How to deal with a female major general's ex-husband who encounters domestic violence
In 1955, at the first large-scale award ceremony in New China, Li Zhen, a female general from Hunan, became the first female general in Chinese history. Interestingly, her husband, Gan Siqi, is also a general.
At the end of that year, Gan Siqi accompanied Li Zhen back to her hometown in Hunan to visit relatives, how would Li Zhen react when she saw her ex-husband who had abused her hiding aside?
In 1908, a new member was added to a poor peasant family in Liuyang, Hunan Province, a lovely baby girl. This is already the fifth daughter of Lao Li's family, which makes Lao Li feel very helpless.
He has always believed that "raising children to prevent old age", but now that he has five daughters at home, he doesn't know when he will have a son to support the elderly. Although Lao Li complained, his family's predicament could not be changed even if he had a son.
Their family only has two and a half acres of thin land, and they rely on this to make a living. If God doesn't help, they won't even be able to eat. However, even living in such circumstances, most people at the time believed that there should be a boy to inherit the family business.
Despite the difficult life, Lao Li still named this newborn daughter "Dan Meizi" and silently looked forward to the days ahead.
Dan Meizi was born with a hard life, she has not eaten a few full meals since she was a child, and she is thinner than her peers. After her mother gave birth to her sixth daughter, her father died of illness, leaving the old Li family in a difficult situation.
The six-year-old Dan Meizi was ruthlessly sold by her mother to a rich peasant family surnamed Gu in a neighboring village to serve as her son's child daughter-in-law. However, in the Gu family, she did not get the treatment she deserved, but was forced to start a hard labor life.
Despite being bullied and abused, Dan Meizi stood up bravely with perseverance and challenged her fate. In that feudal era, she showed the courage and independent spirit of women with her actions, and won people's respect and praise.
When the girl chops firewood and encounters rain, her whole body is soaked. When she got home, her mother-in-law and husband were also wet, and Dan's sister couldn't help but laugh softly. When the mother-in-law heard this, she thought that Dan was laughing at her, so she angrily asked her why she didn't wash her clothes earlier.
Dan girl said casually, I was also just wet from the rain. When the husband heard this, he was very angry, picked up the wooden stick and hit the girl. The sticks fell, the fists and kicks were added, and the girl was beaten badly, which was already the pain she had endured for many years.
Dan Meizi heard that an old woman who was a child daughter-in-law said that this was fate, and she endured it and passed, but she didn't believe it. Dan Meizi decided to leave here and go to work in the city. However, Dan's sister-in-law was inexperienced in escaping and was discovered and captured by her mother-in-law.
Soon after, the mother-in-law forced her sister and her husband to worship heaven and earth.
That year, she was sixteen years old, and her youthful heart burned with a vision for the future. As long as you have a dream, you will grow like a weed, and no matter what setbacks you encounter, you can't defeat it.
She began to take every opportunity to learn to read and write, while also keeping an eye on the outside world. Dan Meizi understands that learning is the key to changing her fate, and getting out of this small village to pursue a broader world is her real goal.
In the early winter of 1926, Dan Meizi went to the river to wash clothes as usual, and overheard the talk of several aunts. They talked about the recent arrival of a group of people called the "Red Army" and what they said about "equality between men and women".
Several aunts laughed heartily, but the hearts of the girls were deeply touched by these words. She knew that equality between men and women meant justice and equality, which she had always longed for.
Hearing this, the weeds in Dan's sister's heart began to grow wildly. She strengthened her determination: "I'm going to be in the Red Army!" "She wants to pursue her own future for herself and for all those who aspire to equality.
Dan's mother-in-law heard the news of the Red Army and knew that Dan's stubborn child must have something to do, so she locked her up. How can a girl be easily trapped by a wicked mother-in-law?
She escaped from the Gu family while people were not paying attention, inquired along the way, and finally found the Red Army. When it came to signing up, she had a hard time. It was not that the Red Army embarrassed her, but that she found that she only had the nickname "Dan Meizi" and no big name.
At this time, she remembered the "loyalty" she had learned from Mr. Bookkeeper, and took out the word "Zhen" from it as her name. Since then, Dan Meizi has become a thing of the past, and Li Zhen has started her new life.
Li Zhen experienced the hardships and pressures of life from an early age, but her optimism and tenacity quickly integrated her into the fiery ranks of the Red Army. In the ranks, she took care of the wounded, mended clothes, and actively promoted the policies of the Red Army to the people.
Her excellent performance soon attracted the attention of the leaders, and she began to be trained, and soon she became a member of the Women's Federation in Liuyang. Li Zhen's affinity and local background have made her work in the local area very smooth, and her reputation has grown in the local area, and people know that there is such an excellent daughter-in-law of the ancient family.
However, in May 1927, Xu Kexiang launched the Ma-Ri Incident in Hunan and began to arrest the Communists, and the Liuyang area also began to carry out ** against the Red Army and the families of the Red Army.
The Gu family was worried about being implicated, so they hurriedly wrote a letter of resignation to Li Zhen and tried to get her to leave. However, Li Zhen was very happy after receiving the letter of resignation, she finally broke off the relationship with the Gu family who had tormented her for more than ten years and became a free person.
Li Zhen, a woman who pursued freedom, devoted all her enthusiasm and energy to revolutionary work. She was the first female party branch secretary after the destruction of the party organization in Liuyang, and she was also the chairman of the Xiangdong guerrillas.
