May 19, 1950, coincided with the 60th anniversary of the birth of Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh. The People's Daily published a special article about Ho Chi Minh's revolutionary experience, along with a portrait.
In Guangdong, a middle-aged woman nearly 45 years old was stunned by ho Chi Minh in the newspaper. Isn't this the husband Li Rui I think about day and night? How did he become Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh again?
She pored over the photographs, read the characters in the newspaper repeatedly, and finally believed that this Ho Chi Minh was her former husband.
After more than 20 years of waiting, there was finally hope, so she quickly reported to the leaders of the unit about her and Ho Chi Minh, and at the same time, wrote a letter to the Vietnamese Embassy in China, requesting to contact Vietnam and strive to reunite with her husband at an early date.
However, the letter sent out was still stoned in the sea, and there was no news.
Is this ordinary Chinese nurse really the wife of the Vietnamese leader? What happened between them? Today, let's open the history and uncover the long-hidden story!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > Ho Chi Minh</h1>
In 1890, Ho Chi Minh was born in Vietnam to a family of scholars, his original name was Nguyen Bi Thanh, and his father had won the scientific expedition.
From an early age, he received a very good education, especially familiar with Chinese, even in dialects such as Cantonese.
At that time, Vietnam was still a French colony, and seeing the people living in dire straits, Ho Chi Minh was determined to seek a way out for the country from an early age. When he was 15 years old, he began to participate in anti-Legal activities. Then go to the United Kingdom, the United States, France and other countries to study. At the same time he also joined the French Communist Party, becoming the first Communist in Vietnam.
In France, he was fortunate to know Zhou Enlai, Cai Chang, etc., which laid a deep foundation for his future career. He then went to Moscow to study.
In 1924, dispatched by the Comintern, Ho Chi Minh came to Guangzhou as a translator for Borodin, a Chinese adviser in Moscow, under the pseudonym Li Rui.
Here, he meets the love of his life, and the fate of a girl is changed.
She is Zeng Xueming.
Zeng Xueming was originally born in a family with a solid family, and his father has been in business in the United States for many years. However, when she was ten years old, her father died tragically. Under the leadership of her sister, she learned midwifery and later became a midwife at the Luo Xiuyun Medical Clinic in Guangzhou.
Although she is an ordinary nurse, she is very active and enterprising in her heart, often participating in ge M activities with outstanding young people such as Deng Yingchao and Cai Chang, and has become a good friend.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="96" > corner meets love</h1>
One day in 1925, Zeng Xueming and Cai Chang finished talking about women's activities and prepared to leave. Just as she was descending the stairs, she bumped into a middle-aged man, who was Ho Chi Minh, who assumed the pseudonym Li Rui. The scene seemed a little awkward, but out of courtesy, Zeng Xueming quickly stepped aside and smiled at the visitors to apologize.
But it was this smile that was deeply imprinted in Ho Chi Minh's heart. From Cai Chang's mouth, he knew that this young and lovely little girl was named Zeng Xueming and was a nurse.
When he learned that Zeng Xueming was also a progressive youth, his eyes could not help but glow with longing, and Cai Chang knew that this 35-year-old youth was emotional.
Therefore, under the arrangement of Cai Chang and Deng Yingchao and others, Li Rui and Zeng Xueming were happily married. He was 35 years old at the time, and Zeng Xue would only be 20 next year. At that time, a pair of young people, they broke through the boundaries of nationality, broke through the age limit, broke through the worldly prejudices, and only with a passion for blood and righteousness to go to everything, it was not easy.
In October 1926, Zeng Xueming and Li Rui held a grand wedding in Guangzhou, and Cai Chang and Deng Yingchao attended the wedding as witnesses.
After marriage, Zeng Xueming fully supported her husband's career and took good care of him. Li Rui, who has been drifting outside for many years, feels the warmth of his long-lost "home". At the same time, under the guidance of Li Rui, Zeng Xueming's ideological consciousness improved faster, and she later joined the Communist Youth League.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="97" > newlyweds and divorces</h1>
However, sweet days are always so short. Half a year after the new marriage, the situation in Guangzhou was very grim, and Li Rui and other comrades had no choice but to urgently transfer.
Before leaving, Li Rui repeatedly instructed Zeng Xueming: Take care of yourself, wait for my news, and I will come back to reunite with you.
However, unbeknownst to everyone, because of this parting confession, Zeng Xueming actually spent his whole life waiting for her husband's return.
In this way, Li Rui traveled from north to south, successively to Wuhan, Shanghai and other places, and later to Moscow, and the following year to Thailand. Many of the Holy Lands of Ge M have left the footprints of his struggle...
