Chapter 6 Section five

Ruthless is not necessarily a hero.As a heroic general, Chen Geng's love experience is also extraordinary.When he was 12 years old, his family was engaged to him. When he was 13 years old, he resolutely joined the army in order to escape marriage.His leaving caused an uproar in the village, and his father had no choice but to seek mediation from a local figure and gave the woman a sum of money to end the unfortunate marriage. In 1923, Chen Geng went to Shanghai, where he met Wang Genying, the first woman he really fell in love with, and their love story was tortuous and touching. After Chen Geng arrived in Shanghai, he entered Shanghai University as a cultural teacher.The university was actually an evening school run by the Communists.It is located in an alley in Shishoufang, Qingyun Road, Shanghai.The school has no gate, no auditorium, no library, and no playground.But the teachers were top figures in the revolutionary movement at that time, such as Qu Qiubai, Zhang Tailei, Cai Hesen, Deng Zhongxia, Yun Daiying, Ren Bishi, Xiao Chunv, etc. There were also quite famous scholars such as Shen Yanbing and Chen Wangdao.

What fascinates Chen Geng most is the debates that often take place in the school. The students come from all over the world, with different backgrounds and political beliefs. anarchist.When there is a problem, the university debates it.Chen Geng is eloquent and eloquent, and often argues with others. Wang Genying joined the Japanese company Huanfeng Textile Mill as a child laborer at the age of 11. He devoted himself to the revolutionary movement very early and was a well-known worker leader in Shanghai's textile industry.During the struggle, she deeply felt that her education level was low, so as soon as Shanghai University was established, she dated more than a dozen female companions and became the first batch of students in the evening school.Chen Geng quickly noticed this handsome female worker leader and had a good impression of her.At that time, Chen Geng was only 20 years old, which was the age when he was young and dared to think and love.During a debate one day, on a whim, he tore off a narrow strip of paper from his notebook, wrote "I love you" on it, folded it, pushed it to Wang Genying, and looked ahead as if nothing had happened.Yu Genying received the note, looked straight at it, her face flushed, no matter how arrogant the girl was, her heart would be pounding at this moment.

Wang Genying hastily rolled up the note... Wang Genying's actions are all in Chen Geng's eyes.He was thankful that his bold adventure "succeeded", and his whole body was suddenly filled with a tense and sweet feeling.He thought that women are women after all, and they cannot stop the great conquest after all. When Chen Geng was savoring the sweet taste of the winner, he suddenly saw Wang Genying brushing up his short hair, standing up abruptly, walking to the wall newspaper, spitting on the back of the note, and pasting the note on the wall newspaper with a snap. Chen Geng was dumbfounded all of a sudden.He hugged his head, wishing he could find a crack in the wall and get in.He couldn't hear what Wang Genying said on stage.But he could feel her sharp eyes cast mockingly.

I don't know whether it's shame or obsession, Chen Geng didn't do anything, and immediately wrote another note to Wang Genying.Wang Genying received the note and stuck it on the wall again... When class was over, the wall newspaper was covered with notes written by Chen Geng. At first, people thought that these notes were the main points of Chen Geng's debate!When they got closer, they were all dumbfounded: "Ah, why is it always 'I love you'?" That evening, they met on the banks of the Huangpu River. "Chen Geng, why do you big gentleman fall in love with me, a poor spinner?"

Wang Genying looked serious. Chen Geng said: "Sister Xiang, do you recognize me? That day I went to visit Cai Hesen who was ill, and his wife introduced you to the police. She said you are a good person, brave and progressive, and she wants to train you to be an outstanding female cadre, saying that you Low culture, let me help you more." Wang Genying smiled slightly: "Help me? Like you write notes in class?" "This is the first step..." "What about the future?" "In the future, we will 'integrate workers and peasants'!" After finishing speaking, Chen Geng grabbed Wang Genying's hot hand.However, Wang Poying pulled her hand out and said in a trembling voice, "This is impossible... goodbye!" She covered her face with her hands and ran away.

