Su Yu, born in 1907, Dong ethnicity, born in Huitong, Hunan. Chinese proletarian revolutionary and military figure, the main leader of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and the head of the Ten Great Generals of the People's Republic of China.
Chu Qing, born in 1923, is born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. His father was a banker. In 1938, he joined the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui Province, and served as a secretary, staff officer, officer and other company, battalion and regimental cadres, but he changed careers in 1952 and retired as a deputy military cadre in 1983. He died on February 21, 2016 at the age of 93.
Revolutionary couples, together for a lifetime.
On February 5, 1984, Su Yu died in the General Hospital of the people's liberation army in Chinese. Mrs. Chu Qing gave a poem "Sending Nostalgia" to pin down the deep affection of fighting and living with Su Yu for more than 40 years.
When it is sunny, the rain is clear, and the thousands of miles are sent to accompany the king.
Relief seems to see the loyal soul smile, cherish the camaraderie.
The Vista Prancing Horse waved its whip, but recalled the success of the battlefield frequently.
The southeast is full of flowers at this moment, which can comfort the soul of the hero.
The hero is gone, the flowers are blooming, and the mourning is endless. When Su Yu was cremated, his family found 3 pieces of shrapnel in the ashes of his skull. Silently cherished, poetry is a lifelong friendship, and the shrapnel left in Su Yu's head for 54 years[i], are the continuation of life in another way, and they are also the precious memories of the life of the general RongMa.
The elderly Chu Qing and his family regarded these 3 pieces of shrapnel as heirlooms. In March 2003, when she learned that the Academy of Military Sciences was preparing to build a history museum of the Academy of Military Sciences, she personally presented one of them to the History Museum of the Academy of Military Sciences for display, and gave the other two to her eldest son Su Rongsheng for safekeeping. She said: "Handing over the shrapnel to the military section is the idea of our family and the best destination for it." ”[ii]
In 1941, 18-year-old Chu Qing married Su Yu, 34, at the headquarters of the New Fourth Army. Previously, their love story was a bit slow and hot, but it was this that made them their lifelong partners, hand in hand, warm to each other, and walk through a life of ups and downs together.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, a large part of the country was lost. On December 14, 1937, Yangzhou fell, and the Japanese army burned and plundered everywhere. Although the sky is still the kind of blue that can reflect people's hearts, the earth is scarred everywhere, and the smell of blood wafts around in the wolf smoke. The common people hid everywhere, and when the ghosts came, Chu Qing and his family hid in their own firewood room. However, at that time, she was not called Chu Qing by her name, but by the name Yongzhu, Zhan Yongzhu.
The outer wall of the firewood room was longer than the house, and the family and Zhan Yongzhu hid in the small dark room-like space where the growing part was grown. The door and outside of the firewood room are piled with firewood, and it is not easy for outsiders to find that the small space exists. Obviously, this is not a long-term solution, once, the devils who came were suspicious, wanted to enter the firewood room to find out, when they picked up the firewood pile, they slid down, and were stabbed in the eyes by the firewood, "screaming" and leaving.
The family and Zhan Yongzhu's hanging heart fell, and then told the matter to Zhan Keming, who worked in Shanghai, Zhan Yongzhu's father. Zhan Keming thought hard, thought of the church, gave the church a sum of money, and asked an American priest of the church to come to his hometown to pick up people. Sitting on the priest's car, zhan Yongzhu's family of 7 was extremely nervous, and they who had once been hiding in the firewood room were now exposed to the eyes of the devil. What they did not expect was that the devil did not do anything to the priest, but also saluted the priest and the car from a distance.
Zhan Yongzhu in the car looked at the ghost, looked at the scarred earth, and suddenly had a longing, longing for someone to come and defend his hometown. That person was clearly the hero in her heart. At that moment, she did not know who he was, and could only fill her eyes with salty tears in her longing. Go to school, read, and by the time she was in her sophomore year of high school, she couldn't read anymore. In those years, in addition to the longing in her heart, her ears often saw the gunshots of the devils and the whistles of the devils.
The bayonets were shining, stained red by the blood of the villagers, and the gunshots and whistles were followed by the groans of pain of the villagers. This made Zhan Yongzhu understand and understand a simple truth again and again: the country, the country, without the country, there is no home, only to drive away the Japanese devils, defend the country, this is the most important, more urgent than reading. Where is the hero that your heart desires? Zhan Yongzhu didn't seem to have really seen it yet, so let's go as a soldier and fight the devils himself.
