Chapter 71 Chapter 6

At this time, the mainland was completely occupied. Mao Zedong announced the establishment of the People's Republic of China at Tiananmen Square, with Beijing as its capital (renamed to Beiping when the Northern Expedition succeeded in the 17th year of the Republic of China), and vowed to "liberate" Taiwan.Taipei has become the capital of rumors. During the heyday of our "boat career" (in fact, sixty years later, I understand that it was the most decadent period for the Republic of China), and those who often haunted our sugarcane board living room, some Several "Central News Agency" reporters are my brother's friends.They graduated from university in the year of victory, full of optimistic expectations for the future of the country.The whole country believes that the eight-year arduous war of resistance against Japan has been fought, and the Communist Party that came out of Yan'an is not a big problem.And these young reporters yearn for the opportunity to be like Lu Hongqi, a famous reporter from the Central News Agency they admire. Qiaoguchi wrote the famous interview "Farewell to Wuhan for a while" to encourage the people of the country: "We will definitely defeat the Japanese army in the long-term war of resistance." It was published in national newspapers.At that time Luoyang paper was expensive.

Chen Jiaji and my brother's generation of military reporters saw Du Jinming, Guan Linzheng, Sun Liren, Zheng Dongguo, Liao Yaoxiang and other famous generals in another war.Command the battle, go deep into the battlefield, and witness the hardship and sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of people in the severe cold.Among them, Yang Kongxin, who is the best with my whole family, left his hometown in Henan alone to study in the rear since the Chongqing era. He and my brother were classmates in the Diplomatic Department of National Political University. people.He was later sent to Paris and London as commissioners.When returning to Taipei for business, coming to my house is like going home.Another favorite of my family, Zheng Dong, was sent to the Greek embassy after the war and was promoted to the second-class secretary. He followed the famous literary translator Ambassador Wen Yuanning and cultivated an excellent foundation in language and diplomacy. Unfortunately, with the power of the country, he lost opportunities for development.He came to Taiwan, made a living abroad, drifted, but failed to expand his career.

Chen Jiaji, a military reporter who went to the Northeast with my brother, has a bright personality and is from Hebei, but his Mandarin is not up to the standards of Beijingers, and his speed is not fast enough.He likes to discuss things, and loves to debate.He has a unique and unforgettable style of debate, that is, he fights endlessly, loses today, and comes back tomorrow.Continue to argue freely, but his words are not hurtful, not hurtful.After coming to Taiwan, I still can't forget what I saw in the Northeast war field for three years. I have written "The Elegy of White Mountains and Black Waters", "Deposed Emperor, Tears of Heroes", "Northeast Wolf Smoke" and other books.In 2000, he reprinted "Northeast Changing Color" at his own expense.According to the preface, I compiled a fairly detailed and objective letter of history based on the historical facts I witnessed and reported. "I have been retired for many years, and it has been eighty in a blink of an eye. Whenever I close my eyes and think about it in my spare time, it is still mostly about the past in the Northeast. When I wrote "The Story of Changing Colors in the Northeast", every time it changed color because the Northeast did not change color, I sighed! It was a mistake at the beginning. Betrayed by the Soviet Union and Russia, then missed the mediation of the United States, and three times missed the generals... and finally led to the collapse of the so-called 300,000 army in the west of Liaoning in the middle of Russia!" What I saw in those three years was a big scene and a storm. The strangeness is a history of blood and tears that he will never forget in thirty years.

Of course, these "Central News Agency" reporters have a lot of news, both those that can be reported and those that cannot be reported. It is rumored that when the Communist bandits liberated Taiwan, those who did not surrender would jump into the sea through Danshui in the north, Hsinchu in the central part, and jump into the sea in the southern part. go to goose luan nose.At this time, my friend Peng Yande from the Wuhan University Fellowship could not find a suitable job in Taiwan and wanted to return to Shanghai. Yuchang and I took him to Keelung Wharf for a boat ride.The boat was full of people, and even the stern of the boat was half-hanging by tying their bodies with ropes, hoping to return to Shanghai, at least to face the changing situation with their families.We have stable jobs and have already decided to stay in Taiwan. We gave him the only six silver coins we had for money. When we parted, we thought that we would never see each other again in this life.

After losing everything, when they came to Taiwan, they were all under thirty years old. They didn't know it at that time, and they never had the chance to write a glorious chapter.When the situation in Taiwan was the most chaotic, my brother-in-law’s first daughter was born. In order to cope, he built a small wooden house on Nanchang Street in Taipei and planned to open a small rice mill (on the way to escape in the southwest, he saw that in the changing situation, Rice milling shops everywhere can survive).There is a rather low two-story building on the wooden house, and several of his friends and we often go to see it after dinner; their debates are as lively as chess games, there are many reporters, and they have a lot of opinions on the past and the current situation. fierce.The young people's pride reverberated in the shabby room, and sometimes the guests walked down the wooden ladder while still turning around to debate, and they made an appointment to come back tomorrow evening, and everyone's grief, indignation and hesitation were temporarily relieved.Looking back half a century later, the scene of that day has become a warm memory.After that, they each got married and scattered, and there was no such occasional meeting again.