care of this abandoned girl, if she was to be thrown into the garbage can, this honest little businessman couldn't do it anyway.
At this time, a local resident who bought soy sauce at a grocery store told Boss Lin that Aunt Weng, who lived in Shibitou in Longyan City, had only one son, and had expressed that he wanted a daughter, and maybe he could give Mao Jinhua to Aunt Weng, and he might be adopted.
So, Mao Jinhua was sent to Aunt Weng's house. However, more than a year later, the Weng aunt, who claimed to want a daughter, heard that Zhang Xianzhi, who fried fried fritters in Longyan, had no children and no daughters, and wanted to adopt a child, so the money-hungry Weng Gu decided to sell Xiaojinhua to Zhang Xianzhi.
After Zhang Xianzhi's wife passed away, the fried fritter business plummeted, Zhang Xianzhi himself was lazy to eat, and now he added gambling and owed a debt, and Xiaojinhua became a burden to him.
He gave the little golden flower to Qiu Lanzai, who liked the smart and clever little golden flower very much, so he adopted her and changed her name to Yang Yuehua. In just five years, Xiao Jinhua has changed hands four times and survived tenaciously, but since then it has been nicknamed "Filler Meat", a term that refers to a non-biological child in the Longyan dialect.
Every time she was ridiculed by children as "head-filling meat", Yang Yuehua would always go home helplessly and seek comfort from Qiu Lanzai. Whenever this happens, Qiu Lanzai will always stand firmly by Yang Yuehua's side, protect her with actions, and stand up again and again to make those children who bully Yang Yuehua afraid.
Gradually, Yang Yuehua's trust and dependence on Qiu Lanzai became deeper and deeper, and she no longer felt sad because of this nickname, but regarded Qiu Lanzai as her biological mother.
In fact, Qiu Lanzai loves Xiao Jinhua, who was renamed Yang Yuehua, and treats it as her own. In 1936, 6-year-old Yang Yuehua was sent by Qiu Lanzai to study at Xinan Denggao Primary School in Longyan, which was an extremely rare decision at the time, and it also fully demonstrated Qiu Lanzai's sincerity to Yang Yuehua.
Three years after Xiao Jinhua was sent away, ** led the Red Army back to Longyan in 1932. Despite the heavy workload, he has always been thinking about his daughter. So, he entrusted Mao ** to find Mao Jinhua.
When Mao ** found Weng Qinghe, Weng Qinghe lied to Mao ** because he didn't dare to confess the fact that he abandoned the child. He said: "After staying at my house for four months, Xiao Jinhua suddenly fell ill and died.
I'll bury her at the back north gate, and if you don't believe me, I can take you to see it. ”
**I didn't know anything about it, so I told Mao** about the situation. After hearing this, Mao ** was silent for a long time, and finally sighed: "What a pity!" Since then, Mao ** has given up searching.
However, how did he know that Little Golden Flower had changed her name but was still strong in this world? Perhaps because she inherited her father's genes, Yang Yuehua has shown extraordinary wisdom since she was a child, and her academic performance has always been among the best.
After graduating from high school, for some reasons, she did not continue her studies, but entered the society and became an ordinary laborer. After the liberation of Longyan, there were very few educated young women like Yang Yuehua, so she was also valued by the organization.
In 1952, Yang Yuehua joined the Communist Youth League, and the following year became the secretary of the Zhongjie Youth League branch, and soon after, she joined the Communist Party of China with honor, and in 1960, she was promoted to the director of the Longyan Zhongjie Neighborhood Committee and the secretary of the party branch.
During this period, she met Zheng Huanzhang, who worked in the county food bureau, and the two quickly fell in love and tied the knot. After getting married, they lived with Qiu Lanzai's family, although their lives were not rich, but they were very happy.
Weng Qinghe brought changes to the life of Yang Yuehua's family, and a letter from him made the originally peaceful life no longer peaceful. After Weng Qinghe founded New China, he saw that he had become a national leader, and remembered that he had taken in ***'s daughter.
He also saw his family's financial difficulties, so he decided to write a letter to ***, hoping to get help. * Instead of blaming Weng Qinghe, he expressed his gratitude.
He entrusted *** to send 300 yuan to Weng Qinghe to express his gratitude for taking in his daughter back then. This story shows ***'s pro-people image and his care for his family, and also shows the Communist Party leader's concern and help for the needy.
Back then, it was the family that helped Xiao Jinhua find and raise her, but now she always feels very guilty in her heart. How could he not believe that a good child could suddenly die?
But if Jinhua didn't die, what if she was in **? So he asked a few old subordinates working in Fujian to help inquire and see if there were any clues to Jinhua's whereabouts. In 1963, when Longyan County was carrying out the socialist education campaign, Yang Yuehua's maternal aunt Zheng Qiudi told Yang Yuehua that she was adopted, and she was actually the daughter of the Red Army.
After learning the news, Yang Yuehua remembered that her friend gave her a nickname in her childhood, and her mood couldn't calm down for a long time. In order to find out her background, she wrote a letter to Wu Chaofang, who was the deputy commissioner of the Longyan Special Administration at the time, and wanted to ask Wu Chaofang to help her find her biological parents.
Wu Chaofang is an old subordinate of ***, and he is also one of the comrades entrusted by *** to find Mao Jinhua. After receiving Yang Yuehua's letter, he guessed whether this Yang Yuehua was the person *** was looking for.
So, he reported the situation to the Longyan Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China, and asked Weng Qinghe and his wife many times. Weng Qinghe believed the importance of this matter and insisted that Xiao Jinhua died of illness that year, and her body was buried in Houbei Mountain.
