Cai Ruoshu had a military dream since he was a child, longing for the heroic Lingyun whip to beat the golden stirrup and break through Helan Mountain. Although she is still young and a woman, she is still in high school and determined to defend her country, but that dream is really just a dream and can only be thought about. In the early summer of that year, at her teacher's birthday party, she seemed to be one step closer to her dream.

As the teacher's favorite pupil, she followed the teacher to toast the guests one by one. Suddenly, she was pushed in by a guest, and just poured half the wine on a guest's pants. The little girl quickly apologized, and when she looked up, she saw him, an elegant soldier with a star hanging from his shoulder.

1933, Huang Wei, who just graduated from the advanced training class of the Army University and was promoted to 1 1, the deputy division commander, thus met Cai Ruoshu. There was no polite greeting, and all the opening and closing remarks came naturally in a "I'm sorry".

Huang Wei is a popular figure in Mutu (Chen Cheng's own army), and he was a favorite of Chen Cheng until he was 30 years old.

"But, why can't I forget those eyes, those eyes that seem to be able to see through my heart, countless people are jostling around me, and he is the one who can shelter me from the wind and rain." Cai Ruoshu's diary for a week in a row is full of thoughts about Bo Huang. "My mother was widowed for 20 years and worked hard to raise me. I have never disobeyed her old man since I was a child ... I really have no plans to continue to get married. " Huang Wei asked someone to send a message to Miss Cai.

Unexpectedly, Miss Cai, with a hot temper, appeared in front of his teacher and stopped his car. "Now is a democratic society. Although polygamy is not advocated, it is not opposed that a wife cannot continue to marry. I just want to marry you. Without you, I will go crazy. "

Three months later, Huang Wei married Cai Ruoshu in Hangzhou. On the second day after marriage, the husband and wife went back to their hometown Guixi, Jiangxi to visit their mother. Unexpectedly, the old mother refused to let her son into the house after learning that he had married a beautiful wife, which led the rich general to kneel on the ground outside the old house with his newly-entered wife and dozens of guards.

The old lady only wants one thing: to divorce the newly-married Mrs. Huang. Mrs. Huang is silent, neither crying nor making trouble. She and her husband looked at each other peacefully in the hot sun, so she straightened up and knelt for two days.

This means that Cai Ruoshu will not be recognized as Huang Wei's wife by people in the old house in this life, and even after his death, he will not be able to enter the ancestral grave. For Cai Ruoshu, who is still a traditional woman in feudal society, it is a bolt from the blue. But she calmly pulled up Huang Wei. "Nothing, it's good to have you."

A month later, Cai Ruoshu got the divorce certificate of Huang Wei and his original wife. She deliberately found a box with a lock, locked the certificate in it, and then threw away the key at a distance. "I won't lose this box, but I won't open it. This is my magic. "

2. The bitter days together are also good times.

1February, 937, the state sent Huang Wei to Germany for further study. On August 13, Huang Wei received a telegram and the Japanese army landed in Songjiang. National * * * appointed Huang Wei as the commander of the 67th Division of the 18 Army and immediately returned to China to participate in the war.

Huang Wei took Cai Ruoshu to the front line the next day after returning home.

Huang Wei's campaign mobilization has only one paragraph. "You know, my mother has been a widow for twenty years in order to support me. But your sister-in-law, my mother denied it. Now, my wife and your sister-in-law and all Shanghainese are 30 kilometers away. Can you bear to let your sister-in-law and all the people in Shanghai have no home? "

One week, the 67th Division fought a bayonet with the Japanese army. Six of his nine regiments were killed and three were seriously injured. In addition to the guard class and telephone class, the division even rushed to the position with live ammunition. After the Battle of Songhu, Chiang Kai-shek personally met Huang Wei in Nanjing and gave him an autographed photo. On the back of the photo, Chiang Kai-shek wrote in fine print: "General Pei Yi is gracious".

During that week, Cai Ruoshu asked the guards to put the newspaper of the day at the door every day, so that the first thing she got up in the morning was to read the latest news about the war. When the newspaper said that "the Japanese army had approached the headquarters of the 69th Division only 200 meters away", she immediately ordered the guards to send her to the war correspondent camp of Shanghai Daily, only 600 meters away from the front. Because it is too close to the battlefield, the blockade area is forbidden to enter. Cai Ruoshu even ordered the guards to play the banner of "69th Division Comfort Corps". She claimed to be the head of the team, and personally raised the banner of "69th Division, understand me, I am with you", which was collected by the reporter of Shanghai Daily and became a much-told story in the Sino-Japanese War between Songhu and Shanghai.

