On March 28, 2001, He Pengfei, deputy commander of the Chinese Navy, passed away, and a sad old man appeared at his funeral - Xue Ming, the wife of the marshal and He Pengfei's mother.
Xue Ming is 85 years old and suffering from illness, but he insists on saying goodbye to his son for the last time. She stood next to He Pengfei's body, bursting into tears, muttering eight words in her mouth, each of which deeply touched everyone present.
Xue Ming's career can be described as brilliant. She has the titles of "Marshal's Wife", "General's Mother", and her career can be said to be very successful. However, from a family point of view, she has experienced the loss of her husband in middle age and the loss of a child in old age, how tragic such a life experience is for a woman.
August 1, 1942, the anniversary of the Nanchang Uprising, is also the day when ** and Xue Ming got married. On that day, Yan'an was filled with joyful laughter. At the simple wedding banquet, in order to avoid drinking and hurting his stomach, the young bride Xue Ming drank a cup of wedding wine instead of him. As Ren Bishi said: "Xue Ming is really amazing, he just started to protect you as soon as the relationship was confirmed!" Lao He, you have to keep in mind that Xue Ming will block the gun for you at the critical moment! Ren Bishi was not mistaken, Xue Ming's appearance brought warmth to the second half of his life. It is worth mentioning that when the two were combined, ** was 42 years old, while Xue Ming was only 22 years old.
On September 28, 1944, they welcomed their first child. However, ** has been busy with front-line work, and he didn't even have time to go back to Yan'an to attend the meeting. In the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1945, his wife Xue Ming lived in Liushudian with her children, in order to let ** command the battle with peace of mind, she endured the pain, sat at the entrance of the village with the child, and waited for the army to pass by. At that time, ** saw his wife and children, and he was so excited that he couldn't say a word. In the days of helping each other, Xue Ming never had any complaints about the busy **.
However, the turbulent years of 1966 came, and the He family became the center of trouble. ** became the target of public criticism, and Xue Ming also became the target of attack because he knew some things about Ye Qun. On January 17, 1967, ** was raided, and the prime minister sent them to the suburbs of Beijing to live in seclusion at all costs, but they still could not escape the shadow of **. Every aspect of life is fraught with difficulties and difficulties. Even so, Xue Ming has always been by his side. In the past, the people in charge of guarding them used the difficulty of water supply as an excuse to give them only a small pot of water every day, and they had to rely on occasional rain for domestic water.
Xue Ming felt sorry for her husband who was diabetic and spent every day in thirst. In those difficult days, Xue Ming didn't care about personal grievances and didn't want to make ** even more worried. Perhaps they thought that these difficult days would eventually pass, however, their bodies were getting weaker and weaker.
On June 9, 1969, due to some organizational request, the doctor insisted on sending ** to the hospital for hospitalization**, and Xue Ming was not allowed to accompany him. Before parting, the couple shook hands and said goodbye, but only 6 hours later, ** passed away.
Xue Ming kept blaming himself: "Why can't I be by his side for those six hours, we have gone through the ups and downs of life together, why can't I be by his side at the last moment?" However, for **, being able to marry such a virtuous wife is already the greatest happiness in his life, but his departure has also become a pain that Xue Ming can never erase.
Those who know Xue Ming's past can understand that she is destined to be one of the most suffering people in the turbulent years. In addition to the husband and wife, their child He Pengfei was not spared, and even many years later, he paid the price of his life.
In 1962, He Pengfei, who should have been recommended to Kazakhstan's military industry, was admitted to Tsinghua University with his own efforts at the insistence of **. However, the turmoil two years later changed everything, and he suffered along with his other siblings.
In the most difficult moment, after He Pengfei entrusted his little sister to Liao Chengzhi, he fled Beijing with his eldest sister, and they braved the wind and rain to work as coolies on the cargo ship. He Pengfei showed his hard-working qualities, which won the recognition and respect of the crew.
Although the prime minister later found them and sent them back to school, the siblings were forced to enter a juvenile detention center and have been wandering in a difficult situation. He Pengfei started as a grassroots worker and lived incognito all the way until 1972, when he was reunited with his mother Xue Ming.
It is conceivable that after the death of **, Xue Ming naturally pinned all his expectations on He Pengfei, an already very outstanding son. However, fate still did not spare the family, and they suffered an unfortunate blow.
He Pengfei grew up to be the youngest major general in our army, and after years of hard work, he has long lost the strong physique given by his parents. Even so, he was bent on pursuing the development of the Chinese Navy.
On March 28, 2001, due to long-term overwork, He Pengfei, who was only 56 years old, died of a heart attack. And the 8 words that Xue Ming kept crying were "Why did you leave me!" This scene touched people's hearts deeply.