Chen Geng looked at the figure of Wang Poying leaving in panic, and was trapped in the cloud and mist. Is it because Wang Genying doesn't love Chen Geng? no.Since the day he met Chen Geng, Wang Genying had a good impression of him.Whenever Chen Geng gave a lecture, she always kept her eyes on, following Chen Kang's gestures and figure. Whenever Chen Geng's eyes met her, her heart would thump.Love has a peculiar logic, sometimes the more you hate, the more you love, and the farther you get, the closer you get.Wang Genying likes to listen to Chen Geng's lectures, debates with him even more, and likes to see him impatient.She admired his eloquence, marveled at his memory and knowledge, and wished to have such a "Mr." as a spouse.But how did Chen Geng know her unspeakable secret: her family was poor, and her parents decided to marry her since she was a child.If she is with Chen Geng, how can her parents allow it?

After breaking up by the Huangpu River that night, Wang Poying did not come to the night school for several days.Chen Geng looked at Wang Genying's empty seat, feeling infinitely melancholy.At this time, the party organization notified him to return to Hunan to participate in the anti-imperialist struggle.So, Chen Geng plucked up the courage to visit Wang Genying. In the dilapidated shanty town of Zhabei, Chen Geng found the Wang family. The whole family was busy for a while, brought out tea, and let Chen Kang sit on a bamboo chair.Genying's father was smoking a cigarette. "Gen Ying used to come to every class, why didn't he come recently?" Chen Geng broke the dull atmosphere.

Wang Genying's father didn't answer, but said directly what was in his heart: "You are a scholar, you should be educated and reasonable. My family, Genying, was betrothed to someone since he was a child. Why do you, a foreigner, come here to make a fuss?" When Chen Geng heard it, his ears turned red.Unexpectedly, he played such a role, no wonder Genying avoided him.In a trance, his mood plummeted, and he didn't know how to answer. He hesitated a few times, and hurriedly got up and said goodbye.Thanks to the darkness of the room, no one could see his embarrassing red face.

Genying is in the back room, and she can clearly estimate Chen Geng's every move.At this moment, regardless of his father's words, he rushed out of the hut, grabbed the corner of Chen Geng's clothes, and burst into tears. When Genying's father saw this posture, his hands trembled, he stomped his feet anxiously, and cursed: "You are in a daze!" Chen Geng reluctantly comforted Genying a few words, and hurried out of the threshold. After walking a few steps, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he was going useless: "As a member of the Communist Party, I can't even deal with feudal ethics?! If I leave, Genying will be blamed for the rest of my life? I can't even deal with the pursuit of freedom. Women can’t be saved, but can they save the common people?!”

He was driven into a hurry, and the fire of love that had just been extinguished, burned more violently like a bucket of gasoline being heavily poured on it.He simply ran back to the house, stood in the middle of the living room, and yelled at Wang Genying's parents: "I, Chen Geng, am also a seven-foot man with a liver and courage! Tomorrow I will go back to Hunan. I love Genying. Genying is true. Genying It’s true that you love me. If you promise, I’ll be married when I come back; if you don’t agree, I, I’ll elope with her! You parents, you just broke us up so cruelly..." After finishing speaking, Chen Geng glanced at Genying affectionately, turned around and strode away.