After the war in Wuhan, the Japanese army advanced to East Asia and conquered Vietnam at the same time, and used Vietnam as a springboard to advance to Fujian, China. The ninth army was ordered to station in Fujian. At that time, Huang Wei, commander of the 54th Army of the Ninth Army, took Cai Ruoshu to live in a ruined temple in the deep mountains of Yunnan, and shared weal and woe with the soldiers of the whole army to farm and raise pigs. Cai Ruoshu creatively planted cucumbers and eggplants in the vacant lot of that ruined temple, and often bought wine and cooked dishes to invite his subordinates over for dinner. Fortunately, the war had not yet begun. Later, I thought that the bitter days were actually a rare good time for Cai Ruoshu.

Qi Mei, his house is shabby, but his heart is safe and can be quoted with his beloved. Who can say that the quiet time in the yard is not a paradise on earth?

I didn't expect the disaster to begin. One day, I suddenly received a phone call from Nanjing, saying that Huang was accused of falsely reporting his salary and asked him to go back to Nanjing to face it. Because life in the mountains is too hard, the soldiers' food is really poor. When the quartermaster of the 54th Army signed up, it was true that nearly a thousand people were overstayed. After discussion, the military learned that he had to make this decision in order to get more allowances for soldiers. However, it is a national disaster for the chief officials to eat empty salaries in wartime, but it is not a big deal, but it is a crime.

The result of our discussion is that this matter can be big or small. If it is not handled well, Huang Wei's future will be worrying, even his position and honor will be lost, and the country will be in danger. It is not impossible to cut off a lieutenant general's head on such a trivial matter.

The clever Cai Ruoshu had an idea. She can "inadvertently" appear in Nanjing as Mrs. Huang Wei, reporting to Huang Wei first, and Huang Wei can go to Nanjing later on the grounds of military affairs. At that time, things may turn around.

Chen Cheng, the former boss, is in Nanjing on business. Cai Ruoshu first found Chen Cheng and reported to Chen Cheng about stevie hoang's empty reimbursement. Under the mediation of Chen Cheng, President Jiang's favorite pupil, when stevie hoang arrived in Nanjing, no one ever mentioned the word "empty pay". On the contrary, President Jiang personally hosted a banquet to welcome the "heroes and representatives of the Ninth Army" and later told everyone that his wife Cai was his lucky star.

3. Hold on. Hold on

Cai Ruoshu can't go back to his hometown, and stevie hoang has been worried that he failed his wife. He specially built a small villa on Lushan Mountain, and took time to take Cai Ruoshu to Lushan Mountain for the summer every summer. The two joked that if one day they died, they would not go to their ancestral graves, and they would find a quiet place in Lushan to continue their frontier, and they would not be separated when they died.

In the summer of 1948, Huang Wei and his wife came to Lushan Mountain as usual. They had three children at that time, and their fourth child was due to be born in a month.

Huang Wei failed to see their fourth child. A few days later, a telegram sent Huang Wei to the Huaihai battlefield. "When you come back, give the child a name." Cai Ruoshu's waiting is a thousand days.

The Huaihai Campaign lasted for a long time. Later, the situation was so chaotic that even the newspaper reports were inconsistent. At that time, the general trend of the national army had gone, the people in the Kuomintang-controlled areas were in panic, and Cai Ruoshu was also suffering for a long time.

The husband's life and death are unknown, and there is no longer any situation of the national army in all reports. She called the old chief Chen Cheng, and Chen Cheng answered her: Huang Wei is my old subordinate, and I have confidence in him. I am about to be transferred to Taiwan Province Province. Come with me to Taiwan Province Province first. Cai Ruoshu won't leave, and she won't go anywhere without hearing from her husband. Until one day, Chen Cheng's guards rushed into the house and forcibly took her and her children on the plane. By the time they landed, they were already in Taiwan Province Province.

Half a year later, the whole country held a grand memorial service for "General stevie hoang who died in battle" in Taiwan Province Province.

"He must not be dead. He hasn't named the child yet. It's agreed. " Cai Ruoshu didn't believe that her husband, who always kept his word, had broken his word this time. He said that we died in the same place and were buried behind Lushan villa.

Two years later, Chen Cheng, who was already the president of Taiwan Province Province, secretly told her that Huang Wei was not actually dead, but was now imprisoned as a war criminal.

Cai Ruoshu smiled. No matter where you are, it is good to be alive, and there is hope when you are alive. Isn't she living in a hope that she won't die all her life?

Knowing that Huang Wei was still alive, Cai Ruoshu immediately set about preparing to return to the mainland. First, I tried my best to move to Hong Kong for a year, until Taiwan Province Province lost its vigilance against a family of war criminals and suddenly returned to the mainland via Japan, taking four children to settle in Shanghai anonymously. At that time, the general's wife found a job in a small library, walked to work for half an hour with many newly liberated people every day, and saved enough money to buy a train ticket from Shanghai to Beijing.