However, his wife, Aunt Lin, revealed that Xiao Jinhua did not die, but was given to a woman named Weng Gu, and there was no news about the child after that.
In the investigation of Yang Yuehua's life history, although the investigation team interviewed many relatives and neighbors of Weng Qinghe and Qiu Lanzai, everyone had different opinions and could not be determined.
The investigation was suspended due to a lack of sufficient evidence. In 1971, Luo Wanchang, an old Red Army from Longyan, heard that ***'s daughter might still be living in Longyan, so he told He Zizhen's brother He Minxue the news.
After He Minxue heard the news, he entrusted Luo Wanchang to return to Longyan to investigate. However, by this time, Weng Qinghe had already died. Luo Wanchang found Weng Qinghe's wife, Aunt Lin, as well as Weng's neighbors at the time, Chen Tiecheng, Chen Sangu and others, and finally determined the location where Weng Qinghe abandoned Xiaojinhua - the grocery store at the head of the South Gate.
Luo Wanchang found a clue in the grocery store, and He Minxue sent He Zizhen's sister Zhou Jianxia and Luo Wanchang to confirm it after learning about it. According to He Zizhen's recollection, Mao Jinhua had a black mole on her right knee, and Yang Yuehua really had the same mole on her right knee.
Zhou Jianxia also pointed out that Yang Yuehua's movements and demeanor are very similar to He Zizhen's aunt He Zizhen. Through this identification, there has been a new development in the case.
Your mother is not in good health, and she can't be stimulated now, and it will be difficult to deal with the aggravation of her condition. I'll arrange for you to meet later. ”
Reunited more than 40 years ago, in July 1977, Yang Yuehua received a notice that a leading comrade in the province had come to Longyan to inspect and needed her to report to work. Yang Yuehua came to the Minxi Hotel according to the notice, and at this time a female comrade who was seven or eight years younger than her was already waiting there.
Although the two met for the first time, Yang Yuehua had a sense of déjà vu, as if she had seen this lesbian somewhere. As everyone knows, the lesbian in front of her is another daughter of *** - Li Min.
In the book "He Zizhen and ***", Li Min described the meeting as follows: "Although I very much hope to recognize this 'sister', this is not something I can decide. ”
Later, when He Minxue heard about it, she sighed and said, "Why isn't Jiaojiao called sister!" In August 1979, when attending a conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Gutian Conference, He Minxue invited Yang Yuehua to the Minxi Hotel where he was staying, and introduced her to Fu Lianzhang's wife: "This is Yang Yuehua, the eldest daughter of my sister He Zizhen!" ”
Mrs. Fu was also very excited, so she asked He Minxue, "So, when will you take Yuehua to see her mother?" He Minxue smiled and said: "Her mother is not in good health, I will take her there in the future, we will be in Nanchang or Fuzhou!" ”
The day that Hermione had been looking forward to day and night did not come after all. On April 19, 1984, He Zizhen died of illness at the age of 75. When the bad news came, Yang Yue's heart was like a knife, and she cried a lot.
She had long regarded He Zizhen as her biological mother, but now she couldn't see her off in person, and this deep pain made her grief-stricken. Maybe Yang Yuehua didn't know that although He Zizhen was not in good health in her later years, she shed tears countless times for Yang Yuehua.
It's just that for various reasons, the opportunity for the two to meet has not been as expected. He Zizhen's death hit Yang Yuehua hard, and a month later, at the age of 54, she went through the retirement procedures ahead of schedule due to illness and left the post of party branch secretary and deputy manager of Longyan Film Company.
After He Zizhen's death, He Minxue's thoughts about Yang Yuehua became more and more profound. Shortly after the Spring Festival in 1986, He Minxue, who was already seriously ill, came to Longyan again and saw Yang Yuehua for the last time.
Two years later, He Minxue died of illness in Shanghai. Although He Minxue firmly believes that Yang Yuehua is Mao Jinhua, due to various reasons, Yang Yuehua's identity has never been clearly recognized by the official.
In this regard, Li Min's daughter Kong Dongmei wrote in the book "Grandmother He Zizhen's Lost Five Children": "The heroic and chivalrous uncle He Minxue recognized this niece he thought he was, but when the late grandfather and grandmother died in 1976 and 1984, they never met her, so this matter cannot be confirmed." ”
Yang Yuehua's story tells us that happiness is not only about material wealth, but also about inner satisfaction and peace. Although she experienced the hardships of childhood, after the founding of New China, she worked actively, joined the party, promoted to work, formed a happy family, and gave birth to three sons and three daughters.
Her husband Zheng Huanzhang has a good temper and is very considerate of her, and the children are also growing up healthy and happy by her side. All this made her live a happy life. As He Minxue's wife Li Liying said: "Among the He family, you are the happiest!" ”
Although Yang Yuehua was never recognized by her biological parents, she did not complain, but was grateful. She is grateful to those pioneers who revealed her life experience, and she is even more grateful to the party and ** for giving her a happy life today.
She is nearly 90 years old, her house is spacious, her family is happy, and her old age is happy, what else can she ask for? In recent years, some journalists have sought out Yang Yuehua in an attempt to dig up material to attract readers.
In the face of their request, Yang Yuehua politely declined. She told them that the ** family had sacrificed many relatives for the revolution, and that she was content to be lucky enough to survive and enjoy a good life.
She deeply remembered that when she was looking for the lost Mao Anhong, she once said: "No matter whose child it is, it is the descendant of the revolution, so hand it over to the people and the organization!" ”
She will keep this sentence in her heart.
Yang Yuehua's arduous journey.