Chapter 70 Chapter 5 1948, the day of receiving the ship

Since about the end of 1948, we have been busy with our "boat career". Almost every time the ship Zhongxing or Taiping came from Shanghai, Yuchang used a truck from the Taipei Telecom Section to go to Keelung Wharf to load back a load of luggage. At most, there were more than 100 pieces of luggage piled up in another warehouse.Including the elders who once attended our wedding banquet. "Time and Tide" colleagues, after the victory returned to their hometowns to be elected as members of the Legislative Council and National Congress, some of them came to teach, and most of the cultural people who ran newspapers and magazines came to Taiwan.Dad told us to help as best we could.The provincial government also ordered the transportation units to assist, so Yuchang reported to the railway bureau that a spare truck would pick up the ship, which was also within the scope of responsibility.

Our home, which is only 300 meters away from Taipei Railway Station, has become the most convenient contact point. The small "living room" of about 21 ping is always full of guests waiting for people and trains.At first, my mother still kept people for dinner, but later I really couldn't handle it.You can only prepare never-ending hot tea.On the sugarcane board wall in the living room, there are countless contact addresses, the names of inns and government agencies in various cities... The situation is very similar to the situation when we fled to Hankou ten years ago, except that there was no alarm or bombing in Taipei.

From the joy of victory to the current situation, few people thought that they would spend their entire lives on the island.Fortunately, I brought my parents, wives and children, and some of them came alone first to "see and talk later", and have been separated from their families for life since then. The few pieces of luggage piled up in the warehouse of the Taipei Telecom Section are all their hometowns. The last time I went to Keelung to pick up a boat was before the Lunar New Year’s Eve in 1949. I went to pick up Uncle Deng Lianxi, the editor-in-chief of "Time and Tide" (Deng Rongxuan came to Taiwan with his children first due to childbirth) and my father’s best revolutionary comrade Xu Zhen (Xu Shida, who became the chairman of Liaoning Province after the war) has a family of six.We took the train early in the morning and waited until nine o'clock, but we didn't see the Taiping ship entering the port. We asked the shipping company, and they stammered that the two ships collided last night, all communications were cut off, and they might have sunk.The Taiping Shipwreck, its causes and consequences, has been repeatedly criticized for nearly 60 years. The two of us stood at the Keelung Wharf at that time, and the memory of our horror and grief is like yesterday.

This period of "shipping career" is a very strange newlywed life! The two of us are quite different people. We came to Ganfeng, an overseas island, and we haven't had time to know each other, and we have hardly started a normal small family life. Just plunged into the torrent of my father's last "revolutionary act".Since the September 18th Incident in 1931, he has organized and mobilized the anti-Japanese revolution. Now all his efforts have been in vain, and some comrades who have been there for many years still say that under his leadership, they went east to Taiwan and continued to seek a comeback.In my father's mind, my son-in-law is doing his best to receive people who come to Taiwan, just like my mother took care of the Northeast students in Huangpu in Nanjing every week.At that time, I watched Yuchang take turns running at Keelung and Songshan airports, luggage piled up to the roof in the warehouse, workers moved in and out, he directed and arranged everything, complained to me from the end, and spent time with my mother and two younger sisters. harmony.This situation, far from being foreseen at the time of marriage, laid down the "revolutionary feeling" in our marriage, which I call the first deposit of the "stabilization fund".

This year my father finally came to Taipei, my elder brother went to Guangzhou with the "Central News Agency", and his newly married sister-in-law Wang Xufen also came to Taiwan one after another. "Top" a Japanese-style house.It's only slightly larger than my dormitory made of sugarcane boards.The two generations lived together until his father received a cement bungalow in Ziqiang New Village, Banqiao, which was allocated by the Legislative Yuan, and "give up" the house on Jianguo North Road. After the relocation, "Time and Tide" resumed publication. have a future.

A few months later, the railway bureau built several dormitories with concrete walls and floors in the open space behind the Taipei Railway Station, and allocated them to one of us.We were delighted to live with her for about three days before we realized that every time the locomotive was moved, black coal smoke would pour into the house, and before it dissipated, the next locomotive would fill up again.My cough and asthma relapsed, and I couldn’t live anymore, so I fled back to Gancanban’s house, but I didn’t have the right to ask for a dormitory again: Of course, staying here temporarily is not a long-term solution, and my body is getting weaker and weaker day by day.At that time, there was a famous doctor Han Qifeng from mainland China.During the Anti-Japanese War, he donated planes to serve the country and consulted doctors in front of the railway station.My father felt that Chinese medicine was not scientific enough, and my mother half-forced me to take him to see him.He took his pulse effortlessly and said, "Your daughter is congenitally deficient and out of balance." My mother nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, yes, this child is congenitally immature and has been ill for many years since he was a child." He asked me to eat his famous black-bone chicken Baifengwan must be strong.I didn’t eat seriously for a long time when I went back, and my body was so thin that I was only in my early forty kilograms, but I found out that I was pregnant before the New Year, and I had to find a place to live.