At that time, Cai Ruoshu had just turned 30, with four children, and often took the green leather train from Shanghai to Beijing to visit the prison. I'm not allowed to see myself when I visit the prison. Huang Wei is a lieutenant general, a special war criminal, and the key care object. Cai Ruoshu traveled thousands of miles again and again, but he could only hand a cotton-padded coat to the soldiers armed outside the prison wall and turned away.

Those cotton-padded clothes sewn with needles are often wrapped in two apples or a pack of cigarettes. Of course, if you have anything to say, the guard allows her to write a few lines, check the contents and bring them in. After so many years, we can't finish what we want to say, but every time Cai Ruoshu leaves a note for Bo Huang, he simply says: Hold on, hold on.

1956, after learning the news of Cai Ruoshu's visit to prison, Premier Zhou Enlai specifically instructed Huang Wei to be an anti-Japanese hero and allowed his family to visit. In Kutokuhayashi prison in Beijing, after years of expectation and persistence, in just two hours, Cai Ruoshu kept repeating a sentence without tears, "I finally made it to today. Without you, I will go crazy ... "

Huang Wei asked, I asked the prison guard to take a message and ask her to bring a photo of her four daughters. Did you bring it? Cai Ruoshu nodded and took out a photo from his pocket. "You said you would give him a name, but you won't come back once you leave. This child can't live without a name ... Her name is Huang Huinan. " When Shen Zui, a good friend of Huang Wei, mentioned this plot in his memoirs, he wrote: "In the management office, Huang Wei kept this photo in his left pocket and treasured it like a treasure."

1956, Huang Wei's mother was seriously ill. Cai Ruoshu took home the old lady who refused to call herself her mother all her life and took care of her with all her heart until Mrs. Huang died. She just said, old lady, you are fine, fine, just like me, fine. ...

The old lady didn't insist, but the woman insisted and persisted.

1975 In the spring, Huang Wei was going to be released from prison. The momentary joy made him suddenly suffer from angina pectoris and once fell into a coma. Premier Zhou specifically instructed to save his life at all costs and told Cai Ruoshu, who is far away in Shanghai. She immediately rushed to Beijing on a starry night and undressed for twenty days until stevie hoang turned the corner.

4. Why do you go crazy after marrying me?

The first thing he did after he got out of prison, Huang Bo took Cai Ruoshu to the photo studio. At that time, the heroic lieutenant general was already a dragon bell, and the stunning beauty died young. In the photo, an old lady with short hair in a white dacron coat smiles and leans her head gently on the shoulder beside her.

No matter how long I have forgotten the strangeness of meeting, the days of mutual concern have finally begun again. * * * Huang Wei was assigned to work in the Literature and History Archives of China People's Political Consultative Conference, and Cai Ruoshu was also transferred to Beijing. They were also assigned a house, which is located in Neidong Street, Yongdingmen. When they opened the window, they saw running water and weeping willows.

Regrettably, these years of suffering have hurt Cai Ruoshu's health, and she has been maintained by drugs. She has been taking a lot of medicine all day, and she has auditory hallucinations, hallucinations and hallucinations. She is worried that Huang Wei will say something wrong, and once he speaks at the meeting, her nerves will be nervous. Later, every morning when stevie hoang went to work and went out, Cai Ruoshu at home was on tenterhooks. Every time stevie hoang gets off work, he waits downstairs. Stevie hoang couldn't wait to make a hullabaloo about in a few minutes, saying that stevie hoang was on the battlefield again, defeated and captured, and even went home to find his son and daughter, saying that someone was going to take their father away.

1976 Summer, one year after Huang Wei was released from prison, it was a Sunday. After Huang Wei sedated his wife, he went out for a walk alone. When he came back, his wife had already left. Half an hour later, the neighbor brought news and Cai Ruoshu jumped into the moat.

The most beautiful waiting in life was handed over to the days that passed by in a hurry for 27 years, and it took only a short year to get a reunion. Happiness is fleeting. Huang Wei didn't cry, and his tears never crossed the boundary of his general status. "When you said don't marry me, you will be crazy. Why do you go crazy when you marry me? I owe you so much. You go, don't accompany me, leave me one, how can it be quite ... "

About the author: Liu Chuang, a freelance writer, is famous for his novels and fresh essays. Open columns in many domestic publications and Chinese publications in Singapore and Malaysia, covering folklore, popular science, film and television, historical figures and so on. And won the most humanistic literature prize in Southeast Asia. He is the author of "A Brief History of Hackers-Empire in Prism" and "Listening to an Old Song and Remembering Our Never Died Youth". (The original is from today's headlines)