It is said that Zeng Xueming, when her husband left, she found out that she was pregnant. So she returned to her mother to live with her, and in order to make a living, she had to start her old business and work as a midwife in the clinic.
Mother Liang was typical of feudal thinking, as only two of the 10 children she bore survived. So she has always been suspicious of the matter of having a child. At the same time, considering that Li Rui was not around, there was no one to take care of this family. So she persuaded her daughter to give up the child.
In the end, the mother's life is difficult to violate. Zeng Xueming obeyed his mother's arrangement and beat the child away. I thought that she was still young and would have the opportunity to have children in the future, but I did not expect that in the many years after that, this would become a major pain point in her heart.
Li Rui, who is wandering away, actually misses his wife all the time. But at that time, the situation was turbulent, and even a word of peace was a luxury.
During this time, he wrote two letters to his family.
First, when he came to Thailand in 1928, he wrote a letter to his wife under the name of "Tao Jiu".
"Parting ways with my sister, passing for more than a few years, nostalgia is deep, self-evident." Zi Yin Hong, remotely sent an inch note, sister-in-law peace of mind, is what I hope, and ask my mother-in-law to be blessed. Humble Brother Ray. ”
Unfortunately, the letter, which was intercepted by W, did not reach his wife's hand and is currently in the French National Archives.
Second, when he returned to Shanghai in 1930, he wanted to join Zeng Xueming and then go abroad together. Considering that the letter would reach his wife,he also stated that if he did not arrive on time, he would go abroad alone.
However, due to various reasons, the letter still could not be delivered to Zeng Xueming. Later, when she learned of these letters from her husband, several months had passed. Hearing these news, Zeng Xueming couldn't help but be heartbroken, fate was really a trickster!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="98" > the last meeting of their lives</h1>
In 1931, Zeng Xueming took his mother to Hong Kong to see a doctor. By chance, she learned that her husband, Li Rui, had been arrested in Hong Kong and would be tried in public.
Therefore, she rushed to the scene of the trial without stopping, but she could only look at her husband on trial from a distance, but Li Rui did not know that his wife, who was thinking about him day and night, was anxiously watching him in the crowd!
Later, Zeng Xueming thought of many ways to visit the prison, but was rejected for various reasons. In this way, the couple who were close at hand never saw each other again. This distinction is a lifetime.
Therefore, for many years after that, Zeng Xueming did not get any news from her husband.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="99" > endless wait</h1>
Because her husband is Vietnamese, in the dark, Tsang Xue Ming will pay special attention to all the news in Vietnam.
She knew that in 1945 the Republic of Vietnam was established and its leader was Ho Chi Minh.
She also knew that in January 1950, China and Vietnam established diplomatic relations.
However, she did not associate her husband with the increasing aspect at all.
Until May 19, 1950.
When she saw her husband, who had waited all her life, become the supreme leader of Vietnam, she couldn't help but cry. Maybe it's the release of years of pain, maybe it's an expression of joy and sorrow.
Later, after many contact resultsless, Zeng Xueming thought of cai chang, the witness of the marriage, who was already the president of the All-China Women's Federation at that time, and presumably she had the most right to speak.
Later, Cai Chang's answer was:
Ho Chi Minh is indeed Li Rui, Zeng Xueming's husband.
However, even so, the disparity between the status of the two is now too great, plus Ho Chi Minh also has his own involuntary ah!
The local government in Guangzhou wants to understand the difficulty of this matter and hopes that she will forget the past and work with peace of mind.
If there are any difficulties in life, the organization will definitely think of solving them. ”
Slowly, Zeng Xueming was relieved, as long as she knew that her husband was all right, she was also relieved.
In fact, Tsang XueMing did not know that Ho Chi Minh was not a man of little affection, and as the supreme leader, he had too many unavoidable choices. From his change of name to "Ho Chi Minh", the word "Ming" in it does not mean that he misses his wife deeply!
When he offered to take his Chinese wife back, he was strongly opposed by the Vietnamese authorities. How can a father of a country marry a woman from a foreign country?
In addition, Ho Chi Minh had sworn that "Vietnam will not be liberated and will not marry for life." Therefore, some authorities have taken this as a threat and a shackle to limit Ho Chi Minh.
At this point, in Ho Chi Minh's legendary life, he "never married" to the point of loneliness. Zeng Xueming, who is far away in China, is also lonely waiting for the promises they once made.
In 1969, when she learned the news of Ho Chi Minh's death, Zeng Xueming could no longer suppress her inner grief, and she hung a statue of Ho Chi Minh on the wall, draped a black veil on the frame, and placed incense candles to mourn her eternal lover!