Opportunities come. At the end of 1938, a classmate suddenly told Zhan Yongzhu that he was going to send a friend to join the New Fourth Army. Zhan Yongzhu was shocked and asked, "Join the New Fourth Army?" The classmate said, "Is there anything wrong?" Zhan Yongzhu relaxed and suddenly said, "Can you take me with you?" The classmate said, "Of course you can!" Zhan Yongzhu said, "I can't do it alone, can I bring a few more?" The classmate nodded, "No problem!" In this way, Zhan Yongzhu did not have time to greet his family, and his sister Zhan Yongshan and other 7 girls who wanted to become soldiers to save the country embarked on the journey of joining the New Fourth Army.
From Shanghai to Ningbo and then to southern Anhui, Zhan Yongzhu stayed in the guest house of the New Fourth Army in Zhangjiadu, about 50 miles southwest of Jing County. The dreams of youth are about to be realized, although they are all girls, but they are still hot-blooded youths. That night, they were so excited that they couldn't sleep all night, but the next day they received a not very good news - although it was in the war years, not everyone could join the New Fourth Army, and they needed a letter of introduction.
Rushing to the ground, they were rejected, and Zhan Yongzhu hurriedly circled on the ground, not knowing what to do. By coincidence, they soon met another female comrade who had come to join the New Fourth Army, and looking at the introduction letter in the hand of this female comrade, Zhan Yongzhu alertly stepped forward: "Can you take our name with you?" The other party didn't even think about it, and then happily agreed. In this way, Zhan Yongzhu became the female soldiers of the New Fourth Army.
That year, Zhan Yongzhu was 15 years old.
In August 1939, the Jiangnan Headquarters of the New Fourth Army was established, with Su Yu as the deputy commander. At this time, Zhan Yongzhu and several classmates were assigned to teach the general team. One day, Su Yu came to the Teaching Corps and prepared to select several trainees with both political integrity and ability to work in the organs. After entering the door, he saw a handsome female trainee writing with a brush in a calm manner, and felt that his eyes lit up, and then the head of the teaching corps told him that the female trainee's name was Zhan Yongzhu. In the following interview, Zhan Yongzhu left a deep impression on Su Yu - Su Yu felt that she had sharp teeth, a wide range of knowledge, answered questions crisply and neatly, and her tone was depressed and frustrated, and she was very emotional.
It is not so much that love came at that moment, but rather that Su Yu liked Zhan Yongzhu from that moment on. After that, when he was idle, the image of Zhan Yongzhu would always appear in his mind. After a while, he decided to throw stones to ask for directions, and wrote a letter to Zhan Yongzhu, but he did not expect that Zhan Yongzhu's face changed greatly after seeing the letter, and he tore the letter off without looking at it.
Although he was a little disappointed, Su Yu felt that he could not just give up. On the one hand, he felt that Zhan Yongzhu was unwilling to fall in love with him, and he could not blame Zhan Yongzhu, because Zhan Yongzhu had the freedom to choose in love; on the other hand, he believed that love was first of all emotion, and the production of feelings required mutual understanding, and he was willing to let Zhan Yongzhu know more about himself in the waiting.
Love has become a long-term battle here. At the end of the year, the female cadets selected by Su Yu from the teaching corps were assigned to the Jiangnan Headquarters after shorthand training, and Zhan Yongzhu was among them. Su Yu personally welcomed them in front of the headquarters. The female soldiers felt that Su Yu, the chief, had no shelf, treated people kindly, and even joked with Su Yu. Zhan Yongzhu began to observe Su Yu in the dark from then on, and Su Yu always looked indifferent and very calm in front of her, which made her feel very at ease.
After being settled, the female soldiers and Su Yu lived in an ancestral hall, Su Yu lived in a small attic next to the ancestral hall, and Zhan Yongzhu and several other female soldiers lived under the attic. Because Su Yu often had to work until late at night, the guards were afraid that he would be hungry at night, so they bought some biscuits and put them in the bamboo tube behind Su Yu's bed. One day, when Su Yu was not there, Zhan Yongzhu and a few other female soldiers smiled and groped inside, ate the biscuits in the bamboo tube, and left a note for Su Yu: Chief, your biscuits let the little mouse steal it. Su Yu was not angry when he saw it, and welcomed them to their next visit.