Chen Geng left, and Wang Genying's house was silent.There were no tears in Genying's eyes, her face was pale, and she remained silent. Wang Yuying's mother turned her sad eyes to her husband, "Old man, are you dumb? Make up your mind!" Wang Genying's father walked around the room, but did not speak.Wang Genying's younger sister screamed: "Mom, Dad, isn't Mr. Chen pretty good? My sister won't suffer if she marries him!" "I didn't say that Mr. Chen is bad!" The father finally spoke, his voice was loud, but he was not angry: "If you break the engagement, you have to pay for it!" "If you pay, you will pay! My sister and I will work for another three years and still can't afford him?" The younger sister said again. "I don't want my dowry anymore, I will pay him all!" Genying also said. Wang Genying rushed to the train station. There were few people on the platform. Genying searched in every carriage, but there was no sign of Chen Geng.She wiped away tears in despair. Suddenly, someone hugged Wang Genying from behind, scaring her.Looking back, it was Chen Geng! "I knew you would come, I'll wait for you below." Chen Geng smiled happily.He stared at Genying until Genying felt a little embarrassed: "Don't you know me?" Chen Geng said: "We have a destiny. Isn't your scientific name Shu Xin? My scientific name is Shu Geng, which is called fate. Now your name is Gen Ying, and I am Chen Geng. I can't take it apart..." Wang Genying said: "Refund the ticket! My dad asked you to stay at home for two days." She held out her hands to him.He pulls her closer. ... In 1927, the "Fifth National Congress" of the Communist Party of China was held in Wuhan.As a representative of the Shanghai Party, Wang Genying attended the conference, during which she married Chen Geng.Before the two had tasted the sweetness of their honeymoon, Wang Genying hurried back to Shanghai. For the revolutionary cause, the two had no complaints. After the failure of the Nanchang Uprising, the injured Chen Geng was sent to Shanghai. Under the care of Wang Genying and the meticulous medical treatment of the orthopedic expert Niu Huilin, the injured leg gradually healed.They rented a house in a remote alley, and only then did they live a real married life. In 1933, Chen Geng was arrested because of a traitor's informant, and was later escorted to Nanjing.Wang Genying was very anxious when he heard the news, and rolled down the stairs with the child in his arms, and both mother and child were injured.After that, she could only hide in relatives' house in the countryside, but she was also arrested soon. Rescued by Song Qingling and others, Chen Geng entered the Central Soviet Area after he was released from prison in 1933, while Wang Genying, who stayed in Shanghai, was arrested in December of this year and was escorted to Nanjing Tiger Bridge "Jiangsu No. 1 Model Prison". People locked together.They are unyielding and fight against the enemy under the leadership of the party organization.She spent more than three years in prison, and was not released until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War and was personally rescued by Zhou Enlai. After being released from prison, Wang Genying followed Zhou En to Xi'an, and then rushed to the General Political Department of the Eighth Route Army without stopping.Here, she and Chen Geng finally met. That night, Chen Geng couldn't sleep for a long time.Sitting on the edge of the Kang, he gently stroked Wang Genying's soft hair with his fingers.Geun Young has fallen asleep, and she sleeps peacefully, with a sweet smile still on her face.This pair of revolutionary couples who had gone through hardships were finally reunited. From that night on, Chen Geng began to keep a diary, recording his likes and dislikes, his fights, his pursuits, his emotions... In his first diary, he wrote: After a short reunion, there was a longer parting. Wang Genying only lived in Yunyang for a few days, and Chen Geng went to the anti-Japanese front line as the commander of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army.Wang Genying also came to Yan'an, the long-awaited revolutionary holy land. In Yan'an, Wang Genying advanced to study at the party school in the border area, and was later transferred to work in a newspaper office. In June 1938, she went to the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Anti-Japanese Base Area and came to the 129th Division Headquarters to serve as the instructor of the Financial Cadre School of the Division Supply Department. On March 8, 1939, the supply department of Wang Genying's division was attacked by the Japanese army. Regardless of personal safety, Wang Genying gave up a mule assigned to her to others, and broke out on foot with the guards.After rushing out of the enemy's siege, she suddenly found that the satchel containing the documents and public funds was not brought out. Despite the dissuasion of her comrades, she resolutely returned to the village, but encountered the Japanese army and was shot and died. Wang Genying fell down, falling in the coming season of spring.She fell on a day that all women should be proud of - March 8. When Wang Genying died, Chen Geng had just returned from the Xiangchenggu battlefield with the 386th brigade, and the troops were summing up the battle.When the correspondent sent the telegram of Wang Genying's sacrifice and loss, the bearded Chen Geng was giving a summary report to the brigade cadres. The telegram was handed over to Chen Geng. When he opened it, his whole body shook, his face was gloomy and tense, as if carved in stone.His voice changed suddenly, and he said without clearing his throat, "Stop talking, prepare to fight!" Under the suspicious eyes of everyone, Chen Geng walked out of the venue and came