During the Autumn Harvest Uprising, ** also came to visit the famous female chairman. In the ranks of the Red Army, Li Zhen experienced a real love.
During the operation to rescue Comrade **, she pretended to be a married bride and hid **ammunition in a sedan chair. After the rescue was successful, the rescued people were mixed in the wedding team and left the city safely.
Among this group of rescued people is her lover Zhang Qilong.
Li Zhen and Zhang Qilong were happily married, but the reactionaries refused to give them a chance to enjoy peace. During a breakout operation, Li Zhen led a guerrilla force to support the retreat of the main force, but was surrounded by the enemy.
She resolutely lured the enemy to the Ancestral Cliff Mountain, and found that there was no way out.
Amid the constant shouts of the enemy, Li Zhen chose to jump off the cliff. Luckily, she was caught by a tree down the hill and although she was badly injured, she survived, but her five-month-old child was not saved.
In 1932, the Red Army successfully countered the encirclement and suppression, and the revolutionary enthusiasm in Hunan was unprecedentedly high, and people asked to join the army. In this context, the provincial military district established a women's regiment, and Li Zhen became the political commissar.
Despite her youth, Li Zhen has a deep knowledge of political theory and military literacy. This women's regiment soon showed strong combat effectiveness, and even became the help of the main force in the battle, and made many meritorious achievements.
People praise them as the Mulan of our time.
During that period of left-leaning mistakes, many in the party were unfairly criticized. Zhang Qilong was one of them, and he was condemned as a counter-revolutionary dissident because of his support for ***.
Before being imprisoned, in order to prevent Li Zhen from being implicated, he gritted his teeth and wrote a divorce letter for her. Li Zhen understood his concerns and signed the divorce paper with tears in her eyes.
However, this blow did not make Li Zhen decadent, but inspired her to serve as the director of the political department of the Red Army School during the Red Army's Long March, leading a group of cadet soldiers to shelter the lonely, wounded, and stragglers along the way.
After many battles, she managed to bring these warriors to the ranks of the Red Sixth Legion.
Ren Bishi's wife, Li Congying, took a fancy to Li Zhen and wanted to introduce her to Gan Siqi, who graduated from Hunan University and was very knowledgeable, and after returning to China, he served as the propaganda minister of the provincial party committee, and is now the director of the political department of the Red Sixth Army.
Li Zhen thinks that she is uneducated and unworthy of Gan Siqi. However, Gan Siqi was deeply attracted by Li Zhen's qualities, and refused to expose Zhang Qilong's so-called "crimes", but instead developed a good impression of Li Zhen.
After Li Congying's introduction and contact, Gan Siqi launched a passionate pursuit of Li Zhen, and finally the two came together.
Li Zhen and Gan Siqi's love story: During the Long March, Li Zhen's body was seriously injured, and along with the bumps along the way and many battles, her child was born prematurely and died during the Long March.
After a doctor's examination, it was found that her body may not be able to have children. Although Li Zhen had filed for divorce, Gan Siqi was firmly opposed. Although Li Zhen did not have any more children, she adopted the orphans of more than 20 martyrs and fulfilled her wish to be a parent with Gan Siqi.
Li Zhen and Gan Siqi were awarded the title of generals in 1955, becoming a general's husband and wife, and becoming a beautiful conversation in people's mouths. In the same year, Gan Siqi accompanied Li Zhen back to Liuyang to visit relatives and was warmly welcomed by the local villagers.
More than 30 years after Li Zhen left her hometown, she felt cordial when she heard the cordial local voice, and frequently shook hands with the people. In the crowd, she saw an old man, who turned and slipped away when he saw her.
This person is Gu Tianshun, who has abused her for more than ten years. He heard that there was a female general in his hometown, and he was also curious.
Gu Tianshun has always believed that his child daughter-in-law Dan sister is what people call Li Zhen, although there is no evidence. To confirm this idea, he hid in the crowd to observe Li Zhen and her husband.
However, he found out that this female general was the sister of Dan whom he had abused for more than ten years. This terrified him deeply, and he was afraid that Dan Mei would take revenge on him and take his life.
Despite his attempts to escape, his heart is filled with fear. Eventually, he mustered up the courage to find the village chief's home and received a letter from Li Zhen from the village chief. Although he was illiterate, the village chief explained the contents of the letter to him.
The letter comforted Gu Tianshun and told him not to worry about retaliation, because all of us new Chinese are equal. Although there were unpleasant experiences in the Gu family in the past, those are all in the past.
Our relationship has ended since the Gu family was suspended, and now I wish him a happy life. It turned out that Li Zhen had already recognized Gu Tianshun, and when she saw him dodging and fleeing, she didn't say anything, but she already understood the uneasiness in his heart.
After all, we have been living together for more than a decade and are very familiar. Li Zhen was worried that going directly to the door would scare Gu Tianshun, so she left him this letter.
In 1959, through an in-depth interview with Li Zhen, Wei Wei published her legendary experience in the form of an article, allowing the world to understand her journey from a child daughter-in-law to a general.
In 1988, playwright Sheng Heyu adapted Li Zhen's story into the opera "Li Zhen's Return to Her Hometown", which described in detail her former life as a child daughter-in-law and her care for Gu Tianshun after returning to her hometown, making the audience feel more deeply the deep feelings of this female general for the people.
In 1990, Li Zhen passed away, but her legacy to future generations is much more than that. She only had a deposit of 11,000 yuan, half of which was given to the state and part of which was donated to the Soong Ching Ling Charity Association.
From a child bride to a founding general". ”