During this period, because he was afraid that his family would be implicated by joining the New Fourth Army, Zhan Yongzhu wanted to change his name and looked for Su Yu once. Zhan Yongzhu once recalled that that day, Su Yu wrote one or two dozen surnames on the paper, asking her to pick, she thought that the surname of Wang, the surname of Li, or something, too much, there was no choice, see the word "Chu", feel catchy, so she chose it as her surname, called Chu Qing. At the end, Su Yu jokingly said: "Xiao Zhan, you have been deceived, my hometown hunan belongs to the Chu state, calling this name means that it is the person in our hometown." ”
Perhaps because of this sentence, Su Yu, who looked at the doorway and wanted to go to the front line to command the battle, finally couldn't hold back, and about Chu Qing went to a small river and expressed his admiration for Chu Qing again. What Su Yu did not expect was that this time he touched a nose of ash again, and Chu Qing said to him: "Chief, I admire your personality and talent, but I just joined the work and do not want to fall in love for the time being." Moreover, when the country is in trouble, I am even more reluctant to think about the small things of my personal life too early! ”
Chu Qing thought that this sentence would bring Su Yu back, but he did not expect Su Yu to be as calm as a war: "Comrade Chu Qing, you are right, the country is in trouble, we should all strive to win the victory of the War of Resistance... But I think that as a revolutionary, whether you can fall in love, the key is to deal with the relationship between revolution and love... Well, please consider that it is better for us to make a friend, learn from each other in the future, and help each other, which is not contradictory to the revolution. After that, it was as if some injuries had gone. Chu Qing looked at the background of Su Yu's departure, and suddenly had an inexplicable feeling in his heart.
It was raining heavily on the day su yu returned from the battlefield, and when he heard that Chu Qing was hospitalized due to illness, he came to visit him. Hearing that familiar voice, Chu Qing opened his eyes confusedly and saw that Su Yu, who had been soaked by the rain, was smiling slightly at himself, and at this time, the rain hit the eaves and fell to the ground. Su Yu said, "You are well recuperated..." Chu Qing said: "Chief, you are fine on the battlefield..." Su Yu said: "It is cold, I brought you a blanket..." After that, the blanket was gently covered on Chu Qing's body, Chu Qing felt much warmer, after that, she heard the sound of Su Yu leaving, and then think about her previous experience, the hard heart is like ice has been melted.
A few days later, Chu Qing was discharged from the hospital, washed the blanket and wanted to return it to Su Yu, but when she came to Su Yu, Su Yu was going out. Listening to his own heartbeat, Chu Qing said with some embarrassment: "I still give you a blanket..." Su Yu said, "You are not in good health, just leave it with you!" After that, hurried away. Chu Qing looked at Su Yu's background, and suddenly asked in a long voice, "Where are you going..." Su Yu did not look back: "Go to war!" Chu Qing's heart suddenly tightened: "Take care of yourself!" ”
Su Yu knew that he had succeeded, but he still did not stop and did not look back: "Everyone says that I chased you for three years and did not catch up, let me forget it, but I still want to come for three more years!" At that time, he smiled and moved forward happily.
Chu Qing didn't see Su Yu's smile, all he saw was that Su Yu walked away and disappeared little by little. The air fell silent, and then she heard the sound of air particles crashing against each other, and in that sound she thought of her childhood, of the smell of blood that pervaded the scarred wolf smoke everywhere on the earth. She said, "Is this the hero I've longed for?" The blanket still made her feel warm, and Su Yu became her concern.
Romain Rowland says there is only one true heroism in this world, and that is to love life after recognizing its truth. The same is true of putting this sentence on love, when love is so simple that only days are left, when it is simple enough to only have the love and warmth of a blanket in the days, it must be the most lasting and even endless. So, the slower the heat also means the longer it is.
After the founding of New China, Su Yu's physical condition has not been very good, and his headaches and dizziness are unbearable every day, but he is still insisting on working. Chu Qing said: "The headache and dizziness caused by the shrapnel on his head have tormented him for decades and brought him incomparable pain. Usually the pain is too unbearable, he will use cold water to rinse his head, or wear a brain device on his head to relieve the pain. We looked at him in pain, anxious and helpless. ”
Behind the hero is also the hero. In order to take good care of her husband, Chu Qing resolutely left her original job and accompanied Su Yu to fight against the disease. But she rarely talked about it to others. The southeast is full of flowers at this moment, which can comfort the soul of the hero. After Su Yu's death, she scattered Su Yu's ashes on more than 20 pieces of land where Su Yu had fought, and only the shrapnel in Su Yu's head was quietly preserved.
The slow and hot love between Su Yu and Chu Qing can let people today see the freedom, romance and reality of red love in that era. It is the primary color of love, but also the primary color of years and days, and when encountered in human nature, there can be too many tears. Once the buds bloom, they can follow all the way, without distractions, and they will eventually come to fruition, beautiful and moving.
This article is based on relevant information, and the pictures are also from the Internet, thanks to the original author.
[i] Xinhua Net, "Su Yu's Skull Left Three Pieces of Shrapnel in His Head for 54 Years," 2005-03;
[ii] Jiefangjun Bao, Bao Guojun, Li Hongjun, "Three Pieces of Shrapnel in the Head of General Su Yu", 2005-03.
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