to the woods alone where the snow began to melt.The snow melted into drops trickled from the branches.Chen Geng sat on a sawn stump, shut his mouth tightly, and remained silent.His whole body was trembling slightly.He opened the diary, and painstakingly wrote down 20 difficult words one stroke at a time: "Today is a day I will never forget, and it is also my most painful day!" After writing this line, he stood up, ran back to the barracks, and shouted at the trumpeter: "Blow the horn! All gather! I want to lead the reading of the Anti-Japanese Oath!" After the swearing-in meeting, a young soldier found that Chen Geng had tears in his eyes, and asked a little timidly: "Chief, why are you crying?" Chen Geng held down the "baby soldier" in the troupe and said, "My old friend is dead!" At that time, the only son of Chen Geng and Wang Genying was as old as a "child soldier" and was still working as a child laborer in Shanghai.When Chen Geng saw this son again, it was seven years later. After Wang Genying died, Chen Geng vowed to "keep the festival for three years" for her.He really did this, which shows that this arrogant general is also a tender and affectionate man. On February 25, 1943, Chen Geng married Fu Ya. Fu Ya was born in Shangyu County, Zhejiang Province.Under the influence of Lin Boqu, her elder brother Fu Sen joined the revolution in his early years. In 1938, Fu Sen wrote a letter from Xi'an mobilizing his sister to join the revolution in Yan'an.In April of the same year, Fu Ya, his younger brother Fu Xi and younger sister Yu Li traveled thousands of miles to Yan'an. Fu Ya was born with fair skin, a slender figure, good singing and dancing, and good marksmanship. He was once awarded the title of "Squad Leader of the Sharpshooter Squad".Chen Geng loves her very much, but the highest way he expresses his love for her is to respect her career and hobbies, rather than tie her to his side.After marriage, they often live in two places. Sometimes, Fu Ya's work team is in the west of the village, and his headquarters is in the east of the village. Although he is full of longing, he still insists that Fu Ya stay with his comrades.When they were in Yan'an, they used to live across the river, and their colleagues nicknamed them "Cowherd and Weaver Girl". They met every weekend and crossed the "Galaxy".Colleagues often find ways to help them reunite. Whenever the weekend comes, colleagues gather at the river bank and shout to the opposite side in unison: "Fu Ya! Come back soon!" It seems that they are more anxious than Chen Geng. In 1945, their first child, Zhijian, was born. All Chen Geng could provide Fu Ya was a little milk and sugar specially provided for him. Go there and ask for help, "steal" them a little pot of honey or something.Life is hard, but the love between them is sublimated in this suffering. Chen Geng has the habit of keeping a diary. Every time he breaks up with Fu Ya, Fu Ya always gives Chen Geng his beloved notebook for writing in his diary.Whenever the troops moved lightly, Fu Ya would rather throw away his bedding than take Chen Geng's diary with him.When marching across the river, if the diary is soaked in water, the first thing Fu Ya does after arriving at the camp is to dry the diary, and then store it carefully. During the war years, Chen Geng deeply tasted the taste of "family letters are worth ten thousand gold".Every time he receives a letter from his wife, he feels like a treasure. On the Korean front in 1951, he accidentally received a letter sent to him by Fu Yatuo. He was ecstatic and read it again and again, saying: "People laugh at me as an idiot, but I am happy." For nothing".His love for his family is palpable. In 1952, after Chen Geng returned from North Korea, they had a permanent home.But Chen Geng still often goes out on business. Every time he goes out, they agree to write one letter in one place or one letter in half a month. They always abide by the "agreement" and never miss the appointment. These "Letters from Two Places" show the The couple's genuine affection. Chen Geng is a good husband and a good father.He was kind and strict to his children, and it was rare for him to reunite with his family during the war. In 1945, he and Fu Ya's first child was born, and the Battle of Shangdang began. When he went to North Korea to join the war in 1951, his daughter Zhijin was just born.He loves his children and daughters, but he can only put the interests of the party first. In his letters or diaries to Pu Ya, he often reveals his strong yearning for the children, and even "crazy thinking about them".But he doesn't dote on them, and he has little time, but he still checks on the children's study frequently, understands their performance in school, and insists on not allowing the children to be picked up by car. Years of running around and working hard made Chen Geng's health worse and worse, and he had a heart attack. In 1961, Chen Geng's condition worsened, and Fu Ya accompanied him to Shanghai to recuperate.But as soon as he arrived in Shanghai, Chen Geng called Chen Pixian, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, and asked the organization to arrange for Fu Ya to do some research.As a result, Fu Ya was nominally accompanying him for treatment, but in fact he was busy doing research all day long, leaving early and returning late, so he had no time to take care of Chen Geng. On the morning of March 16, 1961, Chen Geng left his relatives forever. His hands gradually became cold in Fu Ya's hands, and the call of his beloved wife did not bring him back to life. After dedicating his last energy to the people, this giant star fell too hastily.Chen Geng left forever, with nostalgia for his relatives and regret for his unfinished business.