Chapter 100 martyrdom

Wen Yiduo once used Bai Juyi's "Xinfeng Folded Arm Weng" sentence "should be a ghost in Yunnan" to cure a seal, but unexpectedly the seal became a prophecy. After the "December 1" tragedy happened, Wen Yiduo's elegiac couplet to save the students who died was: "The people are not afraid of death, so why should they be afraid of death." He took the children to worship the students who died, and said to the children: " How glorious they died!" Later, Wen and his wife went to worship again.After returning home, he said to his wife: "It is really an honor for a person to die like this!"

The Yunnan Provincial Branch of the China Democratic League recorded the death of Wen Yiduo as follows: "On July 15th, the Democratic Weekly Office of the League branch at No. 14 Fuyongdao entertained journalists for the assassination of Comrade Li Gongpu. After the meeting, Wen Yiduo Comrade Wen Lihe and his eldest son Wen Lihe left Democracy Weekly at 5:40, and returned to the faculty dormitory of Xicangpo National Southwest Associated University. About five minutes later, they walked south at the entrance of the dormitory, and were surrounded by secret agents and thugs. Comrade Wen Yiduo's head and chest were full of bullet holes, bloody and bloody, his left wrist was broken and he died on the spot; his eldest son was shot three times in the chest, his left and right legs were shot once, and one leg was broken, his life was in critical condition.  … Residents in the vicinity had to hint at closing their doors beforehand, but after the assassination, the thugs were able to walk away without any police pursuit. This is obviously an organized and planned political assassination, and there is no room for distinction."

According to Wen Ming, the eldest daughter of Wen Yiduo, one day, a female spy wearing a gray robe, vegetable-green face, and long fingernails broke into Wen’s house with a Bible and threatened, “Wen Yiduo, you If you still don't repent, your word for '多' is two characters for 'Xi', and if you don't repent, you will die soon." On July 11, the last batch of demobilized students from Southwest Associated University left Kunming.The Kuomintang secret agents killed Li Gongpu that night. After Wen Yiduo heard about it, he wanted to go see it that night.As a result, the next day, he went there before dawn. When he arrived, Public Servant Li had passed away, and he caressed the corpse and wept.

On July 15, in the name of the Funeral Committee, the Kunming Federation of Students held a report meeting on "Li Gongpu's death" in the Zhigong Hall of Yunnan University. Wen Yiduo insisted on attending the meeting.Relatives and friends tried to dissuade him again and again, but he resolutely said: "How can this be done? Mr. Li's body is still cold, and we friends will not attend. How can we be worthy of the deceased! If you shrink back because of a shot by the reactionaries, who will want to participate in the patriotic and democratic movement in the future?" Mr. Li will be cremated tomorrow, this is an important mass meeting, I don’t have to speak but I must go.” Everyone couldn’t hold back him, so they had to give up.

Wen Yiduo was not arranged to speak at the report meeting that day, but he confronted the KMT secret agents and made the famous "Last Lecture" impromptu.During the speech, the female spy came and dropped a threatening letter, saying it was for Wen Yiduo and his son, who were dying. When Wen Yiduo, surrounded by students, returned to his home in Xicangpo from the report meeting, the family members' hearts were tightly suspended before returning to the original place.The eldest daughter, Wen Ming, recalled: "The first thing he (Wen Yiduo) said after he came back was, "Where is your mother, you can see that I am back, so don't worry." After he finished speaking, he hung his crutches on the door and was very calm. The threatening letter He looked at it, crumpled it up and threw it into the wastebasket."

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Wen Yiduo was going to the "Democracy Weekly" to attend a press conference.The family could not dissuade him, so they could only ask Wen Lihe to escort his father out.Xi Cangpo, which was still lively in the past, became quiet and deserted at this time. At five o'clock in the afternoon, Wen Lihe went to pick up his father at the gate of "Democracy Weekly".There are still few pedestrians on the street.Democracy Weekly is only more than 200 meters away from Wen's house, and you will arrive at a T-shaped intersection.The father and son took a newspaper and read it while walking.Seeing that it was only a dozen steps away from home, and the gate of the dormitory of Southwest Associated University was close at hand, both father and son secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Wen Ming recalled: "At that time, in order to adjust myself and relax my mood, I ran to the next door and played poker with his children at Professor Chen Da's house. My mother walked around the yard with a sweater, In fact, he was absent-minded. At this time, around five o'clock in the afternoon, we all heard a gunshot, more than a dozen. We all understood when we heard the gunshot, and all ran outside. Running, her body and heart are already weak, and she has heart disease. While running, I felt my legs kneeling straight down. Because I knew it was them, and my elder brother happened to pick it up at that time. My mother was worried and asked my elder brother to go. I went to pick him up. If I really went out to see, the two of them, father and son, were lying in a pool of blood."

Wen Yiduo was shot three times in the head, as well as in the chest and left wrist.Wen Lihe, who was only 18 years old, threw himself on his father immediately after he was shot, trying to protect him with his body. He was shot five times until he was beaten and fell off his father.Wen Lihe remembered that his father was covered in bullet holes, blood gushed out like a spring, his face was pale, his lips moved slightly, and his cane, shoes and glasses were all knocked off...Wen Lihe was rescued to save his life, but his leg fell off disabled.Unfortunately, Wen Yiduo died at the age of 47. On July 21, 1946, the Southwest Associated University Alumni Association held a memorial service for Wen Yiduo, and Zhu Ziqing attended the meeting and delivered a speech.He said: "Mr. Wen Yiduo's tragic assassination in Kunming has aroused national grief and indignation. This is a great loss for the democratic movement and a great loss for Chinese academics." Zhu Ziqing described in detail Wen Yiduo's great academic contributions Finally, he said sadly: "He has a strong vitality. He often told us that he would live to be 80 years old. Now he is not yet 48 years old. He died tragically under that despicable and vicious gun! A student once visited his body and saw him 'He was covered in blood, his head was covered in his hands, and his whole body was in convulsions'. Alas! He is not reconciled, and neither are we!"

After Wen Yiduo passed away, Zhu Ziqing decided to compile and publish all of Wen's posthumous works.In his letter to his student Wang Yao, he said: "The death of Mr. Yiduo is very sad. His posthumous manuscript will be compiled by the colleagues of the institute and try to be printed." With Zhu's efforts, "Wen Yiduo Complete Works" volume published.